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Sign up for this flamenco workshop with Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana and you’ll be stomping and snapping with the best of them.
In town for a performance, New York City–based Flamenco Vivo is one of the most renowned Spanish dance companies in the United States. On Saturday, February 25, one of the core company dancers will offer a fast and fun 75 minute class starting at 11:15 am, prior to its evening performance as part of the Sun Valley Center for the Arts Winter Performing Arts Series.
The flamenco dance workshop is open to all ages and levels of experience and costs $20 for Sun Valley Center members, $30 for nonmembers and $10 for kids 13-18 (minimum 13 years old for this workshop). The workshop will be held at Zenergy at ThunderSpring at 11:15 am; register online at www.sunvalleycenter.org or call 726.9491 ex 10.
Tickets to the evening performance are also available at www.sunvalleycenter.org or by phone.
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The Ketchum Sun Valley Ski and Heritage Museums are pleased to announce the 2012 Sun Valley Ski Hall of Fame Inductee’s. The Alpine Committee has selected: Dick Durrance, Warren Miller, Janette Burr Johnson, Pete Patterson and Michel Rudigoz. The Nordic Committee has selected Bill & Annie Vanderbilt, Ntala Skinner, Charley French, Hans Muehlegger and Jenny Busdon
The 2012 Induction ceremony will be at the Ski and Heritage Museum on Wednesday, February 1
st, at 4:00 pm. The celebration includes live music, drinks, and a brief presentation and speech by each athlete.
The Ski Museum has dedicated an exhibition area in the Ski Museum to house the laser engraved plaques of The Sun Valley Ski Hall of Fame.
The process for nomination is done by committee and nomination, one for Nordic and another for Alpine. Each committee has several members, all dedicated athletes who continue to work in their sport areas. Each committee member works to find the top inductees for the year, people who have excelled in their sport and given back to the greater Sun Valley community. The Inductees are honored with a party and a permanent plaque in the Ski Museum which highlights their contributions to their sport.
For questions regarding the Sun Valley Ski Hall of Fame, please call The Ski Museum at 208.726.8118.
One of the most important books of the decade, Reza Aslan’s bestselling No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam is that rare thing: a book about religion that’s actually fun to read.
It also has its share of critics, some of whom complain that the book sacrifices accuracy for the sake of political correctness.
Join Josh Udesen and other readers to discuss No god but God on Monday, February 6, two weeks before the author speaks as part of the Sun Valley Center for the Arts Lecture Series on February 23. Udesen, who teaches at the Riverstone International School in Boise, uses the book as a part of his Comparative World Religions class. He’ll guide participants in talking about the book’s history of Islam and its place in the world today.
The discussion will be held at The Center, Ketchum, from 6 to 8 pm Monday, February 6. Advance registration is required; visit www.sunvalleycenter.org to register or call 726.9491 ex 10. Cost is $15 Sun Valley Center members, $25 nonmembers.
Tickets to Reza Aslan’s talk on February 23 are also available on The Center’s website.
Join us Thursday, Feb. 2rd, before, during, or after xc sprint races and music at the Simplot lot. 15% of sales will go to the 16th Annual Galena & North Valley Trails Winter Benefit. Donations gladly accepted.
Specials include:
Roasted Chicken Breast: Free range boneless chicken breast and wing accompanied with homemade Yukon Gold garlic mashed potatoes and sautéed mixed vegetables. $12.00
Home-style meatloaf: Lean sirloin, pork sausage, and Lava Lake Lamb drizzled with a tomato BBQ sauce and served with Yukon Gold garlic mashed potatoes and sautéed mixed vegetables. $12.00
Wild Alaskan Salmon: Served Papillion style with fresh dill and thyme, brushed with a tequila butter reduction, accompanied by garden fresh veggies with coconut saffron rice. $16.00
Baby Back Ribs: Served with a side of Yukon Gold garlic mashed potatoes and sautéed mixed vegetables. Half Order - $13, Whole Order - $17
Lava Lake Lamb Stew:
Seasoned, braised, and slow cooked. Served in a red wine tomato gravy with Yukon Gold garlic mashed potatoes and sautéed golden corn. $12.00
Ruby Red Trout Filet:
Fresh local Hagerman 8-10 oz. Ruby Red Trout filet, pan seared and topped with a pineapple mango salsa, served with a side of seasoned white beans and rice. $15.00
APPETIZERS Buffalo wings
Baked stuffed mushrooms caps
Steamed artichoke
Brew city onion rings
Featuring 11 premium beers and 12 select wines by the glass
Celebrating Nordic Ski Festival week by serving dinner from 5 pm to 9pm every evening!
