Syringa Club James Castle Reception Photos!

Even big kids have fun with James Castle!

Syringa Club plants will be for sale at Spring Fling
inside the Commuity Hall.

Carol Smith and Ione Messick getting ready for
the reception.

Roscoe and Linda Harrold with
Library Director, Kathy Smith between them.

Gotcha! Cort Conley, Director of Literary Services at Idaho
Commission on the Arts, was extremely supportive of this project!
That's Marlo Glauser back there.

Syringa Club thanks Idaho Commission on the Arts and Cort Conley; National Endowment for the Arts; the Idaho Legislature; Artist in Residence, Troy Passey; Richard and Georgianna Goetsch; Marlo and Gary Glauser; GV School Superintendent Randy Schrader; Marla Edgerton and teachers at the school; Kim Bosse and the Crouch City Council; Lois Heffernan and David Bagnard; all the students who were involved with the project; and Syringa Club members who helped make it  happen.

BE SURE TO VISIT SYRINGA CLUB'S BOOTH AT SPRING FLING, APRIL 28.

INSIDE THE COMMUNITY HALL

PLANTS AVAILABLE WILL BE SYRINGA, CINQUEFOIL, NATIVE CURRANT,

RUGOSA AND WESTERN SAND CHERRY.

Bids Wanted on Weilmunster Park Pavilion

Pre-Bid Information Meeting for the Pavilion Contract:

The Garden Valley Recreation District will be hosting an informational meeting for contractors interested in bidding on the construction of the new pavilion.

The meeting will be Wednesday, April 25, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at the Garden Valley Library Community Room.

Contractors wishing to bid must hold a public works license. Bid instructions and plans for the pavilion will be available at the meeting. The structural engineer will also be present for questions.

Bids are due MAy 23, 2012.

For more information, please contact

Kari Wier kariwier@frontiernet.net

or Linda Bass lbass2@frontiernet.net.

 

News From GV Market!

NEIGHBORLY NEWS

Our update this week is short and sweet. For the upcoming weekend which is forecast to be warm and sunny, don’t forget to pick up your Grilling supplies and meats at the Market. Beautiful fresh produce is available with an added bonus on bananas….only 49 cents a lb!!!!

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Our Spring/Summer inventory has started to arrive. This week, check out bandanas, flip flops, gardening supplies and new toys for the kids.

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News for our Seniors -The Garden Valley Market has begun a “60 Plus” program. Every Thursday, local residents over the age of 60 will receive a 10% discount on their grocery shopping. Alcohol, Tobacco and Gasoline are excluded. You must have a 60 plus card participate and the card must be presented when you purchase your groceries. To pick up a card, please come to the Customer Service Desk. We will also be at the Garden Valley Senior Center on Tuesday, April 24^th. Local resident means Boise County, so we hope to see our friends from Lowman, Placerville, Centerville and Banks, as well as Garden Valley.

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We’re looking forward to introducing our bulk bin section over the next month. We are going to start with nuts and spices, but would love your feedback on what you would buy out of bulk bins.

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Lots of great buys in the Market as always this week, so we hope to see you soon!

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Have a great weekend!

Greg and Gerold

Garden Valley Market

208 462-3817

greg@gardenvalley-market.com

Boise Basin Job Creation Meeting on CuMo

John Cottingham

Contributed by John Cottingham

Job Creation and Retention Council

~ Major changes have occurred at the CuMo Exploration Project. The primary PR person at Scott Peyron & Associates for the CuMo Project has changed to Noelle Lovern, and the Project Manager has changed to Kyle Fend. The changes reflect the scope of work on the project of permitting and core drilling by Kirkness Drilling. We have sent CuMo a letter describing the need for them to support the "Boise County Adventures" program to demonstrate their support of all the businesses that are part of the tourism industry in Boise County. That is most of the businesses.

We have sent an invitation to the new CuMo people to come to a Boise Basin Job Creation and Retention Council (JC/RC) meeting that should turn into a Boise County JC/RC meeting that will define how CuMo will support all of our JC/RCs in our efforts to promote jobs in Boise County. That invitation said:

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Hi Noelle!

Nice to meet you today. The Boise Basin JC/RC is planning to meet at the Centerville fire house on either May (4 or) 11. We would like you as the new PR person, and Kyle Fend, the new project manager, to join us. There are 3 topics for discussion:

1 - The "Boise County Adventures" promotion that will support the businesses that cater to the tourist industry in Boise County, presently the largest employer. If we want them to testify positively at permitting hearings we should demonstrate CuMo's commitment to them.

2 - The cell tower project on which we have been working. Our hope is to bring Verizon or Century One cell service to Boise County and the way to justify that is the potential CuMo mine. We want CuMo to put some pressure on Verizon in particular because if the mine should open, cell service will be a requirement. It will take 3 years to get that service up and running and that is about the right schedule for the exploration project completion at the earliest so we have time.

3 - Last, if the mine does open, we have at least 3 years to get the skill sets of local residents up to the requirements for the mine. We plan to work with the State of Idaho to provide adult education to accomplish that and will need CuMo support for that program. It will help all the citizens of Boise County whether the mine opens or not. We will base the education program on the Thompson Creek Mine experience so will make NO assumptions regarding the potential CuMo mine. We will need support, however.

