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May 16 - 22, 2007 l Vol. 5 Issue 22
Pinedale Blues broke
Pathways
14
County OKs plan
Grand opening
19
New counseling center ready
Them on Us
22
Girlfriend getaways
AR T/MUSIC
Arts, Music
and Events
Calendar
32
Music Box
32
Knotty Pine’s 11th
ElkFest
33
Take this arch home
ArtBeat
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35
NMWA marks 20th
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Joint board selects
comp plan consultants
After a lengthy search process, the joint
Jackson Town Council and Teton County
Board of Commissioners named a consulting group to help guide them through the
reworking of their respective comprehensive plans.
Clarion Associates, a land use planning
firm with five offices across the U.S.
including two in Colorado, beat out fellow
finalist candidate Winston Associates for
the contract to redo the current comp
plan, which was adopted in 1994. The
committee that interviewed the two firms
unanimously recommended Clarion to the
joint board.
In March, Clarion and Winston were
directed to resubmit proposals to the joint
board, because the two companies
addressed budgeting in disparate ways. At
that point, it became the position of the
joint board that the $100,000 allotted by
the county and $50,000 set aside by the
town was a gross underestimate of what it
would cost to bring in consulting firm that
could effectively guide Jackson Hole
through comp plan revisions.
Clarion was awarded the contract based
on their estimate of $247,000.
— Ben Cannon
Construction to begin
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with the construction of the new Davey
Jackson Elementary School.
Of course, before there can be construction, there must be some destruction.
“It’s going to look like a construction
site very quickly,” Thibeault said at last
week’s school board meeting.
A few of the modular buildings around
JES have begun to be disconnected and
will soon be moved to serve as classrooms
and a lunch hall while the new JES is being
built. Work on the sewer and water lines
just off Jean Street will begin next week,
which may change bus drop-off to the west
side of the building and most certainly will
disrupt traffic, school officials said.
Despite the new activity, plans for the
new JES are still being put together
according to Thibeault. “We are almost
done with the design phase.” The building
committee will meet on Thursday to discuss room layouts and interior schemes,
as well as courtyard and playground
designs in hopes of finalizing the plans.
Deconstruction of JES will begin after
the school year is complete in mid June.
Construction of the new JES building is
scheduled to begin in August.
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rice protein had been added to the company’s chicken and turkey flavors as a protein enhancement.
The addition of rice protein was unauthorized by Mulligan Stew and the company voluntarily recalled the chicken and
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With funding uncertain,
Pinedale might lose the blues
Dan Abernathy is Sublette County’s resident free spirit. The tall man with a bellowing voice and graying shoulder-length
hair is known as much for his self-proclaimed “hippie” style as he is for his
Rock Rabbit coffee shop.
Recently, though, he’s been losing sleep
because Pinedale’s annual summer blues
Photo by Andrew Wyatt
Charlotte Lee pokes her face through an opening in an inflatable play
room on the grounds of the Town Square park during the festivities after
Saturday’s Spring Clean-up Day.
festival faces cancellation this year and
ever after.
“In about two weeks, if we don’t see the
kind of money we need, I’m going to cancel [the Pinedale Blues Fest],” Abernathy
said on Saturday.
Five years ago, Abernathy and the late
Gayle McMurray Kinnison, who passed
away in December, founded Pinedale Blues
Inc. Through that holding, Kinnison con-
tributed over half of the nearly $300,000
needed to budget the two-day music festival, which has never turned a profit.
When Kinnison, whose family amassed a
great deal of wealth from Sublette County’s
natural gas boom, passed away, Wells
Fargo became the trust of her holdings,
including stock for Pinedale Blues Inc.
The trust removed Abernathy from the
board and moved to dissolve the holding.
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Cub and Boy Scouts, who earlier this spring scoured the National
Elk Refuge for antlers shed by the thousands of bulls who wintered there, will help auction off the odd commodity to raise
money to benefit both the Refuge and their own troops’ operations. Vendors from around the region will sell antlers they’ve
picked up here and there as well as various other critter parts and
pieces. Boone and Crockett will display record setting racks,
elkhorn artisans will display their handiwork at the Antler
Rendezvous on the Teton County Fairgrounds, the Rocky
Mountain Elk Foundation will hosts its annual big game banquet
and auction fundraiser at the Bar J Chuckwagon, and local
Rotarians will auction off an entire elk antler arch – all 10,000
pounds of it – to raise money for the Town Square elk antler arch
restoration project. All sorts of good deeds occur during ElkFest,
for sure, and to think it all arises from those funny horns that elk
grow each year the way you and I grow our hair.
Elk might be Jackson Hole’s special totem. The 25,000-acre
National Elk Refuge defines the city of Jackson, at least on its
northern border; that view up the valley all the way to
Yellowstone will remain open and unobstructed for as long as the
law of the land holds fast. In the 1910s, thousands of Jackson
Hole elk dying of starvation during harsh winters, and the efforts
of local residents to save them, thrust the community into the
national limelight. Back in pioneer days, legends tell, elk ivories
were better than American cash for provisions. And no doubt the
original inhabitants of the region held the wapiti in high regard,
not only for their ability to survive the cruel winters, but for the
life-giving meat, hide and bone they supplied.
Today, the form of the elk graces the logo of the National
Museum of Wildlife Art. There are many businesses around the
valley named after the animal. Our fall economy is based largely
upon them, be it hunters hiring outfitters to lead them into the
woods or art patrons paying thousands for paintings or sculptures of them. First-time visitors, long-time residents, valley
natives – we all stop to admire them when we encounter them in
the wild or see hundreds clustered on the Refuge in the winter.
As much as we love them – revere them, even – you’d think our
resident elk would be about as safe as anything wild could be in
the hands of human beings, but no. Diseases like brucellosis and
chronic wasting threaten their numbers. The last of their critical
winter range continues to be gobbled up by development. And
their populations are still toyed with – “managed,” some call it –
like pork bellies or interest rates.
Yes, we do love our elk. But until we RESPECT them, they’re
just as endangered as anything else that is wild and free.
LETTERS
Bans will ban tourists too
As an ex-smoker, I have always made an
attempt to ask others around me if it would
bother them if I smoke, or I would move to
another area. Most smokers are polite and
don’t wish to inflict their habit on others.
Your wanting to make Jackson Hole a
smoke-free town will cause financial hurt
to our local businesses ...
Will you put up a big sign saying:
“Welcome to Jackson Hole, all non-smokers and non-body piercers ... the rest, go
elsewhere.
After a few tickets, they will take their
vacation money and go where it is more
friendly and forgiving.
Some locals want this to be a wellness
town – we have spas for that. Next we will
be allowed to only eat veggies (hey ranchers, there goes your income).
I’m not into body piercings but if I
were, it would be my choice, my body.
The rights given to me by the constitution, whether it be abortion or sticking a
bone through my nose.
When the few sway the government to
make poor decisions for the many, it is
time to reevaluate our government.
I see our future, in George Orwell’s novel
“1984.” Big brother and they are watching.
Rhonda Revercomb
Jackson, Wyo.
Ban not based on facts
I would like to set the record straight about
the events leading up to the bans on body
piercing and other forms of body art in Teton
County. The board went as far as to name me
liaison and Tony, who is a health inspector,
was named my contact in the Dept.
At the last meeting we attended, we
were told by the board, and their lawyer,
“This is not the end.” Addendums would
be written to the rules, based on our suggestions – most to make the rules more
stringent. Then we’d have another sit
down where we’d have another chance to
speak. The board then underhandedly
called a meeting without notifying me.
Even my contact at the Dept. was only
told about it just right before, so he didn’t
have time to inform me. I am the only
business affected by these rules. Would it
have been too much to notify me about
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from page 4
the meeting?
... I am appalled by the lack of integrity
and professionalism of the board. They
gave us a false sense of hope that we could
work together and misled us into thinking
we were to have another public meeting
before any decisions were made.
When I heard about this last meeting,
from the paper asking for comment, I immediately called Terri Gregory, Public Health
Manager. I called every day for the next four
days, was told she was in, but kept getting
her voicemail. Ms. Gregory finally returned
my call at the end of the business day on Fri.
just as we were leaving. The Health Dept
knew we were to be in Las Vegas at the
(APP) Association of Professional Piercers
12th Annual Conference ...
While there we attended a roundtable
discussion on legislation, a class to become
certified in Female Genital Piercing, and
also met with Health Officials from large
cities who have been successfully and safely legislating and overseeing this industry
without bans for years. ...
Our Health Dept, instead of attending
(for free) and making the decision to better understand the industry, decided it
would just be easier for them to ban every-
thing they didn’t understand. They even
went as far as to ban something that doesn’t exist, lacing. There is nothing recognized by the industry as lacing. So that
goes to show you how much they really
understand about what they are regulating.
I want to stress, we are all for regulating
this industry. The APP is all for regulating
this industry, but for doing it in a constructive way, not one based in ignorance. Over
the past ten years there have been four
unregulated shops in Jackson offering these
services and not one problem to speak of. ...
The last article in the Planet (“Board of
Health bans extreme forms of body art in
Teton County”, May 2) said about the
City of Casper’s ban on certain body arts:
“We had the impression that it was too
invasive and had the high potential for
infection.” They had the impression? Not
fact, not evidence, nothing but their
impression? This is just plain scary. We
should be outraged. I have no problem
banning things that are dangerous, with
evidence from studies and statistics. But
just a few people’s feelings are not acceptable criterion for legislation.
The APP has numerous doctors, nurses,
lawyers and health care professionals as
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LETTERS
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Right to Life of Teton County
PO Box 8313 • Jackson, WY 83002
733-5564 • Elaine Kuhr
see LETTERS page 12
BEST OF THE BLOG
■ Jim Blittersdorf is not delusional!
And former Alpine Mayor Dave Lloyd
doesn’t want to go on the record
because every time he tries to talk out of
both sides of his mouth, he implicates
himself! ... Blittersdorf has the right to
run his place anyway he wants within the
laws of the Constitution.
talking about. They aren't even aware of
what is going on behind the scenes ... I
have never written any comments before
because, quite frankly, I don't give a crap
about petty stuff ... But I do care when I
read some sob story, and people are
buying into it. It's similar to a wolf in
sheep's clothing ... Blittersdorf goes
around slandering anybody who has different beliefs or, God forbid, would dare
to make them adhere to some rules or
laws ...
■ I can’t believe the newspapers keep
encouraging this wack job and printing
his “poor me” line of crap. Maybe the
reporters/newspapers should check into
Blittersdorf’s upstanding background
and while you are at it check into
Christoferson’s. Rumor has that they are
not the most upstanding business owners both past and present. I have been
living in Alpine for almost six years now.
... Let me start out by saying that I am not
Mormon and don't mind that there is a
bar that provides strippers and alcohol.
... Peole really don't know what they are
■ This all seems like typical small
town crap. Yes, the Bull Moose runs a
kind of business that the area isn’t
used to, but until they do something
illegal, everyone, including town council, should shut their mouths and start
worrying about more important things.
Such as Alpine having to support major
growth. And as far as the Bible thumping goes, if someone needs to consult
the Bible to pray to put someone out of
business, my guess would be that
maybe they have a little too much time
on their hands ...
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What is the source of their belief?
— W.S. Merwin, from One Story
Biodiversity, endangered species, the
Encyclopedia of Life: It may no longer be
Lately, it seems I’m often reminded enough to argue over the laws necessary
about dialogue and the role that gaps in to protect all life. We need to go deeper
communication might be playing in under- into the narrative of why the lives of
standing and addressing key conservation organisms are integral to our lives, what
issues of our time. During last month’s those who study each life form really
ECO-Fair, I had the chance to
know, and how each extinction
We need to go
talk with Rick Piltz, the author
contributes to the demise of
deeper into
of many official government
our own species.
the narrative
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Wilderness: Besides details
climate change. He wants cliof roads and habitat on one
of why the
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side of the issue, and access
lives of organbetter articulate what they
and industry on the other,
isms are inteknow to general audiences.
what if we were given the time
gral to our
I’ve spoken with lawyers workand a safe space to tell why it
ing on cases involving the
lives, what
is that we actually care?
Endangered Species Act. The
Earlier this month, narrative
those who
complicated terminology used
was the subject of a four-day
study life
narrowly selects who is involved
seminar at The Murie Center.
forms really
in an issue and repels a huge segThirteen young career conserknow ...
ment of the interested public.
vationists met as part of our
And last week, in an effort
Next Generation Project, the
to make the mountains of information goal of which is to make the environmengathered by scientists known and accessi- tal movement accessible and attractive to
ble to everyone, the Chicago Field more people. These people are Caucasian,
Museum announced the launching of the Hopi, Hawaiian, and Rwandan, from
“Encyclopedia of Life,” a $50 million Alaska, Arizona, Idaho and California.
project in which every known species will Storyteller Laura Simms and writer Terry
be given its own Web page.
Tempest Williams guided our group
For me, interpreting the massive through a series of exercises exploring
amounts of available scientific informa- narrative not so much to help us “solve”
tion for the public is only part of the role the issues, but to understand them at a
narrative might play in building more deeper level.
effective constituencies. The more I think
To accomplish this, we each created a
about this, the more I believe that people story. We began by simply describing a
working on either side of an issue – biodi- meaningful wild landscape from our past.
versity, wilderness, endangered species, By the time we’d finished, our stories had
climate change, supplemental elk feeding drilled down through our personal and
– have at their core a personal story on unique relationship to those places to a
which their political, scientific or profes- magical point where somehow they took
sional opinion is built.
on the characteristics of a universal myth,
In a sense, the facts used are really only like a thousand year-old fairy tale.
a means of supporting this personal story.
I still don’t know how it happened, but
All the charts and maps and lines on we had the feeling that we’d tapped into
those maps, all the laws and all the strate- something that all humans share, a knowlgies are on the surface, obscuring the real edge of a new place to begin thinking
story, because for some reason, we’re not about not just how to take care of places,
comfortable telling that real, true story.
but why. We left not knowing exactly how
What story lies beneath the surface of to use what we’d learned. Fortunately
the issues we’re constantly confronting?
we’ll be meeting three more times
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Last month, Gov. Chet Culver of Iowa mail, we firmly believe that missing a
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have benefited from same-day registration Day registration into effect. And the need
since the early 1970s and no case of voter for this critical reform did not escape the
fraud has ever been attributed to the policy. notice of Congressional leaders who
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Though one of us is a Republican and
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Thermometers and temperatures
Even though some of our local bank thermometers have
topped 80 degrees this spring, the “official” thermometer at
the Jackson Climate Station behind the U.S. Forest Service
office has yet to hit that mark.
Some days there can be a large discrepancy between
thermometers around town – as much as 10 degrees in
two blocks or the distance between banks! The reasons for
this are the type of thermometer used and the shielding of
that thermometer.
The “official” thermometer (used to keep our daily
records for over 50 years) is a very precise mercury-filled
glass unit that must be read by hand and reset each day.
This thermometer is housed in a specifically designed
instrument shelter, which is vented and also shielded from
direct sunlight and precipitation.
Most bank thermometers, and many home thermometers
today, use a less precise thermistor probe – a sensor on
the end of a wire – and are electronically controlled with a
digital readout. These thermometers
can give an artificially high reading
when the area the probe is housed in
gets heated up by the sun, especially
when lacking the proper shielding and
ventilation.
MAY 16, 1007
What is it normally like in
Jackson this week?
AVERAGE
HIGH
AVERAGE
LOW
65°F
32°F
Normal May
Precipitation:
Normal May
Snowfall:
1.88 inches
1 inch
What it can be like in
Jackson this week:
RECORD
HIGH
83°F
May 19, 1954
RECORD
LOW
13°F
May 21, 1975
Wettest May ever:
6.02 inches (1980)
Snowiest May ever:
8 inches (1973)
Information provided by meteorologist Jim Woodmencey
www.mountainweather.com at the base of the Tetons
Time to get your bike out and enjoy the spring weather!
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1. Saddle: be sure it is level - tilted forward will put pressure on your hands tilted back may strain your back
2. Proper handle bar height - improper height may affect your neck and shoulders
3. Knee to foot to pedal - this angle is important to decrease stress on your knees
4. Pedaling - practice making full circles with each leg by pedaling with one foot
at a time
5. Cadence - pedaling around 80-90 RPMs decreases your chance of knee injuries
6. Stay flexible - keep hamstrings, quadriceps, calves and gluteal muscles flexible
7. Change your position frequently on the bike while riding
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NATIONAL OPINION
by Olivier Roy
Sarkozy: friend or faux?
DREUX, France — Nicolas Sarkozy, who will take over
the presidency from Jacques Chirac, has often been
dubbed by the left in France as “Sarkozy the American.”
His victory has also been greeted in American conservative
circles as an unprecedented break with the “French disease” (welfare state, 35-hour workweek, national arrogance,
anti-Americanism, etc.).
Certainly, Sarkozy is pro-American and anti-bureaucracy
and has no problem hobnobbing with the rich, as shown by
his luxury (and very short) vacation on a billionaire’s yacht
in Malta after his election. He also claims that he will make
a clear break with Chirac’s policies ... but ... there is no neoconservative or Thatcherist revolution in sight for France.
Sarkozy may present himself as what the French call a
“libéral” on the economy – that is, someone who favors a
free market – but when he was the finance minister, the
taxes and social charges paid by business did not decline,
he blocked foreign takeover bids and bailed out an ailing
French company, Alstom, with taxpayer money. The general deregulation that American conservatives envision isn’t
in the works. So far, European Union rules have been much
more important in fostering a liberalization of the French
economy than any French politician.
This is not a matter of hypocrisy, but of political will.
Sarkozy may be a libéral on the economy, but he is not a
political libéral; he may want to downsize the bureaucracy,
but he favors a strong state. Surely the declarations of
Sarkozy against the European Central Bank’s tight monetary
policy and in defense of a weaker euro are more interventionist than laissez-faire.
[Sarkozy]
True libérals are a rarity in
claims that he
France, both on the left and the
right. To be elected, Sarkozy had
will make a
to reach out to very different layclear break
ers of French society, and it overwith Chirac’s
whelmingly favors a welfare state.
policies
... but
There is a real danger of a coalition of the discontented, as hapthere is no
pened in 1995 when striking neoconservative
unions and students paralyzed the
or Thatcherist
country for weeks.
revolution in
Although Sarkozy will certainly
sight for
adopt a lower profile in foreign
policy, that does not mean that he
France.
will endorse the American neoconservative strategy. First, that strategy is dead. Second,
even when there were enough people on both sides of the
issue in France to have a debate about the United States
intervention in Iraq, Sarkozy, while condemning the antiAmerican tone of Chirac as arrogant, never advocated joining the American coalition.
He is obviously a staunch friend of Israel and lacks expe-
rience with the Arab world, but his stand on the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, beyond the emotions, is the traditional
French position (the two-state solution through bilateral
negotiations). On Iran he criticized the recent softening of
the French stance, but that merely means that he will return
the government to advocating economic sanctions. By categorically opposing the entry of Turkey in Europe, he breaks
with the United States policy, but he is in tune with French
public opinion.
Although the new cabinet has not yet been appointed,
the names given out by Sarkozy’s close circle confirm that
it will hardly be a neoconservative government: some former leftists (Bernard Kouchner, a founder of Doctors
Without Borders, and former Foreign Minister Hubert
Védrine) some members of the floating center and some
pro-environment conservatives (former Prime Minister
Alain Juppé). The only suggested minister associated with
the “moral right,” Christine Boutin, opposes same-sex
marriage but is also well known for advocating a “right for
housing” for the homeless.
Americans misunderstand what a “conservative” France
could be: It does not mean a drastic shift toward a free
market and traditional moral values, but a balance
between a welfare (and strong) state and a more flexible
labor market. Under “Sarkozy the American,” France will
remain very French.
Olivier Roy, a professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, is the author of “Globalized Islam.”
c.2007 The New York Times Distributed by The New York Times Syndicate.
NATIONAL OPINION
by Michelle Malkin
Ingrates plot to kill soldiers
Well, here’s the thanks we get. Eight years inal complaint describes the plotters, along
ago, America opened its arms to tens of thou- with a confidential informant, gathering at
sands of ethnic Albanian refugees from a rental house to train with Mujahadin
Kosovo. The first planeload landed at Fort video games:
“Members of the group pointed out that
Dix, New Jersey. Military leaders worked day
and night to turn the base into a child-friend- United States military vehicles were shown
ly village. They coordinated medical and being destroyed in various attacks. Shain
security checkups, mental health and trauma Duka pointed out that a United States
Marine’s arm had been blown off, at which
counseling and ethnic food preparations.
