Stories from Wednesday, September 3, 2008

The Mountain Home Tigers cross country teams were at the Jimmy Driskell Invitational Cross Country meet at Bishop Kelly last Saturday where the girls finished sixth, the boys ninth. Bishop Kelly won the girls competition with a team score of 40, Mountain View was second with 61, Centennial and Eagle both had 80, followed by Meridian with 123, and Mountain Home, 130...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers opened their 2008 volleyball season with a 3-2 conference win over the Emmett Lady Huskies at Emmett. The match was a battle, going five games. Mountain Home won the first game, 25-16, dropped the second, 13-25, won the third, 25-22, lost the fourth, 26-28, and prevailed in the fifth game, 15-10, to win the match...

Jesse Donez ran back a Jerome kickoff 80 yards for a score with 58 seconds left in the game to bring the local Tigers within one, and Kyle Kerfoot ran in the two-point conversion as the Mountain Home Tigers edged the Jerome Tigers 44-43 in their season-opening football game Friday night at Tiger Field in Mountain Home...

The South Barker Fire above Pine and Featherville, which the forest service is allowing to burn as part of its forest management plan, continued to move east towards Skeleton Creek on Sunday. The fire was more active than expected over the weekend as moisture did not develop over the fire as predicted. Both individual and group tree torching, as well as short crown runs with some spotting occurred in Jumbo, Weeks and Burnt Log Creeks. The fire has not moved into the bottom of Skeleton Creek...

Elmore County authorities had to deal with a number of major accidents over the Labor Day weekend. A major fatal accident in Ada County, just barely over the Elmore/Ada County blocked traffic in the westbound lanes of Elmore County past Simco Road and halfway to Mountain Home Monday...

Ellen Marie Bechtolt Hasty, 74, of Layton, Utah, formerly of Mountain Home, died Aug. 20, 2008, in Layton. A graveside inurnment service was held on Friday, Aug. 29, at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home. Ellen was born March 17, 1934, in Astoria, Ore., to Ernest and Ellen Sylvia Carlson Bechtolt...

Barbara Jean (Honea) Stemen of Boise, formerly of Elmore County and Grand View, died Aug. 12, 2008. A memorial service is planned at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 6, at Rimrock High School auditorium in Grand View, under the direction of Flahiff Funeral Chapel, Caldwell...

Leona Jones, 95, of Glenns Ferry, died Monday, Aug. 25, 2008, at a local care center. A graveside service was held on Friday, Aug. 29, at Glenn Rest Cemetery in Glenns Ferry. Leona was born on May 12, 1913, in Waldport, Ore., the daughter of Louis and Opal Wiedman...

Rosemary Mouser, 69, of Mountain Home, died Aug. 27, 2008, at a Boise hospital with her sister at her side. A celebration of her life and memories was held at her home on Saturday, Aug. 30, attended by many relatives and freinds. Rosemary spent 30 years in federal civil service, beginning at Mountain Home AFB and finishing at Anchorage, Alaska...

Dear editor: Subject -- A lesson for all. Once upon a time, in a land of not-so-make believe, people felt downtrodden, sad, discouraged, a grim trail lying ahead. Seemingly out of the abyss, came a man with a message, a ray of hope in a nation of gloom. He identified with the common man and found a small following. He "felt their pain," be promised much, promised "change."...

Dear editor: Several years ago, two horses died, rigged up to pull wagons (at the Three Island Crossing event). This year, if memory serves, it was a mule. How many animals must die crossing the Snake River in this show before this supposed educational entertainment is cancelled until provisions are in place to prevent this from ever happening again?...

No matter what, this is going to be an historic election. Either the first African-American will become president, or the first woman will be elected vice president. Both candidates have made excellent choices for vice president, shoring up areas of perceived weakness. Interestingly enough, neither chose a candidate who would directly help them carry a key swing state...

In less than a month, the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team will return to Mountain Home as the base opens its gates to the public Sept. 13 and 14 for Gunfighter Skies 2008. Gates open to the public at 8 a.m. both days with aerial events following at 11 a.m. Admission and parking for Gunfighter Skies is free to the public...

The Mountain Home City Council met with members of the Western Elmore Country Recreation District in a special council meeting Thursday night. The meeting was the first between the two bodies. WECRD board president Doug Belt told the council the district would like to go to bid on a building in the fall with construction starting after the first of the new year...

August 20 • 00:30 Fight• 04:01 Citizen Assist• 05:31 Vehicle Stop• 07:56 Welfare• 08:44 Vehicle Stop• 09:54 Fire Residence• 10:13 Animal• 13:10 Traffic• 14:30 Suspicious• 16:30 Traffic• 17:20 Abandoned Vehicle• 17:58 Abandoned Vehicle• 18:27 Motorist Assist• 18:40 Traffic• 18:58 Attempt to Locate• 19:30 Vehicle Stop• 19:47 Vehicle Stop• 20:16 Traffic• 22:38 Trespass• 22:38 Hazard. ...

August 27 • 06:45 Collision Personal Injury• 08:23 Traffic• 08:53 Lost Property• 11:03 Vehicle Stop• 11:12 Vehicle Stop• 11:21 Vehicle Stop• 11:29 VIN• 11:33 Vehicle Stop• 11:34 Motorist Assist• 11:51 Motorist Assist• 12:33 Traffic• 13:05 Vehicle Stop• 14:50 Hazard• 15:24 Vehicle Stop• 17:39 Suspicious• 18:42 Civil• 20:25 Vehicle Stop• 20:34 Motorist Assist• 22:26 Traffic. ...

The Mountain Home Fire Department and city police responded to reports of a natural gas leak somewhere downtown Wednesday afternoon at about 2 p.m. Authorities were first alerted to the problem when employees of the Dilly Deli reported smelling gas. Reports of the smell of natural gas also were received from other business owners in the area...

A plan that alters the parking and traffic situation around Hacker Middle School in order to avoid congestion before and after school has been approved by the Mountain Home City Council after much discussion and input from the police chief, citizens and concerned parents last week...

Glenn A. Parsons, 26, a former Mountain Home police officer, was sentenced to a minimum of four years with a maximum of 15 years in prison today for separate counts of sexual abuse and sexual battery of a minor child, Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said...

Day nine of Pearson and Peter Constantino's cross-country bicycle trip brought them through Mountain Home on Aug. 20 as they made their way across the country on Highway 20. For the brothers, it's a trip more than two years in the making. The two started planning the trip a month before Peter was hit from behind on his bicycle on June 29, 2006, in Greenburgh, N.Y...