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This issue of Horizons Magazine focuses on people who serve us in a variety of ways, whether they are making our hair-styling experience as comfortable as possible, looking out for our welfare in law enforcement, fighting fires, treating our sick pets or teaching in the classroom.
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Wade Douglas .......................... Page 3
Linda Hoxie .............................. Page 4
Terry Oft ..................................... Page 6
Kelly Jensen ............................... Page 7
Chrystel Hohmann ............. Page 10
Glenn Bishop .......................... Page 11
Dan Chudleigh ...................... Page 14
Perry Goodman .................... Page 17
Bob Speelman ........................Page 18
Duane Petty ............................. Page 19
Scott Lundy ............................. Page 22
Jill Conant ................................ Page 23
Rudy Marostica .................... Page 26
Tom Braniff ............................ Page 27
Tom Gray .................................. Page 30
Dan Shepard ........................... Page 34
Scott Dayley ............................ Page 35
Joni Huff ................................... Page 37
Bob Webb ...................................Page 39
Angie Allum ............................ Page 40
Valerie Martindale .............. Page 42
Dennis Taggart ...................... Page 46
Claire Bower .......................... Page 47
Arwyn Larson ....................... Page 48
Mo McLean ............................. Page 50
Ann Curtis ............................... Page 52
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This community is filled withpeople who serve us in a varietyof ways, whether they are mak-
ing our hair-styling experience as com-fortable as possible, looking out forour welfare in law enforcement, fight-ing fires, treating our sick pets orteaching in the classroom. These peo-ple are important in our lives, whetherwe realize it or not.They make up the fabric of our com-
munity, and this issue of Horizons
Magazine focuses on a number of these
individuals who go to work every day
trying to make our lives better in one
way or another.
WILLIAM LOPEZARGUS OBSERVER
ONTARIOService was something that
Wade Douglas of Ontario
knew he was interested in
since he was a teenager, and, at
26, he has been providing that
service to the community as a
patrol officer for the Ontario
Police Department for more
than two years now.
Almost immediately after
graduating from college in
2009 with a major in business
administration and a minor in
criminal justice, Douglas ap-
plied at multiple law enforce-
ment agencies and Ontario’s
local law enforcement depart-
ment snatched him up.
“When he applied for the
Ontario P.D. I knew he had ap-
plications out at other agen-
cies,” Ontario Chief of Police
Mark Alexander said. “It was
very fortunate that we were
able to have him come work for
us.”
Alexander said that what
makes Douglas so valuable as
an officer is his education cou-
pled with the fact he grew up
in the area and already had so
many established connections.
Being a police officer in a
community such as Ontario
comes with several challenges,
Douglas said.
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Ontario Police Department patrol officer Wade Douglas prepares to hit thestreets for the day. SEE PAGE 5
CHERISE KAECHELEARGUS OBSERVER
PAYETTELinda Hoxie, 49, never
thought of being a dispatcher.
She admits she was afraid to
speak on a citizens band radio.
But now, after 25 years, she
loves it and said it has become
a part of her.
Hoxie is from Southern
California and moved to
Counsel when she was 15
years old. She and her hus-
band, Mike, were married
when Linda was 17 years old.
Hoxie said her friend, who
was a dispatcher, told her
Adams County was looking
for a dispatcher, but she didn’t
think she’d like the job.
Hoxie had a number of differ-
ent jobs beginning when she
was 13 years old when she
worked at a carpet factory.
After that, she worked as a jan-
itor, waitress, cooked and
cleaned at a hospital and
worked as a CPA.
Nothing in her previous job
history indicated a future in
dispatching. In 1988, however,
when she heard about the job
opening and was offered the
position and accepted it, she
found she enjoyed it.
“I was surprised when I got
the job that I loved it. I just fell
in love with it,” Hoxie said.
After a 12-week training
course working with supervi-
sors and dispatchers, receiving
CPR and first-aid training and
completing a two week post-
academy course, she was ready
to become a dispatcher.
A few years later, in 1991, she
and her husband moved to
Payette hoping to find a better
economy for jobs.
Hoxie got a job with Payette
County dispatchers and has
not looked back since.
Hoxie knows the importance
of concentrating on her job
and not allowing her emotions
to get in the way of it.
“You have to concentrate ...
on the job you need to get
done,” Hoxie said. “That’s the
hardest part. It’s not hard to
stay calm, but it’s hard to not
feel emotions.”
She said the hardest part is
when she is directing someone
on how to perform CPR on a
family member and hearing
the emotion over the phone.
“It gets pretty intense some-
times.”
Hoxie said she remembers
one call in particular when a
child drowned in the canal. It
still bothers her, she said. She
remembers a lot of days that
particularly stand out in re-
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short-handed on resources,”
Douglas said. “So that means
we have to investigate every-
thing from personal crimes to
property crimes, and we must
take on that investigation our-
selves, from the beginning to
completion.”
That challenge, however, is
part of what makes this job so
rewarding and satisfying,
Douglas said.
“When you’ve been working
on a case for a while and it fi-
nally comes to a close and you
see that look of gratitude on
people’s faces, it’s really re-
warding,” Douglas said.
Another big challenge is com-
ing to work and just not know-
ing what is going to happen
that day, Douglas said. Officers
have to mentally prepare them-
selves for everything from a
simple shop-lifting to an armed
robbery. Already having had
so many experiences in such a
short time can feel a bit over-
whelming, Douglas said.
A particular memorable mo-
ment was when he helped out
an elderly woman who had
several items stolen from her,
he said.
“This investigation took
months, and when we were fi-
nally able to get a prime sus-
pect, the look on her face was
very rewarding to see,”
Douglas said.
Douglas also said it’s great to
see others who serve the com-
munity in different capacities
working together toward the
same goal. A good example of
this was the recent disaster at
Lions Park during the
America’s Global Village
Festival, Douglas said.
A vehicle crashed into stands
full of people watching a per-
formance, injuring more than
20 of them, Douglas said.
“We had this huge event hap-
pen, and it was great to see
paramedics, police and others
work together so well during a
major incident like that,”
Douglas said. “I was really
proud to serve along side so
many people like that.”
Douglas said that serving his
community as a police officer is
a very rewarding career.
“I haven’t been doing this for
too long, so I know I still have
a lot to learn, but I’m definitely
enjoying it,” Douglas said.
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LARRY MEYERARGUS OBSERVER
ONTARIOTerry Oft has fulfilled his
goal of working with animals
in his career as a farmer, and,
though his operation is small
compared with others, his fo-
cus is making impacting the
cattle industry by producing
top-quality bulls.
“I started farming in 1974,”
Oft said.
He graduated from Nyssa
High School in 1966, attend-
ed Treasure Valley
Community College and
graduated from Oregon State
University with a degree in
animal science.
Right out of college Oft
worked as a sales representa-
tive for Hormel before return-
ing home to start farming.
“I enjoy working outside,”
Oft said. As a sales represen-
tative he was in the car all day.
He and his father, who Oft
said had worked on the
Owyhee dam and the
Malheur Siphon, started their
farming operation by
Anderson Corner on the
Idaho side.
“We were truck gardening,”
gard to the calls she received.
There is always something
new to do each day, however,
and it certainly is never mo-
notonous, she said.
Hoxie has two children,
Brandon, who is 28 years old
and an agricultural high
school teacher in Idaho, and
Katie, who is 25 years old and
works as a certified medical as-
sistant at Saint Alphonsus.
After the two children
moved out of the house, Hoxie
said she began doing a lot of
crafts. She makes jewelry, loves
to draw and has recently
picked up painting. She calls it
the “ADD of crafting.”
On top of that, Hoxie builds
websites and posts her differ-
ent artwork on them as well as
her traveling experiences. She
plans to build the websites up
and sell her artwork to go to-
ward her retirement fund.
She said she and her hus-
band love to travel, and when
they both have days off they go
on a trip somewhere, she said.
Their most recent trip was to
Las Vegas as well as Arches
National Park and
Canyonlands National Park,
both in Utah.
Hoxie said her biggest influ-
ence in her life is her parents.
“They pretty much formed
me into who I am today,” she
said. “My dad was very strong
and yet sensitive. He taught
me to recognize that there’s
good in every person. My
mom taught me about life,
honesty and caring. She was
very supportive and taught me
to not be judgmental.”
Hoxie said if she could do
anything else, she’d be retired.
There is no other job she’d
rather have, she said.
“I love this job. It’s something
that has become a part of me,”
she said. “I’ve been doing it for
quite awhile. I like the aspect
of the job that you get to help
people.”
FROM PAGE 4I love this job. It’ssomething thathas become apart of me. I’vebeen doing it for quite awhile. Ilike the aspect of the job that youget to help people.
— Linda HoxiePayette County dispatcher
’Oft’s main focus israising quality cattle
SEE PAGE 8
JESSICA KELLERARGUS OBSERVER
ONTARIOMalheur County Health
Department nurse Kelly
Jensen said she never consid-
ered herself very public or
community-minded in the
past.
In fact, she did not go to col-
lege initially to pursue a career
in nursing or public health, for
that matter. That changed,
however, in one day.
Jensen said she was attend-
ing Boise State University and
working as a waitress at
Denny’s Restaurant in down-
town Boise when one of her
regular customers, a disabled
veteran whom she helped
every day, suggested she shad-
ow the staff at the Veterans
Administration hospital,
where he worked, one day. Her
customer made the arrange-
ments, and after her day of
shadowing, Jensen said she
knew she wanted to be a
nurse.
