Hmmn. Beginning to sound more complicated. Good thing I have a bike. Website on His Holiness's visit to Blaine County.
Sept. 11 Dalai Lama visit may strain Sun Valley services
By JOHN MILLER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERBOISE, Idaho -- Sun Valley is used to hosting hundreds of thousands of visitors annually, but a planned Sept. 11 visit by the Dalai Lama could draw 100,000 for one event - and that has law enforcement and tourism officials scrambling. Details such as visitor housing and security loom large.
The Sheriff got on board with the impending visit April 13, 2005, for the first time with the Dalai Lama's advance squad. Sheriff Femling is concerned that Blaine County will be overwhelmed by the visit.
According to a tentative schedule, the Dalai Lama will speak at a land preserve owned by The Nature Conservancy, located south of Sun Valley near the tiny town of Picabo, population 50.
"The minute we heard about it (the Dalai Lama's visit), we did alert all our members," said Ellen Gillespie, a spokeswoman for the Sun Valley Ketchum Chamber and Visitors Bureau. "We told them, 'We're going to have a lot of people in town.' We need to make sure they don't have anybody go on vacation that week."
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