Make online reservations at our website: http://www.perryssunvalley.com
Celebrate the Nordic Festival with a free outdoor concert with Tim Snider and Sound Society on Thursday, February 2. The concert will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts lot across from the Ketchum post office. The band will start at 5:30 and the finals of the Elite Competition will begin at 5:45.
Quickly becoming the can't be missed event of the nine-day Sun Valley Nordic Festival, the Ketchum Downtown Jam and NordicTown USA Sprint features sprint races with top Nordic skiers, food and drinks and a bonfire to keep spectators warm. The evening includes the legendary World Snowshoe Dance Competition which is open to all and begins at 6:30 (with snowshoes … there will be snowshoes on hand for those who want to join the fun).
This year’s band, Tim Snider and Sound Society, blends music from all over the world into a high-energy, soul-stirring, foot-stomping stew. Tim has traveled to Europe, Cuba, Morocco, Spain, Indonesia and much of Central America in his ongoing journey to study different styles of music. The result: a spicy mix of American roots, world beat and Latin rhythms that gives audiences an irresistible desire to dance.
So bundle up the kids, walk from town or step into your skis and cruise down the groomed Wood River Trail to join the party. Food and drinks will be available for purchase from Galena Lodge and Wood River Pizza Oven.
For information about all Nordic Festival events, visit www.svnordicfestival.com. For more information about Sun Valley Center for the Arts programs, visit www.sunvalleycenter.org or call 208.726.9491.
The Ketchum Downtown Jam and NordicTown USA Sprints is made possible through the collaboration of the Blaine County Recreation District, the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation, the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, the Boulder Mountain Tour, the Elephant's Perch, Backwoods Mountain Sports, and Galena Lodge.
Are you interested in deepening your understanding of voluntary simplicity, wondering what material and psychological distractions prevent us from caring for the earth, and would like to know how we can acknowledge the connection between our lifestyle choices and the condition of the earth? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, then join the Environmental Resource Center this winter in our five-week Northwest Earth Institute (NWEI) discussion course on the topic of "Voluntary Simplicity".
The group will meet Tuesdays at 6 pm, beginning January 10, at The Sage School in Hailey (1451 Aviation Drive). These one-hour classes are offered free of charge; however, participants will need to purchase a $21 discussion workbook. Topics include: the meaning of simplicity, living more with less, making a living, and living simply and sustainably.
Please register by Friday, December 30th so that discussion guides may be ordered and picked up before our first meeting. For more information on this program and to register contact our office (208.726.4333) or hadley@ercsv.org.
Join artist Anna McKee and glaciologist Peter Neff on Thursday, January 5, at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts for an informal brown-bag slideshow and talk about ice cores, art and ice bound landscapes.
The free, hour-long program starts at noon. No advance registration is required and attendees are invited to bring along a lunch.
In 2008, McKee began looking at ice core specimens, glaciers and ice sheets “to explore metaphors about the deep memory of the world and the frailty of our ecosystems.” From her home in Seattle, she traveled to ice-core sites in British Columbia and Antarctica. On the West Antarctic Ice Sheet she visited a research team drilling a two-mile-deep ice core, recovering atmosphere over 100,000 years old (ice cores provide a climatic record because of the air trapped in their layers).
“Ice offers symbolic stories of the planet and our effect on that story through millennia,” she says. “I began by drawing ice cores, kept in freezers, dissected by scientists. I gazed into these clear columns and desperately tried to draw the few visible variations. I looked at high resolution images of ice, glaciers and radar measurements of ice sheets. The resulting Ice Series prints are my specimens, revealing what fascinated my eye and mind.”
