Stories from Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Mountain Home High School's Encore Company will present "The Magical Lamp of Aladdin," Oct. 23-25 starting at 7 p.m. in the high school gym. "The Magical Lamp of Aladdin," a story by Tim Kelly, is a story of Aladdin, his monkey sidekick, Alakazam, and the beautiful Princess Jasmine...

The Mountain Home Lady Tiger JV volleyball team finished second at the annual Lyle Petty Volleyball Classic at Borah High School on Sept. 13. The Lady Tigers won their morning pool play by beating the JVs from Timberline, Columbia and Meridian. In afternoon pool play they kept it up, beating Mountain View, Centennial and Boise...

The Mountain Home Tigers freshman football team suffered their first loss of the season when they lost to Columbia 61-21 last Thursday at Tiger Field in Mountain Home. Columbia shot out to an early 14-0 lead, but the Tigers battled back to tie the game at 14-14 midway through the second quarter. Columbia scored two times before halftime to take a 28-14 lead at the half. Columbia had a big fourth quarter to do in the Tigers, 61-21...

The Mountain Home Tigers JV football team evened their season record at 2-2 with a 42-6 win over the Columbia Wildcats JV last Thursday night at Tiger Field in Mountain Home. Anthony Castillo put the Tigers on the scoreboard in the first quarter, going five yards for a touchdown. Mountain Home led 7-0 after a quarter...

The Mountain Home Junior Varsity girls soccer team will host the 2008 4A district JV soccer tournament Oct. 10-11 at Eastside Park. In addition to Mountain Home, Bishop Kelly, Columbia, Middelton, Kuna, Skyview and Nampa teams will take part in the single-elimination tournament...

The Mountain Home JV boys soccer team remains undefeated on the season after winning the last three games. With a record of 10-0 Mountain Home is currently in first place in conference play. Tigers 2 Columbia 1 Mountain Home battled Columbia at home Sept. 22. Ben Cumber and Jalen Gibbons scored for the Tiger JV. Goalies Tomas Guillen had six saves on goal and Gerardo Salinas had five saves...

The Mountain Home Tigers came away with a win in three games last week in boys soccer. Tigers 4 Columbia 0 The Mountain Home Tigers pulled away in the second half to down the Wildcats 4-0 last Monday. Christian Figueroa and Fernando Salas combined for 11 saves in the shutout. Eloy Guadarrama scored two goals, and Danny Snelgrow and Logan Whitney scored goals for Mountain Home...

It was a rough week for the Mountain Home Lady Tigers last week as they started the second time through their conference volleyball schedule. Emmett 3 Mtn. Home 0 Mountain Home failed to get any kind of a rhythm going last Tuesday nigh against Emmett, as they lost in three straight games to the Lady Huskies in conference volleyball in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium...

The Mountain Home girls cross country team finished a close third at last Friday's cross country meet at Salmon. Teton and Idaho Falls tied for first with 52 points, Mountain Home was a point behind with 53. There were seven teams entered in the meet...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers extended their current win streak to four with three wins last week in girls soccer action. Lady Tigers 3 Columbia 0 The Mountain Home Lady Tigers shut out Columbia last Monday at Columbia in conference girls soccer...

The Mountain Home Tigers showed what they were made of Friday night at Columbia, battling back from a 21-7 deficit in the final six minutes to force overtime, and then win, 29-27, in overtime over the Columbia Wildcats in conference football. After Mountain Home went three-and-out on their opening series, the Wildcats moved the ball 81 yards in 10 plays, Spencer Hall running it in from five yards out...

Richard W. Hyatt, 68, of Mountain Home, died Sept. 26, 2008, surrounded by his family. A celebration of his life was held earlier this week. "If you didn't make the service, raise a Henry's and toast a great man," his family said. He was one of the best meteorologists in the US Navy, his family noted. "He was so good, on his retirement he helped out the US Air Force...

Stephen "Steve" Paul Viola, 47 of Palm Springs, Calif., formerly of Mountain Home, died Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008, at a family home in Mountain Home. Funeral services will be held on Friday, Oct. 3, at 11 a.m. at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home...

Andrea Lynn (Hinton) Oakland, 46, of Mountain Home, died at home of natural causes in Mountain Home, on Sept. 24, 2008. Memorial services will be held today, Wednesday, Oct. 1, at 1 p.m. at McMurtrey Chapel Rost Funeral Home. Andrea was born on July 15, 1962, in Buchenbeuren, West Germany. ...

John "Johnny" A. Willis, 95, of Mountain Home, died Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008, at a local hospital. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Oct. 4, at 11 am at Mountain Home Junior High, 1600 E. 6th South St., in Mountain Home. Following the service the family will greet friends at the Masonic Hall, 320 N. 8th East St. in Mountain Home...

This was a really bad week for John McCain. After declaring that America's economy was in great shape, even as it melted down around him, he spent much of last week putting spin on his remarks and flip-flopping so fast voters were getting dizzy trying to keep up (as an example, saying on Wednesday he supported the AIG bailout and less than 12 hours later on Thursday saying he opposed it). ...

The 13th annual Fall Harvest Festival, organized by the Mountain Home Chamber of Commerce Merchants Committee, will take place this Saturday, Oct. 4, starting at 10 a.m. and concluding at 3 p.m. Entertainment for the event will feature a Cow Pie Bingo (sponsored by the Beta Zeta Club), the Optimist Cheerleaders, the Hula Girl and Rattlesnake Creek (which will open and close the festival). For the kids there will be Don's Mini Train and two new attractions, a petting zoo and a Kid's Fun Maze...

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The Elmore County Planning and Zoning Commission will hold the first of a series of four public hearings on Oct. 8, next Wednesday, concerning Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc.'s request to rezone approximately 1,345 acres of Agricultural A zoned property to a Heavy Industrial zone...

Snake River Alliance executive director Andrea Shipley has a list of reasons she opposes Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc.'s request to rezone approximately 1,345 acres of Agricultural A zoned property to Heavy Industrial to build a nuclear power plant on the land...

Don Gillispie, chairman and CEO of Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc., is hoping to convince the Elmore County Planning and Zoning Commission to rezone approximately 1,345 acres of Agricultural A zoned property to Heavy Industrial to build a nuclear power plant on the land...