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BY SUSAN FERRISSCenter for Public Integrity

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. • As he wait-ed for a disciplinary appeal hearing tobegin this fall, the sixth-grade stu-dent began sobbing.

He was barely 11 years old. He wasslated to be expelled again — for ayear — from his elementary schooldistrict, this time for alleged sexualbattery and obscenity.

The offense: “Slapping a girl onthe buttock and running away laugh-ing.”

For the local school board, thepunishment fit the crime.

The boy’s pro bono attorney, TimMcKinley, was appalled.

“This, on his record, puts him rightup there next to the kid who rapedsomebody behind the backstop,” saidMcKinley, who spent 26 years as anFBI agent.

Having lost twice at the local lev-el, McKinley is appealing the boy’sexpulsion before the Kern CountyBoard of Education.

These days disagreements overdiscipline are common. And KernCounty schools — 48 districts in all— are at the leading edge of a con-tentious debate. Teachers and par-ents want a safe environment, andschool districts are ousting studentsfor a range of reasons.

Meanwhile, a national reformmovement is growing, fueled by re-ports that suspension and expulsionpolicies are disproportionately tar-geting minorities, and putting manystudents on a fast track to failure.

Since the 1970s, expulsions havebeen on the rise, many of them notfor violence, but for lesser violationslike insubordination,according to re-search by associates of the CivilRights Project of the University ofCalifornia at Los Angeles.

The “zero tolerance” phenomenonaccelerated after the 1999 shootingspree at Colorado’s Columbine High

Since the 1999 Columbineshootings, school boards andadministrators have beenexercising broader discretionin deciding how strictly toenforce behavior codes.

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A WINNING COMBINATION?A 2009 law change has given Idaho public schools more options and less oversightregarding how they spend lottery dollars. While educators say the money helps, it’sdone relatively little to offset recent years of budget cuts.

DREW NASH • TIMES-NEWS

Lottery tickets are displayed behind the counter at KJ’s Super Store in Twin Falls. About 25 percent of each lottery ticket sale is sentto Idaho public schools and the state’s permanent building fund. This year, that amount totaled $37 million split among therecipients.

BY BEN [email protected]

With big dreams and sometimes on awhim, Idahoans buy lottery tickets.

For some, playing is part of a routine.Others, like Twin Falls resident ReneeWhitmore, only buy tickets on occasion.

All told, Idaho Lottery players paid $147.2million last year into an enterprise that, inturn, sends its profits to public schools andstate building projects.

“My husband says, ‘We could retire ifyou would win,”said Whitmore, shortly af-ter buying a $1 Powerball ticket with a po-tential jackpot of $52 million at KJ’s SuperStore in Twin Falls.

Roughly 25 cents of her $1 purchase willgo to Idaho’s schools and building fund.The remaining 75 cents will cover the myr-iad costs associated with the Idaho Lottery:prizes, administration, and commissions

for retailers among them.“We manage to that,” David Workman, a

spokesman for the Idaho Lottery, said ofthe 25 percent average that’s generated inprofits for schools and building projects.“The law doesn’t require that, but that’swhat we manage to every single year.”

At first blush, the numbers are impres-sive. Public schools received more than $17million in lotto profits last year. But eventhat figure isn’t a cure for cutbacks Idaho’sschools have faced during the past fewyears of declining state revenues.

In some ways, the lottery’s role hasstayed consistent in the economic down-turn. People buy tickets and money flowsto public schools, as always.

Yet the system is different,too.In the past,when economic times were better, schoolswere required to spend lottery money onbuilding maintenance and improvements.

Please see LOTTERY, A2

60 cents:Prizes

4 cents: Programoperations andgame support

3 cents: Administration

2 cents: Marketing andcommunications.

6 cents:Commissionsfor retailersselling tickets.

25 cents: public schools andstate building projects.

Where Each Dollar Spent on a Lottery Ticket Goes:

25 percentLottery ticket

proceeds that go toschools and statebuilding projects.

$147.2 millionAmount spent on IdahoLottery tickets in fiscal

2011.

$37 millionAmount of those sales

that went to public education and statebuilding projects in

fiscal 2011.

$2.1 billionAmount spent on

lottery tickets sincethe Idaho Lottery

began in 1989.

$510.8 millionAmount the lottery has

sent to schools and stateagencies in its history.

Source: Idaho Lottery.

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If nothing else, Cody Slade figures hecan buy his father a power tool forChristmas.

Discovering the perfect gift for hismom is a bit more challenging, Sladesaid,which is why the 21-year-old TwinFalls resident spent much of Saturdayafternoon shopping.

“I haven’t even started,” he said. “It’spretty tough as a broke college studentbecause you really have to search for agift that’s special but doesn’t cost a lot.”

Slade was among millions of Ameri-cans who spent Saturday engaging inholiday commerce for Christmas,whichis just a week away.

In addition to family presents, Sladeand his two friends were combing sec-ond-hand stores and bargain bins forChristmas tree decorations.

“This is our first tree but decorationsare expensive,”said Ben Anderson,22,of

Twin Falls.“I’m shopping for my family,too, but it’s pretty easy. I get my momnavy blue socks every year and cookingequipment is always a good gift.”

Robyn Torres of Jerome swung into

the Magic Valley Mall to buy his teenagesons the latest Modern Warfare videogame installment and new gamingBluetooth headsets.

With Christmas a week away,some area shoppers are stilllooking for that perfect gift.

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Are You SureGoing to ChurchIsn’t Funny?“It is the will of God thatwe must have ... missionar-ies and congressmen andhumorists, and we mustbear the burden.”

— Mark Twain

The bumper stickeron the car next tomine in the super-market parking lot

read: “Jesus is coming:Look busy!”

A couple unloadinggroceries into an SUVnearby were offended.

“I can’t believe,” thewoman gasped to theman, “how some peopletake the Lord’s name invain.”

When did Christianscompletely lose theirsense of humor?

God sure didn’t tellthem to do it. Seems to methat the best evidencethat the Almighty has asense of humor is us.

But religion has growndeadly serious in the pastfew years, not only amongChristians but with Mus-lims, Hindus and Jews aswell. Worse, it’s been in-fused with politics, whichmeans — among some be-lievers — that making funof your own spiritual self-importance is somethingakin to treason.

Though it’s a pervasivephenomenon nowadays,it’s certainly not new. Inthe Baptist congregationin which I was raised,cracking a smile in God’shouse was akin to tap-dancing on the rottentrapdoor to hell.

Too bad, because thosewere some of the funniestpeople I’ve ever known.

You can still find evi-dence of that in thechurch bulletins theywrote (and many more onthe website Christian Hu-mor Hotline, www.an-gelfire.com/ca4/Hu-morHotline/).

Some classic examples:•• “For those of you who

have children and don’tknow it, we have a nurserydownstairs.”

•• “The audience isasked to remain seated

until the end of the reces-sion.”

•• “Thursday at 5 p.m.there will be a meeting ofthe Little Mother’s Club.All ladies wishing to be-come Little Mothers willmeet with the Pastor inhis study.”

•• On a church bulletinduring the pastor’s illness:“GOD IS GOOD Dr. Harg-reaves is better.’’

•• “At the evening serv-ice tonight, the sermontopic will be ‘What isHell?’ Come early and lis-ten to our choir practice.”

•• “The Rev. Adamsspoke briefly, much to thedelight of his audience.”

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•• “The church is glad tohave with us today as ourguest minister the Rev.Shirley Green who hasMrs. Green with him. Af-ter the service we requestthat all remain in thesanctuary for the Hangingof the Greens.”

All of which is so funnybecause church humor isutterly without guile. It’sa safe bet that the authorsof the foregoing an-nouncements didn’t givethem a second thought.

As a kid one Christmasseason, I actually got ban-ished by the pastor fromthe church sanctuaryduring a Sunday nightservice for laughing outloud. That was unfortu-nate because I was in thechoir.

But it wasn’t my fault.According to the churchbulletin, we were sup-posed to sing, “Angels WeHave Heard Get High.”

Steve Crump is a retiredTimes-News editor wholives in Boise. Write tohim at [email protected].

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They also were required to report tothe state how the money was spent.

In 2009, the Legislature changed thesystem to give schools more flexibility.Lottery money was added into the poolof discretionary funding that schoolsreceive. The end result: Education offi-cials could still spend lottery money onbuilding improvements if they wished,but could also use it for other needs.

Because lottery funding is no longera separate entry in their budget, Idahoschool districts no longer need to reporthow the money is spent.

School Districts Weigh InSchool officials say that while lotterydollars help with costs, they shouldn’tbe viewed as a huge influx of additionalmoney.

“It’s part of our appropriation,” saidWiley Dobbs, superintendent of TwinFalls School District. “It’s not extramoney and a lot of people really have intheir mind that we get extra moneyfrom the lottery … It’s not extra and theappropriation is lower than it’s been inprevious years.”

As their budgets have shrunk, schooldistricts have delayed some of themaintenance projects that lottery dol-lars previously funded.

Educators’ desire to spend availablemoney in areas where the funding ismost needed was one of the reasons be-hind the 2009 rule change. School of-ficials wrestling with declining fundingfor staff and days of operation said eventhe relatively small sums previouslyslated for maintenance could be put tobetter use in other areas.

“We’re using frayed carpet a littlelonger,” Dobbs said. “We’re making doby patching roofs instead of replacingthem — just things like that. We justhave to prioritize.”

In the past, the school district usedlottery money to purchase new com-puters, both to increase its pool of com-puters and to replace outdated models.“We’re using them longer and makingdo,” Dobbs said.

That’s not to say that none of thefunds are going to building upkeep any-more. Gaylen Smyer, superintendent ofCassia County School District,said thatwhile budgets are tighter, the costs ofrunning and maintaining a school dis-trict remain.

“We’re working with fewer dollars,”he said. “Every dollar becomes thatmuch more precious, but we still haveto conduct business and maintain ourbuildings and do all those things wehave to, so those funds are just a sourceof revenue.”

Lawmakers CautiousThe state’s current system of givingschool districts more discretion withtheir lottery dollars isn’t likely tochange anytime soon.

Though there are signs of an eco-nomic recovery, cautious lawmakerssay it’s too soon to know if — or when —any effort will be made to revert lotteryfunds to their original purpose. Rep.Maxine Bell, R-Jerome and co-chair-woman of the Legislature’s budgetingcommittee, says it’s been important togive school districts added flexibilitywith available dollars.

Both schools and the state’s perma-nent building fund get an equal share ofthe first $34 million of annual lotteryprofits. In addition to dropping the re-quirements attached to lottery fundingfor schools, the 2009 law change des-ignated that any profits beyond $34million now go to the bond levy equal-ization fund, which subsidizes bondsthat school districts issue for buildingprojects. The law change ends in 2014.

Sen. Dean Cameron, R-Rupert andco-chairman of JFAC, noted the lotteryis a small part of the appropriation forpublic schools.

“It was never much dollars to beginwith,” he said.

The public schools budget that theLegislature approved for this year was$1.56 billion. The $17 million of lotterymoney that will go to public K-12

schools is only slightly more than 1 per-cent of that sum.

Since money received is tied to stu-dent population, larger school districtsreceive more. Twin Falls School Districtreceived $422,951 in lottery funding infiscal 2010. The much smaller WendellSchool District received $71,554.

Idaho schools and building projectsalso see a relatively low rate of return oneach lottery ticket bought when com-pared to other states. Net lottery prof-its generally average from 25 percent to32 percent of ticket sales, said DavidGale, executive director of the NorthAmerican Association of State andProvincial Lotteries.

Rep. Stephen Hartgen, R-Twin Fallsand a member of the House EducationCommittee, said he doubts returningrestrictions to how schools spend lot-tery dollars will be an issue in the up-coming session.

“I don’t think that’s something we’relikely to revisit,” he said, adding that theeconomy’s recovery is going to comeback a lot slower than it dropped off.

“As long as this pattern of slow re-covery continues, I don’t see us revisit-ing any of the major adjustments wehad to make when things started to falloff the cliff,” Hartgen said.

Inner WorkingsRunning a lottery’s gaming systems is alot more complicated than drawing thewinning numbers out of a hat.

Idaho looked beyond the state’s bor-ders to fill that job. Since 2006, Intralot,a Duluth, Ga.-based company, has runthe state’s systems and has 41 employ-ees in Idaho.

The company provides services thatinclude the satellite technology, soft-ware for games and maintenance andrepair on terminals and vending ma-

chines scattered throughout the state.It also validates scratch tickets. Thereare about 1,000 retailers in Idaho thatsell tickets, each with a terminal. Ofthose, about 275 have vending ma-chines.

“They do all of the labor, all of themaintenance all of the installation,”Workman said. “If there’s a problemwith the machine they come and take itout.”

Intralot’s contract with the state pro-vides the company with 1.98 percent ofall ticket sale revenues generated. In fis-cal year 2010, the Idaho Lottery paid$3.37 million to Intralot for services, ac-cording to state expenditure records.

Intralot provides service to variousstate lotteries, but differences in stategaming extend well beyond who runsthe lottery.

In Montana, lottery proceeds go to-ward the state’s general fund, where themoney can benefit the budgets of mul-tiple state agencies, said Daniel Iverson,a spokesman for that state’s lottery. Be-fore 1995, Montana lottery profits wentto the state’s retirement fund for teach-ers.

In Oregon, the bulk of lottery dollarsgo to public schools. Chuck Baumann,spokesman for the Oregon Lottery, saidthe breakdown is: 59 percent for educa-tion, 25 percent to economic develop-ment, and 15 percent to state and natu-ral resources. The state also puts 1 per-cent toward a treatment plan for prob-lem gamblers.

In Washington state, lottery moneyhas gone toward a combination of col-lege scholarships, economic develop-ment, stadiums and the state’s generalfund. The state also puts money towarda problem gambling program.

Ben Botkin may be reached at 735-3238.


Arizona resident Wes Wisner purchases a lottery ticket Dec. 7 at KJ’s SuperStore in Twin Falls. This year, the Idaho Lottery sent $37 million in profits tostate public schools and the permanent building fund.

LotteryContinued from the front page

Lottery Dollar History

Here’s how much the Idaho Lotterysent to public schools and the state’spermanent building fund over thepast five fiscal years.2007: $34 million2008: $34.75 million2009: $35 million2010: $36.5 million2011: $37 million

Source: Idaho Lottery

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“I’m picking up the must-have ‘I wants,’” Torres said.“The video games come outso often you can’t buy them ayear in advance, becausethey’d be old and the kidswould be unimpressed.These are the gifts I’m hop-ing they’ll get excited about.”

Instead of heading to themall or big-box retailers,Deborah Swager of Buhl hitthe last day of the ChristmasCraft Show at Grandy’s in-side Snake River Sprinkler, inBuhl, to complete her holidayshopping.

Scanning the display ofhandmade memorabilia,Swager said the inspirationalframed woodwork would beperfect for a friend having ahard time. In another corner,she found hand-painted redcookie plates with cheerywords stenciled in glitterygold letters.

“My shopping is comingto a closure and I’m donewith the hustle and bustlebut still need those odd littlegifts for friends,” Swagersaid.

While retail space may

have been busy, Logan Lloyd,partner with Lloyd FamilyChristmas Trees, spentmuch of Saturday ponderingwhat happened to what istypically the second-busiestsales weekend of the season.The company has sold fresh-cut evergreens in Twin Fallsfor nearly 60 years.

“I’m in my trailer on a Sat-urday doing nothing whenit’s usually really busy,” Lloydsaid. “I think the weather istoo nice.When we got a bit ofsnow a couple of weeks back,people came out and salesdid increase a bit but it hasbeen slow.”

Lloyd isn’t too worried,though. He knows that allthose gifts people are buyingwill end up under Christmastrees.

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Broken Water Pipe WarpsWashington Street SouthTraffic passes a depression in Wash-ington Street South caused by a bro-ken water pipe, Saturday in Twin Falls.City officials estimate the pipe spilledmore than 500,000 gallons beforeworkers were able to halt the leak Fri-day. The city was still working to as-sess the damage.

ShoppingContinued from the front page

TIMES-NEWS

Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch”Otter and Lt. Gov. BradLittle are scheduled to beamong the attendeesMonday when Chobaniofficially breaks ground onits Greek yogurt process-ing plant in Twin Falls.

The plant, Chobaniparent company AgroFarma’s second U.S. yo-gurt manufacturing facili-ty, will be built at 3450Kimberly Road E. A 10 a.m. groundbreakingceremony will includeChobani founder andCEO Hamdi Ulukaya andTwin Falls Mayor DonHall, along with variousChobani employees andstate and local officials.

The 940,000 square-foot plant will be built on200 acres and is expectedto hire about 400 workers.Through an agreementwith the Twin Falls UrbanRenewal Agency, AgroFarma has pledged to in-vest at least $128 millioninto its new location.Work on the site has beenunder way for the pasttwo weeks.

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WENDELL • Inside WendellCity Hall, “Black Friday”doesn’t refer to holidayshopping.

Black Friday was Sept. 28,2010. The city, perilouslyclose to bankruptcy,fired twopolice officers,a pair of streetdepartment employees and afront office worker in order tocurb spending.

“It was the hardest,bleak-est day I had as mayor,” saidMayor Brad Christopherson,who, since being sworn intothe position in January 2010,has probably had quite a fewbleak days.

In June 2010,Christopher-son announced to a packedCity Council audience thatthe city had somehowamassed a budget deficit ofmore than $700,000. Fur-ther analysis would revealthat between 2005 and 2010,the city had overspent$727,619.

This Thursday,the councilwas given a bit of good news.

An audit report by theGooding accounting firmMahlke, Hunsaker and Co.showed the city ended 2011with a general fund surplus,closing its deficit by $173,376.

“It looks better,”said ScottHunsaker, a certified publicaccountant and partner inthe firm. “You’ll hear me saythat a lot tonight. It’s muchbetter.”

Not only has the city beenable to shrink its shortfall toabout $580,000, it now hasnearly $1 million in the bank,reflecting growing water andsewer fund balances.

Christopherson proudlynoted that 2011 was the firsttime in more than a decadethat not one single depart-ment overspent its budget,prompting robust applauseby residents in attendance.

City Treasurer Deb Gibbssaid Friday that by keeping alid on spending, the cityshould be able to make simi-lar progress on the deficitnow that Wendell’s financialhouse is in order.

Getting the city’s finances

in order was no easy task,Gibbs said,as years of recordsweren’t just missing — theywere never completed to be-gin with.

“Receipts, contracts andpaperwork were literallythrown in a box and we hadto go through old bank state-ments to match who boughtwhat. Bank accounts hadn’tbeen reconciled in years,”Gibbs said. “Before we couldmove forward, we had torecreate that record.”

The depth of money mis-management had gone large-ly unnoticed because annualaudit reports for several yearswere delayed, due to thecity’s lack of financialrecords.

With the help of Jones,France, Basterrechea andBrush CPAs in Gooding, thecity started piecing togetherhow the deficit was created.

“Residents were bamboo-zled by egregious overspend-ing,” Gibbs said.

Although deficits werelogged by the library, sanita-tion and irrigation depart-

ments, the city now knowsthat the police departmentwas the biggest over-spender. The city’s manyfunds are kept in a sharedpool, a common municipalpractice. The city was keptafloat primarily by its waterand sewer funds.

In 2006, the departmentspent $308,212, going nearly$74,000 over budget. By2009, its spending had bal-looned to $436,950 — over by$86,500 that year. By Sep-tember 2010,the departmenthad amassed more than$400,000 in overspending.

“The police departmentgot too big and salaries wereout of control,” said Christo-pherson.“Going through therecord it looks like raises weregiven without oversight orapproval.”

By the time former PoliceChief Kirtus Gaston abruptlyresigned in December 2009,his yearly salary was close to$80,000, Christophersonsaid. Gaston couldn’t bereached for comment for thisreport.

The current head of thepolice department, Sgt. JeffLenker,earns $42,000 a year.

Gaston’s former boss,Rick

Cowen,a Jerome County de-tective who served as mayorfrom December 2007through 2009,said he had nocomment about the allegedlack of oversight, saying hehadn’t seen the documents.

Today, the police depart-ment is a modest shell of itsformer self. It has just twofull-time officers and abudget of about $200,000.The department is buoyed bypart-time officers, a numberof volunteer reservists and a“healthier, more open rela-tionship with the GoodingCounty Sheriff’s Departmentthan we’ve had in years,”saidChristopherson.

The city’s finances are on the road to recovery from abloated deficit, driven by an apparent lack of oversight.

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possession of a controlledsubstance, $500 bond, pre-liminary Dec. 23.Christopher James Moss,28, Lake Forest, Calif., pos-session of a controlled sub-stance, $500 bond, publicdefender appointed, pretri-al Jan. 4.Ashley Nicole Vieira, 19,Buhl; possession of acontrolled substance,$10,000 bond, public de-fender appointed, prelim-inary Dec. 23.Ashlee L. Burgoyne, 22,Twin Falls; driving withoutprivileges, third or subse-quent, public defender ap-pointed, pretrial Jan. 4.Courtney Leann Brazil,23, Twin Falls; driving un-der the influence (secondoffense), walk-in arraign-ment/summons, public de-fender appointed, pretrialJan. 4.

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Age: 18Description: 6 feet, 2 inches; 185 pounds;brown hair; blue eyesWanted for: Court compliance violation;original charge burglary; $80,000 bondThe Twin Falls County Sheriff’s Officeasks anyone with information aboutKosek to call 735-1911 or 732-5387. Tipsters can remainanonymous and may be eligible for a cash reward.

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TWIN FALLSCOUNTYFELONY SENTENCINGSJoseph Lee Goins, 30, TwinFalls; possession of a con-trolled substance (metham-phetamine) with intent todeliver, 10 years peniten-tiary, 5 determinate, 5 inde-terminate, judge granted re-tained jurisdiction, sen-tenced to 365 days to beserved at the Idaho StateBoard of Correction, $265.50costs, $500 public defenderfee.Lynnsey Dawn Cummings,29, Kimberly; possession ofa controlled substance(methamphetamine) withintent to deliver, 8 yearspenitentiary, 3 determinate,5 indeterminate, judgegranted retained jurisdic-tion, sentenced to 365 daysto be served at the IdahoState Board of Correction,$3,000 fine, $265.50 costs.Jeneene W. Crivits, 21,Jerome; possession of acontrolled substance(methamphetamine), 4years penitentiary, 2 deter-minate, 2 indeterminate,judge granted retained ju-risdiction, sentenced to 365days to be served at the Ida-ho State Board of Correc-tion, $265.50 costs, $500public defender fee.Terry David Knudson, 31,Twin Falls; possession of acontrolled substance(methamphetamine), 4years penitentiary, 1 deter-minate, 3 indeterminate,court costs.

DRIVING UNDERTHE INFLUENCESENTENCINGSTrevor Blincoe, 18, Paul;driving under the influence(withheld judgment), $1,000fine, $700 suspended,

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CHILD SUPPORT CASESThe State of Idaho, Depart-ment of Health and Welfare,Child Support Services hasfiled claims against the fol-lowing:Robert Eugene Huber,seeking establishment ofpaternity and child support:$132 monthly support plus53 percent of medical ex-penses not covered by in-surance and 53 percent ofany work-related day careexpenses.Nathan Scott Wells, seek-ing establishment of childsupport and Medicaid reim-bursement: $159 monthlysupport plus 50 percent ofmedical expenses not cov-ered by insurance, 50 per-cent of any work-related daycare expenses and $5,845.53in Medicaid reimbursementfor birth costs.Tyler John Parks, seekingestablishment of child sup-port and Medicaid reim-bursement: $161 monthlysupport plus 55 percent ofmedical expenses not cov-ered by insurance, 55 per-cent of any work-related day

care expenses and $3,550.01in Medicaid reimbursementfor birth costs.Clifford Kane Katona,seeking establishment ofchild support and Medicaidreimbursement: $268monthly support plus 55percent of medical expens-es not covered by insurance,55 percent of any work-relat-ed day care expenses and$3,453.22 in Medicaid reim-bursement for birth costs.

DIVORCES FILEDSteve Peter Marinovich vs.Nora Evelyn Marinovich.Yajaira Romero vs. Mario E.Romero.Everett Paul Poulignot Jr.vs. Stephanie Ann Poulig-not.Amber Dawn Friedley vs.Mikel Allen Friedley.Vickie Lynne Wagner vs.Brian James Wagner.Maria Juarez vs. BulmaroJuarez-Encisco.Laura Jane Turner vs. MarkAnthony Turner.

CITY OFTWIN FALLSDRIVING UNDERTHE INFLUENCESENTENCINGSBhim K. Tamang, 41, TwinFalls; driving under the in-fluence, $1,000 fine, $900suspended, $182.50 costs,180 days jail, 170 suspended,4 days time credited, driv-ing privileges suspended365 days, 24 months proba-tion, no alcohol.Richard E. McClain, 54,Twin Falls; driving underthe influence, $800 fine,$700 suspended, $182.50costs, 180 days jail, 175 sus-pended, 5 days time credit-ed, driving privileges sus-pended 180 days, 24 monthsprobation, no alcohol.

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LAKE COEUR D’ALENE(AP) • Bald eagles are mob-bing Lake Coeur d’Alene inrecord numbers this week.

The annual eagle congre-gation to feast on spawningkokanee in Wolf Lodge Bayswelled to 259 on Friday, TheSpokesman-Review reportedin Saturday’s newspaper.That’s up from a count of 136a week earlier.

The weekly surveys areconducted by Carrie Hugo, aU.S.Bureau of Land Manage-ment wildlife biologist.

The previous record was254 eagles in the bay on Dec.21, 2010. The record previousto that was a mere 154 eaglesin 2004.

Hugo counted 215 adultsand 44 juveniles Friday, not-ing that most of the fish-lov-ing birds were hanging out inthe Beauty Bay area of WolfLodge and the hillside justacross the water fromHiggens Point.

More eagles could be com-ing in, since the peak of thecongregation traditionally hasbeen just before Christmas.

BLM,Idaho Fish and Gameand Audubon Society volun-teers are organizing the annu-al Eagle Watch Week, Dec.26-Jan.1,to educate visitors.

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Lake Coeur d’Alene as wellas Lake Pend Oreille are hav-ing the biggest kokaneespawning returns in manyyears, perhaps helping to at-tract the large number of ea-gles, said Jim Fredericks, Ida-ho Fish and Game regionalfisheries manager.

The Pend Oreille kokaneemake their run earlier than thefish at Coeur d’Alene,and thatcould be the reason the eagleswere slower than normal toshow up at Wolf Lodge Bay inNovember,Fredericks said.

“We had a lot of eagles atGranite Creek (southwest ofHope),where we take the eggsfrom kokanee for the hatch-ery,’’ he said. “But I don’tknow if anyone was countingthem.’’

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Occupy Twin FallsProtesters, including San-ta-suited Gary Snow, bravethe cold outside Wells Far-go on Main Avenue Southin Twin Falls on Saturday.Following in the footstepsof the Occupy Wall Streetmovement, the groupprotested the bank’s lend-ing practices by wavingsigns and handing outfalse foreclosure noticesand candy canes.

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A Truckful ofHoliday CheerKiwanis Club mem-bers Ed Ditlefsen, left,James Rabe and KenWhiting load food giftsin a truck Friday to dis-tribute to homelesschildren at local mo-tels. Twin Falls HighSchool students con-tributed 2,000 fooditems to the effort,while Canyon RidgeHigh School studentscollected other gifts.About 45 children re-ceived the gifts.

ST. ANTHONY (AP) •Fremont County officialshave sent a payment ofabout $15,000 to the Inter-nal Revenue Service for un-paid taxes.

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SALT LAKE CITY • A lawprohibiting fundraising dur-ing Utah’s legislative sessionhas at least one Republicanresigning his post and an-other considering steppingdown instead of challengingthe ban, as candidates havesuccessfully done in otherstates.

The two state House rep-resentatives are seekingcongressional seats and saythey can’t spare the weeks-long gap from fundraisingthat would start with theJan.23 opening of session.

“Any candidate who islooking at federal office willfind it becomes extremelydifficult to do both jobs,’’said Rep. Dave Clark, R-Santa Clara, who will resignnext week to run for Con-gress.

Political donations duringsessions are banned in partin at least 28 states, accord-ing to the National Confer-ence of State Legislatures.Some limits only apply tolobbyists and, in moststates, they don’t apply tofederal candidates. In thepast several decades, judgeshave struck down similarlaws in Florida, Ohio, Mis-souri and North Carolina.

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Also, while Oregon’s banhasn’t been challenged incourt, the NCSL says thestate’s attorney general is-sued a ruling in 2001 thatsaid the law was unconsti-tutional and would not beenforced.

Idaho lawmakers, whohave a schedule much likeUtah’s that leaves only a fewweeks between the end ofthe legislative session andparty conventions, turnedback an attempt by Democ-rats in 2009 to institute asimilar blackout period.

Utah’s restrictions werereinforced last month by Lt.Gov. Greg Bell in a letter tolegislators that said the lawclearly prohibits donationsfor any race to legislators orthe governor during a leg-islative session.

However, Mark Thomas,director of Utah’s electionsoffice, said legal precedentsuggests that if somebodywere to challenge the law itmay not pass constitutionalmuster,especially for feder-al candidates.

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SPOKANE, Wash. • It wasthe salute that shockedSpokane.

About 50 Spokane copsstood and saluted a fellow of-ficer as he left a federalcourtroom in custody lastmonth after being convictedof using excessive force in thedeath of a mentally ill janitor.

That salute was quicklydenounced by the mayor andchief of police as insensitiveto the victim’s family. Andcritics saw it as yet anothersign that Spokane cops areestranged from the citizensthey are sworn to protect.

The Spokane Police De-partment is under fire onmany fronts.

The outgoing mayor isasking the federal govern-ment to investigate the prac-tices of the department. Ef-forts to create a citizen om-budsman to hear complaintsagainst police have beenstonewalled. Some residentshave even suggested the de-partment should be dissolvedand merged with theSpokane County Sheriff’sOffice.

There are also signs thatthe U.S. Department of Jus-tice is conducting a civilrights investigation of thedepartment,although Justiceofficials have declined tocomment.

“This is not just a bad ap-ple problem,’’ said Liz Moore

of the Peace and Justice Ac-tion League, which is criticalof police.“This is a rotten ap-ple barrel problem.’’

All the bad blood is havingan impact.

“Officers who feel they arerisking their lives are not get-ting the respect they deserve,and citizens don’t feel safe tocall the police,’’ said BreeanBeggs,an attorney who is su-ing the city on behalf of thefamily of janitor Otto Zehm,who was killed by police.

Police officers killed threepeople in Spokane in 2010while sheriff’s deputies killedtwo.In 2009,the last full yearavailable,only 10 people diedin arrest-related incidents atthe hands of law enforce-ment officers in Washington,according to a Justice De-partment report.

The most notorious policedeath in Spokane occurred in2006, when Zehm, a schizo-phrenic, died at the hands ofa group of officers in a con-venience store. Zehm, whohad committed no crime,was beaten, shot with aTaser, hog-tied and sat onuntil he passed out and diedtwo days later without re-gaining consciousness.

According to courtrecords, Zehm’s final wordswere, “All I wanted was aSnicker’s bar.’’

After what federal prose-cutors described as five yearsof cover ups by local officials,a federal jury in Novemberconvicted Officer KarlThompson for use of exces-

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It was at a post-convictionhearing where Thompson’sfreedom was revoked thatthe 50 officers stood at atten-tion and saluted him.

“I was shocked by theirwillingness to ignore the factthat 12 jurors ... found whatOfficer Thompson did was acriminal act,’’ said attorneyJeffrey Finer,who also repre-sents the Zehm family intheir lawsuit against the city.

Mayor Mary Verner andpolice chief Anne Kirkpatrickissued a joint statement say-ing the salute does not reflect

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to the friends and family ofOtto Zehm, and for that, weapologize,’’ the statementsaid.

Tom Rice,an assistant U.S.attorney in Spokane, has de-clined to say if the investiga-tion into police corruption inthe Zehm coverup is contin-uing. But the U.S. Attorney’sOffice has in press releasesdescribed the police actionsas “an extensive cover up,’’which could indicate addi-tional officers were involved,with the possibility of moreindictments.

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BY JORDAN ROBERTSONAssociated Press

SAN FRANCISCO • A clerical errorlanded Kathleen Casey on the streets.

Out of work two years, her unem-ployment benefits exhausted, in dan-ger of losing her apartment, Casey ap-plied for a job in the pharmacy of aBoston drugstore. She was offered $11an hour. All she had to do was pass abackground check.

It turned up a 14-count criminal in-dictment. Kathleen Casey had beencharged with larceny in a scam againstan elderly man and woman that in-volved forged checks and fake creditcards.

There was one technicality: Thecompany that ran the backgroundcheck, First Advantage, had the wrongwoman. The rap sheet belonged toKathleen A. Casey, who lived in anoth-er town nearby and was 18 yearsyounger.

Kathleen Ann Casey, would-bepharmacy technician, was clean.

“It knocked my legs out from underme,” she says.

The business of background checksis booming. Employers spend at least$2 billion a year to look into the pasts oftheir prospective employees. Theywant to make sure they’re not hiring athief, or worse.

But it is a system weakened by theconversion to digital files and compro-mised by the welter of private compa-nies that profit by amassing publicrecords and selling them to employers.These flaws have devastating conse-quences.

It is a system in which the most sen-sitive information from people’s pastsis bought and sold as a commodity.

A system in which computers scrapethe public files of court systems around

the country to retrieve personal data.But a system in which what they re-trieve isn’t checked for errors thatwould be obvious to human eyes.

A system that can damage reputa-tions and, in a time of precious few jobopportunities, rob honest workers of achance at a new start. And a systemthat can leave the Kathleen Caseys ofthe world — the innocent ones — livingin a car.

Those are the results of an investiga-tion by The Associated Press that in-cluded a review of thousands of pagesof court filings and interviews withdozens of court officials, dataproviders, lawyers, victims and regula-tors.

“It’s an entirely new frontier,” saysLeonard Bennett, a Virginia lawyer

who has represented hundreds ofplaintiffs alleging they were the victimsof inaccurate background checks.“They’re making it up as they goalong.“

Two decades ago, if a county wantedto update someone’s criminal record, aclerk had to put a piece of paper in a file.And if you wanted to read about some-one’s criminal past, you had to walk in-to a courthouse and thumb through it.Today, half the courts in the UnitedStates put criminal records on theirpublic websites.

Digitization was supposed to makecriminal records easier to access andeasier to update. To protect privacy,laws were passed requiring courts toredact some information, such as birth

MICHAEL DWYER • ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this Dec. 18, 2010, photo, Kathleen Casey poses on a street in Cambridge, Mass. A case of mistaken identitylanded Casey on the streets without a job or a home. The company hired to run her background check for a potentialemployer mistakenly found the wrong Kathleen Casey, who lived nearby but was 18 years younger and had acriminal record.

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As the digitalization of background checks booms, more people are running intoissues with potential employers. Incorrect or outdated information is preventinghonest Americans from obtaining jobs.

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In this Nov. 10, 2010 photo, Gina Marie Haynes, left, looks over documentswith her boyfriend Shawn Hicks before she heads to a job interview in Frisco,Texas. Haynes had just moved from Philadelphia to Texas with her boyfriendin August 2010 and lined up a job managing apartments. A backgroundcheck found fraud charges, and Haynes lost the offer.

BY PAUL HAMPELSt. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)

ST. LOUIS • At 62, Jim Nesselhauf isnot sure which will come first, retire-ment or the demise of his business —pay phones.

Three years ago, Nesselhauf’s com-pany, Joltran Communications Inc.,had 1,000 pay phones scatteredaround the St. Louis area.

Today, he’s down to about 400. Andhe expects to soon lay off one of hisfour remaining employees.

“I’ll be honest with you: It’s a busi-ness that’s not going to be aroundmuch longer,’’ Nesselhauf, of south St.Louis County,said recently in an inter-view.“We’re on the dying end of a cat-egory here.’’

With cellphones dominating thetelecommunications industry, payphones are disappearing fast. Theirnumbers nationally plummeted from2.1 million in 1999 to 550,000 in 2009,the last year the Federal Communica-tions Commission released its “payphone population’’ figures.

The major carriers, AT&T and Veri-zon, have both pulled out of the payphone business, leaving the market tosmall, regional companies such asJoltran, which, with Pacific Teleman-agement Inc., operates most of the re-maining pay phones in this area. Pacif-ic Telemanagement, a California com-pany, did not return calls for this story.

Nesselhauf said another factor hadhastened the decline in recent years —the federal Lifeline program which, in2009, began giving free cellphones and

free minutes to people on welfare.“The bulk of our business is in the

inner city, and when the federal gov-ernment started giving cellphone min-utes away, what had been a steady de-cline really started speeding up,’’ hesaid.

