Stories from Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Dear editor: One of the things we can all be thankful for over this Thanksgiving season, is that we're not speaking Chinese yet, and this new GOP needs to start getting this national debt debacle reversed, after they take control. Between the borders, the illegals, troops overseas, race riots, the IRS and a dozen other things, it's tough to know where to start...

The shelves at local area food banks are full once again. In the weeks leading up to the holidays, local businesses and citizens banded together to donate and collect thousands of pounds of food to help those less fortunate. But the demand for food hasn't eased up in recent years. Those who run the food banks in Mountain Home admit that the need has actually increased...

A yearly holiday season event returns to Mountain Home this week as the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hosts this year's Christmas creche exhibit. A non-denominational event, the three-day celebration runs from 6-9 p.m. Thursday and Friday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Mormon stake center off Airbase Road at 790 South Haskett St...

Hospital administrator Greg Mauer was released last week from the position he has held for more than 18 years. The decision was made by the St. Luke's Western Regional Board, which provides ultimate supervision over St. Luke's Elmore. Mauer had technically been an employee of St. Luke's since his first day on the job, long before the merger two years ago. He had worked for what was then Elmore Medical Center under a contract the local hospital district board had with St. Luke's...

Bobby Dan Collett was born in Paul, Idaho, on Sept. 13, 1925, to Dan and Vernetta Collett. He passed on Dec. 1, 2014, at home in Oreana, after battling cancer. Bob went to school at Glenns Ferry, Idaho. He served on the Casablanca in WWII, touring the South Pacific. He was injured and spent some time in the base hospital in Hawaii. That is where he was when the war ended...