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- Should the city have rejected Grace Lutheran's offer for ex-Ballard building?
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By Sean Ellis, sellis@journalnet.com POCATELLO — The possibility of landing a major employer won out over a church’s desire to relocate to a 200,000-square-foot building in town. After being informed that an unnamed employer has made an offer on the former Ballard Medical building, the City Council unanimously decided Thursday not to allow Grace Lutheran Church and School to apply for a conditional use permit to purchase the vacant building. The council very reluctantly and apologetically voted 6-0 not to approve Grace Lutheran’s request to apply for the permit to purchase the massive Ballard building at 1999 Alvin Ricken Drive as the new home for its church, school and child care facility. “This was the hardest decision I think the council has had to make,” Mayor Brian Blad said after the vote. Bannock Development Corp. Executive Director Gynii Gilliam informed the council during its regular meeting that she was notified...
BLACKFOOT, ID (August 26, 2010) – For two nights in September, the 2010 Eastern Idaho State Fair’s Rock Around the Stock theme comes to life when Foreigner, Kenny Rogers and The Oak Ridge Boys take the Grandstand for award-winning performances. The music begins with Foreigner on Thursday, September 9 at 8 pm. Featuring hit songs “Cold As Ice,” “Hot Blooded,” “Urgent,” “Jukebox Hero” and “I Want To Know What Love is”, Foreigner’s thrilling mix of blustery blues and impeccably crafted pop continues to captivate generation after generation of music fans. The band is led by guitarist Mick Jones, the architect behind Foreigner’s extraordinary catalogue of smash hits, who formed the band in 1976. Today, over 70 million albums later, Foreigner is an ensemble of talented musicians each adding their individual credentials to the mix to make the band stronger and more powerful than ever. “I’m grateful to be surrounded by the talented musicians that make up Foreigner today,” says Jones, who has crafted some of rock music’...
Old Town Pocatello First Friday Art Walk September 3, 2010 Wrap up your summer fun at Art Walk this Friday night in Old Town between 5:00pm and 8:00pm. Participating businesses invite you to share the excitement and creativity of area artists and musicians. • Mind Your Body Wellness Studio S. Main – Chocolates! Lenna will offer Ukrainian food, Yoga, Theta healing with Carey. • Mind Your Own Beadness 200 S. Main – Station Square will host music by Caleb Morrison. Bee’d Happy clothing, Laura Zuber silver jewelry, Walter kindle’s Vector Art. • Vinyl Perk 155 S. Main will feature Artist / Photographer David Halverson. Enjoy a sweet tea or Iced Mocha. • Cynthia Louise Boutique S. Main (Whitman Hotel) will feature local jewelry, clothing and accessories. ...
Do you think it's a great idea? Or should people be allowed to smoke if they chose to? What do you think? 
SAGEBRUSH ARTS FEST will be held September 11th and 12th, 2010 Saturday – 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Sunday – 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Free to the Public located at 5th Avenue and Carter Street on the beautiful lawn of Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho This Arts Fest is sponsored by US Bank and the Pocatello Art Center of Pocatello. The Children’s Art Yard, which is free to children at the Sagebrush Arts Fest, is one of our main features during the weekend. Bring your children and grandchildren while you too enjoy the beautiful art which include oils, watercolors, photography, jewelry and pottery, just to name a few mediums. You may get a balloon for your little one and sit around the stage for entertainment all day if you wish. The Sagebrush Arts Fest began in the late 1960’s as an art show and sale. It grew to become “Art in the Park” and was located in the mid-1980’s at Upper Ross Park. In the early 1990’s it was moved...
Do you think these are much needed improvements? Or should the money be spent on projects elsewhere? Will the construction affect you? Public input sought By Sean Ellis sellis@journalnet.com POCATELLO — Federal dollars will cover most of the cost of major improvements to the Alameda Road-Jefferson Avenue intersection, while the Portneuf Medical Center will pay for most of a project that will improve safety at the Hospital Way-Center Street intersection. The city will ask the public this week for its input on how to best improve the Alameda-Jefferson intersection, while the Hospital Way-Center Street project has already been approved and is due to be completed this year. The Alameda-Jefferson project is still in the conceptual stage and an open house will be held Wednesday to discuss proposed improvements to reduce traffic congestion along the major arterial. The meeting will be held from 3-6 p.m. at City Hall. Engineering...
BLACKFOOT, ID (August 31, 2010) – The 18th annual Idaho State Arm Wrestling Championships will be held on Saturday, September 4th at the Eastern Idaho State Fair in Blackfoot. The event – held at 2 pm at the Key Bank Community Free Stage located behind the grandstands – is open to the public to compete. There will be weight divisions for all ages starting with a class of age 6 & under for the kids, as well as divisions for those over age 40. “We have one of the largest events in the West with a large turnout of youth entries,” says tournament director Elaine Blik of Aberdeen. “It is a fun event to watch especially when the younger children take the stage. All the parents and grandparents are there to support the kids in their quest for a state title.” Registration begins at 12 pm and the competition will begin at 2 pm with the Novice Divisions. A parent or guardian signature is required for those under the age...
