STORY AND PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK

There will be three opportunities to network this month.

• A Business After Hours (BAH) will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, June 7, at 5B Vino at the Ketchum Conference and Event Center in the Walnut Avenue Mall off Sun Valley Road.

  The BAH is co-sponsored by The Chamber, which has just  launched a new website:  www.haileyidaho.com.

• A Wake Up Hailey will be held from 9 to 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 12, at Hailey Copy and Print’s new store on the corner of Bullion and River streets. The store is across from its former site.
• A BAH will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, June 21, at the Blaine County Museum in Hailey.

All three events will offer the opportunity to network while enjoying complementary food, beer and wine served up by local businesses.

About five dozen people attended the last BAH co-sponsored by The Nature Conservancy, Trout Unlimited and Wood River Land Trust.

Attendees played corn hole under the trees on the WRLT’s historic property and nibbled on Cosmic Cheese Sandwiches and Salmon Pasta Salad served up by Al McCord from the Wood River Sustainability’s mobile truck. And they celebrated the birthday of Scott Boettger, executive director of the Land Trust.

Keri York, who grew up in the Wood River Valley and has worked for all three organizations, recounted how neat it was to come back home following college and protect the places she loved and grew up in.

Mark Davidson of Trout Unlimited told how the organizations are working on water arrangements that will not only benefit the residential community but the agricultural community which, he noted, doesn’t always get so much attention.

All three organizations are working on a holistic land management plan for the Rock Creek Ranch area west of Hailey, he added.