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Schools ready to Injured Marine Rodeo PPageage 4 take registration PPageage 2 accepts challenges top for new year donations cowboys Page 12 Wednesday, August 10, 2005 Established 1865 VOLUME 21, NUMBER 32 HOMEDALE, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS Commissioners sign Marsing annual proposals: voters OK water bond Owyhee Osterhoudt says he sheriff won’t seek second term as mayor faces A day after a reversal of fortune for the Marsing water bond, Mayor Don Osterhoudt wasn’t in cuts in the mood to talk about a legacy or winners and losers. It’s fair time He was just happy that the $1.7 A cowboy and wild horse steel sculpture welcomes visitors to the 2005 Owyhee County Fair and Rodeo, budget million bond initiative received which began Monday morning and will continue throughout the week. For a full account of fair, rodeo, Despite the growth in evaluation enough votes to pave the way for parade and livestock sale information see pages 10 and 11. an upgraded water system in the of property in Owyhee County and small town. the added tax revenues available, Even if it was by a slim margin. the proposed county budget is According to Idaho Code, a down nearly $200,000, and many Fair kicks into gear county offi cers and department two-thirds majority is required for passage of any proposal that heads will be operating on less adds to a government’s fi nancial Event continues money in 2006 than they are this burden. year. Of those eligible voters casting with entertainment Worksheet fi gures were released last week, following the county ballots on Aug. 2, 67.1 percent and contests were in favor of the bond. The commissioners’ approval of the final tally was 86-42, a nearly Plenty of local entertainment, proposed budget for 2006. identical reversal from the failed contests and talent can be found Offi ces and departments facing bond election in February. On at the Owyhee County Fair and lower budgets include: Sheriff, Aug. 2, 51.8 of all registered Rodeo as it continues this week. Jail, County Road and Bridge voters in Marsing turned out for The fair officially opened on districts, Revaluation, General the vote. Monday with the horse shows Fund, Building Department, In February, the count was a and events, but will continue Building and Grounds, low 42.1 percent as the bond was through Saturday with a huge Commissioners, Clerk/Auditor, rejected 76-42. variety of events, contests and Assessor, Historical Society and “Ultimately, the voters of the entertainment. Museum, Historical Preservation city are the decision-makers, and Activities were kicked off Offi cer, Probation, District Court, there’s no such thing as a sure Tuesday with the annual Buckaroo District Court Magistrate, District thing, so to say I felt confi dent Breakfast at the Homedale Senior Court Probation, Weeds and Solid –– to page 5 Citizen’s Center on Idaho Avenue. Waste General. Breakfast will be served from Offices and departments 7 a.m. until 10 a.m. each day expecting an increase include: through Saturday. Treasurer/Tax Collector, Ranch horse projects will Prosecuting Attorney, Civil wind down the horse show today Defense, County Agent, Planning IInsidenside Zoning and Building, Technology beginning at 8 a.m. in the arena. Rabbit and poultry judging will Department, County Fair, Fair be held at 1 p.m. as well as Grounds and Buildings, Health Sports judging the open class projects in District, Indigent and Charity, Junior College Tuition, Tort, 911 page 12-13 Cleanin’ up for the fair the Armory. Dairy goats will be shown at 2:30 p.m., and the dairy and Pest. Brandy Dream Mount gets a nice afternoon shower from her owner, The most controversial budget Classifieds Sydney Combs from the Wilson Butte 4-H club in preparation for show will begin at 3:30 p.m. both in the livestock barn. is that of the Sheriff, which is pages 22-23 Monday morning’s horse show activities. The fair continues this week $6,301 less than the current year. with a wide variety of entertainment, activities and contests through The Owyhee County Rodeo Saturday evening. –– to page 5 –– to page 5 Page 2 Wednesday, August 10, 2005 Marine accepts donation for his men Homedale Senior Citizens where doctors said he could not their appreciation for what this over to Germany, they said I was “Yes, I hope they will send Center Director Shirley McAbee be released to go home until he young man is doing to protect not going to get out of bed for me back,” Fountain told those honored a recovering Homedale could walk. Fountain said within us. three months, but — I don’t know attending the brief ceremony last Marine with a check for $348 days he worked to be able to walk “I am so proud of him, and I what it is — but thank God, when Thursday at the center. “I have a during an informal ceremony last and was sent home to fi nish his know his parents are so much I was in Maryland I just thought, job to do, and my job is not done. I week. But instead of spending the recovery. more proud of him. This donation ‘I am going to walk.’ It wasn’t feel like I was just doing my job. money on himself, Cpl. Jeremy McAbee said the senior center has come from the bottom of our quite walking; it was more like “I greatly appreciate it. You Fountain said he would only take has been collecting donations for hearts. We wanted to reach out crawling at fi rst, but everyday got think about that kind of stuff the funds if he could accept the approximately two weeks, and and say, ‘Thank you.’ ” a little better. (family) a lot while you are over money on behalf of his men still many seniors have slipped money Fountain, an E4 with the Marine “I love my job very much. I feel there. I have been in the Marines in Iraq. into the bucket. She said the Corps, said he is in charge of I need to be there for my squad. I for four years, and the last two Fountain returned to his collection would continue through 13 men in Iraq and he is very feel me over here is kind of letting tours have been a real eye-opener hometown two weeks ago to the annual Buckaroo Breakfast, concerned about them. He said he them down. When you get to that for me. Special people and the recover from injuries sustained which began Tuesday and runs feels like a father fi gure and misses level, you know you’re Marines. love we receive, it makes you while on a tour in Iraq. Until last through Saturday in conjunction his squad. He told McAbee that he You know what they think, what think.” week, he had declined interviews with the Owyhee County Fair wanted to donate the money back they do, how they are gong to Fountain said he will return to because he says he is not a hero, and Rodeo. to the center, but McAbee said it react to situations. You get to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina he is just doing his job. “It just touched mine and many was very important to the people know everyone of them. With in the following weeks, but fi rst Fountain reportedly was others’ hearts,” McAbee said who donated the money that he them over there, I get to thinking he plans to visit his grandparents seriously injured in Iraq by a when she heard about Fountain’s accept it. Fountain said he would all this stuff. ‘Are they OK?’ ” in Washington state to show them roadside bomb. He was transported injuries. “We need to show our accept the funds for his men still Fountain is not spending his that he is doing well. After that, to Germany, where he underwent local military how much we in Iraq. days of recovery concerned about he hopes the Marines will send several surgeries on his legs. appreciate them, and this is one “I can buy stuff they need with his injuries; he spends most of him back to his post in Iraq, but Later, he was transferred to the way we can do that. I was so this money and take it to them,” his days working to get back into for now he doesn’t know what is United States to the Bethesda happy to see so many seniors, on Fountain said. physical shape to be able to return in store for him. Naval Hospital in Maryland, fi xed incomes, be able to show “When they lifeflighted me to his “job” in Iraq with his men. — CAB Melba approves sewer bond Melba schools seek new levy Melba voters resoundingly A decline in enrollment, and the Voters in Melba just approved homeowners tax exemption. The Larson anticipates a loss of about approved a $3 million bond for subsequent loss of state funding, a $3 million sewer improvement tax burden to a business in the $160,000 for the next budget year improvements to the city’s sewer has the Melba School District bond on Aug. 3, so Larson is well district will be $194 a year. because the enrollment figures system and wastewater treatment asking taxpayers to approve a aware of the sensitivity of the If both levies are approved, have dropped from about 40 units plant. new levy and extend an existing situation. there’s a potential of raising $2.4 in 2004-05 to about 38 this year.