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the weeklythe weeklysunsunAnthony Geffen in 3D

By Karen BoSSicK

Anthony Geffen is in the business of telling stories — from the real story behind Cleopatra’s death to

Mallory’s attempt at climbing Everest to bringing to life flying monsters from the past.

But the story people don’t see is that behind the scenes as Geffen works magic with cutting-edge, three-dimensional technology.

The award-winning filmmaker, who has been spending Christmas in Sun Valley for 20-plus years, will discuss how things work at 6 p.m. Tuesday at The Community Library in Ketchum. He’ll offer film clips, as well.

“We’re shooting a new ‘Kingdom of Plants 3D’ with a camera no one has ever shot before,” he said, as he described shooting with what essentially is like a periscope that Geffen’s filmmakers can drop inside a plant.

“No one else has got this. It’s one of the most spectacular things ever shot in 3D—like being on another planet,” said Geffen, whose Atlantic Productions is considered the world’s leading 3D company.

Filming in 3D is not easy. The cameras are complicated, to say the least. Camera-men couldn’t just run up to a penguin and start shooting footage as they filmed their upcoming “Bachelor King 3D.” It took four people and anywhere from 40 minutes to an hour to get the cameras in place and aligned with each other.

By then, Geffen said, that penguin was long gone.

But eventually their work paid off with stunning 3D cinematography that shows off majestic albatrosses and 6 million pen-guins on one of the most densely-packed pieces of real estate in the southern hemisphere.

If getting the cameras tuned in isn’t difficult enough, Geffen’s 16-member film crews shoot under difficult conditions.

For “Flying Monsters 3D,” they shot 85-year-old naturalist David Attenborough in a hangglider as a giant winged ptero-saur with a 40-foot wingspan flew around him. It was a hair-raising shoot with a helicopter flying within feet of him.

The penguin shot meant spending an uncomfortable six months on an uninhab-ited island in the Antarctic to gather foot-age for a 3D film following the amorous exploits of a bachelor penguin.

Cameramen shot in subzero tempera-tures, apprehensive of giant elephant seals that occasionally rolled over on and flattened their tents.

For their trouble, Geffen and Atlantic Productions are raking in the awards.

“First Life with David Attenborough,” in which photo-realistic CGI technol-ogy recreated early animals and their

environments through the help of fossils, won an Emmy hat trick—three Emmy Awards—at the News and Documentary Emmy Awards. And the groundbreaking stereoscopic 3D “Flying Monsters 3D” won a British Academy Award (BAFTA award) for Best TV Documentary, along with an IBC Special Award for its innova-tive use of 3D.

“We did what no one else had done be-fore. No one won three individual Emmys ever,” said Geffen, who also chalked up a Best Imax of the Year.

Geffen is predicting a big year ahead for 3D as 3D becomes common on iPads and viewers no longer have to wear 3D glasses.

“There isn’t enough 3D content right now. But it’ll come. And productions like ours will make people think, ‘I’ve got to have it,’ ” he said. “Making 3D is very time-consuming and very expensive. But I feel extremely lucky to be a part of it.”

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Vincent to Benefit nexStage Theatre

By Karen BoSSicK

During his tortured 37-year life, Vincent Van Gogh knew only failure.

But Jim Jarrett’s portrayal of the Dutch artist has proven wildly successful, taking him around the world for 15 years in one of the best attended, most critically acclaimed one-man shows to take the stage.

Jarrett will reprise his role in “Vincent” Monday through Thursday, Dec. 29, at the nexStage Theatre in Ketchum.

The 7 p.m. presentation will benefit the nexStage Theatre where Jarrett serves on the advisory board. Jarrett will field questions from the audience following each performance.

StarTrek’s Leonard Nimoy wrote and launched the play on Broadway in the early 1980s.

Jarrett first performed it in the Sun Valley area at the invitation of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. Since then, he has performed it around the world, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festi-val—the largest theater festival in the world. His performance won nomina-tions for “Best Actor” and “Best Solo Show” at the festival, which features 3,000 performances a day. And that led to a three-week tour of England.

“I’ve played it before a quarter mil-lion people around the world,” Jarrett said.

The play is based on 1,070 pages of letters that Vincent wrote his younger brother, Theo. Theo supported Vin-cent financially with his work at one of Europe’s leading art dealerships.

The tormented letters reveal the soul of a man who as a child was intensely serious, uncommunicative and clumsy. The first of eight children born to a minister, Vincent failed as an art dealer, schoolteacher, lover, pastor, and missionary to Belgian miners.

During his lifetime, he even failed as a painter, selling few of his 2,100 works of art before he took his life.

Intent on making Vincent and Theo’s lives count for something, Theo’s wife Johanna pushed Vincent’s paintings onto an unsuspecting world and in time they set the stage for a new form of art known as Expression-ism.

“Jim’s performance is outstanding,” said Jon Kane, who produced Jarrett’s

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this still is from ‘the Bachelor King 3d with david attenborough’ - King Penguin returns to the colony on gold Habour - photographed by danny Spencer. courteSy PHotoS

“I love being a part of this community. I love that I can put things back into the community and maybe spark an interest in something like the life of a penguin.”

- ANTHONY GEFFEN

Producer anthony geffen and david attenborough on location whilst filming ‘First life with david attenborough’.

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On Tuesday, December 13, The Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley

responded to a desperate call for help for 18 dogs in Shoshone, Idaho. The dogs’ owner stated that she rescued the dogs over the last several years after they were abandoned near her rural home. After financial struggles caused her to lose her home, and medical issues made it impossi-ble for her to continue to care for the dogs, she reached out to the Animal Shelter for assistance.

Once on the property, Animal Shelter Operations Manager Nadia Novik and dog trainer/temperament evaluator Hillary Hayward assessed the animals’ conditions. They found dozens of free-roaming dogs, cats and horses without food or proper housing, and water buckets fro-zen solid. According to Novik, “We are grateful this owner reached out for help and didn’t just abandon the animals. She took in many of these animals with good intentions because they had previously been ne-glected or discarded, but became overwhelmed and unable to continue to care for them.”

The Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley was able to accommodate five of the dogs in their shelter, including several with special needs. Local place-ments were found for the cats and horses. The Idaho Humane Society in Boise accepted the 13 remaining dogs. Novik says, “We look forward to finding fabulous homes here in the Wood River Valley for the dogs we rescued.”

In fact, one of the dogs, Rueddy, a blind pug, was already adopted into a new home. Casa-

nova, an English setter/spaniel mix, is available for adoption now. Two Labrador retriever mixes are to be spayed, and the final dog, a senior black Lab, needs to have a tumor removed from her leg before they are each ready to be adopted.

The Animal Shelter is grateful to the dogs’ owner for contacting their staff for help, before the animals’ conditions deteriorated. The consistent support of donors and volunteers in our commu-nity enable the shelter to help not only in these extreme cases, but with the lost and homeless animals that show up on their doorstep every day. If you are interested in making a dona-tion to support their work or to see their currently adoptable dogs and cats, please visit www.animalshelterwrv.org. For info call (208) 788-4351.

Eighteen Dogs Rescued

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classified ads start on page 22Snow leopards like Panja are actually more related to tigers than leopards. they have large nasal cavities that help them breathe the thin mountain air and long thick tails, with which they cover their faces while sleeping.

PHoto & Story By Karen BoSSicK

The patient had a tail the size of a long tree limb, useful for helping him to

maintain his balance on steep rocky terrain.

He had large mitten-like paws to enable him to walk on snow.

And soft thick fur to help him withstand the cold that comes with living as high as 18,000 feet above sea level in the Hima-layas.

The stocky snow leopard also had arthritic hips, which caused him to limp in pain.

That’s why workers at the Tautphaus Park Zoo in Idaho Falls brought the six-year-old fe-line named Panja to the Sun Val-ley Animal Center on Thursday. They hoped Dr. Randy Acker, known for pioneering a canine elbow, would be able to install a titanium hip in the 94-pound animal, as he’s done for so many Labrador and golden retrievers.

Onlookers eager to catch a glimpse of the rare animal gathered outside the operating room as Dr. Randy Acker began operating on the arthritic cat.

But the eager anticipation of relieving the animal’s pain was soon subdued. There was a tumor the size of a lemon embedded in Panja’s hip, Acker said—synovial cell sarcoma—a malignant cancer, to be precise.

Chemotherapy and radiation were not options because of the sedation that would be involved, Acker said. But, he pointed to a picture of a black Lab, which had had the same problem: “I amputated his leg and he’s a happy dog.”

Amputation for the leopard, on loan from the Omaha Zoo for breeding purposes, was not an option, given zoo policy, said Dr. Rhonda Aliah, veterinarian for Tautphaus Park Zoo.

But after a few calls and some discussion among the zoo per-sonnel who had accompanied the rare animal to Ketchum, Aliah gave Acker the green light to

remove as much of the tumor as he could to give the animal as a good a life as it could hope for in the year or more it has left.

“It’s an honor to be able to do something liking this, know-ing how he’s been in pain,” said Linda Beard, animal care super-visor for the zoo. “This animal is one of my favorite. He’s a really mellow, laid-back cat. The previ-ous one was very ornery—he’d swipe at anyone who came by. This one is a really good cat with an amazing personality.”

A little more than two hours after he started, Acker closed the case on a titanium implant donated by BioMedtrix. Vet techs removed Panja from the operating room on a stretcher, laying the big cat’s tail on the stretcher with him.

Vet techs hovered around the animal’s crate taking pictures as zoo personnel stroked his soft fur, playing with his small rounded ears.

Acker, who has operated on deer, black bears, wolves and cougars, operated on another snow leopard from the zoo eight years ago. But a chance to see another one was just as exciting for the animal center personnel, said Acker’s wife Susan.

“It’s really exciting to have that level of medicine being practiced here,” said Shannon Besoyan.

“They’re an amazing animal. But, like everything else, once it’s draped and on the table, it’s just another hip joint,” Dr. Acker said. “But it’s a bummer,” he added, referring to the tumor.

Even though the outcome was not quite what she had hoped for, Aliah said she felt indebted to Acker, who pioneered a canine elbow.

“It’s nice that we have some-one with the ability to do this kind of thing this close to Idaho Falls,” she said. “It saves us money and the shorter distance is much easier on the animals. And, Randy is very good at what he does.”

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Ostensibly, the Winter Sol-stice Appreciation Dinner is named for the shortest

day of the year. But the light at Saturday night’s gala dinner was cut even shorter when a power outage sparked a few miles away darkened Sun Valley Resort for 90 minutes.

The outage occurred about 15 minutes after Sun Valley flipped the switch on its Christmas lights during the annual tree lighting ceremony.

The resort installed back-up generators after the 2010 Christmas Eve outage, and these kicked in Saturday night, providing lights in the hallways. Children staying in the hotel took advantage, racing their toy cars in the hallway while their parents dressed for dinner in the dim light that filtered into their rooms.

Winter Solstice diners took the outage in stride, as well, sipping pre-dinner cocktails in the dark of the Sun Room before moving into the Lodge Dining Room where waiters had set candles on tables.

Kitchen staff responded by throwing out the original menu of Chateaubriand and pepper-corn crusted elk loin and instead sending a boatload of halibut one floor down to Gretchen’s Restau-rant where they could cook via generator.

“Plan B is for all of us to head to Grumpy’s,” quipped David Hitchin, who organized the an-nual dinner with his wife Jill eight years ago.

The sequins on Diane Peavey’s dress sparkled even in the candlelight.

“When the lights went out, I said I could have worn my jeans and no one would have known the difference!” said the local sheep rancher.

When the lights did come back on, a few people whimpered.

“We looked better in the dark!” exclaimed one.

Hitchin expressed his grati-

tude to the night’s two honorees, even as he encouraged diners to drop an envelope for their fa-vorite charity in a basket at the front of the dining room.

One—Tammy Eaton—has tried to make Bellevue a better community by refurbishing the community park and creating such things as the Haunted For-est at Halloween, which raises money to maintain The Howard Preserve.

Mary Fauth introduced Girls on the Run to the valley, offering girls in elementary and middle school a program that involves running, self-esteem building and social and emotional skills.

“The wonderful things you do for this community—I cannot thank you enough,” Sun Valley’s General Manager Tim Silva told them.

With that, Silva retreated to his chair—and a long overdue dinner, even as he agonized about the restaurant business the resort had lost when guests headed to the bright lights of Ketchum.

