Stories from Friday, November 20, 2009

A benefit dinner followed by live and silent auctions and a dance will be held on Nov. 21 at the VFW hall in Glenns Ferry for cancer victim Mitchell Martell. Dinner will be served from 6-7 p.m. with silent and live auctions running from 7-9 p.m. The dance is from 9 p.m. to midnight...

Donna Carol Carothers, 76, of Grand View, passed away on Nov. 18, 2009, at a Boise hospital. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 28, at Knight Community Church. Inurnment will follow at Riverside Cemetery in Grand View. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...

On Nov. 14, 2009, our mother, Paulyne Woollen, passed to the other side to be with our father. She was born in Sterling, Mo., on April 9, 1924. When she was eight she moved to Mountain Grove, Mo., with her family, and grew up there. Later she met our Dad at a government training camp in Missouri. Mom trained to be a machinist (all 5'2" of her). After the war Mom, Dad, and Donna moved west with our Aunt Joanne and Uncle Wayne to Idaho...

Mountain Home fire fighters and other emergency response crews responded to a reported barn fire at 5630 North 18th Street around 1:45 p.m. today. Initial reports indicate heavy, black smoke coming from the structure that was seen for at least a couple of miles. Elmore County dispatchers said the building was engulfed in flames as fire fighters arrived on scene...