Before going into the pay phonebusiness, Nesselhauf had worked as aregional manager at the old NationalSupermarkets, until the company wassold in 1995.

“We were in the process of closingdown everything at National, and ayoung lady came to my office and lefta stack of papers on my desk,’’ he said.

In the stack,he found the company’spay phone records.

“I started looking through them andsaw that pay phones did super-wellback then, about $600 to $800 amonth each,’’ he said.

With retirement money from Na-tional and a bank loan, Nesselhaufstarted Joltran in 1995. (The companymoniker is an amalgamation of lettersfrom his name and those of his wife of40 years and their two daughters.)

He started with 50 phones that costhim about $2,000 each.

Nesselhauf began signing up clients,who would get a percentage of the rev-enue. In the early years, he worked byhimself, seven days a week, sometimes16 hours a day.

His phones gave him an advantageover those used by the dominant com-pany at the time, Southwestern Bell.

“Mine had modem boards insidethat allowed me to communicate with

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BY ANICK JESDANUNAssociated Press

NEW YORK • Call it the GreatChannel Squeeze.

Congress is considering lettingcellphone companies pay televisionstations to give up their frequenciesso they can be put to better use forwireless broadband.

The idea is to squeeze over-the-airtelevision,which has few viewers,in-to a smaller slice of the airwaves. Thegovernment would be the broker inthe deal and would use some pro-ceeds to fund tax cuts and unem-ployment benefits.

In years to come, you might seeChannel 17 cease to broadcast andChannel 49 take its place, for in-stance. The empty slot at Channel 49would then become available for arange of wireless services. That couldmean faster downloads for smart-phones and tablet computers.

Although vast swaths of broadcastspectrum were freed when televisionsignals converted from analog to dig-ital in 2009, much of that has alreadybeen claimed. Technology compa-nies have been clamoring for evenmore airwaves to satisfy growingconsumer appetite for movies, booksand websites on mobile devices.

The Federal Communications

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dates and Social Securitynumbers, before they putrecords online.But digitiza-tion perpetuates errors.

“There’s very little humanjudgment,” says Sharon Di-etrich, an attorney withCommunity Legal Servicesin Philadelphia, a law firmfocused on poorer clients.Dietrich represents victimsof inaccurate backgroundchecks.“They don’t seem tohave much incentive to get itright.“

Dietrich says her firmfields about twice as manycomplaints about inaccuratebackground checks as it didfive years ago.

The mix-ups can startwith a mistake entered intothe logs of a law enforce-ment agency or a court file.The biggest culprits,though, are companies thatcompile databases usingpublic information.

In some instances, theirautomated formulas misin-terpret the information pro-vided them. Other times, asCasey discovered, recordswind up assigned to thewrong people with a com-mon name.

Another common prob-lem: When a governmentagency erases a criminalconviction after a designat-ed period of good behavior,many of the commercialdatabases don’t perform theupdates required to purgeoffenses that have beenwiped out from publicrecord.

It hasn’t helped thatdozens of databases are nowrun by mom-and-pop busi-nesses with limited re-sources to monitor the ac-curacy of the records.

The industry of providingbackground checks has beengrowing to meet the risingdemand for the service. Inthe 1990s,about half of em-ployers said they checkedbackgrounds. In the decadesince Sept.11,that figure hasgrown to more than 90 per-cent, according to the Soci-ety for Human ResourceManagement.

To take advantage of thegrowing number of busi-nesses willing to pay for

background checks, hun-dreds of companies havedispatched computer pro-grams to scour the Internetfor free court data.

But those data do not al-ways tell the full story.

Gina Marie Haynes hadjust moved from Philadel-phia to Texas with herboyfriend in August 2010and lined up a job managingapartments. A backgroundcheck found fraud charges,and Haynes lost the offer.

A year earlier, she hadbought a used Saab, and theday she drove it off the lot,smoke started pouring fromthe hood. The dealercharged $291.48 for repairs.When Haynes refused topay, the dealer filed fraudcharges.

Haynes relented and paidafter six months. Anyonelooking at Haynes’ physicalfile at the courthouse inMontgomery County, Pa.,would have seen that thefraud charge had been re-moved. But it was still listedin the limited informationon the court’s website.

The website has sincebeen updated, but Haynes,40, has no idea how many

companies downloaded theoutdated data.She has spenthours calling backgroundcheck companies to seewhether she is in their data-bases. Getting the informa-tion removed and correctedfrom so many differentdatabases can be a dauntingmission. Even if it’s right inone place,it can be wrong inanother database unknownto an individual until aprospective employer re-quests information from it.By then,the damage is done.

“I want my life back,”Haynes says.

Haynes has since foundwork as a customer servicemanager,but she says that isonly because her latest em-ployer didn’t run a back-ground check.

Hard data on errors inbackground checks are notpublic. Most leading back-ground check companiescontacted by the AP wouldnot disclose how many oftheir records need to be cor-rected each year.

A recent class-action set-tlement with one majordatabase company,HireRight Solutions Inc.,provides a glimpse at the

magnitude of the problems.The settlement, which

received tentative approvalfrom a federal judge in Vir-ginia last month, requiresHireRight to pay $28.4 mil-lion to settle allegations thatit didn’t properly notifypeople about backgroundchecks and didn’t properlyrespond to complaintsabout inaccurate files. Aftercovering attorney fees of upto $9.4 million,the fund willbe dispersed among nearly700,000 people for allegedviolations that occurredfrom 2004 to 2010.Individ-ual payments will rangefrom $15 to $20,000.

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Joe Nesselhauf checks the operation on a pay phone that is part of the family's business in Mehlville, Mo., on Nov.23. With the proliferation of cell phones, the pay phone business is dying out.

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them every day; I knew howmuch cash was inside,when a handset was miss-ing or a key was stuck. Cus-tomers preferred them toSouthwestern Bell’s —which we called ‘dumbphones’ — and that reallykick-started the business,’’he said.

He got successful enoughto hire an employee. Heeventually had seven peopleworking for him.

A few years ago, Nessel-hauf reached his goal of1,000 pay phones. Themost profitable of thembrought in about $800 aweek.

In 2006, Nesselhauf got aletter from the city of St.Louis. Residents living nearone phone had complainedthat the phone was a mag-net for criminal activity.The city ordered Joltran toremove it.

“I had the same thing

happen before,’’ Nesselhaufsaid. “In all honesty, I wasvery understanding.’’

When a Joltran techni-cian began disconnectingthe phone, a familiar sce-nario ensued.

“A young lady came outand begged him not to takethe phone out. She livedright across the street andsaid she had a sick child andthis was her only communi-cation with a doctor,’’ Nes-selhauf said. “All of ourtechs can tell you heart-breaking stories like that,where people come out oftheir houses saying, ‘Pleasedon’t take my phone away!”

Nesselhauf wrote to theward’s alderman, Matt Vil-la, seeking a reprieve for thephone.

Villa, who was an alder-man from 1997 to this year,recalled the incident.

“I was sympathetic to Jimand to that woman,’’ hesaid. “But it was obvious topeople in the area that thephone was being used to selldrugs and for prostitution.

“I know legitimate callswere also made from thephone, but I think it was theillegal activity that drove theprofit.’’

Villa offered to let Nes-selhauf move the phone in-side the gas station.

“But (Nesselhauf) saidthat once a phone is movedinside, it won’t do enoughbusiness to make it worth-while,’’ Villa said.

Recently, Joltran got asmall boost when Metro re-newed its contract with thecompany to support the 56phones on the agency’strain platforms, parking lotsand bus transfer centers.

Nesselhauf had initiallytold Metro officials that hewould need to remove 30 ofthe pay phones becausethey were not generatingenough revenue.

Metro Vice President Deb-bie Erickson said the agencynegotiated a deal with Joltranin which it would pay thecompany a total of $300 amonth to support unprof-itable phones.

“There was a time whenall of our pay phones pro-duced a little commission,but not anymore,’’ Ericksonsaid.“But we felt that it wasa good idea for people to stillhave access to pay phones atall our locations; even if youhave a cellphone, you neverknow when your battery isgoing to run out. So we willpay a little something just tocover (Joltran’s) costs onsome phones.’’

The best of Joltran’sphones now take in about$150 a month, and only afew do that.

Joltran has removedabout 140 phones this year.

The company is nowheading into its roughesttime of year, when coldweather deters calls at out-side phones.

Nesselhauf wonders howlong he can hold out beforethe last line goes dead.

“I’m hoping we can makeit until March,’’ he said.“With 300 phones, wecould survive another yearor two.’’

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Commission sees more spec-trum as a way to extend high-speed Internet access toplaces where phone and ca-ble TV companies don’t haveenough customers to offerlandline broadband connec-tions.

“Unless we free up newspectrum for mobile broad-band, the looming spectrumcrunch risks throttling ourmobile economy and frus-trating mobile consumers,”FCC Chairman Julius Gena-chowski said in a statementthis week.

In a sense, this proposal isa reflection of the times. Inthe U.S.,there are more wire-less devices in use than thereare people.Meanwhile,vari-ous studies show that fewerthan 10 percent of house-holds get their TV signalsover the air — the rest havecable or satellite service.

The FCC’s national broad-band plan envisions freeingup 500 megahertz of spec-trum over the next 10 years.As much as a quarter of thatcould come from television.

But many things need tohappen first.

For starters, Congressneeds to give the FCC au-thority to do this.

The House included thatauthority in a bill it passedTuesday to extend Social Se-curity payroll tax reductionsand unemployment cover-age. Congress estimates that$16.5 billion could be gener-ated over 10 years by auction-ing the broadcast channelsand another slice now usedfor public safety. But Presi-dent Barack Obama opposesthe bill for reasons unrelatedto spectrum, and the Senateis working on its own versionof the package.

Once the FCC gets author-ity,it needs to find broadcast-ers willing to cede their fre-quencies. Station ownerswould share in auction pro-ceeds if they turn in theirbroadcasting licenses and ei-ther cease operations or be-come cable-only channels.They would be compensatedto build new towers and make

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The National Associationof Broadcasters isn’t sure howmany stations would goalong.

“Local TV stations are do-ing pretty well in terms of ad-vertising sales,” NABspokesman Dennis Whartonsaid.“It would surprise me ifthere would be the sort ofstampede to go out of busi-ness.“

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BY BARBARA ORTUTAYAssociated Press

NEW YORK •As its work-ers celebrated with hotchocolate and cinnamonbuns, Zynga saw its stockdinged on its first day oftrading Friday — an unex-pected turn of events for aclosely watched public de-but seen as a precursor toFacebook’s next year.

Zynga Inc., the onlinegame developer behind“FarmVille,” “Mafia Wars”and other popular timekillers on Facebook, raisedat least $1 billion in its ini-tial public offering of stock,the largest for a U.S. Inter-net company sinceGoogle’s $1.4 billion IPO in2004.

But by Friday afternoon,

Zynga’s stock fell 50 cents,or 5 percent, to close at$9.50. The stock priced at$10 on Thursday, at thehigh end of its expectedrange. It traded as high as$11.50 on Friday beforeheading into a downwardspiral on the Nasdaq StockMarket.

It was far from the eye-popping jump that has beenthe trend this year for fresh-ly public Internet darlingssuch as LinkedIn Corp.,which saw its stock doubleon its first trading day.

Zynga’s opening — witha ticker symbol of “ZNGA”— was supposed to be big.After all, unlike many oth-ers with IPOs, the compa-ny is profitable, with morethan 220 million peopleplaying its games on Face-

book each month.What this all means for

Facebook’s IPO, expectedsometime after April, ishard to say. One thing isclear, though.

“A hot IPO is not guaran-teed,” said Kathleen Smith,principal of IPO investmentadvisory firm RenaissanceCapital.

Despite the big-namepublic offerings this year,the IPO market is not ingood health. Buyers areskittish and concernedabout the high volatility offreshly public stocks, Smithsaid. Big name or not, in-vestors don’t want to paysky-high prices for stocks,especially not before a com-pany has proven itself withgood earnings reports andanalyst ratings.

Seventy percent of the 125companies that went publicthis year are now tradingbelow their IPO price, ac-cording to RenaissanceCapital.

While Friday’s dropdoesn’t look good, it’s notdevastating for Zynga. ItsCEO, Mark Pincus, said thecompany’s focus is on “de-livering great products”that expand audience forsocial games over the nextfew years — and not on thenext trading day.

“We didn’t have any ex-pectations coming into thiswhole process,” he said in aninterview. “We decided togo public a long time ago.“

Pincus rang the Nasdaq’sopening bell in San Francis-co, a first in the city for afreshly public company.The company’s roughly1,700 San Francisco em-ployees woke up at the crackof down to celebrate withcinnamon buns and hot co-coa. Zynga also deliveredvideo of the opening cere-mony over the Internet toits offices around the world.

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The corporate logo for Zynga is shown on an electronic billboard at the Nasdaq MarketSite, Friday, in New York.Stock in the San Francisco company began trading at Nasdaq, Friday following its IPO.

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MOSINEE, Wis. • WausauPaper has reached a deal tosell its remaining timberlandin northern Wisconsin for$42.9 million.

The company says twocompanies — The LymeTimber Co. and The Forest-land Group — will buy a totalof about 80,200 acres fromWausau Paper. Both dealsare expected to be finalizedby the end of the year.

The Lyme Timber Co.,based in Hanover, N.H.,agreed to buy 72,800 acres.The Forestland Group,head-quartered in Chapel Hill,N.C., bought the remaining7,400 acres. Both companies

manage timberland throug-hout the U.S.

The Mosinee-based pa-permaker announced plansto sell its remaining timber-lands this fall.

According to the WausauDaily Herald, Wausau PaperCEO Tom Howatt says thesale will provide the compa-ny with funds to finance anexpansion of its tissue divi-sion in Kentucky.

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This photo provided by Ford Motor Co. shows the final Ford Ranger rolling off the production line at the company'splant in St. Paul, Minn., Friday. The plant's closing after an 86-year run means about 800 workers will betransferring to other plants or simply looking for a new job. Ford is shuttering the plant due to declining sales of thepickup truck.

BY CHRIS WILLIAMSAssociated Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. • The lastRanger small pickup truckrolled off the line Fridaymorning, closing out an 86-year history of turning outFords at the assembly plantalong the Mississippi Riverand putting about 800 peo-ple out of work.

A crowd of employeestook photos and applaudedas the last Ranger, a whitesport model bound for theOrkin Pest Control fleet, wasdriven off the productionline.

“I could not understandwhy they were cheering forthe last vehicle,” said MikeMontie, 58, who worked atthe plant for 28 years. “Youcheer for the first one, notthe last one. I was like, whatthe hell? I didn’t want it toend, you know?”

Darlene Aspley, 62, whosaid she did the final quality-control test on the engineand transmission of the lastRanger, recently startedlooking for a new job. “I’mkind of scared,” she said.

Dallas Theis, who workedat the plant for 53 years,drove the last Ranger off theline.Afterward,he was in theplant’s lobby posing for pho-tos with other employeeswhile wearing a T-shirt thatsaid, “I built the last FordRanger in America.”

“I’m really going to missthe people,” said Theis, whoplans to retire. “I’ve learnedto get along with youngguys, old guys, radicals.There were people I didn’tlike, but I’m going to missthem too.”

Sales of the Ranger smallpickup peaked in the mid-1990s and have fallen eversince, hurt by neglect as Ford

Motor Co. focused its atten-tion on its line of more prof-itable large pickups. TheRanger slowly lost its edge infuel economy and price overFord’s full-sized pickups,even as the Ranger’s stylinggrew stale.

The St. Paul plant hasproduced more than 6 mil-lion cars and trucks since1925. Ford plans to sell a newversion of the Ranger outsidethe U.S., but the trucks willbe built in Thailand, SouthAfrica and South America.

The company plans to be-gin decommissioning theplant soon by moving outany equipment that can beused in other Ford facilitiesand stepping up environ-mental testing on the nearly125-acre site. Demolition isexpected to start in a fewmonths. Pollution cleanup isexpected to go into 2014.

Marcey Evans, a spokes-

woman for Ford, said abouttwo-thirds of the employeeswill have an opportunity totransfer to another Ford lo-cation, most likely assemblyplants in Chicago orLouisville, Ky., which areadding thousands of jobs.

Ford announced in 2006that it planned to close theSt. Paul plant and offered the1,800 employees whoworked there at the timeseveral kinds of buyouts, butas the company repeatedlypushed back the closure dateit brought back hundreds ofworkers.

Many who came back re-turned in job classificationsthat don’t qualify for an au-tomatic transfer to anotherplant, including most whotook a $100,000 lump sum.“When an employee took abuyout it was expected theywere leaving Ford MotorCo.,” Evans said.

That includes workers likeGreg Audette, who’s nowlooking for work after 20years at the Ford plant.“We’ve known about it forthe last five years now,” hesaid as walked out of theplant for the last time Friday.“It’s just too bad it had tohappen.”

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BOUNTIFUL, Utah• Elmer LaDrue“Drue” Holmanpassed away peace-fully in Salt LakeCity, Utah, onThursday, Dec. 8,2011.

He was born an identicaltwin in Fountain Green,Utah, on Feb. 3, 1919, toElmer and Zelda Holman.His early years were spentin a rural community doing“boy things,”including rid-ing horses and herdingsheep.

When World War II be-gan, he proudly joined theU.S. Marines and served hiscountry in the Pacific to in-clude China until the end ofthe war. Following the war,he began a career in thegrocery business in man-agement that lasted for 40years and took him fromUtah to Twin Falls andPocatello, Idaho, andBountiful, Utah. He mar-ried Catherine JoyceTwitchell on Nov. 1, 1947, inProvo, Utah.

He enjoyed service withthe Twin Falls KiwanisClub as member and pres-ident. He loved being amember of the BannockCounty Sheriff’s Posse.Throughout his life, he en-joyed spending time withhis family. He also lovedhorseback riding, fishing,gardening, traveling, play-ing the organ and watchingthe Utah Jazz. He was ac-tive in the LDS Church,

serving as a highpriest. He was inthe Sunday schoolpresidency and hada special joy beingwith the Primarychildren.

He is survived byhis wife, Catherine; daugh-ter, Margo Harrington;sons, Craig (Cherylyn) andDennis (Margaret); as wellas seven grandchildren,Genevra, Julena, Alison,Nathan, Ryan, Hannah andCraig; and two great-grandchildren, Ian andIsaac. Also surviving Drueare two step-grandchil-dren, Jedd and Jake VanHouten; and five step-great-grandchildren, Riley,Reagan, Jase, Cy and LeifVan Houten. He is survivedby his brothers, Elvon andMerrill; and sister, JeanBowles. He was preceded indeath by his son, Gary; histwin brother, Elwin; and hissister, Athaleen Shepherd.

Services were held Dec.12 at Lindquist’s BountifulMortuary. Interment wasat the Bountiful CityCemetery. The family re-quests that, in lieu of flow-ers, contributions can bemade to the DisabledAmerican Veterans, 273 E.800 S., Salt Lake City, UT84111-3828, or the KiwanisClub of Twin Falls, P.O.Box 855, Twin Falls, ID83303-0855.

Condolences may beshared at www.lindquist-mortuary.com.

Elmer LaDrue ‘Drue’ HolmanFeb. 3, 1919-Dec. 8, 2011

Rachelle Jean Fuller,21, of Twin Falls,died Tuesday, Dec.13, 2011, at home.

Rachelle was bornin Jerome, Idaho, onDec. 13, 1990, toRonald and PhyllisVaux Berg. She moved withher family to Kendrick, Ida-ho, where she attended ele-mentary school until mov-ing to Twin Falls in the late‘90s. She attended schoolsin Twin Falls, graduatingfrom Magic Valley HighSchool in 2008. In 2007,Rachelle married AaronFuller and together they hadtwo children, Adaya andCaleb. She was currentlyattending CSI and her goalwas to become a respiratorytherapist.

Rachelle enjoyed livinglife to the fullest. She lovedthe outdoors, going to themountains, rock climbing,swimming, and camping.She was a very social andoutgoing person and lovedspending time with herfriends. Rachelle was anamazing wife, mother,daughter, and friend andwill be greatly missed by allwho knew and loved her.

Rachelle is sur-vived by her hus-band, Aaron of TwinFalls; her children,Adaya and Caleb;her mother, PhyllisBerg of Twin Falls;brothers, Slade

Hatch, Russell (Kristina)Berg, Jerry Morton andDennis Berg; sisters, Rhon-da Berg, Lisa (Scott) Baum-gartner, Stacy Vaux andDarcy Hatch; father-in-lawand mother-in-law, Chuckand Vicki Fuller; brother-in-law, Austin Fuller; sister-in-law, Melany Fuller; andmany friends.

She was preceded indeath by her father and hergrandparents.

A viewing will be heldfrom 2 until 6 p.m. Sunday,Dec. 18, at Serenity Life Cel-ebration Center, 512 SecondAve. N. in Twin Falls. A cel-ebration of life will be heldat 2 p.m. Monday, Dec. 19,at the First UnitedMethodist Church, 360Shoshone St. E. in TwinFalls. Burial will follow atTwin Falls Cemetery. Ser-vices are under the directionof Serenity Funeral Chapelin Twin Falls.

Rachelle Jean FullerDec. 13, 1990-Dec. 13, 2011

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JEROME • Walter FermanPrentiss was born to FrankDubois Prentiss and LillieRebecca Thompson onApril 19, 1922, the second ofsix children. He passedaway Friday, Dec. 16, 2011,at his home. He was 89.

Walt graduated fromJerome High School in1940. He enlisted in theNavy in 1942 and was hon-orably discharged in 1946.Walt enjoyed working as asheepherder and havinghorses.

He made the best Dutchoven bread. He also spenttime farming. Walt enjoyedmany happy times with hiscousin, Inez.

Walt married Jetta AleneGarrison Studyvin on Dec12, 1964, in Jerome. Theywere sealed in the IdahoFalls Temple on Jan. 25,1980. This week, they cel-ebrated 47 years together.Walt was proud of his chil-dren and grandchildren.They made their home eastof Jerome.

Walt was preceded indeath by his parents; twoinfant brothers, EdmondFrank and James Thomp-son; and two sisters, Thel-ma Williams and DonnaCraig.

Walt is survived by hiswife, Alene; a sister, LaurelJennings; their children,Sheraldean (Ralph) Brownof Aurora, Colo., Rex (Lani-ta) Studyvin of Jerome,Rhonda (Earl) Casper ofTwin Falls and RoyStudyvin of Kansas City,Mo.; 12 grandchildren; 13

great-grandchildren; andfour great-great-grand-children.

The family wishes to ex-press their appreciation toVisions Hospice.

A visitation will be heldTuesday, Dec. 20, atFarnsworth Mortuary, 1343S. Lincoln Ave. in Jerome,where family and friendsmay call from 6 to 8 p.m. Afuneral service will be con-ducted at 1 p.m. Wednes-day, Dec. 21, in the JeromeLDS 6th Ward Chapel, 26N. Tiger Drive (100 East) inJerome, with Bishop JoelPrince officiating. A visita-tion will begin at noon. In-terment to follow in theJerome Cemetery.

Walter Ferman PrentissApril 19, 1922-Dec. 16, 2011

ALBION • Cleone StephensNielsen, age 93, of Albionand formerly of Glendale,Calif., passed away Friday,Dec. 16, 2011, at her daugh-ter’s home in Albion.

Cleone was born Feb. 17,1918, in Bennington, Idaho,the daughter of Isaac Edwardand Mary Jane SpeirsStephens. After graduatingfrom high school in 1936,Cleone went on to graduatefrom Utah State Universitywith a Bachelor of Sciencedegree in vocational homeeconomics and teaching.Cleone taught for one year inCokeville, Wyo., prior togetting married. In 1941, shemarried her college sweet-heart, Calvin O. Nielsen, onJune 4, 1941, in the Salt LakeLDS Temple. After marriage,Cleone and Calvin moved toCalifornia, where sheworked as a secretary forLockheed Aircraft.

Cleone enjoyed manycrafts, sewing, knitting, cro-cheting, embroidery, quilt-ing, leather work, woodcarving, hat making, uphol-stering chairs and sofas, andmaking lamp shades. Sheenjoyed ushering at theopera house to see plays andconcerts.

She was a member of TheChurch of Jesus Christ ofLatter-day Saints and servedin various church positionsincluding Relief Society,work director, in the Junior

Sunday school, secretary ofthe Young Women’s (MIA),and worked many years inthe Primary as a teacher andthe president.

Survivors include herdaughter, Janet N. (Alan)Clark of Albion; six grand-children; and 18 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in deathby her parents; husband,Calvin; one son, Stephen K.Nielsen; and two brothersand two sisters, LyleStephens, Mabel Bentsen,Claude Stephens and MaryEllen Peterson.

The funeral will be held at11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 22, atthe Albion LDS Church, 889S. Main St. in Albion. Burialwill follow at the MormonCemetery in Albion. Friendsmay call from 6 until 8 p.m.Wednesday, Dec. 21, at theRasmussen Funeral Home,1350 E.16th St.in Burley,andfrom 10 until 10:45 a.m.Thursday at the church.

Cleone S. NielsenFeb. 17, 1918-Dec. 16, 2011

JohnnyTraughberARCO • Johnny C.Traugh-ber, 54, of Arco, diedWednesday, Dec. 14, 2011.

The funeral will be heldat 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20,at the Arco LDS WardChapel; visitation from 7 to9 p.m. Monday, Dec. 19, atAnderson Family FuneralHome, 2555 N. Highway 93in Arco, and one hour be-fore the service Tuesday atthe church.

James IvieSHOSHONE • James A.“Jim” Ivie, 72, of Shoshone,died Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, inTwin Falls.

Arrangements will be an-nounced by FarnsworthMortuary of Jerome.

Gary HallGary Woods Hall, 73, ofTwin Falls, died Saturday,Dec. 17, 2011, at Twin FallsCare Center.

Arrangements will be an-nounced by Serenity Fu-neral Chapel in Twin Falls.

JamesMcMichaelJames J. McMichael, 84, ofTwin Falls, died Saturday,Dec. 17, 2011.

Arrangements will be an-nounced by Reynolds Fu-neral Chapel in Twin Falls.

DEATH NOTICES

John Woodrow “Jack” Criv-its of Jerome, celebration oflife at 1 p.m. today atFarnsworth Mortuary, 1343S. Lincoln in Jerome

Barbara Ann O’HalloranSievers of Kimberly, memo-rial Mass of Christian Burialat 11 a.m. Monday at St. Ed-wards Catholic Church inTwin Falls; visitation from 5 to 7 p.m., with vigil serviceat 7 p.m. today at Parke’sMagic Valley Funeral Home,2551 Kimberly Road in TwinFalls.

Vivian Arlene MastersDaiss of Buhl, service at 11 a.m. Monday at the BuhlMethodist Church; visita-tion from 3 to 5 p.m. today atFarmer Funeral Chapel inBuhl.

Ella Louise Bohle Hirsch ofRupert, funeral at 11 a.m.Monday at the TrinityLutheran Church in Rupert;visitation from 6 to 8 p.m.today at the Hansen Mortu-ary, 710 Sixth St. in Rupert,and 10 to 11 a.m. Monday atthe church.

S.D. “Marty” Martindale ofMeridian, memorial service

at 11 a.m. Monday at St.Catherine’s Catholic Churchin Hagerman (Accent Funer-al Home in Meridian).

Gwen Call Hansen of Roy,Utah, funeral at 11 a.m.Monday at the LDS CedarCrest Ward, 3845 S. 2000 W.in Roy, Utah; visitation from6 to 8 p.m. today at Leavitt’sMortuary, 836 36th St. inOgden, Utah, and 9:30 to10:30 a.m. Monday at thechurch.

Mary Helen Dewey of Kim-berly, graveside service at 1 p.m. Monday at SunsetMemorial Park in Twin Falls(White Mortuary in TwinFalls).

Gladyce Arlene Kime ofShoshone, celebration of lifeat 11 a.m. Tuesday at Parke’sWendell/Gooding Chapel,380 First Ave. E. in Wendell.

Dolores M. Welker of TwinFalls, funeral at 11 a.m. Tues-day at the LDS Church onEastland Drive North inTwin Falls; visitation from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at Rose-nau Funeral Home in TwinFalls and 10 to 10:45 a.m.Tuesday at the church.

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BURLEY • Evan WoodrowAsh, 45, of Burley, passedaway Wednesday, Dec. 14,2011, at the Cassia RegionalMedical Center in Burley.

He was born July 30,1966, in St. Louis, Mo., theson of Anthony Woodrowand Karen Lynn Peck Ash.He graduated from TwinFalls High School. He mar-ried Sweet Iris Jones Nelsonon Oct. 25, 1987, in Las Ve-gas, Nev. Together, they hadtwo children, Daniel andTiffany.

Evan, along with hisfamily, owned and operatedMain Street Burger in Bur-ley. Here, he made lifelongfriends through his gen-erosity and the warm andinviting atmosphere of therestaurant.He was an activemember of Truth Taberna-cle and was extremely de-voted to his church family.He was a wonderful hus-band of 24 years to hisbeautiful wife, Iris, and wasa loving father to both of hischildren. He simply adoredhis grandson, Jameson.

Survivors include hiswife, Iris of Burley; his chil-dren, Daniel (Christina) Ashand Tiffany (Skyler) Gon-zalez, all of Burley; hisgrandson, Jameson; hisparents, Tony and Karen

Ash of Twin Falls; hisgrandparents, Leslie andMartina Peck; two sisters,Lisa (Jeff) Larsen and Taun-ya Ash; and his nieces, Kay-la Marie Ash and TabithaFrey. He was preceded indeath by his grandparents,Henry Woodrow and Vir-ginia Ash, and Goldie Peck;a brother, Larry Ash; and anephew, Cameron Jenkins.

The funeral will be heldat 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20,at the Truth Tabernacle,2459 Hiland Ave. in Burley,with Pastor QuinnYarbrough officiating. Bur-ial will be in the PleasantView Cemetery. Friendsmay call from 6 until 8 p.m.Monday, Dec. 19, at theRasmussen Funeral Home,1350 E. 16th St. in Burley,and from 1 until 1:45 p.m.Tuesday at the church.

Evan AshJuly 30, 1966-Dec. 14, 2011

JEROME • Sherman E.McCoy, 76, of Jerome,passed away Saturday, Dec.17, 2011, in Kimberly.

He was born Sept. 22,1935, in Jerome, the son ofHenry Edward McCoy andAlice May Kingsland Mc-Coy. Sherm attendedschool in Jerome and thenserved his country in theU.S. Navy. Following anhonorable discharge, he be-gan a lifelong career work-ing as a machinist. He livedand worked in Ohio, Cali-fornia and Utah and finallysettled back in Jerome. Hemarried Ruth Mae Breznakand they had four children.They were later divorced.

Sherm enjoyed divingand swimming. He lovedmotorcycle riding and wasextremely talented with hishands. He could accom-plish just about anything heset his mind to. He also en-joyed spending time withhis grandson, Stephen, whoinspired Sherm to startcarving and collectingducks. Sherm loved theLord and was active in theBethel Temple ApostolicChurch in Twin Falls.

Sherm is survived bythree children, Sherman E.(Lynn) McCoy Jr. of Vic-torville, Calif., StephenGregory (Blair) McCoy ofBend, Ore., and PatriciaKimberly McCoy of Stow,Iowa; four grandchildren,two great-grandchildren;

one sister, Jean (Jim) Brez-nak; and many extendedfamily members andfriends.

He was preceded in deathby his parents; one daugh-ter, Debra Ruth Racin; andthree sisters, Chris, Millieand Orpha.

A memorial service willbe conducted at 10 a.m.Wednesday, Dec. 21, in theBethel Temple ApostolicChurch, 929 Hankins Roadin Twin Falls, with PastorJohn Collins Jr. officiating.A visitation will begin at 9a.m. Interment with mili-tary honors will follow inthe Jerome Cemetery. Thefamily suggests that in lieuof flowers, memorials bemade in Sherman’s name toBethel Temple ApostolicChurch, 929 Hankins Road,Twin Falls, ID 83301 or anyAlzheimer’s research andprevention organization.Arrangements are underthe care of FarnsworthMortuary of Jerome.

Sherman E. McCoySept. 22, 1935-Dec. 17, 2011

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BY MATT SCHUDELThe Washington Post

Christopher Hitchens, asharp-witted provocateurwho used his formi-dable learning, bitingwit and muscularprose style to skewerwhat he consideredhigh-placed hyp-ocrites, craven lack-eys of the right andleft, ‘’Islamic fas-cists’’ and religiousfaith of any kind, died Dec. 15at a hospital in Houston. Hewas 62.

He had pneumonia andcomplications fromesophageal cancer,accordingto a statement from VanityFair, the magazine for whichMr. Hitchens worked.

Mr. Hitchens, an English-born writer who had lived inWashington since 1982,was atireless master of the persua-sive essay, which he wrotewith an indefatigable energyand venomous glee. He oftenwrote about the masters ofEnglish literature, but he wasbetter known for his lifelongengagement with politics,with subtly nuanced viewsthat did not fit comfortablywith the conventional rightor left.

In his tartly worded essays,books and television appear-ances, Mr. Hitchens was aself-styled contrarian whooften challenged political andmoral orthodoxy. He calledHenry Kissinger a war crimi-nal, savaged Mother Teresaand Princess Diana,ridiculedboth Ronald Reagan and BillClinton,then became an out-spoken opponent of terror-ism against the West from theMuslim world.

In 2007, Mr. Hitchensaimed his vitriol even higher,writing a best-selling bookthat disputed the existence ofGod, then enthusiasticallytook on anyone — includinghis own brother — whowanted to argue the matter.

His supporters praised Mr.Hitchens as a truth-tellingliterary master who, in thewords of the Village Voice,was ‘’America’s foremostrhetorical pugilist.’’ WriterChristopher Buckley hascalled him ‘’the greatest livingessayist in the English lan-guage.’’

Enemies vilified Mr.Hitchens as a godless mal-content. His onetime col-league at the Nation,Alexan-der Cockburn, called him‘’lying, self-serving, fat-assed, chain-smoking,drunken, opportunisticÃandÄ cynical.’’

Friends and enemies alikemarveled at how the hedo-nistic Mr. Hitchens, after afull evening of drinking andtalking, could then sit downand casually producesparkling essays for VanityFair, the Nation, the Atlantic,Slate.com and many otherpublications without missinga deadline.

‘’Writing is recreational forme,’’ he said in 2002. ‘’I’munhappy when I’m not doingit.’’

The writer he was mostidentified with was GeorgeOrwell, the British essayistand author of ‘’1984.’’ Hisbracing moral courage andbrisk prose were among Mr.Hitchens’s ideal models.

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most in the things he disliked.Unlike many armchair

polemicists, however, Mr.Hitchens had the courage totake his convictions to thestreets. He was shot at inSarajevo,jailed in Czechoslo-vakia and, as recently as2008, beaten bloody inBeirut.

He was among the first tocriticize Iran’s leader,Ayatol-lah RuhollahKhomeini, forissuing a 1988 fatwa, callingfor the death of Mr.Hitchens’s friend, the writerSalman Rushdie.

At age 59, Mr. Hitchensvoluntarily underwent a ses-sion of waterboarding, thepractice of simulated drown-ing that had been approvedby the administration ofGeorge W.Bush for the ques-tioning of prisoners. Al-though Mr. Hitchens sup-ported the wars in Iraq andAfghanistan, his view of wa-terboarding was withoutequivocation.

‘’If waterboarding does notconstitute torture,’’ he wrotein Vanity Fair, ‘’then there isno such thing as torture.’’

To Mr. Hitchens, literallynothing was sacred. He as-sailed the reputations ofmany religious figures, in-cluding Mother Teresa andBilly Graham. He had littlebut contempt for PresidentBill Clinton, whom he knewat England’s University ofOxford in the 1960s, and ti-tled his 1999 book aboutClinton ‘’No One Left to LieTo.’’

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BY LOLITA BALDORAssociated Press

TRIPOLI, Libya • U.S. Defense Secretary LeonPanetta said “the torch of freedom’’has passedto the Libyan people and he pledged during ahistoric visit Saturday to Tripoli that the Unit-ed States will do all it can to help the countrymove toward democracy.

But he and his Libyan hosts acknowledgedthe threat of Islamic militants gaining groundin this period of political uncertainty follow-ing the ouster and death of longtime dictatorMoammar Gadhafi.

Panetta and Libyan leaders identified chal-lenges for the government now forming, in-cluding how to gain control of the militias thatoverthrew Gadhafi during an eight-monthcivil war.

“This will be a long and difficult transition,but I have confidence that you will succeed inrealizing the dream of a representative govern-ment,’’ Panetta said during a news conferencewith Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib.

