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Dietrich Devils Take 1AD2 State Championship
This last Saturday, the Dietrich High School football team completed a perfect season (11-0) with a victory over the Carey Panthers - 34 to 28. The first half of the championship game ended with the Devils trailing 22 to 6. The third quarter saw the team come back to life with two long drives down the field bringing them within two points - 22 to 20. In the fourth quarter, the Devils took the lead with another 12 points. With less than a minute and a half left in the game, the Panthers scored one last time but it was too late to stop the Blue Devils from winning their first state championship in school history.
The Thanksgiving Myth ??? This has been a rollercoaster year, but tomorrow is a moment to take a deep breath, enjoy a good meal, and reflect on all the things we should be thankful for. In 1620, exactly 400 years ago, a group of settlers arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts, and established the first permanent New England colony in America, along with our nation’s first constitution - The Mayflower Compact. And yet, even in those first baby steps of our nation, there were contentions. Following is a transcript of what Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas had to say last week. -- -- - A great American anniversary is upon us. Four hundred years ago this Saturday, a battered old ship called the Mayflower arrived in the waters off Cape Cod. The passengers aboard the Mayflower are, in many ways, our first founders. Daniel Webster called them "Our Pilgrim Fathers" on the two hundredth anniversary of this occasion. Regrettably, we haven't heard much about this anniversary of the Mayflower; I suppose the Pilgrims have fallen out of favor in fashionable circles these
days. I'd therefore like to take a few minutes to reflect on the Pilgrim story and its living legacy for our nation. By 1620, the Pilgrims were already practiced at living in a strange land. They had fled England for Holland twelve years earlier, seeking freedom to practice their faith. But life was hard in Holland and the Stuart monarchy, intolerant of dissent from the Church of England, gradually extended its oppressive reach across the Channel. So the Pilgrims fled the Old World for the New. In seeking safe harbor for their religion, the Pilgrims differed from those settlers who preceded them in the previous century, up to and including the Jamestown settlement just thirteen years earlier. As John Quincy Adams put it in a speech celebrating the Pilgrims' anniversary, those earlier settlers "were all instigated by personal interests," motivated by "avarice and ambition" and "selfish passions." The Pilgrims, by contrast, braved the seas "under the single inspiration of conscience" and out of a "sense of religious obligation."
News from the Heart of Idaho Camas • Lincoln • Gooding
November 25, 2020
Vol 44 Num 48
Go Gobblers Go!
Thanksgiving Day might not be a day you normally think of getting outside for exercise, but for the last six years that is exactly what some of your friends and neighbors have been doing. The Gooding Gobbler was started in 2013 by Emily Graybeal in an effort to raise funds for a friend’s cancer treatments. The first run had over 200 participants. Each year since then, the fun run has donated it’s proceeds to a local individual, cause or group. This year it’s the Gooding High School Swim Team. Come join the 7th Annual 5k Fun Run, the Gooding Gobbler. Registration and check-in is 7 a.m. at North Valley Academy (906 Main Street in Gooding). Race Starts at 8 a.m.
Official 2020 General Election Canvass
from the Idaho Secretary of State
Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney, along with the other members of Idaho’s State Board of Canvassers, Idaho State Controller Brandon Woolf, and Idaho State Treasurer Julie Ellsworth conducted the official state canvass for the 2020 General Election. The canvass of votes is the official accounting of every ballot cast to ensure every legal vote is counted. `“State and county election officials and workers are to be commended for their dedication, patience, and flexibility in staging a successful General Election under the challenging circumstances of a global pandemic,” said Secretary Denney. “Idahoans cast a record number of ballots, a record number of which were early or absentee ballots, and produced the highest percentage voter turnout we have seen for any election this century.” The statement of vote, certified today by the Board, shows 878,527 Idahoans voted in the 2020 General Election — a turnout of 81.2% of Idaho’s 1,082,417 registered voters. Voters cast 493,719 early or absentee ballots, representing 56.2% of all ballots cast. Counties with the highest voter turnout, as a percentage of registered voters, were Fremont (88.1%), Kootenai (87.4%) , Butte (86.3%), and Idaho (85.1%). Official election results, including county-by-county and historical data, will soon be continued on page 5... available on the Elections Division page of sos.idaho.gov