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B SECTION, 16 PAGES. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2006 COMMENTARY, 10-11B, CLASSIFIEDS, 14-15B. Offi cials close county sage-grouse season

State Fish and Game director affected by Monday’s emergency massive mortality of sage-grouse West Nile blamed; hunting will begin Steve Huffaker ordered the closure includes all land west of throughout the county. Saturday in most of the state closure after department offi cials the Bruneau River. Our job is to take care of the submitted findings from an Evin Oneale with Fish and wildlife, and in the absence The director of the Idaho County. extensive study of the effect of Game’s Southwest Region offi ce of clear data to show that the Fish and Game department on The season will begin Saturday, West Nile Virus on the sage- in Nampa confi rmed late Monday population could absorb hunting Monday shot down the 2006 sage- as planned, in all other parts of grouse population. that the closure was related to grouse hunting season in Owyhee Areas 2 and 3. The area in Owyhee County studies spurred by a recent –– to page 4B Huskies leave Pirates groggy

punting, and if he sees that they’re Marsing coming in hard, he’s free to go,” manhandles Marsing head coach Don Heller said. 3A Payette for While McClellin credited his offensive line for his spectacular season’s fi rst win running, Heller said it was a full effort from the team that helped Marsing High School’s hard- Marsing rack up 400 total yards hitting football team left Payette as against the Pirates from the 3A hazy as the smoky skies Friday. Snake River Valley conference. Solid hits by the Huskies “As long as our wings run hard; wobbled two Pirates during the fi rst half, they were running and night, but it was the devastating getting there and clamming up consistency of Shea McClellin on the hit,” Heller said. “Second that gave Marsing a 40-14 non- half, that’s why we congratulated conference victory at home. them in there (locker room). They Running behind a veteran came out and ran hard and ran offensive line, McClellin averaged guys over.” more than 10 yards a carry and The receivers weren’t the only scored in three different ways. Marsing athletes running Payette “I think it was the line,” the players over Friday night. Trojans hold on for third straight win 6-foot-3, 225-pound senior said. Well, more accurately, running Homedale High School linebacker Tyler Maxwell puts a hit on New Plymouth’s Jaime Brown for a loss “They block for me, and I can do through Pirates. during Friday’s road game on the Pilgrims’ fi eld. Photo by Gregg Garrett the rest. Miguel Quebrado knocked “I give all the props to the Payette sophomore defensive line.” back Mario Flores woozy 3½ McClellin piled up 236 yards minutes into the second half while Homedale, Martinat motor on rushes, including a70-yard driving for a fi rst down on a 13- scramble on a fake punt in the yard bootleg. Five plays later, the second quarter. Marsing quarterback hooked up past NP despite roadblocks That call, made by Huskies with fellow senior Aaron Salvas assistant coach Cody Heller, for his second touchdown strike Senior runs back another punt for said. “If we clean up the turnovers seemed to turn the tide in a topsy- of the season. and fi x the fi x-able things that turvy game. touchdown; Homedale moves to 3-0 we are doing wrong, we will be “Shea does a lot of roll-out –– to page 2B outstanding.” Thomas Thomas still may be scored on a punt return for Martinat beat his teammates to waiting to get a complete game the second time this season as that goal against New Plymouth. from his Homedale High School Homedale (3-0 overall) captured He caught TD passes of 32 and football team. a non-conference victory 35 yards from fellow The fourth-year coach needn’t against the 2A Western senior Trevor Krzesnik worry about senior Bryan Idaho Conference on the Trojans’ first Martinat Pilgrims (0-2). two possessions, and On Friday night, Thomas Homedale meets Josh Jolley kicked his received the total package from another winless 2A WIC team’s fi rst point-afters Martinat as the Trojans stretched team, Parma (0-2), in of the season to put New their season-opening winning the annual Milk Jug Plymouth in a 14-0 hole. streak to three games with a 28-20 game at 7 p.m. Friday Martinat would catch victory over host New Plymouth in Canyon County. As four balls for 81 yards. in the Pilgrims’ Homecoming kickoff approaches, But the wheels nearly game. Thomas still looks for Bryan Martinat came off the Trojans’ “Bryan Martinat had an his players to execute the fl awless chariot soon after the quick outstanding game,” Thomas said game of which he insists they’re touchdowns. Versatile McClellin pummels Payette of his senior speedster. capable. “We came out of the gates very Marsing High School senior Shea McClellin, with ball, slices through Martinat caught two first- “We have not really tapped the line of scrimmage on the way to a big gain Friday against Payette. quarter touchdown passes and into our potential as a team,” he –– to page 4B He gained more than 360 all-purpose yards. Page 2B Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Sports

“I had one guy to beat, and that Blackwell’s 8-yard scoring pass was the quarterback,” McClellin to Flores to put Payette ahead, √ Huskies said. “He tried to push me out, but 7-6, in the second quarter was set The pass covered 27 yards, and couldn’t.” up by a 71-yard catch-and-run Kalob Meyers’ conversion run Futility seemed to be the name by Reynolds. Only McClellin’s gave Marsing a 26-14 lead and of the game for Payette on Friday tackle at the Marsing 10-yard line signaled the beginning of the end night. Blackwell, who was pressed prolonged the drive. Jake Dyer for the visitors. into service when Kyle Tschirgi took a slant pass and turned it The knockout punch may have broke his collarbone in Week into a 41-yard touchdown to give come on the ensuing kickoff 1, missed his receiver on three the Pirates at 14-12 lead about a when sophomore Martin Galvez consecutive plays leading up to minute before halftime. sprinted downfi eld and destroyed McClellin’s interception. The But Blackwell found no such Payette kick returner Deveon ninth-grader completed only 18 connection with his receivers after Reynolds. Reynolds had to be of 38 passes and compiled 211 of the intermission. He completed helped off the fi eld after the hit his 270 passing yards in the fi rst only three of his fi rst 12 attempts, from Galvez sent him paralell to 24 minutes. and none went for more than 10 the fi eld before he crashed hard “The only reason they hurt us on yards. on the turf. the pass was we weren’t breaking “We came out and shortened And as if that wasn’t enough, down and making tackles. They up our corners for one. We were McClellin was lurking four never got deep on us,” Heller said. too deep and giving up too much plays later to intercept a pass “All the passes were right in front ground. We were faster than them. by freshman quarterback Travis of us, and we didn’t break down And then we were putting more Blackwell in the middle of the and make the tackles. pressure on them with our middle fi eld and pick his way 60 yards “Second half, we broke down linebacker now and then.” for another touchdown. and made the tackles.” — JPB Trojan Fall Sports Sophomore’s hat trick can’t help Homedale in conference play Football Homedale High School’s Hannah Johnson fi ghts off a Fruitland Varsity VOLLEYball defender to score a second half goal. Johnson scored three goals Thursday, but the Grizzlies prevailed 5-4 in a 3A Snake River Valley Friday, Sept. 15 at Parma, 7 p.m. Varsity conference matchup at Sundance Park. Photo by Gregg Garrett Thursday, Sept. 14 at McCall-Donnelly, 7 p.m. Junior varsity Saturday, Sept. 16 at Cole Valley Tournament, Thursday, Sept. 14, home vs. Parma, 7 p.m. Boise Tuesday, Sept. 19, home vs. Weiser, 7 p.m. Powder Valley punishes Junior varsity SOCCOR Thursday, Sept. 14 at McCall-Donnelly, 6 p.m. Adrian in football opener Boys soccer Tuesday, Sept. 19, home vs. Weiser, 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, home vs. McCall-Donnelly, Senior fullback Derick Rios through the 5 p.m. Freshman rushed for 109 yards and scored air came on Tuesday, Sept. 19 at Weiser, 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14 at McCall-Donnelly, 5 p.m. on a 7-yard run Friday night, but one pass to Tuesday, Sept. 19, home vs. Weiser, 5 p.m. Adrian High School opened the Kyle Rogers. Paul Shenk era with a 36-6 non- Adrian Girls soccer CROSS COUNTRY conference football loss to Pow- (0-1 over- Thursday, Sept. 14 at McCall-Donnelly, 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, at Weiser Invitational der Valley. all), playing Tuesday, Sept. 19, home vs. Weiser, 5 p.m. The host Badgers owned a 30-0 its first sea- lead in North Powder, Ore., before son for new Rios broke through with his short coach Shenk, scamper in the second quarter. opens the Derick Rios Quarterback Kade Thomas High Desert Farm Bureau completed just four of 15 passes League season at 7 p.m. Friday Owyhee Sand, Gravel & Concrete Insurance Company OWYHEEAUTOSUPPLY and was intercepted three times. at home against Dayville-Monu- 337-5057 337-4668 337-4041 Seventy-three of his 101 yards ment.