“We knew Sun Valley was ro-mantic—you didn’t have to show us,” teased Martha Jennings.

“It’s amazing they were able to pull this off—electricity is pretty essential to a restaurant,” Silva said, eyeing his staff as diners finished up their Buche de Noel dessert. “I’m very proud of what everyone did tonight to enable the show to go on.”

Lights Out, butShow Goes on

tammy eaton and mary Fauth were honored at Saturday night’s Winter Solstice appreciation dinner for their contributions to the community. “it’s odd,” said eaton. “i’m used to having people—say, a mother and a child—coming up and thanking me for something. But i’m not used to so much public recognition.”

ToP leFT: gretchen Boe managed a masked smile, even when the lights went out Saturday night. aboVe: “this is crazy. i’d better have another drink!” quipped Jill Hitchin as a power outage made the eighth an-nual Winter Solstice appreciation din-ner one to remember.

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After a week-long run at the Sun Valley Opera House, Company of Fools has returned to its home turf at The Liberty Theatre in Hailey. The Fools will present a

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Above: It took a little coaching from Kim Prew for 3-year-old Conner and 18-month-old Liz to warm up to Santa, as nice as the jolly old fellow is, last week at the YMCA.

Far Right: Five-year-old Adan Ortiz fashioned together a Christmas stocking, along with his 9-year-old sister Natalia, at the YMCA’s Christmas party last Wednesday.

Right: Two-year-old Fleur Brazil decorated her face nearly as well as her sugar cooking dur-ing the YMCA’s Christmas party last Wednesday.

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By Karen BoSSicK

Sun Valley will serve as the Capital for a Day today as Gov. Butch Otter and other

state leaders hold court from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Sun Valley Inn’s Limelight Room.

The event will kick off at 8:45 a.m. with pictures commemorat-ing Sun Valley’s 75th anniversa-ry as America’s first destination ski resort.

That will be followed at 9 a.m. with a flag ceremony, introduc-tion of department heads, wel-coming from the Valley’s mayors and commissioners, as well as Sun Valley Resort General Man-ager Tim Silva.

District 25 legislators Wendy Jaquet and Donna Pence and State Sen. Michelle Stennett will also be recognized.

The agenda for the rest of the day:

9:45 Update on airport: Friedman Airport Authority, Fly Sun Valley, and County 10:15 Economic impact of air-

port, Sustain Blaine 10:30 Break10:45 Sun Valley Marketing

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ment presented by the Ketchum Community Development Corpo-ration, Urban Renewal Agency, Blaine County Recreation District, Blaine County Housing Authority and ARCH Commu-nity Housing Trust, Wood River Arts Alliance, Hailey City and Mountain Rides.

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11:30 Blaine County Schools and College of Southern Idaho

12:00 Idaho Potato Buffet hosted by Sun Valley Resort and City of Sun Valley, $10 donation

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1:00 Capital for a Day resumes through 3 p.m. with the floor open to the public.

Capital for a Day Marks Sun Valley’s 75th Anniversary

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the Ketchum-Sun Valley Heritage and Ski museum is pleased to an-nounce the 2012 Sun Valley Ski Hall of Fame inductee’s. the alpine commit-tee has selected dick durrance, War-ren miller, Janette Burr Johnson, Pete Patterson and michel rudigoz. the nordic committee has selected Bill and annie Vanderbilt, n’tala Skinner, charley French, Hans muehlegger and Jenny Busdon.

the 2012 induction ceremony will be at the Heritage and Ski museum on Wednesday, February 1st, at 4:00 p.m. the celebration includes live music, drinks, and a brief presentation and speech by each athlete.

the Ski museum has dedicated an exhibition area in the Ski museum to

house the laser-engraved plaques of the Sun Valley Ski Hall of Fame.

the process for nomination is done by committee and nomination, one for nordic and another for alpine. each committee has several members, all dedicated athletes who continue to work in their sport areas. each com-mittee member works to find the top inductees for the year, people who have excelled in their sport and given back to the greater Sun Valley commu-nity. the inductees are honored with a party and a permanent plaque in the Ski museum, which highlights their contributions to their sport.

For questions regarding the Sun Valley Ski Hall of Fame, please call the Ski museum at 208.726.8118.

2012 Ski hall inductees announced

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John mauldin, who along with nathan Kniffen sang Sunday as part of the new a Few good men a cappella choir, will be among the performers in Friday’s fourth annual classical christmas concert at the Sun Valley opera House.


Jerome High School didn’t have an orchestra—not with just 80 students in its

graduating class. But it did have a choir.

And somehow the school churned out a plethora of profes-sional musicians in a valley that created the likes of Gary Puckett and Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crue.

Three of Jerome’s finest will come together Friday night to present the fourth annual Clas-sical Christmas Concert at 7:30 p.m. at the Sun Valley Opera House.

Jed Moss played keyboard for the rock band Air Supply for 13 years, in addition to playing classical music with the likes of the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonic orchestras.

Moss will be joined by John Mauldin, who now serves as Sun Valley’s director of enter-tainment, and his sister Leslie Mauldin, who sang profession-ally throughout the world before settling in Boise.

Rounding out the concert will be professional opera soprano Celena Shafer from Salt Lake City and Boise’s Hatvani Cham-ber Ensemble.

“I can’t wait to sing together again,” said Leslie Mauldin. “When you grow up musically to-gether, there’s something organic that never goes away. It’s like an old recipe that always turns out perfect.”

The trio was introduced to a smattering of different musical styles, including the classics, oratorios and jazz harmonies, at Jerome. Choir was so popular that Jerome fielded the most singers in the All-Northwest Choir Conference, despite its size.

“We were like a basketball team. We had a real camarade-rie. There’s something moving about singing in harmony and being part of that blend of voices. You sing together, breathe together, move together,” said Leslie Mauldin.

The trio has kept in touch over the years. In fact, it was Leslie Mauldin who encouraged Moss to take the gig with Air Supply when the band wanted to take a classical pianist on its South American tour.

As a keyboardist for Air Sup-ply, Moss co-wrote the instru-mental piece “Once” with Air Supply’s Graham Russell for the Book of Love. He also found himself playing before stadium

crowds—a big contrast to the intimate concert halls he was used to.

“I learned to deliver a perfor-mance under any kind of distrac-tion,” he said, recalling fans that would jump on stage and plop down on the piano seat next to him. “I also learned about impro-visation—something very differ-ent for a guy like myself who was very by-the-book. I got to play a classical number each show to bridge the gap between the dif-ferent types of music. And, even though these were rock music fans, when I played something they recognized, they’d wear it on their sleeves.”

On Friday night Moss will join the others in performing classi-cal numbers, as well as famil-iar Christmas music, such as “White Christmas,” “I Wonder as I Wander,” “What Child is This?” and “Sweet Little Jesus Boy.”

Moss said he was wowed by the beauty of the Sun Valley Pavilion when he was here last year, picnicking on the lawn as he listened to the Sun Valley Summer Symphony.

“I was astonished at the beau-ty of it all—both the orchestra and the concert venue are world class,” he said.

Tickets to Friday’s concert are $35, available at 208-622-2135 or toll-free 888-622-2108.

Classical Christmas Concert“I can’t wait

to sing together again. When you grow up

musically together, there’s

something organic that

never goes away. It’s like an old

recipe that always turns out

perfect.”

–LesLie MauLdin

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“Wishes cost nothing unless you want them to come true.”

—Frank Tyger

By Bali SZaBo

The dream of seeing the Himalayas lay latent in a trunk, but it wasn’t the

only thing incubating there. For years I subscribed to and saved some copies of photography magazines. The postwar years were also the golden age of SLR 35mm photography. LIFE maga-zine elevated photojournalism to the level of art; e.g., Eugene W. Smith. After college, I picked up a simple camera just to have one, but then I couldn’t put it down. Along with the Himalayan books, those photo magazines came to life as well. Without the investment in a basic Nikon sys-tem, the Himalayas, or any other trip, would never have hap-pened. For me, it’s never been enough to see the world—out the back door, or 7000 miles away. I had to interact with it, to engage in a dialogue with life. That is an ongoing project.

A chance event gave me the idea for the Habitat. Someone gave me a catalogue from High Country Plants, a wildflower grower. I saw the possible. A Mountain Travel catalogue served the same purpose. For the first time, I was going somewhere with an organiza-tion. Even renowned explorers need sponsors and organized local help. Major undertakings require a plan and more knowl-edge than I could ever hope to acquire. Besides, you never know enough.

While I prefer to research, plot and execute my own journeys, I’ve learned to use local guides

and outfitters to achieve the goal—cultural immersion. What I am referring to is the larger bio-culture—the flora, the fauna, the landscape and the people who inhabit it—a geographic approach. Why even leave home for a superficial look-see? This is what packaged tours usually offer. My alma mater is offering a professor-guided, eight-day trip to Morocco for $4000—every city, Roman ruins, the desert of the Sud, badda bing, badda boom. I recently planned a trip there for 30 days—my own schedule, two-week car rental, lots of time away from tourist traps—all for $3000. Cheaper if I have a companion. And the Rock of Gibraltar!

From all the Nepal options available from the Mountain Travel catalogue, I chose the road less travelled—a moun-taineering, expedition-style, 30-day trek to the remote and rarely opened Rolwalling Valley on the Tibetan border, west of the Everest region. Two weeks in, we’d cross into Everest’s neighborhood, the Khumbu, via the glaciated 19,000-foot Tesi Lapscha pass. The trip required the presence of a physician. We all had to pass strict physicals, and bring or rent the necessary specialized equipment. There was a definite element of risk to one’s health. We’d visit an area only a small handful of visitors had ever seen since the opening of Nepal in 1949, and we’d see no other foreigners on the trails. The legendary mountaineer Eric Shipton stood atop Tesi Lapscha in 1952, and took the only cred-ible picture of a Yeti footprint—outside his tent, no less.

From Dream to Reality, the Journey

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If you have question or comments, contact Bali at this e-mail: [email protected].

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living Well UI-Blaine Extension Tips

Save Money While Doing the LaundryWhether you’re using a

new machine or an old one, a few practices will

save money and energy each time you do your laundry:

• Do your laundry correctly the first time, so you don’t have to re-wash it.

• Pretreat or presoak stains and heavy soils before washing.

• Launder full loads, but make sure the washer isn’t overloaded. The washer’s water level should match the load size.

• Whenever possible, wash loads in cold water. Rinse all loads in cold water. Make sure that your laundry detergent is compatible with your washer. Because high-efficiency (HE) washers are designed to save water and energy, check to make sure that your laundry detergent is compatible by checking the bottle for the HE symbol. Using traditional laundry detergents in an HE washer can result in lower cleaning performance and a sudsy mess.

• To lessen drying time, use a higher spin speed for items such as towels and sweatshirts. It takes less energy to spin water out of fabrics than to dry the water out.

• Do not overload the dryer.• If you can, dry loads one

after another to take advantage of a dryer that is already heated.

• Be certain to clean the lint filters after drying each load, and make certain the dryer exhaust vent is clear of obstruc-tions.

• Select a high-speed spin option or extended spin option to remove more water from the clothing prior to drying.

• Consider drying clothing on a clothesline outside on warm, dry days.

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erc beat

Firstly, work on keeping the cold out. Make sure your doors and windows are

airtight. Cover your floors—even small rugs act as insulation. If you have a large area covered in wood or linoleum, a large area rug or even an extra piece of car-pet can lower your energy costs and keep you warm.

If you’ve lived here even one winter, you probably know it’s more efficient to wear several lighter layers. Wear fingerless gloves under mittens, or knitted gloves under bulkier ones. Layer a scarf around your head under a hood.

A $10 space heater can save you money with strategic use. Instead of your main heater, let your space heater warm up a small area, like your bedroom

or bathroom, instead of heat-ing the whole house. Exercise is great for warming you up. Doing simple tasks, like cleaning, vacu-uming and anything else around the house, can help your blood flow fast enough that you’ll be much warmer. Both your stove and oven generate heat, so get started on those holiday treats and find your kitchen and dining area warmer as a direct result.

Snuggle with someone. Body heat is almost miraculous in its ability to keep people warm. That’s why curling up in a sleep-ing bag with another person is a top cold-weather survival tactic!

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briefsice Show TonightSun Valley will celebrate its 75th

birthday this week with a Silver and gold ice Show at 6 tonight at the out-door ice rink.