Soldiers from Fort Bragg traveled up from point laughter erupted from the group.”
Just hard-working, “undocumented citiNorth Carolina to assist in refugee operazens” plotting and laughing at
tions at Fort Dix. Then-U.S.
You think all
the anti-American atrocities
Army Brig. Gen. Mitchell M.
our hospitality
ordinary Americans wouldn’t
Zais also assembled a team of
laugh at, yeah? If they had
about 80 soldiers from the U.S.
and charity
only laid low a few extra
Army Reserve Command in
bred good will
months, they might have gotAtlanta. The New Jersey
in these young
ten that illegal alien amnesty
National Guard and American
men – all in
Bush and Congress are so
Red Cross teamed up to coordieager to hand out.
nate charity relief. The military
their 20s and
According to the criminal
also supported the relief effort’s
enjoying the
complaint, they laughed at our
interagency task force, headed
fruits of the
troops getting maimed and
by the Department of Health
American
killed. They soaked up Osama
and Human Services.
bin Laden’s evil rants. They
In addition to food and shel- Dream? Forget
studied the 9/11 hijackers’ last
ter, we provided translators,
about it.
wills and testaments. They conwelfare consultants and Muslim
chaplains. The base constructed prayer templated infiltrating our armed forces to
rooms and handed out Muslim “sensitivity” frag soldiers from the inside. They relished
cards to the troops. Said Gen. Zais: “We the thought of spilling American blood on
want to welcome these people to America American soil. Is yours boiling yet?
“My intent is to hit a heavy concentration of
the way we might wish our grandparents and
great-grandparents had been welcomed to soldiers,” Jordanian-born naturalized U.S. citizen Mohamad Shnewer is quoted telling the
Ellis Island.”
Fast-forward from 1999 to recent headline plotters. “You hit four, five, six humvees and
news: “Fort Dix Plot Aimed At Soldiers; light the whole place [up] and retreat comAuthorities Say 6 Islamic Militants Arrested, pletely without any losses.”
Eight years ago, at the Clinton administraWere Plotting Attack At N.J. Base.” Three of
the alleged plotters were illegal alien broth- tion’s behest, this nation welcomed refugees
ers from the former Yugoslavia. Another was escaping a genocidal regime whose military
a legal permanent resident from the former spread fear and brutalized its people. Eight
Yugoslavia. Another hailed from Jordan, and years later, we have a homegrown jihad plot
the sixth was a naturalized American citizen targeting a base that symbolizes the best, the
brightest and the most compassionate our miloriginally from Turkey.
According to the criminal complaint itary has to offer.
And what is the Muslim community doing
against Dritan Duka, one of the illegal alien
brothers accused of knowingly and willfully to condemn the accused traitors in our
conspiring with the jihadi gang to kill U.S. midst? Carping about the government’s
soldiers, the plotters have schemed for more actions to stop jihad in its tracks:
“If these people did something, then they
than a year to murder our troops. One of the
participants used to deliver pizza to the base deserve to be punished to the fullest extent
and knew the military facility “like the palm of the law,” said Muslim lawyer Sohail
Mohammed. “But when the government
of his hand.”
You think all our hospitality and charity says ‘Islamic militants,’ it sends a message to
bred good will in these young men – all in the public that Islam and militancy are syntheir 20s and enjoying the fruits of the onymous.’”
The thanks we get, huh?
American Dream? Forget about it. The crimMichelle Malkin is author of “Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild.” Her e-mail
address is [email protected]. COPYRIGHT 2007 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
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For shame, Wyoming DMV.
How dare you mess with an icon,
with tradition? Beginning in 2009,
motorists will be given the opportunity to
switch over to the new license plate. I pray no
one does. The new tags are defective.
The updated plates will employ the
same drab powder blue/white color
scheme but gone will be the Devil’s Tower
backdrop, which bowed in 1999. It will be
replaced by the Tetons. That’s the good
news. Then the DMV starts screwing up.
The vertically-stacked county numbers –
which, for those who still wonder, are
based on assessed valuations as of 1928 –
will now be horizontally placed and as big
as the individual plate numbers. That’s
bad news for Teton County drivers who
eternally suffer the “hoity-toity” stigma
when traveling the Cowboy State. (Just try
driving three miles over the posted speed
limit in downtown Dubois with “22” tags
and see how long it takes the cash register
to ring in the Sheriff’s patrol truck.)
But the real issue, the dirty deed, is the
incredible shrinking bucking horse.
Officials have scaled down the state’s
instantly recognizable iconic emblem. Not
since 1936 has the signature artwork ever
been meddled with. The new look shrinks
this classic “road-eo” graphic to approximately half its current size. Unacceptable,
fellow Wyomingites.
— Jake Nichols
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Some politicians
need a time out
You wouldn’t want a chemist
negotiating with Osama Bin
Laden or waging the War on Terror, would
you? So why the hell would you want politicians determining the fate of wildlife and
the environment?
The recent proposal to remove gray
wolves in the Yellowstone area from the
Endangered Species List has ecologists,
wildlife biologists and researchers – i.e.,
those that know their asses from their
heads when it comes to wolves and the
health of their population –up in arms.
Legislatures in Idaho, Wyoming and
Montana propose to reduce the minimum
populations drastically, a move that over
230 scientists worldwide denounced in a
letter to federal wildlife officials.
Politicians making decisions that go
beyond their field of expertise seems to be
a reoccurring theme these days. Rick Piltz,
the man that blew the whistle on government censorship of a scientific climate
change research project, presents another
example of political and economic interests
overruling scientific evidence and the right
of the people of the United States to know
that we are killing ourselves by having oil
for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
What’s next? Politicians making decisions for trained armed generals on the
ground in Iraq from their plush Capitol
Hill offices? Oh wait, that’s been happening from the get go.
—Lucille Rice
BRIEFS
from page 3
Also, they forbade Abernathy from using
the trademarked Pinedale Blues Festival
moniker, and so he changed the name to
Pinedale Music Festival.
It seems unlikely the festival will ever
receive any funds from Kinnison’s estate,
though Abernathy said there is “one little
thing we might be able to get some money
out of” within the estate.
“It seems to me that nobody is really
seeing the urgency to raise money right
now,” he added.
Locally operating energy companies
Questar and Encana contribute about
one-sixth of the festival’s budget. Ticket
sales and Kinnison’s contribution made
up for the rest.
This year’s lineup would include Dr.
John, Johnny Lang, Blind Dog Smokin’,
Bobby Rush, Bonnie Raitt slide guitarist
Roy Rogers, and Pinedale Blues Fest staple Miss Blues, who sang at Kinnison’s
funeral. Abernathy aims to draw crowds
with no charge for admission.
“With the lineup we have, if we hold it
for free, we’ll have thousands and thousands of people here,” he said.
Pinedale’s Fine Arts Council is helping
to secure a nonprofit designation for the
festival, and Abernathy is courting sponsorship from at least one company.
“We need a blues enthusiast who has
deep pockets like Gayle did,” Abernathy
said. “I think in [Kinnison’s] memory, it
would be terrible to see this thing die.”
To become a benefactor of the Pinedale
Music Fest, contact Dan Abernathy at
(307) 231-1822.
— Ben Cannon
JH Film Fest passes
are on sale
Passes are on sale for the fourth annual
Jackson Hole Film Festival, set to run
June 7-11. Full festival passes are on sale
for $175.
This year’s festival will include 93 films
– shorts, feature-length movies, sports
action flicks, “Global Insights” documentaries, student entries and films from and
about Asia – screening at five downtown
locations.
Special guests include filmmakers and
film and TV stars, UN dignitaries who
will speak about human trafficking and
educating young women, and none other
than the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars,
the hit musical group born out of civil war
in West Africa. Special events include parties, panel discussions and the culminating awards ceremony.
There are a variety of passes available
for purchase, but Festival Pass holders
receive “star” treatment, with access to all
screenings and panels, priority admittance to events and free access to the
Hospitality Lounge.
Get them while you can. Call 733-8144
or visit www.jacksonholefilmfestival.org
for details or sales.
— Richard Anderson
Reality dating show
casts net at JH
The CW Network, perhaps best known
for its critically acclaimed reality show
“Pussy Cat Dolls: The Search for the
Next Doll,” recently contacted Planet
Jackson Hole, hoping the valley might
be home to some agrarian all-American
boy interested in allowing a number of
gals to vie for his attention on national
television.
“We’re looking for someone who wants
to meet 10 beautiful ladies,” said Becky
Cattie, who is casting “Farmer Wants a
Wife,” a reality show that will introduce
women “fed up with the city life” to a man
between the ages of 22 and 30 with a
“good-ole boy attitude.”
The bachelor, Cattie said, should have
real farming or ranching experience and,
ideally, some land to film on, though the
network could arrange a location.
The show is scheduled to film for three
weeks beginning in July. The bachelor will
be given “a little compensation” for his
time, Cattie said.
Interested candidates should contact
Cattie “immediately” with age, description of farm/ranch work, a short essay
detailing why he is single, and five photos
– ideally taken while working the
cattle/land.
Email
her
at
[email protected].
— Ben Cannon
Correction
In the “In Other News …” section of last week’s Council Chronicles, the outcome of
Greg Prugh’s proposed upzone of the Third Karns Addition was reported incorrectly.
The council voted 3-1 to not approve the proposal, with Mayor Mark Barron voting in
favor and Councilman Bob Lenz abstaining.
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LETTERS
from page 5
members. The fact that the doctors who sit on the Teton
County board are negating what fellow MDs – some of whom
have 20 years experience in the body arts field – have to say
is disgraceful. …
The first step in public health policy making, the Assessment
Step, is mandatory to determine if a problem exists at all. This
essential assessment step has not been carried out by our local
authorities and allows them to base their body art rulings on
feelings, intuition and anecdotal cases without, and in some
cases in spite of, evidence to the contrary. …
Unfortunately people with no background in body art are
faced with the task of preparing body art standards. As a
result, faulty, unsupportable standards have filled the void. ...
There is no supporting evidence for any significant risk to the
public, regarding the banned practices; the evidence is actually to the contrary. The banned piercings are actually less
problematic than most.
So in closing, let’s regulate the criteria of the body arts professionals themselves, shop procedure, aseptic technique and
cleanliness, which in the long run, will prevent more problems than banning anything ever will.
Susan Woodward
Owner, Sub-Urban Tattoo & Piercing, Jackson, Wyo.
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Iraq a conspiracy?
“The consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger,
makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the
natural, unavoidable condition of survival.”
— “1984” by George Orwell
Representative Cubin, You’re “fight to win” guest columnist in the Feb. 21, 2007, Planet Jackson Hole, eerily reminded me of sideline pep talks from childhood soccer games perverted with Orwellian “Newspeak” straight out of “1984.”
This concerned me enough to respond to [you].
The current Dalai Lama, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has
stated recently that “war is outdated.” The experiences since
the U.S. invasion of Iraq are proving this statement to be
true. This realization, however, is unfortunately not the result
of enlightened consciousness, but the exact opposite.
War has become outdated not because of superior hi-tech
weaponry, but due to the fact that the insurgents have resorted to fanatically primal levels to further their cause.
Specifically, war has become outdated because you can
never win when there is an endless supply of fundamental
martyrs willing to transform themselves into human guided
cruise missiles.
You write fervently about how important it is to win this war,
but it appears to me and millions of other concerned U.S. citizens that it is already lost. Of course, we now know that the
WMDs turned out to be “Weapons of Mass Delusion” and that
the preemptive strike was never justified in the first place.
Please, shake a little more salt on those “freedom fries.”
A troop surge is merely a desperate attempt to prolong the
inevitable and dump that responsibility onto Democratic hands
after ’08 elections. Frankly, I am surprised that Republican candidates have even bothered running at all. It is important to remind
you that the “disgrace forever” you mention rests solely on the
Bush regime, not the entire United States.
You also state that “we did not choose to start this war,”
but the facts, figures, and especially the physics behind 9/11
reveal an entirely different story. It points to an “inside job.”
A Pearl Harbor type incident choreographed to initiate the
Iraqi conflict. War is big business after all and if business is
slow, then why not start a war?
I suspect that the Iraq fiasco will end like an old “Scooby
Doo” rerun. When the mask of Bin Laden is finally removed,
we’ll see Dick Cheney’s grimacing face. “Rats, those meddling kids.”
Joshua Doolittle
Jackson, Wyo.
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Joint board approves Pathways master plan
by Melanie Stein
After three years of talking, planning and deliberating,
the Pathways master plan was officially approved by the
Joint Powers Board – the Jackson Town Council and Teton
County Board of Commissioners – on Monday morning.
The plan will serve as a planning and management tool
for the Jackson Hole Community Pathways program for the
next five years and represents a vision for the next 25 years.
During the April 2 Joint Information Meeting, council
members and commissioners suggested a few edits and
revisions, specifically pertaining to the addition of a fiveyear capital project priority list and revisions to the vision
maps and study areas within the plan. After these adjustments were made, the plan was released to the public for
comment on April 17.
On Monday, the board continued to express concern
about specific elements of the plan, largely referring to
terminology used in it. Brian Schilling, director of
Community Pathways, described modifications made to
the plan during the past month and answered questions.
Commissioner Ben Ellis asked for clarification on why
Community Pathways decided to transition from 25-year
vision maps to 5-year vision maps and how it would affect
implementation.
“Having discussed the issue with the [Pathways] Task Force,
staff considers it best to remove contentious areas at this time,”
Schilling said. “Despite popular opinion, the sole purpose of
the pathways program is not to anger landowners. It is vitally
important to develop relationships with landowners.”
In other words, creating 5-year vision maps sets priorities and helps achieve a middle ground for pathways,
wildlife issues and for landowners concerned about possible pathways alignments.
Among other concerns were language in the Fish
Creek/Teton Village Connector study area, and a reference to the North Jackson study area as a corridor.
The meeting opened for public comment, where community members spoke out in favor of the plan, on behalf
of wildlife, and with concern for property owners.
After some tweaking, the joint board unanimously approved
the 2007 Pathways master plan with several amendments.
The capital project priorities for the next five years
include: complete streets, Highway 22 pathway, South
Park Loop pathway, High School Road, Karns Meadow
pathway, North Jackson, Teton Science Schools connector, Highway 89 North pathway to the southern border of
GTNP, Highway 22/Wilson School connector, and a
Highway 89 South pathway. Long-term study areas include
North Jackson, Snow King Hillside, a Fish Creek/Teton
Village connector, South Park and Spring Gulch Road.
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It is hard to get Geordie Gillett on the phone,
much less sit him down for an interview. Between
staying up late with his newborn son (his second
child) and putting in many long days for his part
in the family business, the 34-year-old eldest son
of businessman George Gillett and front man for
Grand Targhee Resort often relies on a steady
intake of Diet Coke to keep caffeinated.
At his Victor, Idaho, office last Friday, Gillett
seemed a little weary, likely a byproduct of his
ongoing, laborious effort to expand the 37-yearold Alta, Wyo., resort from a regional ski hill to a
world-class, year-round destination resort. That
endeavor, in some form, has been in the public
process for over a decade.
“We’re so far into this, I hope there’s not going
to be a lot of surprises,” Gillett said, looking ahead
to the next series of meetings with the Teton
County Commissioners that began Tuesday. That
meeting, which focused on environmental
impacts, plus two more scheduled over the coming weeks, could very well signal the winding
down of talks between county and developer
(with public input) and finally bring the matter to
a deciding vote. There have been enough delays
and continuances, though, that it’s hard to believe
that that a decision – the commission’s outright
approval, denial or directive conditions that could
send Targhee back to the chalkboard – could be
only a couple of meetings away.
The proposed expansion, outlined in a Master
Plan for a Planned Unit Development for Planned
Resort (PUD-PR), aims to increase the number of
housing units at the resort from 96 to 725, with
nearly 60,000 square feet of commercial space
and 118,00 total square feet of resort amenities.
The lay of the land
Since a land exchange was finalized with the
U.S. Forest Service in 2004, Grand Targhee has
owned the 120-acre base area, situating the resort
like a private island in a vast lake of public
Caribou-Targhee National Forest lands. About 30
acres of that space is currently developed.
Because of the circumstances of the resort’s
location and the base area elevation of 8,000 feet,
coupled with immediate proximity to a wilder-
ness area known to be home to grizzly bear, wolf,
wolverine and lynx, along with other species
more prevalent in that area of the Greater
Yellowstone Ecosystem, the discussion and
debate has been complicated with many layers of
mitigation concerns.
Dr. Franz Camenzind, a wildlife specialist who
heads up the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance,
is an omnipresent audience member and public
commenter at all meetings Grand Targhee.
“Our biggest concern is the size of the development being proposed and the off-site impacts,”
Camenzind said at his Alliance office on Monday.
It is not so much the idea of the ski area itself
expanding for wintertime use that raises concerns
for Camenzind, as much as that, with considerable
development, the resort could become a popular
year-round destination that would likely funnel
thousands of visitors into the National Forest.
“In the wintertime people will be contained
[within Grand Targhee Resort’s boundaries], but
in the summer people are going to be hiking,
backpacking and camping, and the impact to
those four species could be significant,”
Camenzind warned. He noted that the grizzly
bear, which “extended its range as of last year,”
could be especially vulnerable to an influx of
human activity.
Teton Basin District Ranger Jay Pence of the
Caribou-Targhee National Forest is not as concerned with the potential for volumes of people
entering the forest at an expanded Grand Targhee
Resort as he is with how those people use the
Forest and what other mitigations could be put in
place to minimize impacts.
Pence oversees the Special Use Permit under
which the resort operates its ski acreage, and the
Forest Service holds pathway easements through
the privately owned base area to ensure access
open to the general public.
His chief concern is the spread of “non-system
trails plans,” user-created trails that occur when
hikers poach new paths and impact more areas
and wildlife. Pence said the demographic most
likely to create non-system trails are young people, so he advocated that most of Grand Targhee’s
employee housing be located away from the
resort. The expansion proposal put nearly 75 percent
by
of employee housing in
Ben Cannon
Driggs, Idaho.
Grand Targhee has also
pledged 500 employee
hours annually to help provide trail maintenance and
creation under Forest Service direction. Pence
called that move “pretty significant.”
Gillett’s willingness to work closely with
wildlife officials and advocacy groups has earned
him some good will from the opposition.
“We have adopted, I believe word for word,
every suggested plan the [Wyoming] Game & Fish
has come up with,” Gillett said.
Dialogue
For disagreeing greatly on the size and scale of
the proposal, Gillett and Camenzind have
remained cordial and maintained an ongoing dialogue that has enabled the Alliance to contribute
concerns and ideas throughout the process.
“There’s a lot of passionate people who care,
and I think that they should,” Gillett said, “and the
Conservation Alliance is by far the group I’ve had
the most dialogue with.”
Camenzind, who for the smaller-is-better
Targhee movement acts as the well-versed doppelganger to Design Workshop consultant and
Targhee voice Richard Shaw – an adept juggler of
development and mitigation numbers and plans –
feels that the development proposal is too large
and based on outdated environmental studies
that have become inadequate. By his estimates,
Camenzind believes that up to 4,000 people could
inhabit the expanded resort at peak times in the
summer. That figure would put the Grand Targhee
Resort among the top 20 percent of Wyoming
communities in terms of population.
What Camenzind advocates is, simply, “Far less
density. Far less density.”
Continuing, he said, “I think [Grand Targhee]
can have a sustainable nice business” on a much
smaller scale than what it is proposing. “I could
see some [new] hotels, some restaurant options
… It’s about finding the right size.”
see PIECES page 16
from PIECES page 15
The public process
BEN CANNON
GRAND TARGHEE
It would seem from Schwartz’s rhetoric that Grand
about greed here,” Gillett told Teton County, Wyo.,
What also makes Targhee’s position unique to other commissioners at Tuesday’s meeting. “It’s about sur- Targhee will eventually receive the county’s blessing
Jackson Hole resort areas is its location near Alta, a vival. We need these units to make this resort work. to expand, but by how much?
“How do we allow it to survive and thrive?” he
It’s as simple as that.”
Wyoming town isolated within
The night before the meeting, thought aloud. “It’s very subjective.”
its own county by rugged mounFor the average Jackson Hole resident, the proposal
Commissioner Chairman Andy
tains on one side and Idaho on
Schwartz offered some insight to of a Targhee expansion is not as contentious as, say,
the other. The towns most likely
the reality of resorts as places the Snake River Associates development was in previto be impacted by an expansion –
without zoning restrictions and ous years. For those who do concern themselves with
apart from tiny, bucolic Alta,
it, though, it is generally from a “green” standpoint,
his take on the public process.
which will likely be affected the
“We’ve always acknowledged with importance given mainly to wildlife and habitat
most – are Driggs and Victor in
Grand Targhee in the comp plan, and the like.
