Stories from Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The Mountain Home Youth Center will hold two fundraising events in September to help pay for construction of a new building on West 5th North Street between Taco Johns and Marathon Cheese. A benefit concert will run from 5-8 p.m. Sept. 19 at the El Rancho Parking Lot at the corner of Jackson and Main streets. The concert features '70s music by local band 360...

Three Elmore County women have tested positive for the West Nile virus. Two of them, a 35-year-old and a 67-year-old from Mountain Home, had symptoms severe enough to require hospitalization. Both have since been released and are recovering at home. The third case involved a 75-year-old woman from Glenns Ferry...

After four months of dispute, debate and legal challenges, the outcome of the May 19 school district trustee election remained undecided this week following a Tuesday morning Fourth District Court hearing. Judge Mike Wetherell tentatively delayed a final ruling on the disputed election to Sept. 18 in order to allow the attorney representing Cladis D. Houston time to review state law regarding contested election results...

The Mountain Home School District has confirmed several cases of the H1N1 "swine flu" virus among students in the schools. Although the district has not had any school nurses on staff for more than a decade, administrators have been trained to help spot the symptoms of the virus, and special precautions have been taken at the schools to limit its spread, including extra cleaning efforts by the janitors...

A former employee with the county's department of motor vehicles will go to district court Oct. 5 to face five charges of embezzling public funds. Mava Terhaar waived her right to continue with a preliminary hearing Sept. 2 at the Elmore County Courthouse, prompting Magistrate Judge George Hicks to bind her case over to the district level...

Bruce Allen Dougherty and Terry Lynn Dougherty of Mountain Home have announced the upcoming marriage of their daughter, Tonya Nicole Dougherty, to David Anthony Villeneuve, son of Walter Eugene Villeneuve and Carol Lynn Litz, all of Mountain Home. The couple will be united in marriage on Oct. 20, 2009, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at 1 p.m...

This weekend, Mountain Home will throw its annual community party honoring and celebrating the men and women at Mountain Home AFB who help defend our nation with such great courage and skill. Since 9/11 (whose 8-year anniversary is Friday), the base has seen its troops constantly deployed into the war zones, sometimes as complete units, sometimes as small detachments. ...

Dear editor: To start this off, I am a 28-year Vietnam-era Air Force veteran who has called Mountain Home home since 1972. I have owned a bar, delicatessen, remodel business and currently have one of the best bands in southern Idaho. I was recently informed (three weeks ago) that a band was needed for Air Force Appreciation Day, so I inquired. ...

Dear editor: Maybe Conrad Thomas doesn't have the smarts to work in a nuclear plant, but should he really be saying that Elmore County people aren't cut out for that work? As far as I know, Elmore County is full of people who work in technically demanding, high-security jobs, and these people should have a shot at working at the power plant Alternate Energy Holdings Inc. is proposing...

Dear editor: My wife and I have been doing volunteer work at the Mountain Home Animal Shelter for over two years. During this period, we have seen two shelter managers come and go with no improvements made to the shelter. Although the current manager, Danniele Ratigan, has only been in the manager position for a short period of time, Danniele and her staff have made many improvements to the shelter...

Dear editor: Regarding the article Sept. 2 in the Mountain Home News. There were many items that I agreed with and many that I didn't. Our economy is already creating the situation that animals are being abandoned now. If you increase the fees for owning animals, think of what it will do to senior citizens when they can barely feed themselves, much less food for their animals...

The Mountain Home Tigers had trouble holding on to the ball Friday night in their 34-13 non-conference loss to the Caldwell Cougars at Tiger Field in Mountain Home. Five fumbles and a pass interception hurt the Tigers offensively as they failed to score after putting 13 points on the scoreboard in the first quarter...

The Mountain Home Tigers had trouble holding on to the ball Friday night in their 34-13 non-conference loss to the Caldwell Cougars at Tiger Field in Mountain Home. Five fumbles and a pass interception hurt the Tigers offensively as they failed to score after putting 13 points on the scoreboard in the first quarter...

It was a good week for Mountain Home Lady Tiger soccer as they picked up wins over Columbia and Middleton in conference girls soccer. Mountain Home 1, Columbia 0 Rachel Warila scored in the first five minutes of the second half and it held up Tuesday as the Lady Tigers beat Columbia 1-0 at Eastside Park in Mountain Home...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers had a rough night at Kuna last Tuesday, where they dropped conference matches to Nampa and Kuna during this season's volleyball action. Nampa 3, Mountain Home 1 The Lady Tigers won the first game of the match but dropped the next three as they lost to Nampa during a tri-match at Kuna...

The Mountain Home Tiger cross country runners travel to Ketchum today for the Wood River Invitational Cross Country meet. The Tigers ran at the Caldwell Invitational last Friday. The girls finished 10th and the boys 13th. Mountain View won the girls competition with 57 points, Boise was second with 73, Vallivue third with 89, Bishop Kelly fourth with 123 and Eagle fifth with 135. Mountain Home finished 10th and was the second 4A school to finish...

The Mountain Home Tiger boys soccer team bounced back from two straight losses the week before with two conference wins last week. Tigers 3, Columbia 1 The Tigers bounced back from their Jerome loss with a 3-1 conference win at Columbia last Monday...

The Mountain Home Tigers junior varsity football team opened its season last Thursday night with a 27-7 win over the Jerome JV at Tiger Field in Mountain Home. Mountain Home took the lead in the first quarter, Alex Rodriguez tossing to Tyler Knauth for a seven-yard touchdown pass. Rodriguez made it 12-0, Mountain Home, with a one-yard touchdown run in the second quarter...