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Edward Perkins, Jr. D.C. 337-4900 337-4040 Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Page 3B Sports Homedale volleyball coach wants Busy Antelopes tune up for to keep mistakes at a minimum league opener with 3 wins The Adrian High School vol- Ryann Bowns set 22 assists, and Even without leyball team had a full dance card Kat Sillonis added 20. late last week, but the Antelopes The loss to Cove was the third Middleton, Henry came away with three wins. match of the day for the Ante- says SRV is tough Adrian won its fi rst three match- lopes (3-1). es before dropping a 25-20, 25-19 “This was a nice opportunity decision to Cove in the Cove In- for us to play some good match- Even with the departure of vitational on es,” Goss said of the Cove tour- Middleton High School, Homedale Saturday. nament. volleyball coach Maleta Henry is “Cove re- Adrian beat Elgin 25-21, 25-19 expecting an intense battle in the ally played and Pine Eagle, 24-8, 25-9, before 3A Snake River Valley conference strong at the facing off with Cove. this season. net and serv- The Antelopes begin league “If we play consistent and ing, and we play at home Friday against Day- strong, I believe we will do struggled to ville-Monument before heading to well, although I am always an maintain our Halfway, Ore., for the Pine Eagle optimistic kind of coach,” the defense at Invitational on Saturday. Trojans’ second-year leader said, times,” Adri- adding that Fruitland is the team an coach Ai- Paige Branstiter Adrian def. Powder Valley that most concerns her in the SRV mee Goss said. this season. 25-19, 25-21, 25-23 “We really look to play tough “All the teams will be tough, Bowns was on fire with 19 matches to keep improving and but hopefully we can stick to our assists as the Antelopes opened to step up our level of play, and plan of no errors and see what the season with a non-league Cove really gave us a good match happens.” victory in North Powder. to do so.” Heading into the week, “This was our fi rst full match, Returning players Paige Brans- Homedale had compiled a 3-3 and though we had some moments titer and Sarah McPeak were record against non-conference that we lost momentum, we did a dominant at the net throughout competition and without the good job of fi nishing,” Goss said. the tournament. Branstiter racked services of a handful of key Veteran back to help Trojans McPeak had 16 kills, while up 20 kills, while McPeak chimed Branstiter turned in 11 kills and seniors from the 2005 team. Homedale High School’s Faith Brasher sends a kill back over the in with 16. three blocks. Outside hitters Hailey Hall, net last week against Marsing. She’s only a junior, but Brasher should Cheyanne Andrade and Faith continue to make an impact for the Trojans this year. Brasher and setter Hailee Garrett have graduated. Henry said. “We need to eliminate and back row specialist, is a But with returners like senior ours, make good plays and be solid defender, according to her setter Jordan Warwick and juniors consistent.” coach. Mandy Brasher and Corey Hall Even with a few returners, “She is extremely hard to get a at hitter/blocker, Henry likes though, the task will be to jell ball past in the back row,” Henry Marsing the possibilities with a veteran with new faces to achieve that said. “She digs everything up.” nucleus that has been together for consistency. Mackenzie is a setter and a few years. Henry is looking for outside hitter who Henry says “These girls really hustle hard contributions from juniors Rachel is growing into a stronger player and make plays happen,” the Wheeler and Taryn Corta and with each hour on the fl oor. Huskies coach said. “They never give sophomore Mikal Mackenzie. Henry also said a strong turnout up.” A middle hitter/blocker, Wheeler in grandstands will bolster her That attitude leads Henry to already has made an impact with team’s efforts this season. FOOTBALL say that her team will be scrappy a couple solid games during the “We would like to invite more Varsity this year, but that scrappiness fi rst week of the season. fans to our games,” she said. “Our may be required to make up for “She’s very willing to keep girls love attention and work Friday, Sept. 15 at Glenns Ferry, 7 p.m. mistakes. hitting the ball and makes amazing harder when they are supported Junior varsity “Good volleyball is to allow plays happen,” Henry said. by their fans.” Thursday, Sept. 14, home vs. Glenns Ferry, 7 p.m. your opponent to make the errors,” Corta, who plays outside hitter — JPB VOLLEYBALL Tuesday 9-07 at PayetteVarsity 5:00 pm Thursday, Sept. 14 at Melba, 7 p.m. Trojans searching for right formula on court Saturday, Sept. 16 at Cole Valley Tournament, Boise Tuesday, Sept. 19, home vs. Nampa Christian, 7 p.m. Homedale High School’s vol- our groove,” Homedale coach stifl ing last week, as was the case leyball team battled environs and Maleta Henry said. “We need to in the fi rst meeting. Junior varsity A execution last week to earn a split make adjustments to make our- Junior Rachel Wheeler played Thursday, Sept. 14 at Melba, 6 p.m. in a pair of matches against foes selves and better team.” through the humidity that made Tuesday, Sept. 19, home vs. Nampa Christian, 6 p.m. from the 2A Western Idaho Con- Mikal Mackenzie, a sophomore it feel less like Owyhee and more Junior varsity B ference. setter/outside hitter, racked up six like Hawaii and came away with Thursday, Sept. 14 at Melba, 5 p.m. The Trojans, who opened the kills and three assists to lead the fi ve kills and four blocks. Junior 3A Snake way. Vanessa Brown had a team- middle hitter/blocker Mandy Tuesday, Sept. 19, home vs. Nampa Christian, 5 p.m. River Valley high three blocks, while senior Brasher carded six blocks to go conference setter Jordan Warwick dished four with her four kills. season Tues- assists and served an ace. “We had some great offensive day against plays,” Henry said. “The girls Fruitland (re- Homedale def. Marsing worked well together despite the 896-4185 sults weren’t 25-21, 25-23, 25-17 hot gym.” 896-4162 available at On Sept. 5, Owyhee County rivals Marsing fell to 0-2 despite press time), Homedale and Marsing squared off seven assists and seven service saw their lev- in a match on the Trojans’ fl oor that points from Taryn Chenoweth, el off at 3-3 was tinged with déjà vu. who also had three kills. Kaitie 896-4624 with a 25-14, Jordan Warwick Homedale pulled off another Kent powered two aces for part Showalter Construction 25-15, 25-11 non-conference loss three-set victory, just like Aug. of her fi ve points and dished fi ve Snake River Mart to visiting Parma on Thursday. 29 in the Huskies’ gymnasium. assists, while C.C. Zanardi had Can you dig it? 896-4331 “We’re trying to get back into The heat in the Trojans’ gym was two kills and four points. 896-4222 Page 4B Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Sports

Former Trojans coach honored for service √ Hunt

The honor wasn’t that former become eligible for the pass. mortality; we need to err on the Homedale High School football McMillan quipped that the card side of caution,” Huffaker said. coach Jim McMillan received only means he’s getting old. “Field observations and high a lifetime pass to prep games “In fact, I get reminded of that mortality levels in radio-marked recently. It was that the authorizing everyday as I now teach some of birds demonstrates a problem, signature came from his old the children of the players I used but it appears to be limited to that coach. to coach,” he said. location.” “Jim received a lifetime pass McMillan’s legacy at Homedale Two weeks ago, Fish and from the Idaho High School is solid, as evidenced by multiple Game Southwest Region wildlife Activities Association for 25 state championships in football manager Jon Rachael had warned years of service within the state of and softball with Homedale. that the sage-grouse hunting Idaho as an activities director and McMillan led the Trojans’ season was threatened, but a coach,” Homedale High School football program from between decision wasn’t made until data principal Mike Williams said. the 1982 and 1994 seasons. In from fi eld studies was received Williams presented McMillan those 14 seasons, he became the late last week. with an Idaho High School only Homedale coach to win “We have confi rmed that sage Activities Association pass at more than 100 games and fi nished grouse have died from West Nile halftime of the Sept. 1 football with a 125-21-0 record. His .856 infection in three different parts game against Nampa Christian at winning percentage is third all- of the county, and our biologists Deward Bell Stadium. time on the Trojans’ list behind have also seen unusual numbers And the card was signed by Ken Kellum (1967-71) and his of radio marked sage grouse recently retired IHSAA executive immediate predecessor Daryl die this year,” Huffaker said director Bill Young, who coached Kellum (1973-81). in a department news release. McMillan during his high school Homedale won fi ve of its eight “In addition, there have been days at Vallivue in Caldwell. state championships for McMillan, reports from the public of unusual “I am very grateful to Mike including back-to-back titles in numbers of dead grouse in some Williams for making sure Bill 1982-83 and 1986-87, during areas.” Young signed the pass before he which time the Trojans had two According to the release, retired,” McMillan said. “It really consecutive 12-0 seasons. His only two birds infected by West did mean a lot to me to have Bill’s Trojans teams played in nine state Nile have been found outside signature on the card.” championship games. of Owyhee County, and there Young served as coach during McMillan also coached the have been no reports of unusual McMillan’s junior and senior Homedale softball team to three numbers of dead sage-grouse years at Vallivue, and he also was a consecutive state crowns between this summer. Radio-marked sage- vice-principal and athletic director 1996 and 1998. grouse are being followed in six during the first two years of “I had so many fun times and areas outside of Owyhee County, McMillan’s career as an educator great memories working with and none have shown the dramatic and coach. boys and girls in football and This one’s on us, coach losses seen in Owyhee County. The principal also said that softball,” he said. “We had some Homedale High School principal Mike Williams, left, hands Jim The hunting season on the McMillan has served as an good season through the years, but McMillan a Idaho High School Activities Association lifetime pass Duck Valley Indian Reservation, activities director, coach and game the thing I cherish the most is the during halftime of the Trojans’ football home opener Sept. 1 against adjacent to Owyhee County on the supervisor for the past quarter- relationships I’ve had a chance to Nampa Christian. A former state championship coach of Homedale Idaho-Nevada border, was closed century. Recipients must serve in develop over the years.” football and softball, McMillan was honored for 25 years of service in August after sage grouse died similar capacities for 25 years to — JPB in athletics. Photo by Gregg Garrett from West Nile virus within the reservation. West Nile virus is a mosquito- transmitted disease, and hunters should consider taking precautions to protect themselves Home Visitor √ Trojans from mosquitoes while hunting. As always, wild game, including fast,” Thomas said. “We scored on sage grouse, should be cooked 14 O our fi rst two drives. thoroughly before it is eaten to ensure that any bacteria or viruses 8IBUT

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TDPSF our team.” “There are many people Homedale lost possession fi ve working hard to improve the The Avalanche wants grouse in Owyhee County, and to promote news of of the six times its ball carriers fumbled, Krzesnik threw two hunters need to do their part,” Owyhee County’s interceptions and the Trojans were Huffaker said. “If the population sports teams. Call penalized 10 times for 75 yards. bounces back, we can open it back to find out how to get The Pilgrims wiggled out of the up, and that’s always the goal.” your scores in impending noose as Homedale The release also said wildfi res have damaged sage-grouse habitat the newspaper. committed three turnovers inside the New Plymouth 30-yard line in some areas, but hunting is during the second quarter. The either already closed or very (208) 337-4681 Trojans had a fourth turnover conservative in these areas. inside their opponents’ 30 later Homedale JV on a roll, too in the contest. Homedale High School junior varsity football player Wes Taggart New Plymouth parlayed the charges New Plymouth quarterback Jaime Garcia before tackling him second chance into a 14-14 halftime for a safety during Thursday’s non-conference game in Homedale. The tie. Micah McMurray scored on a Trojans won big to start the season 3-0. Photo by Gregg Garrett Have 19-yard run in the opening period Keep then hauled in a 60-yard scoring backup quarterback Easton Foust Poole and Foust lit up the a news tip? pass from Eric Poole on the fi nal fi red a 57-yard TD pass to Jaimie Homedale defense for 316 yards, play of the fi rst half. Brown to pull the Pilgrims within and the Pilgirms gained 403 yards “We had an opportunity to eight points at 28-20. total offense. Call us! informed put them away early, but we let “It was the first time we “We had a good effort despite Read them stick around,” Thomas said. struggled on (defense),” Thomas the mistakes,” Thomas said. 337-4681 “New Plymouth fought back very said. “We will clean up what “Give New Plymouth credit. They The Avalanche hard.” we thought was fine with our are the best WIC team that I have Later in the game, New Plymouth coverage going into the game.” seen this season.” Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Page 5B Sports Mustangs volleyball off to another fast start

brunt of throwing everyone back Oregon 2005 together without the opportunity state runner-up to practice together,” the coach said. Jordan Valley Nickie Naegle had fi ve assists and Catie Kershner added three exhibits depth for Jordan Valley. Elisa Eiguren was the top server The Jordan Valley High School with five points, while Kayla volleyball team appears to be Cuvelier and Annie MacKenzie poised for another solid season both contributed two kills. in 2006. “The one thing that the girls Coach Jacque Naegle’s varsity again did well was come on team is 2-0 after its fi rst week of strong, and they were cutting the matches. lead down at the end,” Jacque The Mustangs, who won their Naegle said. fi rst 20 matches in 2005 before losing to Dufur in the 1A Oregon Jordan Valley I def. Nyssa state championship match, failed to lose a game last week. 25-12, 25-4 MacKenzie had her serve On Saturday, Angela Larsen working to the tune of 17 service dominated with 13 kills as Jordan points, while Michelle Telleria Valley beat Greenleaf Friends added six Thursday on the road Academy 25-22, 25-18, 25-18. against the Bulldogs. “Our girls just played “The fi rst game of the evening, exceptionally strong on offense the girls came out with a bang and and defense,” Naegle said. worked together and looked just “They worked well together great,” Naegle said. digging up hard hit balls and the tips that the Grizzlies went to when our blockers were getting Jordan Valley II def. Nyssa their hands up, either popping up Mustangs sweep Greenleaf Friends Academy 26-24, 25-12 their hits or getting the block at Angela Larsen unleashes one of her 16 kills as Jordan Valley High School volleyball teammate Bailey Elisa Eiguren and Tina Stanford the net.” Kershner prepares for any rebound Saturday against visiting Greenleaf Friends Academy. Photo by Emma had eight service points each, and Larsen and Michelle Elsner Johnson, JVHS Kayla Cuvelier added seven as recorded three blocks each. Jordan Valley pulled away after a Bailey Kershner led the offense a team sport like volleyball against the Bulldogs in Nyssa, Junior varsity close fi rst game. with 16 assists, while Breann enjoyable to watch, and that is Ore. GFA def. Jordan Valley “The players started out just a Hipwell racked up 13. when you have success. “We had the rare opportunity to 25-19, 25-16 little bit nervous and dug a little play three matches,” Naegle said. Kelsey Prescott pounded eight Naegle said Jordan Valley’s bit of a hole for themselves to “The teams we usually play only kills, too. Jordan Valley def. Nyssa three-squad practices in start, but I was really proud of have enough players to play two “The girls all played well. They 25-16, 25-19, 25-14 preparation for matches in Nyssa the way that they didn’t quit,” matches, so all the girls got to see played as a team and each of them Bailey Kershner had 15 service hampered the junior varsity’s Naegle said. more fl oor time.” made huge contributions to our points Thursday as the Mustangs performance Saturday against “They really came together and Prescott added 10 service win,” Naegle said. aced Nyssa in a non-conference Greenleaf, when only two matches worked hard. They dug up a lot of points, while Larsen, Elsner and “I love to see everyone matchup. The varsity match was were played. balls to keep everything going and Hipwell chipped in six apiece. contribute. That is what makes the last of three contests played “Our JV team kind of felt the came away with a win.”

