Stories from Wednesday, July 8, 2009

The Mountain Home School Board plans on seating C.D. Houston at its July 21 regular monthly meeting, despite a challenge to Houston's May 19 election. Houston had initially been declared the winner of the school board post currently held by Jo Gridley, whose term ends July 21, but Houston had won by only three votes and a canvass of the votes revealed three votes had been cast by individuals who did not live in the current trustee zone for the election...

The Elmore County Fair will kick off next week, July 12-18, featuring the return of Paradise Amusements from last year and the return of the ICA/IMPRA rodeo to the same week as the fair. The fair is held at the fairgrounds in Glenns Ferry. Due to the economy, fair officials have decided to drop the $3 parking fee, charging only the $3 per person fee to enter the event...

The driver of a Suzuki XK7 vehicle escaped serious injury when her car erupted in flames following a two-car accident at the intersection of Highway 30 and the frontage road near the Burger King last Thursday, July 2. According to the Elmore County Sheriff's Office, the Suzuki driver, a female from Horseshoe Bend whose name was not available by press time, was exiting the interstate onto Highway 30, when the male driver of a commercial F-150 Ford pickup for Dales Service, Inc., of Boise, apparently ran the stop sign on the side road in front of her. ...

The youth summer theater production of "The Wizard of Oz," a non-musical version of the story by L. Frank Baum, will be presented at the Mountain Home High School gym July 10-11 at 7 p.m. and July 11 at 1 p.m. Adult tickets are $5 and $3 for students for the "Page Theatre" production of the classic story about Dorothy, Toto, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion. Tickets will be sold at the door...

Dear editor: In regards to the proposed rezone from Ag to Heavy Industrial, if Elmore County needs another Heavy Industrial/Manufacturing zone, shouldn't the county commissioners, planning and zoning commission, and the citizens of Elmore County be selecting that site, not a potential developer?...

Dear editor: Those of us who pay water bills get ours this week. With it came the Water Quality Data Table. Of the 12 contaminants listed, the sample years range from 2004-2008; one quarter of them are from 2004. The powers behind the letter care so little for accuracy that the first sentence reads: "The table below lists all the drinking water contaminants that were detected during the calendar year of this report."...

The 4th of July Festival in Carl Miller Park drew a large number of residents last Saturday afternoon in celebration of America's independence day. The highlight of the event, organized by the El-Wyhee Business Association was the Little-Miss El-Wyhee Pageant. This year's pageant featured 14 entries, ranging in age from eight months to eight years old...

The Mountain Home Royals ended their week 3-3 after playing three doubleheaders and coming away with a split, getting swept, and a sweep. Royals 4, 7 Kuna 15, 4 The Royals battled back to take the nightcap and gain a split with the Kuna Diamondbacks on June 29 at Mountain Home...

Mountain Home High School will host its annual I-84 Football Camp July 20-23. In the past several years the camp has become a camp for eight-man football teams. "It's one of the more premier eight-man camps around," said Tiger varsity football coach Brian Floyd. "We should have between 10 and 12 teams here, and our freshmen and sophomores will participate in the camp...

Garrett William Bradshaw, 17, of Mountain Home, died on Monday, June 29, 2009, near Bruneau. Funeral services were held on Thursday, July 2, 2009. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Garrett attended Mountain Home High School. He had signed up for the US Marines and was joining after he graduated in 2010...

The Idaho Rally returns to Elmore County this year July 10-11. Forty-six rally cars from the US and Canada have already registered and for the first time motorcycles have been added to the mix. Those attending will participate in several different championships, United States Rally Championship, California Rally Series, Max Attack-2 Wheel Drive Championship and the Pacific North West Rally Championship. The race will be governed by NASA Rally Sport...

The National Commander of the American Legion, David Rehbein, will be the featured speaker at the 91st State Convention of the Legion's Department of Idaho, being held in Mountain Home July 9-12. The event is being sponsored by both American Legion Posts in Mountain Home, Post 26 and Post 101...