“The torch of freedom that has passedthroughout the centuries and now passes fromnation to nation in the Middle East and NorthAfrica burns brightly here in Libya. May it lightyour way to a future of peace, prosperity andfreedom,’’ Panetta said.

While his visit was brief, Panetta made his-tory as the first U.S. Pentagon chief to set footon Libyan soil.

He evoked U.S. history, too, with a visit to thecemetery presumed to hold remains of U.S.sailors killed in Tripoli harbor in 1804. Theirdeaths were memorialized in the famous “shoresof Tripoli’’line in the Marine Corps hymn.

The U.S. Defense Secretarypledged that the United Stateswill do all it can to help thecountry move toward democracy.

Pentagon Chief Leon PanettaMakes Historic Visit to Libya

Please see LIBYA, N3

BY ALAN FRAMAssociated Press

WASHINGTON • The Senate votedSaturday to temporarily avert a Jan. 1payroll tax increase and benefit cut-off for the long-time unemployed,but forcing a reluctant PresidentBarack Obama to make an election-year choice between unions and en-vironmentalists over whether tobuild an oil pipeline through theheart of the country.

With the still-reeling economyserving as a backdrop, the Senate’s89-10 vote belied a tortuous battlebetween Democrats and Republicansthat produced the compromise two-month extension of the expiring taxbreaks and jobless benefits and fore-stalled cuts in doctors’ Medicare re-imbursements.

Senate OKsPayroll TaxCut, HugeSpending Bill

Please see CONGRESS, N2

ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Barack Obama delivers astatement in the Brady PressBriefing Room at the White House inWashington on Saturday followingthe Senate vote to approvelegislation extending a SocialSecurity payroll tax cut and long-term jobless benefits for two months.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, center right, with U.S. Ambassador to Libya Gene Crets, center left, and Gen. Carter Ham,Commander U.S. Africa Command, third from left, places a wreath at the grave site of 13 U.S. Navy sailors during a ceremony at theProtestant Cemetery in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday. Panetta visited the grave site of the sailors, who where killed on the USS Intrepid in 1804.

BY SARAH EL DEEB and MAGGIE MICHAELAssociated Press

CAIRO • Troops pulled womenacross the pavement by their hair,knocking off their Muslim head-scarves. Young activists werekicked in the head until they laymotionless in Cairo’s TahrirSquare.

Unfazed by TV cameras catch-ing every move, Egypt’s militarytook a dramatically heavier handSaturday to crush protestsagainst its rule in nearly 48 hoursof continuous fighting in Egypt’scapital that has left more than300 injured and nine dead,manyof them shot to death.

The most sustained crack-down yet is likely a sign that the

EGYPT MILITARY USES HEAVYHAND IN CRUSHING PROTEST

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An Egyptian protester throws a stone toward soldiers, unseen, as abuilding burns during clashes near Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt,Saturday. Hundreds of Egyptian soldiers swept into the square,chasing protesters and beating them to the ground with sticks andtossing journalists’ TV cameras off of balconies in the second dayof a violent crackdown on anti-military protesters that has leftnine dead and hundreds injured.

BY NOMAAN MERCHANTAssociated Press

PONTIAC, Ill. •A burst of gunfire sentAnnelise Fiedler running out of herhome to see what the noise was.In theyard next door, she saw 30-year-oldSara McMeen hovering over her babyas if she had dropped her.Fiedler askedMcMeen if everything was all right.

“She looked at me and said, ‘No,everything is not all right,’’’Fiedler toldThe Associated Press.

Then,Fiedler said,McMeen shot thebaby.Fiedler fled for her life.

While authorities in the small Illi-nois farming community remainedtight-lipped Saturday about the detailsof what they said was a murder-sui-cide that left five people dead, neigh-bors described shocking violence thattook place outside,in full view of their

NEIGHBORDESCRIBES ILL. MOMSHOOTINGHER CHILD

Please see SHOOTINGS, N2

JERUSALEM (AP) • Facebookfounder Mark Zuckerberg, meet yourIsraeli doppelganger: Mark Zucker-berg.

Israeli entrepreneur Rotem Guezsays he has legally changed his nameto that of Facebook’s CEO,a gimmickmeant to persuade the social net-working site to back down from whathe says are threats to take legal actionagainst him.

He’s telling Facebook: “If you wantto sue me, you’re going to have to sueMark Zuckerberg.’’

He says a lawyer for Facebookpressed him this week to close hisonline business Like Store, calling itillegal. Like Store promises to en-hance companies’ online reputationsby offering Facebook users free con-tent only accessible by clicking “like’’on the companies’ profiles.

Israeli ChangesHis Name toMark Zuckerberg

It also capped a year of di-vided government marked byraucous partisan fights thattumbled to the brink of afirst-ever U.S. default andthree federal shutdowns,on-ly to see eleventh-hour dealsemerge. It ensured that thetwo sides would revisit thepayroll tax cut early next yearas the fights for control of theWhite House and Congressheat up.

By 67-32, senators gave fi-nal congressional approval toa separate $1 trillion bill fi-nancing the Pentagon andscores of other federal agen-cies through next September.That measure avoided ashuttering of government of-fices that otherwise wouldhave occurred this weekendwhen temporary financingexpired.

The tax legislation deliverstax cuts and jobless benefitsthat some Republicans op-posed.It also represents a re-buff of Obama’s original de-mands for a yearlong payrolltax reduction for 160 millionworkers that was to be evendeeper than this year’s cut,extended to employers andpaid for by boosting taxes onthe highest-earning Ameri-cans.

The measure’s $33 billionprice tag will be paid for in-stead by raising fees that gov-ernment-backed Fannie Maeand Freddie Mac will chargeto back new mortgages or re-financings, beginning nextyear. When fully phased in,those increases could cost aperson with a $200,000mortgage about $17 a month.

Despite the changes,Oba-ma praised the Senate forpassing the bill and proddedthe Republican-run House togive it final approval in a voteexpected early next week.Heexhorted lawmakers to ex-tend the tax cuts and joblessaid for the entire year, sayingit would be “inexcusable’’not to.

“It should be a formality,

and hopefully it’s done withas little drama as possiblewhen they get back in Janu-ary’’ from their holiday re-cess, he said.

Senate Republicans voted39-7 in favor of the payrolltax measure, suggesting thatmany House GOP lawmakersmight also back it. Of the 51Senate Democrats and twoindependents who usuallyside with them, only threevoted “no.’’

The Senate adjourned forthe year after its votes Satur-day.

While Obama and De-mocrats used the fight toportray themselves as de-fenders of beleaguered mid-dle- and lower-income peo-ple, Republicans used it tocast themselves as champi-ons of job creation.

Headlining that was a pro-vision they inserted forcingObama to make a decisionwithin two months onwhether to allow construc-tion of the proposed 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline,which is to deliver up to700,000 barrels of oil dailyfrom tar sands in Alberta,Canada, to refineries inTexas. The language requires

him to issue the needed per-mit unless he declares thepipeline would not serve thenational interest.

Unions have clamored forthe thousands of jobs theproject could create.Environ-mentalists have decried thehuge amounts of energy itwould take to extract the oil.Obama originally announcedhe was delaying a decisionuntil 2013, which would haveallowed him to avoid choos-ing between two Democraticconstituencies before Elec-tion Day next November.

When the House insertedthe language into its versionof the payroll tax bill thismonth,Obama said he would“reject’’ the legislation if itretained the Keystone provi-sion. He abandoned thatstance this past week as GOPleaders said they would insiston keeping the Keystone lan-guage and the final dealjelled.

“The only thing standingbetween thousands ofAmerican workers and thegood jobs this project willprovide is a presidential de-cision,’’said Senate MinorityLeader Mitch McConnell,R-Ky.

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homes.Some could see two ofthe children’s bodies fromtheir windows.

The dead includedMcMeen, her 29-year-oldlive-in boyfriend,Daniel War-ren,and her three children,8-year-old Skyler Lemke, 7-year-old Ian Lemke and 10-month-old Maggie Warren,authorities said.

Livingston County SheriffMartin Meredith would notidentify the shooter or disclosea possible motive for theshootings, which happenedabout 2:30 p.m.Friday.

A school bus had droppedoff Skyler and Ian Lemke,along with several of theirfriends, moments earlier,neighbors said. The childrenwere excited because it was thelast day of school beforeChristmas break, said RonaldGroetsema, whose 12-year-old son was also on the bus.

From his home one streetaway,Groetsema heard an ini-tial round of six to eight gun-shots.A few minutes of silencepassed.Then,he heard four tosix shots more.

Dave Melton rushed homeafter getting a frantic call fromhis wife, who could seeMcMeen’s backyard from herwindow.

“The kids are dead,’’she toldhim.

On Saturday, Melton stood

in front of his home and point-ed at the yard that backs up tohis. A day earlier, he saw IanLemke’s body on the stepleading into the neighboringhouse and McMeen’s andSkyler’s bodies about 10 feetaway.

“I stood here for a while,like,‘This ain’t happening,’’’hesaid.

All five were pronounceddead at the scene. Meredithsaid investigators found a se-mi-automatic pistol there,butwouldn’t say exactly where.

In a statement issued by au-thorities, Cynthia McMeen,Sara McMeen’s mother, saidfamily members “grieved overthe loss of their loved ones.’’

“They realize this tragedy ...affects not only their family,but other families as well,’’shesaid in the statement. “Thefamily is drawing togetherduring this time, relying onGod,and grieving.’’

Neighbors said McMeenand her family had moved re-cently to Emington,a speck ofa town about a half-mile longwith just 117 residents. Sur-rounded by miles of farmlandcovered in frost, it’s a placewhere “you drive 15 miles inany direction to get to any-where else,’’Pastor Pam Gan-sch-Boythe said.

The family rented a homethat, according to longtimeresident Bob Young, wasknown as the “banker’shouse’’ before the town bankclosed years ago. A woman

who said her brother-in-lawnow owned it declined tocomment when reached bytelephone.

Meredith said the two olderchildren attended school innearby Saunemin, whereSkyler was in second gradeand Ian was in first grade.Thechildren were well-known inthe neighborhood, but theadults were not.

Fiedler said she had heard aman and woman fighting nextdoor three times over the pastfew months.She said the cou-ple kept “very much to them-selves.’’

Melton said he had spokento McMeen “just a little bit,’’usually when he was in hisown backyard.

About 30 people gathered inan Emington church Saturdaymorning to pray and try to un-derstand what happened.Some residents said they hadmoved from larger towns tofind a safe, quiet place to raisetheir families.

Beth Barcikowski,who livesacross the street fromMcMeen’s house, said herchildren used to play with theLemkes.Skyler would come totheir home before and aftergetting on the school bus,Bar-cikowski said.

She’s haunted by the ideathat the little girl was shot justas she arrived home fromschool.

“Just wishing she would’vecome here first,’’ Barcikowskisaid.

NICHOLAS HOLSTEIN • DAILY JOURNAL • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Emergency personnel are silhouetted in the backyard of a house where amurder/suicide happened Friday night in the small town of Emington, south of Dwight,Illinois. Five people, including a baby and two children, were found shot to death at thehome in the small eastern Illinois farming town, authorities said, and police said theywere not searching for a gunman.

ShootingsContinued from N1

CongressContinued from N1

Both Panetta and al-Keebexpressed confidence thatthe fledgling government willbe able to reach out to themilitias and bring them to-gether.

“We know how seriousthis issue is,’’ said al-Keeb,“We realize it is not matter ofsaying ‘OK, put down yourarms, go back to work or dowhat you want to do.’ We re-alize that there are lots ofthings that we need to be or-ganized.’’

More broadly,Panetta saidthe revolts across the regionrepresent a quest for sover-eignty by the people, butthey will all involve differentapproaches and challenges.

During meetings with theLibyan leaders, Panetta ex-pressed concern about al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghrebmilitants gaining a footholdamid the chaos of an unfold-ing democracy. But they toldhim that the Libyan peoplewill reject the terrorist group,said a senior defense official,who spoke on condition ofanonymity because the dis-cussions were private.

Panetta’s motorcade fromthe airport into the city pro-vided views of the nation’sviolent past and futurepromise — lush orangegroves, carcasses of bombedbuildings and charred andgraffiti-covered compoundonce occupied by Gadhafi.Flying from rooftops werethe green,black and red flags,adorned with a star and acrescent, belonging to thenew government.

At one point, amid thegraffiti splashed across the

walls of Gadhafi’s formercompound was a short com-ment in English: “ThanxUS/UK.’’

The visit also put the manwho has led much of the U.S.terrorism fight over the pastseveral years at the scene ofone of the first Americanwars on terror,more than twocenturies ago.

Panetta went to what his-torians believe is the gravesiteof as many as 13 U.S. sailorskilled in 1804,when the Navyship Intrepid exploded whileslipping into Tripoli harbor toattack pirate ships that hadcaptured an Americanfrigate.

As the story goes, govern-ments along the Barbarycoast had turned to state-sponsored piracy to raisemoney, attacking and takingover merchant ships,enslav-ing their crews and stealingtheir bounties. Unwilling topay fees to protect its ships,the U.S.sent the Navy frigatePhiladelphia to the region butit ran aground just off Tripoli

and was captured.President Thomas Jeffer-

son sent a team to get thePhiladelphia back or destroyit. Under cover of darkness,the Intrepid sailed into theharbor, killed about 25 pi-rates and burned thePhiladelphia.

A few months later,Jeffer-son sent the Intrepid back todestroy as many of the pirateships as possible. The planwas to pack the ketch withexplosives, sail into the har-bor and blow her up.

The 13 sailors never got totheir destination. The shipexploded prematurely killingall aboard and the next daybodies washed ashore. Theywere buried outside Tripoli,but in 1949 the remains weremoved to The ProtestantCemetery by the Libyan gov-ernment.

On Saturday, Panettawalked into the small walledcemetery and slowly madehis way to a corner where fivelarge but simple white grave-stones mark the graves of the

American sailors.Markers onfour of the stones read,“Herelies an American sailor whogave his life in the explosionof the United States Ship In-trepid in Tripoli Harbour,Sept. 4, 1804.’’

Panetta placed a wreath atthe site and, after a momentof silence, placed one of hisU.S. secretary of defensesouvenir coins on top of oneof the stones.

New life was breathed intothe long-ago tale by Con-gress this year. Lawmakers,prodded by descendants ofthe sailors, added provisionsto the defense bill orderingthe Pentagon to study thefeasibility of exhuming thebodies and bringing themhome to America.

In a statement, Panettasaid the recent effort to re-store the cemetery is “a sym-bol of the values we share.’’

Officials said that Panettamade no specific offers of as-sistance to the Libyan lead-ers,and he told reporters thatthere was no discussion ofproviding military equip-ment or weapons.

“They have to determinewhat their needs are andwhat kind of assistance is re-quired,’’ he said. “And what-ever they need, the UnitedStates will be happy to re-spond.’’

Ahead of Panetta’s visit,the Obama administrationannounced it had liftedpenalties that were imposedon Libya in February tochoke off Gadhafi’s finan-cial resources while his gov-ernment was using violenceto suppress peacefulprotests.

The U.S. at the timeblocked some $37 billion inLibyan assets, and a White

House statement said Fri-day’s action “unfreezes allgovernment and central bank

funds within U.S. jurisdic-tion, with limited excep-tions.’’

generals who took power af-ter the February ouster ofHosni Mubarak are confidentthat the Egyptian public is onits side after two rounds ofwidely acclaimed parliamentelections, that Islamist par-ties winning the vote will stayout of the fight while pro-democracy protesters be-come more isolated.

Still, the generals riskturning more Egyptiansagainst them,especially fromoutrage over the abuse ofwomen. Photos and videoposted online showed troopspulling up the shirt of onewoman protester in a conser-vative headscarf, leaving herhalf-naked as they draggedher in the street.

“Do they think this ismanly?’’ Toqa Nosseir, a 19-year old student, said of theattacks on women.“Where isthe dignity?’’

Nosseir joined the protestover her parents’ objectionsbecause she couldn’t toleratethe clashes she had seen.

“No one can approve oraccept what is happeninghere,’’she said.“The militarycouncil wants to silence allcriticism. They want to holdon power ... I will not acceptthis humiliation just for thesake of stability.’’

Nearby in Tahrir, protest-ers held up newspapers withthe image of the half-stripped woman on the frontpage to passing cars, shout-ing sarcastically, “This is thearmy that is protecting us!’’

“Are you not ashamed?’’leading reform figure andNobel Peace laureate Mo-hamed ElBaradei posted onTwitter in an address to theruling military council.

Egypt’s new, military-ap-pointed interim prime min-ister defended the military,denying it shot protesters.Hesaid gunshot deaths werecaused by other attackers hedidn’t identify. He accusedthe protesters of being “anti-revolution.’’

Among those shot to deathin the crackdown was an im-minent cleric from Al-Azhar,Egypt’s most respected reli-gious institution. At the fu-neral Saturday of the 52-year-old Sheik Emad Effat,thousands chanted “Retri-bution,retribution.’’Some ofthem marched from thecemetery to Tahrir to join theclashes.

The main street betweenTahrir Square, the epicenterof the anti-Mubarak protests,and the parliament and Cabi-net buildings where theclashes began early the previ-

ous morning looked like a warzone Saturday.Military policeon rooftops pelting protestersbelow with stones and fire-bombs and launched trun-cheon-swinging assaults todrive the crowds back.

Flames leapt from thewindows of the state geo-graphical society — a treasuretrove of antique scientificbooks — that was hit by fire-bombs in the melee. Someyouths tried to rescue books

from the fire.Young activists put hel-

mets or buckets on theirheads or grabbed sheets ofconcrete and even satellitedishes as protection againstthe stones hailing down fromthe roofs. The streets werestrewn with chunks of con-crete, stones ,broken glass,burned furniture and ped-dlers’carts as clashes contin-ued to rage after nightfallSaturday.

The clashes began earlyFriday with a military assaulton a 3-week-old sit-in out-side the Cabinet building byprotesters demanding themilitary hand over power im-mediately to civilians.

More than a week of heavyfighting erupted in Novem-ber, leaving more than 40dead — but that was largelybetween police and protest-ers,with the military keepinga low profile.

LibyaContinued from N1

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Libyan PrimeMinister Abd al-Rheem Al-Keeb greet one another duringtheir joint news conference in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday.

EgyptContinued from N1

BY PHILIP ELLIOTT and KASIE HUNTAssociated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa • NewtGingrich tried to quiet unre-lenting campaign criticismthat he acknowledged hadtaken a toll as Mitt Romneystepped up insider attacksSaturday in hopes of regainingfront-runner status with thefirst presidential vote littlemore than two weeks away.

Gingrich,the former Housespeaker enjoying a late surgein the polls,pledged to correctwhat he said were his rivals’inaccurate claims about him.Romney, the ex-Massachu-setts governor looking for arebound, portrayed Gingrichas a well-heeled lobbyist sincehis service in Congress andpredicted that conservativevoters will reject Gingrich asthey learn more about hislengthy Washington record.

“I’m going to let the lawyersdecide what is and what is notlobbying, but when it walkslike a duck and quacks like aduck, typically it’s a duck,’’Romney said.

With the Iowa caucusesJan. 3 up for grabs, most can-didates are redoubling theirefforts heading into the holi-days, when voters generallytune out the race.

Gingrich is their prime tar-get. Last week alone, anti-Gingrich ads from a Romneyally outspent Gingrich by an8-to-1 margin on television.

Gingrich cited “the ex-traordinary negativity of thecampaign’’ during a call fromWashington with Iowa sup-porters. He said he was in-clined to hold teleconferencesevery few days so people candiscuss ideas and his cam-paign can “encourage them toraise any of these things thatyou get in the mail that arejunk and dishonest.’’

“I’ll be glad to personallyanswer, so you’re hearing itfrom my very own lips,’’ hesaid in the forum. “We don’thave our advertising versus

their advertising, but you getto ask me directly.’’

Romney campaigned inearly-voting South Carolina,where tea party activists havegiven Gingrich a strong lead inpolls. Romney told reportersthat many voters now are justbeginning to pay attention tothe race and will turn on Gin-grich after they learn about histime in Washington and hisrole with mortgage companyFreddie Mac,a quasi-govern-ment agency.

Gingrich’s consulting firmcollected $1.6 million from thecompany. Gingrich insists hedid not lobby for them andonly provided advice.

“I think as tea partyers con-centrate on that,for instance,they’ll say, ‘Wow, this reallyisn’t the guy that would rep-resent our views,’’’ Romneysaid after a town hall meetingwith South Carolina Rep.TimScott.“Many tea party folks,Ibelieve,are going to find me tobe the ideal candidate.’’

Gingrich said the attacks onhis record have been brutal,but he insisted they are exag-gerated.

“I just want to set therecord straight,’’Gingrich toldhis Iowa backers. “We werepaid annually for six years, so

the numbers you see are sixyears of work. Most of thatmoney went to pay overhead— for staff,for other things.Itdidn’t go directly to me. Itwent to the company thatprovided consulting advice.’’

It’s a distinction without adifference,his rivals have said.

Minnesota Rep. MicheleBachmann continued to criti-cize his tenure as a consultantand Texas Rep.Ron Paul con-tinued an ad accusing him of“serial hypocrisy’’ for takingFreddie Mac’s checks.

During a Friday appearanceon Jay Leno’s late-night tele-vision show, Paul also turnedon Bachmann.

“She doesn’t like Muslim.She hates them,’’ said Paul,who routinely clashes with hisrivals over foreign policy.“Shewants to go get them.’’

Bachmann told reporters inEstherville that was not true.

“I don’t hate Muslims. Ilove the American people,’’she said. “As president of theUnited States, my goal will beto keep America safe,free andsovereign.’’

Texas Gov.Rick Perry rum-bled through rural Iowa on abus tour.Former PennsylvaniaSen.Rick Santorum stuck to aplan that has won him thehonor of spending the mosttime in the state,yet has not yettranslated into support in polls.

Iowa’s largest newspaper,The Des Moines Register, an-nounced it would publish itspresidential endorsement intoday’s editions. In 2008, thepaper backed Sen. John Mc-Cain,the eventual GOP nom-inee who came up short inIowa’s caucuses.

Gingrich Says Rivals’Criticism Taking a Toll

BY PAULINE JELINEK and DAVID DISHNEAUAssociated Press

FORT MEADE, Md. • Theyoung Army intelligencespecialist accused of pass-ing government secretsspent his 24th birthday incourt Saturday as hislawyers argued his status asa gay soldier before the re-peal of “don’t ask, don’ttell’’ played an importantrole in his actions.

Lawyers for Pfc. BradleyManning began laying out adefense to show that hisstruggles as a gay soldier inan environment hostile tohomosexuality contributedto mental and emotionalproblems that should havebarred him from having ac-cess to sensitive material.

Manning is accused ofleaking hundreds of thou-sands of sensitive items tothe anti-secrecy groupWikiLeaks, including Iraqand Afghanistan war logs,State Department cablesand a military video of a2007 American helicopterattack in Iraq that killed 11men, including a Reutersnews photographer and hisdriver.

The Obama administra-tion says the released infor-mation has threatenedvaluable military and diplo-matic sources and strainedAmerica’s relations withother governments. Man-ning’s lawyers counter thatmuch of the informationthat was classified by thePentagon posed no risk.

The military is conduct-ing a hearing in a smallcourtroom on an Army postoutside Washington to de-termine whether prosecu-tors have enough evidenceto bring Manning to trial,where he could face a termof life in prison as a traitor.

Prosecutors began pre-senting evidence to sub-stantiate the charges againstManning.

Army criminal investiga-tors described evidencethey collected that linksManning to the WikiLeakswebsite’s collection of U.S.military and diplomatic se-crets.

But among the first issuesto arise Saturday waswhether Manning’s sexualorientation is relevant to thecase against him.

The basis for the chargesManning faces are tran-scripts of online chats with aconfidant-turned-govern-ment-informant in whichManning allegedly confesseshis ties to WikiLeaks and al-so reveals he is gay.

Maj. Matthew Kemkes, adefense lawyer, asked Spe-cial Agent Toni Graham, anArmy criminal investigator,whether she had talked topeople who believed Man-ning was gay or found evi-dence among his belong-ings relating to gender-identity disorder. The con-dition often is described as amental diagnosis in whichpeople believe they wereborn the wrong sex.

Graham said such ques-tions were irrelevant to the

investigation. “We alreadyknew before we arrived thatPfc. Manning was a homo-sexual,’’Graham said.

Prosecutors objectedseveral times to the ques-tions. Kemkes respondedthat if the government canargue that Manning intend-ed to leak secrets, “what isgoing on in my client’s mindis very important.’’

During its cross examina-tion of Graham, Manning’sdefense team also sought toconvince the court that notall of the material he is ac-cused of leaking is classi-fied.

Graham, who collectedevidence from Manning’sliving quarters and work-place, testified that amongthe items seized was a DVDmarked “secret’’ that con-tained a military videoshowing the 2007 incidentin which Apache attack hel-icopters gunned down un-armed men in Iraq.

The video was taken fromthe cockpit of one the heli-copters. WikiLeaks postedthe video in April 2010,sparking questions aboutthe military’s rules of en-gagement and whethermore needed to be done toprevent civilian casualties.The gunners can be heardlaughing and referring tothe men as “dead bastards.’’

Kemkes, one of Man-ning’s lawyers, asked Gra-ham whether she knew thevideo was unclassified. Shesaid she didn’t. “In fact, itwas an unclassified video,’’Kemkes said.

At the time the video wasposted by WikiLeaks, thePentagon called it a breachof national security and itwas believed to be secret.

Although WikiLeaks hadbeen posting sensitive in-formation to the Web since2006,release of the Apachevideo drew worldwide at-tention to the organizationas it prepared to publish se-cret documents on the warin Afghanistan.

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BY COLLEEN LONGAssociated Press

NEW YORK • Dozens ofOccupy Wall Street protest-ers were arrested Saturdayafter they scaled a chain-linkfence or crawled under it toget to an Episcopal church-owned lot they want to usefor a new camp site.

Protesters used a woodenladder to scale the fence orlifted it from below whileothers cheered them on. Aman wearing a Santa suitstood on the ladder amongothers, as they ignored red“Private Property’’ signs.

As officers made arrests,protesters shouted obsceni-ties and hollered: “Makethem catch you!’’ The groupwas inside the lot for a shorttime before being led out bypolice in single file through aspace in the fence. About 50people were arrested, policesaid.

“We’re just trying to saythat this country has gone inthe wrong direction, and weneed spaces that we cancontrol and we can decideour future in, and that’s whatthis is about,’’ said DavidSuker, who was among thosewho scaled the fence.

Before the arrests, severalhundred gathered in DuarteSquare, a half-acre wedge ofa park at the edge of Man-hattan’s Tribeca neighbor-hood and across the streetfrom the vacant lot. Theygathered partly to mark thethree-month anniversary ofthe Occupy movement andpartly to demand use of thelot, owned by TrinityChurch.

After police cleared theprotesters from the lot,about 200 people regroupedfor a march on Seventh Av-enue. Police began makingarrests, tackling at least twopeople in the street andhandcuffing them. Whenthe protesters cleared theavenue, the crowd continuedto march to Times Squareunder a heavy police pres-ence.

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Street camp in Zuccotti Parkin lower Manhattan wasshut down last month.Trinity is a Zuccotti Parkneighbor that helpeddemonstrators assemble,and provided them shelterin the three months sincethe movement began. Theday after authorities movedin and cleaned out ZuccottiPark, about a dozen protest-ers went to the vacant lot,clipped the fence at thechurch-owned propertyand were arrested, alongwith some journalists.

Since then, some Occupyprotesters have launched abid to gain the church’s con-sent for them to use thespace. Trinity’s Rev. JamesH. Cooper said giving theprotesters access to the lotwould not be a safe or smartmove.

“There are no facilities atthe Canal Street lot. De-manding access and vandal-izing the property by a de-

termined few OWS protest-ers won’t alter the fact thatthere are no basic elementsto sustain an encampment,’’he wrote in a statement.“The health, safety and se-curity problems posed by anencampment here, com-pounded by winter weather,

would dwarf those experi-enced at Zuccotti Park.’’

On Friday, the top bishopof the Episcopal Churchasked protesters not to tres-pass on the property. Presid-ing Bishop Katharine JeffertsSchori warned it could resultin “legal and police action.’’

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HONOLULU •Hundreds ofJapanese-American veteransof World War II were hon-ored Saturday with a paradein Honolulu — nearly 70years after they volunteeredto fight for their countryeven as the governmentbranded them “enemyaliens.’’

About 200 veterans rodein convertibles, troop carri-ers and trolleys past a cheer-ing crowd of tourists, familyand local residents. Theevent celebrates the Con-gressional Gold Medal theveterans received last month.

Thousands of Japanese-Americans served in WorldWar II even as the govern-ment viewed them with sus-picion because their ances-tors were from the countrythat bombed Pearl Harbor.

Some on the mainland en-listed from internmentcamps, where the federalgovernment had imprisoned110,000 Japanese-Ameri-cans.

Fragile health preventedmany of the surviving veter-ans — the youngest of whomare in their 80s — from trav-eling to Washington,D.C.,toattend a ceremony at whichthe medal was presented.

Two-thirds of the Japan-ese-Americans who servedwere from Hawaii. Manyothers were from California,Oregon and Washingtonstate.

The medal recognizes the442nd Regimental CombatTeam and the 100th InfantryBattalion which together sawsome of the most brutalfighting in the war as the sol-diers pushed their waythrough Italy, France andGermany.

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SAN FRANCISCO • Afterringing his hand bell to so-licit donations for 51 hourswithout food or sleep, Sal-vation Army volunteerMarcelino Soriano hadreached his limit Saturday.

“My legs are hurting, andI’m feeling a little light-headed,’’ the 44-year-oldsaid, as he rang his bell forthe last few times outside aMacy’s store in San Francis-co’s Union Square.

Soriano was among morethan a dozen SalvationArmy volunteers around thenation who broke the chari-table organization’s 36-hour record for continuoushand bell ringing.

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“The toughest thing istrying to stay awake andhandling the cold weather,’’Soriano said. “In the end,it’s trying to have a clearmind.’’

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MANILA, Philippines •Flash floods devastated asouthern Philippines regionunaccustomed to seriousstorms, killing more than400 people while they slept,rousting hundreds of othersto their rooftops and turningtwo coastal cities into mud-dy, debris-filled waterwaysthat were strewn Saturdaywith overturned vehicles andtoppled trees.

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VATICAN CITY • PopeBenedict XVI seems worn out.

People who have spent timewith him recently say theyfound him weaker than they’dever seen him, seemingly tootired to engage with what theywere saying. He no longermeets individually with visit-ing bishops. A few weeks agohe started using a movingplatform to spare him the longwalk down St.Peter’s Basilica.

Benedict turns 85 in thenew year, so a slowdown isonly natural. Expected. Andgiven his age and continuedrigorous work schedule, it’sremarkable he does as muchas he does and is in such goodhealth overall: Just this pastweek he confirmed he wouldtravel to Mexico and Cubanext spring.

But a decline has been not-ed as Benedict prepares fornext weekend’s gruelingChristmas celebrations,which kick off two weeks ofintense public appearances.And that raises questionsabout the future of the papacygiven that Benedict himselfhas said popes should resign ifthey can’t do the job.

Vatican spokesman the Rev.Federico Lombardi has said nomedical condition promptedthe decision to use the movingplatform in St. Peter’s, andthat it’s merely designed tospare the pontiff the fatigue ofthe 100-meter (-yard) walk toand from the main altar.

And Benedict rallied duringhis three-day trip to Benin inwest Africa last month, brav-ing temperatures of 32 Celsius(90F) and high humidity todeliver a strong message aboutthe future of the CatholicChurch in Africa.

Wiping sweat from hisbrow, he kissed babies whowere handed up to him,deliv-ered a tough speech on theneed for Africa’s political lead-ers to clean up their act, andvisited one of the continent’smost important seminaries.

Back at home, however, itseems the daily grind of beingpope — the audiences withvisiting heads of state, theweekly public catechism les-sons, the sessions with visit-ing bishops — has taken itstoll.A spark is gone.He does-n’t elaborate off-the-cuffmuch anymore, and somedays he just seems wiped out.

Take for example his recentvisit to Assisi, where he trav-eled by train with dozens ofreligious leaders from aroundthe world for a daylong peacepilgrimage.For anyone partic-ipating it was a tough, longday; for the aging pope it waseven more so.

“Indeed I was struck bywhat appeared to me as thedecline in Benedict’s strengthand health over the last halfyear,’’said Rabbi David Rosen,who had a place of honor nextto the pope at the Assisi eventas head of interfaith relationsat the American Jewish Com-mittee.

“He looks thinner andweaker ...which made the ef-fort he put into the Assisishindig with the extraordinarydegree of personal attention tothe attendees (especially thenext day in Rome) all the moreremarkable,’’ Rosen said in anemail.

That Benedict is tiredwould be a perfectly normaldiagnosis for an 84-year-old,even someone with no known

health ailments and a still-ag-ile mind. He has acknowl-edged having suffered a hem-orrhagic stroke in 1991 thattemporarily affected his vi-sion. And his older brother,who has a pacemaker for anirregular heartbeat, has ex-pressed concern about Bene-dict’s own heart.

But Benedict is not a nor-mal 84-year-old,both in whathe is called to do and the im-plications if he were to stop.

Popes are allowed to resign;church law specifies only thatthe resignation be “freelymade and properly manifest-ed.’’

Only a handful have doneso, however. The last one wasPope Gregory XII, whostepped down in 1415 in a dealto end the Great WesternSchism among competing pa-pal claimants.

There’s good reason whyothers haven’t followed suit:Might the existence of twopopes — even when one hasstepped down — lead to divi-sions and instability in thechurch? Might a new resigna-tion precedent lead to pres-sures on future popes to quitat the slightest hint of infirmi-ty?

Yet Benedict himself raisedthe possibility of resigning ifhe were simply too old or sickto continue on, when he wasinterviewed for the book“Light of the World,’’ whichwas released in November2010.

“If a pope clearly realizesthat he is no longer physically,psychologically and spiritual-ly capable of handling the du-ties of his office,then he has aright, and under some cir-cumstances,also an obligationto resign,’’Benedict said.

The former Cardinal JosephRatzinger had an intimateview as Pope John Paul II,withwhom he had worked closelyfor nearly a quarter-century,suffered through the debilitat-

ing end of his papacy. AfterJohn Paul’s death at age 84, itwas revealed that he had writ-ten a letter of resignation to beinvoked if he became termi-nally ill or incapable of contin-uing on.

And it should be recalledthat at the time Benedict waselected pope at age 78 — al-ready the oldest pope electedin nearly 300 years — he hadbeen planning to retire as theVatican’s chief orthodoxywatchdog to spend his finalyears writing in the “peaceand quiet’’ of his nativeBavaria.

It is there that his elderbrother, Monsignor GeorgRatzinger,still lives.Ratzinger,who turns 88 next month, isnearly blind.Benedict has saidhis brother has helped him ac-cept old age with courage.

Benedict said in “Light ofthe World’’ that he knew hisown strength was diminishing— steps are difficult for himand his aides regularly hold hiselbows as he climbs up ordown. But at the same timeBenedict insisted that he hadno intention of resigning toavoid dealing with the prob-lems of the church,such as thesex abuse scandal.

“One can resign at a peace-ful moment or when one sim-ply cannot go on. But onemust not run away from dan-ger and say that someone elseshould do it,’’he said.

As a result,a papal resigna-tion anytime soon seems un-likely.

And Benedict is maintain-ing a hectic agenda. Hisplanned trip to Cuba andMexico next spring will fallshortly before he turns 85 onApril 16. He has also said he’dlike to make it to Rio de Janeiroin 2013 for the next WorldYouth Day.

Sometime in the New Yearhe will presumably presideover a new consistory to namethe new cardinals who will

elect his successor.And he haslots of unfinished businessclose to his heart: Bringingback breakaway traditionalistsunder Rome’s wing,the fate ofthe sex abuse-scarred Irishchurch,tensions with China.

And he still cuts a robustfigure in public given his age,walking briskly, speakingclearly and emphasizing keypoints.But his public engage-ments have been trimmedback; he had far fewer speech-es in Benin than during hisSeptember visit to his nativeGermany or the United King-dom last fall.

And behind closed doors,during audiences without theglare of TV cameras or throngsof the faithful encouraginghim on, he has begun to showhis age,acquaintances say.

The Rev. Joseph Fessio,Benedict’s U.S. publisher andonetime student, sees thepope every so often,includingduring the summer whenBenedict gathers his formertheology students for an in-formal academic seminar atthe papal summer retreat inCastel Gandolfo.

