Stories from Thursday, April 21, 2011

The annual community Easter Egg Hunt will be held at Carl Miller Park on Easter Sunday, April 24, at 2 p.m. A separate hunt for toddlers, ages 4 and below, will be held on the adjoining East Elementary School playground. Organizers also make available a hunt for children with special needs...

The Grand View Lions Club will host an Easter egg hunt Saturday at the Grand View City Park. Open to children from toddlers to children up to sixth grade, the events begin promptly at 11 a.m. For more information, call Dixie McDaniel at 834-2350.

Mountain Home High School's choir and drama departments have teamed up this year to perform "Back to the '80s: The Totally Awesome Musical!" "Remember when actors became American presidents? When bubble skirts and blue eye shadow were cool? When Atari was cutting edge technology? From the era that brought us the world the Rubik's Cube, Max Headroom, and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comes this totally awesome musical in the style of movies such as Back To The Future, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Karate Kid and The Wedding Singer," said MHHS Encore Company director Taunya Page.. ...

The 2011 Relay for Life -- "Seasons of Hope" -- will hold its fundraising kickoff event April 28 at the junior high commons area. The community is being urged "to experience the Relay for Life overnight event" at the two-hour mini-relay that will be held at the junior high commons starting at 6 p.m...

The Mountain Home Tigers dropped both games of their conference series with Bishop Kelly and split a doubleheader at home against Buhl. Knights 9, Tigers 5 Knights 9, Tigers 3 The Tigers lost both games of their conference series with Bishop Kelly last week, losing 9-5 at home on Thursday and 9-3 at Bishop Kelly on Friday...

Mountain Home's Lady Tigers came up with 7-6 conference softball wins over Skyview and Bishop Kelly last week. Mountain Home 7, Skyview 6 The Mountain Home Lady Tigers returned to the win column Tuesday, holding off Skyview for a 7-6 conference softball win at Memmelaar Field in Mountain Home...

Rachel Burke from the Enjoy Dance and Drum team leads fifth graders from Hacker Middle School through a traditional dance from West Africa during the school's first-ever Extreme Challenge event Friday afternoon. Hosted by the Center for Community Health from Elmore Medical Center, the dance culminated a day of presentations aimed at helping children make smart lifestyle choices on topics like exercise, nutrition, sun safety, teamwork, self-esteem, tobacco use and aging. Photo by Brian S. Orban...