Henley Beeler with Girl Scout Troop 978 lays a wreath next to the grave site of World War II veteran George L. Hall Sr. as members of the local Scouting organizations took part in Saturday’s Wreaths Across America event at Mountain View Cemetery.

Photos by Brian S. Orban

A group of people gathered at Mountain View Cemetery on Saturday to pay tribute to military service members across the United States as part of a coordinated, nationwide observance.

At 10 a.m. that day, veterans in the Mountain Home community took part in an event that began that morning at more than 5,600 locations in all 50 states and 24 national cemeteries on foreign soil as part of year’s Wreaths Across America Day observance.

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The efforts of physicians, health care providers and staff members at St. Luke’s Elmore Medical Center to provide essential medical services to patients from Mountain Home and surrounding communities led the hospital to earn state-level recognition.

Officials with the Chartis Center for Rural Health named the local hospital as one of four critical access medical centers in Idaho to earn this year’s state-level performance leadership awards.

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