Sports tracker Council routs hobbled Rimrock A look at Owyhee County athletes competing beyond high school Without Hipwell or Araujo, Homedale High School gradu- end as the Mountaineers visit Raiders football opens league the Raiders averaged just 2.1 ate Michael Eby is showing no Butte, Mont., to face Montana season without running backs yards per carry against Council. ill effects from the torn labrum Tech at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Hofer led the Rimrock ground he suffered last season. He began Losing a running back on the Ricky Green’s third rushing game with 28 yards on six carries his junior season with the East- Injured former Trojan eve of a conference opener is the touchdown of the day ended the Friday. ern Oregon University football misses ACI action worst possible news for a football contest for Council (2-1 overall, “We could not get our offense team with six Former Homedale boys soccer coach. 1-0 conference). going with two of our running tackles in a 9- player Antonio Bautista missed The fact that freshman Richardo Rimrock (1-2, 0-1) played backs out for the entire game,” 3 victory over the fi nal two games of Albertson Araujo’s absence added to without Araujo, who received a Clark said. host South- College of Idaho’s participation Rimrock High School’s lack of defi nitive diagnosis of West Nile The Lumberjacks intercepted ern Oregon in the Westminster Invitational in healthy runners only added more Virus on Thursday, and Chris Rimrock quarterbacks Nate Hofer on Sept. 2. Utah recently. aggravation for Raiders’ second- Hipwell, who was injured two and T.J. Snyder fi ve times and Eby re- The freshman was listed day- year coach Jim Clark. weeks ago. caused seven turnovers total. corded four to-day after he suffered a strained Nonetheless, the Raiders played Araujo was coming off a Snyder completed three of his solo tackles groin in the Coyotes’ fi rst game of tough for most of their 46-0 1A, 182-yard performance in a 22-0 fi ve passing attempts for 61 yards, and two as- the tournament. Division I loss to Council on victory over Owyhee and seemed including a 40-yard hookup with sists against Michael Eby He didn’t play Saturday when Friday. to rallying from ailment that had junior wideout Isaac Steiner. the Raiders. Albertson opened the home “We held them to zero points slowed his progress through Dary Langfi tt, a 6-foot-2, 180- Eby and the Mountaineers lost portion of its schedule Saturday (for most of) the second half of preseason practice. pound freshman, led the Raiders 49-3 on Saturday to four-time de- against Whitman College. the game,” Clark said. “He was confi rmed with West with three catches for 80 yards. fending NAIA national champion This Saturday, Albertson hits But Clark said the host Nile Thursday during school, Junior defensive lineman Carroll College. The game against the road to face Montana State- Lumberjacks trotted out their fi rst- so he was taken out of school Carlos Salinas led the defense the top-ranked Saints marked the Billings at 1:30 p.m. string offense with 30 seconds and football by his doctor for an with eight tackles, Steiner, Hofer Frontier Conference opener for remaining in the game to score unknown time,” Clark told The and linebacker Bobby Jackson EOU and was played in Helena, For FAST results... the fi nal touchdown and end the Owyhee Avalanche in an e-mail racked up seven stops apiece. Mont. try the game because of the 45-point Monday. “We are hoping he will Rimrock plays host to league Eastern Oregon has another Classifieds! mercy rule. be back soon.” foe Garden Valley on Friday. road game on the slate this week- Page 6B Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Sports

Senior gets in a few kicks Homedale High School’s Cory Uria, shown at the right during the season opener against Weiser, notched two goals and an assist last week as the Trojans won both their games.

Trojans soccer Beginnings of a strong performance Homedale High School varsity girls cross country athlete Belen Vega leads the pack early in the fi rst sweep the week lap of the 5-kilometer Homedale Invitational held Thursday. Vega fi nished second.

Each Machuca scored on Homedale Invite could become Machucas penalty kicks four minutes apart manufacture in the fi rst half. Nestor got the barrage going with a quick score jewel of cross country schedule in the third minute. loads of offense He brushed off the day as 24:44). Cory Uria also stole the ball another typical cross country meet, On the boys side, Ontario was deep in Fruitland’s end and beat Nestor Machuca registered a hat but Nick Schamber may have been the middle school champion as Joe the goalie for a score in the second trick in one game and fi nished the witness to the beginning of a strong Delgado won the race in 12:24.4. half. week with four goals as Homedale tradition Thursday at the annual The Trojans’ top fi nisher was Ulysses Vargas tallied seven High School’s boys soccer team Homedale Invitational. Reed Maggard in 42nd at 18:05.5. saves against the Grizzlies. mounted a winning streak. The meet — which nearly was Schamber said he was pleased Machuca, Uria and Andres The Trojans (2-2 overall, 1-1 3A canceled because of the red fl ag with the meet, which was moved Vasquez scored in Saturday’s Snake River Valley conference) air quality alert across the valley from a course that incorporated the 3-1 non-conference victory over beat Fruitland 5-2 on the road — was moved to a course around Deward Bell Stadium athletic track visiting Orofi no. Vasquez scored Thursday for their fi rst conference Homedale Middle School for and the hilly perimeter of adjacent his team’s fi nal goal on a corner victory as boys named Machuca 2006, and for the fi rst time, sixth-, Nolan Taggart Park a year ago. He kick — Nestor and Guillermo —scored seventh- and eighth-graders were said 370 runners participated in the Vargas stopped eight shots, but four times for Homedale. included in on the fun. various races this year. was beaten by a penalty kick for “We took advantage of the Belen Vega had the best showing “I really enjoyed hosting the Orofi no’s only goal. weaknesses in (the Grizzlies’) of any Homedale High School meet out here,” Schamber said. “The boys’ performance was defense and exploted their athlete. She ran a 22-minute, Other highlights from the meet solid,” Correa said. “It will help confusion with many one-on-one 9-second 5-kilometer race to fi nish included a 14th-place finish by boost the team’s confi dence as we balls player to our forwards,” second in the girls varsity race to Greenleaf Friends varsity girls approach the rest of our season Homedale coach David Correa Weiser’s Amanda Palmer. runner Ciara Law, a Marsing and tougher matches.” said. The Homedale varsity boys resident. Another Owyhee County placed two runners in the top 10 athlete, Homedale’s Brandt Graber, of that 5K race as Tyler Curtis finished 29th in the boys junior of Caldwell won in 18:01. The varsity race at 24:39. Graber’s Back to Trojans’ Scott Thatcher was fourth mother Sonja, the Grizzlies’ cross at 19:07, and teammate Tyler Lone JV runner country and track and fi eld coach, Gibson finished sixth in 19:22. Drew Farwell fi nished in the said Brandt runs cross country to College The Trojans were fi fth in the team top 40 for Homedale. stay in shape for baseball, which competition won by Caldwell. he plays for Homedale because “We finished above McCall “I was expecting around 40 Greenleaf doesn’t fi eld a team. and Payette (both 3A Snake kids total. There were 78 girls The Trojans’ only JV boys River Valley conference teams),” and 64 boys. I think this is a good runner, Drew Farwell, finished Subscription Schamber said. “That puts us in problem.” 39th in 26:19. the driver’s seat for taking a team Weiser ran away with the team The Homedale varsity girls Special! to State in October. title in the 3-kilometer middle placed two runners in the top 20 For the college student: “It won’t come easy, though. school girls race behind Marqoita — Vega and exchange student Nine-month I’m sure it’s going to be a dog fi ght Palmer’s winning time of 12 Elisabeth Falsne, who was 18th between us and McCall for that minutes, 14.39 seconds. Homedale at 24:39. subscription second spot to State.” resident Kendra Graber, who attends While the girls team was $ 00 Schamber, the second-year Greenleaf Friends Academy, was incomplete (60th-place runner 15 coach for both the high school and second in 13:58.59. Kayla Bertagnolli was the only Plus tax where applicable the middle school teams, also had Homedale’s finishers in the other Trojans athlete), Schamber his eyes set on another impressive girls race included Debra Esparza sees light at the end of the tunnel. result during Thursday’s action. (28th, 17:56), Michelle Lopez “Between injuries and getting “The biggest surprise was the (33rd, 18:39.84), Gabby Nash girls eligible, we should be forming th th 337-4681 middle school meet,” Schamber (45 , 19:53), Miriah Moore (69 , a team within the next few weeks,” said. 24:43) and Holly Gallagher (70th, he said. Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Page 7B Sports

