Stories from Monday, February 1, 2010

The Mountain Home High School Speech and Debate team needs volunteers to serve as judges for its upcoming U-Bus-2-Us tournament Feb. 5-6 at the high school. Events run from 2-8 p.m. Feb. 5 and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 6. No experience is necessary for people interested in judging. The school will offer judging clinics at 6 p.m. Jan. 28 and Feb. 2 and 4 in Room D at the school. Volunteers may attend one of the sessions to prepare for the tournament...

Education Cuts The governors cutting of education funding is further proof that all of our politicians have lost total concept of reality especially after less then a year ago giving 450 million to welfare! Let we till you where that money goes. I have a niece that has been on constant welfare since the first of 5 children. ...

Mary A. Weston, 52, of Mountain Home, died Jan. 29, 2010, at a Boise hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home.

Following a brief illness, Rosalynde (Roz) Pierce Langworthy passed away on Jan. 13, 2010, in St. Petersburg, Fla., at age 91. Born in Maine, she lived in places ranging from Okinawa to the Bahamas and made friends wherever she landed, as part of an extended Air Force family...

Geraldine Kay Marshall went to be with our Lord on Jan. 27, 2010. Born March 26, 1949, in Olympia, Wash., to Ila and Ira Standstipher, she attended schools in California and Oregon. She married Gerald Marshall Aug. 18, 1983, in Neilton, Wash. They resided in Washington until 1997, when they relocated to Mountain Home, Idaho...

A Boise man was seriously injured early Monday morning when his pickup slid through the median of I-84 near milepost 73, came up on the roadway in the opposite lane and was struck by a semi. David P. Bowers, 53, of Boise, was headed westbound in a 2002 Ford F350 pickup at about 5:30 a.m. ...