Stories from Wednesday, August 11, 2004

The Annual Three Island Crossing will be held this weekend despite rumors that this year's event might be cancelled after a tragic accident that resulted in the drowning death of two horses during a practice session Aug. 1. During a special meeting of the Three Island Crossing Organization, Inc., held last Wednesday afternoon at World Wide Equine, it was the consensus of the TICO board that any participant still wanting to cross the river on Aug. 14 should be given that opportunity...

The Mountain Home AFB Honor Guard is facing a huge 400 percent increase in its taskings -- largely the result of the new veteran's cemetery in Eagle. Idaho became the last state in the nation to have its own veterans cemetery, when the facility was dedicated two weeks ago. The base honor guard was one of the military units that took part in the ceremony...

An Elmore County Planning and Zoning meeting came to an abrupt adjournment Aug. 8, as residents wishing to be heard disrupted the proceedings. A public hearing on June 23 for a conditional use permit and confined animal feeding operation (CAFO) in an Agricultural A Zone was held open after the commission requested more information in a few areas and some clarification to include comment from the highway district, the State Department of Transportation, as well as a baseline water study for nitrate levels at the site of the proposed dairy.. ...

Amos Lacey Mouser, 88, of Pocatello, formerly of Hill City, died Wednesday evening, July 21, 2004, at his home. Funeral services were held July 26, 2004, at the Pocatello Baptist Church, with Pastor Colan Deatherage conducting. Internment was in the Restlawn Memorial Gardens in Pocatello...

Eula "Mae" Simons, 66, of Glenns Ferry, died Aug. 3, 2004, at a Boise care center. Funeral services were held Aug. 6 at the First Baptist Church in Mountain Home. Burial followed at Glenn Rest Cemetery in Glenns Ferry. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Demaray Funeral Service of Gooding...

Caroline Elizabeth Coe, 77, died Monday, Aug. 9, 2004 at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, Aug. 17, at 10 a.m. at Whitney Baptist Church. A viewing will be Monday, Aug. 16, from 4-7 p.m. at Summers Funeral Home, Boise Chapel...

Bill Nebeker, 70, of Mountain Home, died Thursday, Aug. 5, 2004, at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center following a sudden stroke. Funeral services were held Monday, Aug. 9, at the Mountain Home LDS Stake Center, under the direction of Demaray Funeral Home of Gooding. Burial was in Amman, Idaho...

Maryam Mesmarian, daughter of Debora and Asghaz Mesmarian of Mountain Home, was married to Mahdi Khorasani, the son of Susan and Morteza Khorasani, on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2004, in Moountain home.

A special ceremony to retire MHHS girls soccer team jersey #24, worn by Teresa Garcia, will be held at 5:15 p.m. on Aug. 26 at the varsity soccer field just off 18th East Street. Garcia was shot and killed earlier this year by a serial killer who had made a stop in Mountain Home on his crime spree across the Pacific Northwest, which eventually resulted in his own death after being cornered by authorities in Utah...