Cardon files plans for new car wash

The building plans at the Idaho Falls Building Department office for Cardon's new car wash.

Matt Cardon, owner of Cardon's Car Wash and Lube on First Street, has filed building plans with the city of Idaho Falls to develop a 4,483-square-foot tunnel car wash on the lot at Holmes Avenue and North Yellowstone where the Bank of Commerce used to have its offices.

Last summer, Cardon received variances that reduced the width of landscaping strips and setbacks on the Northgate Mile and Holmes sides of the lot (also bordered by Poulson and Payne Streets).

Cardon had filed a site development plan in late. No zoning change was required (the lot is zoned Highway/Commercial-1), which meant that he has had a green light since then to proceed with a formal site plan, building plans and a permit.

TEDxAmmon speakers announced

Here is a list of speakers and topics to be presented at TEDxAmmon, scheduled for Feb. 21 at Eastern Idaho Technical College.

TED and TEDx presentations draw from a wide variety of subject matter and are meant to be thought-provoking, captivating and inspiring. Speakers are encouraged to give “the talk of a lifetime,” and for many speakers who’ve found a worldwide audience, they’ve been precisely that.

Stipulations by TED require that there be no more than 100 people at TEDxAmmon. Anyone interested in attending may apply at www.TEDxAmmon.com, after which they will be informed if they have been selected. For those unable to be at the live event, all presentations will be simultaneously broadcast on the internet at www.TEDxAmmon.com. Every presentation will be recorded, edited and uploaded to the TEDx event database for later viewing.

The talks run from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m., with a break for dinner at 7.

Chris Haskell: Blowing Up the Gradebook

Victor Walker: Our Machines and the Stories We Tell Them

Matt Ridley: When Ideas Have Sex (video)

Monica Bitrick: What's Your Story -- Creating You As A Brand

Zane Schenk: The Cutting Edge

Break for dinner

George Brunt: The Value of Cheap Energy

Don Miley: Making Sci-Fi Sci-Fact: Nuclear Energy History and Perceptions

Bastian Schaefer: A 3d-Printed Jumbo Jet? (video)

John Hart: The Life Cycle of Creative Movements

Heidi Reeder: How Commitment Shapes Our Lives

David Gallo: Underwater Astonishments (video)

Tyler Price: The Importance of Failure

Troy Chipps: Conquer Your Key Moments

For updates, information may be found at www.TEDxAmmon.com, on FaceBook at www.facebook.com/TEDxAmmon and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/TEDxAmmon.

Work begins on 17th Street Starbucks

Work has begun on the Starbucks planned for the corner of 17th Street and Jennie Lee Drive, with an opening planned for late May, according to Bob Hayes of Keller Construction. A crew from the Salt Lake City-based company is removing the front of the old Los Albertos. Remodeling of the shell will be extensive, but the foundation was solid enough that a complete demolition was not necessary, Hayes said. Keller Construction has built more than 15 Starbucks in the west, including the one on West Broadway in Idaho Falls.

Arts Council chooses visual arts director

Georgina Goodlander

The Idaho Falls Arts Council has hired Georgina Goodlander as its visual arts director, to  lead content selection, program development and activity integrity at the ARTitorium on Broadway. She will also be responsible for the development, coordination and installation of all visual arts exhibitions at the Carr and Hall community galleries, located inside the Willard Arts Center.

“We have known since the beginning that ARTitorium on Broadway would need someone with a uniquely advanced set of skills to meet its mission," said Brandi Newton, the council's executive director. “Georgina doesn't just meet those expectations, she exceeds them.”

From 2003 to January 2014, Goodlander lived in Baltimore, Md., and worked at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Beginning at the museum as an intern in 2003, she went on to manage its innovative Luce Foundation Center for American Art, coordinated The Art of Video Games exhibition and then became deputy chief of media and technology, where she oversaw web and social media content.

Before this, she taught English in Songjiang, China, worked in a gift shop in Toronto, and was lead hostess at the Old Faithful Inn Dining Room in Yellowstone National Park which began her dream to relocate to this part of the country.

Saving Center demolition begins

We had been watching the Saving Center lot at Memorial and A Street all weekend, waiting for action to begin. By the time we got to the scene Monday afternoon, the work was well underway. This is going to open things up considerably. There has been no word about possible buyers, but the according to Bob Everhardt of the Downtown Development Corp. the owners felt the property would have more appeal without the building than with it.