LaGrande, Ore., at Wesier, 7 p.m. failed) Mar — Dines 4 run (Dines run) PREP FOOTBALL STATISTICS New Plymouth at Payette, 7 p.m. Mar — Martinez 35 pass from Quebrado McCall-Donnelly at Nampa Christian, Team statistics (run failed) Homedale offense 7 p.m. Hom NP Passing Comp. Att. Int. Pct. Yards YPG TDs First downs 10 9 Cross country Krzesnik 17 38 3 .447 238 79.3 4 Last week’s scores Rushes-yards 33-214 29-63 Totals 17 38 3 .447 238 79.3 4 Homedale 28, New Plymouth 20 Passing yards 91 316 Homedale Invitational Marsing 40, Payette 14 Passing 5-10-1 20-35-2 (Thursday at Homedale Middle Rushing G Att. Yards YPC YPG TDs La Grande, Ore., 22, Fruitland 20 Total yards 305 379 School) Vance 3 44 271 6.2 90.3 3 Weiser 14, Vale, Ore., 12 Punts-Avg. 4-34 3-32 Martinat 3 11 111 10.1 37.0 0 Kamiah 30, McCall-Donnelly 0 Penalties 10-75 7-50 High school meet Wilhelm 3 23 104 4.5 34.7 2 Fumbles-lost 6-5 5-3 (5 kilometers) Sitko 3 24 92 3.8 30.7 0 2A WIC Conf. All Individual statistics Varsity Valadez 3 14 50 3.6 16.7 0 W L W L Rushing — Hom: Vance 15-72, Sitko Boys Krzesnik 3 4 11 2.8 5.5 0 Cole Valley Chr. 0 0 0 2 7-29, Wilhelm 6-34, Valadez 2-4, Martinat Team — 1. Caldwell, 49 points; 2. Totals 3 120 639 5.3 319.5 5 Marsing 0 0 1 1 3-67. Poole 12-42, McMurray 4-17, Weiser, 70; 3. Vale, Ore., 83; 4. Parma, Melba 0 0 0 3 Mena 9-42, Jordan 1-(-3), Brown 1-(-7), 121; 5. Homedale, 143; 6. Melba, 149; 7. Receiving G Rec. Yards YPR YPG TDs Nampa Christian 0 0 0 2 Harmon 2-(-5) McCall-Donnelly, 152; 8. New Plymouth, Martinat 3 7 125 17.9 41.7 2 New Plymouth 0 0 0 2 Passing — Hom: Krzesnik 5-10-1 162 Wilhelm 3 4 49 12.3 16.3 0 Parma 0 0 0 2 91. NP: Poole 17-29-2 189, Foust 3-6- Top 10 — 1. Tyler Curtis, Cal, 18 Sweet 3 4 32 8.0 10.7 0 0 127 minutes, 1 second; 2. Hank Garrison, Wei, Tolmie 3 1 24 24.0 8.0 1 This week’s games Receiving — Hom: Martinat 4-81, 18:38; 3. Luke Hetrick, Greenleaf Friends Hansen 3 1 8 8.0 2.7 1 (Played Friday) Wilhelm 1-10. NP: McMurray 7-81, Mena Academy, 18:41; 4. Scott Thatcher, Hom, Totals 3 17 238 14.0 79.3 4 Marsing at Glenns Ferry, 7 p.m. 4-43, Jordan 6-117, Brown 3-75 19:07; 5. Zach Waynetska, Payette, 19:17; Homedale at Parma, 7 p.m. 6. Tyler Gibson, Hom, 19:22; 7. Travis Scoring G TD FG PAT 2-PAT Total Avg. McCall-Donnelly at Nampa Christian, Marsing 40, Payette 14 DeLong, Vale, 19:30; 8. Jake Peck, Cal, 7 p.m. 19:37; 9. Wesley Porter, M-D, 19:40; 10. Vance 3 3 0 0 1 20 6.7 Payette 0 14 0 0 — 14 New Plymouth at Payette, 7 p.m. Chris Downey, Cal, 19:47 Martinat 3 4 0 0 0 24 8.0 Marsing 6 12 16 6 — 40 Cole Valley Christian at Notus, 7:30 Other Homedale results — 53. John Tolmie 3 1 0 0 0 6 2.0 First quarter p.m. Howes, 23:51; 59. Matt Borschowa, Wilhelm 3 2 0 0 0 12 4.0 Mar — McClellin 22 run (run failed), 25:03; 64. Levi Jones, 26:08; 65. Trevor Hansen 3 1 0 0 0 6 2.0 2:16 Krzesnik 3 0 0 0 1 2 0.7 Last week’s scores Milligan, 26:18 Marsing 40, Payette 14 Second quarter Sitko 3 0 0 0 1 2 0.7 Pay — Flores 8 pass from Blackwell Homedale 28, New Plymouth 20 Girls Jolley 3 0 0 4 0 4 1.3 (Dyer kick), 2:06 Glenns Ferry 26, Melba 20 Team — 1. Bishop Kelly, 50 points; Totals 3 11 0 4 3 76 25.3 Mar — Meyers 6 run (pass failed), Nyssa, Ore., 45, Parma 28 2. Caldwell, 63; 3. Weiser, 64; 4. Vale, 6:26 Ore., 69; 5. Payette, 154; 6. Parma, 156; Pay — Dyer 41 pass from Blackwell 1A, Div. I Conf. All 7. McCall-Donnelly, 161 (Dyer kick), 10:50 W L W L Top 10 — 1. Amanda Palmer, Wei, Marsing offense Mar — McClellin 70 run (run failed), Council 1 0 2 1 21 minutes, 17 seconds; 2. Belen Vega, Passing Comp. Att. Int. Pct. Yards YPG TDs 11:27 Cascade 0 0 1 1 Homedale, 22:09; 3. Candace Carmichael, Quebrado 14 32 3 .438 178 89.0 2 Third quarter Horseshoe Bend 0 0 2 0 Vale, 22:47; 4. Stephanie Shaver, NP, Heller 0 1 0 .000 0 0.0 0 Mar — Salvas 27 pass from Quebrado Idaho City 0 0 2 0 23:02; 5. Becca Wiggins, Wei, 23:10; 6. Totals 14 33 3 .424 178 89.0 2 (Meyers run), 6:10 Tri-Valley 0 0 0 1 Angelina Juarez, Wei, 23:16; 7. Kristin Mar — McClellin 60 interception Wilder 0 0 1 1 Favillo, Cal, 23:20; 8. Kayla Gordon, Rushing G Att. Yards YPC YPG TDs return (Meyers run), 7:45 Rimrock 0 1 1 2 BK, 23:38; 9. Lara Tuthill, BK, 23:42; 10. McClellin 2 42 390 9.3 195.0 3 Fourth quarter Lauren Bratney, BK, 23:59 Meyers 2 12 50 4.2 25.0 1 Mar — McClellin 3 run (pass failed), This week’s games Other Homedale results — 18. Sauer 2 20 45 2.3 22.5 0 6:57 (Played Friday) Elisabeth Falsne, 24:39; 60. Kayla Dines 2 7 20 2.9 10.0 1 Team statistics Garden Valley at Rimrock, 7 p.m. Bertagnolli, 31:35 Quebrado 2 4 19 4.8 9.5 0 Pay Mar Cascade at Idaho City, 7 p.m. Other locals — 14. Ciara Law, Marcial 2 2 5 2.5 2.5 0 First downs 14 21 Finley 2 2 2 1.0 1.0 0 Wilder at Horseshoe Bend, 7 p.m. Greenleaf Friends Academy, 24:14 Tri-Valley at Council, 7 p.m. Rushes-yards 11-(-12) 53-319 Heller 2 5 -3 -0.6 -1.5 0 Passing yards 270 81 Junior varsity Totals 2 95 527 5.5 263.5 5 Passing 19-38-2 7-18-1 Last week’s scores Boys Total yards 258 400 Council 46, Rimrock 0 Team — 1. Caldwell, 25 points; 2. Receiving G Rec. Yards YPR YPG TDs Punts-Avg. 3-35.3 2-33.5 Salmon River 52, Cascade 22 Bishop Kelly, 48; 3. Weiser, 66; 4. Vale, Salvas 2 3 53 17.7 26.5 1 Penalties 3-18 10-92 Idaho City 46, Meadows Valley 12 Ore., 128; 5. Parma, 130 Martinez 1 1 35 35.0 35.0 1 Fumbles-lost 4-1 1-1 Notus 34, Wilder 20 Top 10 — 1. Ray Miller, Cal, 19 Meyers 2 4 26 6.5 13.0 0 Individual statistics Horseshoe Bend 52, Garden Valley 6 minutes, 35 seconds; 2. Brian Nelson, Sauer 2 3 24 8.0 12.0 0 Rushing — Pay: Dovalina 1-(-5), De. Nyssa, Ore., 20:36.52; 3. Kevin Beck, Finley 2 1 21 21.0 10.5 0 Reynolds 1-4, Bullington 7-13, Blackwell High Desert Conf. All Nyssa, 20:36.95; 4. Landon Hartley, McClellin 2 1 3 3.0 1.5 0 2-(-24). Mar: McClellin 22-236, Meyers W L W L Nyssa, 21:00; 5. Sean Browning, BK, Totals 2 13 162 12.5 81.0 2 8-29, Sauer 9-31, Marcial 1-3, Dines 5- Adrian 0 0 0 1 21:01; 6. Grant Rosandick, Cal, 21:03; 8, Quebrado 3-14, Young 1-(-1), Heller Burnt River 0 0 0 0 7. Stuart Allyn, BK, 21:14; 8. Kimball Scoring G TD FG PAT 2-PAT Total Avg. 4-(-1) Crane 0 0 0 0 Palmer, Wei, 21:50; 10. Tony Berlin, McClellin 2 4 0 0 0 24 12.0 Passing — Pay: Blackwell 19-38-2 Day.-Mon. 0 0 0 0 Greenleaf Friends Academy, 22:04 Meyers 2 1 0 0 2 10 5.0 270. Mar: Quebrado 7-18-1 81 Hunt.-Harper 0 0 0 1 Homedale results — 39. Drew Farwell, Dines 2 1 0 0 1 8 4.0 Receiving — Pay: De. Reynolds 6-132, Jordan Valley 0 0 0 0 26:19 Martinez 1 1 0 0 0 6 6.0 Flores 3-34, Dyer 3-71, Dovalina 3-32, Spray-Mitchell 0 0 0 1 Other locals — 29. Brandt Graber, Salvas 2 1 0 0 0 6 3.0 Bullington 1-3, Kowalski 3-(-2). Mar: Prairie City 0 0 1 0 GFA, 24:39 Totals 2 8 0 0 3 54 27.0 Marcial 1-16, Meyers 3-19, Sauer 2-19, Salvas 1-27 This week’s games Girls Interceptions — Pay: De. Reynolds. (Played Friday) Team — 1. Bishop Kelly, 22 points; Mar: McClellin, Finley Burnt River at Jordan Valley, 2 p.m. 2. Caldwell, 34 Rimrock offense Dayville-Monument at Adrian, 7 p.m. Missed FG — Pay: Dyer 27 WL Passing Comp. Att. Int. Pct. Yards YPG TDs Top 10 — 1. Kaitlin Woychick, BK, Spray-Mitchell at Crane, 3 p.m. MDT Hofer 5 18 6 .278 104 34.7 1 24:30.99; 2. Kagen Miller, BK, 24:59.23; Huntington-Harper at Prairie City, 3 Snyder 6 14 1 .429 88 29.3 0 Council 46, Rimrock 0 3. Stephanie Souza, BK, 25:32.52; 4. p.m. MDT Totals 11 32 7 .344 192 64.0 1 Council 20 20 0 6 — 46 Stephanie Hunter, Cal, 26:50.56; 5. Sara Rimrock 0 0 0 0 — 0 Lococo, BK, 27:35.24; 6. Amber Giltz, Last week’s scores Rushing G Att. Yards YPC YPG TDs First quarter Cal, 27:42.93; 7. Jill Hogg, Cal, 27:49.27; Powder Valley 36, Adrian 6 Araujo 2 30 205 6.8 102.5 2 Cou — J. Green 6 run (PAT failed) 8. Camilia Hawkes, Cal, 28:19.45; 9. Imbler 70, Huntington-Harper 6 Snyder 3 26 96 3.7 32.0 1 Cou — J. Paradis 7 run (PAT failed) Nikki Gonzales, Cal, 28:34.40; 10. Reiley Condon-Wheeler 30, Spray-Mitchell Hofer 3 15 58 3.9 19.3 0 Cou — R. Green 45 run (R. Green Ney, Cal, 29:13.66 16 C. Hipwell 1 8 32 4.0 32.0 0 run) Homedale results — None Prairie City 42, Pine Eagle 6 Schiermeier 2 3 20 6.7 10.0 0 Second quarter Steiner 1 5 13 2.6 13.0 0 Cou — R. Green 6 run (PAT failed) Middle school meet Totals 3 87 424 4.9 141.3 3 Cou — J. Paradis 6 run (pass good) (3 kilometers) REP RESULTS Cou — R. Green 3 run (kick failed) Boys Receiving G Rec. Yards YPR YPG TDs P Fourth quarter Team — 1. Ontario, Ore., 58 points; Snyder 3 1 70 70.0 23.3 1 Football Cou — R. Green 65 run (no PAT) 2. Vale, Ore., 61; 3. Greenleaf Friends Steiner 1 1 40 40.0 40.0 0 Friday’s games Academy, 82; 4. McCain (Payette), 83; 5. Langfi tt 1 3 30 10.0 30.0 0 Sept. 1 game Payette Lakes (McCall), 104; 6. Weiser, Araujo 2 2 20 10.0 10.0 0 Homedale 28 131; 7. New Plymouth, 147 Richardson 2 1 14 14.0 7.0 0 Nyssa, Ore., 40 Top 10 — 1. Joe Delgado, Ont, 12 T. Hipwell 2 1 8 8.0 4.0 0 New Plymouth 20 minutes, 24.4 seconds; 2. Matt Sullivan, Homedale 14 0 7 7 — 28 Hofer 2 1 5 5.0 2.5 0 Marsing 14 Caldwell, 12:24.7; 3. Morgan Choate, New Plymouth 7 7 0 6 — 20 Marsing 0 0 0 14 — 14 Simper 1 1 5 5.0 5.0 0 GFA, 12:56.0; 4. Crispin Valdez, NP, First quarter Nyssa 6 8 14 12 — 40 Totals 3 11 192 17.5 64.0 1 13:10.8; 5. Ty Higley, McCain, 13:11.3; Hom — Martinat 32 pass from Krzesnik First quarter 6. Isaac Warwick, Ont, 13:12.7; 7. Paul (Jolley kick) Nyssa — Blanchard 31 pass from Scoring G TD FG PAT 2-PAT Total Avg. Spivey, Vale, 13:28.9; 8. Eric Keller, Hom — Martinat 35 pass from Krzesnik Jensen (run failed) Araujo 3 2 0 0 2 16 4.0 Vale, 13:44.6; 10. Joshua Reved, McCain, (Jolley kick) Second quarter Snyder 3 2 0 0 0 12 5.3 13:45.1 NP — McMurray 19 run (Asterio Nyssa — May 7 run (run good) Totals 3 4 0 0 2 28 9.3 Homedale results — 42. Reed kick) Third quarter Maggard, 18:05.5; 45. Alfonso Barbosa, Second quarter Nyssa — Holcomb 30 pass from Jensen 18:33.8; 50. Corby Schamber, 19:37.3; NP — McMurray 60 pass from Poole (pass failed) 58. Michael Vigil, 22:53.3 (Asterio kick) Nyssa — Holcomb 51 pass from Jensen Homedale 0 0 3 0 Third quarter (pass good) Girls PREP STANDINGS McCall-Donnelly 0 0 0 2 Hom — Martinat 52 punt return (Jolley Fourth quarter Team — 1. Weiser, 41 points; 2. Payette Football Payette 0 0 1 1 kick) Nyssa — Holcomb 50 pass from Garza Lakes (McCall), 66; 3. New Plymouth, 3A SRV Conf. All Weiser 0 0 2 1 Fourth quarter (run failed) 100; 4. Vale, Ore., 106; 5. McCain W L W L Friday’s games Hom — Wilhelm 8 run (Jolley kick) Nyssa — Holcomb 27 pass from Garza Fruitland 0 0 2 1 Homedale at Parma, 7 p.m. NP — Brown 57 pass from Foust (kick (pass failed) –– continued next page Page 8B Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Sports

