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Early Summer 2015

In March 2013, then-Argus Observer Editor Scott McIn

tosh and I attended a meeting in Tucson,

Arizona, to learn how a newspaper in Natchez, Mississip

pi, started its magazine and what made it

successful. We were so impressed with what Natchez w

as doing that we came back and embarked on a

magazine that focused on the Western Treasure Valley.

The original intent of Western Treasure Valley Magazin

e was to produce and distribute it separately

from The Argus Observer, and in November of that year

, Western Treasure Valley Magazine made its

premiere. The magazines success came from the hard

work of the dedicated editorial, advertising and

production staff at the newspaper, and we published six m

ore issues.

After the magazines launch, we found out the distribut

ion model we set was not best for our readers

and this market. Our subscribers felt left out of our samp

ling, and the cost to print and mail every copy

was a bit more than we anticipated.

Starting with this issue, we are making some changes.

Western Treasure Valley Magazine now has a

new format and new distribution; it will be delivered to Ar

gus Observer subscribers with their newspaper

and will also be available at locations around the valley.

Even with this change, Western Treasure Valley Maga

zine is the same great magazine. We will

continue with standing features; local homes will be feat

ured in each issue, including interior design,

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yourself ideas, food and recipes, and local artists.

Its a magazine we are proud of and that we believe in.

Look for the upcoming issues in your

newspaper this year: Go Play edition, Aug. 9; Harvest ed

ition, Sept. 27; and Holiday edition, Nov. 15.

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ON THE COVER

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ART

AT HOME

FOOD

Red Price:Woodworking hobby spreads joy

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The Bruces:The heart of the home

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Mafa chicken:Theres local history in your chicken

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Health and beauty:Tame seasonal allergies naturally

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Payette Garden Club:Decades of gardening

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Western Treasure Valley

Local gardeners open their gates to the public once a year.

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Letter from the

EDITOR Is there anything more lovely than spring in the Western Treasure Valley? In May and June, before summers triple digit heat sets in, lawns are lush and green, and gardens from Weiser to Jordan Valley are beginning to bloom. %HHVEXWWHULHVDQGKXPPLQJELUGVDUHhappily sipping nectar and pollinating the plants that will, in a few months, yield delicious fruit. Its a beautiful time of year here, and thats why, in this issue of Western Treasure Valley Magazine, were celebrating the gardens that help make this area so lovely. In this issue, we offer tips on what to plant to attract hummingbirds and EXWWHULHVWR\RXUJDUGHQ:HWDONHGWRORFDORZHUHQWKXVLDVWVZKRVHhomes were part of Treasure Valley Community College Foundations Garden Tour. We also showcase stunning photos from the 2014 tour. Gardeners have a long history in this area, and we offer a look at a club that

has been gardening in Payette since the 1950s. We also give you practical tips on treating one of garden seasons less fun side effects: allergies. Of course, the Western Treasure Valley in May and June is about more than gardening. Thats why we also take you inside Kim Bruces lovely renovated Payette home and explore Ontario woodworker Red Prices stunning handcrafted pieces. If youre in the mood for mafa chicken, youre in luck we have a couple of recipes to help you make this popular dish, which may have originated right here in the Western Treasure Valley. To help you work it RIIWKHUHVDVWRU\DERXWWKHEHQHWVRIyoga. Were excited to bring you this issue of Western Treasure Valley Magazine. It has a new format and new distribution; it will still be available to our subscribers and will now also be available at locations around the valley.

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Max A. ChavezApril EhrlichJessica Else

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RECIPE

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have it on their menus, but the recipes can vary from restaurant to restaurant.

For Dale Kumagai, chef at the Plaza Inn in Ontario, mafa chicken, at least locally, is tied to the history of the Eastside Cafe and Lounge, where his parents, Joe and June Kumagai, were employed for many years.

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As for the history of mafa chicken, Kumagai said he has heard a couple of stories over the years. One story claims mafa chicken was invented in Ontario, while another says it was invented in southwestern Oregon.

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said. I like more funyu/garlic taste in my chicken, so I double the granulated garlic and adjust the sugar up a ELWIRUWKHLQFUHDVHLQJDUOLFWRVXLWP\RZQWDVWH+HDOVRXVHVDZKROHMDURIIXQ\X-DSDQHVHIHUPHQWHGEHDQFDNHDQGWZRHJJV

Another recipe can be found in A Taste of the 2ULHQWZKLFKZDVSXEOLVKHGLQE\WKH1LVHLWomans Society of Christian Service (Community United Methodist Church). Kumagai believes this recipe is close to the old Eastside recipe.

