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Gooding Senators off to State Football
The Gooding Senators are headed to Pocatello this Saturday for the 3A State Football Championship game against the Emmett Huskies. The Senators are the definite underdogs in this game, but the Gooding team has garnered a great deal of respect from sports commentators this year. Quarterback, Wyatt Williams, has been a driv-
ing force in the success of the Gooding team. In last Saturday’s game against Homedale, he threw four touchdowns and ran in for a fifth. Gooding’s strong passing game will be in stark contrast to Emmett’s running game. Emmett’s Mason Farnsworth has run close to 1300 yards this year, and has contributed greatly to
a season that includes five games of 50 points or more (an average of 56.9 points per game in their last seven games). The Gooding Senators will have to put their defense in overdrive to contain the Huskies. The Championship game begins at 4:00 p.m. at the Holt Arena on the Idaho State University campus.
Mayor’s School Walking Challenge
During the month of October, 27 mayors throughout the State of Idaho participated in the Mayor’s School Walking Challenge. Joining them were over 25,000 students from 60 schools. Together, they walked nearly 180,000 miles in their effort
Mayor Scott Marolf
to encourage healthy eating and physical activity. As a reward, eight school around the state of Idaho were the recipients of a $2000 award from the 2015 WALKtober walking competition, including Dietrich Elementary which log in over 3200 miles. This year’s champion Mayor was Gordon Petrie of Emmett, Idaho, who walked 534 miles and earned $5,000 to spend towards school or park improvements within the his city. Twelve other Idaho mayors, including Scott Marolf from Fairfield and Dave Wendell from Shoshone, achieved an average of more than 10,000 steps per day to win $1,000 for their communities.
High Five Children’s Health Collaborative, Idaho Dairy Council, and St. Luke’s, are proud sponsors of the Mayor’s School Walking Challenge, and thank the participating mayors for helping inspire our children to walk, run, and be active in school and out.
Mayor Dave Wendell
November 18
,2015
Volume 39 ~ Number 46 News from the Heart of Idaho Camas • Lincoln • Gooding
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Christmas Tree Permits
Beginning this Friday, November 20, Christmas Tree permits will be available throughout the Sawtooth National Forest. The cost for this year’s permit is $10 which enables a family to choose and cut a tree up to 20 feet - limit of one tree per family or organization. Depending on the specific area where people choose to cut their trees, a variety of trees are available. These include lodgepole pine, subalpine fir, Douglas-fir and pinyon pine. There are a few areas that are off limits for cutting Christmas trees. These include campgrounds, administrative sites, ski areas, summer home sites and organization camps. The Forest Service (not vendors) will offer one free Christmas tree cutting permit to fourth graders who present a valid Every Kid in a Park pass. Offices that do not issue Christmas tree permits or who have already issued their allotted number of permits are exempt from this program. The Every Kid in a Park initiative allows fourth gradcontinued on page 7.....