Stars include evan lysacek, Sasha cohen and special guest announcer Scott Hamilton.

For tickets, call 208-622-2135 or go to seats.sunvalley.com

New location for raffle Drawing

this Saturday, dec. 24th, the Hailey chamber and participating merchants will have their final and biggest raffle drawing at noon. they have changed the location to a sunnier, warmer spot. the drawing will take place in front of aqua Pro Spa & Pool.

they are giving away two grand prizes of $500 each in chamberbucks as well as other gift certificates and prizes.

Free Showing of Nutcracker

Sun Valley resort will treat Valley residents and visitors to a free show-ing of “the nutcracker on ice” Satur-day as part of its traditional christmas eve performance.

the ice show will begin at dusk. there will be free cookies and cocoa on the terrace beginning at 5 p.m., and a torchlight parade and fireworks will cap the show.


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Sun Valley Story Book Signing Tonight

By Karen BoSSicK

As Sun Valley prepares to turn 75, its story is being told anew.

“The Sun Valley Story” was written by Van Gordon Sauter, president of CBS News and Fox News for 20 years. Sauter will hold a signing and book launch-ing party in the Sun Valley Inn Limelight Room tonight follow-ing Sun Valley’s Silver and Gold Ice Show, which begins at 6 p.m.

The 194-page coffee table-type book features historical photos never before published, including those of hotdog skiers and alpine skiers in the Boulder Basin.

And it presents mini-profiles of ski innovators, the Sun Valley ice show and more, even as it takes readers from Sun Valley’s early years to the Holding years.

Actor and Sun Valley home-owner Clint Eastwood writes the foreword, describing his parents taking ski lessons at Sun Valley in the 1940s strapped into long skis with C-clamp bindings.

“Sun Valley has a magic to it. When you are there, you feel as if you’ve escaped to a hidden paradise, an extraordinary place that not very many people know about,” he writes. “There’s a lot going on, but it never feels too crowded or commercial like a lot of other resorts do… It doesn’t have to work to prove something, to prove anything.”

Sauter’s bushy white beard, o-shaped owl spectacles and sus-penders have become a familiar sight around Ketchum since he bought a home here years ago with his wife Kathleen Brown, a Chicago investment banker and former treasurer of California where her father Pat Brown and brother Jerry Brown have occu-pied the Governor’s Mansion.

Sauter says he wrote “The Sun

Valley Story” not because of any ego or financial motivation but because the book needed to be written. Not only is it the story of the men and women, and even a couple who have made it what it is today, but “it’s great fun, contains a few salacious scan-dals and some very good instruc-tive on management,” he said.

“If you look at how the resort was created in 11 months, you stand back and say, ‘How could that have ever happened?’ It would be hard to imagine it be-ing built today with the permits and sage grouse…”

Sun Valley Magazine’s book publishing division—Mandala Media—collaborated with Sun Valley Resort on the book.

Publisher Laurie Sammis said the book offers a wealth of infor-mation that people don’t know.

“Everyone knows when Mr. Harriman came. But there’s so much related in the book that people might not know,” she said. “Nelson Bennett, for instance, tells how the Shah of Iran came and there was no snow so they took him skiing at Boulder City.”

The book features a number of pictures from Sun Valley’s archives that most people haven’t seen before. One woman even contributed pictures of Sun Valley’s gig as a naval hospital.

“The book talks about what Earl Holding and Bill Janss and others did to lay the foundation for the future,” Sammis said. “The original vision Harriman

had is still authentically valid today. That’s part of what people love about Sun Valley.”

The book costs $49.95. It is available at the Sun Valley Gift Shop, Brass Ranch at River Run, Sun Valley Lodge, Sun Valley Club and the Sun Valley Inn in Sun Valley, as well as Silver Creek Outfitters, Bellisimo, Chapter One Bookstore and Iconoclast Books in Ketchum. It is also available online at http://www.sunvalleyhistory.com/

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“Sun Valley has a magic to it. When you are there, you feel

as if you’ve escaped to a

hidden paradise, an extraordinary

place that not very many

people know about.”

–CLinT easTWood

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“We are excited to be running at full steam and look forward to provid-ing excellent customer service to lots of people this winter,” stated execu-tive director Jason miller. “now that we are operating 15-minute frequency to river run and along Warm Springs, there is no better way to get around than by jumping on one of our clean, warm buses driven by our friendly, helpful drivers.”

For complete schedule informa-tion, pick up a new schedule (blue cov-er) at local businesses, brochure racks, or at the Visitors’ center in downtown Ketchum. or visit www.mountain-rides.org.

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Steve d’Smith is reprising his role as Christmas’ most beloved miser Scrooge in the

nexStage Theatre’s presentation of “A Christmas Carol: A Musical.” D’Smith, Ben Schepps and a cast of dozens will present the holiday classic with its catchy musical tunes at 7 tonight and Friday and at 2 p.m. Christmas Eve. Tickets are $15 and $25 at the theater, which is located at 120 S. Main St., Ketchum.


three more chances to see A Christmas Carol

Main Street Market Sports MakeoverPHoto & Story By Karen BoSSicK

Jessica Donovic spent the last two weeks reviewing the prices of more than

5,000 grocery items, including 1,227 wines alone.

Then she set new prices for many of the items, ranging from 30 cents lower in some cases to as much as $2 lower in others.

Store clerks taped signs indicating the “new low price” in contrast with “the old price” on Friday as the former Roxy’s Market prepared for its grand reopening as the newly named Main Street Market.

A few hours after they had finished, a couple hundred Wood River Valley residents flooded through the doors for a grand reopening party that included samples of the deli’s signature vegetable lasagna, as well as samples of Fair Mountain Farm’s pesto, the Chocolate Moose’s lemon bars and a black currant juice made by a southcentral Idaho farmer.

“A month ago I was going to yoga class. Now I’m running a grocery store,” said Karen Holzman, who is now running the store with her husband, Steve Holzman. “The store that opened in the beginning was not what anyone was looking for. The town cried out for a Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s. We’re try-ing to create a mix of that.”

Holzman and some 30 employ-ees worked 15-hour days for the past few weeks in preparation for the grand reopening.

The makeover came just months after the store opened as Roxy’s Market following a mil-lion-dollar renovation of the old Williams Market property. But shoppers complained that prices were too high and that the store did not carry many of the items they needed.

Holzman’s own daughter Claire, a Community School fifth-grader, was one of the satis-

fied customers on Friday.“Mommy, Mommy! Look! We

have Lucky Charms now,” the girl exclaimed.

The remade market displays fruits, vegetables and even organically grown roasted pump-kin seeds from more than 20 local vendors.

It features baked goods from Cristina’s Restaurant, Hailey Coffee Company and Ketchum’s Chocolate Moose, along with products from LeCafé de Paris and other producers in Boise.

Chefs Hans Fostvedt and Heather Rogers have started cooking up take-and-go items, such as Asian chicken wraps, grilled and roasted vegetables and Thai chicken sesame salad in the expanded deli. And Zou 75’s chef will start rolling sushi on the premises in January.

The store is also importing “tons” of imported olives, cheeses and other products, expanding its salad bar and serving up cigars in a new humidor.

The store already had a nice line of bulk items and gluten-free items, faithful shoppers said. And it looks as if it’s on the right

track with the new selection of locally grown foods, said Lynea Newcomer, of Idaho’s Bounty.

Holzman said she and the other investors intend to do what they can to keep prices as low as possible, even though “living in a mountain town offers challenges you can’t ignore.”

The original store owners priced items without rhyme or reason, she said, prompting her-self and the others to “scramble fast and furiously to redo the prices.”

“This is a labor of love. It’s not our intent to see an empty parking lot in the most popular ski town in the state. We live here, too, so we want to shop as cheaply as we can.”

Karen Holzman, Jessica donovic and Stephanie olson share a smile, along with Holzman’s daughter claire.

“Living in a mountain town

offers challenges you can’t ignore.”

–kaRen HoLZMan

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Helen Chen has been in the middle of cooking demonstrations ever

since she was a youngster and her 5-foot mother was pioneer-ing TV cooking shows with 6-foot Julia Child.

“My claim to fame was patting the Peking duck with a sponge when it dried out under the lights,” recalled Chen.

Today—43 years later—Helen Chen is a cooking star in her own right, with a line of Asian cookware to boot. And her demos are every bit as entertaining as Julia Child’s.

Chen recently regaled a sell-out class at Ketchum Kitchens, which carries her Helen’s Asian Kitchen products.

When her mother, Joyce Chen, first opened a restaurant in Cambridge, Mass., in 1958, she had to serve French bread because customers complained if she didn’t, Chen recalled. And when Joyce Chen introduced a Chinese buffet, she had to offer roast beef and turkey because people were afraid to try Chi-nese.

Now, Chen noted, Chinese is everywhere, but the American-ized version tends to be starchy and salty.

“Chinese people would not go to PF Chang because it’s not real Chinese,” she said.

The Chinese cut everything into pieces to accommodate chopsticks—their eating utensil of choice. And they use every-thing—even broccoli stems, she added.

“We have a fifth of the world’s

population. And, though our land mass is the size of the United States, only 10 percent can be farmed since the rest is mountainous or desert. Do you think we’re going to waste anything?!”

Chen offered dozens of cooking tips throughout her three-hour demo:

…Never preheat an empty non-stick pan.

…Don’t heat oil until it smokes, as burning oil is un-healthy.

…It’s okay to use canola oil instead of peanut oil in stirfrys.

…Add cornstarch to raw meat to seal in the juices.

…Add a pinch of sugar to heighten flavor.

…Use Japanese soy sauce, like Kikkoman, with chicken, and use darker Chinese soy sauce, which is made

with molasses, with beef dishes.

…Rub ginger on fish to get rid of the fishy smell.

…Peel ginger with a spoon.…Lubricate your knife before

splitting chicken.…Never use a spoon with rice,

as it cuts the grain and com-presses it.

Chen wrapped her hands around her Perfect Rice Cooker, which she guarantees makes perfect rice every time.

“The first thing Chinese say to each other is, ‘Have you eaten rice?’ Rice is such an integral part of a meal that if you haven’t eaten it, you haven’t eaten,” she said. “And if you don’t know how to prepare it, you’re an embar-rassment to your family.”

Chen Entertains as she Educates

Helen chen, who has written a number of books on asian cooking, says you can even steam custards and vegetables in her Perfect rice cooker.

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Muffy Ritz pulls Alex Sundali along the tracks at the Sun Valley Nordic Center much as Rudolph will be

pulling Santa come Christmas Eve. The “driving the horse” exercise, designed by Nordic instructor EJ Harpham in a hot tub one night, is designed to get skiers to lean forward into the rope, bending their knees and flexing their ankles as they do. Skiing on Bald and Dollar mountains is very good, despite the dearth of natural snow since Thanksgiving. Sun Valley Nordic Center has three trails open. And the cross-country trails north of Sawtooth National Recreation Area headquarters are holding up nicely, as well.


muffy ritz gets some good nordic exercise

briefsMedMobs Todaymeditation Flash mobs—or med-

mobs, for short—will take place at 12:15 p.m. today at the Hailey cof-fee company in Hailey and all things Sacred in the galleria Building in Ket-chum.

medmobs began in austin texas early this year when a group of 60 people found their way to the State capitol Building for an hour-long silent meditation. the concept grew quickly and has spread to at least 270 cities around the world.

Participants are asked to approach the venue in silence, without a word. you may come and go, as you need to, keeping the stillness so as not to dis-turb others in these places.

the event is sponsored by Winter Feast for the Soul with the assistance of alexandra delis-abrams. For more information, call 720-5875 or 788-6373. or go to www.medmob.org

Trunk Show at gallery DeNovo

gallery denovo is holding a Holiday open House and trunk Show from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at its gallery, 320 First ave. n., in Ketchum.

the show will feature cast fine sil-ver jewelry from glynis Pa l azu e l o s Buersmeyer, festive décor by gld inte-riors – gail dwyer, vibrant paintings by andrew lui and cast glass sculpture by marlene rose.

drinks and nibbles will be served all evening.

Ball raises money for mental Health

St. luke’s Wood river Volunteer core announces they grossed more than $126,000 from the Winter Ball held dec. 10.

the proceeds will go toward ex-panding outpatient mental health ser-vices in the Wood river Valley.

