Stories from Wednesday, March 26, 2008

After a week off and some back-to-basics practice sessions, the Mountain Man Wrestling Club wrestled last week at the Vallivue Spring Fling Tournament. With numbers down due to spring break and family plans, those who participated wrestled well, club organizers said...

The Mountain Home Tiger boys golf team competed in two tournaments last week. The Mountain Home Tiger boys were back at Falcon Crest Golf Course last Monday and shot a better team score, but still finished fourth. Skyview won the competition, shooting a 163 team total, five shots better than Kuna. Nampa was a distant third, at 196, a stroke better than Mountain Home...

Mountain Home Youth Soccer Coach Charles Kistler's U12 Boys (coed) team almost let its first victory get away from them on Saturday. United led 4-0 at the half on scores by Christa Lewis, Jacob Lucas and two from Shaun Holland. Weiser battled back and tied the game with four minutes remaining in the match. Isaiah Carlisle met the challenge and put Mountain Home in front with less than two minutes left to secure the team's first win...

The Mountain Home Tiger tennis team had a busy week last week, dropping conference matches to Skyview, Columbia and Bishop Kelly. Girls: Skyview 7 Mtn. Home 0 Boys: Skyview 6 Mtn. Home 1 The Mountain Home girls all lost their matches with Skyview. Casey Stevens lost the #1 singles, 0-6, 0-6, Jessica Lewis lost the #2, 1-6, 1-6, and Carina Sauter lost #3, 0-6, 0-6...

The Mountain Home Lady Tiger JV softball team picked up a couple more wins last week to remain unbeaten on the season. Mtn. Home 18 Columbia 3 The Lady Tigers had big innings in the first and second to overwhelm Columbia, 18-3, last Tuesday in Mountain Home. Mountain Home scored seven runs in the first inning and added six in the second on their way to the lopsided win in five innings...

The Mountain Home Tiger girls track squad won its second straight triangular track meet Thursday, edging Middleton, with Nampa a distant third, at Nampa. The Mountain Home girls picked up 10 first-place finishes and nine seconds to edge past Middleton 92-89 in team points. Nampa was a distant third with just five points...

About the only thing able to stop the Mountain Home Lady Tiger softball team right now is the weather, as the Lady Tigers picked up a couple conference wins last week. Since their opening season 1-0, 8-inning loss to Timberline, the only thing that has stopped them from winning has been the weather, as their games at Minico and Vallivue have been washed out by snow and rain respectively...

The Mountain Home Tiger baseball team picked up its first win of the young season Thursday night with an 11-inning 3-2 win over Emmett at home, and followed that up with a come-from-behind 8-6 win over the Huskies Friday at Emmett. Tigers 3 Emmett 2...

"School bus drivers are a special breed. For someone to stay professional for 27 years, shows that they not only have care for the kids, but they have enjoyed their work as well," First Student Contract Manager Karen Azman said in describing Beverly Hammurland, a bus driver for 27 years who officially retired last Friday...

A staple for Mountain Home since 1964, the annual Easter Egg hunt sponsored by Sabre Lodge #7 brought a wide array of children of all ages out to Carl Miller Park on Easter Sunday, all with eager anticipation, to collect the eggs scattered all over the park...

Fire crews responded to two major house fires over the last week that left the families of those homes with major losses, and several smaller incidents. A single-wide trailer on NE Beamon Road was virtually destroyed by a fire that was caused by an electrical problem. It was the first use of the fire department's rural fire truck. Officers of the department had been training on the truck when the fire call came in...

The May 27 primary election in Idaho and Elmore County will see a number of contested races, most on the Republican ballot, including challenges to local incumbent commissioners Arlie Shaw and Larry Rose, and state senator Tim Corder. As of Friday's filing deadline, the county Democratic party was able to put up candidates in every local race except for the District 2 county commissioner's post, and has two candidates running for the District 1 position...

The Western Elmore County Rec District is expected to announce its plan within the next month to seek a bond to build its long-awaited community center. At that time, it is expected to also announce a federal appropriation of $300,000 to assist its financing for the project...

Dear editor: I would like to ask Paul Thirion about his letter to the editor. He bashes the police in general but does not say what they did wrong in his eyes. He says grandmothers and children are afraid of police. I am a grandmother and I hold the police in high regard. ...

