Stories from Friday, August 13, 2010

The Mountain Home Sears store will sponsor a "Mountain Home Community Cares Day" on Aug. 21 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the store at 1535 American Legion Blvd. The event will feature displays and demonstrations by the Mountain Home Police Department, McGruff the Crime Dog, Elmore County Ambulance Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Mountain Home Youth Center, the city's Parks and Recreation Department, the U.S. Forest Service, the airbase's explosive ordnance disposal team and LifeFlight...

The Oregon Trail History and Education Center celebrated the 10th anniversary of its opening on July 14. This weekend, during the Three Island Celebration, the center's 10th anniversary will be marked by a visit from Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation Director Nancy Merrill...

The city of Mountain Home and the local senior center received $4,000 from Union Pacific Railroad in recent weeks following a pair of contributions from the rail corporation. In late June, the railroad presented the Mountain Home Senior Center with a $2,500 check to benefit its Meals on Wheels program. A letter accompanying the check applauded the center's continuing support to the Mountain Home community...

The Mountain Home Parks and Recreation Department sponsored a tennis clinic recently featuring the United States Tennis Association's training format for young kids called Quickstart Tennis. The clinic was led by Mountain Home Tiger head tennis coach Tamzy House, with assistance from former and current members of the Tiger tennis team, Keenan and Keth Galloway, Anna Martin, Daniel Courtright and Jessica Melville...

Dear editor: I have been a resident of Mountain Home most of my life and it never ceases to amaze me how generous my community is time after time. Recently, I discovered that we have a population of young people in Mountain Home that start school with no supplies. These families are on limited income due to disabilities. Affording school supplies would mean they would have to sacrifice something else, which includes groceries for the home...

Yvette Herrera, 18, of South El Monte, Calif., died on Aug. 12, 2010, in an automobile crash. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home.

Luz M. Herrera, 45, of South El Monte, Calif., died on Aug. 12, 2010, in an automobile crash. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home.

Anthony Herrera, 10, of South El Monte, Calif., died on Aug. 12, 2010, in an automobile crash. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home.

Amado Herrera, 48, of South El Monte, Calif., died on Aug.12, 2010, in an automobile crash. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a Wendell man charging him with four counts of felony vehicular manslaughter following a head-on crash on I-84 Thursday evening near Glenns Ferry that killed four members of a California family. Eusebio Jacobo Pineda, 45, had bond set at $250,000.