Stories from Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Doug Belt tendered his resignation as a director during the regular November meeting of the Board of Directors of the Western Elmore County Recreation District. See Mountain Home News for complete story

The annual Giving Tree program deadline to donate gifts is Dec. 15 Directed by the Chamber of Commerce, the program is designed to provide gifts to area needy families at Christmas. Each year hundreds of area families are served by the project. Giving Trees are set up in a number of locations around town. ...

The decision to shut down Cam8, the local public access channel, is long overdue. For years, both the quantity and quality of programming has been on the decline. Several of the previous station managers were disasters in terms of running the operation, handling its finances and public relations. ...

Elva Adele Guisasola, 93, of Mountain Home, died Nov. 24, 2008, at a Meridian care center. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Dec. 2, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Burial followed at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home. Elva (nickname "Jim" by her father) was born on a ranch in the Bruneau Valley on Aug. 25, 1915, the oldest of nine children of Madison and Charlotte (Dunham) Ramsey...

Hilma L. Cline, 88, of Mountain Home, died Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008, at a local care center.  A viewing will be held Wednesday, Dec. 3, from 4-6 p.m. at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel.  Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 4, at Faith Lutheran Church, 1190 N. 6th East St. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery...

Marilyn Black, 75, of Bruneau, died Friday, Nov. 28, 2008, in Mountain Home, surrounded by her children and grandchildren, after a 17-year battle with brain cancer. A viewing will be held for family and friends from 4-6 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 4, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, Mountain Home, with a rosary following at 6 p.m...

Clarence Dan Sather, 54, of Mountain Home, died at a Boise hospital Nov. 27, 2008. Services will be held Wednesday Dec. 3, beginning at 11 a.m. at Liberty Christian Fellowship, 3195 Airbase Rd., in Mountain Home. A viewing at 10 a.m. will precede the services. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery...

Kellie Patricia Hiler and Thomas Brandon Whitlow exchanged marriage vows on Aug. 9, 2008. The ceremony was held at St. John The Apostle Catholic Church in Oregon City, Ore. A reception was held immediately following at The Museum of The Oregon Territory. Music was by Keegan Smith and the Fam. The reception included provided an open bar, a buffet dinner, and dancing...

Robbie and Sharon Robinson will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Dec. 7. The couple were married on Dec. 7, 1958, in Mountain Home. The Robinson children, along with their spouses and children, will host an open house for the couple on Saturday, Dec. 6, from 1-5 p.m. at the Mountain Home RV Park meeting room at 2295 American Legion Blvd. All friends of the couple are being invited to celebrate the milestone. Organizers request no gifts...

by Michael Nowotny Mountain Home News Mountain Home resident Ben Ceccarelli and his three-year-old smooth fox terrier, Cash, will soon take part in the prestigious American Kennel Club/Eukanuba National Championship. Ben and Cash, a competitor in the Junior Showmanship class, will join a field of 154 other junior handlers in this year's event...

Dear editor: Leonard Hutterman's recent letter in the Mountain Home News is thought-provoking and will surely increase discussion of our region's and nation's energy future. While we agree with many of Mr. Hutterman's statements about the need for a balanced energy portfolio in Elmore County, we should clarify some of his assertions about nuclear and renewable energies...

Residents from all over Mountain Home lined up on American Legion Boulevard for this year's Holiday Parade of Lights organized by the Mountain Home Chamber of Commerce/Retail Merchants Committee. The theme for the parade was "Christmas Around The World."...

Janice A. Bryant, 72, of Mountain Home, died Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008, at a Boise hospital, following an illness. A graveside memorial service will be held on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008, at 10 a.m. at the Mountain View Cemetery. Janice was born on Sept. 18, 1936, in Butte, Mont., to Hazel and Todd Larsen. Her father was a contractor, they moved all over the country. She later met Ray Greer. They eloped to Las Vegas and then moved to Hawaii, where they started a family. They had four children...

Arson is suspected in a fire that caused minor damage to the basement of the Los Primos restaurant on Main Street in Mountain Home on Thanksgiving Day. The fire was reported at 3:55 p.m. by people who noticed smoke coming from the basement while they were setting up for a party at the restaurant's first-floor meeting room...

The Mountain Home Tigers open their 2008-2009 boys basketball season tonight at home against the Mountain View Mavericks in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium. Tiger head basketball coach Tony Kerfoot lost six seniors to graduation from last year's squad, which went 8-15 overall...

Mountain Home Tiger senior quarterback Kyle Kerfoot passed for two touchdowns to lead the East all stars past the West all stars 27-9 Saturday in the District III El Korah Shrine All Star Football Game at Eagle High School. Kerfoot, who had a great year running the Mountain Home Tiger offense, helping them to a third-place effort in the 4A state playoffs, passed for 162 yards and two touchdowns in the East win...

November 19 • 01:27 Traffic• 02:53 Vehicle Stop• 06:38 Vehicle Stop• 06:43 Vehicle Stop• 08:00 Traffic• 08:39 Death• 10:14 Theft• 10:33 Suspicious Circumstance• 11:06 Alarm Law• 12:56 Collision Property Damage• 15:28 Vehicle Stop• 16:42 Animal• 16:50 Abandoned Vehicle• 17:26 Stolen Vehicle• 17:37 Runaway• 19:04 Vehicle Stop• 21:15 Vehicle Stop• 21:37 Vehicle Stop• 22:01 Vehicle Stop• 23:53 Hazard. ...

November 26 • 05:38 Theft• 08:22 Vehicle Stop• 08:30 Abandoned Vehicle• 08:34 Fraud• 08:49 Hazard• 08:51 Fraud• 08:53 Motorist Assist• 09:20 Break In• 11:30 Motorist Assist• 11:37 Civil Matter• 13:10 Vehicle Stop• 13:17 Hazard• 13:27 Vehicle Stop• 13:35 Vehicle Stop• 13:43 Vehicle Stop• 13:50 Vehicle Stop• 14:00 Search Warrant• 14:13 Traffic• 14:46 Traffic• 14:48 Traffic• 15:08 Traffic• 16:07 Vehicle Stop• 16:28 Assist• 17:17 Traffic• 17:35 Vehicle Stop• 17:45 Civil Matter• 18:42 Collision Property Damage• 18:58 Motorist Assist• 19:09 Hazard• 19:25 Harassment• 19:36 Vehicle Stop• 20:04 Traffic• 20:05 Suspicious• 21:47 Suspicious• 22:10 Traffic• 23:02 Harassment• 23:04 Medical• 23:14 Vehicle Stop. ...

Santa is now collecting letters written to him by local children. Fire Chief Phil Gridley, designated by Santa to be his head elf locally for helping answer mail to the North Pole, is checking the Santa's Mailbox set up outside of the Mountain Home News office every day now...