Join The Trailhead Bicycles from 3-5pm at the Quigley Nordic Trails & Yurt on Sunday, February 9th. Fat Bike demos will be available from 3-3:30 and 4:30-5pm.. At 3:45pm our Fat Bike Fun Race will start! All participants MUST sign-up through our google form on our website: www.thetrailheadbicycles.com/events (demo bikes are available to reserve online as well). Fun prizes available for race participants and cheering spectators! We will have hot cocoa, s’mores, and a warming fire for all to enjoy!
Money 101 – Wealth Building Strategies For Everyday People
If you could learn some of the things that the Rockefellers have done and continue to do…. to not only build wealth but also protect themselves from taxes, would you want to know? Well….that is what our Money101 class is all about. Teaching the things that can help you build wealth, get your kids started young and protect yourself from taxes. Whether you’re a financial newbie or a money-savvy pro, this event is perfect for anyone looking to enhance their financial knowledge. Money 101 is led by Executive Vice President at Five Rings Financial, Kristina Messenger. During this workshop, we’ll cover a wide range of topics, including budgeting, saving, investing, and more. Our expert speakers will share practical tips and tricks to help you make the most of your hard-earned cash. Leave your wallets at home we are not going to ask you to buy anything. We know it is lunch time so we will provide food and drinks.
The Sage School Open House
On Wednesday, January 29th at 6 pm, The Sage School in Hailey will host an Open House at their Quigley Campus. This event provides prospective students, families, and interested community members the opportunity to learn about the school’s educational model while touring the school and meeting with teachers and current students.
Reframing Women’s Health and Aging with Jennifer Garrison
Please join us for an eye-opening conversation with Jennifer Garrison, PhD, a passionate and vocal advocate for healthy aging in women. Dr. Garrison is pioneering a global movement to advance and translate research science focused on how ovaries impact women’s health across their lives. Ovaries are the architects of health and the pacemaker for aging in female bodies. Women’s health has long been sidelined, garnering barely 10% of research dollars and 4% of biopharma investment while impacting over half the global population. A tiny fraction of that – less than 0.1% — has been applied to study ovarian aging, arguably the most important but simultaneously the most neglected topic affecting women’s health and wellbeing. While women outlive men by a few years on average, they also experience a disproportionately longer period of poor health because ovaries age faster than other tissues. Understanding this process is key to enhancing women’s healthspan. This isn’t about reproduction – it’s about revolutionizing how we understand and support women’s health at every age, from before puberty through the end of life. The tide is changing as women demand equality in biomedical research and healthcare. The Center for Healthy Aging in Women is an innovation hub …
Healing: Our Path to Mental Well-Being with Thomas Insel
The last four decades have seen unprecedented progress in the science of mental illness, yet we have seen little progress in outcomes. At a population level, morbidity and mortality are increasing, not decreasing, for those with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe mood and anxiety disorders and other mental health and substance misuse conditions. How to explain this gap between science and social impact? This dialogue with the Blaine County community will address the crisis of care, with five major problems contributing: capacity, engagement, quality, accountability, and equity. Remarkably, while there is no magic bullet (or molecular target), there are solutions for each of these problems. Technology will help. But we need high touch as well as high tech. Most of all, we need to shift our model from a narrow medical “sick care” approach to a broader recovery “health and well-being” approach, by addressing the 3 P’s: people, place, and purpose. The challenges of mental illness and addiction have medical elements, but the solutions will need to include social, environmental, and political efforts if we are to bend the curves for morbidity and mortality. Presented in partnership with the St. Luke’s Wood River Foundation and the Blaine County’s Mental Well-Being Initiative. Moderated by the …
Free Musical Documentary Screening at Liberty Theater
The Liberty Theater will be screening two documentaries shot in the building! John Marsh and Kelly Curtis, of Liberty Films, put together 2 amazing documentaries after filming events at the Liberty. The first event filmed took place on July 18th, 2024, as part of Liberty’s first concert series, “Rock the Liberty.” The Sheep Bridge Jumpers and Izzy Taylor were among the first bands to grace the stage after reopening. The second event filmed was the 5B Battle of the Bands, which took place November 14-16. John captured each band during their soundcheck and performance to obtain a well-rounded, behind-the-scenes look into the event.
