Stories from Friday, September 24, 2010

Family friends established a memorial fund last week in honor of a Mountain Home Junior High School youth who died Sept. 11. Ryder McRae, 12, was critically injured during an all-terrain vehicle accident on Midnight Blue Way near Airbase Road past the Highway 51 junction the previous evening...

Todd Thorn, alternative energy teacher at Richard McKenna Charter High School, addresses the audience while the school's new wind turbine generates electricity during a dedication ceremony Monday morning. This week's event marks "another milepost in the project's evolution," Thorn told the dozens of students and guests attending the ceremony...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers volleyball team suffered two close conference losses last week to Middleton and Emmett. Middleton 3, Mountain Home 0 Mountain Home stayed fairly close, but were unable to mount any type of a rally to win any games at Middleton last Sept. 14, losing to the Lady Vikings in three straight games...

The Mountain Home Tigers cross country team competed at the Steve Thompson Memorial Centipede cross country race at Les Bois Park in Boise this week. The Tiger girls finished sixth, the boys tenth. Bishop Kelly won the girls competition with a total of 34 points. ...

It was another rough week for the Mountain Home Tigers boys soccer team, which came up short in road games with Nampa and Bishop Kelly. Nampa 5, Mountain Home 4 The Nampa Bulldogs scored late in the game to complete a comeback 5-4 conference win over the Mountain Home Tigers last Monday at Nampa...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers came a way with a win and a loss in last week's conference girls soccer games. Mountain Home 5, Nampa 1 Mountain Home scored early and often as they downed the Nampa girls 5-1 last Tuesday at home at Eastside Park. Mountain Home got two goals from Rachel Warila, a goal and assist from Claudia Bermensolo, and also had goals from Kelly Robins and Shelby Henrick. Becky Vogl had 11 saves on goal for Mountain Home...

Carlene Elaine Weiss Waterman was born March 23, 1931, in Emmett, to William T. Weiss and Hazel Newman Weiss. She passed away as a result of a torn mitral valve on Sept. 22, 2010, in Mountain Home, where her daughter and son-in-law took care of her...

Mountain Home Community Transit holds a ceremony Monday afternoon to mark the arrival of two new passenger buses. Scheduled to start at 4 p.m. in Railroad Park, the event gives members of the local community a chance to tour the vehicles along with a free ride on the community transit's city route...

Highway 20 was closed in both directions for several hours Friday afternoon in the vicinity of Tollgate due to a fire involving an RV that subsequently triggered a rangefire.