Teton Valley.
The next meeting, scheduled for May 29, will probit’s an existing resort,” Schwartz
Teton County, Idaho, which
said, alluding to advocacy group ably bring out public comment more focused on
made headlines recently when it
Save Historic Jackson Hole’s impact to humans. That evening meeting will be held
implemented a moratorium to
(SHJH) recent report on local at the Alta School.
catch up with residential sprawl,
Kathy Finnegan was one of the few (along with
resorts and the over-developand then again when a judge
Geordie Gillett, owner, Grand
Franz Camenzind and a Land
ment threat
overturned that emergency ordiTarghee Resort
Trust representative) who spoke
they pose at
nance, is often regarded as a
during the public comment porbuild
out.
place some 10s of years behind Jackson Hole with
tion of Tuesday’s meeting. The
regard to planning laws and growth. Because of this, The group called for a moratoriAlta “landowner” took off work
and probably also because of cultural differences um on all new resort developfor a second time to attend the
between the two Teton counties, if Grand Targhee ments, though SHJH director
hearing.
Resort were over the Idaho line, this process would Darrel Hoffman said the report
“We see this as a significant
was “neutral” in terms of the
likely be a much easier one for Gillett and company.
change to the city of Alta,”
Teton County, Idaho Commission Chairman Larry Targhee proposal.
Finnegan told the commissioners.
Part of what lengthens
Young, for his part, is supportive of the development.
“Will the county be able to pro“You have 120 acres of private land sitting there, and Jackson Hole’s resort planning
vide us with the infrastructure to
the pressure to develop it is never going to go away, process, is the lack of particular
sustain our way of life?”
and I think right now we have the best developer we zoning guidelines, which makes
For all that he is offering to
for an ongoing back-and-forth
will ever get,” Young said.
make the Targhee expansion proFrom an economic standpoint, Young’s community, between planning staff and
posal a sweet deal, Gillett seems
Franz Camenzind, executive
arguably more than that of Jackson Hole, has more at developers – a process chock
director, Jackson Hole
to feel that some opposition in
full of meetings.
stake with the resort’s economic viability.
Conservation Alliance
Alta is unfairly trying to back him
“We intentionally left resorts
“Targhee is an economic keystone of Eastern Idaho
into a corner.
without zoning because each
and especially Teton County,” he said.
“I’m sure we will be hearing about how we’re going
Gillett has said that for the resort to remain compet- resort is different,” Schwartz explained. “Targhee is
itive and viable, an expansion on the order of what he different in part because of the elevation, and it’s got to ruin Alta in about two weeks,” Gillett said. “Alta is
going to grow with or without Grand Targhee.”
is proposing is a necessary next step. “This is not these unique characteristics.”
TARGHEE AS ENVIRONMENTAL
AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC STEWARD
Design Workshop consultant
Richard Shaw, working on behalf of
Grand Targhee Resort, told the
Teton County Commissioners
Tuesday that the resort’s expansion proposal included “mitigations
unheard of in this region.”
The submitted Master Plan
includes dozens of mitigation
plans, some of them declared outright and listed below, and some
allude to plans that must still be
hashed out:
ENVIRONMENTAL MITIGATION
Bear mitigation plan; educational
programs; wildlife/vehicle collision; noxious weed management
plan; vegetation management
plan; recycling, solid waste, and
composting plan; wetlands setback; steep topography mitigation
plan; 100 percent of energy; consumption offset by renewables;
biodiesel in all diesel vehicles;
commitment of 500 hours of volunteer service annually for USFS; no
pet zone to ensure wildlife compatible management; include nonprofit groups with environmental direction as eligible to receive .5 percent real-estate transfer tax.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC MITIGATION
$150,000 toward design and construction of Alta Park; pro-rata
share for solid waste transfer station; Alta school support –
$150,000 minimum and up to
$300,000; contribute approximately 4 percent of revenue and 500
hours (in addition to 500 hour
USFS commitment) annually to
various groups; 0.8 acres for community service site; construction
of an 850-square-foot public services building; construction of a
250-square-foot public technology
center.
HOUSING MITIGATION
Establish a 501(c)3 nonprofit housing foundation to administer housing plan; provide 1 percent real
estate transfer fee to fund housing
– all revenue to Teton County,
Wyo.; provide up to $40,000 for a
housing needs study; deed restrict
housing for Teton County employment; housing to be constructed
concurrently with Grand Targhee
development; two affordable housing units in Alta; 12 affordable
housing units in Driggs; 48 on-site
employee housing units; 137.9
housing units Driggs.
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Donations are out, loans are in
by Sam Petri
Microfinance, the practice of lending
small amounts of money to the poor in
order for the poor to lift themselves up,
has existed for centuries. But until recently, it hasn’t always worked. Many
Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) of the
past and some of the present borrow large
amounts of money from commercial banks
at say, 15 percent, to lend small amounts
of money to their many customers at rates
as high as 35 percent. With the poor
unable to afford an interest rate that high,
the model fails.
San Francisco based Kiva.org uses the
Internet to connect venture capitalists
(you!) with the entrepreneurs of developing
countries in hopes of ending global poverty.
Here’s how it works: sign on to kiva.org and
find a third world entrepreneur you’d like to
invest in. Most need no more than one thousand dollars to get their business started.
Using a Paypal account, you can loan as little as $25 – a portion of the total amount
needed – to any entrepreneur in select
developing countries. Other Kiva members
do the same until there is enough money to
make the loan to the individual. You then
watch your money at work while the businessman or woman tries to leave poverty
and enters the world’s workforce. Once your
loan is repaid, you can choose to cash out,
or reinvest your $25 principle into another
business. According to Kiva, they’ve had a
100 percent return rate on all loans.
No, you don’t gain interest on your loan,
and neither does Kiva.org; they are a
501(c)(3) nonprofit. Your money works its
way through Paypal to an MFI that Kiva has
partnered with. Because your money arrives
at the MFI without a fee, the MFI can
charge their customer a much lower interest
rate, typically 16 percent, according to
Kiva. The MFI must charge this rate in
order to pay their local loan officers to
make sure the microloan (your money) is
repaid.
It’s a loan cycle that appears to be working, as Kiva has been in operation since
the fall of 2005. Valley residents Chad and
Katie Jackson have recently sponsored two
different female entrepreneurs: a single
mother in Haiti who wants to start a cooking operation, and a single mother in Togo
who needs equipment to improve her
onion farm. In both cases, their microloan
completed the total funds needed by the
businesses. Over 20 international investors
loaned money to these businesses to complete the $1,200 loan needed.
“Kiva is a more personal way to donate
money,” said Katie. “You can keep up-todate with their status, track their changes,
and see where your help is going.” She
continued, “You’re not giving them fish,
you’re teaching them how to fish – they are
creating business for themselves. It’s
investing in other people.”
Some people in the world live day-to-day
on pennies; a microloan could be their
ticket to financial independence. Once
established, these people can grow their
businesses, perhaps helping to end global
poverty by giving others a chance at a job.
New local theatre company finds home on the Square
by Sam Petri
After the Off Square Theatre Company’s
move to the Center for the Arts, the Pink
Garter Theatre at 50 W. Broadway became
available. The space is now home to the
Playmill Theatre, owned and operated by
Randy and Mysti Mugleston. If you have
trouble remembering the new company’s
name, just look to the enormous waterwheel-shaped sign that will be installed in
the next few days.
Randy used to work at the Playmill Theatre
in West Yellowstone, and is close friends with
the owners and operators, Roger and Heidi
Merrill. When the Muglestons saw that the E.
Broadway space was available, they pounced
on the opportunity and decided to open a
Playmill of their own.
“We’re excited to be here in Jackson,”
said Mysti. During the winter, both are theater professors at Montclaire State
University in New Jersey.
The Playmill Theatre opens Friday May 25
with “Nunsense,” a spoof about the misadventures of five nuns trying to organize a fundraiser. The next day, “CHAPS!” will open. The
show, a play on words, tells the story of a
British live radio show trying to put on an
American cowboy band show. And finally, on
June 15, “The Music Man” will open, a story
about a con man turned town hero.
Once all three shows open, Playmill will
perform them throughout the summer.
“Our goal is to entertain our audience from
the moment they enter our theater to the
time they leave,” said Randy.
The theater will be open from Memorial
Day to Labor Day. The same company will
perform each play. Aside from Sunday,
there are shows every day of the week.
Tickets are $20 and $25, with a 10 percent discount for seniors, and $5 off for
children. For more information visit
playmilljackson.com or call 200-4407.
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Of course, there’s a bit of a hitch.
You have to register a promotional certificate prior to the expiration date.
Once registered, they’ll send you your
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this is a way to cut out the initial cost
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Jackson Hole Community Counseling
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Mental health group has more resources to help community
The Jackson Hole Community Counseling Center
(JHCCC) is just weeks away from opening the doors of
its new $3.2 million facility to the public. And development director Tom Hickey, for one, can’t wait.
“I’ve been working in the hallway for the last month,”
Hickey said. “We have therapists trading offices, signing
up for offices on a regular basis. We just don’t have adequate space to provide our services. This new building
should solve all those issues.”
The Counseling Center employs a staff of 25, including
two psychiatrists, a contract-basis psychologist, and several masters-level licensed therapists. The Center provides
services for 1,000 people annually in Jackson, regardless
of an individual’s ability to pay. Hickey said crisis calls
were up 25 percent last year, with a quarter of all people
treated being under the age of 21. The agency provides a
wide range of services from 24-hour crisis intervention
and support to family outreach and counseling.
For a community that craves exercise and demands fitness, it’s sometimes perplexing how so many can, and do,
ignore their mental health. There are several stigmas
attached to seeking professional help, but Deb Sprague,
executive director at JHCCC, sees that way of thinking
slowly fading.
“We’re starting to see some shifts, generationally,”
Sprague said. “I know with people from my generation –
the sixties and seventies – there is still a stigma about
mental health. People don’t want to talk about it. Also,
this being the West, people have the attitude of taking
care of their own, thinking that they can handle their own
problems. But we’re seeing a lot more open mindedness,
especially in younger people.”
Oftentimes, individuals will not recognize the need for
professional counseling. “We [can help] a person who
may just be grieving or having a hard time with the loss of
a spouse, or a parent, or a child, or a friend; someone who
has moved from the grief period but just can’t shake some
depression that goes with that,” Sprague said. “Generally,
we give the statistic that 3 percent of the population, at
any given time, would be in need of mental health services. Some people need help for a shorter period of time
and some folks need help for a longer period of time.”
Most of the Counseling Center’s clientele is referrals
but walk-ins are always invited to arrive on-site or call.
Sprague brags that the staff is used to putting people at
ease. “Our people are very sensitive,” she said. “The comfort level, we hope, is really there for people and the ease
of access to crisis services is always there.” Sprague
added that a qualified therapist is always available on-site
or by phone.
Operating in Teton County since 1974, the JHCCC is
the sister agency to the Curran Seeley Foundation – an
alcohol and substance abuse counseling center – and
A Grand Opening
Grand opening celebrations for the Jackson Hole
Community Counseling Center will include:
- “People Say I’m Crazy,” a real-life story of one
artist’s struggle with schizophrenia. Meet the filmmaker, John Cadigan, at 5 p.m., Thursday, May 17
at the new building at 640 East Broadway. After
grand opening ceremonies, the film will be screened
at the Center for the Arts Auditorium. Tickets are
free but seating is limited.
- Open House. Friday, May 18 at 5 p.m., all are
invited to tour the new mental health facility. At 7
p.m., Paul E. Jones – a nationally acclaimed speaker
on bipolar disorder – will lecture at the Jackson
Hole Playhouse.
Tickets to either event are suggested to ensure
seating. Call 733-2046, or stop by at JHCCC (115
W. Snow King) or Mountain House (180 S. Cache).
Sprague is also aware of Wyoming’s long winters and
the effect they have on mental health. “Seasonal Affective
Disorder is real,” she said. “The fact that we do have long
winters of confinement means people don’t get to socialize as much and maybe they aren’t involved in as many
activities outside in the sunshine; these things all add up
to ‘cabin fever’ and it’s very real.”
“And, as far as depression, 80 percent of the people
who get help for depression receive some form of relief,”
Hickey added.
For now, Hickey would be happy with some financial
relief. Through grants, pledges, donations, and gifts, the
Counseling Center has raised nearly $2 million toward
the new facility at 640 East Broadway. “One of the unique
things that most people don’t understand about the
Counseling Center is that, for the most part, we are selffunding in our operating budget,” Hickey said. “For the
first time in 35 years we needed a major asset that will
house all of our operations. A one-time campaign and
then we can go back to helping people and not having to
spend all of our efforts and time on raising money.”
Last summer, Hickey led dozens of staff and volunteers
up Snow King to raise awareness and money for the new
Center. The uphill battle will begin again this summer
starting May 29 with $230,000 available in matching
money from the Newton Foundation.
“We’re certainly hoping that our grand opening celebration will give people the idea that this isn’t just a
dream, there is something to see now. And it’s ready to
open its doors to the community within the next month.
We’re hoping additional private donations and contributions from the community will help us get to our goal,”
Sprague said.
works closely with several area agencies including Teton
Youth and Family Services, CES, Mountain House, and
the Community Safety Network. This network of social
services is called the Teton County System of Care. “We
don’t do things in a vacuum,” Sprague said.
The headline-grabbing need for mental health counseling, at least in Wyoming, continues to be the alarming suicide rate throughout the state. Wyoming easily leads the
nation in suicide rates – one every four days in 2002 –
doubling the national average. Teton County suicide numbers also reflect Wyoming’s ugly trend. From January
2004 to June 2005, Teton
County experienced 30 suicide
attempts and 11 completed suicides.
Sprague cites several factors:
“Isolation and long distances
between cities or towns where
professional help might be available [are factors]. Unfortunately,
people in the Mountain States
often have lethal means. It’s not
that guns are a suicide issue –
guns don’t create suicide, obviously – but when you have lethal
means accessible to you and you
have someone who is in a very
bad situation, mentally, then you
have a combination that is
wrought with finality. Mixing a
Deb Sprague, executive director of Jackson Hole Community Counseling
mental illness with drinking or
Center, hopes to serve a greater number of individuals, now that the
substance abuse is also a very
new facility is completed, with additonal funding from private donations.
bad combination.”
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to discuss ways
boys, girls learn
by Richard Anderson
Girls take criticism hard and when writing tend to be more prolific. Boys tend to
take more risks and behave more recklessly. Such differences may be related to the
way children are socialized, or perhaps
there’s some neurological explanation, but
there are most certainly implications for
the ways boys and girls learn.
That, in a nutshell, is what Dr. Michael
Thompson and Dr. JoAnn Deak will talk
about Friday and Saturday when they visit
Jackson Hole for “Gender Differences and
How the Research Informs Our Work,” a
two-day conference at the Teton Science
Schools for teachers.
Thompson and Deak also will speak at a
free public presentation, “Boys will be Boys
and Girls will be Girls,” held at 7 p.m. on
Friday in the Center for the Arts Theater.
“For 30 years, we have had a kind of
prohibition on thinking about the differences between boys and girls because equity feminists feared it,” said Thompson, a
Ph.D., psychologist, family therapist and
consultant to schools whose books
include “Finding the Heart of the Child”
and “Raising Cain: Protecting the
Emotional Life of Boys.” Thompson said
the assumption was that such discussion
of differences would be used against girls.
“But now, as girls are beginning to out-perform boys [academically], their fears
appear to be not so well founded.”
In fact, as American students fall behind
many other countries in certain areas of education – including the sciences – understanding the many different ways different children
learn may be crucial in making progress.
Thompson’s approach to the subject
tends to be from a psycho-social perspective, while Deak (who was in Africa and
unable to be reached for this story) looks at
differences in brain structure. Deak is also
a Ph.D., psychologist and consultant. Her
titles include “Girls will be Girls: Raising
Confident and Courageous Daughters” and
“How Girls Thrive: An Essential Guide for
Educators and Parents.”
“We’re discovering many brain differences,” said Thompson, who has made
many joint appearances with Deak. “We
don’t know all the implications, but we
know they exist.”
He added that his perspective should
not be construed as a backlash to 30 years
of “equity feminism,” pointing out that he
wrote his dissertation on anorexia as a cultural illness and that one of his children is
a girl. “But you can’t be in mental health
without seeing that gender plays out in different ways, and you have to deal with
them as they come to you.”
Deak and Thompson’s visit has been
arranged by the Teton County School
District and the Teton Science Schools’
Teacher Learning Center, which hosts
teachers from the region and from across
the United States to study. In particular,
teachers come to learn TSS’s brand of
“place-based” education, in which students go out into their environment or
community to learn, thereby picking up
the skills they need to learn about any
place where they might find themselves.
“I think we [the Teton Science Schools]
have our own version” of place-based education, said Bonnie Jones, director of the
Teacher Learning Center. “We’ve paid a
lot of attention to it and made an effort to
incorporate it into our schools … it’s the
basis of everything we do.”
For many years, the Science School
focused on the natural world and natural
sciences, but in 2001 it opened its K-12
Journeys School, which offers a full curriculum. When it opened, “we realized we
were going to have to expand the notion of
place-based education,” Jones said, and
that meant looking at how children learn
most effectively. Hence the interest in gender differentiation, she said.
The weekend conference has attracted
many Teton County teachers as well as
teachers from Lander, Dubois and Idaho.
To learn more, contact the Teacher
Learnning Center at 733-1327 ext. 1108.
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Forest Products. Formaldehyde-free
UltraTouch insulation is made from
recycled denim, and of course you
won’t find formaldehyde in organic cotton sheets or clothes that can wrinkle.
REDUCE SINGLE USE
SINGLE USE BATHROOM
Sometimes being squeaky clean leaves an ugly mess. You many not realize it
but your bathroom is teeming with easily reducible single use items. For
instance, every year American’s throw away 2.6 billion disposable razors.
This equals a football field about filled 50 yards deep with razors.
Considering that most of these razors are plastic, if a couple of
ounces of petroleum went into the manufacturing and transport
of each razor, upwards of 250,000 barrels of oil get consumed
every year due to their use. That’s a lot of waste to remove
5-oclock shadows. Reusable razors save money over the
long run as well. Another large single use culprit are
shampoo, conditioner, and other various shower
bottles. To avoid a glut of shower bottles buy in
bulk and refill smaller bottles. Use bar soap
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THEM ON US
Girlfriend getaways, following
Bill Briggs, wandering Jews ...
by Jake Nichols
Author and travel expert Marybeth Bond
is promoting her new book, “50 Best
Girlfriends Getaways in North America”
(National Geographic, $15.95). In it, we
learned from a brief Chicago Tribune review,
Bond interviewed at least one woman who
traveled our area. No word on whether it
was “Bachelor” star Tressa Horst.
“Girl getaways” are becoming more and
more the norm, according to an article in
the May 8 USA Today Travel section. A
positively dangerous-sounding “Girls with
Guns” escape is being offered at the Teton
Ridge Ranch in Idaho. The package
includes a bottomless fridge stocked with
beer and wine and skeet shooting. Yikes –
Chivas, Chantilly and shotguns.
And, ladies, don’t miss the women-only
“Beauties & the Beasts” safari from Spring
Creek Ranch, now booking for Oct. 4-8.
Wildlife gals will prowl for bears, moose,
bison and four-legged wolves.
■
University
of
Tennessee’s kick-ass
junior rower and team
captain Nina Dobratz
was grilled recently by
her school paper, The
Daily Beacon . The
Lady Vol admitted her Nina Dobratz
best vacation was a
chick road trip: “We got to pass through
so many beautiful states and meet some
crazy people. Every night we would pull
into a campsite after dark and fall asleep
looking at the stars. My favorite morning
was when we awoke in the Grand Tetons in
Wyoming with an entire mountain range
towering beside us.”
■
These days, former
Jackson Rabbi Mike
Comins is preaching in
the woods. Comins
regularly leads spiritual hikes he calls
Rabbi Mike
“Torah Treks” in an
Comins
attempt to connect
Judaism with nature.
“I think I’m about 10 years ahead of the
cultural curve,” Comins told the Jewish
News Weekly. “I’m not a prophet, but I
know this is going to grow.”
His book, “A Wild Faith: Jewish Ways
Into the Wilderness, Wilderness Ways
Into Judaism,” was published this year.
Comins admits the genesis for his idea of
taking the synagogue to the mountain tops
and oceansides was his time in Jackson Hole.
