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36 Volume 11 Number News from the Heart of Idaho: Camas, Lincoln, and Gooding County
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The 2012 Election Last Friday was the deadline to get your name on the May 15th Primary Ballot. If you decide to run as a write-in candidate, you have until April 17th to file your Declaration of Intent. Remember, if you want to vote the Republican ticket, you will have to register as a Republican. If you are an “unaffiliated” voter (meaning you haven’t registered as anything), you will be allowed to make your choice at your polling place... this year only. If you want to change your party affiliation after the 2012 Primary, you will have to do so by the 10th Friday before the Primary Election Date. (Party affiliation does not affect the General Election.) Here is the list of contested races in our area for this year’s Elections (Independent candidates will not appear on the Primary Ballot. They will be on the General Election Ballot): ----------United States Congress United States Rep. - District 2 Jack Wayne Chappell - DEM Nicole LeFavour - DEM Eldon Wallace - DEM M.C. "Chick" Heileson - REP Mike Simpson - REP ----------Legislative District 26 State Representative, Position A (Wendy Jaquet’s Seat) John C. Remington, Ketchum - DEM Steve Miller, Fairfield - REP State Representative, Position B Donna Pence, Gooding - DEM Lee Barron, Corral - REP
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Water Supply Outlook Remains Bright Due To Good Reservoir Storage Boise, ID, March 6, 2012 – The latest water supply outlook report released by the Natural Resources Conservation Service indicates good reservoir storage will offset this winter’s low precipitation levels. Snowpacks across the state range from 60 to 100% of average. “This year there is a high degree of snowpack variability across the state,” said Ron Abramovich, Idaho NRCS Water Supply Specialist. “Northern Idaho drainages have near normal snowpacks while basins in southwest and central Idaho are in the range of 60-70% of average.” Precipitation in February did little to increase mountain snowpacks until Leap Day storms on February 29 added a boost. February precipitation ranged from 38% of average in the Little Wood and Big Lost basins in central Idaho to 105% of average in northern Idaho. “One or two months of below normal precipitation generally does not hurt the water supply too much, but when winter precipitation is lacking for three or more
months then the impacts become more noticeable,” Abramovich said. “If the dry period extends through March, water users in central Idaho will want to watch the snowpack data to see how the water supply for this summer will be affected.” Idaho’s reservoirs continue to be in excellent shape. This will help water users if snowpacks and summer streamflow runoff volumes end up below normal. Current stream flow forecasts call for only 25% of average runoff in the Owyhee basin in southwest Idaho to near normal streamflows in northern Idaho. NRCS conducts snow surveys at the end of each month from December through May to make snow runoff predictions and water supply forecasts used in managing Idaho’s water resources. For more information about snowpack, precipitation, runoff and water supplies for specific basins, please view the complete March 2012 Water Supply Outlook Report online at www.id.nrcs.usda.gov/snow and click on the ‘Water Supply’ link.
Lincoln County District 1 Commissioner Rusty Parker - REP Don Hudson - REP Cresley McConnell - REP Charlie Ritter - IND District 3 Commissioner Roy Hubert - REP Betty Peyman - REP County Sheriff Kevin Ellis - REP Mike Bright - REP
Camas County District 1 Commissioner Bill Davis - REP Barbara McMurdo - REP District 3 Commissioner Ken Backstrom - REP Leigh Weidman - IND ----------Gooding County District 3 Commissioner Terrell Williams - REP Wayne Chandler - REP