“So it was just lucky that he
did that for me,” she said. “The
very next semester I decided to
get into nursing school.”
She transferred to Treasure
Valley Community College
and received her associates in
nursing.
“I hadn’t actively been think-
ing about nursing,” she said. “I
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he said.
Having started with 80 acres,
Oft now farms 330 acres near
Ontario and lives in a house
that has been in his family for
100 years, he said.
Oft said he had always want-
ed to have pure-bred cattle, and
the opportunity came in 1978,
when he heard that someone
was selling his cattle and that
herd that was for near Notus.
He went at looked them, stand-
ing on the railroad with a flash-
light to check them out late at
night, he said.
“They were an outstanding
set of cattle,” he said.
He sealed the deal the next
day, which was a Sunday, he
said.
His current farming opera-
tion focuses on producing feed
for his cattle.
Oft said he was partial to
both Hereford and Black
Angus cattle, but the herd he
had opportunity to buy was
Black Angus, which has been
his cattle of choice ever since.
One major emphasis Oft has
added to his operation is the
annual bull sale put on with
Bob and Mary Ann Maag,
Deanne Maag and Cliff and
Gayle Cook.
“The sale has been very suc-
cessful,” he said.
Raising cattle is all about ge-
netics or breeding to get the
right traits, he said.
“It’s turned into a high tech
business,” he said.
At one time, a 1,000-pound
bull was a record, Oft said, but
now if a bull does not reach
1,000 pounds in year, it is a
cull.
Oft is a member of the
American Angus Association
and has been a delegate to the
association’s national conven-
tion and served a year as presi-
dent of the Malheur County
Cattlemen’s Association.
Outside of the industry, Oft
served on the Malheur County
Planning Commission for eight
years and currently is chair-
man of the Malheur County
Vector Control Board. He was
interested in serving on the
board as a way to help make
the county a better place to
live, he said. It all started with
the black fly, Oft said, but the
focus soon shifted to control-
ling mosquitoes that spread
West Nile virus.
His service, however, has
been more than just about agri-
culture and land. Oft, a basket-
ball player in high school,
coached freshman basketball
for 31 years at Fruitland High
School and seven years at
Ontario.
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FRUITLANDOriginally from the Chicago
area, Chrystel S. Hohmann
came to the Treasure Valley to
blend her family and to bring
her therapeutic and medical
massage skills to the area in
hopes of working with the hos-
pitals and other medical facili-
ties in the area.
“I would like to be able to ed-
ucate the surrounding commu-
nities about the benefits of
medical therapeutic massage
and health maintenance,”
Hohmann said.
Hohmann is the owner of
Therapeutic Outcomes in
Fruitland.
“My goal is to address my
clients’ specific needs and to
work with my clients and their
health care providers so that
they get the best care they can
get,” Hohmann said.
If one suffers from overall
body aches, chronic or acute
muscle pain, or tingling, sciatic
pain or an injury, Hohmann
can relieve the pain with mas-
sage, she said, adding if some-
body is struggling with a job or
family stresses, lack of energy,
mental or physical fatigue or
depression, massage can also
help that. Hohmann is a li-
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PAYETTEFor Glenn Bishop, life has
been an adventure. He has
done a little bit of several
things from serving in the mil-
itary to working as an electri-
cian.
His f libbertigibbet attitude
took him several places, yet
nothing was serious enough
for him to call it a full-time ca-
reer. That was, until nine years
ago.
That’s when Bishop discov-
ered his love for driving truck.
Starting with the Gordon
Trucking industry, Bishop
drove for the company for one
year, then took a job with
Seneca Food in Payette.
He has been there ever since.
“To be honest, I’m pretty
dull,” Bishop said in be-
tween projects at his
Payette home.
Bishop’s life has
been anything but
dull. After graduating
from Fruitland High
School in 1980, Bishop
joined the U.S. Navy un-
til his discharge in 1983.
Following his time
in the serv-
ice, he
traveled
and
did
odd
jobs until working as an electri-
cian in his father’s business,
Fruitland Electric, in 1989.
Bishop’s father, Gene, a
co-owner of the business,
passed away in 1993,
but Bishop continued
on with the business
until 2002. Bishop’s
mother passed away in
1997, and co-owner
Dave Koeppen bought
the business out after
that.
Now,
Bishop
said
he is
ea-
gerly anticipating his 50th
birthday later this year, so long
as it means one of his favorite
things to do: spending time
with his family.
“I love to swim, and I love to
spend time with my family,” he
said. “That’s pretty much it.”
Bishop and his wife, Karen,
have four children, all daugh-
ters, and all but one have
grown and left home. His fam-
ily, including grandchildren,
now stretch from Washington
to Georgia. The couple have
seven grandchildren.
Bishop has called the
Treasure Valley home since the
fifth grade when he, his broth-
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do.”
Nursing, Jensen said, ap-
pealed to her because it encom-
passed so many different as-
pects of health care, and she
was sure she could find an area
that suited her.
“It just seemed really inter-
esting,” she said.
At that point, Jensen said,
she had no idea down what
path nursing would take her or
that it would ultimately lead to
public health.
Jensen graduated from
TVCC and began working at
Holy Rosary Medical Center —
now Saint Alphonsus-Ontario
— in 1999. She worked at the
hospital for three years, and
during that time she was also
raising a family with young
children, and the long hours
and nights she pulled at the
hospital made it more challeng-
ing than she wanted.
Opportunity to change jobs oc-
curred with a phone call from
a friend who worked with the
health department who asked
her to apply.
Jensen said the regular work
days and weekends off ap-
pealed to her, but, before she
accepted the position, Jensen
said she was not familiar with
what the health department
did, thinking staff mostly gave
shots and distributed birth
control pills. She soon learned,
however, the health depart-
ment does so much more than
that.
“I can’t think of all the things
that we do,” she said.
At the health department,
Jensen is the immunizations co-
ordinator and tobacco preven-
tion and education coordina-
tor, but she said, because the
department has a small staff,
everybody steps in when need-
ed, and she often steps in to
conduct a family planning ex-
amination. She also works with
other clinics on their immu-
nization programs and does
various outreach efforts with
area organizations.
“I think working in a job
where you know you’re help-
ing your community is a really
good thing, and, a lot of times,
we’re helping the people who
need it the most who are suf-
fering from the greatest health
disparities, and that feels good
and it’s needed,” Jensen said.
While the pace at the health
department is different than at
the hospital, Jensen said public
health can be very exciting and
she doesn’t miss working at a
hospital at all.
“I don’t ever feel bored,” she
said. “Community outreach, I
think, makes the job exciting.”
Jensen said through her job
she learns new things every day
from new health information
released and training received
from the state.
“So I feel that I’ve kept up to
date in the nursing field,” she
said.
Jensen is also continuing her
education, working on her
bachelor’s degree online
through Boise State
University.
“What’s so great about it is so
much pertains to public
health,” she said about what
she is currently studying.
Balancing school with work
and her home life with her hus-
band, Kris, a construction
manager with a company out
of Caldwell, and her three chil-
dren, an 11-year-old son, an 8-
year-old son and a 3-year-old
daughter, however, takes quite
a bit of organization on her
part, Jensen said.
“So I typically stay up late do-
ing homework after my kids go
to bed,” she said.
Jensen said she eventually
wants to receive her master’s
degree, but she intends to re-
main in public health.
“I think public health — it’s
more part of me than when I
worked at the hospital,” she
said.
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pist with her own private prac-
tice and has a strong medical
background and 15 years expe-
rience, 13 of those years spent
right here in the Treasure
Valley.
Hohmann provides numer-
ous services, such as general
health maintenance and relax-
ation massage, personalized
aromatherapy massage, thera-
peutic massage and medical
massage. She can also provide
pre- and post-pregnancy mas-
sage and infant and child mas-
sage, among other services.
She specializes in the treat-
ment of improving circulation,
enhancing mobility, carpal
tunnel syndrome, TMJ release,
migraine headaches and nu-
merous other treatments.
Hohmann completed her ed-
ucation in Illinois and has a
certificate of completion in
medical massage therapy and
therapeutic massage. She has
completed more than 24 cred-
its toward her physical thera-
pist degree, and the list goes
on.
Hohmann believes passion-
ately that medical therapeutic
massage is effective in ensur-
ing mental and emotional well
being and that it enhances mo-
bility, improves immunity, re-
lieves stress, improves circula-
tion and just helps the over-all
health externally and internal-
ly.
“I don’t know what it is about
this area, but massage and oth-
er alternative medicine, it isn’t
embraced as much as it is in
other areas, and I feel it’s my
job to educate the community,”
Hohmann said.
Hohmann hopes to work
with the other providers in the
area because, with medical
massage, clients may not have
to undergo carpal tunnel sur-
gery or their muscle problems
can be addressed while the
client goes to a chiropractor.
“If you put your dollars into
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Hohmann consults with
clients before their massage to
determine individual desires
for treatment. She also ad-
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hurt with a muscle, tendon or
ligament injury or has had sur-
gery to repair an injury of that
nature, the healing process can
be long and frustrating.
And for many people, the
physical therapist is the next
stop to a full recovery. A phys-
ical therapist’s primary con-
cern is remedying impairment
or disabilities as well as the pro-
motion of movement and the
quality of life.
Ontario’s Dan Chudleigh has
been in the physical therapy
business since 2000. Following
a short stint at another therapy
business, Chudleigh moved to
Ontario and found work at
Holy Rosary Medical Center.
Chudleigh received a mas-
ter’s of physical therapy at the
University of St. Augustine, a
master’s of physical education-
health promotion and a bache-
lor’s of science-exercise physiol-
ogy at Brigham Young
University.
Chudleigh said it was there
when he made his first contact
with the Ontario High School
athletic program through the
invitation of another physical
therapist, and Chudleigh has
been helping Ontario ever
since.
In 2005, Chudleigh opened
Treasure Valley Physical
Therapy, and in 2006 he
brought on a partner.
He said his job is enjoyable
only because he gets to help
people get out of pain. On the
sidelines of a sporting event,
Chudleigh said he tries to rem-
edy the injuries the athletes in-
cur while playing the game.
“That is the fun part of the
job: to help people rid them-
selves of pain and get them
back to an active status,”
Chudleigh said.
Chudleigh said he sees indi-
viduals with a wide variety of
pains that he looks to alleviate.
One of Chudleigh’s recent
success stories came out of Vale
where a young track athlete
came in with some pain in the
knee.
“I worked on that patient a
couple of times, and before you
knew it they were back on the
track and running without any
pain,” Chudleigh said. “It’s
those kind of stories that
makes my job worth it. This in-
dividual came in, was treated
and did not miss any portion of
the track season last year.”
Chudleigh said the best time
to come see a physical therapist
is when there is a pain in the
musculoskeletal system and the
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“Sometimes people have an-
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and, for the most part, a physi-
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Chudleigh said his job is very
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“I have made a lot of friends
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Chudleigh said. “I do not plan
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His truck driving ventures
sometimes take him back to
his old stomping grounds, but
he said it has changed a lot
from what he remembers.
“It was a lot different place
than it is now,” Bishop said.
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bigger than it is now.”
Now, even though Bishop is
not on a set schedule as an
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York.
“Wisconsin is my favorite,
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Goodman made the decision
to leave the military and focus
on his family, he said.
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military before someone I
worked with talked me into
speaking with an Idaho
National Guard recruiter,”
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no interest in going, but once I
talked to the recruiter, I was in
the Guard three days later.”
In 2004, Goodman’s nation
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“My dad inspired me to be-
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he did and the people he
worked with.”
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Guard, Speelman took the
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a sheriff’s deputy.
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team for many years.
“I am just proud of our
agency and the guys that are in
it,” Speelman said. “It makes
you pretty proud to know that
you are a part of an organiza-
tion that performs a service to
the communities.”
Speelman said the goal of the
officers is to deter individuals
from doing wrong, not just to
put folks in jail or to give out ci-
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“Law enforcement has gained
this persona that we are the
bad guys, and I do not know
how or why we got that per-
sona, but in reality we are here
to help people and to serve
them,” Speelman said.
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made and the interventions he
has been a part of or the infor-
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He added that it takes the
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work.”
The one thing Speelman
said law enforcement needs is
more manpower.
“With more officers, we can
cover more area,” Speelman
said. “The lack of manpower
has always been an issue with
any law enforcement agency.”
Speelman said playing the
role of mediator is another
key aspect to his job.
Serving Malheur County as
a deputy, Speelman said one
of the best things about his
job is the people he works
with.
“There is a bunch of good
people that I get to work
with,” He said. “ I have
worked under three different
sheriffs, and each one has
brought something new to
the business.”
Speelman said one of the
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detective sergeant, is he gets
to be at home with his family
in the evenings most of the
time.
“One of the unfortunate
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forcement is those times I
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ment is not for everybody.
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FROM PAGE 18 Petty balances work forCity of Nyssa with his farmLARRY MEYERARGUS OBSERVER
NYSSA While Duane Petty has al-
ways had a specific assignment
working for the City of Nyssa,
in a small public works depart-
ment his actual duties have run
the gamut to doing whatever
needs to be done or helping
whoever needs help.
When he was hired by the
city 20 years ago, he was as-
signed to park maintenance
and the cemetery, and then, a
couple of years later, streets
were added, and he has done
that ever since. The only
change since he was hired was
a special district was formed to
operate and maintain the
cemetery.
“I was the only one in parks,”
Petty said, adding he started
with the city shortly before he
turned 20. “There were six of
us in public works — water, sew-
er, parks and streets.”
His coworkers trained him
about the various jobs and the
equipment he would need to
operate.
“We all kind of helped in all
departments,” he said, adding
that continues today. “We all
go to wherever we have to.
“Everybody that we hire hasSEE PAGE 21
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things, both positive and nega-
tive, he said.
A couple of the more positive
things Goodman remembers
was a young girl, about 8, who
visited the base every morning.
Another highlight of this tour
was building a soccer field out-
side of Kirkuk, Iraq, he said.
“Within about three months
the field was done, and we had
kids playing on it,” Goodman
said.
One memory that really
stands out in Goodman’s mind
is that of an Iraqi national who
worked for the base, Goodman
said.
This man drove equipment
for them when out on missions,
and, one time he stopped while
convoying and ran after anoth-
er man in a field and assaulted
him.
“Turns out that the guy he
was hitting was in the process
of planting a roadside bomb,”
Goodman said. “After every-
thing settled down, the man
that worked for us said that his
country has never really had
true freedom, and he didn’t
want to lose it.”
Since 2007, Goodman has
been a full-time recruiter, and
his days are now full of phone
calls, interviews and helping
young men and women find di-
rection and a future with the
Idaho National Guard.
“There’s a lot that goes into
this job,” Goodman said. “It
doesn’t just end with putting
them in. You have to some-
times make sure that they do
get what’s contracted, meet
with parents, help them with
their education, job placement
and so much more.”
Being a recruiter is a hectic
job, Goodman said. When the
people he’s helped enlist find
him, however, and tell him they
now have a degree or have put
on plenty of rank and thank
Goodman for his assistance,
it’s extremely rewarding, he
said.
“Being with the Guard, I’m
able to contribute to the coun-
try, state and my community,”
Goodman said. “I especially
enjoy helping the young ones
do something positive with
their lives.”
Goodman’s busy schedule
doesn’t just end with the
Guard either, he said. He has a
family, with two daughters also
in the National Guard, and op-
erates his own business and is
a substitute teacher for the
Fruitland and New Plymouth
school districts.
“Being in the Guard certain-
ly makes my life busier and has
had its moments, but I
wouldn’t change it for any-
thing,” Goodman said.
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to work en every department,”
he said, adding all the crew
members are cross-trained.
“I’m still working in streets and
parks. We have a part-time per-
son in summer to mow.”
A small staff — five full-time
workers — is not the biggest
problem. The major challenge,
Petty said is budgetary, a lack
of funds.
“You try to do as much as
you can with little money,”
he said.
One thing the crew does is
work with other agencies,
such as the Nyssa Road
District.
Petty recently sent a per-
son to help the road dis-
trict with a chip seal
project and the road
district chip seals for
the city, he said.
“Everybody helps
everybody. “We
have pretty good
relations with the
road districts.”
After graduating
from high school in
Ontario, Petty said he
was helping his fa-
ther farm and
had started a tractor-repair
business when he saw an ad-
vertisement for the job with
the city and applied.
“There is something new
every day,” he said, comment-
ing on why he likes the job.
He said he is still involved in
farming and has a small
acreage southwest of Nyssa
next to his father, and they
farm together, raising
beef cattle and crops
to feed them, Petty
said. Family is an-
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FRUITLANDService to the community
takes a lot of forms, and for
Ontario’s First Baptist
Church Senior Pastor
Scott Lundy, his role
is one of shepherd and
a teacher.
Lundy, who
currently re-
sides in
Fruitland,
has a con-
gregation
com-
prised
of ap-
proxi-
mately
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peo-
ple.
His
day-to-
day duties of lis-
tening talking
and walking
with people
through their lives while en-
couraging them to trust Jesus
keeps him busy, Lundy said.
“What I do takes place in a
lot of different forms,” Lundy
said. “Services, study,
spending time with people
and even home visits are
part of my job. Of
course, prayer is a
privilege and the
power connec-
tion. That’s
what’s needed
to tie every-
thing to-
gether.”
Right
now,
Lundy is
support-
ed finan-
cially to
conduct his
duties with the
church, which is
not always the case,
he said. Being
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JESSICA KELLERARGUS OBSERVER
NYSSANyssa Elementary School
teacher Jill Conant said she al-
ways knew she wanted to be a
teacher. Her teaching career,
however, did not take off im-
mediately.
Conant is a life-long Malheur
County resident. She was born
in Nyssa and initially lived in
Adrian but moved around a lot
until her family settled in
Adrian again when Conant
was in the sixth grade.
She said she doesn’t remem-
ber when she decided she
wanted to be a teacher – she al-
ways did, but in high school
she decided she was going to
be a music teacher.
Life postponed her career
pursuit, however. She married
her high school sweetheart, to
whom she is still married, in
1971 between their junior and
senior year in high school, and
they began a family, raising two
children.
Her two children were at-
tending St. Peter Catholic
School in Ontario, and she was
on that school board, when a
friend of hers encouraged her
to go back to school, and she
decided to enroll at Treasure
Valley Community College.
