Stories from Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Mountain Home City Council met on Aug. 13 and the council chambers were full, wall to wall, in anticipation of the swearing in of Russell Griggs as Interim Chief of Police. Before the council approved Mayor Rich Syke's recommendation to appoint Griggs, audience members were given a chance to address the council. ...

On Aug. 18 crowds gathered in Carl Miller Park for the Endless Summer Festival of Beer event. The event, which is in its second year, is a fundraiser for the "Light the Forest" Christmas display that is put up during the holiday season in Carl Miller Park...

What to say about this individual, who has done so much for our Country, let alone our community. This individual served in the U.S. Air Force until their retirement. At which point, I saw an opportunity to become the biggest pest this person has ever seen! This individual unwittingly spent the last 10 years enlisted in the service of the Air Force Appreciation Day Committee...

"The Daniel Dopps Memorial Rodeo Association is honored to receive the Northwest Farm Credit Services Rural Community Grant this year. The Rural Grant Award will allow us to pay for the welding to install guard rail and top rail to finish the livestock holding pens at Optimist Park Arena. ...

Our beloved, Sandra Louise Widgeon/ Grinde, passed peacefully at her sister’s home on August 20th, 2018, in Mountain Home, Idaho at the age of 55, after a hard fought battle with Metastic Breast Cancer. Sandra was born on August 21st,1962 at Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington to Kenneth and Kay Grinde. ...

Catherine Joan Robinson Fox passed away on August 13, 2018. She was born October 26, 1934 in Sauk County, near LaValle, Wisconsin, to James and Elma Robinson. Catherine was the second of nine children. In 1943, the family moved to Missouri, where the children attended grades one through eight in a one-room schoolhouse. Catherine was a good student and enjoyed mathematics most of all. She graduated from Glasgow High School in 1952, and then attended the University of Missouri in Columbia...