Without a doubt, the news that the Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo is pulling up stakes in Pocatello and heading elsewhere is a big loss for the community. The event put the Gate City on the national rodeo map, not to mention generating up to $6 million annually. Considering the toll of the national recession on Pocatello, such a loss probably could not have occurred at a worse time. But there is a silver lining to this misfortune. The Pocatello Frontier Rodeo Association believes it has landed a replacement. It’s hoped that the Wrangler Million Dollar Tour rodeo will make a stop in April at Holt Arena, continuing the Gate City’s decades old rodeo tradition. Local rodeo association officials are thankful there will likely be a rodeo to replace the DNCFR, even if it will be a less significant event. “The Million Dollar Tour series is the fastest growing segment of pro rodeo right...
Glen Beck recently held his "Restoring Honor" near the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream Speech." Was this appropriate? Why or why not? THUMBS DOWN: To the legal mess which has ensnared the plan to allow oversized loads of oil refinery equipment to be hauled on U.S. Highway 12, a federally protected river corridor linking Lewiston to Billings, Mont. Gov. Butch Otter and all four members of the state’s congressional delegation gave enthusiastic support to the plan last year, but now Second District Judge John Bradbury has ordered the Idaho Transportation Department to take another look in order to ensure public safety and convenience. The fear is that an accident on the curving, two-lane highway could harm the Clearwater and Lochsa rivers, or tie up the road for hours. Oil company ConocoPhillips is appealing. The Conoco-Phillips equipment was due to precede Exxon Mobil Corp.’s proposed shipments of more than 200 hugely oversized loads of oil machinery from Lewiston along Highway 12 into Montana, then on to the Kearl Oil Sands project in Alberta, Canada. THUMBS UP, or maybe down: To Bannock County Republicans...
By Glenn Rawson It seems that we focus so much on the Godhood of God that we fail to recognize the Fatherhood of God. For all the names He bears in Scripture, He asks us to call Him “Heavenly Father.” Now indeed, He is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-just. He governs the universe and holds the destinies of men and nations in His hands. But so too, in every worthy sense of the word, He is a Father. He is kind, gentle, loving, and solicitous of our welfare. As any good Father would, He will also discipline us when it is necessary. May I share a story to illustrate my point? Typically, when we think of the story of the prophet Jonah, we think of a whale and how Jonah was swallowed for trying to run away from the mission that God had given him. And indeed; he was. But there’s another element to that story that’s worth telling. Jonah was a prophet during the time that Israel was ruled by Assyria, a ruthless world power. When Jonah was commanded...
By Ed Jordan The town has been abuzz this last week with the arrival of the Extreme Makeover team to totally rebuild the house of a family in Pocatello. Many have volunteered to help in the project in some capacity, and many others have gone to the site to watch the transformation. This whole theme is interesting to me. Out of thousands of potential candidates, one family is selected to have their house totally remade so that in the end it is brand new. It is quite an undertaking, and quite a benevolent concept. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to receive an extreme makeover of your life? What things about your life would you want changed, if it were possible for someone to come in and totally transform your life? Would it be your library (brain), filled with thousands of memories? Would you dump them all, or dump the unpleasant ones, or not want to lose any of your memories be they good or bad? Would you change certain attitudes?...
By Jodeane Albright It’s one of the worst possible nightmare scenarios when a mine collapses. It’s also one of the greatest miracles when all 33 of the miners survive. Yet they are trapped and will remain so until at least December after the Aug. 5 mine cave-in under northern Chile’s dry, rocky and barren Atacama Desert. In the meantime, how are these miners to survive? The next few months will be a tricky time for these miners, who, before the collapse, brought up gold and copper from the site. They did not work in the best of conditions before, and now their situation is difficult, to say the least. On Sunday, Aug. 22, the miners finally connected with the rest of the world when a slim 6-inch hole was made so that the miners can get some nutrition, some supplies. They can communicate — sort of — with their families and loved ones through this 6-inch hole. They now have three of these narrow bore holes. The process to build the corridor...
By Vanessa Grieve vgrieve@journalnet.com POCATELLO — A spring event that’s helped fuel Pocatello’s economy for more than two decades, the Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo, is pulling out of the community, officials announced Thursday morning. But local rodeo organizers said during a press conference at the Holiday Inn they may have already found a suitable replacement. The chairman of the Pocatello Frontier Rodeo Association, JD Johnston, said plans are in the works for Pocatello to replace the event next spring with the 15th Silver tour stop in the Wrangler Million Dollar Tour rodeo. “The DNCFR is leaving Pocatello,” Johnston said. “This is the next progressive step in professional rodeo.” Recent studies have concluded the DNCFR’s economic impact to Southeast Idaho ranges from $4.5 million to $6 million. The new host city of the DNCFR, which has gained national...
