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Wade Douglas .......................... Page 3

Linda Hoxie .............................. Page 4

Terry Oft ..................................... Page 6

Kelly Jensen ............................... Page 7

Chrystel Hohmann ............. Page 10

Glenn Bishop .......................... Page 11

Dan Chudleigh ...................... Page 14

Perry Goodman .................... Page 17

Bob Speelman ........................Page 18

Duane Petty ............................. Page 19

Scott Lundy ............................. 2

Jill Conant ................................ Page 23

Rudy Marostica .................... Page 26

Tom Braniff ............................ Page 27

Tom Gray .................................. Page 30

Dan Shepard ........................... Page 34

Scott Dayley ............................ Page 35

Joni Huff ................................... Page 37

Bob Webb ...................................Page 39

Angie Allum ............................ Page 40

Valerie Martindale .............. Page 42

Dennis Taggart ...................... Page 46

Claire Bower .......................... Page 47

Arwyn Larson ....................... Page 48

Mo McLean ............................. Page 50

Ann Curtis ............................... Page 52

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munity, and this issue of Horizons

Magazine focuses on a number of these

individuals who go to work every day

trying to make our lives better in one

way or another.

WILLIAM LOPEZARGUS OBSERVER

ONTARIOService was something that

Wade Douglas of Ontario

knew he was interested in

since he was a teenager, and, at

26, he has been providing that

service to the community as a

patrol officer for the Ontario

Police Department for more

than two years now.

Almost immediately after

graduating from college in

2009 with a major in business

administration and a minor in

criminal justice, Douglas ap-

plied at multiple law enforce-

ment agencies and Ontario’s

local law enforcement depart-

ment snatched him up.

“When he applied for the

Ontario P.D. I knew he had ap-

plications out at other agen-

cies,” Ontario Chief of Police

Mark Alexander said. “It was

very fortunate that we were

able to have him come work for

us.”

Alexander said that what

makes Douglas so valuable as

an officer is his education cou-

pled with the fact he grew up

in the area and already had so

many established connections.

Being a police officer in a

community such as Ontario

comes with several challenges,

Douglas said.

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CHERISE KAECHELEARGUS OBSERVER

PAYETTELinda Hoxie, 49, never

thought of being a dispatcher.

She admits she was afraid to

speak on a citizens band radio.

But now, after 25 years, she

loves it and said it has become

a part of her.

Hoxie is from Southern

California and moved to

Counsel when she was 15

years old. She and her hus-

band, Mike, were married

when Linda was 17 years old.

Hoxie said her friend, who

was a dispatcher, told her

Adams County was looking

for a dispatcher, but she didn’t

think she’d like the job.

Hoxie had a number of differ-

ent jobs beginning when she

was 13 years old when she

worked at a carpet factory.

After that, she worked as a jan-

itor, waitress, cooked and

cleaned at a hospital and

worked as a CPA.

Nothing in her previous job

history indicated a future in

dispatching. In 1988, however,

when she heard about the job

opening and was offered the

position and accepted it, she

found she enjoyed it.

“I was surprised when I got

the job that I loved it. I just fell

in love with it,” Hoxie said.

After a 12-week training

course working with supervi-

sors and dispatchers, receiving

CPR and first-aid training and

completing a two week post-

academy course, she was ready

to become a dispatcher.

A few years later, in 1991, she

and her husband moved to

Payette hoping to find a better

economy for jobs.

Hoxie got a job with Payette

County dispatchers and has

not looked back since.

Hoxie knows the importance

of concentrating on her job

and not allowing her emotions

to get in the way of it.

“You have to concentrate ...

on the job you need to get

done,” Hoxie said. “That’s the

hardest part. It’s not hard to

stay calm, but it’s hard to not

feel emotions.”

She said the hardest part is

when she is directing someone

on how to perform CPR on a

family member and hearing

the emotion over the phone.

“It gets pretty intense some-

times.”

Hoxie said she remembers

one call in particular when a

child drowned in the canal. It

still bothers her, she said. She

remembers a lot of days that

particularly stand out in re-

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short-handed on resources,”

Douglas said. “So that means

we have to investigate every-

thing from personal crimes to

property crimes, and we must

take on that investigation our-

selves, from the beginning to

completion.”

That challenge, however, is

part of what makes this job so

rewarding and satisfying,

Douglas said.

“When you’ve been working

on a case for a while and it fi-

nally comes to a close and you

see that look of gratitude on

people’s faces, it’s really re-

warding,” Douglas said.

Another big challenge is com-

ing to work and just not know-

ing what is going to happen

that day, Douglas said. Officers

have to mentally prepare them-

selves for everything from a

simple shop-lifting to an armed

robbery. Already having had

so many experiences in such a

short time can feel a bit over-

whelming, Douglas said.

A particular memorable mo-

ment was when he helped out

an elderly woman who had

several items stolen from her,

he said.

“This investigation took

months, and when we were fi-

nally able to get a prime sus-

pect, the look on her face was

very rewarding to see,”

Douglas said.

Douglas also said it’s great to

see others who serve the com-

munity in different capacities

working together toward the

same goal. A good example of

this was the recent disaster at

Lions Park during the

America’s Global Village

Festival, Douglas said.

A vehicle crashed into stands

full of people watching a per-

formance, injuring more than

20 of them, Douglas said.

“We had this huge event hap-

pen, and it was great to see

paramedics, police and others

work together so well during a

major incident like that,”

Douglas said. “I was really

proud to serve along side so

many people like that.”

Douglas said that serving his

community as a police officer is

a very rewarding career.

“I haven’t been doing this for

too long, so I know I still have

a lot to learn, but I’m definitely

enjoying it,” Douglas said.

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ONTARIOTerry Oft has fulfilled his

goal of working with animals

in his career as a farmer, and,

though his operation is small

compared with others, his fo-

cus is making impacting the

cattle industry by producing

top-quality bulls.

“I started farming in 1974,”

Oft said.

He graduated from Nyssa

High School in 1966, attend-

ed Treasure Valley

Community College and

graduated from Oregon State

University with a degree in

animal science.

Right out of college Oft

worked as a sales representa-

tive for Hormel before return-

ing home to start farming.

“I enjoy working outside,”

Oft said. As a sales represen-

tative he was in the car all day.

He and his father, who Oft

said had worked on the

Owyhee dam and the

Malheur Siphon, started their

farming operation by

Anderson Corner on the

Idaho side.

“We were truck gardening,”

gard to the calls she received.

There is always something

new to do each day, however,

and it certainly is never mo-

notonous, she said.

Hoxie has two children,

Brandon, who is 28 years old

and an agricultural high

school teacher in Idaho, and

Katie, who is 25 years old and

works as a certified medical as-

sistant at Saint Alphonsus.

After the two children

moved out of the house, Hoxie

said she began doing a lot of

crafts. She makes jewelry, loves

to draw and has recently

picked up painting. She calls it

the “ADD of crafting.”

On top of that, Hoxie builds

websites and posts her differ-

ent artwork on them as well as

her traveling experiences. She

plans to build the websites up

and sell her artwork to go to-

ward her retirement fund.

She said she and her hus-

band love to travel, and when

they both have days off they go

on a trip somewhere, she said.

Their most recent trip was to

Las Vegas as well as Arches

National Park and

Canyonlands National Park,

both in Utah.

Hoxie said her biggest influ-

ence in her life is her parents.

“They pretty much formed

me into who I am today,” she

said. “My dad was very strong

and yet sensitive. He taught

me to recognize that there’s

good in every person. My

mom taught me about life,

honesty and caring. She was

very supportive and taught me

to not be judgmental.”

Hoxie said if she could do

anything else, she’d be retired.

There is no other job she’d

rather have, she said.

“I love this job. It’s something

that has become a part of me,”

she said. “I’ve been doing it for

quite awhile. I like the aspect

of the job that you get to help

people.”

FROM PAGE 4I love this job. It’ssomething thathas become apart of me. I’vebeen doing it for quite awhile. Ilike the aspect of the job that youget to help people.

— Linda HoxiePayette County dispatcher

’Oft’s main focus israising quality cattle

SEE PAGE 8

JESSICA KELLERARGUS OBSERVER

ONTARIOMalheur County Health

Department nurse Kelly

Jensen said she never consid-

ered herself very public or

community-minded in the

past.

In fact, she did not go to col-

lege initially to pursue a career

in nursing or public health, for

that matter. That changed,

however, in one day.

