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Camas lilies prepare for the show! ❦ May 11, A.D. 2016: The Tooth, the Whole Tooth, and Nothing But the Tooth!!!

Centennial Marsh! Photos by Jeff Ralph

Camas Lily Display Begins! ing out! The annual bloom of Camas lilies is underway, with full carpets reported appearing in the highland valley meadows at the upper end of the Camas Prairie. As of last weekend, the Centennial Marsh lilies were making a

more restrained and subtle appearance. If you’re a Facebook fan, check out the Camas Prairie Centennial Marsh Wildlife Management Area page, with bird and bloom photos by Judy Dake-Finder and Joel McMillin! ❦

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Report #1: CCHS track! Mushers find gold! Northside Conference Meet! Boys 4th! Girls 3rd! (tie) At Carey last Wednesday, Musher sisters Laken Wolf and Keely Wolf were, uh, conspicuous in the winners’ circle, laying down Conference aces every time they stepped to the mark. Scores are from athletic.net!

Women 800 Meters

1. Keely Wolf Long Jump

1. Laken Wolf 10. Maddie Bell

100 Meters 1. Laken Wolf

1600 Meters 1. Keely Wolf

Triple Jump 1. Laken Wolf

200 Meters 1. Laken Wolf

Men 800 Meters

4. Austin Burns 400 Meters

2. Erick Peterson 4. Nikki Kepford 7. Remington Kramer

200 Meters 5. Nikki Kepford 10. Erik Robles

110 Meter High Hurdles 1. Nik Roussos

4x400 Meter Relay 1. Camas: Roussos, Robles, Kepford, Peterson

High Jump 4. Eric Robles

Triple Jump 4. Nikki Kepford

Discus 1. Erick Peterson 3. KC Hainline 16. Remington Kramer

300 Meter Hurdles 3. Nik Roussos

Long Jump 2. Austin Burns

Shotput 3. KC Hainline

Report #2: More track! Mushers score at last Friday’s Meet of Champions in Twin Falls! 400 Meters

4. Erick Peterson 110 Meter High Hurdles

4. Nik Roussos 4x400 Meter Relay

2. Camas: Roussos, Robles, Kepford, Peterson

Discus 8. Erick Peterson 15. KC Hainline

High Jump 9. Eric Robles

Triple Jump 7. Austin Burns 11. Nikki Kepford

300 Meter Hurdles 9. Nik Roussos

800 Meters 8. Austin Burns

Long Jump 8. Austin Burns 14. Nikki Kepford

Tiny Bulletin: Arbor Day Celebration May 14! Tree planting party Saturday at Medical Center Shelterbelt at the Fairfield Clinic! Free seedlings! Stuff for kids! Spruce raffle! Thanks, Conservation District! Hey, no more room to write stuff in this paper! ❦


Primary Election Tuesday! Two local offices are contested! Three aspiring noobs line up to replace two retiring commission veterans! Ahh, youth! For Camas County, this election year means selection of two fresh new county commissioners! Long-time commissioners Ron Chapman and Ken Backstrom have decided to lift their weary bottoms off the flinty pew of county executive/legislative power to make room, beginning next January, for new occupants! A sole candidate -– Travis Kramer, contending on the Republican side of the ballot – has signed up for contention for Backstrom’s District 3 seat. With no other party offering a candidate, Kramer’s path to the general election and 2017 inauguration seems clear. For the District 2 seat being vacated by Chapman, two contenders have entered the primary lists, both on the Republican ballot. These are Marshall Ralph and Monte Cangiamilla. (Disclosure: Ralph is the publisher and editor of The Weekly Beaver.) No other party candidates have filed for the race, so the Tuesday primary outcome is likely to tell the District 2 tale. The other contested local race is for Precinct 1 Republican Committeeman: Tyler Ballard vs. Tracey Martin. ❦

Fresh fish for the County government! A gentle reminder about the County Commissioner candidates on Tuesday’s ballots!

Contested! Marshall Ralph vs. Monte Congiamilla, District 2

2017: A youthful commission. Sort of.

Uncontested! Travis Kramer, District 3

The three county commission candidates on the ballots for Tuesday’s primary are all political novices. An interesting outcome of the 2016 elections will be the seating, in January 2017, of a board younger in terms of total years of board service than it’s been in recent decades. Current Chairwoman Barbara McMurdo, now midway in her second term, will provide the keel of experience for the board empaneled in 2017.

Behind Door #1 is Marshall Ralph, the publisher of The Weekly Beaver and a veteran of Camas P&Z service for more than 10 years. He retired from POWER Engineers in 2014.

Monte Congiamilla is a longtime Fairfield resident, former Camas fire chief, and former Main Street business owner. He works and works and works at High Country Fusion.

Travis Kramer is a prominent Camas rancher and farmer, a key figure in the multigenerational Kramer livestock and school athletic booster dynasty based south of Highway 20.


Job Opening! The Camas County Clerk’s office is accepting applications for a full-time Deputy Clerk to perform a variety of tasks pertaining to the operation of Court Services/Auditor/ Recorder. Must be proficient in Microsoft Word. The position office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday thru Friday. Wage and Benefits will depend on experience. Applications and a full job description are available at the Camas County Courthouse or on the County Website: camascounty.id.gov. Please send resumes to Camas County Clerk, P.O. Box 430, Fairfield, ID 83327. ■ ■ ■

Magic Reservoir has a little water in it! 88%! Hüge H2O!

Magic Reservoir Monday! North end, looking southward! Look at that stuff! Hot Springs landing is at left! Look! The earth is curved! Photo by Winston Ellis!

It’s official! The road to Mormon Reservoir is open! Two new bridges bring Camas County together again! The Golden Spans are complete!

s of 5 p.m. or so yesterday evening, the county access to Mormon Reservoir is officially reopened, after something like three years of closure for replacement of two bridges on the approach road: one over Camas Creek (left photo) and another over the spillway canal (right). The replacement project required

inspired pennypinching by County Road and Bridge staff, who did much of the work. In the left photo, Al Stampke is applying the final touches to the Camas Creek bridge roadway, while fresh snow shows on the Soldier Peaks. ❦

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Voting Matters!!!! A tenderfoot’s guide to election behavior in Camas County!!! The polling places on Tuesday will be supplied with four stacks of ballots: a non-partisan judicial ballot, a Constitution Party ballot, a Democratic Party ballot, and a Republican Party ballot. Each voter can get the judicial ballot and one of the other three ballots. The Democratic and Constitution parties aren’t fussy about who uses their ballots, but the Republican Party got kind of funny about it in 2011 or so. So voters who want to vote on a Republican ballot must be affiliated already or opt to affiliate at the polling place on Tuesday. This on-the-spot affiliation is not a terminal condition; the voter can un-affiliate at any time afterward. All ballots contain room for write-ins, so feel free to express your wackiest desires! The judicial ballot has one contested race, the Constitution Party has one contest (Pro-Life vs. Ray Writz, for U.S. Senator!), and the Republican Party has two contests: one for Precinct 1 Committeeman, and another for County Commission District 2! Polls are open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Polling places: Precinct 1 at the Legion Hall, and Precinct 2 at the Senior Center! ■

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