The cookbook is still available at the Red Apple Marketplace in Ontario.

Whether you are craving mafa chicken or mar far chicken, Kumagai has you covered. He has provided two recipes to help you bring this local Chinese favorite home. | WTVM |

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God-given talentRed Price uses woodworking to spread joy

While he has taken money for a few of his pieces, William Red Price says the best reward he receives as an artist is the joy he sees on the faces of people who receive one of his carefully hand-crafted wooden items.

Price, 84, a longtime Ontario resident, has been interested in woodworking since he was a young boy.

I liked to play with tools, Price said about how he got started. It was early on.

Toy trains were among KLVUVWprojects.

I built a tackle box, he said.

He did not get much credit for his work back then, but he continued to work on his hobby off and on over the years.

It was relegated to spare-time work for most of Prices life. His affair with woodworking only became serious after he retired from his career as an auto mechanic.

I began working in Ontario in 1951 for Cables Chevrolet, Price said.

He later operated Reds Texaco for about 20 years and also worked at Wilson Buick in Nyssa and Matthews Chevrolet, a successor to Cables Chevrolet. Price opened Reds Automotive in 1982 with his son, Bill, who now operates it.

Once he retired from the business, Price was able to devote more time to his craft and share his pieces with more people. Some of his pieces have been shown at the Oregon State Fair.

This is a God-given talent, Price said of his woodworking. I love to do it. Its

Story by Larry MeyerPhotos by Max A. Chavez

Left: Red Price holdsa gift for his grandson. Right: One of Prices awards.

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good to take a plain piece of wood, clean it up and see what God has in store for it.

Family members have received a number of his projects.

I had the pleasure of building a hope chest for my daughter for high school graduation, Price said.

He has since built hope chests for all of his granddaughters for their high school graduations. But his craft extends well beyond the chests.

Each one of my kids have do-dads throughout their homes, Price said. My wife liked do-dads.

He explained that he calls anything he makes a do-dad. That includes timepieces.

Ive built a lot of clocks, he said.He has no favorite style in particular,

he said. It depends on what I want to do at

the time, he said.Several clocks of all shapes and

sizes now grace his home. They include mantel clocks and wall clocks, large and small, and some with pendulums.

He began building clocks when he

became fascinated by the cabinetry in grandfather clocks. He found a catalog from which he was able to order a pattern for a clock. 6RPHDUHPRUHGLIFXOWWRPDNH

than others, Price said. But if I want to do it, I will get it done.

Others have admired Prices clocks. He gave two clocks to foreign-exchange students who lived with his family, including one from Kosovo.

In addition to the handmade clocks, Price has crafted several pieces in his home. In fact, much of his house is a showroom of his craftsmanship. Toys, a chair and wooden animals are on display, as are coffee tables and toy boxes.

Among the most popular items Price makes are heart-shaped music boxes. He has built about 90 of them, and people seem to love receiving them.

It is great to handsomething to somebody

and see the smile on their face, Price said.

That is the payment he most enjoys, he added.

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These days, however, Price doesnt spend as much time woodworking as he used to. In recent years, despite his love for the craft, Price has slowed down.

The days, I just putter, he said. | WTVM |

Right top: Tools of the trade Price uses in his art.

Bottom: Red Price shows several handmade creations.

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It was 2012 when Kim Bruce, a real estate agent with Fruitlands Silverhawk Reality, agreed to show a Payette house, built in 1933, a few years after the Great Depression gripped the nation and just before World War II ripped the world apart. It was a time when many Americans were once again migrating west in search of better opportunities. Bruce had no idea, when she chose to show the house, that shed be stepping into the home of her dreams. She fell in love with the things that made the house unique. The mature ODQGVFDSLQJ2OGUHSODFHV&RYHGceilings. It had an offer pending, but I agreed to show it anyway, Bruce said. I called the agency that had it listed and told them if the offer fell through, I might be kind of interested in buying. A week later, the offer did fall through, and Bruce bought the home. She said the neighborhood was one of the crucial factors in her decision. Theres a lot of pride of ownership in the neighborhood, she said. 2QFHWKHGHDOZDVQDOWKDWVZKHQthe real work started, Bruce said. She and her four boys hauled truckloads of yard and house debris from the property. The boys worked with the sledgehammer and crowbars and hauled most of the plaster and debris out of the house. Bruces boyfriend, Pete Warner, helped with the entire process as well.