Jensen said she was attend-

ing Boise State University and

working as a waitress at

Denny’s Restaurant in down-

town Boise when one of her

regular customers, a disabled

veteran whom she helped

every day, suggested she shad-

ow the staff at the Veterans

Administration hospital,

where he worked, one day. Her

customer made the arrange-

ments, and after her day of

shadowing, Jensen said she

knew she wanted to be a

nurse.

“So it was just lucky that he

did that for me,” she said. “The

very next semester I decided to

get into nursing school.”

She transferred to Treasure

Valley Community College

and received her associates in

nursing.

“I hadn’t actively been think-

ing about nursing,” she said. “I

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he said.

Having started with 80 acres,

Oft now farms 330 acres near

Ontario and lives in a house

that has been in his family for

100 years, he said.

Oft said he had always want-

ed to have pure-bred cattle, and

the opportunity came in 1978,

when he heard that someone

was selling his cattle and that

herd that was for near Notus.

He went at looked them, stand-

ing on the railroad with a flash-

light to check them out late at

night, he said.

“They were an outstanding

set of cattle,” he said.

He sealed the deal the next

day, which was a Sunday, he

said.

His current farming opera-

tion focuses on producing feed

for his cattle.

Oft said he was partial to

both Hereford and Black

Angus cattle, but the herd he

had opportunity to buy was

Black Angus, which has been

his cattle of choice ever since.

One major emphasis Oft has

added to his operation is the

annual bull sale put on with

Bob and Mary Ann Maag,

Deanne Maag and Cliff and

Gayle Cook.

“The sale has been very suc-

cessful,” he said.

Raising cattle is all about ge-

netics or breeding to get the

right traits, he said.

“It’s turned into a high tech

business,” he said.

At one time, a 1,000-pound

bull was a record, Oft said, but

now if a bull does not reach

1,000 pounds in year, it is a

cull.

Oft is a member of the

American Angus Association

and has been a delegate to the

association’s national conven-

tion and served a year as presi-

dent of the Malheur County

Cattlemen’s Association.

Outside of the industry, Oft

served on the Malheur County

Planning Commission for eight

years and currently is chair-

man of the Malheur County

Vector Control Board. He was

interested in serving on the

board as a way to help make

the county a better place to

live, he said. It all started with

the black fly, Oft said, but the

focus soon shifted to control-

ling mosquitoes that spread

West Nile virus.

His service, however, has

been more than just about agri-

culture and land. Oft, a basket-

ball player in high school,

coached freshman basketball

for 31 years at Fruitland High

School and seven years at

Ontario.

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FRUITLANDOriginally from the Chicago

area, Chrystel S. Hohmann

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blend her family and to bring

her therapeutic and medical

massage skills to the area in

hopes of working with the hos-

pitals and other medical facili-

ties in the area.

“I would like to be able to ed-

ucate the surrounding commu-

nities about the benefits of

medical therapeutic massage

and health maintenance,”

Hohmann said.

Hohmann is the owner of

Therapeutic Outcomes in

Fruitland.

“My goal is to address my

clients’ specific needs and to

work with my clients and their

health care providers so that

they get the best care they can

get,” Hohmann said.

If one suffers from overall

body aches, chronic or acute

muscle pain, or tingling, sciatic

pain or an injury, Hohmann

can relieve the pain with mas-

sage, she said, adding if some-

body is struggling with a job or

family stresses, lack of energy,

mental or physical fatigue or

depression, massage can also

help that. Hohmann is a li-

censed medical massage thera-

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PAYETTEFor Glenn Bishop, life has

been an adventure. He has

done a little bit of several

things from serving in the mil-

itary to working as an electri-

cian.

His f libbertigibbet attitude

took him several places, yet

nothing was serious enough

for him to call it a full-time ca-

reer. That was, until nine years

ago.

That’s when Bishop discov-

ered his love for driving truck.

Starting with the Gordon

Trucking industry, Bishop

drove for the company for one

year, then took a job with

Seneca Food in Payette.

He has been there ever since.

“To be honest, I’m pretty

dull,” Bishop said in be-

tween projects at his

Payette home.

Bishop’s life has

been anything but

dull. After graduating

from Fruitland High

School in 1980, Bishop

joined the U.S. Navy un-

til his discharge in 1983.

Following his time

in the serv-

ice, he

traveled

and

did

odd

jobs until working as an electri-

cian in his father’s business,

Fruitland Electric, in 1989.

Bishop’s father, Gene, a

co-owner of the business,

passed away in 1993,

but Bishop continued

on with the business

until 2002. Bishop’s

mother passed away in

1997, and co-owner

Dave Koeppen bought

the business out after

that.

Now,

Bishop

said

he is

ea-

gerly anticipating his 50th

birthday later this year, so long

as it means one of his favorite

things to do: spending time

with his family.

“I love to swim, and I love to

spend time with my family,” he

said. “That’s pretty much it.”

Bishop and his wife, Karen,

have four children, all daugh-

ters, and all but one have

grown and left home. His fam-

ily, including grandchildren,

now stretch from Washington

to Georgia. The couple have

seven grandchildren.

Bishop has called the

Treasure Valley home since the

fifth grade when he, his broth-

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do.”

Nursing, Jensen said, ap-

pealed to her because it encom-

passed so many different as-

pects of health care, and she

was sure she could find an area

that suited her.

“It just seemed really inter-

esting,” she said.

At that point, Jensen said,

she had no idea down what

path nursing would take her or

that it would ultimately lead to

public health.

Jensen graduated from

TVCC and began working at

Holy Rosary Medical Center —

now Saint Alphonsus-Ontario

— in 1999. She worked at the

hospital for three years, and

during that time she was also

raising a family with young

children, and the long hours

and nights she pulled at the

hospital made it more challeng-

ing than she wanted.

Opportunity to change jobs oc-

curred with a phone call from

a friend who worked with the

health department who asked

her to apply.

Jensen said the regular work

days and weekends off ap-

pealed to her, but, before she

accepted the position, Jensen

said she was not familiar with

what the health department

did, thinking staff mostly gave

shots and distributed birth

control pills. She soon learned,

however, the health depart-

ment does so much more than

that.

“I can’t think of all the things

that we do,” she said.

At the health department,

Jensen is the immunizations co-

ordinator and tobacco preven-

tion and education coordina-

tor, but she said, because the

department has a small staff,

everybody steps in when need-

ed, and she often steps in to

conduct a family planning ex-

amination. She also works with

other clinics on their immu-

nization programs and does

various outreach efforts with

area organizations.

“I think working in a job

where you know you’re help-

ing your community is a really

good thing, and, a lot of times,

we’re helping the people who

need it the most who are suf-

fering from the greatest health

disparities, and that feels good

and it’s needed,” Jensen said.

While the pace at the health

department is different than at

the hospital, Jensen said public

health can be very exciting and

she doesn’t miss working at a

hospital at all.

“I don’t ever feel bored,” she

said. “Community outreach, I

think, makes the job exciting.”

Jensen said through her job

she learns new things every day

from new health information

released and training received

from the state.

“So I feel that I’ve kept up to

date in the nursing field,” she

said.

Jensen is also continuing her

education, working on her

bachelor’s degree online

through Boise State

University.

“What’s so great about it is so

much pertains to public

health,” she said about what

she is currently studying.

Balancing school with work

and her home life with her hus-

band, Kris, a construction

manager with a company out

of Caldwell, and her three chil-

dren, an 11-year-old son, an 8-

year-old son and a 3-year-old

daughter, however, takes quite

a bit of organization on her

part, Jensen said.

“So I typically stay up late do-

ing homework after my kids go

to bed,” she said.

Jensen said she eventually

wants to receive her master’s

degree, but she intends to re-

main in public health.

“I think public health — it’s

more part of me than when I

worked at the hospital,” she

said.

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pist with her own private prac-

tice and has a strong medical

background and 15 years expe-

rience, 13 of those years spent

right here in the Treasure

Valley.

Hohmann provides numer-

ous services, such as general

health maintenance and relax-

ation massage, personalized

aromatherapy massage, thera-

peutic massage and medical

massage. She can also provide

pre- and post-pregnancy mas-

sage and infant and child mas-

sage, among other services.

She specializes in the treat-

ment of improving circulation,

enhancing mobility, carpal

tunnel syndrome, TMJ release,

migraine headaches and nu-

merous other treatments.

Hohmann completed her ed-

ucation in Illinois and has a

certificate of completion in

medical massage therapy and

therapeutic massage. She has

completed more than 24 cred-

its toward her physical thera-

pist degree, and the list goes

on.