Fessio recalled a day in the2010 edition that remainswith him: “In the Saturdaymorning session, the popelooked older and weaker thanI had ever seen him before. Infact I remarked to someonethat it’s the first time I’ve seenhim look like the old man thathe is.He was speaking in soft-er tones than even his normal-ly soft speaking voice. Hishead was bowed.He was pale.He just looked frail.’’

But then,after lunch and anapparent rest, Benedict re-turned for the afternoon ses-sion.“It was a complete trans-formation. He was lively, vig-orous, attentive, and with hisusual good humor,’’ Fessiosaid.

Clearly, at his age Benedicthas good days and bad, evengood half-days and bad.

Yet he’s never called in sick.In fact as pope, he has onlyhad one significant knownmedical incident: He broke hisright wrist when he tripped onthe leg of his bed and fell whileon vacation in the Alps in2009.

Lombardi says the pope re-alizes the limitations of hisstrength, and that’s why therecent trip to Benin was a one-stop-only affair.

“I think it’s an example ofthe great willingness and wis-dom of the Holy Father tocontinue doing these trips,even those that are difficult orfar away,’’ Lombardi said. Hesaid the pope “measures wellwhat his strengths are,and thepossibility of doing the tripswell.’’

“When I’m 84 I think I’llhave been buried for manyyears,’’he added.

Pope Benedict XVI Heads into BusyChristmas Season Tired and Weak





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BOISE • A strangeevent took place atthe pregame pressbox buffet at Boise

State University.They ran out of potatoes.

At the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.While reporters mused about the (temporary) cruel twist

of irony — I joked they needed to save a few to fill the trophy— nobody pondered the potential bad omen.

Former CSI Guard, PierreJackson, Helps BaylorBear BYU • S4

SPORTS + WEATHER

• Sunday, December 18, 2011 Sports Editor Patrick Sheltra [ 208-735-3239 • [email protected] ]

BY TODD DVORAKAssociated Press

BOISE • Tyler Tettleton scored on a1-yard keeper with 13 seconds left togive Ohio its first bowl victory, 24-23over Utah State on Saturday in theFamous Idaho Potato Bowl.

After the Aggies failed to run outthe clock in the final minutes, Tettle-ton and the Bobcats’ offense tookover at their own 39 with one time-out and 2:02 left.

Tettleton was 3 of 4 on the final

drive,and his biggest completion wasa 14-yarder on fourth down to LaVonBrazill that gave the Bobcats a firstdown inside the 1 with 37 secondsleft.

Tettleton was stuffed on his firsttry to score. On the next play, herolled right and outran two defend-ers to cap the comeback and give theBobcats their first 10-win seasonsince 1968.

Tettleton was 19 of 26 for 220yards and he rushed 16 times for an-other 31 yards.

For Utah State, the loss was aheartbreaker.

Late touchdown lifts Ohio toits first bowl game victory.

A First for the Bobcats

Please see BOBCATS, S4

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Ohio’s Skyler Allen (65) and Jordan Thompson (88) celebrate after defeating Utah State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Saturday in Boise.

BY JEFF WINDMUELLERThe Helena (Mont.) Independent Record

ROME, Ga. • For the last decade,Carroll College has marched its wayto one NAIA national football titleafter another. On Saturday, however,it was a team from Chicago that keptthe Saints from marching into theend zone one last time.

Minico High School graduate,Dane Broadhead’s potential game-winning pass was broken up byfreshman Mark Williams with 2:03left on the clock and Saint Xavierquarterback Jimmy Coy only need-ed to take a knee a few times to sealthe Cougars’ first NAIA national ti-tle with a 24-20 win at Barron Sta-dium.

Coy, the offensive player of thegame, completed 28 passes for 216yards and a touchdown while run-ning for another to lead the Cougars(14-1), who entered the game rankedfifth in the NAIA and kept the six-time champion Saints (13-2) from ty-ing Texas A&I for the all-time cham-pionship record.

Broadhead,Carroll Fallin NAIATitle Game

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BY RYAN [email protected]

Five area wrestlers reached the fi-nals and two walked away champi-ons at the Bear-Cat InvitationalSaturday at Twin Falls High School.

One champ was expected; theother came as a surprise.

David Borden, the accomplishedsenior wrestler from Minico,won his

weight class at Bear-Cat for the sec-ond straight year,defeating Brad Fer-guson of Caldwell by 5-3 decision.

“There’s always things to im-prove on,” Borden said humbly.“I’m constantly learning.”

At 152 pounds, Buhl juniorStephen Mejia upset each of the topthree seeds, including No. 1 KevinSmith of Elko,Nev.,by 6-2 decisionin the final.

“I did better than what most ex-pected of me,”Mejia said.“I made alot of mistakes, but they’re fixablemistakes.”

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The Spartans’ Alberto Ramirezreached the 132-pound final againstJason Eavenson, a defending statechamp from Caldwell.Ramirez gotoff to a great start with an initialtwo-point takedown,but Eavensonendured for an 11-3 major decisionthat was stopped numerous timesfor blood.

Buhl’s Mejia, Minico’s BordenTake Home Bear-Cat Titles

Please see WRESTLING, S2

Slow Start Aside,Potato Bowl Delivers

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Lance ‘ToughMan’ Teske landsa hard righthand against Leo‘The Lion’Campos duringthe second roundof their match atSaturday’sCanyon RidgeFootball BoxingSmoker in TwinFalls.

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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) • Tony Romo wasnearly flawless in getting the DallasCowboys back on track in the NFCEast.

Romo threw for three touchdownsand ran for a fourth score Saturdaynight, helping the first-place Cow-boys beat the struggling Tampa BayBuccaneers 31-15.

Dallas stopped a two-game losingstreak in which it blew fourth-quar-ter leads to allow a seemingly solidgrip on the division lead slip away.

The victory gave the Cowboys (8-6) a half-game lead over New York.Although the Giants hold a tiebreak-er advantage after beating Dallas 37-34 last week, the Cowboys can claimthe division title and host a playoffgame by finishing with wins the nexttwo weeks over Philadelphia at homeand the Giants on the road.

The Bucs (4-10) lost for the eighthstraight time and played a miserablefirst half that certainly didn’t do any-thing to help coach Raheem Morrismake a case for keeping his job.

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CSI ChristmasBasketballCamp The College of SouthernIdaho men’s basketballprogram will hold its annu-al Christmas basketballcamp Dec. 28-29 at the CSIgym and run from 9 a.m. tonoon. Campers will havethe opportunity to workdirectly with the CSI men’sbasketball players andcoaching staff. Brochurescan be found atwww.csi.edu/athletics.Cost is $45 for pre-regis-tration and $55 at the door.Information: Colby Blaineat 208-340-7588 [email protected].

RapidsRecruiting U13Boys PlayersTwin Falls Rapids SoccerClub is recruiting playersfor its U13 boys team for thespring season. Informa-tion: Sasha at 731-2386 orGarrett at 280-0054.

Elite SkillsBasketballCampBurley High School is host-ing and elite skills basket-ball camp on Dec. 27-28from 1-4 p.m. for all chil-dren in grades 3-8. Cost is$35 and includes a T-shirt.Information: Michael Hill,670-4924 or 878-6606,ext. 2314.

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CSI SoftballWinter CampThe CSI softball program ishosting a winter camp Dec.29-31 in the CSI Expo Cen-ter. The camp is for girls ingrades 7-12. Guest coachesinclude pitcher ChristinaGwyn (Texas, BYU) andcatcher Cortney Clark(Arizona, BYU), as well as

several former and currentCSI players. Information:Nick Baumert, 308-4978,or online atwww.csi.edu/athletics fora registration form.

Jerome HighSchoolBasketballCampShaquille Kennedy, as partof his senior project, ishosting a youth basketballcamp on Dec. 22-23 at thehigh school. Jerome Highplayers and coaches willact as clinicians. Secondthrough fifth grade boyswill be instructed from 11a.m.-1 p.m., followed bysixth through eighth gradeboys from 1-3 p.m. Cost is$25 and includes a t-shirt.

Frozen StonesHighlandGamesThe Scottish-AmericanAthletic Association is host-ing the Frozen Stones Gamesat Shoshone Falls on Jan.1 at10 a.m. Registration is at9:30 a.m. and costs $30 toparticipate.Novices are wel-come to participate and theevent is free to the public.In-formation: Erick Ettesvole,490-6470.

Southern IdahoBaseball CampCSI is hosting the SouthernIdaho Baseball Camp on Dec.27-29.Collegiate and profes-sional players and coaches willinstruct campers in hitting,fielding,catching and pitch-ing.Information: Jim Walker,308-4024,Boomer Walker,308-4025, or on the web atathletics.csi.edu/baseball/camp.asp.

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Kaitlyn Goetz made a layupwith 13 seconds remainingfor the game-winning shotto knock off American Falls39-38 on the road.

The Bulldogs pulled off animpressive comeback, trail-ing by five with 1:30 left.Kimberly head coach BrettWright said Hailey Wilseyput the team on her back inthe second half and the sen-ior led all scorers with 18.

Kimberly (5-5) returns tothe court Jan. 3, traveling toCanyon Ridge.

Kimberly 6 12 11 10 —39American Falls 9 14 4 10 —38KIMBERLY (39)Cornie 3, Goetz 11, Watts 2, Wilsey 18, Upton 2, Keller3. Totals 14 7-21 39.AMERICAN FALLS (38)Mcomber 8, A. Morris 11, Sanzhez 12, Fehringer 1,Villa 2, Permann 2, H. Morris 2. Totals 14 10-20 38.3-point goals Wilsey 4. Total fouls: Kimberly 17,American Falls 22. Fouled out: Vila, Sanchez,Permann.

Girls BasketballJEROME 56, SPRING CREEK, NEV. 51

Haylee Burnham scored 13points, Frankie Carey added11 and the Tigers moved to9-0.

Jerome is off until Dec. 29,where it hosts Class 4Apower Middleton.

Jerome 16 14 15 11 —56Spring Creek 10 11 14 16 —51JEROME (56)Stauffer 1, Jackman 3, Burnham 13, Kelley 7, Branch8, Grove 5, Carey 11, Bright 2, Praegitzer 6. Totals 1712-23 56.SPRING CREEK (51)Firi 6, Estes 4, Anderson 2, Griswold 12, Smith 9,Thompson 11. Totals 18 6-15 51.3-point goals: Jerome (Burnham 3, Kelly), SpringCreek 5 (Thompson 3, Estes, Griswold). Total fouls:Jerome 15, Spring Creek 22.

TWIN FALLS 54, ELKO, NEV. 46Josie Jordan scored 19 andthe Bruins used a full-courtpress to score 29 fourth-quarter points, overcomingan eight-point deficit.

Kaitlyn Merritt pitched inwith 18 points. Jordan andTaryn Skahill each grabbedsix rebounds for the Bruins(7-3), who are off until host-ing Mountain Home Dec. 29.

Twin Falls 6 8 11 29 —54Elko 8 12 13 11 —46TWIN FALLS (54)Bartlett 9, Jordan 19, Merritt 18, Robertson 6, Harris2, Skahill 2, Johnson 1. Totals 18 16-25 54.

ELKO (46)Dumas 6, Elquist 7, Sprouts 7, Nielsen 11, Forcella 5,Dubois 8. Totals 11 21-32 46.3-point goals: Twin Falls 2 (Jordan, Merritt), Elko 2(Nielsen 2). Total fouls: Twin Falls 23, Elko 16. Fouledout: Robertson.

CAMAS COUNTY 60,LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN 12Katelyn Peterson scored 20points as Camas Countyrouted the young Lions.

Lighthouse Christian (2-8) hosts Richfield on Tues-day.

Camas County 16 10 19 15 —60Lighthouse 1 6 5 0 —12CAMAS COUNTY (60)Walker 3, Sabin 8, Straum 7, Moore 8, Hulme 4,Peterson 20, Gorringe 4, McGuire 6. Totals 27 6-1060.LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN (12)Wooten 2, Griffith 4, Dekruyf 4, Jenks 2. Totals 4 4-1012.3-point goals: none. Total fouls: Camas County 6,Lighthouse Christian 7.

RIGBY 51, WOOD RIVER 30Erica Barrus scored 15 pointsand Rigby used a big secondquarter and eight 3-pointersto blow past Wood River.

Haylee Thompson ledWood River (4-5) with 19points.

RIGBY 51, WOOD RIVER 30Wood River 9 5 8 8 —30Rigby 23 12 11 51 —51WOOD RIVER (30)Peavey 3, Dion 4, Thompson 19, Cole 4. Totals 12 5-830.RIGBY (51)Larsen 11, Blanchard 8, Daw 11, Barrus 15, Lance 3,Jacobson 3. Totals 17 9-13 51.3-point goals: Wood River 1 (Peavey), Rigby 8 (Daw 3,Barrus 3, Blanchard, Larsen). Total fouls: Wood River13, Rigby 18.

MINICO 50, CANYON RIDGE 28Micaela Merrill scored 18 pointsand Marlee Chandler added 11in the Great Basin Conferencewin for the Spartans.

Breyana Burk led CanyonRidge with 15.

Minico (7-5) hosts Prestonon Tuesday.

Minico 13 13 16 8 —50Canyon Ridge 4 9 11 4 —28CANYON RIDGE (28)Hudelson 3, Bell 2, Strauss 3, Miller 1, Burk 15, Co.Joslin 4. Totals 10 8-16 28.MINICO (50)Merrill 18, Mendoza 4, Chandler 11, Bailey 2, Munns 7,Hegsted 2, Bradford 6. Totals 20 8-13 50.3-point goals: Minico 2 (Merrill 2). Total fouls: CanyonRidge 17, Minico 15.

Boys BasketballDECLO 56, WENDELL 39

Kai Garner had 21 points,fiveassists and three steals asDeclo cruised past Wendelldespite not scoring in thesecond quarter.

The Hornets built a 25-7lead after the first, but failedto make a bucket in the sec-ond. They still led 25-11 athalftime. Seth Baker chippedin 18 for Declo, which movesto 4-3 with a 2-0 mark inCanyon Conference play.

Wendell 7 4 12 14 —39Declo 25 0 16 15 —56WENDELL (39)Hope 8, Swainston 7, Southfields 4, Mendez 2, Valdez14, Bunn 4. Totals 16 4-7 39.DECLO (56)Smyer 2, Wrigley 3, Baker 18, Garner 21, Wallace 4, C.Webb 8. Totals 22 7-8 56.3-point goals: Wendell 3 (Hope 2, Swaintson), Declo 5(Wrigley 1, Garner 2, Webb 2). Total fouls: Wendell 7,Declo 11.

VALLEY 51, SHOSHONE 39Justin Johnson scored 21points and Ivan Orozco andJake Kelle came off the benchto provide strong defense forthe Vikings.

Orozco also pitched inwith 11 points, while GarrettSant led Shoshone with 17.

Valley (4-1) returns after

the break to host Carey Jan.3

Shoshone 10 10 4 15 —39Valley 10 8 15 18 —51SHOSHONE (39)H. Garcia 9, Sant 17, Waite 3, Roberts 2, Wallace 3,Hadden 5. Totals 12 12-17 39.VALLEY (51)Johnson 21, Orozco 11, Shawver 7, Mora 7, Artiaga 1,Cauhorn 4. Totals 20 8-12 51.3-point goals: Shoshone 3 (Sant 2, H Garcia), Valley 3(Johnson, Orozco, Shawver). Total fouls: Shoshone 11,Valley 18.

LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN65, CAMAS COUNTY 43

Lighthouse Christian creat-ed turnovers with its ag-gressive defense and theshots started to fall as RidgeReid led the Lions with 12points.

Dylan Van Esch pitched inwith 10 for Lighthouse Chris-tian (2-5). Andrew Simon ledCamas County with 13.

Camas County 3 16 16 8 —43Lighthouse Christian 24 16 13 12 —65CAMAS COUNTY (43)A. Simon 13, Knowlton 11, I. Simon 5, G. Simon 10,Lane 4. Totals 16 8-14 43LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN (65)Berndt 9, Heath 6, Aardema 4, Goettle 2, Hamilton 5,Helman 5, Reed 12, Millenkamp 2, Van Esch 10, Briggs2, Vander Stelt 8. Totals 28 5-14 65.3-point goals: Camas County 2 (A. Simon, G. Simon),Lighthouse Christian 4 (Barendt, Heath, Hamilton,Helman). Total fouls: Camas County, 12, LighthouseChristian 18. Fouled out: G. Simon.

HANSEN 69, CHALLIS 51The two Devons: Spearingand Fitzsimmons, scored 21and 16 points, respectively, tohelp Hansen knock off Chal-lis.

Seth Williams added 15 andKevin Fuller had 11 for theHuskies (4-3), who return tothe court Jan.3 at Shoshone.

Challis 13 17 13 8 —51Hansen 11 18 21 19 —69CHALLIS (51)Novak 5, Hamilton 11, Lind 5, Olsen 16, Sensabaugh12, Schwenk 2. Totals 17 12-24 51.HANSEN (69)Spearing 21, Williams 15, Veenstra 6, Fitssimmon 16,Fuller 11. Totals 23 21-32 69.3-point goals: Challis 5 (Lind, Olsen 3, Sensabaugh),Hansen 2 (Williams, Veenstra).Total fouls: Challis 26,Hansen 19.

WrestlingDECLO WINS MALADINVITE

The Declo wrestling teamwon the Malad Invitationalon Saturday, beating out 13other schools. The Hornetshad medallists in 11 of the 15weight classes, includingchampions StirlandZollinger at 126 pounds andJason Gillette at 170.

“He’s a big guy and prob-ably dropped a lot of weightto get down to 132, so that(stoppage) gives him time tobreathe and it doesn’t helpme any at all. I’m trying towear him out when he’s get-ting a break,” said Ramirez.“I’m still fresh, it’s early inthe season because I missedthe Boise Duals. Right nowI’m working on stuff I needto work on.”

Jerome, which finishedninth as a team, had twowrestlers finish runner-upin the finals. Jade Parsonslost by pin to Nick Zylka ofFruitland at 220. At 182, thescore was tied 0-0 headinginto the third period beforeArnold Zavala gave up a re-versal and lost 2-0 to Fruit-land’s Tim McDonald.

“I should have done somethings a little different,”Zavala said.“I was hoping toget some back points… buthe was strong and fast andoutworked me.I would havebeen a lot better on bottom.”

Most OutstandingWrestler awards went to126-pounder Cody Burden

of Middleton in the lowerweights and 285-pounderGaylen Edmo of Highland inthe upper weights.

2011 BEAR-CATINVITATIONALAt Twin Falls HSSaturday’s resultsFinal team standings1. Highland 181, 2. Boise 179, 3. Caldwell 164.5, 4.Fruitland 130, 5. Minico 122, 6. Ontario, Ore., 118,7. Jerome 109, 8. Rocky Mountain 104, 9. Elko,Nev., 81, 10. Middleton 63.5, 11. Buhl 58.5, 12.Canyon Ridge 49, 13. Twin Falls 37, 14. Kimberly33, 15. Burley 15, 16. Wendell 0.Championship match results98 pounds: Dorian Sapien, Boise, pinned JacobBarton, Rocky Mountain; 106: Robert Gomez,Caldwell, pinned Devaughn Sapien, Boise; 113:Tony Gonzalez, Caldwell, pinned Devyn Christian,Rocky Mountain; 120: Eric Nunez, Ontario, dec.Michael Carr, Middleton, 4-3; 126: Cody Burden,Middleton, dec. Andrew Rossow, Boise, 6-4; 132:Jason Eavenson, Caldwell, major dec. AlbertoRamirez, Minico, 11-3; 138: Kaden Steingruber,Rocky Mountain, major dec. Michael Gonzales,Caldwell, 14-1; 145: Brennan Bell, Highland, dec.Cade Hartley, Ontario, 10-7; 152: Stephen Mejia,Buhl, dec. Kevin Smith, Elko, 6-2; 160: AndreLopez, Highland, pinned Brett Walton, Boise; 170:David Borden, Minico, dec. Brad Ferguson,Caldwell, 5-3; 182: Tim McDonald, Fruitland, dec.Arnold Zavala, Jerome, 2-0; 195: Canyon Purcell,Boise, pinned Aurelio Flores, Ontario; 220: NickZylka, Fruitland, pinned Jade Parsons, Jerome;285: Gaylen Edmo, Highland, pinned AnthonyFreeman, Fruitland.Third-place match results98 pounds: Blake Gilchrist, Minico, major dec.Marcus Velazquez, Elko, 12-4; 106: RileyThacker, Jerome, dec. Francisco Barrera,Ontario, 4-0; 113: Dakota Buffaloe, Highland,pinned Connor Stubblefield, Canyon Ridge; 120:Jacob Herman, Kimberly, dec. Spencer Rich,Rocky Mountain, 4-2; 126: Isaiah Alvarado,Minico, dec. Kole Nakamura, Ontario, 5-2; 132:Tanner Mulberry, Kimberly, major dec. ZackCampbell, Boise, 16-7; 138: Wade Fry, Elko, dec.Riggs Quayle, Highland, 6-2; 145: Austin Wahl,Rocky Mountain, dec. Kaleb Price, CanyonRidge, 8-3; 152: Marcus Ko, Twin Falls, dec. EricCorona, Fruitland, 7-5; 160: Daulton Blackwell,Fruitland, pinned Zach Argyle, Jerome; 170:Nick Popkey, Boise, dec. Koltin Howe, Elko, 3-2;182: Josh Hansen, Highland, pinned JasonTurner, Buhl; 195: Salvador Gutierrez, Minico,pinned Juan Labra, Burley; 220: Gabe Escobedo,Caldwell, dec. Jaren Kahoiwai, Boise, 5-3; 285:Layne Lasike, Jerome, dec. Davin Addison,Boise, 3-1.

WrestlingContinued from Sports 1

RYAN HOWE • TIMES-NEWS

David Borden of Minico, left, was the 170-poundchamp at the Bear-Cat Invitational Saturday at TwinFalls High School.

“It’s just an indescribablefeeling; I’ve never been soproud of my team,”said SaintXavier head coach Mike Fem-inis,who upon completion ofhis 13th season with theCougars was pounced on byhis players, taking his cere-monial sports drink showerlying on the AstroTurf.

“I’m still a little sore,” hechuckled.

He’ll be feeling a lot betterwith the traveling trophy athome.

The Saints, meanwhile,will be remembering thisnail-biter for years to come.Having trailed by 10 pointstwice in the game, theyclawed their way back to a20-17 lead when freshmanJared Mayernik returned theopening kickoff of the thirdquarter 94 yards for a touch-down.

But the Cougars came rightback, engineering an 11-play,67-yard drive that ended witha touchdown run by seniorK.J. Franklin. They held theSaints and NAIA Player of theYear Chance Demarais, whofinished with just 57 yards on21 carries, from getting intothe end zone from there.

“We played hard all season;you can never question thatabout our team,” said Broad-head,who completed 20 of 31passes for 223 yards and twotouchdowns,but finished hiscareer with four straight in-completions in Saint Xavier’send zone. “We won’t bebringing a trophy back to He-lena, but this game will be inmy memory for a long time.”

Two weeks after SXU truefreshman Clayton Fejedelemintercepted a pass in the finalseconds of a semifinal withMarian (Ind.) to propel theCougars to the champi-onship, Williams sealed itwith his own tremendousplay.With just over 2 minutes

left,the Saints drove 72 yardsto the SXU 9-yard line andmade one touchdown at-tempt after another.

Broadhead’s first pass wenthigh through the fingers ofsenior receiver Matt Ritter.His second and third wereboth incomplete to senior LatWipplinger. Then, followingCarroll’s final time out, heaimed for the hands of fresh-man Anthony Clarke, butWilliams was able to get hisleft hand on the ball to breakup the pass.

“When they were drivingdown, I was thinking of theirgame with Azusa,” said Fem-inis, referring to the Saints’quarterfinal, when theyscored in the final minutes toadvance. “I was just prayingto God that we would comeup with another big play likewe did two weeks ago.”

Feminis knew his defensewas in good hands. The frontseven stuffed Demarais —who led the NAIA with morethan 130 yards per gameheading into the contest andbroke just one run for 10yards — and forced the Saintsto break from their run gameand throw the ball.

Broadhead did that well,finding his favorite target,Ritter, a championshipgame-record 11 times for 117yards and a touchdown.Thatcame with 5:17 left in the firsthalf and helped the Saintspull within three after theCougars’two straight scoringdrives to begin the game.

Saint Xavier’s no-huddlespread offense had Carroll’sdefense scrambling to get intoposition and players were of-ten caught still looking at thecoverages printed on plasticsleeves. Coy, meanwhile,continued firing one pass af-ter another.

Coy completed his firstnine pass attempts, often for6 or 7 yards,to start the game,and the Cougars ended a 15-play drive with a 20-yardfield goal by Tom Lynch.Car-

roll punted on the next pos-session and pinned theCougars on the 5-yard line.That didn’t slow down theCougars.

Running back Nick Pesekbroke through a hole on theleft side of the line for a 14-yard gain on second down,sparking a 15-play drive thatfinished with Coy scrambling9 yards for a touchdown.

Pesek and Coy often foundspace along the line — Coyhad 78 yards while Pesek had50 — as Saints head coachMike Van Diest rarely rushedwith more than three defen-sive linemen, respectingCoy’s arm more than his feet.

“That’s my fault going inwith a three-man rush phi-losophy,” Van Diest said.“About midway through thesecond quarter we said, ‘Wecan’t go through this any-more,’ and started comingwith the four down line-men.”

Trailing 10-0, TomYaremko sent a field goalwide — Carroll’s first chanceat putting some points on theboard — and when the Saints’defense returned to the fieldit finally began to slow theCougars down.

Thomas Robison,who fin-ished with 14 tackles, hit Pe-sek for a 4-yard loss on ascreen pass and the runningback was dropped for a 2-yard loss on the next play. Adropped pass and theCougars were punting, theirfirst three-and-out of thegame.

With a bit of momentum,the Saints continued to handthe ball off to Demarais, whopounded into the Cougars’line until being rescued twiceby Ritter. Broadhead com-pleted a 10-yard pass to Ritterto convert on third down,butit was a 20-yard bomb to thereceiver with 5:17 left in thehalf that gave Carroll its firstpoints. Ritter was wide openon the play as Saint Xaviercame on a blitz and pressured

Broadhead.The two teams then traded

touchdowns as Coy hit juniorShane Zackery on an 11-yardtoss to make it 17-7, andBroadhead answered with a67-yard drive — which in-cluded a 28-yard pass to Rit-ter — finishing with a 26-yard toss to Clarke. Thatcame with 39 seconds left inthe half as the Saints trailed17-14 in the break.

Then came Mayernik’s re-turn and the rollercoaster rideof emotions from there.

“There was a lot of ball-game left there,” Broadheadsaid.“We keep chipping awayand then to see Mayernik popone, it was really exciting. Itgave us a boost.”

Just not enough in the end.As Saint Xavier’s crowd

continued to celebrate theirvictory on the field, playersand coaches from both teamswalked into the press confer-ence with identical expres-sions of exhaustion on theirface.The Saints were stunnedand the Cougars in utter dis-belief.

“It hasn’t hit me yet,” Za-ckery said without evencracking a smile.

It wasn’t until Feminis wasalone that the mood becamea little less somber.

“It means the world to us,”the coach said. “From whatwe started from 13 years ago,to even think about beingwhere we were, it’s an amaz-ing feeling.”

Carroll, meanwhile, willtake its dynasty into the fu-ture as it says good bye to itsseniors after another incredi-ble season.

“I’m very proud of what weaccomplished as a seniorgroup and what we’ve ac-complished over these four orfive years,” said Ritter, whohas played in three titlegames, losing the first as atrue freshman quarterback in2008.“We were not giving upand giving every ounce of en-ergy at the end.”

NAIA TitleContinued from Sports 1

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Ohio USUFirstdowns 22 18Rushes-yards 42-125 50-345Passing 220 96Comp-Att-Int 19-26-0 12-19-0ReturnYards 9 1Punts-Avg. 6-50.0 5-40.4Fumbles-Lost 2-0 1-1Penalties-Yards 6-45 4-40TimeofPossession 26:48 33:12IINNDDIIVVIIDDUUAALL SSTTAATTIISSTTIICCSSRUSHING—Ohio, Blankenship 11-47, Harden 15-47,Tettleton 16-31.Utah St., Smith 12-157, Turbin 20-101, K.Williams 9-62,Kennedy 6-11,Keeton 1-10, Morrison 1-5, Team 1-(-1).PASSING—Ohio, Tettleton 19-26-0-220. Utah St.,Kennedy 11-18-0-63,Morrison 1-1-0-33.RECEIVING—Ohio, Brazill 8-108, Harden 4-37, Dunlop3-35,Roback 1-26, Gross 1-6, Thompson 1-6, Foster 1-2.Utah St.,Morrison 4-25, Moats 2-9, Jacobs 2-8, Van Leeuwen 1-26, Smith 1-10, Turbin 1-7, Lloyd 1-3, Kennedy 0-8.

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Chicago 32 20 8 4 44 107 96Detroit 31 20 10 1 41 104 69St.Louis 31 18 9 4 40 76 65Nashville 32 17 11 4 38 85 84Columbus 32 9 19 4 22 76 105

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Minnesota 33 20 8 5 45 84 72Vancouver 32 19 11 2 40 106 80Calgary 32 14 14 4 32 80 90Edmonton 31 14 14 3 31 85 84Colorado 33 15 17 1 31 88 100

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Dallas 31 18 12 1 37 80 86SanJose 29 16 10 3 35 83 72Phoenix 32 16 13 3 35 84 85LosAngeles 32 14 14 4 32 69 79Anaheim 32 9 18 5 23 75 105NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtimeloss.FFrriiddaayy’’ss GGaammeessFlorida 3, Calgary 2, SOBuffalo 5, Toronto 4Ottawa 6, Pittsburgh 4New Jersey 6, Dallas 3Chicago 4, Anaheim 1SSaattuurrddaayy’’ss GGaammeessNashville 2, St. Louis 1, SON.Y. Islanders 2, Minnesota 1, SOBoston 6, Philadelphia 0Vancouver 5, Toronto 3New Jersey 5, Montreal 3Pittsburgh 8, Buffalo 3Winnipeg 5, Anaheim 3Detroit 8, Los Angeles 2Tampa Bay 3, Columbus 2N.Y. Rangers 3, Phoenix 2Colorado 2, Washington 1Edmonton at San Jose, 8 p.m.SSuunnddaayy’’ss GGaammeessCarolina at Florida, 3 p.m.Calgary at Chicago, 5 p.m.Columbus at St. Louis, 5 p.m.

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acres, 8 of 9 lifts, 100% open, Mon-Fri: 9a-3:30p;Sat/Sun: 9a-3:30pSilver Mountain — Sat 5:30 am packed powdermachine groomed 18-38 base 52 of 73 trails 6 of 6lifts, 72% open, Mon-Fri: 9a-3:45p; Sat/Sun: 9a-3:45pSnowhaven — Opening Soon for Snow SportsSoldier Mountain — Opening Soon for Snow SportsSun Valley — Sat 6:57 am packed powder machinegroomed 20-20 base 35 of 75 trails, 900 acres 13 of19 lifts, 40% open, Mon-Fri: 9a-4p; Sat/Sun: 9a-4pTamarack — Sat 5:49 am loose granular machinegroomed 12-19 base 4 of 36 trails, 2 of 5 lifts 9%open, Thu/Fri: 9a-4p; Sat/Sun: 9a-4p; Dec 22-Jan 01:9a-4p; Open Thu-SunUUttaahhAlta — Sat 5:11 am packed powder machine groomed32-32 base 58 of 116 trails, 50% open 1000 acres, 5 of11 lifts, sm Mon-Fri: 9:15a-4:30p; Sat/Sun: 9:15a-4:30p;Beaver Mountain — Plan to Open 12/20Brian Head — Sat 7:50 am packed powder machinegroomed 24-26 base 28 of 65 trails 31% open, 8 of 8lifts, Mon-Fri: 9:30a-4:30p; Sat/Sun: 9:30a-4:30p;Brighton — Sat 5:03 am packed powder 31-31 base 22of 66 trails, 34% open 4 of 7 lifts, Mon-Fri: 9a-9p;Sat: 9a-9p, Sun:9a-4p;Canyons — Sat 6:38 am packed powder machinegroomed 21-21 base 22 of 182 trails, 13% open 325acres, 9 of 19 lifts, sm Mon-Fri: 9a-4p; Sat/Sun: 9a-4p;Deer Valley — Sat 5:30 am packed powder machinegroomed 26-26 base 42 of 100 trails 42% open, 17 of21 lifts, sm Mon-Fri: 9a-4:15p; Sat/Sun: 9a-4:15p;Eagle Point Resort — Opening Soon for Snow SportsPark City — Sat 5:16 am packed powder machinegroomed 18-18 base 24 of 114 trails 22% open, 10 of16 lifts, sm Mon-Fri: 9a-4p; Sat/Sun: 9a-4p;WWyyoommiinnggGrand Targhee — Sat 6:23 am powder machinegroomed 30-30 base 74 of 74 trails 100% open, 5 of 5lifts, Mon-Fri: 9a-4p; Sat/Sun: 9a-4p;

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DENVER (AP) • Brian Stafford scored 18 points, ChrisUdofia added 17 and Denver beat Boise State 79-62 onSaturday night.

Justin Coughlin had 11 points and Rob Lewis 10 for thePioneers.

Anthony Drmic led Boise State (8-3) with 14 points andDerrick Marks added 13. Former College of Southern Ida-ho center, Kenny Buckner, had 11.

Denver (8-2) led by 19 when Drmic’s 3-pointer sparkeda Boise State rally. Westly Perryman hit another 3-point-er and had a layup and Drmic hit two free throws to makeit 58-48 with 3:57 left.

After Chase Hallam’s 3-pointer pushed the lead to 61-48, the Broncos hit four free throws and Perryman’s stealand layup made it 61-54 with 2:38 left. Denver went on a12-2 run to put the game away.

Stafford’s 18 Points

Lead Pioneers to

79-62 Win over BSU

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SCHEDULE:TONIGHT’SBIG GAMES

Winter Sailing Sweden’s Jesper Stalheim (032)and competitors start the Lasermen’s gold fleet race 10 at theSailing Championships in Perth,Australia, on Saturday. Croatia’sMilan Vujasinovic was the win-ner of the race.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) •C.J. Miles scored 18 points,Raja Bell had 15 and GordonHayward 10 in the UtahJazz’s 20-minute scrim-mage Sarturday night infront of more than 10,000fans.

Miles was 7 of 9 shots

from the field and 3 of 5 from3-point range.Bell was 5 of 6shooting and 2 of 2 from be-hind the arc, and Haywardwas 4 of 8 and made his only3-point attempt.

The Jazz’s preseasonopener is Monday night atPortland.

C.J. MILES SCORES

18 POINTS IN JAZZ

SCRIMMAGE

MOSCOW (AP) • KyleBarone had 13 points andnine rebounds as Idaho beatCal State Bakersfield 72-44on Saturday.

Landon Tatum added 12points and Stephen Madi-son had nine points and fiveassists for the Vandals (7-4),who won their thirdstraight.

Andre Jackson led Bak-ersfield (5-5) with 10 points.The Roadrunners’ leadingscorer, Issiah Grayson, washeld to two points.

Matt Borton hit a 3-pointer with 5 seconds leftin the first half to give Idahoa 31-26 lead at the break,then hit another 3-pointerto spark a 22-3 run that putthe Vandals ahead 53-29with 12 minutes left in thegame. Idaho stretched thatlead to as many as 31 pointswith just under 5 minutes toplay.

The Vandals shot 57 per-cent from the field,the thirdgame in a row they haveshot over 50 percent.

Barone Leads Idaho Past

CS Bakersfield 72-44

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. •Bernard Pierce ran for twoearly touchdowns andChris Coyer threw for 169yards and a touchdown tohelp Temple beatWyoming 37-15 in the NewMexico Bowl on Saturday.

The Owls (9-4) hadthree interceptions — tyinga New Mexico Bowl record— en route to the secondbowl victory in school his-tory.

The New Mexico Bowlwas Temple’s second bowlgame in three years, butthat 2009 game — a 30-21loss to UCLA in the Eagle-Bank Bowl in Washington— was the Owls’ first bowlin 30 years. The Mid-American Conference Eastrunner-up did not get abowl invite last year despitegoing 8-4.

“Our team played realwell. We played a teamgame,” first-year Templecoach Steve Addazio said.“Our starting point is play-ing great defense.That’s thestarting point of our pro-gram.We have a lot of pridein playing great defense.”

Sophomore Coyer, whoalso rushed for 71 yards,was selected the game’s of-fensive MVP.

Coyer said Temple got alittle worried at the end ofthe first half whenWyoming freshman BrettSmith threw a 21-yardtouchdown pass to JoshDoctson with 28 secondsleft. But Coyer respondedwith a 61-yard touchdownpass to Rod Streater mo-ments later.