Deciding to take the fast-track
to graduation, she also en-
rolled at Boise State
University, and at one time she
was taking 24 credits at BSU
and 27 from TVCC at the
same time, while managing
time with her husband and
children. As a result, she grad-
uated at age 30 in two and a
half or three years.
“Fruitcake, totally fruitcake,”
Conant said about her college
years. “Thank goodness for my
family. Without my husband
and my children I never would
have been able to become a
teacher and do what I’ve
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She said life is hard, and no-
body does everything in a vac-
uum, so her decision to take on
such a heavy load in college re-
quired not only her family’s
support, which she had, but
help as well.
“Everybody pulls together to
make something happen, and
that’s what they did,” Conant
said. “Everybody just had to
step it up a bit — all of us.”
She said entering college at
age 27 or 28 and graduating at
30 gave her a new set of priori-
ties for her career.
“Going in as an adult really
changes the reality of what’s
going to happen,” she said.
She said beginning her ca-
reer in her 30s has made a lot
of difference and was to her
benefit as a teacher.
She said her experiences
were different than teachers
who begin their careers in
their 20s, and her knowledge
base and knowledge of chil-
dren was also different. She al-
so said having been a school
board member and under-
standing school systems from
that perspective helped.
“I think that experience in
life helps you become better,”
Conant said.
Conant taught for eight years
in Parma but had to take a
three-year hiatus because of an
illness, but during that time she
still worked as a substitute. She
began working in Nyssa right
after her son graduated from
high school, and she has taught
every age group through her
career. She currently teaches
second grade.
“Every age has something to
like about them,” she said,
adding every student, regard-
less of age, wants the same
thing: to be listened to and ac-
knowledged.
She said the best part of her
job is knowing the children she
is teaching are part of the fu-
ture and will grow up to be the
community leaders and deci-
sion-makers and, hopefully,
make the world a better place.
“I don’t want to use ‘make a
difference’ because I think it’s
over-used,” she said of why she
teaches.
Conant said, in addition to
teaching reading, writing,
mathematics and other sub-
jects, she is also helping them
learn how to be good humans
and to care for one another.
“I think getting to be a part
of that is a real joy,” she said,
adding she finds it especially
rewarding when her students
start to look outside of them-
selves and their own concerns
and to the world around them
and the role they have in it. “It’s
like every day is a new pack-
age.”
She also finds it very reward-
ing to watch children succeed
in their studies, particularly
when they have struggled to
understand something before.
“I love to watch the light in a
kid’s eyes when they get it —
when the click is there,”
Conant continued.
“The spark in that eyeball is
the next best thing to a glorious
sunrise.”
At age 58, Conant said she
does not know how much
longer she will teach, but she
does not have any desire to
leave the house and farm she
and her husband share in
Adrian — the same house in
which her husband was raised.
“I have some of the most glo-
rious sunrises and sunsets on a
daily basis,” she said.
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’FROM PAGE 23
SCOTT FORDARGUS OBSERVER
ONTARIORudy Marostica has been a
baseball man for a very long
time in Malheur County.
“I have been involved with
baseball forever,” Marostica
said. “Officially, I got started in
1985. I began as an assistant. I
was kind of the guy who would
go get the coffee or the go-get-
this-or-that guy.”
Soon Marostica was promot-
ed to assistant vice president
for the Babe Ruth Baseball pro-
gram and kept that title for
about eight years. Next came
the role as president for Babe
Ruth, a position he held for 18
years. Following that, he be-
came the assistant commission-
er in the league and held that
title for another 10 years be-
fore being promoted to district
commissioner, a title he kept
for 10 more years.
“After that, I wanted to get
away from it but still wanted to
be involved with the Babe
Ruth,” he said. “So I got the job
of coordinating all tourna-
ments.”
Marostica said running the
district and state tournaments
is a huge job. Because of his
hard work and dedication,
however, Ontario has hosted a
district or state tournament for
the past five years.
This year, however, Ontario
did not host any postseason
tournaments because of the
lack of volunteers needed to
support such an event.
Marostica hopes, next year, the
volunteers will be knocking
down his door to sign up so
Ontario can bring back the dis-
trict and state tournaments.
“Volunteers are key to run-
ning a successful tournament,”
he said. “And with Ontario
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VALESelfless service to the com-
munity is nothing new for
Malheur County Sheriff’s
Office Senior Deputy Tom
Braniff, but for nearly 11 years
now he’s been able to provide
a necessary service to several
cities in exactly the capacity he
wants.
Braniff, of Vale, is one of 12
Malheur County dispatchers
tasked with answering 911
calls to dispatch police, fire-
fighters and medical person-
nel.
“One thing about this job is
that a day can go from being
boring with nothing going on,
to crazy with a single phone
call,” Braniff said.
No matter how crazy things
get, however, Braniff and the
other dispatchers must remain
calm to try and help de-escalate
a situation in order to get the
vital information needed by re-
sponders.
“It’s very important that we
give the responders as much in-
formation as possible,” Braniff
said. “If they’re going into a
possible dangerous situation
the responders need to know
ahead of time to help eliminate
as many of those dangers as
possible.”
Braniff’s first day of work as
a Malheur County dispatcher
was, coincidently as he says,
Sept. 11, 2001.
He served his community for
years before that, however, as a
firefighter for the Vale Fire
Department.
It was actually while he
worked as a firefighter that he
was involved in an incident
that cemented his desire to be-
come a dispatcher, Braniff
said.
“We were called out on a bad
fire that burned about 80,000
acres,” Braniff said. “I listened
for about 28 hours to dispatch-
ers remain calm while manag-
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VALE Long retired from his veteri-
nary practice, Tom Gray, Vale,
has retired again, this time
from a labor of love helping
residents of Pioneer Nursing
Home.
Gray has had a long career of
service to the community and
the county having come to the
area in 1955 to work with Dr.
L.M. Kroger after graduating
from veterinary school. Dr.
Charles Dake and Gray took
over the clinic from Kroger
when he retired.
“Kroger trained several vet-
erinarians in the region, (after
they came out of school,” Gray
said.
Gray worked in Ontario for
22 years and then worked at
the Treasure Valley Animal
Hospital in Nyssa with Dr.
Bert Ross until Gray retired.
“We went all over,” Gray said,
adding he traveled as far as
Juntura.
He was veterinarian at the
livestock auction yard in
Ontario for a number of years
and for the Malheur County
Fair for several years, as well.
After retiring, Gray became
involved with Malheur
Country Historical Society, of
which he is past president.
“My family has a lot of histo-
ry,” Gray said.
The house that he and wife,
Mary, live in is about 100 years
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Braniff has been a dispatcher
he’s encountered several
amazing, sometimes tragic,
moments, he said.
On one particular call,
Braniff’s knowledge of the
area was a crucial factor in
saving someone’s life, he said.
Braniff received a call that re-
quired an air ambulance in a
very remote location, and by
asking the caller questions
about the landmarks around
the area, Braniff dispatched
the air ambulance to the ex-
act location, saving not only a
lot of time but the injured in-
dividual’s life.
Some calls, however, are
more difficult than others,
Braniff said.
“Any calls involving kids
are terrible,” Braniff said.
“Also, in a small community
you know a lot of the people
involved in the situations that
are going on.”
No matter what the situa-
tion, however, there’s still an
important job to do, Braniff
said. All dispatchers are
trained and certified to give
emergency medical instruc-
tions over the phone to assist
those in need before respon-
ders arrive at the scene.
One thing Braniff wants to
make clear, however, is that
he is no hero, he said.
“There are 12 dispatchers
at Malheur County,” he said.
“All 12 are very special peo-
ple, doing a very needed job,
and they all do it exceptional-
ly well.”
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SEE PAGE 33
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funded allows him the oppor-
tunity to devote his entire self
to his job and assisting others
with their faith.
“I’ll always be a full-time pas-
tor, no matter what,” Lundy
said. “But being funded just
means that I don’t have to do
something else on the side, and
it allows me to be a part of the
most profound moments of
people’s lives all the time.”
These profound moments
come from both sides of the
emotional and spiritual spec-
trum, Lundy said.
They include everything
from the pain of losing a loved
one to the joyous moment
when two people join together
in marriage or the dedication
of someone’s new baby before
God.
Lundy said some of the best
moments, however, are when
he finds out that his messages
of faith and prayer have posi-
tively impacted people.
“I coached this one young
man in Boise quite a while
back,” Lundy said.
“I got a call late at night a few
years after having not heard
from him, and he told me that
the things we talked about,
God and Jesus, finally clicked.
Those are the best, knowing
that I got to be part of their sto-
ry of how God got through to
them.”
Lundy feels that connecting
with people on the level he
does is amazing, especially dur-
ing a time when most people
choose to communicate elec-
tronically with cell phones and
the internet, rather than on a
personal level.
“Our culture is so connected
electronically, but we’re losing
this ability to connect on a per-
sonal level,” Lundy said. “So
being able to connect with peo-
ple on that level, when they are
their most real, is truly a privi-
lege.”
Aside from his years of serv-
ice to the faithful at the Baptist
church, Lundy also gives his
time to coaching track at
Fruitland High School and has
even assisted coaching middle
school football for Ontario.
“It’s such a privilege to be able
to coach,” Lundy said. “It gives
me the chance to pass along
skills and knowledge to the
kids.”