Hohmann believes passion-

ately that medical therapeutic

massage is effective in ensur-

ing mental and emotional well

being and that it enhances mo-

bility, improves immunity, re-

lieves stress, improves circula-

tion and just helps the over-all

health externally and internal-

ly.

“I don’t know what it is about

this area, but massage and oth-

er alternative medicine, it isn’t

embraced as much as it is in

other areas, and I feel it’s my

job to educate the community,”

Hohmann said.

Hohmann hopes to work

with the other providers in the

area because, with medical

massage, clients may not have

to undergo carpal tunnel sur-

gery or their muscle problems

can be addressed while the

client goes to a chiropractor.

“If you put your dollars into

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Hohmann consults with

clients before their massage to

determine individual desires

for treatment. She also ad-

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ligament injury or has had sur-

gery to repair an injury of that

nature, the healing process can

be long and frustrating.

And for many people, the

physical therapist is the next

stop to a full recovery. A phys-

ical therapist’s primary con-

cern is remedying impairment

or disabilities as well as the pro-

motion of movement and the

quality of life.

Ontario’s Dan Chudleigh has

been in the physical therapy

business since 2000. Following

a short stint at another therapy

business, Chudleigh moved to

Ontario and found work at

Holy Rosary Medical Center.

Chudleigh received a mas-

ter’s of physical therapy at the

University of St. Augustine, a

master’s of physical education-

health promotion and a bache-

lor’s of science-exercise physiol-

ogy at Brigham Young

University.

Chudleigh said it was there

when he made his first contact

with the Ontario High School

athletic program through the

invitation of another physical

therapist, and Chudleigh has

been helping Ontario ever

since.

In 2005, Chudleigh opened

Treasure Valley Physical

Therapy, and in 2006 he

brought on a partner.

He said his job is enjoyable

only because he gets to help

people get out of pain. On the

sidelines of a sporting event,

Chudleigh said he tries to rem-

edy the injuries the athletes in-

cur while playing the game.

“That is the fun part of the

job: to help people rid them-

selves of pain and get them

back to an active status,”

Chudleigh said.

Chudleigh said he sees indi-

viduals with a wide variety of

pains that he looks to alleviate.

One of Chudleigh’s recent

success stories came out of Vale

where a young track athlete

came in with some pain in the

knee.

“I worked on that patient a

couple of times, and before you

knew it they were back on the

track and running without any

pain,” Chudleigh said. “It’s

those kind of stories that

makes my job worth it. This in-

dividual came in, was treated

and did not miss any portion of

the track season last year.”

Chudleigh said the best time

to come see a physical therapist

is when there is a pain in the

musculoskeletal system and the

pain is not going away.

“Sometimes people have an-

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Chudleigh said his job is very

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“I have made a lot of friends

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Chudleigh said. “I do not plan

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His truck driving ventures

sometimes take him back to

his old stomping grounds, but

he said it has changed a lot

from what he remembers.

“It was a lot different place

than it is now,” Bishop said.

“Everything seemed much

bigger than it is now.”

Now, even though Bishop is

not on a set schedule as an

“over-the-road” truck driver,

Bishop said the freedom of

driving his truck is what he

loves the most.

“I love the independ-

ence — not being in the same

place every day and doing the

same thing. It fits my wander

lust,” he said.

As for traveling in

California, Bishop said the ar-

eas around Los Angeles and

San Francisco are not de-

signed to accommodate large

trucks.

Most of his travels, he said,

take him from Washington to

California, while, on occa-

sion, he is called on to make

trips to Wisconsin and New

York.

“Wisconsin is my favorite,

by far,” Bishop said. “That is

some of the most beautiful

country I have ever seen.”

While he may enjoy his trav-

els in the trucking industry,

Bishop said he is now work-

ing toward retirement and

will then focus on traveling

with his wife and “make the

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Speelman grew up in Baker

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“My dad inspired me to be-

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Speelman said. “I liked what

he did and the people he

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Following a seven-year stint

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Speelman has been with the

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“I really do like working for

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Speelman said his job de-

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“I am just proud of our

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Speelman said the goal of the

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The one thing Speelman

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Speelman said playing the

role of mediator is another

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Serving Malheur County as

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“There is a bunch of good

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Speelman said one of the

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“One of the unfortunate

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FROM PAGE 18 Petty balances work forCity of Nyssa with his farmLARRY MEYERARGUS OBSERVER

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ways had a specific assignment

working for the City of Nyssa,

in a small public works depart-

ment his actual duties have run

the gamut to doing whatever

needs to be done or helping

whoever needs help.

When he was hired by the

city 20 years ago, he was as-

signed to park maintenance

and the cemetery, and then, a

couple of years later, streets

were added, and he has done

that ever since. The only

change since he was hired was

a special district was formed to

operate and maintain the

cemetery.

“I was the only one in parks,”

Petty said, adding he started

with the city shortly before he

turned 20. “There were six of

us in public works — water, sew-

er, parks and streets.”

His coworkers trained him

about the various jobs and the

equipment he would need to

operate.

“We all kind of helped in all

departments,” he said, adding

that continues today. “We all

go to wherever we have to.

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things, both positive and nega-

tive, he said.

A couple of the more positive

things Goodman remembers

was a young girl, about 8, who

visited the base every morning.

Another highlight of this tour

was building a soccer field out-

side of Kirkuk, Iraq, he said.

“Within about three months

the field was done, and we had

kids playing on it,” Goodman

said.

One memory that really

stands out in Goodman’s mind

is that of an Iraqi national who

worked for the base, Goodman

said.

This man drove equipment

for them when out on missions,

and, one time he stopped while

convoying and ran after anoth-

er man in a field and assaulted

him.

“Turns out that the guy he

was hitting was in the process

of planting a roadside bomb,”

Goodman said. “After every-

thing settled down, the man

that worked for us said that his

country has never really had

true freedom, and he didn’t

want to lose it.”

Since 2007, Goodman has

been a full-time recruiter, and

his days are now full of phone

calls, interviews and helping

young men and women find di-

rection and a future with the

Idaho National Guard.

“There’s a lot that goes into

this job,” Goodman said. “It

doesn’t just end with putting

them in. You have to some-

times make sure that they do

get what’s contracted, meet

with parents, help them with

their education, job placement

and so much more.”

Being a recruiter is a hectic

job, Goodman said. When the

people he’s helped enlist find

him, however, and tell him they

now have a degree or have put

on plenty of rank and thank

Goodman for his assistance,

it’s extremely rewarding, he

said.

“Being with the Guard, I’m

able to contribute to the coun-

try, state and my community,”

Goodman said. “I especially

enjoy helping the young ones

do something positive with

their lives.”

Goodman’s busy schedule

doesn’t just end with the

Guard either, he said. He has a

family, with two daughters also

in the National Guard, and op-

erates his own business and is

a substitute teacher for the

Fruitland and New Plymouth

school districts.

“Being in the Guard certain-

ly makes my life busier and has

had its moments, but I

wouldn’t change it for any-

thing,” Goodman said.

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to work en every department,”

he said, adding all the crew

members are cross-trained.

“I’m still working in streets and

parks. We have a part-time per-

son in summer to mow.”

A small staff — five full-time

workers — is not the biggest

problem. The major challenge,

Petty said is budgetary, a lack

of funds.

“You try to do as much as

you can with little money,”

he said.

One thing the crew does is

work with other agencies,

such as the Nyssa Road

District.

Petty recently sent a per-

son to help the road dis-

trict with a chip seal

project and the road

district chip seals for

the city, he said.

“Everybody helps

everybody. “We

have pretty good

relations with the

road districts.”

After graduating

from high school in

Ontario, Petty said he

was helping his fa-

ther farm and

had started a tractor-repair

business when he saw an ad-

vertisement for the job with

the city and applied.

“There is something new

every day,” he said, comment-

ing on why he likes the job.

He said he is still involved in

farming and has a small

acreage southwest of Nyssa

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beef cattle and crops

to feed them, Petty

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said. “Services, study,

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privilege and the

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what’s needed

to tie every-

thing to-

gether.”

Right

now,

Lundy is

support-

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cially to

conduct his

duties with the

church, which is

not always the case,

he said. Being

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SEE PAGE 31


NYSSANyssa Elementary School

teacher Jill Conant said she al-

ways knew she wanted to be a

teacher. Her teaching career,

however, did not take off im-

mediately.

Conant is a life-long Malheur

County resident. She was born

in Nyssa and initially lived in

Adrian but moved around a lot

until her family settled in

Adrian again when Conant

was in the sixth grade.

She said she doesn’t remem-

ber when she decided she

wanted to be a teacher – she al-

ways did, but in high school

she decided she was going to

be a music teacher.

