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Enviro
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April 25 - May 1 l Vol. 5 Issue 19
GTNP pathway plan proceeds
Spring Earth Fest 18
Fest wraps with ECO-Fair
The Skiing Life
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So you wanna be a pro?
Business
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Powderhorn resurrected
AR T/MUSIC
Songwriters Alley 23
Local talent plays Hard Drive
HAIR raising
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Hippie love fest continues
ArtBeat
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Page 13
Members show at Center
Living Well
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JH marks Qi Gong Day
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Arrivederci
Anne and I wish to thank everyone in the Jackson Hole
community for the tremendous support they’ve given
us over the past 30 years – and for the kind sentiments during our last month in business. The
outpouring of appreciation and affection we felt
during our final days is something we will
never forget.
We are eternally grateful to our loyal long-time
employees – particularly managers Pete Wiswell and Stan
Wood. This gratitude extends to the other members of the
Anthony’s family who have been with us for so many years: Greg Marin; Mike Mason;
Brian Rutter; Hector MacKenzie; Lynn Hammond; Jan Marie Hobart; Shelley
Rubrecht; Diana Stratton; Kathy Johnson; Jean Dow; Jen Hall; Becca Griber; Blanca
Moye; Andrea McKeen; Kate Schade; Erin O’Connor; Jessica Coakley. It would be
impossible to list all of the wonderful people who have worked for us over the years
– many of whom still live in the area and have remained part of our extended family –
and to them we also express our thanks.
We would also like to show our appreciation for the support businesses and suppliers
that have enabled us to operate, year-round, for the past 30 years: High Country
Linens; Bank of Jackson Hole; Ace Hardware; JH Curbside Recycling; JH Community
Recycling; S & S Services; Delcon; Charlie’s Plumbing; Mastercare Carpet; US Foods.
We are all especially thankful to the indispensable Tim Meehan (Tim’s Refrigeration)
without whom we would never have survived, and who was truly a part of our family.
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SafePAWS seeks volunteers
A nationwide study conducted in 1998
revealed that 71 percent of battered
women in shelters reported their partners
threatened to kill or injure their pets at
one point.
Jackson Hole’s Maria Hayashida witnessed this firsthand when, in the summer
of 2005, she housed an abused friend and
her dog. The experience helped inspire
her to launch SafePAWS in October 2006.
Partnering with the Community Safety
Network and PAWS, the program finds
foster care for pets of those who are
forced to leave their homes because of
domestic violence.
SafePAWS is looking to grow its stable of
volunteers, which currently numbers 15. It
will hold a volunteer training workshop
5:30-8:30 p.m. on Thursday at the First
Interstate Bank in the Chinatown Plaza.
The Community Safety Network provides a safehouse where victims of domestic violence, stalking and sexual abuse are
housed until they find a safe alternative,
but cannot take pets in. Hayashida, a
PAWS board member, teamed up with
Elizabeth
Cheroutes,
a
former
Community Safety Network employee, to
solve the problem in Jackson.
SafePAWS volunteers foster pets of
abuse victims – anything from horses to
hamsters – for up to eight weeks. The program is completely confidential, and
SafePAWS reimburses volunteers for any
medical or food costs accrued by the foster pets.
“The community’s reaction has been
very positive,” said Hayashida. “From the
PAWS perspective, it broadens the audience, adding a human element, and for
the Community Safety Network, it’s a
service and an option that allows them to
focus on taking care of their clients.”
Since its inception in the fall of 2006,
the program has sheltered three pets –
two dogs and a hamster. For more information on the program and to register for
the training session, call 733-3711.
— Lucille Rice
Construction underway
on town parking structure
Construction of the new four-story public parking structure got underway in
downtown Jackson with the fencing off of
the construction site. The 280-space parking structure will be built on the site of
the public parking lot behind Bank of the
West at a cost of about $10 million.
GE Johnson was hired by the Town to
build the new structure and will begin
tearing up the existing asphalt and pouring the foundation within a month,
despite the fact that the structure’s exterior design has yet to be finalized. The
design phases for the structure itself are
complete, and GE Johnson can begin
pouring concrete for the walls, ramps,
roadways and parking spaces, Shelley
Simonton, public affairs manager for the
town, said on Monday.
The parking structure will be built in an
environmentally sensitive manner, with
photovoltaic panels to power the building,
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Though not a final decision, Simonton
reported that limited overnight parking
would likely be allowed.
The Town’s volunteer Design Review
Committee will meet on May 9 to discuss
design proposals for the exterior, or skin.
“The DCR is going to look at what the
architects propose and make comments,”
Simonton said. “The Town Council really
looks to [the DCR] to provide aesthetic
expertise for the community.”
After the DCR reviews exterior proposals, it will make a recommendation to the
Planning Commission, which then will
pass the proposal along to the Town
Council for review.
“At end of day, the taxpayers are going
to pay for it,” Simonton said. “I don’t
think they’re going to be looking at
increasing the price by 10 percent, or a
million dollars, to put some screening on
the outside.”
Simonton expects the approval process
to take 30 to 45 days.
Construction should move rapidly,
Simonton said, with the structure open by
late fall. Parking in the area will be impacted during the busy summer tourism season
as the Town will be short one parking lot.
“You’re taking away some pretty critical
spots,” Simonton said. “A lot of people
use that parking lot, mostly for staff of the
bank and a lot of business in that area. It
will push people to on-street parking in
that area.”
Simonton suggested that locals walk or
ride their bikes in that area to minimize
parking issues during construction.
In addition to the new structure on
Simpson and Millward, the Town is also
upgrading the parking lot at Deloney and
Willow.
“By paving it, striping it, putting in a
sidewalk and bathrooms, it will give it
more definition, providing as many or
more parking spaces. When you park in an
organized fashion, you always gain space,”
she said.
That lot will remain open during the
upgrade, aside from the day that it is
paved. Upgrades are expected to be complete by mid-summer.
— Melanie Stein
City tackles outdated,
ambiguous land regs
The Jackson Town Council met jointly
with the Planning Commission on Monday
to determine where to begin in overhauling
the city’s antiquated Land Development
Regulations (LDRs) to reflect more accurately what type of building and growth is
desired in the near future.
“Typically, a community will update its
Comp Plan every five or 10 years and then
update its LDRs based on that,” Planning
Department Director Brian Grubb said
during the special meeting.
The Comprehensive Plan has not been
updated since the late ’90s. The city’s
LDRs have undergone numerous temporary patches and workarounds for the past
decade, Grubb said, but continue to frustrate developers and handcuff Planning
staff and Council members.
“We see badly needed changes to the
LDRs, which we think will help some devel-
opers,” Planning Board Chairman Greg
Miles said. “Some LDRs are really inaccurate and outdated to modern Jackson.”
Miles and others stressed the need for
“smart growth,” but a definition of such
perplexed some.
“Everybody is for smart growth,” said
City Administrator Bob McLaurin. “I
mean, who wants dumb growth? It starts
to jump the track when we get into the
nuts and bolts of it.”
“It’s the concepts of new urbanism,
relieving auto-dependency,” Miles said.
“Mixed use is the key to the survival of a
community. We should be able to walk to
the grocery store. Guess what, we don’t
have one grocery store we can walk to.”
“There is a certain character that I’m
interested in seeing in this town,”
Councilman Bob Lenz said. “I’m not
interested in seeing Jackson as the
Manhattan of the west. I think our constituents are interested in seeing a good
mountain town.”
Mark Obringer, acting as mayor, also
wondered if city residents were still
behind a buildup of downtown Jackson.
“AR, UC, [zoning], all that stuff in the
LDRs now was all Town as Heart,” he
said. “That’s where it all came from. Do
we still want to do that?”
Single lot homeowners have also felt
restricted by current LDRs that were sometimes drawn up to force out-of-town developers through certain incentive hoops.
“The only guy who can afford a $3 million property and a $20 million building is
a guy from out of town,” Obringer said. “It
is a conundrum. Truly, the dog chasing his
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One thing we won’t be able to find this
spring is Teton Cycle Works. I was sad
to hear that after 30 years in business,
TCW has closed its doors. Being the
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getting the question, “Are you psyched
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local cycling history, and we lost a great
competitor who always kept us on our
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door, the air hose kid on the front wall,
and all the memorabilia in the bathroom.
Thanks to Keith, Rusty, Craig and
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alive in Jackson Hole for all those years.
Hopefully, we can help carry on the tradition those guys started. Look for me to
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This past weekend, my little family and I went to Idaho
Falls. We wanted to get out of town and IF was hosting a “cultural walk” in its historic downtown and there were a few
things we needed to buy that we thought we could pick up
there – replacement parts for our grill, a few small items for
our kitchen, maybe something special for the boy.
We pulled into downtown, parked and set out to look for
some artsy cultural events, but were rather disappointed.
Downtown was dead. Deader even than Jackson Hole was.
“Where is everyone?” we asked ourselves.
We decided to move on to the shopping phase of our day
and found where everyone was hiding. They were all stuck in
traffic on 17th Street, trying to get to the malls. It must have
taken half an hour – maybe longer – to drive the three miles
from Yellowstone Avenue to Hitt Street. I haven’t seen traffic
like that, and I have recently traveled to Denver, New York
City and New England. OK, I-95 outside of Springfield,
Mass., was pretty infuriating, but you kind of have to expect
that back East. This was Idaho Falls – population 50,000.
Besides, why weren’t all those people downtown at their cultural walk?
I don’t mean to knock IF. That’s really not my point. The
point is that while I was stuck in traffic on 17th Street, trying
to figure out how I was going to get into the right lane, I had
the sickening feeling that we – humanity – still just don’t get
it. Everywhere we turn, we’re confronted by warnings about
global climate change, about how our old wasteful ways are
what got us in this pickle, about how we’ve got to change or
we’ll soon be little more than the fossil fuels of whatever
intelligent species takes our place (bees, I’m told). And yet
here we were, stuck in a three-mile-long phalanx of greenhouse gas-spewing, mall-hopping, landfill-filling, reflex consumers on a weekend bender.
My own culpability was not lost on me. I was not being part
of the solution. I was being part of the problem. I was one of
THEM. How many pounds of carbon did I add to the atmosphere driving the 180 miles to Idaho Falls and back, not to
mention tooling around, looking for my idle entertainments,
my petroleum byproducts, my stuff that would inevitably clog
the Sublette County landfill?
As if to underscore the waste of time and resources, we
didn’t even find the things we went to IF to buy. So basically
we spent the whole day contributing to global climate
change. Sorry.
LETTERS
[The following letter was edited for
length. — Ed.]
Thoughts on BLM plan
Is it a coincidence that the public comment meeting for the BLM’s new Resource
Management Plan (RMP) for the Pinedale
area was poorly advertised, took place only
one short week after the comments were
due for the five pounds (literally) of paperwork in the PAPA draft SEIS, was scheduled only four days before taxes were due,
and that those people who are trying to be
involved are now expected to read another
five pounds (literally) worth of RMP and
prepare comments within a month’s time?
After waiting for three years for the document, and with such dramatically insufficient time to try to read and understand this
prohibitively long and tedious document,
well over half of the people commenting at
the April 11 meeting asked that the BLM
please extend this deadline beyond its current May 18 status. Limited to five minutes,
I was unable to read through my statement.
So I have forwarded my comments to the
press, along with the update that, despite an
overwhelming plea from the Public, the
BLM has not, as of yet, extended their unreasonable deadline for written comments on
this critical and dangerous document…
… I do not claim to have yet read the
RMP in its entirety. What I have read are
more predictions based on assumptions
and lots of leverage to ensure that leaseholders will meet with the least possible
resistance, with the right to develop the
vast majority or the planning area at a
rapid pace. Mitigation measures are nonbinding and include clauses that ensure
the BLM’s authority to override any precedents set forth that may impede development, and there is plenty of leeway for
exceptions from stipulations to be granted.
The agency claims that their general
planning criteria for establishing the RMP
will “focus on the relative value of
resources, and NOT on the combination
of uses that will give the greatest economic return.” Apparently, the BLM places little or no value on resources such as air and
water quality, wildlife, fisheries, vegetation, scenic value, paleontology and natural history, which will all be compromised
for the sake of the one which appears to
offer the greatest short-term economic
return, the one that trumps all others combined, the Almighty: “MINERALS.”
Sublette County’s Comprehensive Plan
of 2003 set forth a “county vision,” calling
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for policy makers to craft “socially, economically and ecologically sound decisions.” The vision included such key
issues as maintaining a “rural essence”
with crime free communities, low costs of
living and a natural environment which
“reflects the high value residents place on
clean air and water, and wide open and
rural landscapes” (BLM, dSEIS; 2006). I
don’t see much of this vision reflected in
present day Sublette County.
Also cited by the BLM as a one of the
guidelines used for creating the RMP is
the Protection and Enhancement of
Environmental Quality Policy, which
calls for “federal agencies to provide
LEADERSHIP in environmental protection and enhancement.” Where is the
part in the RMP where the BLM promotes the development of cleaner, renewable energy sources on Public Lands??
Thrown in the trash along with the
BLM’s own planning criteria, the
County’s Plan and all the public comments from the scoping period??
April 6, 2007, the International Panel
- for Climate Change, made up of 2000 of
- the world’s leading scientists from over 120
r nations, presented a report in which their
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- ■ Gallery opening, artist reception,
- art talk, whatever you want to call it
d we’ve got it in Jackson. So what is
o the deal? If one attends such an
c event, is he or she in turn required to
buy art after sucking down $10 worth
of booze? Not at all. The opening is a
gallery tradition that still dances to
n
the tune of the high falutin’, but that
g does not mean we should be scared
of it, nor should we blow it off. You
(the general public) are invited to
enjoy a beverage of your choice and
if you’re lucky a snack, while checking out art. There are no strings
attached and that cannot be emphasized enough. You don’t have to talk
about it and you are free to detest
every last piece hanging on the wall,
sitting on a pedestal, or dangling
from the ceiling.
■ What can I say to this…no strings
unanimous conclusion was that we are currently witnessing the effects of global climate change in such events as Hurricane
Katrina and the Indonesian Tsunami. …
The BLM, meanwhile, claims no responsibility for monitoring or enforcing air quality
standards over the land it manages. Emission
levels for greenhouse gases such as carbon
dioxide and methane, which result from oil
and gas production, are neither measured
nor limited in Wyoming. Yet we are supposed
to trust this agency’s assumptions for what
future emission levels MIGHT be. Do the
BLM’s assurances that unacceptable levels of
emissions probably won’t happen hold more
clout than do the expert predictions and recommendations of an international team of
scientists?? I believe it is time for the BLM to
step up to the plate and assume leadership
that exemplifies protection of the land and
preservation of its resources, instead of its
current policy of exploitation.
… Whether or not humans are causing
global warming, to continue on this current path that ASSUMES human activity
is of no environmental consequence
seems to me to be a game of Russian
roulette. Conversely, the worst thing that
can happen from decreasing emissions by
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On “Art openings and
galleries in JH”
attached…other than hanging out with
the JH art community…art is not stuck
in some gallery, it is in your head as
you walk down the street…soaking in
the sights of how the old drug store
used to look, and remembering the
old days when you could buy a colorful polo shirt, definitely a work of
art…and the visual live art of the Dirty
Jack’s theater…how art has come
such a long way since then…not to be
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candy of Ripley’s…
■ You’re right. Art can be found in
places other than just the gallery. I
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ellipses (dot, dot, dot). It’s an interesting point you make that raises
many good questions. Art is your
environment. It’s a part of Jackson
and it should be embraced. That does
not mean it should be frozen in time.
The wild west image is changing and
there sure as heck ain’t much anyone
can do about it.
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GUEST COLUMN
by Gary Trauner
It’s the money that matters
“Once you get to D.C., you’ll be like million per election cycle might save us
everyone else. You’ll care more about the from shelling out billions in pork and spemoney then representing me.” Those cial interest projects every year.
Previous Congresses have essentially
words from a businessman in Casper were
hurtful to someone who prides himself on legalized corruption through the influhonesty and integrity. Yet they were typi- ence of money and lobbyists. From 2000
cal of my discussions around Wyoming, to 2006, the number of registered federal
and a sad indication of the current state lobbyists rose from around 9,000 to nearly 30,000. Lobbyists actually wrote laws.
of our politics and our elected “leaders.”
It seems as if everyone complains about Only drastic action will stop the culture of
the impact of money on public policy, but greed and you-scratch-my-back-and-I’llscratch-yours that exists in our
few are willing to think about
[T]he real
government today.
how to fix a system that most
answer is to
Several states (Maine and
people know deep down has
remove big
Arizona for example) have sucbeen corrupted.
cessfully implemented camThe simple truth is we have
money
paign finance reform with
an electoral system where
influence
“clean election” laws. These
money creates, at the very
through public
laws are designed to remove
least, the perception of corfinancing of
corrupting inf luences while
ruption and where the integriproviding citizens who are not
ty and actions of any represen- campaigns and
independently wealthy the
tative can be questioned based
opening the
chance to run for office.
on who makes large donations
public airways
During my campaign, I
to their campaign. Many of
to candidates.
spent a fair amount of time
our elected officials are so
raising money because it is the
influenced by the money they
ONLY way to have the
need to raise continually that
they make the words of that Casper busi- resources one needs to get elected – and,
to put it bluntly, it is not only a pain in the
nessman ring true.
We can nibble around the edges all we butt, but it’s wrong. Members of Congress
want – banning $50 lunches, corporate jet know it’s wrong, yet they can’t bring themtravel and golf trips abroad – but the real selves to do anything about it.
While visiting Washington during the
answer is to remove big money influence
through public financing of campaigns and campaign, I needed to make a phone call
at party headquarters. The Congressman
opening the public airwaves to candidates.
For many who oppose public financing, who was showing me around hesitated
the main argument is that it would and then directed me to a room full of
increase government spending. However, I cubbies – each equipped with a desk and
think we would actually reduce spending a phone. Turns out, this is the “call cenand taxes if we had the courage and fore- ter” where members of Congress can
sight to remove special interest money spend up to half their working day on
party mandated “call time,” or in political
from the system.
Just look at the Medicare Part D bill, a speak, “dialing for dollars.” After emergspending boondoggle that put the inter- ing from the call center, this
ests of insurance companies and drug Congressman looked at me and said, only
companies in front of our senior citizens half-joking, “I didn’t want to let you see
and federal budget. Or the most recent that room – I thought you might change
energy bill, where fiscal responsibility your mind about running.”
The system is broken. “We, the People”
took a back seat to billions of dollars of
giveaways to the most profitable compa- have become cynical and skeptical about
our elected officials. And the main reason
nies in the history of civilization.
These bills were made possible by huge is their pursuit of money. Only true strucdonations from special interests. Without tural reform, through a system that stops
having to cater to these groups, lawmakers the financial arms race and levels the
could actually pass laws that focus on fis- playing field, will return our government
cal responsibility and helping people. back to all the people and not just those
Spending less than an additional $800 with the means and the money.
Gary Trauner is a businessman and entrepreneur who has lived in Wilson, Wyo., for the
past 18 years. He ran for Congress in 2006, narrowly losing to a six-term incumbent.
RIGHT FROM THE START
by Jason Miller
Fix the Yellowstone loophole
What if there was a forgotten part of the impartial jury problems, too.
Right now criminals there are bound over
Constitution that created a legal loophole
allowing bright people to commit the per- in Yellowstone and sent to trial in Cheyenne.
fect crime and get away with it? One pro- If they decided to challenge it, Kalt thinks
fessor’s daydreams have identified such a they could get lucky. The prosecutors could
try tricks like claiming Yellowstone is not a
loophole and it’s not far from Jackson.