SV5b Pie auctionthe Second annual SV5B Pie auc-

tion will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Friday on the lower level of giacobbi Square.

local celebrities, restaurateurs, caterers and athletes have put their baking skills to work creating, pies, quiches and other delectable treats to benefit the SV5B swim club.

Swimming is not a sanctioned sport in idaho so swimmers competing in meets outside of the area are re-sponsible for all costs associated with meets, travel and coaches fees.

Some 80 individuals and business-es donated an array of pies that were almost too beautiful to eat for the in-augural pie auction held last year. the choices included a White chocolate eclaire Pie, a chocolate pecan pie with orange crust, an apple pumpkin pie and a French lemon curd tart. the auc-tion also included a Feta goat cheese Spinach Quiche, cranberry curd tart and chicken Pot Pie.

anyone wishing to donate a pie may drop the pie off at Zion’s Bank in Ketchum by 3 p.m. thursday. mem-bers of the swim team will also be glad to pick up pies from those who are un-able to deliver them on their own.

call Jeffra Syms at 208-721-1599 or Heidi Watanabe at 208-309-1999 for more information.

and the swim team has $2,400 to defray the costs of travel and competi-tion, as a result.


first performance of “Vincent” in Sun Valley at The Liberty Theatre. “And the story is fas-cinating. He sells out wherever he goes.”

Interest in Van Gogh is at an all-time high right now, thanks to the recent release of several of his paintings and one of the most comprehensive biographies ever released about him, Jarrett said.

Jarrett said he hopes audi-ences will go away realizing that Van Gogh was not only a bizarre, sometimes shocking, man who once cut off a chunk of his ear following a disagreement with a fellow painter, but that he was also “a remarkable, extraordi-nary man.” Even more, he hopes, viewers will be inspired to find their own dream.

“When I first read the script, I just wept. Here was a guy who had a dream and had the cour-age to pursue it,” Jarrett said. “He didn’t shell out for the dollar bill. I’m humbled by what he ac-complished in just 10 years.”

IF YOU GO…What: VincentWhen: 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 26,

through Thursday, Dec. 29Where: nexStage Theatre, 120

S. Main St., KetchumTickets: $25 general admis-

sion and $35 reserved, avail-able at Chapter One Bookstore, Atkinsons’ Market in Ketchum and the nexStage Theatre. Ticket sales benefit the nexStage Theatre.

Information: 726-9124.

WHAT’S JIM UP TO?Jim Jarrett, a former resident

of Sun Valley, now teaches 128 acting students at the Meisner Technique School at The Presi-dio in San Francisco. Students have doubled in number every year for the last five years, he said, and this year he will take students to Hawaii for intensive training.

Jarrett is working with the William Morris Agency on two reality shows. One would feature students learning the Sanford Meisner acting techniques Jar-rett teaches. The other would feature athletes and other ce-lebrities learning the technique as they make the transition from their original careers into acting.

Jarrett is also talking with the Van Gogh Museum in Am-sterdam about the possibility of performing “Vincent” there for six weeks in August.

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A Very Swingin’ Christmas

By Jamie canField, Program director at KSKi 103.7

If there is one Christmas al-bum you should have in your CD player for the duration

of the holidays, it’s Christmas With The Rat Pack, featuring a collection of holiday songs from Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. Sure, most of these standards can be found on the Christmas albums that the three have put out over the ten-ure of their respective careers, but it’s great to have them all on one disc, with a few previously unreleased songs. The Rat Pack epitomized cool (and still do to this very day); Frank, Dino and Sammy brought fun and frolick (and purported debauchery) to an otherwise staid music scene when other artists took them-selves way too seriously. They represented fun—on stage and off—and they brought their swagger (and stagger, in Dino’s case) to everything they did, including Christmas music. The familiar songs are all here: “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow,” “Jingle Bells,” and not one, but two, versions of Mel Torme’s “The Christmas Song.” But no one could (and never will be able to) do it like Frank, Dean and Sammy. Toss in a trio of duets with Sinatra and Martin, and you’ve got not just a holiday CD, but a Christmas event, whose playability stretches to New Year’s with a boozy rendition of “Auld Lang Syne.” Christmas With The Rat Pack is a must for that upcoming Christmas party or gathering. It’ll have the whole party swingin’, baby! tws

The Sky is Falling!By JonatHan Kane

There is a deep and profound feeling of anxiety enveloping America as we hurtle into the 21st century.

Something bad seems to be lurking around the corner as our media and lives seem to be sending out ever present signals of fear. In the startling new film, Take Shelter, the title says it all. It is a story of a man tormented by demons that he vainly tries to wrestle with. But, in the surprise ending, we are left with the question as to whether these demons are delusions of a paranoid schizophrenic or the foretelling of actual doom.

The film is about a man—played superbly by Michael Shannon, a Chi-cago stage actor—who, his best friend remarks, has a good life—a job, family and health insurance. That insurance is important for both himself and his wife, the wonderful Jessica Chastain, because their daughter is in need of a hearing implant. Chastain appears to be every-where these days, with her luminescent performances in The Help and The Tree of Life, and she doesn’t disappoint here. Shannon, though, is troubled by dreams that include foreboding storms and apoca-lyptic formations of birds. In response, he puts his family and job on the line to build a storm shelter in his backyard. When a storm does actually hit, he is forced to confront his demons and decide whether or not to take his family down with him.

The film is written and directed by the talented Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories), and he is aided by the brilliant cinema-tography of Adam Stone, with portraits of threatening storms and the remarkable image of birds falling dead from the sky. But the real story here is Shannon, who plays the every man with a remarkable degree of grace. The world, seen through his eyes, is a very scary place. It is a pow-erful allegory for our life and times.

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Fat/Stem Cells In Breast Reconstruction And EnhancementBy tom craiS, m.d., F.a.c.S.

When my college roommate brought home a signed pho-tograph of him and Suzanne Somers at an Elvis party in Memphis, I was impressed.

When Suzanne came forward with her approach to life us-ing the so-called “anti-aging” principles, I was even more impressed. Now, having seen Ms. Somers on the Dr. Oz Show explaining the management of her breast deformity and allow-ing for operating room footage to be shown to a world audience, I am most grateful to her for her courage to share her own medi-cal challenges and choices.

Recently, Suzanne underwent a so-called ‘fat stem cell breast reconstruction’ in California. Fat injections to the breast were introduced by Birkol in 1986 for breast enhancement. Since then, doctors in Italy, Japan, France and the U.S., as well as other places, have been using patients’ fat with or without refined stem cells to enhance the small, mis-shaped, asymmetrical breast, or for reconstruction of small defects such as lumpectomy and

irradiation deformities, or for complete and total reconstruc-tion of both breasts after total mastectomies. The results shown by many of the researchers in this field are truly amazing to me, a plastic surgeon in this field for 35 years. It also amazes me because in 1977 I had the good fortune of working with Dr. Bill Shaw at New York Univer-sity Medical Center doing what probably was only the second microvascular tissue transfer for breast reconstruction. That tech-nique was most likely the “gold standard” of breast reconstruc-tion until these last few years. In Japan, Dr. Kotaro Yoshimoro, in France Dr. Manuel Dulay, in Italy Dr. Gino Regati and in the U.S. Drs. Birkol, Coleman and Khoury have all devoted significant research over the last 20 to 25 years to this technique. This last decade has brought truly incredible outcomes to patients across the globe who have chosen to use their own fat suctioned from other parts of their body and re-injected into their own breast fat and/or chest muscles to act not only as a filler but also to truly grow more fat in

the area. There are several ways to enhance the already success-ful procedure, such as the use of agents such as collagenase, centrifugation or stem cell ex-pander machines—for example, Cytori—to increase the number and concentration of stem cells. As in all areas of medicine, each of these techniques has some controversy associated with it. Another adjunct is the use of the Brava breast external tissue expander, which has been used for temporary breast enhance-ment for over 10 years now. Be-sides breast reconstruction and enhancement through the simple injection of fat/fat stem cells into scars, radiation ulceration has shown to be successful in obtaining improvement in scars, a decrease in pain and tissue tightness, and the healing of open wounds.

Even without separated or expanded stem cells, the method-ology is quite successful and it is relatively straightforward, with indications that it is not only safe, with fewer complications than more standard operative procedures, but it seems to be less expensive, and thus far all

indications are that there is no impediment to radiologic evalu-ation and/or interference with diagnosis of secondary breast cancer. In the nearly 10 years of this procedure being done, there does not seem to be any increase in further development or recurrence of breast cancer. Although specifically where only lumpectomy has been done, as with Suzanne Somers’ surgery, the final data is not yet avail-able. The study that she is a part of will help to make that determination.

The procedure itself is quite straightforward. Fat is suc-tioned by a number of available techniques. The fat is then either allowed to separate by gravity or centrifugation, thereby allowing for removal of more toxic pro-in-flammatory parts of the aspirate, and also allowing for separation and/or concentration of the stem-cell-rich, so-called stromovas-cular fraction. The fat and stem cells are then re-injected under the breast skin— into the fat under the skin—and sometimes into the underlying muscle of the chest wall. Contouring is done by means of visual and palpable

evaluations. Compression gar-ments are applied only to the do-nor areas where the liposuction was done. The procedure takes several hours, depending upon the extent of surgery to be done, and most always it is done as an outpatient surgical procedure. Whether for augmentation or for reconstruction multiple se-quential procedures are almost always required for final optimal results. The secondary proce-dures can frequently be done in the physician’s office.

During the last five years since I have been performing these procedures I have been most impressed with the natural feel and appearance of the breast as well as the decreased dis-comfort and inconvenience. In my impression, this is rapidly becoming the gold standard of breast reconstruction and enhancement.

I look forward to the next presentation where we discuss the utilization of fat/stem cell transfers to the face for rejuve-nation.

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Fortuin is a Triple ThreatBy JonatHan Kane

Emmet Fortuin, Commu-nity School junior, is a triple threat. Excelling

at acting, singing and dancing, Fortuin is highly in demand for a slew of local productions. And the amazing thing is that he has only been doing all three for a few years and, to most people’s amazement, has been able to master all three in such a short period of time. “I just love to be on stage,” Fortuin said. “I espe-cially love to feel the heat coming from the audience and being able to feed it back to them.” Wood River Valley audiences will have the opportunity to sample his work this week when he takes to the stage to play the young Scrooge at the nexStage The-atre in the musical version of A Christmas Carol. “Christmas shines a light into all of us and with A Christmas Carol I get to play Scrooge through three different phases as he becomes Scroogier all the time.” Of his three talents, Fortuin has a very analytical way of looking at things. “Singing and music is like math because the brain works the same way. Acting is like literature, and dance is definitely like science in that it uses that aspect of your brain. In science, one precise step leads to another one and that’s exactly the way it is with choreography. You have to be perfect and there is always a correct answer.”

Fortuin’s first taste of being in front of an audience came in seventh grade when he joined a rock cover band, which broke up when his new band – DH – needed a lead singer. “The dad of someone in the band was a musician and he had a record-ing studio and he taught me how to sing. Basically, he showed me the fundamentals and also showed me how to be in front of people without stage fright. In ninth grade, at Wood River High School, I was playing football and was asked to be in the play Pride and Prejudice. I fell in love with acting and that was the end of football. In the spring, I did a musical, Curtains, and became smitten with musical theater. At that point I knew I could act, but could I sing and dance?

So I started working with R.L. Rowsey and he taught me how to breathe and sing classically. Af-ter that, I did Pippin with the St. Thomas Summer Project, which was my first immersion into real theater, with real professional actors, and I followed this with Oliver! where I was lucky enough to play the Artful Dodger. It was the greatest part because he’s everybody’s favorite character and you can really steal the show.” After that, it was time to undertake the trifecta of musical theater—dance. “Sheri Horton asked me to try it and said it would be fun, so I started danc-ing. My first ballet was the Nut-cracker when I was 16 years old. Dance is such a different world. Ballet has a real etiquette and a code that makes it a real honor

to be a part of.” Fortuin has just completed playing the lead in the Sun Valley Ballet School’s production of Beauty and the Beast. “I was in Oklahoma at The Community School at the same time I was in The Music Man, and then I did Beauty and the Beast at the same time as A Christmas Carol. It’s very tiring and I don’t know why I keep on doing it, but it’s what I love and am passionate about.” This confident young man has high hopes for the future. “I want to go to Los Angeles and pursue my dream. First, I’d like to do film, of course, for the money, and then I’d like to return to my roots in the theater. I haven’t done it yet but I feel real good about my chances.”

