Stories from Friday, October 15, 2010

Bible Baptist Church, 1555 American Legion Blvd., is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month. The church was formally organized on Oct. 6, 1960. Prior to its formal organization, a technical sergeant at the airbase, Cliff Britain, had helped organize a congregation of the independent church, with services held in member's homes...

Dear editor: Idaho needs a governor who has a vision for the future; someone who is able to bring smart, creative, 21st century leadership to the statehouse. Keith Allred is that person. Keith grew up in Twin Falls in a family of long-time ranchers. He and his wife, Christine, are intelligent, well-educated, hard-working people who held prestigious teaching careers in the East...

Dear editor: It's BAACK! The eternal, infernal discussion for the purpose of the Western Elmore County Recreation District. The purpose: to build a facility available to all the citizens for recreational sports. Did the people vote for the WECRD as a taxing entity? YES. Would it provide aquatic facilities? Hopefully, yes. The Kroc Foundation was offering a grant and the proposed building was a thing of beauty. But we didn't get the grant so the district had to start from scratch...

It was a good week for the Mountain Home Lady Tiger soccer team, capping off their regular seasons schedule with a tie and a win while opening district tourney play with a win. Mountain Home 1, Kuna 1 Jessica Tindall scored late in the game to give Mountain Home a 1-1 tie with Kuna Monday at Eastside Park in Mountain Home...

Mountain Home managed a tie with Kuna last week before dropping hard-fought games to Nampa and Middleton in high school boy's soccer action. Tigers 1, Kavemen 1 The Mountain Home Tigers battled the Kuna Kavemen to a 1-1 tie last Tuesday at Kuna. Andrea Di Martino scored Mountain Home's goal. Meanwhile, Jack Richelieu and Tomas Guillen combined for 12 saves...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers dropped conference volleyball matches to Skyview and Middleton last week. Skyview 3, Mountain Home 0 The unbeaten Lady Hawks were too much for Mountain Home last Tuesday night at Skyview, downing the Lady Tigers in three straight games...

Mountain Home had some good efforts at the Gary Ward Invitational cross country race at Lake View Park in Nampa on Thursday. The Mountain Home girls came in third, behind two of the best 5A schools in the state. Vallivue won the girls' race with 51 points, one ahead of Eagle's 52. ...