Life postponed her career

pursuit, however. She married

her high school sweetheart, to

whom she is still married, in

1971 between their junior and

senior year in high school, and

they began a family, raising two

children.

Her two children were at-

tending St. Peter Catholic

School in Ontario, and she was

on that school board, when a

friend of hers encouraged her

to go back to school, and she

decided to enroll at Treasure

Valley Community College.

Deciding to take the fast-track

to graduation, she also en-

rolled at Boise State

University, and at one time she

was taking 24 credits at BSU

and 27 from TVCC at the

same time, while managing

time with her husband and

children. As a result, she grad-

uated at age 30 in two and a

half or three years.

“Fruitcake, totally fruitcake,”

Conant said about her college

years. “Thank goodness for my

family. Without my husband

and my children I never would

have been able to become a

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Nyssa Elementary School teacher Jill Conant wanted to be a teacher sincechildhood but embarked on her career when she was 30 after attendingTVCC and BSU at the same time.

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done.”

She said life is hard, and no-

body does everything in a vac-

uum, so her decision to take on

such a heavy load in college re-

quired not only her family’s

support, which she had, but

help as well.

“Everybody pulls together to

make something happen, and

that’s what they did,” Conant

said. “Everybody just had to

step it up a bit — all of us.”

She said entering college at

age 27 or 28 and graduating at

30 gave her a new set of priori-

ties for her career.

“Going in as an adult really

changes the reality of what’s

going to happen,” she said.

She said beginning her ca-

reer in her 30s has made a lot

of difference and was to her

benefit as a teacher.

She said her experiences

were different than teachers

who begin their careers in

their 20s, and her knowledge

base and knowledge of chil-

dren was also different. She al-

so said having been a school

board member and under-

standing school systems from

that perspective helped.

“I think that experience in

life helps you become better,”

Conant said.

Conant taught for eight years

in Parma but had to take a

three-year hiatus because of an

illness, but during that time she

still worked as a substitute. She

began working in Nyssa right

after her son graduated from

high school, and she has taught

every age group through her

career. She currently teaches

second grade.

“Every age has something to

like about them,” she said,

adding every student, regard-

less of age, wants the same

thing: to be listened to and ac-

knowledged.

She said the best part of her

job is knowing the children she

is teaching are part of the fu-

ture and will grow up to be the

community leaders and deci-

sion-makers and, hopefully,

make the world a better place.

“I don’t want to use ‘make a

difference’ because I think it’s

over-used,” she said of why she

teaches.

Conant said, in addition to

teaching reading, writing,

mathematics and other sub-

jects, she is also helping them

learn how to be good humans

and to care for one another.

“I think getting to be a part

of that is a real joy,” she said,

adding she finds it especially

rewarding when her students

start to look outside of them-

selves and their own concerns

and to the world around them

and the role they have in it. “It’s

like every day is a new pack-

age.”

She also finds it very reward-

ing to watch children succeed

in their studies, particularly

when they have struggled to

understand something before.

“I love to watch the light in a

kid’s eyes when they get it —

when the click is there,”

Conant continued.

“The spark in that eyeball is

the next best thing to a glorious

sunrise.”

At age 58, Conant said she

does not know how much

longer she will teach, but she

does not have any desire to

leave the house and farm she

and her husband share in

Adrian — the same house in

which her husband was raised.

“I have some of the most glo-

rious sunrises and sunsets on a

daily basis,” she said.

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ONTARIORudy Marostica has been a

baseball man for a very long

time in Malheur County.

“I have been involved with

baseball forever,” Marostica

said. “Officially, I got started in

1985. I began as an assistant. I

was kind of the guy who would

go get the coffee or the go-get-

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Soon Marostica was promot-

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fore being promoted to district

commissioner, a title he kept

for 10 more years.

“After that, I wanted to get

away from it but still wanted to

be involved with the Babe

Ruth,” he said. “So I got the job

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ments.”

Marostica said running the

district and state tournaments

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hard work and dedication,

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district or state tournament for

the past five years.

This year, however, Ontario

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tournaments because of the

lack of volunteers needed to

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Marostica hopes, next year, the

volunteers will be knocking

down his door to sign up so

Ontario can bring back the dis-

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“Volunteers are key to run-

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he said. “And with Ontario

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VALESelfless service to the com-

munity is nothing new for

Malheur County Sheriff’s

Office Senior Deputy Tom

Braniff, but for nearly 11 years

now he’s been able to provide

a necessary service to several

cities in exactly the capacity he

wants.

Braniff, of Vale, is one of 12

Malheur County dispatchers

tasked with answering 911

calls to dispatch police, fire-

fighters and medical person-

nel.

“One thing about this job is

that a day can go from being

boring with nothing going on,

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No matter how crazy things

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a situation in order to get the

vital information needed by re-

sponders.

“It’s very important that we

give the responders as much in-

formation as possible,” Braniff

said. “If they’re going into a

possible dangerous situation

the responders need to know

ahead of time to help eliminate

as many of those dangers as

possible.”

Braniff’s first day of work as

a Malheur County dispatcher

was, coincidently as he says,

Sept. 11, 2001.

He served his community for

years before that, however, as a

firefighter for the Vale Fire

Department.

It was actually while he

worked as a firefighter that he

was involved in an incident

that cemented his desire to be-

come a dispatcher, Braniff

said.

“We were called out on a bad

fire that burned about 80,000

acres,” Braniff said. “I listened

for about 28 hours to dispatch-

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nary practice, Tom Gray, Vale,

has retired again, this time

from a labor of love helping

residents of Pioneer Nursing

Home.

Gray has had a long career of

service to the community and

the county having come to the

area in 1955 to work with Dr.

L.M. Kroger after graduating

from veterinary school. Dr.

Charles Dake and Gray took

over the clinic from Kroger

when he retired.

“Kroger trained several vet-

erinarians in the region, (after

they came out of school,” Gray

said.

Gray worked in Ontario for

22 years and then worked at

the Treasure Valley Animal

Hospital in Nyssa with Dr.

Bert Ross until Gray retired.

“We went all over,” Gray said,

adding he traveled as far as

Juntura.

He was veterinarian at the

livestock auction yard in

Ontario for a number of years

and for the Malheur County

Fair for several years, as well.

After retiring, Gray became

involved with Malheur

Country Historical Society, of

which he is past president.

“My family has a lot of histo-

ry,” Gray said.

The house that he and wife,

Mary, live in is about 100 years

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saving someone’s life, he said.

Braniff received a call that re-

quired an air ambulance in a

very remote location, and by

asking the caller questions

about the landmarks around

the area, Braniff dispatched

the air ambulance to the ex-

act location, saving not only a

lot of time but the injured in-

dividual’s life.

Some calls, however, are

more difficult than others,

Braniff said.

“Any calls involving kids

are terrible,” Braniff said.

“Also, in a small community

you know a lot of the people

involved in the situations that

are going on.”

No matter what the situa-

tion, however, there’s still an

important job to do, Braniff

said. All dispatchers are

trained and certified to give

emergency medical instruc-

tions over the phone to assist

those in need before respon-

ders arrive at the scene.

One thing Braniff wants to

make clear, however, is that

he is no hero, he said.

“There are 12 dispatchers

at Malheur County,” he said.

“All 12 are very special peo-

ple, doing a very needed job,

and they all do it exceptional-

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FROM PAGE 27 Gray retiring afterlongtime service

SEE PAGE 33

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funded allows him the oppor-

tunity to devote his entire self

to his job and assisting others

with their faith.

“I’ll always be a full-time pas-

tor, no matter what,” Lundy

said. “But being funded just

means that I don’t have to do

something else on the side, and

it allows me to be a part of the

most profound moments of

people’s lives all the time.”

These profound moments

come from both sides of the

emotional and spiritual spec-

trum, Lundy said.

They include everything

from the pain of losing a loved

one to the joyous moment

when two people join together

in marriage or the dedication

of someone’s new baby before

God.

Lundy said some of the best

moments, however, are when

he finds out that his messages

of faith and prayer have posi-

tively impacted people.

“I coached this one young

man in Boise quite a while

back,” Lundy said.

“I got a call late at night a few

years after having not heard

from him, and he told me that

the things we talked about,

God and Jesus, finally clicked.

Those are the best, knowing

that I got to be part of their sto-

ry of how God got through to

them.”

Lundy feels that connecting

with people on the level he

does is amazing, especially dur-

ing a time when most people

choose to communicate elec-

tronically with cell phones and

the internet, rather than on a

personal level.

