Stories from Wednesday, January 21, 2009

The ninth-grade boy's basketball team had a good week, winning two of the three games they played. The boys defeated Columbia and Skyview, while they lost to Caldwell. On Tuesday, the young Tigers took on the Wildcats of Columbia. Using a fast break offense and smothering defense the Tigers jumped out to a 26-11 halftime lead. ...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers sophomores came away with a split of last week's conference girls basketball games. Nampa 43 Mtn. Home 33 Nampa outscored Mountain Home 14-6 in the second quarter and it proved costly to the Lady Tigers, who lost at Nampa last Tuesday, 43-33...

The Mountain Home Tigers returned to the win column last week, picking up two wins in conference sophomore boys basketball Tigers 36 Skyview 33 Mountain Home battled Skyview tough last Tuesday night at Skyview, holding off the Hawks 36-33 in conference boys basketball...

Mountain Home Elks Lodge #2276 held its annual Hoop Shoot Competition Jan. 17. "We had some new and repeat faces this year of the youth that won in their individual school competitions" said Hoop Shoot Chairman Larry Fincher. Schools represented this year were North Elementary, Bruneau Elementary, East Elementary, West Elementary, Hacker Middle School, Grand View and Rimrock...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers JV came away with a split of their conference girls basketball games last week, losing at Nampa but winning at home against Kuna. Nampa 29 Mtn. Home 18 A bad third quarter did the Lady Tigers in at Nampa last Tuesday, as they lost 29-18 in conference girls basketball action...

The Mountain Home Tigers JV boys basketball team split their games last week, losing a close one at Skyview and winning at home against Columbia. Skyview 46 Tigers 41 The Tigers had their win streak snapped at Skyview last Tuesday night, coming up short to the Hawks, 46-41 in JV boys basketball...

The losing skid reach two before Mountain Home ended it with a win over Kuna Friday night at home. Nampa 50 Mtn. Home 44 Scoring lapses hurt the Mountain Home Lady Tigers last Tuesday night at Nampa as they fell to the Nampa Lady Bulldogs 50-44 in conference girls basketball...

In a busy week of wrestling, the Mountain Home Tigers claimed two of three dual match wins, and finished fifth at the Madison Wrestling Tournament over the weekend in Rexburg. Tigers 44 Parma 30 The Tigers won nine of 14 matches with the Parma Panthers last Tuesday night in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium to beat the Panthers 44-30...

Two nights after seeing their win streak snapped at three, the Mountain Home Tigers bounced back strong with a big win over the Columbia Wildcats. Skyview 72 Tigers 51 The Mountain Home Tigers came out with a vengeance at Skyview last Tuesday night, hoping to knock off the unbeaten Skyview Hawks, and gave the Hawks a battle but lost 72-51...

Kerrie-Lynn Raines, a K-2 Special Ed Teacher at Mountain Home Primary School has been named the CapEd, Capital Educators Federal Credit Union, Teacher Grant winner for December in the Teacher of the Month program. She was named in the large school category and was awarded a $750 grant to help her purchase the "Touch Math" curriculum for her second-grade students. The presentation of the award, made last week, had been postponed from last month due to weather and the holiday break...

Ida Mae Wilder, 81, of Chico, Calif., formerly of Mountain Home, died Jan. 10, 2009, in Chico. Memorial services were held Jan. 16 at Newton-Bracewell Chico Funeral Home. She was born Aug. 19, 1927, in Guthrie, Okla., to Howard and Hattie Long. She married her husband, Marvin L. Wilder, on June 10, 1944, in Los Angeles, Calif...

Hailey Elizabeth Woods, 10, of Mountain Home, died Jan. 18, 2009, at St. Luke's Regional Medical Center, A funeral mass will be held Friday, Jan. 23, beginning at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery...

Paul James Black, 96, of Bruneau, died Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009, on his mother's birthday. Services will be celebrated on the anniversary of his son Mike's birthday and his granddaughter Karen's birthday, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009, with a viewing at 11 a.m. and funeral services at noon at the Bruneau American Legion. Burial will follow at the Bruneau Cemetery in Bruneau and then a potluck dinner back at the American Legion...

