Stories from Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Due to the Memorial Day weekend holiday the Mountain Home News office will be closed on Monday, May 25. Deadlines for the May 27 issue of The News and the May 29 issue of The Patriot will be moved up to Friday, May 22, at noon. The deadlines for the May 26 Glenns Ferry Gazette and the Family Line have been advanced to May 19 at noon...

The spring sports season is one to remember for Mountain Home Tiger sports teams. On Friday, May 8, Mountain Home won district titles in softball, baseball, and girls and boys track. "I'm pretty darn proud to be an alumni," said Mountain Home Tiger head track coach Rich Urquidi over the weekend, after learning of the success of the Mountain Home softball and baseball teams, as well as his girls and boys track squads. ...

William L. Murray has announced his candidacy for the Zone 4 Trustee position on the Mountain Home School Board. Murray is being challenged by C.D. Houston for the position currently held by Jo Gridley, who has decided not to seek re-election. In Zone 2, the other board position up for election, incumbent Luise House is not facing a challenge. Based on state law, the district has declared her to be elected and no election will be held...

by Michael Nowotny Mountain Home News Tickets for this year's Crazee Daze carnival at Optimist Park are now on sale The carnival will run from Thursday, May 21 until Sunday, May 24. Advanced sale unlimited ride tickets for the carnival will cost $15. The ticket will include three food and/or game tokens. The tickets will be good for unlimited rides for one person, one day during any day of the event...

by Michael Nowotny Mountain Home News This year's Cowboy Crazee Daze will provide entertainment in venues all over the city of Mountain Home. During the festival, several businesses in the downtown area will offer sidewalk sales. On Saturday, the El Rancho Parking lot will host several on-stage events and live musical and dance performances...

Brent Butler, 46, has been selected to replace retiring Bonnie Sharp as the new director of the county's Growth and Development Office. Butler had previously been working as the lead for the long-range planning division for Jefferson County in Washington...

Robert J. Taylor Special to The News Mountain Home residents might recognize a familiar face on TV Land's reality dating show "The Cougar." Johnny Nunez, a 2003 graduate of Mountain Home High School, was one of 20 men selected to participate in the "Bachelor"-like show that features 20 men, ranging from 21-29 competing for the affection of 40-year-old Stacy Anderson...

I'd like to take the opportunity here to praise some students in our school district who just don't get anywhere near the publicity and recognition they deserve. Our athletes do a great job, and get a lot of publicity. But the students who take part in the academic extracurricular programs often fall between the cracks, and that isn't fair, because they work every bit as hard, have every bit as much dedication, and work at equally high levels...

Dear editor: The news that Central District Health would no longer be involved in the Senior Nutrition Program has been devastating to the senior community. The program consists of both meals served at the Center and Meals on Wheels. The people who come to the center to eat their noon meal, three days per week, benefit by receiving a nutritious meal plus an opportunity to have interaction with their peers...

Dear editor: I first met C.D. Houston while I was a member of the Mountain Home City Council in the early 1990s. During and since that time, he has become a very active member of our community. I believe him to be a compassionate, caring individual who will do all he can to help Mountain Home School District become one of the best in Idaho...

Dear editor: We have become aware that William Murray is running for the Mountain Home school board. We lived in Mountain Home for 18 years and have had kids in school for that whole period. Mountain Home is a great community, mainly because of the many wonderful people who live here, people who will get involved and have a desire to help one another...

Dear editor: On May 19 we will be given the rare opportunity of electing a pillar of our community as Trustee to the Mountain Home School Board, Zone 4. C.D. Houston, 'Cladis', has a long list of qualifications. Most noteworthy are the countless hours of volunteer work he enjoys giving to Mountain Home. ...

Dear editor: I almost fell out of my chair laughing at the excuse given by the Westside Sewer District and Mellen Water districts, "they can't afford to pay for posting the necessary notices in your paper." Oh, wow! What a whopper! The Westside Sewer District has over $220,000 in a savings account, and they can't afford a $5 or $600 dollar election? And on top of that, they are paying themselves $100 each to attend a meeting that they hold within a short walk of their house. ...