Its an acre and a half, Bruce explained. We took out bushes and trees. We landscaped the entire yard. Warner added a wooden fence around the property. They put an RV pad in the backyard. They reworked the entire driveway, changing it from snaking around the house to the garage to entering the garage directly from the street. They cleared out trees and brush that had swallowed a building the family now uses as an art studio. They re-sided the house, using pressboard shingles. They redid the roof. Bruce has added 1,400 square feet to the 2,200-square-foot home since 2012. They family has been careful to match the architecture style with the original portion of the home. Originally, the home had two bedrooms ZLWKVPDOOFORVHWVQRWXQFRPPRQLQKRPHVEXLOWGXULQJWKDWWLPHSHULRGDQupstairs room and a basement. Now the house has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms and a bonus room, as well as a full kitchen, living area and porch. %UXFHNHSWWKHRULJLQDO[WXUHVLQthe main living area of the house and matched the curved entryways created by their addition to the curved entryways and alcoves of the existing structure. 7KHKRPHVUHSODFHLVDOVRRULJLQDOIts located in the living room with a brick arch framing the hearth. The screen and


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black, but that would show too much dust, Bruce said. The second story holds a bonus guest bedroom and Bruces craft room. It is well-lit with a large window at the end of the open space. The ceiling slants as it nears the outside wall, and when it reaches about 4 feet high, it meets a series of cubby holes that line the wall. At one time, the now-open cubby holes had doors, but they were removed during the remodel. Bruce said she likes the open storage spaces. :KHQWKHEXLOGLQJZDVUVWFRQVWUXFWHGWKHVHFRQGRRUVFHOOLQJZDVFRPSOHWHGXVLQJEURXVFHLOLQJWLOHVLQVWHDGRISheetrock. Bruce said that is typical of homes built in the 1930s when money was tight and the materials for the tiles were abundant. The tiles were glued to 2-by-4s, Bruce said. We tore them off and re-Sheetrocked. 7KHVHFRQGRRURIWKHKRPHDOVRKROGVWKHRQO\RULJLQDOcloset, a tiny space that is now used for storage. Bruce added a closet rod, but she left the original knob on the door. The Bruces also remodeled the kitchen. After repositioning the stairwell, Bruce opened up the room to the rest of the house. She added a breezeway between the living room and the kitchen, with the same arch that is an original feature of the architecture, and a sliding glass door at the back of the room with access to the backyard. The cabinets and appliances are all new, and Bruce added KHDWHGWLOHRRUVWRWKHNLWFKHQDQGDOORIWKHEDWKURRPVWRkeep her familys feet warm. My favorite part of the house is the kitchen and living area, Bruce said. Its the heart of the home and is the original part of the house. I also love the master suite. 7KHZDONLQFORVHWLVWKHUVWSLHFHRIWKHPDVWHUVXLWHDQG

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ideas are, foundation executive director Cathy Yasuda said. A lot of SHRSOHZHQWRQWKHWRXU>LQ@DQGVDLG2KJRVK,PJRLQJWRWU\WKDW7KH\FRXOGWDONZLWKWKHKRVWDQGDVNKRZWKH\FDPHXSZLWKWKDWRUKRZGLGyou design that?

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Ogburn had geraniums that were years old, Yasuda VDLG6KHRIIHUHGWLSVRQKRZWRNHHSWKHRZHUVthroughout the year. Yasuda put Ogburns advice into practice and managed to keep some geraniums in her garage through the winter.

Yasuda said she aims to have a variety of gardens in each years tour. Some have traditional plants. One site last year was a sanctuary for succulents. Jim and Mavis Skeesuck, whose home was part of the 2014 tour, have soothing water features throughout their tiered garden.

The Skeesucks garden features several species of trees, including blaze maples, river birch and chokecherry. They confess they arent sure how many species of RZHUVWKHUHDUH

Their Ontario garden is a team effort. Mavis helps choose the plants. The rest, including the design, is Jims.

I dont do it professionally, but I like to play at it, he told The Argus Observer in 2014.


Every detail has been carefully considered. When they were planning their home 12 years ago, the Skeesucks chose which side of the street to live on, to ensure ample afternoon shade for the garden.

Withers garden is less meticulously planned but no less high maintenance. She strives for a natural look and often QGVKHUVHOILQFRUSRUDWLQJSODQWVWKDWrecall her childhood.

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In the early spring, Withers garden is a sea of tulips. She has ordered 500 bulbs for next season. But she strives to keep it blooming all season long, with DYDULHW\RIWUHHVRZHUVJUDVVHVDQGplants that grow well in sun and shade.

