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On Tuesday, May 27, Democratic voters will be faced with the curious task of selecting a presidential nominee from a field of candidates from which the party already chose in Feb. 5 caucus proceedings.
At the Blaine County Caucus, held at the Community Campus in Hailey, a record crowd chose to send 10 delegates for Sen. Barak Obama and one for Sen. Hillary Clinton to the state convention in Boise in June. At that convention delegates will be selected to send to the national convention in Denver in August.
But, still, the Democratic primary ballot includes Clinton, Obama and Keith Russell Judd, a Beaumont, Texas, prison inmate who won’t get out until 2013.
Asked how a federal prisoner could qualify for the ballot, Idaho Secretary of State Ben Ysursa told the press, "We got conned." The state recently eliminated the requirement for candidates to gather signatures. Now they only need to fill out a form and pay a $1,000 fee. According to the Spokane Spokesman-Review, Keith Judd sent forms and checks to 14 states, but only Idaho put his name on the ballot.
The issue remains, however, that Democrats have already selected delegates to represent their preferred presidential candidates, and those choices were made in caucuses throughout the state in February.
"It’s true that the decision was made already, that during the caucus Idahoans decided which delegates to send to the state convention," said Idaho Democratic Party Southern Field Director Randy Johnson.
Idaho Democratic Party Executive Director Jim Hansen said that because the state is holding a primary election anyway "it has always been the case that we just keep them on the ballot."
"It doesn’t influence the delegate selection process" at the state convention, he said. "It’s possible that it would influence the superdelegates, but it can’t influence the delegates that were selected at the caucuses."

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buffalo ribeye from the Medicine Lodge Ranch in Idaho as well as a red trout sandwich made with apple-wood smoked bacon from Utah’s Wasatch Meats.
“Usually when you think of stadium food, it’s corn dogs or hot dogs,” said Bobby Ginn, executive director of the Utah Youth Soccer Association, who attended the event. “This is elaborate, top of the line.”
Real owner and president David Checketts said though the stadium is being built for soccer, food is a critical part of the experience.
“Right next to team performance, people ask, ‘How’s the food?’ ” he said.
The Salt Lake stadium joins Levy’s growing list of sports stadium clients - Wrigley Field in Chicago, Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Churchill Down (site of the Kentucky Derby), and the National Tennis Center in New York, home of the U.S. Open.
The company also owns more than 100 restaurants, including Bistro Toujours, an upscale French restaurant at the Chateau at Silver Lake Resort in Park City.
The only thing missing from Monday’s preview was prices. Checketts said food costs have not been finalized, but he promised to keep them affordable. ”We don’t want families to feel like they have to get a second mortgage to eat at the game.”
One new trend at sports stadiums is an all-you-can eat ticket where fans pay one price for their seat and a wristband that allows them to get all the food they want at a special concession stand.
Checketts said that’s not planned in Salt Lake City, but he has implemented a free concessions day for the St. Louis Blues, the National Hockey League team he owns. On that day last year, the 20,000-seat stadium gave away 47,000 hot dogs and 29,000 chicken fingers alone.
”I envision something similar here,” he said.
At the concession stand:

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Word of Nevada's earthquake brings back memories for one Mackay native who lived through the largest earthquake ever recorded in Idaho.
Gene Gabert, who was the water master for the Lost River Valley in October 1983, was at the gate house of the Mackay Reservoir checking on the dam.
” I got to the top and noticed the rocks coming down close to me,” said Gabert.
Just as he was climbing the ladder to leave, the hills started sliding all around him.
“I looked up and a big rock was coming off the top of the mountain. I could see it bouncing. I went to the bottom of the ladder and rocks landed at the top of the ladder, and then it was over in about a minute,” said Gabert.
Within that minute, the Lost River Valley changed forever.
“I went back to town and things were a mess,” he said.
The town of Mackay was in shambles, bricks had crumbled off the sides of buildings, city hall and several schools were destroyed.
One woman suffered a leg injury after bricks came crashing down on her car.
Sink holes covered the ground and water bubbled up from previously non existent springs.
The ground was shattered by the quake, creating a permanent rift at the base of Mt. Borah.
“I thought about it a lot, it still bothers me right now looking at this book,” said Connie Gabert.
Connie says Gene could have easily been killed that day.
“I feel the Lord saved him for me,” she said.
The Gaberts have a bit of advice from Idaho for those in Nevada.
“If you're riding out an earthquake, dig in your spurs and hang on,” they said.
The Borah Peak Quake caused an estimated $12.5 million in damage in the Challis-Mackay area. Within the region most affected by the quake, 11 commercial buildings and 39 private houses sustained major damage, and 200 houses sustained minor to moderate damage.

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