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Local Merchants Learn How to Examine Counterfeit Money By Karen BoSSicK

Chris Roebuck is looking forward to the holiday season when visitors will

surge into the Sun Valley area, snapping up jewelry, skiwear and other items that have lan-guished on store shelves since slack season set in.

But the Hailey jeweler, who owns Christopher and Com-pany, is also mindful that funny money could very well come with the hordes of visitors.

“I would think counterfeit-ers would come during the busy weekend when they think they are less likely to be noticed,” he said. “It’s our job to make sure the goods we’re selling are being paid for.”

That’s why Roebuck joined employees from The Elephant’s Perch, Webb Landscape and other businesses at a seminar sponsored by Zions Bank to learn how to recognize counter-feit currency.

U.S. Secret Service Special Agent Robert Harell told work-shop attendees that much of the funny money Idaho sees comes from California and Las Vegas. But some of it is homegrown, especially by meth addicts who make their money on their inkjet printer. And it’s not relegated to adults.

Recently, a mother was ar-rested at a Meridian gas station when she unknowingly tried to pay for her gas with a counter-feit $20 her teenage son had made and stashed in the glove compartment. And a Hailey high school student was caught passing counterfeit bills at a gas station.

The easiest way to detect funny money is to hold the bill up to the light, Harell said. Take a $50 bill, for instance, and look

for the vertical security thread embedded just to the right of U.S. Grant. The words “USA 50” and a small flag should be visible along the thread.

Make sure the hazy water-mark in a circle to the right of the president is that of Grant and not some other president. And make sure the 50 in the lower right corner on the front of the note changes color from copper to green when the bill is tilted.

Some businesses, including the McDonald’s in Nampa, use fluorescent machines to show the colored security threads, Harell added.

Sometimes people will split bills, matching a $20 with a $1, and then fold the bill over when they go to pay. Others bleach $1 bills so they can print $100 on them. And some use women’s makeup and sparkly stuff to imitate the changing color of

the number in the bottom right corner of the bill.

Harell said that store clerks have the right to take suspicious bills to hold for police to look at. If the customer demands it back, give it back, but get their license plate and call the police, he said.

Businesses are also seeing a huge increase in check fraud, cautioned Christopher A. Reid, a Twin Falls bank manager.

Recently, for instance, an owner of a mid-sized Idaho Falls business had more than a half-million dollars of checks out of sequence presented to his bank for payment from 35 different states. Someone had taken a picture of a legitimate check sitting on someone’s desk with their cell phone and sold it on Craig’s List to someone who then had at-home payment processors commit the fraud.

The best way to combat check fraud is through Positive Pay

in which banks check checks against a list of checks that have been authorized by the company. Checks that do not match are returned to the business for review.

Positive Pay is the single most effective fraud prevention mechanism available to you, said Jesse Ronnow, a regional man-ager who works with Zions Bank throughout southern Idaho.

A LOOK AT YOUR MONEY• The first Secret Service de-

tail of five men was established to investigate counterfeit cur-rency in 1865, following an order President Abraham Lincoln gave one day before his assas-sination. Every bank produced its own currency back then and two-thirds of the currency was

counterfeit.• In 1879, Crane and Compa-

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• It was not until 1928 that the government standardized the size of bills.

• The average lifespan of a dollar bill is less than a year.

Secret Service Special agent robert Harell says the government keeps issuing currency with enhanced security features.

the new $100 bills have a three-dimensional hologram that glows. and Ben Franklin has been moved to the left.

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Susan Ward has opened the Boulder Mountain Clay and Art Gallery at 791 10th St. across from the Knob Hill Inn for the Christmas season so that Christmas shoppers will have one

more choice of places to buy gifts. The studio includes this totem from Hailey artist Pam de Tuncq, as well as these sculptural oil cans from Texas artist Martin Kruk. PHoto: Karen BoSSicK/Sun

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By ana torreS

Approximately 11 million homeowners, many of whom have fallen victim

to the easy financing and arti-ficially inflated housing prices, owe more than what their home is worth. “Underwater” hom-eowners have been unable to qualify for any refinance relief but, with the recent changes made to the Home Affordable Re-finance Program (HARP), those homeowners in deep debt can now lock in a new, more manage-able mortgage rate.

If you qualify for HARP, it can help you take advantage of today’s desirable mortgage rates.

What significant changes have been made?

1. The former HARP, which was introduced in 2009, limited refinance loans to no more than 125 percent of the value of the home. Now, with the revamped HARP in place, underwater ho-meowners can refinance without restriction. The HARP will not enforce a loan-to-value cap.

2. If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have enough data in their automated valuation system, borrowers will not be obligated to purchase a new property appraisal. This both elimi-nates any appraisal expense and speeds up the refinancing process.

3. Mortgage loan risk fees will

either be reduced or eliminated for those borrowers who refi-nance their mortgage into a shorter-term loan such as the 15-year and 20-year mortgage.

In addition to the HARP changes for borrowers, lenders will also experience some wel-come modifications.

Under the revamped HARP, lenders would have the opportu-nity to be released from certain liabilities on the original loans if they refinance those loans through HARP. Discuss the new HARP guidelines with your mortgage professional to find out if you qualify.

Unfortunately, only those mortgages sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on or before May 31, 2009, are eligible for refinance under HARP. Borrow-ers must also be current on their loans and have no late payments in the last six months. If you don’t fit into this category, don’t fret; you can still take advantage of the current low mortgage interest rates.

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on dec. 14, Brigadier general alan gayhart, commander of the idaho army national guard, attended the Kiwanis meeting held at the Senior center. He was given a pin to be a charter member of our local Kiwanis club of the Wood river Valley. While at the meeting, Josh robertson from albertsons was given a plaque for the Freedom Patriot award for continued volunteer donations to the armory. also pictured is trina isaa-cs, president of Kiwanis. courteSy PHoto: Kim BaKer

general gayhart with Kiwanis

briefshPl holiday hours

the Hailey Public library invites pa-trons to stop in and stock up on cook-books, audio books and novels for the holidays by 2 p.m. on christmas eve. at that time, they’ll be closing early and will reopen tuesday, december 27th. Happy holidays from the staff at the Hailey Public library!

For more information about our services, please contact the Hailey Public library at (208) 788-2036 or visit the library online at www.hailey-publiclibrary.org.

Mikey Thunder Plays Thursday

mikey thunder will perform his mishmash of bass driven party rock-electrocrunk-future funk at 9 p.m. thursday at Whiskey Jacques on main Street Ketchum.

the Burlington, Vt. musician, now based in Jackson Hole, has toured with michael Franti and Spearhead.

Transition at SbgKathryn goldman has been named

the new executive director at the Saw-tooth Botanical garden.

goldman will replace carter Hed-berg, who is leaving at the end of de-cember to pursue a job in the private sector.

goldman has more than 15 years in the non-profit field. She headed the Wood river land trust’s river protec-tion program. more recently, she has been involved with crafting idaho’s first municipal policy to limit the use of chemical pesticides and herbicides in city parks in Ketchum as campaign director for the Pesticide action net-work of Blaine county.

goldman holds a bachelor of arts degree in english literature and a mas-ter of science degree in environmental studies.

St. luke’s board chair elected

St. luke’s has elected Jon thorson, m.d., as its new board chair of St. luke’s Wood river Board of directors.

dr. thorson, who has served on the board since 2001, will oversee the 18-member board of community vol-unteers. members of St. luke’s Wood river Board of directors provide guid-ance for policy, development and service enhancement, as well as de-termine how hospital revenues will be reinvested back into local health care services, facilities and equipment.

a retired ophthalmologist, thorson first visited the area in the mid-1960s. a former Stanford university medical School associate professor and phar-maceutical executive, he moved to Sun Valley in 1988. He and his wife, linda, are active in the community, their church and their blended family.

“i am passionate about delivering cost-effective healthcare to our com-munity while maintaining service lines key to the well-being of our residents and guests and working to fill voids such as mental health services,” says thorson.


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Audrey Bashaw has been spreading Christmas cheer for years by inviting

friends to a brunch at her home in Gimlet.

But a few years ago she decid-ed to kick it up a notch by asking each of the women attending if they would bring gifts for the Valley’s shut-ins.

They did, lugging in boxes and bags filled with gift certificates for shampoos and sets, flannel robes, socks, scarves, toiletries, World War II movie videos and other items on the wish list of seniors.

The Senior Connection then helped Santa out by delivering the gifts, along with Meals on Wheels.

“So often the women com-ing to the brunch would bring me things—like candles,” said Bashaw, a former home econo-mist. “It was extremely thought-ful but I have everything I need. I thought—why not turn that thoughtfulness toward those who can use a few nice things. People who will appreciate knowing that someone is thinking of them.”

Bashaw and her friends repeated the exercise last week, filling the stairway of her Gimlet home with gifts before retreat-ing to the living room to nibble on egg and sausage casserole, cinnamon almond braid and but-terscotch sticky buns.

The gifts would provide a little something at Christmas for some 60 seniors, many of whom would have no one to give them a gift, otherwise, said Kim Coonis, di-

rector of the Senior Connection.Bashaw is simply carrying on

a tradition started many years ago by her daughter Carrie, a former teacher at The Commu-nity School.

Carrie had started the prac-tice of purchasing and wrapping gifts for seniors at Christmas before her life was cut short by cancer.

“She rubbed off on all of us,” said Meg Nero.

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R. L. Rowsey’s A Few Good Men—performed four songs, including an African spiritual at vari-ous venues around the valley this past week, including the Light on the Mountain’s benefit party held at the Figge house, Blaine Manor and the Caritas Chorale’s Holiday Sing-a-Long. Pictured here are Dick Brightman, Nathan Kniffen, George Sedlack, Dawson Howard and John Mauldin. Not pictured: Tim Egan, Paul Stoops, Doug Taylor and R.L. Rowsey. PHoto: Karen BoSSicK/Sun

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The Jewish community will hold their annual Chanu-kah Party with student

Rabbi Daniel Utley at 6 p.m. Thursday at Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Church on Sun Valley Road.

The event will include dreidel games, crafts and gift exchanges for children.

Participants whose names start with A through M should bring a brisket or chicken. Those whose last names start with N through Z should bring des-sert. All children should bring a wrapped gift worth about $10 for a gift exchange.

And participants should bring their own wine.

Cost is $20 for adults ($30 for non-members) and $7.50 for children ages 4 through 12. Children under 4 will be admit-ted free.

What to Bring: Potluck dish or latkes, your Menorah (and if you’re 18 or under, bring a wrapped gift). tws

Mark Kashino celebrated his grand opening with a rib-bon cutting last Thursday. Mayor Rick Davis brought the big scissors to cut the ribbon and attendees were

invited to come inside and take a look at the new gallery on Main Street in Hailey. PHoto: SteVe JoHnSton/Sun

Kashino art gallery opens

Lyman and Debra Drake celebrated the opening of Debra’s Move studio, complete with chandelier and modern art on the wall, in Ketchum’s light industrial

park last Thursday. The studio, located in Studio B600 at 231 Northwood Way, offers fitness and yoga teachers the opportu-nity to rent out the studio for classes. Variable rental rates are offered to help out first-timers.

Drake will also hold Mindful Movement for Kids classes in the studio, using a Nurturing Pathways creative movement program to stimulate balanced brain development in infants as young as 3 months and as old as 4 years. For information, call 208-721-0444.


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St. luke’s Wood river announces the opening of their new exhibit “na-ture’s Bounty” in the local artist and lobby galleries. these new shows featuring local artists are installed and ready for viewing.

the Hospital art Program provides affordable space for both established and up-and-coming local artists to show their work, said Katie Pratt, art program manager.

every six months there is a new “rotation” or exhibit in the two sepa-rate galleries; the lobby gallery and the local artist gallery. this winter’s theme is “nature’s Bounty” depicting imagery of our natural world.

Works now showing in the lobby gallery are paintings by James cook

and michael gregory. in the local art-ists gallery some of the featured local artists are christopher Brown, melissa graves Brown, Heather Hansen, lisa Holley, Steven r. Houts, thia Konig, annie may, Susan Perin, Paulette Phli-pot, tom Prater, Poo Wright Pulliam, richard rush and marie Stewart.

most of the artwork is for sale.art can also be seen in the hospi-

tal’s main hallways and public areas, the adjacent Physician’s office annex building and Hailey clinic.

in addition to the rotating exhibits, the Hospital art Program maintains more than 600 pieces of original art, which are either permanent gifts or on long-term loan to the hospital.