He now works out of Southern California.
■
Skiing in the tracks of Bill Briggs is not
for the faint-of-heart. In 1971, Briggs did
what was considered impossible at the
time: He skied the Grand.
Fast-forward to May 9, when Californianative Kip Garre wrote about his Grand
slalom for the Sierra Sun. Garre coerced his
buddy, Andrew Eisenstark, along to leave
their tracks on the 13,770-foot summit.
“It is a complete ski descent that involves
ice climbing, route finding and about 7,000
feet of hiking to reach the 13,770-foot summit,” Garre wrote. “Then you get to ski
down.” Garre also threw Jackson a bone:
“The town of Jackson is a perfect complement to the Tetons, with lots of local brew
and plenty of good places to eat.”
■
On May 8, the Denver Post ran an exhaustive piece on trout fishing on the Snake
River, complete with requisite quotes from
fly-fishing guru Jack Dennis . Dennis
recalled angling the stretch of Snake that is
backdropped with the Tetons when he was
a boy: “There used to be 900 fish per mile
back then. Now it’s close to 2,000.”
Fishing the Snake through Grand Teton
National Park has its built-in hazards. The
stunning scenery has hypnotized more
than a few anglers. “At some point, everyone forgets to watch his line,” Scott Smith,
a guide at Jack Dennis’ shop, told the
Post. “Sometimes an indicator will stay
underwater 10 seconds before the fisherman realizes he has a bite.”
■
The Grand Teton Music Festival (July 11Aug. 25) got its props from The New York
Times Music section. Last weekend’s
Sunday edition included mention of the
mountain festival among numerous classical musical events taking place this summer throughout the country.
“You have to like a festival that kicks off
its gala opening with both Leon Fleisher
(playing Mozart’s K. 414 concerto) and
John Adams (‘Slonimsky’s Earbox’),”
wrote Anne Midgett. We’re not sure what
that means, but we are glad we impressed
Anne enough that she concluded her blurb
with: “[T]his festival’s musical stars are on
a scale commensurate with its scenery.”
Anthony Smith
see PAGE 32
GALAXY
Arts, Events and Entertainment
Jackson Hole’s own comedy troupe
makes Center Theater debut
by Richard Anderson
Todd Hjelt gets serious when he talks
about improvisational comedy.
“Say ‘yes.’ Don’t deny. Listen to
everything. Value input. Treat everything as a gift,” he said, enumerating
the golden rules of improv.
Hjelt is the artistic director of Out of
Thin Air, the valley’s 5-yearold improv group that will
make its Center for the Arts
Theater debut on Saturday.
He’s an old hand at improv,
having gotten into it in college. He leads a merry
band of fellow funny men
and women in weekly
rehearsals
–
“playing
games,” he calls it – so
everyone
stays
sharp,
learns to work together,
learns to trusts one another.
If it sounds like therapy, well, it sort of
is. The way improv works is the players
ask audience members for suggestions
– a place, an occupation, a personal
problem – then the players create a situation based on those “facts.” The
trick, Hjelt said, isn’t to go after big
laughs; it’s to keep the balls in the air,
keep the scene working, help your fellow players look good. The laughter
that results is as much nervous laugh-
ter as anything, as the audience watches the actors perform on a precarious
tightrope.
“It’s easier than [you] think,” Hjelt
said, “and it’s harder than [you] think.”
With the valley’s population being as
transient as it is, OOTA members have
come and gone. Hjelt has led a number
of improv classes in part to recruit new
talent. This time around, the new faces
are Brian Lenz, an engineer with some
theater experience but who, so far, has
not done improv in front of a live audience; and Barbara Hoppe, a singer and
actress who “every two or three years
or so finds her way into a musical,”
Hjelt said. She didn’t take a class, but
Hjelt has seen her work in a few recent
shows and was suitably impressed.
The rest of the team is Jerry Bosch,
an attorney by day, musician and comedian by night; Dave Johnson, one of the
company’s original members (“He’s
fearless,” Hjelt raved); Eve Bernfeld, the
director of education at the Off Square
Theatre Company; and Corey Phillips,
who joined the group last spring.
“New energy is always good,” Hjelt
said. “New people, and the new space
are really going to change the
game.”
The challenge at the Center
Theater, he said, will be to use
all that space, to not look too
small. The troupe will perform
with a live band on stage, which
ought to help take up some of
the space, but that, too, will
tweak the energy of the show.
Hjelt warned that an Out of
Thin Air performance might not
be appropriate for younger children. He rates it PG-13. While
he encourages sophisticated, smart
humor, he admits that every now and
then they “grab their crotch.” There’s
some sexual innuendo and sexual reference, but “you’ll hear worse language at
the supermarket.”
Out of Thin Air’s show starts at 8 p.m.
Tickets cost $20 for adults, $15 for students. Off Square Theatre Company
subscribers get 50 percent off. Call the
theater box office at 733-4900.
Your week
starts here
WEDNESDAY16
Music
■ For over five years, Victor Ragamuffin of
Pentecost Sound System has rallied the faithful for Reggae Night, 9:30 p.m. to close every
Wednesday at the Stagecoach Bar in Wilson. No
cover. 733-4407.
■ Fishbone returns to the Tetons, playing at
10 p.m. at the Knotty Pine in Victor, Idaho. $15
at the door. (208) 787-2866.
■ Open Mic Night welcomes acoustic musicians to the Greenback Stage at 7:30 p.m. at
the Silver Dollar Bar in the Wort Hotel, a half
block off the Town Square on West
Broadway. Sign-up begins at 6:30 p.m. No
cover. 733-2190.
Art
■ The National Museum of Wildlife Art kicks off
its summer-long 20th anniversary celebration
with a day of free admission to all galleries,
the unveiling of a recently acquired painting
by Georgia O’Keeffe at 11 a.m., a public
reception at 5:30, champagne toast at 6:15
and more. 732-5418.
■ Life Drawing Open Studio is 6:30-9:30 p.m.
every Wednesday at the Art Association. Cost
is $100 for seven-punch card for Art
Association members, $15 for drop-ins. 7336379.
Kids & Families
■ Toddler Club meets 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in the
Recreation Center. 739-9025.
■ Little Rollers Tumbling Class gets rolling 8:459:45 a.m. in the Recreation Center gym. 73909025.
■ The Parent Education Network’s Infant-Parent
Group for First-Time Moms continues noon-1:30
p.m. at The Learning Center, 185 S. Willow. This
week, Marcia Male, R.N., L.Ac., Dip. Ac. And
C.H., talks about “Infant Massage – The
Traditional Chinese Medicine Way.” Series continsee Galaxy Calendar page 24
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Spring book sale
brings monsoon of good reads
Part of the Teton County Library’s
mission is to get as many books into as
many hands as possible for as little
money as possible. The Friends of the
Teton County Library’s Spring Book
Sale does just that, providing thousands of books starting for as low as a
quarter. The sale starts at 4 p.m. on
Thursday and continues through
Sunday.
Bestsellers, mysteries, art books,
dictionaries, travel guides and children’s books are just a few of the genres that will line the shelves of the
library’s Ordway Auditorium and
Conference Room.
Adult paperbacks books will go for 50
cents, and hardbacks are priced at $1.
Children’s paperbacks begin at 25
cents and 50 cents for hardbacks.
Videos, CDs and books-on-tape are
available for a buck each. The most
you will pay for an oversized book or
one in excellent condition is $5.
Teachers and nonprofits enjoy a free
selection of books, and on Sunday, the
Friends offer a special last day price –
a dollar a dozen.
Books come from personal libraries
and estates, donated throughout the
year to two semi-annual book sales
that benefit the Friends of the Teton
County Library. The group of volunteers is instrumental in making the
library a cultural hub in the valley;
every month, the Friends put in 400
hours, shelving books, helping with
special events and recycling.
Book sale hours are 4-9 p.m. on
Thursday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. on Friday,
10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, and 1-3
p.m. on Sunday. Contact the library at
733-2164.
— Lucille Rice
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ues through June 6. Free. Babies welcome. 2032027 or [email protected].
work as host of Animal Planet’s new series,
“Spring Watch U.S.A.” 733-7016.
Classes, Lectures &
Workshops
■ The Teton Chapter of the Wyoming Native Plant
Literature
■ Moose Readings, a venue for writers to read and
Society welcomes botanist Jennifer Whipple,
speaking about wetland plants in Yellowstone, at
7 p.m. at the Wyoming Game and Fish Office, 420 N.
Cache St.
Outdoors
■ Join the Sierra Club for a conditioning hike 6
3510 South Park Dr., Jackson
307.733.4684 • www.jhcycle.com
Monday - Friday 9-6 • Sat 9-4
p.m. at High School Mill. Meet in the middle school
parking lot. 690-7161.
THURSDAY17
Music
■ Disco Night is hosted by Four4 Productions from
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9:30 p.m. to close every Thursday at the
Stagecoach Bar in Wilson. No cover. 733-4407.
■ The nonprofit Jackson Hole Music Experience
presents an Adult Jazz Workshop 6:30-9:30 p.m. in
the Center for the Arts Music Rehearsal Studio.
Pianist Keith Phillips, bassist Bill Plummer and
drummer Ed Domer will instruct, perform, critique
and work with select students. $30; $25 for
JHME members. 733-3970.
■ The Saddle Tramps play country-western music
at 9 p.m. nightly through May 31 at the Million
Dollar Cowboy Bar, on the west side of the Town
Square. 733-2207.
Film
■ The Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and the
new Hole Production Studio celebrate the studio’s
grand opening 5:30-7:30 p.m. at its new location,
1035 South U.S. Highway 89. Jackson Hole
native Vanessa Garnick will discuss her recent
share their work, returns at 7 p.m. at Hard Drive
Café, 1110 Maple Way. 733-0203.
■ Pick up all the books you’ll need for the summer at the Friends of the Teton County Library’s annual Spring Book Sale today through Sunday. Find
thousands of nearly new and gently used titles.
Doors open 4-9 p.m. today, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on
Friday and Saturday, and 1-3 p.m. on Sunday,
May 20, 1-3 p.m. Adult paperbacks cost 50
cents and hard backs sell for $1; Kids’ book
prices begin at 25 cents. Special $1-a-dozen
prices on Sunday. Proceeds benefit Friends of
the Teton County Library. 733-2164 ext. 229.
■ Join Kari Grady Grossman, author of the recently released “Bones That Float: a Story of Adopting
Cambodia,” for her book launch and video screening 6-8 p.m. at the Valley Bookstore. The video features a school in Cambodia Grady Grossman and
her husband built in honor of their adopted son.
A percentage of book sale proceeds will benefit
the school. 733-4533.
Kids & Families
■ Sharon T. Walls, LMFT, presents “Straight Talk,”
an honest conversation with parents about the
pressures teens face, 6-8 p.m. at the Jackson Hole
Middle School. Childcare and snacks provided.
Free. 734-9718.
Sports & Recreation
■ Yoga hits the mats 9-10:15 a.m. at the Rec
Center.
Mind, Body & Spirit
■ Meet John Cadigan and watch his award-win-
ning documentary, “People Say I’m Crazy: The Real
Life Story of an Artist’s Struggle with Schizophrenia,”
at 7 p.m. at the Center for the Arts Theater.
Cadigan’s work will be on display at 640 E.
Broadway. Part of the weekend grand opening
celebration for the new Jackson Hole
Community Counseling Center. Free, but space is
limited. 733-2046.
Community
■ Habitat for Humanity welcomes volunteers 9 a.m.4:30 p.m. every Thursday and Saturday. Take
part in building an affordable home for those in
need. Call 734-0828 for directions. www.tetonhabitat.org.
■ The Community Foundation of Jackson Hole’s
Youth Philanthropy Workshop Series concludes
today. The after school program at the Jackson
Hole High School provides a structured opportunity to discuss local issues and act upon them for
change. Local high school students and middle
school students with teacher recommendations
are encouraged to participate. Pre-register at
739-1026.
■ Barker Ewing River Trips, 945 W. Broadway,
hosts the next Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce
mixer at 5:30 p.m. Help Barker-Ewing kick off its
44th year of river trips, and ask about the “locals
special.” 733-3316.
FRIDAY18
Music
■ Slide Path gets down with some bluegrass at
10 p.m. at 43 North, at the south end of Cache
Street. No cover. 733-0043.
■ The nonprofit Jackson Hole Music Experience
presents another “Friday Night Live” concert, fea-
ent “Boys will be Boys and Girls will be Girls: Gender
Differentiation in Schools” at 7-8 p.m. at the Center
Theater. Sponsored by the Teton Science
Schools. Free. 733-1327 ext. 1108.
turing vocalist Juliane Kowski, pianist Keith Phillips
and bassist Bill Plummer, 5-7 p.m. in the Center for
the Arts Music Rehearsal Studio. $10 for adults, $5
for students, free for JHME members and preschool kids. 733-3970.
■ Four4 Productions’ Vert-One and Mike Thunder
spin tunes 10:30 p.m.-2 a.m. at Eleanor’s Cuvee,
behind Plaza Liquors, off West Broadway. No
cover. 733-7901.
■ The Granary at Spring Creek Resort atop East
Gros Ventre Butte hosts Jazz Night 7-10 p.m. with
pianist Pam Drews Phillips, bassist Mike Rossi and
Mike Calabrese on drums. 733-8833.
Dollar Cowboy Bar, half a block west of the Town
Square on Broadway. 733-2207.
■ Orville’s Christian Coffeehouse hosts an evening
of Christian music, poetry and stories about God 810 p.m. every Friday at 285 W. Pearl St. Show
up and make joyful noise. 733-3165.
and entertainer, shares his personal story of life
with bipolar disorder and mental illness at 7 p.m.
at the Jackson Hole Playhouse, 145 West Deloney.
Part of the grand opening celebration for the
new Jackson Hole Community Counseling
Center. Free, but space is limited. 733-2046.
■ Teton Sangha Silent Meditation takes place
every Friday 6-6:45 p.m. at Zendler Chiropractic,
215 Scott Lane. [email protected].
Art
■ Attention quilters: Hit the road for the third
Community
■ The marketing deadline for nonprofits that wish to
annual Quilters Trail Shop Hop today through May
26. Regional quilters travel around western
Wyoming, southeastern Idaho and northern
Utah, stopping at quilt shops along the way to
collect patterns and meet fellow quilters. Watch
the parade of quilters from home turf at local
shop Stitch ’n Time. 733-6800.
participate in Old Bill’s Fun Run 11 is 5 p.m. today.
That includes the Old Bill’s Fun Run 11 application, Old Bill’s Fun Run 10 grant reports, and a
fiscal sponsor letter if your organization is not its
own 501(c)3. 739-1026.
■ The Teton Freedom Riders hosts the Dirty Boys
and Girls Bash at 9:30 p.m. at the Jackson Hole
Playhouse. The event is a fundraiser for the organization's trail building efforts on Teton Pass.
Tickets are $20 and available at any bike shop.
Classes, Lectures &
Workshops
■ The Jackson Hole Astronomy Club welcomes Chris
Jones of the Riverton National Weather Service
at 7 p.m. in the Rick Black classroom at the Teton
Science Schools’ Kelly Campus. Jones will talk
about the Space Environmental Center, the
Weather Information Service and public safety.
733-2173.
■ Dr. JoAnn Deak and Dr. Michael Thompson pres-
Mind, Body, and Spirit
■ Paul E. Jones, a nationally acclaimed speaker
Outlying
■ Nine-time Grammy winners Asleep at the Wheel
play big band country dance music at 8 p.m. at
the Colonial Theater in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Tickets
are $36. (208) 522-0471 or visit www.idahofallsarts.org.
closing every Saturday at Eleanor’s Cuvee behind
Plaza Liquors off West Broadway. No cover.
733-7901.
■ Anthony Smith’s Trunk Fulla Funk gets down for
the Knotty Pine’s 11th Anniversary Party at 10 p.m.
$8 at the door. (208) 787-2866.
Square. 733-2207.
■ Pam Drews Phillips plays jazz, classical,
Broadway, pop and more 7-10 p.m. at the Spring
Creek Resort’s Granary, atop East Gros Ventre
Butte. 733-8833.
■ The Chamber Choir of Idaho give a free concert at
5:30 p.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church. (208)
523-7393.
Theater
■ Out of Thin Air, Jackson Hole’s homegrown
improv comedy ensemble, starts the summer
laughing at 8 p.m. with its debut performance at
the Center Theater, 265 S. Cache. Tickets are $20
for adults, $15 for students, 50 percent off for Off
Square Theatre Company subscribers.
Recommended for ages 13 and up. 733-4900.
Dance
■ Dancers’ Workshop presents the 2007 presentation of “New Dances New Choreographers:
Transitions,” a showcase of work by high school
members of DW’s Junior Repertory Company, at
7:30 p.m. in the Jackson Hole High School
Auditorium. $5 for students/seniors, $10 for
adults. 733-6398.
SATURDAY19
Sports & Recreation
■ Jackson Hole Youth Soccer hosts the Tournament
Music
■ Global Review electrifies with funk-rock, jazz
of the Tetons on the new soccer fields at Jackson
Hole High School. Games begin this morning and
continue through Sunday. Visit www.jacksonholeyouthsoccer.com.
and blues at 10 p.m. at 43 North, at the south end
of Cache Street. No cover. 733-0043.
■ Front St. Productions spins the tunes 10 p.m. to
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Art Association 733.6379
www.artassociation.org
Artist’s Summit 2007
at Sinks Canyon, WY, presented by
Adam Jahiel and entitled: “Creating
The World through Your Own Lens”
June 8-13, $600 includes lodging
(four/cabin), meals, and instruction.
Armed with cameras, students will
explore the rugged terrain of Sinks
Canyon to develop a photographic style
expressing individual passions.
Throughout this course, discussions,
critiques, and presentations will cover
this mix of science and art to help you
develop your personal vision. Beginner
and experienced photographers will find
this course valuable. Two College credits available for this workshop through
CWC. Call for details and rates.
Silver Chainmaking with John Runkle,
June 14-17, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, $250
($225 AA members). Students will learn
how to make a variety of finished
chains including sterling silver jump
rings, chain hooks, and chain mail
earrings. There will be a class lab fee of
$20, which includes an instruction
book. All tools will be available for
students to use, and pre-cut sterling
silver jump ring kits will be available
for purchase during class.
Mixed Media workshop:
“Cut (Tear-Layer-Destroy-RepeatCombine-Fold-Etc.) + Paste”
with visiting artist Ricki Arno,
June 25-29, Mon-Fri, 9 am-4 pm,
$550 ($525 AA members). Disturb
your preconceptions! This workshop
focuses on the powerful artistic voice
of collage, significant in both modern
and contemporary art. This five day
hands-on workshop blends
multi-medium design concepts
employing a strange brew of 2-D and
3-D materials that generally do not
coexist in one’s everyday visual
experience. Each day’s studio work will
concentrate on a new creative challenge
introduced by a “collage” of audio and
visual inspiration. In addition to daily
projects, informal group discussions,
and a gallery visit, a final discussion
of completed collages will round
out the workshop.
Dancers’ Workshop 733.6398
www.dwjh.org
New Dances / New Choreographers
“Transitions” is a show produced,
choreographed, and performed
entirely by Dancers’ Workshop’s
Junior Repertory Company. These
original dance pieces are entirely
homegrown and have never been seen.
Show your support for our local young
artists by attending Sat, May 19 at
7:30pm at the JHHS Auditorium $10
adults / $5 students and seniors.
Call 733-6398
to purchase tickets.
You bring ‘em
in DIRTY,
we’ll send ‘em
home CLEAN
Mon. - Fri. 8am-6pm • Sat. 9am-5pm • Sun. 12pm-5pm
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from GALAXY CALENDAR page 25
■ Join the Sierra Club for a 12.4-mile day hike to
Cliff Creek Falls. 690-7161.
Community
■ It’s ElkFest 2007! Jackson Hole Boy Scouts help
auction off tens of thousands of pounds of elk
antlers to benefit their troops and the National
Elk Refuge. Rotary Club auctions the elk antler
arch on the southwest corner of the Town Square
to raise money for the Town Square Elk Antler
Arch Restoration Project. The day will also
include an “Elk Discovery Booth,” a kid’s corner,
vendors’ row and lots more. See page 33 for
complete
schedule.
733-3316
or
www.elkfest.org.
■ Habitat for Humanity welcomes volunteers 9 a.m.4:30 p.m. every Thursday and Saturday. Take
part in building an affordable home for those in
need. Call 734-0828 for directions. www.tetonhabitat.org.
