Stories from Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Downtown Mountain Home was sealed off for just under two hours last Thursday afternoon after a bomb threat was received at the Idaho Youth Ranch. The incident occurred almost exactly two weeks after a similar threat had been received at another thrift store in town, the Salvation Army...

Mountain Home Community Transit will continue with the financial support of the Idaho Transportation Department and Treasure Valley Transit. Mountain Home City Council met in special session last week with representatives of Treasure Valley Transit and Idaho Transportation Department last week to discuss the future of Mountain Home Community Transit...

An unusual cluster of cases in southern Idaho of a rare brain disease, including an elderly man from Elmore County, is being investigated by the state health department. Five elderly women in the Twin Falls and Buhl area are suspected to have died from the disease, known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD). ...

A Mountain Home man working for Hiddleston Drilling was killed in a construction accident in Idaho City last Wednesday. Dan A. Czerwinski, 24, was riding on the rail cap of a drill rig that was drilling wells in a subdivision near Idaho City, greasing the rails, when the accident occurred...

The deadline to enter the 45th Annual Air Force Appreciation Day parade is this Friday. AFAD will be held Sept. 10 this year. Annually the largest event held in Elmore County, AFAD usually draws crowds of up to 10,000 people to watch the state's largest parade and enjoy the free barbecue and activities later in the day at Carl Miller Park. The day is a special tribute to the men and women of the armed forces and in particular those assigned to Mountain Home Air Force Base...

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds are continuing their show schedule and are still scheduled to perform at the Gunfighter Skies 2005 airshow the weekend after AFAD, despite two aircraft "trading paint" when they touched in flight during Saturday's Chicago Air and Water Show...

Overall, Supt. Tim McMurtrey is pleased with the results of the state-mandated achievement tests for students in the Mountain Home School District, even though, at a technical level, the district got a failing mark. District-wide, students scored well above the current state goals for reading and math skill performance on the Idaho Standards Achievement Tests (ISAT) last year, and hit almost exactly the state average for scores in those two areas...

Carl F. Hamilton, 85, of Mountain Home, died at a local care center on Monday, Aug. 22, 2005. Memorial services will be held Saturday, Aug. 27, at 11 a.m. at the American Baptist Church, 265 N. 4th East St., in Mountain Home. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, Mountain Home...

Sally Jane Lathrop, 65, died Aug. 18, 2005. Funeral services were held Monday, Aug. 22, at Shaffer-Jensen Memory Chapel, Payette, with Pastor Eldon Isaak officiating. Graveside services were held later that day at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home. Services and arrangements were under the direction of Shaffer-Jensen Memory Chapel, Payette...

Gene H. Crane, 89, of Glenns Ferry, died Monday, Aug. 22, 2005, at a local care facility in Mountain Home. Viewing will be held Thursday, Aug. 25, from 2-4 p.m. at Rost Funeral Home in Mountain Home. Graveside services will be held 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26, at Mountain View Cemetery in Pocatello. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home...

Thomas Alvin Grossman, 91, died Thursday, July 28, 2005, at Mountain View Health Services in Ogden, Utah. He was born May 30, 1914, in Hooker, Okla., the son of William and Mary Susan Kraft Mangold. He married Betty Ruth Poole on Dec. 4, 1959, in Loveland, Colo. She preceded him in death on Sept. 25,1997...

William R. Eveleigh, 77, of Mountain Home, died Aug. 20, 2005, of natural causes at a Boise hospital. He was born Jan. 16, 1928, in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, Canada, to Nathaniel and Charlotte Eveleigh. He was the second of seven children, four sons, and three daughters...

Dan Arnold Czerwinski, 24, of Mountain Home, died Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2005, due to a work accident. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Aug. 23, at Relyea Funeral Chapel, 318 N. Latah St., Boise. Internment followed at Dry Creek Cemetery. Dan was born May 30, 1981 at Mountain Home Air Force Base to Dale and Yoneko Czerwinski. He graduated from Borah High School in 1999...

The parents of Casey Fox and Narisha Heider have announced the couples' upcoming wedding. The nuptials will take place Aug. 27 in Elko, Nev. Casey is the son of Ardie McMonigle of Mountain Home and Bert Fox of Elko. Narisha is the daughter of Brenda and Vern Atwood of Ely, Nev...

Daniel A. and Laura R. Elliott of Mountain Home Air Force Base, announce the birth of a daughter. Hailey Brooke Elliott, was born July 27, 2005, at Mountain Home Air Force Base. She weighed 7 lbs. 12 oz. and was 20 ½ inches in length.

The Mountain Home Tigers open their boys soccer season with three games at home next week. Tiger boys soccer coach Andrew Kerr indicated that the turnout has been low so far. "Not as we had anticipated. Not as many as last year. Last year we had about 30 to 35 at this time. Right now it's at about 20, so we're probably going to have to cut the JV team, but we'll have to wait closer to the season opener to see if we'll have enough guys to have both teams."...

The Mountain Home High School girls soccer team opens its season next week with three games on the road. Carlos Jacome takes over the Mountain Home girls soccer program, after a few years away from it, and he was pleased with the turnout for soccer this year...

Mountain Home High School will have a new Activities Director when school opens this week. John Clark takes over the position for James Gilbert. Gilbert resigned to take an assistant principal position at the junior high. Clark, a Montana native, has taught at Mountain Home High School for five years, and has been an assistant football coach for the past six years, and has also coached JV baseball...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers open their 2005 volleyball season tomorrow (Thursday) night at Kuna. Sarah DeVore moves up this year from coaching the sophomores to take the varsity job. DeVore said they have had a great turnout for volleyball this year...

The Mountain Home Tigers open their 2005 football season at home Friday night against the Minico Spartans. Second year head coach Brian Floyd leads a Tiger squad that will be trying to improve upon last year's 5-4 record. Last Saturday afternoon saw the Tigers putting on a game-type scrimmage, with the White jerseys beating the Orange team 24-14. The Orange squad had led 14-6 at halftime...