EISF 2010 info. • Gate tickets are $6 for adults, $2 for kids ages 6 to 11 and $4 for senior citizen (65+). Gates open at 8 a.m. and vendors are open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day. • Carnival wristband days are Tuesday, Sept. 7, Wednesday, Sept. 8 and Thursday, Sept. 9. The $25 cost for the wristband includes gate admission. • For more information, call 785-2480 or visit www.funatthefair.com • To get to the EISF grounds, take I-15 to Blackfoot and take exit 93. Turn east into town and drive down Bergner Blvd. It will eventually become a one-way street called Judicial. Turn left on Broadway St. and continue several blocks. The fairgrounds will be directly ahead. By Jenny Hopkins jhopkins@journalnet.com BLACKFOOT—It is a rare occurrence to be able to see hypnotized people performing the chicken dance in front of a hoard of giggling onlookers, drivers intentionally smashing up their cars, and three legendary recording groups all in one week —...
Are they necessary? Press release POCATELLO — A part of the Pocatello/Chubbuck School District 25’s effort to reduce General Fund monies spent on extra-curricular activities included the cost of using Holt Arena for home varsity football games. Part of the Holt adjustments, for this coming year, include raising all categories of ticket prices by $2 and adding a $2 ticket fee for each person using a pass or student activity card. Fans with the passes or activity cards will need to purchase those tickets either at the regular Holt ticket booth or sometime during the week before each game at the Bursar’s Office at one of the District 25 high schools. 2010 Holt Arena prices for Varsity High School Football Adults $8 Children 12 and under $4 Local Middle School students as well as visiting high school students $6 Other than IHSAA yearly and Lifetime passes and Dairymen of Idaho passes, all other passes such as local high school activity cards, District #25 faculty and staff passes,...
POCATELLO — Idaho State University will host a range of entertainment productions in the 2010-11 “A Season of Note” series held in the Joseph C. and Cheryl H. Jensen Grand Concert Hall of the L.E. and Thelma E. Stephens Performing Arts Center. There are nine shows in this year’s series, including everything from The Harlem Gospel Chio and JIGU! – Thunder Drums of China, to Blue Suede Shoes – The Ultimate Elvis Experience. “We’re again presenting a wide variety of programs for our patrons to enjoy,” said George Casper, ISU director of events. “This is as strong of a series as we’ve put on yet.” Tickets range in price from $20 to $36, depending on the show and seat selection. Season tickets go on sale Aug. 9 and individual performance tickets go on sale Aug. 23. Tickets can be purchased at the Stephens Performing Arts Center Box Office, open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through the summer...
By the Marsh Valley Performing Arts Committee MARSH VALLEY — The Marsh Valley Performing Arts Committe has announced the 2010-2011 “Diamond” Season. Tickets for each event are $12 per person for adults or $6 children 12 and under. Season tickets are available for $60 per person by calling 776-5389. Individual tickets will be available by phone, or at Piano Gallery and Main Street Music in Pocatello. All shows will be held at the Marsh Valley Performing Arts Center next to Marsh Valley High School in Arimo. This season will feature a raffle for a 1-carat diamond solitaire ring, valued at over $4000, donated by Molinelli's Jewelers in Pocatello. The ring will be awarded at the final concert of the season on March 3, 2011. Raffle tickets available at each show for $5 each. Season ticket holders will receive 10 raffle tickets at no charge. Show tickets purchased...
Great for the local economy? Overly-hyped? What do you think? By Debu Majumdar How is one to be judged as educated? In the 19th century, knowledge of the classics and philosophy was the criteria. I propose that in this century the criterion should be the ability to decipher and judge what is true in the midst of misinformation and disinformation. Information was power sometime back, but now there is so much false and obfuscated information, that power is deciding what or how much is true. For example, there was no mention of ‘death panels’ in the Health-care Bill, but many believed in their existence. People who bought that story are the ones I’d call uneducated because they didn’t have the ability to judge the validity of the information — and didn’t look for the facts behind the story being spewed by hoodwinking politicians. So I wish to define education as the learning that gives one the ability to judge true knowledge from falsehood, figure out facts from half-truths, disinformation and misinformation, and realize...
It’s taken 18 years for the community to pave 8 miles of its fragmented Greenway trail system, and it’s become clear that the city won’t see significant progress on completing this asset without a dramatic change of approach. That’s why Mayor Brian Blad and the City Council should be commended for starting a discussion on the only approach with the potential to produce results for what could become a vital cog in the city’s infrastructure. City leaders are considering the possibility of using eminent domain — forcing property owners to grant easements for the trail in exchange for fair financial compensation — to fill the gaps. At present, Portneuf Greenway Foundation members estimate there are 22 parcels where easements haven’t been granted. Greenway officials have mailed letters to those property owners urging them to reach agreements to avoid the need for condemnation. A progress meeting on the issue between Greenway and city officials is scheduled for...
The start of a new school year at Idaho State University is a special time. The infusion of new faces on campus brings a heightened sense of excitement and energy to this community, and the new year also brings with it an ongoing buffet of events and activities for us all to enjoy and appreciate. While all communities enjoy certain advantages, there seems to be a special pride and privilege of living in a university town. This fact is sometimes taken for granted and it is time that we do a better job of celebrating and recognizing our good fortune. It is also time that we stop thinking of this community and the university as two separate entities. We are one community, and as a university town we need to walk together in lock step. To do that the qualities and advantages of each entity need to be recognized, valued and appreciated. We need to remember that it’s the community that caters to the university’s needs and realizes the important...
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