Stories from Wednesday, September 24, 2008

The Mountain Home Tigers JV football team dropped a heartbreaker at Middleton last Friday, losing to the Vikings 22-21. The Tigers had things going their way in the first half, and led, 12-0 at halftime. The Tigers first touchdown came on a seven-yard run by Colton Zamora in the first quarter. Anthony Castillo scored from five yards out in the second quarter...

The Mountain Home Tigers came up with a tie and two losses in boys soccer action last week. Tigers 1 Emmett 1 The Tigers battled Emmett tough last Monday at Emmett in an SIC 4A conference game that ended in a 1-1 tie. Danny Snelgrow scored the Tiger goal off an assist by Sean O'Neill...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers dropped two conference matches last week, losing to Skyview at home, and Middleton at Middleton. Skyview 3 Mtn. Home 0 The Mountain Home Lady Tigers dropped an SIC 4A conference volleyball match to Skyview in three games last Tuesday night at the Junior High Gym in Mountain Home...

The Mountain Home Tigers came through with some good times at the prestigious Bob Firman Invitational meet at Eagle island State park Saturday. Alycia Crandall had her best time of the season, running 20:54, good enough for 15th in the varsity girls division, where the Mountain Home girls finished 19th...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers came away with two wins in three tries last week in girls soccer action. Mtn. Home 7 Emmett 2 Shianna Hawley scored five goals as the Mountain Home Lady Tigers downed Emmett, 7-2, in conference girls soccer last Tuesday at Eastside park in Mountain Home...

The Mountain Home Tigers improved to 3-0 on the season with a 21-6 win over the Middleton Vikings in their conference opener Friday night at Tiger Field in Mountain Home. Middleton's Dean Coombs ran back the opening kickoff to the Tiger 45-yard line, but a holding penalty wiped out the run, and the Vikings had to start on their own 15-yard line instead, where they went three-and-out and punted the ball to Mountain Home...

On Monday, Mountain Home High School reopened the school's gymnasium, following a two-month construction program to install a new roof. The new roof cost $1.5 million. The new gym's roof includes new metal trusses and open air ducts for air conditioning. The new roof will provide the school with no further water damage, which had been a problem with the previous curved roof...

Julia Regina Jones Smith, 87, formerly of King Hill, died Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008, at Gooding County Memorial Hospital after a short illness. She had been living at the Shoshone Rehabilitation Center in Shoshone for the past four years. No service is planned at this time. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

John Hobart Wilson (Swede), 83, formerly of Mountain Home, died Sept. 18, 2008, at his home in Odell, Ore. Hobart was preceded in death by his brother, Ernest E. Wilson, and sister, Effie (Wilson) Deming. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 26, at the American Legion Hall in Bruneau...

Charles Nathan Sharp, 65, of Hayden, Ala., formerly of Mountain Home, died Aug. 22, 2008. Rev. Jimmy Townsend conducted the services on Aug. 28 at Spring Creek Cemetery. Arrangements were by McClain-Hays Chapel. He was born Aug. 10, 1943, to Elmore and Mary Sharp and raised in Jones County. He made his home in Neshoba County most of his live. He had been a resident of Hayden, Ala., for the last three years...

Debora Lee Tiffin, 52, of Mountain Home, died peacefully on Aug. 9, 2008, surrounded by her family, after a long fight against breast cancer. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27, at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 1917 Third St., Napa, Calif. Arrangements are under the care of Richard Pierce Funeral Service, 1660 Silverado Trail, in Napa...

Betty J. "BJ" Darling, 82, of Mountain Home, died peacefully on Thursday, Sept.18, 2008, at a local care center. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 26, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Betty "BJ" Darling was born on Aug. 28, 1926, in Wichita, Kan., at St. Francis Hospital to Maria Frances (Leven) and Lyman Otto Gray...

Evelyn R. Logan, 89, of Mountain Home, formerly of Nampa, died Monday, Sept. 15, 2008, at a local hospital. At her request, no services are planned. Inurnment will be held next to her husband, at the Kohlerlawn Cemetery in Nampa. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...

