Stories from Monday, February 21, 2011

The 11th Annual Women's History Banquet will be hosted by the Mountain Home Historical Society on Saturday, March 5, at the Elks Lodge in Mountain Home. The evening social starts at 6 p.m. with dinner served at 7 p.m. It is a full dinner banquet with a no-host bar and a fundraiser for the museum. Tickets are on sale at the museum for $25 each...

A town mall meeting has been scheduled by the Treasure Valley YMCA for Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m. at the Mountain Home High School gym to outline to the community the next steps in the collaboration process between the Treasure Valley YMCA and the Western Elmore County Recreation District to bring a recreation center to Mountain Home...

The Mountain Home Mongrels Rugby Club will prepare for the spring season as it resumes its team practices at 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at Eastside Park in Mountain Home. The team will open the season on the road as they take on the University of Idaho in Riggins on March 12...

Pauline Worley Harper Boyd, 89, died on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011, in a Mountain Home care center. Services will be held on Friday, Feb. 25, at 10 a.m. at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home. Burial will follow at 2 p.m. at the West End Cemetery in Buhl, Idaho...

Virginia Rose Silva Kast, 92, of King Hill, passed away suddenly on Feb. 17, 2011, at North Canyon Medical Center in Gooding. Virginia was born on Dec. 2, 1918, in Sparks, Nev., the oldest of four children of Edward Manual Silva and Marian Emery Silva. She grew up in Browns Valley, Calif., and attended high school in Marysville and Sutter...

Portland-based singer-songwriter Catherine Feeny will perform a free concert at Common Ground Coffee & Plants in the Mountain Home Public Library on Saturday, February 26, at 6:30 p.m. There is no entry fee for the concert but donations will be accepted. ...