■ Living historian Steve Banks demonstrates
mountain man skills 7 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Jackson
Hole Historical Society and Museum booth during
ElkFest. Banks is a teacher and an expert on the
fur trade. 733-9605.
■ The Senior Center of Jackson Hole hosts a quilt
show 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Quilts from renowned
artists, and antique and hand tied quilts will be
on display. A raffle and silent auction will round
out the day. Proceeds will benefit St. John’s
Living Center and the Senior Center. 733-2025.
SUNDAY20
Music
■ Open Mic Night runs 8:30 p.m.-midnight every
Sunday at 43 North, at the south end of Cache
Street. Call to sign-up. No cover. 733-0043.
■ The Jackson Hole Music Experience presents its
annual Spring Student Recital 2-4 p.m. in the
Center for the Arts Theater. $10 for adults, $5 for
students, free for JHME members and preschool kids. 733-3970.
Square. 733-2207.
■ The legendary Stagecoach Band performs 6-10
p.m. at the Stagecoach Bar in Wilson. No cover.
733-4407.
MONDAY21
Music
■ The Hoot is back for the summer. The Jackson
Hole Hootenanny opens the doors to the Lodge
Room in Snow King Center at 6:15 p.m., when local
and visiting musicians are invited to sign up to
perform two-song sets. Music starts at 7. Full
bar service, patrons are welcome to bring their
own food, children under 18 are welcome with
parents or a responsible adult. $3. 733-5200.
Dollar Cowboy Bar. 733-2207.
Kids & Families
■ “Young at Art” continues 10:30-11:15 a.m. at
the National Museum of Wildlife Art in the classroom.
The program is free for members, $12 for adult
non-members. 733-5771.
Community
■ Swing by the Teton County Library to pick up
your free tickets for the June 4 “Page to the
Podium: Billy Collins,” an evening with the U.S.
Poet Laureate. 733-2164.
■ Jackson PFLAG – Parents, Friends and Family
of Lesbians and Gays – brings the touring phototext display “Love Makes A Family: Portraits of
Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People and
Their Families,” to the Teton County Library. The
exhibit opens today with a reception 5:30-7 p.m. at
the library and hangs through June 1. 733-8349.
TUESDAY22
Music
Dollar Cowboy Bar. 733-2207.
Mind, Body, Spirit
■ Teton County Public Health conducts free and confi-
Sports & Recreation
■ Open gym volleyball spikes it 7-9 p.m. in the
dential HIV testing Monday through Friday at Teton
County Public Health, 460 E. Pearl. For an appointment, phone 733-6401.
Recreation Center gym.
— Compiled by Richard Anderson,
Aaron Davis and Lucille Rice
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UPCOMINGEVENTS
Film
■ The deadline to submit a film entry for the ninth annual
Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival is June 1. Entries of
wildlife, nature and environmental films are invited from
filmmakers and broadcasters around the world.
Submissions may be of any length, may originate in any
format, and may be fictional or non-fictional. Visit
www.jhfestival.org.
■ The fourth annual Jackson Hole Film Festival runs June 711, with more than 90 films – shorts and feature-length,
sports action and global issues, student entries and films
from around the world – screening at five downtown venues. Festival passes are available for purchase; buy
before the end of May and save $15 – just $175 for
access to all screenings, priority admittance to all films
and panels, access to the Hospitality Lounge, and more.
733-8144 or www.jacksonholefilmfestival.org.
Literature
■ Teacher, speaker, former U.S. Poet Laureate and frequent guest on “A Prairie Home Companion” Billy
Collins visits Jackson Hole to speak for the Teton County
Library Foundation on June 4 and to lead a writing workshop on June 5. The workshop will run 9-11 a.m. in the
Center for the Arts. Cost is $50; space is limited to 20
participants. To sign up, e-mail [email protected] or
call 413-3331.
■ The 15th Jackson Hole Writer’s Conference will be held
June 28-July 1 at the Center for the Arts. The lineup of
guest writers includes fiction writer Daniel Woodrell,
young adult fiction writer Todd Strasser and travel writer
Daniel Glick. Local writers Terry Tempest Williams and
Alexandra Fuller will offer their perspectives on creative
nonfiction and memoir. Reserve your spot online at
www.jacksonholewritersconference.com or call 4133331.
Classes, Lectures & Workshops.
■ Beth Loffreda, author of “Losing Matt Shepard: Life and
Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder,” speaks at 7:30
p.m. on May 25 at the Teton County Library. The University
of Wyoming professor will present her perceptions on
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Community
■ The Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance hosts its second annual Party for the Pronghorn 7-10 p.m. on May 24
at Snow King Resort. A host of panelists will talk at this
celebration of the GTNP antelope herd’s annual return
to the valley. Ben Winship, Phil Round and Mike Rossi will
perform bluegrass. 733-9417.
■ Jackson Hole celebrates the start of the summer
season and observes Memorial Day with Old West Days.
Visit a pre-1840-era encampment at the Mountain Man
Rendezvous, take in a performance by the country’s
longest-running shootout, or watch the annual Old West
Days parade makes its way down Broadway (there’s
still time to join). Activities start on May 25 and continue through May 28. Stay tuned for complete details, or
visit the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce’s Web
site at www.jacksonholechamber.com.
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Lunch ~ Daily at 11:30am
Dinner ~ Nightly at 5:30pm
Billy’s open daily at 11:30am
DININGGUIDE
Happy Hour 5-7pm nightly: 2 for 1 Drinks
(In the bar)
On the
Town Square
733-3279
Long lines are gone and the
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Asian & Sushi
BON APPE THAI Lunch served from 11 a.m.2:30 p.m. Dinner starting at 5 p.m. Closed for
lunch on Sundays. Take-Out and Delivery
Available. Walk-Ins welcome. Reservations
recommended. Across from the old post
office. 245 Pearl, 734-0245.
KOSHU WINE BAR Koshu serves an everchanging menu of contemporary pan-Asian
cuisine, delicious cocktails and a variety of
wines by the glass. The Jackson Hole Wine
Company is just outside our door with hundreds of great wines from which to choose.
Open nightly at 6 p.m. 733-5283.
SHOGUN SUSHI Serving lunch and dinner 7
days a week. Mon - Fri 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. or
later. Sat - Sun 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. or later. Take
out or Delivery. 265 W. Broadway, 733-9168.
NIKAI Jackson Hole’s favorite sushi bar
offers the finest delicacies from both land and
sea. Featuring innovative sushi & sashimi as
well as a creative asian inspired grill menu.
Full service bar specializes in tropical cocktails & offers unique fine sake & wine lists.
225 N. Cache. Reservations recommended,
734-6490.
THAI ME UP Authentic Thai dishes including
coconut chicken lemongrass soup, drunken
noodle and coconut milk curries. Full bar and
children’s menu. 75 E. Pearl, parking behind
restaurant. Serving Lunch, Mon. - Fri. 11:30
a.m. - 2:30 p.m.; Dinner, 5:30 p.m. - close,
Mon. - Sat. Closed Sundays Take-out available, 733-0005.
Continental
43 NORTH Serving dinner seven nights a
week at the base of Snow King. Happy hour
specials begin at 5 p.m. Cozy pub atmosphere
and great selection of whiskies. Live music
four nights a week. 645 S. Cache, 733-0043.
Serving up the finest
imported and domestic meats and cheeses
this side of the Continental Divide!
50 WEST DELONEY • TOWN SQUARE • JACKSON
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BURKE’S Sample our superior steaks, chops,
and innovative fish, game and fowl dishes in
this historic renovated building. Reservations
recommended, smoke-free atmosphere.
Open nightly from 6 - 10 p.m. 72 S.
Glenwood, 733-8575.
THE BLUE LION A Jackson Hole favorite.
Offering the finest in creative cuisine. Join us
in the charming atmosphere of a refurbished
older home. Ask a local about our rack of
lamb. Also serving fresh fish, elk, poultry and
vegetarian entreés. Open Wed. - Mon. at 6:00
p.m. Join us for our off-season special: 20%
off your entire bill starting at 6:00 p.m. with
coupon. Reservations recommended. Closed
Tuesdays throughout the off-season. 160 N.
Millward, 733-3912.
DORNAN’S PIZZA & PASTA CO. Gourmet
pizzas, homemade soups, pasta, sandwiches
and salads. Enjoy a relaxing lunch while sitting
along the Snake River enjoying the fabulous
view of the Tetons. 12 miles north of Jackson in
Grand Teton National Park at Moose, Wyoming,
733-2415.
ELEANOR’S CUVÉE A favorite of Jackson
locals.
Bar open till 2 a.m. Located within
Plaza Liquors at 832 W. Broadway, 733-7901.
THE GRANARY Overlooking the magnificent
Teton Range, offers a casual yet elegant
atmosphere. Specialties include elk, Rocky
Mountain trout and fresh seafood flown in
from Hawaii. Award-winning wine list. Nightly
happy hour specials from 4-7 p.m. Jazz
Night is on Fridays from 7-10 p.m. and Pam
Drews Phillips plays on Saturdays from 6:30-
Stop by one of America’s most award
winning micro-breweries and get the
freshest beer in the valley, right from
the source. Don’t forget to check out some
of our tasty new menu items.
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385 W. Broadway, Jackson
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Open 7 days a week
11:30am until midnight. Families welcome.
265 S. Millward
739-2337
Jumbo prawns cooked with mushrooms,
sautéed in a tasty sour cream sauce
Sopa Sieta Mares
Delicious soup made with fresh fish, shrimp,
octopus, crab legs, clams and scallops
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Owned and operated by three local
chefs with a passion for good food. Trio
features a variety of cuisines in a relaxed
atmosphere. We are known for our
wood-oven pizzas and entrees, daily fish
and game specials and a variety of
specialty drinks. Enjoy a cocktail at the
Bar under the barrel-vaulted ceilings in
front of the open kitchen.
SHOGUN
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Located off the town square at
45 S. Glenwood
733-9168
For reservations 734-8038
265 W. BROADWAY (next to Mountunes)
New Southwest Salad
at McDonald’s®!
Discover the place where tangy, warm, cilantro-lime glazed chicken meets a
lively blend of poblano peppers, oven-roasted tomatoes, black beans, and fireroasted corn. Where crunchy chili-lime tortilla strips and shredded cheddar jack
cheese come alive with zesty Newman's Own® All Natural Southwest Dressing.
It's your chance to go somewhere bold, and it's only here at McDonald's®.
DININGGUIDE
9:30 p.m. An unforgettable dining experience equaled only by the view. Serving
Breakfast, lunch & dinner 7 days a week.
Reservations suggested. Spring Creek
Ranch, 732-8112.
HORSE CREEK STATION Wyoming’s finest
smokehouse BBQ. Bar food served daily
starting at 3:00 p.m. Saturday & Sunday
11:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. Daily specials:
Tuesday - Mexican Night w/$1.25 tacos;
Wednesday - 2 for 1 appetizers; Thursday is
Rib Night - Full rack for 1/2-rack price;
Weekends - Fresh fish & smoked prime rib.
Located at Hoback Junction. 733-0810.
Q ROADHOUSE BARBEQUE is Jackson’s
hottest new joint on Teton Village Road. If
you’re not in the mood for barbeque,
check out Q’s Roadhouse fare including
seasonal fresh seafood, steaks, chicken,
certified angus beef burgers and a variety
of sandwiches & salads. The wine list features 50 wines under $50 and a full bar is
available. Open Wednesday - Sunday
5:30p.m. Reservations 739-0700.
RENDEZVOUS BISTRO The Bistro offers
something for everyone including salads,
sandwiches & daily plate specials. Our Raw
Bar features oysters on the half shell, tuna
tartare and oyster shooters. Appetizers
include mussels, gnocchi, grilled octopus,
steak tartare and more. The entree selection
ranges from traditional bistro Fish & Chips,
Meatloaf, Veal Marsala & Coq au Vin to many
other selections including fresh seasonal
seafood, pasta & steaks. Open Monday Saturday at 5:30 p.m. Reservations are recommended but walk-ins are always welcome.
Located at 380 S. Hwy 89 / Broadway right
next to Albertson’s, 739-1100.
ROUTE 89 SMOKEHOUSE DINER
Delicious breakfasts from homemade
French Toast to Chicken Fried Steak or
Corned Beef Hash and Eggs! Our extensive
lunch and dinner menus offer a variety of
BBQ and in-house smoked meats. Juicy
burgers and lunch specials. Locals, don't
forget your discount! Open 7 days a week
from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. 455 N. Cache, across
from the visitors center. A kids’ menu and
full bar are available, 733-2492.
SNAKE RIVER BREWERY & RESTAURANT
America’s most award-winning microbrewery is serving lunch and dinner.
Enjoy the atmosphere while dining on
delicious wood-fired pizzas, pastas, sandwiches, soups, salads and desserts.
Happy Hour from 4-6 with $1 giant soft
pretzels, $2.50 pints and $3 nachos. So
stop by the Brew Pub to get the freshest
beer in the valley, right from the source.
Free WiFi. Open 11:30 a.m. - midnight.
265 S. Millward. 739-2337.
SNAKE RIVER GRILL We are fast approaching our 14th anniversary! A local’s favorite.
Whether you stop by for a pizza and beer, or
enjoy our celebrated menu of American and
International fare and our huge wine list, you
will be pleased by Jackson’s most beautiful
restaurant and as stated in The Wine
Spectator, the “best!” in town! Open nightly
at 6:00 p.m. On the Town Square, 733-0557.
Closed for the off-season.
STIEGLER’S AUSTRIAN RESTAURANT &
COPPER BAR Since 1983, host Peter
Stiegler has offered guests classically prepared Austrian and Continental favorites
served in the cozy ambience of an alpine
home. Serving dinner Wednesday-Sunday,
see DINING GUIDE page 30
FREE WI-FI WITH PURCHASE
Open daily
5am to midnight.
1110 W. Broadway
DRIVE-THRU SERVICE
24 HOURS
OPEN NIGHTLY 6-10PM
Chef Michael Burke, Proprietor
72 S. Glenwood • 733-8575
DININGGUIDE
OFF
SEASON
SPECIAL
from DINING GUIDE page 29
5-9:30 p.m. At the Aspens on Teton Village
Road, 733-1071. Closed for the off-season.
SWEETWATER RESTAURANT Satisfying
locals for lunch and dinner for nearly 30
years with deliciously affordable comfort
food. Award winning wine list. Lunch 11:30
a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Dinner 5:30-9:30 p.m. Corner
of King & Pearl, 733-3553.
TRIO An American Bistro started by three
chefs with innovative flair! Seasonal and
weekly specials. One block off the town
square. Serving lunch Tues. - Fri. 11:30
a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Dinner nightly at 5:30 p.m.
45
S.
Glenwood,
734-8038.
www.bistrotrio.com.
Coffee House/Internet Cafe
HARD DRIVE CAFE Internet Access: our
computers or yours. Organic espressos.
Soup, salad, panini, wraps, philly cheesesteak. Open Mon - Sat 5:45 am - 10 pm, Sun
5:45 am - 2 pm. 1110 Maple Way, across
from the new post office, 733-5282
www.hardrivecafe.biz.
PEARL STREET BAGELS Open daily 6:30
a.m. - 6 p.m. Two locations to serve you. In
Jackson 145 W. Pearl, 739-1218. In Wilson
on Ida Lane, 739-1261.
Italian
OLD YELLOWSTONE GARAGE Authentic
Genovese & Piemontese dishes accompanied by a selection of 100 fabulous wines.
Fresh ingredients simply prepared and presented. Sunday night is our famous pizza
party night. Serving dinner Tues. - Sat. starting at 6 p.m. 175 Center Street, 734-6161.
Mexican
EL ABUELITO Authentic Mexican Cuisine.
Home of the original Jumbo Margarita.
Featuring a full bar with a large selection
of Mexican beers. Open 7 days a week
from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. 385 W. Broadway,
733-1207.
THE MERRY PIGLETS Voted Best Salsa in
Jackson! Jackson’s oldest and most rockin’
Mexican restaurant. Choose from over 10
salsas and sauces, Tex-Mex plates, including
enchiladas, rellenos, mesquite-grilled fajitas,
salads, wraps and fire-roasted chicken.
Huge margs in 10 flavors. Complimentary
chips and salsa. One block north of the
square. 160 N. Cache, 733-2966.
PICA’S Fresh and colorful Mexican cuisine
made to order. Great homemade chips and
salsas and dangerous margs. Ask about our
party platters and catering. Visit our Wilson
location at the Stagecoach Bar, 734-4457.
Take-out
BACKCOUNTRY PROVISIONS Jackson’s
newest deli! Serving up the finest imported
and domestic meats and cheeses. 50 W.
Deloney Street, 734-9420.
WYOMING’S
FINEST
SMOKE
HOUSE
20% OFF ENTIRE BILL
733-3912
Dinner starts at 6:00pm Wed-Mon
Closed Tuesdays throughout off-season
Good through June 14
160 N. Millward
“Please present coupon to server when ordering”
• Reservations Recommended •
18% gratuity may be added to your bill prior to discount.
Come try our nightly specials…
TUESDAY - Mexican Night w/ $1.25 Tacos
WEDNESDAY - 2 for 1 appetizers
THURSDAY - Rib night, full rack
of baby back ribs for the 1/2 rack price
A Specialty Grocer & Delicatessen
WEEKEND SPECIALS
Fresh seafood and prime rib
Tue. - Fri. 3 - 10pm • Sat. - Sun.11:30am - 10pm
Located at Hoback Junction, 733-0810
LIQUOR STORE OPEN DAILY AT NOON
Open Wed-Sun at 5:30 p.m.
2 FOR 1 DRINKS 8-10 p.m. daily
945 W. Broadway • Jackson, WY 83001• (307) 732-CHEF
Old Time Family Dining
Serving Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
6am to 10pm
AWESOME LUNCH SPECIALS
Locals Receive a 10% Discount
733.2492
455 N. Cache Across from the Visitors Center on Hwy 89
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morning so we’ll live forever. Then
we spend the rest of the day living
like there’s no tomorrow.”
307.739.0700
2 for 1
FA J I TA S
Beef or chicken only.
Dine-in special expires May 16, 2007
— Lee Iacocca
HAPPY HOUR
2 for 1
HOUSE MARGARITA’S
from 5-7pm
Home of the “BIG PIG MARG”
32 oz. of pleasure
Try our Thai Lunch Express
from 11:00am - 2:30pm
Voted
“BEST SALSA”
Splash Magazine
Authentic THAI Dinner Daily
Doors Open at 5:00pm
Take-Out Available
Reservations Recommended
Walk-ins Welcome
245 W. Pearl Ave.
(across from the old Post Office)
734-0245
Since 1969
(307) 733-2966
North of the Town Square
DOWNTOWN
JACKSON
FOODNEWS
Melanie Stein
Bigger, better Pica’s
to open on Saturday
Nearly two months to the day since closing,
Pica’s Mexican Taqueria at Buffalo Junction is set
to open its doors again on Saturday.
The complete makeover to expand into the
space previously occupied by Jackson Hole
Bakery included moving the main entrance, adding
55 seats and quite a bit of bar space, enlarging
the kitchen, making the bathrooms handicap
accessible, painting and re-flooring the local
hangout.
With a yellow, orange and teal color scheme, more
windows and an open atmosphere, Pica’s feels inviting and festive. Owner Andy Parazette also spruced
up the menu a bit, adding items such as grilled skirt
steak, chile rellenos, homemade tortillas and chicken tinga – shredded and stewed chicken cooked
with roasted chiles, beer and onions.
Pica’s should open on Saturday assuming the
renovated restaurant passes a county health
inspection on Friday. Stop by and satisfy your
Pica’s craving at 1160 Alpine Lane in Jackson or
the Stagecoach Bar in Wilson.
Oenophiles:
Mark your calendars
Next Friday, May 25, the Rotary Club of Jackson
Hole hosts its 19th annual Wine Fest, with over
500 wines from all over the globe. In addition, ticket-holders can sample fine cheeses, fruits, crackers and other treats donated by the Rendezvous
Bistro, Gun Barrel Steakhouse, Quizno’s and
Domino’s Pizza.
Tickets are $30 in advance or $35 at the door.
Once inside, attendees will receive a wine tasting
glass and will be able to participate in a silent
auction and wine raffle. Auction items include
“ultimate date night” packages with room, dinner
and breakfast for two at the Four Seasons,
Amangani, Snake River Lodge and Spa and others,
as well as artwork and dinners around town.
Proceeds from the event go to the Rotary Club’s
scholarship fund, which provides over $40,000
each year to students and teachers. The Rotary
Club hopes to raise $50,000 this year. Tickets are
available at most area liquor stores (check back
next week for more details). The event begins at 8
p.m. at the Snow King Center.
