Stories from Wednesday, March 2, 2005

Mountain Home Republicans gathered last Thursday at the American Legion Hall to celebrate the successes and future of the party and to honor local officials during the annual GOP Lincoln Day Luncheon. Led by Congressman Butch Otter, who is running for governor, the event featured a lengthy list of local, state and national GOP elected officials from Idaho, including Otter's likely primary opponent, Lt. Gov. Jim Risch...

The city of Mountain Home has taken a major step that, if approved by the state, would guarantee the city's water supply for nearly two more decades. The city last week signed an agreement, and put down $25,000 in earnest money, to acquire 1,800 acre feet of water per year from the existing mid-level aquifer. One acre-foot represents 325,850 gallons of water...

Walter Dean Prescott, 89, formerly of Hammett, died Thursday, Feb. 24, 2005, in the Gooding Rehab and Living Center. Memorial services were held Tuesday, March 1, at the Wendell Idaho LDS Church. Internment was at the Wendell cemetery. Dean was born in Smithfield, Utah, in 1915. His family dry farmed and ranched until moving to Grace. In 1925 they moved to Wendell where he continued his education and graduated from Wendell High School in 1932...

Martin Hoegg, 74, of Mountain Home, died Thursday Feb. 24, 2005, at home, with his family by his side. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home. Martin was born April 13, 1930, in Tepl, Germany which is now the CK Republic, Czechoslovakia, to Odolf and Marie (Moser) Hoegg. Martin was raised in Saltzburg, Austria...

Lois Fern (Bailey) Cunningham, 88, died in King Hill Feb. 26, 3005. Graveside services will be held at Gibbonsville, Idaho, cemetery, at 11 a.m. today, Wednesday, March 2. She will be buried beside her husband, Paul. Lois was born in Chesterfield, Cherry County, Neb., June 30, 1916. She was the seventh of 10 children born to Arthur Lincoln Bailey and Priscilla Belle (Woolard) Bailey...

Mayor and Mrs. Joe B. McNeal will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at an open house reception on Sunday, March 13, from 2-5 p.m. at the Desert Canyon Golf Course. The couple request no gifts.

Kole Spaulding capped off his Mountain Hme wrestling career by winning the 171 pound weight class at the state wrestling tournament last week. Seven Mountain Home Tiger wrestlers competed at the 4A State Wrestling Championships at the Idaho Center in Nampa last weekend. Of those seven, five medaled, with one as a champion (Spaulding), one second, and one third...