The Gooding County Fair will run from August 16th - 19th, 2023. This year's theme is "It's A Party!".

The Main Street parade will be August 16th beginning at 5:30 pm.

The Rodeo nights will begin August 16th @ 8:00 pm and will conclude on August 19th. Tickets are selling fast. Tickets can be purchased online at www.goodingprorodeo.com.

August 18th will be the Gooding Pro Rodeo Tough Enough to Wear Pink Luncheon. Special guest speaker will be Micha Fink. Micah is a Navy Seal Combat Veteran and founder of Heroes and Horses. All proceeds stay local and benefit North Canyon Network of Care Mammography and Community Breast Cancer Fund.

Let's not forget about the 4-H and FFA showmanship and quality classes that will be going on! These kids have worked hard to prepare for this week. Shows begin Monday, August 14th. The Animal Market Sale will be August 19th at 10:00 am in the beef barn.

Come support your local 4-H & FFA kids. They have worked hard all summer raising their livestock. This is their time to shine!

Rowdy Robinson is a sweet, very special, 5 year old that lives in our community. Rowdy was born with a GJA1 gene mutation that is causing an unknown type of hypomyelinating leukodystrophy and has progressed to global cerebral atrophy (Rowdy's brain is disappearing). This has caused Rowdy to be in a wheelchair, nonverbal, have hard to-treat- epilepsy, spastic paraparesis, dysautonomia, hearing loss, etc. Rowdy has struggled with his health since an early age, but it wasn't until shortly after Rowdy's 1st birthday that he had a seizure that lasted over an hour that prompted doctors to listen to his parents' concerns.

Rowdy lives with and is being cared for by his mom, Jessica, and his 7 year old sister, Paisley. Rowdy's father, Jesse, tragically passed away in March 2022.

Despite Rowdy's struggles, he always has a smile on his face! He loves music, especially country. Rowdy loves being outside, going to school, being around family and friends, swimming, flags, and staying busy. Rowdy brings so much joy to everyone's lives and lights up any room he enters.

If you are unable to enter the event to help Rowdy and his family, donations are welcome.

Everyone is welcome!

Tickets can be purchased at the Gooding County Museum on Fridays and Saturdays.

Congratulations to Melissa and Roman Garza on purchasing Steve's Quick Service now Roman's Service Station! They will be doing all of the same services as Steve's does now.

They are currently looking to hire a mechanic and an oil/tire tech. If you are interested or know someone who may be interested call Roman at (208) 421-6283 or pick up an application at the station.

Congratulations to the City of Gooding and the Gooding Chamber of Commerce for the full sponsorship of their Operation Facelift project! Thank you to Glanbia Nutritionals for sponsoring this project and Tom Woodland for his generous donation as well. Great things happen when the community comes together. The City crews, with the help of Tom Woodland and the Gooding Chamber of Commerce, will be putting together hanging flower baskets to hang throughout downtown Gooding.

The Gooding Lions Club has begun selling raffle tickets. Get your tickets today for a chance to win an amazing creation from Ron & JT of Ron Reed Welding. The raffle tickets are $10 each. There will also be other baskets put together for the raffle. Tickets can be purchased at the Gooding Farmers Market on Tuesday's, from any Lions Club member or at the booth that will be set up at the Gooding County Fair.

Below is the fireball created by Ron & JT Reed.

Thank you to the community members that attended the ribbon cutting for the Gooding Fitness Court at the West Park.

It has been an honor working with our sponsors with this community project.

The Fitness Court is located off of Idaho Street at the West Park. It is open to all users, free of charge. It has a variety of exercise stations to improve your strength, flexibility, balance and health.

Stop by and check it out!

Construction is moving along at the City of Gooding's Wastewater Treatment Plant. Thank you to Keller Associates and GSE Construction for their hard work.

Hello Citizens of Gooding,

Summer has arrived. I hope everyone is staying cool in these high temperatures that we’ve been having. It’s nice to have warm weather though. The gardens are really growing now that we have this heat. Now we can start putting up our harvests.