Coaching is essentially the
same thing that he already
does for the members of his
church, he said.
It provides him the opportu-
nity to work in a group setting
and have input on what the
children do in their lives.
Regardless of his work with
the church or with children on
the track field, Lundy said he
will be serving the community
and be a pastor for as long as he
possibly can.
“The word that always comes
to mind when I think of what
I do is privilege,” Lundy said.
“It’s a privilege that I get to de-
vote so much of my life to
studying God’s word and share
it with folks, be a part of their
growth and grow myself right
along with them.”
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not hosting a tournament this
year, I do not know what to do
with all this time I have.”
Marostica said he still had a
key role with this year’s teams
going to state as he made sure
they had the money to attend
the tournaments.
“But it is cheaper to host a
tournament than it is to send
the teams on the road,”
Marostica said.
Marostica is also a member of
the Local Elks Lodge, which is
a key sponsor of the Babe Ruth
League.
“To me, to give back to these
kids has been a real blessing,”
Marostica said.
Looking back over the years,
Marostica said his fondest
memories are of those when
the youth came up to him to
thank him for what he has
done to keep Babe Ruth
Baseball alive in the valley.
Marostica said he will contin-
ue to work with the Elks and
Babe Ruth until they run him
off.
“I have loved every bit of my
time with Babe Ruth,”
Marostica said. “We have to
have something for the kids to
do in the summer, and I am
glad I am able to be a part of
that.”
Marostica and the Elks
Lodge have been noticed for
the efforts they put forth to-
ward Babe Ruth, and, in 1995,
the Ontario Elks Lodge was in-
ducted into the Babe Ruth Hall
of Fame. Marostica is also un-
der consideration for induc-
tion to the Hall of Fame.
“The coaches and commis-
sioner submitted my name,
and it will stay on the list for
three years,” Marostica said.
“The first year nothing hap-
pened, and then this year I fin-
ished third in the voting. So I
just have one more year left to
make the Hall of Fame. I do not
think about it much, but it’s an
honor that those guys took the
time to submit my name for the
Hall of Fame.”
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old, he said.
Mary Gray has also been in-
volved with history, having
been a volunteer curator at the
Stone House Museum. Some
of the displays she set up are
still there, she said.
One of the projects of which
Gray is proud is the creation of
the historical maps showing
the former and present post
offices that at one time
dotted the county as well
as trails used in the past.
“I’m glad they have
put them in the fair-
grounds,” Gray said.
Another project
that makes him
proud is the histori-
cal markers about the
Utter wagon train,
which met disaster using the
Oregon Trail route that stayed
south of the
Snake
River un-
til it
turned
north.
One site
was the “starvation camp”
along the Owyhee River, north
of Adrian, which claimed the
lives of some of the pioneers
who survived Indian attacks in
Idaho.
Another site is just south of
Huntington where another
Indian attack took place. Gray
also edits the Historical
Society’s newsletter.
Gray served on the Vale
City Council for 10 years
and served one term as
mayor.
During his tenure, the
library was moved out
of Vale City Hall to its
present to location on
A Street, he said.
He also taught ani-
mal health classes
at Treasure Valley
Community College for two or
three years.
Other civic service involve-
ment includes membership in
the Chamber of Commerce
and Jaycees and the Vale
School Board, during which
time the old high school was re-
modeled into the middle
school.
Gray also teaches Sunday
School at First Baptist Church
in Ontario.
Gray helped at Pioneer
Nursing Home for 30 years, he
said.
“I would go over in the morn-
ing and help people get to
breakfast.”
His parents were at Pioneer
Nursing Home, he said.
“I had a lot of friends in
there,” he said.
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RYAN KEEARGUS OBSERVER
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small town atmosphere, City
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Technician Dan Shepard has
been a part of the community
his entire life.
While growing up in Payette,
Shepard’s parents made and
sold rawhide in a shop situated
at their home.
“My parents have had the
biggest impact on me, teaching
me the value of hard work and
living a frugal life at such a
young age,” Shepard said.
After high school, Shepard
started working at Heinz.
During his three years of em-
ployment there, he started tak-
ing part-time classes at
Treasure Valley Community
College.
Shepard said he always loved
drawing, and his parents en-
couraged him to consider
drafting as a possible future ca-
reer, and what started off as
part-time classes at TVCC be-
came full-time. Shepard gradu-
ated with his associate’s degree
in drafting in 1977.
Fresh out of college, Shepard
heard the City of Ontario was
hiring, applied immediately
and was hired shortly after.
After about a year on the job,
Shepard married his wife of 34
years, Jo Nell Shepard.
“Getting married has been
one of my greatest accomplish-
ments,” Shepard said. “It was a
very emotional thing, the put-
ting together of two lives. My
marriage has defined me and
my entire life.”
His wife taught at many
schools during her career in
education and retired this year
from Payette Elementary.
Shepard said his career gives
him the satisfaction of serving
the community every day. He
answers questions from all dif-
ferent types of people and
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CHERISE KAECHELEARGUS OBSERVER
FRUITLANDFruitland native Scott Dayley has joined
the ranks of Neil Armstrong, first man on
the moon, Gerald Ford, 38th president of
the United States, Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo
and Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. secre-
tary of defense. Their connection? All of
them have achieved the ranking of Eagle
Scout, the highest rank the Boy Scouts of
America offers.
Daley, 19, was born in Provo, Utah, but
moved to Fruitland when he was 1 years
old when his father got a job working for
Woodgrain Millwork.
Dayley’s history with Boy Scouts reaches
back to his grandfather, who Dayley said
was “big into scouting.”
Dayley’s father was also a scout leader for
older scouts.
Because of these reasons,
Dayley wanted to join the
Boy Scouts and knew the
end result would be for him
to receive his Eagle. Adding
to that incentive, Dayley
said, was his parents told
him he could not get his
drivers license until he earned his Eagle
Scout rank.
Dayley joined Boy Scouts when he was
10 years old.
He warns those who want to obtain the
rank to try and do so before high school
“because it will be really hard. Especially if
you are really involved,” he said.
According to the Boy Scouts website, on-
ly 5 percent of Boy Scouts earned the
Eagle Scout rank in 2011.
Dayley said his favorite part of the entire
experience was going camping and earn-
ing the outdoor merit badges. He admits
his least favorite tasks were earning what
he termed the “boring” merit badges that
included personal finance.
“Those boring ones are the most useful
though,” he said.
Other merit badges he had to earn in-
clude first aid, citizenship in the commu-
nity, citizenship in the nation and citizen-
ship in the world, environmental science
and personal management.
Every Eagle Scout also must also lead a
service project for any religious organiza-
tion, school or community.
Dayley’s service project included land-
scaping and cleaning up around Fruitland
High School.
“Most of it was just maintenence,”
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FRUITLANDSince her early teen years,
Joni Huff has known what she
wanted to do for a living: style
hair.
“I was a cheerleader, and I
did all of their hair and for the
prom,” Huff said.
Huff is the owner of Salon
Savvy in Fruitland and has
been licensed for about 25
years. The salon has been
owned by Huff since 2000 and
the building was bought seven
years ago. Huff employs three
nail techs, one massage thera-
pist, five stylists and two part
time stylists.
Originally from Twin Falls,
Huff started her career by go-
ing to beauty school in Ogden,
Utah, and started styling hair
after her teacher opened a sa-
lon. She eventually moved to
the Treasure Valley with her
first husband for his job and
managed a salon in Boise.
After a divorce, she almost
moved back to Twin Falls, but
then met her second husband,
Payette County Sheriff Chad
Huff, and has been here since
1996. Huff also has a daughter
who is 19 and getting ready to
go to college in the fall at the
College of Idaho and an 18-
year-old son, a senior at
Fruitland High School who is
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and need.
Shepard has met many inter-
esting people of the public, in-
cluding his coworkers, he said.
“They’re the hardest working
people you’ll find,” Shepard
said.
Shepard’s work comprises a
variety of duties, from helping
people with permits and prop-
erty lines to studying how in-
tersections are working, he
said. In the winter he even
drives a snow plow down the
very streets of Ontario he
helped build.
Recently, Shepard was one of
the tour guides for the city
manager candidates, and he
showed them all the highlights
of the community.
Shepard said that working
through the ranks in the city
has been a rewarding process.
He said he has worked with
people of all different rankings,
and their knowledge has been
passed down to others.
“In my career, I’ve accom-
plished everything I could,”
Shepard said.
Shepard said city staff may
not be building skyscrapers,
but they’re building sewers,
roads and things people need.
He is proud to know what has
been done is good, quality
work.
“Every day is a challenge,”
Shepard said. “Things are al-
ways changing, and, for me, I
couldn’t have found a better
job.”
Shepard said education
played a very important role in
his life. In high school he was
involved in FFA, where he par-
ticipated in classes that taught
him about public speaking and
debate.
While attending TVCC, he
branched out from his degree
in drafting and took a variety
of classes. Shepard said that
taking a class on surveying, al-
though not required for his de-
gree, tipped the scales in his fa-
vor when it came to applying
for his job back in 1977. He is
very supportive of TVCC and
said that it is a great place to
start.
Shepard said, when not
working, he enjoys reading, his-
tory, learning about current
events and building scale mod-
els. He also donates blood reg-
ularly.
