Jesse Tinsley

1. At company headquarters in Caldwell, Idaho, Avid Aircraft technician Jim Raeder rolls out an Avid Flyer, the original folding-wing sport plane designed by Dean Wilson in 1983. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review 2. Dean Wilson paints an exhaust system in his Grangeville shop.

1. Getting a jump on Christmas. Models Dillon Tower, 6, and Kaleigh Fox, 4, get last-minute adjustments from Jasmine Gregory while they wait their turn backstage at the Festival of Trees holiday fashion show on Monday. The pair walked on stage with Santa Clause at the start of the show, but it wasn't the real Kriss Kringle. "Santa's too busy," said Tower. "It's one of his elves." Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review 2. Bob Nonini, left, and Loren Mitchell carefully wrap a Christmas tree in plastic for delivery to the person who bought it during the Festival of Trees gala.

Tina Wilde, who was on the job the morning after the ice storm hit, serves up comfort food, as she did the morning business at the Rustler's Roost doubled. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review

Bouquet of thanks. Dr. Terence Neff accepts a dozen roses from Jeanne Bock, a Panhandle Health nurse who started the Helping Hands program. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review

Digging in 1. The hands of Jill Jurvelin knead riced potatoes, cream, butter and sugar to make lefse, the traditional pancake of Scandinavia. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review 2. Jeanie Wheeler, right, flips a lefse cake on Friday while Kay Bryan, in the blue shirt, and daughter Cindy Rudi, in the white shirt, roll out the dough.

Sobering lessons. Mullan High eleventh-grader Brad Ban, left, compares his new look with classmate Aaron Murphy. The white-face makeup and black robes signify a lost life. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review

Snowboarders aren't the ski slope hooligans that ski snobs make us out to be. Thankfully, snowboarding has revitalized the ski and ski-resort industry so our two-board cousins can enjoy their dying sport a little longer. On a busy day, hundreds of snowboarders join lines of skiers at mountain resorts to enjoy the thrill of speed, the joys of powder. Snowboarders are sharing the stoke of carving turns and making jumps.