Peter Neff, a University of Washington graduate student in glaciology, will be on hand to talk about the ice core projects and recent discoveries in the science of climate change.
McKee’s drawings of glacial landscapes are on view at The Center Gallery in Ketchum as part of the multidisciplinary project Thin Ice: Journeys in Polar Regions, which also includes films, lectures and a visual arts exhibition in Hailey. For more information about the brown bag lunch or Thin Ice, visit www.sunvalleycenter.org or call 726.9491 ex 10.
Local Chiropractor is offering a screemin' Holiday Special. Start anytime in December and get a whole month of soft touch chiropractic for $129. Locals and tourist alike can take advantage of this deal. Call 726-6010 or visit www.DrMariaMaricich.com. Soft touch chiropractic is the best way to reduce the effects of stress and release your healing potential.
Many great gift ideas for self and others.....paintings, leather bracelets, hand painted tees, hand painted helmets, ceramics, photography, gourds, jewelry, furniture, glass.
Dot artist Marie Stewart will custom paint your helmet, your ski gear, your jeans, your doors, your walls.
She has a wide assortment of guaranteed conversational, fun outer art wear, helmets, floor rugs, table mats, pouches, skulls
Check us out...bring the whole family.... shop for something uniquely hand made
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Holiday Open House & Trunk Show
Tis' the season of giving and there is nothing better than giving yourself a break from all the Christmas dinner mayhem and let the magical baking elfs at Perry's help sprinkle a little holiday joy on your Christmas dinner by creating the most amazing, traditional and delicious holiday desserts your little sugar plum eyes have ever seen!
So remember when working on your wish list for Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, #1 top of the list better be one of the amazing, incredible, obviously created by magical baking elf's recruited by Paula and Keith Perry for the sole purpose of making Perry's Holiday Pies with love for all the lucking people of a our magical valley!
How about a little Deep Dish Apple under that mistletoe? $20 for the 9" tin or $25 for the 10" glass.
Or how about some Cheery pie for those rosie cheeks? $20 for the 9" tin and $25 for the 10" glass.
Slice up some holiday joy with the Triple Berry pie, oh my oh my just $20 for a pie! $25 for the 10" glass.
Maybe some Pumpkin Praline to make you scream and for only $18! $23 for the 10" glass (contains pecans).
Pecan lovers rejoice because this Christmas, miracles do come true with both original and chocolate Pecans pies for only $20 for the 9" and $25 for the 10" glass!
*A $5 deposit is added to the glass orders and is refunded when you give the elfs back their plate.
What are you waiting for?! Pick up the phone and dial 208-726-7703 and get you pies orders today!
If you don't you will have to answer to the angry elfs and that is not fun at all.
Pick up by 4pm Dec 24th.
Closed Christmas day.
Perry's Restaurant
131 W. 4th St. Downtown Ketchum
Phone: 208.726.7703
Email: Perrys@sunvalleynet.com
Have you started making your New Year’s resolutions?
Equally important is figuring out what will motivate you to keep the resolutions, points out Connie Love, a certified life coach. And remember, she reminds her clients, that it’s all right to start keeping resolutions now instead of waiting until Jan. 1.
Here are some of Love’s suggestions:
- Break goals into small parts.
- Make it as easy as possible to succeed. If your goal is to exercise more, lay out the appropriate clothes before you go to bed. If you want to go on a diet, plan menus and shop appropriately.
- Remember that success breeds success. When you achieve small steps, you have more occasions to celebrate.
- Reward small steps. Just be sure that your “reward” is not undermining your efforts. Don’t celebrate losing 5 pounds, for example, by going out to dinner. Buy yourself a new pair of slacks instead.
- Recognize that there may be setbacks. Consider what might cause a setback and how you are going to get back on track if one occurs.