“We knew they hadswung the momentumtheir way. It was a bigtouchdown for them,”Coyer said. “We weren’treally sure if we were goingto go for it or sit on it.”

Meanwhile, Smith washeld to just 127 yards by agreedy Owls defensive linethat preventing the Cow-boys from getting anythingstarted.

The loss dropped theCowboys (8-5) to 6-7 inbowl games. It was a dis-appointed effort byWyoming after the Cow-boys won the 2009 NewMexico Bowl in doubleovertime, beating FresnoState 35-28.

PIERCE, TEMPLERUN ALL OVERWYOMING 37-15IN N.M. BOWL

TOP 25 COLLEGE HOOPS ROUNDUP

PROVO, Utah • With an NBA generalmanager watching from the front row,Baylor’s 6-11 forward Perry Jones IIIcame up huge for the No.6-ranked Bearson Saturday.

Jones scored a career-high 28 points,including a putback with 20 seconds leftafter returning from a knee injury. Theshot provided the final margin in an 86-83 win over Brigham Young.

“I couldn’t let my team down,” saidJones,a sophomore.“I didn’t want to usemy knee as a crutch. I just wanted to goback in and do what I could do to help myteam win.”

The other star for Baylor was a guymore than a foot shorter.

Former College of Southern Idahopoint guard Pierre Jackson blocked Bran-don Davies’ 3-point shot at the buzzerthat might have forced overtime.

“You don’t expect your 5-9,5-10 pointguard to do that, but Pierre is really ath-letic,” Baylor coach Scott Drew said.“And the thing about him is he’s a com-petitor. He didn’t want Davies to get ashot to (force) overtime.”

Baylor is off to the third 9-0 start inschool history and best under Drew.

NO. 1 SYRACUSE 88, NORTH CAROLINA STATE 72RALEIGH, N.C. • Dion Waiters scored acareer-high 22 points to help No.1 Syra-cuse beat North Carolina State 88-72 onSaturday.

Scoop Jardine added 16 points for theOrange (11-0), including a pair of 3-pointers during an 11-2 spurt that finallygave them some cushion after the Wolf-pack fought back from a 17-point deficitlate in the first half.

Waiters also came up big during thatrun, starting it by knocking down hisown 3-pointer to answer one by ScottWood that pulled N.C. State (6-4) towithin 63-61.

NO. 2. OHIO STATE 74, SOUTH CAROLINA 66COLUMBIA, S.C. • Deshaun Thomasscored a career high 30 points and No. 2Ohio State overcame the loss of star JaredSullinger to defeat South Carolina 74-66on Saturday and give Thad Matta his200th win as Buckeyes coach.

Sullinger left in the first half after get-ting kicked in the left foot. X-raysshowed no fracture, although it wasn’tknown if Sullinger would play againstLamar on Tuesday night in Ohio State’snext game.

NO. 3 KENTUCKY 87, TENNESSEE-CHATTANOOGA 62LEXINGTON, Ky. • Doron Lambscored 24 points to help Kentuckybounce back from its first loss of theseason despite an injury to forwardTerrence Jones.

Voted preseason All-America,Jones spent much of the game on thebench after hurting a finger on his lefthand early in the first half. He checkedback in but played only 10 minutes.He finished with no points and onerebound.

Still, the Wildcats (9-1) opened with13 unanswered points in their firstgame since a 73-72 defeat at Indianalast Saturday knocked them from thenation’s top ranking.

NO. 4 LOUISVILLE 95, MEMPHIS 87LOUISVILLE, Ky. • Russ Smith set per-sonal bests with 24 points and sevensteals as Louisville extended its homewinning streak to 18 games.

Gorgui Dieng added 14 points and 14rebounds in the schools’ first meetingsince the Cardinals (10-0) beat theTigers (5-4) by a point to win the Con-ference USA tournament in 2005 beforedeparting for the Big East.

NO. 5 NORTH CAROLINA 97,APPALACHIAN STATE 82CHAPEL HILL, N.C. • Tyler Zeller had31 points and 10 rebounds, and JohnHenson added 17 points to lead NorthCarolina.

The Tar Heels (9-2) never trailed, ledby 29 and shot 54.5 percent to claim theirthird straight win and 22nd in a row atthe Dean Smith Center.

NO. 11 MARQUETTE 93, NORTHERN COLORADO 72MILWAUKEE • Freshman Todd Mayoreplaced suspended star Darius John-son-Odom in the starting lineup andscored 22 points to lead Marquette.

Jae Crowder added 19 points and 11 re-bounds for Marquette (10-0), whichmoved to 10-0 for the first time in adecade and seventh time in school histo-ry.Vander Blue had 18 points

Tate Unruh had a career-high 25

points for Northern Colorado (3-7), thedefending Big Sky Conference regular-season and tournament champions.Un-ruh made five 3-pointers.

NO. 13 FLORIDA 84, NO. 22 TEXAS A&M 64SUNRISE, Fla. •Kenny Boynton sank six3-pointers and No. 13 Florida built anearly 16-point lead.

Boynton scored 22 points and wasvoted the game’s most valuable player atthe Orange Bowl Classic. Erving Walkerhad 16 points and six assists,and BradleyBeal added 16 points for Florida.

The Gators came into the game lead-ing the nation in 3-pointers and rankedthird in scoring, and they showed whyfrom the start. Florida took leads of 7-0,18-2 and 35-14.

NO. 15 PITTSBURGH 69, SOUTH CAROLINA STATE 55PITTSBURGH • Lamar Patterson tied acareer high with 16 points and Pittsburghpulled away in the second half for thevictory.

Ashton Gibbs added 14 points and ateam-high six assists for the Panthers(10-1),who have won eight straight.

NO. 16 GEORGETOWN 81,AMERICAN 55WASHINGTON • Georgetown centerHenry Sims took over the game early inthe second half, finishing with 17 pointsand six assists.

Sims assisted on back-door baskets onfour consecutive possessions in theopening minutes after halftime asGeorgetown (9-1) broke open a tightgame en route to its seventh victory in arow.

NO. 17 MISSISSIPPI STATE 80, DETROIT 75DETROIT • Rodney Hood’s jump shotwith 17.7 seconds left gave the Bulldogstheir 10th straight victory.

Hood’s shot broke a 75-75 tie and Ar-nett Moultrie blocked a shot seconds lat-er to keep the Bulldogs (11-1) ahead.

Moultrie and Brian Bryant each scored17 points and Renardo Sidney added 16as Mississippi State earned the 1,300thwin in school history.

Chase Simon and Ray McCallum bothscored 17 for the Titans (5-8), who losttheir second straight.

NO. 18 INDIANA 69, NOTRE DAME 58INDIANAPOLIS • Cody Zeller had 21points and eight rebounds to lead Indi-ana in the inaugural Crossroads Classicat Conseco Fieldhouse.

The Hoosiers are 10-0 for the firsttime since 1989-90,protected their firstTop 25 ranking in more than three yearsand are now poised to make their 500thappearance in the next AP poll.

UNLV 64, NO. 19 ILLINOIS 48

CHICAGO • Mike Moser had 17 pointsand 11 rebounds, UNLV went on a 14-2run to close the first half and the Runnin’Rebels handed Illinois its first loss of theseason.

UNLV (11-2), which beat then-No. 1North Carolina earlier this season, usedits quick, switching defense and nineblocked shots to frustrate the Illini.

NO. 20 MICHIGAN 87, ALABAMA A&M 57ANN ARBOR, Mich. • Evan Smotryczhad 17 points and 11 rebounds, and TreyBurke led the Wolverines with 19 points.

Zack Novak and Tim Hardaway Jr.contributed 13 points each.Michigan (9-2) shot 55 percent from the field,63 per-cent in the second half.

NO. 21 MICHIGAN STATE 74, BOWLING GREEN 60EAST LANSING, Mich. •Brandon Woodscored 16 points and No.21 Michigan Stateovercame a sluggish first half to beatBowling Green 74-60 on Saturday night.

Derrick Nix added a career-high 14points to go with seven rebounds and Bran-den Dawson had 13 points for the Spartans(9-2),who have won nine straight.Dray-mond Green had 12 points and 10 rebounds,his fifth double-double this season.

NO. 24 MURRAY ST. 66, ARKANSAS ST. 53MURRAY, Ky. • Isaiah Canaan hit six 3-pointers and scored 21 points to lead No.24 Murray State to a 66-53 win overArkansas State on Saturday night.

Ivan Aska added 14 points and 11 re-bounds, and Donte Poole had 11 pointsfor the Racers (12-0),who are off to theirbest start since the 1950-51 season.

INDIANA STATE 61, NO. 25 VANDERBILT 55NASHVILLE, Tenn. • Steve McWhort-er hit two free throws with 3:32 left togive Indiana State its first win over aranked team since 2006.

Indiana State (8-2) is off to its beststart since opening 8-1 in 2005-06. TheSycamores’ last win over a ranked teamcame on their own court against No. 14Butler on Dec.12,2006.

NO. 25 CREIGHTON 97, HOUSTON BAPTIST 62OMAHA, Neb. • Doug McDermottscored 25 points,and Gregory Echeniquehad 18 points and 14 rebounds to helpNo. 25 Creighton overpower HoustonBaptist 97-62 on Saturday night.

McDermott, who came in as the na-tion’s No. 2 scorer at 24 points a game,had his eighth straight 20-point gamefor the Bluejays (8-1).

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Baylor forward Perry Jones III drives past BYU forward Brandon Daviesduring Baylor’s 86-83 win Saturday in Provo, Utah.

Jones Powers No. 6 Baylor Past BYU, 86-83

For two quarters, itlooked like the gamewould be about as inter-esting as its namesake.The scoring auspiciouslystarted with a safety. Ohiopunter Paul Hershey, whoearned instant infamy fortweeting his displeasureabout going bowling inBoise, shanked the ensu-ing free kick. For a fleetingmoment the score was 5-0in favor of the Aggies, thesame score as the onlyprevious meeting betweenthe two programs (1994),before Utah State capital-ized on a penalty to turn afield goal into a touch-down.

At halftime it was a 9-7barnburner.

Then Michael Smithand Tyler Tettleton hap-pened.

Both went off in thethird quarter, Smith run-ning for a career-high 157yards in his final appear-ance in a blue and whitejersey, and Tettletonpulling his best impres-sion of a certain otherquarterback with the ini-tials T.T., after the Aggiesstretched the lead to 23-10.

The comeback wascapped with a TimTebow-esque moment,Tettleton and Co. gettingthe ball down six with twominutes left. He finished it

off nine plays later by am-bling to his right for thegame-tying 1-yard touch-down run with 13 secondson the clock. The ensuingPAT gave Ohio its onlylead of the game.

For the eighth time in 15bowl games to be played inBoise, the game was set-tled by a possession. Few,even with more “brandname” programs involved,have carried this drama.

The cardiac kids fromUtah State — this was theteam’s 11th game decidedby 10 or fewer points outof 13 this season — wantedto win in their first bowlappearance since 1997,when the Aggies lost theinaugural HumanitarianBowl. Ohio has made bowltrips a regular occurrencein recent years, but theBobcats had never wonone before Saturday.

Record days from Smithand Ohio receiver LaVonBrazill, who broke theschool’s single-season re-ceptions mark despite sit-ting out all week with aknee injury, served asfootnotes on a roller-coaster day that mightotherwise have put thoseteam-MVP performancesfront and center.

In the end, I suppose myfirst-half observation wasspot-on. The Famous Ida-ho Potato Bowl lived up toits title billing: plenty sat-isfying, but you’re clam-oring for another helpingjust the same.

Potato BowlContinued from Sports 1

The Aggies dominated thefirst half and extended theirlead to 23-10 in the thirdquarter behind a bruisingrushing attack that rolled up345 yards.

Michael Smith rushed for157 yards and two touch-downs on 12 carries, includ-ing a 63-yard scoring runearly in the third quarter that

put Utah State up 16-10.Smith scored later in thethird on an 11-yard run upthe middle, giving the Aggiesa 13-point lead.

Robert Turbin added for101 yards on 20 carries, andKerwynn Williams had 69yards on nine carries.

But Utah State, which fin-ished second in the WesternAthletic Conference and wasmaking its first bowl appear-ance since 1997, failed toclose the deal.

After Smith’s secondtouchdown, Tettleton start-ed the rally by marching theBobcats quickly down thefield, capping the drive witha 44-yard TD pass to Brazill,who jumped high over a de-fender and fell just beyondthe goal line to make it 23-17.

The Aggies had a chanceto run out the clock whenthey took possession at theirown 7 with 4:23 to go. ButOhio’s defense stopped theAggies on three straight

plays to force a punt.On the winning drive,

Tettleton scrambled for 14yards and completed passesof 19, 7 and 14 yards toBrazill. The last receptionwas initially ruled a touch-down, but a review conclud-ed he was down before theend zone, giving Ohio a firstdown inside the 1.

Brazill led the Bobcatswith eight catches for 108yards and the Ohio offensehad 345 total yards.

BobcatsContinued from Sports 1

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Temple running back Bernard Pierce (30) leaps overWyoming defensive back Kenny Browder (24) andlinebacker Brian Hendricks (8) in the second quarterof the New Mexico Bowl NCAA college football gamein Albuquerque, N.M., Saturday.

BY BARRY WILNERAssociated Press

Even if they aren’t consideredthe NFL’s best team, theRavens qualify as the mostbalanced. They can move theball on the ground andthrough the air. They’re for-midable against the run andthe pass.

They can beat you deep orpeck away. They can stuffyou or sack you into submis-sion.

On Sunday night, Balti-more brings that balance toSan Diego,which has revital-ized itself with two straightwins. While the Chargers (6-7) think they have an outsideshot at a playoff berth, theRavens (10-3) would need acomplete collapse to fallshort.

But with the Steelersbreathing down their necks,the Ravens can’t lose theirbalance.Or any games.

The margin for error is thattiny.

“It’s very small because ifyou lose this one, or you losethat one, you never knowhow the tables will turn,”safety Ed Reed said. “That’swhy early in the season youhave so much frustration los-ing to those teams that we lostto. At the end, everythingchanges. That’s why we keepjumping Pittsburgh,and theykeep jumping us.”

Stopping the Ravens hasbecome frustrating becausethey do so many things well.

“I think we’re starting to bemore efficient,” receiver An-quan Boldin said. “Our frontline is playing well,which en-ables us to move the ball, andit opens up the passing game.Everything is working outwell.We’re giving the defens-es a lot of different looks, andeverybody is getting the ball.”

San Diego was a mess untiltwo weeks ago, when it rout-ed Jacksonville to snap a six-game slide. It did the same toBuffalo, but to think theChargers have turned thecorner might be a long reach.

Facing the Ravens shouldprovide a strong indication ofwhere the Chargers are at.

“I don’t know if measuringstick is the word,” quarter-back Philip Rivers said. “Itkeeps you alive or it doesn’t,from a postseason opportu-nity. But I think it will cer-tainly, if we find a way to winthis game, say a lot aboutwhere we were three weeksago and how we responded.At 4-7,we could have thrownin the towel. If you get to 7-7with three big wins,it will saya lot about the guys in theroom and Norv (Turner, SanDiego’s coach) and the wholegroup, and how we respond-ed.

“It’s going to be a big chal-lenge and one we’re excitedabout. I mean, it’s truly whatyou ask for, playing arguably,right now, the best team infootball, in mid-December,with it all on the line.”

Also on Sunday, it’s NewEngland at Denver,Washing-ton at the New York Giants,New Orleans at Minnesota,Green Bay at Kansas City,De-troit at Oakland, Seattle atChicago,the New York Jets atPhiladelphia, Cincinnati atSt. Louis, Tennessee at Indi-anapolis, Carolina at Hous-ton, Cleveland at Arizona,and Miami at Buffalo.

Dallas is at Tampa Bay onSaturday night. The Mondaynight game has Pittsburgh atSan Francisco.

The weekend began with

Atlanta beating Jacksonville41-14. The Falcons (9-4)clinched their fourth straightwinning season and moved 11/2 games behind division-leading New Orleans in theNFC South. The Jaguars (4-10) trailed 27-0 at halftimeand 41-0 before returning ablocked punt for a score latein the third quarter.

NEW ENGLAND (10-3) at DENVER (8-5)If anyone can figure out howto put a dent in Tebowmaniaand slow down the rampag-ing Broncos, it would be BillBelichick.

Denver has won six in a rowto take control in the AFCWest,with Tim Tebow’s late-game heroics and a staunchdefense and special teamssparking the spurt. Into theMile High City come the Pa-triots, on the verge of clinch-ing the AFC East after fivestraight victories, but with adefense that yields yards bythe bushel.

New England can scorewith anybody, although itstruggled against the best de-fense it faced in an Octoberloss at Pittsburgh. The ques-tion is whether Belichick canfind enough defense — andprevent the game from beingclose near the finish, whenTebow and company turn in-to magicians.

“Obviously, Tim is havinga great year,” Tom Brady said.“You watch guys and the waythat they perform underpressure and it says a lotabout who they are and theway their teammates feelabout them.”

PITTSBURGH (10-3) at SAN FRANCISCO (10-3), MONDAY NIGHTNo James Harrison (suspend-ed for helmet-to-helmet hiton Colt McCoy), maybe noBen Roethlisberger (sprainedleft ankle),and a tough oppo-nent coming off a surprisingloss but already in the play-offs.

Not exactly the scenariothe Steelers envisioned fortheir trip to the Bay Area.

Still, it’s unwise to countout Roethlisberger,especiallywith the way he came back inthe Cleveland game on Dec.8after the injury. Plus, Pitts-burgh’s defense isn’t builtsolely around Harrison.

The 49ers want that No. 2slot in the NFC playoffs and abye, so they can’t afford astumble with New Orleans inclose pursuit.

WASHINGTON (4-9) atNEW YORK GIANTS (7-6)After breaking a four-gameslide that placed their post-season hopes in jeopardy,theGiants now control the NFCEast. Win out and it is theirs.They aren’t likely to overlookthe last-place Redskins,whobeat them in the opener —even if Washington is a shellof itself after a slew of in-juries.

“This is against a divisionopponent that alreadypunched us in the mouth,”safety Deon Grant said.

Eli Manning has beenpunching out defenses withhis best pro season, whichhasn’t gotten much notice inthis Year of the Passer.

NEW ORLEANS (10-3) at MINNESOTA (2-11)Already locked into the post-season, the Saints keep uptheir chase of the Niners aswell as going for the NFCSouth crown. Drew Brees

continues his assault on DanMarino’s passing record of5,084 set in 1984. Brees is at4,368 — he won’t reach itagainst the Vikings’ sieve of apass defense,but should erasea huge chunk of the differ-ence.

Minnesota hopes to getback star RB Adrian Petersonfrom a high left ankle sprain,and does have the NFL’s sacksleader in Jared Allen with 17 1-2.He also is in a record chase,going after Michael Strahan’smark of 22 1-2 sacks.

GREEN BAY (13-0) at KANSAS CITY (5-8)The pursuit of perfectiontakes the Packers to Arrow-head Stadium, where theChiefs are in the midst of up-heaval. Kansas City firedcoach Todd Haley this weekafter a distressing perform-ance in which the team drew11 penalties for 128 yards, in-cluding a 15-yarder for un-sportsmanlike conduct onHaley.

Interim coach RomeoCrennel probably won’t be-rate the officials the way Ha-ley did, but his frustrationlevel trying to slow downAaron Rodgers and the de-fending champions figures tobe high. Green Bay has won19 in a row and the NFL markis 21 by the 2003-04 Patriots,for whom Crennel was de-fensive coordinator.

DETROIT (8-5) at OAKLAND (7-6)The Lions barely escapedagainst Minnesota last Sun-day, with a missed facemaskpenalty on the final snapplaying a huge role. They getback DT Ndamukong Suhfrom his two-game suspen-

sion, and they can use him asthey pursue a wild-cardspot.

Oakland can use anythingthat curbs its slide. In the lasttwo losses, the Raiders wereoutscored 80-30, becomingthe first team to fall behind34-0 in successive weekssince the 1984 Bills.

“We don’t care how we getin there.We just want to get inthere,” coach Hue Jacksonsaid of the AFC playoffs.“Weneed to get off to a faster start.We haven’t played well on of-fense the last two weeks as faras scoring points.We’ve beenconsistently inconsistent,and that’s not an offense thatI put my stamp on. We needto get better. And I think wewill.”

Better be soon.

SEATTLE (6-7) at CHICAGO (7-6)Two more teams on thefringes of the wild-card race,and considering the up-and-down nature of this season,either one could sneak intothe playoffs.

For Chicago,it will be up tothe defense, special teamsand backups on offense to getthe deed done. Minus out-standing RB Matt Forte andstarting QB Jay Cutler, theBears are hamstrung, andscored 13 points in their lasttwo defeats.They also blew a10-0 lead at Denver in thelast 4 1-2 minutes to fall to 7-6.

Seattle won the NFC Westat 7-9 a year ago, but withSan Francisco’s surge, theSeahawks are left to try tosweep the final three gamesand hope to get an unfath-omable amount of help else-where.

CLEVELAND (4-9) at ARIZONA (6-7)

Like the Seahawks,the Cardi-nals are on the edge of playoffextinction. Like Seattle, Ari-zona has been coming on,taking five of its last six, in-cluding wins over Dallas andSan Francisco.

The Browns are in themidst of controversy overhow they handled a concus-sion suffered by McCoyagainst Pittsburgh, a majordistraction for a team that hasbeen outscored 130-89 inlosing five of six road games.Even worse,Cleveland finish-es against division powersBaltimore and Pittsburgh.

NEW YORK JETS (8-5) at PHILADELPHIA (5-8)Like their New York brethren,the Jets definitely make thepostseason by winning out;they lead for the AFC’s sec-ond wild-card slot. The de-fense has come around in thecurrent three-game winningstring,and QB Mark Sanchezhad one of the best games ofhis three pro seasons in a routof KC.

Philly actually remainsalive not only for a wild card,

but also to win the NFC East.Hard to believe consideringhow mediocre the Eagleshave been, but with MichaelVick back in the lineup, theycan still be a formidable foe.

CINCINNATI (7-6) at ST. LOUIS (2-11)The Bengals feast on weakteams, lose to the good ones.The Rams most definitely area weak team.

Cincinnati almost certain-ly must get to 10-6 to get thefinal AFC wild-card spot. St.Louis could win out and stillnot save coach Steve Spagn-uolo’s job, although injurieshave so depleted the rosterthat even Spags might notrecognize some of the faces inthe locker room.

TENNESSEE (7-6) at INDIANAPOLIS (0-13)Although the Titans remainin contention for a wild card,they might decide this is thetime for Jake Locker to takeover at quarterback,especial-ly if Matt Hasselbeck isn’t re-covered enough from a leftcalf injury to start.But Lockeralso is slowed by a sore chestafter a solid relief effort in aloss against New Orleans.

Indy started the 2009 sea-son with 14 straight victories.Falling to Tennessee on Sun-day will make it 14 straightdefeats this year. At least theColts have seen Peyton Man-ning do some throwing inlight workouts this week.

CAROLINA (4-9) at HOUSTON (10-3)Don’t expect the Texans tobegin resting people or let upon the pedal now that theyown their first division title.They want to enter their firstplayoffs in 10 seasons of life asthe top seed in the AFC, sothree more wins are on theirradar. It’s hard to doubt themthe way they have respondeddespite injuries to such keystarters as Mario Williams,Matt Schaub and AndreJohnson.

Third-string QB T.J. Yateshas been a revelation sincetaking over for the injuredSchaub and Matt Leinart.Still, the rookie quarterbackmost eyes have been on —rightfully so,considering howdynamic he has been — isCarolina’s Cam Newton.

MIAMI (4-9) at BUFFALO (5-8)New coach Todd Bowles,whoreplaced the fired TonySparano on Monday,takes hisDolphins to western NewYork. Hardly a vacation des-tination this time of year, buthe could be comforted by thefact Buffalo has lost sixstraight and its defense hasfallen apart.

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BOSTON (AP) • BostonCeltics forward Jeff Green willhave surgery to repair an aor-tic aneurysm and will missthe entire season, the teamannounced on Saturday as ittraveled to Toronto for its ex-hibition opener against theRaptors.

Green is scheduled for anoperation on Monday at theCleveland Clinic. Doctorshave told him the operation“should completely repairGreen’s condition and that hecan expect to resume his NBAcareer next season,” theCeltics said in a news release.

If so, the timing of histraining camp physical — andthe end of the NBA lockout —may have saved Green’s lifeand helped the Celtics avert atragedy like the 1993 death ofReggie Lewis, who droppeddead on a practice court of aheart condition in the primeof his career.

“While we are saddenedthat Jeff will not be able toplay this season,the most im-portant thing is his health,”Celtics president DannyAinge said in the release.“Wewere fortunate to have accessto an amazing team of spe-

cialists to evaluate Jeff’s case.”The team said it would

have no more comment, atGreen’s request. But Greensaid on Twitter on Saturdayafternoon: “Thank u every-one for ur thoughts andprayers...much appreciatedlove u all..and I’ll be backsoon stronger and better thanever I promise.”

Green, 25, averaged 9.8points and 3.3 rebounds lastseason after joining theCeltics in a trade that sentKendrick Perkins to the Okla-homa City Thunder.

An aortic aneurysm,whichis more common in olderpeople, is a ballooning of thewall of the aorta, the majorartery that carries blood fromthe heart to the rest of thebody. A person may show nosymptoms from theaneurysm; but if it ruptures,itis likely to be fatal if not re-paired immediately.

The team’s statement saidGreen’s aneurysm was de-tected during his physical af-ter he reported for a trainingcamp on Dec. 9. Green re-ceived additional testing andconsultation by “leading car-diac specialists,”who recom-

mended surgery.Green’s college coach at

Georgetown,John ThompsonIII,said after the Hoyas’81-55victory over American onSaturday that they’d spokenbefore the game.

“He’s, I guess, as upbeat asanyone can be,” Thompsonsaid. “I don’t want to speakfor Jeff, but it’s been a tryingweek. I’ve seen the progres-sion from terrified to confi-dent, and that comes witheducation. That comes withtruly understanding whathe’s going through, and whathe has to go through, and theconfidence in his supportsystem and the confidence inthe doctors that he’s going tobe working with. And witheach day,that has grown.”

NBA players, includingSteve Nash and Baron Davis,sent along their best wisheson Twitter.In Miami,LeBronJames seemed taken abackwhen asked about Green afterpractice.

“I think it’s unfortunate forthe game to be taken away,especially after a summer likethis where we already had 21-2 months off,” said James,who played in a few charity

games with Green over thesummer. “Hopefully he canget back healthy, they canfigure out what’s going onand he can get back on thefloor.”

James also remembered Ja-son Collier’s death in 2005,when the center was with theAtlanta Hawks and died sud-denly.

“As a professional, you

would think every last one ofus would be in the top-tiershape and nothing would bewrong with us,” James said.“That’s why the doctors,theyare who they are.”

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DRIVERNeeded 1 Long Haul Driver for

Blue Sky Trucking.Weekly home w/2 yrs experience

208-404-3074 or 329-1331

DRIVERSemi Truck Driver needed Class A

CDL. Full time year round, musthave 2 yrs. exp. in hauling bulk

potatoes in a belt trailer & driving.Apply in person at MCM

Trucking 446 Hwy 30 E. Kimberly.

DRIVERSA well established local company

has the following openings:

PT & FT Drivers. Dedicated runs,home frequently. Short hauls, per-fect for a retired driver looking forsome extra cash. 2 yrs verifiableOTR exp. Runs from Jerome to

Edmonton, Jerome to LA, Jerometo Phoenix. Good pay,

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DRIVERSAccepting applications for

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good driving record required. Full benefits after 90 days.

Apply 45 S 200 E Jerome, ID or call 208-324-3515.

DRIVERSAg Express Inc. Burley, Paul & Twin Falls, ID. Class A CDL Drivers

Needed full & part-time, year round,local & interstate hauling.

Benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, & Vacation.

Minimum age 22. Tank endorsement.

Burley, ID. 208-678-4625 ext 1Paul, ID. 208-438-5025

Twin Falls, ID. 208-732-6065

DRIVERS Central Refrigerated IS

GROWING! Hiring Experienced &Non-Experienced Drivers. CDL

Training Available! Employ Today! Avg. $40,000-$70,000!

800-993-7483

DRIVERS

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735-6656

DRIVERSJ&W AgriCorp is looking for Idaho

Drivers, part-time & full-time positions, year round, local & interstate hauling. Benefits &

competitive pay. Requirements:Must be at least 21 yrs of age.

2 yrs. truck driving exp. clean, valid,class A CDL. Medical card and be

able to work flexible hours. Apply in person at 2352 E 990 S

Hazelton, ID off of exit 194. For more info call 208-829-5316.

DRIVERS Hay Haul Drivers and Side Dump

Drivers. FT & PT positions. Clean driving record with Class ACDL req. Preferably Doubles andTriples endorsements. Pay DOE.

Email resume to [email protected] or

fax to 208-733-5071

DRIVERS OTR Drivers Check Us Out!

Newer equipment, home regularly,Medical, 401K and paid

vacation. Run Western and Midwest States. 2 years OTRexp., tanker endorsement req. Idaho Milk Transport, Inc.

1-800-967-2911

DRIVERSOTR DRIVERS NEEDED!

New pay schedule! Solo and Teams Welcomed!Class A CDL with TN endorse-

ment. Call RTTI at 208-324-3511

DRIVERSSchool Bus Drivers Wanted

Western States BusCall 208-733-8003

DRIVERS Transport Drivers: Burley, ID.

Great Pay/Benefits/Safety Bonuses. Full Time. CDL-A

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Kristen: 801-397-8322

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General Equipment & Supplies,Inc. is looking for

Heavy Equipment Mechanicsin Twin Falls area

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ATTN: Cori GreensteinHR & Benefits Administrator

General Equipment & Supplies Inc.4300 Main Ave

Fargo, ND 58103

FOOD PROCESSING General Labor positions availablefor local food processing companyin Twin Falls. Must be flexible to

work on various shifts. Start immediately. No exp. necessary; all training is provided. Excellent

benefits are available. Apply in person at

754 N. College Rd., Suite B, Twin Falls 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

GENERAL Commercial Cook with kitchen

management experience. Applications at

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GENERAL Exp. Parts Counter Person needed

for Kenworth Sales Company. Salary DOE with full benefits.

Contact Scott at 322 EastFrontage Rd. N. in Jerome.

Or email resume to [email protected]. No Phone Calls

GENERAL Hoof Trimmer wanted to work exclusively for two (2) dairys.

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• Occupational Therapist- Bachelor’s degree or Masters degree in Occupational Therapy. Licensure in the state of Idaho or temporary licensure.Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.

• Speech Pathologist- Graduation from a school of speech pathology with a Master’s degree. Current license to practice speech pathology in Idaho.

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TWIN FALLS 4 bdrm, 1 bath, IdahoHousing Eligible, 712 2nd Ave W.,updated, $850. 208-404-8042

TWIN FALLS Very nice bsmt apt, 3bdrm, all utilities paid, $650 month.

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TWIN FALLS 2 bdrm., 1 bath, $450mo. + $400 dep.

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INDIAN HEAD PENNY SETSGreat Christmas Gifts!

In Frames Sets of 10 Coins; 1880-1890-1900. Collectors Welcome.

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FIREWOOD Pine or Hard Wood,$175/cord, delivered & stacked.

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AIR COMPRESSOR IngersollRand 175CFM, diesel, 250 ac-tual hours, hose & reels, trailermounted, one owner, like newcond, $6900. 208-320-4058

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GENERAL JBS Five Rivers Cattle Feeding

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GENERAL Large Animal Vet Clinic

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On the job training. Send resumes to: PO Box 386

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GENERAL Three Creek Highway District is

seeking a Foreman. Duties include: maintenance of gravel and

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GENERALTodd Erickson Stone Almo, Cassia

Co, ID, needs 25 temp laborers4/2/12-10/12/12 in Box Elder Co,UT. Split stone to size w/hammer& chisel & stack. Keep work areafree of waste & debris. Lift 100 lbsfairly frequently. $9.80/hr. UT.,$10.23 ID., 35 hrs./week. 7am-3pm. No ed, exp, or training req'd.Workers provide own transporta-tion to work site. Hammer, chisel &protective eye wear is free. Actualhourly rate of pay may be differentfrom wage listed. Fax/mail resumeto 208-824-5548/P.O. Box 125,Almo, ID 83312. JO# ID1412546

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Assistant Production ManagerVan Beek Nutrition is seeking aqualified individual to oversee mill

operations in our Twin Falls facility. This individual will be

responsible for the manufacturingof minerals, scheduling deliveries,

inventory, and operating the batching systems. Experience working in a feed or mineral production plant is a plus.

Please email resume and cover letter to

[email protected].

DENTAL

Family Health Services has anopening for a Dental Assistantin to work in our Twin Falls andFairfield Dental Clinics. Theschedule is three 10 hour daysin Twin Falls and one 8 hour dayin Fairfield. This positionprovides a range of clinical andstaff support to a full-rangedental services operation.Candidates must havecompleted a Dental Assistantprogram from an accreditedinstitution and be certified in allareas of Expanded Functions.Six months prior experiencepreferred. Bilingual English /Spanish skills preferred but notrequired.

Family Health Services offerscompetitive wages and a fullrange of benefits includinghealth insurance, short and long-term disability, life insurance,PTO, holiday pay and 401(k)retirement.

Applications will be acceptedthrough Wednesday, Dec. 21st

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he City of Elko is currently seeking applications from interestedapplicants for a wastewater reclamation technician or trainee. he range of pay is $15.71- $27.19 based on experience and qualifications.

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MEDICAL Seeking part & full time

professionals to provide intensive behavior intervention

therapy for local agency. Fax resume to 208-436-1758

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SKILLED Concrete Construction, ShopMechanic, Truck Driver must

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This newspaper will notknowingly accept any advertisingfor real estate which is in violationof the law. Our readers arehereby informed that all dwellingsadvertised in this newspaper areavailable on an equal opportunitybasis. To complain ofdiscrimination call HUD Toll-freetelephone number at 800-669-9777. The Toll-free telephonenumber for the hearing impairedis 800-927-8275.

BUHL AREA 7.1 acre lot with greatviews of the river and HagermanValley. Grated building pad withprivate gravel lane off River Rd.$56,000.

Call 208-543-4807 or 208-420-7465

PEBBLE PONDS GOLF COURSE& MT. VISTA ESTATES.

½ acre lots for sale.Unique lots on golf course.

Financing Options Available Contact Brian Dey 208-731-3583

TWIN FALLS Scenic canyon rim lot,3.6 acres, 2.5 usable along RockCreek for livestock, recreation,wildlife, and hydro power potential.Nice homes in area, but no CCand R's. $84,900.

Aaron Walker 208-404-9495

TWIN FALLS Triple Net Bankleased property. 113 Main Ave. W.Master lease on entire bldg byPanhandle State Bank. 15 yearsleft on primary lease term. Full CPIincreases every 24 months. Ask-ing $3,230,000 at 6.5% cap rate.

1-208-660-2500 (non local)

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BROADMORE 14'' x 66'' in BurleySenior Court, owner will finance, 3bdrm, 2 bath. 208-878-7723

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JEROME Half way to Wendell, small1 bdrm., appls., DirectTV, W/D, noalcohol, drugs, dogs.

$350+$350 dep. 324-7901

BUHL ½ off 1st mo + dep. 2 bdrm,$475-$550. Pets ok. Water/trashpaid. 208-212-1678

BUHL 3 bdrm 2 bath, new carpet,pature pos. w/fee, well water $800.

FILER 3 bdrm 1 bath, appls., wellwater, sun porch, pets pos. $600.

HANSEN new carpet/vinyl 2 bdrmW/D hookup. Storage, yard. $500

TWIN FALLS newer 4 bedroom 2 ½bath, stove, garage $1,100.Trailor 3 bdrm, 2 bath, appls $700

WENDELL 3 bdrm 2 bath, appls,large yard, water included. $650

THE MANAGEMENT CO. 733-0739

BUHL 2 bdrm, 1 bath country home.Newly remodeled, pellet stove, nopets. $500 + dep. 208-543-5941

BUHL Clean 2 bdrm. New carpet/paint. Stove/refrig. No indoor pets/smoking. $395 rent. 312-5559

BUHL Lovely 4 bdrm, 1 bath, $795 mo. + dep. No pets/smoking.

