Stories from Saturday, March 27, 2010

Students at East Elementary School walked and ran to raise money to buy books for their library during the school's first-ever, school-wide walk-a-thon Friday morning. According to a final tally released Monday afternoon, students at East raised more than $5,800 for library books during the fundraiser, said event organizer Kenda Schroeder...

Mountain Home swept Nampa in a dual track meet Friday at Tiger Field, winning the girls and boys competitions. The Tigers literally ran away from Nampa in the girls competition, running up 126 points to Nampa's 19. The Tiger boys edged Nampa 74-72...

The Mountain Home Tigers picked up their first tennis win of the season Saturday when both the girls and boys teams beat Jerome at the Air Base courts. Earlier in the week, the Tigers dropped conference matches to Kuna and Columbia. Kuna Girls 7, Tiger Girls 0...

Students at North Elementary School jumped their way to raising more than $4,000 as part of the school's annual Jump Rope for Heart benefit Friday afternoon. During the afternoon, 81 third and fourth graders hopped, skipped and jumped their way around the school's gym as part of the fundraiser, shattering last year's attendance records...

Dear editor: A few years ago my leadership students at Mountain Home Junior High worked endlessly conducting multitudes of fundraisers to earn money to donate to the newly formed WECRD. Their dream was to help in their small way to provide an indoor recreational facility for future generations of children in our town. It was called the YMCA plan...

Dear editor: I first and foremost want to thank every single person that attended the Lion's Club Bowling for Sight fundraiser this last Saturday night. With the help and wonderful support of all that attended, the Lions Club was able to raise more than $3,000. I am so impressed and encouraged with how the Mountain Home community came together for this worthy cause!...