Stories from Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The ninth grade boy's basketball team had a tough week, taking on the top two teams in the 5A ranks and dropping both games. The boys hosted Centennial on Tuesday and traveled to Eagle on Friday. In the Centennial game the young Tigers played tough man defense in the first half and held the Patriots to only 16 points, but poor shooting from both the field (25 percent) and from the foul line (29 percent) left the young Tigers behind at the half, 16-11...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers sophomores picked up wins against Columbia and Skyview last week. Mtn. Home 32 Columbia 31 Kelsey Egusquiza scored with six seconds left as the Mountain Home Lady Tigers battled back in the fourth quarter to edge Columbia 32-31 in conference sophomore girls basketball at Columbia last Thursday night...

The Mountain Home Tigers sophomores bounced back from a Bishop Kelly loss to edge Emmett last week in conference boys basketball games. Bishop Kelly 58 Mtn. Home 46 The Bishop Kelly Knights cashed in at the free-throw line in the fourth quarter to keep the Mountain Home Tigers at bay in a 58-46 sophomore boys basketball conference win at Mountain Home last Tuesday...

It was a tough week for the Mountain Home Lady Tigers JV girls basketball team, who dropped close games to Columbia and Skyview. Columbia 31 Mtn. Home 23 Mountain Home had a poor night putting the ball in the hoop at Columbia last Thursday, losing to the Lady Wildcats 31-23 in JV girls basketball...

The Mountain Home Tigers JV boys basketball team won two conference games last week. Tigers 42 Knights 40 The Mountain Home Tigers rallied in the fourth quarter to beat Bishop Kelly 42-40 last Tuesday night in JV boys basketball in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium in Mountain Home...

The Mountain Home Tigers are coming off a tough week of wrestling that saw them drop a conference dual to Nampa, and finish 26th at the quad-state Tiger-Griz Wrestling Tournament in Idaho Falls over the weekend. Nampa 42 Tigers 25 The Tigers had a few matches get away from them last Thursday night against Nampa, as they lost to the Bulldogs 42-25 in a conference dual in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium in Mountain Home...

Watch out Southern Idaho Conference! The Mountain Home Lady Tigers are starting to get their act together, and the results could be disastrous for the rest of the SIC 4A as the regular season winds down and the District III 4A Tournament gets underway...

The Mountain Home Tigers let two games get away from them last week, losing to Bishop Kelly and Emmett by identical 54-52 scores in conference boys basketball. Bishop Kelly 54 Mtn. Home 52 Anthony Loisate sank two free throws with 0.2 seconds left to lift the Bishop Kelly Knights past the Mountain Home Tigers 54-52 last Tuesday night in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium in Mountain Home...

Hugh Albert Peebler, 91, of Oasis, died Jan. 26, 2009. at his home. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home.

Loree Caroline McCain, 59, of Mountain Home, died Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009, at a Seattle Hospital. At her request, no formal services will be held.

Willa Pearl Dillon Kolenda, 63, of Glenns Ferry, died Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009, at her home. A celebration of her life will be held at a later date at the cemetery in Hazelton, Idaho, followed by a picnic. Willa was born in Ainsworth, Neb., on April 22, 1945. She was raised and schooled in Springview, Neb...

Jake Grass, Jr., 82, of Mountain Home, died at home on Jan. 20, 2009, surrounded by his family. A memorial service was held on Saturday, Jan. 24, at 3 p.m. at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, with military honors by American Legion Post #26. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...

Dana Pasto, 43, of Mountain Home, died peacefully at her home on Jan. 20, 2009. Services are being planned later this week at the Mountain Home Air Force Base Chapel. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Dana was born into a military family on May 1, 1965, in Honolulu, Hawaii, at Hickam Air Force Base, to Levi and Janice DeVerney...

Gordon L. Brown, 84, of Glenns Ferry, died with his family by his side at his home on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009, following an illness. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009, at 11 a.m. at Glenns Ferry High School, in the Gordon Brown Gymnasium. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...

Hailey Elizabeth Woods, 10, of Mountain Home, died Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009, at a Boise hospital. A viewing was held Thursday, Jan. 22, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Funeral mass was held Friday, Jan. 23, at Our Lady of Good Counsel and burial followed at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Dear editor: I am writing to correct the Jan. 21, 2009, letter to the editor by Diana Hooley. For the record, Idaho National Laboratory has no advisory or other role with the Alternative Energy Holdings, Inc., nuclear power plant proposal. Neither I nor INL has expressed any public opinion about the AEHI project...

