Stories from Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Qwest Communications International Inc. has announced that high-speed Internet service is now available in Glenns Ferry. Residents and business owners can learn more during a demonstration at Southside Market, 121 S. Commercial St. in Glenns Ferry on Saturday, June 30. The demonstration will be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m...

Registration began Monday for the Mountain Home Public Library's Summer Reading Program, which will begin next week and last throughout July. The theme this year is "Get a Clue @Your Library." Participants receive a book log to record their weekly reading and each week they can bring it in and receive a special prize for the week...

Robin Murphy, the juvenile specialist at the Mountain Home Public Library, has been honored with the regional Head Start Humanitarian Award for 2007. Murphy was nominated by the local Head Start facility and will now be considered with other regional winners for the state award...

Last week the City Council met to prioritize requested budget items and discuss salary options for the 2008 budget year. Treasure Valley Transit had requested $27,000, an increase of $2,000 from last year, was one budget request in the hot seat at the meeting, and failed to win council's approval...

The Town Square Mall has been sold by Jack Streeter to Mirazim Shakoori, who hopes to restore it to its historic roots. Shakoori is a native of Azerbaijan who came to the United States 33 years ago, became a U.S. citizen, and was a successful businessman owning several companies involved in the petroleum industry before retiring two years ago...

Melva Marie Potthast, 62, of Pine, died Monday, June 25, 2007, at her home. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home.

Helen C. Larson, 80, of Glenns Ferry, died Monday, June 25, 2007, at her home. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, June 28, at the VFW Hall, in Glenns Ferry. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Rodney "Rod" John Forbis, 61, of Mountain Home, died Saturday, June 23, 2007, at a Boise hospital, with his older daughter and son at his side. A public viewing will be held on Thursday, June 28, from 4-6 p.m. at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, June 29, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, with burial to follow at Mountain View Cemetery...

Jerry Shetler, the son of Ivan and Jan Shetler of Mountain Home, and Geraldine Olarte, the daughter of Cion Olarte of Manila, were married in the Philippines on May 5, 2007. A celebration of their wedding vows will be held at the Dusty Rose Inn in Mountain Home on June 30, at 2 p.m. with a Philippine dinner reception following...

James and Valery Jewell of Mountain Home have announced the upcoming wedding of their daughter., Sarah L. Shank., to TSgt. Michael G. Kortright, son of Gary and Sharon Kortright of Neversink, N.Y. Sarah is employed with Lochsa Engineering in Boise. Michael, recently returned from a military deployment to Afghanistan, has been with the 391st Fighter Squadron (Bold Tigers) at MHAFB for the past 11 years...

The Mountain Home Royals had their five-game win streak snapped at Buhl last Thursday, but bounced back to win home league games over the Boise Seminoles and Boise Gems. Buhl 7, 11 Royals 3, 0 The Mountain Home Royals returned to action last Thursday at Buhl after three days off, and came out a little sluggish, dropping two non-league games to the Tribe...

Three Mountain Home tennis players fared well at the Treasure Valley Junior Circuit #2 Tennis Tournament at Boise State University's Appleton Tennis Center last week. Ricky Guadarrama and Andrew Martin from the Tiger tennis team played in the Boys 16s tournament, while Brittany Ryan, 13, a 2007 Tiger Tennis Summer Camp graduate, played in the Girls 14s tournament...

Dear editor: On behalf of the Mountain Home Arts Council and Beta Zeta Civic Club, we would like to thank the community for supporting our 11th annual Garden Tour, "Art by the Yard." The funds raised will allow us to increase the amount of the scholarships in 2008 that will be given to high school students pursuing a degree in an art field and to the Log Cabin Literary Scholarship...

Dear editor: History is being distorted in a way that is very dismaying. In a June 13 letter to the editor, by Jim Ward, titled, "The US needs to get out of the UN," he states, that Washington, did in fact, get us into the foreign affairs of other nations...

The city council is facing some extremely difficult -- and painful -- budget decisions this year. What's driving the budget crunch is the salary study the city had commissioned earlier this year, a study that showed most city employees are underpaid in comparison to similar-sized cities in the region...

Last week, we started to take a brief look at how well the Bill of Rights has survived after nearly 216 years of massive change in this country. We've gone from a rural agrarian society to an urban industrial society. Conditions that existed, and were important two centuries ago, don't exist at all today, and some things exist the founding fathers wouldn't have even dreamed of in their wildest imaginations. ...

Cowboys and cowgirls tested their talents at the 2nd annual Daniel Dopps Memorial Rodeo, a PRCA professional cowboys event held last weekend at the Optimist Park rodeo grounds. "Honoring all who have served in the Armed Forces past, current and future," was the theme for Friday's rodeo...

Mountain Home's Fourth of July activities get underway next Wednesday with events in Carl Miller Park during the day and the annual fireworks display put on by the volunteer fireman at the golf course. The El-Wyhee Business Association will open next Wednesday's activities with its Festival in the Park, beginning with an 8 a.m. breakfast featuring eggs, pancakes, ham and coffee...

ADULT ARRESTS --- Travis Richard Hampton, 27 -- warrant. Ryan Keith Miller, 39 -- warrant. Stacey Ann Murphy, 28 -- domestic battery. Richard David Miskin, 30 -- domestic battery. Sherman Andrew Miller, 27 -- battery. Erica Marie Solis, 26 -- warrant...