Stories from Friday, May 11, 2012

The Mountain Home Tigers tennis team closed out their regular season tennis schedule last week with the Tiger girls tennis team picking up two wins. Kuna Girls 7, Mountain Home Girls 0 Kuna Boys 6, Mountain Home Boys 1 The Tigers lost a conference tennis match to Kuna at Richard Aguirre Park last Tuesday...

The Mountain Home Tigers rescheduled their April 26 home track meet that got rained out for last Tuesday and won both the girls and boys competition against Boise High School. Mountain Home won the girls competition, 94-62, over Boise with Selena Foster leading the Mountain Home girls. The sophomore won the high jump and pole vault, finished second in the triple jump and third in the 100 meter hurdles...

The Mountain Home High School varsity football squad will push a refurbished vehicle through the city Saturday afternoon as part of the team's new fundraiser. The first-ever car push fundraiser will start at 2 p.m. at De Meyer Furniture with athletes pushing the vehicle down Airbase Road, North 2nd East Street and American Legion Boulevard to the Mountain Home Auto Ranch...

An unusual visitor of sorts returns to the lawns of Mountain Home residents on Monday that's expected to raise a few eyebrows while helping raise money. The Purple Potty fundraiser is one of a series of efforts leading to this year's Relay For Life...

Two years after it approved Elmore County's first solar energy farm, the county's planning and zoning commission approved plans to complete this alternative energy complex. During a public hearing May 2, the eight-person commission unanimously approved conditional use permits for a pair of 20 megawatt generating facilities off the Grand View Highway southwest of Mountain Home...

1931 - 2012 Warren was the eldest of five children born to Elliott H. and Edna Irene Roth Zuercher on May 17, 1931, in Nampa, Idaho. Warren died May 4, 2012, at St. Alphonsus Hospital in Boise, Idaho Warren retired from farm related occupation and resided in Grand View, Idaho. He graduated from Caldwell High School...

1963 ~ 2012 Richard (Rick) John Thomas died May 7, 2012, in Kuna, Idaho. Rick was born July 27, 1963, in Butte to Dick and Deanna Kennedy Thomas. He attended Kennedy grade school and North Central Junior High. He graduated from Butte Central in 1981 and then attended Montana Tech...