Brian Kalt, a Yale graduate teaching at part of any state, change the lines after the
Michigan State University, penned a 2005 fact, invent creative Constitutional arguessay in the Georgetown Law Journal. It ments or move jurors into the area after the
identified a loophole that he wants closed. fact. But Kalt thinks that wouldn’t work.
Of course, prosecutors
You may have heard it discould charge you with conspircussed on Wyoming Public
There are
acy or some kind of weapons
Radio or on conspiracy blogs.
many ways for
smuggling
charge
that
While courts may or may not
justice to
occurred in a different state
agree with Kalt’s discovery, his
on your way into Yellowstone,
analysis is interesting, “whether reign, but “if a
Idaho. Lesser crimes with a
you were looking for opportunicriminal is a
six month maximum sentence
ties to commit crimes or afraid
very careful,”
can be tried without a jury.
that somebody else” will.
The victims and their famiThe “Constitutional Rusty Kalt concludes,
they might be
lies could also sue you in civil
Nail” that Kalt identifies has
court
(remember
O.J.
two parts: the venue where a
able to get
Simpson).
And
if
you
hang
trial is held and the vicinage,
away with
out in Yellowstone, Idaho, too
which is where the jurors are
his crimes.
long, vigilantes might just
drawn from. After colonists
hunt you down and be
were dragged off to trial in
immune to prosecutions
England, the Founders wrote
protections into our Constitution. So we get themselves. There are many ways for jusArticle III, Section 2, which says trials will tice to reign, but “if a criminal is very carebe held in the state where the crime was ful,” Kalt concludes, they might be able to
committed, and the Sixth Amendment, get away with his crimes.
Kalt believes Congress should fix the
which says the trial’s jury must be from the
state and district where the crime occurred. loophole rather than “eviscerate the
This is a problem because in Constitution” if anyone ever decides to
Yellowstone National Park because of its challenge the District of Wyoming’s lines.
weird shape. The park was created before Though vicinage is not paid much attention
the states around it were added to the these days, it’s still in the Constitution.
Before publishing his essay, Kalt sent
union. Most of the park is in Wyoming, but
260 square miles of it spills into Montana copies to the U.S. House and Senate
and 50 square miles are in Idaho. The U.S. Judiciary Committees and to the
government enforces law on federal lands. Department of Justice. Of He got no
Congress put the entire park in the fed- response, but eventually Wyoming novelist
eral district court of Wyoming, rather C.J. Box found the story. Box is using the
than dividing the park between three idea in his upcoming novel “Free Fire,”
state’s districts. Kalt says this makes sense the latest installment in his popular series
administratively, but is “incompatible with about a Wyoming game warden. Though
the book comes out May 10, Box has told
the United States Constitution.”
So if you commit a crime in the Idaho his friend, Sen. Mike Enzi, about the loopportion of Yellowstone, you’ll have to be hole. Enzi’s staff is seriously looking into
tried by jurors from state (Idaho) and the the matter, and three years after Kalt first
district (Wyoming plus Yellowstone), started researching the problem, the govwhich means the jurors will have to come ernment may finally start to take action.
Kalt is flying out May 18 for a press
from ONLY the Idaho portion of
Yellowstone. The problem is, nobody lives conference in Yellowstone. We hope his
in Yellowstone, Idaho. A few dozen peo- visit and this book’s popularity will get
ple live in the Montana portion, but a Congress to act and close the perfect
crime committed there could run into crime loophole.
Jason Miller is a Wyoming resident attending law school in Michigan.
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Typical Weather for April
Nothing unusual about the weather here in
Jackson Hole so far this April. We’ve had about the
same number of days with afternoon highs in the 40s
as we’ve had in 60s. There has been some rain, some
snow, and some nice sunny days, all mixed in
this month.
Precipitation is still a little below normal for the
month, but April on average is drier than both March
and May. For us, it not necessarily “April showers that
bring May flowers,” but more typically May showers
that will bring June flowers.
A look at the record high temps in April shows that
we have never been to 80 degrees in Jackson in the
month of April. The highest recorded temperature in
town in April was 79 degrees on April 29, 1992. We
finished that month with four sunny days in a row with
high temps in the 70s.
Looking on the cold side of those
records, on the last day in April in
1967, the high temperature in
Jackson was only 27 degrees, with
three inches of new snow in town.
APRIL 25, 2007
What is it normally like in
Jackson this week?
AVERAGE
HIGH
AVERAGE
LOW
56°F
27°F
Normal April
Precipitation:
Normal April
Snowfall:
1.12 inches
4 inches
What it can be like in
Jackson this week:
RECORD
HIGH
79°F
April 29, 1992
RECORD
LOW
11°F
April 26, 1972
Wettest April ever:
2.66 inches (1963)
Snowiest April ever:
24 inches (1967)
Information provided by meteorologist Jim Woodmencey
www.mountainweather.com at the base of the Tetons
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NATIONAL OPINION
by Bernardo Álvarez Herrera
A terrorist goes free
WASHINGTON – After the attacks of Central Intelligence Agency documents
Sept. 11, President Bush forcefully argued indicate that his role has long been acceptthat it was every country’s duty to fight ed as fact. Instead, he faces charges of
international terrorism. He made the case immigration fraud, a travesty that could be
that sponsoring terrorism or simply look- equaled only by charging Osama bin
ing the other way when it happened were Laden with entering and leaving Pakistan
equivalent acts, and the United States without a visa. Finally, Posada was
would stand for neither. But holes have released on bail on Thursday, even though
started appearing in that principle, cour- he is an obvious flight risk and a violent
tesy of a single Venezuelan terrorist, terrorist.
Of course, Posada’s case isn’t the first
released this week from a New Mexico
instance related to Venezuela
prison on bail.
Posada is a
in which the Bush administraIn early 2005, Luis Posada
terrorist,
tion has set aside its principles
Carriles, a Venezuelan with a
regardless
for political expediency. Five
long history of violent attacks
years ago last week, the Bush
in Latin America, sneaked into
of the
administration gleefully welthe United States and was
cause he
comed a coup that overthrew
soon arrested. Posada had
fought for
President Chávez, replacing
escaped from a Venezuelan
or the
him with a junta that suspendprison while awaiting trial in
ed the Constitution, dismissed
the bombing of a Cuban airlinallies he
the National Assembly and
er in 1976 that killed 73 peomight
dissolved the Supreme Court.
ple, including all 24 members
have.
Thankfully, the Venezuelan
of Cuba’s youth fencing team
people ensured that their demand several Guyanese medical
ocratically elected president
students. This was the deadwas returned to power two
liest attack on a civilian airliner in the Western Hemisphere in history – days later.
Just as the Bush administration’s supuntil 9/11.
Upon Posada’s capture, the government port for the Venezuelan junta undermined
of President Hugo Chávez demanded his its pledge to uphold and promote democextradition. But the Bush administration racy around the world, allowing Posada to
has refused to extradite Posada to avoid prosecution for a vicious attack he
Venezuela or Cuba, claiming that it fears can credibly be accused of masterminding
he will be tortured in those countries. In throws into doubt the sincerity of
fact, Washington’s reluctance is more like- President Bush’s war on terrorism. Posada
ly linked to Posada’s history as a Central is a terrorist, regardless of the cause he
Intelligence Agency operative and a dar- fought for or the allies he might have. The
ling of extremist sectors of the powerful Bush administration’s foot-dragging on his
Cuban-American community in Florida extradition and its failure to even classify
(he tried to assassinate Fidel Castro with him as a terrorist is unconscionable.
Last week, Venezuelans celebrated the
C-4 explosives placed in an auditorium
packed with students in Panama in 2000). return of democracy after the coup against
Twenty-two months have passed since President Chávez. But they continue to
Venezuela formally asked for his extradi- mourn the 73 people killed aboard that
tion, offering 2,000 pages of documentary civilian airliner. If President Bush is serievidence to substantiate its claim, yet the ous about the principles he set out after
State Department has not even acknowl- 9/11, he need only look to Venezuela and
correct the mistakes he can. The coup has
edged receiving the request.
Nor has Posada been charged with the passed, but the chance to extradite or
1976 attack, even though declassified prosecute Posada hasn’t.
Bernardo Álvarez Herrera is Venezuela’s ambassador to the United States.
c.2007 The New York Times Distributed by The New York Times Syndicate
www.planetjh.com
NATIONAL OPINION
by George Will
NEW
SPRING
FOOTWEAR
HAS LANDED!
Counterintuitive solution
WASHINGTON – Public policy often drove into neighboring states with lower
illustrates the law of unintended conse- drinking ages, then drove home impaired.
quences. Society’s complexity – multiple The other problem is immature and reckless
variables with myriad connections – often drinking. The hope was that proscribing
causes the consequences of a policy to be drinking by people under 21 would substancontrary to, and larger than, the intended tially delay drinking until that age.
That theory, McCardell believes, has been
ones. So, when assessing government
actions, one should be receptive to counter- slain by facts. What is needed now is some
intuitive ideas. One such is John “mechanism other than moral suasion” to
McCardell’s theory that a way to lower the regulate alcohol use by the under-21 cohort.
The drinking age of 21 was one of 39
incidence of illness, mayhem and death from
measures proposed during the
alcohol abuse by young people
[O]n campus1980s by a presidential commisis to lower the drinking age.
es, a drinking
sion on drunk driving; various
McCardell, 57, president
age of 21
measures adopted did dramatiemeritus of Middlebury College
cally reduce the problem. But
in Vermont and professor of hisinfantilizes
according to the National
tory there, says alcohol is and
students,
Institute on Alcoholism and
always will be “a reality in the
encouraging
Alcohol Abuse, about 5,000
lives of 18-, 19- and 20-yearimmature
people under 21 die every year
olds.” Studies indicate that the
from vehicular accidents, other
number of college students who
behavior with
injuries, homicides and suicides
drink is slightly smaller than it
alcohol and
involving underage drinking.
was 10 years ago, largely because
disrespect for
Supporters of the drinking age
of increased interest in healthy
of 21 say there is nothing wrong
living. But in the majority who law generally.
with the law that better enforcechoose to drink, there have been
ment could not cure.
increases of “binge drinking”
McCardell thinks that, on campuses, a
and other excesses. Hospitalizations of 18- to
20-year-olds for alcohol poisoning have risen drinking age of 21 infantilizes students,
encouraging immature behavior with alcoin those 10 years.
This, McCardell believes, is partly because hol. Furthermore, an “enforcement only”
the drinking age of 21 has moved drinking to policy makes school administrations adversettings away from parental instruction and saries of students. He notes that 18-year-olds
supervision. Among college students, drink- have a right to marry, adopt children, serve
ing has gone “off campus and underground,” as legal guardians for minors, purchase
increasing risks while decreasing institu- firearms from authorized dealers, and are
trusted with the vote and military responsitions’ abilities to manage the risks.
Although all 50 states ban drinking by per- bilities. So, he says, it is not unreasonable to
sons under 21, technically there is no nation- think that they can, with proper preparation,
al drinking age. Each state has a right to set be trusted to drink.
McCardell says he is a “social drinker” –
a lower age – more than half had lower age
limits in the 1970s – but doing so will cost it and his group, Choose Responsibility, sug10 percent of its federal highway funds and gest merely that drinking by 18-year-olds be
cause significant uproar from contractors treated like driving by young people – as an
activity requiring a license earned after
and construction unions.
This pressure on the states by the federal instruction, with provisions for suspending
government was put in place in 1984, under the license when the right it confers is
Ronald Reagan. He was famously suscepti- abused.
Students may not care about McCardell’s
ble to moving anecdotes, and Mothers
Against Drunk Driving, founded in 1980, cause because they have little trouble finding
had a tragically large arsenal of them. fake IDs, or getting older friends to purchase
MADD has been heroically successful in their alcohol. His strongest argument, however, may be that delaying legal drinking
changing social norms.
The hope was that a drinking age of 21 until 21 merely delays tragedies that might
would solve two problems. One was that of be prevented with earlier instruction in tem“blood borders” between states with differ- perance. The age that has the most drunk
ent drinking ages: people from age-21 states driving fatalities? Twenty-one.
George Will’s e-mail address is [email protected].
(c) 2007, Washington Post Writers Group
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MEDIA WATCH
Just enough coverage
It took just a couple days for the conversation about the
shooting rampage at Virginia Tech to turn to how the media
handled the tragedy. Some excoriated NBC for publicizing
the shooter’s “multi-media manifesto,” while others were
more general with their condemnation. But aside from a few
reports about some overzealous reporters going to extremes
to get interviews with eyewitnesses and friends of victims, I
heard little that struck me as insensitive or excessive – so far.
I, probably like you, remained thirsty for details for days
and made a point of tuning into the radio and reading from
many news outlets on the Internet. I wouldn’t call my curiosity morbid: I, probably like you, just wanted answers, wanted
to know what exactly happened, who had perpetrated this
hideous crime and why. Now, a week after the fact, my
curiosity is mostly satisfied. I am satisfied with the explanation that this mass murder was the work of an insane man. I
don’t feel the need to question whether campus security
could have or should have done more or whether allowing
students to carry concealed weapons would have prevented
it. I don’t need to gawk as students return to classes and try
to reestablish some semblance of a routine. I’m relieved that
my media outlets of choice have for the most part turned
their attention to other breaking and developing news stories. I, probably like you, have had enough.
— Richard Anderson
Homeowners wanted
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is bringing its program “National Open House” to Jackson
Hole this summer and is looking for a “dynamic and knowledgeable” realtor and eight “charismatic” homeowners to
show off their spreads.
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The press release continues, “We are interested in those
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Jackson Hole market.
Specifically, “National Open House” is looking for homeowners whose homes are currently valued at (get this)
$250,000, $500,000, $750,000 or $1 million. Something
tells me that particular installment of “National Open
House” will be a little skewed. But, if you’re interested, contact Julia Huffman at [email protected] or call
(818) 506-7551 ext. 213. You can also check out a trailer at
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— Richard Anderson
BRIEFS
from page 3
tail is what we’ve created with the current
LDRs.”
Newbie Jeff Noffsinger, who joined the
planning staff just two months ago as the
principal planner, cut to the quick with a
five-step solution for further progress on
amending the LDRs. He suggested priori-
LETTERS
tizing proposed text amendments followed by workshops, mini-charrettes, and
eventual public adoption. Council agreed
to lunch over a list of priorities next
Monday and possibly workshop LDR revisions on July 30.
— Jake Nichols
from page 5
slowing the rate of oil and gas production
and aggressively promoting conservation
and alternative energy, is that the trillionaires might have to settle for billions, we
achieve national energy independence,
and the skies might be a little clearer.
Laurie Vigyikan
Sublette County Resident
Turn down the heat
Nearly every time I open a newspaper these
days, I read some form of propaganda and
misinformation in the name of being “Green
Living,” most recently in what appeared to be
an unpaid advertisement for a solar installation firm out of Lander (“Solar power
prophet spreads the good word,” April 18).
Last year you ran a column boasting that
the writer’s solar system made it possible to
open her garage door during a power outage.
Little thought is given to the fact that
when you spend many thousands of dollars on a solar system, you are in fact pouring fuel into the engine, “the growing
world economy,” that is causing rapidly
increasing demand for fossil fuels.
Good old-fashioned conservation seems
to have fallen out of fashion. How about
turning down your thermostat two degrees
or turning off the heat in unused rooms or
maybe just build a smaller, simpler home.
If home improvement is your desire, better
insulation, water heater blankets, set back
thermostats, CFL bulbs, and a myriad of
other less costly improvements to your
home or business make much more financial and environmental good sense.
Consider the idea that every dollar spent
at home today adds to the explosive economic growth in India and China, where most of
the power comes from old technology coalfired power plants and environmental guidelines do not require the same air quality standards that exist in the U.S. or Europe.
High tech solutions may sound more
appealing than personal restraint when it
comes to energy consumption but high tech
industries are creating hundreds of millions
of new middle class consumers in Asia
resulting in millions of new jobs in a population of once bicycle riding, simple living
people who are now driving cars and plugging into the grid, requiring hundreds of
new power plants. This is all taking place
out of sight, on the other side of what we
believe to be an ever-warming planet.
How about running off a few lights
before we start stacking solar panels on
every rooftop.
If you believe that global warming and the
environment are truly important issues, then
simply writing checks will never solve our
problems. It just may require a little sacrifice.
Jon Vallee
Hoback Junction, Wyo.
Which scenario is safer?
Virginia Tech, gun free zone. Only criminals have weapons, 33 dead.
Properly regulated law abiding public
have weapons (right to carry). Four or five
are dead, then shooter is terminated.
Raise your hand if you know the answer!
Bob Haunschild
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Residents, users voice opposition to Wyoming Range drilling
by Ben Cannon
In Jackson on Tuesday and Pinedale on Wednesday, Big
Piney District Ranger Greg Clark – along with USFS staff
and representatives of Houston-headquartered Plains
Exploration and Production Company (PXP) – addressed
the public in open house-style forums regarding the proposed Eagle Prospect exploratory wells seven miles southeast of Bondurant.
PXP, a relatively small player in energy production, holds
a years-old oil and gas lease on that site, within the Bridger
Teton National Forest, and is looking to drill three wells
from a single pad. For those who live nearby or recreationally use the area, this signals the beginning of the end.
“It’s a real concern for people,” said Gary Amerine, a
Daniel resident. Amerine chairs Citizens Protecting the
Wyoming Range, a group he helped form to keep widespread natural gas production confined – as far as
Sublette County is concerned – to the Pinedale Anticline
and Jonah fields, where natural gas production is a multibillion dollar industry. He was one of about 50 people who
came to the Pinedale forum. Amerine guides clients into
the Wyoming Range with Greys River Trophies, his outfitting business.
“My feeling is that, if this goes through, it’ll open up the
whole Wyoming Range,” he said, adding that drilling could
hurt his livelihood by deterring customers wanting a more
pristine wilderness experience.
Mike Burd drove nearly two hours from Green River to
attend the Pinedale meeting. A native of western Wyoming,
Burd said he has hunted, fished and trapped in the
Wyoming Range for nearly 40 years. Like many of his fellow Wyomingites, he takes pride in the vast, untouched
spaces the state offers, which often intereaves with the seasonal taking of game. “Look at the obituary of any man
from Wyoming, and a lot of the women. It will say: ‘outdoorsman,’” Burd said. “It’s what we do.”
Standing to the side of the Sublette County Library meeting room, a handful of PXP executives spoke mainly to one
another as attendees intermingled, surveyed maps or spoke
with Forest Service representatives. Among the company
men was Randy Vine, vice president of drilling for PXP.
When asked what individuals or groups should be most
concerned about regarding the proposal – or who had the
most at stake – Vine offered that the more valid concerns
involved “truck traffic and water supply,” indicating the
heavy vehicle impact from a forest development road originating in Daniel that will first require reconstruction and
stretch about 11 miles to the well access.
Nearby residential areas such as Hoback Ranches depend
on the area’s aquifer for well water that could be impacted
by the volume of underground water needed to produce natural gas. “They are certainly good questions,” the PXP vice
president said.
J.J. Healey has a 6,000-acre ranch near Daniel. The surface water he depends on flows from the Wyoming Range,
so he is concerned about contamination from an accident
or even usual operations. Beyond that, Healey takes issue
with the prospect of Wyoming Range drilling from a more
philosophic angle.
“The reason we’re [at the Pinedale meeting], it’s not
because we’re against drilling … You’ve got a pristine habitat that’s at stake,” he said. “Sublette County has the most
to lose,” he added. “It’s a fundamental shift in what is the
social fabric here.”
Hoback
Ranches
Homeowner’s
Association
Chairwoman Judi Adler estimated her home to be about
six miles from the Eagle Prospect site and said she is
opposed to any drilling on National Forest lands. “While I
think we have an obligation to help the country with our
energy supplies,” she continued, “I think we’ve sacrificed
enough” in Sublette County.