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THEGOODS
If you’re itching to take stage with
your instrument and share some
songs with folks, there are three
open stages starting up this week.
Open Mic Night welcomes
acoustic musicians to the Wort
Hotel’s Greenback Stage at 7:30
p.m. tonight. At the south end of
Cache Street, 43 North resumes
its open mic at 8 p.m. on Sunday.
Jackson
Hole
And
the
Hootenanny kicks off its summer
season at 7 p.m. on Monday in the
Lodge Room at Snow King
Center.
There’s no cover at the Silver
Dollar and 43 North, where you can
sign up to play three songs. For the
Hoot, which is all ages and welcomes pickers to perform two songs,
there’s a $3 charge for non-players.
Asleep at the Wheel plays Friday at
the Colonial Theater in Idaho Falls.
The kings of Western swing,
Asleep at the Wheel, play big band
country dance music at 8 p.m. on
Friday at the Colonial Theater in
Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Thirty-six years old and still swinging, the nine-time Grammy winning
ensemble stays true to its mission of
keeping Western swing alive. Ray
Benson remains the frontman of the
ever-shifting lineup out of Austin,
Texas, that has entertained thousands and won praise from the likes
of Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, George
Strait and Van Morrison.
Benson, a native of Philadelphia,
grew up listening to and playing big
band music. His high school band
teacher turned him on to Count
Basie. When he discovered the
music of Bob Wills, however, he
turned to Western swing, which still
allowed him room for high-energy
improvisation.
Tickets are $36. Call (208) 5220471 or visit www.idahofallsarts.org.
MUSICBOX
Aaron Davis
Center for the Arts hopping
with jazz, student musicians
Jackson
Hole
Music
The Spring Student Recital, former- each event. For more information visit
The
Experience , the valley’s nonprofit ly known as the All-Star Student www.jhme.org or www.jhrocknrollmusic boosters, kicks off a summer Recital, will feature performances by camp.com, or call 733-3970.
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packed with special events and music students of local instructors Zaidee
Congrats to Teton Valley’s Knotty
camps with three happenings this Fuller,
Vince
Gutwein,
Shelley
week: an Adult Jazz Workshop, a Friday Rubrecht, Juliane Kowski, Andy Calder, Pine and owner Brice Nelson, who celNight Live Jazz Concert, and its annual Jeff Eidemiller, Pam and Keith Phillips, ebrate their 11th anniversary this
Student Recital.
Larry Hestand and others. The stu- week. They’ll mark the occasion with
The Adult Jazz Workshop is a first dents and instructors have been Fishbone at 10 p.m. tonight and an
for JHME: an informative and entertain- rehearsing material selected specifical- official anniversary party with Anthony
ing clinic with a focus on techniques ly for this concert. The program will Smith’s Trunk Fulla Funk on
Saturday.
for playing in a jazz trio 6:30Fishbone came out of the
9:30 p.m. on Thursday in the
same Los Angeles scene that
Center for the Arts Music
spawned the Red Hot Chili
Rehearsal Studio. Pianist Keith
Peppers and Jane’s Addiction.
Phillips, bassist Bill Plummer
If you’re not familiar with their
and drummer Ed Domer will
in-your-face fusion of ska, punk,
instruct, perform and critique the
heavy metal, reggae and funk,
work of a few select students,
you’ll quickly hear the similarianalyzing their performance and
ties that tie these three bands
working
through
different
together. But Fishbone is conapproaches and ensemble techsidered the pioneering band of
niques. The clinic is geared
the three, having been formed
toward music students, profesin 1979 by vocalist/saxophonist
sionals and others who are interAngelo Moore. The original
ested in topics related to improvseven-piece band didn’t release
isational music. Registration is
its first album until 1985, which
$25 for JHME members, $30 for
included ska favorite “Party at
non-members. Reserve a place
Ground Zero.” The sound got
by calling Phillips at 734-8931.
heavier as the stage antics
“Friday Night Live” is the corbecame more manic. Today the
nerstone of JHME programming
band features two original memand takes place once a month.
bers: Moore and bassist/vocalThis month’s concert will feature
ists John Fisher.
the Juliane Kowski Trio, with
As for keyboard genius and
vocalist Juliane Kowski, pianist
composer Anthony Smith and
Keith Phillips and bassist Bill
Fishbone plays the Knotty Pine at 10 p.m. tonight.
his Trunk Fulla Funk, think of
Plummer performing jazz standards, bossa novas and original tunes include works for solo violin, solo cello, Headhunters-era Herbie Hancock with
5-7 p.m. on Friday in the Center for the solo piano, duos, rock bands and more of a rock edge, then mix in instruArts Music Rehearsal Studio.
more. The recital takes place 2-4 p.m. mental and songwriter material. Smith
Kowski, a native of Germany who in the Center for the Arts Theater. has performed quite a few shows here
moved to Wilson two years ago from Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for stu- in the past, once touring with Carlos
New York City, has been singing and dents, and free for JHME members and Washington and Giant People, but
mostly with his own ensembles. Smith
performing her entire life. Ten years pre-school kids.
Also, registration is underway for also currently serves as music director
ago, she switched careers to become a
music therapist. Pianist Phillips JHME’s summer music camps. The for the New Century Soul Live Review
inspired Kowski to get back on stage Mountain Bluegrass Camp for Kids and plays keyboard for Karl Denson’s
with the concert, which will be rounded will run July 19-20 for kids 9 to 17 new jazz ensemble.
Tickets for Fishbone are $15 at the
out by world-class bassist Bill Plummer, years old. Jackson Hole Rock ’n’ Roll
Camp 2007 will have two sessions – door; the anniversary party will be $8
a professional musician for 56 years.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for stu- July 29-Aug. 3 for high school players, at the door. Call the Knotty Pine at
(208) 787-2866 for more information
dents, and free for JHME members and and Aug. 6-8 for middle schoolers.
JHME memberships are available at about either show.
pre-school kids.
Bigger, busier ElkFest returns to
Town Square on Saturday
by Lucille Rice
over the project and has helped the Boy
Scouts with their elk antler auction ever
since, storing the antlers and aiding in
their weighing, bundling and tagging to
facilitate their sale, continuing the tradition today. Each year, 80 percent of the
proceeds goes back to the Refuge, and
the Boy Scouts keep the rest, most of
which goes to their annual dues.
ElkFest is a more recent phenomenon.
While other vendors and antler artisans
U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE
U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE
added, as the Jackson Hole Chamber of
Commerce attempts to link ElkFest to Old
West Days, the somewhat more official
Pete Karns remembers when the Rotary
start of the summer tourist season. This
Club of Jackson Hole began to erect the
year, the Mountain Man Rendezvous and
now quintessentially Jackson Hole elk
Traders’ Row, traditionally part of Old
antler arches on the Town Square. He
West Days, has been extended to 10
was just a boy in 1958, when the project
days, starting Saturday and running
started, and probably could not have
through May 28. “Antler Rendezvous” will
guessed how they would become such an
take place along side the mountain man
important landmark for the valley.
encampment, starting Sunday and runNow a Rotarian himself, Karns has for
ning through May 28. Both
the past two years been
events are at the Teton
spearheading a fundraising
County Fairgrounds.
project to replace the four
Thirty mountain men
aging arches. As part of that
from Utah, California,
effort, the arch overlooking
Washington,
Montana,
the southwest corner of the
Texas and other Western
George Washington Park will
states will gather at
be auctioned off on Saturday
Traders’ Row to reenact a
during the 40th annual Boy
pre-1840s camp settleScout Elk Antler Auction.
ment and demonstrate the
While the Scouts’ annual
bustling trade system that
auction is the centerpiece of
existed
between
fur
the weekend that has come
traders and craftsmen.
to be known as ElkFest, the
Bud Mechan is gathering
auctioning off of a very large
his fellow artisans to
piece of Jackson Hole histodemonstrate the tricks of
ry may very well upstage it.
their trades all week long.
The highest bidder will have
A mountain man himself,
the arch delivered to them if
The 40th annual Boy Scout Antler Auction will take place on
Mechan will show off his
they live in the valley. If you’re
Saturday, raising money for both the Elk Refuge and local Boy
pottery skills, making
concerned about a gaping
and Cub Scout troops. The scouts collect the shed antlers from
moonshine jugs and sourhole on the Town Square,
the Refuge, which then helps by storing, bundling and tagging
dough crocks.
have no fear: The arch will be
them for sale.
“I love coming to
replaced within a week. The
Jackson Hole because the
southwest arch will be
people are wonderful and
removed on May 29 and its
very friendly,” said Mechan,
replacement is set to rise the
who hails from Utah. “I love
second week of June. The
those Tetons and the high
Rotary Club of Jackson Hole
mountain air. I’m getting
hopes to replace an arch
antsy to get up there.”
every two years, aiming to
Although Traders’ Row has
complete the project by 2013.
been criticized for lacking
Sixty years ago, elk antlers
authenticity, Mechan promwere not a highly valued
ises he does his best to
item. The National Elk
keep cheesy trinkets out of
Refuge used to give them
the settlement.
away as gifts to visitors,
Other vendors will showaccording to Lori Iverson,
case their antlerware, from
the Refuge’s outdoor recrechandeliers to jewelry, at
ation planner. But once their
the Antler Rendezvous. The
value increased, antler theft
trade show will continue
and trespassing on the
through Old West Days
Refuge became such a serious problem that, in 1957, the Boy have always been attracted to the Boy over Memorial Day Weekend, when
Scouts were called in to help to collect Scout auction, displaying and selling their events continue with one of the last
the “sheds,” antlers that elk naturally elkhorn and handicrafts, over the years horse-drawn parades in the country and
drop at the end of winter. The Town of additional events have been added so the season’s first rodeo. Locals are invitJackson used these harvested antlers to that today it’s an entire weekend that ed to participate in the parade 10 a.m. at
build the first Town Square arch in 1958, unofficially starts the valley’s summer the Town Square.
For more information on ElkFest and the
the southwest corner arch that will be season, bringing 3,000 to 5,000 visitors
to town.
Old West Days, call 733-3316 or visit
replaced this summer.
This year, another twist has been http://www.jacksonholechamber.com/events.
In 1966, the National Elk Refuge took
ElkFest
Schedule
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All events on Town Square except where
noted.
7 a.m. – Viewing of elk antlers begins.
7 a.m.-2 p.m. – Food Court, run by
Little League Baseball, opens.
7 a.m.-1 p.m. – Living Historian Steve
Banks, from Dubois, demonstrates
mountain man skills at the Jackson
Hole Historical Society and Museum
booth.
8 a.m.-12 p.m. – Private antler sale
takes place around the Square.
8 a.m.-5 p.m. – RealTree Boone and
Crockett display features of 12 big
game animals.
9 a.m.-2 p.m. – Kids’ Corner offers
educational tables and games.
9 a.m.-6 p.m. – The Mountain Man
Rendezvous and Traders’ Row start at
the Teton County Fairgrounds.
9 a.m. – Registration for the antler
auction begins.
9 a.m.-9:45 a.m. – The Jackson Hole
Community Band plays a free concert.
9 a.m.-2 p.m – Elk Discovery Booth,
sponsored by the Grand Teton
Natural History Association, is open.
10 a.m.-1 p.m. – The world-famous
Jackson Hole Boy Scout Elk Antler
Auction and Sale takes place.
10 a.m.-1 p.m. – Jackson Boy Scout
and Cub Scout Expo shows off
Scouts’ skills and activities.
5 p.m. – The Rocky Mountain Elk
Foundation hosts casino games and a
silent auction at the Bar J
Chuckwagon, off the Teton Village
Road.
7 p.m. – The Rocky Mountain Elk
Foundation Big Game Banquet, an
annual fundraising dinner, begins at
the Bar J Chuckwagon.
Sunday 20
9 a.m.-6 p.m. – The Antler
Rendezvous takes place on the Teton
County Fairgrounds. Artists and artisans display their wares – all made
from antlers. Event continues through
Old West Day.
Noon – The Historic Downtown High
Noon Chili Cook-Off starts. Come
taste the Best of the West in chili,
cooked up by local and regional contestants. $5 buys you a spoon. Also
enjoy live music.
Senior dance students present
their choreography Saturday
by Richard Anderson
Each year, a handful of young girls
sign up for dance classes with Dancers’
Workshop. Also each year, a select
group of young women – who have
essentially grown up in DW’s dance studios over the previous 15 years – graduates from high school.
Before those teenagers move on, however, they prepare and present “New
Dances New Choreographers,” an endof-the-year performance showcasing the
work of DW’s Junior Repertory Company.
This year’s show, titled “Transitions,”
takes place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the
Jackson Hole High School Auditorium.
Tickets cost $10 for adults, $5 for students.
Babs Case, DW’s artistic director, said
this year’s crop of graduating dance students numbers six: Lauren Sanford,
Charlotte Smail, Melissa Kerr, Megan
Stewart, Amanda MacLeod and Erica
Wilson. Five of them, Case recalled, had
been dancing with DW since they were 3
or 4 years old.
The seniors spent the first half of the
past school year learning the history and
theory of choreography, and the second
half applying what they learned on 15
dances that will be performed by 25
members of the junior company.
“They give up a lot of time,” Case said,
including three hours after school each
Friday and all day every Saturday through
the second half of the school year.
“As the high school members of
Dancers’ Workshop’s Junior Repertory
Company progress and mature in their
art,” MacLeod wrote in the official press
release for the event, “they are given a
unique opportunity – the chance to not
only choreograph and perform their
own works, but to cover every aspect of
the production including lighting, marketing, and design … [New Dances New
Choreographers] is a chance for these
dedicated young women to deeply
express themselves through the creation of movement and to develop as
artists.
Case said this year’s program will offer
an interesting range of work. Kerr, for
example, will present a “wild, stream-ofconsciousness Broadway musical” in
which the dancers also will sing. She also
will perform a tap solo, while Wilson will
perform a pointe piece she choreographed. Most of the rest of the program
consists of modern dance.
All six seniors, as well as other members of the junior company and other student dancers, also will present a student
performance at 6:30 p.m. on May 24 on
the Center for the Arts’ new stage, presenting pieces choreographed by their
DW teachers, which means some of
Saturday’s dancers are working to prepare for two dance recitals. On top of
that, Case said, Kerr will have to take off
early Saturday to make a performance by
the JHHS band.
“They are all highly sought-after in the
performing arts world of Jackson Hole,”
Case said, laughing.
Contact DW at 733-6398 for more information or tickets.
New HD production studio
celebrates its grand opening
With the addition of the Hole
Production Studio, Teton County has
taken yet another step toward becoming
an artistic hub.
The first all-digital high-definition production facility celebrates its grand opening 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Thursday at 1035
South U.S. Highway 89.
Three local talents masterminded the
project – filmmakers Joshua Kornoff and
Tristan Bayer, and still photographer
Cameron Neilson – and are eager to
show off their new technological digs on
Thursday. The three have been friends
for years, and already have three projects in the works for national distribution.
Another reason to celebrate at the studio on Thursday is the wrap up of
Vanessa Garnick’s filming of her second
Animal Planet series, “Spring Watch
U.S.A.” The four-week series highlights
the welcoming of spring by various animals and plants across the nation.
Garnick will discuss the production and
filming process following the screening
of an episode.
Last summer, Bayer and Garnick traveled the world while filming the Animal
Planet series “Caught in the Moment.”
The duo invites the community to celebrate their recent successes and enjoy
an evening of discussion, light hors
d’oeuvres and cocktails sponsored by
the Wildlife Film Festival.
For more information, call 733-7016.
— Staff Report
ARTBEAT
Art Galleries
Richard Anderson
NMWA unwraps birthday
present to self today
and haunt with an eerie desolation.
“Antelope,” the museum’s new acquisition, dates from 1954 and features a
pronghorn skull, its empty sockets
beholding an empty expanse of desert,
the characteristic black-clad horns rising,
still beautiful to behold, defying the rosy
horizon of another dying day.
“Earlier skull paintings showed the
bones floating, disembodied, in the sky or
juxtaposed them against other objects,
like a brightly colored flower,” Curator
Harris wrote in a soon-to-be-published
catalog of the museum’s permanent collection. “The earthy ‘Antelope’ is more
“We’ve been ramping it up in terms of the
exhibits we’ve been doing and the art
work we’ve been acquiring, both in terms
of the core of wildlife art, like Rungius,
and in terms of these other artists we’ve
been collecting in the greater history of
American art, like the O’Keeffe and the
Edward Hicks [one of Hicks’s ‘Peaceable
Kingdom’ paintings] we got a couple
years ago.”
In next five to 10 years, he continued,
the museum hopes to put together more
touring shows, to take its collection to
other museums and institutions around
the country, and use its collection as
COURTESY PHOTO
Who said birthday parties need to be
limited to one day? The National Museum
of Wildlife Art turns 20 years old this year,
and it plans to mark the milestone all
summer long.
In fact, the season-long party gets
underway today, when admission will be
free to any and all. In addition to getting
to spend quality time with all that art, visitors can win T-shirts, memberships and
other prizes in a raffle, refreshments will
be served, a slide show will tell the tale of
the institution’s history, and NMWA
Curator of Art Adam Harris will unveil a
recently acquired painting by Georgia
O’Keeffe, “Antelope.”
Events continue into the evening with a
public reception at 5:30 p.m., a champagne toast at 6:15, and a slide show-lecture by National Geographic’s star photographer William Albert Allard at 8. All
events are free, except Allard’s presentation, part of the Photography at the
Summit Evening Lecture Series, which
costs $7 for non-members.
One of the many ways art museums
measure their success is in terms of their
collections, according to Dr. James
McNutt, NMWA’s president and CEO. By
that standard, Jackson Hole’s art museum has done an excellent job, amassing
more than 4,000 items. The collection of
sculptures, paintings, drawings, etchings
and prints spans the centuries, including
works by European masters such as
Delacroix, Dürer, Géricault, Goya, Rodin
and Rembrandt; household names of the
20th century like Pablo Picasso,
Alexander Calder and Ansel Adams; and,
works by artists with local connections
including
Olaus
Murie,
Conrad
Schwiering, John Clymer, Greg McHuron,
Bill Sawczuk, Jim Morgan – and of course
Carl Rungius.
And now, the museum is proud to
include Georgia O’Keeffe in its collection.
O’Keeffe, born on Nov. 15, 1887, in Sun
Prairie Wis., is one of American’s bestknown female artist. Her most famous
works feature flowers, rocks, shells, skulls
set in desert landscapes. The organic
shapes invoke both sex and death; the
settings both sooth with a serene quiet
NMWA’s newly-acquired “Antelope,” Georgia O’Keeffe, 1954
temporal … speaks directly to the relationship between all living things and the
earth that supports us, but that will eventually reclaim us.”
O’Keeffe mentioned the painting in a
letter that Harris quotes: “... it is so different than the other things and I think one
of the best.”
Harris said the work was offered to
the museum by a dealer in Santa Fe.
“Our first reaction was we liked the fact
that it’s a pronghorn skull,” he said,
“since we have those animals migrating
through here every year. And it’s a great
example of a Georgia O’Keeffe that
would fit in with our collection and what
we’re trying to do.”
Harris suggested the new O’Keeffe is a
sign of the museum’s robustness at 20.
outreach.
In the shorter term, 20th anniversary
festivities will continue throughout the
summer with “From Sketch to Painting,”
using works by Scott Christensen, Bob
Kuhn and Tucker Smith to show the different ways an artist’s concept evolves to a
final product; “Remington & Russell
Revisited: Celebrating the Art of Two
American Masters”; and a series of
events celebrating Western culture
through August.
For more information about the museum’s
summer
season,
visit
www.wildlifeart.org or call 733-5771.
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Fat. Poor. Rich. Disabled. Labels make
it easy to jump to conclusions and judge
people. White. Latino. Black. Indian. But
see ART BEAT page 36
Artspace Gallery/Art Association
240 S. Glenwood • 733-6379
A Horse of a Different Color
60 E. Broadway • 734-9603
A Touch of Class
10 W. Broadway • 733-3168
Astoria Fine Art
35 E. Deloney • 733-4016
Buffalo Trail Gallery
98 Center Street • 734-6904
Brookover Gallery
125 N. Cache Street • 732-3988
Caswell Gallery & Sculpture Garden
145 E. Broadway • 734-2660
Cayuse Western Americana
255 N. Glenwood • 739-1940
Center Street Gallery
Craft Gallery
50 King Street • 734-2747
Davies Reid
On the Town Square • 739-1009
DiTomasso Galleries
Fay Gallery
Teton Village Road • 739-1006
Fighting Bear Antiques
375 S. Cache • 733-2669
Galleries West Fine Art
70 S. Glenwood • 733-4412
260 N. Cache • 733-4525
Gros Ventre Gallery Heriz Rug Co.
