Stories from Thursday, August 23, 2012

The Mountain Home Tigers open their 2012 football season Friday night at home against the Jerome Tigers. It will be the Tigers' first game under new head coach Aaron Rodney. Mountain Home competed at a jamboree Friday night at Columbia High School in Nampa, going against Burley and Fruitland. The jamboree format had each team going 15 minutes on offense...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers open their 2012 volleyball season at home Thursday night against Kuna. Steven Mau takes over as head coach of the Lady Tigers, moving up from the sophomore team. He indicated they had a good turnout for volleyball. "The turnout was pretty good for tryouts -- we had enough to field 12 for each team."...

Corbin Maxey introduces the audience to Junior, a Nile Monitor Lizard, during a show Monday evening at the former Good Counsel Hall in Mountain Home. Hundreds of children and their parents packed into the hall to meet Maxey and his menagerie of reptiles and other creatures...

Gwen Marie Rost, 86, of Wendell, passed away on Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, at the Gooding hospital. A viewing will be held Thursday, Aug. 23, from 4-6 p.m. at the Wendell Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Services will be held on Friday, Aug. ...

Paul I. Anderson, 96, of Glenns Ferry, passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012, at a Glenns Ferry care center, with family by his side. Services will be held on Saturday, Aug. 25, at the Glenns Ferry VFW Hall with a viewing from 10-10:45 a.m. and services beginning at 11 a.m. Burial with military honors will follow at Glenn Rest Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Monroe Sheffield, 72, of Midvale, died Wednesday, August 22, 2012. Arrangements are pending with Thomason Funeral Home, Weiser. Burial will be in Prairie. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.lienkaemper-thomason.com