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Vales annual Fourth of July Ro-deo and celebration runs July 1 through 4 in Vale.

Rodeo takes place all four nights, with pre-rodeo events starting at 7 p.m., followed by grand entry at 7:45 p.m. and main performances at 8 p.m. On July 2, the suicide race begins at 8 p.m. July 2 is also pink night; wear the color and support breast cancer research.

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The First Baptist Church of Payette is hosting an evening of gospel music by the Dartt family of Tennessee. Tracy, Sharon, and Stoney Dartt, and BJ Speer blend their voices in smooth harmony to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The free concert begins at 7 p.m. July 2 at the First Baptist Church, 15 N. 10th St., Payette.

For more information, call (208) 642-2598.

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grounds, 795 N.W. Ninth St., Ontario.The show begins at dusk, about 10:20 p.m., July 4.For more information, call the Ontario Area Chamber of

Commerce at (541) 889-8012.

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Four Rivers Cultural Center hosts live music in its Japa-nese garden every other week all summer long.

The free concerts run from 5 to 8 p.m. Food and drink are available for purchase.

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more information, visit www.4rcc.com or call (541) 889-8191.

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Check out rock and gem vendors, go rockhounding, enjoy a quilt show and more. There will be a sidewalk chalk art contest, rockabilly music and a car show. The Outlaw Lawnmower Dragsters are back, as is the annual Thun-derRun race.

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The Weiser Val-ley Round-up takes place July 9 through 11 at the Weiser Rodeo Grounds on West Ninth Street.

The event, held every second weekend of July, features bull riding, bronc riding, barrel racing, steer wrestling and more. In addition to traditional rodeo events, there will be exhibition performers and wild cow milking.

For more information, visit www.weiservalleyroundup.com.

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The Brogan Nutty Brunch takes place July 12 at the Bro-gan Community Center.

The event starts at 11 a.m. and will include all-you-can-eat calf fries, chorizo, eggs, biscuits and more. There will be a silent auction, and after the silent auction closes, the live auction begins.

The International Cow Pie Toss will have contestants competing in eight age groups for silver buckles.

Proceeds go to support the maintenance and repairs for the public buildings and parks in Brogan. For more informa-tion, call Cynthia Mahall Christy at (541) 473-4267 or email [email protected].

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The 106th annual Malheur County Fair, Bucking Chutes and Dusty Boots, runs July 28 through Aug. 1 at the Mal-heur County Fairgrounds, 795 N.W. Ninth St., Ontario.

Enjoy carnival rides, animal exhibits and hand-crafted products from people throughout the Western Treasure Valley. There will be live music, food vendors, games and more.

For more information, contact fair manager Janeen Kressly at (541) 889-3431 or [email protected], or visit www.malheurcountyfair.com.

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Country Pride Coun-try Wide is the theme of this years Payette County Fair, scheduled for Aug. 5 through 8 at the Pay-ette County Fairgrounds, 310 East Blvd., New Plymouth.

Check out exhibits, food and commercial booths, con-tests, live music, rodeo and more. The event includes the Childrens Fun Day Rodeo and the annual fair parade.

See the schedule at www.payettecountyfair.org. For more information, call (208) 278-5000 or email [email protected].

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The Ontario Kiwanis Club will serve up its legendary chicken at the annual Kiwanis Chicken Barbecue Aug. 20 at Beck-Kiwanis Park in Ontario.

Dinner will be served from 4 to 7 p.m at the park, located just east of the fair-grounds in Ontario along Northwest Eighth Av-enue.

The menu hasnt changed over the last several years; diners will receive half a chicken, baked potato, coleslaw and a roll.

Purchase tickets from lo-cal Kiwanians. The money raised goes to support community organizations.

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Summertime brings sweet air, warm nights and lush scenery to the Treasure Valley, but it also carries with it different types of pollens and other allergens that cause watery eyes, stuffy sinuses and red noses.

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Dennell, who spent 24 years as a critical care nurse before turning her focus to natural medicine in 1991, said the two best anti-allergens she has come across are extracts from pineapple and from onions.

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through nutrition. Dennell said the perfect diet is composed of one-third carbohydrates, one-third protein and one-third healthy fats. These fats come from foods such as avocados, organic cheeses and milk, and nuts.

She recommends protein from both animal and vegetable sources, and carbs from organic fruits and whole, gluten-free grains.