In addition to earning him a
living, Shepard said his career
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because he can answer his
friends’ questions about gov-
ernment and he knows exactly
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hands, whether it is through
massage therapy, a pedi-
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massage. She said the final
product and how it looks is-
n’t necessarily as important
as a customer’s experience.
“The words I like to hear
are, ‘I love to come here to be
pampered,’” Huff said.
Throughout the years,
Huff has been involved in
the community, putting on
fundraisers such as cut-
athons for different individ-
uals and cutting hair for
Locks of Love.
“I try to say as much in-
volved as I can, but my main
focus has been my kids,”
Huff said.
Along with being a hair
stylist and owning a salon,
Huff served on the
Cosmetology Board of
Idaho and on the National
Cosmetology Board for six
years each.
“I love my job, and this is
probably the funnest clien-
tele I’ve ever had — good
people, nice people and I
have a great team,” Huff
said. “It’s fun to sit back and
look where my team have
come from and to where
they are now. It makes it all
worth it.”
Even though Huff loves
her job, she hopes to retire
in seven or eight years.
“I promised myself I
wouldn’t be 50 and still do-
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FROM PAGE 37Firefighting remainsa thrill for Bob WebbLARRY MEYERARGUS OBSERVER
ADRIAN Bob Webb has been on the
Adrian Fire Department for 45
years, and while he gives no hint
of retiring, he is slowing down
from running his garage, having
sold his shop to the fire district,
and now works at home.
Webb has been fire chief for
the past 37 or 38 of those years.
A lot of his friends were on the
department and encouraged
him to become a member when
he joined .
“It’s kind of an addiction,”
Webb said, of serving as a fire-
fighter. “It’s hard for some of us
to back away.”
The department has no more
than 15 people on its roster, al-
though at one time it did have
20 — and it is currently full, he
said. It also operates a quick re-
sponse unit, and some of fire-
fighters also serve on the QRU.
“We’re very fortunate to have
five new younger members,”
Webb said. “In a rural area, you
don’t have a large pool to draw
from.”
The department also has a his-
tory of good retention of mem-
bers.
“One guy has been (a mem-
ber) longer than I have. It’s hard
to quit,” Webb said.
“As long as you can be helpful,
that is the main thing,” Webb
said about serving. “It supports
your community.
Webb still hasn’t lost the en-
thusiasm for responding to a
call.
“In the middle of the night, if
a call comes, you are wide awake
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We’re very fortunate tohave five new youngermembers. In a ruralarea, you don’t have alarge pool to draw from.
— Bob WebbAdrian Fire Department chief’
JESSICA KELLERARGUS OBSERVER
VALEFor being only 32 years old,
veterinarian Angie Allum said
she has already accomplished
so many of her goals in life.
Originally from Burns,
Allum moved to the Vale area
three and a half years ago, just
after she completed vet school
at Ross University in the
Caribbean. Despite the exotic
locale, she said her goal was al-
ways to live in a small town and
be a country veterinarian and
own her own mixed-animal
practice. She met all three of
those goals at once when she
purchased Dr. Boyle’s practice
at Vale Veterinary Clinic.
Sometimes, she said, it sur-
prises her how much she has
accomplished in such a short
amount of time.
“I’m doing more than I even
thought I would,” she said.
Becoming a vet to begin with
was a long-time goal of hers,
one she decided upon in the
fourth grade when she had to
say what she wanted to be
when she grew up for an as-
signment. She said her goal
was to either become a veteri-
narian or a history teacher, but
veterinarian was the much like-
lier choice even then. She grew
up on a ranch, and her family
raised a little bit of everything.
She and her sister were active
in 4-H, and, she said, they went
to the vet a lot. She also deter-
mined she was not suited for
being a history teacher.
“I love animals,” she said. “I
didn’t want a job where I had
to do the same thing every day
and stay in doors every day.”
She did determine, however,
that she was suited to become
a vet.
“I’ve always been into the
gross and dirty things,” Allum
said, although she admits she
still has days where she has to
remind herself she can do her
job well.
Her patients are typical for a
country vet: goats, rabbits,
dogs, horses, cows, pigs, cats
and the like. She does not treat
exotic animals like lizards or
snakes or birds. While attend-
ing Ross University, which she
said was a great experience,
Allum did treat some exotic
animals – monkeys and sea tur-
tles, but she also treated her
fair share of cows, goats and
other livestock that the people
raised on the island.
“There was a lot more of that
than you would expect,” Allum
said. “It was a good experience
to be out of the country for a
little while.”
She said she has gotten her
roaming itch out of her system
since moving to Vale, however,
and has settled in fairly easily,
and she really enjoys owning
her own practice.
She gets to bring her Old
English Bulldog, Smoke, to
work with her, and he fre-
quently goes riding around
with her on calls as well.
Allum said when she was in
college she would have said her
favorite animals to treat were
the larger animals, but now she
thinks small animals are her fa-
vorite because they often pose
more challenges, such as sur-
geries and their problems re-
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Dayley said. “The people I
talked to at the high school did-
n’t actually want me to build
anything because they said that
just gives them more things to
take care of, and they would
rather have me fix up some old
Eagle Projects. I did a lot of
weeding, and I repainted the
flag pole that was an Eagle
project of a former student at
Fruitland.”
While in high school, Dayley
was involved with track, bas-
ketball, football, FFA, National
Honor Society, student leader-
ship and Natural Helpers.
In the 2010-11 football sea-
son, Dayley was ranked No. 6
in the state of Idaho. He also
served as vice president of his
FFA chapter in 2011. Dayley
said the most influential
teacher in his life who impact-
ed him more than others was
his mother.
“My mom was one of my
teachers in high school, so she
kind of has to be my favorite,
but besides her, Mr. Rob
Carter, who was my math
teacher and football coach,”
Dayley said. “He was a good in-
f luence and always liked to
have students and athletes
push themselves, and he is a ge-
nius.”
His greatest influence in life,
however, has been his older
brother Greg.
“He was an incredible athlete,
and he is a really smart and fun
guy to hang out with,” Dayley
said.
Now, with high school be-
hind him, Dayley recently
moved to Utah to begin taking
summer term classes at
Brigham Young University.
After that, he is going to serve
his two-year mission in Tucson,
Ariz., after which he will re-
turn to BYU to finish school.
In 10 years, Dayley said he
hopes to be married with a
child and a well-paying job.
As a leader, Dayley said a per-
son must be “willing to act and
know how to get people to fol-
low them and treat those peo-
ple right, and do what is best
for the group and do what is
right no matter what.” he said
he does consider himself to be
a leader. He said his friends
would describe him as strong,
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PAYETTEValerie Martindale had an
aunt who was a nurse and
helped take care of an elderly
grandmother while growing
up, both which helped set a
course for her later career as a
registered nurse and working
in a hospice setting.
Martindale said she was also
drawn to teaching, but as she
prayed about it, the opportuni-
ty for nursing came open, and
she was admitted to the
nursing program at
Boise State University.
The teaching opportu-
nities would come later.
After graduating from
nursing school,
Martindale said she
worked at various
area hospitals,
including St.
Luke’s and
Saint
Alphonsus
regional
medical
centers in
Boise and
Mercy
Medical
Center in Nampa.
She also worked in
home health for the
Central District Health
Department and in a
Healthy Choices
Education Program, a pro-
gram for senior citizens,
teaching exercises and
nutrition.
“I enjoyed
that a lot,” she
said.
Martindale
said she be-
came aware of
the value of
hospice-type
care for termi-
nal patients in
a church she and her husband,
Randy, attended while he was
in seminary in California.
A couple in the church were
helping a person care for a
spouse with lung cancer,
Martindale said.
“It made such a huge differ-
ence,” she said.
Having left nursing while her
children were growing up,
when Martindale decided to
go back to work she got a part-
time job as a nurse with XL-
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Payette and Nampa.
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just listen to them,”
Martindale said of her job.
“You are building a relation-
ship,” Martindale said.
“Being part of their family,
whatever they are comfort-
able with.”
Martindale said hospice al-
so provides support for the
whole family.
“Hospice is about living life
to the fullest, with the least
problems,” she said. “We have
a lot of resources to deal with
issues.”
Martindale, who lives in
Fruitland, mainly works out
of the Payette office but also
helps out of the Nampa of-
fice, she said.
“I feel God has gifted me to
work with the elderly,”
Martindale said.
And, while many of the hos-
pice patients are elderly,
younger people do come in to
hospice, she said.
“This is one of my favorite
nursing jobs,” she said. “The
joy comes in helping people
live with the time they have
left. It is about living.”
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The department has four
trucks: a pumper, a tender and
two brush trucks. “When I
started we didn’t have
turnouts,” he said.
Equipment then included a
1966 International pumper
and a 1954 Chevrolet truck
with a 1,200-gallon tank.
Some of the more memo-
rable fires, he said, include one
started by lightning and
burned south of Adrian. It
started at 4:30 p.m. one after-
noon, and firefighters were on
the lines until 10 a.m. the next
day, Webb said.
“The onion shed fire was an-
other all-nighter,” he said, and,
giving an indication of the con-
ditions that night, he added
there was an inch of ice on the
highway.
The department has also re-
sponded to mutual aid calls in-
cluding the Rhinehart Butte
and the Vines Hill fire.
While the fire department is
all volunteer, firefighters do re-
ceived $3,000 a year from the
Adrian Rural Fire Protection
District, which is used to pro-
vide food and beverages for
the group, Webb said.
