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Canfield Celebrates American Music for The Fourth of July
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Hailey Climate Challenge Being Documented in Film - Mariel Hemingway to Visit This Week FOR THE WEEKLY SUN
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ariel Hemingway, author, actress, lifestyle guru, and granddaughter of the famous author Ernest Hemingway, will be visiting Hailey to host the Hailey Community Climate Challenge film. Hemingway will be the main attraction of the Hailey Community Climate Challenge’s parade float entry in the Fourth of July parade. And she will conduct a book signing for her book, “Running With Nature,” at 5 p.m. Friday, at Iconoclast Books in Ketchum. The Hailey Community Climate Challenge documentary film is being produced by local company Diamond Sun Productions and showcases the efforts of the community to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The project is managed by the City of Hailey and includes a number of participants, including Mountain Rides, Elizabeth Jeffrey, Environmental Resource Center and the Wood River Land Trust’s Building Materials Thrift Store. The film aims to provide an example that can be replicated and inspire other communities and organizations to take on similar challenges. There are eight projects and programs under the challenge: • 18 5B BikeShare bikes, • 75 downtown LED streetlight retrofits, • construction recycling pilot program, • 70 Save-A-Watt rebates, • 9 Renewable Energy System rebate awards, • deconstruction and material salvage, • LEED Silver Certification of the Welcome Center, and • Just Bag It! Made possible by a grant from the U.S. EPA to the City of Hailey, the Hailey Community Climate Challenge is designed to empower people to save energy and money, support the local economy, and share ideas and results with their friends and neighbors. The goal of the Challenge is to save enough energy to provide heat and power to 45 homes for one year. tws
The girls practice breaking at cones without putting a foot down. They give high-fives as they pass their instructors to add an additional element of control. STORY & PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
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ebecca Rusch looks at 14 teen-age girls in front of her, their foreheads tucked under bicycle helmets, and lowers the boom: “Make sure you’ve got a pump and other essentials. If you get a flat 50 miles from the trailhead and you have no way to fix it, it’s no fun,” she said. Common sense, perhaps, but it’s a fundamental that comprises the foundation of learning to mountain bike. And who knows better than Rebecca Rusch about what you need if you’re four or five hours from a trailhead. After all, this is the gal who has won three 24-hour solo mountain bike world championships. Rusch spends half her summer on the road to cycling events in places like Toronto, Canada, and Levi’s GranFondo in California. When home, however, she’s introducing mountain biking to a new generation of Wheel Girls, coaching them how to move from side to side while keeping their bike in the center. And she’s taken her SRAM
Gold Rusch Tour, a series of events aimed at growing female participation in the sport, on the road to such places as the Sea Otter Classic and the Dirt Rag Magazine DirtFest. She’s leading a Gold Rusch Tour complete with guided rides, a chance to preview the USA Cycling Marathon Nationals Course, a restorative yoga session and even a ride followed by a soak in a hotsprings pool this week as part of Ride Sun Valley. “It’s part of the right legacy—I need to pass it along. There’s more to riding a bike than standing on a podium. The more riders we get, the more bike shops stay in business and it solves a whole lot of other problems like obesity or mental illness,” she said. Rusch has always thrived in the outdoors, but it was only recently that mountain biking became her mainstay. Growing up in Chicago, the highlight of her summer was always camping. She took up rock climbing, kayaking, skiing—
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