Carbs are your energy, and everything else is structure and function, Dennell explained.

Eating a healthy, well-balanced diet, Dennell said, will help increase the bodys natural resistance to things like allergies and illness.

Rehabilitate your body with enzymes and get your immune system up, Dennell said. Take responsibility for your own health.

Neti pots and herbal teas are also options for controlling allergy symptoms, but Dennell said to use them with caution. Many of the herbs found in teas, she explained, have other functions as well and could deliver unintended results.

Some herbal teas to try for allergy relief are local nettle tea, chamomile and peppermint. Local honey is also touted as helpful for allergy relief.

Dennell said the secret to lessening allergy symptoms is to build a strong body. In a nutshell, a healthy diet provides the tools to build a healthy body, and a healthy body can better ward off allergies and a whole slew of other problems.

My goal is to get people to their strongest, healthiest body possible, Dennell said. Our bodies are truly perfection, we just lost our owners manuals. | WTVM |


At 93 years old, Dorothy Cahill has lost many dear memories, but she remembers this one clearly: planting roses, shade trees and irises at Fort Wilson Memorial Park in 1955 with the Green Garden Gals. The park is located just off Idaho 52 outside Payette, and it is where Payette Valley settlers built a fort during the Nez Perce Indian War in 1877. A large rock monument with an embedded plaque stands at the center of the park commemorating the fort. Back in the 1950s, the monument was surrounded by sagebrush and weeds, Cahill said. The Garden Gals set forth in making the drab VSRWPRUHPHPRUDEOHDVWKHLUUVWbig project. Altogether, they planted nine shade trees, 20 Russian olive trees, 28 lilac bushes, 32 rose bushes, four crab apple trees and much more. We had a big group of us that went out there with hoes and shovels, Cahill recalled. Oh my, how we did birth that place over. That was a fun time. The Green Garden Gals formed in 1954 with a mission to stimulate the knowledge and love of

gardening; to aid in the protection of native plants and birds and to encourage civic planting, according to meeting notes. Cahill joined the Green Garden Gals club shortly after its formation and remained a member for nearly 60 years. She left last year when a bout of arthritis made it impossible for her to work her hands in the ground any longer. She keeps a collection of meeting notes in a little green booklet, which is peppered with garden-themed poems and sayings. Go often to the house of a friend, for weeds choke the unused path, reads one. Always plant three seeds; one for the weather, one for the bug, and one for yourself, reads another. Cahill reckons she is the oldest member of the club still around, although she highly regards many of its newer members. Pat Peutz is one of them; she joined the club in 2001 and later became president. She had so many wonderful ideas, Cahill said. One time she decorated the entrance onto the 6QDNH5LYHU%ULGJHZLWKZLOGRZHUVinstead of weeds. Wasnt that a

neat idea? Around the time Peutz joined the Green Garden Gals, the club changed its name to the Payette Valley Gardeners. Peutz said it was a means of modernizing the name and welcoming men into the group. The Payette Valley Gardeners have several other large projects under their belt. In 1985, the club established the Memorial Rose Garden in Payettes Central Park. Then, in 2004, the club raised $13,000 through fundraisers and brick sponsors to fund a gazebo to stand at its center. The glistening white Rose Garden Gazebo mirrored the design of the Payette County Museum steeple, which was originally a Methodist-Episcopal Church built in 1904. The club meets every second Tuesday of the month at the Portia Club. The members take care of the rose garden every Tuesday once weather allows in the spring, and they go on gardening tours in the summer. Peutz remains a member of the club today, though she is no longer president. She keeps a scrapbook RIROGSKRWRVRZHUVNHWFKHVDQGpoems collected by members since

The Green Garden Gals set forth on one of their big-gest projects in their second year as a club in 1955. They planted several trees and rose bushes at the Fort Wilson Memorial Park, now formally known as Highway 52 Park. (Submitted photo)


Current Payette Valley Gardeners members Donna Pur-dum, Cleo Thompson and LaVaughan Beck stand by their work at the Payette Public Library and Central Park in 2014. (Submitted photo)

The Green Garden Gals stand at Fort Wilson Memorial Park in 1955. (Submitted photo)

Prior to the Green Garden Gals beautifying the Fort Wilson Memo-rial Park, all that stood there was this monument commemorating the park and a few sagebrush. The group planted nine shade trees, 20 Russian olive trees, 28 lilac bushes, 32 rose bushes, four crab apple trees and more. (Photo by April Ehrlich)

