Students to collect food for hungry
On National Food Day, Thursday, Oct. 24, students from The Sage School in Hailey will go door-to-door in several neighborhoods collecting food and helping The Hunger Coalition increase understanding of local, national, and global hunger issues. Students will visit the neighborhoods of Hulen Meadows, West Ketchum, Northridge, Deerfield, Della View, and Old Hailey from 1-3 p.m.
Homeowners who would like to participate in the food drive but will not be home on Thursday afternoon are welcome to leave goods on their front step for students to pick up. Top items needed include: cereal, oatmeal, tuna and other canned meats, canned fruit, rice, flour, cooking oil, peanut butter, pancake mix, soy or powdered milk, canned tomatoes, tomato/pasta sauce, pasta, masa, nuts, canned soup or canned vegetables.
For more information, call The Sage School 788-0120.
Community School honors ‘Food Day’
The Community School in Sun Valley, in partnership with Nurture Idaho, invites the public to a screening of a film entitled “What’s on Your Plate.” The event will be held at the school from 5:30-7 p.m. on National Food Day, Thursday, Oct. 24.
The film explores where food comes from, how it’s harvested and how it travels from harvest to plate.
Community School middle school students will prepare food samples, using some ingredients from the school’s on campus-garden, to prepare samples from recipes taken from a companion book to the film.
The screening is free, but seating will be limited. For tickets to the event, call 788-9786 or visit www.nutureourfamily.org.
Sun Valley, Sugar Bowl to offer
reciprocal season-pass program
Sun Valley Resort has entered a partnership that will provide Sun Valley skiers/riders holding a full-season or Sun Plus pass free skiing/riding privileges at Sugar Bowl Resort in Northern California. Sun Valley Nordic season-pass holders can benefit from free Nordic skiing at Royal Gorge Cross Country.
The reciprocal program is effective all winter season long with no blackout dates. Discounted lodging rates at the Lodge at Sugar Bowl will be available to Sun Valley skiers/riders on a space-available basis subject to blackouts and/or restrictions.
Skiers/riders holding a Sugar Bowl unrestricted or slightly restricted season pass will be eligible for complimentary skiing/riding at Sun Valley Resort. Royal Gorge Cross Country season-pass holders will be eligible for free skiing at Sun Valley Nordic Center. Some restrictions apply.
FitWorks to host Fall Open House
The Blaine County Recreation District’s FitWorks fitness center at the Community Campus in Hailey will host a Fall Open House next week from Oct. 21-25. Features of the week include a complimentary day-use pass, raffles for a FitWorks basic annual membership, BCRD Nordic season pass or a 2014 BCRD Aquatic Center season pass. On Wednesday, Oct. 23, Jessica Kisiel will lead a free posture clinic at 6 p.m. in the large studio at FitWorks. For more information, visit bcrd.org or call 578-BCRD.
100 Men Who Care meets Tuesday
On Tuesday, Oct. 22, the local philanthropic group 100 Men Who Care will meet at the Sawtooth Botanical Garden south of Ketchum at 5:30 p.m. The public is welcome.
The philanthropic group, which was established last year, has donated $1,600 to Ketchum Community Dinners, $1,600 to the National Alliance on Mental Illness and $2,200 to Wood River Fire and Rescue and Fire Fighters Association, a total of $5,400.
The group is looking for another 46 men to participate this month with $100 donations, which would bring the total donations to local nonprofit groups to $10,000, 100 percent of which would remain in the community.
Bart Lassman, fire chief of Wood River Fire and Rescue, will deliver a brief presentation on how donations are used to serve the community. Attendees will also hear from Mark Miller, who recently began a chapter of 100 Men Who Care, in Boise.
Locals win $10,000 for invention
GameFaceGear LLC of Bellevue, owned by Doug Niedrich and Warren Nichols, is one of five finalists in the running for the Phillips Co. Next Big Thing competition, held in partnership with Indiegogo, an online crowd-funding platform.
The two men have been awarded $10,000 as finalists in the competition, which could result in a $60,000 grand prize that will be announced Oct. 30.
Niedrich and Nichols are co-inventors of several patent-pending multifunction headwear designs, including Sun/Fun Shade models that can be treated with UVA and UVB sun protection technology or insect-repellant treatments.
More information about the competition and GameFaceGear/“DugNik” can be found at www.indiegogo.com/partners/philips.
Officials mull new wilderness
SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP)—A draft forest management plan is recommending making more than 25,000 acres of the Scotchman Peaks area in northern Idaho part of a protected wilderness zone.
The recommendation is part of a draft record of decision developed for the Kootenai and Panhandle national forests.
The Bonner County Daily Bee reports that the new draft updates the existing 1987 plan and will guide management of the forests for the next 15 years.
The old plan recommended 23,900 acres of the Scotchman Peaks area be designated wilderness. The new plan simply adds 2,000 more acres to that total.
The draft plan and accompanying environmental study were released for public review last month. The forest is accepting public comments on the proposal until late November.