Stories from Wednesday, July 3, 2013

As Mountain Home celebrates Independence Day this Thursday, a recent decision approved by the city will once again expand the viewing area for this year's fireworks show. The Independence Day fireworks display will begin at dusk on Thursday, July 4, at the Desert Canyon Golf course...

Mountain Home Fire Chief Alan Bermensolo issued a simple message this week for local residents who are tempted to shoot illegal fireworks to celebrate Independence Day. Don't do it. According to state law, people are limited to using what are known as "safe and sane" fireworks. Those legal fireworks include those that don't explode or fly more than 10 feet in the air...

The El-Whyee Business Association's annual Fourth of July Festival in the Park will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 4. Scheduled to run until 4 p.m. at Carl Miller Park, the festival is expected to fill the area with activities, according to organizers...

A burn ban with the city limits of Mountain Home took affect today, July 3, as part of similar measures adopted across the county earlier this week. In a resolution signed Tuesday, the board of county commissioners imposed a similar burn ban for all of Elmore County with the city of Glenns Ferry also imposing the same measure.

Ariana Zick, daughter of Tim and Lucy Zick of Mountain Home, was united in marriage to James O'Leary, son of Jim and Cany O'Leary of Rochester, N.Y., on May 25, 2013, at the Boise Depot in Boise, Idaho. Ariana is a 2002 graduate of Mountain Home High School. She currently works as a cosmetologist at the Beehive Salon in Boise...

Angelina Marie Axtell of Meridian, daughter of Rick and Rose Axtell of Mountain Home, was married Sept. 29, 2012, to Matt Schofield of Meridian, son of Janet and Bill Cunningham of Middleton and George Schofield of Philadelphia. The wedding was held in the Rose Room in Boise, Idaho, with Victoria Prouty serving as the officiating minister...

Ed and Erika Junger will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary July 10. Ed Junger and Erika Hannig were childhood friends before Ed moved with his family to the United States. Ed joined the U.S. Air Force and soon after reconnected with Erika during a trip to Germany. After a brief courtship, Ed and Erika were married on, July 10, 1963, in Berlin, Germany...

Top-ranked competitors from across the western United States earned more than $30,000 in cash prizes during the 8th Annual Daniel Dopps Memorial Rodeo. Held at Optimist Park on Friday and Saturday, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association event included two days of saddle bronc riding, bull riding, bareback riding, barrel racing, steer wrestling, calf roping and team roping...

Dear editor: In response to Mr. Bradbury's very opinionated letter, I'm going to write my last letter to this paper. I don't want a running debate with this man so I'm going to have my final say. I'm too sick to waste my time and energy on a self-appointed so-called patriot whose opinion is the only way of thinking is his...

Dear editor: Only two weeks and another diatribe from Mike Bradbury (June 19). Lord, where does the time go? Could someone please give this man a full-time job so that he'd have less free time to research historical quotes which are ill-suited to support his specious syllogisms?...

Dear editor: After hearing the airplane had been painted, my mother-in-law and I went to Carl Miller Park to look at it. John Gross, you did an awesome job painting that plane! I'm sure you have been recognized by the city but I would like to congratulate you on behalf of the community. You are one of those volunteers that prefer to stay out of the limelight but have worked on many community projects quietly over the years...

Selected offices at Mountain Home Air Force Base will close or provide limited services Fridays through the end of the fiscal year as the base copes with federally-mandated budget cuts. Starting Monday, selected government employees at the base will face furloughs, requiring them to take 11 days of non-paid leave related to sequestration through Sept. 30...