Place of Grace

• Host an Exchange Student

• Idaho Department of Corrections

• Marsing HUB

• Caldwell Salvation Army

• West Valley Humane Society

• West Valley Medical Center

• Western Idaho Community Crisis Center

• WICAP

JustServe Organization

Highlight & Priority Need: experiencing a mental health or substance abuse crises. Visit JustServe.org for more details. tions that will have a lasting impact on the lives of others. Our own lives and well-being will be impacted as we work sideby-side and learn from each other, misconceptions will be corrected, new friendships built, and our mutual understanding increases. By being actively engaged in our community and giving back to those in need of a lift up, our own mental health and self-esteem benefit too.

JustServe is FREE to use, for both organizations posting their projects, and volunteers signing up to serve others. It is quite simply a community resource that makes it easy for local volunteers to find opportunities to enhance the quality of life for all.

Following is a sampling of JustServe community organizations who do so much good to support and lift others and who also share their needs on JustServe:

• Advocate for Children in Foster Care

• Canyon County Branch of Assistance League of Boise

- Baby Bundles & Operation School Bell

• Caldwell Police DepartmentBlessing Box

• Caldwell Public Library - Community

• Caldwell Meals on Wheels

• El-Ada Food Pantry

• Harmony Park

• Homedale Schools Trojan Connection

• Homedale Senior Center

• Hope’s Door

It had been my experience that the moral rupture facet of PTSD is the most difficult to resolve. There are many reasons for this difficulty. The top two are: the need for outside help and the need to recognize that I am in a position that needs help from others.

Early in the military career self-reliance, get the job done, and I can continue regardless are built into the mindset of the service member. Somewhere along the way self-reliance develops into an undercurrent of “I am not broken and, therefore I do not need help”.

Did you know that downtown Caldwell is home to a 24-hour Crisis Center? Western Idaho Community Crisis Center supports those experiencing mental health and/or substance use crises by providing: Immediate, compassionate care; Resources to promote recovery; and, First steps to stability. PRIORITY NEED: Men’s & Women’s New pajama bottoms and New t-shirt. Quantity and Sizes

Needed: 15/each Men’s S-XXL and 15/each Women’s XS-XXL. This is a super easy way for you to make a difference in the lives of those struggling. Next time you’re out shopping, grab some pajama bottoms and t-shirts to wrap some love around those soul looks like, or feels like, taking a mental inventory is an unproductive activity. Someone from the outside needs to come to the aid of a ruptured soul. sandbox. I told him I would be outside as soon as I could and that the yard was such a mess I needed to tend to it. So innocently, he said, “come mere mom”, I walked to the back door to see my Audie with his arms stretched wide and he said, “but mom look at all these beautiful flowers” referring to the dandelions covering the lawn. It’s all in the Perspective. That story; that lesson has been a treasured gift.

We could use your help! Do you know of a nonprofit, community, government, or faithbased organization who has a need for volunteers and/or donations? We all have relationships within our spheres of influences through work, school, family, friends and neighbors and so we ask you to ponder and help us identify those types of organizations who could benefit by posting their needs on JustServe and in turn give members in our community the benefits of service too. If you have and/or know of a nonprofit, community, government, or faith-based organization that might benefit by learning more about JustServe, please let us know by contacting Kelli Jenkins at: kelligjenkins@gmail. com.

Visit JustServe.org or download the JustServe app, register, and sign-up today to give the gift of love.

Grief is a heavy fog. One minute your on top of the world the next the world is on top of you. During the years that have followed “the post cancer” days, through the connections in the community it is truly the Caldwell Perspective that has blessed me. I want to thank my friends for their love and support through this roller coaster ride, but mostly the encouragement to keep going. I appreciate you!

Military training does take into account the need to care for the physical body. A broken body is a hard deficit to overcome while continuing with ‘normal’ function. Efforts can know no bounds to care for physical injury and return the service member to duty status. Moral injury is a far different problem to solve.

In my military experience there was no recognizable effort spent to aid in becoming aware that my soul had been damaged and is in desperate need of repair. A respectable injury could be seen. Goldbricks have unseen injuries.

A broken soul is not treated by traditional medical methods. It is hard to place a splint on a soul while it heals. At times in the ‘heat of battle’ the body does not have time to recognize some injuries until time is available for a physical inventory. So, with no awareness of what a ruptured

The someone coming to the aid of a broken soul needs to have training in theology as it applies to soul repair. The General Patton approach to soul repair is counterproductive and will worsen the problem. However, this method, in various iterations, is used when either the person helping does not have a theological perspective to how to effectively treat the soul, or is ignorant of the complexities of soul repair.

