:: Printable Version :: Did we hear right?

:: Printable Version :: Did we hear right?: "Party to a noble endeavor:

A plot to host the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Idaho originated at a Christmas party in Sun Valley over Christmas.

Valley residents Jim and Pirie Grossman, both longtime Idaho Special Olympics supporters, had been eyeing the idea of bringing some 2,000 Special Olympic athletes from 150 countries around the world to Idaho in 2013.

That is, until Sun Valley part-timer Maria Shriver, whose mother Eunice Shriver founded Special Olympics, noted that Sarajevo had dropped its plans to host the 2009 games.

At Shriver's encouragement, the Grossmans shifted gears aiming for 2009, instead. But they have to beat out Reno and cities in Poland and Germany.

If they succeed, it's unlikely Sun Valley will see any of the action. Current plans have the games being staged in Boise and at Bogus Basin, Brundage and Tamarack ski areas."