- Realize that we all can lose motivation from time to time. Create a support system or network to help you achieve your goals. Your support group can be a formal organization such as Weight Watchers, an exercise buddy, or just someone to remind you why you are going for the goal. That person can be a professional such as a life coach or a friend whom you trust to keep you honest.
If you follow these tips, Love said, you have a much better chance of being among the 8 percent of Americans, as estimated by Opinion Corporation of Princeton, N.J., who actually keep their New Year’s resolutions.
Connie Love, a certified life coach in Sun Valley, can be reached at (208) 720-2216 or connie@lifecoachconnielove.com. Additional information is available at www.lifecoachconnielove.com.
Jo Murray is a public relations consultant to life coach Connie Love.
The Sun Valley Hallelujah Chorus will celebrate the holidays with a rousing free Christmas concert for all! ‘A Vanilla Soul Christmas’ features everything from traditional Christmas carols done in a jazz motif to African music and dance, a gospel version of the Hallelujah chorus as well as Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and much more accompanied by the Cliff Cunha Soul Band. The Footlight Dancers will perform along with many featured soloists including John Mauldin, Entertainment Director for the Sun Valley Company, who has appeared in “Forever Plaid”.
The Hallelujah Chorus received rave reviews for their Christmas Concert last year. This year they will perform mostly new songs with a few of the best loved classics from last year.
The chorus was created by talented local musician/conductor Patti Parsons Tewson who has loved the special exciting and moving quality to gospel music since her childhood in the South. After performing with Harlem’s famed conductor Bobby Lewis in a 100 person gospel choir in of all places Fairbanks Alaska, she decided to bring what she learned back home and gathered a group of local singers to make her dream of a first time ever gospel chorus in Ketchum.
Since the performances are free, there will be a 5:30 pm Patron Party both evenings for $10 to fund the concert. Those who attend will receive good early seating, wine and hors-d’oeuvres and a chance to party with the performers.
The concert will take place at 7pm on Dec 19 & 20 at The NexStage Theater.
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The Board of Directors and staff of the ERC would like to invite you to join us for an Open House this Friday, December 2nd, from 5-7pm. Our offices are located at 471 N. Washington Ave, across from Rickshaw Restaurant.
Come enjoy hot chocolate, hot cider (or a glass of something chilled) and cookies around the fire. Tell us about issues that interest you, how you think the ERC might be able to help and learn what we we are up to now. The more, the merrier, so please who might be interested in joining us. Click here to see our event on Facebook.
We look forward to seeing you.
This year it’s all about the SATURDAY following Thanksgiving when we continue to show our gratitude by supporting the lifeline of the American economy - our small businesses. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, there were nearly 28 million small businesses in the United States last year. Over the past two decades, they created 65 percent of net new jobs. Directly supporting the communities in which we live, every $100 spent in locally-owned, independent stores, $68 returns to the community through taxes, payroll and other expenditures, according to the small business advocacy group The 3/50 Project.
As the owner of two small businesses here in the Wood River Valley- I am lamenting the fact that for some people, Thanksgiving seems to have become little more than -- a holiday "speed bump," as it were, or as "The day BEFORE Black Friday sales" starts nationwide, with the television ads already starting to lure us out or our towns and into the massive chain stores, I must say that Yes, times are tighter than ever, I understand this very well as we all do. However, considering that "Black Friday" comes just one day before the very important "Small Business Saturday", We at The Dollhouse(s) are wishing our friends in the Wood River Valley and beyond.. first and foremost a wonderful slowed down Thanksgiving. Second, a gift of thank you savings- hoping you choose to shop locally.
We at The Dollhouse Consignment Boutiques(s) will be doing all we can to help you save and stay. Both our flagship Ketchum location, 726-8332 & Our NEWlocation in Hailey- (south end of Main St,-corner of maple and Main St.)721-8294 www.dollhouseconsignment.com
We will hold a storewide, 25%-off Fri. Nov. 25th sale during our regular business hours of 12-6 in Ketchum and 11-5 in Hailey-including high end items such as furs, or Bogner ski wear etc... But even more special to us is the celebration we have planned for "Small Business Saturday" to be announced shortly- inviting everyone to have fun and save..