St. luke’s Wood river’s New art exhibit

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St. luke’s was awarded a $22,716 grant from the State office of rural Health and Primary care. this grant will help address the needs of people with diabetes and prediabetes in the Wood river Valley.

St. luke’s Wood river currently of-fers adult Weight management class-es, medical nutrition therapy and di-abetes Self-management training for adults with diabetes. With this grant,

St. luke’s Wood river will partner with St. luke’s Family medicine and St. luke’s center for community Health to expand the scope and reach of the diabetes and prediabetes programs. in addition, St. luke’s will obtain diag-nostic equipment for management of complex diabetes cases and expand care for the pediatric population at risk for, and with, diabetes.

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Egoavils: Home for the HolidaysBy Jo murray

The Egoavil family, after living in Blaine County for 20 years, will celebrate

the holidays in their own home for the first time, thanks to the Habitat for Humanity Blaine County affiliate.

Jose and Edith Egoavil moved to the United States from Peru and settled in Blaine County in 1989. They wanted a small, quiet community with opportu-nities in the construction and tourism industries.

Jose Egoavil, today an experi-enced carpenter, started out as an apprentice in his trade. Edith Egoavil began cleaning houses and today works for Sun Valley Company in the housekeeping department. Both also worked hard to become U.S. citizens.

The Egoavils now have three sons: Yancy, 10; Beyer, 4; and Devin, 3. But they had not been able to achieve their dream of their very own home until they heard about Habitat for Human-ity through St. Luke’s Center for Community Health.

They fit the income guidelines and other qualifications required by Habitat. The Family Selec-tion Committee met with the family at their small apart-ment in Hailey and explained how the Habitat for Humanity organization works, and the specifics of the Blaine County affiliate. Within a few days, the Egoavils accepted the offer to become a partner in Habitat for Humanity Blaine County.

For most of this year, the Egoavils, their friends and other Habitat volunteers have been working to renovate a 1,188-square-foot home in Bellevue that had suffered significant water damage from a broken pipe when Habitat purchased it in May. John Lloyd of Lloyd Con-struction added a covered porch at the front door. Al Heath, a retired jack-of-all-trades, spent countless hours, as did Phil Stelma.

Jesse and Aby Rinella, who earlier this year acquired the first home renovated by the Blaine County Habitat affiliate, spent 15 hours one weekend this fall helping with renovations on the Egoavil home.

“Thank you so much for all of the Habitat members and all of the volunteers who have helped us in every step of the way in working toward owning

this home,” Jose Egoavil said. “Everyone has been so helpful and supportive—from encour-agement and support in the application process, to hard work and great communication in the building process. We are so very grateful to all!”

Donations of time and mate-rial also came from Tom Abbot, tile installer and setter; Matt Dohse of Big Wood Plumbing, Inc.; landscapers Jerry and Lisa Flaherty of The Valley Club; structural engineer Liv Jensen; translator George Maurtua; Matt Thornton of Thornton Heating & Sheetmetal, Inc.; architect Carolyn Wicklund; and electricians John Ward and Steve Wolper.

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Habitat sells homes to families for no profit, with a no-interest mortgage based on ability to pay. Monthly payments are used to build additional homes.

If the homeowner decides to sell the house, Habitat has the option to repurchase it for the initial purchase price. The buyer will receive equity from all of the mortgage payments made prior to the sale. This also allows Habitat to keep the home in its inventory.

Habitat for Humanity In-ternational is an ecumenical Christian ministry. Since its founding in 1976, Habitat has built, rehabilitated, repaired or improved more than 500,000 houses worldwide, providing sim-ple, decent and affordable shelter for more than two million people. It was ranked as the sixth larg-est homebuilder in the United States with 6,032 closings in 2010, according to Builder magazine’s annual survey.

Prior to this year, Habitat vol-unteers built a home in the Wood River Valley as a committee of the Twin Falls affiliate. ARCH Community Housing Trust helped in that project by holding a lease on the land, insuring that the home will permanently benefit a local family.

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I browsed through the tables of stuff piled high,So many odd items, but nothing I'd buy,“Oh why do I wait,” I continued to strain,“I know Christmas shopping, will give me migraines.”

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He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;“Excuse my red costume, it is strange I admit,But my wife just bet me it still wouldn't fit.”

His eyes seemed familiar, his face was unique,But I couldn't quite place those rosy red cheeks,I thought to myself, “Have I met him before?At the office, through friends or maybe a store?”

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14 child careExperienced sitter available for those evenings out or those days on the hill. Excellent references, recent college graduate, and soon to be Au Pair in France. Great with kids of any age. Please call Jazmine at 208-720-5933.

19 servicesHandyman - carpentry, painting, yard clean up, tree topping and re-moval, Christmas tree lights, shovel-ing snow. Call 208-280-3797. Cleaning Services:Homes,Condos,offices,vacation mainte-nance checks,great rates,free estimates,good references, Call 208-7205973 or [email protected]. Santa Wrappers - 2 locations (660 N. Main, Ketchum and the Dollhouse in Ketchum. Wrapping, p.u. and de-livery. For more info: 309-1868 Therapeutic Massage in your home Fridays through Mondays. Certified therapist with 20 years experience in Boise – expandingservices to Wood River Valley. Gift Certificates! Reasonable rates! Local references available. See my website at: Bod-yEaseMassageTherapy.com Or call MaryAnn at (208) 859-1058. Two guys and a truck - Furniture moving & hauling. Dump runs. No job too small. 208-720-4821. MOVING MADE EASY - The little la-dies will pack’em and stack’em and the mighty men will load’em and to-

tem. We’ll even do the dreaded move out clean. Call 721-3543 for your moving needs. JACK OF ALL TRADES - One call does it all, whether your job be big or small. Drywall, paint, small remodels, maintenance, tiling, woodwork, elec-trical plumbing, framing, etc. Don’t stall, give a call, 720-6676.

20 appliancesWanted - breadmaker with manual. Call 928-7277.

21 lawn & gardenThe Black Bear Ranch Tree Farm is proud to offer Aspen Trees for sale. The nursery is located just over seven miles north of Ketchum. Big SALE, call Debbie at 208 726-7267 for details.

22 art, antiques, & collectibles

Vintage Ketchum Bus Sign: “25¢ Bus” circa 50’s or 60’s. “From Sun Valley to Ketchum, Warm Springs, River Run and Return.” “Tours Around Valley only 25¢” White, black and yellow paint on galvanized metal, 35” x 20.” Very good condition $75. 788-2927. CHRISTMAS IS COMING! ORIGI-NAL WATERCOLORS by Nancy Stonington. Three, from $650 to $1200. Signed, numbered litho-graph 5/900 Jane Wooster Scott, $200. Unusual Sunshine Mine 100th Anniversary poster, $150. An original dot matrix painting, Jack Gunter, 3’ wide x 4’ high, $1800. Call Ann (208) 726-9510 Babe Ruth 22K Gold Plated base-ball card for sale. Covers his entire Major League career. Beautiful, mint condition. A must see!! $50.00 would make a great stocking stuffer! Call 208-788-0139. Silver!! 4 consecutive serial num-bered, 2001 $1 Silver Holographic Certificates, with authenticity papers, for sale. Limited striking, individually die struck in .999 silver. Beautiful! $100 firm for all 4 notes. Call 208-788-0139 for details. ME Malory print-dated 1911. Trout, fly rod and creel. Nicely framed, $185.00 or best offer. Call 788-4347

Rare solid bronze US Presidential Coin. Features the faces of the first 38 President’s on one side, their names on the other. 2 ½ in. in diam-eter. $80.00. Call 208-788-0139 for details. Stamp collection for sale. Amazing! Every US Commemorative stamp from 1950-1999. Two complete al-bums holding 152 panels with hun-dreds of stamps in mint condition. A must see! I paid $2,400 and will sell for $1,400 O.B.O. Call 208-788-0139 for details.

24 furnitureFile Cabinet Hon. Black, two draw-

ers with locks, 15 x 29, 26 long. Good condition. $29. Also other larger file cabinets. Call 788-2927. 1 Queen log headboard - $110. 1 log end table - $85. Call 208-280-3797. Nice sofa, chair & ottoman. Pastels & rattan. $200 OBO. Call 726-3966.

Kitchen Pie Cupboard - wooden w/carving on the doors. Must see! $250. 788-2566 Fainting Couch w/original floral vel-veteen cover - $95. 788-2566 Blonde Oak Dresser with hand carving - (3 drawer) $250. 788-2566

Upright Dresser and original pulls (4 drawer) $95. 788-2566

25 householdEqualizer EQ2 is a register booster that draws warm air from your floor or wall register to increase the flow. It is an energy saver and room warm-er. Winter is coming. New in box. $10.00. 788-2927 3 Dozen red Christmas tree balls-New. All for $10. call 788-4347 Christmas decorating Pine gar-land in 8’ lengths. Really nice, only used one season, $25.00 each. Total number of strand 10. call Nancy at 788-4347. Christmas tree-3 ‘ artifical, red lights, lots of small cute ornaments and red star for top. $60.00.

28 clothingFox Fur Jacket by SCF Furs of Sun Valley. Bomber style with knit collar, cuffs, and waist band. Women’s me-dium. Includes garment cover. Beau-tiful, worn very little. $300. Email photos available. Call 788-2827

Perfect for xmas gift! Men’s Gortex Insulated camoflaged hunting jacket. Pockets for shells etc slightly worn, Size large $150.00 make offer 208 788 2566 Columbia Hiking boots-Sawtooth. Women’s size 8 Med. Paid $95.00, bought wrong size. Wil sell for $45.00 or best offer. Call Nancy 788-4347.

37 electronicsTwo 32˝ Sony Trinitron TV’s - one original, flat screen (big TV) $50 (they go for $200-$300 online, one $25 and 27˝ TV $25. Call 208-206-5080.

NEC MultiSync LCD 18” Monitor. LCD1850E. Works great! Paid $200, will sell for $70. Call 208-788-0139 for details.

40 musicalKurzweil Ensemble Grande Digital Electronic Upright Piano, wooden-key, 88-note touch sensitive, 33 resi-dent instruments, digital recorder. $500. Call 622-9013. Electric Resonator Guitar - like new. Excellent cond. $300. Call 720-

5801. SALMON RIVER GUITARS - Cus-tom-Made Guitars. Repair Restora-tion since 1969. Buy. Sell. Vintage. Used. Authorized Martin Repair Center. Stephen Neal Saqui, Luthier. www.SalmonRiverGuitars.com. 1-208.838.3021 Classically trained pianist and singer giving piano and voice les-sons. Unionized professional. Be-ginners welcome! Please call Vivian Alperin @ 727-9774.

42 firewood/stovesWoodstove - Sears Roebuck Stove Chicago, Ill. no 641-84117. $350. Call 208-280-3797. Handmade Fire Starters - craft-ed by Local Children. Starts your fire every time. 12 for $2.50. Great gift idea or stocking stuffer. Call 720-8420

44 jewelryFAUX ROLEX MENS WATCH. Brand New. 18K/SS Two Tone Oyster Per-petual Jubilee Datejust. Roman nu-merals. Fluted bezel. Great looking. Asking $100 or Best Offer. Call 720-5594

50 sporting goodsAtomic Raisin Hell w/4R Bindings, 2009, 172 cm, R-15m. Outstanding condition. Believed to be used less than 3xRetail $599 Ebay $299 Will sell for Christmas for $250! Double torsion bar construction and titanium reinforcement. Call 425-985-2995.

Motorcycle Helmet Bell Sprint high quality helmet size 7-5/8 black with gold trim, original manual, visor and spare padding, very little used. Retailed for $150, sell $25. Ski/Snowboard Helmet, Marker Omega Series M4 size M. Perfect condition used once (really). $20.00. 788-2927.