204 13th Ave. N. 208-308-4477

BURLEY & RUPERT 2 bedroom houses for rent. 208-431-3526 or 431-3560

HAZELTON Lg home, 4 bd, 3 bath,2700 sq. ft., office, no smoking,credit ck. $800/mo+dep. 731-2285

HEYBURN 3 bdrm, recently remod-eled, stove & refrig included, largebackyard, no smoking/pets, $550+ dep. 1 year lease. 208-260-0080

In accordance with the federal Fair Housing Act, we do not accept for publication any real

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discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, disability,

family status, or national origin. If you believe a published listing

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JEROME 2 bedroom, 1 bath, W/Dhookups, detached garage. $450mo. + $300 dep. 208-539-7065 or 208-539-9604

JEROME 3 bdrm, 1½ bath. $645month + deposit. No smoking/pets.310 East Ave. K 208-324-7555

JEROME 3 bdrm, 2 bath mobilehome, $600-$650. No pets. Longterm. 324-8903 or 788-2817

JEROME 3 bdrm, 2 bath, 2 cargarage on 1 acre, in Big-LittleRanches, $850 + deposit.

208-280-3000

JEROME Extra clean spacious 3bdrm, 2 full bath, dbl wide mobileon private lot in great area, $575mo.+dep. No pets. Refs. 326-5887

JEROME Golf Course. 2 bedrooms,1 bath, 2 garage, air. First/Last$500 clean deposit $800 mo.

788-9531 or 720-6519

JEROME Small 1 bd, carport, W/Dhookup, gas furnace. Local Ref.$375/mo. $400 Security. 324-8025

KIMBERLY 3 bdrm 2 bath, gran-ite countertops, gas fireplace,stainless steel appls, 3 cargarage, no smoking/pets, $1100+ $1000 dep. Sundance Prop-erty Management 736-3843

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TWIN FALLS 1389 Washington St.S., 2 bdrm, no smoking/pets, $790mo. + dep. Avail now. 734-4101

TWIN FALLS 2 bdrm, 1 bath, nosmoking, 725 Locust. $495 month+ deposit. 208-410-5010

TWIN FALLS 2 bdrm, 1 bath, W/D,no pets, $550 + deposit.

208-733-8980

TWIN FALLS 2 bdrm, 1 bath, remo-dled by Fred Meyer. Gas/AC/WDhookup, $750. 539-5008

TWIN FALLS 2 bdrm, 2 bath, $575mo. + $500 dep. No smoking/pets.420-1488 / 423-6348 / 420-5950

TWIN FALLS 2 bdrm., stove, fridge,DW, W/D, AC, patio, garage. Nopets. $675 + dep. 642 Rimview 208-420-0125 or 208-539-0747

TWIN FALLS 239 Bonny Dr.Newer 3 bdrm, 2 bath, familyhome, appls incl. W/D hookup,large fenced yard, deck. Petsconsidered. $800. 208-735-1282 or 410-1954

TWIN FALLS 3 bdrm, 2 bath, W/Dhookups in garage, previously IDhousing approved. Pets Ok, nosmoking inside. $700/month +dep. 208-539-9964

TWIN FALLS 3 bdrm, 2 bath, dblcarport, fenced yard, new inside,no pets/smoking. $700+dep. NearWalmart. 731-5900 or 420-3726

TWIN FALLS 377 Taylor, 3 bdrm,1.5 bath, $800/mo. + dep. Largeyard. 731-5030 or 736-8400

TWIN FALLS 4 bdrm, 1 bath, IdahoHousing Eligible, 712 2nd Ave W.,updated, $850. 208-404-8042

TWIN FALLS4 Bedroom House662 Eastland Dr. N$1,000 Dog Friendlytwinfallsrentals.com

734-4334

TWIN FALLS4 Bedroom House1476 Sommer St.

$1,000 Pet Friendlytwinfallsrentals.com

734-4334

TWIN FALLS Clean lg 3 bdrm, W/Dhookups, off street parking, no pets/smoking. $625+dep. NEW CARPET

194 Filer Ave. 734-6230

TWIN FALLS Clean 1 bdrm house w/garage. No pets/smoking. $395

+ dep. 345 ½ 4th Ave N. 734-6230

TWIN FALLS Cute studio stylecountry home. New carpet/flooring,W/D hookup, carport. $460 mo. +dep. No smoking, outside petsneg. Call 208-954-2180.

TWIN FALLS

High-end finish Townhome, $1000 mo. + dep. 2611 Whispering Pine.

Call 731-5030 or 736-8400

TWIN FALLS new 3 bdrm, 2 bath,range & fridge, 2 car garage, NOPETS, Call 316-2431

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DEAR ABBY: My mother,Eleanor, passed away lastAug. 30. She spent her longlife helping others. Duringher eulogy, I described herby saying, “Her best lesson,the one she modeled for us,is that a selfless life devotedto family and others, is thehighest example of God’swork here on Earth.“

After the funeral, mybrother mentioned that theone thing Mom had wantedread during her service wasan item she had saved froma column of yours that waspublished in 1999. It elo-quently captures theessence of bigotry and lackof compassion in our socie-ty.

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THE COLD WITHINSix humans trapped in

happenstanceIn dark and bitter cold,Each one possessed a

stick of wood,Or so the story’s told.

Their dying fire in need of logs

The first woman held hers back,

For of the faces around the fire,

She noticed one wasblack.

The next man lookingacross the way

Saw not one of hischurch,

And couldn’t bring himself to give

The fire his stick ofbirch.

The third one sat in tattered clothes

He gave his coat a hitch,Why should his log

be put to use,To warm the idle rich?The rich man just sat

back and thoughtOf the wealth he had in

store,And how to keep what

he had earned,From the lazy, shiftless

poor.The black man’s face

bespoke revengeAs the fire passed from

sight,For all he saw in his

stick of woodWas a chance tospite the white.

The last man of this forlorn group

Did naught except forgain,

Giving only tothose who gave,

Was how he played thegame.

The logs held tight in death’s still hands

Was proof of human sin,They didn’t die from

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BUHL new paint/windows, 2 bdrm,small yard, water included. $425

TWIN FALLS 4 bdrm, new paint andcarpet, fenced yard. $900/$850

SPACIOUS 2 bedroom 2 bath, $675UPSTAIRS 2 bedroom, appliances,

AC and W/D included. $500BASEMENT 2 bedroom heat and

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BURLEY Norman Manor Apts1 & 2 bdrms, $400-$500 + dep.Manager on site. Call any time

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BURLEY Very nice 2 bdrm, nosmoking/pets. Available 12/01

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BUHL Nice/Clean 2 bdrm, 1 bath,W/D hookup, appls incld, $395 +dep, no pets/smoking. 308-8771

BURLEY/RUPERT 2 bdrm., 1 bath,refrig. & stove, $450 mo.+ $400dep. Call 208-670-5770

FILER 2 bdrm, 1 bath. Price reduced$575 mo. + $400 dep. No pets/smoking. Avail Now! 208-316-2425

FILER Extra clean large 1 bdrm., 1bath, great area, low heat, $400mo. + dep. Includes water andgarbage, no pets, refs. 326-5887

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GOODING 2 bdrm, 1 bath, no smok-ing/pets, $525 month + utilities,$500 deposit. 208-308-6804

GOODING 3 bdrm, 2 bath, no smok-ing/pets, $675 month + utilities,$500 deposit. 208-308-6804

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JEROME Nice, clean 2 bdrm, 1½ bath, $500.

324-2744 or 420-1011

RUPERT 2 & 3 bdrm apts., stoveand refrig, W/D hookups, waterpaid. $395 and up. Ref. req'd, nopets. 431-6616 or 431-6615

RUPERT 2 bdrm apt. Major appls,W/D hookups. IHFA welcome.$475 mo. + $400 dep. No pets. Nosmoking. 208-358-0673

TWIN FALLS 1 bdrm apartment allutilities incl., $550 + $300 deposit

208-212-1678

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TWIN FALLS 2 bdrm duplex onFiler. No pets/smoking redecorat-ed $650 all utilities incl. 420-0801

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TWIN FALLS 2 bdrm, deluxe, car-port, new carpet/paint, W/D, nearCSI, no pets, $600. 208-212-6902

TWIN FALLS 2 bdrm, new plushcarpet, totally remodeled, like new,no pets, $500. 208-212-6902

TWIN FALLS 2 bdrm, no pets,stove, refrig, utilities paid, $600 mo+ dep. 451 6th Ave. E. 420-5415

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Call 208-731-3317

TWIN FALLS 2 studio apts, all utili-ties except electric, $350 & $375.

208-316-0445

TWIN FALLS 2880 & 2882 Eliza-beth, 3 bdrm 2 bath, 1290 sq ft,fully fence yard, no smoking/pets.

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208-308-4477

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1 Grades6 X3 and Z4

10 Pumped (up)15 Ripe, so to speak19 Ecuadoran

province namedfor a metal

20 Cream’s Clapton21 New York

restaurateur22 An orchestra

tunes to one23 Hockey

legend makes aparticular fashionstatement?

26 Adds (up)27 Beatles title critter28 One may

be chartered29 Water holder30 Rhein tributary31 Two-bagger: Abbr.32 New England

senator’s wintertools?

35 Olympics chant37 “Well played”38 Pampering place41 History majors’

degrees42 Business abbr.44 Provençal capers

spread48 Author Thomas

blows a tune?53 Guitar great Paul54 Concert

beginning?55 According to56 Connect (with)57 Car roofs with

removable panels59 Deportment60 “So-so” reactions62 Wyoming hrs.63 Mumbai nurse65 Author Graham’s

lament?73 Cyberseller’s site74 Workers’ rights

assurance, in ads75 Bill dispenser76 Sharp relative77 Put up80 Talk show host

spanning fivedecades

83 Mel ofmany voices

84 Fido’s response85 In back88 Writer Oscar’s

groupies?91 Seductive

greeting onthe docks

94 Caviar, e.g.

95 Like USNvolunteers

96 Narc’s org.97 Most idiotic

100 Works with dough102 Routines that

crack up patriotThomas?

106 Stand beverage107 Quarterback Tony111 One way to think112 “Say Anything ...”

actress Skye113 Final, maybe115 Split apart116 Maintain vital info

on actor Rob?119 Jazz combo120 Established fact121 Bit of Realtor slang122 Coupe alternative123 Pre-wedding party124 Hägar’s hound125 Formerly, once126 Low Hold ’em pair

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2 Pacific greeting3 Oarsman4 Mardi Gras

parade group5 Scotch partner

6 Frat social7 Enterprise

helmsman8 It’s good to keep

them about you9 It may be elem.

10 Part of ASAP11 Zambia neighbor12 Take under

one’s wing13 Old Tokyo Bay

capital14 Cartoonist

Browne15 Had one’s revenge16 Overhead17 __ 618 Okays24 “A stitch in time

...,” e.g.25 Mideast “son of”29 Texas flag symbol32 Big bag carrier33 Ball-balancing

performer34 Cross one’s

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40 Barre des Écrinsrange

43 Surmount45 Fuss46 Guacamole,

for one47 Ogee shape49 Aromatic herb50 Rick’s love51 Caesar’s being52 “Contact” acronym58 Bad thing to catch60 Hr. affected

by delays61 “Yo!”63 Rep. with a cut64 Vegas’s __ Grand66 Put one’s

hands on67 Cainites, e.g.68 Listless assent,

perhaps69 S.F. Giants’ league70 Spiral-horned

antelope71 ’30s V.P. John

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dwellers

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called a Hokkaido93 Come out

of the bullpen98 Sewing pattern99 Flat fee payer

101 Stands by an artist102 Romeo and

Juliet, e.g.103 Warn104 Ancient Samos’

region105 Seminary subj.107 Send (to) for help108 Rust, say109 Asia’s __

Peninsula110 Dark clouds

and such113 Pitcher with

a big mouth114 Baseball’s

“Walking Man”Eddie

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ALASKAN HUSKY Puppies, $50. 2 females, 1 male.

208-829-5785

AUSSIE/BORDER COLLIE Pups forsale. Out of working parents 3 black/

white, 1 red/white. 208-539-6221

AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD Minipups, with tails, Christmas specialon blue pups. 320-1985

AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD reg.puppies for sale. Current on shotsand ready for good homes.

Call 208-731-4500

BABY BUNNIES Just in time forChristmas. Mediam to small size.

Call 208-720-7832 in Jerome

BASSET HOUNDS Ready forChristmas! 4 females, 1st shots,$300 papered, $250 non-pa-pered. Rhonda 208-539-2408

BOSTON TERRIERS Purebredmales & females, vet checked,1st shots, dewclaws removed.

$400 208-539-1663

CHIHUAHUA long haired, one boy,one girl both will be small. Call208-320-8962 or 208-320-1481.

COCKER SPANIEL AKC pup-pies, just in time for Christmas!Tails docked, dewclaws re-moved, second set of shots &dewormed, full registration &breeding rights. Both parents onsite. 208-312-2803

[email protected]

COCKER SPANIEL Pups, AKC,Gorgeous buff, 1st shots. 208-654-9391 or 208-431-9491

DACHSHUND AKC Puppy. Minishort hair chocolate & tan. In Buhl.See online. 405-973-6395

DACHSHUND puppies, 6 monthsold, adoption fee of $45, males,black & tan. 208-312-0552

FREE Cat, adult female, to goodhome. Declawed and neutered.

Call Tina 208-423-6313.

FREE Dog, female, med size, longreddish brown hair, no tail. Foundat Connors Cafe, Burley. 678-3055

FREE Jack Russell Terriers mix to a good home. Will be small.

208-431-8786

FREE Kitten, female, long hairedtabby w/white chest & toes, littlerbox trained. Burley 208-678-3055

FREE KITTENS Very sweet, to good homes only. Call after 5pm please 678-3251.

GERMAN SHORT HAIRS A.K.C. 2 FEMALES & 2 MALE PUPS.

BORN 12/14/11. PICK YOURS NOWFOR CHRISTMAS! READY MID JANUARY. PROVEN GREAT HUNTER & FAMILY PETS.

EE-DAH-HOW FARM

(208)324-5082 or (208)308-0073

MINITURE SCHNAUZER AKC fe-male puppies, ready for Christ-mas. All white/silver/black andwhite. Adorable and fun!

Call 208-312-2431

HEDGEHOG Male, 4 mos, healthy, shy. $60.

308-0305 Buhl

NEAPOLITAN MASTIFF Puppies$1000. Ready to go mid Dec. 208-841-5388 Deposits recommended.

www.magicvalleymastiffs.com

PIT BULL puppies-Ready forChristmas! Dad registered Silver,Mom purebred Brindle. Shots andwormed. Call 208-886-2058

PUG Puppies 8 weeks, AKC, 2males, 2 females, have first shots.$300. Call 208-404-2701.

RED HEELER/BORDER COLLIE cross, 1 male, 2 females left.

208-300-3459

ROTTWEILER Puppies, purebred,tails docked, dewclaws removed,$300. 208-539-4157

SHIH TZU Male AKC puppies. Extremally tiny and adorable.

Call 208-312-2431

SILVER LABRADOR PUPSReady now. AKC, fantastichunters or pets. 208 431-8312

ST. BERNARD puppies. Born10/31/11. 3 males, 3 females, pa-pered, chipped, 1st shots, dew-claws removed, parents on site.Parents not Idaho born. GreatChristmas gifts. Layaway avail-able. Males $1,000, Females,$1,200. Call Now! 208-734-3435

YORKIE Puppies AKC, 7 weeks old.Will be small. Tails docked, dew-claws removed. UTD shots and

dewormings. $600-$1,000. 4 males. 208-280-1822

BUYING AND PAYING CASH for junk cars, trucks, tractors andcombines. $200 to Thousands!

The Combine Graveyard 208-308-0947

CASE IH '93 1666 COMBINE 3500HRS. WITH 1010 HEADER

CASE IH '64 1688 COMBINE 3300HRS. WITH 1010 HEADER

CASE IH 8610 BALE PROCESSOR IH 963 6ROW 30" CORN HEADER KENTWORTH '94 T600 3406 CAT

WET KIT, NEW REAR TIRES. 208-539-9473

FUEL TANK 4000 gallon with pump, excellent condition, $4000.

208-670-5165

IH '71 F-1800, gas 392 V8, 18' steelbed & hoist, Hendrickson suspen-sion. NH Haystacker Super 1048.NH '95 2550 Swather w/16' head-er. 208-308-8823

JOHN DEERE '95 8300, 6150 hrs, clean tractor, $72,500/offer.

208-280-8201

JOHN DEERE 790-4L, like new, 25hp, 148 hours, front end loader.

Call Joe 208-308-0635.

WANTED Plows 2, 3, 4 & 5 bottomdisks tandem or off set.

Grain Drills & Roller Harrows. Call Bob at 208-312-3746.

WANTED TO BUY any type farmtractor, 1970 or newer, good

shape, wrecked, rolled, burned, or with any mechanical problem.

Will pay top dollar. Can email photos to [email protected]

or call 208-681-4429.

WANTED Tractors and othermisc; repair/salvage/running.

Bob, 208-312-3746

1957 GROUND WATER RIGHTS inTwin Falls County. Available to

purchase. 208-731-9930

GRASS HAY Small bales. Clean.Will sell small lots w/possible deliv-ery option. In Buhl. 208-731-6458

HAY 1st and 2nd crop, small bales, $10 per bale. 208-431-9591

HAY 3rd crop, big bales, 180RFV. Call for delivered price,

208-670-5165

STRAW Bean & Wheat, big balesand 2-string Wheat Straw, smallbales. 208-670-5165

T.S.C. Hay RetrievingTwin Falls

Call Con at 208-280-0839.

ANTIQUES and COLLECTIBLESWanted old magazines, toys,

horse tack, Indian items, jewelry,books & quilts. 208-280-6533

INDIAN HEAD PENNY SETSGreat Christmas Gifts!

In Frames Sets of 10 Coins; 1880-1890-1900. Collectors Welcome.

More old Coins to See! Call 208-410-9124

JOHN DEERE 1/16 scale Ertlprecision classic die cast col-lectibles. 20 tractors & 5 imple-ments, mint with coins, book-lets, boxes and a little dust.$2500 plus one free tractorworth $200. 208-731-3480

ORIGINAL FRANCISCAN APPLEDISHES Incomplete set, all ingood shape, many pieces. Offer.

Call 208-731-6070 or 208-734-7004

PICK my house. Glass, Furniture,Junk. By appointment only.

208-733-0696

LG WASHER & DRYER w/pedestalsultra capacity, white, front load, ex-cellent condition. $1000/offer.

208-324-3615

WANTED TO BUY Used Appliances

Working or Not! Will pick up!208-421-0341

WANTED TO BUY Washers/Dryers,Whirlpool, Kenmore, brands etc.Working or Not. Cash!!! 280-2604

WASHER/DRYERBuy, Sell, Repair

Kenmore set $250,excellent condition. Warranty.

Call 208-280-2604

IPOD TOUCH 3 GB new in case$250. 208-312-2803

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Found:Schnauzer: Neutered male-silver. Found at K-MartPapillon Cross: Female-Tan with some white-longhaired. Found at 345 1/2 4th Ave E.

Airdale Terrier: Female-black//tan. Found at 1400 TaraSt.

Collie Cross: Male-white/brown-Large pup. Found 1650Poleline Dr.

Boxer/Australian Shepherd Cross: Male-brown/white-Large pup. Found at 998 Borah Ave W.

Boxer/Australian Shepherd Cross: Female-Merle-Largepup. Found at 998 Borah Ave. E.

Lab/Border Collie Cross: Neutered Male-chocolate/white. Found 1235 E. 4325 N.

Pit Bull/Boxer Cross: Male-brown. Found 923 2nd Ave.E.

Lab Cross: Female-chocolate/brindle. Found on BorahAve.

Labrador: Spayed Female-chocolate "Cocoa". Found1981 Elizabeth Blvd.

Lab/Collie/Beagle Cross: Male-black. Found 1797 2ndAve E.

Adoption:Miniature Pinscher Cross: "Rueben" Neutered Male,Red

Chihuahua Cross: "Cookie" Spayed Female, Blonde Chihuahua: "Chico" Neutered Male, Black and tan. NOKIDS!

Shih Tzu/Terrier Cross: "Barley" Neutered MaleWhite/Tan

Collie/Lab Cross: "Sally" Spayed Female Tan/WhiteHusky/Whippet Cross: "Piper" Spayed FemaleTan/Cream

Pit Bull Cross:"Pecan" Spayed Female Brindle/WhiteHusky/Malamute Cross: "Mr. T" Black/WhiteLab Cross: Neutered Male Black some White Australian Shepherd Cross: "Rio" Neutered MaleBlack/Tan

Norwich Terrier Cross: "Oslo" Neutered Male Tan/BlackClosed Sunday and Holidays

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BALDWIN PIANO console, excel-lent condition, $600. Call to see.208-324-3068 or 208-420-4647

DRUM SET 1965 vintage Ludwigblack oyster pearl drum set. Samemodel as Ringo Star played. High-ly collectible. 5 pc drumset + 4Zildjian cymbals (2 crash, 1 ride +hihat), + 3 roto toms. Includesthrone, pedal & all hardware. Mustsell $1150. 208-734-8359.

PIANO Wurlitzer spinet with bench,walnut finish, exc condition. Tuned12/7/11. Asking $500. 736-7001

AIR COMPRESSOR 375CFMIngersoll Rand, Deutz diesel,1000 act hrs, one owner, wellmaintained, $10,900. 320-4058

AIR COMPRESSOR IngersollRand 175CFM, diesel, 250 ac-tual hours, hose & reels, trailermounted, one owner, like newcond, $6900. 208-320-4058

ALWAYS BUYING old military insignia patches, medals, badges,

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BUYING Gold & Silver Jewelry,Coins, Bullion, also Sterling Silver.Top prices paid. 208-410-5787

CH COINS. Buying & Selling: Gold& Silver, all US & World coins &sets, currency, tokens, gold & ster-ling silver jewelry & scrap. BestPrices. CASH PAID. Call Hollis at 208-720-3941 www.chcoins.comMember- Better Business Bureau

WANTED TO BUY Four-row sugar beet harvester.

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WANTED TO BUY Ramps for car carrier trailer.

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WANTED We buy junk batteries.We pay more than anyone outthere. Check us out at InterstateBatteries. Fully licensed and in-sured to protect the batteries allthe way to the smelter.

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JAZZY MOTOR CHAIR w/new bat-tery and charger. Can go 10-15miles on a full charge. Asking$1500 cash, excellent condition,No checks. 878-5253 or 670-5855

RUGER Model #77 with laminatedstock, .270, $500. Ruger Model#1, 22.250, $700. 208-961-0481

RUGER Super Blackhawk, 44 mag-num. RUGER P95, 9mm. Both ex-cellent condition, $400 each.

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LEER '07 topper, white 8' box, cargonet, tule rail system w/racks.$1000/offer. 2 weather guard lowprofile toolboxes, $150ea/offer. 208-837-6539 or 208-869-2902

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FIBERFORM 16' boat, inboard, out-board, 140 HP mercury motor. Kit'99 5th Wheel, 27' w/14' slide out,$7,000 take all! Will sell separate208-431-9451 or 208-431-5451

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1975 Ford Camper VanJust $6783 Call 734-3000

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PETERBILT '84 359. Very goodcondition. New: 15 speed trans-mission, 400 big cam engine, rearend and driveline. All work done isverifiable. All aluminum wheels,new paint lots of chrome. Has newfront tires but needs some reartires. $14,500/offer.

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FORD '04 Ranger Edge, 2WD, 5 spd, AC, PW, PL, 71K miles,

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FORD '07 Ranger, extended cab,V6, AC, PS, one owner, wellmaintained, 22mpg, $8500.

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GMC '90 Sierra, step side, 4x4, runsgood, $2,300. Ross EnterprisesSales. 208-539-1616

GMC '91 Sierra. 1/2 ton, 4X4, 350V8, manual, locking rear differen-tial. 197K miles, engine 80K miles.New intake gaskets, clutch. $2900/offer. Cash only. 208-403-9053

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CHRYSLER '08 Aspen Limited, 4x4,loaded, Hemi, leather, DVD, sun roof, 3rd seat, $22,990.

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FORD '08 Escape XLT, auto, CD,cruise, alloy wheels, air, $15,955.Stock#8KE13806 208-733-3033

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FORD '90 Bronco XLT, 4x4, 302-CID, fuel injection, auto trans, lowmiles on new engine. 721-8405

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NISSAN '04 Armada 4x4 LE, 3rd seat, multi CD, leather, DVD,

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2003 GMC Envoy 4WDJust $10988 Call 734-3000

CHEVY '98 3500 Express Van73K miles, excellent condition,storage bins, work ready,$6900. 208-320-4058

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2005 Chevy Venture VanJust $8975 Call 734-3000

DODGE '05 Grand Caravan, 74Kmiles, excellent condition, $9950.

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2008 HHR LS Auto-14K Miles!Just $10988 Call 734-3000

CADILLAC '08 DTS, 4 door, V8,loaded, 52,500 miles, new tires,black cherry color, black interior,

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CHEVROLET '11 Impala LT, whiteor silver in color, 14K miles, clothinterior, very nice condition,$16,800. Call 208-308-6226.

CHEVY '10 Cobalt LT, auto, CD,cruise, power W/L, GM Certified,

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CADILLAC '02 DeVille, 4 doorsedan, good condition, well main-tained, all power, leather, $6000.208-324-2130 or 208-948-0185

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3rd seat, CD, cruise - 2 to Choosefrom, $25,999. 208-733-3033

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DODGE '08 Grand Caravan SXT58k miles sto-n-go, power slid-ers $14,975

HYUNDAI '07 Entourage SE Rarefind! With power seat, powersliders alloy wheels $11,995.00

BUICK '02 Century 114k miles 30mpg $3695

GRAND VOYAGER '00 Van,power seat, sliding doors greatfor the family $2,695

NEW ALUMINUM SNOWMOBILEtrailers 2 place $2,425 or anyother trailer you may need.

NEW SNOW SPORT snowplow 7'$1495.00

INFINITY '04 G-35, 4 door, 6 spd,65K miles, exceptionally clean,$12,800 firm. 208-324-4854

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Melissa Davlin has explored thesocial, economic and politicalissues involved in Idaho reset-tlement of Bhutanese refugeesfrom camps in Nepal. Online at

Magicvalley.com/nepal, you canread Davlin’s previous storiesand view more photos fromNepal and Twin Falls. Magicvalley.com/nepal


Bhutanese refugee Shamir Rai gets immunization shots from nurses Kate Parker, left, and MandyAbram while his brother, Summon Rai, watches at South Central Public Health District on Nov. 23 inTwin Falls.

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Brittney D’Ambra wipes her 4-year-old son Carter Bentley’s mouth Monday at their Twin Falls home. D’Ambra’s twin boys both suffer from moyamoya syndrome. The disease hascaused Carter Bentley to have two major strokes.

• Sunday, December 18, 2011 Features Editor Virginia Hutchins [ 208-735-3242 • [email protected] ]

BY ANDREW [email protected]

Brittney D’Ambra neverguessed in June that therewas something wrong withher twin 4-year-old boys.

But then July rolled around andD’Ambra found herself sitting in aBoise hospital, awaiting newsabout her son Tucker, who hadbeen taken by air ambulance to thehospital after suffering a stroke.Doctors’ diagnosis: moyamoyasyndrome.

It was the first bad news the 23-year-old single mom would receiveover the next several weeks. Tuck-er’s twin, Carter, was soon diag-nosed with the same disease. Andin September, D’Ambra’s 4-month-old preemie son, Tyler,died of unknown causes, the TwinFalls woman said.

“They’re still looking at the toxi-cology report,” D’Ambra said, not-ing that he was on a small dose ofoxygen but was doing well. “Theydon’t know why, because he had agreat day.”

Besides the passing of one child

and the suffering of two others, fu-neral expenses and rising medicalbills continued to push D’Ambradown. After not wanting to burden

others with her problems, the sin-gle mom has now accepted the helpof family and friends who are plan-ning a benefit dinner and raffle Feb.4 at Canyon Crest Dining andEvent Center.

“She was like, ‘I can handlethis,’” said sister-in-law AmberHaycock, who is helping plan thedinner.“But it just became so muchmore than anybody ever wouldhave expected.”

D’Ambra, who lives with hermother and isn’t employed, saidshe’s grateful for the help.

“Before this they were totallyfine,” she said of her sons in a Dec.10 phone interview. “The only waywe knew that anything was wrongis because Tucker had a stroke.”

Moyamoya syndrome is a rare,progressive cerebrovascular disor-der caused by blocked arteries atthe base of the brain, according to

the National Institute of Neurolog-ical Disorders and Stroke. Moy-amoya means “puff of smoke” inJapan, where it first was discoveredin the 1960s,and describes the lookof tangled vessels that cause theblockage. The disease primarily af-fects children, but it also can occurin adults.

Revascularization surgery canrestore blood flow to the brain by

After one child’s death and the tragic diagnosis of two others, family and friends of a 23-year-old singleTwin Falls mom are organizing a benefit dinner to help pay funeral and medical bills.

Motherhood Trials

Please see D’AMBRA, P6

More online

SEE more photos of family life,from Brittney D’Ambra’s home inTwin Falls.Magicvalley.com

Benefit Dinner

A benefit dinner and raffle tohelp single mom Brittney D’Am-bra pay for funeral and medicalexpenses will be Feb. 4 at

Canyon Crest Dining and EventCenter, 330 Canyon Crest Drive,Twin Falls. Time and cost of tick-ets are still being planned. Information: Amber Haycock,731-0450.


Lily D’Ambra holds her nephew Carter Bentley’s hand while her sisterBrittney D’Ambra, right, hangs out with her son Tucker Bentley,middle, and Lily’s son Christopher D’Ambra on Monday in TwinFalls.

“She was like, ‘I can handle this.’ But it justbecame so much more than anybody ever

would have expected.”Amber Haycock, Brittney D’Ambra’s sister-in-law

BY MELISSA [email protected]

Still sleepy and wrapped in coats and jackets, the Raifamily filed into the South Central Public Health Dis-trict office on Nov. 23.

Nearly seven months after their arrival in Twin Fallsfrom refugee camps in Nepal, they were finishing uptheir immunizations. The children — Tirtha, 20, Sum-mon, 16, and Shamir, 11 — had to get more shots thantheir parents, Man Bahadur Rai and Nara Maya Rai. Allwinced when the needles went in their arms.

It was one in a long string of checkups, physicals andexams the Rais have had to attend over the past twoyears on their journey from Nepal’s refugee camps tothe United States.

Health care can be spotty for refugees before their ar-rival in the U.S., leaving aid agencies and Americandoctors to fill in the holes. But for refugees with chron-ic conditions, the basic treatment they receive in theU.S. can be life-changing.

Health Care Here and AbroadWhen refugees apply to resettle in the U.S., they start along application process that includes backgroundchecks, interviews and health care exams. Doctors

Health care can be spotty for refugeesbefore their arrival in the U.S. But forrefugees with chronic conditions, the basictreatment they receive here can be life-changing.

Welcome to American Health Care

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Twin Falls SeniorCitizen Center530 Shoshone St. W., TwinFalls. Lunch at noon. Sug-gested donation: $4.50,seniors 60 and older; $5.50,non-seniors; $2.50, children12 and younger. BargainCenter open 9 a.m. to 3p.m. Monday through Fri-day. For lunch take-out, 11a.m. to noon daily: 734-5084.

Monday: Chicken stripsTuesday: Pork chops or liv-erWednesday: Beef and noo-dlesThursday: Taco saladFriday: Beef stew

Monday: Quilting, 9 a.m. tonoonFit and Fall Proof exercise,10:30 a.m.Bridge, 1 p.m.Tai Chi, 1 p.m.Tuesday: Blood pressurechecks, 11:30 a.m.Ticket Tuesday, 11:45 a.m.Painting class, 6 p.m.Pinochle, 6:30 p.m.Wednesday: Cinnamonand sweet rolls sale, 8:30a.m. to noonQuilting, 9 a.m. to noonFit and Fall Proof, 10:30a.m.Gem State Fiddlers, 11:30a.m. to 12:20 p.m.Board meeting, 1 p.m. Duplicate bridge, 1 p.m.Pinochle, 7 p.m.Thursday: Pinochle, 1 p.m.Painting classes, 3 and 6p.m.Magic Valley Women’sAA, 6 p.m.Friday: Quilting, 9 a.m. tonoonFit and Fall Proof, 10:30a.m.Bingo, noon

West End SeniorCitizens Inc.1010 Main St., Buhl. Lunchat noon. Suggested dona-tion: $4, seniors; $5, non-seniors. Sunday buffet: $5,seniors, 60 and older; $6,non-seniors; $4, children 12and younger. Bus for lunchpickup: 543-4577 by 10:30

a.m. today, Tuesday andThursday.

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Monday: SilverSneakersexercise program, 10:30a.m.Tuesday: Quilting, 8 a.m.to 3 p.m.Wednesday: Foot clinic, 9a.m. to noonSilverSneakers, 10:30 a.m.Bingo, 7 p.m.Thursday: Quilting, 8 a.m.to 3 p.m.Bingo, 1 to 3 p.m.Friday: SilverSneakers,10:30 a.m.

Filer SeniorHaven222 Main St., Filer. Lunch atnoon Tuesday throughThursday. Suggested dona-tion: $4. 326-4608.

Tuesday: Chicken andwild riceWednesday: Hoagie sand-wichThursday: Christmas din-ner, baked ham

Monday: Bingo, 7 p.m.Tuesday: Puzzles, 11:30 a.m.Bingo, 12:45 p.m.Wednesday: Puzzles, 11:30a.m.Thursday: Puzzles, 11:30 a.m.Bingo, 1 p.m.

Ageless SeniorCitizens Inc.310 Main St. N., Kimberly.Closed for remodeling.

Gooding CountySenior CitizenCenter308 Senior Ave., Gooding.Lunch at noon. Suggesteddonation: $3.50 for seniors.934-5504.

Monday: Chicken stripsTuesday: Liver and onionsWednesday: Sloppy JoeThursday: Christmas din-ner, ham

Monday: Pool, 9:30 a.m.Fit and Fall Proof exercise,11 a.m.Pinochle, 12:30 p.m.Wild card, 6 p.m.Tuesday: Pool, 9:30 a.m.and 1 p.m.Hand and foot, 6 p.m.Wednesday: Pool, 9:30a.m.Fit and Fall Proof exercise,11 a.m.Shuffleboard, 6 p.m.Thursday: Morning out, 9a.m.Pool, 9:30 a.m.Pinochle, 7 p.m.Friday: Duplicate bridge, 1p.m.

Wendell SeniorMeal Site105 W. Ave. A. Lunchserved at noon Mondays.

Hagerman ValleySenior andCommunityCenter140 E. Lake, Hagerman.Lunch at noon. Suggesteddonation: $4, seniors 60and older; $5, non-seniors;$2, 12 and younger. 837-6120.

Monday: Sweet and sourchicken over riceWednesday: HamburgersteakFriday: Baked ham

Monday: Blood draws, 8:30to 10:30 a.m.Tuesday: Bingo, early bird,6:45 p.m.; cash prizes

Jerome SeniorCenter520 N. Lincoln St., Jerome.324- 5642. Lunch at noon.Suggested donation: $3.50,seniors; $5, non-seniors.Trans IV bus: 736-2133.

Monday: Chicken car-bonara

Tuesday: Liver and onionsWednesday: MeatloafThursday: BarbecueFriday: Turkey

Today: Potluck, dance; mu-sic by Melody Masters, 2p.m.; $5Monday: Board elections,9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.SilverSneakers exercise,10:30 a.m. and 5:20 p.m.Bridge, 12:30 p.m.Bunco, 12:45 p.m.Tuesday: Emergency as-sistance, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.Board elections, 9:30 a.m.to 12:30 p.m.Tai chi, 10:30 a.m.SilverSneakers, 10:30 a.m.Gem State FiddlersCrafts and things, 1 p.m.Let’s Dance, 4:30 p.m.Snack bar, 5 p.m.Bingo, 6:45 p.m.Wednesday: Breakfast, 8-10 a.m.SilverSneakers, 10:30 a.m.Country Cowboys bandCrafts, 1 p.m.Women’s pool, 1 p.m.YogaStretch, 5:20 p.m.Pinochle, 7 p.m.Zumba, 7 p.m.Thursday: YogaStretch,10:30 a.m.Pinochle, 1 p.m.Crafts, 1 p.m.SilverSneakers, 5:20 p.m.Women’s pool, 7 p.m.Friday: SilverSneakers,10:30 a.m.Pinochle, 1 p.m.

Silver and GoldSenior Center210 E. Wilson, Eden. Lunchat noon. Suggested dona-tion: $4.00, seniors; $5, non-seniors. 825-5662.

Tuesday: MeatloafWednesday: ClosedThursday: Closed

Richfield SeniorCenter130 S. Main, Richfield.Lunch at noon. Suggesteddonation: $4, seniors; $5.50,under 60.

