Back to the drawing board after unanimous opposition The Cascade City Council will reconsider rules for food trucks after widespread opposition to a proposed ordinance regulating all mobile food vendors in a public hearing on Monday. Rules based on a food truck ordinance in Ketchum were unanimously criticized by the 32 people who spoke in opposition at the hearing, which was attended by about 50 people packed into Cascade City Hall.
The realization of a lifelong dream washed over David Spangler as he chiseled chunks out of a giant clam shell made of snow in front of Toby’s Place in McCall. Spangler, 23, and friend Skyler Davis, 22, teamed up this year to carve their first snow sculpture for the 2023 McCall Winter Carnival, for which the theme is “Fairy Tales, Folk Tales and Tall Tales.” The sculpture, one of 24 entered for this year’s snow sculpture contest, was the result of watching Spangler’s father compete in the annual contest each year since 2000.
Lisa Whisnant was busy putting the “Mardi Gras” into the McCall Winter Carnival Mardi Gras Parade the last time she witnessed the parade march through downtown McCall in the mid-1990s. Whisnant and Dean Martens will see the fruits of their labors from 25 years ago when they lead the McCall Winter Carnival Mardi Gras Parade through downtown McCall on Saturday.
classic mass start for the U14 male category. Svea Eitel was second in the skate sprint and fourth in the classic mass start for the U10 female category.
An exploration plan submitted last June for a new gold mining project near Yellow Pine is not expected to have a “significant effect” on the environment, according to the Boise National Forest. Stallion Discoveries Corp.
Mike Dorris took off from the McCall airport with a bundle of mail bound for the backcountry for the last time last Thursday. His final delivery may be the end of a United States Postal Service route to Warren and several remote ranches on the South Fork of the Salmon River that started in the 1860s and has been serviced by airplane since the 1930s.
A small army keeps the ISDC running Kellee Hadley first volunteered at the Idaho Sled Dog Challenge in 2018, staying awake for 79 hours straight in what she called the hardest thing she has ever endured. Hadley, 47, of Cascade has volunteered in each iteration of the race since then and will manage about 50 volunteers at the Cascade checkpoint in this year’s race.
A plan to rezone land on Stibnite Street in McCall for use as employee housing by the Mc-Call-Donnelly School District was approved last week by the McCall City Council. Specific plans to build the housing will require a review before the McCall Area Planning and Zoning Commission.
Chamber gives up sponsorship after decade-plus The City of McCall will be responsible for putting on a July 4 fireworks display in McCall this summer, the McCall City Council decided last week. Council members directed city staff to begin organizing the show after the McCall Area Chamber of Commerce told the city in November that it would no longer sponsor the show.