Stories from Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The Cheer Basket Program, which provides food for the needy during the Christmas season, will be scaling back considerably this year. The project, which has faced declining donation support of food and money in recent years, will be shifting the focus to churches and food banks to provide the help people need, supplementing that assistance with a $15 voucher...

As citizens begin tightening their belts due to the nation's economic meltdown, so will the city of Mountain Home. Mayor Tom Rist has ordered all departments in the city to begin looking at ways of cutting costs -- without reducing essential services or laying anyone off...

The Elmore Medical Center Hospital/LTCU Auxiliary will host a Book and Gift Fair in the hospital's main lobby conference room Dec. 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event is designed to raise funds for auxiliary projects, which typically involve the purchase of equipment for the hospital, amenity improvements for the patient rooms, or activities for the long-term care unit...

The annual ESA Christmas Bazaar will be held at North Elementary School on Dec. 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be a large variety of vendors as well as Alpha Omicron chapter's famous sloppy joes, hot dogs and pies. For more information contact Gail Banner at 587-7301 or Rowena Hawley at 587-5347...

There will be a Red Cross blood drive from 12:30 to 5 p.m. on Dec. 1 at the LDS Stake Center Gym located on 1150 N 8th E. To schedule an appointment or to get more information, call Pat Eagley at 580-2389 or JoAnn Henrick at 587-8125.

Dear editor: Elmore County, aka Alturas County, has a history of providing and transporting what was needed. Early it provided gold and silver, later it provided wool and beef and now it is providing energy. The Oregon Trail is a good example of early transportation in the county. Currently the hydro, natural gas, and wind turbine electric plants are obvious energy providers...

Dear editor: I've lived here in Mountain Home for many years and given the recent fluctuation in gas prices, I'd like for you to answer one question for me.  Actually, I'd like for the gas station owners in Mountain Home to explain to the local consumers why we have to pay 30 cents more per gallon than folks living in Boise. ...

Dear Mountain Home: My name is Dominique Miguel Ramirez. I am a 19-year-old native resident of Mountain Home who is currently living at the North Idaho Correctional Institution. On Jan. 28, 2008, as many will recall, I committed a felony related to Airman Pawn and the local liquor store. Though my intention in the ordeal was to get help for my own addictions, the way that I chose to go about it was much more harmful than I intended. I've now fully realized how wrong this action was...

Noah Gravenmier and Shaynean Jessen were united in marriage Oct. 11, 2008, in Mountain Home. The Catholic ceremony was conducted by Rev. Paul Mott at the Protestant River of Life Family Center. The entire family of both the bride and the groom attended...

Penelope J. Reyes, 27, of Mountain Home, died Nov. 20, 2008. A viewing was held Monday, Nov. 24. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Nov. 25, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home. A private family inurnment will be held at the Emmett Cemetery in Emmett at a later date...

Carolene Reeves Horst, 92, of Hammett, died Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, at Poplar Grove Assisted Living in Glenns Ferry. Memorial services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 28, 2008, at Hammett Community Church. Inurnment will be held later in the spring or summer of 2009. Services are under the direction of Demaray's Gooding Chapel...

Eric Rene Robin, 13, of Mountain Home, died Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, at his home. A memorial service was held Tuesday, Nov. 25, at the Mountain Home Idaho Stake Center, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Eric was born to Jennifer Robin and James McCreight. ...

Nancy Feeney, 95, of Grand View, died Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008, at a local hospital. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Nov. 29, at noon at the Knight Community Church in Grand View. A luncheon will be held at the church following the service...

Karl Arthur Kreutzer, III, 52, of Mountain Home, died Nov. 21, 2008. A memorial service will take place at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel at 11 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 28. Military honors will be provided by the Mountain Home AFB honor guard. Following the service, a time of fellowship will be held at the First Southern Baptist Church. Condolences may be sent to the family in care of Rost Funeral Home...

Shirley J. Lopez, 78, of Grand View, died Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008, at her home. A memorial service will be held Monday, Dec. 1, at 1 p.m. at Knight Community Church in Grand View. Arrangements are the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home...

Elva Guisasola, 93, of Mountain Home, died Monday, Nov. 24, 2008, at a care center in Meridian. Arrangements are the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home.

Lois Ruth Isaacson-Wagoner, 78, of Boise, died Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, at her home, following an illness. A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 26, at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

SSgt. Bryan and Jamie Anderson, of Mountain Home Air Force Base, have announced the birth of their son, Aiden Riley. Aiden was born Oct. 29, 2008 at Saint Luke's Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. He weighed 6 pounds, 11 ounces and was 19 inches long...

Beverly K. Davis and Chris L. Corbus have announced the birth of their daughter, Kynlee Michelle Corbus. Kynlee was born at Saint Luke's Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho on Oct. 25, 2008. She weighed eight pound and was 21 inches long at birth...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers broke into the win column Saturday afternoon with a home win over Wood River. They dropped close games to Jerome and Timberline earlier in the week. Jerome 39 Mtn. Home 28 The Mountain Home Lady Tigers played Jerome tough, but lost to the visiting Lady Tigers 39-28 last Tuesday night in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers junior varsity basketball team has one win to their credit after their first four ballgames. Mtn. View 50 Mtn. Home 27 Mountain Home opened their junior varsity basketball season against Mountain View on Nov. 15, losing to the Lady Mavericks 50-27...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers sophomore basketball team snapped a two-game losing skid with a 19-18 win over Wood River last Saturday afternoon in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium. Mountain Home trailed 4-2 after a quarter and 8-6 at the half. It was 16-16 after three quarters. Mountain Home managed to outscore the Lady Wolverines 3-2 in the fourth to claim the 19-18 win...

Sisters Taylin and Alexah Carbajal both placed first at the 41st Idaho State University Tokai Judo Tournament on Nov. 15. Taylin won the six-year-old, 45 pound division and ten-year old Alexah won the 65 pound weight division in the nine and ten-year-old age division...

Five Mountain Home seniors and four Rimrock seniors are preparing for Saturday's El Korah Shrine District III Senior All-Star Football games at Eagle High School. Due to the BSU game on Friday night the games have been moved to Saturday. Playing in the eight-man football game that starts at 11 a.m. Saturday will be Rimrock Raiders TJ Snyder, Sam Richardson, Alex Meyers and Antonio Ayala. Rimrock Raiders football coach Jim Clark also will be coaching the game...

The 366th Fighter Wing's Annual Holiday Cookie Drive will take place during the first part of December to provide Airmen deployed from Mountain Home Air Force Base and dorm residents a taste of home in the form of a dozen cookies this holiday season...