Stories from Wednesday, August 29, 2012

The Air Force Band of the Golden West ensemble "Mobility" will be the featured entertainment at this year's Air Force Appreciation Day celebration Sept. 8. Mobility, a group of musicians that features rock, jazz and blues favorites, will begin their afternoon performance at 1 p.m. at the stage in Carl Miller Park...

Spacial disorientation was deemed a factor in the crash of an F-15E Strike Eagle that killed a pilot from Mountain Home Air Force Base earlier this year. Capt. Francis "Piston" Imlay was deployed to a base in southwest Asia when the two-seat fighter crashed March 28 during a large-scale training exercise...

The Western Elmore County Recreation District's board of directors approved their operating budget for the new fiscal year, which includes a 1 percent increase in spending over the next 12 months. The $451,000 budget gained unanimous approval following a public hearing Thursday evening...

Dear editor: I want to thank Skyler Podesek for the letter he wrote regarding the changes made to our local radio station. I'm not as articulate as Skyler, but I would like to add my own two cents. He was correct about the loss of the music we loved to listen to. It's been replaced by something that's hard to define as music. Its more like air pollution, not just bad, it's annoying...

Dear editor: "Yay" for Skyler Podesek's letter concerning KMHIs new format. Until they go back to the old, traditional country, I'm back to CD's or cassettes. -- Judy Lacks

Dear editor: I want to thank you for your article in the paper last week about the movies in the park. It has been a 23-year vision of bringing something like this to the city of Mountain Home! I want to let you know what a huge success it was for the Mountain Home Lions Club, Varsity Boys Soccer Team, Mountain Home Youth Center, and the Mountain Home High School Encore group...

Dear editor: New blood. Why! This is in response to the article by Rebecca Deppen. I have waited to write this, as I wanted to keep reading your article to see if I missed something, 1. You stated that the sheriff's department is rife with corruption. ...

James "Jim" Lee Adams, 69, of Mountain Home, passed away on Aug. 27, 2012. A rosary service will be held at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church, 115 N. 4th East St., in Mountain Home, at 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 31. The funeral mass will be held at the church on Saturday, Sept. 1, at 10 a.m. Burial with military honors will follow at Mountain View Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...

Leonard George Rice, 89, died peacefully in his home on Sunday, Aug.26, 2012, surrounded by family, with his beloved wife of 60 years by his side. Services will be held Friday, Aug. 31 at the Grand View Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The viewing is at noon and services began at 1 p.m. Arrangements are under the direction of Potter Funeral Chapel in Emmett...