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5 There are lots of reasons to celebrate Boise right now

8 Boise150: Meet Boise City Arts andHistory Director Terri Schorzman

11 For the kid in all of us — comicbooks, sports cards and classic toys

16 Stores that specialize in collectibles

17 Sun Valley Center for the Arts joinsforces with Company of Fools

19 Head to Sun Valley for the secondannual film festival March 14-17

22 Update on Idaho’s arts ambassadors

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There’s a new energyin the Boise air Dear Reader,

I’ve always been a fan of visiting bigcities. Seattle. London. Sydney. The tallbuildings. The many things to do. The24/7 activity.

But as you know from reading this col-umn, I’m an even greater fan of our littleCity of Trees. I love visiting and walkingaround Downtown Boise. Grabbing acroissant at Le Cafe de Paris, going to theSteelheads and strolling through the Cap-ital City Public Market in the spring allmake for perfect moments and memories.

I’m privileged to drive right in front ofthe Idaho Capitol nearly every day. Get-ting a glimpse of that beautiful building— particularly when it’s buzzing from allthe activity brought about by the Legisla-ture — still makes me stop and takepause. We are lucky to live where we haveaccess to so many places and things, butget to enjoy lots of small-city charm, out-standing recreational opportunities andmore.

There’s very little that I’d change aboutour wonderful home.

But I’ve got to admit, those cranesabove Downtown Boise have put someextra zip in my step. From the work onthe new Zions Bank building at 8th andMain to the JUMP project off FrontStreet, it feels like our little city is grow-ing up.

Every time I see the cranes, I wonderabout the crane operators, ponder themagic of skyscraper engineering and revelin all the business that soon will be takingplace in these new buildings.

On a smaller scale, I’m excited by thenew restaurants, galleries and stores that areopening up. And while it’s been hard to saygoodbye to some old favorites, Boise is cer-tainly evolving. I would never want us to beSeattle, London or Sydney — but it’s goingto be fascinating to watch what’s next.

It seems somehow appropriate that allthis transformation is happening as wekick off the celebration of the 150thanniversary of the city’s founding. I hopeyou’ll enjoy reading Dana Oland’s storywith Boise Arts and History Director TerriSchorzman, where they talk about Boise’ssesquicentennial. There is no better wayto celebrate Boise’s past, present andfuture than by getting involved in some ofthe Boise150 activities. Visit the websiteat www.Boise150.org to learn more.Happy birthday, Boise!

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Boise is throwing itself a big birthdayparty, and Terri Schorzman is its host-ess with the mostest. By no means is

she pulling off this Herculean effort solo, shesays. She has a legion of volunteers and adedicated staff who come up with creativeideas and organize, arrange, set up and teardown events. She is the conductor of thisyearlong symphony, working behind and infront of the scenes to make it happen.

The Boise150 — the official name ofBoise’s sesquicentennial celebration — willbe filled with community events, art proj-ects, music, literature, dance, a slate of spe-cial Boise products and more.

Schorzman is in many ways the perfectperson to helm Boise’s sesquicentennial

because her aesthetic and personal experi-ence are grounded in art and history. Shetook the reins of the department in 2008 asthe new city department’s first director. Shesees this year as an opportunity.

“We tried to make it a grassroots effortand really listen to what people wanted,”she says from inside the Sesqui-Shop, theDowntown headquarters for Boise150.“That’s why we went to our merchants andsaid, ‘Please participate.’ We gave grantsthat touched different segments of the com-munity, and we heard from people we’venever heard from before. I think this willbring people together in a really important,valuable way because they can connectthrough their art and history, and create astronger identity as Boiseans.”

The Sesqui-Shop is the hub of things,and a place where Schorzman spends timethese days helping set up the rotating

themed exhibits that explore Boise’s past,present and future. It’s appropriately locatedin the historic Gem Block. Even thoughsome facades have been modified over theyears, none have been completelydestroyed. Developer Gary Christensendonated the space — once Nick’s ShoeShop — for the year.

The early 1900s architecture, withexposed brick, high ceilings and woodbeams, makes a great backdrop for the celebration, she says. “This is an importantpart of Downtown, and we hope we’rebringing some energy back to it.”

So far it is. More than 1,000 people camethrough the shop in its first few weeks.

How is this year changing thedepartment?

This is the biggest project we’ve under-taken since becoming a department. It’s achance for us to show the possibilities ofwhat we can do and where we can go. Wehave a lot of things we want to do for thecity. This is a great way to showcase thatand how this is really about the community.

What have you learned aboutBoise’s history that surprised you?

Nothing much surprises me. Communityhistory is made up of many pieces and parts,

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Boise City Department of Arts and HistoryDirector Terri Schorzman and her team didn’twant to rely on the usual commemorativekitsch for the Boise150 celebration. So shecharged merchandise manager Holly Funkwith asking local businesses to come up withspecial products for the occasion.

“No Boise snow globes,” Funk says. “Wedidn’t want to order things from outside ofIdaho. We wanted to let our businesses getcreative and boost the local economy.”

There are two tiers of Sesqui-products.Items such as the T-shirts and limited edition

prints of Pat Kilby’s paintings will be availableonly at the Sesqui-Shop. Products that are partof the merchant program are available onlythrough the businesses. For instance, GetBoise150 Roast is from Big City Coffee, 1416Grove St., and Usful Glasswork’s Boise 150glasses are available at Bittercreek Alehouse,246 N. 8th St.

Read more about the products in the May 18issue of Treasure. Products will be rolling out allyear. And if you have a commemorative prod-uct, register it on the Boise150.org website, andthe city will promote it at the Sesqui-Shop.

APRIL 20: Boise Department of Arts and His-tory and the Idaho Historical Museum will markthe 150th anniversary of the Idaho Territorywith an adult evening of “Shenanigans and aCast of Characters.” Crystal Ballroom, 802 W.Bannock St., Boise. Free.

JUNE 14-16: The Shoshone-Bannock Tribesinvite the community to the“Return of theBoise Valley People,” a celebration of theoriginal residents through oral history, cultureand dances at the base of Castle Rock. Free.

JULY 4-7: The Boise 150 Anniversary Week-end starts with an Independence Day celebra-tion at Ann Morrison Park. The next few daysare filled with history walks, storytelling andmore. Then the big party takes over JuliaDavis Park on July 7 with music, a food-truckrally and more from noon to 5 p.m. Free.

and the stories don’t change that much overthe years, even those that might appearshocking, scandalous or unique to a place orsituation. What has really amazed and sur-prised me is the outpouring of support we’vereceived from the community. I mean, we dida call for artifacts from Boise’s past, and somany people brought us their beautiful, irre-placeable things to show. This generosity ofspirit is really touching.

What do you enjoy about your job?I have the best job! I enjoy the variety and

complexity, the many topics and many thingswe do in support of the city’s cultural life, andthe terrific people we get to work with. Theyare creative, curious, committed to goodthings. Our work shares with Boise residentsand visitors what they (and we) love aboutour city and our sense of place in the West.

How did you come up with theSesqui-products that are coming out?

We knew we didn’t want to do the typi-cal. We didn’t want to do a mouse pad anda pen. So we came up with two categoriesof products for Boise150. There is core mer-chandise, which are products we’ve created,including a pin, a limited-edition poster

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at the Sesqui-ShopThere’s something different happening eachmonth at the Sesqui-Shop, 1008 Main St., Boise.Here are the themes for the next few months:

MARCH: “Music in Boise” with performances,workshops and an exhibition of memorabilia,“Vibes: A Celebration of Music in Boise.”

APRIL: “Remnants of Boise” is a contemporaryspin on Boise history with a digital story of the city.See 360-degree views of 25 neighborhoods/areas.

MAY: “Boise Pop Up”opens the shop to nonprofits to connect them with more people.You’ll find a new pop-up group every day.

JUNE: “Finding Your Way Home,” an exhibit ofhandmade maps of Boise.

The Sesqui-Shop is open from noon to 6 p.m.Tuesdays-Saturdays and from noon to 9 p.m. onFirst Thursdays.

how to get involvedF Attend events, performances, exhibitions. Find a complete list at Boise150.org.

F “Like” the Boise150 Facebook page and getupdates on what’s happening.

F Stop by the Sesqui-Shop every month for anew theme revealing a different aspect of Boise.

F Create your own Boise150 event and register itwith the Department of Arts and History. Thestaff will help promote your event.

F Share your Boise stories at Boise150.org.

F Learn about Boise icons — from the VistaAvenue washer woman to Table Rock to the Capitol Boulevard Totem Pole — in the IdahoStatesman. We are publishing 150 icons, as sug-gested by residents, daily through July 7. Thenreaders will be able to see all of them and vote ontheir favorites at IdahoStatesman.com/Boise150.

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series, a forthcoming book by Boise writersand poets, and a CD by local musicians.Then we wanted to turn it over to the com-munity. So our merchant program allowslocal businesses to develop an array of mer-chandise to sell at their place of business.We’ll showcase them in the Sesqui-Shop aswell as our website, Boise150.org. I’mexcited to see the items. We wanted tomake this something unique that wouldalso support our local merchants and makeit something special. We’ll have new stuffcoming out all year long.

Where does your connection to artsand history come from?

It was always about doing. My earliest artmemory is sitting at the kitchen table at 3 years old with paper, pencils, crayons andmy mother teaching me how to drawmountains. I took dance lessons, piano les-son and plenty of art classes for many years.My love of studying history was also nur-tured at an early age — from exploring his-toric sites, talking to old folks, reading mostanything on an historic topic I could find.Art and history: the perfect combination.

How do you see art and historyworking together in civic life?

Civic life is viewed through the lenses ofart and history. And to have these both inabundance gives our daily civic life mean-

ing and relevance. In A&H, we like to saythat a unique city is defined by the qualityof its arts and the richness of its history.Without these, what do we have? Whatmakes our place special? Why do we care?Why do we want to do better in the futureif we don’t value what we have now anddon’t understand how we got here? This isthe essence of sustainability writ large. Howcan we create an environment that is wel-coming and livable without art and historybeing meaningful in our civic life?

Do you have a favorite piece ofpublic art?

I love the traffic boxes. There is such anarray, and they’re immediate. They’re adaily presence. You don’t have to thinkabout art. It’s right there, and it’s a greatway to nurture our local artists. I lovethings that are about place, like “AeroAgoseries,” the dandelion sculpture at theFoothills Learning Center. It’s such a clevermetaphor for air. You can see the dandelionbits on the roof. It’s great place-making.Watch for a number of wonderful public artpieces this year that are place-based, cultur-ally relevant, commemorative in some wayand tell great stories.

Where do you take out-of-townguests?

I like to take them to the cultural facili-

ties in Julia Davis Park (Idaho HistoricalMuseum, Boise Art Museum, Zoo Boise,Memorial Rose Garden), Hyde Park ... theGreenbelt and ... the Idaho Botanical Gar-den.

What’s in your MP3 player? It’s a bunch of random stuff. Really,

eclectic and weird. There’s Beatles, always,Dixie Chicks, John Denver, Renaissance(prog-rock group) from the ’70s. The otherday some rap popped up that my son put onthere. Yo-Yo Ma, Dire Straits. Sometimes Ihave my own “Losing My Religion” danceparty. I like to put it on shuffle and be con-stantly surprised by what I hear.

What piece of advice helped youthe most, and who gave it to you?

My late father always said, “You can doany *@*%# thing you want to do.” I alwaysvalued this because I knew that I had a bigendorsement from my parents to explorethe world as best I could, and while failurewas always an option, it sure provided theextra dose of confidence to try.

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R emember when your life was filledwith action figures, comic books andbaseball cards? It would have been so

cool to grow up and run a comic book shopor toy store and still trade cards with yourpals. Well, guess what? Somebody DID growup to do that, building successful businessesand steady clienteles for nearly 20 years in

the Treasure Valley. Thanks to three shopsthat specialize in these collectible markets,you can still replace that old Transformertoy or buy a high-tech yo-yo, fill in yourcomic book want list or get the latest “DarkKnight” issue, or maybe open just the rightbaseball pack and find a really cool auto-graph card.

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GEEK HEAVENThe art of the hunt

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TIME ZONE TOYS2945 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 343-6358

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Open: noon-6 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday

Owner: Dave Bazan

In business here only since July, TimeZone Toys is a treasure island of action fig-ures, Disney “Cars,” yo-yos and toy worldcollectibles. It’s especially enticing if youwere a kid in the ’80s or ’90s.

“When I created this store, I wanted tomake it a destination location,” ownerDave Bazan said. “I wanted to create some-thing cool.”

And he certainly did.In addition to this little Garden City

shop near the Connector underpass onChinden Boulevard, he also keeps about$10,000 of steady inventory on eBay.(Check out that rare Transformer!)

“We also have the largest Disney ‘Cars’(based on the movie) collection in theU.S.,” he said.

He does buy collectibles by appointment,and he once hit the jackpot after finding agold mine in a storage unit he bought. “Istill have boxes I haven’t opened,” he said.

So if you’ve ever lost your brother’s HansSolo figure and are tired of taking grief forit, you can finally rectify that situation. Onemom came in at Christmastime and boughther son a long-desired He-Man figure.

“That is probably the best $5.99 Christmas

gift you’re ever going to buy,” Bazan said.But there’s more.“Toys are a niche, yo-yos are our hook,”

he said. “We’re the only custom yo-yo shopin the world.”

Bazan bought his first yo-yo in 1997, andthe following year he was hired by HighPerformance Kites in Hawaii.

“The next thing you know, I was travel-ing all over the world with the best yo-yoplayers,” he said.

He left that job for a full-time yo-yo job.(Yes, there really is such a thing.)

Barely five years after buying his first yo-yo, Bazan began getting his name on tro-phies. He’s a two-time world champion inspin top, and he placed second in the worldin the Artistic Performance Division yo-yochampionships.

