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Capitol roadshow heads to Cascade

Submitted by Kathleen Kreller on Fri, 03/13/2009 - 1:00pm.

Cascade will be Idaho's “Capital for a Day” later this month according to a Friday morning news release from Gov. Butch Otter's office.

Capital For a Day creates an opportunity to meet with Otter, selected cabinet members and state officials on a first-come, first-served basis. Otter's previously headed to Iaho towns including Rathdrum, Kimberly, Priest River and Wendell.

Capital for a Day runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24th at the American Legion building, 105 E. Mill Street in Cascade, and will feature a no-host noon luncheon.

“I look forward to hearing the concerns and opinions of people from Cascade, Donnelly, Lake Fork, McCall and throughout Valley County," Otter said in the release. "My Cabinet members and I will do our best to get them answers. And at the very least, they will have our undivided attention.”

Cascade Mayor Dick Carter will be present along with a laundry list of state officials.
Here's the list:
•Bob Meinen, director of the Department of Parks and Recreation
•Gen. Larry Lafrenz, Idaho adjutant general
•Col. Bill Shawver, director of the Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security
•Royce Chigbrow, chairman of the State Tax Commission
•Don Dietrich, director of the Idaho Department of Commerce
•George Bacon, director of the Idaho Department of Lands
•Becky Schroeder, deputy director for administration of the Idaho Lottery
•Bill Deal, director of the Department of Insurance
•Mike Rush, executive director of the State Board of Education
•Dick Armstrong, director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare
•Pete Wagner, regional administrator for the Department of Environmental Quality
•Jim Thackeray, McCall office manager for the Idaho Department of Labor
•Chuck Galloway, chief of the Department of Water Resources’ Resource Protection Bureau •Scott Stokes, Idaho Transportation Department deputy director
•Scott Gurnsey, ITD’s assistant district engineer
•Brian Oakey, deputy director of the Idaho State Department of Agriculture
•Bill Hutchinson, special assistant to the director of the Department of Fish and Game •Jeff Rohlman, regional wildlife manager for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game