Stories from Friday, July 13, 2012

Saturday will mark the second home swim meet this summer featuring the Mountain Home Tiger Sharks Swim Team, who will host the West YMCA Blue Marlins during an event that starts at 9 a.m. at the Mountain Home city pool. Admission is free and concessions will be available...

The Mountain Home Lions Club is gearing up for its 11th year of its annual Rumble and Roar Car Show on Aug. 5 at Carl Miller Park. Registration begins at 8 a.m. and trophies will be awarded at 4 p.m. 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...

People from across Elmore County will enjoy a week of "fun in the sun" during the county's annual fair and rodeo, which runs from July 15-21 at the fairgrounds in Glenns Ferry. The fair is all based around kids -- to educate them on challenges and responsibilities of farm life, said county fair manager Rena Kerfoot. This family concept brings together parents, relatives and siblings as they watch these youngsters compete in hopes of coming home with a blue ribbon, she said...

Following a modest jump in criminal activity the previous year, communities across Elmore County saw crime drop to a five-year low in 2011, according to an annual report released by the Idaho State Police. The county had 1,058 reported offenses during the 12-month period with roughly 870 of those crimes occurring within the city of Mountain Home -- an 18 percent drop overall, the report said...

Owen DeLon Aiken, 81, of Mountain Home passed away on Sunday, July 8, 2012, at his daughter's home in Henderson, Nev. Services will be held on Tuesday, July 17, 2012, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, located at 1150 North 8th East Street, with a viewing from 10 to 10:45 a.m. and funeral services beginning at 11 a.m. Burial with military honors will follow at Mountain View Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...