Stories from Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Each year first grade teacher, Lisa Stover-Russell, of East Elementary School in Mountain Home, teaches a lesson on Hawaii and the attack on Pearl Harbor, followed by a very special guest speaker, Lorraine Kirkland. Accompanied by her husband, Ken Kirkland, and dressed in their Boise State Bronco gear the couple settled into little chairs in front of the classroom as all the children gathered at their feet. ...

On the afternoon of Dec. 5, the Mountain Home City Council and the Western Elmore County Recreation District held a joint special meeting. The WECRD asked for the meeting for the City to consider entering a partnership with the district to help with building and maintaining their planned indoor pool facility...

Mountain Home City Council Member Matthew Bundy has announced his candidacy as a Republican for State Representative Seat 23-A serving Elmore, Owyhee and Twin Falls counties. Bundy has been active in local government, serving as a Commissioner on the Urban Renewal Agency Board and as a member of the Mountain Home City Council. ...

Dear Editor, I had an idea I sent to the City "Question Line", but thought I would pass it on. Looking around Mountain Home during the last snowfall, about the only place in the city for kids to sled or go tubing is Legacy Park - it has a fairly nice hill area. ...

The West Side Sewer District would like to thank Bart Eben’s family for donating a tape recorder which belonged to him, to the district after he passed away

In the Dec. 4, issue of the Mountain Home News we provided pictures for the youth of our community to color and bring into the newspaper to be put on display in our office. We informed them that the first five children to do so would receive a special surprise from the staff and all the others would receive a candy cane. Below are the two cousins who brought their pictures into us...

Allen Dale (AJ) Jamison died on December 7, 2019, after a courageous battle with cancer. He fought a good fight! Memorial Service was held at 2:00 P.M. Friday, December 13, 2019 at Rost Funeral Home in Mountain Home. AJ was born on September 8, 1963, to Dale and Geraldine Jamison in Clarinda, Iowa. ...