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On the Web idahofallsmagazine.com service weren’t so excellent, but luckily for us—we’ve got it all with this place. You’ll have to watch the video online to get the gist of just how much food we shoveled down in our one-hour binge- fest, but I can’t resist throwing you a few spoilers: 1. Breakfast? Sure, Smitty’s is famous Every town in America, large or small, has its go-to restaurant. In many cases, the distinction is less dependent on excellent food and more on the obliga- tions of adhering to tradition. In Idaho Falls, we are blessed. Our go-to establishment for home- grown pride also happens to be one of the most highly regarded menus in the region. If you’ve lived in Idaho Falls more than a few weeks, you probably know the joint we’re referring to. On a warm late-spring afternoon, Idaho Falls staffers had the pleasure of dining (and dining, and dining some more) at Smitty’s Pancake & Steak House. The property, located on Broadway, is just a stone’s throw from our downtown offices. Chances are good that we would eat here occasionally even if the food and for it, but many patrons skim right past the lunch and dinner selections. They shouldn’t. 2. Our advertising director, Jay Dye, doesn’t want his family doctor to know that he’s been scarfing down delicious tapioca pudding and German pancakes. Oops, too late. 3. Yours Truly will expound on the philosophical implications of eating at a restaurant based on the stringent applica- tion of time-honored recipes that... oh, who am I kidding? I’m a sucker for a great meal. The more you feed me, the more I gush. The food is the biggest reason to take a closer look at Smitty’s, but there are also some wonderful cultural side dishes, including a strong collection of some of Werner Gisin’s finest paintings as well as various furnishings and keepsakes that reflect the restaurant’s collective charms. —STEVE SMEDE Extreme Makeover: Behind the Scenes If all of America hadn’t met her already, we’d invite you to meet Jane Marshall: hardworking mother of nine, cancer survivor and hero to many. Even in the worst of times, Jane made it her own personal mission to lead by example. “We had to stay positive,” she said. “We knew life was getting hard, but we had each other. No matter what, we were in it together.” Being chosen as a star for a national television program probably wasn’t what she had in mind. Nonetheless, that’s exactly what happened. It has been nearly a year since Hollywood met Pocatello for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, but the story is still strong in many hearts and minds. Behind the scenes, there was another 28 Idaho Falls MagazIne MaY/JUne 2011 story that we felt was under-billed in the episode that aired last fall on ABC Family. It chronicles the work of Rockwell Development and its army of countless volunteers, most of them far-removed from Ty Pennington and the theatrical orchestration of the televised narrative. Shown through the collective lens of Harris Publishing photographers Brady Kay, Lane Lindstrom, Sandon Wixom, Dayne Dingman, Steve Smede and Ryan and Candace Harris, we were able to chronicle the entire arc of the project from “ambush” to the “reveal.” Some of it we were able to show you in our recent pub- lication of East Idaho Home & Garden. For the full gamut of images, however, we’ve constructed a slideshow. Visit us online and check it out!