Community

Friends of the Payette Avalanche Center will host a State of the Snowpack event today from 6 to 8 p.m.

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Kathy Malone has no trouble hauling firewood and shoveling snow even as she approaches her 78th birthday.Malone is among 12 members of a senior exercise class at Legend CrossFit in McCall that aims to helps elderly people gain and retain muscles used for everyday life.“It absolutely changed my life,” said Malone, 77.

The McCall Community Center, formerly called the McCall Senior Center, has hired a new executive director, Laura Holmes, and plans big changes for serving the McCall community in the coming year starting with new programs scheduled in February.Every Tuesday and Thursday starting on Feb.

Salmon River Brewery will host the Friends of the Payette Avalanche Center for an event tomorrow from 5 p.m.

Four year old Moose Noakes is the Donnelly Public Library Top Patron for the year for 2023.

The free Winter Access Day scheduled for Saturday at Hasbrouck Ranch Nordic Trail south of Cascade has been canceled due to lack of snow.Visitors will still have free access to any of the open park units within Lake Cascade State Park on Saturday.The cancellation is solely in regards to the event which would have included Nordic ski and snowshoe gear demos held that day as well as drawings and other recreational opportunities.

Cascade artist Troy Huckaby has noticed there are not many electric vehicles driving Cascade’s streets, so he decided to add one to the mix for this year’s Cascade Art Walk.Huckaby’s snow globe piece, called “What happens in the mountains, stays in the mountains, until spring…or maybe July,” depicts a Tesla electric vehicle stuck in a snowbank as a giant yeti looms overhead.The snow globe is among nine others lining Main Street (Idaho 55) through Cascade as part of the public art fundraiser through the Cascade Cultural Arts Center.An online auction for the snow globes is open through Feb.