“I’m one of the few guys in the world thathas placed in both spin top and yo-yo,” hesaid.

With that expertise to draw on, it’s notsurprising that Time Zone Toys offers freeyo-yo lessons every week. (Need a new yo-yo? There are more than 100 models tochoose from.) Bazan gives school demon-strations and has taught and coachednumerous national and world championsover the years. And don’t be surprised if youwalk into the store and find a few peoplehunched over a laptop computer oohingover a YouTube video of some yo-yo phenom at a national event.

One of those kids might be 18-year-old

Dalan Kerr, a senior at Boise High School.He’s been yo-yoing since he was 9, andBazan considers him a probable futureemployee.

Kerr is a big fan of both Bazan and thisspecial store.

“He has toys people had when they werea kid and can’t find anywhere else,” he said.“This is the place to come. There’s ‘new’stuff all the time. It’s legitimately a seem-ingly endless supply of vintage toys.”


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JERRY’S ROOKIE SHOP3021 W. State St., Boise, 338-3828

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Owner: Jerry McClusky

Jerry McClusky is another one of thoseguys who is the last man standing.

After the sports card boom in the late’80s and ’90s, there were card shops every-where. Today — it’s just Jerry’s RookieShop. And he’s no rookie himself.

As is the way of most of these shops, itstarted as a hobby and then turned into abusiness. That was 20 years ago, and sincethat time, card shops have come and cardshops have gone. In fact, they have ALLgone. But not Jerry’s.

“I’m still here,” he said.Jerry’s Rookie Shop has built a steady,

loyal customer base over the years’ ups anddowns. He has at least 100 regular cus-tomers. But don’t think it’s easy.

“It’s very tough,” McClusky said. “I amthe whole market. My main competition isthe Internet. And every big-box store intown sells cards.”

But here’s what you need to know —card manufacturers really like guys likeMcClusky. You have much better odds ofgetting “the good stuff” at a dedicated cardshop than you do picking up a few packs atthat box store. Customers confirm that.

McClusky rarely buys stuff, but he isalways looking to trade. He also carriesplenty of collecting supplies. Shoeboxes areway too old-school for today’s collectors.

“Our specialty is a complete line of thenewest products to hit the market,” he said.

He usually has $50,000 of inventory onorder all the time and usually gets it the dayit’s released. That’s always important for col-lectors.

Another important aspect of collecting isthe card shows. McClusky promotes fourcard shows a year in Boise. The next one isMarch 9 at the Boise Hotel ConferenceCenter at 3300 Vista Ave., and it will fea-ture about 25 card vendors. These are freeevents that run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Theother shows this year are June 15, Sept. 28and Dec. 14.

At Jerry’s, new cards are hot, and recentback stock is kept by year and set for thoselooking to fill in gaps. The chance to findautograph cards has driven the market inrecent years, so box sales are almost a no-brainer for collectors. In addition to sportscards, he keeps a variety of other pop culture cards, which also have a following.

But McClusky’s secret is the same as anysuccessful business. Sure, he has a dedicatedclientele because he’s been around so long,but it’s more than that. “I try to treat everycustomer the same whether they spend $1 or $100. I don’t overprice stock, I keepinventory, and I treat them fairly. I keep my

prices as low as I can keep them.”Bruce McAllister is one of those loyal

customers. His love started as a kid with aYankees team card.

He’s now a lawyer in his 50s who hasabout 75,000 cards, and about 65,000 ofthose are baseball cards. (He grew up inMinnesota watching Payette native Harmon Killebrew’s towering home runs.)

He likes to collect pop culture and his-tory cards, too, and has managed to find afew cool redemption cards that added such

autographs to his collection as BorisKarloff, Donald Trump, and Sonny andCher. He even has a rare mounted rhinobeetle he got from a redemption card.

McAllister’s love of the shop goes back tothe owner himself and the way he conductshis business. He says McClusky is a friendlyguy who offers good pricing, and it’s a goodplace to shoot the breeze. So it’s little sur-prise that he can describe the experience injust a few short words: “Jerry’s shop isgreat.”

Jerry McClusky opened Jerry’s Rookie Shop years ago in an unassuming storefront onState Street in Boise. He stocks all kinds of trading cards and collectibles like the cardhe’s holding (Triple Threads John Elway autograph Triple Jersey serial number 03/03card, valued at $600) and an NFL football autographed by both Jerry Rice and JoeMontana (valued at $475).

McClusky’s merchandisealso includes a collectibleThurman Thomas BuffaloBills helmet signed and valued at $125.


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Open: 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon., Tues., Sat.;10:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Wed., Thur., Fri.

Owner: Corbit Wilkins, manager: Shawn Phelps

C’mon, who doesn’t love comic books?Not only are they a way of extending yourchildhood forever, but they also open thedoor to an endless stream of blockbustermovies. “Spider-Man,” “Batman,” “TheAvengers,” “X-Men,” and on and on it goes.This year alone will see “Superman,”“Wolverine,” “Iron Man” and “Thor”action flicks, as well as sequels to “300,”“Sin City,” “Red” and “Kick-Ass.”

Comics are just as alive as they alwayswere, and Captain Comics on Vista Avenuecontinues to battle changing times andremain the superhero shop of all thingscomic in the Treasure Valley.

In fact, the shop will celebrate its 20th anniversary April 15. And it allstarted when owner Corbit Wilkins walkedinto a comic store in Idaho Falls andwalked out 10 minutes later, frustratedbecause everyone in the store was too busywith a role-playing game in the back to payhim any attention. That planted the seed.Within a few short years, that store wasgone and Wilkins had the only comic bookstore in Idaho Falls.

A 1991 graduate of Boise State Univer-sity in entrepreneurial management, hemissed the Treasure Valley, so he opened ashop here. His days of lawn service and sell-ing cars or real estate were over.

Captain Comics’ main focus is, of course,the newest comics and associated col-

lectibles. Another 10 percent of the busi-ness comes from collectible card games.

Some collectors, though, head straightfor the room upstairs with boxes and boxesof back issues. The shop will buy somecomic collections, but it depends on theirconditions and the shop’s needs. Thoseboxes upstairs will keep any collector busywith his want list.

“They have a good back stock variety,which is big with me,” said Jared Murray, acomic collector now in his 30s. He’s a DCComics fan, and he comes in a couple oftimes a month to pick up items in his sub-scription box. He’s been a fan of CaptainComics for about 10 years.

“It’s a very good complete stop for peoplewho enjoy comic books,” he said.

And if you don’t think comic books arestill popular, then you haven’t been in onWednesdays, which is new-release day.There is such a steady flow on that day thatthe shop stays open an extra hour.

But Free Comic Day is the day you’ll findthe largest crowds. The first Saturday inMay brings ALL the collectors out for freecomics and a chance to get hooked on anew series.

These days you can probably count thenumber of comic book stores in the Valleyon two fingers, but Wilkins still wishesthere was more competition — other thanthe Internet, of course. Competition wouldmean a strong competitive market andgrowing interest. Kids have so many moredistractions and choices these days compared to the days when there was acomic book rack in every corner drug andgrocery store, Wilkins said.

“We might be becoming a dinosaur down

the road,” he said.But it will be Super Dino, if that ever

does happen. That’s because the way theydo business will never go out of style, nomatter how much the market may change.

Wilkins said they make a point of gradingtheir comics accurately, and they put fair,honest prices on them.

And after two decades, Captain Comicsboasts a whole lot of loyal customers.

Manager Shawn Phelps says some cus-tomers have been coming in almost everyweek for 20 years.

“I’m not just talking a few, I’m talkingseveral dozen,” he said.

There are several dozen more who havebeen customers for more than 10 years.Countless others come in from out of townfor their comic book fix.

So don’t be surprised to see CaptainComics and Wilkins around for another 20 years. It’s probably just the Peter Parkerin him.

Captain Comics’ Corbit Wilkins andShawn Phelps both agree the “The Walk-ing Dead” books and collectibles are thehottest-selling items in their store.

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Captain Comics owner Corbit Wilkins assesses the value of a collection of comicbooks at his store in Boise.

The specialty store buys and sells comicbook collections and stocks a large variety of books, posters and collectibles.


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COLLECTORS’ HAVENSThe Internet has changed everything when itcomes to those hard-to-find specialty items.But there are still a few places left here in theTreasure Valley. Here are some of them:

GAMING & MOREA-1 VIDEO GAME EXCHANGE

6713 W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 322-5281

www.a-1video-jewelry.com

Selection of classic and other video games,other gaming-related items and more. Nextdoor, you can buy jewelry and more.

ALPHA BETA UNLIMITED GAMES

1825 N. Wildwood St., Boise, 376-6019

www.abugames.com

A large selection of Magic the Gatheringcards, specialty board games and cardgames, gaming supplies. Also hosts tourna-ments, game nights and more.

ALL ABOUT GAMES

7079 W. Overland Road, Boise, 343-5653

120 N. 8th St., Boise, 345-0204

Large selection of cards from Magic theGathering to Pokemon; miniature gamingpieces and other gaming supplies. The Over-land Road location has a gaming area andhosts league nights, game nights and more.

PHOENIX FIRE GAMES

62 E. Fairview Ave., Meridian, (800) 456-0156

www.phoenixfiregames.com

Wide selection of games, from board gamesand card games to RPGs and miniaturegames. The store also has a gaming area andweekly game nights.

HOBBY TOWN USA

3415 N. Cole Road, Boise, 376-1942

2117 N. Cassia St., Nampa, 442-1942

www.hobbytown.com

National hobby store chain with supplies formany hobbies including RC vehicles, games,trains, models, painting, rockets and more.

TEAM DEWEY HOBBIES

2619 Sundance, Nampa

461-5028, teamdeweyhobbies.com

Full-line hobby store specializing in RC cars,model trains, games, collectables and more.

VINYLTHE RECORD EXCHANGE

1105 W. Idaho St., Boise, 344-8010

This music resource landmark has not givenup the vinyl. Specializing in new and usedmusic, there also are plenty of assorted popculture items and a gift and coffee shop.

COMICSTHE BOISE COMIC BOOK CO.

7011 Fairview Ave., Boise, 546-9471

This is the Fairview Avenue go-to place forused paperbacks, but it also has new and oldcomic books and graphic novels. Under newownership, it also has some T-shirts andrelated collectibles. It trades for credit.

CAPTAIN COMICS

710 Vista Ave., Boise, 336-2333

www.captain-comics.com

See story on previous pages.

COINS & MOREROSEHILL COINS & JEWELRY

3506 Rose Hill, Boise, 343-3220

www.rosehillcoins.com

Coins, currency, collecting supplies, jewelry.

COIN EXCHANGE OF TREASURE VALLEY

3200 W. Overland Road, 338-9044

Coins and more.

IDAHO GOLD & SILVER

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Coins, bullion, jewelry and much more.

SPORTSJERRY’S ROOKIE SHOP

3021 W. State St., Boise, 338-3828Facebook.com/jerrysrookieshopSee story on previous pages.

MISC.TIME ZONE TOYS

2945 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 343-6358

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Y ou never know what you’ll find whenyou walk into the Sun Valley Centerfor the Arts: a torrent of paper

draped to evoke Shoshone Falls, a curtainof glass depicting cultural icons, paintingsby world-renowned artists such as Hung

Liu, or whimsical installations about fairytales, super heroes or bicycles.

It all serves the center’s mission of creat-ing multifaceted explorations of how weintersect with the world around us by ask-ing questions such as: Are you your DNA?What will you give up to feel safe? How doyou define yourself in an increasinglydiverse world?

From its unassuming 4,700-square-foot

building in Ketchum, the center hasbecome a world-class museum knownnationally for its layered, multidisciplinaryapproach that goes beyond just the visual.

Deeply rooted in the Wood River Valley,the Sun Valley Center brings the world tothe Central Idaho town with appearancesfrom international speakers, renowned

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Sun Valley’s artisticThe Wood River Valley’spremier arts organizationextends its reach andmerges with Hailey’sCompany of FoolsBY DANA OLAND

CENTER

Clockwise from left: The Sun Valley Center’s interior taken over by a paper installation by Stephen B. Nguyen and Wade Cavanaughabout Shoshone Falls (2012); Michael Franti (2010); kids learn to make snow globes at a workshop as part of the “Happily EverAfter?” exhibit on fairy tale culture (2012); the classical group Sybarite5 engages students at Wood River High School (2012)

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artists and musicians and more that con-nect through the exhibit topics.

The staff, led by artistic director KristinPoole, eagerly delves into different modali-ties — from lectures and literature to musicand film — that offer newperspectives.

Most important, the centerasks artists to create newwork for each show.

“Our goal is to expand thenational dialogue by commis-sioning works from artists,”Poole says. “If artists reliedonly on commercial galleries,they would not be able to explore themesdeeper. They’d be hamstrung by whatwould sell.”

The speakers — such as Harvard historyprofessor Henry Louis Gates Jr., acclaimednovelist Salman Rushdie and groundbreak-ing feminist Gloria Steinem — push theconversation further and deeper.

The center presents educational pro-grams, music, dance and film screenings invenues around Ketchum. It puts on a world-class wine and food festival, an arts andcrafts fair and a concert series each summer,and it forges partnerships with other areagroups. It’s all geared to get people thinkingand talking about issues that affect andchange our world.

“It’s not about just delivering excellencein visual arts or music,” Poole says. “It’sabout the context, the message and theresulting dialogue. It’s something that’s partof our mission, and it’s something that sepa-rates us from other galleries and museums.”

And now that conversation is set toexpand dramatically with a new multimil-lion dollar building in the works and withthe addition of the Company of Fools the-ater group in Hailey into the center’s ranks.

