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Kickoff the Christmas Season
This weekend, several of our local communities will be hosting local shopping and celebrations to start the Christmas season. In Shoshone, the Golden Years Senior Center (North Rail Street) will hold their annual Christmas Bazaar
on Saturday, December 3rd, from 9 a.m to 3 p.m. Handcrafted items, baked and canned foods, and quilts, quilts, and more quilts. There will also be a raffle with many great items. The Center will serve lunch from 11:30 to 1:30 (or until the food runs out). For $5.00 you get soup, fresh bread, and a cinnamon roll. ---- This Friday, December 2nd, Downtown Fairfield will hold their annual Tree Lighting along with a Chili/ Soup cook off. The Tree Lighting will take place at 6 p.m. followed by pictures with Santa at the Camas
Public Library. Cook-off entries should be brought to the Cliff at 5 p.m. (cash prize for 1st place Chili and 1st place soup). The Camas School Choir will be on hand this year to provide live music. And don’t forget... Craft Bazaar at the Community Church. ---- The Gooding Holiday Kick-off will be held on Saturday, December 3rd, starting at 9 a.m. with the Holiday Craft Fair at North Valley Academy, and ending with fireworks at Gooding Middle School at 6:30 p.m. (see page 5 for full schedule).
health condition. By Idaho code, the facility may not provide services to a client for more than twenty-three (23) hours and fifty-nine (59) minutes in a single episode of care. The crisis center is located at 570 Shoup Avenue in Twin Falls. The crisis center will serve the eight county region of south central Idaho. The crisis center’s professional behavioral health staff will provide medical assessments, de-escalate
crisis, stabilize clients, develop treatment plans, and put clients on the path to recovery. According to Rene LeBlanc, District Health Director for SCPHD, “the legislature recognized that law enforcement and hospital emergency rooms have become the default providers of crisis intervention to Idaho citizens with behavioral health disorders. As a result, vital resources are being continued on page 5...
Crisis Center in Twin Falls
South Central Public Health District (SCPHD) is pleased to announce the opening of the Crisis Center of South Central Idaho (CCSCI). The crisis center is a voluntary outpatient facility operated twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week and three hundred sixty-five (365) days a year and provides evaluation, intervention, and referral for individuals experiencing a crisis due to a behavioral
November 30 , 2016 Volume 40 ~ Number 47 News from the Heart of Idaho Camas • Lincoln • Gooding
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Timmerman Study Available
Final report for U.S. 20/ Idaho 75 Intersection Study available on ITD website The Idaho Transportation Department has published the U.S. 20/Idaho 75 Timmerman Junction Intersection Study Final Report which identifies recommendations for improving that south-central Idaho intersection. The report is available online at www.itd.idaho. gov/d4 under “D-4 Design Projects and Corridor Studies.” It identifies a range of recommendations for shortand long-term improvements at the Timmerman Junction. Recommendations are based on technical studies, community input and historical-planning efforts. A community advisory committee met three times to give feedback to ITD’s study team. In addition, more than 750 people responded to a survey about potential improvements. Participants included residents, city leaders, legislators, emergency responders, agricultural and trucking services, commerce and tourism organizations, continued on page 5...