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From SPOTLIGHT column on Nov. 11, 1992

The College of Southern Idaho also has some new student ambassadors to serve as campus hosts and provide tours and services for the community and for fellow students. New ambassadors are Ruby Cline of Bliss; Trulee Millington of Buhl; Thomas Thompson of Burley; Lark Baker of Filer; Alan Rowe of Gooding; Travis Larson and Cindy Bateman of Jerome; Desiree Bastian, Anne Martin, Jenny Teske and Miranda Urie of Kimberly and Monty Arrossa of Shoshone.

Twin Falls members are Jennett Bell, Laura Chase, Kathee Fil, Ebera Larkin, Sophie Martinez, Loni Neerdaels, Vicki J. Ross, Clover Skeen and Tami Sudik. Others selected include Heather Atkinson, Becky Hepworth, Mark Schmidt, Becky Slattner and Lisa Velasquez of Caldwell and Bridgette Bath and Robert Johns of Elko, Nev.

From SPOTLIGHT column on Dec. 20, 1992

… Among students recently initiated into the College of Southern Idaho chapter of Phi Theta Kappa national academic honor society are Natalia Mikhylova, Valorie Johnson, Tiffany Gardner, Lisa Hamilton, Deiorora (Dee) Burgess and Kimberly Schoenauer of Twin Falls; Teresa Christensen and Mayrene Stewart of Kimberly; Melody Lester, Laurel Allen, Aileen Goetsch, Anna (Pepper) Stowe, Angela Coleman and Leann Amend of Jerome; Nancy Wilson and Alan Rowe of Gooding, Myra Miller of Hansen, Milissa Horst and Trish Wetstein of Buhl, Patricia Winther of Hagerman, Ruby Boone of Wendell and Patricia Romero of Filer andSheila Pollock of Hailey …

May 7, 1993

TWIN FALLS - A record number of 663 students will be honored at commencement exercises set for 8 p.m. tonight at the College of Southern Idaho gymnasium. Graduates include 377 academic students (384 in 1992) and 286 vocational students (254 in 1992).  Graduates are listed by county and city in the Magic Valley, followed by city outside the Magic Valley, out-of-state students and foreign students.

TWIN FALLS COUNTY

… Sandra Mattison, Brandon Morrison, David Nebel, Scott Nelson, Teresa Olson, Jayme Paulson, Heidi Prindle, Alan Rowe, Clover Skeen, Julie Welker, Emily Youngman, Marcia Ames, Lois Anderson, …

Jan. 1, 1994

TWIN FALLS - This year's Freeze on Skis' extravaganza will benefit the Wishing Star Foundation and Twin Falls County Sheriff's Search and Rescue team.

The seventh annual wild water-skiing event sponsored by the Jaycees will begin at noon and last until about 2:30 p.m. today at Shoshone Falls.

People are welcome to come and watch some 30 to 40 participants skiing, knee-boarding and shivering in frigid waters above the falls. There will also be a bathing suit competition.

There is no fee for spectators, but people are welcome to leave donations at a yellow tent at the falls, event Chairwoman Dawn Rowe said.

Search and rescue is a non-profit organization made up of 35 volunteers who donate their time, equipment and resources in accident rescue operations. The money would help pay for search and rescue equipment such as radios.

The Wishing Star Foundation sends children who have life-threatening diseases on trips to Disneyland or fulfills their wishes in other ways.

Also "Mister Clown" of Twin Falls will be at the event selling balloons for 50 cents or painting faces for $1.

Item published Oct. 21, 1994

TWIN FALLS - Need a ride to the polling place? The Magic Valley Jaycees want to help.

On Nov. 8 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., they'll be driving voters to the voting booths.

But they'd like those who need a ride to call and reserve a spot by Nov. 4. The Jaycees will gladly pick up voters at their home - or any other location - and return them after they cast their ballot.

For more information, please call Dawn Rowe at The Times-News, 733-0931, ext. 207, to reserve a ride.

Dec. 30, 1994

The eighth annual Freeze on Skis will be held Sunday at noon at Shoshone Falls, with water-skiers who have collected pledges skiing for charity. Spectators are welcome.