These are the items on the agenda, along with some other items. Let us know which of the dates you and Kyle can attend. You will find us very forthright. We need to know from this meeting if the Boise County JC/RC should continue to be an overt supporter of the mine or an intervenor. We can probably get the same objectives accomplished either way, but we would prefer to be a supporter.

Let us know, please. -- John

~ It is important that all the JC/RCs be represented at the meeting, which will be held at the Centerville Fire Station at 6 p.m., on May 11. I know that each of us doesn't like the roads to Centerville, but it is centrally located for all of us. If you would let me know how many you think will attend, that will be helpful. The room is not very large and we need to plan accordingly. We will put out meeting notes after the meeting for those who cannot attend, but they are never as good as being there in person. 

Many thanks -- John

John B. Cottingham
28 Southfork Lane
PO Box 802
Garden Valley, ID 83622
ID Phone: 208-462-3178
AZ Phone: 623-975-4213
Cell: 208-908-3818 (Verizon)
Email: cottinghmj@aol.com

County Commissioners Discuss Ballot Question

BOISE COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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P.O. Box 1300
Idaho City, Idaho 83631
(208)392-4431
Fax: (208)392-4473
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Terry C. Day, District I Commissioner; Jamie A. Anderson, District II Commissioner; Robert A. Fry, District III Commissoner Chairman; and Mary T. Prisco,  Clerk to the Board

April 17, 2012
IDAHO CITY

– Boise County Commissioners want to make sure information you have about the May 15th Special Election for a Budget Increase is accurate and timely. Candidate forums throughout the county are engaging voters in the discussion.

Monday’s Commissioners’ meeting included a presentation by Cameron Arial, Vice President of Public Finance with Zions Bank, on the mechanics of bonding and the benefits of pooled borrowing through the Idaho Bond Bank.

Boise County will retain Arial for financial advisor services. There is no out-of-pocket expense to the county at this time and he would be paid only if a bond is sold and with those proceeds. Arial will provide the County with specific estimates of the costs per $100,000 of assessed value for various term lengths.

Taxpayers will have this information as soon as Commissioners receive it. Watch for next week’s article and keep checking the website www.boisecounty.us for information as it becomes available.

Concerning the ballot question, (see the actual ballot language below) the new law stipulates the required ballot language and the Commissioners knew it was not as specific as some would like. The Board emphasizes that the impact of the budget increase is to pay the Alamar judgment only. Voting for the budget increase will allow Boise County to refinance the Alamar debt with a bond at a lower interest rate. Voting for the budget increase will provide an end to searching for legal remedies.

If the budget increase is approved, current and future commissioners will be forced to follow a strict repayment schedule as outlined in Idaho Code 63-1305A. The Commissioners must use the maximum amount of property tax permitted (3%), all forgone amounts, and all surplus funds to pay the debt first and the special election budget increase second. The levy rate is calculated on the remaining payment balance and cannot exceed 0.1% which equals $100 per 100,000 assessed value. When the Alamar debt is paid in full the taxpayers are protected from further use of the budget increases by a mandatory return to 2012 tax collection levels.

Commissioners invite questions and comments. Please contact: Bob Fry, 208 365-8705, fryrobert47@gmail.com ; Terry Day, 208 392-9505, tday@co.boise.id.us ; or Jamie Anderson, 208 462-3439, jamiea@frontiernet.net .

Talk Alamar With Commissioner Anderson!

Alamar Judgment Ballot Question

Please join

Commissioner Jamie Anderson

For one on one Q and A

April 17 in Garden Valley

8-11am at Wild Bill’s Bistro

Noon-2pm Garden Valley Market Café

5-7pm Garden Valley Senior Center

April 18 in Lowman

10am-1pm Sourdough Lodge

2-5pm Haven Hot Springs

April 19 in Garden Valley

9-11am Garden Valley Senior Center

Noon-2pm Wild Bill’s Bistro

5-7pm Garden Valley Market Café

If you can’t make one of the scheduled times, please email
your questions or concerns to jamiea@frontiernet.net or
call 208 462-3439

Boise County's website

http://www.boisecounty.us/ has been updated to include an Alamar Judgment
tab.  We are in the process of adding documents and please let me know if
there is additional information you would like.  Here is what I have for the
election link there so far (nothing posted there as of this morning).

Thanks for all your help.

Jamie

Student Art Reception: James Castle Project

Garden Valley Syringa Club is hosting a reception for their James Castle Project on Sunday, April 15, between 2:00 and 4:00 p.m., at Crouch Community Hall.


Castle has become celebrated in many parts of the world as "one of the most interesting discoveries in North America in the 20th century".  He created fascinating and conceptual works out of found materials such as cardboard, string and soot. The artist was born deaf and never learned to read or write. He spent most of his life with his family, in Garden Valley. (See GV Daily News post Artist James Castle...1/16/2012)




Kindergarten, second, fourth and eighth grade Garden Valley School students participated in art workshops for three days this week, taught by Idaho Artist-in-Residence, Troy Passey. Mark that in the photos, all students have ear plugs, to experience what it was like for Castle to work. Art teacher Marla Edgerton, Passey and Syringa members marvelled at how quiet the room became once the plugs were in place and the concentration was a thing to behold!


The reception will include a student show inspired by Castle; film of the workshops; video on James Castle; and original works of art by Castle, owned by the City of Crouch, will be on view.
Refreshments will be served.





This project is supported in part by the Idaho Commission on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Idaho State Legislature.There is no fee for this reception but donations will be gratefully accepted.