WE’RE MERGIN’, NO FOOLIN’At a gathering of more than 100 folks at

Hailey’s Liberty Theater last month, the

staffs of the Sun Valley Center for the Artsand Company of Fools — a theater com-pany that produces contemporary plays andoriginal theater at the Liberty in Hailey —popped a cork on their union.

This marriage of two powerhouse artsorganizations combines their resources, aesthetics and talents to create an artsgroup that, at $3 million, has the largestworking budget in Idaho.

The courtship started whenthe center approached Foolsco-founder Denise Simone in2011 about using a perform-ance space in its plannedfacility, Simone says.

“At the time, it was a glori-fied lecture hall, so not reallysomething we could do a lotwith,” she says. “But the con-versation continued for about a year, and atthe end of that year, the talk was aboutwhat would happen if we merged.”

Seattle architect Tom Kundig is nowworking to add a 400-seat thrust-stage theater space to the building’s design.

Bringing a theater company into its orbitadds another voice to the center’s chorus.

You’ll see the new combined organizationin action in March for “Home Front,” anexploration of how of the longest war inAmerican history — in Afghanistan andIraq — affects life here.

The main space in Ketchum will house amultimedia visual exhibit that will includeStephanie Fried Perenchio’s riveting pho-tography about the Navy SEALs and workby San Francisco artist Allison Smith, whoincorporates social activism, history andcraft into her art.

Company of Fools will produce a readingon April 12 at the center of Donald Mar-gulies’ “Time Stands Still,” a play written in2009 about a photojournalist recovering

from an injury she received while embed-ded in Iraq. And the company has commis-sioned playwright Clay McCloud Chapmanfor a new work titled “Guiding Light.” It’sabout a clairvoyant who communicateswith dead soldiers, seeking to bring theirsouls home.

Chapman and actress Hannah Cheekwill be in Hailey for a weeklong workshopand a reading on April 18 at the Liberty.

The Center also is bringing Adm. JayJohnson to talk about the shifting tides ofwar. And as part of the partnership with the

ALL PHOTOS PROVIDED BY THE SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS

The Sun Valley Center for the Arts created an exhibit exploring bicycle culture in 2011.

The Liberty Theater in Hailey is home tothe Company of Fools and the placewhere the two groups celebrated theirunion last month.

Marilyn Frazier practices weaving at theSun Valley Creative Arts Workshops inthe 1970s. The workshops also taughtpainting, ceramics and photography.

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Sun Valley Film FestivalThe second festival runs March 14-17. Executive Director Teddy Grennan and

new Director Candice Pate are launchingnew programming this year with a screen-writers’ lab (led by actor and writer WillMcCormack) and the Eclipse Screeningseries for the “cinematically adventurous.”

You’ll find Coffee Talk, the popularmorning behind-the-scenes conversationswith film industry insiders including JimBurke, producer of “The Descendents,”and Academy Award-winning actressJodie Foster.

There will be more than 60 film screen-ings and television series premieres overthe four days.

You’ll see work-in-progress screeningsof “An Unkindness of Ravens,” filmed inMcCall and produced by Heather Rae, and“Children,” the latest from Buhl nativeJaffe Zinn.

Dramatic films include Joachim Ronningand Espen Sandberg’s “Kon-Tiki,” aretelling of Thor Heyerdahl’s 1947 tripacross the Pacific on a wood raft, and PaulAndrew Williams’ “Unfinished Song,”about a seniors’ singing group starringTerrence Stamp and Vanessa Redgrave.

The documentary lineup includes theopening-night film “Running from Crazy,”Barbara Koeppel’s exploration of the livesof Ernest Hemingway’s descendants at theSun Valley Opera House on March 14, and“Uprising,” director Fredrick Stanton’slook at the Egyptian revolution.

Any good film festival also is a goodparty, and this one strives to be one of thebest at both. You’ll find parties each nightat some of the best venues in Ketchum,including a concert featuring indie-rockersFinn Riggins and Built to Spill at WhiskeyJacques on March 16.

Where to stayThe festival is a destination event. Set inthe prime-time of spring ski season, itoffers the best of indoor and outdooractivities. Here are some lodging options:

F The Sun Valley Lodge offers a “Stay-Ski-Screen” for $145 per person, per night(double occupancy for three nights mini-mum) and includes ski lift tickets and filmfestival passes. Single occupancy is $228.Book your room by calling (800) 786-8259.Find more packages at SunValleyFilmFestival.org.

F The recently renovated boutique KnobHill Inn is offering 20 percent discounts onrooms and festival passes. A complimen-tary continental breakfast is included withyour room. Book at (800) 526-8010. Findmore information at KnobHillInn.com/specials.php.

F Find a condo at ResortQuest.com. TheFilm Festival Packages start at $136 perperson, per night.

TicketsFestival passes: $100, $250 and $500. Indi-vidual screenings are $10 each at the boxoffice. The Screenwriters’ lab is $25. Findmore information on ticket prices andpackages at SunValleyFilmFestival.org.

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Family of Woman Film Festival (Feb. 28-March 3), all of its films will be themedaround “Women and War.”

CREATING THE CENTERGlenn Cooper moved to Ketchum in the

late 1960s after her husband, WilliamCooper, died of cancer. Longtime friendsBill and Ann Janss (Bill, a former Olympicskier, owned the Sun ValleyResort at the time) askedCooper to found an arts cen-ter.

The Jansses had been toAspen, Colo., and wanted tore-create its already-thrivingarts community in Idaho.

They knew Cooper hadexperience helping to launchthe Los Angeles CountyMuseum of Art as a stand-alone entity inthe mid-1960s. Cooper initially said no tothe task.

The reason she had moved to Idaho wasto grieve, nest and take care of her fivekids. But shortly afterward, Cooper, an avidskier, broke her hip on the slopes.

“I had to recover,” she says. Suddenly, shehad the time. “So I said yes. But I toldthem, ‘It can’t be an instant Aspen.’ Youcan’t impose the arts on people. And at thetime, they didn’t want the arts.”

Wisely, she started small and targeted artseducation as a core value — something thecenter remains true to today.

She started the Sun Valley Creative ArtsWorkshops in 1969, bringing artisans in toteach during the summers in some unusedbuildings on the resort’s property. “We evenhad theater workshops in the old DollarCabin,” she says.

Cooper brought in Yale theater professorWalt Jones for the first few summers. Theworkshops included photography, weaving,ceramics and painting. The workshops mor-phed into the center in 1971.

Ann Janss died in an avalanche at theresort in 1973.

Cooper and Bill Janss later married. For many years, the center was deeply

connected to the resort. Its first campus wason six acres along Trail Creek that BillJanss deeded to the center. The first build-ings they used were former sled dog ken-nels. The Community School now occupiesthat property.

When Bill Janss, who died in 1996, soldthe resort in 1977, the center struggled toestablish a new identity. The workshopscontinued until the late 1980s. Then theorganization sold its property, moved intotown and began to broaden its mission tomeet the needs of a community that startedto develop year round.

By 1993, Glenn Janss, who now lives ineastern Idaho, stepped back from day-to-day operations. The center moved into the5th Street location in the mid-1990s and

began developing its current mission tooffer “exhibitions, lectures, classes and per-forming arts events that touch on issues rel-evant to our times, and by bringing some ofthe world’s most interesting artists, writersand thinkers to our small community.”

As the area developed, and with thecommunity’s support, the center has thrivedand become an integral part of the WoodRiver Valley’s life. It received its museumaccreditation in 2006.

“Because of the community, we have theopportunity to have big-city urban experi-ences in an intimate small-town way,”Poole says.

THE FOOLS IN IDAHOSimone and her former husband, Rusty

Wilson, founded Company of Fools in

Richmond, Va., in 1992. They came toHailey in 1996 at the invitation of theirlongtime friends Bruce Willis and DemiMoore. Willis had bought the Liberty Theater in the mid-1990s and transformedit from a 1930s-style movie house into alive performance space.

Founding Fool John Glenn made the tripfrom Virginia out west in 2000 to help runthe operation. Then Wilson left in 2005.

Company of Fools is an artist-led organictheater. There is no artistic director andeach “core artist” — right now that’s justSimone and Glenn — has an equal say indecisions on and off stage.

The company produces a full season ofeverything from Pulitzer Prize-winning con-temporary drama to frothy holiday fare. Italso produces the “Stages of Wonder” pro-

Each summer, the center produces an outdoor arts and crafts festival as a fundraiser.This photo is from the 1980s.

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gram that goes into area schools.And Fools also presents the renowned

Second City, Chicago’s legendary comedyclub’s traveling troupe each year, along withstand-alone performances by nationallyknown singers and actors. It also has been aforum for comedians such as RobinWilliams to polish their routines, and avenue for actor’s studio nights with bignames such as Jodie Foster.

In 2004, the company received the Gov-ernor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.

WHY NOWThe merger happened as both groups

reached a similar point at the right time.The center was looking to further widen itsreach into the community; the Foolswanted to secure its Idaho legacy.

The center has been expanding since themid-2000s. In 2006, it acquired the HaileyHouse, the home where poet Ezra Poundwas born. There, the exhibits echo theideas in the Ketchum gallery, and often fea-ture Idaho artists. Boise-based artistsKirsten Furlong, Chris Binion and BenLove have been featured there. In Decem-ber, photographer Andrea Scott’s IdahoBuckaroo Project — a collection of photo-graphs juxtaposed with exquisitely maderanching tools — filled the space.

The center also built the Art Barn, alarge classroom on the property that holdsworkshops and events.

As the communication with Simone andher co-core theater artist John Glenn con-tinued, Poole and company began to seeanother opportunity to expand and fill agap in their programming.

At the same time, the Fools was in themidst of a personal exploration of purpose,community and legacy, Simone says.

“We were really stretching to see thehorizon and to make sure that the organiza-tion could have a legacy in the communitythat was still asking us to be here — sepa-rate from the legacy of any one person,”Simone says. “We’re not a company happywith linear development. We were doingwork the company was proud of — andthough we weren’t in a deficit — we

weren’t able to expand.”Glenn and Simone began to consider the

next generation of Company of Fools — “Ifsomething were to happen, if one of usshould leave, could the company continue?”

The answer had to be yes, Simone says. That’s the point where the center entered

the picture. And the ayes kept coming.It took a year for the merger to be ironed

out. The two groups brought in JohnMcCann, a nationally recognized arts con-sultant, to work out the details.

“It was an intense process and very muchan ‘I’ll show you mine’ ... situation,”Simone says. “You have to look at everysingle thing when you bring two differentcultures together.”

The theater will continue to operate asCompany of Fools and will continue towork out of the Liberty in Hailey. The artscenter also will start programming at theLiberty — which can accommodate film aswell as live performance. Once the newspace is ready to occupy, Fools will startusing that space, too.

The boards for each theater also merged,with members from each coming togetherand adding new members not affiliated witheither group. Right now there are 22 boardmembers, more than usual, but it’s neces-sary during the merger and capital cam-paign that seeks to raise $17 million for thebuilding and an endowment.

It’s a hectic and creatively active time toundertake this transition, but these twogroups did it right, says Idaho Commissionon the Arts Director Michael Faison.

Both groups were coming from a positionof strength, Faison says.

“If they had been doing this just becauseit was a struggle to keep the doors open, itwould probably fail,” Faison says. “As it is,they’re both strong groups that could seetheir missions aligning. I think when insti-tutions see natural collaborations and part-nerships and work together — and now inthis case formalizes them — you see ahigher-quality artistic product. It will beexciting to see what comes out of this.”

PROVIDED BY COMPANY OF FOOLS

The combined staffs of the Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Company of Fools atthe time of the merger.

Andrea Scott’s Idaho Buckaroo Projectwas exhibited at the center’s HaileyHouse in 2012.

Dana Oland is a former professional dancer and member of Actors Equity who writes about performingand visual arts for the Idaho Statesman. She also writes about food, wine, pets, jazz and other aspects ofthe good life in Boise. Read more arts coverage in her blog at Blogs.IdahoStatesman.com/ArtsBeat.

contact the centerSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THEARTS: 191 5th St. East, Ketchum.Phone: (208) 726-9491. Online: SunValleyCenter.org.

COMPANY OF FOOLS: 110 N. MainSt., Hailey. Phone: (208) 788-6520,box office: (208) 578-9122. Online:CompanyOfFools.org.


Writer TONY DOERR took abig weight off his shouldersin January when he finishedhis novel set during WorldWar II, “All The Light WeCannot See.” “It’s anabsolute thrill to have it offmy desk, and even more

exciting that the few folks who are readingit seem to love it,” he says. It should be outin early 2014 from Scribner.

CURTIS STIGERS is writingsongs for a new album heplans to record in the spring.On the home front, Stigersraised $83,000 for InterfaithSanctuary and $11,700 forUsful Glassworks at the sev-enth annual Xtreme Holiday

Xtravaganza in December. Stigers heads toGermany and the U.K. in March, and youcan follow him on Twitter @stigerscurtis and on his Facebook page.

After the success of hisshort-story collection “Volt,”writer ALAN HEATHCOCKis focusing on the screen-play for a film adaptation ofhis story “Smoke” withBoise filmmakers StephenHeleker and Cody Gittings.

You can get involved through their Kick-starter.com campaign. Find out about it atSmokeFilm.com.

When the TREY MCINTYRE PROJECT per-forms in Wichita, Kan., on March 29, it willbe the first time McIntyre’s choreographyhas been performed in his hometown.McIntyre has actively been seeking ways topursue new creative directions while keep-ing the company moving forward. Startingthis summer, he will be full time with thecompany during its Boise weeks but will nolonger tour. Instead he will work on “TheCave Project,”an open-ended creativeexploration in an undisclosed location.

IDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL’S 2013season is almost set. It opens with NoelCoward’s comedy “Blithe Spirit” directedby artistic director Charlie Fee. Then it’s“Much Ado About Nothing,” helmed bySharon Ott, formerly artistic director ofboth Berkeley and Seattle repertory the-aters. Victoria Bussert returns to directSondheim’s “Sweeney Todd,” and anothernew director, former Milwaukee Rep. artis-tic director Joe Hanreddy, will direct “KingRichard III.” Sari Ketter will direct the sea-son-ending show, “The Foreigner.” For tickets, visit IdahoShakespeare.org.

Director MICHAEL HOFF-MAN currently is co-teach-ing a screenwriting class anda class on Chekhov at hisalma mater, Boise State Uni-versity, with Phil Atlakson.Hoffman’s comedy caper,“Gambit,” opens in the

United States in October.

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T here’s a historic home in Boiseyou may not have noticed asyou buzzed down Main Street,

but the building and its original ownerplayed an important role in the historyof the city.

The Regan House, built by pioneerIdaho businessman Timothy Regan(more about Regan on page 31) in about1904-05, is located at 110 Main St.,across from the Ronald McDonald

House. Eventually, thehome became a BoiseState fraternity house.

Today, it is owned byBob Bushnell (pictured atleft), who purchased it inthe late 1970s. He origi-nally bought the house touse as an office for his lawpractice. He left his prac-tice to go into business,and the house sat emptyfor a couple of years.Meanwhile, Bushnell, hiswife and daughter were insearch of a new home.Because he still owned thebuilding, they decided to

stay there while they were looking.“We had no intention of living here

until the first night we stayed here,”Bushnell said. It had not evenoccurred to them to move in, but bymorning, they had a home and a newproject.

“We had a wonderful time fixing itup,” he said.

And fix it up they did.

STORY BY DUSTY PARNELL

PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRIS BUTLER

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A house full of

historyThanks to some tender

loving care — and a little bitof luck — this Main Street

Boise home’s magnificentcharacter lives on

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They repainted the ceilings, some ofthem vaulted cove ceilings. They re-roofedthe home and oiled all the wood. Morerecently, while steaming and stripping thewallpaper off the first-floor walls, originalfrescoes — rarely found in Boise — werediscovered painted into the plaster, andseveral panels and fragments in the parlorand den were preserved.

Indeed, the availability of the originalplans has helped in the home’s moderaterestoration.

The kitchen, of course, was completelyredone. Decades of cooking grease, not tomention fraternity cooking, necessitated acomplete revamping. But the high ceilingand windows make it very warm and usable.

“It’s a pleasant place to cook,” Bushnellsaid.

The original icebox is still in place, andtoday it makes a fine place to keep thewine.

The house, which sits on a relativelysmall lot, is certainly no small cottage. Its6,700 square feet include a basement andan attic, and a total of about 20 rooms. Likemany of the homes in the Warm SpringsAvenue area, the home is now heated geothermally.

THE INTERIORThe interior, particularly the entrance,

stairway, front room and dining room, iswhere the character of the home trulyshines. Almost literally. The beveled win-dow glass casts tiny rainbows across theroom when the light is right.

But, oh, the woodwork, which by somestroke of luck was never painted.

The foyer and the living room featurequarter-sawn oak. The parlor’s wood trim isbird’s-eye maple, and the den featuressycamore.

The magnificent parts of the foyer areaare the two large pocket doors that separatethe living room from the parlor and theden, with each side of the pocket doorsmatching the woodwork of its room. It’sone of those design elements you just won’tforget.

Meanwhile, the formal dining room isdressed with solid cherry paneling, alongwith a niche topped with an inspirationalsunburst that is completely handcrafted inthat same cherry wood. The Regans weredevout Catholics, and the niche originallyheld a statue of the Madonna.

But there is more to the woodwork thanjust the variety and quality workmanship.Check out the doorknobs and brass hard-ware throughout the house.

At the time the house was built, theknobs and hardware cost about $8,000 —an extremely handsome sum at the time.

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ABOVE: The doorknobs and brasshardware alongwith an intricatewood column.

LEFT: Two cherryand oak pocketdoors separatethe dining roomfrom the livingroom.

RIGHT: A photo of the living roomtaken in the mid-1940s, when thehome was ownedby another family.

Recently, while stripping wallpaper, frescoes were discoveredunderneath.


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ABOVE: Owner Bob Bushnell has made the living room a com-fortable space for guests to relax. He still lives in the home.

BELOW: Small rainbows dance along surfaces in the livingroom. The light is created by the beveled panes that surroundthe front door and are above the center main window.

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“I love sharing the house,”owner Bob Bushnell said.“When you entertain in thishouse, it just comes alive. Itradiates warmth and joy.”

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RIGHT: A purist might shudder at the art deco light used as a replacementcap at the bottom of the staircase, but it actually works quite nicely. Andlike other elements, it has its own history. It was originally a hanging lightfrom the old Boise Hotel. Bushnell turned it upside down and wired it. Hewas glad he bought two of them at the time, because the first met itsdemise when children slid down the banister. ABOVE: Another historicalshot of the house in the mid-1940s (with an earlier light fixture).


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ABOVE: A close-up of the detail work of the handcrafted sunburst.

LEFT: The home’s original ice box. The home also has a large collection of dishes and servingware for parties, perfect for thehome’s new use as a reception and event center.

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THE EXTERIOR

The exterior of the home also haschanged dramatically since it was built— with Boise sandstone from TableRock, of course.

Idaho historian Arthur Hart describesthe design of the home as GeorgianRevival, which is “a little more elegantthan your typical Colonial style.”

In his book, “Historic Boise,” Hartsays these residential styles were “char-acterized by the same classical detailsmade popular by the Chicago Fair, andshining white in color, the new houseswere often fronted by graceful temple-like porticos in Tuscan, Ionic orCorinthian orders.”

He describes the Regan House as “anelegant Corinthian structure with agraceful two-story portico which con-trasts with a sandstone main block.”

When the home was sold by Regan’swidow in 1939, changes were imminent.

The large front entrance was fine, butthe wrap-around front porches had togo. The new owners thought theyblocked too much light from enteringthe living areas. (If you are an architec-ture buff, the restored Daly House at1015 W. Hays St. gives an idea of howthe original porches and columnslooked.)

AND MOREBushnell and his wife had two more

children — another daughter and a son— while living in the Main Streethouse, but they eventually divorced, andBushnell raised the children as a singleparent. “This house was a great place toraise a family,” he said.

He kept working on the house andbrought in vintage and antique furnitureand other accoutrements while creatingboth a living home and a future show-piece. There is an English court chair ondisplay in an alcove, and antique plat-ters circle the dining room on the highplate rail. A heavy wooden table thatseats 10 is displayed with places set asthough ready for the next formal dinner.The Madonna is long gone from thecabinetry niche, but there is now aporcelain phrenology bust there, repre-senting a pseudoscience popular in the19th century.

There is a skylight on the second floorthat brings in soft light from the wellabove that cuts through an attic wherefrat dances reportedly took place duringthe days of Kappa Sigma.

And what historic home could get bywithout a bit of a ghost story to go withit?

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in ghosts, but Bushnell’s children andex-wife, and even fraternity residentsclaimed to hear noises, or found thedrapes mysteriously opened or closed.(In the mid-1900s, a young girl wasaccidentally shot and killed in thehouse. But that’s another story left tohistory.)

Meanwhile, the house itself hasalmost been left out of history. Hartonce hoped the entire block would belisted on the National Register of His-toric Places. Surprisingly, that did nothappen.

At the time registration was beingpondered, residents on the block feareddevaluation, Hart said, worried therewould be too many restrictions shouldthey ever want to modify their homes.Hart says their fears were unwarranted,but today those homes are also stillunregistered.

But that’s OK. There is more historyto come — especially with the opportu-nity to rent the home for private dinnersand receptions. Bushnell is thrilled toshare his longtime home.

“It’s been a wonderful place to live,”Bushnell said.

LEFT: The upstairsbedrooms havetheir own sinks aswas custom forhomes built at the time.

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about Timothy ReganRegan was born of Irish immigrants in

1843 and came west, taking the Isthmus ofPanama route to California in 1864. It wasNovember when he reached Jordan Valleyand his oxen team was stolen. So he startedhis walk to Silver City, with snow on theground. He made it to Booneville with $2.50to his name.

But he would not make his name as aminer. He did hire on as a miner, but due tothe fluctuations of the business, he was moreinterested in forming a wood-chopping busi-ness. Firewood was a steady occupation. Soonhe would be hauling quartz and lumber for themines and operating a sawmill. In 1875, hepurchased a half interest in the Idaho Hotel atSilver City and remained proprietor for severalyears before moving to Boise.

He also accumulated mining stock. Again,the ups and downs of the mines, along withhis positioning as a major creditor, allowedhim to acquire a lucrative portfolio.

Moving to Boise in 1889, Regan became amajor player in the development of the city.Even before moving here, he helped organ-ize the Boise City National Bank. He alsoserved as the president of the Artesian Hotand Cold Water Co., which used the area’sgeothermal wells to open the Boise Natato-rium in 1892, a famous landmark of the time.

His business involvements did not stopthere. He was a major stockholder, officer,general manager and treasurer of at leasttwo other major businesses in town. One ofthose companies, the Overland Co., wouldconstruct an office building at 8th and Mainthat would be one of the most prestigiousbusiness addresses in Downtown for manyyears.

Regan remained one of the city’s mostwell-known business figures until the end ofWorld War I at the age of 75. One of hissons, John, was killed with just a few weeksleft in that war. The second lieutenant wasawarded the Distinguished Service Cross,but his father was never the same. Friends ofTimothy Regan told the Idaho Statesmanthat he died of a broken heart. Regan’swidow would live in their Boise home foranother 20 years.

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This home is perfectly nestled against thehillside overlooking the Crane Creek GolfCourse.

The light-filled living area is protectedfrom the direct glare of the morning sum-mer sun, and the hill to its back protects itfrom the hot late-afternoon sun, yet thesunlight slides through the windows in thewinter to make it perfectly cozy.

The southeast positioning, blown insula-tion (even in the interior walls) for warmthand soundproofing, and the efficient heat-ing system mean the utility bills in the winter are barely higher than during thesummer.

Yet the design of the home is open andairy. Bob Flood and his wife, Jeannette,were inspired by the Old English style, andthe rooms flow easily one into the other,yet large archways still offer some separa-tion. Other than the unique entry, there areno hallways to interrupt the flow and easeof the design.

“I wanted all the space out here,” Floodsaid.

It is a beautiful area for entertaining, thedecks are inviting, and it is easy to take careof. The library — with fireplace — becomesa sunroom in the winter yet is not closed offfrom the rest of the home. And the kitchenis easily accessible, but it does not dominatethe large living and entertaining area theway it does in so many of today’s homes.(That’s one thing that is different from Old English design, which usually had thekitchen tucked in back, out of the way.)The high ceilings add to the elegantambiance and help the home stay cool inthe summertime.

But Flood, now in his mid-70s, had muchmore in mind when he finished his homeback in 2000.

He was retired — and a former hospitaladministrator — and he began wonderingwhat would happen if they got sick. Andconversely, what would happen if they didn’t get sick.

Windermere Realtor Jody Hinton wasrecently qualified as a Seniors Specialist by

the National Association of Realtors. Shesaid more and more people have been ask-ing those questions in recent years.

“It has become a necessity, because themajority of the population is at an age tothink in those terms,” she said. “Andboomers are independent thinkers. They’renot willing to just relegate themselves toassisted living. And it’s more cost-effectiveto remain in your home.”

Thousands of boomers turn 65 every day,and more than one-fifth of all homebuyersare 55-plus. The AARP has discoveredthat 70 percent of those older than 45 havemade at least one modification in theirhome to enable them to continue to livethere.

Meanwhile, builders have begun to applyaging-in-place and universal design princi-ples into new construction.

But Flood was already thinking aboutthose issues more than a decade ago.

The entire living space of his home isroomy and all on one level.

The lower level is dedicated to a garagespace and workshop. The workshop itselfpractically looks large enough to build asmall cabin or boat. It’s a spacious, dreamworkshop for anyone who likes to spendtime building things.

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“I built a home on top of my workshop,”Flood said.

There is room for several vehicles (andgolf carts). A dumbwaiter simplifies gettinggroceries to the kitchen, and a laundrychute makes life easier when accessing thewasher and dryer.

The wide stairway from the garage to themain level is fortified to allow for the addi-tion of a wheelchair lift, if needed. Theentire house has been plumbed and wiredfor future needs. And, if needed, the laun-dry room can be moved to the upper level.Workshop or storage areas can be modifiedinto an extra bedroom for larger families ora live-in caregiver.

The house is totally flexible.“And that’s the point,” Flood said.It’s a house prepared for whatever a per-

son’s future needs may be.“And you don’t need to change it till you

need it,” he said. “But it’s all plumbed anddesigned.”

Hinton says we will see more and morehomes like this in the market. There are certain features that will help a property sellmore quickly, and builders have finally startedto realize what those needs are going to be.

“With homes built in the ’90s, it is rarethat you can find a main-level master bed-room,” she said.

But this home has two main-level masterbedrooms.

And there are numerous other elementsthat make this home attractive. The heatedwalkway stairs and porch, for example,finally got some use this winter. There’s alsoa secluded spa on a private deck that getsused every day.

“You’ve got to keep doing that if you’re 75,and you want to keep golfing,” Flood said.

And how about that golfing?What good is living next to a golf course

if you can’t just hop on your cart and roardown to the clubhouse?

That pathway is convenient, and Floodhas used it many a time. In fact, you mightwant to ask him sometime about his holes-in-one and his hole-in-one insurance.

If you lived in this home — designed forcurrent and future needs — you would beable to take advantage of all the featuresFlood has put into place, but when it comesto holes-in-one, you’re on your own.

