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I’ve struggled since April to come up with a calendar featuring events that didn’t face being cancelled due to the pandemic we’ve all come to know and loath. I found some programs online, so that worked. But let’s face it, all the great events we’ve come to cherish just didn’t happen – or aren’t going…

By Samuel P. Zink Jr., DMD Our first son was born during my final year of dental school in Louisville, Kentucky. We were expecting a blond-haired, blue-eyed baby. He came out with a handsome full head of reddish-brown hair and a quizzical brow. We enjoyed being parents, but sometimes I wondered, is it supposed to…

By Chuck Carpenter Throughout the fall, winter, and early spring when the sheep producers run their sheep on BLM allotments, the sheepherder usually stays in a sheep camp. The camps can be moved with a pick-up or small tractor. By late spring or early summer, most of the sheep bands move up into the higher…

Caption for Lawn Lessons: Music lessons once taught indoors by Marcus Marianthi, front at right, are now conducted outside due to COVID-19. (Courtesy photo) By Dennis Lopez http://www.boisemusiclessons.com/ “Hey, Dad. Let’s learn to play the violin together!” It seemed like a logical father-daughter request from my oldest daughter, Amy. After all, she was only suggesting…

The following information is provided by Wednesday’s Child, an organization that helps Idaho foster children find permanent homes. Meet 12-year-old Kaden D., a sweet jokester who one day hopes to become a marine biologist, a mechanic or an architect. Kaden is amazing at building things. He loves to build with wood, Legos or anything else…

By Luke Erickson So, you knew this had to be an article about COVID-19, right? I mean, has there been any other kind of article since March? Let’s say that hypothetically I managed to go an entire article without mentioning Corona…you’d be like, “Uhh, dude, do you live in a cave or something? And if…

By Sandy McDaniel A mother called me recently, very distraught that her family was in turmoil over an event that happened the previous night. Her daughter, age 12, had just received a new basketball for her birthday. Her younger brother asked to use it at a game that night during half-time. Her answer was affirmative,…

Now more than ever, the community needs our support and GoGo squeeZ loves to be able to share healthy snacks at events and programs around the Treasure Valley. But when quarantine requirements canceled almost everything starting March, leaving doctors and nurses working nonstop for days and millions of families unable to feed their family, the…