Stories from Thursday, December 2, 2010

The annual Christmas Parade of Lights, featuring the first "official" appearance of Santa Claus in Mountain Home, will be held this Friday, beginning at 7 p.m. The theme this year is "An Old Fashioned Christmas." The event committee is led by Desiree Morgan from Wells Fargo Mortgage and Willy Heckathorn from United Metals (who is a personal friend of Santa and Mrs. Claus). The local masonic organizations will once again offer free hot dogs, coffee and cocoa...

The first Mountain Home Festival of Trees, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Elmore County, kicks off today at participating business locations. The purpose is to raise funds for the club's high school graduate scholarship program and to give to the needy of Mountain Home...

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 the community. In 2009, more than 220 families -- almost 550 children and disabled adults -- received gifts of clothing, personal items and toys through the program...

The Mountain Home Historical Museum will hold its annual Victorian Christmas Tea on Dec. 9 and Dec. 11. The Victorian Christmas Tea is a special holiday event hosted annually by the Mountain Home Historical Society at the museum. This year the event will be held on two days, with two settings each day...

After a torrid shooting effort in the first half Saturday night at Rocky Mountain High School, the Mountain Home Tigers cooled off in the second half and watched the game get away from them, dropping their season-opening boys basketball game 59-49 to the Grizzlies...

The junior high wrestling team continued its winning ways last week beating East Valley Middle School 50-48 and Nampa West 56-46 to remain undefeated at 8-0 in dual matches on the year. Then the Tigers went to Twin Falls for the Robert Stuart Invitational on Saturday...

Janet Ruth Burkeen, 74-year-old Rupert resident, passed away Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010, at Minidoka Memorial Hospital. She had been diagnosed with lung cancer on Nov. 24, 2010. Janet was born Aug. 26, 1936, in Fashing, Texas, to William Harvey Flud and Nettie Berniece Singleton. She had nine siblings: Beatrice, Bill, Mildred, Wilma, Linda, Glenda, Walter, Scott and Sam...

The finest gifts for the Holidays are produced and sold by your neighbors here in Idaho. Gifts like Idaho wines and candies; jams, jellies and jerky; wood, glass and metal crafts; clothing; jewelry; Idaho art and photography and hundreds of other products your family and friends would love to enjoy. Idaho companies provide services such as printing calendars and holiday cards for you; or landscapers who will hang up your holiday lights or plow snow from your driveways...

Gordan Robert Farnsworth, 70, of Mountain Home, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2010, at his home. A viewing will be held from 4- 6 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 5,at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 6, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...

Former Glenns Ferry resident, Victoria Kinnersley died in Portland, Oregon on Saturday, November 27, 2010. She was 92. A private burial will be held at Glenn Rest Cemetery in Glenns Ferry, Idaho at a later date. She was born, Victoria Eleanor Murphy on March 10, 1918 to Finley and Edith (Hobart) Murphy in Glenns Ferry, Idaho. She was raised and received her schooling there...

Jessie J. (Prentice) Tindall, 86, of Mountain Home, passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010, at her home, surrounded by her loved ones. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 9, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...