Stories from Thursday, November 25, 2010

Close to 120 children from the Mountain Home area will bring some holiday joy to their families next weekend during an event that helps them share in the spirit of giving. Celebrating its 14th anniversary in Mountain Home, the local Shop With A Cop program helps children of families with extreme financial hardships buy gifts for their loved ones in time for Christmas...

Taylor Parkhill, a student at West Elementary School, winces as he receives his flu vaccination from Cata Ingalls from the Central District Health department Thursday afternoon. Students across the district took a break from their studies last week to get immunized against the flu virus at the vaccination clinics. Ingalls serves as a registered during with the state health agency. Photo by Brian S. Orban...

For more than 10 years, the support from organizations throughout the Mountain Home community has made it possible for the Mountain Home Chamber of Commerce Giving Tree Program to provide holiday gifts to needy families in thecommunity. In 2009, over 220 families -- almost 550 children and disabled adults -- received gifts of clothing, personal items and toys through the program...

The Mountain Home High School Talkin' Tigers Speech and Debate team defeated 20 other schools, including main rivals Eagle and Hillcrest, to win the Canyon County Classic Speech and Debate Tournament last weekend at Skyview High School. It marked the first time Mountain Home has defeated both the perennial state "A" Speech and "A" Debate champions in the same tournament...

The Mountain Home Tigers open their basketball season Saturday night at Rocky Mountain High School in Meridian. Mountain Home finished the season 6-15 last year. Tiger head basketball coach Tony Kerfoot, discussing this year's turnout for basketball, described it as "not too bad."...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers showed signs of brilliance at times last week, but dropped two more non-conference girls basketball games. Jerome 47 Mtn. Home 39 A fourth-quarter rally for Mountain Home proved to be too little, too late last Tuesday as they fell to the Jerome Lady Tigers 47-39 in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium...