Snowshoe birding at Silver Creek Preserve
Join local birder Poo Wright-Pulliam and the Environmental Resource Center for snowshoe birding at Silver Creek Preserve, Sunday, Jan. 22, from 9:45 a.m.- 2p.m.
Advance registration is required with no charge for ERC members and a small donation requested for others.
For details, call 726-4333.
South valley elementary school kids invited to lace up the skates
Families with children in Woodside, Bellevue and Hailey elementary schools are invited to a Family Skate Night on Friday, Jan. 20, at Roberta McKercher Park in Hailey.
Food will be served and skates can be borrowed on site. Feel free to bring a snack to share as well.
The skating will be from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Create clay polar animals in Hailey
Polar bears, seals, whales, walrus and puffin are all part of the exhibition Due North: Images of Baffin Island and Inuit Art at The Center in Hailey. Families are invited Saturday, Jan. 21, from 3-5 p.m. to enjoy the photographs and artifacts and to make a small, clay Arctic animal to take home.
The exhibition features photographs shot by valley resident Ann Puchner on Baffin Island in Canada's northernmost reaches, plus a selection of prints and sculptures from local resident Page Klune's collection of Inuit art.
The Inuit people who live in the Arctic have traditionally carved animal figures from soapstone. Kids will emulate the art with clay.
Due North will be on display through Feb. 10. It is part of a larger exhibition, Thin Ice: Journeys in Polar Regions, that includes film, speakers and other media and is on view at The Center in Ketchum through Feb. 11.
For more information, visit sunvalleycenter.org or call 726-9491.
Winter Feast for the Soul under way
Interested in learning how a daily practice of stillness can improve health and well-being? There are 40 days of chances available during the 2012 Winter Feast for the Soul.
Daily meditations begin weekdays, Monday, Jan. 16, and will continue to Feb. 23 at the following sites:
In Ketchum: 8:15-9 a.m. Monday through Thursday at St. Thomas Episcopal Church and Fridays at Diane Crist's office, 171 First St., Ste. 1. Additional sessions are 12:15-1 p.m. Monday through Friday at St. Luke's Wood River Medical Center chapel.
In Hailey: Monday through Friday, 8:15-9 a.m. at the Sun Club, 731 First Ave. N. and 12:15-1 p.m. at Maha Shakti Yoga Center, 416 S. Main St.
Meditation and Oneness Blessings will be held nightly at 6:15 p.m. at Light on the Mountains Spiritual Center in Ketchum. A closing ceremony will be held Thursday, Feb. 23, at 7 p.m. at St. Thomas Episcopal Church.
For more details on this global effort, call Rosemary Cody at 720-7530 or visit www.winterfeastforthesoul.com.
Library seeks donations of Legos
Due to the popularity of recent family game programs, the Hailey Public Library seeks to increase its collection of Lego building blocks.
Tax donation receipts are available; bring your blocks to the library.
Donations of books, DVDs and CDs in excellent condition are also sought. Any materials not deemed suitable for the collection are passed along to the Friends of the Hailey Public Library for their annual book sale, which is one of the major fundraising sources for the library.
For more information, call 788-2036 or visit HaileyPublicLibrary.org.
Pick O' the Flicks last call
Having trouble deciding what your favorite films were from 2011? Perhaps a deadline will help.
The Express invites readers to list their top five favorite films of the year, as well as the one they thought was the worst one of all.
Please take a minute to submit a line or two about what made a movie No. 1 on your list as well as what made the worst movie so bad.
Send your responses to jliebrum@mtexpress.com and please include "Pick O' the Flicks" in your subject line. The deadline is midnight tonight, Jan. 18.
The results will be published before the Oscars are presented Feb. 26, so there's time to catch up on films you didn't have a chance to see in 2011.
Come dancing, learn Latin, Swing and Tango
No snow, no problem, you can kick up your heels anyway in a series of dance classes being offered at the Community Campus.
Ted McCoy brings his lessons learned in the Cuban communities of South Florida to the valley for a few more weeks in January. Robin Tomasi, who frequently teaches through High Country Swingers, will teach partner swing in February and Patricia Weaver and Curt Martin will prove it takes two to tango in March.
Classes will be held Thursdays from 6:45-8 p.m. and partners are encouraged so that no one is left out.
For more action, stop by the Light on the Mountains Spiritual Center in Ketchum on Friday nights in January starting at 7 p.m. with music and dancing. For more information, call 720-1110 to sign up.
