Stories from Wednesday, July 9, 2008

The third round of the 2008 United States Rally Championships begin in Mountain Home July 10. For more information, see the {http://mountainidhomenews.id.newsmemory.com/Mountain Home News}.

In a busy week of baseball, the Mountain Home Royals won five of seven games and finished fifth at the Firecracker Invitational in Boise. Royals 11 Capitals 1 The Royals opened a busy week with a home game against the Boise Capitals Tuesday night and took advantage of the Capitals' pitchers' inability to find the plate to down the visitors 11-1 in six innings...

Toby C. Bare, 49, of Salt Lake City, formerly of Mountain Home, died June 8, 2008, while visiting his sister in Montana. Service arrangements were not announced. Cremation was handled by Big Sky Cremations of Helena, Mon. He was born Oct. 11, 1958, to George and Janice Bare...

Joe C. Adcock, 90, of Boise, formerly of Mountain Home, died Wednesday, June 25, 2008, at the home of his daughter, after a long, hard-fought battle with cancer. Memorial services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 3, 2008 at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home. Inurnment will follow at the Zion Cemetery in Lincoln, Ill., July 10...

Barbara South Jones, 84, of Mountain Home, died Thursday, July 3, 2008, at a local care center. A graveside service was held Tuesday, July 8, at Evergreen Cemetery in Springville, Utah. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home and Wheeler Mortuary in Springville, Utah...

Charles William (Sam) South, 56, formerly of Elmore County, died June 12, 2008, at his home in Chicago, Ill. A memorial service was held Monday, June 23, at Summers Funeral Homes, Boise Chapel. Arrangements were by Summers Funeral Home, Boise Chapel...

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cobb of Tonopah, Nev., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Ciara Jane Cobb to Tell Sallee, son of Chuck Salle, of Wells, Nev., and Sheila Brierley of Indian Hills, Colo. Ciara is a former resident of Pine and a 2003 Tonopah High School graduate. She attended Great Basin College in Elko and is currently in the nursing program at the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls...

Representatives from the Snake River Alliance held a meeting Tuesday night in Mountain Home to discuss views on the nuclear plant proposed by Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc., to be built in Elmore County. For more information, see the Home News...

Elmore Medical Center will conduct a community survey next week to help determine what health-care services are most wanted by area residents. For more information, see the {http://mountainidhomenews.id.newsmemory.com/Mountain Home News}.

Dear editor: In response to James E. Cooper's letter, dated June 25, 2008. This letter, written to Mr. Gillispie and a similar such letter printed in the July 2 edition of the "Mountain Home News" contains seriously misleading comments gathered as hear-say by Dr. Cooper. Some of his statements allege to my own "involvement" with certain parties and events during the June 16 meeting in Glenns Ferry...

Dear editor: I was shocked to see that your newpaper saw fit to publish the slanderous and thinly veiled propaganda coming from Mr. Don Gillispie and his Alternate Energy Holdings Inc. The Snake River Alliance found this letter from a Dr. James E. Cooper on a rather unscrupulous blog last week and had a good laugh at the utter absurd mis-characterizations by Mr. Cooper regarding our presence at the "public" meeting held by Mr. Gillispie in Glenns Ferry on June 18th...

Last week, we ran a story about the city preparing to purchase some electric cars (mini-trucks actually). This is a great move by the city and besides being very "green" it reflects what the future of the 21st century is going to look like. Oil prices aren't going to go down. ...

This year's Idaho State Championship Chili Cookoff will be held in Carl Miller Park in Mountain Home on Saturday, July 25, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free to the event. Entertainment during the cookoff will be provided by the band "Third Take." A 50/50 raffle is planned...

The Friends of the Library will hold two book sales this month, one on July 12 and the other on July 19. Both sales will be held from 9 a.m. until noon, on the "front porch" of the Mountain Home Public Library. "This huge collection of books will be sold at just $2 per bag," organizers said...

A motorcyclist from Twin Falls was killed July 6 on the South Pine-Featherville Road near High Prairie Road. Toni Barnes was traveling along the road at about 6:17 p.m. when the 2000 Harley Davidson motorcycle she was driving went off the east side of the roadway, flipping twice and landing on the other side of a barbed wire fence...

Mountain Home fire crews responded Monday night to a fire near Meadows Trailer Park that triggered a precautionary evacuation of one section of the park. For more information, see the Mountain Home News...

This year's 4th of July Festival in Carl Miller Park was among the most attended in the event's history.

At 2:30, two brush fires took place in Mountain Home. The first fire was located at 2395 American Legion Boulevard. Reportedly, the fire was started due to a power pole that fell over and the cables from the pole sparked the area in flame. The second fire was located near in the empty field near the Pilot gas station. The source of the fire is unknown...

Coleen Hannigan had an unexpected visitor in her bedroom July 4 -- a car. Shortly after 6 p.m. that day, Thomas Curren, 21, of Mountain Home, was traveling west on American Legion Boulevard when his vehicle struck on the driver's side approximately five dividing lane pylons used by construction crews to direct traffic...