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The Sun Valley Pickleball Classic An Absolute Success

The Wood River Pickleball Alliance of Ketchum , Idaho , held its annual Sun Valley Pickleball Classic from Friday, September 29, through Sunday, October 1, with registrations surpassing their initial expectations.

A “Wonderful, Wonderful Event”

WRPA President Lee Sponaugle was delighted with the turnout and described it as a “wonderful, wonderful event .”

“We were hoping for 60 people, and we got 138 instead,” he said. “The turnout, the excitement, and the enthusiasm all day long have just been fabulous. It’s been a wonderful, wonderful event.”

A Notable Addition

A notable addition to this year’s tournament was the introduction of a social league, providing a more relaxed platform for players to compete, particularly for those new to tournaments or still in the early stages of learning the sport.

Sponaugle commented, “We had the social (division) for players that have never played in a tournament and are somewhat beginners in the sport.

“The enthusiasm from that group of 16 was just unbelievable. They were nervous, and they were laughing, and they took it seriously while having fun, and that’s the great thing about it.”

Reflecting on her experience in the social division, Libby Johnson of Hailey said, “It was fun learning.” Her partner, Jerry Johnson of Hailey, agreed and said it was a “good learning experience to figure out how it all works” for tournaments.

Spooky Taft

The tournament boasted 18 distinct divisions, categorized by gender, style (doubles or singles), skill level, and age group. 

Noteworthy winners included the wonderfully named Spooky Taft and Jill Pollock, both of Sun Valley, who secured victory in the women’s doubles division for participants with a 3.5 skill level and above, aged 58 and beyond. 

“I hope this [continues to be] a success in the future,” Taft said. “It was really great fun. We were happy to do it.”

A Chilly Start

Pollock pointed out how cold it was to begin with: “It was 28 degrees when we first got (to the tournament),” Pollock said. “[However] Gloves, hats, leggings, everything just peeled off with each match as it got a little warmer. My nerves had settled after the first match. It was just fun.”

Despite the chilly start, Taft and Pollock, who have been engaged in pickleball for nearly a decade in the valley, were pleased with the outcome of the event. Taft expressed hope for continued success in the future, emphasizing the enjoyable nature of the competition.

An Intense Matchup

The first day concluded with an intense matchup featuring Ryan Nielson of Hailey and Sponaugle in the men’s singles 4.5 skill level division.  

After a challenging two-game faceoff, Nielson emerged victorious. Reflecting on the match, he said, “(Lee) beat me in the first round-robin set of matches.

“Maybe he was a little tired out, and I had a little bit more endurance for the end, and that worked well for me.

Nielson expressed his gratitude for participating in the tournament, saying, “It’s just a really fun community,” Nielson said. 

“I feel so lucky to live here and have met a ton of people this summer because of pickleball. It’s just really fun to celebrate the season with a lot of friends and play in this great weather.”

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Locals Share the Road to Recovery

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Nancy Kneeland could have easily gone to work in her family’s Ketchum namesake art gallery. Instead, after addressing her own addiction issues, she earned her master’s in counseling therapy. She recently opened The Diamonte Wellness Group, an outpatient treatment facility in Hailey.

“We’ll cover the basic nuts and bolts of what addiction is and how to arrest it,” explains her partner, Tyler Lohrke, who, like Kneeland, is 21 years sober and holds a master’s in counseling therapy. “We’re treating both the disease and the root cause.

“When people are born, they have a sense of wonder about life,” continues Lohrke. “They don’t need alcohol and drugs. As people get to their teen years and life pushes down on them, some start reaching out for more heightened experience. They’ve gotten used to life. It doesn’t hold the wonder it once did. They originally used drugs or alcohol to have fun and then to cope with the stresses of life to decompress. At the end of the day, some become dependent on it.”

The way out of dependency begins during a motivational interview with Kneeland or Lohrke when they recommend the best course of treatment. Some will need to detox for 30-45 days first at an inpatient treatment center like the Walker Center in Gooding before working in outpatient.

Treatment here involves different types of learning/support groups. Some are gender specific because “each gender has its own set of issues,” says Kneeland. There is a family skills group teaching positive relationships as well as an anger management group and a group teaching everyday skills like stress management. Individual meetings with Kneeland and Lohrke are an added bonus.