“Our culture is so connected

electronically, but we’re losing

this ability to connect on a per-

sonal level,” Lundy said. “So

being able to connect with peo-

ple on that level, when they are

their most real, is truly a privi-

lege.”

Aside from his years of serv-

ice to the faithful at the Baptist

church, Lundy also gives his

time to coaching track at

Fruitland High School and has

even assisted coaching middle

school football for Ontario.

“It’s such a privilege to be able

to coach,” Lundy said. “It gives

me the chance to pass along

skills and knowledge to the

kids.”

Coaching is essentially the

same thing that he already

does for the members of his

church, he said.

It provides him the opportu-

nity to work in a group setting

and have input on what the

children do in their lives.

Regardless of his work with

the church or with children on

the track field, Lundy said he

will be serving the community

and be a pastor for as long as he

possibly can.

“The word that always comes

to mind when I think of what

I do is privilege,” Lundy said.

“It’s a privilege that I get to de-

vote so much of my life to

studying God’s word and share

it with folks, be a part of their

growth and grow myself right

along with them.”

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not hosting a tournament this

year, I do not know what to do

with all this time I have.”

Marostica said he still had a

key role with this year’s teams

going to state as he made sure

they had the money to attend

the tournaments.

“But it is cheaper to host a

tournament than it is to send

the teams on the road,”

Marostica said.

Marostica is also a member of

the Local Elks Lodge, which is

a key sponsor of the Babe Ruth

League.

“To me, to give back to these

kids has been a real blessing,”

Marostica said.

Looking back over the years,

Marostica said his fondest

memories are of those when

the youth came up to him to

thank him for what he has

done to keep Babe Ruth

Baseball alive in the valley.

Marostica said he will contin-

ue to work with the Elks and

Babe Ruth until they run him

off.

“I have loved every bit of my

time with Babe Ruth,”

Marostica said. “We have to

have something for the kids to

do in the summer, and I am

glad I am able to be a part of

that.”

Marostica and the Elks

Lodge have been noticed for

the efforts they put forth to-

ward Babe Ruth, and, in 1995,

the Ontario Elks Lodge was in-

ducted into the Babe Ruth Hall

of Fame. Marostica is also un-

der consideration for induc-

tion to the Hall of Fame.

“The coaches and commis-

sioner submitted my name,

and it will stay on the list for

three years,” Marostica said.

“The first year nothing hap-

pened, and then this year I fin-

ished third in the voting. So I

just have one more year left to

make the Hall of Fame. I do not

think about it much, but it’s an

honor that those guys took the

time to submit my name for the

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old, he said.

Mary Gray has also been in-

volved with history, having

been a volunteer curator at the

Stone House Museum. Some

of the displays she set up are

still there, she said.

One of the projects of which

Gray is proud is the creation of

the historical maps showing

the former and present post

offices that at one time

dotted the county as well

as trails used in the past.

“I’m glad they have

put them in the fair-

grounds,” Gray said.

Another project

that makes him

proud is the histori-

cal markers about the

Utter wagon train,

which met disaster using the

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along the Owyhee River, north

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Idaho.

Another site is just south of

Huntington where another

Indian attack took place. Gray

also edits the Historical

Society’s newsletter.

Gray served on the Vale

City Council for 10 years

and served one term as

mayor.

During his tenure, the

library was moved out

of Vale City Hall to its

present to location on

A Street, he said.

He also taught ani-

mal health classes

at Treasure Valley

Community College for two or

three years.

Other civic service involve-

ment includes membership in

the Chamber of Commerce

and Jaycees and the Vale

School Board, during which

time the old high school was re-

modeled into the middle

school.

Gray also teaches Sunday

School at First Baptist Church

in Ontario.

Gray helped at Pioneer

Nursing Home for 30 years, he

said.

“I would go over in the morn-

ing and help people get to

breakfast.”

His parents were at Pioneer

Nursing Home, he said.

“I had a lot of friends in

there,” he said.

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sold rawhide in a shop situated

at their home.

“My parents have had the

biggest impact on me, teaching

me the value of hard work and

living a frugal life at such a

young age,” Shepard said.

After high school, Shepard

started working at Heinz.

During his three years of em-

ployment there, he started tak-

ing part-time classes at

Treasure Valley Community

College.

Shepard said he always loved

drawing, and his parents en-

couraged him to consider

drafting as a possible future ca-

reer, and what started off as

part-time classes at TVCC be-

came full-time. Shepard gradu-

ated with his associate’s degree

in drafting in 1977.

Fresh out of college, Shepard

heard the City of Ontario was

hiring, applied immediately

and was hired shortly after.

After about a year on the job,

Shepard married his wife of 34

years, Jo Nell Shepard.

“Getting married has been

one of my greatest accomplish-

ments,” Shepard said. “It was a

very emotional thing, the put-

ting together of two lives. My

marriage has defined me and

my entire life.”

His wife taught at many

schools during her career in

education and retired this year

from Payette Elementary.

Shepard said his career gives

him the satisfaction of serving

the community every day. He

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FRUITLANDFruitland native Scott Dayley has joined

the ranks of Neil Armstrong, first man on

the moon, Gerald Ford, 38th president of

the United States, Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo

and Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. secre-

tary of defense. Their connection? All of

them have achieved the ranking of Eagle

Scout, the highest rank the Boy Scouts of

America offers.

Daley, 19, was born in Provo, Utah, but

moved to Fruitland when he was 1 years

old when his father got a job working for

Woodgrain Millwork.

Dayley’s history with Boy Scouts reaches

back to his grandfather, who Dayley said

was “big into scouting.”

Dayley’s father was also a scout leader for

older scouts.

Because of these reasons,

Dayley wanted to join the

Boy Scouts and knew the

end result would be for him

to receive his Eagle. Adding

to that incentive, Dayley

said, was his parents told

him he could not get his

drivers license until he earned his Eagle

Scout rank.

Dayley joined Boy Scouts when he was

10 years old.

He warns those who want to obtain the

rank to try and do so before high school

“because it will be really hard. Especially if

you are really involved,” he said.

According to the Boy Scouts website, on-

ly 5 percent of Boy Scouts earned the

Eagle Scout rank in 2011.

Dayley said his favorite part of the entire

experience was going camping and earn-

ing the outdoor merit badges. He admits

his least favorite tasks were earning what

he termed the “boring” merit badges that

included personal finance.

“Those boring ones are the most useful

though,” he said.

Other merit badges he had to earn in-

clude first aid, citizenship in the commu-

nity, citizenship in the nation and citizen-

ship in the world, environmental science

and personal management.

Every Eagle Scout also must also lead a

service project for any religious organiza-

tion, school or community.

Dayley’s service project included land-

scaping and cleaning up around Fruitland

High School.

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FRUITLANDSince her early teen years,

Joni Huff has known what she

wanted to do for a living: style

hair.

“I was a cheerleader, and I

did all of their hair and for the

prom,” Huff said.

Huff is the owner of Salon

Savvy in Fruitland and has

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owned by Huff since 2000 and

the building was bought seven

years ago. Huff employs three

nail techs, one massage thera-

pist, five stylists and two part

time stylists.

Originally from Twin Falls,

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ing to beauty school in Ogden,

Utah, and started styling hair

after her teacher opened a sa-

lon. She eventually moved to

the Treasure Valley with her

first husband for his job and

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After a divorce, she almost

moved back to Twin Falls, but

then met her second husband,

Payette County Sheriff Chad

Huff, and has been here since

1996. Huff also has a daughter

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year-old son, a senior at

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heavily involved in sports.

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does,” Huff said.

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hair-styling, nails, spray tan-

ning and massage therapy,

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“I was trained in hair and

nails, but I don’t have the pa-

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helps them get what they want

and need.

Shepard has met many inter-

esting people of the public, in-

cluding his coworkers, he said.

“They’re the hardest working

people you’ll find,” Shepard

said.

Shepard’s work comprises a

variety of duties, from helping

people with permits and prop-

erty lines to studying how in-

tersections are working, he

said. In the winter he even

drives a snow plow down the

very streets of Ontario he

helped build.

Recently, Shepard was one of

the tour guides for the city

manager candidates, and he

showed them all the highlights

of the community.

Shepard said that working

through the ranks in the city

has been a rewarding process.

He said he has worked with

people of all different rankings,

and their knowledge has been

passed down to others.

“In my career, I’ve accom-

plished everything I could,”

Shepard said.

Shepard said city staff may

not be building skyscrapers,

but they’re building sewers,

roads and things people need.

He is proud to know what has

been done is good, quality

work.