The Light of a Hundred Fires: Chinese Experiences in Idaho’s Gold Rush Era
Chinese migrants were some of the first and most numerous participants in Idaho’s 19th century gold rushes. In mining communities across Idaho, Chinese residents often made up more than half of the local population and an even higher percentage of gold seekers. This presentation from Dr. Renae Campbell will focus on one such community, Southern Idaho’s Boise Basin, where a rich archaeological and historical record allows us to reconstruct what daily life was like for some of the thousands of Chinese individuals who, despite facing racial discrimination and an evolving array of exclusionary laws, established diverse lives and livelihoods during Idaho’s gold rush era. This program is part of the 2025 Winter Read. Renae Campbell is a historical archaeologist and the Director of the University of Idaho’s Asian American Comparative Collection (AACC), a non-profit facility dedicated to promoting research on Asian American heritage and material culture. Renae specializes in Chinese and Japanese diaspora archaeology, archaeologies of race and gender, and the history of the rural American West. In 2016, she created the Historical Japanese Ceramic Comparative Collection (www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/hjccc/), one of the first online resources for identifying archaeological Japanese ceramics. Her 2023 dissertation, The Once Bustling Basin: A Historical Archaeology of …
“Bitter Creek” with Teow Lim Goh
In September of 1885, the Chinese coal miners who were brought into Wyoming as strikebreakers were ambushed and driven out of the town of Rock Springs at gunpoint by white coal miners. Teow Lim Goh’s “Bitter Creek” revisits this dark episode—known today as the Rock Springs Massacre—revealing the stories beneath this violent, decade-long culmination of labor struggles and racial hostilities in the Union Pacific Coal Mines. Through the eyes of the struggling railroad workers, their families, and the corporation working them to the bone, Teow Lim Goh creates an ode to buried history that blends epic tradition with modern composition and astonishing empathy to ask the question, “What turns ordinary people into monsters?” This program is part of the 2025 Winter Read, a community-wide program. This year we’re reading “Four Treasures of the Sky,” by Jenny Tinghui Zhang, set in 19th century Idaho and whose main characters hear of the Rock Springs Massacre as they face their own threats of violence in the small mining town of Pierce. Books will be available for pre-order from Torrey House Press, which is publishing the book in May 2025. Teow Lim Goh is a poet and essayist who writes from the nexus of …
Hooked on Salmon: Protecting the Run
Join us for a panel of local students involved with the Youth Salmon Protectors (YSP), a program of the Idaho Conservation League working to build a coalition of young people across the Northwest dedicated to honoring tribal treaties, breaching the Lower Snake River dams, and saving wild salmon and steelhead. The panel will each share perspectives on Idaho’s salmon and take questions from the audience. Speakers will include students from Wood River High School and The Sage School: Leila Brickley, Fisher Hattula, Cora Ward, Sarah Leidecker, and Frances Camilli.
“Realm of Ice and Sky” with Buddy Levy
“Realm of Ice and Sky,” the newest book from award-winning author Buddy Levy, is the thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship—and the men who sacrificed everything to make history. From Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman who pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, to American explorer Dr. Frederick Cook who was the first to claim he made it to the North Pole in 1908, and Norwegian explorer extraordinaire Roald Amundsen who attempted to fly to the North Pole by airship, Levy’s newest book is a serial history of the aerial explorations to reach the summit of the Earth. Book signing to follow. Buddy Levy is an award-winning author known for his books on arctic history. His last book, “Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk,” won the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award and was a finalist for the 2023 Banff Mountain Book Competition. Levy is the author of more than ten books, including ”Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition,” and ”River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana’s Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon.” His books have been published in eight languages and won numerous awards. He lives in Idaho.