Dear editor: I would like to say job well done by the county commissioners for the zoning hearing last week. They asked good questions and tried to keep the speakers on track that this was a zoning meeting and not an argument over a power plant. At the meeting people who farmed the property in question stated that it was prime farmland and also had drainage straight into Snake River. ...

Dear editor: Ms. Andrea Shipley and Snake River Alliance, you should be embarrassed. You had a very nice long letter but it failed to address your strong points against nuclear power. You took up half a page attempting to discount Mr. Gillespie which I feel you did a very bad job at best. ...

Dear editor: I have a very deep impression of Mr. Cladis D. Houston's zeal and earnestness in excelling in the position of Zone 4 Trustee of Mountain Home School District No. 193. I am very glad to write this letter on behalf of Mr. Houston because I know very well his ardent love for children and education. ...

Jeffrey and Johnna Hardy of Mountain Home have announced the engagement of their daughter, Jamie Lynne Hardy, of Boise, to Tyler Brown Sisson, also of Boise. Sisson is the son of Harold and Christy Sisson of Addison, N.Y. The wedding ceremony will take place in Kathryn Albertson Park on Oct. 10, 2009...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers hope the third time is the charm. After winning the District III 4A softball tournament for the third straight year, the Lady Tigers head to state again hoping to finally win it all, after finishing second the past two years...

Mountain Home came home from the District III 4A Track and Field meet at Kuna Friday night with championship trophies in both the girls and boys meets. Mountain Home won the girls competition, racking up 150 points. Bishop Kelly was second with 113 points, followed by Skyview, with 99, Emmett and Columbia with 93, Kuna 81, Middleton 54 and Nampa 9...

The Mountain Home Tigers put together some great pitching and timely hitting to sweep through the District III 4A Baseball Tournament and win the district championship. Tigers 5 Columbia 0 Gabe Anderson continued his strong pitching efforts, pitching a four-hit shutout as the Tigers opened the District III 4A Baseball Tournament with a 5-0 win over Columbia at Nampa's Rodeo Park last Tuesday...

Four Mountain Home Tiger tennis members -- two girls and two boys have advanced to this week's State 4A Tennis Tournament in Boise. The Mountain Home boys doubles team of Keth Galloway and Greg Walsh, who went in the district tourney seeded second, won their quarter-final and semi-final matches to make it to the district championship match against Skyview. They fought hard, but came up short, 4-6, 4-6, to finish second at district...

by Michael Nowotny Mountain Home News Mountain Home resident Matthew McCluskey's three-year-old Catahoula Leopard dog Pepper is now a world record holder. The world record was attained following Pepper's jump of 27 feet eight inches during the Big Air Competition at the International Sportsman's Expo in Salt Lake City, Utah, held in March of this year...

Mountain Home Tiger head football coach Brian Floyd has announced plans for a Parents Meeting tonight for parents of all incoming 9-12 grade football players. The meeting will be at 7 p.m. tonight in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium. Spring Football begins for all incoming 9-12 graders on May 18 and runs through May 21 on the high school practice field beginning at 3:20 p.m. and ending around 5 p.m. each day...

The Mountain Home High School Tiger tennis team is hosting its annual two-week Summer Tennis Camp next month. The camp is open for children ages 4-14 at the Richard Aguirre Park tennis courts, starting June 1 and ending June 12. Tiger head tennis coach Tamzy House and JV tennis coach Mandy Leonard will run the camp, assisted by several of the Tiger tennis team members...

Two boys from Mountain Home have been selected to state soccer teams representing Idaho for the Olympic Development Program. Austin Lucas will be returning to play defender for the '95 team and Jack Richelieu will be a goalie on the '96 team. In June they are scheduled to play in the multistate Utah Exchange tournament in Provo, Utah. Later in July they will attend the ODP regional camp being held in McMinnville, Ore., with state teams from across the western United States...

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by Stephanee Jones Mountain Home News Gladys Spence's walk from Aaren Brook care home to McDonalds, just got easier. In the winter of 2008, two Masonic Lodge members, Clarence Joseph and Hampton Wright, were at the McDonalds on Airbase Road, when they noticed 95-year-old Spence, who was using her walker, trying to make her way back to her care home...