Each client has an individually designed program as to how many and which meetings to attend during an eight-month period, with recommendations of 12-step-type meetings continuing after treatment. The cost of treatment here is determined on a sliding fee scale based on the client’s hourly wage.

The first step is “to stop the addictive behavior,” notes Lohrke, and then we “go into the deeper issues” that change an individual’s perception of themselves. Clients examine their perception of the world in order to see irrational belief systems that have developed. “It’s really all about awareness,” continues Lohrke, to break the habitual cycles of the past.

“The treatment center,” says Kneeland, is “a window of opportunity, not just to get the alcohol out but to realize that there is another way of life”—a way to rediscover wonder in everyday life again without drugs or alcohol. >>>

A Secret Support Society “You know, here we are in a resort town where everybody drinks every night and I had a bunch of pals that I drank too much with. I chose to stop because I knew my mom’s sisters and the course their lives took and I didn’t want it for me,” shares local Spooky Taft.

Taft began attending 12-step meetings and now, 13 years sober, still goes two to three times a week. “There are a lot of 12-step programs here. I affectionately call it our secret society because we are all very close. Recovery here is very strong, very powerful. The people here bend over backwards for you.” Different meetings in the area deal with different types of addiction—alcohol, narcotics, overeaters, debtors and addictive relationships.

At meetings, like the teen support groups Taft has led, people become aware of their trigger points—what triggers them to use. “Every adolescent has problems at home and you try to get them to change how they react to their problems—like their parents, so that when their mother or father gets down on them, they don’t turn around and sabotage themselves. They don’t go out and get drunk because Mom yelled at them. We try to come up with behavior to replace the drinking, like maybe go outside for a walk or a jog, call a friend and go to a movie.” Or attend a 12-step meeting. Moving away from the group of friends you drink with is also important. This is called cognitive behavior change—first becoming aware of what makes you drink (trigger points), and then substituting different behavior choices.

Taft is presently working toward her certification as an alcohol and drug counselor. “Life is just so full and busy and great now. When you get clean and sober, you become who you were supposed to be.” >>>

Healing Cup of Coffee Along with the fancy lattes and frothy frappuccinos, Cowboy Coffee in Bellevue offers a big dose of community and caring. Owner Gary Orr runs the coffee shop while his wife Shannon runs her successful beauty salon, Shannon’s Hair Care, right next door.

“Six years ago I was living in my truck with my dog and my motorcycle. We were split up,” says Gary Orr. After ‘hitting bottom,’ the couple went through a recovery program and began attending 12-step meetings.

Now the Orrs spend their lives helping others. “What works is when you start thinking of others first and doing things in the community. When you’re doing drugs and alcohol, you don’t care about anything. It’s about you.” Helping others helps them stay sober.

Now Gary goes into jails to share his story of addiction and recovery. “They come out of their cells, and I get locked up with them in the drunk tank.” Gary leads meetings where he shares his experience, strength, and hope. “We tell them what’s going on in our lives and how they can get assistance when they get out of here.”

“It was miserable,” remembers Shannon, “but today I have things beyond my wildest dreams. I have a business. I have a home. I have a stable marriage. I have everything I dreamed about when I was a girl.” Laughing with Gary, Shannon adds, “You’re a country-Western song played backwards—you get your dog back, you get your truck back, you get your life back.”

Breathing to recovery March 9, 1980. That was the day that Victoria Roper became sick and tired of being sick and tired. Four years later, she won Best Teacher of the Year in Idaho. Roper had been using drugs and alcohol for years—ever since she attended Harvard University during the 1960s when drugs were in vogue. She got married in a blackout and couldn’t remember her wedding. But one day she attended a special ed class where the professor described an experiment in which rats learned to press a lever to stop an electric shock.

Later, when the shock was changed to hit them when they pressed the lever, the rats still habitually continued to press it, even to the point of death. Roper sat in the classroom after everyone left and cried. Alcohol was her lever, she thought. “My lever is killing me. I asked myself what’s the difference between those mice and people in recovery. We have language. We can support each other in a fellowship. We have these steps to work and we rely on some kind of higher power which is left up to the individual to define.”

She reached out to a group recovery program that she calls my “god with skin on.”