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Jordan Valley cowboy 2006 IDAHO COWBOYS ASSOCIATION RODEO STANDINGS (Through Sept. 7) 8. Brian Hill, 1,993.43; 9. Kirby Cook, Glorida King, Homedale, 509.68; 31. All around — 1. Chad McDaniels, Marsing, 1,867.10; 10. Aaron Marts, Lindsay Marie Black, 416.78; 35. Kallie sixth in Canadian rodeo 8,888.07; 2. Marlow Eldridge, Nampa, 1,828.33. Others — 12. Mark Black, Roeser, Marsing, 133.00; 8,716.84; 3. Rob Black, Meridian, 1,809.55; 13. Clay Schricker, Adrian, Team roping, heading — 1. Chad Jordan Valley cowboy Josh race this year, and Jeffries is 8,064.63; 4. Luke Jeffries, Homedale, 1,683.16; 14. Blaise Black, Meridian, McDaniel, 8,622.07; 2. Cody Yerrington, 7,755.34; 5. Ty Thomas, Star, 5,913.34; 1,373.62; 14. Ryan Endicott, Caldwell, 4,350.02; 3. Matt Davis, 4,285.69; 4. Mackenzie recently fi nished sixth fourth, about 104 points behind. 6. Mark Black, 4,480.07; 7. Sam 1,352.09; 15. Jeremy Sutfi n, Jordan Valley, Ryan Fornstrom, 3,585.42; 5. John Hagler, in the saddle bronc competition at Jeffries is third in the ICA steer Mackenzie, Jordan Valley, 3,752.89; 8. 1,253.10; 23. Sam Mackenzie, Jordan 3,348.73; 6. Bobby Davis, 3,265.41; 7. a Canadian Professional Rodeo wrestling after splitting sixth and Dan Webb, 3,598.20; 9. Brad Carpenter, Valley, 819.99; 32. Scott Roeser (R), Matt Grenke, Jordan Valley, 3,064.97; 8. 3,451.33; 10. Marissa Black, Meridian, Marsing, 326.61; 41. Andrew Endicott, Mark Black, 2,670.52; 9. Clay Griffi th, Association (CPRA) event in seventh place in Halfway. 3,308.08. Others — 15. Mikal Black, Marsing, 96.00 2,567.58; 10. Mike Pendergrass, Adrian, British Columbia. Other Owyhee County cowboys 2,488.46; 18. Scott Roeser (R), Marsing, Steer wrestling — 1. Andy Weldon, Ore., 2,527.54. Others — 11. Josh Mackenzie scored an 84 and who fared well in Halfway 2,105.68; 20. Tim Roeser, Marsing, 4,703.14; 2. Dusty Kimble, 3,688.64; 3. Bruce, Jordan Valley, 2,496.14; 20. Sam 1,628.52; 22. Jeremy Sutfin, Jordan Luke Jeffries, Homedale, 3,199.48; 4. Mackenzie, Jordan Valley, 1,184.65; 23. won a share of the third- through included Shawn Dygert of Melba, Valley, 1,253.10 Brandon Christensen, Hermiston, Ore., Shawn Dygert, Melba, 966.70; 26. Ryan sixth-place money ($2,061) in the who teamed with Travis Bachman Bareback — 1. Caleb Bayes, Parma, 2,871.31; 5. Carl Seiders, 2,619.45; 6. Jeff Bruce, 771.26; 27. Bobby Grenke, 645.24; Interior Provincial Exhibition and to fi nish second in team roping 5,043.90; 2. Toby Miller, 4,780.25; 3. Eric Bowden, 1,973.28; 7. Sam Mackenzie, 32. Scott Roeser (R), Marsing, 453.93; 35. Mader, 1,557.23; 4. Jeremy Churchfi eld, 1,610.50; 8. Jimmy Bertalotto, 1,393.66; Jason Eiguren, Jordan Valley, 363.76 Stampede rodeo, which was held with a time of 6.0 seconds. 1,035.50; 5. Bryan Schwabauer, 1,1018.12; 9. Cody Echevarria, Homedale, 1,358.63; Team roping, heeling — 1. Marlow Aug. 30-Sept. 3 in Armstrong, Jordan Valley roper Matt Grenke 6. Jacey Miller, 800.28; 7. Nathan Bayes, 10. Scott Roeser (R), Marsing, 1,325.14. Eldridge, Nampa, 8,400.96; 2. Tommy British Columbia. paired with Rob Maxwell to split Adrian, Ore., 715.16; 8. Matt Askew (R), Others — 11. Tim Roeser, Marsing, Flenniken, 5,202.25; 3. B.J. Roberts, 661.20; 9. Noah Bayes, Homedale, 395.01. 1,174.59; 14. Clay Schricker, Adrian, 4,062.62; 4. Leo Baptiste, 3,585.42; He was in a pack that fi nished fourth and fi fth place with a team 10. Jeff Bayes, 168.44 Ore., 587.19; 16. Wade Hyer, Homedale, 5. Sam Riley, 2,917.27; 6. Rob Black, one spot ahead of legendary pro comprised of Adrian, Ore.’s Mike Saddle bronc — 1. Mark Gage, 348.18; 17. Brady Black, 319.91 Meridian, 2,670.52; 7. Ty Thomas, Star, rodeo cowboy Dan Mortensen of Pendergrass and Jordan Valley’s Jordan Valley, 6,884.323; 2. Jake Breakaway roping — 1. Jennifer 2,496.14; 8. Dally Curtis, 2,435.11; 9. Bigelow, 5,371.97; 3. Bryan Martinat Casey, 6,682.53; 2. Dustie Crenshaw, Ira Walker, 2,397.36; 10. Mike Eiguren, Billings, Mont., a six-time world Mike Eiguren. (R), Homedale, 3,465.35; 4. Ivan Tibbs, 6,665.73; 3. Keri Dell, Hermiston, Ore., Jordan Valley, 2,283.70. Others — champion who leads the season Homedale’s Karen Ewy 2,495.13; 5. William Scheibe, 1,750.52; 6. 3,369.04; 4. Regan Lawson, 3,082.09; 16. Tim Black, 1,715.30; 17. Richard standings. fi nished third in barrel racing at Frank Tobias, 1,527.19; 7. Wayne Hebdon, 5. Monica Williams, 2,966.88; 6. Patti Eiguren, Jordan Valley, 1,629.14; 21. th 1,316.45; 8. Cliff Toone, 1,128.55; 9. O’Maley, 2,649.80; 7. Danna Stovner, Ryan Mackenzie, Jordan Valley, 1184.65; Mackenzie is 24 in the CPRA’s Halfway, a fraction of a second Bob Smith, 1,016.70; 10. Cody Allred, 2,410.24; 8. Kim Grubbs, 2,187.65; 29. Tim Roeser, Marsing, 453.93; 30. season saddle bronc standings. behind ICA season leader Kyna 1,008.19. Others — 12. Josh Mackenzie, 9. Tricia Campbell (R), 2,185.63; 10. Ryan Bruce, 418.52; 32. Shane Smith, Mackenzie is 12th in this year’s Schrader. Ewy is second in the 585.96; 14. Sam Mackenzie, Jordan Melinda McDaniel, 2,037.68. Others Jordan Valley, 363.66; 37. Luke Jeffries, Valley, 172.90 — 13. Marissa Black, Meridian, 1,751.50; Homedale, 202.78 Idaho Cowboy Association saddle season standings. Bull riding — 1. Stephen Hopkins, 28. Jodi Endicott, Caldwell, 647.43; 36. Novice bareback — 1. Eddie Hynek, bronc standings, which are led by Another Jordan Valley 5,312.15; 2. Cody Brixey (R), 4,205.46; Bryan Reay, Homedale, 345.80; 37. Mikal 270.00; 2. Josh Bruno, 172.00; 3. Jared Mark Gage of Jordan Valley. Mackenzie — Sam — is seventh 3. Brad Abbe, 2,789.23. 4. Miller Montz, Black, 333.93 Ashcraft, 118.00; 4. Justin Parker, 90.00; 1,698.48; 5. Kiel Malone, 1,455.17; 6. Barrel racing — 1. Kyna Schrader, 5. Adam Waite, 48.00 Homedale’s Bryan Martinat in the ICA all around standings. Payton Bakes, 934.92; 7. Mike Sparks, 5,117.84; 2. Karen Ewy, Homedale, Novice bull riding — 1. Charles is third in the ICA saddle bronc He’s seventh in steer wrestling 1,365.39; 8. Paul Coppini (R), 1,357.97; 3,566.83; 3. Gretchen Bilton Smith, Brown, 327.00; 2. Josh Bruno, 309.00; standings as a rookie. He fi nished and 14th in saddle bronc. 9. Trevor Maddox (R), 1,108.78; 10. Jake 2,708.72; 4. Lucy Schnabele, 2,642.31; 5. 3. Adam Waite, 244.00; 4. Cody Bates, Rupe (R), 1,059.73. Linda Roberts, 2,488.44; 6. Matea Gabiola, 182.00; 5. Eddie Hynek, 140.00; 6. second with a 77-point ride during Homedale’s Cody Echevarria Tie down roping — 1. Rob Black, 2,336.50; 7. Brittany Highsmith, 2,295.55; Tyler Hollis, 138.00; 7. Travis Leedhom, the Sept. 2-4 ICA stop in Halfway, holds down ninth in steer Meridian, 5,394.11; 2. Paul Cope, 8. Jamie Beutler, 2,260.15; 9. Mikal Black, 127.00; 8. (tie) Lee Munch, 105.00; Levi Ore. Gage was fourth at that wrestling, and Marsing rookie 5,099.67; 3. Tony Green, 4,910.43; 4. 2,154.53; 10. Mackenzie Woods, 2,056.78. Overacker, 105.00; 10. (tie) Travis Miller, th Luke Jefferies, Homedale, 4,353.08; 5. Others — 14. Katie Davis, 1,577.48; 15. 100.00; Caleb Quimby, 100.00 rodeo. Scott Roeser is 10 . Will Casey, 2,946.67; 6. Ty Thomas, Star, Abby Davis, Adrian, Ore., 1,568.26; 16. Novice saddle bronc — 1. Kiel Malone, Another Homedale cowboy, According to the ICA Web 2,500.64; 7. Brad Carpenter, 2,394.39; Marissa Black, Meridian, 1,556.58; 28. 36.00; 2. Kyle Carson, Homedale, 20.00 Luke Jeffries, is ranked fourth in site, the season enters its final the ICA all around this season, days this weekend with rodeos just behind for Owyhee County in Washington state on Sept. 8-9 resident Rob Black. (Colfax and Okanogan) and Sept. Jeffries finished second in 9-10 (Cashmere) and a Sept. 9-10 the Halfway tie down roping rodeo in Burns, Ore. competition with a 10.7-second The ICA Finals are scheduled effort. for Oct. 6-7 at the Idaho Center For all your Black leads the ICA tie down in Nampa. Printing needs, contact us! 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Baxter Black, DVM Wayne Cornell Not important ... On the but possibly of interest edge of Home improvement made easy? Our house was built in the late 1970s. That was just late staple, hiding it. common enough that the original owners avoided avocado-colored One problem with the process is that about every 20th sinks and pink countertops popular through most of that staple didn’t go cleanly into the board. Instead the gun decade. Nevertheless. the interior looks — well — very wadded it up in a ball on top of the tongue. sense ’70s. One area that was very dated was a hallway that The misfire had to be carefully pried out without leads to the bedrooms. The fl oor was covered with a 27- damaging the board. year-old shag carpet. I also learned that because bamboo is so hard and so We were wandering through a store when we came across brittle, you can’t use a chisel to create a notch so the board Factory farming some bamboo fl ooring. The information on the box said will fi t an odd corner or around a heating vent. The wood bamboo is harder than oak. More importantly, this bamboo will crack in unpredictable directions. Everything has to “We must stop the cruel confi nement systems used fl ooring was inexpensive (cheap). So we bought enough to be cut with a saw. in modern corporate factory health care!” replace the carpet in the 4-foot-by-30-foot hall. Another problem popped up as I got within about three It wasn’t until we got the fl ooring home that I discovered board-widths of the far side of the hall. The bamboo “We must abolish the abusive practice of it wasn’t your quarter-inch-thick, snap-together fl ooring. boards are 4 inches wide. There wasn’t enough room government-sponsored factory education systems The boards are “tongue-in-groove,” which requires between the nailing tool and the wall for me to whack it where children are forced to sit still for hours a some special tools and installation techniques. I briefl y with the hammer. For a time, it looked like I would have day!” considered loading it all up and returning it to the store. put in conventional nails from the top on the last three But then my old “I can do this” gene kicked in. rows and fi ll the visible nail holes. But then I discovered The fi rst job was pulling up the old carpet and removing that an air-powered fi nish nailer I already had was much “Evil corporate factory transportation companies about one thousand staples holding down the carpet pad, smaller and could shoot 2-inch nails into the tongues at the that confi ne passengers in buses and airplanes in as well as the wooden strips fi lled with really sharp tiny proper angle, clear up to the wall. The rest of the project seats like crates which prevent turning around, lying nails that anchored the edges of the carpet. Then it was went quickly. down or completely extending their limbs must be time to put the new fl ooring in place. Now some readers may be asking themselves, “Why is regulated to reduce stress.” The procedure isn’t too complicated. A special nail he telling me a lot more than I need to know about installing gun, powered by compressed air, fi ts over the tongue on a bamboo fl oor?” Well, the main reason is because my Factory health care, factory education, factory one side of the board. Then you whack a knob on top of partner-in-life examined the fi nished fl oor and said, “I transportation, i.e., hospitals, schools, airlines. All the gun with a big rubber-headed hammer and a 2-inch don’t think a professional fl oor installer could have done means of performing essential services that allows staple is fi red through the tongue at an angle and into the a better job.” a more even distribution of benefi ts. Sure, there are sub fl oor. The head of the staple is buried into the tongue When you are my age, compliments like that are worth people who can afford a private room, a personal fl ush so the groove of the next board will slip over the three days on your knees. physician, a tutor at home, a private jet, but not most of us. Factory farming is a buzzword invented by the ANTIs to denigrate methods used in agriculture today like feedlots, chicken houses, hog confi nement From Washington facilities, dairies and veal barns. These methods of “factory” farming allow us to produce meat, milk and eggs in quantities large enough to meet the demands Libraries offer world of possibilities of a hungry nation. Granted, America could back off the concentrated by Sen. Mike Crapo production methods and still produce protein but What entity serves two-thirds of the United States’ Owyhee County libraries more land would be taken up, more grain needed population expending less than 2 percent of all tax Homedale Public Library per animal unit and less product available at a higher dollars? Here’s a hint: there are more of them than there 125 W. Owyhee Ave., Homedale, (208) 337-4228 cost. The same people who own their own plane are McDonald’s restaurants. With a Borders, Barnes and Hours could still afford a good steak, barbecue spare ribs Noble and/or Hastings in each of Idaho’s major cities, Monday through Friday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, but it would be out and a wide variety of home entertainment accessible by Saturday, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. of reach for the average Joe. It’s an old story in the cable, satellite or the Internet, you might be surprised to Closed Sundays world of the ANTIs (the animal rights activists and learn that Americans visit public environmentalists). It’s the haves vs. the have-nots. libraries 1.2 billion times a year, Lizard Butte Public Library borrowing more than 2 billion Anybody that’s laid-up in a hospital for a week 429 Main Street, Suite 105, Marsing books, CDs, videos and more. (208) 896-4690 or has been admitted to the emergency room on a In fact, a 2006 American Library busy night knows how it feels to be anonymous. If Hours Association poll indicates the Monday through Wednesday and Friday, noon you’ve gone through security at a big airport and been top use of libraries today is to 6 p.m. seat-belted into place, it’s easy to put yourself in the Internet and computer use. Thursday, noon to 7 p.m. position of a dairy cow. It’s not pretty but it’s worth Access to the World Wide Closed weekends it, so most of us choose to go. Web is especially important in Factory farming isn’t always pretty, but it is how Idaho, considering that although Eastern Owyhee County District Library modern agriculture has responded to the challenge of approximately two-thirds of 520 Boise Ave., Grand View feeding a burgeoning global population. Idaho homes have Internet (208) 834-2785 Sen. Mike Crapo Henry Ford built a factory that allowed the common access, there are thousands of Hours man to expand his world. Factory farming, at an even households that do not, especially in rural areas. Monday through Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. September not only means the start of another school more profound level, has done the same. After all, you Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. year; it’s also National Library Card Sign-up Month. This don’t have to drive but we do have to eat. Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. is a perfect time to pick up library cards for the family, if Closed weekends you don’t already have them. Libraries hold the keys to a universe of possibility for people of all ages: families can Bruneau Valley Public Library plan a vacation; parents can research home improvement; 32073 Ruth St., Bruneau children can fi nd the latest mystery or adventure stories; (208) 845-2131 borrowers can check out movies or even books on tape Hours Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. –– to page 5A Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Page 11B Commentary Accuracy In Media √ Crapo for travel; all at a negligible cost — provided materials are returned on time, of course! And public libraries are A con job from Khan on Al-Jazeera working hard to ensure that young Internet users are safe from the perils of Internet predators and pornography, so By Cliff Kincaid that Al-Jazeera has had an anti-American and anti-Israel that parents don’t worry when their children are online at Riz Khan of Al-Jazeera International made a dramatic bias and has been encouraging jihad against the West. their local library. appearance in Washington, D.C. earlier this month, The debate has been over what kind of approach the U.S. Libraries have a lengthy and rich tradition in the history assuring a conservative group that America has nothing should take toward it. Bombing the channel’s headquarters of civilization. As long as there has been written language, to fear from the new channel being launched by the in Qatar obviously has been ruled out because American people have recorded histories, traditions and ways of Arab regime of Qatar. But if the United States wants troops are stationed there, and U.S. corporations have life. Records of law, technology, philosophy, religion and to win the war against Islamic terrorism, Khan and his offi ces in the country and conduct extensive commercial even business transactions dating to 2500 B.C. exist in Arab backers should be told in no uncertain terms that relations with the regime. The founding members of Akkadian, one of civilization’s fi rst written languages. an English-language affiliate of Osama bin Laden’s the U.S.-Qatar Business Council include major U.S. oil Remarkably, many remain preserved today and some are favorite TV channel is not welcome on U.S. cable and companies as well as Al-Jazeera. housed in libraries in the United States and abroad. One satellite systems. But the U.S. presence doesn’t mean the regime is a friend of the oldest library systems in the world is at Oxford The stakes are high: If Al-Jazeera International gets of the U.S. After all, Saudi Arabia was a host to U.S. troops University, which opened its fi rst library in 1320, although access to American households, it is probable, if not while al-Qaida was active there and producing most of the it was not public. And, while not the oldest but much closer inevitable, that we will lose the war, not only in Iraq but 9/11 hijackers. to home, our very own Library of Congress holds the worldwide. Such a channel could not only further tilt global While Rumsfeld used to regularly denounce Al-Jazeera, honor of being the largest in the world with more than 130 media coverage against the U.S. position in the world, but things seemed to change when Karen Hughes, an old friend million items, including manuscripts, books, photographs could incite Arabs and Muslims inside the U.S. to engage of the president, was put in charge of “public diplomacy” and maps. In addition to touring the magnifi cent buildings in jihad and commit terrorist acts. That is exactly what the at the State Department. She has been encouraging U.S. and reading rooms, visitors can register for a reader card, Arabic version has done in Iraq, and that is why it is banned offi cials to go on the channel, as if they can persuade the which grants access privileges to many of the library’s by the new democratic government there. Arab and Muslim audience that America wants to be their vast holdings. Khan attended the conservative meeting in the wake of friend. That’s hard to do when the channel repeatedly Late in life, Thomas Jefferson noted to a friend that, very powerful speeches by President Bush and Defense emphasizes the blood and carnage that the U.S. is said to “I am far from presuming to direct the reading of my Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about the tremendous stakes in have brought to Iraq and other places around the world. fellow citizens, who are good enough judges themselves this war. Both say we are facing an enemy as determined The Hughes plan of being nice to Al-Jazeera is doomed of what is worth their reading.” Jefferson, who sold more as the fascists and Nazis of World War II. And both to fail. than 6,400 of his own books to help start the Library of emphasized how al-Qaida uses the media and the Internet The Arabic Al-Jazeera has to be dealt with if America Congress, knew the importance of reading and an educated against our side. wants to win this war, but the immediate problem is to electorate. Perhaps, most importantly, he recognized that Yet there was Khan, a former CNN journalist who make sure the threat doesn’t get worse with Al-Jazeera a successful democracy provides myriad education and wrote a fawning biography of the Saudi billionaire Prince International taking a place alongside CNN, Fox News, enrichment reading resources recognizing and respecting Alaweed bin Talal, passing out a fl ier claiming that Al- and MSNBC on your cable or satellite system. many individual interests. Jazeera International will simply offer a “fresh perspective If Khan had washed his hands of the Arabic channel, his With modern technology, the Internet and interlibrary on global news and current affairs.” His fl ier also made pitch for the English-language version might have been loan, most Idahoans don’t have to leave their community reference to his sister channel, the Arabic Al-Jazeera. Its worth listening to. But the failure to account for the Arabic to access vast collections held by libraries such as the “ground-breaking work” was said to have “changed the channel’s well-documented relationship with al-Qaida Library of Congress, some university libraries and even face of news within the Middle East and brought fair and means that Khan simply does not want to be honest with libraries overseas. And likely as not, one of the more than free journalism to the region …” The fl ier said that Al- his potential audience. 140 public libraries in Idaho — the one in your local Jazeera International is part of “a growing network focused At least Dave Marash was honest when he admitted to community — may have exactly what you need. on accurate, impartial and fair reporting.” The words the New York Sun that the channel had inspired those who Take time this month to stop by your local library, talk “accurate, impartial and fair reporting” were highlighted want to kill us. “Undoubtedly, some Al-Jazeera programs to a librarian and, with library card in hand, delve into a in bold. may have inspired some social misfits to undertake world of limitless possibilities. If Riz Khan really believes this, then Al-Jazeera terrorism,” he said. — Mike Crapo is a Republican U.S. senator from International is the danger we at AIM have been warning Khan’s deceptive public relations campaign can only Idaho. about, and Khan and perhaps his cohorts, David Frost mean that Al-Jazeera International is as potentially and Dave Marash, are parrots of a company line. If Khan dangerous as its sister channel. That always fi gured to expects us to believe that rubbish about being fair and be the case, because they are funded by the same Arab accurate, then he must think we are fools. government, which had connections to al-Qaida before Al-Jazeera began in 1996, the same year bin Laden 9/11, and personnel between the channels overlaps. Letters to the declared war on America. They have been working One conservative who heard Khan’s sales pitch in D.C. together ever since. In addition to the numerous al-Qaida said that he came across as “slick” — perhaps as slick as videos and statements aired by the channel, its anchors the Arab petro-dollars paying his salary and the cost of the editor policy openly refer to suicide bombers as “martyrs” for the new network, which is said to be reaching a staggering cause. In other words, it actively recruits Muslims to kill $1 billion. The sheer cost means that the channel, despite Americans and Israelis. Being a terrorist channel, however, reluctance by cable and satellite systems to carry it, could The Owyhee Avalanche welcomes does have its advantages. Al-Jazeera reporter Yosri Fouda buy its way into the American media market. letters to the editor. was singled out to obtain exclusive interviews with the Strangely, however, while Congress erupted in anger Our policy is that locally written al-Qaida architects of 9/11, who wanted credit for killing over an Arab-owned fi rm taking over some American letters receive priority. We do not pub- almost 3,000 Americans. Such terrorist “exclusives” are ports, the prospect of an Arab-fi nanced “news” channel what Al-Jazeera specializes in. directly broadcasting al-Qaida propaganda into American lish mass-produced letters. The length However, this can get the network in trouble. One Al- homes has failed to make it on the list of top congressional must be limited to 300 words; the let- Jazeera employee is currently at Guantanamo Bay, facing priorities. ters must be signed and include the charges of collaborating with al-Qaida and the Taliban, But if the analogy to World War II is appropriate, and a former Al-Jazeera Afghanistan correspondent is in we should take some time to consider that America’s writer’s address and a daytime phone prison in Spain, having been convicted of being an agent of “greatest generation” would never have tolerated the number where the writer can be reached al-Qaida. His legal bills continue to be paid by Al-Jazeera, prospect of fascist and Nazi agents and sympathizers for verification. which is funded by the emir of Qatar, supposedly a friend getting access to America’s airwaves. That would have Letters can be e-mailed to of America. On the U.N. Security Council recently, Qatar been unthinkable, even treasonous. Americans knew that was the only member of the 15-member body voting not we had to win in the media and on the battlefi eld and [email protected] or to require Iran to stop producing nuclear weapons. Some that the enemy could not be permitted to use our own faxed to (208) 337-4867 or mailed to friend. media against us. P.O. Box 97, Homedale ID, 83628. The channel’s first managing director was booted If you don’t want al-Qaida’s latest videos being broadcast The deadline for submitting let- after evidence emerged that he was a lackey of the Iraqi directly into your homes through Al-Jazeera International, dictator’s son Uday Hussein. Captured fi lm footage shows you must act fast. Contact Congress and ask your senators ters to the editor is noon on Friday. For him acting like a lapdog of the notorious murderer and and representative to take action to stop the channel from more information, call 337-4681. sadist. All of this has been well-documented in the AIM gaining access to the U.S. media market. After several DVD on “Terror Television,” which also shows captured delays, the channel is planning to launch on U.S. soil in terrorists saying they came to kill Americans in Iraq November. Time is running out. The lives of our fellow because of what they saw on Al-Jazeera. citizens are at stake. No serious observer of the global media disputes the fact — Cliff Kincaid is editor of the AIM Report. Page 12B Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Looking back... from the fi les of The Owyhee Avalanche and Owyhee Chronicle

