Rochelle Smith

Carers Recruitment Community Connection Day Come along and have a yarn with the Foster and Kinship Team and carers. Including: Yugara-Yugarapul Aboriginal Corportation -Welcome to Country, Smoking Ceremony & Digeridoo Performance Isaiah Firebrace Aunty Sharron Mirrii Bell- Indigenous Insights Alan Martin- Rainbow Warrier Fun activities for the kids- BBQ lunch & drinks provided

California in January is a lovely 77 degrees. That’s one of many reasons to book a trip to NAMM Show in January. It’s a great solution to Boise’s cabin fever, and I’m so honored to have been invited again to cover this event. NAMM is an enormous music convention in Anaheim. Attendees range from 50-100,000 people. You read that correctly. Nearly 14,000 vendors are represented there.

Here’s the last blog of the year, and I love how this one came about! I joined my friend who was doing some car shopping in Nampa for a hybrid truck. We took some test drives, and I had a great time chatting with the sales rep. He had no idea who I was or where I worked, and the more we chatted, the more I found his story interesting. Jimmy John told me he’d spent many years on the wrong side of things. He did time in jail for some drug situations, then eventually he ended up in prison.