In case you have not visited our stores, The Dollhouse Consignment Boutique(s), just celebrated its fifth anniversary on October 31st, and features a wide range of stylish Women's clothing from high end designer to the most trendy fashions, footwear, accessories and jewelry. We also have junior and tween departments. The Dollhouse has been a favorite among local shoppers since it first opened here in 2006. Built by and for the Local community, we cater to 4 generations of women. Grandmothers, mothers, daughter's and grand-daughter's. We have something special for women at any age. We are the fashion shopping alternative, a boutique setting- with quality recycled fashions at low prices.
Finally, Let me take a minute to say a formal and heartfelt "Thank you" to all the people here who've generously and consistently supported me since the very beginning. The Dollhouse IS a retail business, but it's much more than that, too. It's a gathering place for WOMEN of all ages, a place for ideas to be born and shared, a place to get a much-needed hug or some encouraging words when you're maybe feeling down. It's a place that has brought a lot of joy to many people in many ways. I'm very blessed that I have a business that serves the COMMUNITY FIRST. Whether it's the gals who come in my store to find their special treasure, shop on a budget, or having the opportunity from our client's to donate their unsold items to the Barkin' Basement Thrift Store in support of our NO-KILL animal shelter.
Wishing you a very warm and cozy Thanksgiving, and thoughts of helping locally.
Lara Spencer- Owner, and Rachel Lee-Manager.
( co- written by John Pluntze)- thank you John for your support.
Sawtooth Brewery Plans Grand Opening
Having received all necessary permits, Brewery plans December Grand Opening.
Sawtooth Brewery is now a reality after receiving all of the required federal, state, county, and city permits to begin operations in downtown Ketchum, Idaho. The brewery and taproom will host a soft opening this Friday on 11/11/11 and hold their Grand Opening on December 2, 2011. The brewery plans to have a ribbon cutting ceremony with the Ketchum Chamber of Commerce in addition to other special events currently being planned. The seasonal Out Cold Winter Ale will be available on tap that weekend as well for the first time during the Grand Opening. The brewery and tap room are located at 600 North Main Street in downtown Ketchum with the tap room entrance on 6th Street.
The tap room will be the primary location to enjoy Sawtooth Brewery beer, with some kegs available to local businesses in the future. The tap room will focus on having all five Sawtooth Brewery regular beers on tap in addition to seasonal and “irregular” beers that will show up on an infrequent basis. The tap room will also have multiple guest taps including a nitro tap and a cask conditioned beer as well. Sawtooth Brewery will also feature locally produced Frenchman’s Gulch wines and Bucksnort Root Beer.
Tap room hours will be 5pm-10pm on Friday, 11/11, and 1pm-10pm on Saturday 11/12. The tap room will then be open weekly Thursday to Saturday through the end of November and posted on our facebook page and web-site. Regular hours in December have yet to be determined.
The tap room will have some simple snacks available and guests are welcome to bring in take-out or delivery from other restaurants to enjoy with their beer. The tap room will also feature Toni’s Sun Valley Ice Cream in Stout Floats, Root Beer Floats, and pints of Beer Fusion Ice Cream to go. The brewery will also offer growler fills for most beers, allowing guests to enjoy Sawtooth Brewery beer at home as well.
For more information about Sawtooth Brewery, please visit www.sawtoothbrewery.com. You may also follow Sawtooth Brewery on Facebook, or contact Kevin Jones, Business Manager, at (208) 450-9324 or kevin@sawtoothbrewery.com. Or Head Brewer, Paul Holle, at (208) 720-8437 or paul@sawtoothbrewery.com.
A strong turnout in Ketchum. Voters weighed in on whether they wanted to change the form of government. Fourty-three percent voted in favor of change while 57% voted against.
As a result, the city council vote was null and void since the form of government didn't change. Thus, Mayor Randy Hall and council members Larry Helzel, Baird Gourlay, Nina Jonas and Curtis Kemp held their seats.