Now Roper teaches yoga which she finds a great adjunct to recovery. “The breathing helps to cope with stress. There are breathing techniques that are energizing and some that are calming, so we can do a lot of mood altering with our breath. It’s really wonderful how much we can surrender if we just take a nice deep breath in, hold it and then exhale it all out—it’s the letting go of the things we can’t control and relaxing into the present. Yoga’s a lot about being in the present,” an important element of alcohol recovery.

The yoga poses and meditation give a sense of balance and discipline. “People are constantly surprised at how good those simple things make them feel.” Roper talks about the inner holes that we all have (perhaps due to something missing in childhood) that create a craving to fill them with something, anything, whether food, drugs, alcohol, work or whatever. Instead of trying to fill them, Roper suggests “connecting through that vulnerability” to heal, which group recovery programs also encourage. “We connect through our holes.”

Now Roper is making the ultimate connection. She’s getting married again, but this time it will be a real wedding with flower girls and all the trimmings. This time, she says smiling, “I’ll be totally present.”

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Wildfire’s smoke darkens the good life in Idaho’s Sun Valley

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SUN VALLEY, Idaho — For rockers Huey Lewis and the News, smoke from the massive Sun Valley, Idaho, wildfire known as “the Beast” had band members who famously worried about the heart of rock and roll worrying about their lungs.

They canceled their show, as did the novelists, poets and journalists who convene in this vacation region each summer for a writer’s convention. Meanwhile, squadrons of private aircraft whisked the affluent off to locales with cleaner air.

With its mountain backdrop, Sun Valley is normally a playground for the rich, the famous, for super-fit pursuers of outdoor sports or the Big Wood River’s feisty brook trout. To many, it’s heaven. But “the Beast” has caused disruptions in the sun-basking, fun-loving lifestyle, and the economy.

“This is the worst I’ve seen it,” said Brad Wood, who helps run a shop that rents bikes at the posh Sun Valley Lodge. Wood said he’s sent four employees home until business picks up: On Thursday, only five of the 350 bikes they rent were out.

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Idaho’s Beaver Creek Fire is finally nearing containment, as firefighters take advantage of favorable weather to corral it up against an area burned by another large blaze in 2007. But it will continue to smoke for weeks.

More than just torching sage, high-desert grassland and trees, however, its impact has scorched the local economy.

Todd Van Bramer, who manages fly fishing guides at Silver Creek Outfitters in nearby Ketchum, said he’s lost 70 percent of his normal business.

“We have a lot of customers who can go anywhere they want to,” he said. “They don’t have to come to Idaho if it’s burning, they can go to Montana, Colorado or Wyoming at the drop of a hat.”

The air is now much less smoky than it was during the height of the fire, but the smoke continues to cast a shadow over the economy.

At the airport in Hailey, just south of here, regional carrier Sky West has been forced to divert many morning flights to Twin Falls, about 100 miles away, because cooler morning temperatures mean smoke often loiters on the valley floor until afternoon breezes push it away.

And those planes are much emptier than an ordinary mid-August, said Rick Baird, manager at Friedman Memorial Airport.

The Sun Valley Lodge, built in 1936 by the Union Pacific Railroad as America’s first destination resort, is bearing the brunt of disruption.

A writer’s conference that was to have featured speakers including journalist Peter Bergen and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Liaquat Ahamed was canceled, emptying rooms by the dozen. Guests who cancel are getting refunds, said Jack Sibbach, a resort spokesman.

“It’s quite an economic hit on us,” he said.

Businesses like The Elephant’s Perch sports store in Ketchum have had plenty of time to devote to the local firefighters who have ordered heavy new boots. But it’s not adding much to the bottom line.

“These guys are getting the boots at our cost,” said Sam Elmes, a sales clerk. “They did a great job protecting us.”

For the first time in 37 years, a charitable golf tournament started by the late baseball Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew was scratched. There are “hundreds of firefighters risking their lives in the woods. We’re not going to be playing golf while they’re doing that,” said Georgie Fenton, its director.

For some locals, however, ditching events didn’t seem an option.

Ketchum resident Spooky Taft had been planning her daughter’s wedding for a year; about 220 guests were coming. Many were in the air even as the flames approached town. The string quartet was evacuated. And with embers aloft, Taft decided the horse-drawn carriage was a no-go, too.

But the wedding went forward. “We pulled it off, against all odds,” Taft said.