“Every day is a challenge,”

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ways changing, and, for me, I

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job.”

Shepard said education

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because he can answer his

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hands, whether it is through

massage therapy, a pedi-

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massage. She said the final

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n’t necessarily as important

as a customer’s experience.

“The words I like to hear

are, ‘I love to come here to be

pampered,’” Huff said.

Throughout the years,

Huff has been involved in

the community, putting on

fundraisers such as cut-

athons for different individ-

uals and cutting hair for

Locks of Love.

“I try to say as much in-

volved as I can, but my main

focus has been my kids,”

Huff said.

Along with being a hair

stylist and owning a salon,

Huff served on the

Cosmetology Board of

Idaho and on the National

Cosmetology Board for six

years each.

“I love my job, and this is

probably the funnest clien-

tele I’ve ever had — good

people, nice people and I

have a great team,” Huff

said. “It’s fun to sit back and

look where my team have

come from and to where

they are now. It makes it all

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Even though Huff loves

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FROM PAGE 37Firefighting remainsa thrill for Bob WebbLARRY MEYERARGUS OBSERVER

ADRIAN Bob Webb has been on the

Adrian Fire Department for 45

years, and while he gives no hint

of retiring, he is slowing down

from running his garage, having

sold his shop to the fire district,

and now works at home.

Webb has been fire chief for

the past 37 or 38 of those years.

A lot of his friends were on the

department and encouraged

him to become a member when

he joined .

“It’s kind of an addiction,”

Webb said, of serving as a fire-

fighter. “It’s hard for some of us

to back away.”

The department has no more

than 15 people on its roster, al-

though at one time it did have

20 — and it is currently full, he

said. It also operates a quick re-

sponse unit, and some of fire-

fighters also serve on the QRU.

“We’re very fortunate to have

five new younger members,”

Webb said. “In a rural area, you

don’t have a large pool to draw

from.”

The department also has a his-

tory of good retention of mem-

bers.

“One guy has been (a mem-

ber) longer than I have. It’s hard

to quit,” Webb said.

“As long as you can be helpful,

that is the main thing,” Webb

said about serving. “It supports

your community.

Webb still hasn’t lost the en-

thusiasm for responding to a

call.

“In the middle of the night, if

a call comes, you are wide awake

SEE PAGE 43

We’re very fortunate tohave five new youngermembers. In a ruralarea, you don’t have alarge pool to draw from.

— Bob WebbAdrian Fire Department chief’


VALEFor being only 32 years old,

veterinarian Angie Allum said

she has already accomplished

so many of her goals in life.

Originally from Burns,

Allum moved to the Vale area

three and a half years ago, just

after she completed vet school

at Ross University in the

Caribbean. Despite the exotic

locale, she said her goal was al-

ways to live in a small town and

be a country veterinarian and

own her own mixed-animal

practice. She met all three of

those goals at once when she

purchased Dr. Boyle’s practice

at Vale Veterinary Clinic.

Sometimes, she said, it sur-

prises her how much she has

accomplished in such a short

amount of time.

“I’m doing more than I even

thought I would,” she said.

Becoming a vet to begin with

was a long-time goal of hers,

one she decided upon in the

fourth grade when she had to

say what she wanted to be

when she grew up for an as-

signment. She said her goal

was to either become a veteri-

narian or a history teacher, but

veterinarian was the much like-

lier choice even then. She grew

up on a ranch, and her family

raised a little bit of everything.

She and her sister were active

in 4-H, and, she said, they went

to the vet a lot. She also deter-

mined she was not suited for

being a history teacher.

“I love animals,” she said. “I

didn’t want a job where I had

to do the same thing every day

and stay in doors every day.”

She did determine, however,

that she was suited to become

a vet.

“I’ve always been into the

gross and dirty things,” Allum

said, although she admits she

still has days where she has to

remind herself she can do her

job well.

Her patients are typical for a

country vet: goats, rabbits,

dogs, horses, cows, pigs, cats

and the like. She does not treat

exotic animals like lizards or

snakes or birds. While attend-

ing Ross University, which she

said was a great experience,

Allum did treat some exotic

animals – monkeys and sea tur-

tles, but she also treated her

fair share of cows, goats and

other livestock that the people

raised on the island.

“There was a lot more of that

than you would expect,” Allum

said. “It was a good experience

to be out of the country for a

little while.”

She said she has gotten her

roaming itch out of her system

since moving to Vale, however,

and has settled in fairly easily,

and she really enjoys owning

her own practice.

She gets to bring her Old

English Bulldog, Smoke, to

work with her, and he fre-

quently goes riding around

with her on calls as well.

Allum said when she was in

college she would have said her

favorite animals to treat were

the larger animals, but now she

thinks small animals are her fa-

vorite because they often pose

more challenges, such as sur-

geries and their problems re-

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Dayley said. “The people I

talked to at the high school did-

n’t actually want me to build

anything because they said that

just gives them more things to

take care of, and they would

rather have me fix up some old

Eagle Projects. I did a lot of

weeding, and I repainted the

flag pole that was an Eagle

project of a former student at

Fruitland.”

While in high school, Dayley

was involved with track, bas-

ketball, football, FFA, National

Honor Society, student leader-

ship and Natural Helpers.

In the 2010-11 football sea-

son, Dayley was ranked No. 6

in the state of Idaho. He also

served as vice president of his

FFA chapter in 2011. Dayley

said the most influential

teacher in his life who impact-

ed him more than others was

his mother.

“My mom was one of my

teachers in high school, so she

kind of has to be my favorite,

but besides her, Mr. Rob

Carter, who was my math

teacher and football coach,”

Dayley said. “He was a good in-

f luence and always liked to

have students and athletes

push themselves, and he is a ge-

nius.”

His greatest influence in life,

however, has been his older

brother Greg.

“He was an incredible athlete,

and he is a really smart and fun

guy to hang out with,” Dayley

said.

Now, with high school be-

hind him, Dayley recently

moved to Utah to begin taking

summer term classes at

Brigham Young University.

After that, he is going to serve

his two-year mission in Tucson,

Ariz., after which he will re-

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As a leader, Dayley said a per-

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ple right, and do what is best

for the group and do what is

right no matter what.” he said

he does consider himself to be

a leader. He said his friends

would describe him as strong,

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PAYETTEValerie Martindale had an

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grandmother while growing

up, both which helped set a

course for her later career as a

registered nurse and working

in a hospice setting.

Martindale said she was also

drawn to teaching, but as she

prayed about it, the opportuni-

ty for nursing came open, and

she was admitted to the

nursing program at

Boise State University.

The teaching opportu-

nities would come later.

After graduating from

nursing school,

Martindale said she

worked at various

area hospitals,

including St.

Luke’s and

Saint

Alphonsus

regional

medical

centers in

Boise and

Mercy

Medical

Center in Nampa.

She also worked in

home health for the

Central District Health

Department and in a

Healthy Choices

Education Program, a pro-

gram for senior citizens,

teaching exercises and

nutrition.

“I enjoyed

that a lot,” she

said.

Martindale

said she be-

came aware of

the value of

hospice-type

care for termi-

nal patients in

a church she and her husband,

Randy, attended while he was

in seminary in California.

A couple in the church were

helping a person care for a

spouse with lung cancer,

Martindale said.

“It made such a huge differ-

ence,” she said.

Having left nursing while her

children were growing up,

when Martindale decided to

go back to work she got a part-

time job as a nurse with XL-

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just listen to them,”

Martindale said of her job.

“You are building a relation-

ship,” Martindale said.

“Being part of their family,

whatever they are comfort-

able with.”

Martindale said hospice al-

so provides support for the

whole family.

“Hospice is about living life

to the fullest, with the least

problems,” she said. “We have

a lot of resources to deal with

issues.”

Martindale, who lives in

Fruitland, mainly works out

of the Payette office but also

helps out of the Nampa of-

fice, she said.

“I feel God has gifted me to

work with the elderly,”

Martindale said.

And, while many of the hos-

pice patients are elderly,

younger people do come in to

hospice, she said.

“This is one of my favorite

nursing jobs,” she said. “The

joy comes in helping people

live with the time they have

left. It is about living.”

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and ready to go,” Webb said.

The department has four

trucks: a pumper, a tender and

two brush trucks. “When I

started we didn’t have

turnouts,” he said.

Equipment then included a

1966 International pumper

and a 1954 Chevrolet truck

with a 1,200-gallon tank.

Some of the more memo-

rable fires, he said, include one

started by lightning and

burned south of Adrian. It

started at 4:30 p.m. one after-

noon, and firefighters were on

the lines until 10 a.m. the next

day, Webb said.