Folding Rocking Armchair. Deluxe aluminum and fabric in carry case. Padded head support, very comfort-able, perfect condition—used once. $20. 788-2927 Flambeau Decoys - 3 bags of drakes and hens (12 each) w/camo

bags - all tied and weighted. $100, $125, $130 cash. Also 4 duck butts - $20. 788-4271 MOJO Duck Decoy - includes bat-tery & charger, stand & carry bag. Used 3 times. $100 cash. Call 788-4271 Flambeau Decoys: 1 bag (4 ea.) Ca-nadian geese w/extra large bag. All tied and weighted. NEVER USED> $100 cash. 788-4271 Great kids snowboard - blue $60; golf pull cart - $25. Golf clubs - $28. Golf bag - $25. 721-3298 Men’s snowboard boots - $25; 2 pair Atomic skis - $65 each. 4 pair ski poles (one pair kids, 3 adults) - $20 each. 720-7312 P-89 9MM 2 mags like new 400.00 . Winchester Mod. 12 12 Ga. 1950s 500.00 . M1 Carbine 375.00 . bench top drill press 95.00 ATV or Motorcy-cle lift, Sears Craftsman 175.00 Best offer accepted for all items. 7211843

Ladies Evolution Salomon Boots - size 8. Excellent cond. $35. Call 208-720-5824. Brand new Volkl Bridge Twin Tip with Marker Wide Ride Binding. 179cm Retail is over $1000. Sell @ $475 Call 309-1088 Brand new Volkl Gem Twin Tip. 158cm $175. retail $400 Call 309-1088 Brand new Volkl Alley Twin Tip. 168cm $175. retail $400 Call 309-1088 Brand new Volkl Aura powder skis. Still in wrapper. 163cm $425. Retail is $825 309-1088 Reising Model 50 - 3 mags, fancy and walnut. $4k. 721-1103. 1 pair men’s Talon inline roller blades, size 10-12 and 1 pair wom-en’s Talon inline roller blades, size 7-9; both pairs used only once. Yours w/protective pads for just $125. Call 720-5153.

52 tools and machineryTruck Toolbox - $150. Call 208-309-2231.

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56 other stuff for saleBirdseed Ornaments - crafted by lo-cal children. A nutritious holiday treat for hungry birds. Ready to hang. $5 each or sets of 3 for $12. Great gift idea. Call 720-8420 Handmade Fire Starters - craft-ed by Local Children. Starts your fire every time. 12 for $2.50. Great gift idea or stocking stuffer. Call 720-8420 Attaché Case, elegant top grain black leather, 18”x13”x5”, leather and suade interior, rarely used, in excellent condition. Combination locks, many compartments for pa-pers, pens, sunglasses, etc. These retail for up to $500. Retired lawyer owned, sell for $175. 788-2927 6 month Mtn Rides Bus Pass. Value $340 - Asking $200. Good Dec to June Keg - $100. You supply the bever-age! Call 208-309-2231. Delicious See’s Candy on sale at the Senior Connection. All proceeds benefit Senior Meals and Vital Trans-portation. See’s Candy is available Monday thru Saturday. For more information call Barbara @ 788-3468 or stop by 721 3rd Ave. South in Hai-ley. 7 NEW Coin Operated Vending Ma-chines. Be your own boss! Reces-sion proof. $2,500 OBO. Will deliver within the Valley. Call Tony at 720-5153.

60 homes for saleEAGLE CREEK HOME: Long-time local is now offering Eagle Creek Meadows home on 1/3 acre 6 miles north of Ketchum next to Forest Ser-vice acreage. This unique home of-fers a wonderful workspace on the upper floor overlooking the FS prop-erty. Separate outside cottage guest room with rock climbing wall, sauna, and garage. This great value, with possible owner financing, is a unique opportunity to own & live north of Ketchum. Priced at $499,500 Con-tact Emil Capik 622-5474 or www.sunvalleyinvestments.com Heatherlands Home for Sale. Lo-cated on a 1 acre lot this is one of the most affordable homes in this popular Mid-Valley neighborhood. 1891 livable square feet. 3 BD/ 2 BA , two living rooms. Double Car Garage. View online at www.findmy-corner.com MLS# 11-311196. Listed at $457,000. Call Cindy Ward, Sun Valley Real Estate at 720-0485 for a showing. Beautiful 3 bed/2 bath mountain lodge-style home on nearly 2 acres 3.6 miles west of Stanley (Crooked Creek Sub.). Asking $495,000. Ja-son Roth, Broker, Legacy Group, LLC, 208-720-1256 Fairfield - 3bd/1ba, big fenced yard, fire pit, 2-car garage, outbuildings, chicken coop, woodstove. On 3 lots in town, walk to bars and restau-rants. 1,792 sf, 2-story, propane, city water and sewer. Call 208-837-6145. Owner carry.

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64 condos/townhouses for saleSweetwater • Hailey, ID

15 Sold • 1 PendingSALE-Up to 65% off Original Prices

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66 farm/ranches30 acres south county, farmhouse, domestic well and irrigation well. Ill health forces sell. $399.000. 760-408-3637 Tunnel Rock Ranch. Exceptional sporting/recreational property be-tween Clayton & Challis. Just un-der 27 acres, with ranch house and 900’ of prime Salmon River frontage. Asking $578,000. Jason Roth, Bro-ker, Legacy Group, LLC, 208-720-1256

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70 vacation propertySALMON RIVER: 2+2 Home, Apt., Barn, Garage, Bunkhouse, (1,500 sf improvements) on 3.14 level fenced riverfront acres between Stanley-Clayton, $239,000. 80-miles north of WRV. Adjacent 3.76 level riverfront acres also avail. for sale, $139,500. Betsy Barrymore-Stoll, Capik & Co. 208-726-4455. Vac Intl Timeshares - 10 pts ev-ery year w/no annual fee. 105 every other (odd) year permanent. 70 ev-ery other (even) year expires 6/30/35. PLUS Timebanked points totaling 372 points. $2500.00 OBO 208 - 622 - 8115 Timeshare for sale - 1 or 2 weeks. Sells for $40,000. Will sacrifice for $12,000. Can be traded nationally or internationally. Located in Fort. Lauderdale. Full Amenities incl. golf course, pool, etc. Call 208-309-2231. Hey Golfers!! 16 rounds of golf & 2 massages included w/ luxury 2 BR/ 2 Bath unit on beach in Mexico. Choose between Cabo, Puerto Val-larta, Cancun on availability $2900/week. 788-0752.

73 vacant landSALMON RIVER: 3.76 level river-front fenced acrews between Stan-ley and Clayton. Hunting, fishing, riding, views, 80-miles north of WRV, $139,500. Adjacent 3.14 level river-front acres w/1,500 sf improvemtns also available for sale, $239,500. Betsy Barrymore-Stoll, Capik & Co. 208-726-4455. Hagerman. Vacant lot in North view mature sub-division with own well system. Poor health forces sell. Great neighborhood. Hot springs, Snake River and bird hunting near surrounding area. $32,000. 208 788-2566 Tews Ranch Sub. 3 large mini-ranch parcels from 16-32 acres off of Highway 20 near Hot Springs Land-ing/Magic Reservoir. Strong CC&R’s and wide open spaces. $85,000-$150,000. Jason Roth, Broker, Lega-cy Group, LLC, 208-720-1256 .27-acre single-family building lot; 1841 Winterhaven Dr. Hailey; asking $45,000. Jason Roth, Broker, Legacy

Group, LLC, 208-720-1256 Two 6,000+ sq. ft. single-family building lots. Mountain Sage Sub. (Woodside) $29,900 each. Jason Roth, Broker, Legacy Group, LLC, 208-720-1256 .51-acre multi-family zoned lot (10 units/acre zoning); 2750 Woodside Blvd.; asking $66,000. Jason Roth, Broker, Legacy Group, LLC, 208-720-1256 Many other large, single-family “De-veloper Holdback” lots in Woodside @ $55,000-$69,000. Large blocks of multi-family land also. Prices are at the bottom. Jason Roth, Broker, Legacy Group, LLC, 208-720-1256

Property in Woodside - ready to build on. City W/S. $29,900. Call 208-309-2231. Property in Magic - for sale by own-er, property only. Lake view. $50,000. West Magic. Great neighbors. 309-2231.

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$130,000 Pine View Lot (partial Realtor owned)

$249,000 Corner lot Northridge$419,000 2.53 acresTimberline Lot

77 out of area rental2bd, 1ba home on Salmon River Furnished - $650 month plus utili-ties. No smoking. First, last and de-posit, pets neg. Located across from Old Sawmill Station between Stanley and Clayton. Call Denise at 788-2648.

78 commercial rentalOffice space in in Airport West 1 space aprox 200sq ft and 2nd space aprox 400sq ft call Scott 788-5362 or 720-2900 PARKER GULCH COMMERCIAL RENTALS - Ketchum Office Club: Ground Flr #104, 106; 153 & 175 sf. Upstairs #216, Interior, 198 sf. Lower Level #2, 198sf. Also Leadville Build-ing Complex: Upstairs, Unit #8, 8A 229-164sf; Upstairs Unit #2 & 3, 293-166sf. Call Scott at 471-0065.

80 bellevue rentalsDEC RENT FREE 3 b.r., 2 ba., l.r., fam rm, wood burning stove, fenced yard, appx 1600 sf. $925 mo. $500 deposit. One dog allowed at no charge $200 non refundable pet de-posit for each additional dog. Call 208-726-3966

81 hailey rentals1 MONTH FREE RENT! 2BD/1BA condos in quiet W. Hailey neighbor-hood, unfurn., clean and well-main-tained, but affordable! No pets or smoking, avail. immed. $595-650 a month plus util. Call Brian at 208-720-4235 & check out www.svmlps.com for info. 1 month free! Price reduced! 1BD/

1BA condo w/office-den space, un-furn., wood FP, balcony off of bed-room, new carpet, no pets, smoking not allowed, avail. immed. Now only $595 a month + util. Call Brian, 208-720-4235 or check this out at www.svmlps.com

82 ketchum rentalsPrice Reduced & 1 Month Free! 3BD/3BA Board Ranch Beauty! Fur-nished home on river. 1 mile to W.S. lifts! Hot tub, 2 car garage, big yard, great views! Includes landscaping & snow removal! Available early May. $2,250 a month plus utilities. A Must See! Smoking not allowed. Brian, 208-720-4235, photos upon request.

PRICE JUST REDUCED! 2BD/2BA T’home on Trail Creek! New carpet, new paint, unfurn., wood FP, deck by creek, short walk to central Ketchum, pool & spa in summer. No pets, smoking not allowed. Avail. immed. Price now just $850/mo + util. Call Brian at 208-720-4235 or check this out at www.svmlps.com 3BD/3.5BA Ketchum T’home, up-scale w/custome decor, but at great price! Fully furn. 2 car gar., priv. hot tob, by bike path, walk to RR lifts, avail. immed. Ski season rental poss, rate depends on dates. Great value at $2,250 a month + util. Call Brian, 208-720-4235 abd check out www.svmlps.com for more info.

85 short-term rentalFEBRUARY THROUGH APRIL SKI RENTAL Perfect 2 bedroom town-home in a private Warm Springs neighborhood near the ski lifts. Ga-rage, fireplace, yard. Fully furnished, ready to move in. PETS ARE WEL-COME. Sleeps 4-6. Available after Feb. 7. Call 208-622-1622 or email [email protected] for daily or weekly rates and availability. Book now for President’s Week or Spring Break.

Short Term Rental 3BR, 3BA pri-vate log home in quiet wooded area, creek, mid-valley 12 minutes to ski lifts. Two story, beautiful artistic de-cor, piano, native stone two-sided fireplace, vaulted redwood ceilings, heated garage. Cable, WiFi, HDTV, DVD. $1400/monthly through ski season. (208) 788-2927 KETCHUM - SHORT-TERM - Great winter Spring condo deal 3BR + pool +walk to lift. Now taking reserva-tions for Spring 2012 Ski season. For great rates and more info please email [email protected] Stanley Cabin. Comfortable, light, well-furnished, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. Iron Creek area. Sleeps 6. $200/night (2 night min.) or $1,300/week. Dogs OK. Call Jima, 726-1848.

87 condo/townhome rental

Wake up to incredible views - condo conveniences, estate living. 1BD, 2BA, 900sf unfurnished apt. on 5 acres. Bike, snowshoe and ski from back door. 1.5 miles from Sun Valley or Ketchum. No Smoking. $895/mo.

First, last + deposit. Includes utilities and cable. Pets negotiable. Call 622-7555.

