Stories from Thursday, May 31, 2012

Mountain Home's outdoor swimming pool will open for the season Saturday afternoon with park officials planning to keep the facility open through Aug. 11. Located at 990 McKenna Drive in Richard Aguirre Park, the pool complex opens from 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. daily with the children's wading pool expected to open July 1...

Students from each of the community's four elementary schools earned recognition by postal officials in Mountain Home through a new program aimed at fostering citizenship. Mountain Home Postmaster's Character Delivers Award recognizes the value this trait plays in children here, according to postal officials...

From left, Daniel Dopps Memorial Rodeo directors John Bideganeta, Doug Beaver, Travis Bachman, Lisa Miller and Mike Pope watch as Mayor Tom Rist signs a proclamation declaring June 17 to 23 as Mountain Home Rodeo Days. The seventh annual memorial rodeo begins at 7 p.m. June 22 at Optimist Park with a second day of events planned the evening of June 23...

Students from Hacker Middle School collected more than 350 pounds of aluminum and tin during their annual scrap metal drive. Held over a three-week period that ended May 4, the project continued an effort originally started four years ago by the school's former team building class...

More than teams that included 100 BMX riders from as far away as Coeur d'Alene and Wyoming descended upon Mountain Home earlier this month to compete in the region's largest bike competition of the year. Held at Optimist Park, the Rocky Top BMX event served as this year's state qualifier with riders earning double points during the May 20 race...

A Mountain Home High School senior who earned district-level distinction earlier this year will continue her award-winning ways in Texas. During a brief ceremony on May 16, Dylan Dean signed her letter of intent to play for the Buccaneers of Blinn College located in Brenham, Texas...

Novice and veteran anglers are expected to gather at Legacy Park on June 9 for a day of fishing fun during an annual event hosted by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. The state's free fishing day event is geared for people of all ages, including state residents as well as non-residents...

Robert William Henrick was the eighth child born to Clarence Henrick and Ruth Neece Henrick on Feb. 16, 1933. He was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and passed away in Mountain Home on May 30, 2012. Funeral services were held on Saturday, June 2, 2012 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Burial with military honors will be held in Davenport, Iowa on Wednesday, June 6, 2012...