Stories from Wednesday, August 7, 2013

The thunder roared while fire and smoke filled the air Sunday as hundreds of people gathered at Carl Miller Park to check out a collection of classic cars, souped up stock racers as well as newer vehicles and motorcycles. Hosted by the Mountain Home Lions Club, the 12th Annual Rumble and Roar car show serves as a fundraiser to benefit local scholarships. Over the years, proceeds from the show have also benefited eye-related medical research and treatment and other community projects...

The effects of the Congressional sequester actions will have a significant impact on Air Force Appreciation Day, reducing the parade's size, eliminating some of the popular military entries and canceling the flyover by military jets. Parade chairman Sue Gross estimates the length of the parade could be cut by at least a quarter of its length without enties such as the CES equipment, the base fire trucks and the mobile radars of the 726th Air Control Squadron...

Dear editor: Noise complaint! Forget going to city council meetings or complaining to police about noise. Police work for the city, not you. Under the advice of city attorney, the city council will not do anything. Their advice to "get a lawyer and sue the person making the noise."...

Dear editor: I would like to address the editorial opinion dated July 24, 2013. Let me introduce myself for the record. I am Larry Jewett, chairman of the Elmore County Fair and Rodeo Board. I have been on the board through four managers. First, let me address the carnival issue. Yes, when Cathy was the manager we did have a larger carnival and they walked out on the last year of the contract, leaving the board scrambling...

Robert and Sue Willis of Mountain Home will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 17. The couple met in June 1963 after they were introduced by Robert's sister. At the time they met, Robert was living in Mountain Home while Sue had graduated from Boise High School and was attending cosmetology school. After a brief courtship, the couple were married Aug. 17, 1963, in Elko, Nev...

Amie Stinson fills out paperwork to register her daughters, Vanessa and Abigail, for classes at East Elementary School. Parents took time out of their schedules on Monday to register their children and teens at each of the district's schools. Classes across the Mountain Home School District are due to resume on Aug. 14...

Julie R. Lindquist, 38, of Grand View passed away at a Boise hospital on Aug. 5, 2013. A viewing will be held on Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013, at Rimrock High School, followed by burial at Riverside Cemetery in Grand View...