Dear editor: I have to respond to Mr. Paul Thirion's letter to the editor in last week's paper. He should be ashamed of himself. I think Mr. Thirion needs to walk a mile in the shoes of a Mountain Home Police Officer. They do protect and defend the public. Some of the scum-bags they have to deal with would try anyone's patience, but they remain polite and respectful while performing their duties...

Dear editor: On Wednesday, March 19, in the alley behind Camas Carpets, two people pulled up and took some flooring installation items that they may have thought were thrown away. Realizing that there may have been a misunderstanding regarding whether the items were thrown away or just set aside, we would appreciate it if the people would return these items, there will be no questions asked and no police involvement...

Dear editor: I hope "whoever" took the shovel from the top of my husband's trailer gets a good sharp whack to his foot, when they try to use it. I never can figure out why people steal things. I never did. Of course if I did, my father would have whipped me all the way home on the legs with a switch...

On Thursday, March 13, 2008, our Elmore County Sheriffs Dispatch received a frantic phone call from me. My husband, Harry, is a local truck driver. He called me on my cell phone. He had dialed 911 but it wouldn't go through, so he called me and got through...

Dear editor: The school bond is a heated issue. What I wonder most about is the timing of the school board? Our economy is in the worst shape it has been in years. We are in a recession. Our dollars are not going as far as they did 6 months ago. The school board takes this opportunity to make things worse...

Dear editor: The adage about politics and religion causing arguments and dissent has never been more true than at this time, but I have just about reached saturation point. Take the latest flap over the sermons of Barak Obama's pastor. Were they outrageous, upsetting? Yes! If my pastor talked like that, would I leave the church? I don't think so! I do not follow a pastor, I follow Jesus, who was big into dialogues with those who opposed him...

Magistrate Court Derek Brandon Amundson, 23, was found guilty for an amended charge of battery-domestic violence (5/30/04 case--amended to disturbing the peace). Amundson was sentenced to 30 days in jail (28 days suspended, two days credited), placed on 12 months probation and fined $300 ($150 suspended) plus $506 in court costs...

Arrests Dale Vern Nelson, 52--Driving Under the Influence; accident-leave the scene. Thomas Edwin Bergstrom, 50--Driving Under the Influence; no license/invalid. Tyler Matthew Chisamore, 24--Failure To Appear/Failure To Pay. Judy Ailene Laymance, 57--Driving Under the Influence...

Hazel Lingle, 88, of Deer Trail, Colo., formerly of Mountain Home, died March 18, 2008, in Castle Rock, Colo. Memorial services will be held Thursday, March 27, at 11 a.m. at First Southern Baptist Church in Mountain Home. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home...

Roland Mordie Biswell, 72, of Boise, formerly of Hammett and Mountain Home, died Thursday, March 20, 2008, at St. Alphonsus Hospital in Boise. A viewing was held Monday, March 24, at Summers Funeral Homes, Boise. Graveside services were held Tuesday, March 25, at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery...

Terrell "Terry" Kenton Peterman, 57, of Mountain Home, died Sunday, March 23, 2008, while at home with family, after a two-year battle with brain tumors. "Terry's deep faith in God sustained him throughout this difficult time. He taught us all that death is not to be feared when we are safe in the hands of God," his family said. A viewing will be held on Thursday, March 27, from 4-7 p.m. at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home. Funeral services will be held on Friday, March 28, at 10:30 a.m. at the Mountain Home Church of the Nazarene, 950 N. 7th East St. Internment will follow at 3 p.m. at the Idaho Veterans Cemetery in Boise. Terry was born to Kenton H. Peterman and Ruth Jerome Peterman on May 9, 1950, in Nampa. Raised in Idaho, he grew up working on a dairy with a family until he graduated from Middleton High School in 1969 and then entered the US Army, where he served as a Chief Warrant Officer during the Vietnam War. Terry flew both gunships and troop-carrying helicopters throughout Vietnam and as part of the military's secret Lam Son mission into Laos. Terry received commendations for his performance and was awarded two Purple Hearts during his military service. Terry partnered with his father, Kenton, and brother, Jerry, in their Peterman Farms agribusiness operation in Mountain Home for the past 34 years. During that time he used his helicopter experience to do crop dusting. Later he enjoyed operating the large baler, harvesting alfalfa. He and his wife, Debbie, spent many "dating hours" in the baler. Then he had a passion for planting corn and watching it grow, his family said. "He was well known as a man of integrity as well as one with a keen sense of humor," his family noted, adding that "Terry appreciated the fellowship and support of his church family, especially his Bible Study group, at Mountain Home Church of the Nazarene." Terry is survived by: his wife of almost seven years, Debbie; sons Dan Peterman of Boise and Ben and his wife, Julie Peterman, of Mountain Home; his mother, Ruth Jerome Peterman; sisters Kaye and her husband, Jim Black, and Susan Conley, all of Tampa, Fla., his sister Paula and her husband, Alton Huyser, of Shoshone; his brother, Jerome ("Jerry"), and his wife, Tresa Peterman of Mountain Home, two nieces and a nephew; his mother in-law, Frieda Bertsch of Mountain Home; stepdaughters Sarah and her husband, Jeff Carothers, of Grand View, Cassie Davis of Bruneau, and four grandchildren. Terry was preceded in death by his father, Kenton, in 1997. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that donations be made to Angels Anonymous, c/o Horizon Home Health, 560 N. 6th East St., Mountain Home, ID 83647, or MSTI, 100 E. Idaho, Boise, ID 83712, or World Vision, P.O. Box 9716, Federal Way, WA 98063.