89 roommate wantedResponsible and quite male look-ing for a small bedroom and use of a shared bathroom 4 nights a week for a few months. You wont even know I’m there. Can pay $150-$200 a month. Call 208-350-9036 Room for Rent in my home - down-stairs unit, very private. Bathroom and laundry room and family room are all included. Right across from bike path, one mile from city center. $500. 788-2566 Looking for someone to share the cost of living these days? Say it here in 40 words or less for free! e-mail [email protected] or fax to 788-4297

100 garage & yard sales

HUMONGOUS ESTATE SALE - not to be missed! Lots of tools, small tools, power tools, carousel horses, pedal cars, knick-knacks, lots of an-tiques, household, 2 tables and chair sets, couches and TV’s. Saturday and Sunday 10-4-ish. Coyote Bluff in Hailey (in the barn), watch for signs. So much stuff, new stuff added every weekend for three weeks.

200 farm equipmentManure spreader. New Idea #206. Ground driven. Excellent condition. $1,200. Call Bill at 788-3534.

201 horse boardingHorse Boarding available just south of Bellevue; experienced horse per-son on premises; riding adjacent to property. Shelter and Pasture avail-able. Reasonably priced. Call 788-3251.

202 livestock for saleCorn Fed Beef - $1.10/lb live weight. A few grass fat available also. All Natural. 208-731-4694. Lo-cated in Carey. See them before you buy.

203 livestock servicesFOR SALE - Everything needed to start a Farrier Business (horse shoe-ing business). All hand tools, an-vil cabinets, drill press, foot stand, shoeing box, apron, gas forge, misc. Some shoes and nails. $2,500. Call 720-5801.

300 puppies & dogs9 black lab/irish setter puppies - 5 female/4 male - all black. Born 10-10-11. Avail. 12-17-11. Current in-oculations - $65 ea. Great family and hunting dogs. Call 720-0146 or 788-4520 ASCA Registered Australian Shep-herd Puppies - 2 female, 5 male. 208-731-0127.

302 kittens & catsFelix is a very affectionate, 4-year-old, black neutered male housecat. Our new condo doesn’t allow pets, so Felix needs new humans to love. He’s a great people-cat, good with cat-loving dogs, wary of kill-the-cat-dogs. Free litter-box, litter, cat-bed, food. 720-4455

303 equestrian2 Logan Coach Horse Trailers. 2001 3-horse slant-load w/front-rear tack, electric jack, interior-exterior lights. 2006 2-horse slant-load, front tack, low-miles. Both horse trailers w/stall-dividers, rubber floor mats, double-wall construction, roof vents, drop-down windows, dual axels, low-miles tires. $5,000 each. 720-4455 Wanted, a boarded horse to join my solo gelding. Training and haul-ing services provided. For info visit www.miaedsall.com 720 4414

400 share the rideNeed a Ride? www.rideshareon-line.com is Idaho’s new source for catching or sharing a ride! To work, another city or another state, sign-up and see who else is traveling in the same direction and get or offer a ride. For more information or help with the system, visit www.moun-tainrides.org or call Mountain Rides 788.RIDE.

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a great organization for donations; visit www.makeadifferencenow.org or www.gomadnow.org for more in-formation. Light on the Mountains Spiritual Center has tables and chairs to rent for your special event. Tables Round and Square $5 each. Nice Padded chairs $1 each. call Nancy @ 788-4347. Does your non-profit have a ser-vice, product or item that you need or could share with another organi-zation who needs it? List it here for free! Say it in 40 words or less and it’s free! We want to help you spread the word. Just e-mail [email protected]

502 take a classTai Chi Workshop - Wednesdays 11-11:45 a.m. at the YMCA, Ket-chum. 8-week series starts 12/7/11. Drop-ins welcome. Info/Price: Stella 726-6274. KIDS CLAY - 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. ev-ery Friday, Bella Cosa Studio at the Bead Shop Plus, Hailey. Info: 721-8045 Hot Yoga in the South Valley - 8:10 to 9:40 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thurs-days. $10/donation. Call for location/Info: 720-6513. Tennis 101. Fun, family, fitness, a tennis program designed to teach the basics to all ages. 9-10:30 a.m. at WR High School, 1250 Fox Acres Road. Register at idtennis.com, (208) 322-5150, Ext. 207. Yoga & the Breath with Victoria Rop-er, at Hailey Yoga Center, Wednes-day mornings, 9:00-10:30. 208-539-3771. Morning Yoga with Dayle Ohlau at BCRD’s Fitworks at the Community Campus in Hailey – Saturday morn-ings from 9-10:30 a.m. For more in-formation call 578-2273.

504 lost & foundFOUND - Youth snowboard in Woodside. Call 721-0849. LOST - Small black shoulder PURSE. Left in cart at Albertsons Sunday Night. $50 reward for it. Re-turn to Jane’s Artifacts. Has Medical info that I need. Call 788-0848 or drop off at Janes in Hailey. Lost White Cat, Lacy!!! She is white with a black tail. She was last seen on Saturday August 20th in Northridge area (Hailey). Please call if you have seen her or have any information! We just want her home! 208-720-5008, 208-578-0868 LOST - 16 year old, Russian Blue cat (gray with blue/green eyes). Answers to the name Mason, and has a snag-gle tooth, that can’t be missed. Lost 6/23 on Cranbrook (South North-ridge area, off McKercher in Hailey). Please call Cheryl at 208-788-9012 or 208-471-0357.

506 i need thisNEEDED - a good bed/mattress for someone who just had surgery. Free or inexpensive, but must be in good condition. Call Leslie at 309-1566 and leave message. Wanted - breadmaker with manual. Call 928-7277. Aluminum cans. Your donation will help support public art in Hailey. Do-nations drop off at Wiederrick’s Cus-tom Metalworks (4051 Glenbook Dr.) or arrange for pickup by calling Bob at 788-0018.

509 announcementsA Winterwonderland Camp at Ted-dy Bear Corner - Dec. 19 to Dec. 30 for ages 2 to 8. Can sign up for full 2 weeks or specific days (1/2 or full avail.). Info: Rebecca at 788-1955.

Musicians available for house concerts for your holiday season. A house concert is a popular and fun way showcase music. For info on the house concert concept call Mia

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510 thank you notesPapoose Club would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the many individuals, organizations, and lo-cal businesses that helped to make the 21st Annual Holiday Bazaar a smashing success. We are tremen-dously grateful for your generosity and support. For a full list of 2011 Holiday Bazaar donors and volun-teers (there’s not enough room here to fit them all!), please visit www.papooseclub.org. We hope to work with all of you again next year! Hap-py Holidays! My friend and I had one of the VERY BEST meals we’ve ever had in the Valley last week (from Fresshies); both the appetizers (including the Mushrooms Christini) and the en-trees (the Chicken Marsala and the Chikcen Pot Pie) were deeeeeeee-li-cious!! We’d happily WALK to Hailey (from Ketchum) for another dinner like that amazing one!!!!! :) Thanks to both the Coffee Grinder and Tully’s for recently reminding me yet again what FRIENDLY and PROMPT customer service is all about -- something that’s sorely lack-ing right now, anyway, at Ketchum’s “burnt coffee place with the vaulted ceiling”.

Danke, danke, danke, danke!Thank you, thank you!

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Thanks to the always-great staff there in King’s in Hailey. When they don’t have what you’re looking for, they always go the extra mile to help get it for you -- and always with a much-appreciated smile and eager-ness. Show your appreciation! Say thanks with a FREE 40-word thank you note, right here. e-mail your ad to [email protected].

518 ravesPam Colesworthy has done a su-perb job with Ketchum’s new Tran-quility Teahouse (next to Video West); the interior design, the scones, soups, teas and sandwiches are all AWESOME!!!! :) Well, two of the hundreds of verrry talented contenders whom I be-came early cheerleaders of on “The X-Factor” are now in the final three (courtesy of some 30 million+ votes): Melania Amaro, and Josh Krajcik -- along with Chris Rene. Irregardless of whomever wins the top spot this week, all three of these amazing per-formers deserve record deals; they SERIOUSLY rock! Like something? Don’t keep it to yourself. Say it here in 40 words or less for free. e-mail your ad to [email protected] or fax it over to 788-4297 by Noon on Mon-days.

600 autos under $2,5001990 Range Rover - silver, runs

great, 105k miles. $2,000 OBO. Call 720-7694 1988 Volvo 240 DL Sunroof, heat-ed seats, alloy wheels, 28mpg. Very nice car. $2,250 OBO. Call 309-3085 A Steal for just $2,000! 1987 Cadil-lac Deville - auto, 85k original miles, 23 mpg, extra set of studded tires — good condition Call 309-2284, ask for Glen.

606 carsA Steal for just $2,000! 1987 Cadil-lac Deville - auto, 85k original miles, 23 mpg, extra set of studded tires — EXCELLENT condition! Call 309-2284, ask for Glen. PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE - For all of your automotive needs. Call 208-788-3255

609 vans / busses‘95 Chevy Astro Van - 60k miles on rebuilt motor. New brakes, P/W, P/L, CD player, seats 8. $2,000 OBO. Call 208-410-3782.

610 4wd/suv2006 Ford F-150 extended cab, 4x4, 6.5’ bed, hi-back shell w/flip-up, slid-ing windows, one-owner, cautious woman driver, never used as work truck, set-up for towing w/special rear-end gears, low-miles all-sea-son tires, excellent condition, 98,000 miles, $12,950. 726-4455 2002 Explorer, white, 4WD, Auto Wndws, locks, driver’s seat, CD/cas-sette, leather (no rips/tears), 3rd seat, rear H/AC controls, new rotors/brake pads on rear wheels, keyless entry, oversized rims, certified re-

built tranny 15,000 miles ago. Great car, $5500…call john: 208-309-0943

1990 Range Rover - silver, runs great, 105k miles. $2,000 OBO. Call 720-7694 1989 Ford F150, 4WD. 6cyl, 4 speed manual, long bed w/shell. Good tires. Motor replaced in ‘05. Differential re-built in ‘08. $1,700. Call Carol at 208-886-2105. 1982 Ford Bronco - 4x4, white, standard 351. New battery, runs good, good tires. 73,000 orig. miles. $2,500 OBO. 208-837-6145.

612 auto accessoriesCar Audio Player. CD, Tape, AM & FM. Recently removed from 2006 Honda CRV. Original factory equip-ment. Everything worked when re-moved. $25. 788 2927. Another simi-lar player, manufacturer unknown (maybe Dodge) removed from car a week after purchase to buy a differ-ent type. $15. 788-2927 Panel mount Voltmeter by VDO, new in box. 0-16 V. Micronta 25 range Multitester used good con-dition. Oil Filter 85310 new in box. Compression Tester used, good. Oil Can w/pump, Master Mechanic, used, good. $5 each item or $15 the lot. Gas Liftgate Strut for Audi 5000 Quatro wagon. New $10. (orig cost $105) 788-2927. Tire chains, used once. Original cost $29, sell for $15. 788-2927 2006 Haulmark Trailer - car hauler/ snowmobile trailer. 8.5 x 27 foot, drop down nose door, propane heater, snomobile rails on floor. Also has 2 motorcycle tire shocks. $6,000 OBO.

E-mail pics. 208-653-2562. 2 Logan Coach Horse Trailers. 2001 3-horse slant-load w/front-rear tack, electric jack, interior-exterior lights. 2006 2-horse slant-load, front tack, low-miles. Both horse trailers w/stall-dividers, rubber floor mats, double-wall construction, roof vents, drop-down windows, dual axels, low-miles tires. $5,000 each. 720-4455 Toyota small pickup bed trailer, great 4 wheeler trailer, or all around utility trailer $250. Call (208) 823-4678. Nearly new Yakima Low-Pro Tita-nium, bars, towers, locks, etc. Will fit nearly any vehicle. This is the top of the line box that opens from both sides. New over $1150. Yours for $750obo. Can accept credit cards, too! 208.410.3657 or [email protected].

620 snowmobiles etc.2006 600 Polaris RMK 155 track. Stored in heated garage (wife’s sled). $4,700. Well taken care of. Email pics. 208-653-2562. 1993 XT 350 - easy to start. Street legal. $800. Call 721-1103. 1997 700 RMK - custom paint, skis. Always garaged. $1,500 OBO. Call 208-721-1103.

624 by airAircraft Clock removed from a Beechcraft. 8 day wind-up quartz crystal clock with sweep second hand and red elapsed time hands. Internally lighted 12V. In good con-dition but needs to be cleaned and oiled. $25.00.

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