Hailey works to fill flower baskets
Hailey merchants and business leaders are pitching in to fill the flower baskets on Main Street for the third year in a row.
Thanks in large part to the South Valley Merchants Alliance, $8,645 has been raised. That amounts to about half the money needed to fill and maintain the baskets for the summer.
Baskets can be sponsored for $100, $150 or $295, paid to the Hailey Chamber of Commerce.
Call Jim Spinelli at 481-1112 for more information.
Local food festival starts Friday
A "Locavore" food festival by Idaho's Bounty will take place Friday, April 3, through Thursday, May 7.
Each week a different restaurant will provide farm-fresh local meals on its menu. Participating valley chefs will prepare sustainably grown and raised local food from Idaho's Bounty producers.
The roster of restaurants includes CK's Real Food in Hailey on April 3-9, Glow Live Food for lunch and Globus for dinner in Ketchum on April 10-16, 310 Main in Hailey on April 17-23, the Ketchum Grill on April 24-30 and CIRO's in Ketchum on May 1-7.
In support of the festival and The Sun Valley Center for the Arts' exhibition "Farming in the 21st Century," local food discount passes will be available for $20 to receive 10 percent off meals at each restaurant. Proceeds go to The Center and Idaho's Bounty Co-op. For details visit idahosbounty.org, or call 721-8074.
Wake up with Hailey
The monthly business networking event Wake Up with Hailey will take place Tuesday, April 7, from 8:30-9:30 a.m. at the Liberty Theatre in Hailey. For details, call 788-3484.
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Owyhee wilderness becomes law
President Barack Obama signed into law Idaho's first new wilderness legislation in nearly three decades on Monday. Sponsored by Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, the bill designates more than 517,000 acres in six wilderness areas—ranging in size from the 12,468-acre Pole Creek Wilderness to the 269,016-acre Owyhee River Wilderness—in Idaho's remote southwest corner.
Crapo's bill was included in a large package of land management measures called the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. It also protects 316 miles of streams and rivers in the Owyhee, Bruneau and Jarbidge river systems under the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act. In all, the omnibus bill designates 2.1 million acres of new wilderness in nine states.
Mountain Rides hosts safe routes seminar
Mountain Rides is getting ready to kick off the 2009 Safe Routes to School program.
Mountain Rides will host a seminar Thursday, April 2, at 5:30 p.m. at the Community Campus in Hailey for parents of elementary and middle school children. The seminar will give a brief overview of the important role the Safe Routes to School program plays in the community.
For more information call Jim Finch at 788-7433.
Hunters sponsor wolf info meeting
Deer Hunters of Idaho is sponsoring an informational meeting about wolves in Idaho on Saturday, April 4, from 6-10 p.m. at the Community campus in Hailey.
