Stories from Wednesday, April 29, 2009

The Mountain Home Arts Council is facing significant financial difficulties as a result of the faltering economy, and is appealing for patrons to come forward with additional donations to help it get through the rest of its fiscal year. The council supports local arts programs and activities and sponsors a number of cultural events, plays and concerts in the community each year...

The 62nd annual Camp Wilson Boy Scout Jamboree and barbecue will be held this weekend in the mountains above Pine. The annual event typically features more than 100 Boys Scouts from throughout the region gathering for three days of fun and skill competitions, the event concluding on Sunday with the barbecue provided by local volunteers. The public is invited to attend the barbecue. Funds raised from the feed are used to support a number of scholarships and other youth causes...

Dear editor: The promoters for the proposed nuclear power plant have used the promise of jobs and money to strike an emotional chord in a down economy. But who are these people really and can they deliver the goods or are they just salesmen preying on people's needs?...

Dear editor: This is an extremely hard letter to write. I have disagreed with you on numerous occasions but have never before put it in writing. I will do my best to keep it printable. Where do you get your information? Are you aware that a plot to hit LA's tallest building was thwarted with the info that was obtained? It was also stated that the plot on the Brooklyn Bridge was discovered during one of these sessions. ...

Dear editor: I could not disagree with you more regarding your editorial about torture. The enhanced interrogation techniques that you referenced were used to gather information about future attacks. We learned about a second wave of attacks aimed at Los Angeles and dirty bomb attacks aimed at Washington, D.C., among other things. With that knowledge we stopped them from occurring...

Dear editor: We applaud the patience of the Elmore County Commission in dealing with a very controversial issue at last week's hearing. Throughout the over four hours of testimony from both sides, the commissioners heard and saw plenty of information...

Dear editor: The farm which AEHI is seeking to rezone to M-2 Heavy Industrial should not be rezoned because of its topography, soil type, and close proximity to the Snake River. I leased this property and grew peppermint on the south portion of this farm during the 2007 growmg season. This is a hilly, up and down farm, criss-crossed by many small ravines. It has a rich, fine sandy loam soil but it is difficult to keep irrigation water from running off of the property...

Dear editor: Diana Hooley's comments in this paper have been right on. There were a couple of technical corrections made by Dr. Bennett from INL, however, almost all of her assertions have been correct. Ms. Ransom's assertions are transparent and wrong, but expected...

Dear editor: I would like to continue my thoughts from last Wednesday's Elmore County Commissioner's (ECC) meeting regarding AEHI's rezone application. There are a few things that the public might not be aware of that as a former planning and zoning commission member I do know. ...

Ron and Marvelene Hiddleston of Mountain Home celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on April 26, with a celebration featuring family and friends at Carmela Vineyards in Glenns Ferry. Minister Walter Stramm united Marvelene Hammond and Ron Hiddleston in marriage on April 26, 1959, at the Rupert Christian Church...

Sarah Rhodes and Jason Hare were united in marriage April 25, 2009, during ceremonies held at the American Legion Hall in Meridian. Rhodes is the daughter of Rick and Debbie Rhodes of Caldwell. Hare is the son of Cliff and Rose Hare of Mountain Home. He is a 1999 graduate of Mountain Home High School...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers picked up two more conference softball wins last week, and in so doing, clinched the conference championship and number one seed heading into next week's District III 4A Softball Tournament at Emmett. Mtn. Home 15 Columbia 6...

The Mountain Home Tigers swept their conference series with Nampa last week, moving ahead of Columbia into fourth place in the SIC 4A baseball standings. Tigers 5 Bulldogs 4 The Tigers won last Tuesday at Nampa's Rodeo Park, scoring two runs in the top of the seventh to come back to win 5-4...

Mountain Home ran away with both the girls and boys competition at a quadrangular home track meet last Thursday. The Mountain Home girls racked up 137 points to far out-distance second place Mountain View's 87 points. Nampa was third with 72, and Timberline had 12 points...

Cory Hurly, a member of the Mountain Home Rodeo Team, took first place in the bull riding competition during the April 18 rodeo in New Ply-mouth. The following day Billy Graham tied for second place in bull riding and JaDene Palmer placed fifth in the pole bending event...

The Special Olympics Golf schedule is set to start on May 7 at the Desert Canyon Golf Course. Rob and Wayne at the golf course will be working with the athletes throughout the summer season. Applications will be given out on May 7 for each athlete. The applications will be filled out by each parent or guardian and returned. For an athlete to be qualified for the event, they must have intellectual disabilities. Ages 8 through 106 are qualified to participate in the event...

The Summer No Tap League will begin May 7 and the league is looking for bowlers to participate. The league meets on Thursday nights at 7 p.m. Cost will be $7 or $8 per week for "about 14 weeks." No-Tap means 9 pins with the first ball gets a strike...

A group of local junior high track athletes who qualified for Saturday's YMCA Youth Championships at BSU came home with 105 medals. In the sixth-grade girls' competition, Maeghan Pomerantz took first in the 100-meter hurdles and was third in the 100-meter dash...

In a preview of the District III 4A Golf Tournament coming up May 4, all eight conference schools were at Ridgecrest Golf Course in Nampa for the Skyview Invitational on April 21. Ridgecrest is also the site of the District Tournament. If the Skyview Invitational is any indication, the Mountain Home girls appear in good shape to qualify for state, if they maintain their third-place effort, while the Tiger boys need to improve from their fifth-place effort to make state...

In a tough week of tennis matches, the Mountain Home Tigers boys tennis team picked up one win and narrowly missed another in three matches last week. The girls lost all three matches. Tiger Boys 1 Skyview Boys 6 Tiger Girls 0 Skyview Girls 7 The Tigers traveled to Skyview last Monday to face probably the league's strongest team, and came away with just one win on the day...

Water service to portions of Glenns Ferry has been temporarily suspended while city crews work to repair a ruptured mainline. Customers living in the areas of West 3rd between Alton and Kansas streets, and North Elmore Street will be without water service until the line is repaired. Jeff Cook, Superintendent of Public Works, could not give an estimate on long the repairs will take...

A total of 157 Red Hat Ladies attended the state Funvention in Mountain Home this weekend, the "mature" women (50+) representing 50 different chapters throughout the Pacific Northwest. It was a weekend of fun, laughter and general merrymaking as the group, which describes itself as a "disorganization," with only "suggestions," not rules, celebrated the energy for life that "experienced" women have...

Last week, for the sixteenth year in Carl Miller Park, Cal and Marla Clevenger led fourth grade "wranglers" and their teacher/parent trail bosses through a Wagons Ho western pioneer experience. While Marla Clevenger tended the campfire and began preparing lunch, Cal gathered the students in a group, telling them about life in the western frontier, interspersing his talk with important safety information the children would need to know for their own "frontier" experience to be injury free...