{"id":20421,"date":"2024-01-24T00:43:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T07:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=20421"},"modified":"2024-01-22T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T20:47:00","slug":"monica-and-bobs-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/24\/monica-and-bobs-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Monica and Bob\u2019s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY MONICA CARRILLO & BOB KNOEBEL<\/em><\/p>\n

OUR VOICE COUNTS<\/strong>
\nWorking at the Twin Falls Times-News has not only allowed me to cover Twin Falls and surrounding counties, but also the place I call home \u2014 Blaine County.
\nHere is a summary of my stories from 2023 in the Wood River Valley:<\/p>\n

Wood River Valley resident Bob Knoebel opened his home to sheepherders after spotting them sleeping near a herd of 2,000 sheep. \u201cI would meet them each morning at their campsites with breakfast from McDonald\u2019s, and then follow behind them in my car, jumping out for photos when possible,\u201d Knoebel told the Times-News. Read more about this story at https:\/\/magicvalley.com\/news\/local\/2023-recap-sheepherders-mental-health-stigmas-and-students-leading-the-community\/article_d644fbe2-a412-11ee-b45e-9758555aba64.html<\/a>
\nImmigration attorney Nicole Derden opened a law firm on December 7 in Hailey after doing a survey that showed a large amount of immigration clientele are traveling from Blaine County and the Magic Valley areas. \u201cIt\u2019s been 100% immigration law since 2004,\u201d Derden told the Times-News. \u201cIf you have a notice of deportation, I know exactly how those processes work in Idaho.\u201d Read more at https:\/\/magicvalley.com\/news\/meridian-immigration-attorney-opens-law-firm-in-hailey\/article_c00a84ba-8d46-11ee-a318-37a4162254c4.html<\/a>
\nThe Lee Pesky Learning Center, a nonprofit organization that helps kids with learning differences, expanded its literacy programming services this fall to English learners in Blaine County after a surge of Hispanic residents into the area over the past couple of years. The Lee Pesky Learning Center started the literacy pods with eight students in the summer of 2020. Read more here: https:\/\/magicvalley.com\/news\/teaching-literacy-lee-pesky-learning-center-boosts-english-learning-in-blaine-county\/article_04499ee6-824c-11ee-bc42-ef01b410bd86.html<\/a><\/p>\n

NUESTRA VOZ CUENTA
\nTitular: Resumen de 2023: pastores de borregos, estigmas de salud mental y estudiantes que lideran la comunidad
\nTrabajar en el Times-News no s\u00f3lo me ha permitido cubrir Twin Falls y los condados circundantes, sino tambi\u00e9n el lugar en que yo crec\u00ed: el condado de Blaine.
\nAqu\u00ed hay un resumen de mis historias de 2023 en Wood River Valley:<\/p>\n

Residente de Wood River Valley, Bob Knoebel, abri\u00f3 su casa a los pastores despu\u00e9s de verlos durmiendo cerca de un reba\u00f1o de 2.000 ovejas.\u201dMe reun\u00eda con ellos cada ma\u00f1ana en sus campamentos con el desayuno de McDonald\u2019s y luego los segu\u00eda en mi auto, saltando para tomar fotos cuando era posible\u201d, dijo Knoebel al Times-News.Lea m\u00e1s sobre esta historia: https:\/\/magicvalley.com\/news\/local\/2023-recap-sheepherders-mental-health-stigmas-and-students-leading-the-community\/article_d644fbe2-a412-11ee-b45e-9758555aba64.html<\/a>
\nLa abogada de inmigraci\u00f3n Nicole Derden abrir\u00e1 un bufete de abogados el 7 de diciembre en Hailey despu\u00e9s de realizar una encuesta que mostr\u00f3 que una gran cantidad de clientes inmigrantes viajan desde el condado de Blaine y las \u00e1reas de Magic Valley.\u201dHa sido una ley de inmigraci\u00f3n 100% desde 2004\u201d, dijo Derden al Times-News. \u201cSi tienes una notificaci\u00f3n de deportaci\u00f3n, s\u00e9 exactamente c\u00f3mo funcionan esos procesos en Idaho\u201d. Lea mas aqui: https:\/\/magicvalley.com\/news\/meridian-immigration-attorney-opens-law-firm-in-hailey\/article_c00a84ba-8d46-11ee-a318-37a4162254c4.html<\/a>
\nEl Lee Pesky Learning Center, una organizaci\u00f3n sin fines de lucro que ayuda a ni\u00f1os con dificultades de aprendizaje, ampli\u00f3 sus servicios de programaci\u00f3n de alfabetizaci\u00f3n este oto\u00f1o a estudiantes de ingl\u00e9s en el condado de Blaine despu\u00e9s de un gran aumento de residentes hispanos en el \u00e1rea durante los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os.El Centro de Aprendizaje Lee Pesky inici\u00f3 los grupos de alfabetizaci\u00f3n con ocho estudiantes en el verano de 2020. Lea m\u00e1s aqu\u00ed: https:\/\/magicvalley.com\/news\/teaching-literacy-lee-pesky-learning-center-boosts-english-learning-in-blaine-county\/article_04499ee6-824c-11ee-bc42-ef01b410bd86.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY MONICA CARRILLO & BOB KNOEBEL OUR VOICE COUNTS Working at the Twin Falls Times-News has not only allowed me to cover Twin Falls and surrounding counties, but also the place I call home \u2014 Blaine County. Here is a summary of my stories from 2023 in the Wood River Valley: Wood River Valley resident […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nuestra-voz-cuenta","8":"category-sponsored"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20423,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20421\/revisions\/20423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}