Stories from Wednesday, November 30, 2022

F&G conservation officers deploy “artificial simulated animals” during hunting season to catch law-breaking hunters. You pull the binoculars up to your eyes and, lo and behold, that blurry brown object just off the side of the road appears to be an elk. And not just any elk — a massive seven-point bull. Or so it seems...

With big game animals at lower elevations, wildlife-vehicle collisions tend to increase during winter Winter is already tough for deer, elk and other big game animals, and being near busy roads and highways can be deadly, so drivers are asked to keep a sharp eye out and avoid costly and potentially dangerous collisions...

With 116,000 veterans scattered around Idaho, they reside in various counties. According to the 2020 five-year American Community Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau, the top 10 counties with the largest share of the population include Elmore (22.1%), Adams (16.6%), Clearwater (14.7%), Lemhi (14.3%), Boise (13.6%), Benewah (13.0%), Gem (12.5%), Bonner (11.9%), Idaho (11.7%) and Lewis (11.7%)...

I wanted to reorder a product last week, so I called the company’s toll-free phone number. A cheerful recorded voice wished me a good morning (it was afternoon), and told me how much she valued my call, my time, my loyalty, and my impressive humanness...

On the evening of Tuesday the 22nd at the Our Lady of Good Counsel church building, cars could be seen lining the surrounding blocks. Carts rolled in and out of the church building. Some volunteers could be found rushing food out of the building, others talking to those in line, and more yet loading the trunks of cars with food. ...

The Hometown Holiday Parade of Lights will be held on Friday, Dec. 2. at 6:30 p.m. Join the Parade of Lights as Santa Claus is escorted through downtown to Railroad Park for the Light the Forest event.

People make fun of the silliest things, like how people look for example. Just because people look different doesn’t mean that they don’t have feelings. I know someone who has dyslexia. They get made fun of because they have a harder time reading,and people point it out to make fun of them. ...

Adapted from Charles Dickens by Taunya Page. Two performances, ONE DAY ONLY on December 10 at Mountain Home High School 2pm and 7pm. All seats are $3 at the door for this 30-minute production. In this adaptation based on Dickens' classic text, the mean-spirited Scrooge refuses to participate in any Christmas celebrations; and he rejects invitations from Bob Cratchit and the rest of the gang with his Scroogey response of “Bah! Humbug!"...

Idaho is made even greater by the more than 116,000 veterans, the 4,063 active-duty servicemembers and the 8,367 National Guard and reserve members who live here. We have been working steadily to ensure federal policy supports their service and makes it easier for them to live here in Idaho.  This includes our raising concerns about a recent change cutting almost 15,000 pharmacies, mostly in small communities, from the TRICARE program, limiting military families’ ability to continue going to their community pharmacies for their prescriptions.  For the full story, pick up a copy of the Mountain Home News or click on this link to subscribe to the newspaper’s online edition.. ...