by Dianna Troyer | Mar 1, 2012 | Our People
Decisions. Decisions. For Clare Gill, there are so many records in her vast music collection (she estimates more than 5,000) and so little time to dance to them all. Still, the 87-year-old gives it her best shot several times a week between dancing, teaching and...
by Dianna Troyer | Feb 1, 2012 | Features
Every Tuesday night, a musical muse tugs members of the Snake River Flats, a group of singers who have been entertaining audiences for more than four decades, to Harmony Hall in Rupert. “Music is so inspiring like nothing else,” says Jim Rodgers, a retired farmer who...
by Dianna Troyer | Oct 1, 2011 | Our People
Like sentinels, stacks of her “first-and-last” book stand in Jaylynne Twiss’ home office. Surrounding her, they remind the Paul resident of traveling the past 30 years as a popular motivational speaker, a path she never planned to navigate. “When I started, I thought,...
by Dianna Troyer | Oct 1, 2011 | Our People
Squatting and glassing a “honey hole” somewhere in southeastern Idaho, hunting guide Ken Jafek, 75, is patience personified. “If I squatted like you do for even five minutes, I couldn’t stand up again,” quips Paul Stewart of Longview, Wash., a longtime client....
by Dianna Troyer | Jul 1, 2011 | Our People
Joe Phillips adjusts his helmet, grips the steering wheel of his John Deere riding lawn mower dubbed “Why Not,” revs its 50-horsepower engine, and leans forward in anticipation of the Christmas tree starting light’s signal. Seeing green, he roars down the track in the...
