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Kuna man critically Homedale football coach injured in U.S. 95 crash tenders resignation Students’ turkey recipes PPageage 55AA PPagesages 116A6A B Section Wednesday, November 22, 2006 Established 1865 VOLUME 22, NUMBER 47 HOMEDALE, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS County’s Agency ready to Triangle fi le grant request Road for Homedale ruling With a little help from Sage grant — the maximum available — Community Resources, the City to install sidewalk, curbs, gutters of Homedale is ready to take a and do other improvements around appealed major step in sprucing up the main the parcels where a restaurant entrance to town. and motel are planned as well An Oreana area resident has The fi nal details of an Idaho as the commercial development appealed the Owyhee County Community Development Block across U.S. Highway 95 near the commissioners’ decision to make Grant application were hammered airport. Triangle Road public. out at a Friday morning meeting The grant application must Don Barnhill, the trustee for at City Hall. Representatives be submitted by Dec. 18, and Wintercamp Ranch, filed the from the city, Sage, the Idaho Labor and Commerce staff will appeal in district court on Nov. 7. Car crimes plague Homedale Department of Commerce and then consider recommending the In an Oct. 10 document signed “I think it must have been a kid,” Ida Burt said, dumbfounded as to Labor, the U.S. Department of project to the Idaho Economic by Hal Tolmie and Dick Reynolds, why her residence was selected as part of the a recent rash of vehicle Agriculture and the Homedale Advisory Council. commissioners ruled that gating vandalisms, thefts and burglaries in Homedale. A vintage Ford sedan Plaza development partnership The $500,000 fi gure represents and locking Triangle Road was owned by Burt’s son was damaged in the attack last week. For more attended the gathering. an obstruction of public access to on the recent crimes, see Page 2A. The city is seeking a $500,000 –– to page 5A public lands. Darren Nelson of Josephine Creek Ranch submitted the request for the original road hearing. The original hearing fi ndings Initiative faces a new landscape in Congress said Barnhill had gated and fenced the road under the claim that it was private. The ruling said the action The path of Owyhee Initiative “We With the Democrats gaining interfered with “useable access” to legislation shouldn’t be affected do have a a slim majority in both houses the ranch as well as the Triangle by Congress’ lame-duck session broad-based of Congress after the general Recipes Ranch operated by John Steiner. and impending shift in power, consensus, election earlier this month, there No court date has been. Sen. Mike Crapo said last week. and it’s my might be a desire to push the miss In an interview with belief that legislation through the lame-duck The Owyhee Avalanche, the whatever session to avoid a major overhaul deadline Republican senator from Idaho the diffi culty of the bill come January. Crapo Holiday said that the consensus-building that would said getting non-appropriations Thanksgiving turkey achieved during the five-year be faced at legislation such as the Initiative recipes from three third- closures march to the August introduction the national through a lame-duck session is grade classes at Homedale Sen. Mike Crapo into the U.S. Senate will continue level … we diffi cult. Elementary School weren’t The Owyhee Avalanche offi ces to help the Owyhee Initiative should have a better chance at But Crapo isn’t hitting that published in today’s special will be closed Thursday and Friday Implementation Act tread water overcoming it because we have panic button. section because the recipes for Thanksgiving. Display and even as the chairmanship of the worked with the state and local “(The Democrats will) have a were received after last legal notice advertising deadlines key Energy and Natural Resources representatives of those points of week’s deadline. are at noon today. Committee shifts to a Democrat. view,” Crapo said. –– to page 5A Homedale and Marsing city offi ces close Thursday and Friday. County offices will close Thanksgiving, but open Friday. School menus Commentary Legal notices Snake River Mart in Marsing is open 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thanksgiving page 6A pages 7B pages 9B-15B Day. Paul’s Market is closed. IInsidenside US Bank locations will be closed Sports Looking Back Classifieds Thursday, but open Friday. The Homedale Post Offi ce will pages 11A-16A page 8B pages 18A-19A close Thursday only. Page 2A Wednesday, November 22, 2006 Homedale PD seeks JV man indicted on answers to car crimes