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quire more complex answers.
“And there’s a lot of farmers
and ranchers that are very at-
tached to their dogs that you
would not necessarily think
are, so it’s nice to see that side
of them also,” she said.
With so many of her goals in
life already met, Allum said her
new goal is to continue improv-
ing her practice and her skills
as a veterinarian.
“It’s a constant learning
process that you have to keep
up with every single day,” she
said. “I will never, ever, know
everything there is to know
about animals.”
The constant challenge, how-
ever, makes Allum’s job inter-
esting, and she said no day is
ever the same, but every day
brings something new.
“Just when you think you’ve
got something figured out, it
changes,” she said, adding,
however, that is what she want-
ed.
She could, however, live with
a few less emergencies that call
her out in the middle of the
night. While they are not fun,
she said, they are part of the
job.
“Emergencies can’t wait, and
if you’re going to be a country
vet, you’re going to have emer-
gencies in the middle of the
night,” she said.
Allum said, to be a good vet-
erinarian, a person has to love
animals and their owners and
be open-minded. She said she
hopes she is open-minded and
can put herself in the pet or an-
imal owner’s shoes because
each one has different finan-
cial limitations as well as expec-
tations of care for their pet.
“I strive to give the best care
I can to every animal and own-
er and be understanding of
what we get to do,” she said.
Allum said, to her, the best
thing about being a vet is being
a part of people’s lives and
those of their pets and their
livestock. Her least favorite job
as a vet, however, is giving own-
ers difficult news about poor
prognosis or diagnosis, and
calling owners about difficult
issues, such as a pet dying or
finding cancer in a beloved an-
imal is one of the challenges
she has had to overcome.
She does have many favorite
stories that stand out in her
mind, however.
“I could write a book, and I’m
just starting my career,” Allum
said.
One memorable story in par-
ticular is treating a dog that
swallowed a ping pong ball.
Several months later, she said,
she had to remove a stick he
swallowed while playing.
“We call him the baseball
dog,” she said. “He still comes
to visit us.”
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CHERISE KAECHELEARGUS OBSERVER
NEW PLYMOUTHDennis Taggart has been vol-
unteering at the New
Plymouth Fire Department for
the last 12 years, and during
this time, he has emerged as a
leader whom the other less-ex-
perienced fire fighters have
come to depend to show them
the proper procedures to fight
fires, as well as a man who is ea-
ger to joke around with every
one once the work is done.
Taggart, 46, was born and
raised in Homedale.
Allen Blevins, New
Plymouth’s fire chief, said
Taggart deserves recognition
for his years of volunteering
and being someone whom
Blevins can always rely.
“I don’t have to worry about
him,” Blevins said of Taggart.
“He’s been on the fire depart-
ment for 12 years. His resume
is a book thick.”
Previously, Taggart volun-
teered at the Homedale Fire
Department. Coming from his
experience with a neighboring
department, Taggart was able
to skip a lot of the required
training and restrictive proba-
tion time that is put on the new
volunteers.
Three years ago Taggart mar-
ried his wife, Jolene, who is
from New Plymouth. Taggart
then moved from Homedale to
New Plymouth.
“He’s never talked about his
volunteering in a negative
way,” Jolene Taggart said. “He
loves it. He is always full in it.”
Jolene Taggart said Dennis
oftentimes talks about becom-
ing a firefighter in a profession-
al sense, and though she does
not know if he planned on be-
ing a firefighter when he was
smaller, she knows without a
doubt it is something he loves
to do.
Jolene Taggart said Dennis’
previous work experience in-
cludes 11 years volunteering at
the Homedale Fire
Department, nine years work-
ing as a sheriff’s deputy in
Owyhee County as well as sev-
eral years working for himself
and his brother-in-law in a
flood-restoration business.
In 1997, Taggart began his
own business in Payette for
flood restoration. Now, he jug-
gles volunteering and owning
his own business.
Juggling the two does not
hinder him at all though,
Jolene Taggart said.
“He’s fun to be with,” Blevins
said. “We get done, and he’s
joking around and playing. He
doesn’t waste time. He gets in,
gets it done and goes to the
next one.”
Jolene Taggart said, with his
past experience of being a
deputy and seeing what he did
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SCOTT FORDARGUS OBSERVER
ONTARIOWorking on automobiles is
not for everyone, and even for
those that like to tinker with
their own car, things have be-
come more and more difficult
with the new technology the
auto industry has on the road
today.
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out to the garage to tune up a
vehicle or to do simple mainte-
nance. Now, most folks have to
take their car into a certified
mechanic to get any work done.
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the man to see for all car -care
needs.
Bower has all the tools need-
ed to perform the repairs on
the newer cars and the know-
how to fix up the classics.
In 1978, Bower opened his
own shop, and through 34
years of turning wrenches, he
believes that service is the No.
1 quality of his shop.
Bower was born and raised
in Nyssa on a farm and learned
his mechanic skills by fixing
the things that broke down on
the farm.
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ONTARIOArwyn Larson never thought
she would become a college in-
structor let alone like her job.
Larson, an anatomy, physics,
microbiology and nonmajor
science instructor at Treasure
Valley Community College, be-
came a teacher almost by acci-
dent, stemming from necessity
rather than intent.
Larson did not go to school
intending to become a college
instructor. She attended
Oregon State University and
got her bachelor’s degree in an-
imal science and minor in
Spanish. When she graduated
she decided she wanted to go
overseas, so she joined the
Peace Corps and went to
Thailand. When she returned
to the United States she
worked a variety of different
jobs and got her master’s de-
gree from OSU in reproduc-
tive physiology.
“At that point my goal was to
work in a zoo, but I got mar-
ried,” Larson said. “That
changed my life plans.”
She worked performing cat-
tle embryo transfers for a com-
pany serving California,
Oregon and Washington, and
also worked with her husband
at his feed lot in Olympia. Out
of financial necessity, she be-
gan working as an adjunct lab technician part time at St.
Martin College in Olympia
and then at South Puget Sound
Community College.
“Honestly, it was never my
plan to teach because I don’t re-
ally like standing up in front of
groups of people,” Larson said.
At some point, however, she
realized she really liked it.
“I really like teaching a lot,”
she said, adding that kind of
came as a surprise to her.
After teaching at South
Puget Sound Community
College for two years, Larson
got her current job at TVCC.
That, too, was almost by acci-
dent.
It was really not a plan,” she
said. “It was sort of a thing that
happened.”
She said she and her husband
planned to move to this area to
have more room to raise cattle,
but her plans changed when
they got divorced and she was
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on the job there, her husband is
able to deal with the tough sit-
uations presented when he
goes to a fire.
“He worked a lot with that as
a deputy,” she said of the more
tragic situations. “It never
bothered him being in the
thick of that.”
Taggart works as a field train-
ing officer on the fire depart-
ment for the new trainees who
come in, Blevins said.
“Dennis is hard working, fun-
loving,” Blevins said. “He’s al-
ways happy. You can’t get him
down. It doesn’t matter if it’s
the fire department, Boy
Scouts or church.”
Taggart is heavily involved in
the LDS church, Jolene Taggart
said.
He dedicates a lot of time
there, and just recently went
camping with the youth group
during the July 4th weekend,
Blevins said.
On the weekends, Taggart is
a master gardener, Jolene
Taggart said.
“We have an amazing garden.
I read a book in my spare time.
When he has spare time, he’s
outside working in the gar-
den,” she said.
Additionally, Dennis and
Jolene Taggart enjoy golfing on
the weekends, hunting for
mushrooms during the spring
time and camping. They also
backpack in McCall and have a
cabin in Cascade they enjoy go-
ing to.
The couple are also avid trav-
elers and enjoy traveling out of
country. Recently they’ve been
to Mexico, Hawaii, Honduras
and the Cayman Islands. But
the couple plan on staying in
the area.
“We like the small area. We’re
out in the country and we like
that,” Jolene Taggart said.
Taggart’s biggest influences
have been his uncle Nolan and
his father, Lyn Taggart, Jolene
Taggart said.
“They have really made a dif-
ference in his life,” Jolene said.
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— Alan BlevinsNew Plymouth Rural fire chief’
SCOTT FORDARGUS OBSERVER
ONTARIOOntario resident Mo
McLean has made a living
around the pool for the past 15
years.
Mclean currently works at
the Ontario Aquatic Center in
Ontario as a lifeguard and wa-
ter aerobic instructor.
“I like to swim and to teach
water aerobics,” McLean said.
“I took a class on lifeguarding,
and a year later I got my W5, a
water safety instructor.”
Twelve years ago, Mclean be-
came a lifeguard for the
Ontario Aquatic Center and
got started by simply taking a
water aerobics class as some-
thing to do while her children
were in school.
The next thing
McLean knew,
she was being
asked to take
over the water
aerobics class,
and it wasn’t
very long before
she decided to get her lifeguard
training.
Prior to becoming a lifeguard,
Mclean worked in the airline
business and in education. and
she said being a lifeguard is by
far the best job she has ever
had.
McLean said watching over
the individuals in the pool is
great. She said it is always nice
to see some of the children she
taught in swimming lessons in
the past still active in the pool.
McLean has had to use her
lifeguarding experience and
water safety in other areas
than the pool, she said. She
said she once had to help a
choking woman, but so far, she
has never had to resuscitate a
drowning person.
