Stories from Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Citizens concerned about Elmore County's rural trash hauling went before the Board of County Commissioners recently to seek some solutions. Tom Vallard of Hammett, Carlene Braithwaite from Prairie and Ray Chaplain of Pine, explained they feel the contractor for trash hauling is not adhering to the agreed schedule and is not maintaining the transfer sites...

Flossie E. Cullen, 92 of Grand View, died Saturday night, April 24, 2004, at Holly Nursing Center, Hospice Unit in Nampa. Memorial services will be held Friday, April 30, at 2 p.m. at Knight Community Church. Pastor Paul Ryan will officiate. Arrangements are by Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel...

David King Strouse, Jr., 65, of Mountain Home, died at home on Monday, April 19, 2004, with family by his side. Memorial services and military rites were held on Friday, April 23, at the Elks Lodge in Mountain Home. David was born in York, Penn., on Oct. 19, 1938. He was a long-time member of the Elks Lodge...

Donald "Don" Edward Waller, 55, of Glenns Ferry, died Friday, April 23, 2004, after a long battle with leukemia and cancer. Family and friends will gather for Don at Dolores and Jerry Good's home in Hammett on Saturday, May 1, at 1 p.m. Arrangements are under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Paul M. Potter, 74, of Mountain Home, died Sunday, April 25, 2004, in Mountain Home. No public services will be held. Cremation is under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel of Mountain Home. Paul was born on April 28, 1929, in Westfield, PA the son of Delbert and Mabel (Quickenbush) Potter. The family moved to Elmira, N.Y., when he was a young boy...

Natasha and Samantha Feekes and Matthew Frederick have announced the engagement and upcoming July wedding of their parents, Adrienne Feekes and Mark Frederick.

Ken and Cheryl Muldowney of Mountain Home have announced the engagement of their daughter, Tracy Shannon, to Melvin Blaine Norton, son of Rocky Norton of Pocatello and Mike and Rosann Mathews of Rockland, Idaho. Tracy is a graduate of Mountain Home High School and Idaho State University...

K.R. and Norma Reinschmidt of Mountain Home have announced the engagement of their daughter, Megan Anne, to Jayson Miles Ronk, the son of Jay and Sue Ronk of Pocatello. Megan is a graduate of Albertson College of Idaho with a B.A. in Business Administration, focusing on International Business and Management. She is employed as a policy advisor to Gov. Dirk Kempthorne...

The Mountain Home Tigers continue to show improvement on the tennis court as they continue their battle for a match victory. Vallivue 11 Mountain Home 1 Hiroto Kaneko picked up Mountain Home's lone win at Vallivue last Monday. Playing as the number three boys singles player, Kaneko downed Spencer John 6-4, 6-0 for the win. Drew White lost the number one boys singles match to Ben Richner 0-6, 1-6, and Chris Ouellette lost 3-6, 4-6 to Nick Batt in the number two boys singles match...

The Mountain Home Tiger boys golf team came in fifth in an SIC 4A conference golf match at Desert Canyon Municipal Golf Course in Mountain Home Thursday. The team scores were close, as the Tigers' score of 162 was fifth, but just six shots back of Bishop Kelly and Caldwell, who tied for first with a 156 total...

The Mountain Home Tiger track team placed fifth in both the girls and boys competition at last Friday's Husky Relays at Emmett. Emmett won the girls competition, scoring 179.5 points. Vallivue was second with 144, followed by Skyview with 126, Kuna, with 115, Mountain Home, 67.5, Caldwell, 39, Council, 9, and Midvale, 8...

The win streak reached two for the Mountain Home Lady Tigers as they clubbed Vallivue 13-4 last Tuesday in Mountain Home, but it ended last Friday at Kuna. Mountain Home 13 Vallivue 4 A seven-run third inning put the Lady Tigers in front to stay, and a five-run sixth provided the exclamation point in the lopsided win, the Lady Tigers sseventh of the season, and second straight conference win...

The win streak snapped at two with Friday's loss at Kuna by the Tiger boys baseball team. Mountain Home 6 Glenns Ferry 3 The Mountain Home Tigers bounced back from one of their worst losses in the baseball program to beat a good Glenns Ferry Pilot team 6-3 on April 19 at Mountain Home...