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This American Viticultural Area (AVA)in the southwest corner of Washingtonstate (with a bit of overlap into Oregon), iseverything a true oenophile wants: dining,tasting, biking, shopping, with a spa treat-ment or two and a cultural event in theevening — all without (as of yet) thecrowds.

The region is home toabout 170 wineries,mainly small opera-tions, where ownersand winemakerscraft highlyregarded boldreds (Syrah andCab writ large).Although Walla Walla is offthe beaten track(about 250 miles fromeither Boise or Portland),it boasts a remarkable infra-structure of high-end hotels, B&Bs, restau-rants (including a chef recognized by theJames Beard Foundation), galleries andshops. It is living proof of the adage that ifyou make great wines, they will come.

WINERIESMany wineries have tasting rooms; some

are downtown and others are at the winer-ies themselves. Check hours of operationbefore you go, especially in the off-seasonwhen many wineries are open by appoint-ment only. Addresses listed are the tastingrooms; those noted with ** are at the win-ery proper.

TERO ESTATES: 6 W. Rose St., 541-203-0020; www.teroestates.com Partners MikeTembreull and Doug Roskelley harvest fromsome of the oldest commercial wine acreagein the valley and use a gentle touch to cre-ate bold reds. The self-taught winemakers’Merlots, Cabs and Super Tuscans leap outof the glass and promise even more delightsafter a few years in a cellar. Their otherline, Flying Trout, marries the skills ofwinemaker Ashley Trout with Tero Estatesgrapes and some juice from Trout’s Argen-tinian vines for another kind of redalchemy in surprising blends.

Charles Smith Wines, 35 S. Spokane St.,509-528-5230, www.charlessmithwines.comCharles Smith is a big-time (for WallaWalla) winemaker and the fifth-largest pro-ducer in Washington. His labels offer about250,000 cases a year, from small winery KVintners to his eponymous brand of larger

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DUSTED VALLEY VINTNERS: **1248 OldMilton Highway, 509-525-1337, www.dustedvalley.com Dusted Valley is truly a familyaffair. Winemakers Corey Bruenal andChad Johnson are married to sisters. Theyhail from Wisconsin, so don’t get themstarted on the benefits of using barrels madefrom Wisconsin oak. Just taste and believe.They offer an interesting Rose, but the redswere our favorite. Call it power of sugges-tion, but the dusty tannins of the Grenacheand the Syrah were irresistible. And thenew (to us) Cinsault is a subtler red. Theirdelicious late-harvest Syrah is a less-sweetversion of this dessert wine. Join their wineclub, slyly named Stained Tooth Society,and take home a free toothbrush.

FOUNDRY VINEYARDS: 13th & Abadie,509-529-0736, http://foundryvineyards.comIn an area replete with interesting wine-maker stories, this one stands out. TheWalla Walla Foundry is a serious fine artsfoundry; in 1998, owner Mark Andersonplanted some vines and in 2003 began mak-

ing wine. The first vintages were set asideto reward artists who used his factory; nowhe shares his 500 cases with the public. TheFoundry Vineyards reds were terrific — wejoined the wine club. But the bottle webrought home was the 2011 Chardonnay,enhanced with 7 percent of the MariaGomes grape (we are not usually Chardon-nay fans, but this could convert us). Thetasting room is also an art gallery, whereFoundry patrons have their works displayedinside and out, making for a most convivialspace for sipping.

PEPPER BRIDGE WINERY: **1704 JBGeorge Road, 509-525-6502, www.pepper-bridge.com Winemaker Jean-Francois Pelletis Swiss-born, with experience at Napa’sfamous Heitz Cellars. His creativity is fullyon view in Pepper Bridge’s 6,300 cases ofMerlots, Cabs, and Bordeaux varietals,enhanced by the region’s “new world cli-mate (in all regards) and an old world ter-roir.” The Trine label allows Pellet to blendany of the five types of traditional Bordeauxgrapes as taste and whim dictate. A charm-ing feature is the Vine Club, which allowsmembers to “own” a vine (personallylabeled) and receive a bottle of wine madefrom that block.

SAVIAH CELLARS: **1979 JB GeorgeRoad, 509-520-5166, www.saviahcellars.comAsk about The Rocks, perhaps soon a newAVA in the Walla Walla Valley. This rockypatch of land stresses the heck out of vines

and produces some incredible reds. Mon-tana transplant Rich Funk, winemaker atSaviah Cellars, is all about The Rocks andother special Walla Walla blocks. His SuperTuscans and Big Sky Cuvee prove theimpact of the terroir. The Cab Franc madeus believers in the appropriateness of thisformer blender as a stand-on-its-own vari-etal. The Syrah and the Petit Verdot alsodeserve attention. And coming soon: the2010 Syrah Funk Estate (The Rocks!).

BIKINGTake or rent one; either way, Walla Walla

is a cyclist’s dream. Rolling terrain, friendlydrivers, lots of fellow cyclists, and well-mapped routes — what’s not to like? Visitwww.wwvalleycycling.com for a preview,reserve a bike at Bicycle Barn (509-529-7860) or Allegro Cyclery (downtown: 509-525-4949), pick up a Valley Bike Map androll. We cycled in the mornings and tastedin the afternoons — a perfect blend!

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The rolling hills and beautiful views at sunset from the Girasol Vineyard and Inn. Visit WallaWalla.org for more tourism information about the Walla Walla area.


DININGThe area offers many exciting small restaurantswith surprisingly diverse offerings.

THE MARC RESTAURANT: Chef AntonioCampolio was recently invited to prepare ameal at the prestigious James Beard Founda-tion in New York. Visitors can enjoy his cook-ing daily, with innovative twists on PacificNorthwest cuisine. We feasted at the Chef’sTable in the kitchen, with local foie gras, buf-falo carpaccio, scallops and other delights in afive-course (with wines) tasting menu, with afew extra treats scattered along the way. Theregular menu is a locavore’s excursion of largeand small plates, most conveniently pairedwith local (naturally) wine. The Marcus Whit-man Hotel, 6 W. Rose St., 509-525-2200

BRASSERIE FOUR: We came back after twoyears specifically for the duck confit pizza, andit did not disappoint. This French-styled bistrooffers casual fare for lunch and dinner, withshellfish, pates, a to-die-for onion soup, classicsalads, continental sandwiches and entrees,and a mostly French wine list. 4 E. Main St.,509-529-2011

T. MACCARONE’S: It’s Italian ... from thefreshest local ingredients. Homemade pastaand generous main courses (steaks and fish),served in an elegant space. 555 12th St., 805-226-0408

GREEN SPOON: For a light, healthy breakfastor lunch, drop in for delicious gluten-free andvegetarian options. The salads are meal-sized.The tacos are ethereal, and the curries areexcellent. 13 E. Main St., 509-876-2583

PUBLIC HOUSE 124: It’s a gastro pub, withseasonal and signature cocktails, serving high-end bar food in a large and raucous room. Wesampled truffle fries, crispy pork belly, thehouse burger, the Reuben and a Germandumpling. Convivial, delicious and filling — anice break from high-end eats. 124 E. Main St.,509-876-4511

BACON & EGGS, OLIVE: These two are thebest breakfast spots in town and thepoint/counterpoint to each other. B&E isabout hearty meals with eggs, potatoes, bis-cuits and over 100 hot sauces to spark themalong; Olive is a bakery, so a visit to thecounter offers a wide array of breakfast cakesand pastries. Bacon & Eggs: 503 E. Main St.,509-876-4553; Olive: 21 E. Main St.

WALLA WALLA BREAD COMPANY: The irre-sistible aroma of baking bread drew us in, andthe tempting variety keeps us coming back.Our absolute favorite (there are no wrongchoices) is the chocolate cherry bread (avail-able on Thursdays) that is as black as pitch andmakes the most decadent French toast ever.225 E. Main St., 509-522-8422

LODGINGMARCUS WHITMAN HOTEL: This is thegrand dame of accommodations. Opened in1927, this beautifully restored palace is theheight of traditional old-world luxury. Stay inthe original tower, book a suite and enjoy awonderful headquarters for your winesojourns. marcuswhitmanhotel.com

GIRASOL VINEYARD & INN: Want to sleep inthe middle of it all? The Girasol is a workingvineyard and B&B right in the vineyards. Itboasts glorious vistas, beautifully appointedprivate rooms, excellent breakfasts and ownerswho can fill in any gap in your Walla Walla itin-erary. http://casagirasol.com

CULTUREThe arts flourish in Walla Walla. Two of ourfavorites are the recently opened PowerHouse Theatre (www.PHTWW.com) with awide range of drama, music and special eventsin an intimate 340-seat performance spacedowntown, and Whitman College, a liberalarts college with art exhibits, lectures and anarray of student productions from the musicand theatre departments (www.whitman.edu/content/calendar) at affordable prices. Speak-ing of Whitman College, the grounds aremade for leisurely strolling.

FORT WALLA WALLA MUSEUM: It depictsthe history of the earliest settlers with exhibitsand a restored pioneer settlement. The exten-sive grounds are lovely. We found the storiesfascinating; plus, it’s a great cycling destina-tion. fortwallawallamuseum.org

We love weird and found the Museum of Un-Natural History (www.WallaWallaDada.com)wonderfully eccentric. A true “you need to seeit to appreciate it” place that we found partic-ularly appealing after a day of wine-tasting.

SHOPPINGMain Street is a delight of attractive small bou-tiques, galleries, an ice cream shop, coffeebars, bakeries and, of course, tasting rooms.

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own. We let the knowledgeable staff puttogether a picnic-to-go of cheeses, artisan-cured meats, bread, olives and a bit ofchocolate. Salumiere Cesario, 12 E. MainSt., 509-529-5620,www.salumierecesario.com

more on Walla Walla

IdahoStatesman.com/TreasureOnline, read the Smiths’ colorful tale of a visitto Cayuse Vineyards and their (far-fetched)dream of owning a bottle of winemakerChristophe Baron’s exclusive wine. You’ll alsofind some more of the Smiths’ Walla Wallawinery recommendations.

PHOTO BY MIKE SMITH

The counter of the convivial Frenchbistro, Brasserie Four.

Maria and Michael Smith are free-lance writers based in Boise. Theylove wine, food and travel.

On the drive to Walla Walla, Boiseans need topass through our state’s own developing wineregion — the Snake River Valley.

One of our great pleasures of moving toIdaho was (and remains) the discovery ofIdaho wines. Our winemakers are brave soulsindeed and adventurous in the extreme. As aresult, they are crafting ever-better wines ingreater varieties. We get a special thrill intro-ducing our many visitors to the wines ofIdaho.

Exit 28 from Interstate 84 is the main gate-way to the Snake River Valley. A brief driveto Marsing, and visitors are in the middle ofthe AVA. We have lots of favorites, and plan-

ning a day or an afternoon of sipping ispretty simple. The wineries are closetogether, and the Idaho Wine Commission(www.idahowines.org) has a great maponline. Pay attention to tasting room hours— check before you go.

There also are numerous tasting rooms inDowntown Boise and in Garden City. Again,the Idaho Wine Commission map providesdetails.

Additional information about Idaho wineriescan be found at the forementioned Idahowines.org and www.winesnw.com/idloddn.html (wineries of the Pacific North-west, including Idaho).

and don’t forget about Idaho’s wineries …


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PHOTOS BY PAUL THOMAS/PROVIDED BY ELKS MEALS ON WHEELS

You can win special dinners with local chefs at the Culinary Walkabout. Scott Caise,center, was the raffle winner of the CEC Chefs Challenge Dinner at last year’s event.Chef Paul Wegner of Cucina di Paolo, left, and chef David Knickrehm of Bella Aquilaare pictured with Caise.

Presentation is key at the Culinary Walkabout — as shown by the team from Life’sKitchen, above, and in the photos at left of the creations served at last year’s event.

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C hefs work incredibly long hours. Ittakes a lot of time and effort to runa successful kitchen. Having con-

secutive days off is not a common occur-rence in the food-service industry, espe-cially for those running the show.

Chefs are also known to be solitary types,sequestered on a hot line night after night,barking out orders—with the day startinglong before the first dinner ticket ever hitsthe rail.

But even though chefs are like a force ofnature all by themselves, they become evenmore influential when they come togetheras a culinary collective. That’s exactly themission of Idaho Chefs de Cuisine, thelocal chapter of the American CulinaryFederation (ACF), an organization of food-crazed people that’s been around sincethe early ’80s.

“The dynamic of our groupis to offer a culinary brother-hood in the Treasure Valley,”explains Robert Finley, former executive chef at theBoise Centre and treasurer ofIdaho Chefs de Cuisine.

While the group currentlyhas around 50 members,many more cooks than that put on chefcoats every day around these parts in thepursuit of culinary perfection. But a major-ity of them remain insular in their efforts.

“There’s a difference between ACF chefs,who spend many hours educating peopleand helping with local events, and thosewho just put on the white coat and cook,without doing much else,” says DavidKnickrehm, executive chef at Bella Aquilaand president of Idaho Chefs de Cuisine.“Being a chef is hard work, but it’s impor-tant to make the time to come together forthe community.”

It’s amazing that any of these chefs findtime in their already hectic schedules toband together for benevolent causes. Takethe Culinary Walkabout, which IdahoChefs de Cuisine helps to organize everyyear.

“One of our mission statements is, ‘do community fundraising by offering ourexpertise at these large events,’ ” says Finley, who served seafood paella at lastyear’s event.

The Culinary Walkabout, the signatureannual fundraising gala for the Elks Mealson Wheels program and slated to take placeMay 16 at Boise Centre, brings togetherabout 25 local chefs each year in a celebra-tion of small bites — chefs are responsiblefor producing 2-ounce portions of their fea-tured menu item, be it sweet or savory.

Many of the chefs involved in the eventare members of Idaho Chefs de Cuisine.The group even goes as far as spearheadingthe logistical side of organizing all the foodneeded to pull off such a large gathering —around 500 people typically attend theevent.