Big Piney District Ranger Greg Clark, who will have say
in the Eagle Prospect exploration proposal, expects to
reach a decision around August.
GTNP pathways plan receives nod from park service
by Melanie Stein
Last week, the National Park
Service’s Intermountain Regional
Director signed a critical Record of
Decision for Grand Teton National
Park’s Transportation Plan.
The ROD authorizes Alternative 3a
of the Final Environmental Impact
Statement and allows GTNP to begin
moving forward with its multi-year
plan that will enhance transportation
in the park.
The ROD authorizes the proposed
construction of 22.5 miles of multi-use
pathways outside of existing road corridors, 18.8 miles of multi-use pathways
inside existing road corridors, and a
realignment of the Moose-Wilson Road
in two areas for aspen and wetlands
restoration.
“Basically what it means is [pathways] that are inside the road corridor
are inside the cut and fill section of the
roadbed,” GTMF Public Affairs Official
Jackie Skaggs said. “There will be a separation of the bike lane and the road
itself, but the bike pathway – the multiuse pathway – will be within the prescribed roadbed.”
Pathways constructed outside the
roadbed will be 50 feet or further from
the roadbed, Skaggs said, especially in
sagebrush flats and other areas where
there is less topographical constriction.
The new pathways will be built in five
different phases, the first of which will be
a pathway from Dornan’s in Moose to
South Jenny Lake. Other segments will
be pathways from South to North Jenny
Lake, from North Jenny Lake to Colter
Bay, and from Moose to the southern
edge of the park along Hwy. 89, all of
which are dependent on continued funding and wildlife and visitor monitoring.
All pathways will be multi-use.
“Multi-use will involve basically what
happens along the Teton Park Road
right now when there are no vehicles:
rollerblades, bikes, people with strollers,
people who want to walk,” Skaggs said.
Friends of Pathways Executive
Director Tim Young said, “I really look
forward to the beginning of the implementation so that visitors can enjoy the
park without always having to choose
their vehicle.”
Friends of Pathways has been working with the Town and County to get
funding for construction of a pathway
along Hwy. 89 from Jackson to the
southern boundary of the park, where it
would connect with GTNP’s pathway.
The pathway would likely be between
the highway and the National Elk
Refuge fence.
Skaggs said a business transit study,
including a survey of employees and visitors, will commence this year, asking
where people would want a transit system to go, how often it should run, what
it should cost and how they would use
the system. To read the ROD, go to
www.nps.gov/grte/parkmgmt/planning.htm.
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corridors; red, outside; solid yellow, sections of
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8 rounds with Rocky
by Richard Anderson
Salt Lake City Mayor Ross “Rocky” Anderson
wages unpopular battles in conservative Utah.
Global warming. The impeachment of President
Bush and Vice President Cheney. Gay rights.
Getting treatment, not jail time, for nonviolent
drug abusers. Diversity in government. The Darfur
genocide. Rights for immigrants …
Sounds like the agenda of the stereotypical,
dyed-in-the-wool, bleeding-heart Washington,
D.C., liberal. Or a list of topics NOT to bring up
when dining with your girlfriend’s ultra-conservative parents.
It also happens to be a list of a few of the priorities of Salt Lake City’s Mayor Ross “Rocky”
Anderson. Since 1999, the capital of arguably the
most conservative state in the country has been
administered by a man who has appeared at antiwar protests on both sides of the country. He has,
by his own admission, forced a green program on
the city that is under his charge, and done a hundred other things to railroad any chance of a
statewide political career.
“Some go so far as to say that anything he supports, the legislature will oppose,” Sasha Abramsky
wrote in “The Other Rocky,” a profile of the mayor
that appeared in the January 2007 edition of The
Nation.
But if it sounds like Anderson wastes time tilting
at windmills, bear in mind he’s brought more than
a few of those windmills down and appears to be
universally respected, if not loved, by his city’s
non-Mormon majority.
Social justice is the thread that binds many of his
initiatives: getting treatment for the mentally ill
and nonviolent drug offenders, opening his city up
to refugees from all around the war-torn world,
speaking out against discrimination against gays
and illegal aliens.
But his greatest coup has been to lead his city of
180,000 in an aggressive charge to get “green.”
Call up the mayor’s office and instead of listening
to Muzak while on hold, you get recorded messages about switching your light bulbs to energyefficient compact fluorescent bulbs, using
reusable canvas bags at the grocery store, remembering not to leave your car idling for more than
eight
seconds.
Visit
his
Web
site
(www.SLCgov.com/mayor) and, in addition to
speeches calling for the impeachment of the president, you’ll find his comments about the Supreme
Court’s recent ruling calling for the EPA to regulate
carbon dioxide.
Mayor Anderson will visit Jackson Hole this week
to speak and participate in workshops as part of
The Murie Center’s ninth annual Spring Earth
Festival. By way of a preview, he spoke with Planet
Jackson Hole for a full hour. Our talk was interrupted just once as he heard the news that the
Vermont State Legislature had passed a resolution
calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney.
Planet Jackson Hole: You were born in Logan,
raised Mormon.
Rocky Anderson: Yes.
PJH: Where did this progressive streak come
from?
RA: I think it comes from values that I learned as
a child, to try to help those who are in need, be
generous, help make things better in life.
PJH: Were your parents liberal?
RA: I don’t really attach much meaning to those
terms, I think they mean very different things to
different people, but my parents were both
Republicans, but they were good people who
would never have put up with what they’re seeing
going on in our country today, regardless of their
political affiliation. … If people call me a liberal
because I believe in the Constitution, I think that’s
a pretty conservative, patriotic American value.
PJH: Did you at some time in your life have an
environmental awakening or was that also a part
of your upbringing?
RA: I always enjoyed natural places, even as a
young boy when we’d go up Logan Canyon or take
trips up through Wyoming and to Yellowstone. I
think that I always had a real appreciation for the
Photos by John Taylor
www.visionfoto.com
preservation of the undeveloped parts of our planet. But then, as I grew older, I saw what was being
done by much of the corporate community to our
air, to our water, the destruction of open spaces,
and I just innately was appalled at what was
becoming of our Earth. I think my focus on global
environmental crises, like the destruction of the
ozone layer and global warming, came about probably in the ’80s. I know when I became extremely
concerned was after reading Al Gore’s book,
“Earth in the Balance,” and sort of keeping an eye
on this over the years, I was very inspired and
encouraged by the fact that nations recognized the
disastrous impacts on the ozone layer from the
emission of CFCs and other chemicals, and they
were able to come together at Montreal and work
toward a solution to that problem. But, unfortunately, especially with our present federal administration, we’re seeing just the opposite with regard
to the greatest problem facing our planet, global
warming. …
PJH: It seemed for a while that global warming
had a partisan aspect to it in that there did seem to
be a division down the aisle … That doesn’t seem
to be the case so much any more, at least on the
national level. How about in Utah?
RA: It’s almost straight down the line according
to party affiliation. You’d think the people would be
a little embarrassed that their party is being identified with such scientific illiteracy. President Bush
and members of his administration have made this
a partisan issue, which is certainly not the case in
most of the rest of the industrial world. When you
go to Europe, about the only debate between parties is who can do the most to help solve the problem. There are still a large number of people in this
country that have fallen for this enormous misinformation campaign that the oil and coal companies have helped finance and which President
Bush has helped to perpetuate.
… If you look at what the president and
Republican members of Congress have done, it’s
been clearly along party lines. Sen. Inhofe has
labeled global warming one of the greatest hoaxes
ever perpetrated. They, Republicans in Congress,
have joined with this administration and with their
corporate sponsors in misleading the American
people and putting off the kind of national effort
that it’s going to take to be the leader our country
should be on the global stage when it comes to
combating climate change. I think it’s just going to
be yet another enormous embarrassment for the
Republican party that they ever aligned themselves with President Bush on this, because,
already, far ahead of what anybody ever anticipated, our world, including many communities
throughout the United States, are experiencing
dramatic impacts from global warming.
see ROCKY page 16
from ROCKY page 15
PJH: Has Utah witnessed anything
endemic to your part of the world, something specific to your state? Up here, all
our glaciers are melting, for example.
RA: There has in recent years been
far less snow pack throughout all the
major river basins in the Intermountain
West. The owner of Park City recently
sponsored a major study and public
forum on the impacts of global warming, and it’s absolutely frightening
what is going to happen, for instance,
to our ski industry if current trends
continue. Those impacts, although harbingers of disasters to come, are certainly trivial in comparison to the
destruction of species, the inundation
by the oceans of major population
areas along coastlines throughout the
world, the spread of diseases, the
destruction of forests, the real human
and ecological crises to come, most of
which were thought to be a long ways
out into the future, but now are occurring in some parts of the world and
imminent in other areas.
PJH: So what has Salt Lake and your
administration been attempting to do?
RA: We have wanted to do everything we can to obtain greater efficiencies using less energy and for the
energy we do use, demonstrate that
clean renewable sources are available.
For instance, just before the 2002
Winter Olympic Games, I committed
that in our municipal operations we
would abide by at least the Kyoto goal
of a 7 percent reduction of greenhouse
gas emissions from 1990 levels by the
year 2012. Since we didn’t have a 1990
baseline, we moved it up to 2000 and
set a 21 percent reduction goal by
2012. By 2006, in just four years, we
exceeded that goal by almost 150 percent, with a 31 percent reduction in
greenhouse gas emissions. So, we
took what we learned from our municipal operations and went to the busi-
ness community with our E2 program
… E2 stands for economically and
environmentally sustainable. We now
have almost 50 businesses that have
signed up with that program, incorporating many of the changes in their
operations that we’ve incorporated in
our municipal operations.
PJH: Such as?
RA: Switching to CFL, utilizing less
toxic materials, ramping up the recycling efforts, switching over to cleaner
transportation options, utilizing less
water, purchasing locally produced
products. Those kinds of things.
Then we took all of this one step farther, and that is to individual residents
in our E2 Citizens Program. We have
now over 600 E2 Citizens in Salt Lake
City who have registered online and
have committed to taking at least five
steps in their everyday lives to reduce
their carbon footprint.
PJH: When did you go to the citizen level?
RA: About two years ago. We did all
of this because we certainly think it’s
the right thing to do, but also we wanted to provide a model of success for
other communities. There’s nothing
that inspires change and innovation so
much as knowing that there are
already success stories. So I came up
with the idea of an annual summit,
bringing mayors from all over the country together to learn about climate
change, what they can do in their communities, hear the examples of successes that some cities have already
experienced … We’ve held two of
these summits, called it the Sundance
Mayors’
Gathering
on
Climate
Protection, and we anticipate that
those will go on, that they’ll be continued annually into the future.
PJH: What kind of participation are
you having?
RA: The two that we’ve had have
Meet Rocky
brought in about 70 mayors. Among
those participating have been everybody from Richard Daley from Chicago,
Mayor Gavin Newsom from San
Francisco. There’s been great geographic diversity, including Mayor Mark
Begich from Anchorage and the mayor
of Idaho Falls.
PJH: Getting an entire city to go
green can’t have been the decision of
one person –
RA: It pretty much was … I knew
that with our council we’d never see
any real leadership. We have on the
whole a very difficult council when it
comes to change or understanding
these issues, with a few exceptions.
So, much of what we’ve done we’ve
been able to do administratively. But
now the council is starting to pick up
on it after I issued an executive order
requiring that all city-owned and -managed buildings be LEED certified at
least on the silver level. We did get the
council to pass an ordinance with a
similar requirement and also requiring
that … buildings receiving city funds
also be LEED-certified …
I think people who are going to lead
on these issues need to forge ahead
and not wait for others to get on board.
It’s like our light rail system. There was
so much opposition to light rail here,
but now that it’s in place and has
proven to be such a success, just
about all of the naysayers are now supporters, and voters in four very conservative counties have voted for tax
increases to support more light rail and
commuter rail. I think the same thing is
true with climate change. If you can
just blast through whatever opposition
there is, start moving ahead, others
then will see the advantages to that.
I also wanted to make sure that we
had a good, broad base of community
support, so several years ago we
formed the Salt Lake City Green Team.
These are some really great people
from throughout the community who
have been very supportive of our
efforts and who have helped bring
new ideas to us about measures we
can take and also how to get the word
out to the rest of the community.
Besides doing all these things on a
local level, we’ve been very active in
pushing for Congress to become far
more aggressive. …
I think grassroots political pressure
is the essential missing link thus far. I
think if there had been more work
done at the grassroots level, with citizens letting their elected officials know
that they passionately care about this
issue, we would have seen much more
done at this point. But now it’s happening, and I see that as positive.
That’s what I want to do when I leave
this office, is to help organize at the
grassroots level, because I think most
people care, at least when they get the
information, but there’s no real organizing mechanism to get the message
to our elected officials that it matters
to people. It’s not just in this area.
We’re well into the fourth year of a
major genocide in the Darfur region of
Sudan, and our elected officials sit by
twiddling their thumbs because there
isn’t a call from the grassroots for
intervention. Most elected officials are
not leaders. The leadership by and
large has to come from organizing people at the grassroots.
PJH: What will you lecture on here in
Jackson on Thursday?
RA: I’ll be talking briefly about what
climate change is, how it’s caused,
what we can do about it, and what
actually is being done both at the city
level by some major corporations and
by other nations. I’ll also talk about
some of the economic benefits that
accrue to those who are willing to
innovate in these areas.
discussing his efforts in Salt Lake City and how they apply to Jackson Hole.
Admission is $10.
Salt Lake City’s Mayor Ross “Rocky” Anderson will appear
at three Spring Earth Festival events this week.
Finally, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on Friday at the Teton Science Schools’ Jackson Campus,
Anderson will lead a Sustaining Jackson Hole Resource Use Mini-Summit, helping the valley to create and implement a “10 X 10” plan by which to reduce the
On Thursday, Sustaining Jackson Hole will host a reception for Anderson 56:30 p.m. at Harvest, 130 W. Broadway. Tickets cost $25, which includes hors
d’oeuvres and beverages.
Anderson then will present “Resource Use and Climate Change: Local
Actions, Global Consequences” 7-8:30 p.m. on Thursday at Snow King Resort,
county’s energy use and garbage generation by 10 percent by 2010. Snacks and
lunch provided. Admission is $30.
Tickets for all events are available at the Valley Bookstore, Hungry Jack’s,
Victor Valley Market or at www.sustainingjacksonhole.org. Call 733-8687 for
more information.
PJH: Have you witnessed that in
Salt Lake?
RA: Oh, yeah. Just something as
simple as changing our lightbulbs over
to CFLs in our city and county building
saves $33,000 a year. About $50,000
in cost savings by switching over to
high-efficiency LED lights in our traffic
lights. I drive a compressed natural gas
car and pay less than one-third the
amount for natural gas than most people pay for gasoline. …
PJH: I think you’re also going to help
Jackson Hole with its “10 X 10,” helping us reduce our carbon footprint by
10 percent by the year 2010. … When
I see these numbers – reducing our
footprint by 10 percent by 2010 or
going back to 1990 levels by 2012 –
the first thing I think is, “Well, obviously every little bit helps, but that seems
like an awful little bit.”
RA: But it’s a beginning. The goals of
Kyoto are really very modest in terms
of what we’re eventually going to have
to do, but to finally focus and set some
goals is crucial. We do need to recognize that by 2050 we need to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions by at least
80 percent. But with these initial goals
and efforts, you really get the sense
that it can be done. The Hispanic
phrase you hear so often, “It can be
done,” that needs to be the mantra
also of the campaign to combat climate change. This can be done. …
PJH: Finally, make your case for
impeachment.
RA: The impeachment clause was
added to our Constitution to protect
against the very things we’re seeing
happen to our country today because
of a president who has egregiously
abused his power, who has breached
his trust with Congress and the
American people, who has violated the
most sacred treaty obligations, our
own Constitution and our domestic
statutory laws, and ultimately who has
approved and condoned the most egregious
human
rights
violations.
Impeachment is crucial to send the
message to the rest of the world that
what has been perpetrated … are not
reflective of American values. It all runs
so counter to our Constitutional form of
government, to the system of checks
and balances that is so crucial to our
democracy. And just as important as
sending that signal to the international
community, we need to make that
statement for ourselves and those who
come along in the future, that we value
the rule of law and will not permit a
president to get away with continually
trampling upon our Constitution,
domestic laws and treaty obligations.
… [Extraordinary rendition is] some-
thing that we’ve seen happen with governments from whom we’ve always
been very proud to distinguish ourselves, and now, under this president,
we’re becoming very much like them.
Impeachment is not a radical notion.
It’s mentioned six different times in
the Constitution, and it is there not to
prosecute somebody for a violation of
the criminal code. It’s there to call high
government officials to account for
serious violations of trust and abuses
of power that have been harmful to our
nation. And the harm to this nation,
because of what President Bush and
other top members of his administration have done, has been and will continue to be immense.
PJH: The easy response to that is,
“We’re in a time of war and battling an
unprecedented enemy calls for perhaps draconian measures.”
RA: That’s a very frightening concept,
and it’s a concept fully embraced by this
president when he declares he has
what he called unitary executive powers, powers that basically give him the
authority of a dictator to determine for
himself when and under what circumstances the laws will be applied, particularly to his actions. He demonstrated
this many times, probably most conspicuously when, contrary to our
Constitution and explicit statutory prohibitions passed by Congress, he secretly
ordered for several years the warrantless wiretapping of American citizens,
snooping on e-mails and telephone conversations of American citizens. That is
exactly what Congress prohibited in the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,
and there can be no excuse for ignoring
that law, even during a time of a selfcreated, so-called war, because the
statute even allows to resort to the
courts to obtain a warrant within three
days after the wiretapping. …
Also we’re in this war on Iraq solely
because of the manipulation of intelligence and deceit by this president and
his advisors. At the time we invaded
Iraq, the intelligence community consensus was that there was absolutely
no operational tie between Saddam
Hussein and bin Laden, no evidence of
any chemical weapons in Iraq, and no
truth to this story about Saddam
Hussein supposedly trying to purchase uranium from Niger. So, all of
the justifications that this president
led this country to believe supported
invading and occupying Iraq were
nonexistient at the time we invaded,
yet this administration continued to lie
to the American people, to deceive us,
and then ultimately to change the justifications for why we began this disastrous misadventure.
Whistleblower and writer to speak at ECO-Fair
As part of The Murie Center’s ninth annual Spring Earth
Festival and the ECO-Fair’s sixth year, Rick Piltz and Terry
Tempest Williams will speak about climate change, the politics that surround the hot topic issue, and the science at hand
on Saturday.
The Murie Center encourages attendees to arrive in style,
by alternative methods of transportation such as bicycle,
skateboard, foot, or magic carpet. The theme of the day is
going green and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
But the goal of Spring Earth Fest is to turn celebratory
days like Earth Day and ECO-Fair Day and the environmentally positive thinking that they inspire in the community into
a part of daily life.
As the title of this year’s ECO-Fair – Simple and
Sustainable Living in the Tetons – implies, there will be plenty of educational opportunities for all ages to learn how to
make such changes and apply them to daily life.
Terry Tempest Williams, a writer and naturalist who lives
in Jackson Hole, has shown the correlation between environmental issues and their social implications, also relating
them to matters of justice.
“Climate change is on all of our minds from the melting of
ice in Greenland to the Arctic to Hurricane Katrina to the
military’s recent announcement that global warming is the
greatest threat to American security,” said Williams.
“And then there are those who still view climate change as
a theory, yet to be proven. But what about ‘climate change’ as
a vehicle for personal transformation? What is it going to
take to create a climate change within American society and
in our own lives?” she continued.
