Stories from Thursday, July 3, 2008

Roadway resurfacing work to level a section of I-84 near Mountain Home is scheduled to get under way on Monday (July 7), the Idaho Transportation Department announced Thursday. Both the eastbound and westbound travel lanes of eight miles of the interstate, from Simco Road (milepost 82) to the first Mountain Home exit (milepost 90), will be milled and paved. All lanes will then be treated with an edge-line to edge-line seal coat that will protect the surface and improve traction for motorists...

Mr. and Mrs. Butch Hutton of Bruneau will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary later this month. Hutton, then of Nampa, took Caren Haumann, then of Kuna, to be his "bride, lifetime partner and friend" on July 19, 1958, at Lizard Butte in Marsing...

Darlene A. (Brown) Morton, of Phoenix, Ariz., formerly of Mountain Home, died June 21, 2008. A memorial mass will be held at 11 a.m. today, Wednesday, July 2, at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Mountain Home with services following at Mountain View Cemetery. A luncheon at the Knights of Columbus Hall at 965 McKenna Ave. (across from the swimming pool) will immediately follow services...

The fifth annual Relay For Life brought a variety of volunteers and well-wishers to Eastside Park on Friday night. The event, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, has been working toward a fundraising goal of $50,001. As of Saturday morning, the Relay for Life has raised $35,000, more than double the $14,000 the event raised a year ago...

In the middle of a hot summer day about a dozen teenagers, wearing matching T-shirts, spent the day doing yard work for someone they've never met before. "We're not in trouble, we're doing this on our own," one of them called out. The group was one of five teams from Commission, a week-long, nondenominational church camp for junior high and high school students that focuses on community service...