The City of Gooding had the grand opening for our new Fitness Court in our West Park. We had a nice turn out. Once again, thank you to all the sponsors. We have a great community that works together. It is nice to have an area of the park that is dedicated for grownups to workout. We hope you enjoy it.

I have a concern that I would like to ask the community members to help with. We seem to have a group of about 15 kids, ages 9 to 15, that are roaming our streets, alley ways and parks at night with most activity occurring between 1 am and 5 am. There has been vandalism done in different areas and mischief in general. Some of these kids have been identified by our Police Department and parents made aware of the ongoing process. As a reminder, the City does have a curfew of 11 pm to 5 am for persons under 18 years old, and all parks close at dark except the Skate Park which closes at 11 pm. I am asking our citizens to keep a watchful eye and ear out and if you see anything of concern, please call our police department dispatch at 208-324-1911 for the available officer. This is the non-emergency number. We appreciate you help in keeping our community safe.

The Gooding County Fair and Rodeo is just a few weeks away. They will have the parade and the carnival starting the fair on Wednesday night, August 16th. The parade will start at 5:30. I hope you all go out and support our county fair and have a great time. Don’t forget to have an elephant ear, or a corn dog, or whatever is your favorite treat at the fair. I personally would like to thank Don Gill, Jamie Lancaster and Amy Andrus for the great job they do each year. Don has made the Gooding Rodeo one of the best small rodeos in the state. Also, if you’re at the rodeo make sure you smile for the camera as it will be televised around the country.

I would like to thank our city crew for all the work they have been doing around town. Our streets, water/sewer, parks and sanitation departments do a fantastic job for our town and citizens. If you see them out working please say thank you and let them know you appreciate their work. Also, a big thank you to the girls in the office. They do a great job keeping everything going in the city and answering all the questions you have.

Have a wonderful rest of the summer, be careful and stay safe.

Diane Houser, Mayor

The Public Hearing for the FY23/24 Budget will be held Monday, August 21, 2023 at 6:15 pm at Gooding City Hall. Below is the proposed budget. Copies of the proposed budget can be requested at City Hall.

The public hearing for rate increases for water and sanitation will also be held Monday, August 21, 2023 at 6:15 pm.

Rate increases are due to increased costs in goods and services. The proposed increases are as follows:

Water:

• Current Rate: $15.97 for usage between 0 - 5,000 gallons.
• Proposed Rate: $16.45 for usage between 0 - 5,000 gallons.
• Increase of .48¢

Sanitation:

• Residential 95 gallon shall increase from $11.47 to $11.82 per month, 300 gallon shall increase from $34.39 to $35.43 per month.
• Commercial 95 gallon shall increase from $42.41 to $43.69 per month, 300 gallon shall increase from $70.68 to $72.80 per month and 95/300 gallon combo shall increase from $84.81 to $87.36 per month.

There will be no changes to the sewer rates at this time.

The residential minimum rate for all services will increase from $100.64 to $101.47.

The commercial minimum rate for all services will increase from $131.58 to $133.34.

Magic Valley News, August 2023 by magicvalleynews - Issuu

Crews will be chip sealing the following streets between August 15th and 16th.

Please remove all vehicles, trailers or anything else from the edge of the road the night of August 14th until your street is completed to avoid damage or being towed.

Crews will be chip sealing the following streets -

• California Street from 2nd Ave W to 9th Ave W
• Nevada Street from 2nd Ave W to 13th Ave W
• Colorado Street from the tracks to 10th Ave W
• Utah Street from 2nd Ave W to 10th Ave W (length is subject to remaining materials)
• Montana Street from 21st Ave E to University Ave E (Hwy 26)

If you have any questions feel free to call City Hall (208) 934-5669.

The Gooding Community Newsletter is a publication designed to share the positive happenings in our community. If you have an event or news item you would like to share, please send along you information to the email address listed below. Should you have an idea you think could improve our community, we encourage you to bring those ideas to the city council with plans on how we can work together to make our city even better. Thanks for listening and sharing!

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