The questions she asks are relevant to today’s discussion of
the reality and immediacy of the climate change problem,
questions that Tempest Williams will
tackle during her presentation
“Climate Change – A Change of
Heart” to take place 3 p.m. at the
ECO-Fair.
Rick Piltz is the director of the government watchdog program Climate
Science Watch. Prior to his work there,
Piltz worked for a government agency
that gathered scientific evidence of climate change in the United States.
Once the Bush administration saw that
this information-gathering program
was no longer in its interest, it imposed
a blanket of silence on the federal
agency to prevent it from discussing
the matter further or carrying the
process forward. Piltz blew the whistle
on this scandal and has since been
active in spreading the truth about misinformation and climate change. Piltz
Jeramiah Park inspects a solar-powered water pump at the
will speak at 1:30 p.m.
2006 ECO-Fair. This year’s event will once again take place at
the Teton Science Schools’ Jackson Campus.
Demonstrations, workshops, organic foods, live music, and an eco-market
will fill the Teton Science Schools’ Jackson Campus at 700 purchasing CO2 credits to offset the greenhouse gas emissions created by those that choose to drive to the event and
Coyote Canyon Road from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday.
Booth participants have been taking the necessary steps to the energy consumption at the fair.
Sponsors of the ECO-Fair include High Country Linens,
“green their booths,” including simple steps like having one
flyer on display rather than wasting paper by handing out Jackson Hole Grocer, Teton Science Schools and Old Bill’s
numerous flyers that often end up in the trash, or using Fun Run donors. Admission to the ECO-Fair is $5 for those
reusable mugs rather than paper cups to sample local organ- who drive or $3 for those who take alternative methods of
transportation (bike, walk, skateboard, hybrid or biodiesel
ic teas.
Teton County Commissioner Ben Ellis is also doing his vehicles, or carpool of 4 or more people). For more informapart in helping to make the ECO-Fair a green event. He is tion, call 739-2248.
ANDREW WYATT
by Lucille Rice
Experts lay out evidence, implications for global warming
by Lucille Rice
Global warming and climate change are at risk of becoming catch phrases in the media, environment and politics to
incite the clueless and rile the skeptics. But what do they
really mean and how does it all effect us in Wyoming?
A team of four panelists will address these questions at 7
p.m. today at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. As part
of the Murie Center’s ninth annual Spring Earth Festival,
“Climate Change: A Dialogue” will cover the evidence, the
implications and the community’s response to the changing climate in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
The panel is composed of valley residents Forrest
McCarthy, a mountaineer, photographer and geographer;
Embere Hall, a research technician with the Teton Science
Schools’ Conservation Research Center; Tim O’Donoghue,
executive director of the Jackson Hole Chamber of
Commerce; and philosopher-writer Jack Turner.
McCarthy has studied glaciers in Alaska and observed
them in Wyoming as a mountain guide. He attributes the
noticeable recession of Wind River Range glaciers to
decreased precipitation over the years. In addition, as an
Exum mountain guide for the past 15 years, McCarthy has
observed rain lines in the Teton getting progressively higher. This creates dangerous climbing conditions such as
loose rock.
McCarthy believes in a bottom-up approach to solving
climate change: “Individual, grassroots action is necessary,
but we also need more progressive action in the country’s
leadership to invest in alternative energy and produce legislation that will help curb greenhouse gas emissions.”
Tim O’Donoghue also believes that action on the federal
level is necessary, but adds that changes can be made in
communities as well. O’Donoghue will talk about the effects
that climate change has on local business. Based on projections made by the University of Washington’s Climate
Impact Group, average temperatures will increase and the
weather will become drier. With hotter, more arid weather,
recreational businesses will suffer the effects of earlier
runoff and an increased amount of precipitation in the form
of rain, rather than snow. This will create problems for ski
resorts, snowmobile companies, and river rafting and fishing
businesses, O’Donoghue said. With less water in the river,
companies with larger rafts may not be able to operate.
Trout will suffer stress, harming fishing guides.
But O’Donoghue sees hope for Jackson Hole. He
believes the community will follow the examples the Town
and County have set forth.
“We have the opportunity to leverage the notoriety of
Jackson Hole around and send messages around the world
about what our community is doing to reduce our carbon
emissions,” said O’Donoghue. “We can have a much larger
impact than just the work we’re doing here.”
Embere Hall is conducting research on drought cycles in
the region. The majority of research and information on
precipitation cycles dates back 100 years. By studying core
samples taken from tree trunks, which reveal these natural
cycles, Hall and her team can understand the patterns of
drought and precipitation dating as far back as 300 years.
Hall will discuss the significance of her research and the
insight it can give on whether or not the current drought
we face as a region is part of a natural cycle or whether it
is caused by climate change.
And Jack Turner has lived in Grand Teton National Park
for over 20 years. He will discuss six examples of changing
climate that are currently causing stress in the Greater
Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Today’s panel discussion is free. For information, call
732-5438.
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Going pro as a skier, ’boarder not all glamour
digi-cam? It’s downright impossible.
A common misconception is that everyone is going to
Alaska and getting paid to ski and fly around in helicopEveryone wants the simple life. For some that means
ters. Truth is, almost no one’s getting paid, at least not in
getting paid to be who they are: skiers, snowboarders, riddirect terms for that specific trip. To go film an Alaskan
ers, whatever. When you watch the ski films, snowboard
heli-skiing trip, funding comes from the film companies,
films, everything looks so easy. “I can do that,” you say.
still photographers and the athletes themselves.
Maybe even, “I’ve ridden that line before” or “I’ve greased
“There’s no free rides for anyone,” said Nielson. It’s a
that rail.”
gamble for all parties involved to invest money in a trip
Yeah? Well go get in a video Mr. Smarty Pants. Be a
that is not guaranteed to produce content that will make
pro. You want it bad, right? Well, chances are if you want
the final cut and further anyone’s career.
it, you can’t have it because otherwise you would already
“You see these people and you think they’re making
be IT.
tons of money filming all over the world,” said Pickett.
Not only do you need natural talent to be the Next Big
“Yeah, that’s true, but in a
Thing, but you also need a business
sense it’s not because a lot of
savvy drive to stay in the game once
your retainer [salary from sponyou get there.
sors] goes to those trips. It’s a
This past week I caught up with a
toss up. You’ve got to pick your
few of the local players in the snow
movies wisely. If you go to
sports game to find out what it
Alaska and blow 10 grand and
takes to make a living simply by
you don’t get a segment, you
sliding on snow. Like everything
just threw 10 grand out the winelse in life, it’s a lot of work.
dow. That’s why I filmed with
Some say that entering big
Warren Miller for so many
mountain or freestyle competitions
years.” Miller pays $200 a day.
is a way to get your foot in the
After Pickett got sponsored,
door. Do well in the comps, get
he realized he could turn his
sponsored, star in the videos, get
skiing into a business.
more sponsors – that’s the idea.
“I built this image around
It’s partially true. While competing
myself and started picking up
is one way to build a rep as a ripmore sponsors,” he said. “You
per, it’s probably not going to land
try to split your contracts
you a spot in the next award-winbetween apparel and then hard
ning shred flick.
goods. Skis, boots, bindings,
As Teton Gravity Research
then glasses, helmets, goggles.
Supervising Producer Josh Nielson
You can split them enough, as
n puts it, “Competition results don’t
long as you’re not under one
translate to film,” although he does
roof, and make quite a decent
f allow that competing can land a
amount of money.”
sponsorship
with
a
ski
company,
d
But most of the ski and
n which could send you on your way
snowboard industry is cash
r to going pro.
poor. Unless you are hooked
Kina Pickett, a pro freeskier and
Kina Pickett, pro freeskier and film producer, moved to Jackson Hole and has been
up with the largest companies,
successfully sponsored by the skiing industry.
n now a producer for local action
like Pickett, product is the
n sports film company Wink Inc.,
e echoes theses sentiments: “I feel like people compete working with a still photographer and getting stuff to pop currency that many are paid. For Jackson Hole snowl because they want to compete. And, yeah, the top guys do up in Powder and Freeskier, all the mags,” Pickett said. board company Illuminati, which sells under 1,000
f get recognized, but it’s very difficult. The fields are pretty “And people will go, ‘Oh my god, I saw a picture of this snowboards a year, giving kids free boards is the only
way to sponsor riders.
guy, maybe we should call him up.’”
. deep now.”
“We can flow them boards, but we can’t fly them out to
The fact is, anyone can snowboard, anyone can ski, and
e So how do you highlight yourself in the sea of eligible
t skiers and snowboarders? First off, you should have a lot of a ton of people can do these sports at a very high level. Ski contests just yet,” said Illuminati co-owner Robert Emery.
t natural talent. But if that’s not getting you noticed, work companies want to see that you’ve put in some sort of “It’s tough to do as much as we’d like, but it’s the satisfaction that we’re giving back. It does help promote. That’s
with a still photographer and get yourself in a magazine. effort, some level of commitment to be professional.
“The drive to want to ski and produce segments while the main promotion tool, is having rippers on our
k When looking for new talent, Nielson says, “I keep my eye
g out by watching the grassroots smaller films, reading the being in danger takes a special type of person,” said Nielson, boards.”
One new ripper that’s riding on Illuminati is Colin
r magazines, and watching the groundswell.” If you’ve been “On the best day out there, we maybe take one run.”
It takes a lot to get a proper shot. Have you ever tried to Langlois. He’s not local or even officially on the team.
in the game a long time, worked hard and worked with a
film your buddy hitting a kicker with your shoddy pocket But Burton recently dropped him because he’s older,
l still photographer, he might just give you a call.
A similar scenario happened to Kina Pickett almost 10
years ago.
Pickett moved to Jackson Hole just after college and
he began coaching for the Jackson Hole Ski Club. One
of his fellow coaches had a brother who was a photographer, Jonathan Selkowitz. Selkowitz thought Pickett was
good enough to deserve to have a few photos snapped of
him, so they went out a few times and took some stills.
A few weeks later, Warren Miller gave Pickett a call, having got his number from Selkowitz. Miller came to town,
filmed Pickett, Pickett got sponsored by Salomon, and
the rest is history.
“I think the best way to get noticed in film is to start
COURTESY OF KINA PICKETT
by Sam Petri
see PRO SKIERS page 20
from PRO-SKIERS page 19
WILLIE McMILLON
and Langlois has found himself in between official spon- with the kids who were already on it. A lot of the guys made by kids who want to get sponsored – kids looking to
ride for us because they have corporate sponsors that be on the Bluebird team and to be associated with their
sorship.
“Those guys are always looking for the new kids,” said make them feel watered down or something. So they ride whole scene.
“A lot of these sponsor me tapes, I’m like, ‘You kids
Emery of Burton Snowboards. Langlois is established in for us so they feel like real snowboarders. That’s what I
the industry and films with Kyle Clancy’s Mongo see. Because why else would they do it? We don’t pay should just be having fun.’ As soon as you start getting
paid and getting hooked up, you’re snowboarding for
PROductions, which produced this year’s “Who them much.”
When McMillon began to snowboard, sponsorship other people. It’s not all about shredding with your bros
Cares?” video.
“He doesn’t want to mess with the whole business side was all but inevitable. He was one of a handful of anymore. I mean it is – if you make it that way. It took
of it,” said Emery. “With Burton, he was probably making Jackson Hole snowboarders worthy of sponsorship in me almost 15 years to have snowboarding the way I wanted it, on my terms.”
$100,000 a year or something …
McMillon continued: “All my
He was like, ‘I don’t want to
friends, the kids I go out with,
mess with the bullshit, so I’ll
have started their own movie projust ride your boards. Ride them
ductions. Like [Travis] Rice and
for free and I’ll be all up in my
[Kyle] Clancy. Now when I go out
[Mongo PRO] video, I might be
and film, it’s with my friends. I
in other videos too, and I’ll be
don’t go out with the crews that
on your board.’ And we were
are all high-stress, taking it all serilike, ‘Yeah, maybe someday we
ously. I go out with the stoner
hopefully could pay you.’”
crews. That took a lot of f***ing
This idea translates to every
years and a lot of bad experiences
ski or snowboard company out
to figure out how I wanted snowthere. If companies can get their
boarding, the way that I wanted it.
riders into the videos on their
And I feel like I have it now
products, their products sell. It’s
because I don’t have to answer to
a more effective marketing tool
anybody. And that’s the whole reathan placing an ad in a magason why I started this. I didn’t
zine, because in a video it comes
want anyone to tell me when my
off effortlessly. In video, there’s
career was over.”
action, there’s a lifestyle, there’s
In other words, if you love to
personality. If your favorite rider
shred, just shred. If you’re good,
is throwing down in your
you have nothing to worry about:
favorite video, chances are you’ll
You’re going to get noticed. You’re
try to buy the board they ride,
going to be approached. And if
whether you make that connecyou have business savvy, you can
tion consciously at the cash regstay in the game. If you want to
ister or not.
make money, you’ll need the
Constantly representing for
biggest sponsors. That means
the core, Willie McMillon is the
Willie McMillon, owner of Bluebird Wax and sponsored rider for 15 years, at his home office.
strong communication skills and a
owner of local company
willingness to promote, even after you’ve “made it.”
Bluebird Wax. He also rides for Illuminati and has been a the early ’90s.
As Josh Nielson put it, “Skiing is the smallest part, but
“We were young kids and there were like 10 snowboardsponsored rider for almost 15 years. With his company,
McMillon managed to build one of the most outstanding ers in Jackson,” he said. “When companies would come the most important part” to being a professional athlete.
As you wait to be discovered, try not to become dishere, they were like, ‘You are one of 10 kids that could
team rosters of any snowboarding company out there.
gruntled with your dishwasher job, because that is, after
“Basically we started with a couple dudes,” McMillon possibly be sponsored.’ You weren’t going to avoid it.”
Nowadays, McMillon gets sent 100 or so videos a year all, the simple life.
said. “And after a while kids just wanted to be associated
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BUSINESSPAGE
JH native wants to build dino museum in Alpine
Paleontologist Tanya Hester is tired of seeing some of
Wyoming’s finest bone and fossil specimens leave the
state for displays back East and around the world.
“Wyoming is phenomenal with the specimens we have
here,” Hester said. “There are more dinosaurs that have
left Wyoming than have stayed here.”
So Hester, born and raised in Jackson, is taking on the
Brontosaurus-sized task of establishing a historical museum in Alpine, Wyo. Two years ago, a fortuitous trip to a
T-Rex symposium in South Dakota coincided with the
availability of highway frontage property in Alpine, and
the lightbulb went on for Hester.
“When I came up with the idea, I thought of Alpine
because they’re just going to build some mall or big commercial thing with the growth they are having,” Hester
said. “I thought: Why not something educational which
benefits the community?”
Nearby cities like Thermopolis and Glenrock boast
paleontological museums, but Hester hopes to make the
Natural History Museum of Western Wyoming something
worth traveling to.
“We intend to be a repository for specimens like fossils,
geologic materials and several dinosaur species,” her Web
site, www.adamandeveolution.com, declares. Hester plans to
build a facility capable of research, storage and exhibition.
“Once the museum is established and – being a museum of paleontology and natural history and a nonprofit –
we would be allowed to dig for dinosaurs ourselves on
state ground,” she said.
The project faces two monumental tasks: fundraising
PLAN ONE/ARCHITECTS
by Jake Nichols
Tanya Hester hopes to build the Natural History Museum of Western Wyoming in Alpine.
and architectural design. To date, Hester has raised over
$2 million in pledged monies and inventory. The entire
facility will cost an estimated $17 million to build.
“It starts with connections and friends,” Hester said of
the process of securing items for display at the museum.
“Specimens are donated, loaned and consigned.”
Housing the inventory is also a huge concern for architects when designing museums. “Every project has its own
unique challenges,” said Garett Chadwick, associate principal architect at Plan One/Architects, which Hester has
retained for design services. While his firm has yet to
design a museum, it has designed several large spaces
including an airplane exhibit for the Call Air Foundation
in Afton, the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Center in Lovell,
the Heart Mountain Wyoming Interpretive Center, and the
Jackson Hole & Greater Yellowstone Visitor Center.
“To design a space to accommodate large exhibits or to
move large pieces through the building, the biggest challenge may be to do those things while incorporating the
many different concepts and exhibit spaces the client has
requested,” Chadwick said.
Chadwick also plans to get the building LEED certified. Green measures envisioned include vegetated roofs
to reduce stormwater runoff and heat islands, water efficient landscaping, solar panels, use of recyclable and
local/regional materials, and daylighting.
Hester has drafted visitation estimates and pro forma
financial projections. They show an anticipated 50,000
visitors, annually, bringing in an estimated $411,900
through admissions fees, souvenir shop sales, membership dues and museum sponsorships.
Early sketch plans and inventory suggest the facility
will feature at least 15 large, high quality dinosaur casts,
including Triceratops, T-Rex, Allosaurus, Stegosaurus
and more. A complete “Wall of Time” will showcase evolution from the Precambrian to the Holocene era. The
museum will also include a waterfall with fossil-bearing
stones and a movie room. Hester said construction could
begin in 2009.
Donations and inquiries can be sent to Natural History
Museum of Western Wyoming, Tanya Hester, 2072 S.
Muddy String Road, Thayne, Wyo., 83127.
Powderhorn’s back serving new flavors in old-school ways
Powderhorn, the Jackson Hole-grown
Western-style ski apparel company that was
the height of ski chic in the ’70s and ’80s, is
making a comeback.
Mystique has always surrounded the
Powderhorn brand. When Jim and John
Horn started the company back in 1972, their
headquarters were in a three-story building
behind a drive-in movie-theater where
Albertsons now stands.
To save money, every piece of fabric was
used, including remnants. That meant
when retailers ordered jackets they didn’t
have the option of choosing color – they
could only order different sizes in “crazy,”
“fashion” or “basic” styles. Many of the
older two-tone Powderhorn pieces are one-
of-a-kind.
Then, in 1986, just as the signature leather
yoked-shoulder style was reaching its pinnacle
of success, worn by only the hardest of hardcore skiers, John Horn died in a hang-gliding
crash. The company closed its doors shortly
thereafter.
Twenty years later, Swiss distributor
Christian Baettig has purchased rights to the
brand. Powderhorn has always been on
Baettig’s radar; when he was 18, he worked at
Mammoth Mountain in California, where all
the ski patrollers wore it.
Now Powderhorn is back and they’re sticking with the classic Western style of the ’70s
and ’80s, dubbing it a retro revival in the snow
fashion world. The new Powderhorn apparel
looks similar to the old pieces, only now every
garment is made with technical fabrics like
Primaloft insulation, eVent shell material and
natural Peruvian alpaca.
With offices in Jackson and Appenzell,
Switzerland, ex-Cloudveil employees Katie
Jackson, marketing manager, and David
Ellingson, operational development, head
up the local team. Noah Robertson, also a
former Cloudveil employee, now of
Mountain Khaki’s, is on the board of
directors and is playing an advisory role.
“It’s a small industry, you realize,” said
Jackson. But because everyone at
Powderhorn has worked together before,
“We’ve just hit the ground running.”
This fall, Powderhorn plans to come out
with 20 pieces each for men and women, fairly ambitious for a new line. “Teton Village
Sports will be a big partner of ours because
they have purchased the entire line,” said
Jackson. Here in Jackson, two local skiers,
Justus Myer and Jessica Baker, have signed
on to Powderhorn and will help give feedback
to the company.
“Those are two people that have done a lot
of skiing here and internationally,” Jackson
said. “So the idea is to help them promote
themselves both here and in Europe, as well
as promoting our product.
For more info, visit powderhornworld.com, although a new site will be up this
July. Also try myspace.com/powder_horn.
