Stories from Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Pioneer Federal Credit Union will offer a free document "shredding" to the public on Saturday, Oct. 17, from 9 a.m. to noon at 240 W. 3rd South St. "This is a great way to clean out your files and protect your personal information," said Mary Morin, PFCU Regional Manager...

The Mountain Home Arts Council will bring Jason Farnham's "An Evening of Contemporary Piano," to Mountain Home on Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. at Grace Lutheran Church, 2422 American Legion Blvd. Tickets, $10 for adults and $7 for seniors and students, are available at Moxie Java, the Senior Center, Phoenix Storybook Co. and at the door...

Mountain Home High School's annual Homecoming Week is now underway. It began Monday and is set to conclude this Friday, Oct.16. Students began preparation for the week by painting windows of local businesses over the weekend, the artwork all focused on Friday's homecoming game between the Tigers and the Nampa Bulldogs...

President Obama's Nobel Peace prize seems a little premature for a man who has held office for less than a year. The committee that awarded the prize cited his efforts to encourage the use of diplomacy to solve conflicts between nations, both in his brief tenure as president and in his writings prior to his election...

Dear editor: Because of the upcoming election, I have reread the letter submitted by Bart Eben for the May 13, 2009, paper and I thought I would set a few things straight. I was asked by Bart to take over his position as president of the board at the November meeting. He says "I resigned before my term was up." As his term was up in December, why hadn't an election been scheduled for November? If these elections are so important to him, why did he fail to have one when he was in charge?...

The Mountain Home Tigers dropped their third straight conference game Friday night, losing to the Bishop Kelly Knights 28-18 at Tiger Field in Mountain Home. Early on, it looked like the Knights, who came in 3-0 in conference, would romp, as they scored two quick touchdowns to go up 14-0, but Mountain Home recovered and made a game of it...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers battled long and hard but still came up short in conference volleyball last week. Skyview 3, Mountain Home 0 The Lady Tigers battled Skyview pretty much even last Tuesday night in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium in Mountain Home, but were a few points short on the scoreboard...

The Mountain Home Tigers cross country teams ran well at the Gibb Floyd Classic cross country meet in Kuna last Friday. The Mountain Home girls finished sixth out of nine teams competing and were the top 4A team. Jordan Vivier led Mountain Home with a 20:42. Kacee Cameron came in with a new personal best 20:52, Haley Schaefer was 20:57 and Shelby McHugh had a new PR of 21:27. Ashley Mayberry ran 22:04, McKenzie Dorr 22:19 and Jennica Quintal 20:57, all new PRs...

The Mountain Home Tigers opened the District III 4A Boys Soccer Tournament against the Middleton Vikings Saturday at Bishop Kelly. When two halves and two overtime periods could not decide it, the game was ended on a shoot-out with the Vikings making three shots with Mountain Home coming up short...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers opened the District III 4A Girls Soccer Tournament at Skyview Saturday with a 3-1 loss to Middleton. Mountain Home's lone goal was scored by Lauren Moore. The Lady Tigers closed out their regular season girls soccer schedule earlier in the week with a win and a loss...

The Mountain Home Tigers JV football team dropped a 28-13 football contest to the Bishop Kelly Knights' JV last Thursday at Bishop Kelly. Bishop Kelly scored in the first quarter to take an 8-0 lead and led 20-6 at halftime. Mountain Home's score in the second quarter came on a five-yard run by Tyler Knauth...

Mountain Home High School's junior varsity soccer squad chalked up a win in recent weeks while knotting the score with other competitors during recent action against teams across the Treasure Valley. "The boys have played great this season," said team spokesperson Lori McKenzie. "They put their whole heart into it. The games were so good to watch, and the coach really brought out the boys' self esteem. It made Mountain Home proud."...

Mountain Home runner James Gilbert finished second in a marathon ran in Boise on Oct. 4. Gilbert's effort qualifies him for the Boston Marathon, which will be run in April. For Gilbert, the assistant superintendent for the Mountain Home School District, it was his first marathon run. He averaged 6 minutes and 16 seconds per mile...

It's an old axiom: work hard and you'll be rewarded. That was true for Carl Claycomb from Mountain Home, who took home a bronze medal in the archery competition at the Huntsman World Senior Games on Oct. 10. When asked about his experience at the games Claycomb said, "Out of 1800 possible points, and with a score of 1670 in the Compound Release 60-64 age group, it was great to win the bronze medal."...

Last Wednesday, over 1,000 local children and their parents made their way to Fire Station #1 for the annual Fire Prevention Open House in celebration of Fire Prevention Week. The event began as families lined up from the station all the way down toward South 3rd East Street. The first activity for each child in attendance was to ride a fire truck that traveled around the block, giving the families the "firefighter experience."...