“We are extremely grateful to the contin-ued commitment of the Chefs de Cuisine,”says Grant Jones, director of developmentfor the Elks Rehab System, which includesElks Meals on Wheels. “Without them, wewould have no Culinary Walkabout.”

This is the main community fundraisingevent the chapter takes under its wing as anorganization, yet all the chefs are individu-ally involved in other benefits and festivalsaround town throughout the year.

The Culinary Walkabout raises around$30,000 on average for Meals on Wheels ofAda County, which provides hot and nutri-tious lunches to 800 senior citizens a day —delivered to people’s homes and served atvarious senior centers. But event organizersare always looking to bring in more money,considering it costs $1 million annually tooperate Meals on Wheels.

“We would love to get it up around$50,000,” Jones says.

Idaho Chefs de Cuisine members start tomeet in January of each year (every Satur-day morning at Bella Aquila, to be exact)to knock out the details for the upcomingevent, like the daunting task of puttingtogether a menu and working with area dis-tributors to get donated food products.

“Raising money for Meals on Wheels issuch a natural fit for chefs, since we feedpeople for a living, but it takes lots of plan-ning,” states Knickrehm, who last yearserved sauteed mushrooms on grilledpolenta with sherry cream sauce. At thisyear’s event, he plans to dish up hand-rolledgnocchi with Gorgonzola cream sauce, amainstay on the menu at Bella Aquila.

This year’s menu hasn’t been finalized atthis point, but Knickrehm expects it to beset by March — in time for the event programs to get printed.

Besides helping to organize the CulinaryWalkabout each year, Idaho Chefs de Cui-sine offers ongoing educational programsand networking opportunities for up-and-coming chefs, not to mention current joblistings for cooking positions in the area.

The group offers membership levels rang-ing from Student Culinarian to Senior Pro-fessional Culinarian, the latter being the

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Local chefs carve out time in their busydays to help thecommunity indelectable ways

BY JAMES PATRICK KELLY

Idaho Chefs de Cuisine:‘A CulinaryBrotherhood’

Robert Finley


status that Knickrehm and Finley haveearned. The chapter adheres to the certifi-cation standards of the ACF, a professionalchef organization (founded in 1929) withmore than 20,000 members in 200-plusregional chapters across North America.

Idaho Chefs de Cuisine, formerly knownas Idaho State Chefs and Culinarians Inc.,depends upon a steady stream of new mem-bers, especially those just starting out in theindustry. The group is in the process ofrebuilding its membership base after itdropped off a few years ago due to a lack ofrecruitment.

“As our chapter advances, the youngerculinarians become really important to thesuccess of the chapter. We need people whoare capable of replacing board members likeme in the future,” Finley says.

Most of the Student Culinarians comeout of the College of Western Idaho culi-nary arts program and Renaissance, a culi-nary program for high school students inMeridian, run by longtime Chefs de Cui-sine member Vern Hickman. These new-bies also gain valuable experience by partic-ipating in community-basedactivities outside the class-room.

“It’s great experience forstudents to get involved inevents like the CulinaryWalkabout. They learn somuch by working with thismany talented chefs,” saysMark Ballen, executive chef at Lucky FinsSeafood Grill in Meridian and vice presi-dent of Idaho Chefs de Cuisine.

“One of the beautiful things about Boise

is that all of us chefs are in it together, andthis helps students to learn the importanceof giving back to the community.”

Knickrehm agrees that having youngerfolks involved in the chapter not only ben-efits the community, but it also has its perksfor the students themselves. Idaho Chefs deCuisine is paying all expenses for two culi-nary arts students to attend the WesternRegional ACF Conference, which will beheld in April at Coeur d’Alene Resort.

“We’re sending a student from CWI andone from Renaissance this year,” Knick-rehm says.

“These conferences last for several days,with intense culinary training offeredalmost every hour.”

Knickrehm, who has been involved withthe organization since 1998, has reachedthe pinnacle of what the ACF offers byachieving the coveted distinction ofbecoming a Certified Executive Chef(CEC), which requires many years of expe-rience and a grueling certification test thatwould put any competitive television cooking show to shame.

Not all chefs have the desire to reachthat culinary level, but Idaho Chefs de Cuisine encourages its members to strive forgreatness, whether at work or pitching in tohelp out with community events.

For the most part, the scene will be businessas usual on May 16 at the 16th annual CulinaryWalkabout, the signature fundraiser for the ElksMeals on Wheels program of Ada County.

It’s hard to perfect an event that’s been sofine-tuned over time, but don’t think for a second that this year’s participating chefs won’tbe trying to figure out a way to raise the bar.After all, chefs are naturally competitive.

“These chefs really go all out, everything fromthe creativity of their food to the way they deco-rate their stations, and it gets better every year,”says Grant Jones of Elks Meals on Wheels and anorganizer of the event.

As in years past, this year’s Culinary Walka-bout will feature about 25 chefs, inevitably alltrying to outdo each other in an extravaganza offood and fun.

Each chef will be serving portions of theirselected menu items, arranged in stationsaround an impressive ice sculpture, donated byIce is Nice.

Expect to taste creations from David Knick-rehm (Bella Aquila), Paul Wegner (Cucina di

Paolo), Ted Martinez (Bardenay) and Mark Ballen(Lucky Fins Seafood Grill), to name a few.

Members of Idaho Chefs de Cuisine, the localorganization of professional and student chefs,will help out with the logistical aspects of theevent, and they will raffle themselves off to cookprivate dinners for those with winning tickets.

Of course, it takes many people to make anevent like this successful. There will be around50 companies and private citizens once againdonating their time and services for the popularsilent auction.

Boise Straight Ahead, a local jazz band with apenchant for benevolence, will also donate itsservices, keeping the big band tunes goingthroughout the night.

Boise Centre will provide beverages at theevent.

Tickets ($60 per person or $500 for a table of10) can be purchased by going towww.elksmealsonwheels.org (click on events) or by contacting Grant Jones at 489-4592 or [email protected].

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Culinary Walkabout 2013 6-9 p.m., Thursday, May 16, at Boise Centre

James Patrick Kelly, a former restaurant critic for the Idaho Statesman, is the author of the travelguidebooks “Moon Idaho” and “Spotlight Boise.” He also teaches journalism at Boise State University.

Find the recipes for chef David Knickrehm’s funghi polenta and chef Mark Ballen’s finger-licking good spicyshrimp.

IdahoStatesman.com/TreasureMark Ballen


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Treasure Valley winemaker GregKoenig did something few outside ofEurope will even consider — turn

moldy, shriveled grapes into award-winningwine.

His Koenig Vineyards 2010 Botrytis Sin-gle Berry Select Late Harvest Rieslingearned a gold medal and best dessert winehonor in last year’s Idaho Wine Competi-tion. A month later, that same wine fromthe Caldwell winery received a PlatinumAward in Wine Press Northwest’s 2012 best-of-the-best competition.

“Some shy away from it when you first tellthem about it, saying, ‘Oooh, mold!’ Butthose are people who probably don’t under-stand that yeast is responsible for bread andthink that meat shows up magically on aStyrofoam tray,” Koenig said with a chuckle.“It’s fun educating people on stuff like that,but true wine lovers are thrilled that some-one in Idaho or other parts of the Northwesthave made it.”

A number of the world’s most coveteddessert wines — the Sauternes of France andTokaji in Hungary — derive their specialspice from botrytis.

“You dream about making wines like thatbecause Mother Nature normally doesn’tgive you the chance,” Koenig said. “Last yearwas my 18th vintage, and I think botrytislike that showed up only once before inIdaho because of our climate.”

Vineyards throughout the world routinelybattle botrytis, a fungus that spreads if there’stoo much moisture or humidity. The grapesthen begin to rot.

However, if weather allows grape clustersto dry out after the fungus takes hold, botry-tis evolves into “noble rot.” As the grapesdesiccate on the vine, sugars are concen-trated and complex flavors can develop.With Riesling, descriptors include apricot,peach, pineapple and honeysuckle with amingling of cinnamon and nutmeg.

“There’s this wonderful honey and pearaspect to it, but dried fig is probably myfavorite descriptor,” Koenig said. “That givesit this long and lingering finish that goes onand on, as well as a richness you don’t get inother fruits with higher acid.”

Chateau Ste. Michelle in Washingtonstate’s Columbia Valley claims to have pro-

duced the first total botrytis-affected-styleRiesling in North America with its 1999Eroica Single Berry Select. The wine retailsfor $200 per bottle with an extremely lim-ited production for each vintage, typically 75 cases to wine club members. And thewines can be aged for decades.

However, Koenig said his inspiration cameafter reading about TBA Rieslings producedby Wild Goose Vineyards in Oliver, BritishColumbia. As fall arrived in the Snake RiverValley in 2010, Koenig grew more optimisticabout the noble rot taking off in portions ofnearby Williamson Vineyards.

“We saw botrytis right away in early Sep-tember, but you don’t pick Riesling in Idahountil late October,” Koenig said. “In themiddle of October, it really bloomed. Youreally have to have 50 to 60 percent botrytis-affected to get all those flavors. The vineyardreally looks terrible when it’s at 50 percent,so I tried to reassure the Williamsons andkept telling them that I would buy all thosegrapes. In hindsight, I wish I had them blockoff more for me.”

In nearly every other instance, Idahovineyard owners are terrified of botrytis, hesaid.

“It was causing great panic in the largerwineries, and they were cutting growers’contracts, but the botrytis was only at 10-15percent, and you can make a tremendouslate harvest wine at that level,” Koenig said.

His clusters were 70 percent infected,making them shriveled and raisiny, so onNov. 9, Koenig sent out his best pickers for

the next step in making what the Germanscall Trockenbeerenauslese, a blend of termsfor the dried (trocken) grapes (beeren)selected (auslese). This day, that meanthand-targeting the moldiest clusters andthen selecting the infected berries by hand atthe sorting table.

“When I made the announcement, theyall frowned,” Koenig said. “It wasn’t supercold, probably in the mid-30s. Not like icewine picking, which is a whole different ballof wax. Your hands are always wet, and it wasa great cold day for this. I just hoped peoplewould stick around and not abandon me.”

Accountants discourage clients from mak-ing wines under these conditions becausethey typically don’t pencil out with all theexpense and effort demanded.

“The grapes don’t release much juice bythat point,” Koenig said. “We got 60 gallonsfor the whole project, but the juice thatcame out had this wonderful candied-likequality.”

He used a special yeast developed in Austria capable of cold and sustained fer-mentations for hyper-sweet grapes. It made42 cases of slender 375-milliliter bottles witha residual sugar of nearly 15 percent, and hehas sold more than half, virtually all out ofhis tasting room at the Sunnyslope chateauhe shares with his brother’s distillery.

“There wasn’t even enough for me to offeras a wine club selection, and we never reallyannounced it or sent an email,” Koenig said.

Koenig turns mold into gold

PHOTOS BY KATHERINE JONES / [email protected]

Greg Koenig of Koenig Vineyards/Koenig Distillery and Winery.

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garage with grapes he bought from a cou-ple of Treasure Valley winemakers.

“My brother wanted to start this dis-tillery, and we turned an orchard shedinto a winery,” Koenig said. “I couldn’tsell wine at the time, so I was giving itaway to friends.”

By 1995, they began to build theirdream business on their 75-acre orchard,doing all design and construction them-selves.

A decade later, Koenig Vineyards wasnamed the 2005 Idaho Winery of theYear by Wine Press Northwest, andKoenig has continued to make award-winning wines. He produced six goldmedals at the 2012 Idaho Wine Compe-tition.

Only Ste. Chapelle and Sawtoothmake more wine in Idaho than Koenig,who also is the winemaker for BitnerVineyards and Williamson Vineyards inCaldwell and 3 Horse Ranch Vineyardsin Eagle.

“I only make about 3,000 cases for mywinery,” Koenig said. “People think we’rea lot bigger because we make wine forthree clients. My size is a tribute to myinability to be a very good salesman. Ilove the craft of making wine, and there’sa lot of energy spent on it, but I’m aninherently shy person, and I don’t like togo out and toot my own horn.”

The Koenig Vineyards 2006 CuveeAmelia Reserve Syrah, named after hisdaughter, was voted Best Red at the 2008Northwest Wine Summit. Last year, the2008 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Koenigcrafted for the certified organic 3 HorseRanch was just the second red wine fromIdaho to earn a Platinum from Wine Press Northwest.

“Just being here after all these years isan achievement,” Koenig said. “We didn’t start out with the backing of atycoon or sports personality who decidedthey wanted to have a winery.”

Instead, he learned by standing shoul-der-to-shoulder with one of the SnakeRiver Valley’s winemaking pioneers, BillStowe of Indian Creek Winery in Kuna.

“I remember my first two harvests were1995 and 1996, and Bill didn’t have a bindumper that first year. So I shoveled 92 tons of fruit into the destemmer —one pitchfork at time,” Koenig chuckled.

Koenig Distillery & Winery opens itstasting room from noon to 5 p.m. Fridays,Saturdays and Sundays.

Koenig Vineyards, 20928 Grape Lane,Caldwell, ID 83607, 208-455-8038,www.koenigdistilleryandwinery.com.

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“We started selling it this past Thanksgivingand let people taste it alongside our ice wine,which is $10 a bottle cheaper. I want peopleto come out and learn about botrytis and theprocess. I don’t want people just sending it toAunt Edna because she likes sweet wine.”

Koenig, 42, has earned a reputation for con-sistently creating some of the Pacific North-west’s finest — and least-expensive — dessertwines. He received a Platinum from WinePress Northwest in 2011 for his 2009 RieslingIce Wine ($20), and it finished higher thannearly every other ice wine, most of themfrom Canada at prices north of $40.