Monday: TurkeyThursday: Grilled cheesesandwich

Golden YearsSenior CitizensInc.218 N. Rail St. W., Shoshone.Lunch at noon. Suggesteddonation: $4, seniors 60and older; $5.50, non-sen-iors. 886-2369.

Tuesday: Meat pizzaWednesday: Ham sand-wichFriday: Turkey

Monday: Coffee, 9:30 a.m.Quilting, 10 a.m.Tuesday: Pinochle, 1 p.m.BingoWednesday: Black-out bin-go, 12:30 p.m.Friday: Pinochle, 1 p.m.Bingo

Camas CountySenior Center127 Willow Ave. W., Fair-field. Lunch at noon. Sug-gested donation: $4, sen-iors 60 and older; $4.50,non-seniors; $2.50, children10 and younger. 764-2226.

Tuesday: Tamale pieWednesday: Chicken noo-dle soupFriday: Ham

Blaine CountySenior Center721 Third Ave. S., Hailey.Lunch at noon. Suggesteddonation: $4, seniors; $6,non-seniors. 788-3468.

Monday: Smoked chickenand garlic ravioliTuesday: Dixie fried chick-enWednesday: Chicken friedsteakThursday: Roast beefFriday: Roast pork

Monday: Fit and Fall Proofexercise, 11 a.m.Duplicate bridge, 7 p.m.Tuesday: Blood pressurechecks, 12:30 p.m.Bingo, 1 p.m.Weight Watchers, 5 to 6:30p.m.Wednesday: Board meet-ing, 8:30 a.m.Energy assistance, 10 a.m.

to 3 p.m.Fit and Fall Proof, 11 a.m.Thursday: movie, 1 p.m.Friday: Fit and Fall Proof,11 a.m.

Minidoka CountySenior CitizensCenter702 11th St., Rupert. Lunchat noon. Suggested dona-tion: $5, seniors; $6, non-seniors; $3, children 10 andyounger; $4.50, home deliv-ery. 436-9107.

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Monday: Pinochle, 1 p.m.Wednesday: Pinochle, 1p.m.Friday: Pinochle, 1 p.m.Bingo, 7 p.m.

Golden HeritageSenior Center2421 Overland Ave., Burley.Lunch at noon. Suggesteddonation: $4.50, seniorsand children 12 andyounger; $6, non-seniors.878-8646.

Monday: LasagnaTuesday: Club sandwichWednesday: Oven-friedchickenThursday: SteakFriday: Pork noodles

Monday: PoolExercise, 11 a.m.Pinochle, 1 p.m.Tuesday: Wood carving,8:30 a.m.Community bingo for age18 or older; doors open 6p.m.Wednesday: PoolExercise, 11 a.m.Pinochle, 1 p.m.Thursday: Wood carving, 6p.m.Community pinochle, 6p.m.Friday: PoolExercise, 11 a.m.Pinochle, 1 p.m.Bingo, 1 p.m.

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Kimber of Twin Falls, was born Dec. 10, 2011.

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Alberto Huerta of Jerome, was born Dec. 2, 2011.KKaamm’’rroonn AAmmaarrii DDiixxoonn, son of Vanessa Garibaldi and

Rheushaun Royce Dixon of Twin Falls, was born Dec. 3, 2011.TTeeaaggeenn DDuuaannee MMiitttteellssttaaddtt, son of Jesse Jo and Benjamin

Joshua Mittelstadt of Filer, was born Dec. 5, 2011.HHeennaasseeyy RRooyy SSuuee FFiittzzppaattrriicckk, daughter of Abby Ruth and

Dustin Neil Fitzpatrick of Hazelton, was born Dec. 5, 2011.PPaayyttoonn AAvveerryy BBuuttrriimm, daughter of Lacy Jean Boschma and

Jason Thomas Butrim II of Filer, was born Dec. 6, 2011.PPhheelliixx EEmmmmeetttt MMoorrrriiss, son of Kristina Abigail Morris of

Twin Falls, was born Dec. 7, 2011.MMccCCooyy BBrraannddoonn LLaarrssoonn, son of Lani Jean and Brandon

Kurt Larson of Twin Falls, was born Dec. 8, 2011.EEllllaa SSoopphhiiaa DDaawwnn LLyynncchh, daughter of Stephanie Michelle

and Michael Jay Dee Lynch of Twin Falls, was born Dec. 8,2011.

EElllliiee MMaannggaa ZZaa HHnneemm, daughter of Dawt Sung and TialChum of Twin Falls, was born Dec. 8, 2011.

CCllaarraa SSaaggee DDaahhll, daughter of Carrie Leigh and Jared KentDahl of Twin Falls, was born Dec. 9, 2011.

BBaannddaannaa RReeggmmii, daughter of Januka Devi and KrishnaPrasad Regmi of Twin Falls, was born Dec. 9, 2011.

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KKiieerraa MMaarreeee BBrrooookksshhiieerr, daughter of Alexandria Reve VanSchaik and John Charles Eugene Brookshier of Twin Falls,was born Dec. 10, 2011.

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RRyyaannnn JJaannee NNeellssoonn, daughter of Ashlie Jane and John LeslieNelson of Twin Falls, was born Dec. 11, 2011.

RReemmiinnggttoonn TToodddd HHuunntt, son of Skye Elizabeth and TrevorHunt of Shoshone, was born Dec. 11, 2011.

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COMING UP

BY LEANNE ITALIEAssociated Press

The bubbly, the ball, themidnight kiss. Not all singleladies want a ring on it, butdo they want a date for NewYear’s Eve?

Yes, it’s almost here, thatmilestone of love and ro-mance. This year, the holi-day has its own movie (ofthe same name) filled withintertwining couples and acast dripping with ZacEfron, Sarah Jessica Parker,Jon Bon Jovi, Halle Berryand oh so many more ofHollywood’s sexiest.

There’s love lost andfound, confusing new love,love in an elevator and sweetfather-daughter love. Di-rector Garry Marshall packsit all in, but back here in thereal world, New Year’s Eve isone of those nights of allnights when the date mon-ster rears. For others,though, Plan B (not worry-ing about a date) has be-come the new Plan A.

“A lot of us are starting towake up to the fact thatthose are silly traditionsmeant to make us feel des-

perate about having a part-ner,’’ said Jayelle Hughes,32, single and happy in sub-urban New York. “Just be-cause you’re single on NewYear’s doesn’t mean there’ssomething wrong withyou.’’

Avoiding that feel-badtrap requires strategy, shesaid, especially in the brightlights, big city glare of ball-dropping New York City,where Marshall unfurls hisfilm.

Hughes, for one, will seekout other single friends andcertain “non-annoying’’couple friends on NewYear’s Eve. “An annoyingcouple is one that is eitherconstant PDA, ignoringtheir friends, or they’refighting all night long,’’ shesaid.

Now that online datinghas gone mobile through avariety of phone apps,hooking up — er, dating —in real time has never beeneasier and seems readymade for New Year’s Eve.Alex Weissner, 26, in Den-ver isn’t interested.

“I’ve never been on a dateon New Year’s Eve and I’m

pretty sure most of my closefriends haven’t either,’’ shesaid. She, too, will celebratewith a group of friends.

And that kiss? “I feel likeso many young women outthere need to have thatdate,’’ Weissner said, “buthonestly why not just enjoyyour life and you neverknow what might happen?’’

Shannon Mouton, 43, inWashington, D.C., has beenin several long-term rela-tionships that involved be-ing together for New Year’sEve. This year, she isn’t.Like Weissner, she’ll be withfriends, with a likely stop atchurch.

“I did spend one NewYear’s Eve with just a singlegirlfriend of mine and it wasdepressing,’’ she said. “Iknew I would never do thatagain. It felt like two spin-sters sitting at home watch-ing time and the world go byus.’’

The New Year’s Eve dreadsets in right about now, said29-year-old Doree Lewak,who wrote “The PanicYears: A Guide to SurvivingSmug Married Friends, BadTaffeta and Life on the

Wrong Side of 25 Without aRing.’’

“Women still feel hugepressure around the holi-days — and certainly exac-erbated by New Year’s — tohave a date,’’ said Lewak, inNew York City. “I don’tthink that moment haspassed.’’

Christine Clifford inMinneapolis owns a re-source site for divorcees,Divorcingdivas.net, andhears the same sentimenton a regular basis. She offersthese tips to staying on theright side of happy. Theycould work for any single,whether divorced, widowedor never married.

PPllaann aahheeaadd:: Don’t waituntil the last minute.“Planta seed early with several ofyour closest friends,’’ shesaid.

HHoosstt tthhee nniigghhtt:: OccupyNew Year’s Eve and host aparty, Clifford suggested.

GGeett oouutt ooff ttoowwnn:: “Ifmoney isn’t an issue, plan atrip to a spa or resort. Gohorseback riding, golfing orhiking,’’ she said. “Go to aplace that you’ve alwaysdreamed of visiting.’’

Is New Year’s Eve a DateNight for Singles Today?

People 2 • Sunday, December 18, 2011

BY JEANNINE STEINLos Angeles Times

Women, rejoice. Your o.b.Ultra tampons are on theirway back to store shelves.And the company wantsto apologize. With a song.

First, the back story:The diminutive tamponsstarted disappearing fromstores in fall of 2010 to thedismay-bordering-on-panic of women who wereextremely loyal to thesmall, applicator-freeproduct from Johnson &Johnson — especially itsUltra brand, a favoriteamong those with a heavyflow.

Shelves were emptiedand the tampons were re-portedly selling on eBayfor more than $100 (a re-cent search found a 40-count box of Ultras on aBuy It Now for $79. Ouch).As for the reason for thedisappearance, that stillremains unclear; the com-pany said it had a supplyinterruption but somewondered whether theremight be quality control ormanufacturing issues.

The tampons startedshowing up in stores againin the spring, but the Ul-tras were still unavailable.Until now.

Start celebrating, ladies:The company says theyare coming back in 2012.And they’re sorry — real-ly, really sorry — that youhad to wait so long. Ap-parently they’re so sorry

that a regular apologywon’t do, so they made amusic video featuringevery cheesy cliche in thebook: young, unshavencute guy; a white piano onthe bluffs; a live dove androse petals.

The best part of thevideo is that’s interactive.Evidently the companywanted to thank everyonepersonally, so if you typein your name before thevideo plays you’ll get aspecial surprise (warning:if you have an unusualname, the video is slightlydifferent).

A message on the com-pany’s website says: “Incase you questioned it,we’re really, really, reallysorry that you were notable to find our productsearlier this year. You’ve al-so shown us how muchyou love o.b. Ultra andwe’re sorry we discontin-ued it — we stand correct-ed! We’re working hard tobring o.b. Ultra back tostore shelves by the sec-ond half of 2012 and we’llkeep you updated on ourprogress. In the mean-time, we’d like to apolo-gize with this video mes-sage and extend a specialcoupon offer. Again, we’rereally, really, really sorry!’’

We have to admit it’sbrilliant marketing. Wehope women can hold outfor another few months —and if not, there’s a box ofUltras on eBay with yourname on it.

Tampon’s ReturnCelebrated in Song

BY WILLIAM HAGEMANChicago Tribune

Going to the gym is suchdrudgery. You have to dragyour lazy butt off the couch,you need to make yourselfpresentable, then you haveto haul yourself out the door.

But what if you didn’t haveto leave your home? What ifyou didn’t even have to leaveyour couch? That you canwear a tattered Three StoogesT-shirt and stained sweatpants is just gravy.

Yes, says Selene Yeager, acertified personal trainer andauthor, you can get some-thing out of a 15-minute ses-sion on your couch.

“People see that ‘15-minute workout’ and areskeptical,’’ says Yeager,whose “The Women’s HealthBig Book of 15-MinuteWorkouts’’ (Rodale) cameout in October. “To thosepeople I say,honestly,just tryit. Do pushups. Are youworking? You better believeit. And you can honestly do afew very effective exerciseson your couch. Before yousnarkily toss them aside, trythem. You’ll see they work.’’

So here are five easy andbeneficial exercises for youcouch potatoes. And theycan be done without equip-ment. “Don’t need dumb-bells in the living room,’’Yeager says.

Roll Down withKnee Squeeze(For abs and inner thighs)

On a firm sofa, sit up withknees bent, feet flat on thecouch cushion, and backstraight. Place a throw pillowbetween your knees. Leanback, grasping back of thighsjust below the knees, andtuck chin toward chest.Squeeze into the pillow asyou slowly roll down onevertebrae at a time — sort ofa reverse sit up — until yourarms are straight and yourhead is almost on the couchbehind you. Hold for four to

five deep breaths. Thenslowly roll back up. Repeateight to 10 times.

Bridge Kick(For butt and thighs)

Lie on your back withheels planted on the armrest,arms down at your sides.Squeeze glutes and lift hipsso body forms a straight line.Lift the right leg,extending itas high as comfortably pos-sible. Lower back to start,and repeat with the left leg.Do 20 total reps (10 per side).

Triceps Dip(For triceps, shoulders andback)

Scoot to the edge of the so-fa. Grasp the sofa with yourhands positioned wider thanshoulder-width apart.Keep-ing elbows slightly bent,inchyour butt off the sofa, keep-ing your legs bent and feetflat on the floor. Straightenyour arms and lift your torsoupward.Bend elbows,lower-ing hips toward the floor untilyour upper arms are parallelwith the floor. Straightenarms and return to start. Re-peat for 10 reps.

Armrest Press(For chest and triceps)

Kneel on the sofa and putyour hands on the armrestabout shoulder-width apart.Your body should form astraight line from head toknees.Bend elbows and low-er chest toward armrest untilelbows are in line withshoulders. Pause, then pushback to starting position.Re-peat eight to 12 times.

Seated Scissors(For thighs and core)

Scoot to the edge of thesofa seat and sit straight up.Extend legs straight in frontof you,feet as far off the flooras comfortably possible,about hip- to shoulder-width apart. Point your toes

and turn your legs outslightly. Keeping your legsstraight, cross your left ankleover the right, then yourright over the left. Keep

switching quickly, 30 to 40times.Make the move harder(and add super ab work) byholding your arms out infront of you.

No, No. Don’t Get Up: 5 Exercises You Can DoWithout Upsetting Your Inner Couch Potato

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Selene Yeager demonstrates the finish position of the rolldown with knee squeeze exercise to help tone abs andinner thighs.

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The finish position of the triceps dip couch exercise tohelp tone triceps, shoulders and back.

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The finish position of the bridge kick couch exercise tohelp tone butt and thighs.

BY JENNIFER C. KERRAssociated Press

Many baby boomers don’thave end-of-life legal docu-ments such as a living will —and some say it’s because theyfeel healthy and young in theirmiddle-age years and don’tneed to dwell on death.

An Associated Press-Life-GoesStrong.com poll foundthat 64 percent of boomers —those born between 1946 and1964 — say they don’t have ahealth care proxy or livingwill.Those documents wouldguide medical decisionsshould a patient be unable tocommunicate with doctors.

“I’m very healthy for myage,’’ said Mary McGee, 53, ofArchbald, Pa. “So, death anddying isn’t on my mind a lot.’’

McGee, a computer pro-grammer, exercises five toseven days a week,everythingfrom aerobics to kickboxing,and her parents are alive andhealthy.

The same goes for 57-year-old Sandy Morgan in Rich-mond, Va., a retired teacherwho is working part time foran executive search firm.

“I don’t think of myself interms of my age group,’’ saidMorgan,who runs three milesa day twice a week, practicesyoga twice a week and takespart in a rigorous fitness bootcamp twice a week. Her par-ents, in their early 80s, arehealthy, too — so living willsaren’t on her radar.

“I just feel like it’s some-thing I’ll probably think aboutin my late 60s or 70s,’’ shesaid.

A living will spells out a pa-tient’s wishes for medical careif he or she is unable to com-municate with doctors.

The health care proxy, alsoknown as a health care powerof attorney,allows an individ-ual to select a person he or shetrusts to make decisions about

medical care should the pa-tient become incapacitated.

Kathy Brandt says livingwills and health care proxiesare a good idea for everyonewhether they are healthy andyoung or older and not sohealthy.

Brandt, a senior vice presi-dent at the National Hospiceand Palliative Care Organiza-tion, said the two documentscan spare families a painfulfight and ensure that patientsreceive — or don’t receive —the medical treatment theywish should they end up in asituation where they can’tspeak for themselves.

The living will is not “all ornothing,’’ said Brandt. A per-son could say he or she wantseverything, something ornothing. For example, oneperson may want heroicmeasures taken to prolonglife, while another may wantto be resuscitated but decide

against being dependent onbreathing machines long-term.

Brandt pointed to high-profile cases such as the Flori-da family fight over TerriSchiavo as a smart reason todraft a living will and healthcare proxy.

At 26, Schiavo collapsed ather St. Petersburg home in1990 with no end-of-life careinstructions in writing. Herheart stopped and she suf-fered what doctors said wasirreversible brain damage thatleft her in a permanent vege-tative state.Her husband saidhis wife would not have want-ed to live in a vegetative state;her parents wanted her keptalive.

What ensued was a years-long legal battle that involveddozens of judges in numerousjurisdictions, including theU.S. Supreme Court, andCongress. Schiavo’s feeding

tube was ordered removed in2005. About two weeks later,she died.

Each state has its ownforms for proxies and livingwills, said Brandt. And whileit’s a legal document,she said,you don’t need an attorney todraft one. The forms need tobe witnessed,but that’s it.Sheadvises giving copies to plentyof people — family, friends,colleagues — so a person’swishes are well-known.

For baby boomer WilliamWalsh in Petersburg, Va.,drafting a living will hasn’tcrossed his mind.

“I just haven’t reallythought about it to tell you thetruth,’’ said Walsh, 61. “Youalways think something is go-ing to happen to the other guy,not you.’’

Walsh said no one in hisfamily has ever needed one,but also said he might give theidea more thought.

MANY BOOMERS AVOID LIVINGWILLS, SAY THEY’RE YOUNG

STEVE HELBER • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sandy Morgan, 57, works out in a gym in Midlothian, Va. ‘You know when they say 60 isthe new 40, I really believe that,’ said Morgan, a retired teacher who is working part-time for an executive search firm.

BY ALISON JOHNSONDaily Press (Newport News, Va.)

Many people start theirday with diet blunders.Here’s how to correctthem, with help from Dr.Wayne Andersen, an obe-sity specialist in Marylandand medical director forTake Shape for Life, aweight loss program:

SSkkiippppiinngg bbrreeaakkffaasstt......Dieters often use thisstrategy, but numerousstudies have found break-fast eaters are more likelyto maintain a healthyweight and make betterfood choices throughoutthe day. Even an unhealthybreakfast is almost alwaysbetter than no breakfast atall.

...... oorr eeaattiinngg iitt ttoooo llaattee..Don’t wait longer than anhour. “Thirty minutes isideal,’’ Andersen says.

NNoott eeaattiinngg eennoouugghh pprroo--tteeiinn.. You won’t stay fulllong on carbohydrate-richbreakfasts such as sugarycereals or pastries. Choosecereals made from rice,oats, wheat, barley or rye;eggs and low-fat dairysuch as yogurt and milk al-

so are good proteinsources.

SSkkiimmppiinngg oonn ffiibbeerr.. Fiberis filling enough to loweryour overall caloric intakewithout leaving you feel-ing deprived. Choosewhole-grain breads andcereals and add fruits andvegetables and a handful ofnuts and seeds to staplessuch as cereal and eggs.

TTaakkiinngg iinn ttoooo mmaannyy —— oorrttoooo ffeeww —— ccaalloorriieess.. Mostpeople should aim forroughly 300 to 400 calo-ries per morning meal.

NNoott rreeaaddiinngg ffoooodd llaabbeellss..Compare total calories,protein, fiber, sugar and fatcontent, and pay attentionto serving sizes. Remem-ber that some “healthy’’foods such as granola andcereal bars can be very highin sugar and fat. If you’reeating at a restaurant,check for nutrition factsvia online menus.

DDrriinnkkiinngg ttoooo mmaannyyccaalloorriieess.. Fruit juices andenergy drinks, along withmany flavored coffeecreamers, often are packedwith sugar. Water andunsweetened green tea arealways good choices.

How to Avoid CommonBreakfast Mistakes

BY AARON LEITKOThe Washington Post

Stumbleupon.com bringsan element of chance toWeb surfing: Sign up, tellit what you like — sports,TV, video games, cars, etc.— and, when you click the“stumble” button, it gen-erates a seemingly randomstream of articles related(albeit sometimes tangen-tially) to your interests.And if your interests hap-pen to be scientific, it caneven be educational.

A few clicks of themouse will steer yourbrowser window from theHarvard-Smithsonian

Center for Astrophysics’s“Brief Answers to CosmicQuestions” Web page —basically, an FAQ on life,the universe and every-thing — to instructions onhow to build a speaker(courtesy of the Center forScience Education at theUniversity of California atBerkeley).

Sometimes, it maystumble a little too far offthe beaten path — for ex-ample, taking you to a sitededicated to biology-ori-ented tattoo designs. Still,it’s a good way to learnsomething unexpectedwhile trying to kill a coffeebreak.

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Don’t Take onthe TailgatersIs there any way to gettailgaters to back off?When driving on thestreets of Twin Falls, Isometimes have a cartailgating me. I driveclose to the posted limit,so I’m not holding uptraffic — they are justtoo close for me. I havetried touching my brakepedal just enough tomake my brake lightsblink, and sometimesthat works. Would usingmy turn signals right,then left, then overagain pass on the mes-sage? What do you sug-gest?

— W. Spain

Tailgating is one ofmy pet peeves aswell. The dangerthat a driver cre-

ates while tailgating isvery unnerving. Tailgat-ing does not seem to hap-pen as much when thepolice are around, but itstill happens. I believemost of the causes of tail-gating are that some driv-ers love hospital visits andlaw suits, because that iswhat they face if a crashoccurs from following tooclose.

Another reason behindtailgaters’ logic is thatsince most don’t get citedunless they are involved ina crash, they might notbelieve it is against the lawor unsafe. Drivers’ behav-iors, like many things inlife, are learned from ob-serving how others (par-ents, for example) drive.This can lead to thethought that everybodydrives close enough toread the dashboard on thevehicle in front.

Now for ways to stoptailgaters: I can say thatthe greatest cure I haveseen is to sign a citationand give the tailgater alesson on cause and effectloss (“cause somebodytailgated the effect was aloss of revenue andpoints”). I determine ifsomeone is tailgating meby checking for theirheadlights — if I can’t seethem in my rearview mir-ror, they’re too close tome. I also use the “one

thousand and one rule”(my rule). That is when Ipass an object and thencount, “one thousand andone, one thousand andtwo, etc…” until I see thevehicle behind me get tothat object. If the speedlimit is 25 mph I shouldget to at least one thou-sand and two or three be-fore it gets there. If it getsthere sooner, the vehicle istoo close.

Hitting the brakes is nota good idea at all. Thiscould cause the tailgaterto swerve to miss you andhit something or some-body else. This could alsolead to a literal pain inyour neck for the rest ofyour life. And, it could putyou partially at fault forcausing a crash.

The final thing youcould do is to pull to theright and allow the vehicleto pass. It might feel likeyou’re letting them win,but it is much better thanmeeting them up closeand personal (aka, crash).

Officer DownPlease put these officers,killed in the line of duty,and their families in yourprayers. God bless theseheroes.

•• Officer AnthonyGiniewicz, Signal Hill Po-lice, Calif.

•• Officer Deriek Crouse,Virginia Tech Police, Va.

•• Deputy Rick Rhyne,Moore County Sheriff,N.C.

•• Sgt. David Enzbren-ner, Atchison Police, Kan.

•• Officer Peter Figoski,New York City Police, N.Y.

They fought the goodfight, now may they rest inpeace.

Email your questions [email protected], or look for Ask Po-licemandan on Facebook.

Dan Bristol is the Hey-burn chief of police.

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DanBristol

Bliss resident Art Butler isamong eight longtimevolunteers who were re-cently inducted into theIdaho 4-H Hall of Fameduring the Idaho State 4-H Leaders’ Forum inBoise.

Butler is an 18-yearleader of the Clover Creek4-H Club, and teachesvarious facets of beef edu-cation to Gooding Countyyouth. He served as thecounty’s beef and roundrobin superintendent foryears, and has also servedas announcer at variouslivestock shows.

Butler has been heavilyinvolved in livestock eval-uation, going as far ashosting the county live-stock judging contest forseveral years. He has alsoadvised youth on market-ing options for animals.

More than 33,000 youthages 5-18 participated inIdaho 4-H activities dur-

ing the past year, whilemore than 4,200 youthand adult volunteershelped with a variety of

projects through the Uni-versity of Idaho Exten-sion-led program.

The Idaho 4-H Hall of

Fame was founded in 2002with 100 members. Sincethen, 29 more membershave been added.

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Idaho 4-H Hall of Fame member Art Butler accepts his plaque with his wife, Stacy, left,and daughter, Sarah, second left, during a recent induction ceremony in Boise.

Bliss’ Butler Inducted to Idaho 4-H Hall

After receiving a $20,000donation from the TwinFalls Optimist Club,Vera C.O’Leary Middle School inTwin Falls is about a quar-ter of the way toward itsgoal of resurfacing its track.

Students, parents andteachers have raised about

$5,000 for the effort, andthe Optimist donation rep-resented a major jump to-ward the project’s funding.

To assist in the effort,donations can be made tothe Twin Falls EducationFoundation, 828 BlueLakes Blvd. N.

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Vera C. O’Leary Middle School physical educationteacher Cliff Garbett holds a $20,000 novelty checkfrom the Twin Falls Optimist Club, representing adonation the club gave the Twin Falls school for itsefforts to resurface its track.

O’Leary Track FundingEfforts Continue

Second-grade students atDworshak ElementarySchool in Burley recentlydonated $100 to ProjectRudolph through Ray andCheri Archibald, who helpsend Christmas gift bagsto overseas military mem-bers from their Oakleyhome. Dworshak also do-nated two boxes of candy

to help fill the bags.Also, the second-grade

students recently donatedfunds to buy two sheepfor a Third World countryfamily through Heifer In-ternational. Studentscontinue to raise moneyto purchase two moresheep through the pro-gram.

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Dworshak Elementary School second-grade studentsThomas Gardner, Aubrey Simmons, Sage McCarty,Hadlee Mathis, Brody Whitaker, and Prestyn Ramospresent a self-made novelty check to ProjectRudolph’s Ray and Cheri Archibald at the Burleyschool.

Dworshak Donatesto Project Rudolph

The American Heart Asso-ciation recently an-nounced its award winnersfor its Jump Rope for Heartand Hoops for Heartevents.

The community serviceprograms for elementaryschool and middle schoolstudents include jumprope and basketball activ-ities and also raise money

to help with cardiovascularcare and research.

Locally, White Pine Ele-mentary School in Jeromewas honored as the state’stop Hoops for Heart schoolfor raising $5,338.71.Robert Stuart Junior HighSchool in Twin Falls tookthe Rookie of the YearHoops for Heart award forraising $1,701.69.

LOCAL SCHOOLS TAKE

AMERICAN HEART

ASSOCIATION AWARDS

The fifth- and sixth-gradeclass at Twin Falls ChristianAcademy recently donatedgifts for five children throughthe Twin Falls SalvationArmy Angel Tree program.

Each student earned theirown money to contribute,

and with the help of parents,shopped at the Magic ValleyMall for presents. The giftswere donated to the TwinFalls Salvation Army, whereComdr. Marcos Marquezgave students a tour of thegift room.

TFCA StudentsGive to Angel Tree

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Twin Falls Christian Academy’s fifth- and sixth-gradeclass recently purchased gifts for five children throughthe Salvation Army Angel Tree program. From front left:Caela McKay, Victoria Glaze, Grace Miller, EmmaFenderson and Jonathan Scruggs. From back left: AbbieNedrow, Rese Walker, Jeragan Thornton, Alyssa Bishop,Salvation Army Comdr. Marcos Marquez, Kevin Wiest,Elijah Bolyard and Trae Becker.

Alliance Hospice will hold afree workshop concerninggrieving during the holi-days at 2 p.m. Tuesday atthe Jerome Public Library.

The one-hour presenta-tion will provide informa-

tion about healthy griefand communication, howto involve family membersin the process, and how tostart new traditions.

Information: Nicke Cut-ler, 733-2234.

Holiday Grieving WorkshopNears in Jerome

Three University of Idahostudents from the MagicValley recently joined theDelta Theta chapter of theAlpha Gamma Delta sorori-ty in Moscow.

Samantha Breeding andStephanie Paine, both of

Kimberly, and Kaylee Kentof Eden became memberson Nov.11.The sorority wasfounded in 1904 at Syracuse(N.Y.) University and in-cludes 181 chapters in theU.S.and Canada,with morethan 150,000 members.

Area Students Join U ofI Alpha Gamma Delta

DeMaryMemorialLibraryHere are the most recentnew books at DeMaryMemorial Library in Rupert:Fiction“Against the Law” by KatMartin: The protagonist’slatest case – and client –forces him to lay every-thing on the line.“Vigilante” by Stephen J.Cannell: Shane Scully andhis partner investigate acrime with ties to the worldof reality TV, and an ene-my who will do anything toexact revenge on police.“Wings of a Dream” byAnne Mateer” A sweetlytold story of lost and recap-tured hope.“The River Queen” byGilbert Morris: A fish outof water, Julienne aims toresuscitate a remainingpossession – a dilapidatedsteamboat – in hopes ofrestoring the Ashby name.“When the Heavens Fall”and “As the Sparks Fly Up-ward” by Gilbert Morris:The second and third nov-els in the Winslow Breedseries.“Prince of Ravenscar” byCatherine Coulter: A Sher-brooke novel.“Micro” by Michael Crich-ton: There is a universe toosmall to see and too dan-gerous to ignore.“The Silence of God” byGale Sears: A nation in up-heaval, a heart in turmoil, astory of unwavering faithand friendship.“The Tehran Initiative” byJoel C. Rosenberg: Theworld is on the brink of dis-aster.“Lost Melody” by LoriCopeland: A responsibilityshe never wanted. Choicesshe never wanted to make.“Lonestar Angel” byCollen Coble: Eden’s hopeis rekindled when Clay de-livers astounding news:their daughter has beenfound.“Valley of Dreams” by Lau-raine Snelling: Will theyfind the valley before win-ter closes in on them?“Simple Choices,” “SimpleSecrets” and “Simple De-ceit” by Nancy Mehl:Kansas Mennonites dealwith small-town issues anda way of life threatened byoutsiders.Young adult fiction“Matched” by Ally Condie:Cassia knows Xander isher ideal mate, until shesees Ky Markham’s faceflash for an instant beforethe screen fades to black.Mystery“Explosive Eighteen” byJanet Evanovich: Bountyhunter Stephanie Plum’slife is set to blow sky highwhen international murderhits dangerously close tohome.“Mrs. Jeffries & the Mistle-toe Mix-Up” by EmilyBrightwell: With the birthof Betsy’s baby girl, Inspec-tor Witherspoon, Mrs. Jef-

fries, and the staff at UpperEdmonton Gardens arelooking forward to a won-derful Christmas. But mur-der takes no holiday.“I am Half-Sick of Shad-ows” by Alan Bradley: AFlavia de Luce novel.Nonfiction“Lions of the West” byRobert Morgan, “BeingGeorge Washington” byGlenn Beck, “No HigherHonor” by CondoleezzaRice.Spanish edition“Eldest” and “Brisingr” byChristopher Paolini.

Filer PublicLibraryRecent additions to the Fil-er Public Library include:Fiction: “Explosive Eigh-teen” by Janet Evanovich,“Blowback” by Brad Thor,“The Mistress” by SusanWiggs, “Wyoming Tough”by Diana Palmer, “Second-hand Bride” by Linda LaelMiller, “The Solomon Ef-fect” by C.S. Graham, “TheLone House Mystery” byEdgar Wallace, “Inheri-tance” by ChristopherPaolini, “V is for Ven-gence” by Sue Grafton,“Orchid Beach” by StuartWoods, “Blade of Fire” byStuart Hill, “The LostMadonna” by Kelly Jones,“Touched by Angels” byDebbie Macomber,“11/22/63” by StephenKing, “The ChristmasWedding” by James Pat-terson and Richard DiLal-lo, “Lost December” byRichard Paul Evans, “TheMask of Dimitrios” by EricAmbler, “Christmas atTimberwoods” by FernMichaels, “The Lion” byNelson Demille, “The Af-fair” by Lee Child, “TheBravo Bachelor” by Chris-tine Rimmer, “WesternSkies” by Nora Roberts,“Miracle Cure” by HarlenCoben, “Back Story” byRobert Parker, “TheWoman Who Heard Color”by Kelly Jones, “1225Christmas Tree Lane” byDebbie Macomber, “ALawman’s Christmas” byLinda Lael Miller, “Forev-er” by Maggie Stiefvater,“The Race” by Clive Cus-sler and Justin ScottLarge-print fiction: “TheProdigal” by Beverly Lewis,“Looking for Peyton Place”by Barbara Delinsky, “TheInnocent” by HarlanCoben, “Land of my Heart”by Tracie Peterson, “TheSecret Between Us” byBarbara Delinsky, “HelloDarkness” by SandraBrown, “The Nosy Neigh-bor” by Fern Michaels,“Your Heart Belongs toMe” by Dean KoontzNonfiction: “The PortableThoreau” by Henry DavidThoreau, “Food Rules: AnEater’s Manual” byMichael Pollan, “GuinessWorld Records 2012,” “Be-ing George Washington”by Glen Beck, “Fitzroy” byJohn and Mary Gribbon,

“Simply Beautiful Pho-tographs” by Annie Grif-fiths, “The Secret Life ofWives” by Iris KrasnowJuvenile fiction: “TheThrone of Fire” by Rick Ri-ordan, “Daniel X” byJames Patterson andMichael Ledwidge, “PrairieRiver series” by KristianaGregory, “Love Bites” bySienna Mercer, “Briar’sBook” by Tamora Pierce,“Everything On It” by ShelSilverstein, “EloiseWilkin’s Poems to Read tothe Very Young”

Hailey PublicLibrarySanta will be featured at10:30 a.m. Dec. 21 duringstory time at the HaileyPublic Library.Children and their parentsor caregivers are invited fora day of Christmas stories,songs, games and a craft.From 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Dec. 23, the library will holdfamily crafts and games forthe public to attend.Information: 788-2036 orwww.haileypubliclibrary.org.

Kimberly PublicLibraryKimberly Public Librarywill host a series of “Let’sTalk About It” reading pro-grams in the comingmonths. Each program willbe held at 7:30 p.m. at theQuilt Barn, 241 Main St. N.,Kimberly.Jan. 12: “Sometimes aGreat Notion” by Ken Ke-sey, with speaker MatthewHaynesJan. 26: “This House ofSky” by Ivan Doig, withspeaker Kim MadsenFeb. 9: “Shane” by JackSchaefer, with spaker Shel-ley McEuenFeb. 23: “Death Comes forthe Archbishop” by WillaCather, with speaker KimMadsenMarch 8: “Ceremony” byLeslie Marmon Silko, withspeaker Dave NicholasEveryone is invited to readthe books involved andparticipate in a night ofdiscussion and refresh-ments. The books are avail-able at the library, 120Madison St. W., and at theHansen Community Li-brary, 120 Maple St. W., inHansen.Information: Helen, 423-4556, or Linda, 423-4122.