Ketchum, ID — The Sun Valley Center for the Arts will be screening a thought-provoking film about teens and money and then offering a guided tour of its exhibition Awkward Stage: Adolescence and Identity on Thursday, November 17.
Both the film and tour are free and refreshments will be served. Come at 5 pm for the film, Lauren Greenfield’s kids + money, and stay for the tour at 5:30 pm.
In this 32-minute documentary, award-winning photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield has an honest conversation with teens in Los Angeles about money. The subjects come from varied income levels, but all feel the pressures of consumerism—whether they embrace or fight it. The film was an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival and winner of several awards. It has been featured on HBO and at museums and film festivals all over the world, where critics have called it “frank,” “disturbing,” “horrifying,” “smart” and “funny.”
Greenfield’s photos are on display in the Awkward Stage exhibition, a multidisciplinary project on adolescence and identity that includes photos, paintings and installation art from local and nationally known contemporary artists. After the film, around 5:30 pm, The Center’s docents and curators will walk visitors through the exhibitions and discuss the work on view in depth.
No reservations are necessary—just drop in.
For more information about the film and tour on November 17 or other Awkward Stage: Adolescence and Identity programs, visit www.sunvalleycenter.org or call 726.9491 ex 10. To see a trailer for kids + money and examples of Greenfield’s photography, visit www.laurengreenfield.com.
You heard right Perry's is giving away a $50 gift card to the winner of this year's Halloween video contest on Facebook.
All you have to do to win is go to http://www.facebook.com/perryssunvalley then click on the "contest" icon on the left hand side of the page...you know under the wall, photos,friends section of the page.
Basically we want to see a video of you dressed in your Halloween best telling us what you love best about Perry's.
You better hurry the contest ends Midnight Oct. 31st.
Happy Halloween!
Bag It has been garnering awards at film festivals across the nation. What started as a documentary about plastic bags evolved into a wholesale investigation into plastics and their effect on our lives. This free screening of the 65 minute documentary takes place at 6PM on November 1, in the meeting room at The Community Library in Ketchum. This program is co-sponsored by the Environmental Resource Center, The Community Library and the Wood River High School Environmental Club. Find more information about the film at http://www.bagitmovie.com/. For questions about the event, please call 208.726.4333.
Ketchum, ID — Lois Lowry, one of the most acclaimed children’s and young adult authors writing today, will speak in Ketchum on Thursday, November 3, as part of the Sun Valley Center for the Arts 2011/2012 Lecture Series.
Lowry, a two-time winner of children’s literature’s most prestigious award, the Newbery Medal, is known for addressing difficult subject matter ranging from racism to terminal illness, murder and the Holocaust. Her writing is thoughtful, challenging and never condescending.
“We invited Lois here as part of our multidisciplinary project, Awkward Stage: Adolescence and Identity, because she is so good at reaching adolescents,” says Britt Udesen, The Center’s Director of Education and Humanities. “Lowry’s The Giver is widely read in our school district and is required for students at Wood River Middle School. But like all the best children’s literature, her work resonates with adults, too.”
This classic young adult novel addresses the controversial and important issue of questioning authority. In addition to attending the lecture, adults are invited to read or reread The Giver and join in a hosted book club on Tuesday, October 25th at 5:30pm at The Community Library in Ketchum.
Lowry, who won the Newbery Medal for The Giver in 1993 and Number the Stars in 1990, did not publish her first book until she was 40 years old but has made up for lost time since then, publishing more than 30 books including an autobiography. While in the Wood River Valley, she will spend time at the Wood River Middle School discussing The Giver with students.
Part one of a trilogy, The Giver is set in the future and follows a 12-year-old boy named Jonas who is selected to inherit the position of “Receiver of Memories.” Despite having won the Newbery Medal, garnering critical acclaim and being on many school reading lists, the book has also been the target of challenges by parents and groups who object to its violence or to passages about infanticide and euthanasia. Others find references to Jonas’s hormonal “stirrings” inappropriate.