“The bankers scratch their heads at ourbusiness model, but there are 400 Chardon-nays out there getting written about,” Koenigsaid. “Awards like these Platinums and maga-zine mentions are huge. Consumers flock tothat.”

Koenig and his brother, Andy, receivedinspiration to create their European-themedbusinesses and local products while living sev-eral years in the Austrian town where theirfather grew up. But the boys were born andraised in Ketchum. For 45 years, their parentsowned and operated the Knob Hill Inn, a 26-room luxury hotel they started in 1966, “backwhen Ketchum was just a little mountaintown,” Koenig said.

Farming always fascinated both brothers,and they have fond memories of visiting their

maternal grandparents’ farm in the TreasureValley.

But the brothers also have a global perspec-tive. Andy learned the distillery trade in Aus-tria. Greg spent a year after high school doingvolunteer work in Africa with some PeaceCorps friends and lived in Italy while studyingarchitecture.

But he began brewing beer while at NotreDame, and when he was an architect workingin Sun Valley, he started making wine in his

Koenig Vineyards Botrytis Sinole BerrySelect Late Harvest Riesling.

Andy Perdue and Eric Degerman run Great Northwest Wine, a news and information website. Learn more about wine and see more of their storiesat GreatNorthwestWine.com.

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Susan G. Komen Boise Race for the CureWHEN: Saturday, May 11; 7:30 a.m. regis-tration, 9 a.m. race time

WHERE: Albertsons Corporate Offices, 250E. ParkCenter Blvd. Parking recommendedat shuttle locations (BSU Stadium eastparking lot, The Ram, ParkCenter Albert-son’s east lot, Washington Group Plazaparking garage and the Boise Outlet Mall;please note there are NO SHUTTLES fromthe Western Idaho Fairgrounds this year);see website for limited survivors/handicapparking; special parking also available forsurvivors in pink shirts prior to 8 a.m.depending on availability.

COST: $25/online, $30/paper, $15/youthage 12 and under, $30/Sleep In for theCure; teams of 5 or more must register bynoon, April 30; individual registrationcloses at noon, May 7. Late registrationfees apply after those dates. Personalizedback bibs available online for $6.99.

WHAT IT IS: 15th annual 5K run or 1-milewalk to raise money for breast cancer edu-cation, screening and treatment programs.

This is the largest race in Idaho. The specialSurvivor Tent opens at 7:30 a.m. with a Sur-vivor Parade PRIOR to the race. There isalso a Kids For The Cure area with craftsand activities.

KIDS FOR THE CURE ART CONTEST:Submit design by March 22, see websitefor details.

MORE INFORMATION: 384-0013,www.komenboise.org

Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure Survivor CelebrationWHEN: Friday, May 3

WHERE: Jordan Ballroom, BSU StudentUnion Building

TICKETS: $10; register online or call

WHAT IT IS: Celebration! Light appetizers,massages and pampering. The guestspeaker is Heidi Marble, breast cancer sur-vivor and author of “Waiting For Wings.”

MORE INFORMATION: Reservationsbegin April 1, 384-0013

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FRIDAY, MARCH 8 Dress For Success Teapot ExtravaganzaLuncheon 11 a.m., Boise Centre, $40, lunch,live and silent auction; hand-painted teapotsby local celebrities up for auction. 853-4034;www.dressforsuccess.org.

Boise Centennial Rotary’s 3rd annual WinterWine-d Up 6 p.m. Riverside Hotel, $25; winetasting, live and silent auction and raffles. Ben-efits CATCH and Hays Shelter Home. 377-7279; www.boisecentennialrotary.org.

MARCH 9-22 Boise Nationals Soccer Club Online Auctionhttp://auctions.readysetauction.com/boisenationalssoccer.

SATURDAY, MARCH 9Idaho Foodbank 2nd annual Speed to Feed10k/5k Run/Walk 10 a.m. BSU Student Union,$25/10k, $20/5k. Also must bring non-perish-able food item or donation for the IdahoFoodbank. http://bluecirclesports.com.

St. Baldrick’s Foundation Fundraiser 11 a.m.,Knitting Factory Concert House. Raisepledges, cut your hair. 867-3755;www.stbaldricks.org/events/boise.

Ballet Idaho Tea for Tutus 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy, $40,$400/table of 10, $500/table with ballerina.Dress parade, dance workshops, silent auction.Benefits outreach and scholarship programs.343-0556; www.balletidaho.org.

Idaho Dance Theatre “One Amazing Night”Gala 5 p.m. Grove Hotel, $100, $800/table;black-tie and gown dinner, special perform-ance by our artistic directors, live and silentauction, music and dancing; 331-9592www.idahodancetheatre.org.

Boise Art Museum annual Gala 5:30 p.m.Boise Art Museum, $175/members, $200/non-members, $1,500/table of 8. “Art of Nature,”champagne, dinner, live auction. Tickets arelimited. 345-8330; ext. 10;www.boiseartmuseum.org.

Nampa Family Justice Center 9th annualHearts of Hope Gala Casino Royale Style6 p.m., Nampa Civic Center, $45, $80/couple,semi-formal. Food, fun money, live and silentauction, casino games, music by The Flavors.899-1418; www.nampafamilyjusticecenter.org.

Riverstone International School Ball andannual Auction 5 p.m. Boise Centre, “TheBaby Boomers’ Ball — Calling all Rebels, Rock-ers and Betty Crockers.” 424-5000; www.riverstoneschool.org.

Timberline High School Booster Club 7thannual Dinner-Auction 6 p.m. Stueckle SkyCenter, $50. Live and silent auction, raffle.Benefits athletic programs. 854-6273;www.wolvesathletics.com.

An Evening with the Borah Boosters:Through the Decades 6:30 p.m. Basque Cen-ter, $25, $40/at door, $200/table of 10. Din-ner, live entertainment, auction. 854-4392;http://borah.school.boiseschools.org.

SUNDAY, MARCH 10

The Bishops' House Amelia Jenks BloomerPresentation 4 p.m., The Bishops’ House, $10.Presentation about the suffragette and name-sake of women’s fashionable “bloomers.” 342-3279; www.thebishopshouse.com.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13 Women's & Children's Alliance 20th annualTribute to Women and Industry (TWIN)Luncheon Noon, Boise Centre, $60, $35/pasthonorees, $600/table of 10. Honors womenwho have excelled in their fields and madegreat contributions to their industry. 343-3688;www.wcaboise.org.

THURSDAY, MARCH 14 Idaho Society of Professional Land SurveyorsScholarship Auction 6 p.m. Riverside Hotel,$35. Dinner/auction in conjunction with annualconvention. 658-9970; www.idahospls.org.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, MARCH 15-16 Greenleaf Friends Academy 62nd annualQuaker Village Auction Friday evening and allday Saturday. www.greenleafacademy.org.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 16-17 Treasure Valley Orchid Society Show andSale 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. Hilton Garden Inn Boise Spectrum, $3, free/children under 12.www.treasurevalleyorchidsociety.org.

SATURDAY, MARCH 16Boise High School Bi-annual Gala and OnlineAuction 6 p.m. Stueckle Sky Center, $60; din-ner, dancing, auction, 854-4270; March 8-18,Online auction, www.boisebraves.afrogs.org.

NHS Community Services 30th AnniversaryCelebration and Fundraiser Rose Room, $75,dinner, entertainment, live and silent auction.Benefits Neighborhood Housing Services proj-ects. 258-6213; www.nhsid.org.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 22-23ChairHoops Wheelchair Basketball Tourna-ment Timberline High School, $150/10-playerteam; prizes for those who collect pledges of$150, $400. Gym practices every Saturdayfrom 4 to 6 p.m. at Fort Boise CommunityCenter, $5/day. See the Activities section atwww.cityofboise.org/parks; 608-7680.

SATURDAY, MARCH 23 Zoo Boise 8th annual Easter Eggstravaganza10 a.m.-5 p.m., Zoo Boise, zoo admission; pho-tos with the Easter Bunny, egg scrambles, facepainting, egg toss, more. www.zooboise.org.

Beat the Doc 4th annual Fun Run and CanineCanter 10 a.m. Eagle Island State Park, $30.50/runners, $35.50/runners with canine, $5 moreafter March 8, $5 off/No T-shirt option; 5k race,awards, race-day packet pick-up begins at 8:30a.m. 888-2910; www.intermountainvet.com.

American Business Women’s Association/Nampa Charter Chapter 15th annual EasterBonnet Scholarship Luncheon Noon, NampaCivic Center, $17, $12/age 12 and under;silent auction, raffles, door prizes and anEaster Bonnet Parade with prizes. 466-5132;www.abwanampa.org.

12th annual Guns N Hoses Charity HockeyGame 1:30 p.m. Centurylink Arena, donationsat door. Benefits Idaho Fallen FirefightersFoundation and Boise Peace Officer Memorial;opportunity to buy $15 tickets to evening’sSteelhead game (includes hot dog meal), athird of each ticket donated to Idaho FallenFirefighters Foundation. 570-6540; www.idahofff.org.

Idaho Human Rights Education Center Con-versation With The Author 7:30 p.m. BSUStudent Union, Lookout Room, $25; guestauthor is Gail Tsukiyama, whose works include“The Street of A Thousand Blossoms,” a storyof two orphan Japanese brothers during theWWII era. 345-0304; http://idaho-humanrights.org.

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25-27Saint Alphonsus Auxiliary Book Sale 8 a.m.-4 p.m., McCleary Auditorium.

FRIDAY, MARCH 29 Simply Cats 4th annual Catsino Night 6 p.m.Riverside Hotel, $30, casino-style gambling,food buffet, silent auction and raffle. Registerby March 25. 343-7177; http://simplycats.org.

SATURDAY, MARCH 30Firefighter Foundations Ash Dash 12:30p.m./Team Duathlon, 1 p.m./10k Ash Dash,2:30 p.m./1M Kids Run, $40/$35/$25; rain orshine run and duathlon start at National Intera-gency Fire Center. Kids race starts at the BoiseLibrary. Races end at Idaho Fallen FirefighterMemorial. Post-race potluck at The Sympo-sium. This is the first run to combine wildlandand city firefighter memorials and benefits bothfoundations. Packet pickup is 5-8 p.m. March28. 336-2296; www.bluecirclesports.com.

Children’s Home Society of Idaho 17thannual Culinary World Tour 5:30 p.m. BoiseCentre, $100, $950/table of 10. Fiesta Mexicotheme partnered with the Mexican Consulate(Ricardo Pineda and Virginia Machuca). Live/silent/reverse auctions, entertainment by BalletFolklorico Mexico Lindo and Mariachi Tley-otltzin. Themed attire is encouraged. Benefitsthe Community Sponsorship Program for earlyintervention and treatment. 343-7813;www.childrenshomesociety.com

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3 Capital Squares Annual Spring Swing SquareDance 7:30 p.m. Boise Valley Square DanceCenter, 6534 Diamond St., $5. Pie, ice cream,raffle. 344-9893 or 869-8415.

THURSDAY, APRIL 4 The First Tee Nine Core Values RecognitionLuncheon 11:30 a.m. Stueckle Sky Center.Speaker, video, awards ceremony of honoreeswho exemplify First Tee Values. Call for ticketsor information. 938-3411; www.thefirstteeidaho.org.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5Neighborhood Housing Services of IdahoPaint the Town Deadline for recipient applica-tions is April 5; deadline for team registrationis April 12. Paint the Town is June 8.www.nhsid.org.



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Girl Scouts of Silver Sage Cookie Seasonstarts Pre-ordered deliveries begin March 27,booth sales begin April 5. www.girlscouts-ssc.org.

Boise Braves Jazz Night 6 p.m. Mardi GrasBallroom, $20, $150/tables of 8. Headlinerband is Kings of Swing. 345-5354.

SATURDAY, APRIL 6Wish Granters “Dark to Dawn, A Walk toRemember” 6 a.m. Julius M. Kleiner Park,Meridian, $30, $35/after March 22. Walk fol-lowed by breakfast. 377-9029; http://wishgranters.org. ALSO, Wish Grantersis looking for volunteers to build playhousesfor the annual June Playhouse Raffle. 377-9029

Idaho Peace Officers Memorial Fund 9thannual High Speed Pursuit Half at the Prison10 a.m., 13400 S. Pleasant Valley Road, Kuna(Idaho Prison), Half Marathon/10k/5kRun/Walk to support Idaho Peace OfficersMemorial, $38, $28, $23. www.idahopeaceoffi-cersmemorial.com.

Soroptimist International of BoiseLUNAFEST 12:30 p.m. The Flicks, $15. Travel-ing film festival featuring short films by andabout women. Benefits Boise Soroptimist proj-ects and the Breast Cancer Fund. See filmlineup at www.lunafest.org/boise.

Giraffe Laugh 8th annual Bowl-A-Thon2 p.m. location TBD. Teams of five, pledgedrive, prizes. www.giraffelaugh.org.

Boise Philharmonic 19th annual Chef & Gour-met Gala 6 p.m. Boise Centre, $150,$1,500/table of 10, $2,500/corporate table of10. Roaring ‘20s theme, gourmet dinner(period dress, black tie optional), live and silentauction, entertainment by Boise PhilharmonicYouth Orchestra, College of Idaho LangroiseTrio, Verde Percussion. RSVP by March 5. 344-7849; www.boisephilharmonic.org.

The Prom — 7th annual Gala Presented byFriends in Action 8 p.m. Knitting Factory Con-cert House, $80, $140/couple, $180/reservedcouple, $500/table of 6. Entertainment by theBlues Brothers Rock N' Soul Review. 333-1363;www.fiaboise.org.

SUNDAY, APRIL 7 Idaho Human Rights Education Center Holo-caust Remembrance 12:30-2:45 p.m. TheFlicks, $10. “Inside Hana’s Suitcase” film pres-entation, plus presentation by Rabbi Dan Fink.345-0304; http://idaho-humanrights.org.