“The onion shed fire was an-

other all-nighter,” he said, and,

giving an indication of the con-

ditions that night, he added

there was an inch of ice on the

highway.

The department has also re-

sponded to mutual aid calls in-

cluding the Rhinehart Butte

and the Vines Hill fire.

While the fire department is

all volunteer, firefighters do re-

ceived $3,000 a year from the

Adrian Rural Fire Protection

District, which is used to pro-

vide food and beverages for

the group, Webb said.

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quire more complex answers.

“And there’s a lot of farmers

and ranchers that are very at-

tached to their dogs that you

would not necessarily think

are, so it’s nice to see that side

of them also,” she said.

With so many of her goals in

life already met, Allum said her

new goal is to continue improv-

ing her practice and her skills

as a veterinarian.

“It’s a constant learning

process that you have to keep

up with every single day,” she

said. “I will never, ever, know

everything there is to know

about animals.”

The constant challenge, how-

ever, makes Allum’s job inter-

esting, and she said no day is

ever the same, but every day

brings something new.

“Just when you think you’ve

got something figured out, it

changes,” she said, adding,

however, that is what she want-

ed.

She could, however, live with

a few less emergencies that call

her out in the middle of the

night. While they are not fun,

she said, they are part of the

job.

“Emergencies can’t wait, and

if you’re going to be a country

vet, you’re going to have emer-

gencies in the middle of the

night,” she said.

Allum said, to be a good vet-

erinarian, a person has to love

animals and their owners and

be open-minded. She said she

hopes she is open-minded and

can put herself in the pet or an-

imal owner’s shoes because

each one has different finan-

cial limitations as well as expec-

tations of care for their pet.

“I strive to give the best care

I can to every animal and own-

er and be understanding of

what we get to do,” she said.

Allum said, to her, the best

thing about being a vet is being

a part of people’s lives and

those of their pets and their

livestock. Her least favorite job

as a vet, however, is giving own-

ers difficult news about poor

prognosis or diagnosis, and

calling owners about difficult

issues, such as a pet dying or

finding cancer in a beloved an-

imal is one of the challenges

she has had to overcome.

She does have many favorite

stories that stand out in her

mind, however.

“I could write a book, and I’m

just starting my career,” Allum

said.

One memorable story in par-

ticular is treating a dog that

swallowed a ping pong ball.

Several months later, she said,

she had to remove a stick he

swallowed while playing.

“We call him the baseball

dog,” she said. “He still comes

to visit us.”

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this time, he has emerged as a

leader whom the other less-ex-

perienced fire fighters have

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the proper procedures to fight

fires, as well as a man who is ea-

ger to joke around with every

one once the work is done.

Taggart, 46, was born and

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Allen Blevins, New

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training and restrictive proba-

tion time that is put on the new

volunteers.

Three years ago Taggart mar-

ried his wife, Jolene, who is

from New Plymouth. Taggart

then moved from Homedale to

New Plymouth.

“He’s never talked about his

volunteering in a negative

way,” Jolene Taggart said. “He

loves it. He is always full in it.”

Jolene Taggart said Dennis

oftentimes talks about becom-

ing a firefighter in a profession-

al sense, and though she does

not know if he planned on be-

ing a firefighter when he was

smaller, she knows without a

doubt it is something he loves

to do.

Jolene Taggart said Dennis’

previous work experience in-

cludes 11 years volunteering at

the Homedale Fire

Department, nine years work-

ing as a sheriff’s deputy in

Owyhee County as well as sev-

eral years working for himself

and his brother-in-law in a

flood-restoration business.

In 1997, Taggart began his

own business in Payette for

flood restoration. Now, he jug-

gles volunteering and owning

his own business.

Juggling the two does not

hinder him at all though,

Jolene Taggart said.

“He’s fun to be with,” Blevins

said. “We get done, and he’s

joking around and playing. He

doesn’t waste time. He gets in,

gets it done and goes to the

next one.”

Jolene Taggart said, with his

past experience of being a

deputy and seeing what he did

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Bower was born and raised

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ONTARIOArwyn Larson never thought

she would become a college in-

structor let alone like her job.

Larson, an anatomy, physics,

microbiology and nonmajor

science instructor at Treasure

Valley Community College, be-

came a teacher almost by acci-

dent, stemming from necessity

rather than intent.

Larson did not go to school

intending to become a college

instructor. She attended

Oregon State University and

got her bachelor’s degree in an-

imal science and minor in

Spanish. When she graduated

she decided she wanted to go

overseas, so she joined the

Peace Corps and went to

Thailand. When she returned

to the United States she

worked a variety of different

jobs and got her master’s de-

gree from OSU in reproduc-

tive physiology.

“At that point my goal was to

work in a zoo, but I got mar-

ried,” Larson said. “That

changed my life plans.”

She worked performing cat-

tle embryo transfers for a com-

pany serving California,

Oregon and Washington, and

also worked with her husband

at his feed lot in Olympia. Out

of financial necessity, she be-

gan working as an adjunct lab technician part time at St.

Martin College in Olympia

and then at South Puget Sound

Community College.

“Honestly, it was never my

plan to teach because I don’t re-

ally like standing up in front of

groups of people,” Larson said.

At some point, however, she

realized she really liked it.

“I really like teaching a lot,”

she said, adding that kind of

came as a surprise to her.

After teaching at South

Puget Sound Community

College for two years, Larson

got her current job at TVCC.

That, too, was almost by acci-

dent.

It was really not a plan,” she

said. “It was sort of a thing that

happened.”

She said she and her husband

planned to move to this area to

have more room to raise cattle,

but her plans changed when

they got divorced and she was

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on the job there, her husband is

able to deal with the tough sit-

uations presented when he

goes to a fire.

“He worked a lot with that as

a deputy,” she said of the more

tragic situations. “It never

bothered him being in the

thick of that.”

Taggart works as a field train-

ing officer on the fire depart-

ment for the new trainees who

come in, Blevins said.

“Dennis is hard working, fun-

loving,” Blevins said. “He’s al-

ways happy. You can’t get him

down. It doesn’t matter if it’s

the fire department, Boy

Scouts or church.”

Taggart is heavily involved in

the LDS church, Jolene Taggart

said.

He dedicates a lot of time

there, and just recently went

camping with the youth group

during the July 4th weekend,

Blevins said.

On the weekends, Taggart is

a master gardener, Jolene

Taggart said.

“We have an amazing garden.

I read a book in my spare time.

When he has spare time, he’s

outside working in the gar-

den,” she said.

Additionally, Dennis and

Jolene Taggart enjoy golfing on

the weekends, hunting for

mushrooms during the spring

time and camping. They also

backpack in McCall and have a

cabin in Cascade they enjoy go-

ing to.

The couple are also avid trav-

elers and enjoy traveling out of

country. Recently they’ve been

to Mexico, Hawaii, Honduras

and the Cayman Islands. But

the couple plan on staying in

the area.

“We like the small area. We’re

out in the country and we like

that,” Jolene Taggart said.

Taggart’s biggest influences

have been his uncle Nolan and

his father, Lyn Taggart, Jolene

Taggart said.

“They have really made a dif-

ference in his life,” Jolene said.

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ONTARIOOntario resident Mo

McLean has made a living

around the pool for the past 15

years.

Mclean currently works at

the Ontario Aquatic Center in

Ontario as a lifeguard and wa-

ter aerobic instructor.

“I like to swim and to teach

water aerobics,” McLean said.

“I took a class on lifeguarding,

and a year later I got my W5, a

water safety instructor.”

Twelve years ago, Mclean be-

came a lifeguard for the

Ontario Aquatic Center and

got started by simply taking a

water aerobics class as some-

thing to do while her children

were in school.

The next thing

McLean knew,

she was being

asked to take

over the water

aerobics class,

and it wasn’t

very long before

she decided to get her lifeguard

training.

Prior to becoming a lifeguard,

Mclean worked in the airline

business and in education. and

she said being a lifeguard is by

far the best job she has ever

had.

McLean said watching over

the individuals in the pool is

great. She said it is always nice

to see some of the children she

taught in swimming lessons in

the past still active in the pool.

McLean has had to use her

lifeguarding experience and

water safety in other areas

than the pool, she said. She

said she once had to help a

choking woman, but so far, she

has never had to resuscitate a

drowning person.

“I have had to pull some folks

out of the water when they got

in trouble but never anyone

who was drowning,” McLean

said. “To see a person at the

bottom of the pool or floating

in the water is by biggest fear.”