Lowry says that such objections to the book make for “a difficult situation” and worries about the
chilling effect such controversy can have on librarians and teachers, and what it means regarding whether or not the book will be read. “Even though they [librarians and teachers] may like
a book and want to teach the book, they don’t have time to deal with the bureaucracy that’s required [to fight a challenge], and they’re likely to choose a less controversial book.”
Individual tickets to Lois Lowry’s lecture are $15 for members, $25 for non-members and $5 students. The lecture begins at 6:30 pm Thursday, November 3 at the Church of the Big Wood in Ketchum. Buy tickets online at www.sunvalleycenter.org, call 726.9491 ex 10 or stop by The Center in Ketchum.
The Center thanks lecture sponsors Britt and Peter Palmedo. Lecture Series sponsors are the Castellano Wood family and Gail & Jack Thornton.
In honor of the Trailing of the Sheep Festival we will be serving Lava Lake Lamb shank with farro, grilled zucchini, roasted eggplant and pistachio mint pesto this weekend. It's fantastic paired with 2007 Luigi Righett Capitel De' Roari Amarone della Valpolicella, or choose from our extensive wine list.
Starting Wednesday, October 5th our fall favorites menu will be available, featuring entree items starting at $12.00, and all pasta dishes are $15.00. We are happy to bring back the popular Pappardelle Tartufo and Carbonara pasta dishes, as well as reintroduce the Veal Scaloppini Marsala Style, Cannelloni and Chicken Milanese.
We’re open weekly Wednesday through Sunday at 6 pm. Call 726-7776 for reservations.
Ketchum, ID – On September 17th, 5B CrossFit and the Ketchum professional and volunteer fire departments hosted Fight Gone Bad 6 in the Ketchum Town Square. On this day, over 2 million dollars was raised by 1100 CrossFit affiliates worldwide, to benefit the Special Operations Warrior Foundation (providing assistance to the families of wounded or deceased soldiers), Infant Swim Resource (teaching water survival skills to kids) and Camp Patriot (which takes disabled vets on outdoor adventures). The 40 participants in the Ketchum’s Fight Gone Bad raised $4000.
With rock concert energy, CrossFit athletes of all levels were set in motion as the square erupted with the words “3,2,1, go!” Pounding music, an emcee delivering the play by play and a cheering crowd, many of whom had never seen a CrossFit workout before, inspired the participants to give their all. “FGB6 is a wonderful way for us to give back to the soldiers and their families who have made the ultimate sacrifice in their service to our country. These charities ensure that the families of veterans are not forgotten,” says Alex Margolin, who helped 5B CrossFit co-owner Kyl Samway and Ketchum Fire Department Captain Tom McLean organize the event.
Fight Gone Bad 6 (FGB6) is a workout that comprises five exercises, consecutively performed for 1 minute each with a 1 minute rest between the three rounds. The workout takes 17 minutes and is grueling if done for a high score. However, anyone can participate by scaling the weights and slowing down the number of repetitions. Each exercise has strict standards and must be completed in the following order: wall ball (throwing a heavy medicine ball to a 10 foot target), sumo deadlift high pull, box jump, push press and row.
There is an exciting community of CrossFitters growing in the Wood River Valley who participate in CrossFit training and fundraising efforts. On October 22, 5B CrossFit will host Amazing Grace, presented by Barbells for Boobs, an annual event to raise money for Mammograms in Action. Be on the lookout for other upcoming events and learn more about CrossFit at www.5bcrossfit.com.
The second annual Fur Ball, benefitting the Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley, is scheduled for Friday, September 30, 2011 at Whiskey Jacques in downtown Ketchum. Bands Up a Creek and The Heaters will have people dancing from 9 PM until the dogs howl! In the upstairs bar, DJ McClain will be spinning discs. Tickets are just $20 and all ticket proceeds benefit the shelter.
In addition to dancing, there will be a costume contest and a few raffles. Prizes in the costume contest will be awarded for those who best: Dress up like their cat’s attitude; dress up like their dog’s shenanigans; or dress up like your dog dressed up. And of course, with or without a costume, revelers are all welcome to come and support the shelter.
Special thanks to our photo contest winners Maggie the dog and Luna the cat!