THURSDAY, APRIL 11 Telluride Mountainfilm Festival 7 p.m. Egypt-ian Theatre, $12, $10/students, films and raffle.Benefits trail maintenance projects in Idaho’sbackcountry. Sponsored by the Selway-Bitter-root Frank Church Foundation. Tickets avail-able March 11. Check website for film list:www.selwaybitterroot.org; 830-0924.

FRIDAY, APRIL 12Emmett Presbyterian Church CandlelightSpaghetti Dinner 5 p.m. Emmett PresbyterianChurch, $6, $4/kids under age 10.

Boise Nationals Soccer Club Gala Auctionand Online Auction 6 p.m. Courtyard Mar-riott, Eagle Road, $30. “Be There, Aloha”theme. 342-2249. Online auction: March 9-22http://auctions.readysetauction.com/boisenationalssoccer.

SATURDAY, APRIL 13The Beat Coach Pete Scholarship Run/Walk9:30 a.m., starts at BSU Student Rec Center,finishes at Bronco Stadium. Early registrationthrough April 7: $15/BSU students and kids 10and under, $25/everyone else, $60/family (upto 5); about a 3-mile race, race shirts for first3,000 entrants, 426-1131; http://rec.boisestate.edu/beatPete.

Saint Alphonsus Auxiliary Fashion Show andLuncheon 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. McCleary Audito-rium, Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Cen-ter, $20, $10/under age 12. 367-3997;www.saintalphonsus.org/auxiliary.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 19-20Idaho Mennonite World Relief Festival Col-lege Church of the Nazarene. 6-8:30 p.m. Fri-day, $6/dinner, free concert, handcrafteditems. 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, free admis-sion; food, crafts, kids activities, silent auction,quilt auction (11 a.m.). www.idahomrs.org.

SATURDAY, APRIL 20Daughters of the Nile Building Strong andHealthy Women 1-4:30 p.m. El Korah Shrine,$25; raffles and speakers. Benefits ShrinersHospitals for Children. 375-0159.

Good Samaritan Home Mad Hatter 5thannual Tea Party & Silent Auction 2 p.m.Owyhee Plaza, $20/before April 1, $25/after,RSVP by April 15. Tea, entertainment and auctions. 343-6051; http://goodsamaritanleague.com.

Boys & Girls Club of Ada County Wild WestAuction 5:30 p.m. Boise Centre. Dinner, live,silent and online auctions, games, raffles andlive music. 639-3162. Online auction April 1-25. 639-3167; http://wildwestauction.org.

SATURDAY, APRIL 27 March of Dimes March for Babies 9 a.m. JuliaDavis Park, Gene Harris Bandshell, pledgewalk; T-shirts for those who pledge $200 ormore, progressive gift cards for pledges of$350 ($15 gift cart) to more than $20,000($600). 336-5421; http://marchforbabies.org

4th annual Weiser River Trail 50k Relay andSolo Run 9-10 a.m. starts at Council RodeoGrounds, $60/solo, $200/team (up to 5); lateregistration $75, $250 after April 15; registeronline at www.bluecirclesports.com, race con-cludes in Midvale. Benefits Weiser River Trail.208-514-0362.

American Lung Association Fight For AirClimb 9 a.m. US Bank Building, DowntownBoise, $35, $100/pledge donations perclimber; routes include 36, 72, 108 and 144floors. 345-2216; www.lung.org.

Reel Recovery Idaho 2 Fly Fishing Derby 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Junayo Ranch, Reynolds Creek,Owyhee County, $300; includes lunch, raisesfunds to cover retreat experiences for Idahomen with cancer or in recovery. 208-866-2415;www.reelrecovery.org.

Idaho Chapter of Heritage Artists AnnualBunco Fundraiser 11 a.m., Red Rock ChristianChurch, $15; lunch, raffle, door prize. 459-2380; www.idahoheritageartists.org

Basque Museum & Cultural Center AnnualBenefit Dinner & Auction 6 p.m. Basque Cen-ter. Traditional Basque dinner, guest speaker,live and silent auction. Benefits cultural pro-grams. 343-2671; www.basquemuseum.com.

APRIL St. Jude’s Dream Home Giveaway Ticketssales begin in April; drawing in Junewww.stjude.org (click under Ways to Help).

THURSDAY, MAY 2Idaho Human Rights Education Center ArtAuction 4-7 p.m. Hampton Inn & Suites lobby,Downtown Boise; work of local artists. 345-0304; http://idaho-humanrights.org.

95th annual Boise Music WeekMay 3-11, various locations

This musical extravaganza will be high-lighted by a production of “South Pacific”at the Morrison Center. But the week willbe filled with a variety of other events, too.Here’s the tentative schedule:

SCHOOL NIGHT: Taco Bell Arena, a greatway to kick off the week, 7:30 p.m. Friday,May 3

MUSIC IN THE PARK: Gene Harris Band-shell, Saturday noon, May 4

CHURCH NIGHT: Cathedral of the Rockies,7:30 p.m., Sunday, May 5

NOON HOUR ORGAN RECITALS: St.Michael’s Cathedral, 12:15 p.m., Monday-Thursday, May 6-9

SHOWCASE CONCERT: Timberline HighSchool, 7:30 p.m., Monday, May 6

INTERNATIONAL DANCE NIGHT: Timber-line High School, 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 7

EGYPTIAN THEATRE NOON ORGANRECITAL: Friday, May 10

“SOUTH PACIFIC”: Velma V. MorrisonCenter for the Performing Arts, 7:30 p.m.,Wednesday-Saturday, May 8-11, PLUS anoon matinee on Saturday, May 11.

Watch for free tickets to the ShowcaseConcert, International Dance Night and“South Pacific” in the April 17 IdahoStatesman issue.

Find more information at www.boisemusicweek.org.


FRIDAY, MAY 3, AND SATURDAY, MAY 4Idaho Botanical Garden Plant Sale 4-8 p.m.Friday, members only (free); 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sat-urday, everyone welcome/regular IBG admis-sion prices. http://idahobotanicalgarden.org.

SATURDAY, MAY 4

Family Medicine Residency of Idaho Alumni& Friends Gala Dinner Stueckle Sky Center,$100/person/party ticket, $500-$2,000/mealtickets for 2-6 people; “Moonlight & Roses,”celebrity guests include Barbara Morgan. 954-8679; www.fmridaho.org.

Whitney Women's Chorale Dessert & Con-cert Matinee and evening shows, WhitneyUnited Methodist Church, 3315 OverlandRoad, $15. “On Broadway” solos and ensem-bles, dessert, show and silent auction. Benefitswomen’s music scholarship program, 841-2410; www.whitneywomenschorale.org.

National Association of Women BusinessOwners Business Women of the Year GalaDinner 6 p.m. Center at the Park, 1920Records Ave., Meridian, $75, $300/half table,$600/full table; dinner, silent auction, 658-9111 www.nawboboise.org.

MONDAY, MAY 6 Wish Granters Kegs4Kause 3-10 p.m. PayetteBrewing Co., Garden City. 50 percent of beersales benefit Wish Granters. 377-9029;http://wishgranters.org.

TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY, MAY 7-8 Saint Alphonsus Auxiliary Leather Sale7 a.m.-4 p.m., Dining Room B.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, MAY 9-10 St. Luke’s Medical Center Plant Sale 7 a.m.-5 p.m. May 9, Meridian St. Luke's. May 10,Boise St. Luke's. Benefits Children's Hospital.

FRIDAY, MAY 10 Saint Alphonsus Auxiliary Plant Sale 7 a.m.until sold out, Saint Alphonsus Portico.

Idaho Latino Scholarship Foundation Fund-raising Gala: A Night of Mariachi 6 p.m.Riverside Hotel, $75, dinner, live/silent auction.344-4207; http://idahosaberfoundation.org

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, MAY 10-11Idaho Horticulture Society Spring Plant Sale1211 S. Owyhee St., Boise; flowers, herbs andvegetable plants, benefits community projectsand scholarships www.idhort.com.

SATURDAY, MAY 11 Big Brothers Big Sisters Magical Moments6 p.m. CenturyLink Arena, $100, $1,500/table.A unique fundraiser that is planned by highschool students. 377-2552; www.bbbsidaho.org.

TUESDAY, MAY 14 Idaho Community Foundation Silver Anniver-sary Luncheon 11:45 a.m., Boise Centre, $50,$60/patron, $480/table of 10, $580/patrontable of 10. Keynote speaker is ICF FounderJohn Fery with special guest Mayor DaveBieter; attendees will choose $2,500 awardgrantee; 342-3535; www.idcomfdn.org.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 18-19 Camille Beckman Annual Scratch-and-DentSale 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, and 9 a.m.-3 p.m.,

Sunday, Camille Beckman Factory, 175 S. Rose -bud Lane, Eagle, on the back loading docks.Benefits women's and children's organizations.

SATURDAY, MAY 18The Friendship Foundation 27th annualFriendship Scramble 6:30 a.m. Warm SpringsGolf Course, $75, $300/team; lunch by ChefLou Aaron, entertainment, chance to win a car,benefits a selected youth seeking care at theMountain States Tumor Institute. 343-8568;www.thefriendshipscramble.org.

Famous Idaho Potato Marathon 8 a.m. LuckyPeak, 5k, 10k, half marathon, full marathon.Entry fee goes to YMCA; Wish Granters teamsgather pledges. 377-9029; http://wishgranters.org.

Meridian Parks and Recreation CommunityGolf Scramble 9 a.m. Lakeview Golf Club, $65,$250/4-person team. Lunch included. Registerby May 13. 888-3579; www.cityofmeridian.org.

Preservation Idaho 36th Annual Orchids andOnions Awards 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Trinity UnitedMethodist Church, Idaho Falls. Nominationsdue March 1. 424-5111; www.preservationidaho.org.

SUNDAY, MAY 19 St. Luke's Humphreys Diabetes Center 7thannual Sam Hartz Memorial Golf Scramble8 a.m. Eagle Hills Golf Course, $75, $125/holesponsor, lunch and awards, 871-3515http://hdiabetescenter.com.

18th annual Diabetes Ride 10 a.m., EagleFoothills, $35/adults, $15/kids, $3 discount perperson for team of 3 or more, fee includes raf-fle ticket, dinner and T-shirt; it’s also a pledgedrive, and those who collect $175 or more ridefree; horse rentals available; benefits youthprograms. www.hodia.org/diabetesride.

TUESDAY, MAY 21 Saint Alphonsus Auxiliary Ice Cream Social1-4 p.m. McCleary Auditorium, $5.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22 Saint Alphonsus Distinguished Citizen Dinner6 p.m. Saint Al’s McCleary Auditorium, $60;honorees TBA. 367-8991; www.saintalphonsus.org

THURSDAY, MAY 23 Idaho Fallen Firefighters Foundation AnnualBoise Mustache Ride 1 p.m., Lucky 13 pizze-ria, Warm Springs Avenue, $15; race ends atgrove. Fake mustaches are acceptable, ladies.570-6540 www.idahofff.org

SATURDAY, MAY 25 Redfish Lake Lodge 3rd annual Memorial Run“Running To Remember” 10 a.m. Redfish LakeLodge, $50/half marathon, $40/10k, $30/5k,$10/$5 more after May 14, $12/Friday pre-racemeal; benefits Sawtooth Interpretive HistoricalAssociation. 208-644-9096; www.redfishlake.com/redfish-lake-lodge-memorial-run.

MONDAY, MAY 27 Wish Granters 2nd Annual Wishes & WineIndian Creek Winery, $15, $35/carload; winetasting, food, live music, auction. 377-9029;www.wishgranters.org.

FRIDAY, MAY 31St. Luke’s 21st annual Kid for a Night. CasinoNight theme. 381-2123 or [email protected].

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The next issue of Treasure comes out May 18,so please send us your fundraising eventshappening through August by April 18. Emailinformation (text only; no attachments) [email protected]. If you alsowant your event in the Statesman calendars,enter it online at Events.IdahoStatesman.com.

Boise State University Auction 2013WHEN: 5 p.m. Saturday, May 4

WHERE: Boise Centre

TICKETS: $200, $2,000/table of 10;$3,000/corporate table sponsorships

WHAT IT IS: This every-other-year superevent raises money for athletic and aca-demic scholarships for BSU students. It’s ablack-tie optional event that includes din-ner, live and silent auctions. This is the 16thauction, and it has raised more than $4 mil-lion over the years. The 2011 auction raisedmore than half a million dollars.

This year’s theme is Forever Broncos. That’sbecause this year’s proceeds go into theAlumni Association Legacy Scholarshipendowment which will fund generationalBronco students “forever.” This award isavailable to incoming freshmen (3.5 GPArequired) who are related to a Boise Statealumnus or alumna, usually a parent, aunt oruncle. The fund paid out more than $94,000in the 2012-13 school year. As always, there

will be plenty of goodies up for auction thisyear. Count on this: sports stuff, even bettersports stuff, mouth-watering travel pack-ages and a variety of other temptations.There’s a good reason this event raises somuch money every odd year. This year’s co-chairs are Pamela Casey from Cafe Ole andJennifer Seamons from Key Bank.

ONLINE AUCTION through Feb. 26.(http://boisestateauction.afrogs.org). You’llfind plenty of Bronco-themed items andmemorabilia, tickets to athletic events,including Arena Club seats to the ColoradoState basketball game on March 2 and side-line passes to the Spring Scrimmage on April13. There are also restaurant and hotel giftcertificates, golf rounds, tickets to “Beautyand the Beast” and “West Side Story” at theMorrison Center and the Boise Philharmonic,massages, fitness memberships and more.

MORE INFORMATION: Kathy Harris, 426-1916 or www.boisestateauction.com.


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