Stories from Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Justin Nakaishi shouted out his dissatisfaction as he stumbled trying the nail the landing before Saturday's Open Soar competition at Richard Aguirre Park in Mountain Home. It was his second attempt at trying to successfully complete the maneuver, and the fact it was a trick he's just tried to learn that day didn't seem to deter the teen...

The annual Children's Health Fair, hosted by St. Luke's Elmore Center for Community Health, will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday on the hospital lawn, 895 N. 6th East St. The outside venue for the Children's Health Fair offers interactive opportunities for kids, including an alpaca petting zoo, walk-through digestive tract, emergency vehicle displays, free eye and hearing screenings, and free popcorn and hot dogs...

Dear editor: If you have ever felt small in the shadow of bureaucracy perhaps you asked yourself a fundamental question: "What is the purpose of government?" The answer is found in one of the four "organic laws" of the United States codified by Volume 18 of the Revised Statutes of the United States as enacted by the 43rd Congress (A.D. 1873-1875) and published by the Government Printing Office in A.D. 1878; namely The Declaration of Independence...

Dear editor: A few random thoughts: What a shrewd piece of trading, five high-level terrorists for a deserter! "No one left behind." (except in Benghazi while we fly off to a Las Vegas fundraiser). Instead of closing GITMO, we'd be better off closing Washington, D.C...

City workers will see the first noticeable pay increase in four years after the city council approved an amended budget plan Monday evening. The motion, approved during the salary discussions, included a 1.5 percent pay increase for all city workers with a pair of 3 percent step raises for selected employees...

Glenda Fay Knighton Smith Breslin died of cancer, June 16, 2014, at her home in Mountain Home. She was 69 years old, born July 14, 1944, in Idaho Falls, the first of seven children, to Clarence Glen Knighton of East Bountiful, Davis County, Utah, and Audrey Glenda Bell of Brisbane, Australia...