FOR THE WEEK OF:
August 30-September 5, 2000

• Ketchum Wagon Days Schedule of Events
  September 1-4, 2000
  

• Ketchum shootout revival
  Blackjack Ketchum Shootout Gang makes a comeback
  

• Horace C. Lewis's gunfight
  Fast Freight Line Owner shot a man over a woman
  

• More than a parade, it's a 'defugelty' buster, too
  The old ore wagons have captured the public's imagination
  

• The genuine article
  Swanner 'interprets' ore wagons, history
  

• Wagon Days tradition: a pancake breakfast
  Papoose Club makes it happen
  

• Timmerman arson case typically tough
  Rankin fire near Sunbeam contained
  

• St. Luke's Radiologists released, no surgeon on call
  Doctors raise concerns
  

• Building height revisited
  Ketchum commission looks into revisiting height restrictions
  

• Romancing the Bean
  No, Romancing the Bean is not a hybrid movie of "Romancing the Stone" and "Jack and the Beanstalk," but a coffeehouse promoting something called "asset building."
  

• Blaine County election campaign kicks off
  Fall is a time for changing leaves and changing temperatures, as well as the time for a changing of the guard in local government, and Labor Day weekend is the traditional kickoff for local election campaigns
  

• Elk Foundation chairman pleads guilty to game violation
  The charge against local resident Michael Inman stemmed from an October 15 incident in which Idaho Fish and Game Officers alleged that he and hunting partner Kyle Perry shot an elk in a controlled hunting unit for which they did not have a tag
  

• Potential DSL providers stumble over hurdles
  Competitors coax Quest for prompt start date
  

• Residents shun development bonuses
  "When you give these bonuses for architects to play with, we're going to get airplanes when you asked for submarines," -Pawan Mehra, Sun Valley resident
  

• Ukrainian biathletes are straight shooters
  Sun Valley a training ground for 2002 Olympics

• Writing with conscience
  Keynote speaker E.L. Doctorow told the crowd at the Sun Valley Writers' Conference on Friday that "writers are dangerous because they have no obligation to anyone."

• Value of truth, objectivity in journalism debated
  Modern writers disagree over ageless question

• Composing line by line
  An interview with author, Jayne Anne Phillips

• A teacher at heart
  An interview with writer Frank McCourt
  

• Crown jewel of the West
  Once growth mania overtakes a town, a community's heritage too oftern gets lost in the rush to ditch the old and embrace the new. Not so for Ketchum.
  

• Retreat to the Dark Ages?
  Had the more outlandish oracles of the "God's plan" school of thought had their way, physicians today would still be treating patients with nothing more sophisticated than leeches sucking blood and saunas sweating out disease
  

• Pat Buchanan's anachronistic theories are leading to his political death
  "Reform parties," the sage said, "are like bees: they sting, then they die." Commentary by Pat Murphy

• Rudy of 'Survivor' fame gives older people a bad name
  By now even the most die-hard fans of "Survivor," the summer TV sensation, are probably tired of hearing sociologists, psychiatrists, commentators and even comics pontificate on the meaning of the series. Commentary by JoEllen Collins
  

• Public Notice Summary
  

The Idaho Mountain Express is distributed free to residents and guests throughout the Sun Valley resort areas. Subscribers to the Idaho Mountain Express will read these and other stories  in this weeks' issue:

• Hailey P&Z sends Northridge on to city council

• A Civil Action attorney discusses mediation

• Man smashes into motor home with backhoe

• Ten slamon redds located

• Resort Report

• An American police ambassador goes to Poland

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