Stories from Wednesday, September 16, 2009

A passenger in a vehicle that rolled on I-84 Wednesday afternoon died of her injuries Thursday at a Boise hospital.

Near-record crowds flocked to downtown Mountain Home to demonstrate their support for military service members stationed here and across southern Idaho during the 49th annual Air Force Appreciation Day. The celebration started Friday evening with the yearly corn shucking, which brings together members from the local community and nearby Mountain Home Air Force Base. It took the hundreds of volunteers roughly five minutes to fix 5,000 ears of corn slated for Saturday's meal...

The Community Leadership Development Committee (CLDC) is inviting the public to take part in a special meeting tonight, Sept. 16, from 6-8 p.m. at the Mountain Home High School gymnasium to explain the process for possibly bringing a YMCA to the community...

Air Force Appreciation Day was a huge success, thanks to the scores of volunteers who worked on the event, some beginning as early as February. With our nation at war, hundreds of airmen deployed into war zones, and the Idaho National Guard facing a call-up next spring, it was fitting that the day after 9/11 we honored all the men and women who serve in our armed forces...

Dear editor: I am an eighth-generation Idahoan. I have lived in Mountain Home for the past three years. I find this proposal to re-zone the rural and agricultural to residential per the request of Skyview Estates ridiculous on these counts. 1. There are inadequate city and county services to all residences of this area at this time. ...

Dear editor: I wish to advise you we are adamantly opposed to the proposal to change the zoning from Agricultural to R-3 that is being requested by Skyview Estates LLC. The City of Mountain Home and Elmore County are incapable of maintaining the services required by the present population. And the current economic environment will (see the city) reducing services that are inadequate at this time. And those services will be more so in the future...

Dear editor: The citizens of Mountain Home have a great opportunity tonight. Part of the YMCA executive staff will be at the high school this evening from 6-7:30 p.m. They will be educating us in several areas -- namely the process the WECRD has contracted with them to determine the future possibility of a recreation center/YMCA. They also have a plethora of information on the benefit of the different programming and such...

Ann and Al Taggart of Mountain Home have announced the wedding of their daughter, Lauren Taggart of West Lafayette, Ind., to Mike Yoder of Lafayette, Ind., son of Ronda and Jay Yoder of Mishawaka, Ind. The couple were married June 6, 2009, at Trinity Evangelical Free Church in South Bend, Ind., with Pastor Craig Clapper officiating...

Joshua T. and Jamie A. Hester of Mountain Home AFB have announced the birth of a daughter, Lexi Arleta Hester, born Aug. 20, 2009, at the hospital at Mountain Home AFB. Lexi was 5 lbs. 2 oz. and 18 3/4 inches long at birth.

Freedom Lanes will hold its fall No-Tap League meeting at 7 p.m. Sept. 18. League action follows at 7:30 p.m. that day with league action continuing to Dec. 11. The 13-week event counts every nine-pin drop in the first frame as a strike versus the usual 10-pin requirement...

The Mountain Home Chamber of Commerce and the Retail Merchants Committee will host a "bowl for the goal" fundraiser to benefit the Giving Tree charity organization Sept. 26 at Freedom Lanes. Lanes open from 6-11 p.m. Admission is $25 per person at the door, which includes shoe and ball rental along with three games...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers dropped conference volleyball matches at Columbia and Skyview last week. Columbia 3, Mountain Home 1 In a close conference volleyball match at Columbia High School last Tuesday, the Lady Tigers lost 3-1 to the Lady Wildcats. Mountain Home battled tough in the first game, finally pulling it out 32-30. They came up short in the next three games, losing 20-25, 18-25, and 22-25...

After a week off, the Mountain Home Tigers are ready to get back to business, opening their SIC 4A conference schedule against the Kuna Kavemen on Friday. Mountain Home comes off a bye week after being plagued by turnovers in non-conference losses to Jerome and Caldwell...

The Mountain Home Tigers came away with a split of boys soccer games last week, beating Kuna at Kuna and losing to Nampa at home. Mountain Home 4, Kuna 1 Mountain Home had its way at Kuna last Tuesday, beating the Kavemen, 4-1. Raif Armstrong scored two goals, Francisco Dominguez and Lucas Marsh also scored goals. Tyson Gibbons had an assist. Fernando Salas had six saves on goal...

In what was a tough defensive struggle, the Mountain Home Tigers freshman football team dropped a 12-6 contest at Emmett Sept. 10. Mountain Home's lone score came on a 58-yard touchdown pass from Ben Ceccarelli to Tyler Casey. "We played much better against Emmett, especially defensively," said Tiger freshman football coach Rick Suber. ...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers managed a split of their conference girls soccer games last week, losing at home to Kuna, and winning on the road at Nampa. Kuna 3, Mountain Home 1 The Mountain Home Lady Tigers were primed to hand Kuna its first loss of the season last Tuesday night at Eastside park, but the Lady Kavemen scored two goals in a span of five minutes in the second half to pull away for a 3-1 win...

Kelly Smith, 32, of Mountain Home, has died after a sewer line trench he was working in collapsed in Pocatello.