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Beastly fire disrupts Idaho vacation heaven

Aug 23, 2013, 2:49 AM

BY ANDREW GILSTRAP

SUN VALLEY, Idaho (AP) – For rockers Huey Lewis and the News, smoke from the massive Sun Valley, Idaho, wildfire known as “the Beast” had band members who famously worried about the heart of rock and roll worrying about their lungs.

They canceled their show, as did the novelists, poets and journalists who convene in this vacation region each summer for a writer’s convention. Meanwhile, squadrons of private aircraft whisked the affluent off to locales with cleaner air.

With its mountain backdrop, Sun Valley is normally a playground for the rich, the famous, for super-fit pursuers of outdoor sports or the Big Wood River’s feisty brook trout. To many, it’s heaven. But “the Beast” has caused disruptions in the sun-basking, fun-loving lifestyle, and the economy.

“This is the worst I’ve seen it,” said Brad Wood, who helps run a shop that rents bikes at the posh Sun Valley Lodge. Wood said he’s sent four employees home until business picks up: On Thursday, only five of the 350 bikes they rent were out.

The blaze is among about 50 large fires burning nationwide.

A wildfire outside Yosemite National Park more than tripled in size Thursday, prompting officers to urge residents of nearly 300 homes in a gated community to begin a non-mandatory evacuation and leading scores of tourists to leave the area during peak season.

California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency as the fire grew to 99 square miles and was only 1 percent contained. Two homes and seven outbuildings have been destroyed. The park remains open.

Meanwhile, five wildfires have been burned about 18 square miles of mostly remote areas of Yellowstone National Park on the 25th anniversary of the infamous 1988 fires that burned more than 1,200 square miles inside Yellowstone, or more than a third of the park.

This summer’s fires haven’t been anywhere near that disruptive. The biggest fire in Yellowstone, one that has burned about 12 square miles in the Hayden Valley area, for a time Tuesday closed the road that follows the Yellowstone River between Fishing Bridge and Canyon Village. By Wednesday, the road had reopened. Later that day, half an inch of rain fell on the fire.

Idaho’s Beaver Creek Fire is finally nearing containment, as firefighters take advantage of favorable weather to corral it up against an area burned by another large blaze in 2007. But it will continue to smoke for weeks.

More than just torching sage, high-desert grassland and trees, however, its impact has scorched the local economy.

Todd Van Bramer, who manages fly fishing guides at Silver Creek Outfitters in nearby Ketchum, said he’s lost 70 percent of his normal business.

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The air is now much less smoky than it was during the height of the fire, but the smoke continues to cast a shadow over the economy.

At the airport in Hailey, just south of here, regional carrier Sky West has been forced to divert many morning flights to Twin Falls, about 100 miles away, because cooler morning temperatures mean smoke often loiters on the valley floor until afternoon breezes push it away.

And those planes are much emptier than an ordinary mid-August, said Rick Baird, manager at Friedman Memorial Airport.

The Sun Valley Lodge, built in 1936 by the Union Pacific Railroad as America’s first destination resort, is bearing the brunt of disruption.

A writer’s conference that was to have featured speakers including journalist Peter Bergen and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Liaquat Ahamed was canceled, emptying rooms by the dozen. Guests who cancel are getting refunds, said Jack Sibbach, a resort spokesman.

“It’s quite an economic hit on us,” he said.

Businesses like The Elephant’s Perch sports store in Ketchum have had plenty of time to devote to the local firefighters who have ordered heavy new boots. But it’s not adding much to the bottom line.

“These guys are getting the boots at our cost,” said Sam Elmes, a sales clerk. “They did a great job protecting us.”

For the first time in 37 years, a charitable golf tournament started by the late baseball Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew was scratched. There are “hundreds of firefighters risking their lives in the woods. We’re not going to be playing golf while they’re doing that,” said Georgie Fenton, its director.

For some locals, however, ditching events didn’t seem an option.

Ketchum resident Spooky Taft had been planning her daughter’s wedding for a year; about 220 guests were coming. Many were in the air even as the flames approached town. The string quartet was evacuated. And with embers aloft, Taft decided the horse-drawn carriage was a no-go, too.

But the wedding went forward. “We pulled it off, against all odds,” Taft said.

AP writers Gosia Wozniacka in Fresno, Calif., Mead Gruver in Cheyenne, Wyo., and Jim Anderson in Denver contributed to this report.

(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

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