Stories from Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Dear editor: The Service Extension for The Salvation Army of Mountain Home would like to thank the people and businesses of the Mountain Home area for their generous donations and the volunteers from the Mountain Home Air Force base, including officers, enlisted personnel and families as well as civilians who spent their time to "Man a Kettle" through the2014 Christmas Season...

Dear editor: Christmas Eve, 10 p.m. -- the wind was howling and the freezing snow was sticking to the windows on the west side of my house. Then the power went out. I dug out the battery lanterns, got the wood stove ready to go, and called Idaho Power to see if the outage had been reported. They told me it was fairly widespread over the Mountain Home area, extending up to Prairie, and that crews had been dispatched to find the problem. So I fired up the wood stove and went to bed...

City police are asking for the public's help for information regarding the discovery of two objects discovered over the weekend at Legacy Park. Police responded to the park following reports posted on Facebook regarding a possible metal spike located in the sledding area of the park...

He wasn't due to arrive for another two weeks, but Amar Shahin Saravanan apparently had other plans. Just 38 minutes after midnight on Sunday, the youngster was welcomed into the world, becoming the first baby born in Elmore County in the new year. The son of Ananth and Nasreena Saravanan tipped the scales at 6.17 pounds and measured 20 inches at birth...

The price of gasoline in Mountain Home remains higher than the same brand sold by service stations in Boise and Twin Falls. In some cases, people here are paying 50 cents more for the same fuel. That fact hasn't gone unnoticed by local residents. By Friday, complaints by local consumers had reached the mayor's office with others calling state legislators wanting answers...

Donald Wayne Puder, Ph.D., 80, residing at Bridgeview, passed away quietly in his sleep Jan. 1, 2015, in Twin Falls, Idaho, after an extended illness. Donald was born July 29, 1934, in Keokuk, Iowa, as the only child of Lorenzo D. and Elizabeth L. (Wolfe) Puder...