The overall cost for establishing Payettes Central Park JD]HERSOXVPHPRULDOEULFNVDGGLWLRQDO URVHVRZHULQJtrees and memorial benches stood at $13,000 in 2004. The Payette Valley Gardeners raised this money through me-morial brick sales, grants and in-kind donations. (Photo by April Ehrlich)

The Payette Valley Gardeners built a rose garden in Pay-ettes Central Park in 1985 and continue to maintain it to this day. (Photo by April Ehrlich)

the club formed more than 60 years ago. She also keeps a bag full of yearly mini-scrapbooks that are similar to the one Cahill NHHSV7KH\VPHOORISHUIXPHDQGRZHUVDQGWKH\DOOKDYHZRUGVFROOHFWHGWKDWKDYHLQVSLUHGWKHVHJDUGHQHUVWRFRQWLQXHbeautifying Payette year after year. | WTVM |

Kind hearts are the gardens,Kind thoughts are the roots,Kind words are the flowers,

Kind deeds are the fruits.

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Paul and Ginny Hirai traveled from their home in Moses Lake, Washington, to attend the opening reception of the Uprooted exhibit. In July 1942, Paul went to Nyssa to work in the sugar EHHWHOGVDQGHQGHGXSVWD\LQJXQWLOIDUPLQJZLWKKLVWZRbrothers, Roy and George. Roy was the Malheur County judge IRUVL[\HDUVLQWKHV

Victor Takao, of Boise, was born and raised in the On-tario area. While his brothers Richard, Alan and Robert went to University of Oregon, Takao attended Utah State and was eventually commis-sioned in the U.S. Army. His parents were interned in the Tulle Lake camp in northern California. Takao said the unsung heroes of that time period were non-Japanese people who helped their Japa-nese neighbors, despite racist remarks for doing so.

Darlene Hamilton of Ontario and Norma Perdue of Nyssa attend the opening reception of Uprooted at Four Rivers Cultural Center in Ontario. Hamilton lived by Mitchell Butte and went to school in Adrian when President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted Executive 2UGHUZKLFKLQWHUQHG-DSDQHVH$PHULFDQVLQ1942.

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He spent a couple of months wrangling on a ranch that provided horses for movie companies, then a ramrod gave him decent money for stunt riding. He worked a few movies, collected a few scars and learned enough about the industry to sour him. Every now and then, he called his parents, and he thought about Lily Shaw. She was irritating, driven and courageous, always acting like she was smarter. She liked to pretend that she had things to teach him. It took years for Bud to learn ,KDGDELWRIDKDUGWLPHZLWK)DOOLQJIURP+RUVHVDWUVWIts slow and moseys a little too much; in fact, I almost quit it twice. But then, after 30 pages or so, I gasped at one of author Molly Glosss small plotlines. My awwww response was on high, and I realized that I was completely wrapped up in whats ultimately a quiet novel of friendship and haunting memories. The kicker is in the way Gloss ekes out her backstory. Through that, we get to know characters who are integral to the tale but who barely make an appearance in it. Those glimpses were my favorite part here because they act to smooth out the edges of the rest of the novel. And no, I cant tell you more. Again, this book starts slow, but stick with it. Its worth it in the end, especially if you like old movies, old cowboys or gentle tales. For you, Falling from Horses could be all you wish for. | WTVM |

Review By Terri Schlichenmeyer

Be careful what you wish for. No doubt, youve been told that before. What you want and what you need are often two different things, and desires can be dangerous. The wrong wish acquired could lead to disaster. Or, as in the new novel Falling from Horses by Molly Gloss, it could also be a means of escape. For Bud Frazer, Hollywood was almost a last-minute thought. 2KWKHQRWLRQWRJRWKHUHKDGHHWLQJO\RFFXUUHGWRKLPa time or two while watching westerns at the local theater. After awhile, he reasoned that if movie cowboys could get paid for riding, then so could he; riding was something he knew well. Winning second-prize rodeo money only sealed the idea. It was 1938, and Buds parents worked on somebody elses Oregon ranch, after having lost their own. Bud was 18, and Hollywood sounded good; he couldnt bear to go with his folks, away from the land he considered home. There was just no point. After his sister died, there was nothing left to say. And as the bus crossed into California from Oregon, Bud met Lily Shaw. She wasnt much to look at; she was older than Bud, but he decided he liked her anyhow. She was bold; she said she was headed to Hollywood to be a screenwriter, and she seemed to know what she was talking about. Once they hit town, she even pointed him toward a place to stay. She couldnt help with work, but Bud managed that.

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