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September 13, 1956 September 8, 1866 he could see no use for a contemporary such number of men at Bruneau; that could he have avoided an immediate Trojans romp over Melba in gridiron opener Friday PACIFIC RAILROAD. We believe the recent survey of return with General Halleck in July, he would have fully The Homedale Trojans looked like the team to beat in the this road touches a point on the Humboldt River as far north examined the situation at that time. We think our infl uenced class B SRV conference Friday, as they rolled to a 47-20 as Centerville and according to the distance as measured correct that Gen. Steele does not approve of the general victory over the Melba Mustangs. by General Halleck that is one hundred and ninety-nine course of the present District Commander, and that a Homedale took the opening kickoff down the fi eld for miles from here by the present round-about route. Recent different policy must be adopted. He has gone to the Forks the fi rst score, but failed to convert. Melba scored on a long examinations prove conclusively that Centerville may be to examine the country and select a location for a camp pass and converted, to temporarily take the lead 7-6, but reached by a better route and in one hundred and fi fty miles — to get it fi xed with reference to water, grass and wood Homedale roared back with an 87-yard run by Vic Landa of travel. We have the testimony of one of the Engineers and especially the protection of the new road to Ives Canon. on an interception of a pitchout. “that he never seen so fi ne a country for a railroad.” He says that his Department will soon be reinforced. His Homedale converted to lead 13-7 and was never headed. Such testimony should insure its construction up the conversation and manner indicate a determination to make The offensive play of Vic Landa, Junior Uranga and Bill Humboldt. Again, by doing so, slow freight would reach the men now available be of the greatest possible service. Carson stood out in the opening game. Line play was here in eight days from San Francisco and Idaho City in Recruiting stations would be opened in Idaho, but here is a spotty, but the boys seemed eager and willing and the thirteen. Alturas would receive all her supplies the same scarcity of offi ces for this service. Excepting the Artillery, Trojan Coach Deward Bell said this week the team should way as well as Ada County. There can be no question as to the companies are all short of offi ces. round into a strong contender for the conference crown. the interest of the company in adopting this route. The trade Homedale plays Wilder in the football jamboree at of Owyhee, Ada, Boise and Alturas counties is enormous, J. L. BROWNE, who has been the agent of Wells, Caldwell Friday night and will open against Middleton and is and will be an item worthy the consideration of even Fargo & Co., since the establishment of their offi ce in Saturday at Middleton in the fi rst conference game of the the Pacifi c R. R. Co. It would almost daily have a car full Owyhee, leaves us before our next issue — not to return. season. of Idaho passengers, as the entire Eastern and California Mr. Browne is a citizen of the best standing, and one we travel would patronize it. The Stage travel from any part regret to lose. With a very intimate acquaintance of over Allen George is new chairman of school board of Southern Idaho would not exceed thirty-fi ve hours, and one year, we are justifi ed in pronouncing Mr. B. a man a A regular meeting of Joint Class A School District No. from Owyhee less than twenty bringing us within forty near unexceptionable character as mortal man attains. Our 370 of Owyhee and Canyon counties, was held September hours of San Francisco. best wishes and good fortune attend him. 10. There is little doubt that branch roads will be required The August accounts payable were paid in the amount to feed the main trunk at various points with fuel and STEALING ORE. The Cosmos Company arrested a of $1,962.53 from the bond building fund. general traffi c and this necessity should have its infl uence workman on Wednesday night for stealing ore from the The board canvassed the election for trustee in district in the establishment of the main line. The general course Silver Cord mine. He was suspected and for some time number 1 and 5 held on September 4. of the mountain ranges in the Great Basin is north and watched. When leaving work at midnight he was seen A letter was received from Dorothy Goodloe stating that south with occasional low divides. At almost any point on to take a sack with him. His cabin was searched and two she wished to resign on or before October 15. the Humboldt a branch road can be constructed north or hundred pounds of the rich rock found in his possession. The board completed its business and the new board south between the mountain ranges on nearly level ground He owned up, and begged so piteously that he was allowed elected Allen George as chairman and Albert Eidemiller for hundreds of miles. If Virginia City is ever provided to depart unpunished; but it will be very unsafe for another as vice chairman. with railroad facilities it must be by side tracks or branch to make the same attempt to “accumulate” lands with the O. C. Douglas was retained as clerk-treasurer and roads as no main line will touch it. If the Pacifi c R. R. Co. expectation of escaping so easily. This should be a warning Richard B. Eismann as attorney. consults its own interests, Austin will be supplied similarly. to men employed about mines. As a class, they are just The Superintendent suggested to the board that It is a matter of much importance that the superiority of the as honest as any other but frequently have the strongest three lights be installed around the new Lincoln school Humboldt route be correctly appreciated by the company. temptations to violate their own sense of honesty. building. It is of the deepest concern to Idaho and hence our duty to SILVER CORD. It will be fi ve weeks next Monday, The clerk advised the board that to date $53,705.79 make it a live topic that our people may generally add their at noon, since the Cosmos Company took possession of including August bills, has been spent on the new power to secure the adoption of the most northern route in this mine and commenced opening it. Two tunnels and building. The receipts to the general fund for August were contemplation by the company. Will our citizens wake up two shafts were immediately commenced. The lower $25,787.97 and the expenses paid were $12,481.23, and to the actual importance of this matter? Think of it, of the tunnels starts at Wad’s Gulch and is in 270 feet from the the cash on hand in the general fund as of August 31, was incalculable advantages (to say nothing of conveniences) beginning of the open cut; the upper one is in 110 feet. The $10,019.95 of having the iron horse on a national highway within twenty hours ride from our door — almost within hearing upper tunnel starts in at a point little over fi fty feet up the mountainside from the lower one, and make the lower and Chamber holds regular meeting Tuesday of his snort. upper levels not over twenty-eight feet apart. The upper The Homedale Chamber of Commerce met Tuesday J. M. MORE. This member of the More & Fogus concern shaft is sinking 700 feet north of the gulch and is down night, September 11. made a public talk to his creditors on Wednesday night in sixty-fi ve feet; the lower one is at the mouth of the upper A resolution was adopted requesting that the Idaho Silver. For the present, we credit him with truthfulness. tunnel twenty-eight feet. Another shaft is commenced at highway commission be notifi ed to give consideration to He said in substance that everything he had and himself the mouth of the lower tunnel to be sunk sixty feet as soon the new major plan of relocating a permanent road, to the were at the disposal of his creditors; that their business as possible, from which it is proposed to make another south side of the Snake River from Twin Falls through had been recklessly conducted; that more money had level. Boarding house, shop and sleeping house have been Buhl, Marsing, Homedale and to Vale, Ore. been expended on outside affairs and worthless men and erected in the meantime. The ledge shows an average width Bills were read and approved. A United States Chamber objects to the company than the whole indebtedness of of three feet well defi ned and proven up for nearly 800 feet. of Commerce fi lm was shown on people, products and the fi rm; that he did not expect to live long enough to fi nd The mill has been crushing rock from the mine for the past production, looking into the year 1975. out all the wrongful transactions here; that of themselves, few weeks with satisfactory results. The bullion is worth The next meeting will be held Tuesday night, October 9 the mine and mill were paying institutions; that he did not an average of nearly $8 per ounce. The company believes at the El Gavilan. This will be a ladies night with a dinner hold himself blameless for the recent condition of affairs, they have a very rich mine, and if seeing is believing we meeting and entertainment. &c., &c. can vouch that their belief is correct. The ore looks very The Homedale Chamber of Commerce is still thanking The reasonable deductions of which are that a system yellow and as evidence of its richness an honest miner had everyone for help and assistance in connection with the of dishonesty, deception and total disregard of business been sacrifi cing his good name by appropriating some of “Old Timers” day program. obligations have characterized the offi cers in charge. the ore to his own use. If anybody wants to see