Stories from Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Idaho Fish and Game has selected Mountain Home Senior Conservation Officer Bob Sellers as one of two officers to win its Conservation Officer of the Year Award for 2004. District Conservation Officer Bill London said that: "Bob is the epitome of a field naturalist. He knows every bear, bird, bush, and bug in his patrol area."...

Gov. Dirk Kempthorne and both of Idaho's senators made the case for Mountain Home AFB before the first hearing held nationally by the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission last Friday in Portland. The initial recommendations to the BRAC Commission by the Department of Defense call for Mountain Home AFB to receive an additional squadron of F-15E aircraft in 2009, boosting the base population by about 700 personnel, and then to lose the F-15C and F-16CJ squadrons in 2011, resulting in a net loss of just over 500 military jobs on base at that time.. ...

Larry Alan Munro, 56, died Monday, June 13, 2005, in Grand View. Funeral services were held at Rimrock High School on Monday, June 20, followed by a reception at the Senior Center in Grand View. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, Mountain Home...

William Henry Knight, 89, of Bellevue, Wash., died June 13, 2005, in Portland, Ore., and was buried next to his late wife on Friday, June 17, at the Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home. He was born July 19, 1915, at the Knight Station House, Sheaville, Ore. to Ida Myrtle Baltazor and Byron Joseph Knight...

Robert "Bob" Melvin George, 74, of Mountain Home, died June 16, 2005. Memorial services were held Tuesday, June 21, at Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home. Inurnment followed at Mountain View Cemetery. Bob was born in Reading, Pa., on Aug. ...

The Mountain Home Royals played seven games in six days last week, and came up winners in five of them in American Legion baseball games. Centennial Cannons 6 Mountain Home 4 Execution: It wins ball games. The Centennial Cannons put on a clinic in execution in their come-from-behind 6-4 win over the Mountain Home Royals on June 13 at Mountain Home...