TWIN FALLS -- Brien Godfrey, a 31-year-old banker from Spokane, Wash., was having breakfast in a coffee shop in Bliss one frigid January morning in 1990 when he came across the oddest thing in the newspaper.   It was a photograph of a bunch of fools water-skiing on the ice-fringed Snake River near Shoshone Falls. On New Year's Day.

"I thought, `I gotta find out more about this.' "

Godfrey was in the Magic Valley to interview for a job with First Security Bank. He got the position, but he couldn't find the skiers -- not until the day after Christmas that year.

"I finally got an entry blank for Freeze on Skis (the Magic Valley Jaycees` annual New Year's Day water-skiing fund-raiser for charity), and I decided just for fun to see how many pledges I could raise," he said. "It turned out I was the second one on the water."

In seven years, Freeze on Skis has collected about $35,000 for various charities, including $6,500 last Jan. 1. Under the rules, skiers and knee-boarders gather sponsors, and sponsors pay off if the skiers show up and ski.

"I kind of like it because not many people expect bankers to go in for this sort of thing," said Godfrey, now 35 and a commercial loan officer for First Security.

About 30 participants have signed up for Sunday's eighth annual Freeze, according to the event's, co-coordinator, Dawn Rowe, and one raised $4,000 in pledges. The event begins at noon, with proceeds to go to Camp Rainbow Gold, a facility for Idaho kids suffering from cancer, and the Twin Falls County Search and Rescue.

Spectators are welcome, and this year this will be vendors selling coffee and other hot drinks.

Despite the season, the weather has been brutal only twice in Freeze's tenure -- in 1991, when bitter cold forced the postponement  of the event from Jan. 1 to Jan. 13, and in 1993, the snowiest winter in a half-century.

"I haven't had any trouble out on the water, and I haven't fallen yet," Godfrey said. "I hope I never do, because the water's cold.

Typically less than 40 degrees on New Year's Day, the Snake River is chilly enough to freeze an unprotected bather in less than two minutes.

"I just wear a bathing suit and a wet suit," Godfrey said. "It keeps you just as dry in the winter as it does in the summer."

Many skiers look forward to a plunge into the hot-tub that sits by the riverside, but not Godfrey.

"The hot water makes your feet feel like they've swollen up to five times their original size," he said. "And then you don't want to get out."

March 12, 1995

TUTTLE - It took a world-class runner to wrest the St. Patrick's Day run title from Twin Falls racer Mike Nielsen.

Nielsen, 29, has owned the race at Malad Gorge State Park for the last two years, but Boise runner Rich Harris made him settle for second in the 5.5-mile competition Saturday.

Harris, who owns a running equipment store with his brother in the state capital, still claims the 10th fastest mile in U.S. history at 3:51.

Despite early-morning rain and ominous skies, the day was perfect for running, with cool temperatures and an occasional sprinkle that grew into a drizzle by the end of the run.

The damp weather didn't keep runners and walkers away, however. The 496 participants who attended the 5th-annual race easily broke the old record of 374 set last year.

5.5 mile run men's overall winners: Rich Haris 28:40, Mike Nielsen 29:11, Mark Murdock 29:36, 16-19: Brett Kleffner 40:01; 20-29: Mervel McDonald 31:19, Alan Rowe 36:03, Geoffrey Eiger 36:51; 30-39: Dan Graber 26:54, Marty Pawelek 30:54, David Ward 32:33; 40-49: Tom Montgomery 32:06, Dick Anderson 32:20, Scott Brown 32:33; 50-59: Dave Charlebois 36:04, Charlen Ferguson 36:45, Ron Myers 37:44; 60-69: Charlie White 49:40; 70-79: John Manning 48:36.

From TRADEWINDS Aug. 20, 1995

TWIN FALLS - Kim Patterson, after 17 years in advertising sales for the newspaper, is the new customer service manager for The Times-News. Patterson, when not indulging her love for travel, lives in Twin Falls with her husband and two daughters.

Dawn Rowe, an advertising sales representative for the paper for more than three years, will be part of a transition team in Oceanside, Calif., as Howard Publications merges two of its newspapers. Rowe will transfer from The Times-News to the advertising department of the "Blade Citizen."