Stories from Thursday, June 17, 2010

The annual Children's Health Fair, hosted by Elmore Medical Center, will be held Saturday, June 19, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the hospital lawn. The outside venue for the Children's Health Fair will offer new activities, including hospital tours, MRI viewing, a bouncy castle and free popcorn and hot dogs...

"Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?" is the theme for the 2010 Mountain Home Garden Tour. Gardening "how-to" displays, such as gardening with children, setting up automatic watering systems for pots, creating an outdoor room, attracting hummingbirds with plants and more will be showcased in some of the gardens...

The Recreation Foundation of Elmore County and the Western Elmore County Recreation District will hold its annual "Youth Fun Run/Walk" for all school-aged children, first grade through seniors in high school, on Saturday, June 19, beginning at 10 a.m. at Richard Aguirre Park...

Gov. Butch Otter will provide a team roping demonstration during the Saturday night events of this year's 5th Annual Daniel Dopps Memorial Rodeo, set for Friday and Saturday nights, June 25-26. Sponsored by Mountain Home Auto Ranch and Dodge Rodeo, the event will be held at Optimist Park Arena in Mountain Home...

The Mountain Home Royals had another successful week of American Legion baseball last week, sweeping a league doubleheader from the Boise Barons, then bouncing back from an opening day tourney loss to Treasure Valley to win their next four games and capture the Mudcat Wood Bat Summer Classic Tournament title at Columbia High School in Nampa...

Dear editor: My name is Olga Pedersen and I'm pleading with the people in Mountain Home to support our local economy and stores. Olga Pedersen

Rachel Schaeffer, our dear mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt and friend, age 84, passed away on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at her home with her loved ones at her side. Rachel was born in Rupert, Idaho in 1926 to Peter John and Katherine Knopp Koch and was the youngest of eight brothers and four sisters. She attended schools in Paul...

I'm a journalist, not a doctor. If I were the latter, you'd see me at the golf course. Because I'm the former, you see me at the thrift store. But just because I didn't graduate from med school doesn't mean I can't make a few common-sense, connect-the-dots assumptions about the health of American children...