Circulation booster

Polar Bear Club celebrates 5th annual outing

A rookie member of the Ketchum chapter of the Polar Bear Club, the Mountain Express’ delivery director, Jim Banholzer of Hailey, greets 2002 with a bracing, circulation-boosting plunge into the Big Wood River. Chapter co-president Bryant Dunn said this year’s turnout for the 5th annual New Year’s day outing totaled 24 participants. Express photo by Willy Cook

For the week of January 9 - 15, 2002

• Hutchinson’s business wrap-up draws protests
  Retiring city administrator to receive $25,000
  
  

• Simon, Gourlay, Potters sworn into office
  
  

• Holiday trade improves
  Skier tally near record
  
  

• Alitaya Ballard is first baby of 2002
  
  

• Conservation easement protects a 
  key stretch of Silver Creek
  
  

• Valley man to challenge Sen. Craig in November
  
  

• HUD raises mortgage limits for county’s home-buyers
  
  

• Friends remember Paul McKinnon
  A ‘Sun Valley Institution’ and a ‘terrible golfer’
  
  

• Long-distrance bomb threat temporarily closes airport
  

• Charitable labs do job
  Sculptures sell in lively auction
  
  

• Rescue Ranch will help animals, people
  Animal sanctuary idea brews for two years
  
  

• Glenna Goodacre brings life to bronze
  

• Salt Lake’s fortitude...
  

• ...and Sun Valley’s fortunes
   

• Enron collapse mimics earlier scandal
  Commentary by Pat Murphy
  

• Six of one and half a dozen of another
  Commentary by JoEllen Collins
  

• Suns (8-0) stay hot, sweep Winter Games
  Richtone Painting arrives Friday
  

• Utah Winter Games summary
  (Sun Valley scorers)
  

• 2001-02 Sun Valley Suns Season statistics
  

• 2002 Sutton & Sons Men’s Basketball schedule
  

• Flora is national X-C sprint champ
  Kemppel, Swenson take freestyle
  

• Public Notice Summary

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