Students from West Elementary School took part in the Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser last Wednesday, sponsored by the American Heart Association. Jump Rope for Heart is an event held to help raise awareness for two of the top three causes of death in the U.S., heart disease and stroke. The American Heart Association uses the money for public health education, professional education and training, and to do research...

Dear editor: Have you noticed the ponds at Legacy? They are filthy! I suggest we help clean these ponds. I know people agree, so why don't we? Yes, some will say it's to expensive and maybe someone will say Parks and Rec can't find enough people for the job. Money I can understand, but Parks and Re. doesn't seem to be doing their job...

Dear editor: I started out as a volunteer for the Blue Ribbon committee quite some years ago. First of all going house to house in my neighborhood to help determine the wants and needs interests in perhaps building a facility and you know what? I was just so happy to do this to begin with, what a wonderful opportunity to do a part for the community and then it happened...

Last year we explored a number of questions that each of us might ask to learn more about our schools (you will find those questions on my website archived newsletters). Education is certainly the largest budget item for you and me at the state level and for most of us likewise in our homes as we educated our children...

Dear editor: I am dismayed at the prospect of a 5 percent cut in the education budget for the coming year. The state is looking at three different areas in which they can try to save money and all of them adversely affect our children. The state is looking at shortening the school year as a way to make these cuts. ...

Dear editor: I have lived in Mountain Home six years and I have a wife and five-year-old son. Mountain Home is a great place to live and I look forward to raising my family here. Our state and national economies are in trouble. With a new administration, the Air Force base could once again face closure. ...

Overall, President Obama's selections to fill his cabinet have met with rave reviews, here and elsewhere. He's done a good job. But we have problems with two of them. New Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner may be well respected on both sides of the aisle in Congress, but when a man who "forgets" to pay his taxes for four years becomes head of the department that includes the IRS, some red flags have to be raised...

The 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games begin Feb. 7 but the Special Olympic spirit will come to Mountain Home next Wednesday, Feb. 4. The Special Olympic Flame of Hope, which resembles the Olympic Torch, will pass though Mountain Home at 2:20 p.m. that day...

January 21 • 00:21 Vehicle Stop, I-84 EB• 06:21 Vehicle Shop, Canyon Creek• 06:28 Vehicle Stop, Frontage Road• 07:14 Vehicle Stop, Beet Dump Road• 07:22 Vehicle Stop, Beet Dump Road• 07:26 Collision Personal Injury, Hwy 30• 08:09 Stop Arm Violation, Hwy 51• 08:37 Suspicious Circumstance, MH• 09:35 Suspicious Circumstance, MH• 09:58 Animal, Tipanuk• 10:12 Probable Subject, Hwy 51• 10:49 Fraud, Pine• 10:56 Vandalism, Glenns Ferry• 11:47 Vehicle Stop, Hwy 20• 12:51 Vehicle Stop, Glenns Ferry• 13:06 Domestic, MH• 13:20 Animal, MH• 14:14 Domestic, MH• 15:07 Assault/Battery, MH• 15:18 Traffic, I-84 WB• 15:29 Vehicle Stop, I-84 WB• 16:26 Vehicle Stop, Hwy 30• 17:13 Vehicle Stop, Glenns Ferry• 17:21 Collision Property Damage, MH• 17:27 Vehicle Stop, Glenns Ferry• 19:04 Motorist Assist, Hwy 20• 20:12 Vehicle Stop, Glenns Ferry• 20:35 Vehicle Stop, I-84• 23:26 Vehicle Stop, I-84 EB. ...

Volunteer John Gross and outgoing president Deb Swearingen were named the Mountain Home Chamber of Commerce Man and Woman of the Year, respectively, during Saturday night's annual Chamber installation banquet. The banquet had a "new car" smell to it as it was held at Mountain Home Auto Ranch, where owner Todd McCurry had cleared out the cars from his showroom display to provide space for the banquet, which drew more than 200 attendees to the gala semi-formal affair...

It was a day of remembrance last Wednesday at West Elementary School as family, friends and students gathered to remember the life of six-year-old Dustin McClure. Dustin died last January after choking on a dart-like toy he received for Christmas. See the Mountain Home News for the complete story...