120 W. Pearl • 733-3388
Horizon Fine Art
165 N. Center • 739-1540
Images of Nature Gallery
170 N. Cache • 733-9752
Images West Custom Framing Gallery & Gift
98 E. Little Ave., Driggs • 208-354-3545
Jack Dennis Wyoming Gallery
Town Square • 733-7548
Jeff Grainger Workshop
335 N. Glenwood • 734-0029
Legacy Gallery
Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary
130 S. Jackson St • 734-0649
Meyer Milagros Gallery
Mountain Trails Gallery
Muse Gallery/Art of Framing
745 W. Broadway • 733-0555
National Museum of Wildlife Art
3 miles north of Jackson • 733-5771
Oswald Gallery
165 N. Center Street • 734-8100
Robert Dean Collection
172 Center • 733-9290
Rivertime Designs
98 E. Little Ave., Driggs • 208-351-2045
Schmidt’s Custom Framing
890 S. Hwy. 89 • 733-2306
Shadow Mountain Gallery
10 W. Broadway • 733-3162
Trailside Galleries
Trio Fine Art
545 N. Cache • 734-4444
West Lives On
74 Glenwood • 734-2888
Wilcox Gallery
North of town on Cache • 733-6450
Wild by Nature Photography
95 W. Deloney • 733-8877
Wild Exposures Gallery - Photography
60 E. Broadway • 739-1777
Wild Hands – Art for Living
70 S. Glenwood / 265 W. Pearl • 733-4619
from ART BEAT page 35
JOIN US FOR JACKSON HOLE’S ONE
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Saturday and Sunday, May 26 & 27
9am - 6pm Memorial Day Weekend
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Inside WESTBANK ANGLERS on the Village Rd.
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In addition to the GEAR SWAP, we are
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Gear drop off: May 23 - 25 between 4 and 7 p.m. • Call 733-6483 for additional information.
photographs have a way of getting past
such judgments. A photograph can show
a human face, a human family, a human
condition, and suddenly, for all but the
hardest hearts, it’s impossible not to
make a human connection.
Jackson PFLAG – Parents, Families
and Friends of Lesbians and Gays –
brings the touring photo-and-text display
“Loves Makes A Family: Portraits of
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
People and their Families” to the Teton
County Library’s gallery.
The show opens Monday with a reception 5:30-7 p.m. at the library and hangs
through June 1. It is free to everyone during the library’s regular hours.
“Love Makes A Family ...” features photos by Gigi Kaeser depicting gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender people in universal family settings. In excerpts from
interviews conducted and edited by
Peggy Gillespie, family members speak
candidly about their lives, their relationships, and the ways they cope with the
realities of prejudice, bias and intolerance
on a day-to-day basis.
“At a time in history when gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgendered people continue to fight for basic human rights –
including the right to legally marry, the
right to lead a Boy Scout troop, the right
to have access to partner health benefits,
and the right to be adoptive and foster
parents – ‘Love Makes a Family …’ helps
cut through all the political arguments
right to the heart of the issue by showing
the love, caring and connection that are
so basic to all families,” PFLAG’s Mark
Houser wrote about the show.
See www.familydiv.org for more information. Contact the Teton County Library
at 733-2164; call Houser and PFLAG at
733-8349 or [email protected].
LIVINGWELL
Elizabeth Kingwill,
LIVING WELL
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Teresa Griswold
Hot cars no
place for kids
Our climate in the Tetons is generally mild, but even temperatures in the
70s or 80s can heat up the inside of
an automobile to dangerous levels –
well in excess of 100 degrees.
Parking on black asphalt surfaces
can also increase the temperature
inside the car.
Young children’s bodies cannot regulate temperature as efficiently as an
adult’s. Heat stroke can occur in minutes and result in serious injury or
death. Leaving a child in a car with the
air conditioning running can also be
dangerous, as many cars are stolen
every year when they are left running.
Often the auto thief unknowingly steals
a car with a child in the back seat.
If you have young children, they
should never be left in a car without
an adult. While it may be inconvenient
to unbuckle a child from a car seat
just to run into a convenience store or
the post office for a minute or two, it
is important that you take your children with you. After all, we’ve all had
the experience of spending more time
than planned while shopping, either
because of running into a friend or
the check-out line was moving slowly.
While Wyoming does not have a law
that specifically prohibits leaving a
child unattended in a motor vehicle, it
does have a statute that gives officers the discretion to act on behalf of
the safety of a child, according to
Sergeant Lloyd Funk of the Teton
County Sheriff’s Office.
“We aren’t parents, and we don’t
want to play that role,” Funk said. “It
comes down to discretion.”
For example, if a person were to
leave an 8-year-old in the car while
running into the post office, but had a
full view of the child and the car windows were down, most likely a citation would not be issued, though the
officer might take verbal action, Funk
said. Leaving a young child in a car
with the windows rolled down may
help keep the car from heating up,
but it does not protect the child from
abduction and leaves the child alone
in the event of a medical emergency
such as choking.
More serious cases that risk the
child’s health and safety would result
in a citation.
“If there is a citation issued or an
arrest made, more than likely the
county attorney is going to advise that
the Department of Family Services
become involved,” Funk said.
If a child is locked in the car and
there is concern for the safety of the
child, the police will break into the
car to check on him or her.
“Property is not a concern when it
comes to the safety of children or
anyone,” he said. “But if the windows
are down and the child is happy, we
will stand and wait.”
If you see a young child left unattended in a car, wait at the car and
tell the parents the dangers of leaving
the child alone. If the child appears to
be in medical distress, call 911.
Otherwise, call local law enforcement
and a police officer will respond.
— Bruce Benjamin, a detective for
the
Pitkin
County
Sherif f’s
Department in Aspen, Colo., contributed to this story.
Confidential Counseling
■ On Thursday, a facilitated program
about creating problem solving skills
with your growing teenager, called
“Straight Talk,” will be offered 5-8
p.m. at Jackson Hole Middle School.
All parents are welcome, and childcare and snacks will be provided.
The program will be presented by
Sharon T. Walls, LMFT, and translated real-time into Spanish by Rod
Cely of the Rich Foundation. For
more information, contact Mark
Lazich, student assistance counselor
at the Teton County School District
#1, at 413-4650.
■ A Lifestyle Strategies for Weight
Management Orientation Class will be
held at 5:30 p.m. on Monday in the St.
John’s Professional Office Building
Classroom. Free. Call 739-7578 to
register. Free.
■ Certified Health Institute instructors
will
of fer
AHA
Heartsaver
Cardiopulmonar y Resuscitation –
Adult, Child and Infant CPR Classes,
including automatic external defibrillator training, 2:30-5 p.m. on June 5
and 9-11:30 a.m. on June 21. Cost is
$45, which includes workbook and
two-year certification. Call 739-7626
to register or for additional dates.
&
Hypnotherapy
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what you said, people will forget what
Practicing in Jackson
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you did, but people will never forget
how you made them feel.”
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SPORTSBRIEFS
Tournament of the Tetons brings
soccer teams from 3 states to JH
This weekend the new synthetic
grass soccer fields located just off High
School Road will get thoroughly broken
in. Beginning Saturday at 8:30 a.m.,
Jackson Hole Youth Soccer will hold
the first ever Tournament of the Tetons
with 40 soccer teams participating from
Montana, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming.
The class one tournament will feature
competitive U.S. Club Soccer and U.S.
Soccer Federation teams. Boys’ and
girls’ U8 to U14 teams will play on both
Saturday and Sunday, with championship games held on Sunday and
awards ceremonies shortly thereafter.
Gold- and silver-level competitive teams
as well as recreation divisions will compete all weekend.
“We created this tournament to give a
lot of our younger kids the opportunity
to play people outside of the state,”
said Rob Karas, director of coaching
Rotary Club of Jackson Hole’s 19th Annual
Friday, May 25, 2007 • 5 - 8pm
Snow King Center • Jackson, WY
If you love wine, then you’ll love the Wine Fest!
Sample more than 500 wines from around the world
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Tickets: $30 in advance, $35 at the door
Admission includes a souvenir wine tasting glass,
appetizers, silent auction and fine wine raffle.
Proceeds Benefit: The Rotary Scholarship Fund
which provides $40,000+ in scholarships
annually for students and teachers.
for Jackson Hole Youth Soccer. The
tournament not only creates another
venue for local competitive teams to
play against regional athletes; it will
also prep teams for the Wyoming State
Cup in Laramie over Memorial Day
weekend. Teams that fare well in
Laramie will qualify for the Far West
Regional Tournament in Las Vegas from
June 17-24.
If you are a young athlete but can’t
make this event, or if you’re simply
looking to boost your skills in the
future, sign up for the Jackson Hole
Soccer Skills Camp June 25-29, each
day from 9 a.m. to noon. The skills
camp will take place on the same synthetic grass fields and will feature
regional U.S. Soccer Federation
licensed coaches. To get involved call
Rob Karas at (307)699-0212.
— Sam Petri
Doggie disc comp coming up
On Wednesday May 23, bring your
dogs to the Rec Center field and enter
them in the Skyhoundz Hyperflite
Canine Disc Championships. All area
dogs, novice and experienced alike,
are invited to participate in this fastmoving, athletic flying disc event.
The disc championship includes
over 100 local championships, such
as the event in Jackson, several
regional championships and an international event to crown the winning
dog. Events in the Skyhoundz
Hyperflite Canine Disc Championships
The right to
choose
includes the
right to know.
include distance/accuracy, where
human-dog teams attempt to catch as
many discs as possible within a particular time limit; freestyle, a free-from
event with emphasis on success, variety, innovation, and athletic skill of the
canine and thrower; pairs freestyle,
and; time trial, where each team executes two 20-yard throws in the shortest amount of time possible.
The event is free and registration
begins at 5 p.m. on May 23.
Competition begins at 5:30.
— Melanie Stein
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Pregnancy Support Services
Post-abortion Support
Peer Counseling
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EVENTREVIEWS
Cross section of Jackson turns out for John Prine
The Center for the Arts’ first big event
in its new theater – folk singer-songwriter John Prine, performing two soldout concerts on Sunday and Monday –
may signal a new era for entertainment
in the valley, but there were plenty of
comforting reminders that this was still
little old Jackson Hole.
Accompanied by two friends, I
approached the theater entrance on
Sunday to find the box office abuzz with
a typical cross-section of the valley population – the young, the old, the hip and
the die-hard hippie. Hoping to find a
spare ticket for a third friend, we
encountered an acquaintance who trusted our friend to pay him “by Tuesday,”
essentially giving him a free ticket on
the spot.
Inside, we had a drink or two – paid
for by check, I might add; try that at the
Kennnedy Center – before finding our
seats and catching the second half of
the opening act, Dan Reeder. Reeder’s
laid-back appearance and quiet voice
drew the audience in, especially when
he stepped it up a notch, changing
ANDREW WYATT
by Melanie Stein
John Prine performed two sold-out
shows at the Center Theater.
some verses of the well known “He’s
Got the Whole World in his Hands” to
“I’ve Got All the F**king Work I Need!”
which drew applause, laughter and a
sing-along from the crowd.
After a short break, Prine took the
stage, getting things started with
“Spanish Pipedream” and playing for a
solid two hours to an enthusiastic
crowd. He played some favorites,
including a skin-tingling version of
“Angels from Montgomery” and a rollicking take of “Dear Abby,” and some lesser-known songs – at least to this relatively unacquainted writer. Despite
being unfamiliar with the tunes, he
pulled me into his world with highly visual, tangible narratives.
The highlights of the evening included
a few verbal stumbles by Prine midsong and his ability to laugh it off and
keep playing: “I should know the words.
I wrote them after all,” he said. He just
looked like he was having a grand ’ol
time on stage. At one point he reminded the crowd about his last visit to
Jackson Hole, when he was booked at
the Log Cabin “for two nights and
stayed two weeks.”
The next Center Presents event will
take place on May 26 when professional singer Lin Maxwell will perform
Broadway favorites accompanied by
Jackson Hole pianist Pam Phillips.
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Rowdy Bras for a Cause! party brings in $17,000
Soroptimist International of Jackson
Hole held its second annual “Bras for a
Cause!” event on Saturday to raise
funds and awareness about breast cancer and women’s health, but the event
also got a rise out of at least a few of
the 100-plus spectators.
Eight models sported 25 creatively
decorated bras sponsored by 23 local
businesses and organizations. On
Saturday, the creations were auctioned
off during an often raucous live auction.
The event provided ample adult entertainment as 43 North rolled out the red
carpet for an evening of fashion, philanthropy, cocktails and dancing.
A Viva Las Vegas-themed bra and a
’60s-inspired flower power bra were
part of the live auction, which featured
models strutting down the runway,
primped by Body and Soul Salon.
Whether it was the booze talking or
the spirit of generosity in the air, the
bids rose as the night went on. The
highest bid at last year’s event – which
took place at Snow King and raised
$12,000 – was $250. This year, the
Orchard family offered the highest bid,
$1,000 for the Snake River Brewing
Company’s “Tap into the Tetons” bra
with strategically placed beer taps.
DEREK DILUZIO
by Lucille Rice
Snake River Brewing’s “Tap into the
Tetons” was modeled by Heather
Asbell and sold for $1,000.
Attorney Mel C. Orchard tried a breast
cancer case a few years ago and want-
ed to give back to a cause he fought
hard for: “From my personal experience,
I know that breast cancer education,
research and awareness is important,
so tonight was a good chance to come
out and support a good cause.”
Throughout the evening, guests were
encouraged to vote for their favorite
bra. The People’s Choice Award went to
Habitat for Humanity’s “Don’t Bite
These Nails” bra.
The event drew almost as many men
as women to the mountainside venue,
but the number of men expected to
attend next year is guaranteed to
increase as word of the silent auction
items such as granite countertops and
the peep show spreads. Other silent
auction items included donations from
Bell Fitness, Movie Works, Just Stone,
Ella’s Room and the Virginian (to name
a few), all of which helped to boost proceeds by $5,000 over last year. The
$17,000 raised will go to the Wyoming
Chapter of the Susan G. Komen
Foundation for Breast Cancer Research
and St. John’s Medical Center Women’s
Health Fund.
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Rating: BRONZE
Fill in the blank cells
using numbers 1 to 9.
Each number can
appear only once in
each row, column, and
3x3 block. Use logic
and process of elimination to solve the puzzle.
The difficulty level
ranges from Bronze
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Gold (hardest).
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Puzzle constructor Bonnie L. Gentry
recently led a crossword workshop during a cruise. This puzzle’s theme, title
and pen name (made on a cruise)
came from members of that workshop.
Ms. Gentry did the rest.
ACROSS
1 Bought and sold
8 God to more than a billion
13 Treated with contempt
20 Support
21 Shearer of “The Tales of
Hoffmann”
22 Dove toast
23 “There’s that seer! Don’t let her
get away!”?
26 Oater “Scram!”
27 3-D scanners
28 Sylphlike
29 Blazing stars
30 Refreshing brand
33 Volleyball venue
36 Exceptional sight
38 Child expert LeShan
39 Contemporary of Pierre
41 Book jacket blurbs
43 Encourage loudly
46 Officers failed to control rioters?
52 Thicket
53 1986 PGA Championship winner
54 Took it easy
55 “Whadja say?”
56 Bailiff’s cry
57 Takes a whack at
59 NCO rank
63 Corroded
66 “We want you to know” insurer
67 Parma playhouse
69 Sub sandwiches acclaimed by
packed deli?
73 Bells and whistles
74 Exeunt __: all go out (stage
direction)
75 Mall features
76 Penn who gets a lot of ink
77 “Tiny Alice” dramatist
78 “I’m so thick!” syllables
80 Wall Street org.
81 Country home
84 Martini & Rossi product
85 Addle add-on
87 Funny poet builds tramway sys
tem to connect casinos?
View from Jiddah
Numbers done alone
Go soft, in a way
“I’m impressed!”
Penn Sta. users
Apple products
Martha’s Vineyard, for one
Mean smile
Analogous
Minuscule amount
Cultural patron: Abbr.
Palm trimmers injured by clumsy
swinger?
Lacking vicissitude
Laser printer component
High-rise, e.g.
Repeats a carbon-14 test, say
Met staple
Comic actor Adam
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48
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51
52
56
57
58
60
61
62
64
65
66
67
68
70
DOWN
1 See fit
2 “Ah, Wilderness!” mother
3 PDA entries
4 “Cheaper by the Dozen” actress,
1950
5 One of Egypt’s “Amarna kings”
6 Queequeg crewmate
7 At no time, in verse
8 Tickle
9 Bump site?
10 Full deck Nero never played
with?
11 Site of public hangings
12 Hard water?
13 Botanical supports
14 Part of many Web addresses
15 Ready for business
16 Emulate the “Trading Spaces”
gang
17 Artless simplicity
18 Nation at zero degrees latitude
19 Put down
24 Take lying down?
25 Fight (for)
31 Outscores
32 Ultimatum ender
34 As if one knows what one is doing
35 Langley-based gp.
37 Temple teacher, briefly
40 Prankster’s cry
42 Dry-eyes solution
44 Tramcar filler
45 “It’s likely ...”
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Fashionista’s field
Sister of Laertes
Nor. neighbor
Tornadic toon devil, casually
Absence of musical skill
Court VIPs
Teases good-naturedly
Plains tribesmen
Titter
Directions: Abbr.
Plant apertures
Bribes
Lobbed
Malady
Rangers’ gp.
Bad marks
“__ Is Spinal Tap”
Tennyson’s twilight
Maestro who won the most
Grammys
Sets securely
Religious rift
Longest river entirely within
Switzerland
Hi-tech connection
Tony winner Hagen
Yonder yacht
It’ll help you up
Polo crossed it
Athlete dubbed “O Rei do
Futebol”
Govt. employees
New delivery
Stuck
Question heard on elevators
Shade provider
Place for a wicker chair
List of eligible players
Cooke contemporary
Item usually bought in pairs
Olds Cutlass model
Beaver, to Ward
NBC newsman Roger
Volleyball ace Gabrielle
Stunning shooter
Old Testament reformer
Go into hysterics
Skinny, so to speak
Draws together
Highland refusal
Fresno-to-L.A. dir.
Debussy’s sea
10th anniversary symbol
Rustic mail svc.
¡ASKAMEXICAN!
Gustavo Arellano
Dear Mexican: I have no problem
with immigrants – my grandparents
were Dutch on one side and Irish on
the other – but they came here
legally, through Ellis Island. What I
can’t stand are a bunch of fencehopping,
river-wading
illegals
telling me I owe them a free education, free healthcare, free transportation, and then making me
speak Spanish at every restaurant,
car wash and public school in the
county. Making these people citizens simply because they’re here is
like letting someone keep my car
just because he already stole it.
Angry Gabacho Goes Really Off
with the logical
smackdown.
Dear AGGRO: Breathe. Relax. Wake
up and smell the tacos. Your letter
contains enough inaccuracies, misrepresentations and logical fallacies to
qualify as a quiz for high school rhetoric students. Primeramente, you begin
by saying that immigrants don’t bother
you, then switch courses by bashing
illegal immigrants. It’s fine to distinguish between the two, but don’t offer
qualifiers when arguing a point – they
weaken your conclusion. Also, illegal
immigrants aren’t demanding free anything – just amnesty for millions. But
even if your assertion were true, you’re
forgetting the libertarian concept of
TINSTAAFL (an acronym for “There is
no such thing as a free lunch” popularized by Nobel Prize laureate Milton
Friedman). Taxpayers foot the costs of
“free” social services, and Mexicans
want to join those ranks; hence, it
doesn’t follow that Mexicans seeking
everything for gratis would rally for
something that requires paying more
for the right to live in this great land.
Also, you didn’t specify which county
you live in, but no Mexican “makes”
anyone speak Spanish. Ever heard of
free will? If you’re speaking bad
español to get by, that’s your choice,
chulo. Finally, your stolen-car analogy
commits an informal fallacy – it doesn’t follow that a topic as complex as
illegal immigration (driven by numerous economic, social and governmental factors) is the same as jacking a
ranfla, which only involves a nominal
knowledge of hot-wiring. Most importantly, AGGRO: Where’s my pinche
question? Warning to all future submitters: Ask, don’t rant, lest I reward you
Dear Mexican: Why are Mexicans
so damn rude and inconsiderate
when it comes to blasting that horrible, bass-pounding circus music
when at home or in their unlicensed, uninsured cars? They
pound that crap at all hours, not
caring who they disturb.
