Stories from Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Mountain Home High School was evacuated last Thursday, just after noon, when a bomb threat was called into the school. The school district is offering a $500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person making the threat...

Shareholders of the Mountain Home Irrigation District have received notification that they will not be receiving water for irrigation this year. A letter dated March 11, 2005, explains the situation. "This year has been exceptionally dry weather with very little snow pack. ...

The "Sunset C" Sinclair gas station and convenience store was robbed by a masked man Sunday night. The robber, described as a white male, between 5' 7" and 5'10, approximately 150 lbs., wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt, black pants and a blue ski mask entered the store at about 10:30 p.m. At first he demanded to be taken to the safe, but when the clerk, who was not identified by authorities, said she couldn't open it, the man demanded the cash from the till...

Wylee Burl Yates, 75, a long-time residence of Mountain Home, died Tuesday, March 15, 2005, at a Boise hospital. Local memorial services will be held Monday, March 28, at 5 p.m. at Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home. Wylee chose to be cremated and his remains be intered beside his mother and father in Providence Baptist Church Cemetery in Woodland, Ala. A memorial service will be held at a later date at Providence Baptist Church in Woodland...

Elizabeth (Betty) Klassen Clark, 95, died March 18, 2005, at the Mountain Home hospital. Memorial services were conducted Tuesday at the First Congregational Church in Mountain Home. Inurnment will be held in Boonville, Calif., at a later date. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home...

David Randall Benson, 30, of Mountain Home, died Thursday, March 17, 2005, at his residence. Graveside services were held Tuesday, March 22, at the Middleton Cemetery in Middleton, Idaho. Arrangements were under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Archie E. Hoffman, 93, of Mountain Home, died Sunday, March 20, 2005. Memorial services will be held at 11 am. Friday, March 25, at Summers Funeral Homes McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home, with inurnment to follow at Mountain View Cemetery. A reception to follow at the funeral home...

Jodi Lynn Valen, 37, of Mountain Home, died Saturday, March 5, at her home. Private family memorial services were held. Arrangements were by Summers Funeral Homes, Boise Chapel. Jodi was born Feb. 13, 1968, in Long Beach, Calif. She is survived by: three children, Blair, Mikel, and Alesha, of Nampa; her mother and stepfather, Chyrl and Scott Grondahl of Nampa; her brother and sister-in-law, Garret and Heather Tillitt of Kuna; her brothers, Brandon Seek of Kuna and Mathew Seek of Nampa; and her grandmother, Talma Justesen of Nampa.. ...

Their team standings might not have changed, but the Mountain home girls and boys both improved their scores in their second SIC 4A golf match of the season when they golfed at Boise Ranch Golf Course. Bishop Kelly won the girls competition, shooting a 172, a stroke ahead of Vallivue. ...

The Mountain Home Tiger tennis team earned a 6-6 tie with the Kuna Kavemen last Thursday in Mountain Home. Mountain Home swept the girls singles, with Julie Remington winning, 6-3, 6-1 over Sheree Adams, Jessica Hoover topping Tressa Cole, 6-2, 6-2, and Laura Lothrop downing Erica Belveal, 6-2,6-3...

The Mountam Home Lady Tigers came away winless in their first two SIC 4A Conference softball games of the season, but showed promise of things to come. Kuna 6 Mountain Home 1 Fielding errors opened the door to four unearned runs by Kuna in the top of the first inning last Tuesday at Mountain Home, as the Lady Tigers fell behind 4-0 to Kuna. Mountain Home was unable to come back, as Kuna's Brooke Judy held the Lady Tigers to just three hits while striking out 14...

The Mountain Home Tigers came up on the short end of a couple 10-run games last week against Capital and Nampa. Capital 19 Mountain Home 4 Some defensive errors proved costly for Mountain Home last Tuesday night at Capital, when they lost to the Eagles 19-4 in a game called in the fifth by the 10-run rule...