Here are the new materials atthe Kimberly Public Library:

Adult fiction: “The NextAlways” by Nora Roberts,“Trading Christmas” byDebbie Macomber, “TheSurvivors Club” by LisaGardner, “The Comforts ofHome” by Jodi Thomas,“Holiday in Stone Creek”by Linda Lael Miller,“Bring Me Home forChristmas” by Robyn Carr,“Lost December” byRichard Paul Evans, “Cityof Whispers” by MarciaMuller, “Dreams of theDead” by Perri O’Shaugh-nessy, “Hotel Vendome” byDanielle Steel, “Zero Day”by David Baldacci, “TheChristmas Wedding” byJames Patterson andRichard DiLallo, “Out ofOz” by Gregory Maguire,“The Litigators” by JohnGrisham, “Bonnie” by IrisJohansen, “Lady of theRivers” by Philippa Grego-ry, “Darkness, My OldFriend” by Lisa Unger,“The Accident” by Lin-wood BarclayAdult nonfiction: “TheComplete Handbook of So-lar Air Heating Systems,”“Simplify Your Christmas”by Elaine St. James, “ASimple Delicious Christ-mas” by Darina Allen, “For-saken Heroes of the PacificWar” by Don Morrow andKevin Moore, “MarthaStewart’s Handmade Holi-day Crafts” by MarthaStewart, “The HealthyKitchen” by Andrew WeilInspirational fiction: “Fair-er Than Morning” by Ross-lyn Elliott, “A Bride’s Por-trait of Kansas City,Kansas” by Erica Vetsch,“The Lady’s Maid” by Su-san Page Davis, “AStranger’s Gift” by AnnaSchmidt, “Love Finds YouOn Christmas Morning”by Debby Mayne and Tr-ish Perry, “Simple Choic-es,” “Simple Deceit” and“Simple Secrets” by NancyMehl, “Dangerous Mercy”by Kathy Herman, “A Vi-sion Of Lucy” by MargaretBrownleyJuvenile fiction: “Inheri-tance: The Vault of Souls”by Christopher Paolini,“The Outcasts” by JohnFlanagan, “Perfect” byEllen Hopkins, “MichaelVey: The Prisoner of Cell25” by Richard Paul Evans,“Mastiff: A Tortall Legend”by Tamora Pierce, “Des-tined” by P.C. Cast, “Shel-ter” by Harlan Coben,“The Scorpio Races” byMaggie Stiefvater, “Dogsin the Dead of Night,”“Moonlight on the Magic

Flute” and “A Crazy DayWith Cobras” by MaryPope Osborne, “Home ForChristmas” by Jan Brett,“I’ll be Home for Christ-mas” by Holly Hobbie,“Angelina’s Christmas” byKatharine Holabird, “Bis-cuit’s Christmas Eve” byAlyssa Satin Capucilli,“There Was an Old LadyWho Swallowed a Bell!” byLucille Colandro, “TheBerenstain Bears Trim theTree” by Jan and MikeBerenstain Juvenile nonfiction: “TheMagic School Bus GoesUpstream: a Book AboutSalmon Migration” byJoAnna ColeDVDs: “Harry Potter andthe Half-blood Prince,”“Harry Potter and theDeathly Hallows Part 2,”“Young Guns,” “GuessWho,” “S.W.A.T.,” “TheGeneral’s Daughter,” “TheDavinci Code,” “TheGreatest Story Ever Told,”“Definitely, Maybe,” “Wa-ter for Elephants,” “Joy tothe World,” “Madagascar,”“The Original ChristmasClassics,” volumes 1-2Videos: “Rudolph andFriends,” “Snowed in at theHouse of Mouse,” “LittlePeople: Christmas Discov-eries”Books on CD: “The Hob-bit” by J.R.R. Tolkien,“Vanishing Act” by JodiPicoult, “Inside My Heart”by Robin McCraw, “Angels& Demons” by Dan Brown,“Divine Misdemeanors”by Laurell K. Hamilton,“The Affair” by Lee Child

Wendell PublicLibraryHere are the new materialsat the Wendell Public Li-brary:Large-print mysteries:“New York to Dallas” byJ.D. Robb, “Chasing theNight” by Iris Johansen,“Betrayal of Trust” by J.A.Jance, “Explosive Eigh-teen” by Janet Evanovich,“Back of Beyond” by CJBox, and the “Eve, Quinn,Bonnie” series by Iris Jo-hansenAdult fiction: “The NextAlways” by Nora Roberts,“1225 Christmas TreeLane” by Debbie Ma-comberYoung adult fiction: “In-heritance” by ChristopherPaoliniFantasy: “Bearers of theBlack Staff” and “The Mea-sure of Magic” by TerryBrooks

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Douglas & Melanie Carlquist of Eden are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter, Caitlin, to Kolby Kirk Carpenter, son of Kirk and Debby Carpenter of Burley.

Caitlin is a graduate of Burley High School and is currently enrolled in the Marriott School of Accountancy at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

Kolby graduated from Burley High School in and served a mission for h e Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Neuquen, Argentina. He is attending Utah State University studying business management.

h e couple will be sealed in the Twin Falls Temple on Tuesday, December , . h ey will be honored at a reception that evening at Sweetheart Manor in Burley.

h e couple will reside in Logan, Utah where they will complete their educations at Utah State University.

Caitlin Carlquist and

Kolby Kirk Carpenter

Carlquist-CarpenterDon and Jean Chisholm of

Rupert, Idaho are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter, Elise, to Christopher Clare, son of David and Marsha Clare, of Clarence Center, New York.

Elise and Chris were married at St. Joseph Parish in Seattle Washington on October 1st. h ey enjoyed a honeymoon in Italy following the wedding.

Elise and Chris reside in Seattle. Elise is employed at Spring Creek Group, a social marketing agency and is pursuing a masters

of communication in digital media at the University of Washington. Chris is a senior systems architect at Amazon.

Elise Chisholm and

Christopher Clare

h e Clares

Ashley Michelle Lutz and Terrance LaVon Hansing were married on Saturday November 5, 2011 at the White House in Twin Falls, Idaho. The bride is the daughter of Betty and Beny Freeman of Rogerson. h e groom is the son of David Hansing of Bliss and Jenalee Hansing of Twin Falls.

Offi ciating was Pastor Tim Chandler. Delia Williamson, sister-in-law of the bride, served as Matron of Honor. Kinley Hansing, daughter of the groom, was the fl ower girl. Aaron Hansing, brother of the groom, served as Best Man. Skylar Borrayo, nephew of the bride, was the ringbearer. Host for gifts and guestbook was Mario Borrayo, nephew of the bride. Josh Williamson, brother of the bride, gave

away his sister in marriage. An informal reception was held after the ceremony at the couples’ home.

h e bride is a graduate of Filer High School. She is employed by Wells Fargo in Twin Falls. h e groom is a graduate of Bliss High School. He is employed by LTI, inc of Jerome. h e couple reside in Jerome.

Ashley Michelle Lutz and Terrance LaVon Hansing

h e Hansings

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Weddings

BridgeView Estates, at 1828Bridgeview Boulevard,Twin Falls, will hold holi-day open house eventsfrom Dec. 28-31.

On Dec. 28, an IdahoCommission for the Blindpresentation will be heldfrom 1:30-2:30 p.m., fol-lowed by an informationalpresentation on Medicareand health-care reformfrom 2:30-4 p.m.

On Dec. 29, Simply Al

will hold a 1:30 p.m. magicshow, while Ron Wilcoxwill give a 3 p.m.piano per-formance.

Danny Marona will per-form from 2-4 p.m. Dec.30, while a ColdwaterCreek fashion show andspa day, with refresh-ments, will be held from 11a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

The public is invited toattend the events. Infor-mation: 736-3933.

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Idaho women are soughtto represent their citiesand counties during theFeb. 24-25 Idaho Interna-tional Pageants inPocatello.

Contestants will com-pete for scholarships andcash prizes in the Mrs.,Miss and Miss Teen Ida-ho categories, with Idahowinners going on to com-pete in an internationalevent.

Mrs. contestants mustbe married women be-tween ages 21-56. Misscontestants must be be-tween ages 19-29, whileMiss Teen contestantsmust be age 13-18. Con-testants must be legalresidents of Idaho and,according to a pageant re-lease, “of good moralcharacter.” They willcompete in a personal in-terview, physical fitness,evening ware and funfashion ware categories.

The deadline to apply isFeb. 1.

Information:www.mrsidaho.com,[email protected], or KimberlyBronson, 208-757-3050.

ContestantsSought forIdahoInternationalPageants

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D’AmbraContinued from People 1

opening narrowed bloodvessels or by bypassingblocked arteries, accord-ing to the institute, butwithout treatment thedisease can be fatal.

Carter suffers the worstof the twins. He cannottalk, walk or eat on hisown. He receives nour-ishment through a tubethat was surgically placedinto his stomach. He re-cently returned from Pri-mary Children’s MedicalCenter in Salt Lake City,because the tube would-n’t stay in.

D’Ambra was divorcedabout three years ago andalso has a healthy 6-year-old son, Jaydyn.

“He’s just a really bighelper,” she said.

Twin Falls residentDebbie Seaich knowsD’Ambra through herdaughter, Sharlene.They’ve talked over thephone, with Seaich en-couraging D’Ambra to ac-cept other people’s help.

“I know it can be hard,”Seaich said. “I’m 47 yearsold and raised three kids.I can’t imagine being her

age and going throughwhat she’s goingthrough.”

Haycock said D’Ambrais one of the strongestwomen she knows.

“She’s very coura-geous,” she said. “She canstill laugh and jokearound, and be there forthe other three boys who

need her very much.”Haycock said she would

have liked to plan the din-ner before February, butthat is the soonest itcould be arranged. Sheand friends already havegotten several area busi-nesses on board to donateraffle prizes.

“It’s been very difficult,

but somehow I manage tocope with it all,” D’Ambrasaid. “It’s all happened sofast that I don’t have a

choice but to go with it. ...It’s still hard to grasp thatmy children have this dis-ease.”

RefugeeContinued from People 1

determine what conditionsmust be treated before anindividual can depart.

Refugees must visitSouth Central Public HealthDistrict within 30 days ofarriving in Twin Falls. Theoffice receives refugees’health history before theirfirst appointments, saidKate Parker, registerednurse with the health dis-trict. Initial appointmentsinclude thorough screen-ings and blood tests.

After that, “education isour biggest thing,” Parkersaid. The staff teachesrefugees about how to es-tablish relationships withgeneral practitioners, andwhere to go for treatmentfor chronic conditions.

“It’s important that theyknow who their doc is andwhere they can go to getcare,” Parker said. A lot of itis basic information “thatyou and I would probablytake for granted.”

Some of the information,like family planning, is cul-turally sensitive. Somegroups, such as refugeesfrom Myanmar and Nepal,are receptive to talkingabout birth control, whileIraqis and Iranians are moretimid.

“Our Tigrinyan refugees(from Eritrea), they’re veryinterested in family plan-ning, safe sex and STD pre-vention, things like that,”Parker said.

Screenings for refugeeshave changed over theyears. Under a Centers forDisease Control and Pre-vention regulation, whichCongress passed into law in1993, those with HIV usedto be ineligible for resettle-ment without a waiver.

The law was overturnedin 2008, and as of January2010, refugees aren’t testedfor HIV before arrival in theU.S. South Central PublicHealth tests newcomers forHIV, but individuals can de-cline. Parker said she does-n’t know of any refugee inTwin Falls ever refusing thetest.

Paying for CareFor the first eight monthsthey’re in the U.S.,refugees receive Medicaid,which covers many med-ical procedures.

In those first eightmonths, many refugeestry to take care of linger-ing health problems. NaraMaya Rai had back surgerythis summer, and Sum-mon Rai had minor sur-gery on his arm. WithoutMedicaid, the familywouldn’t be able to affordit, Man Rai said — eventhough he works two jobs.

After they’re off Medic-aid, refugees are responsi-ble for procuring theirown insurance. Many ofthem, unable to affordhealth care, end up at theMustard Tree Wellness

Clinic in Twin Falls, whichoffers free basic healthcare for people withoutinsurance.

Dr. David McClusky,who volunteers at theclinic, said those firstmonths of Medicaid cantake care of some prob-lems, but chronic issueslike diabetes and highcholesterol need ongoingtreatment, which manyrefugees can’t afford.

Improved Outlook

On Nov. 20, Bhutaneserefugee Menuka Darjeesat in her Twin Fallsapartment, wrapped inblankets and watching adocumentary on PBS topractice English listeningskills. She hadn’t beenfeeling well lately, saidher son Bikash Darjee.

Menuka, who arrived inTwin Falls in June, had

been sick for years. Hersons had taken her todoctors in Nepal’srefugee camps and inneighboring India, but noone could figure out whyshe felt so weak. Duringscreening for resettle-ment, though, doctorsdiscovered she had un-treated diabetes.

That, coupled withback problems from yearsof working on her fami-ly’s farm in Bhutan, keepsMenuka from working inTwin Falls. Her adultsons support her whileshe cooks meals, takesEnglish classes andcleans the small apart-ment they share.

Menuka has struggledwith her health since herarrival in Idaho. Diabetescomplications landed herin the emergency roomtwice in her first monthin Twin Falls, and she of-ten feels ill.

Still, “she is much bet-ter here,” Bikash said.He’s not sure how muchlonger she could havelasted in the refugeecamps.

Menuka smiled weaklyfrom her spot on thecouch and wrapped herblanket more tightlyaround her shoulders.

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“She’s very courageous. She canstill laugh and joke around, and bethere for the other three boys who

need her very much.”Amber Haycock, Brittney D’Ambra’s sister-in-law


Refugee Man Bahadur Rai gets an immunization beforegoing to work Nov. 23.


Refugees Nara Maya Rai, right, and Tirtha Rai fill out paperwork to get immunizationsat South Central Public Health District.

While living in camps inNepal, refugees receivehealth care through the As-sociation of Medical Doc-tors of Asia. AMDA hasclinics in each of Nepal’srefugee camps and canprovide basic health care.For surgeries and otherprocedures, refugees aretransferred to hospitals innearby cities.

During the resettlementapplication process,refugees are screened todetermine general healthand to see whether theyhave conditions that mayaffect resettlement.

Class A conditions, liketuberculosis and leprosy,are infectious diseases thatmust be under control be-fore the refugee can reset-tle in the U.S.

Class B conditions — in-cluding pregnancy, treatedsyphilis and addiction —can stall resettlement whilethe condition is active.

Before departure,refugees are given one lastcheck at the International

Organization for Migra-tion compound in Kath-mandu. Doctors takeeveryone’s blood pressureand review medicationsand chronic health condi-tions.

Upon arrival in TwinFalls, refugees must visitSouth Central PublicHealth District within 30days. There, they’re given athorough exam which in-cludes immunizations,blood tests, vital signs and,for women ages 11-55, apregnancy test. From there,refugees receive referralsto general practice physi-cians for basic health care.

Refugees receive Medic-aid for the first eightmonths after their arrival.After that, eligiblerefugees, including chil-dren and the elderly, con-tinue to receive health in-surance through the state,while adults can either ob-tain insurance throughtheir work or become unin-sured.

— Melissa Davlin

Refugee Health Basics

MELISSA DAVLIN • TIMES-NEWS

Dr. Leena Bhandari, left, checks Pokharel Radha’s pulseat the International Office for Migration compound inKathmandu, Nepal, on April 1. The Kathmanducompound is the last stop for Bhutanese refugees beforethey leave Nepal to resettle in other countries. Shortlybefore departure, they’re given a brief health exam —one of several throughout the resettlement process.



Brittney D’Ambra holds nephew Christopher D’Ambrawhile her own son Jaydyn Bentley, 6, gives them a hug.


Tucker Bentley, 4, middle, looks about while his mother,Brittney D’Ambra, tends to his twin brother, CarterBentley. Both the boys suffer from moyamoya syndrome,which has caused multiple strokes in both twins.

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Con: Don’t Increase Fees, TrainMore Doctors

The latest scare tac-tic by right-wingopponents of theAffordable Care Act

aims at convincing Ameri-cans that reasonable trims in Medicare spending willmake it very difficult for seniors to find a good doctor incoming years.

A lot of this hooey is based on an outdated 2008 reportfrom the Medicare Payments Advisory Commission that29 percent of the Medicare beneficiaries who were look-ing for a primary care doctor had a problem finding one totreat them, up from 24 percent the year before.

Please note that the report by the independent federalpanel that advises Congress on Medicare was issued theyear before the House and Senate passed the AffordableHealth Care and made it the crowning achievement ofPresident Barack Obama’s first-term.

There’s no doubt that some doctors are leavingMedicare, but many do so in order to band together toform small concierge clinics that cater to wealthy seniors.These posh clinics are designed to cater to the top 1 per-cent of the nation’s elderly — the ones who can pay bou-tique prices and prefer not to sit next to the riff-raff ingerm-filled waiting rooms.

There’s no doubt some physicians are leaving theMedicare system, but they hardly constitute the mass ex-odus that free-market advocates imply.

A survey reported in the June 27 Archives of InternalMedicine found that physician acceptance of newMedicare patients fell to 92.9 percent in 2008 from 95.5percent in 2005, while more recent survey in early Octo-ber by the Texas Medical Association reported 3 percentof its members withdrew from the federal program.

If there are serious doctor shortages looming in our fu-ture, they are more likely attributable to the rapid growthof people over 65 rather than a flight of health-careproviders.

Some 40 million Americans currently have Medicareinsurance, but they will be joined soon by an additional 70million Baby Boomers. The United States needs to in-crease significantly the ranks of its medical school gradu-ates or begin to import more from abroad.

As for the doctors who would rather ignore their Hip-pocratic oaths to serve the poor as well as the rich, theywill evoke few cries of pity from most Americans. While

Pro: Reasonable Reforms CanProvide Fair Fees

No matter how youslice it, theMedicare programas it stands today is

financially unworkable.More than 10,000 Baby Boomers reach retirement age

every single day, which puts a huge strain on a system thatthe chief actuary for Medicare projects will be insolvent in2024.

Clearly, that is unacceptable. Medicare is a promiseand a lifeline for our country’s seniors. Few things are asimportant as having affordable, quality health coverage inretirement. Consequently, the important question is howwe save the program from insolvency while preserving thegreatest access to quality health care choices for Ameri-ca’s seniors.

If fewer and fewer physicians are able to participate inMedicare because of regulations and low reimbursement,the promise of Medicare and the health of our nation willbe compromised.

Some have suggested we should squeeze more savingsout of Medicare by cutting payments to physicians. Thismight make Washington bureaucratic bean counters hap-py, but it will have a devastating impact on seniors’ accessto care.

Already, nearly one-in-three primary care doctors areforced to limit the number of Medicare patients they see.Another “solution” was offered by President Obama andhis Democratic allies last Congress when they created, aspart of their health-reform law, the Independent Pay-ment Advisory Board — a board of 15 bureaucrats giventhe power to deny payment for treatment of seniors.

These are the types of so-called solutions that somebelieve allow the fiscal health of Medicare to trump thepersonal health of beneficiaries.

The good news is that there are positive, patient-cen-tered solutions that would put Medicare on sound finan-cial footing and ensure physicians remain able to partici-pate in the program and provide the highest level of quali-ty care to seniors.

Early this year, House Republicans drafted, debated andpassed a budget plan that would address the challengesfacing Medicare and strengthen and secure it for futuregenerations.

Rather than getting the program’s finances in shape byeliminating choices or access to physicians, or by

How Do We KeepDoctors in Medicare?

PRO AND CON

Wayne Madsen

U.S. Rep.Tom Price

Passingthe Buck?T

he word “decision”is defined as theact of, or need for,making up one’s

mind.When it applies to a

group — especially anelected one — a decisioninvolves members of thatgroup making up their col-lective minds because alarger group entrustedthem to do so.

Unfortunately, we havehad way too many recentlocal, state and nationalexamples of elected repre-sentatives failing to makeany decision whatsoever.They seem content withpassing the buck to some-one else or some elite sub-set of their own group.Need some examples?

•• 313 million Americansare represented by 535 con-gressmen. When theycouldn’t or wouldn’t reacha decision on tackling thedeficit, they punted it to a12-member “super com-mittee” that also failed tomake a decision.

•• A six-person “biparti-san” redistricting commit-tee was formed to draw upnew Idaho legislativeboundaries. They were torepresent the interest of allIdahoans (don’t we have anelected legislature thatshould be doing that?) but

failed to make a decisionafter 92 days. Their failurepassed the buck to Redis-tricting Committee II.

•• Before the resignationof their most recent prin-cipal, members of theXavier Charter SchoolBoard voted to “delegate”that particular principal’spersonnel decision to aseparate three-personpanel rather than making adecision that Xavier par-ents probably thought theyhad elected the SchoolBoard to decide.

•• Residents of Twin Fallselect a seven-member CityCouncil to represent theirinterests. Earlier this yearthey couldn’t or wouldn’tmake decisions regardingdowntown parking and atask force was appointed.The task force actuallyagreed — made an actualdecision — on what to rec-ommend, only to have theentire council fail to reachconsensus twice, and in sodoing kicked the decisiondown the road to the newcouncil that will be seatedin January.

Local city officials, theSouthern Idaho EconomicDevelopment Organiza-tion, Business Plus andothers were assertiveenough — and smart

The following editorial appeared inWednesday’s Washington Post:

When President Obama an-nounced his decision todeploy 1,200 NationalGuard troops to the Mexi-

can border last year, his hand wasforced at least as much by politics asby border security. The president act-ed under pressure from border-stategovernors shortly after Arizonapassed a draconian law targeting ille-gal immigrants. At the time, the num-ber of illegal border crossings was al-ready plummeting in the face of abeefed-up U.S. Border Patrol andwilting demand for cheap laboramong recession-wracked U.S. com-panies.

So it is no surprise that the modestforce of guardsmen, who lack thepower to make arrests or pursue ille-gal border crossers, has been littlemore than window dressing. Thoughthey have provided some help with

logistics, intelligence and surveil-lance, their overall contribution to theclampdown on the southwesternfrontier — on top of 18,500 BorderPatrol officers plus personnel from analphabet soup of other federal agen-cies — has been slight.

Mr. Obama is now reported to havedecided to slash the number ofguardsmen on the border, whose de-ployment was paid for by the Penta-gon. His decision is sensible. The de-ployment was intended to be tempo-rary, and at $10 million a month, itwas a luxury the Pentagon, facing bil-lions of dollars in cuts, could hardlyjustify.

Still, the logic of the president’s de-cision has not dampened an outcryfrom Republicans who see politicaladvantage in fanning hysteria on theissue of illegal immigration. TexasGov. Rick Perry, whose collapse in thepolls this fall owed much to his sup-posed softness on illegal immigration,

Sense, and Nonsense,on the Border

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As Congress considerslegislation to reform thebusiness model of thePostal Service,it must

confront a basic choice: to per-mit the Postal Service to func-tion more as a business does,orconstrain it from doing so.

For an organization thatgenerates all of its revenue fromthe sale of its postage, productsand services — and is contend-ing with declining use of FirstClass Mail for bill payment —having the flexibility to quicklyadapt and react to the market-place is vital. Our immediategoal is to reduce our annualcosts by $20 billion by 2015,which would put the PostalService in the black and aheadof our long-term cost curve.

Within the limits of our cur-rent legal framework,we haveresponded aggressively to achanging marketplace — reduc-ing the size of our workforce by

128,000 career employees andreducing annual operating costsby $12.5 billion dollars in just thepast four years.However,to re-turn to profitability we mustmove at an even faster pace.And to do so requires changes inthe law.There are various billsbeing debated in both the Sen-ate and House that addresssome of the more pressing con-straints we are operating under.We need Congress to enactcomprehensive legislation assoon as possible.

In a digital world, businessesand individuals have choices inthe way they communicate.Although the Postal Service fa-cilitates trillions in commerce

annually, and supports a $900billion mailing industry thatemploys almost 8 million peo-ple, it must have the tools andthe motivations to effectivelycompete for customers.

The answer is an organiza-tion that performs a vital na-tional function and operateswith the discipline and moti-vations of a business that com-petes for customers. If it is toendure as a great American in-stitution, provide the nationwith a secure, reliable and af-fordable delivery platform, andserve as an engine of com-merce, Congress should pro-vide it with the speed and flex-ibility it needs to compete in anevolving marketplace.

Ken S. McArthur is the man-ager for the Salt Lake Districtof the U.S. Postal Service,which covers Utah and south-ern Idaho.

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Please see PRO, O3 Please see CON, O3

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Rec CenterOverdue in T.F.Thanks to the Jerome Recre-ation Center for supportingthe Magic Valley.

I have lived in Twin Fallsall of my life and now I havetwo daughters who I am rais-ing in Twin Falls.Both of mygirls play basketball for theirschools and also play onAAU teams.We have recent-ly been having to travel toJerome to utilize its recre-ation center because there isno gym space available any-where in Twin Falls.I amvery troubled by this.

Why does Twin Falls nothave its own recreation cen-ter.I know Jerome is consid-ered part of the Magic Valley,but I feel like why am I hav-ing to spend my money inJerome County when I couldbe spending my money inTwin Falls County.I paid forthe use of the Jerome Recre-ation Center,spent moneyon dinner and even Christ-mas shopped in Jerome,when all of the while I couldhave stayed in my hometown had they had a recre-ation center for my daugh-ters to practice in.Next timeI may have to purchase gas inJerome or even if I were to geta ticket in Jerome,my moneywould go to Jerome County.

I wish I were spending mymoney in Twin Falls County.

My question is what hasDennis Bowyer been doingfor so many years as theParks and Recreation direc-tor and Twin Falls still has norecreation center? Yes,Iknow the economy is badright now but if we startsmall with just a few gymsand then add more in the fu-ture or even add other stuffbesides gyms.Then I couldspend my money at homeand others could spend theirmoney in Twin Falls Countyas well because with gymswe could hold tournaments(of any sport).Tournamentsmean revenue for hotels,re-tailers,restaurants and more.

Come on,Twin Falls andDennis Bowyer,let’s jump onthe bandwagon and supportour athletes and our com-munity by building a recre-ation center.

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Parking MetersAre OutdatedI respect the previous views,opinions and personal storiesI’ve heard shared in regard tothe lingering meter/parkingquestion.However,seemsthat some,not all,perspec-tives are outdated,confusing,ego driven and counterpro-ductive to the matter.

Downtown is a living,changing organism and has

evolved from years ago andwill continue to evolve in thefuture.What an exciting mo-mentum to see fresh new,young and progressive entre-preneurs choosing Down-town as their location!Downtown client parking,asin any shopping/service cen-ter or area has a natural turnaround; it follows the naturalbusiness exchange of sucharenas.A client comes in for aproduct or service,the needsare met and “goodbye till nexttime,”on to the next one.

This is not science.Thisturnaround relationship is asnatural as the moon and tide.So the focus is really on own-er/employee use or abuse ofparking space.That is the realissue.Beyond the commonunderstanding that conven-ient parking should be left forclients,some owners/em-ployers should remind andenforce that their employ-ees/students practice thiscourtesy.

Get rid of the meters! Pullthem out by the roots! Re-place them with inspiringaesthetics or signage that en-courages the good nature inpeople’s consciousness topark within a limit.Allow fora self-regulated system totake place,encouraging thepublic to be responsible toone another in this publicspace exchange.

It is annoying and insult-

ing to charge potential clientsto pay to bring their businessto Main Street/Downtown.Each owner/employer/em-ployee needs to practice con-scious effort in making theirparking decisions,just as inany business or location,andleave the rows and spacesclosest to the businessesavailable for potential clients.How simple! My 2-year-oldcan come to that compre-hension.

If the city council holds theposition that the DowntownMain Street should be self-regulated and self-main-tained by Downtown busi-ness and building owners,then perhaps the councilneeds to keep governmentout of Downtown and allowbusiness owners resolvethese and future matters.Downtown is not a mi-crostate.

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(Editor’s note: LiyahBabayan is the chief execu-tive officer of Ooh La La! onMain Street in Twin Falls.)

Congress ShouldKnow BetterWith the passage of the Na-tional Defense AuthorizationAct (S.1867 and H.R.1540)and no veto from the WhiteHouse,I find myself deeplytroubled.

All four of Idaho’s Republi-cans in Washington voted toeviscerate the Constitutionand pass these bills,includingRaul Labrador.They shouldall be ashamed,and especiallyso-called conservatives likeLabrador.And in the recon-ciliation process,“IndefiniteDetention for U.S.Citizens”stayed in and a 2014 audit forthe Pentagon went out! And apromised veto from theWhite House was suddenlynowhere to be found.

We went from citizens tosubjects with the stroke of apen.I don’t think I’m a con-spiracy nut,but I worry aboutthe future of the country thatI love and the people that aredear to me.

So do me this favor: thenext time you meet an off-duty law enforcement officeror member of the military saythis: “I don’t want you to an-swer me.Your expression willbe answer enough.But con-sider this question.If you aregiven an order you know to beunconstitutional like to dis-arm citizens who have com-mitted no crime or to deprivecitizens of their liberty with-out due process,will you obeythem or arrest those givingsuch criminal orders?”

Remember that last part,please.Not obeying is onlypart of the question.

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RepresentedContinued from Opinion 1

enough — to put togethera proposal that is bringingAgro Farma and ChobaniYogurt to our area with400 direct jobs. Why is itthen that we’re not smartenough to take on down-town revitalization andtherefore feel the need tocontinue to send up to$5,000 per month to Boiseconsultant Mark Rivers?

Shouldn’t voters expecttheir city, state and feder-al representatives to ac-tually make decisions? Is-n’t that why we voted forthem? Isn’t that whythey’re actually called“representatives” in thefirst place? When did we

start drastically loweringour expectations of thosewe elect?

Although the questionsabove are all rhetorical, theanswers are not. We can —indeed we must — increaseour expectations and raisethe bar for what we will ac-cept. Inaction is no longertolerable. The art of com-promise and consensus-

building must be valuedand must be regularly evi-dent.

If you’re looking for alittle more meaningfulNew Year’s resolution thisyear, we encourage you tokeep a closer eye on thoseyou elected and make surethat they are actually mak-ing decisions — not justpassing the buck.

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was especially quick topounce.Mr.Obama’smove,said the governor,“isproof that this administra-tion has no intention to tru-ly secure the border.’’

Facts are always the firstcasualty of political cross-fire,but Mr.Perry’s misuseof them is especially cyni-cal.The border today ismore tightly sealed than atany point in decades.Illegalborder crossings,as meas-ured by apprehensionsalong the 2,000-mile Mex-ican border,fell in the latestfiscal year to their lowestlevel since 1972.The num-ber of crossers captured,about 327,000,was down50 percent since 2008; 70percent since 2006; and 80percent since 2000,whenthe Border Patrol picked up1.64 million illegal immi-grants along the border.

Mr.Perry,as with manyRepublicans,prefers todwell on the specter of bor-

der insecurity — the factsbe damned — because hehas no solution for the realchallenge: the estimated 11million undocumented im-migrants already living inthe United States.Still try-ing to recover from his self-inflicted wound in sug-gesting that Americanswere heartless if theywanted to deny higher ed-ucation to illegal immi-grants,Mr.Perry speaks ofadding ‘’boots on theground’’and boostingtechnology at the border.Of course,he never men-tions that the Border Patrolhas already doubled itsforces on the Mexicanfrontier in the last decade,and billions of dollarsworth of technology hasalso been deployed.

Even if the U.S.economystages a muscular recovery,illegal immigration is un-likely to surge to previouslevels,given the Border Pa-trol’s strength and a com-bination of Mexico’s de-clining birth rate and rela-tively strong economy.

Opinion 2 • Sunday, December 18, 2011

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the proposed cuts inMedicare paymentswould cut a few percent-age points from their in-come, they are hardlybound for the poorhouse.

American physiciansacross all categories makefar more than their coun-terparts in any othercountry including suchaffluent ones as Ger-many, Japan, Britain,France, Denmark andSweden.

Consider the mediansalaries as recently cata-logued by the AmericanMedical Group Associa-tion, which has beentracking the salaries ofU.S. physicians since1986.

They range from$204,000 for practition-ers of family medicine to$605,953 for orthopedicsurgeons who specialize

in joint replacements. Inbetween are anesthesiol-ogists at $370,500, der-matologists at $375,176,gastroenterologists at$405,000, and radiationtherapists at $447,250.

Bear in the mind thatthose are median salarieswith half of all doctorsmaking more and halfmaking less. By compar-ison, the median house-hold income in the Unit-ed States is $46,623.

The fact that a relativehandful of doctors arequibbling about slightcutbacks to their incomesat a time when 20 millionAmericans are unem-ployed or underemployedcan be laid at thedoorsteps of PresidentObama, Senate MajorityLeader Harry Reid andformer House SpeakerNancy Pelosi.

Instead a of pushing fora low-cost, single-payerhealth-care system whenDemocrats controlledCongress in 2009, the

trio couldn’t forgo mil-lions of dollars in cam-paign contributions fromBig Pharma, Big Insur-ance and powerful physi-cian groups.

If they had, Americansmight now be enjoyingthe low-cost, highly ef-fective national healthinsurance that has beenavailable for decades tothe citizens of Canada,Japan, the EuropeanUnion and virtually everyother advanced nation onEarth.

Indeed, if that systemwere in place now, nogreedy doctor would beable to turn his back onthe needy. The biblicaladmonition “physicianheal thyself” seems apro-pos.

Wayne Madsen is a con-tributing writer towww.onlinejournal.com.Readers may write to himat National Press Club,529 14th Street NW,Washington, D.C. 20045.

ProContinued from Opinion 1

empowering a govern-ment agency to denycare, our plan allows sen-iors to choose from a listof guaranteed coverageoptions to find the onethat best suits theirneeds. It would be per-sonalized health coveragewhile also making certainthat the program isaround for current andfuture retirees.

Because we don’t be-lieve the plans of thosecurrently on Medicare ornear retirement should bedisrupted, no changeswould be made to those55 and older. Our budgetshows that we can solvethe challenge of unsus-tainable spending projec-tions by providing greaterchoice and greater flexi-bility for seniors.

Because the status quois unacceptable, there areeven more efforts underway to further empowerseniors — including theMedicare Patient Em-powerment Act, whichwould allow Medicarebeneficiaries and physi-cians to contract freelyfor items and servicesoutside of the Medicaresystem while retainingtheir Medicare benefits.

This is the type ofpressure-valve releasethat will contribute tosaving the viability of theentire system. Washing-ton shouldn’t be allowedto force you to have onlythe care it wants you tohave.

These are positive, pa-tient-centered reformsthat would allow doctorsto remain in the Medicaresystem, enhance accessto affordable, qualityhealth care and address

the fiscal challenges fac-ing the Medicare pro-gram.

Bureaucratic-drivenprice controls or mis-guided cuts to physicianreimbursement rates willnot ensure long-term fi-nancial security forMedicare and will dogreat harm to current andfuture retirees.

When we put patients’care and choices first,and not the government’sbottom-line, we will en-act positive reforms thatwill allow Medicare tokeep its promise toAmerica’s seniors andkeep physicians able toserve their patients.

Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., ischairman of the HouseRepublican Policy Com-mittee. Readers maywrite him at 403 CannonHouse Office Building,Washington, D.C. 20515.

A Broken SystemSomething is broken in Ida-ho. Unemployment edgestoward 10 percent. The De-partment of Health andWelfare can’t answer phonecalls; they take your numberand call you back, eventual-ly. The Department of Laborcannot provide the servicespromised on its website dueto lack of funds. For everyemployment opportunity,there are more than 100 ap-plicants. The less we have,the less help we get fromthose we have elected intooffice.

I can guarantee you thatour representatives in gov-ernment don’t live with thepainful choices and brokensystems we are forced to

deal with every day. Theyare cutting funding for en-titlement programs, whichincludes health insurancefor underprivileged chil-dren, welfare for workingadults who just don’t makeenough to pay the bills, andtemporary assistance forfamilies in need. Pullingyourself up by your ownbootstraps doesn’t work ifyou can’t even affordboots, let alone boots withstraps.

The fact that Idaho’selected officials have letthings get this bad in thefirst place is reprehensible.The fact that they do noth-ing to fix any of the prob-lems in our state is down-right deplorable. The factthat they are actively mak-

ing the situation worse withmindless rhetoric and polit-ical grandstanding is ab-solutely revolting.

How long are we going tokeep electing theseblowhards into office? Howbad does it have to get be-fore we throw them out andfind someone who actuallycares about the disadvan-taged, the working poor,and those who have novoice?

Most importantly, howwill we dig ourselves out ofthis hole even if we get somehelp? The longer we wait todemand better from ourgovernment, the harder itwill be to turn this situationaround.

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ED GLAZAR • FOR THE TIMES-NEWS

Occupy Twin FallsProtesters, including San-ta-suited Gary Snow, bravethe cold outside Wells Far-go on Main Avenue Southin Twin Falls on Saturday.Following in the footstepsof the Occupy Wall Streetmovement, the groupprotested the bank’s lend-ing practices by wavingsigns and handing outfalse foreclosure noticesand candy canes.

ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS

A Truckful ofHoliday CheerKiwanis Club mem-bers Ed Ditlefsen, left,James Rabe and KenWhiting load food giftsin a truck Friday to dis-tribute to homelesschildren at local mo-tels. Twin Falls HighSchool students con-tributed 2,000 fooditems to the effort,while Canyon RidgeHigh School studentscollected other gifts.About 45 children re-ceived the gifts.

ST. ANTHONY (AP) • Fre-mont County officials havesent a payment of about$15,000 to the Internal Rev-enue Service for unpaid tax-es.

The Standard Journal in astory published Thursdayreports that an audit of threeyears of Fremont County’sbooks by the IRS resulted ina bill of $14,808.28

The audit covered theyears from 2008 to 2010.

Officials say the paymentmade by the county makesup for underpaid taxes in2010 for compensation toemergency medical techni-cians, as well as paymentsfor housing and for employ-ee compensation for takinghome county vehicles in2009 and 2010.

County Pays IRS $15,000

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