Marvin "Eddie" E. Miller, Jr., 70, of Mountain Home and formerly of North Fort Myers, Fla., died at home on Sept. 17, 2008. A memorial service was held Monday, Sept. 22, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Military Honors were by American Legion Post #26 of Mountain Home...

Bert Arnold Landon, 74, of Mountain Home, died Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008, at his home following an illness. A viewing will be held, Wednesday, Sept. 24, from 5-7 p.m. at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Funeral Services will be held Thursday, Sept. 25, at 11 a.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Mountain Home Idaho Stake Center. Burial with military honors by American Legion Post #26, will follow at Mountain View Cemetery...

Dear editor: I would like to pass on a big thank you to one of our local businesses, Les Schwab. If there is a better bunch of people serving our local area I don't know who it would be. They are always so professional and so "on the ball." They take care of you immediately and always with a smile. I would nominate them for business of the year...

Dear editor: I agree with the letter to the editor by Mike Bradbury in the Sept. 17, 2008, paper except I think McCain is good, also. We sure need good conservative leadership in our government. I think McCain and Palin can give it to us. I hope everyone will get out and vote. We all have to study the issues and vote. If you do not vote, you cannot complain about the outcome...

Dear editor: What happened with change from the bottom up? If we want financial responsibility, we must begin with our lives. When we change how we do business, live our lives, we will see clearly the path to change government. CPR, financial rescue for Wall Street will only delay the natural consequences of our imploding system...

Dear editor: It is wonderful that we live in a country where we all have the right to speak freely. But we must remember that just because someone is speaking freely doesn't always mean that they are speaking truthfully. Sometimes people speak to their fears and their feelings rather than speaking to the realities that lay before them...

Dear editor: In 1998 a group of people decided to pursue a great idea for a small town in the middle of Idaho. That simple idea was to enhance our lives and the lives of our children's children with a recreational center where people could swim, play racquetball, basketball, aerobic fitness classes, climbing walls, and a multitude of other opportunities only limited by your imagination...

Imagine: You own half the properties on the board, have mortgaged half of them to put hotels on the Pennsylvania Avenue properties, and just landed on Boardwalk, with a hotel on it. Suddenly, you're broke. Are you out of the game? Not a chance. The "banker" is going to come to your rescue. He's going to buy all your bad debt from you (why you ever built a hotel on Baltic you'll never know, but you can finally get rid of that turkey now). And you'll get to keep Pennsylvania Avenue...

The location of the Oct. 7 scheduled hearing in the Atlanta Power case has been moved to the Atlanta Christian Chapel, 85 S. Quartz St. Because of facility limitations the hearing has been moved from the previously announced location at the Atlanta School...

Students from Mountain Home High School gathered Monday to pilot the Pinwheels For Peace program in celebration of International Peace Day, which took place on Sunday. Members of Artopia, the National Honors Society and several other students planted approximately 600 pinwheels in front of the school's annex...

Mountain Home police officer Sergeant Rick Viola was named the Citizen Patrol Coordinator of the Year by the National Association Citizens on Patrol on Sept. 6. Before moving to a different position in the department in June, Viola had been with the COP program since 1996...

The Elmore County Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a series of four public hearings concerning Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc.'s request to rezone approximately 1,345 acres of Agricultural A zoned property to a Heavy Industrial zone. The meetings, each scheduled to begin at 6: 30 p.m. at Mountain Home Junior High School's gym, will be held to the following subjects:...

September 17 • 01:15 DUI• 02:53 Vehicle Stop• 09:28 Animal• 09:37 Motorist Assist• 10:33 911 Hang-up• 13:21 Welfare• 13:35 Motorist Assist• 14:41 Unattended Death• 15:15 Traffic• 15:39 Vehicle Stop• 15:56 Civil• 16:30 Suspicious Circumstance• 16:45 Vehicle Stop• 16:58 Vehicle Stop• 17:14 Extra• 19:58 Collision Personal Injury• 21:42 Suspicious Circumstance. ...

A small fire in a couch at the Three Springs juvenile detention facility in Mountain Home caused approximately $1,000 damage to the facility, most from smoke and water damage. Fire crews were called out at 4:41 a.m. Wednesday morning but by the time they arrived the sprinkler system at the facility had already put the fire out...