“I have had to pull some folks
out of the water when they got
in trouble but never anyone
who was drowning,” McLean
said. “To see a person at the
bottom of the pool or floating
in the water is by biggest fear.”
Mclean said she remembers
on one occasion a little girl was
in the deep water, and she no-
ticed she was having some
trouble.
“I asked her if she need some
help, and the little girl said no,”
Mclean said. “I kept my eye on
her and actually had to ask her
a couple more times if she was
Ok before I had to go in after
her. Sometimes kids do not
know when they are in trouble,
and that is what I have to look
out for.”
Mclean said after she got to
the little girl, she asked her
again if she needed help and
the little girl simply said, “I
knew you would come in after
me.”
McLean said the best person
for a lifeguard position is a per-
son who is outgoing and not
shy.
“As a lifeguard, you have to
be able to communicate in a
way that will not cause strife
with the swimmers,” McLean
said. “You have to be good with
people, and you have to be able
to see everything going on
around you.”
McLean said she plans to
continue to be a lifeguard until
she retires.
“I love my job and the people
I work with,” she said, adding
she is grateful to Aquatic
Center Director Kathy Daly for
the opportunity to work at the
pool. “It’s a like a big family
here at the Ontario pool. I
know just about all the kids
that come swimming here by
name.”
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living down here without any
cattle. Fortunately, she said,
the job at TVCC became avail-
able.
“I think what I like about
teacher at a college is I like the
interaction with the students,”
Larson, who has been teaching
at TVCC for 10 years, said.
She said she has new groups
of students in her classes every
quarter and that changes the
dynamics of the classroom,
even if she knows some of the
students from other classes,
which makes things interest-
ing.
“For me it has never gotten
boring,” she said.
Another thing she loves
about working at TVCC is her
role as Phi Theta Kappa advis-
er.
“That has been a very inter-
esting kind of journey for me,”
she said.
She said before former
English instructors Janet and
Don Asay took over the pro-
gram, TVCC really did not
have an active chapter. The
Asays, however, really em-
braced the program and
worked hard to make it an ac-
tive chapter. Toward the end of
their careers at TVCC, they re-
cruited Larson to get involved
and, eventually, they turned
the chapter over to her to carry
on in their absence.
Larson said she was reluctant
to assume that responsibility
initially because she is a single
mother and she was concerned
about the commitment in-
volved, but she found she loved
being PTK adviser as well.
“It adds another dimension
to your interaction with the
students,” Larson said of being
an adviser to any program.
“Rather than just classroom in-
structor, it’s definitely a
teacher-student relationship.”
As opposed to her other stu-
dents, she spends a lot of time
outside of school with the PTK
members, working with them
on projects and taking them to
competitions and conferences.
“It has really given me an op-
portunity to interact with the
students on a whole different
level,” Larson said, she said be-
cause of the time spent togeth-
er, she knows many of their
spouses and children, and they
know her more, as well. “The
payoff is huge because it gives
me a connection with that
group of students.”
Larson’s work in the class-
room is very important to her
as well.
She said it is important for
her to respect the students and
for them to accord her the
same. She said it is also very
important for her to learn
their names and put humor in-
to each of her classrooms.
“But it’s very important to
me to make the content chal-
lenging,” Larson added. “I nev-
er want the kids to feel short-
changed when they leave. I feel
like I hold them to standards
that they would encounter at a
four-year college, and I really
am very interested in what
they do after graduation.”
Larson said she stays in
touch with many students
through Facebook, which she
said allows her to watch them
as they advance in their careers
or educations. She said it
makes her feel good to see
them graduate and go on to be
successful.
And while she might not
have always felt this way,
Larson said she feels like she
made the right choice in her ca-
reer.
“I do think teaching is the
right fit,” she said. “I really love
it. I don’t think I could give it
up now.”
She also said, while the west-
ern Treasure Valley is a bit too
hot compared with Seattle,
where she lived through her
older teen years, she is glad she
stayed in the area.
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CHERISE KAECHELEARGUS OBSERVER
PAYETTEAs the Payette County
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what was once a disorganized
mess of historical artifacts into
a comprehensive museum
where families can research
their genealogy and local resi-
dents can get a small glimpse of
their town’s past.
Curtis said she never thought
she would work at a museum
before and admits she was
merely “semi-interested” in his-
tory at the time she was offered
the job. She has turned the mu-
seum around, however, for the
enjoyment of local residents
and tourists passing through.
Curtis was born in 1940 at
Mrs. Blanchard’s Nursing
Home in Payette, situated on
Center Street. During that
time, it was both a nursing and
a birthing home.
When Curtis was a couple of
years old, the family moved
from Payette to Sweet, Idaho,
where they owned a ranch. She
lived there until she was 19.
“At that period of time,
women didn’t have as many op-
tions as they do now,” Curtis
said of choosing a career.
“Beautician, school teacher,
secretary or nurse is all that we
really had to choose from. I
wasn’t into the health thing. I
chose to go to beauty school,
and it served me well for a lot
of years.”
She said going to beauty
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design and business.
After graduating from beau-
ty school, Curtis came back to
Payette. Her family first moved
to Payette in 1889.
Curtis married a man in the
Navy after getting out of
school and the two moved
around throughout his time in
the military. She has lived in
and out of the Payette area her
entire life, however.
After Curtis got divorced,
she decided to go back to beau-
ty school and catch up. During
her married years, she worked
as a house wife.
At the time she was going
back to school beauticians
weren’t necessary, Curtis said.
“So they sent me to Boise
State University’s business
school,” she said.
After school she went to
work for an advertising compa-
ny.
During this time, she remar-
ried her husband.
“I’m not too bright, what can
I say?” Curtis said.
She soon found herself going
into the newspaper industry.
She was a newspaper photog-
rapher for 25 years working at
various newspapers in
Wyoming, Oregon, Arizona
and Idaho, including the
Independent-Enterprise and
the Argus Observer.
“You get kind of burnt out af-
ter you do it for 100 years,” she
said of photography, adding,
however, with the technology
age and the use of digital cam-
eras, she has been getting back
into the habit of taking photos.
After she left photography, a
local group asked her to work
at the museum.
“I don’t have any clue who
asked me,” she said. “To be
honest, it was sort of when the
group who started this was get-
ting older. There’s something
that happened and a new
group took over. They basically
asked me to run the museum.”
She has now been running
the museum for 12 years.
In the beginning, Curtis said
it was the design aspect that in-
terested her in the job more
than the history. She said she
has grown steadily more inter-
ested in history but still enjoys
putting together the exhibits
and telling the artifacts’ stories.
One very large project Curtis
has undertaken is logging
every single item in the muse-
um into a computer program
that will have a picture of the
item, who it’s from, the meas-
urements, the condition it ar-
rived in, where the item is sit-
uated, if it has been loaned to
anyone and when it was at the
museum.
Three to four people are
working on this project, and
Curtis joked it will probably
not be completed during her
lifetime. The museum has
eight rooms completely full
with artifacts, storage rooms
and the two main rooms with
the exhibits. It’s a daunting
task to complete, but Curtis
knows, once it is finished, it
will make everyone’s lives a lot
easier.
Many people come to Curtis
for information about their ge-
nealogy as well as research top-
ics. When Curtis first began
working at the museum she
went through the numerous
file cabinets and read every
document there was.
“Not that I retained the infor-
mation, but I did read it,” she
said laughing.
She then organized the docu-
ments and photos and now has
a system she understands and
generally knows where most
things are situated, including
what’s in the storage rooms.
If someone does come in
with a research project, Curtis
can generally remember if she
has the information for which
they’re looking.
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to display, she said the inspira-
tions usually come at 2 a.m.
“I try to be put things togeth-
er that make sense. I was
watching a program that fo-
cused on a man who had 2,000
toasters,” she said.
Curtis said she knew she had
several toasters in storage, and
she brought them out and put
them on display, showing the
way the toasters work with
fake bread.
“If the displays don’t make
sense, then guests won’t look at
them,” she said. “I do my best
to tell stories out of them.”
Curtis has also sewn period
dresses to go on the man-
nequins in the display cases.
Her mother was a seam-
stress, and Curtis said she
hardly ever received new store-
bought clothes and doesn’t
generally enjoy sewing. She
sewed several dresses and
aprons in the downstairs dis-
play case, however, to give a
more accurate representation
of the time period.
Curtis gets to meet lots of
new people and learn a lot of
different things working at the
museum. No day is the same,
she said.
“It never occurred to me that
I’d be working at a museum,
but, then again, I never thought
I’d work at a newspaper. Or
anything else. My life has been
‘oh, guess what you’re doing
this week’ most of the time,”
she said laughing.
On her day’s off, Curtis en-
joys gardening. She also enjoys
time with her friend, Winona
Scott, whom she has known
since she was 13 years old.
Recently the pair went to the
lavender festival in Emmett.
They also plan to travel around
Idaho, a place they have lived a
large part of their lives, and see
the sights and attractions
they’ve never enjoyed before.
Curtis has two sons, Alan,
48, and Daniel, 51. She will
soon be going to the
Smithsonian with her son
Alan, and although she wishes
she could skip Washington
D.C. and just enjoy the muse-
um, she is still anticipating the
trip Curtis said she plans on
staying in the Payette area
when she retires.
“After all, 90 percent of the
Riverside Cemetery are my rel-
atives,” she said.
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