Stories from Thursday, May 5, 2011

The Annual Mountain Home Art Camp will be held May 31 to June 3. Children ages 4-7 will go from 9 a.m. to noon and those ages 8-11 will go from 1-4 p.m. The cost is $80, which includes snacks, all art lessons and supplies, and a T-shirt. The camp will be held in Room K in the Annex of Mountain Home High School...

The Mountain Home Tigers dropped three games last week to see their current losing streak hit five, dropping a game to Skyview and losing two to league-leading Kuna. Skyview 11, Mountain Home 7 A six-run fifth inning proved to be the difference at Skyview last Wednesday as the Hawks outscored the Tigers 11-7 in conference baseball...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers picked up two more wins to stay in first place in the SIC 4A, downing Nampa and Kuna. Mountain Home 4, Nampa 1 The Lady Tigers broke open a scoreless game with three runs in the fourth inning to down Nampa 4-1 last Tuesday in Nampa...

The Mountain Home Arts Council's Spring Coffee House, featuring award-winning author Chris Crutcher, will be held Friday beginning at 7 p.m. at Mountain Home Public Library commons area. The library is located at 790 N. 10th East St. Crutcher, writer of young adult novels, will also visit the junior and senior high schools in Mountain Home to speak with students who have been reading his books in their language arts classes. ...

Planning continued this week for the 2011 Crazee Daze event on May 21, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. "We want it to be like the old days, like it used to be," said Brenda Franks, who along with Shawna Draper is organizing activities for the downtown celebration...

Plans to convert a local building into a new church gained some momentum this week after the city's planning and zoning commission recommended granting the ministry a temporary conditional use permit. The permit would also give the No-Limits Christian Ministries up to 90 days to resolve three main issues related to transforming the former Salvation Army building at 535 North Main Street into a church and counseling center...