Can’t Hear Myself Think
Dear Mexican: Just needed to
know the reasoning behind the
BLARING MARIACHI MUSIC AT 7
A.M. ON A SATURDAY MORNING. I
am of Spanish descent (my father is
Puerto Rican), and I wasn’t raised
around such BLASTING ACCORDION MUSIC when growing up. Just
to add to this, my father also was a
professional musician and played
Latino music. So, what is it with the
Mexi-tunes? Are they trying to wake
up, or wake others up?
Boricua Baboso
Dear Boricua and Gabacho: Ustedes
answered your questions without even
knowing it. Boricua Baboso: The blaring in mariachi comes from trumpets,
and have you ever heard one? The
noise it makes ain’t exactly rustling
leaves. Accordions used in conjunto
norteño are similarly loud and highpitched – even at its softest, a
squeezebox screams with all the subtlety of a siren (apologies for the alliteration). Can’t Hear Myself Think:
although you didn’t specify what kind
of Mexican music qualifies as “circus,”
your reference to a heavy bass probably means you hate banda sinaloense,
the brass band genre native to Sinaloa
anchored by eardrum-exploding tubas.
You can play these genres at the lowest possible levels, and their natural
reverberations would still shudder
through walls, cars and steel.
Mexicans are used to the loudness,
but not gabachos. With that knowledge
in mind, every Banda El Recodo or Los
Tigres del Norte track cranked up to
Level 11 is payback for your white
noise of talk radio pendejos. And Lou
Dobbs. Can’t forget Lou Dobbs.
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And include a hilarious pseudonym, por favor, or we’ll make one up for you!
SPACETIME
May 16
1868 – Andrew Jackson is acquitted by
one vote during Senate impeachment
hearings.
1929 – “Wings” wins Best Picture at the
First Academy Awards.
1939 – Food stamps are first issued.
May 17
1845 – The rubber band is patented.
1875 – The first Kentucky Derby is held.
1985 – Les Anderson catches a 97pound, 4-ounce Chinook salmon off the
coast of Alaska.
May 18
1852 – Massachusetts rules that all
school-age children must attend school.
1927 – The Slide Lake “dam” collapses,
releasing an onslaught of Gros Ventre
river water toward Kelly.
1986 – David Goch completes 55,682
miles worth of laps in a 25-yard pool.
by Ed Bushnell
1995 – The world’s youngest doctor,
Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates from
Mount Sinai.
May 20
1986 – “The Flintstones 25th Anniversary”
airs on CBS.
1989 – Wrestler Jerry Lawler sues
WWF and Harley Pace for the trademark
name, “King.”
1993 – “Cheers” airs its final episode.
May 21
1945 – They had it all: Bogey and Bacall
wed.
1979 – Elton John becomes the first
Western rocker to perform in the
U.S.S.R.
1980 – “The Empire Strikes Back” premieres.
May 22
May 19
1992 – Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo
Buttafuoco.
1992 – Vice President Dan Quayle says
Murphy Brown is a poor example of family values.
1761 – The first life insurance policy in
the colonies is issued, in Philadelphia.
1849 – Abraham Lincoln patents a
buoying device.
1892 – Dr. Washington Sheffield invents
the toothpaste tube.
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ADVICEGODDESS
Amy Alkon
Not Taking Know
For An Answer
I have a guy friend, “Bobby,” whose
wife has blurted out twice (once at my
wedding reception) that Bobby and I
dated in college. We actually had a
one-night stand – over 10 years ago.
Word got around to my husband, who
asked me if Bobby and I had indeed
dated. I said no, since technically we
hadn’t. Knowing about Bobby would
upset my husband. I can see him getting all jealous, like, “We’ve been hanging out with this guy, and now I find out
that you slept with him.” He’d at least be
hurt that something was kept from him
(even though he specifically stated that
he never wanted to be told this stuff).
Worse, he might want to have the “numbers” conversation, and let’s just say
I’ve lost track, and he believes sex
equals love.
— Anxious
Your husband knows you were a
hussy. That’s why he made it clear he
never wanted to be told what you did,
and with whom. And a good thing that
is, since it sounds like the details of
“with whom” may sometimes be limited
to “#59. Ian’s friend from SF” and “#63.
Guy from plane.”
If your husband’s going to maintain
his preferred picture of you as his little
Snow White, you’re going to have to
help him stay in the dark about Bobby
and the rest of the 107 dwarves. If he
catches wind of the Bobby story again,
even though he knows he’s better off
not knowing, he’ll probably squeeze
you for answers. Even if you tell him “It
was nothing,” and “It happened once,
more than 10 years ago,” and he
understands that intellectually, his male
brain is likely to turn it into a sexual horror film: “Bobby! Bigger! Better!” In your
husband’s mind, Bobby is not just
“well-endowed,” he had to be lowered
onto your bed with a special crane.
Disclosures about one’s sexual history should be made according to a modified version of the old “What happens
in Vegas stays in Vegas” – with the
caveat, “unless what happened in
Vegas can cause big purple boils to
form on your partner’s upper lip.” This
does run counter to the “tell-all” model
of marriage – the mistaken notion that
your spouse has the right to know
everything about you, and the equally
mistaken notion that it’s a good idea.
Am I telling you to lie? Like a big shaggy rug. If your husband asks you about
Bobby: “It never happened.” If he
presses you: “It’s a rumor, and it’s
wrong.” Be prepared to be just as firm
in refusing to let him deconstruct the
rest of your sexual past. Should you
feel guilty about lying, remember: coming clean is easier, feels better and
requires much less upkeep, but, “happily ever after” works best when it isn’t
hyper-focused on naked, drunk and
grope-ily ever before.
Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, No. 280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail
[email protected] or visit her Web site at www.advicegoddess.com. © 2007 AMY
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The Only Three
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “There can be no transfor-
Questions That Count” is the title of a book by Ken
Fisher. I’m stealing it to use as the theme of your horoscope. So your next assignment, should you choose to
accept it, is to craft three essential questions that will
guide your journey between now and the end of 2007.
These queries should excite your natural curiosity
about the life issues that matter most to you. They
should be carefully and precisely formulated. And they
should motivate you to keep your mind wide open and
hungry as you hunt for more insight into your most bafflingly interesting mysteries.
mation of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion,” wrote psychologist Carl Jung.
That should be your motto in the coming week, Libra.
Clear thinking and impeccable logic will not be sufficient to guide you to your next great adventure. You
need the driving force of succulent emotion rising up in
your solar plexus, the lush power of raw sensitivity
piercing your heart. Feel as deep as you dare.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s about time you got
the chance to be knocked on your ass by a flood of positive surprises and good feelings. I hope you’re trusting
enough to go with the tidal flow, even if it does temporarily render you a bit woozy. Naturally you’d like to
know if this giddy surrender will land you in trouble. Is
there any chance that you’ll have to endure some
karmic adjustment at a later date because of the fun
you’re having now? Here’s my prediction: absolutely
not. If anything, your enthusiastic cooperation with the
free-form dazzle will shield you from any negative
repercussions.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): For years I made my
home in a Northern Californian city called San Rafael.
Near the end of my time there, I discovered that the
Miwok Indians who lived in the area for hundreds of
years before the white men stole it had a different name
for it: Nanaguani. I was embarrassed that it had taken
me so long to know such a fundamental fact about my
own neighborhood. Make this the starting point for your
assignment this week, Gemini, which is to learn more
about the origins of the people and places and things
that are most important to you.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Reality is not all it’s
cracked up to be. Just because millions of people suffer
from the same hallucinations doesn’t mean those hallucinations are objectively true. I share Salvador Dali’s
perspective: “One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even
greater illusion than the world of dreams.” For these
reasons and many more, I don’t automatically dismiss
people who live in their own fantasy worlds. Their
dreamy concoctions may be no more deluded than
those of normal people, and might be far more fun and
amusing. Everything I just said is a preface for the main
point of this horoscope, Cancerian, which is to give you
temporary license to escape into the most beautiful
mirage you can conjure up. Love your fantastic visions.
Let your imagination run far, far away with you.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The members of the
Superbroke Brass and Tin and Strings Electric
Marching Band Ensemble wrote to me at my MySpace
page. “We’re here to fight the Evil Anti-Groove,” they
said, “to liberate the SuperFlow of the Universe, and to
loosen the Sphincter of the Collective Unconscious. I
hope you’ll march with us some day.” I bring this to your
attention, Leo, because your mission in the coming
weeks should be much the same as theirs. Your personal success and satisfaction will be directly tied to how
skilled you are at enhancing the well-being of your
group, tribe, or community.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Welcome to the neverending brainstorm session,” reads an advertisement for
Barclays Bank, one of the most successful financial
institutions in the world. It’s an approach that has some
similarities to the ethic that prevails at Toyota, the company that makes the world’s best-selling car. Its core
principle is kaizen, a Japanese word meaning “continuous improvement,” though it can also be translated as
“to take apart and put back together in a better way.” A
blend of these attitudes is what I recommend to you
during the coming weeks, Virgo: kaizen meets the
never-ending brainstorm.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Last year the top
hedge fund managers in the U.S. earned an average of
$363 million a year. I haven’t been able to determine
what percentage of those plutocrats are Scorpios. But
whatever the number is, I predict it’ll rise during the
remaining months of 2007. The members of your
tribe—not just in the upper crust, but those of all
crusts—are poised for the greatest financial upgrade in
years. And one of the most favorable periods for expansion is dead ahead.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): This week may
feel like a far-off trumpet playing mournfully at dawn as
you awaken from a dream about buying pomegranates
in a seedy but oddly appealing open-air market in
Morocco. It could also resemble the sensation of talking
on the phone long-distance to a person you both love
and hate as rain falls on a metal roof and you gaze at a
lunar eclipse that’s breaking through a round hole in the
cloud cover. In other words, Sagittarius, it’ll be a time
that’s rich in hard-to-classify emotions. I expect you’ll
have experiences that will both spook you and energize
you, both mesmerize you and liberate you.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I wish I could get
a newly discovered species of beetle or an underground lake of ice on Mars named after you. I wish I
could buy you a temple in Bali, and arrange for you
to have your fortune told by the blind prophetess of
Rio de Janeiro. And I wish I could dress you in 200year-old velvet robes and silk scarves once worn by
Turkish royalty. You richly deserve honors and blessings like these, Capricorn. It’s that time in your astrological cycle when life is supposed to overflow with
rewards for the good work you’ve been doing for a
long time. I urge you to be vividly confident that you
do indeed deserve these rewards, and radiate that
faith in all directions.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Inuit people of
Canada’s far northern territory of Nunavut have a word
that describes an old friend who’s acting oddly. In
recent years, as global warming has gained momentum, they’ve applied this term, uggianaqtuq, to their
environment. What are the symptoms? The sea ice
forms later each winter and thaws earlier in the spring.
Robins and biting flies have arrived in places where
they’ve never been before. The sky is whiter and hazier,
even on clear days. I suspect you’ll experience a version
of uggianaqtuq in the coming days, Aquarius.
Something familiar will behave in a way you’ve never
experienced. That could be good or bad or a mixture of
both. Which way it goes may depend in part on whether
you refrain from jumping to conclusions. It may also
hinge on your willingness to redefine the meaning of
“good” and “bad.”
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your word of the week
is *incubation.* It refers to the act of a parent animal sitting on eggs to keep them warm as the fetuses inside
mature to the point of hatching. In a more metaphorical
sense, “incubation” means the process of protecting
and nurturing an idea or possibility as it ripens. Dream
workers also tout “dream incubation,” in which you
describe a problem that you’d like to have addressed by
your dreams, and hold it in your mind as you fall asleep.
If you do this with a strong intention, your dreams will
eventually help you solve the problem. I invite you to
apply this meditation on incubation to the work you
have ahead of you, Pisces.
What would it mean for you to “make love to the universe”?
Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.
JACKSON
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The Teton County Sheriff’s Department
announced the recent arrest of several
suspects for underage eating at senior
lunches. Officers confiscated plates of
ham, mashed potatoes and apple pie to
be “disposed of” later.
“Teton County has strict laws about
underage eating,” Teton County Sheriff
Bob Zimmer reminded residents. “If you’re
not 60 years old, Wyoming statute requires
you to pay full price at senior lunches.”
Some community members take exception to law enforcement’s zero-tolerance
approach to underage eating, however.
“Why did they wait until our plates
were full before moving in?” one underage eater who wished to remain anonymous complained.
Deputies admit to hiding out behind the
rows of paperbacks and the bridge tables
until suspects were seated with their
lunches before making their move. The
Sheriff was unapologetic about the tactic.
“We are charged to enforce laws, and
that’s what we do,” Zimmer said.
Local barmaid breeds with
liberal Massachusetts
Democrat
FLIPSIDE
“I had read in a magazine that sex was
supposed to be fun,” the cocktail waitress explained. “I just wanted more than
the regular ‘get over proto’ or, as we girls
call it, the GOP style.”
The affair has caused a stir in this
sleepy
rural
community.
Even
Wyoming’s U.S. Representative Barbara
Cubin has joined in the outcry. “Any
child from this unholy affair should not
be granted Wyoming citizenship,” she
insisted. “I intend to introduce a bill
that protects Wyoming borders from liberal immigration.”
A Redneck
Perspective
by Clyde Thornhill
She agreed to consider allowing temporary work permits for liberals
employed as waiters in sushi restaurants
and bagel shops.
Donald Trump joins with
developer Mark Jarley
Donald Trump joined forces with embattled developer Mark Jarley and intends to
build a casino style mega-resort in
Jackson. Trump threatened to extend the
TV show “The Apprentice” for another
season if the Jackson Town Council doesn’t grant a mixed-use development permit
allowing, among other things, a gold-plated statue of himself at the entrance.
Larry Jones, an attorney for the town,
said, “If Mr. Trump continues to employ
such intimidation tactics, there will be no
choice but to appoint Rosie O’Donnell to
the planning department.”
Bush behind ouster of
Sanjaya from American Idol
Unidentified sources close to the White
House confirmed that President Bush was
behind the ouster of Sanjaya and the rise
of local favorite Judd Grossman on the
popular TV show “American Idol.”
“The Constitution gives the President the
right to replace contestants for any reason
or no reason,” insisted a presidential
spokesman. “However, in this case Sanjaya
was replaced for reasons of competency.”
Local Democratic leaders believe politics was behind the firing.
“Sanjaya was a favorite of millions,”
Chick Himz, vice president of the local
county Democratic party, said. “Bush’s
move was purely partisan.”
Grossman, a strong supporter of the
Bush administration, agreed to compromise by wearing a wig when performing.
Environmentalist
discovers mating area
Franz Camenzind has reportedly discovered a new mating area in the Greater
Yellowstone Ecosystem.
“I was hiking along the west side of the
Town Square when I heard out-of-tune
country music,” he told reporters. “I followed the sound through a doorway and
suddenly was surrounded by an ideal
mating habitat. There was a pool table,
cute barmaids, and even saddles for bar
stools. I retreated to a dark corner where
I observed mating rituals that I’m positive
have never before been observed.”
Camenzind said he plans to ask local
officials to extend the Natural Resources
Overlay to include the Cowboy Bar.
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number of special events in the coming weeks.
The fun starts this weekend when
Dover Holder presents his lecture
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“RV watching is a fun and challenging outdoor activity that can be
enjoyed by all ages,” said Holder, a
Jackson native and long-time observer of the characteristics and behaviors of recreational vehicles. “I tell
you, there’s nothing like the thrill of
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into town.”
Holder’s slide show is free. He also
will have copies of his book to sell
and sign.
The Chamber and the Friends of
Teton County History suggest interest-
ed parties register early for next
Saturday’s
joint-sponsored
“Tomorrow’s History: A Tour of
Disappearing Downtown Jackson.”
Starting at 11 a.m. on May 26, the
local “future-orian” Dwayne Hoobler
will lead a walking tour of about a
dozen downtown sites slated to be
demolished and replaced with more
high-end retail space and expensive
lodging. Cost to join the tour is $20
and includes snacks.
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“We are Wyoming”
Art Hazen
Real Estate LLC
“Simply the BEST Real Estate Company”
Locally
Owned
REAL ESTATE
SCOREBOARD
WEEK OF 05.06.07 TO 05.12.07
JACKSON HOLE
Residential-Single Family
Number of Sales
Average Days on Market
Week’s top sale
Square Footage
Week’s Average Sale Price
% of Sold Price to List Price
2
67
$995,000
2,316
$862,000
100%
Residential-Condo/Townhouse
Number of Sales
Week’s Top Sale
Square Footage
3
49
$4,500,000
3,577
$1,875,000
96%
Building Sites
Number of Sales
Week’s Top Sale
Acres
2
66
$2,450,000
6.44
$1,592,500
97%
VICTOR-DRIGGS-TETONIA IDAHO
All Residential
Number of Sales
Week’s Top Sale
Square Footage
% of sold Price to List Price
3
303
$1,075,000
5,400
$561,687
91%
Building Sites
Number of Sales
Week’s Top Sale
Acres
% of sold Price to List Price
5
359
$140,000
1.00
$89,380
100%
* In the event the week’s Top Sale is erroneously reported its listed price is used.
** Some information above is derived from the Teton County MLS system and
represents information as submitted by all Teton County MLS Members for Teton County,
Wyoming and is deemed to be accurate but not guaranteed.
Art Hazen Real Estate LLC advertising and promotional ads, products, and information are the sole property of
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prior expressed written consent of Art Hazen Real Estate LLC.
SF390
Enjoy spectacular Teton Views from this 3,780
square foot beautiful log home in Buffalo Valley.
Amenities include a steam shower, 2 story ledgestone wood fireplace, saloon in the basement, and
incredible granite, polished limestone, and marble
countertops. Property is two one acre parcels. The
house and barn sit completely on one of the
parcels. $899,000 Contact: Kristin Vito
SF401
Bordered by a conservation easement and with the
Hoback River running through the property, this
custom home is spectacular. Sitting on 5 acres of
horse property in Bondurant, the home has 3
bedrooms and 2 1/2 baths. It also includes a formal
dining room, home office, utility room, oversized 2
car garage and 360º views from the porch!
$849,000 Contact: Michael Christman
Sitting on a lot zoned for commercial use, this
property is ideal! Located in Victor this property
has a house with 2 bedrooms and 2 baths. One
acre lot is fenced for horses and includes a 2 car
garage and barn.
$539,000 Contact: Michael Christman
SF402
SF420
Absolutely gorgeous ranch property, situated on
5.10 acres. Beautiful log home, plus detached log
guest house with views in all directions. Top of
the line appliances and granite countertops. This is
the perfect home for a gentleman rancher.
Outstanding workmanship and quality throughout.
Must be seen to be truly appreciated!
$1,800,000 Contact: Will Garson
SF421
Two master bedroom suites with two additional
bedrooms in this 2,885 sq. ft. attractive Jackson
Hole Golf & Tennis Estate home located on
Cottonwood Drive. Large lot (1.29 acres), sunny
and private south facing decks, fenced south yard,
large lot, hardwood floors, recently updated and
remodeled kitchen, & more.
$1,495,000 Contact: Timothy C. Mayo
SF416
Four bedroom Melody Ranch home featuring
knotty hickory floors, slate and travertine tile, river
rock gas fireplace, neutral berber carpeting, jetted
tub, stainless steel appliances, knotty alder
cabinetry, bonus room, tongue and groove pine
ceilings, wired for automation, surround sound
and CAT 5E lines and much more!
$1,465,000 Contact: Kristin Vito
CC91
A growing ski and bike business with a great
reputation in wonderful Jackson Hole. This ski and
bike shop is the perfect opportunity for a sports
and business minded buyer. The bike and ski lines
in this shop are outstanding and have been chosen
for their quality in all price ranges. Owner is a
licensed Wyoming Real Estate Agent.
$600,000 Contact: Ila Rogers
LL220
Three (3) acre elevated building sites on the West
Bank just a couple minute drive from Wilson,
offering an open building site for your guest home
and a wonderfully Aspen filled secluded site for
your main residence. Valley views, first sunlight of
the morning, privacy, and simply the best value on
the West Bank for the summer.
$895,000 Contact: Timothy C. Mayo
LL213
All the exclusivity of Stilson Ranch, on a 1.08 acre
site with spectacular 360 degree views. Cul-de-sac
location for additional privacy, and a year-round
pond provides a unique setting for recreation and
serenity.
$1,150,000 Contact: Ed Minczeski
Local Service 733.4339 or 800.227.3334 Fax 307.739.0766
www.jhrealestate.com
[email protected]

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