— Sam Petri
THEM ON US
The return of rail, Bighorn
water worries, February rain …
by Jake Nichols
GOING GREEN
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Conserve first,
then offset
Amory Lovins coined the term
“negawatt,” a unit of energy that we
do not use.
“It is much cheaper to save the
electricity than to make it,” said
Lovins, the co-founder, chairman
and chief scientist at the Rocky
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Insulation, high-efficiency windows,
caulking, weatherstripping and
using compact fluorescent lightbulbs are several ways to generate
negawatts in your home or office.
When you purchase new appliances, computers or DVD players,
check the Energy Star-rating, telling
you exactly how much energy the
appliance or device will use.
If you are thinking of replacing
your car or truck, replace it with a
vehicle that runs on hybrid, ethanol
or biodiesel technology.
Green Tags should be purchased
only after you have saved energy in
every
other
possible
way.
Purchasing Green Tags is a way to
offset carbon dioxide emissions by
giving money to an organization that
is developing alternative energy
technology. Your dollars fund wind
farms, solar projects and methane
generation from agricultural waste.
Several organizations offer Green
Tags. Some of the most reliable
ones are Native Energy, Terrapass,
Bonneville
Environmental
Foundation and My Climate.
But remember: conserve first,
then offset the rest.
Consider Your Air and Water
Think Socially Responsible
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produces.
produces.
Buildings are
responsible for
almost one half
of greenhouse
gases emitted worldwide, and transportation is not far behind, at one
third.
Start by having an energy audit
from Lower Valley Energy, which will
point out how to conserve energy.
For Ourselves, our Children, and our World
All aboard the Mountain West train!
Wyoming recently took a big step toward
laying rail between the Cowboy State,
Colorado and New Mexico.
According to Colorado Springs/Pueblo
TV11 News, since Wyoming’s legislature
freed up some $300,000 for a feasibility
study, voters could be asked as early as
this fall to approve a “bullet train”
between Casper, Wyo., and Belen, N.M.,
passing through Cheyenne, Fort Collins
and Denver. The project could be chugging by 2016.
■
Wyoming’s grizzly battle with the feds is
being watched carefully, especially by surrounding states where the bear could drift.
The wolf issue heats up as well with a
recent ruling that Wyoming may not have
a look-see at U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service papers explaining the agency’s
rejection of the state’s original wolf management plan a few years ago. But Gov.
Dave Freudenthal’s latest dispute is over
not bears or wolves, but water.
CBS-TV affiliates in Bismarck, N.D., are
following the border war between
Montana and Wyoming concerning flows
from the Bighorn River. Big Sky Gov.
Brian Schweitzer has been hoarding
Bighorn water for the sake of Montana’s
famous trout fishing, while Freudenthal
has petitioned Montana’s congressional
delegation
and
the
Bureau
of
Reclamation, saying, “Montana has been
getting more than it’s entitled to on the
river for several years.”
■
One last chance to reminisce over our
past winter – or lack of – is available with
Alison Gannett’s “Save Our Snow Winter
Road Trip” diary in FreeSkier Magazine.
Gannett skied ferociously in Colorado,
but the rest of the West left her high and
not so dry.
“Mother Nature must have known that
we were coming to [Jackson Hole]
because the snow quickly turned to rain at
the base of the mountain!” she wrote.
“Rain! In Jackson Hole in February? The
locals were fretting about how this was
going to be the worst snow year ever and
we concurred.”
■
’Tis the season to strut your stuff and
ruff le some feathers. For Wyoming sage
grouse, that is. The Casper Star-Tribune
says one of the best places to watch the
courtship pageantry is the Jackson Hole
Airport . In a rehash of a previous
Associated Press story, the Tribune
claimed the strutting grouse occasionally court each other right there on
Runway 1 South.
■
Who’s who among students in American
universities and colleges? Wilson’s George
“Bland” Hoke, that’s who. In addition to
being named in “Who’s Who,” the fine
arts major at Alfred University in Alfred,
N.Y., also received the 2007 State
University of New York (SUNY)
Chancellor’s
Award
for
Student
Excellence on April 18. George and
Elizabeth Hoke are proud of their Phi
Kappa Phi, who maintained a 3.78 (out of
a possible 4.0) or higher and demonstrated a “significant contribution to his campus or local community.” We found the
news in a school press release.
■
High Country News has released its
annual list of “Killer Commutes,” the nastiest commutes in the West. Making the
list were the heavily trafficked strips of
pavement between Bozeman and Big Sky
in Montana, Santa Cruz to Silicon Valley
in California, and a dangerous segment of
Highway 82 in the Roaring Fork Valley
outside of Aspen, Colo., where 25,800
vehicles per day result in 44 injury accidents to every fatal accident per year,
according to 2000 U.S. census data.
HCN and the Aspen Daily News give
Jackson Hole props for the 33-mile,
Driggs-to-Jackson run over the Pass saying, “41,000 vehicles a day [drive] over
the 8,500-foot Teton Pass, a commute
complete with major avalanche hazards
and 21 injury crashes for every three fatal
crashes.”
■
A small manufacturing outfit in Hill Air
Force Base in Utah specializes in building
containers out of lightweight wood to use
aboard aircraft. Utah’s Hilltop Times featured the company in its April 19 issue,
where we learned they manufactured 86
large containers to ship back every piece
from the August ’96 C-130 crash near
Jackson, which carried several members
of the Secret Service.
GALAXY
Arts, Events and Entertainment
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Hard Drive right up songwriters’ alley
by Richard Anderson
Jackson Hole is home to dozens of
places where you can hear live music.
But local venues where the music is the
focus (as opposed to the bar), where it
doesn’t have to compete with conversation or après ski shenanigans, and
where whole families, including youngsters under 21, can get an earful –
well, those are rare.
Fortunately the valley just gained another one. Hard Drive Café, at 1110 Maple
Way, will host its inaugural Songwriters
Alley, a singer-songwriter showcase, at
7:30 p.m. on Saturday. Isaac Hayden will
Justin Smith
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headline, and Justin Smith and Aaron
Davis will round out the bill, each performing 35- to 40-minute sets in an intimate, sit-down setting. Admission is $5.
“There are not many venues with the
sort of format I’m thinking of,” said
Davis, who organized the event. “It’s
going to be geared toward the songwriting, a listening environment rather than
a louder bar scene, a level above an
open mike … the idea is to just encourage listening … and have it be all ages.”
Davis hopes to put together a similar
program each month, tapping local
singer-songwriter talent as well as drawing upon touring musicians who might
be passing through or playing nearby.
“My idea for the future is to … maybe
have a bigger headliner and have local
songwriters support them,” he said,
“even someone like Jalan Crossland,
and have local people to fill the bill.”
This first event, aside from showcasing three well-known and -loved valley
players, will serve also as a CD
release party and going-away event
for guitarist Hayden, who is moving on
to San Diego to pursue his professional music career.
Davis compares Hayden’s blend of
blues, folk, pop and rock to Sting, Jeff
Buckley, Jack Johnson and John
Mayer. In March 2005, his single,
“Float,” off his debut disc “Perfect
Accident,” became the most-played
tune on the acoustic pop chart on
myspace.com. In October 2006, he was
Davis
past and current projects, including
Boondocks, Global Review, the Jason
Fritts Ensemble and Screen Door
Porch. He has recorded two CDs has a
third, “Live at the Silver Dollar” with
Boondocks, due out this summer, and
this spring began recording his debut
solo disc, “Take Me On Back.” Davis
also hosts the weekly open stage each
Sunday at 43 North.
“We have some songs that don’t really fit in with our other bands and projects,” Davis said. Smith, for example,
has written a rock opera, he said. “The
only outlet for those are open mikes or
jams in living rooms … This a chance to
share those songs that really can’t be
shared anywhere else.”
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selected to perform as part of
the “Extreme Makeover: Home
Edition” program to help raise
money for the chosen needy
family. His new disc, “Dreams
Away,” can be found locally at
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Justin Smith has been a force
in the Jackson Hole music
scene for well over a decade.
Bands he has led or played in
include Sister Smith, which
started as a folk duet and
evolved into a seven-piece rock
band, the folk-roots band Free Aaron
Roaming Buffalo Herd (which
cut the disc “Road Apples” in 2000)
Wildwood Fire, Barnyard Stomp, Grass,
Electric Heating Device and of course
the popular party band Mandatory Air.
Currently projects include The Big
Jug O’ Beer Band, Two Dollar Bill and
One Ton Pig. In addition Smith continues to emcee Joe’s Garage open
stage at Snow King each week, teaches guitar, was long-standing chairman
of the board of the nonprofit Jackson
Hole Music Experience, and is
founder of the Mountain Bluegrass
Camp for kids.
Finally, Kentuckian Aaron Davis, who
writes about music for the Planet,
moved to Jackson Hole in 2001 and
quickly made his mark on the valley
music scene. He has played folk-rock,
country-blues and jazz in a number of
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Area poets convene at Shades
In honor of National Poetry Month,
which continues throughout the month of
April, Shades Café, at 82 S. King St., will
host a poetry reading. Sign up will start at
6:30 p.m. and readings will run 7-9 p.m.
Light snacks and refreshments will be
offered.
Local poet Mike Bressler is organizing
the event and welcomes everyone to come
read their own work, recite a favorite
poem, or simply sit back, relax and absorb
the poetic vibes. Come find out who our
local poets are and what inspires them.
Bressler writes about the outdoors,
nature and Wyoming and its changing
faces. His poetry has been published in
several magazines and journals, including
the Mountain Gazette and Snake River
Reflections.
His motivation for organizing the reading
is to provide local poets and poetry lovers
with an opportunity to get together and share
their work and passion. He expects a good
turnout, but suspects the event might lose
some attendees due to the closing performance of “HAIR” the same night.
“There will be naked people at
‘HAIR,’” he observed. “We can’t offer
that!”
by Lucille Rice
GALAXYCALENDAR
WEDNESDAY25
Music
■ For over five years, Victor Ragamuffin of Pentecost
THURSDAY26
Art
■ Life Drawing Open Studio is 6:30-9:30 p.m. every
p.m. to close every Thursday at the Stagecoach Bar in
Wilson. No cover. 733-4407.
Literature
■ The Teton County Library hosts “A Spanish Book
Outlying
■ Weekly public meetings resume on the construction of the
plays directed by five different directors, at 7:30 p.m. in
the rehearsal studio at the Center for the Arts. Roles for people of all ages and genders. Bring a list of your schedule
conflicts between now and May 26. 203-9067.
Kids & Families
■ Toddler Club meets 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Recreation
Center. 739-9025.
■ Little Rollers Tumbling Class gets rolling 8:45-9:45 in
the Recreation Center gym. 7390-9025.
Classes, Lectures & Workshops
■ The Murie Center’s ninth annual Spring Earth Fest continues with “Climate Change: A Dialogue” at 7 p.m. at the
National Museum of Wildlife Art. Mountaineer/photographer/geographer Forrest McCarthy, the Teton Science
Schools’ Embere Hall, Jackson Hole Chamber of
Commerce Director Tim O’Donohue and philosopherwriter Jack Turner will present at the evening forum.
Free. 732-5438.
Community
■ Join Living Green for a free hands-on American clay plas-
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■ SafePAWS holds a volunteer training workshop 5:30-8:30
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.
Theater
■ Riot Act Inc. hosts auditions for “Shorts,” five short
Everything in your house
except for the glass and steel.
Town Hall. The public is invited to come discuss any and
all issues with the Mayor.
p.m. at the First Interstate Bank in the Chinatown Plaza.
SafePAWS is a collaboration between the Community
Safety Network and PAWS that provides temporary
homes for the pets of those who leave their homes seeking safety from domestic violence. Free and open to all
community members interested in helping. Call 7333711 to register.
Wednesday at the Art Association. Cost is $100 for
seven-punch card for Art Association members, $15 for
drop-ins. 733-6379.
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CLOTHING
SHELTER
PAPER
■ The Mayor will hold his Brown Bag Lunch noon at the
ter workshop 5:30 p.m. at 180 N. Center St. #1. 733-2152.
■ All nonprofits wishing to participate in Old Bill’s Fun
Run 11 must attend the mandatory Kick-Off Meeting 8:3010 a.m. at Snow King. Breakfast will be served at 8:30
(optional) and important information about rules and
guidelines will be passed out at the meeting starting at
9. No RSVP necessary. 739-1026.
Music
■ Disco Night is hosted by Four4 Productions from 9:30
Discussion: Enrique’s Journey” 7-8:30 p.m. The group will
discuss journalist Sonia Nazario’s book “Enrique’s Journey:
The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with his
Mother.” Patricia Rocha, the library’s Latino services
assistant, will lead the discussion. Free and open to
adults and teens ages 15 and up. 733-2164 ext. 237.
■ The Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance hosts “Comp
Plan Uncomplicated: a Citizen Advocacy Workshop” 6-8:30
p.m. in the County Commissioner’s Chambers, 200 S.
Willow St. RSVP at 733-9417.
■ The Murie Center’s ninth annual Spring Earth Festival continues when Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson talks
about “Resource Use and Climate Change: Local Actions,
Global Consequences” 7-8:30 p.m. at Snow King Resort.
Anderson will discuss his environmental efforts in SLC,
how they can be applied in Teton County and what the
global consequences are. $10. Sustaining Jackson Hole
hosts a reception for Anderson at 5 p.m. at Harvest, 130
W. Broadway. $25. Tickets for both events at the Valley
Bookstore, Hungry Jack’s Victor Valley Market or
www.SustainingJacksonHole.org. 733-8687.
■ The Wyoming Small Business Development Center hosts
“HyperGrow Your Business” 1-4 p.m. in the Wort Hotel’s Gold
Piece Room. Curt Clinkinbeard, vice president of marketing at a major medical manufacturing firm and author
of “HyperGrow Your Business,” presents. Call (800)
383-0371 to register.
Sports & Recreation
■ Yoga hits the mats 9-10:15 a.m. at the Rec Center.
Brooks Lake section of the Hwy. 26/287 construction
project at 1 p.m. at Oftedal Construction’s field headquarters
at the Willowbend Campgrouns, about 15 miles west of
Dubois. (877) WYO-TRAIL or www.GoTogwoteeTrail.com.
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Music
■ Four4 Productions’ Vert-One and Mike Thunder spin
tunes 10:30 p.m.-2 a.m. at Eleanor’s Cuvee, behind Plaza
Liquors. No cover. 733-7901.
■ The Granary at Spring Creek Resort atop East Gros
Ventre Butte hosts Jazz Night 7-10 p.m. on Friday with
pianist Pam Phillips, bassist extraordinaire Bill Plummer
and guitarist Peter Queal. No cover. 733-8833.
■ Orville’s Christian Coffeehouse hosts an evening of
Christian music, poetry and stories about God 8-10 p.m.
every Friday at 285 W. Pearl St. Show up and make joyful noise. 733-3165.
Art
■ Henry Dombey’s photographs are on display at Lindsey
McCandless Contemporary, 130 S. Jackson St. Photos
from Cuba, Jackson Hole and New Orleans, among
other places will be on display. 734-0649.
Theater
■ Jackson Community Theater presents “HAIR,” the
American tribal love-rock musical, continues at 7:30
p.m. tonight and Saturday at the Center Theater, 265
S. Cache St. Tickets are $22 for Friday night performances, $28 for Saturday night performances,
which will include a groovy after-show Hippie Love
Peace Party in the Center lobby. For tickets call 7334900 or visit www.jhcenterforthearts.org.
SATURDAY28
Literature
■ Shades Café, 82 S. King St., celebrates National
Music
■ Bassist Bill Plummer, guitarist Peter Queal and trum-
Poetry Month with a reading open to all. Sign-up starts at
6:30 p.m., readings run 7-9 p.m. Come read your own
work, recite a favorite poem or just sit back and
enjoy. Free. Light snacks and refreshments offered.
739-9630.
Film
■ "Everything's Cool," a film about a handful of
global warming messengers speaking out in a
time of disinformation, screens at 7 p.m. at the
National Museum of Wildlife Art. Rick Piltz, one of the
film's messengers and the director of Climate
Science Watch, will introduce the film and answer
questions. Free. 733-5771.
■ Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson leads the
Sustaining Jackson Hole Resource Use Mini-Summit 8
a.m.-1 p.m. at the Teton Science Schools’ Jackson
Campus. The event kicks off a community wide effort
to reduce Teton County’s energy use and garbage
generation. Snacks and a full lunch will be served.
$30. Tickets available at Valley Books, Hungry
Jack’s,
Victor
Valley
Market
and
www.SustainingJacksonHole.org. 733-8687.
Mind, Body, and Spirit
■ The second annual Qi Gong in the Tetons weekend offers
classes and workshops today through Sunday at Spring
Creek Ranch. Learn traditional Chinese health from internationally recognized Qi Gong instructor Lee Holden.
Pre-register for discounts. (888) 767-3648.
■ Teton Sangha Silent Meditation takes place 6-6:45 p.m.
every Friday at Zendler Chiropractic, 215 Scott Lane.
[email protected].
Community
■ The Jackson Hole and Greater Yellowstone Visitor Center
will be closed today for spring-cleaning. Normal hours will
resume Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Outlying
■ The Jim Cullum Jazz Band evokes the sounds of classic
jazz heroes like Bix Beiderbecke, Jelly Roll Morton,
Louis Armstrong and The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
at 8 p.m. on Friday at the Colonial Theater in Idaho Falls.
$28. (208) 522-0471 or visit www.idahofallsarts.org.
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peter Lawrence Bennett play jazz 6:30-10:30 p.m. at
Eleanor’s Cuvee, behind Plaza Liquors off West
Broadway. No cover. 733-7901.
■ “Songwriter’s Alley: Volume One,” featuring local singersongwriters Isaac Hayden, Justin Smith and Aaron Davis,
starts at 7:30 p.m. at Hard Drive Café, at 1110 Maple
Way. The first in a series of showcases is also a CD
release and going away party for Hayden, who is relocating to San Diego. Open to all ages; $5 at the door.
Food and beverages will be available. 413-2513.
Art
■ CIAO Gallery in Victor, Idaho, hosts new work by painter
Megan Schwartz and sculptor Chad Downs. Opening reception will be held 6-9 p.m. at the gallery, 145 N. Main St.
Other gallery members’ work will be showcased in the
back of the gallery. Live entertainment and refreshments.
(208)
787-4841
or
[email protected].
Piano Concerto No. 1 with the IF Symphony. Kotaro is
the winner of the Cleveland International Piano
Competition, among others. Ticket prices vary and are
available at the box office or at the Idaho Falls
Symphony office. (208) 529-1080.
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Music
■ The legendary Stagecoach Band performs 6-10 p.m. at
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.
Sports & Recreation
■ Duplicate Bridge lays ’em down 5:15-8:45 p.m. in the
Recreation Center meeting room. $3. 733-8689.
Mind, Body, Spirit
■ Teton County Public Health conducts free and confidential HIV
ond annual Grand Slam Casino Night Fundraiser at 6 p.m. at
the Elks Lodge. The night will include a raffle, silent auction, baby back rib dinner and gambling. $60 per person, $100 per couple. 739-9555 or 690-6503.
■ The Murie Center’s ninth annual Spring Earth Festival concludes with ECO-Fair 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Jackson
Campus of the Teton Science Schools. Events throughout
the day include presentations by writer Terry Tempest
Williams and Director of Climate Science Watch Rick
Plitz. The fair will also feature booths, workshops, kids’
activities, live music and organic foods. $5 for those who
drive to the fair, $3 for those who arrive via alternative
transit (bike, walk, magic carpet, hybrid vehicle, carpool
of 4 or more.) 739-2246.
