Stories from Wednesday, September 23, 2015

by Tim Bondy Mountain Home News The director of the Idaho Department of Labor met with local business and community leaders earlier this month during an effort aimed at providing better service to employers in the Mountain Home community. Ken Edmunds and his team of data experts held a round table meeting concept called "Community Conversations" to gather facts, information and ideas from local employers...

Voters in the Mountain Home community will have a chance to ask questions to candidates running for mayor and the city council during a forum Oct. 5. The meeting runs from 6 to 9 p.m. that evening at the Mountain Home Elks Lodge and is limited to those who filed their declaration of candidacy by the Sept. 4 cutoff in both elections...

by Tim Bondy Mountain Home News As efforts continued throughout the summer to battle a number of range fires across southern Idaho, a number of those missions originated at the Mountain Home Airport. In May, Miguel Bilboa set up shop in a small office building at the local airport to help coordinate firefighting aircraft assigned to the airport in addition to wildland fire efforts across the region...

In memory of Lula Smith We offer our heartfelt thanks to Dr. D. Crossley, MD, and Staff, The Cottages of Mountain Home and the Legacy Home Health & Hospice for their loving care given to Lu over the past few years. We would also like to give thanks to our many friends and neighbors for their thoughtful gestures of visits, telephone calls, hugs, flowers, food, cards and the attendance of Lu's service...

Dear editor, Every few years we hear rumblings about how Mountain Home needs to "grow, industrialize, build more homes, entice more people to move in here" etc. Be careful what you wish for. When I first came here in 1972, a sign in Railroad Park read "population 3410" You could take a 3 week vacation, leave the house unlocked, keys to the pickup in the ignition, and everything would still be there when you got home. Only a fool would do that today, even HERE...

Naomi Sharon (Whitney) Cameron, 77, passed away on Sept. 23, 2015, at St. Luke's Elmore Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, and burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery.

William (Bill) C. Foster passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015 in Glenns Ferry, Idaho. A graveside inurnment will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 2, 2015, at Glenn Rest Cemetery. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home.