Stories from Thursday, January 12, 2012

The Sagebrush Archers will host the second annual Military Appreciation 3D Shoot from Jan. 21 to 22 at Cottonwood Park at the C.J. Strike Reservoir. Registration runs from 8 to 11 a.m. with a shoot start time of 8 a.m. for early birds. Event organizers expect to post scores by 4 p.m. both days...

The Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast will be held Jan. 14 at the Elk's Lodge in Mountain Home. The featured speaker will be Chaplain (Maj.) Sheila Wilson from Mountain Home Air Force Base. For the full story, pick up a copy of the Mountain Home News or click on this link to subscribe to the newspaper's online edition...

Ongoing efforts to catch intoxicated drivers in Mountain Home led to a record-number of arrests last year, according to city police officials. Over the past 12 months, the police department arrested 133 people for driving under the influence, according to Mountain Home Police Chief Nick Schilz...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers came away with a split of their conference basketball games last week, winning on the road at Columbia and losing at home to Nampa. Mtn. Home 46 Columbia 28 The Mountain Home Lady Tigers started the new year off on the right foot last Tuesday night, downing Columbia 46-28 in conference girls basketball at Columbia High School in Nampa...

The Mountain Home Tigers returned to conference boys basketball action last Thursday night and dropped a 48-37 contest to the Knights of Bishop Kelly in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium in Mountain Home. The Tigers stayed close to the Knights and trailed 16-10 after a quarter...

Our beloved wife, mother and grandmother, Helen Joyce Sandstrom, 92, of Glenns Ferry, passed away on January 11, 2012. Joyce was born on October 1, 1919, in Superior, Wisconsin to Herman and Cora Oesterreich, where she was raised along with her sisters Jeanne and Lee. She was a graduate of Superior State College and was a teacher in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Texas and Glenns Ferry...

As a child, the idea of flying an aircraft fascinated Justin Splain. He spent countess hours watching military aviation movies with his father, an avid World War II history buff. In time, Splain fueled that obsession through video games that allowed him to take the helm of various military jets or civilian airliners. It just never dawned on him that his love of flying would actually put him in the cockpit of an actual aircraft...