TUESDAY1
Art Association 733.6379
www.artassociation.org
Clay-From Inspiration to Expression:
Finding Your Creative Voice: A Michael
Sherrill Workshop; June 13-15, 9 am-4
pm, $425 ($450 AA members). Michael will
share his journey of how he learned to turn
his inspired ideas into artwork. “In my
thirty years as a studio artist, I have tried
to keep a sense of fun and adventure in the
“work” process. When a sculpture is
completed, it is important that it
communicate visually to others; but for the
artist, what I keep is the experience of the
process of making. …I want to share
some ideas and uses for certain tools and
how they can change your experience with
clay. We will work primarily around the
extruder. For me, the extruder has become
more than a static tool - it is a work
station, much like the wheel, where I make
and manipulate clay forms. We will explore
various techniques that can open up new
possibilities for anyone working in clay.”
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testing Monday through Friday at Teton County Public
Health, 460 E. Pearl. For an appointment, phone 733-6401.
4:30 p.m. at the Hampton Inn of Casper. Joan Puma Bennet,
an experienced creative writing teacher and former staff
writer for The New Yorker, will lead the workshop. $35
includes lunch. Call (307) 358-2898 to register or email
[email protected].
■ Tokyo native Kotaro Fukuma returns to Idaho Falls at
7:30 p.m. at the Civic Auditorium to perform Brahms’
鵷鵸
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tickets to
the Stagecoach Bar in Wilson. No cover. 733-4407.
Community
■ The Giants American Legion Baseball Team holds its sec-
Outlying
■ WyoPoets hosts their annual writing workshop 9:30 a.m.-
Peter Pan- All Performances SOLD OUT!
Literature
■ Throughout the month of May, the Teton County Library
will waive all current overdue fines for materials.
Discovered any overdue library books while cleaning out
the dust bunnies this spring? Help books get back on
library shelves. 733-2164.
■ The Senior Book Club meets 11 a.m.-noon at the Senior
Center of Jackson Hole, 830 E. Hansen, to discuss “The
Last Days of Dogtown” by Anita Diamant. New members
welcome; books provided by Friends of the Teton County
Library. Free. 733-2164 ext. 229.
Good Eats
■ The Rising Sage Café in the National Museum of Wildlife Art
offers Tapas Tuesday 5:30-9 p.m. each week. Museum galleries open for free to guests, and area musicians perform during dinner. 732-5434.
Sports & Recreation
■ Open gym volleyball spikes it 7-9 p.m. in the Recreation
Center gym.
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Beginning Ceramics-Throwing on the
Wheel; Mon evenings, June 4-July 16,
6:30-9:30 pm, $200 ($175 AA members).
For the beginning potter, this class will
cover the basic skills needed to throw a
simple pot. We will discuss the do’s and
don’ts of handling clay, firing and glazing
techniques. Students will leave the class
with the skills to proceed to an
intermediate level class.
(1 College Credit available through CWC).
Clay Form, Smoke-Raku, Pit, & Sagger
Firing, Tues afternoons, June 5-July 10,
1-4 pm, $175 ($150 AA members).This is a
class for the intermediate potter or ceramic
or sculptor. This class will explore various
alternate firing methods that combine
primitive firing methods with contemporary
techniques and ideas. Students are
welcome to bring unglazed work as well as
produce new work, thrown and/or hand
built, to fire. (1 College Credit available
through CWC)
Clay Open Studio Refresher &
Independent Study,
Wednesday mornings, June 6-July 11, 9 am12 noon, $125 ($100 AA members). This
class is designed to give the open studio
participant an opportunity to get specific
formal instruction geared towards their own
interests. Whether you need a complete
reintroduction to throwing on the wheel, or
have specific questions and feedback
about your work, this class can give you a
head start to help you get the most out of
your open studio time.
Jackson Community Theater 690.2386
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HAIR, The American Tribal Love-Rock
Musical. LAST WEEKEND! April 27, 28 at
7:30 pm at the Center Theater. Reserved
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for Sat, April 28, plus tax and service fee.
This production is Rated R. Sat night
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UPCOMINGEVENTS
“hurrah” with “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Revised)”
May 4-5 and May 10-12 at the JHHS Auditorium. Based
on Charles M. Schulz’s beloved “Peanuts” characters,
the play features 21 students for five performances,
including a 2 p.m. matinee on May 5. Admission is $10
for adults, $8 for students and seniors. 732-3763.
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 413-3331.
CHECK OUT
Ordway Auditorium. Wyoming State Law Librarian Meg
Martin demonstrates how to find answers online to legal
quandaries ranging from what to do if the car you purchased appears to be a lemon or legal resources available after your neighbor’s pet buffalo crushes your mailbox, yet again. A light lunch will be served. Free. Must
register. 733-2164 ext. 106.
■ Learn to brew and burn your own vegetable-based alternative fuels at the Biodiesel Alternative Fuel Seminar 6:30-8:30
p.m. May 2, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 5, and 9 a.m.-noon May
6 at Central Wyoming College’s Teton Center. Learn the
specifics of biodiesel, take a field trip to the High Road
biodiesel station, and attend a mini car show of converted vehicles. $75. Call 733-7425 to register.
■ The Community Foundation’s Grant Writing Class will be
1-4 p.m. May 15 at the Fellowship Hall of St. John’s
Episcopal Church. This is an introductory overview of
grant writing with specific information about CFJH grant
programs and is appropriate for representatives of local
nonprofit organizations. $25. Call 739-1026 to register.
Mind, Body & Spirit
■ Find fun and essential health information at the 2007
Teton County Family Health Fair 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on May 5 at
the Snow King Convention Center. Browse cooking and fitness booths, watch a massage demonstration, or get a
free vision screening. 739-7634.
Classes, Lectures & Workshops.
The Teton County Library presents a Lunch ‘n’ Learn workshop, “Legal Research Tools” noon-2 p.m. May 2 in the
Community
■ Learn how you can apply for a Habitat for Humanity home
in Jackson 6 p.m. May 2 and 11 a.m. May 5 at the Habitat
ReStore. A session in Spanish will be held at noon on
May 5. Applicants must have a need for housing, be
able to make a $500 mortgage payment, be willing to
help with the building, and be permanent U.S. residents.
Prospective homeowners must attend a one-hour information session in order to receive an application. 7340828 or email [email protected].
■ The Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce hosts its
annual awards dinner and social evening 6:30 p.m. May
3 at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar. $27.50. RSVP at
733-3316.
■ Cinco de Mayo Mexican dinner benefits Iris Jasperson and
her family at 6:30 p.m. at the Elks Club.
■ Soroptomist International of Jackson hosts its most
popular fundraiser of the year, Bras for a Cause! 7-11 p.m.
May 12 at 43 North. Come watch a defile of ladies sporting creatively decorated bras and help raise money for
breast cancer research. The evening includes dancing,
a martini bar and an auction. Anyone can participate by
entering a decorative bra by May 4 for a fee of $100.
Tickets to attend are $30 for the entire event and $10
for entertainment after 9 p.m. 739-2242.
Outlying
■ “Tutankhamun: Wonderful Things From The Pharaoh’s
Tomb,” an exhibit of 126 replicas of the boy pharaoh’s
sacred and personal possessions, is on display through
Sept. 3 at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Mont. Visit
www.museumoftherockies.org or call (406) 994-DINO.
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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.
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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, 7332415. Closed April 2 - 28.
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
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Breakfast, lunch & dinner 7 days a week.
Reservations suggested. Spring Creek
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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 at 4:30 p.m. daily.
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.
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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.
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America’s most award-winning microbrewery is serving lunch and dinner.
Enjoy the atmosphere while dining on
delicious wood-fired pizzas, pastas, sand-
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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
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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,
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 Mon. - Fri. 11:30 a.m.
- 2:00 p.m. Dinner nightly at 5:30 p.m. 45 S.
Glenwood, 734-8038. www.bistrotrio.com.
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HARD DRIVE CAFE Internet Access: our
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Soup, salad, panini, wraps, philly cheesesteak. Open Mon - Sat 5:45 am - 10 pm, Sun
5:45 am - 2 pm. 1110 Maple Way, across
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PICA’S Fresh and colorful Mexican cuisine
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Melanie Stein
Eat healthy, support local
farmers: buy a share
Every year at about this time, I begin to daydream
about fresh, crisp, flavorful fruits and vegetables as
summer lurks in the not-too-distant future.
If you’re like me, you’re probably weighing whether
to cough up the funds to buy a share at an area farm,
shop at the farmer’s market, or keep visiting your local
grocery. Though the upfront cost of buying a share at
a farm seems hard to swallow, the return is worth it:
16 weeks, maybe more, of local, organic vegetables.
“It’s the freshest food you’re going to ever get
around here,” said Dale Sharkey, co-owner of Cosmic
Apple with partner Jed Restuccia. “It’s usually picked
the day of, sometimes the day before.”
With the purchase of a share at Cosmic Apple in
Victor, Idaho, you’ll get a robust bag of edibles every
week that includes seven to 10 different vegetables.
“Every week there is usually salad mix and an
herb,” Sharkey said. Early in the season, members
get sorrel, rhubarb, lettuce, cucumbers and pea
shoots. “As the season goes on, in the middle of
September, we’re on to salad mix, basil, potatoes,
carrots, onions, leeks, winter and summer squash,
peppers, eggplant and flowers,” she said.
Cosmic Apple sells about 200 shares each year. A
full share, which can theoretically feed three to four
adults for a week, costs $550; a half share costs
$385. Alternatively, you can participate in Cosmic
Apple’s workshare program one day a week and
receive a full share in return.
“We start at seven in the morning, and we start by
harvesting the tender stuff like greens to get it in
before the sun comes up and it gets too hot,” Sharkey
said. “Then we get the heartier stuff in like broccoli,
carrots, potatoes. Then we move to weeding or transplanting, depending on the time of year.
The farm generally seeks five volunteers per day for
the season, and all volunteers receive a farm-cooked
lunch in addition to their full share.
Sharkey believes there are three reasons that people choose to buy a share or participate in the workshare program: “One is that they’re looking for organic food. Another is they’re looking for fresh food. The
third is that they want to support local business.”
Visit www.cosmicapple.com to learn more.
Another Victor farm, Blue Flax Farms, also offers
shares each season. Full shares are $425, and half
shares are $225. Contact Megan Warren at 413-3203
for more information.
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THEGOODS
Bassist extraordinaire Bill Plummer
and guitarist Peter Queal travel from
Laramie to join pianist Pam Phillips for
Jazz Night 7-10 p.m. on Friday at The
Granary atop East Gros Ventre Butte.
Plummer and Queal have been playing
as a duo in Laramie and have been
performing educational concerts in
schools as a part of the Wyoming
Conservatory of Music Incorporated.
The show is free. Call the bar at
733-8833.
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The Jim Cullum Jazz Band
evokes the sounds of classic jazz
heroes like Bix Beiderbecke, Jelly
Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and The
Original Dixieland Jazz Band at 8 p.m.
on Friday at the Colonial Theater in
Idaho Falls. Tickets are $28.
Best known for their National Public
Radio show “Riverwalk – Live from the
Landing,” The Jim Cullum Jazz Band
plays hot and lively American jazz with
an emphasis on the almost lost art of
improvised ensemble playing. Active
for over 40 years, the band calls San
Antonio, Texas, home but has toured
throughout the world. For tickets,
contact the Idaho Falls Arts Council
at (208) 522-0471 or visit www.idahofallsarts.org.
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Pianist Kotaro Fukuma of Tokyo,
Japan, returns to Idaho Falls at 7:30
p.m. on Saturday at the Civic
Auditorium in Idaho Falls to play
Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 with the
Idaho Falls Symphony. Fukuma is the
winner of the Cleveland International
Piano Competition, the Helsinki
International Piano Competition and
many others. Tickets are available at
the box office or at the Idaho Falls
Symphony Office. Call (208) 529-1080.
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Some of country music’s biggest
names as well as some ’80s rock surprises are lined up for the 111th
Annual Cheyenne Frontier Days.
Trisha Yearwood, Reba McEntire,
Los Lonely Boys, Big & Rich, LeAnn
Rimes, Neal McCoy, Gretchen
Wilson, Def Leppard and Bon Jovi
will headline festivities July 21-29.
Cheyenne Frontier Days is billed as
“the world’s largest outdoor rodeo
and Western celebration,” with
rodeos, big-name entertainment, a
carnival, and an Indian village.
Concert ticket prices range from
$18-72 and are on sale now. Ticket
packages are also available for rodeos
and the carnival. Visit cfdrodeo.com
for purchase information.
Aaron Davis
Wilco
‘Sky Blue Sky’
Nonesuch Records
The more I listen to Wilco, the more I
get inspired to try new things in my own
music. They continue to experiment with
creative arrangements and are forging
new ground in rock music. There are not
many rock bands that deserve the tag
“poetic,” but Wilco’s brand of downbeat
pop-rock puts the band in company with
the likes of Neil Young, with vocalist/guitarist Jeff Tweedy leading the way.
I was happy to get my hands on an
advanced copy of the band’s sixth studio effort, “Sky Blue Sky,” which will be
released May 15 on Nonesuch
Records. For longtime Wilco fans, this
album may be a surprise. The tunes,
and the band, are super-relaxed, supported by some dark, even haunting
melodies that fish-tail through an album
that was written in-studio by the full
band. It won’t grab you like the graceful, mainstream breakthrough “Yankee
Hotel Foxtrot,” and it doesn’t have the
flare of the two-disc “Kicking Television:
Live in Chicago.” Instead, it seems to
be the reflection of a maturing band
that is completely comfortable.
The opening track, “Either Way,” has
an inviting, mellow mood, setting the
tone for “You Are My Face,” a folksy
rhyme that fuses into a bouncy, midtempo groove. Tweedy calms to a
whisper on the title track, relying on
the blue sky to ease “this rotten time.”
It was at this point, track six, that I
began to wonder if there were going to
be any rockers on the album. “Side
with the Seeds,” an escalating ballad
supported by a string ensemble, kept
me wondering.
It wasn’t until my second listen
through the entire album that I began
to realize the subtleties that make this
a cohesive, focused effort that’s not
intended to be a rock concert. “Shake
It Off” is a classic Wilco number and
perhaps the most memorable, with
Doors-like pyschedelia lining the verses and big sounding double-guitar funk
breaks to drive the choruses. Lead guitarist Nels Cline shines throughout,
adding odd, tensioned melodies and
short bursts of energetic riffs that give
life to many tunes.
Tweedy often delves into his own
relationships for subject matter, as in
“Leave Me (Like You Found Me)”: “It’s
what I wish for, somebody just like you
/to tell me what to do, honestly, leave
me like you found me.”
Approaching the tail-end of the disc,
“Walken” lightens the mood, with the
silliness of “Heavy Metal Drummer,” but
colored with dirty slide guitar.
Reminiscent of a “Twilight Zone” riff on
piano, “On and On and On” closes the
collection with a haunting mix of piano
and guitar effects.
The whole disc is emotional, from the
subject matter to the instrumentation,
and for a band that’s already dramatic,
this one tops them all. If this were a
Tweedy solo album featuring only
acoustic guitar and vocals, a majority
of the tunes would lack luster. Tweedy
remains one of my favorite contemporary songwriters, but the vocal hooks
and barbs that have filled previous
efforts are left to the instrumentation
on “Sky Blue Sky.” The arrangements
are intriguing, but this Wilco fan is still
waiting for it to grow on me like all of
the others have.
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Matthew Testa
‘Jesus Camp’
Directed by Heidi Ewing and
Rachel Grady
Rated PG-13 for some discussions of
mature subject matter
When Robert Redford declared 2006 to be “The
Year of the Documentary” at the last Sundance Film
Festival, he wasn’t only referring to the high quality
and relevance of recent non-fiction films. He was
surely signaling this country’s need to examine itself
and the role documentaries have to play in that reckoning. With a media that is increasingly unwilling to
ask tough questions – about the ways we make war,
do business, treat the planet and, just as importantly,
pray – the job of tough introspection is falling to independent filmmakers.
In “Jesus Camp,” one of the most riveting documentaries of last year, filmmakers Heidi Ewing and
Rachel Grady apply their interest in the upbringing
and education of children to the religious right, with
disturbing results. Not unlike the way that “An
Inconvenient Truth” warns of a coming crisis that has
gone largely unaddressed, “Jesus Camp” sheds light
on a growing problem: the eroding separation of
church and state in America.
The film focuses on the formidable Pastor Becky
Fischer and the evangelical summer camp she runs
called “Kids on Fire.” Located, ironically enough, in
the town of Devil’s Lake, N.D., the camp trains preteens to be soldiers in the Army of God, young evangelists who, it is hoped, will grow up to be big, adult,
voting evangelists some day. Pastor Fischer makes
her objective clear: More than helping the kids find
God, she wants God to find His way into government.
The expressed goal of “Kids on Fire” graduates
and staff is to undo the separation of church and
state in America. Their top target is abortion and their
brother-in-arms is President Bush (a life-size cutout
of W shares the dais with Pastor Becky). Filmed during the approval hearings for conservative Justice
Samuel Alito Jr., the movie periodically includes radio
updates on those hearings, culminating in his
appointment. The evangelical war, it seems, is a slow,
encroaching avalanche.
Pastor Fischer is unambiguous about her strategy
in ministering to children. She readily admits children
are impressionable, with minds that can be molded
however one sees fit. Which is not to say the kids featured in this movie are thoughtless drones. In fact,
they are bright, charismatic and likeable. Levi, who
wants to be a preacher, is confident and articulate.
He even questions his worthiness and admits in a
group session to impure thoughts. But in an environment of singing, weeping, speaking in tongues and
group encouragement, his questioning is drowned
out by conformity and zeal.
Most of the children in “Jesus Camp” are quite selfpossessed, intelligent and eager to learn. They’ve
been home-schooled by evangelical parents, taught
that the Theory of Evolution is ridiculous and that
their purpose in life is to combat an amoral culture. If
you thought the religious right had a hold on politics
before, just wait until this generation comes of age.
“Extreme liberals who are looking at this should be
shaking in their boots,” Fischer says.
“Jesus Camp” does not set out to critique the
Christian right. There is only one dissenting voice in
the film, that of Air America radio show host Mike
Papantonio. Interestingly, he is also a religious
Christian, but he is critical of the “brainwashing” of
children and the falling barriers between church
and state in this country. The film ends with a lively
debate between Papantonio and Fischer – one that
was clearly arranged by the filmmakers but is
revealing nonetheless. During this on-air chat,
Fischer fully cops to her desire to see religion and
politics merge.
Time and recent events have made “Jesus Camp”
even more impactful that it was when it was released
theatrically (this is also true of another great documentary I screened recently on DVD, “Control Room.”
Filmed at the beginning of the Iraq War, its observations of Donald Rumsfeld are chilling to see today).
One scene in “Jesus Camp” features evangelical
preacher Ted Haggard proselytizing at his megachurch in Colorado. The moment takes on new meaning in light of his confession of drug use and homosexual encounters.
Similarly, the recent approval by Alito’s Supreme
Court of a ban on partial birth abortion can only
serve to support Pastor Fischer’s belief that the
efforts of her conservative movement are paying off.
Former Jackson resident Matthew Testa is a writer, filmmaker and TV producer in L.A.
‘HAIR’ totally groovy, man
Opening last Friday (4/20, that is),
Jackson Community Theater’s production of “HAIR” offered protest, political
commentary, great music and lots of
laughs, transporting spectators back to
1967 and drawing parallels between the
Vietnam War and the War in Iraq.
