Stories from Wednesday, March 1, 2006

The Mountain Home Public Library will resume service in its newly rebuilt facility on March 17, Librarian Luise House announced this week. The library hours will be 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays. A formal dedication ceremony will be held March 25 at 2 p.m. ...

by Landon Johnston Mountain Home News Elmore County Coroner Marla B. Spence was charged last week by Ada County prosecutors with misusing her office and obstructing and delaying law enforcement officers. The Ada County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, acting as special prosecutor in Elmore County, filed three misdemeanor charges on Feb. 21 at the county courthouse...

MSgt. Sandra Bryant, 35, of Mountain Home AFB, was killed Sunday in a snowmobile accident in Yellowstone National Park, part of a base Outdoor Adventure Program trip to the world's oldest national park. She, along with her husband, who was injured in the same accident on the snowmobile the couple was riding, were among 18 people from the base taking part in a guided group tour of the park...

by Landon Johnston Mountain Home News In a meeting laced with significant disagreements, city council members voted Monday night not to reinstall the mud bogs at Optimist Park. A motion to change the existing Memorandum of Under- standing with Marathon Cheese died on the floor for lack of a second after council member Richard Urquidi made the initial motion...

Don and Judy Dow of Mountain Home celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary Feb. 26. The couple were married 40 years ago in Quanah, Texas. Honoring them on their anniversary were their son Chris and his wife, Wendy Dow, and their children, Xara, Suli and Raven, and daughter Christina and her husband, Steve Letson, and their daughter, Ali...

Clarence and Annie Mae Joseph celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary on Valentine's Day. Clarence is retired from the military but at the age of 81 (his birthday was Feb. 28) remains active in the local community as a member of the city's planning and zoning board, a board member of the Elmore Medical Center and the VA, and other community groups...

Avis Robinson Smith, 97, of Mountain Home, died Sunday, Feb. 26, 2006, at a local care center. Services will be held at a later date in Etna, Calif. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Avis was born to Kearney and Lelace Clark Robinson of Scott Valley on Dec. 4, 1908, near Etna, Calif., in her maternal grandparents' home in French Camp...

James M. Mills, 78, of Bruneau, died Monday, Feb. 27, 2006, at a local care center. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home.

MSgt. Sandra P. Bryant, 35, of Mountain Home, died Sunday, Feb. 26, 2006, in Yellowstone National Park. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel.

Ralph "Glenn" Larsen, 84, of Glenns Ferry, died Feb. 9, 2006, from cancer. Memorial services will be held at the Glenns Ferry Veteran's Memorial Hall at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, March 8, with a dinner following. Glenn was born in Buhl, Idaho, March 30, 1920, to Ralph and Carroll Larsen. The family later moved to Glenns Ferry. His parents divorced in 1938, and Glenn attended school in various Idaho communities, including Buhl, Twin Falls, Cascade, Caldwell, Atlanta, and back to Twin Falls...

Catherine Marie Huff-Pollard, 97, died Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006, in a local Mountain Home health care center. Graveside Services were held on Saturday, Feb. 25, at Mountain View Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...

Ida W. Roberts, 86, of Nampa, formerly of Mountain Home, died Sunday, Feb. 26, 2006. A funeral service to celebrate her life will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, March 3, at the LDS Stake Center in Mountain Home, 1150 N. 8th East St. A viewing will be held on Friday from 9:15-10:15 a.m. ...

The Mountain Home High School cheerleaders, officially known these days as the Yell Squad, captured first place at the District cheerleading competition this weekend. Coach Sara Smith, a math teacher at the high school, said the mixed squad of five males and eight females competed in a series of judged competitions, including cheering, dancing, tumbling and stunts...

The Mountain Home Tigers finished third at the State 4A Wrestling Championships in Pocatello over the weekend. With the memory of the send-off they received when they left Mountain Home the day before still fresh in their minds (the mayor and fire department lead them out of town), first-round action saw nine of the Tiger wrestlers win, and at the close of the first day of action, 14 of the 17 were still wrestling...