Stories from Friday, June 25, 2010

Chelsea Wegrzyniak became the first Mountain Home High School Student to advance to elimination rounds at the National Forensics League's National Debate Tournament June 14-18 in Kansas City, Mo. Wegrzyniak, who would be a senior next year but plans to graduate over the summer, won 10 of 12 ballots in the preliminary rounds of Lincoln-Douglas Debate. ...

The MHHS Class of 1980 is planning a busy 30th Anniversary Class Reunion over the Independence Day weekend with a myriad of social events, including dining and dancing, golf, cowboy polo and concluding with a "roaring blast of fireworks and live music."...

"Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?" is the theme for the 2010 Mountain Home Garden Tour. Tickets for the tour and social, raffle tickets and cards for the poker run will be available from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. exclusively at Moxie Java on the day of the tour. Tickets will not be available at the gardens this year. Tickets are $5 per person with funds raised from the project going to the Mountain Home Community Garden Project. Maps to the gardens are provided with the tickets...

The Second Annual Korey Hall Football Camp will be held June 30 at Glenns Ferry High School. Hall currently is a fullback for the Green Bay Packers. He played high school football at Glenns Ferry as both a linebacker and running back and was named the Class 2A Player of the Year in 2001. At Boise State University where he was a three-time first team all-WAC linebacker and two-time WAC Special Teams Player of the Year, he helped lead the Broncos to their first Fiesta Bowl victory...

May fourth was just like every other day, got up in the morning, made coffee and breakfast, showered, then began my day. Work started at 6PM it was your average crowd for a Tuesday night bar. Time went by slow, but at about 10:30PM my night turned around real fast. ...