As spectators trickled in to the Center
for the Arts Theater on Friday, they
found the venue overrun by hippies
smoking “joints,” toting anti-war posters,
passing out flowers, spreading love and
promoting peace. As the band launched
into a Janis Joplinesque version of
“Summertime,” the cast took its time
assembling on the stage and the show
began after a moment of silence to
honor the victims of the Virginia Tech
shooting and other acts of violence
around the world.
The famous storyline (if you could call
it that) follows the Tribe, a group of
young hippies living the Bohemian life in
New York City during the “psychedelic
stone age” of the 1960s. Drugs, sex and
rock and roll were the topics of much
discussion – all in song, of course.
The cast of 26 donned outfits straight
out of the Summer of Love, with tiedyed headbands, flowery dresses and,
as the show’s title suggests, lots of
long, unruly hair. The lighting was kept
simple but included various trippy
effects. Act I ended with the song
“Where Do I Go” and full frontal nudity,
true to the original show and its message of individual freedom and the
divine nature of humanity.
Representing a wide range of ages
and theater experience, the cast pre-
sented strong group performances.
While a few voices stood out in solos –
in particular Valerie Seaberg, Michelle
Bevier and Jennifer McCord, who especially shined on “Frank Mills” – the
most powerful performances were
heard from the ensemble. The band, led
by Jason Fritts, played a leading role,
also dressed in tie-dye and performing
on stage rather than in the pit.
Four decades ago, “HAIR” shocked
crowds around the nation and outraged
conservative audiences, but it found its
way into the hearts of many who were
living the reality it represented: the horror of the Vietnam War and the struggle
for youth at that time to find their voice
amidst the changing times. Many,
including the earnest cast and director
of the Jackson Hole production, Nicki
Efaw, see the same thing happening
today. The death toll in Iraq is rising
every day and Americans are questioning the motives behind our presence in
the Middle East. The Jackson
Community Theater made this statement in song, adding references to
Halliburton and its role in the Iraq War
in the second act.
“HAIR” continues at 7:30 p.m. this
Friday and Saturday at the Center
Theater, 265 S. Cache. Tickets are $22
for Friday and $28 for Saturday;
Saturday performances include a
groovy after-show Hippie Love Peace
Party in the Center lobby, with vendors,
food, drinks and a DJ spinning period
tunes. For tickets call 733-4900 or visit
www.jhcenterforthearts.org.
— Lucille Rice
ARTBEAT
Richard Anderson
Cross section of local talent
on display at Center for the Arts
I really enjoy the Art Association’s
annual members exhibit . I enjoy seeing what long-time artists are up to,
enjoy checking out new talent, enjoy
the wide diversity of subject matter,
media and styles.
The 2007 show opened on Friday in
the Lobby Gallery at the Center for the
Arts, and as usual, if I were the judge, I’d
have a hard time choosing a Best of
Show. A few favorites, however, include
Samantha Eddy’s verdant oil pastel
“Munger August,” J. Gonet Jones’s
excellent watercolor “Star Valley
Storm” and Ben Roth’s clever “Bikini,”
a wall-mounted sculpture that appeared
to be made from just six spoons.
Other stand-out paintings were
Alison Brush’s energetic abstraction
“Dragon Rising,” Huntley Baldwin’s
exacting painting of “Trevi Fountain,”
and Betsy Smisek’s simple, organic
encaustic “Rouge.”
I’m not big on sculpture but I would
find a place in my home for Amy
Unfried’s bronze “Hawk Totem” or
Dorothy Jankowsky’s stone and wire
sculpture “The Crux.” Dick Collister’s
“Legends” – three figures clad in traditional, ceremonial Southwest Indian
garb – also caught and captured my
imagination for some time.
Other fine pieces include Liz Park’s
lithograph, “Daddy Will You Buy Me A
gHorse?,” Notola Michelle’s evocative
gwall
“Torah,”
Brian
sculpture
-McGeogh’s black-and-white photo of the
nWesterner Motel, Aude Noelle Nevuis’s
nfolksy “Farm Poppies” and Denise
-Daigh’s stained glass “Magnolias.”
o And props to adventurous artists like
rSam Dowd for his steel and ceramic
“Athena Class Cargo Hauler,”
sLawrence Bennett’s ongoing experirment in textured metal, and Nikiaya
2Adomaitis’s curious mixed media
;sculpture “Over Prescription.” Oh,
aand of course clay student Haily
ePatno’s “Pongo”; the card next to the
,spotted horse’s bust put a value of
d“priceless” on the piece. Yes.
t The Art Association’s Members Show
will remain on display through June 8.
e
■
Bob Cook, 15, won Best of Show in
the 2007 Jr. Duck Stamp C
I like the Wyoming Arts Council’s
Biennial Fellowship Exhibit for similar
reasons. Works by six fellows – 2006
winners Zane Lancaster, Jon Madsen
and Jim Laybourn, and 2007 winners
Ashley Hope Carlisle , Ginnnie
Madsen and Mark Ritchie – hang in
the Center’s ArtSpace and Loft galleries. Again, the show offers great variety, some of the work beautiful, some
very thoughtful, some a little disturbing.
By disturbing, I’m thinking of
Lancaster’s grotesqueries – big hamshaped bodies and thighs with stickfigure arms and calves that bring to
mind nightmarish Russian art or Lucian
Freud’s unflattering human figures.
More uplifting was Carlisle’s mixed
media sculpture of a cloud of 55 or
more oversized dandelion seeds
caught in mid-puff. It hangs in the
space above the gallery, casting wonderful shadows on the white walls.
Laybourne’s work was similarly
inspired by nature, his color photos
showing a red fox pouncing, a bull
moose maddened by rut, and another
impressive bull passing through a cottonwood gallery.
Mark Ritchie offered a couple smaller
monotypes as well as some larger, multipanel pieces that reminded me of
Rauschenberg, though less opaque, more
interested in the archetypal significance
of the ladders and vessels depicted.
And finally there were the automotive-themed paintings of Ginnie and
Jon Madsen. Ginnie’s paintings show
scenes from a demo derby in bright,
joyous, carnival colors, while Jon’s
works turns the landscape into a road
to explore, with dotted white and yellow
lines leading the way across a jumble
of Southwestern mesas. The Wyoming
Arts Council’s Biennial Fellowship
Exhibition remains on display through
May 25.
■
In other art news, 15-year-old Bob
Cook of Cokeville won Best of Show in
the 2007 Wyoming Federal Junior
Duck Stamp Contest with his painting
of a Steller’s eider. His entry, judged by
a panel of artists and educators at the
National Museum of Wildlife Art, will
represent Wyoming as the annual contest continues this week at the national
level in Washington, D.C.
The museum, meanwhile, will display
the top 36 ribbon winners, chosen from
a field of 546 entries from across the
state and four age groups, through
Aug. 26. Also on display will be the 23
Honorable Mention entries from Teton
County artists.
Top local winners include first place
awards to Shannon Matthews , 8;
Madison Wilkerson, 9; Hailey Patno,
10: and Janell Hill, 11. Second place
awards went to Syler Peralta-Ramos ,
9, and Nicole Collins, 9. And third
ribbons were awarded to Jamie
Vargas , 8; Sam Miller , 8; Walter
Thulin , 9; Grace Balliro , 11; and
Danielle Nicklas, 12.
Thomas Mitchell, a 9-year-old from
Pinedale, received the 2007 Betty
Nelson Artistic Promise Award. The
award was established seven years ago
to recognize the artistic accomplishment of students in the K-3 age group
and to honor the late Betty Nelson, a
generous supporter of the Junior Duck
Stamp program.
NMWA will offer reproductions of the
top-winning art on note cards, available
for purchase at the museum gift show.
For more information about the program,
the exhibit or the cards, call 732-5417
Art Galleries
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
LIVINGWELL
Teresa Griswold
In a time when violence and tragedy have rocked our
nation, people need to heal. This weekend a Qi Gong
workshop offers a good way to cultivate healing energy
where people can strengthen, heal and cleanse their bodies as well as come together with others to celebrate global health and healing.
A four-day workshop, Qi Gong in the Tetons, begins
Friday and runs through Monday at Spring Creek Ranch.
Taught by internationally known Qi Gong instructor Lee
Holden, founder of Pacific Healing Arts in Los Gatos,
Calif., the event will coincide with World T’ai Chi and Qi
Gong Day on Saturday.
“A lot of times people wonder how they can emotionally process tragic events especially when they are out of
their control,” said Holden. “So what we do with Qi
Gong is move the negative energy – circulating it, and
transforming that energy inside our bodies into positive
energy.”
Holden first discovered Qi Gong in his quest to achieve
peak sports performance as a varsity soccer player at
Berkeley. Now he lectures and teaches workshops around
the world. He has studied Qi Gong for 18 years and is featured on American Public Television stations. Holden has
COURTESY OF PACIFIC HEALING ARTS
Healing energy comes to Tetons
Qi Gong instructor Lee Holden will conduct workshops this weekend at Qi Gong in the Tetons.
worked with Master Mantak Chia, the world’s foremost
expert on Qi Gong and with self-improvement leader
Deepak Chopra in facilitating seminars, teaching and
writing books. Holden’s new book, “7 Minutes of Magic,”
is due out this May.
Holden has known for many years that Qi Gong has
the power to change lives. He said negative energy is
like garbage and you compost it and then use that negative energy to actually grow positive energy. It transforms – the way compost in a garden yields vegetables
and f lowers.
“Moving your negative energy with Qi Gong actually
nourishes your positive energy,” he said.
Things change from negative to positive all the time,
and it’s important that nothing is getting stuck. “Negative
energy will always be here,” Holden said. “Some people
throw their garbage in somebody else’s yard, some people
blame, but we have a responsibility to be positive and
make a change in the world starting with ourselves.”
Qi Gong trains the body to be more fluid and relaxed,
creating a sense of effortless ease and enjoyment. Qi
Gong Flow is a moving meditation, allowing the mind to
sink into the moment while the body circulates internal
energy. Although the body is moving, the mind remains
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centered and calm, creating a dynamic balance between
tranquility and internal strength.
On Saturday, World T’ai Chi and Qi Gong Day will
paint a vision of possibility for humanity by creating a
healing wave around the planet. It begins with groups in
New Zealand practicing Qi Gong and T’ai Chi, and then,
time zone by time zone, quietly spreads across the globe
until finishing in Hawaii.
In Jackson, the celebration of World T’ai Chi and Qi
Gong Day and will begin at 10:00 a.m. at the Teton
Science Schools’ Journeys School and is part of the opening ceremony for the Eco-Fair.
“It’s about setting an intention, and getting enough people to have a positive shift in our world and consciousness,” said Holden.
Several highlights of Qi Gong in the Tetons include The
Three Treasures, Iron Shirt and Five Element Qi Gong
Flow workshops.
The Three Treasures in Qi Gong refer to the balance of
energy between the
body, mind and spirit. Translated as
Jing, Qi and Shen,
this is one of the
foundations for Qi
Gong and higher
level Taoist practices. Working with
Jing involves learning how to cultivate
sexual energy for
AT
health, vitality and
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spiritual insight. Qi
has to do with life
force energy and emotional balance. The Shen practice
allows one to utilize this energy for spiritual insight. The
practice involves flowing movements and guided meditation
to create inner balance and abundant energy.
APRIL 27-30
Iron Shirt is an ancient martial arts practice to build
energy in the body. Practiced together with Tai Chi it is
used for inner structure, internal power, and chi circulation. Iron Shirt comprises eight different postures.
Combined with deep breathing techniques for “packing”
chi around the organs, these postures open all the meridians (energetic pathways) in the body.
Based on the five elements – fire, water, wood, metal
and earth – the Five Element Qi Gong Flow strengthens
the entire body and its energy systems by following the
natural flow of energy in the body.
The full Qi Gong in the Tetons workshop costs $250.
You can also select shorter daily workshops. “Five
Element Qi Gong Flow” costs $65 or “Qi Gong for
Energetic Protection” costs $40. “The Three Treasures” is
$125 and “The Iron Shirt” is $50. Saturday’s World T’ai
Chi and Qi Gong Day celebration is free.
For more information and to register for Qi Gong in the
Tetons call 888-767-3648 or www.pacifichealingarts.com.
tion and finished off her program with a flying camel spin at the end.
Fussell trains at the Snow King Ice Arena and is coached by 21-year-old competitive figure skater Lacy Merrell.
SPORTSPAGE
Sam Petri Soccer season heats up on both sides of the Pass
Local Lori Fussell takes home gold
Jackson resident Lori Fussell traveled to Bensenville, Ill. to compete in the 2007
U.S. Adult Figure Skating Championships from April 11-14. She took home the gold
medal in Ladies Interpretive Class 3, which is an event that focuses on both skating
skills and showmanship for women ages 36-45.
This year she dressed as Charlie Brown and preformed to “The Kite” from the musical “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown.” Of all the interpretive programs this year, hers
was the most talked about, as Fussell actually flew a kite during her performance. In
typical Charlie Brown fashion, she crashed it in the end. Fussell has won gold and silver medals in this category at the National Championships in 2005 and 2006.
Fussell also competed in the Ladies Silver Freestyle Class 3 event. In this technical event, skaters are judged on skills, jumps, spins, footwork and artistry. The
Silver level of competition allows for all single jumps, including the 1.5 revolution
axle. Fussell managed a sixth place finish in this event, her best place yet, and
was competing against 41 other skaters. She landed an axel-toe loop combina-
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Two soccer events are coming up on both sides of the Tetons. The Jackson Hole
Tournament of the Tetons, put on by Jackson Hole Youth Soccer, will take place
May 18-20 on their new full sized synthetic playing fields. Registration fees are
due on May 1. Cost is $350 for U8-U10 teams and $425 for U11-U14 teams.
Coach and Team Registration takes place on the evening of Friday May 18.
The first match kicks off Saturday morning on the 19th. Gold, Silver and Recreation
divisions will compete. For more information on how to register and get involved log
on to www.jacksonholeyouthsoccer.com or call Rob Karas at (307) 699-0212.
Also, the Annual British Soccer Camp takes place at Driggs City Park on June 1822. Youth, ages 5-19 are invited to come out for full or half day programs.
Register online at challengersports.com before May 4 and your kids will get a
free soccer shirt. Registration forms are also available at all elementary schools,
the Victor Post Office, Dark Horse Books, and many other valley merchants.
The cost of the camp is $75-$100 for half and full day programs, although if you host
a British coach you will receive a rebate. Hosting mostly involves providing meals for
the coaches while the camp is in session and is a great cross-cultural experience for
any family. For more information call (208) 353-2275; scholarships are also available.
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Los Angeles Times
Sunday Crossword Puzzle
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis • April 29
“SPLIT ENDS” By GAIL GRABOWSKI
ANSWERS ON PAGE 45
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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
(easiest) to Silver to
Gold (hardest).
Answers on page 45.
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ACROSS
1 Capri’s Blue __
7 One in Norfolk?
14 Tempt
20 Slicker
21 Mined find
22 Opposite of inspire
23 2007 Oscar emcee
25 If nothing changes
26 Behind
27 Pompeii burier
28 Attack
30 Geezer
31 Fail to mention
33 Nothing more than
36 RAM unit
38 Playoff game settler, perhaps
42 Remote
46 Coriander cousin
47 “Make up your mind!”
49 Somali neighbor
51 Picture cards?
52 Pulled apart
55 Mystery writer Buchanan
57 Actress Merrill
58 Part of a bottle
60 It may be behind the bookcase
64 Insignificant
65 Three-horse carriages
67 Fervent
68 Saws
70 Poi, basically
71 Pair constantly doing battle?
73 Low in fat
74 Kept things
77 Essential
78 Herbal brew
82 Former regular performer at the
Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel
83 One in a high-risk insurance
group
86 Floor plans?
87 Hummer’s bit
88 Cookie that can be divided
89 Fleming and McKellen
91 CNN launcher
92 Spirited
95 Solves a crossword after work,
say
99 Wear down
101 Swords or sabers
103 All but one of them has a beard
106
107
108
109
112
115
116
120
122
127
128
129
130
131
132
Marathon, e.g.
Tapestry machine
Rabbit fur
Rowlands of “The Notebook”
Poker Flat chronicler
Trans __
Lancashire lockup
Not even close
Rum cocktail
Links three-pack
“The Vitruvian Man” artist
Watched
Did as expected, at Augusta
Public relations pro
Lemons with motors
DOWN
1 Busy bee
2 Make mad
3 Paella pot
4 Steering system components
5 Sawbuck
6 Make a father of
7 World-weary sound
8 Rage
9 Contemporary of Bela
10 Denver-to-Des Moines dir.
11 Old language that gives us
“berserk”
12 Nursery purchase
13 “__ we forget”
14 Maynard G. Krebs, notably
15 “All My __ Live in Texas”
16 Fowl fare
17 Green Hornet sidekick
18 Mishmash
19 Egg container
24 Created, on signs
29 Major e-mail deliverer
32 Hook up with
33 Ginnie __
34 Sci-fi staples
35 Frat letter
37 Scrape together, with “out”
38 Model of virtue
39 In a trance
40 ’70s hot spot
41 Checked out
42 Edit menu choice
43 Forbidden activities
44 Making things up
45 Big Apple team
48 After the moose and elk, it’s the
largest of its kind
50 Formal denial
53 United Airlines hub
54 Milanese rice dish
56 Victim of river diversion in Asia
59 Cutlery container
61 Court figs.
62 “As we speak ...”
63 Didn’t allow
64 Sq. bisector
66 Syrup brand
69 Ache
72 Reagan prog.
74 Tureen fillers
75 The blahs
76 Blood fluid
79 Help for a struggling student
80 Treble clef lines
81 Schmoes
82 Souse’s woe
84 Morns’ opposites
85 Workshop gadget
90 Like an armpatch, with “on”
93 White, in Waikiki
94 Cruised in style
96 Bar opening?
97 Modernist
98 One making horse calls, briefly?
100 Sci-fi weapons
102 “Michael Collins” actor
104 Gerald R. Ford Award org.
105 Have a pen for a pad
107 Pope after John X
109 [I’m shocked!]
110 Contemporary of Billie and Sarah
111 Card, for one
113 Outlying mail rtes.
114 Mouth,
slangily
115 Banking initials
117 Staff member
118 City near Moscow
119 Covers
121 Noted outcast
123 Chard alternative
124 Word “split” in this puzzle’s eight
longest answers
125 Bilko, for one: Abbr.
126 Four times a day, in an Rx
¡ASKAMEXICAN!
Gustavo Arellano
Dear Readers: The Reconquista has
arrived! On May 1, “¡Ask a Mexican!”
comes out in book form, gracias to the
literary madmen at Scribner. Expect
more of the same, but más: more
essays, more illustrations from Mark
Dancey (the gabacho who created this
column’s logo), and more questions.
Below are just a sample of the preguntas the Mexican answers exclusively in
his book, broken down by chapters.
Want the answers? Buy the book!:
CULTURE
What is it about a pirate-themed football team from Oakland, of all places,
that makes Mexicans so crazy? Okay,
so they used to have a Hispanic coach
and a Hispanic quarterback. Any other
reasons?
Cleveland Brownie
FOOD
Can you trust a Mexican with your
sushi?
Sayonara, Uncle Sam
FASHION
I used to work at a neighborhood
center that serves the Latino community in San Francisco. I noticed that a
large number of the Mexican and
Central American people I met smelled
strongly
of
laundry
detergent.
Additionally, Mexican guys love their
stinky cologne. Can you explain this?
Stinkin’ Sammy
ETHNIC RELATIONS
Why are Mexicans “proud” to be
from Mexico when their country is
such a filthy cesspool of lying thieving
child-raping whores? I mean, especially once they make it to the U.S., why
don’t they say, “Whew! I may have
been born there (Mexico) but I’m sure
am glad I got outta that shithole!”?