Shirley Ruth Prichard, 76, of Mountain Home, died March 15, 2008, in a Boise hospital after complications of surgery. Shirley was born in Kansas City, Mo., on Dec. 16, 1931, to Edward and Vonna Ruth Hogendorn. She had been a Mountain Home resident since 1992 after her family moved here from Fresno, Calif...

Thomas Ralph Kodesh, 92, of Mountain Home, died Wednesday, March 19, 2008, at Elmore Medical Center in Mountain Home. A viewing was held Monday, March 24, at Demaray's Gooding Chapel. Graveside Services were at held Tuesday March 25, at Richfield Cemetery in Richfield, Idaho, with Reverend Dave Buechler officiating...

Paul C. Binford, 87, of Mountain Home, died Sunday, March 23, 2008, at a local care center. At his request, no services are planned. Paul was born on Dec. 14, 1920, in South Bend, Wash., the son of James and Dora Anna Binford. He was raised and schooled in South Bend...

Johnny Liggett of Meridian, formerly of Mountain Home, died March 14, 2008, near Prairie. A memorial celebration was held Saturday, March 22. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home. John was born on December 19, 1950, in Sedwick, Kan., the son of William M. and Otheal (Love) Liggett. He died with his lifelong friend, Phil Taylor. They "will be greatly missed by all who knew them," his family said, adding that "John is remembered as always having a story to tell. "He was a man who would go out of his way to help anyone, regardless of knowing them for 20 minutes or 20 years." On Feb. 29 of this year, he retired after working 25 years for Idaho Power. He is survived by: three children, Michelle Carper, Rachel Liggett, and Cheryl Knobel; two brothers, Jack and Jerry Liggett; a sister, Linda Graham and three grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, a sister, Lona Love, and a brothe, William Liggett.

Johnny Liggett of Meridian, formerly of Mountain Home, died March 14, 2008, near Prairie. A memorial celebration was held Saturday, March 22. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home. John was born on December 19, 1950, in Sedwick, Kan., the son of William M. and Otheal (Love) Liggett. He died with his lifelong friend, Phil Taylor. They "will be greatly missed by all who knew them," his family said, adding that "John is remembered as always having a story to tell. "He was a man who would go out of his way to help anyone, regardless of knowing them for 20 minutes or 20 years." On Feb. 29 of this year, he retired after working 25 years for Idaho Power. He is survived by: three children, Michelle Carper, Rachel Liggett, and Cheryl Knobel; two brothers, Jack and Jerry Liggett; a sister, Linda Graham and three grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, a sister, Lona Love, and a brothe, William Liggett.

Phil Taylor, 56, died March 14, 2008, following a tragic accident while on a snowmobiling trip with one of his best friends, Johnny Liggett. A memorial celebration and reception was held at the American Legion Hall in Mountain Home on Saturday, March 22. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Included in the Mountain Home School District's $37.5 million bond proposal to complete the junior high as a high school is a gymnasium complex with three gyms, a stand alone wrestling room, a weight training room and improved locker rooms. The facility will be used as classrooms; help eliminate scheduling conflicts among the district's athletic teams, high school activities and community events; allow the high school to play host to district and potentially state events; and make Mountain Home facilities comparable to other gymnasiums in schools in the South Idaho Conference.. ...