Mclean said she remembers

on one occasion a little girl was

in the deep water, and she no-

ticed she was having some

trouble.

“I asked her if she need some

help, and the little girl said no,”

Mclean said. “I kept my eye on

her and actually had to ask her

a couple more times if she was

Ok before I had to go in after

her. Sometimes kids do not

know when they are in trouble,

and that is what I have to look

out for.”

Mclean said after she got to

the little girl, she asked her

again if she needed help and

the little girl simply said, “I

knew you would come in after

me.”

McLean said the best person

for a lifeguard position is a per-

son who is outgoing and not

shy.

“As a lifeguard, you have to

be able to communicate in a

way that will not cause strife

with the swimmers,” McLean

said. “You have to be good with

people, and you have to be able

to see everything going on

around you.”

McLean said she plans to

continue to be a lifeguard until

she retires.

“I love my job and the people

I work with,” she said, adding

she is grateful to Aquatic

Center Director Kathy Daly for

the opportunity to work at the

pool. “It’s a like a big family

here at the Ontario pool. I

know just about all the kids

that come swimming here by

name.”

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living down here without any

cattle. Fortunately, she said,

the job at TVCC became avail-

able.

“I think what I like about

teacher at a college is I like the

interaction with the students,”

Larson, who has been teaching

at TVCC for 10 years, said.

She said she has new groups

of students in her classes every

quarter and that changes the

dynamics of the classroom,

even if she knows some of the

students from other classes,

which makes things interest-

ing.

“For me it has never gotten

boring,” she said.

Another thing she loves

about working at TVCC is her

role as Phi Theta Kappa advis-

er.

“That has been a very inter-

esting kind of journey for me,”

she said.

She said before former

English instructors Janet and

Don Asay took over the pro-

gram, TVCC really did not

have an active chapter. The

Asays, however, really em-

braced the program and

worked hard to make it an ac-

tive chapter. Toward the end of

their careers at TVCC, they re-

cruited Larson to get involved

and, eventually, they turned

the chapter over to her to carry

on in their absence.

Larson said she was reluctant

to assume that responsibility

initially because she is a single

mother and she was concerned

about the commitment in-

volved, but she found she loved

being PTK adviser as well.

“It adds another dimension

to your interaction with the

students,” Larson said of being

an adviser to any program.

“Rather than just classroom in-

structor, it’s definitely a

teacher-student relationship.”

As opposed to her other stu-

dents, she spends a lot of time

outside of school with the PTK

members, working with them

on projects and taking them to

competitions and conferences.

“It has really given me an op-

portunity to interact with the

students on a whole different

level,” Larson said, she said be-

cause of the time spent togeth-

er, she knows many of their

spouses and children, and they

know her more, as well. “The

payoff is huge because it gives

me a connection with that

group of students.”

Larson’s work in the class-

room is very important to her

as well.

She said it is important for

her to respect the students and

for them to accord her the

same. She said it is also very

important for her to learn

their names and put humor in-

to each of her classrooms.

“But it’s very important to

me to make the content chal-

lenging,” Larson added. “I nev-

er want the kids to feel short-

changed when they leave. I feel

like I hold them to standards

that they would encounter at a

four-year college, and I really

am very interested in what

they do after graduation.”

Larson said she stays in

touch with many students

through Facebook, which she

said allows her to watch them

as they advance in their careers

or educations. She said it

makes her feel good to see

them graduate and go on to be

successful.

And while she might not

have always felt this way,

Larson said she feels like she

made the right choice in her ca-

reer.

“I do think teaching is the

right fit,” she said. “I really love

it. I don’t think I could give it

up now.”

She also said, while the west-

ern Treasure Valley is a bit too

hot compared with Seattle,

where she lived through her

older teen years, she is glad she

stayed in the area.

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mess of historical artifacts into

a comprehensive museum

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dents can get a small glimpse of

their town’s past.

Curtis said she never thought

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tory at the time she was offered

the job. She has turned the mu-

seum around, however, for the

enjoyment of local residents

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Curtis was born in 1940 at

Mrs. Blanchard’s Nursing

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Center Street. During that

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where they owned a ranch. She

lived there until she was 19.

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really had to choose from. I

wasn’t into the health thing. I

chose to go to beauty school,

and it served me well for a lot

of years.”

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design and business.

After graduating from beau-

ty school, Curtis came back to

Payette. Her family first moved

to Payette in 1889.

Curtis married a man in the

Navy after getting out of

school and the two moved

around throughout his time in

the military. She has lived in

and out of the Payette area her

entire life, however.

After Curtis got divorced,

she decided to go back to beau-

ty school and catch up. During

her married years, she worked

as a house wife.

At the time she was going

back to school beauticians

weren’t necessary, Curtis said.

“So they sent me to Boise

State University’s business

school,” she said.

After school she went to

work for an advertising compa-

ny.

During this time, she remar-

ried her husband.

“I’m not too bright, what can

I say?” Curtis said.

She soon found herself going

into the newspaper industry.

She was a newspaper photog-

rapher for 25 years working at

various newspapers in

Wyoming, Oregon, Arizona

and Idaho, including the

Independent-Enterprise and

the Argus Observer.

“You get kind of burnt out af-

ter you do it for 100 years,” she

said of photography, adding,

however, with the technology

age and the use of digital cam-

eras, she has been getting back

into the habit of taking photos.

After she left photography, a

local group asked her to work

at the museum.

“I don’t have any clue who

asked me,” she said. “To be

honest, it was sort of when the

group who started this was get-

ting older. There’s something

that happened and a new

group took over. They basically

asked me to run the museum.”

She has now been running

the museum for 12 years.

In the beginning, Curtis said

it was the design aspect that in-

terested her in the job more

than the history. She said she

has grown steadily more inter-

ested in history but still enjoys

putting together the exhibits

and telling the artifacts’ stories.

One very large project Curtis

has undertaken is logging

every single item in the muse-

um into a computer program

that will have a picture of the

item, who it’s from, the meas-

urements, the condition it ar-

rived in, where the item is sit-

uated, if it has been loaned to

anyone and when it was at the

museum.

Three to four people are

working on this project, and

Curtis joked it will probably

not be completed during her

lifetime. The museum has

eight rooms completely full

with artifacts, storage rooms

and the two main rooms with

the exhibits. It’s a daunting

task to complete, but Curtis

knows, once it is finished, it

will make everyone’s lives a lot

easier.

Many people come to Curtis

for information about their ge-

nealogy as well as research top-

ics. When Curtis first began

working at the museum she

went through the numerous

file cabinets and read every

document there was.

“Not that I retained the infor-

mation, but I did read it,” she

said laughing.

She then organized the docu-

ments and photos and now has

a system she understands and

generally knows where most

things are situated, including

what’s in the storage rooms.

If someone does come in

with a research project, Curtis

can generally remember if she

has the information for which

they’re looking.

For Curtis to choose a subject

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to display, she said the inspira-

tions usually come at 2 a.m.

“I try to be put things togeth-

er that make sense. I was

watching a program that fo-

cused on a man who had 2,000

toasters,” she said.

Curtis said she knew she had

several toasters in storage, and

she brought them out and put

them on display, showing the

way the toasters work with

fake bread.

“If the displays don’t make

sense, then guests won’t look at

them,” she said. “I do my best

to tell stories out of them.”

Curtis has also sewn period

dresses to go on the man-

nequins in the display cases.

Her mother was a seam-

stress, and Curtis said she

hardly ever received new store-

bought clothes and doesn’t

generally enjoy sewing. She

sewed several dresses and

aprons in the downstairs dis-

play case, however, to give a

more accurate representation

of the time period.

Curtis gets to meet lots of

new people and learn a lot of

different things working at the

museum. No day is the same,

she said.

“It never occurred to me that

I’d be working at a museum,

but, then again, I never thought

I’d work at a newspaper. Or

anything else. My life has been

‘oh, guess what you’re doing

this week’ most of the time,”

she said laughing.

On her day’s off, Curtis en-

joys gardening. She also enjoys

time with her friend, Winona

Scott, whom she has known

since she was 13 years old.

Recently the pair went to the

lavender festival in Emmett.

They also plan to travel around

Idaho, a place they have lived a

large part of their lives, and see

the sights and attractions

they’ve never enjoyed before.

Curtis has two sons, Alan,

48, and Daniel, 51. She will

soon be going to the

Smithsonian with her son

Alan, and although she wishes

she could skip Washington

D.C. and just enjoy the muse-

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staying in the Payette area

when she retires.

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Riverside Cemetery are my rel-

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