Stories from Wednesday, March 12, 2014

The engagement and upcoming wedding of Katherine Ann Pluid of Bonners Ferry to Joseph Miller of Mountain Home has been announced. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Robert and Kimberly Pluid of Bonners Ferry. The prospective groom is the son of Jessie Lehto and Danny Miller, both of Mountain Home...

Kimberly Meek of Grand View and Christopher Collett have announced their engagement and upcoming wedding on March 20 in Mountain Home. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Yves and Beverly Meek of Sanford, N.C., and Frank and Linda Lou Loll Orton of Mountain Home...

David Villeneuve and Katie Thomas of Mountain Home, have announced the birth of a boy, Jakobe James Villeneuve, on Feb. 6, 2014, at St. Luke's Elmore in Mountain Home. At birth, Jakobe weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces, and was 20 inches long. He joins siblings Shayna Villeneuve and Blaine Thomas...

Dear editor: This letter is to tell the people of Idaho don't enter any contest for money, because it's all a scam. If the scam artist doesn't get you the states and IRS will because they want their taxes before you get your winnings. It's just too bad if you're low income and can't pay until you get your winnings. Forget it. You won't receive them...

Dear editor: In my humble opinion (and everyone has one!) I believe we should start a community vegetable garden for all to enjoy when they help maintain it. The city has lots of land that could be used and would be helpful to our citizens and our environment...

Two of ten members of a Mountain Home family in an SUV died outright last week in a collision with a semi truck near Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Aylin Ruiz, 4, and Dolores Ruiz, 56, both of Mountain Home, died at about 12:50 p.m. Thursday when their family's 2006 GMC Yukon Denali, driven by Cutberto Ruiz, 55, hit a patch of ice on the snow-covered Togwotee Pass, between Jackson Hole and Dubois, Wyo. ...

Step by step, eight members of the Mountain Home Fire Department tackled a yearly challenge that ultimately will help in an ongoing quest to find a cure for cancer. The firefighters were among the nearly 1,700 individuals competing in the 23rd Annual Scott Firefighter Stairclimb, held Sunday at the Columbia Center in Seattle...

The supplemental levy for the Mountain Home School District easily passed in light voting Tuesday. With all but the Pine precinct reporting, unofficial returns showed voters had cast 871 yes votes to 466 no votes. The district had asked voters to renew a supplemental levy that would raise $2.7 million in each of the next two years...