Stories from Friday, May 13, 2011

The Mountain Home Tigers closed out their regular season track schedule at Twin Falls on Friday. The girls ended up a close second to Twin Falls while the boys finished in third place. Twin Falls won the girls competition with 99 points. Mountain Home was second with 77. Jerome had 62 points and Kuna brought up the rear with 18 points...

The Mountain Home Tiger tennis team dropped its final three matches of the regular season last week. Emmett Girls 5 Mountain Home Girls 2 Emmett Boys 5 Mountain Home Boys 2 The Tigers traveled to Emmett last Monday and came away on the short end of both boys' and girls' matches...

A celebration marking the birthday for a Mountain Home child this weekend also brought with it the gift of hope for others in the community. Aubrey Gahagan, a first-grade student at North Elementary School, turned away offers of gifts from her friends attending her party on Saturday. Instead, she asked them to bring gifts of non-perishable food and other items to help less-fortunate families in the Mountain Home area...

Local area students majoring in film production earned top honors along with hundreds of dollars in cash and prizes during an annual competition Saturday afternoon. The 2011 Mountain Home Film Festival featured 14 short-subject movies produced by veteran video students along with new film makers competing for the first time...

Juli Corder was named Teacher of the Year during the annual Mountain Home Elks Lodge Youth Banquet May 2. Corder was hired by the Mountain Home School District in August of 1998 as a full-time PE instructional assistant and the freshman volleyball coach. In August of 1999, she was hired as the girls' PE teacher for Hacker Middle School and has been there ever since...

Advance tickets are now on sale for the Royal West Amusements Carnival that will appear downtown as part of the Chamber's annual Crazee Daze celebration. The 2011 Crazee Daze event is set for May 21, but the carnival will be in town May 19-22, setting up in railroad park...