Stories from Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Daniel and Linda Pomerlee have been selected as the "Person of the Year" for the 17th Annual Mountain Home Black History Committee Banquet. They will be honored during the banquet, which will be held this Friday, Feb. 13, at the Elk's Lodge in Mountain Home...

A 19-year-old airman at Mountain Home AFB was killed Friday while snowmobiling as part of a squadron "snow day" party at Little Camas Reservoir. Walter J. Hammond IV, originally from Virginia, died as a result of injuries received when he hit a creek bed, launching him from the snowmobile and causing him to hit the handlebars with his throat and chest...

Owner of Footnotes Bookstore, Susan Rueger, Mountain Home, has been named as one of Idaho's Brightest Stars. Gov. Dirk Kempthorne and First Lady Patricia Kempthorne honored Idaho's 2004 Brightest Stars and presented the inaugural Community of Promise Red Wagon Award in a ceremony held in the regal settings of the Statehouse's fourth-floor Rotunda last week...

Ruth Bernice Hedrick, 92, of Boise, formerly of Bruneau, died Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2004, at Mercy Medical Center in Nampa. Funeral services were held Saturday, Feb. 7, at St. Bridget's Catholic Church in Bruneau. Burial followed at the Bruneau Cemetery. Arrangements were by Summers Funeral Homes, Boise Chapel...

Maj. Ronald D. Ellis (USAF retired), died Jan. 28, 2004, at his residence in Mountain Home. A native of North Carolina, he was born April 13, 1939 in Oxford, N.C., and grew up in Hampton, Va., where he attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Maj. Ellis was a navigator-bombardier, air operations and weapons systems officer. ...

Willard A. Kettelhut, 86 of Englewood, Colo., formerly of Mountain Home, died Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004 of natural causes. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, at Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel, Mountain Home. Graveside services will follow at Mountain View Cemetery...

Bruce E. Fackrell, 67, of Mountain Home, died Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004, at St. Alphonsus Hospital in Boise. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at the LDS Stake Center in Mountain Home, with Bishop David Johnson officiating. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery. A visitation for family and friends will be held at Summers Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, Mountain Home from noon until 12:45 p.m. prior to the services at the church...

Robert and Maureen Chaney celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Feb. 6, 2004. The couple was joined by their family to help them celebrate the milestone.

With the SIC 4A conference wrestling crown on the line last Thursday night at Kuna, the Mountain Home Tigers dropped a close, 34-32 match to the Kavemen. A packed crowd got their money's worth in this one, which started at the 215-pound weight class...

True, the post season is considered a, "brand new season," as far as the old cliche goes, but last Tuesday's District Tournament opener for Mountain Home against Emmett was much the same old story: good defense, but not much offense. The result: Emmett 41, Mountain Home 28...

"On any given night...." There is a cliche in sports that's heard throughout the SIC 4A from its coaches about the league being so close competitively, that, "on any given night, anyone can beat anybody." Such was the case last weekend, with the Mountain Home Tigers being a participate on both sides of the issue, as they knocked off Bishop Kelly Friday night at home, but then lost to Kuna, a team with just one win at that point...