Mexicans Suck Rick
MUSIC
I am originally from the South and
resent country music. Are there
Mexicans who are from Mexico and
resent that trilling, wailing, accordion-
blaring music the
same way? Are there kids
of Mexican immigrants who can’t stand
the crap their parents play, the same
way me and my friends couldn’t stand
Ronnie Milsap? Are there Mexicans
who think the music similarly reflects
stereotypes of being rural, poor and
less educated?
Achy Breaky Corazón
SEXO
Why do we always think Mexican
men drink tequila and sing mariachi
tunes, while the women are pretty
señoritas?
Viva México
IMMIGRATION
How am I supposed to like Mexicans
that come here by just jumping a fence
and running or sneaking onto a transport truck entering this country illegally when you have law-abiding immigrants working their ass off to come to
this country legally?
Love the Mexicans but Hate the
Border-Hoppers
LANGUAGE
Why don’t Mexicans ever drop their
Spanish? Even third- and fourth-generation Mexican-Americans still speak
the language to some degree or another. I speak Japanese, but I’m losing it
quickly, and when my mother passes
on, so will my language. The typical
Asian-American kid may attend
Chinese, Korean or Japanese school
on Saturdays, but guess what? They
do it because their parents force them
to attend and I bet they speak English
during recess.
Feeling a Bit Nippy
Pre-order
your
copy
from
Amazon.com today, or get a copy at
your local bookstore next week. Keep
reading this column to find out when
the Mexican invades your town – or,
better yet, visit askamexican.net or
myspace.com/ocwab for updates and
contests. Buy the book, por favor: I
need to pay off my coyote!
Got a spicy question about Mexicans? Ask the Mexican at [email protected].
Those of you who do submit questions: they will be edited for clarity, cabrones.
And include a hilarious pseudonym, por favor, or we’ll make one up for you!
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SPACETIME
by Ed Bushnell
April 25
1507
–
Geographer
Martin
Waldseemuller becomes the first person
to use the name “America.”
1719 – Daniel Defoe publishes
“Robinson Crusoe.”
1792 – The guillotine is first used, to execute highwayman Nicolas Pelletier.
April 26
1564 – William Shakespeare is baptized.
1721 – The smallpox vaccination is first
administered.
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl launches “KonTiki,” bound for Polynesia from Peru.
April 29
1967 – Aretha Franklin releases
“Respect.”
1986 – BoSox Roger Clemens strikes
out 20 Seattle Mariners.
1996 – “Rent” opens at Nederlander
Theater in NYC.
April 30
1996 – A four-day auction of Jackie O’s
stuff comes to a close, with a final haul of
$34.5 million.
April 27
1861 – West Virginia secedes from
Virginia after Virginia secedes from the
United States.
1989 – The Chinese guy stands in front
of the tank for that picture.
1990 – The 50th annual Barbershop
Quartet Convention is held in Michigan.
April 28
1920 – Azerbaijan joins the USSR.
1940 – Glenn Miller records
“Pennsylvania 6-5000.”
LIFE OF A POET
1885 – The Boston Pops form.
1888 – Hailstones kill 250 people in
Delhi, India.
1889 – The first U.S. national holiday is
held, on the centennial of Washington’s
inauguration.
May 1
1786 – Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro”
premieres in Vienna.
1931 – The Empire State Building
opens.
1963 – James Whittaker becomes the
first American to summit Mt. Everest.
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Hopeless springs eternal
I am 22 and my boyfriend of 15
months is 41. He has an extremely difficult time expressing any
affection or emotion, and our
physical intimacy has been dwindling despite my efforts to seduce
him. His family says I’m the first
girl he’s brought home since
1987, and his longest relationship. They’re rooting for me, and
say I should call them if he starts
pushing me away. They want him
to have a family, and he says he
wants one, too, but has never
come close. I realize I’m young,
but for the first time, I feel selfless. I would happily sacrifice my
happiness for his. It’s so important to me that he is able to
become a father, even if it is not
with me. But, maybe our age difference means we were supposed
to meet so I can bear his children.
I strongly believe this man is my
soul mate, even if he is not so
sure. How do I keep from going
crazy while not pressuring him so
much that I lose him?
— Holding Pattern
Just what every kid needs: a father
who’s incapable of expressing any
affection or emotion. Should work
wonders when your little girl wakes
up screaming for her daddy to protect her from the monsters. Oops,
Daddy doesn’t do hugs. Could she
work with a pat on the back, or
maybe a nice firm handshake?
As for you, proud holder of the
title, “First Girl He’s Brought Home
Since 1987,” I’m guessing the others
didn’t find emotional constipation
such a strong selling point.
Apparently, it works for you. (Pops
was a cold chap?) Clearly, you don’t
want a man who’s affectionate. If you
did, you’d be with one. It seems what
you really want is a challenge: Go
where no woman has gone before!
Only you can unlock the love within!
(Yeah? Wanna bet?) When a guy
shows you he’s incapable of affection, the appropriate response isn’t
to latch onto him like a tick and go
celebrate with his family.
Chances are, your parents sent
you through school so you could
make something of yourself, not
make something of a broken, middleaged man. At 22, you’re faced with
all these big questions: Who are you,
where are you going, what are you
doing? The answer shouldn’t be
making some guy your project in
hopes of
avoiding
the looming
uncertainties of
you. Once you actually do
the work to develop a self, you might
be a little pickier about where you
sacrifice it: maybe for world peace,
or for those little babies with the distended bellies – not for a guy who
won’t caress your neck unless you
call his mother and get her to talk
him into it.
Putting aside how silly it is to
believe that everybody has one designated “soul mate” (some women say
that about each of their six husbands),
you can’t actually believe yours is a
guy whose emotional availability rivals
that of a cinderblock. Instead of clinging to this picture of the life you could
have if only he were completely different, why not ditch him and work
toward the life you could have if you
were completely different? Like, if you
had a strong self, felt you deserved to
be happy, and to have love in your life.
It beats setting yourself on a path to
wake up at 30, bitter and resentful,
realizing you aren’t the only couple in
need of marital aids – just probably
the only one turning to gallon jugs of
de-icer and a portable defibrillator.
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 ALKON DIST. BY CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
Week of April 25
© 2007 Rob Brezsny
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “If you hold your dreams too
tightly, you’ll crush their little ribs,” was the message
scrawled on the wall of a public restroom I visited today.
I immediately recognized that as excellent advice for
you. While I’m usually all in favor of cultivating a ferocious devotion towards one’s goals and desires, I’ve
noticed lately that your grasp on yours has turned into
a manic clench. Please let them breathe better. Give
them some slack. Maybe tell yourself a joke about how
funny you look applying that death-grip.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): One of the most demanding
and exhilarating transitions of 2007 is coming. Here
are five tips to help you get maximum enjoyment out
of it. (1) Be an early adapter, a quick study, and a
resilient improviser. (2) Hang out in places where
things are just beginning. (3) Intensify your commitment to the lessons that spontaneity can bring. (4) Be
a specialist in uprisings and breakthroughs. (5) Give
your generous attention to influences that are pure,
innocent, and buoyant.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the quest for enlightenment, no experience is irrelevant. Meditating for days in
a mountaintop sanctuary may work well for some seekers, while others are more likely to uncover hidden
truths about the nature of reality as they microwave a
burrito in a convenience store or play soccer in the living room with their drunk friends, using a rolled up pair
of socks as the ball. Even if your spiritual search usually fits the first description, Gemini, I suspect it will more
closely match the second in the coming weeks. The
secrets of the Divine Wow are primed to reveal themselves to you in the midst of everyday chaos.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): The U.S. Army has dramatically lowered its recruitment standards. Since 2004,
the number of new soldiers who’ve entered the ranks
even though they’ve committed a crime has risen by
over 50 percent. I urge you to move in the opposite
direction, Cancerian. According to my understanding of
the astrological omens, your success in the coming
months depends on you raising your expectations,
demanding more excellence, and absolutely insisting
on ethical impeccability. If you have a goal that seems
to require you to lower your standards, I suggest you
abandon that goal.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Problem-solving is highly overrated,” says artist Chuck Close. “Problem-creation is far
more interesting.” Whether or not you’re inclined to
agree with that assessment, Leo, I invite you to make it
your hypothesis in the coming week. In other words, put
yourself in an experimental mood, and act as if problem-creation is where all the action is. How might your
life be different if you were not chronically worrying
about the dilemma of the hour, but instead were always
on the lookout for the next tricky challenge that will
awaken sleeping portions of your heart and mind?
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’re capable of pulling off
some unprecedented mixing and matching in the coming weeks, Virgo. You could figure out a way to blend oil
and water, metaphorically speaking. And you might
find a logical loophole that allows you to reasonably
compare apples and oranges. But those examples represent only the most obvious ways your skills at juxtaposition could work. You might also, for example, be a
matchmaker for the son of a Saudi Arabian oil magnate
and a Jewish goth performance artist, or convince the
Dalai Lama to have a summit with Paris Hilton.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): On December 10 last year,
36,000 couples got married in Delhi, India. The mad
rush to the altar was prompted by Vedic astrologers,
who decreed that day to be an auspicious time to wed.
I don’t know enough about the Vedic system to judge
whether its practitioners would also regard the coming
weeks as propitious for ritual unions. But my reading of
the omens says that from the perspective of Western
astrology, it’s very favorable for you Libras. If you’ve
been thinking about deepening your commitment to a
trustworthy partner, you’ve got cosmic mojo on your
side—not just for romantic mergers, but also for business deals, artistic agreements, mutual oaths, and just
about any splashy adventures in togetherness.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Dear Rob: My plan has
been to steal the man I love right out from under his
wife’s nose without feeling a raging case of the guilties.
Here’s what I’ve discovered thus far: You can only do
something like this if you’re not friends with his wife,
and if you love the guy so much that the beating of your
heart drowns out the drone of your conscience. Any
advice? -Scorpio Under a Spell.” Dear Scorpio: It’s
rarely a good idea to break up a committed intimate
relationship by stealing one of its members, but it’s an
especially unfavorable time to pursue that goal now.
May I recommend instead that you sublimate the urge
by seducing your inner male? It’s an excellent time for
you Scorpios to get crazy sexy deep with the part of
your psyche that feels like the opposite gender.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Poet Kay Ryan told the
Christian Science Monitor that her poems often begin
“the way an oyster does, with an aggravation.” Her ultimate intention, however, is to liberate her readers. “I
like to think of all good poetry as providing more oxygen
into the atmosphere; it just makes it easier to breathe.”
I believe this progression from aggravation to liberation
is a strategy you could profitably pursue in the coming
days, Sagittarius. If you agree to absorb what’s bugging
you, you’ll ultimately create an expansive new swath of
breathing room for yourself and everyone around you.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In The Book of Thoth,
Aleister Crowley says that for Capricorns, the impulse
to create can be so strong that it transcends logic,
ignores tradition, and eschews foresight. It might even
be “divinely unscrupulous, sublimely careless of
result.” Why is this urge so wild? The formula for
Capricorn, he writes, is “the complete appreciation of
all existing things . . . rejoicing in the rugged and barren
no less than in the smooth and fertile.” While his
assessment might be a bit extreme, it does contain far
more than a few grains of truth—especially as it applies
to you in the coming weeks. Given the current astrological omens, I believe your will to create will be relentless, majestic, and primordial.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to the macrobiotic approach to diet, the healthiest food for you to eat
is that which has been grown near you, or at least in the
same latitude. Unless you live in the tropics, for
instance, bananas shouldn’t be on your menu. Let’s
make that meme your Metaphor of the Week, Aquarius.
According to my interpretation of the omens, all your
best bets will be local and homegrown. You should
pluck pleasures that are close by, and avoid temptations beckoning from a distance. You should trust clues
that arrive from sources you can personally verify, and
be skeptical of those from friends of friends of friends.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Summing up his ongoing
attempts to understand the truth about reality, San
Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll wrote, “I
am grasping one hair at the end of the tail of a very
large tiger, whose exact nature and intentions are not
known to me, nor will they ever be. I can only hope to
describe a few things about the hair. And I could be
wrong.” While this is in general an apt description of
the quest most of us are on, I think it’s overly modest
in light of your current astrological omens. For the
foreseeable future, Pisces, I bet you’ll have the tiger’s
entire tail in your clutches, and your ability to extrapolate from it to surmise the nature of the whole tiger will
be extraordinary.
Homework: Some people ask, “What would Jesus do?” Others prefer, “What would Buddha
do?” Who’s your ultimate authority? Testify at http://FreeWillAstrology.com.
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WORMHOLE
Grandma and the ill wind
My husband was ill last week. Not
super ill like bird flu, the black plague,
red death or purple pustules. But ill.
That he is still on this Earth has nothing
to do with medical miracles and more
to do with my long-suffering patience
and steady nerves. If there is anything
limper, sadder, more pitiful and pale on
the face of the Earth than a man who is
sick, I have yet to find it.
My husband came down with a fever
and the creeping calamities one afternoon, launching us on a week trapped
in a pest house. For five days, he lay on
the bed, taking his temperature every
hour and moaning feebly. There is nothing more romantic than someone heaving up his guts at 3 a.m., but what I
really enjoy is being regaled every hour
with an update of his current condition.
Now I have had plenty of current conditions myself, but they are usually
answered with cries of, “You’re not
sick,” “You’re making it up,” “You’ll be
all right,” and my favorite, “Could you
go to the grocery store before they perform the Last Rites?”
Being infested with germs makes most
men act like 5-year-olds. Now, if they really were 5 instead of acting like it, I could
run to Kmart and get some crayons and
coloring books and they could amuse
themselves. As this was not possible, I
was left with two options: Either lock him
in his room and set it on fire or smother
him with a pillow. I opted for the latter, as
no jury would ever convict me, but friends
convinced me otherwise.
I find myself thinking of that Ray
Bradbury story, the one about the
woman who took to her bed with a
virus, and when her family finally
FLIPSIDE
Rustic Home
and Landscaping
looked in on her, she had turned into a
giant mushroom. I should be so lucky.
As you may have guessed, I am not
Florence Nightingale. I think I remem-
Galloping
Grandma
Local
Grandma
speaks
out!
ber something about “sickness and
health” when I got married, but that was
a long time ago and I could be wrong.
When you are young and cute, it never
occurs to you that the hotty you are
drooling over will someday just be
drooling. My husband should know by
now that when illness strikes, I will just
shut his pale and sickly hide in the bedroom until he turns into a mushroom or
gets well, whichever comes first.
Incidentally, and on another subject, I
have a postscript to the Flipside column in
last week’s Planet: It referred to a person
who had discovered a long lost Vermeer
painting, “Girl with a Hula Hoop.” Well, the
very same thing happened to Lamar
Fungo in my hometown of Corn Cob, Iowa.
Lamar discovered a never-before seen
“Last Supper” by Michelangelo. True, it
was painted on black velvet instead of
plaster, and the 12 Apostles were all dogs,
Judas being a rottweiler, but there was no
mistaking the Master’s hand.
Lamar took it to “Antiques Roadshow,”
but they seemed unconvinced, pointing
out that it was made in Hong Kong, not
Florence, Italy. Undaunted, Lamar
searched the painting furiously for clues
and then called “The Da Vinci Code”
people, but they said they had enough
clues and hung up.
Recently, while digging through the
dumpster behind Clyde’s Italian Grotto,
Lamar found another treasure, an
unknown “Mona Lisa” painted on the
side of a spaghetti crate. He put it on
eBay, but nobody wanted to buy it. But
they were interested in his piece of toast
that looked like Monte Hall. There’s just
no accounting for taste, is there?
Grandma is still out roaming the
country doing God-only-knows-what. In
her absence, we’re stuck with re-runs.
We’ll let you know as soon as we hear
something from her.
Jackson man remembers Boris Yeltsin
A local businessman who made
many trips to Russia during the 1990s
fondly recalled that country’s former
president, the late Boris Yeltsin, as a
generous host, an engaging storyteller
and an excellent beer-pong player.
Before retiring to Jackson Hole in
2001, Warren “Hoss” Markley was an
executive vice president of Mondo Oil
& Gas, headquartered out of
Galveston, Texas. Between 1991 and
1999, when Yeltsin was president of
Russia, Markley made several dozen
business trips to the former Soviet
Union. On his fifth trip, in the summer
of 1992, he met Yeltsin at a reception.
“We just hit it off,” Markley said.
“We didn’t have a whole lot in common – I didn’t speak a word of Russian
and frankly I couldn’t understand a
word he said – but, whoo! We used to
have a high old time.”
Markley recalled one visit when,
after each consuming more than a
fifth of vodka, they set out on a mad,
drunken tour of Moscow at 3 a.m. to
attempt to fill Yeltsin’s fishbowl with
brown M&Ms.
“And you know what?” Markley said.
“That crazy sonofabitch did it! He really did!”
On another occasion, Markley said
between fits of laughter, they were thrown
out of the lobby of the five-star Sheraton
Palace Hotel for something he called
“ball-walking.” He did not elaborate.
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REAL ESTATE
SCOREBOARD
WEEK OF 04.15.07 TO 04.21.07
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
Residential-Condo/Townhouse
Number of Sales
Week’s Top Sale
Square Footage
Building Sites
Number of Sales
Week’s Top Sale
Acres
4
301
$1,625,000
3,000
$1,437,250
98%
LL223
By far one of the best lots located in Star Valley
Ranches Golf Resort in Thayne, WY. Seasonal
stream, mature trees, views and access to National
Forest.
$97,500 Contact: Penny Gaitan
LL219
Perfect Location to build a home for your family!
.34 acre lot located in Cottonwood Park. Close to
schools, the bike path and amenities. Only
Cottonwood Park lot available!
$440,000 Contact: Courtney B. Campbell
LL222
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
SF416
Four bedroom home featuring knotty hickory floors,
slate and travertine tile, 2 story gas fireplace, jetted
tub,, stainless steel appliances, knotty alder Shaker
style doors, knotty alder trim, bonus room, tongue
and groove pine ceilings, wired for automation in
addition to wiring for surround sound and CAT 5E
lines, smoke detector system, and much more!
$1,465,000 Contact: Kristin Vito
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, a full 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
CC91
A growing ski and bike business with a great
reputation in wonderful Jackson Hole. The bike
and ski lines in this shop are outstanding.
Establishing good product lines is not something
that can be acquired in a short time, this business
has used their reputation and years in business to
find just the right mix. Owner is a licensed Wyoming
Real Estate Agent. $600,000 Contact: Ila Rogers
This property is close to the Wyoming State Line on
Ski Hill Road. Minutes away from Targhee and
Driggs, all of the amenities that you will need are a
short drive away. Perfect for a primary, secondary
or investment residence. Make this piece of Idaho
your own!
$360,000 Contact: Zach Smith
3
61
1,275,000
1,284
859,667
95%
3
118
$799,000
7.85
$699,667
101%
VICTOR-DRIGGS-TETONIA IDAHO
All Residential
Number of Sales
Week’s Top Sale
Square Footage
% of sold Price to List Price
6
192
$475,000
1,920
$404,000
99%
Building Sites
Number of Sales
Week’s Top Sale
Acres
% of sold Price to List Price
9
161
$2,200,000
23
$319,000
90%
* 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.
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SF412
This remodeled home is minutes from town with
rural setting on over one acre of landscaped property.
The home has two bedrooms with an extra office
or study area, a fireplace, attached two car garage,
and a guest house that has an additional two
bedrooms and two baths. Fenced for horses,
seasonal stream, your own putting green and great
views. $995,000 Contact: Penny Gaitan
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, and an
oversized 2 car garage.
$849,000 Contact: Michael Christman
Local Service 733.4339 or 800.227.3334 Fax 307.739.0766
www.jhrealestate.com
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