For me, the most difficult part was admitting that I was a broken soul. It would be nice if I were able to report that the rest was easy. It was, and is, not. However, once you become committed to the repair process life does get better. For those of us who get to keep PTSD as a lifelong companion, biblical counseling does provide a way to shovel out the accumulating mental goo that continues to work against us.

The hardest thing for vets to do is to admit they need help. Some do not want to be ‘stigmatized’ by the diagnosis of PTSD, others just do not think they are in need of help. The VA offers a number of therapies that can help and no one needs to know you are getting help. Do not wait, get help now. Your life will be better for it.

Public can comment on big game season proposals beginning February 8

Open houses will be held in each region for hunters to weigh in on the seasonsetting process.

Idaho Fish and Game will be setting new big game seasons for deer, elk, pronghorn, black bear, wolf and mountain lion, and gathering public input on proposals beginning on Feb. 8.

Hunters can easily check out the proposals on the big game season setting webpage. Proposals are expected to be posted midweek during the first week of February, and the comment period will run through Feb. 22 at idfg.idaho.gov/ comment.

Idaho Fish & Game

Big game seasons will be finalized by the Fish and Game Commission during its March 16 meeting in Boise. The application period for big game controlled hunts runs May 1 through June 5.

The public comment process will also include meetings and open houses hosted at Fish and Game’s regional offices at the time and dates listed below.

Southwest – Nampa

Feb. 13 — Mountain

Home, American Legion Hall, 325 S. 3rd St., 6-8 p.m.

Feb. 15 — Nampa, IDFG Regional Office, 15950 N Gate Blvd., 6-8 p.m.

Learn about the fascinating Western Grebe and Clark’s Grebe at this month’s SIBA meeting via Zoom on Thursday, February 9, at 7 p.m. During the meeting, we will learn about the current breeding status of these declining waterbirds in Idaho and across the nation from Anne Yen, an experienced Wildlife Sciences graduate student at the University of Idaho in Moscow.

For more information about the meeting and how to join on Zoom, please email sibainfo1@ gmail.com.

Did you know that both Western and Clark’s Grebes perform elaborate courtship dances by running next to each other on the water? It is certainly a beautiful example of avian “romance”!

Coming up later this month is the combination SIBA and GEAS (Golden Eagle Audubon Society) field trip to Hagerman Valley on Saturday, Febru- ary 11, 2023. There are many species of birds that can be observed in this area during the winter, so please make plans to attend! Anyone is welcome to come, but you must

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register ahead of time on the GEAS website (goldeneagleaudubon.org) under “Event Calendar” or by contacting Wayne Smith at smithagconsulting1@ gmail.com.

Applications for Spring Turkey Controlled Hunts Open February 1

Application period runs through March 1 and includes youth-only controlled turkey hunts

Turkey hunters looking to apply for 2023 spring controlled turkey hunts can apply from Feb. 1 to March 1. Information on the spring 2023 controlled turkey hunts can be found in the 2022-23 Upland Game, Furbearer and Turkey Seasons and Rules book. Hunters must have a 2023 hunting license in order to apply for controlled hunts. Here’s how to apply:

• Online: Hunters can apply on the Fish and Game website. There is an internet service charge of 3% of the transaction in addition to the nonrefundable application fee ($6.25 per person for resident, and $18.00 per person for nonresidents).

• Licensed Vendors: Taken electronically at any Fish and Game office or license vendor.

• Telephone: Applications can be placed over the phone by calling 1(800)554-8685. The charge for processing telephone applications is 3% of the transaction plus $6.50. This is in addition to the nonrefundable application fee ($6.25 per person for resident, and $18.00 per person for nonresidents).

• Do not mail in applications. They will not be accepted. Controlled hunts are hunts with a limited number of tags allocated by a random drawing, unlike a general season hunt, which allows hunters to purchase tags over the counter. Controlled hunts are often desirable because of location and timing, and success rates are usually higher than general season hunts.

Controlled hunt tags are valid in the controlled hunt for which a hunter was drawn or in any open general hunt during the calendar year for which the tag is valid. See pages 24-25 for the list of controlled hunts. A turkey hunter may only harvest one bird per controlled hunt tag.

Junior hunters must be between the ages of 10 and 17 to participate in controlled youth hunts, but a 9-year-old may buy a junior license to apply for a controlled hunt, provided the hunter is 10 years old at the time of the hunt they are applying for.

Controlled hunt applications for spring 2023 turkey close on March 1. Successful spring turkey applicants will be notified no later than March 20. Hunters with a valid email address on file will be notified of their status via email. Any leftover tags for spring turkey controlled hunts go on sale April 1.