Betty May Davison, 83, of Mountain Home and Prairie, died Friday, Jan. 16, 2009, at her home in Mountain Home. Services were held Tuesday, Jan. 20, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home. Burial will be held at the Prairie Cemetery, in Prairie, today, Wednesday, Jan. 21, at 11 a.m...

Randy Lynn Bevell, 50, of Mountain Home, died Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009, at a local care center. A memorial service will be held on Thursday, Jan. 22, at 11 a.m. at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home. Randy was born on Oct. 16, 1958, in Tucson, Ariz., the son of Jackie and Carolyn Bevell. He was schooled in California...

Lonnie Calvin Luttrell, 79, of Mountain Home, died of natural causes Jan. 17, 2009, at a local nursing home. A celebration of Lon's life, and military honors by Mountain Home Air Force Base Honor Guard, will be held at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, on Saturday, Jan. 24, at 11 a.m. Services will be officiated by the Rt. Rev. Brian Thom, Bishop of Idaho, and Rev. P.A. Bergh. Inurnment will be held at a later date at the Idaho Veteran's Cemetery in Boise...

Dear editor: I am very unhappy with all the negative things being said and written concerning the WECRD. I think the directors put in a tremendous amount of hours (for free) and effort to handle the amount of work and detail involved in trying to get ideas, grants, etc., to begin construction on Phase I of the Recreation center as soon as possible...

Dear editor: A couple of months ago I read an article, written by a young man who expressed the need for the new youth center. He complained of the general lack of things for kids to do in Mountain Home. Also, that the current youth center's location, may have contributed to him becoming a smoker. Having grown up in Mountain Home myself, and now a father, I can fully understand the need for more youth activities...

Dear editor: Alternative Energy Holding Inc. (AEHI) has promised the community 500 permanent, high-paying jobs and increased wealth to be spread among public facilities and private business. But benefits can only begin to be realized if Elmore County agrees to support and permit a nuclear power plant on a piece of farm ground in Hammett...

No one will be happy this year! On this second day of the 2009 session I have already heard that it is my fault. The Fish and Game Department wants to increase fees to cover their portion of federal matching dollars directed at non-game programs. That is oversimplified I know. ...

Area emergency services first responders have expressed concern recently that far too many people are not paying attention to their lights and sirens. As they rush to help people in desperate need, too many people recently have failed to pull over, to clear the way for those trying to get to the scene of an accident, fire or medical emergency as quickly as possible...

Barack Obama enters office as the 44th president of the United States with the American public's -- and world's -- expectations at an all-time high. Perhaps it is in the nature of the man who has been described as a political rock star that his inauguration has drawn such compelling interest both domestically and internationally. We can't remember the last time people were on gluing themselves to a TV set to watch a president take the oath of office...

Supporters of the Western Elmore Country Recreation District have started wearing blue ribbons and displaying blue ribbons in their homes shortly after a group of citizens met to began work to dissolve the district. The blue ribbons symbolize the Blue Ribbon Committee, WECRD volunteer Charles Kennedy said. The Blue Ribbon Committee was the forerunner to what became the district...

Allen Jamison retired from the Air Force in November 2007. Since then, he said he's made three trips to the Boise VA Medical Center. "It would be a whole lot nicer if we had something closer," he said, adding he doesn't go to Boise very often because he doesn't like to drive in the city...

Fire Chief Phil Gridley, along with members of the MHFD and several other local volunteers, began a test run with their new portable hospital Thursday. The hospital that will serve as a secondary facility to treat patients during an emergency situation...

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A 10-year-old Mountain Home girl, Hailey Elizabeth Woods, was killed Sunday afternoon when she fell off her bicycle into the path of a teenage motorcyclist, was struck, and died later that night at a a Boise hospital. Woods is the daughter of James Woods, Jr., and his wife, Amy, and Christina Cnudde and her husband, Gary...

Local Mountain Home elementary student Haley Andrews recently joined 11 other K-8 students from across the state as winners of the 2009 "What We Love About America" calendar contest. The "What We Love About America" contest, is a statewide poster contest where students are asked to portray what they love about America...