sexual abuse charge The Malheur County District “The alle- Homedale Police have been Attorney’s Offi ce confi rmed last gations are inundated with reports of vehicle week that indictments on sever- that he sex- burglaries, vandalisms and car al felony charges have been fi led ually abused thefts during the past month. against Jason Walter Potts of Jor- the victim “We’ve had 18 in the past 30 dan Valley. after illegal- days and 12 in the last 15 days Potts is charged with sexual ly entering a alone,” Offi cer Michelle Babcock abuse in fi rst degree, sexual ha- residence,” said of the three vehicle-related rassment in the fi rst degree, bur- Norris said. crime categories. glary, and criminal trespassing. Norris also He was scheduled to be arraigned cited the el- Babcock said the reports have Jason W. Potts not been isolated to any specifi c on those charges Tuesday. No in- ements re- area of the city and it is not known formation on that court appear- quired by Oregon law in order if the same suspect or suspects are ance was available at press time. for a suspect to be charged with responsible. Malheur County Sheriff’s depu- sexual abuse in the fi rst degree. At about 9 p.m. on Nov. 14, Vandalism on the rise ties arrested Potts, 27, and his broth- “It has to be sexual contact with offi cers from Homedale Police and This vehicle and one other located in the 300 block of West Owyhee er, Edward Devin Potts, 29, also of a victim under 14 years of age,” Owyhee County Sheriff’s Offi ce Avenue are among several that have been damaged by a recent string Jordan Valley, last month during a Norris said last week. deputies apprehended two juvenile of vandalisms, vehicle burglaries and vehicle thefts in Homedale. traffi c stop on Iowa Street in Jordan By Oregon sentencing guide- suspects who allegedly stole a Valley. Edward Potts was arrested lines, if Potts is convicted, he mini-van then caused nearly $2,000 pursuit. Officers from several One was near the intersection of on an unrelated misdemeanor war- faces a minimum mandatory sen- worth of damage to the Homedale area law enforcement agencies Owyhee Avenue and Main Street, rant for probation violation. tence of 75 months in prison for Middle School grounds and broke used less-lethal beanbag shotgun where a vintage Ford sedan owned Malheur County District Attor- the sexual abuse charge. a window out of a custodian’s rounds, a police dog and a Taser to by Ida Burt’s son was parked in ney Dan Norris did not comment Norris said the criminal tres- personal vehicle parked on campus. subdue him after he told offi cers he front of his mother’s house. An on the exact nature of the charges passing charge Potts faces is not It is not known at this time if was armed and resisted arrest. unknown suspect apparently used against Jason Potts, citing the sen- related to the other charges. these suspects are responsible for Mercado, wearing a ski mask a brick to shatter the windshield. sitive nature of the case, but Nor- Potts is being held in the Mal- any additional acts of vandalism, and gloves, was initially suspected “I think it must have been a kid,” ris did make general statements heur County Correctional Facility burglary or car thefts. of vandalizing a vehicle on North Ida Burt said, dumbfounded as to about the case and what the charg- on a $90,000 bond. On Nov. 9, a Chevrolet Cavalier 2nd Street West in Homedale in the why her residence was selected es necessarily entailed. — JWB was stolen from Owyhee Health early morning hours of Oct. 21. He for the senseless destruction. Burt, and Rehab on West Idaho Avenue. fl ed when patrol offi cers attempted who has lived in the same house in The vehicle was recovered two to stop him. Homedale for more than 26 years, days later in Canyon County. At Babcock said items taken in suspected that the projectile was the time of recovery, the vehicle the recent vehicle burglaries taken from the nearby mortuary. Homedale drama club contained stolen purses and other include purses, briefcases, cash, “They used a brick off the possibly stolen items. checkbooks, wallets and an MP3/ mortuary,” said Burt, who didn’t Two weeks ago, Terry Pegram CD player. give her son’s name. plans dinner theater had his Geo Tracker stolen from Police say citizens should take Burt said that the cost to repair With a title like The Clumsy be held at 7 p.m., and admission outside the Farmer’s Inn. He found steps to protect their property. the damage would likely be out- Custard Horror Show, you’d is $4 for adults and $3 for students it dangling precariously above the “Don’t leave purses and of-pocket, without reimbursement expect a meal with the latest and senior citizens.

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