a ton of A.E. “Spud” Murphy, chairman of the program, says This is the public verdict and as such we give it. We were the richest quality of gold ore, let him get permission to several persons have asked if they may still make donations fully satisfi ed of this three months ago but had we given it examine about that amount in the offi ce of the Company. toward the expense of the barbecue. Donations are not publicity, the same men who are now threatening to mob being asked but anyone who feels he wants to help out with the Fogus crowd would have personally assaulted us. In LINOLEUM. A substance is now being manufactured the expenses is very welcome to do this. He may leave his consequence of certain negotiations, we deferred making from flaxseed called linoleum. It is said that it will donation at Allen Gowey’s offi ce or with Elmer Ross at this item till so late an hour, that nothing further can be supersede India rubber which it very much resembles and the Idaho Power company. said in this issue. of which it possesses most of the properties in the various The barbecue pit and facilities are open for the manufactures of water-proof clothing. It can be used for public’s use. Reservattions may be made through the MILITARY. General Steele passed by here from the the coating of iron or wood, or for coating ship bottoms. It city hall where the grill and the electric pit may be Bruneau to the Forks of the Owyhee. He came via War is as good as common cement, having properties similar to secured. This arrangement is planned for the benefi t Eagle and the Poorman mine, and stopped in Ruby, at the the marine gine made from India rubber and shellac. The of everyone. Idaho Hotel, Saturday night. The General freely stated that variety of its uses will be great. Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Page 13B Public notices OWYHEE COUNTY 10:00 A.M. on the front steps of Alameda, CA 94501. Assessor’s COMMISSIONERS the Owyhee County Courthouse, Parcel# RP95S03W040065A. MINUTES Murphy, Idaho, the following Property will be sold at PUBLIC AUGUST 28, 2006 property: AUCTION to the HIGHEST Owyhee Cattlemen’s OWYHEE COUNTY 1 st So EXT OF THE BIDDER. The starting bid will COURTHOUSE MISSISSIPPI MS#1032 Sections include delinquent tax; late fees; Association MURPHY, IDAHO 4&5 Township 5 South of Range interest and costs in the amount of Heritage Fund Present were Commissioner’s 3 West, Boise Meridian, in the $119.42 plus current year’s tax in Reynolds and Salove, Clerk Carson Mining District, in the the amount of $5.92 and all costs 10th Annual Sherburn, Treasurer Richards, County of Owyhee and State of accruing hereafter. Property Rights Assessor Endicott, Sheriff Aman, Idaho in the District of Lands The Board of County Jim Desmond and Fred Grant. subject to sale at Boise City and Commissioners reserve the right 1s t P r i z e Amendments to the agenda bounded, described, and platted as to reject any or all bids. Pickup 2006 Dodge Ram included: vehicle for Coroner, follows, with magnetic variation Dated this 7th day of August, 2500 SLT Quad Cab cancellation of market value, eighteen degrees and forty-six 2006. Features include... and approval for Holladay minutes East. Beginning at corner /s/Hal Tolmie, Chairman Drawing! 5.9L HO Cummins Turbo diesel engine Engineering. North 1, a fi r post six inches in Owyhee County 6-speed manual transmission All proceeds to go to the Owyhee Cattlemen’s AM/FM CD player The Board adopted a Resolution diameter marked 1/1032, with Commissioners Association Heritage Fund to aid in the ¿ ght to Air conditioning extending the declaration of mound of sounds, from which the /s/Charlotte Sherburn, Clerk keep all of our property rights and multiple use Long bed emergency on the West Nile quarter section corner between Board of County access to federal lands in Owyhee County. Inferno red Virus. sections four and fi ve in Township Commissioners Pickup sponsored by: The Board approved the 5 South of Range 3 West, Boise Murphy, Idaho Tickets: The Northwest purchase of a vehicle for the Meridian, bears North twenty-six 8/30;9/6,13,20/06 Dodge Dealers $100 donation each Coroner. degrees twenty minutes East 866 Only 500 tickets have been printed, The Board approved the road feet distant; corner No. 1 of survey NOTICE TO CREDITORS so each holder has a 500-to-1 chance to win! 2nd&3rd2nd & 3rd Prizes (That’s better odds than at Reno!) name of La Mirada Lane. No. 714, the London lode claim, CASE NO. 06 - 05621 Half beef each The Board approved a bears North sixty-nine degrees IN THE DISTRICT COURT Tickets are available from: Donated by Paul Nettleton - 834-2237 Chris and Bryn Johnstone, Homedale cancellation of market value on thirty minutes West 500 feet OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL Chris Collett - 834-2062 Brad Huff - 495-2950 Cut and Wrapped parcel no. MH 06S05E32000C distant, and the mouth of a tunnel DISTRICT OF THE Owyhee Avalanche - 337-4681 Donated by Green¿ eld’s Custom Meats, or any Cattlemen’s board member. Meridian A. bears South forty four degrees six STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND or send check payable to OCHF and a self-addressed stamped An executive session was envelope to: PICKUP DRAWING, P.O. Box 32, Murphy, ID. minutes East 753 and fi ve tenths FOR THE COUNTY OF 83650 called. No action was taken. feet distant. Thence, fi rst course, OWYHEE The Board approved a permit South nineteen degrees thirty-six MAGISTRATE DIVISION with the BLM for stockpiling of minutes East 1,100 feet to corner In the Matter of the Estate Drawing will be held in October at the Idaho Reined Cow Horse SnafÆ e Bit Futurity road materials. No.2. Thence, second course, of SHERYL A. FORREY, Need not be present to win. Winner will be responsible for title, license, and registration fees, and all taxes The Board adopted a Resolution South eighty degrees thirty-four Deceased. transferring funds from PILT minutes East 600 feet to corner NOTICE IS HEREBY funding to the PILT Trust. No. 3. Thence, third course, GIVEN that the undersigned The Board adopted a North nineteen degrees thirty-six has been appointed Personal Resolution appointing and minutes West 1,100 feet to corner Representative of the above reappointing members to the No. 4. named estate. All persons NRC Committee. Thence, fourth course, North having claims against the said Back to The Board approved Holladay eighty degrees thirty-four minutes deceased are required to present Engineering to do the site West 300 feet discovery post; 600 their claims within four (4) application for the solid waste feet to corner No.1, the place of months after the date of the fi rst College transfer stations. beginning; said Lot No. 1032 publication of this Notice or said The Board took the following extending 1,100 feet in length claims will be forever barred. action on Indigent and Charity along said First South Extension Claims must be delivered or matters: of the Mississippi vein or lode. mailed to RICHARD C. DAVIS, 06-42 lien approved. Owyhee County offers the Personal Representative of the 06-43 lien approved. above property for sale subject estate, at 1303 12th Avenue Road 06-37 approved for payment. to any rights, limitations, claims, or P. O. Box 65, Nampa, Idaho Subscription 06-41 approved with easements, or rights of way that 83653-0065, and fi led with the stipulation. may exist of record, custom Clerk of the Court, pursuant to Special! The Board denied the request of usage, and the property is Idaho Code Section 15-3-804. for approval of the creation Silver sold without representation Dated this 23rd day of August, For the college student: City Fire and Rescue. or warranties as to existing 2006. The complete minutes can be boundaries, claims of usage, RICHARD C. DAVIS, Nine-month viewed in the Clerk’s offi ce. and any prospective purchaser Personal Representative /s/Dick Reynolds Acting should make their own personal CARL D. HAMILTON subscription Chairman inspection of both the land and HAMILTON & Attest: /s/Charlotte Sherburn public records to determine the MICHAELSON & HILTY, $ 00 9/13/06 property’s suitability for their LLP 15 intended use, and all other matters Attorneys for Personal Plus tax where applicable NOTICE OF TAX SALE shown by public record. Representative Pursuant to Section 31-808, Terms of sale are cash. The 1303 - 12th Avenue Road and pursuant to the Order of Board of County Commissioners P.O. Box 65 Sale recorded with the Owyhee reserves the right to reject any or Nampa, ID 83653 County Recorder on July 3, 2006, all bids. Property was assessed (208) 467-4479 Owyhee County will offer for sale to F. M. Tamborini, last known (208) 467-3058 Fax 337-4681 on Monday September 25, 2006 at address 1107 San Antonio Ave., 9/6,13,20/06 Wednesday morning in Owyhee County

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REAL ESTATE FOR RENT FOR SALE VEHICLES SERVICES No down payment? No problem. 3 bdrm for rent, out in country Peaches Garrett Ranches on 1996 Tradewinds 26-foot RV Daycare in Wilder, openings 1350 sq. ft. 3bd. 1ba. Caldwell 337-5041 Homedale Rd. Open M-F 8-5 Sat trailer (M/N 26FK-DSL) with available, breakfast-lunch-snack 108K. Call Heidi with John L. Turnkey 4 bdrm 3 bath, totally 9-12 *Elbertas *O’Henrys *Gala single slide-out, sleeps four provided, ICCP approved. 482- Scott for more info. 208-841- furnished, all new appliances. Apples *Early Gold Apples comfortably, propane stove/ 6111 5082 Will rent be the week $400 or *Empress Plums *Italian Prunes oven, elec/propane fridge, A/C, Small Business Publishing. Sm. Fast Cash! Real Estate Equity month $1400. 4 miles from 337-3133 microwave, AM/FM cassette, Businesses, clubs, individuals, Loans American Financial (208) Givens. 634-2546 or 630-3478 Weaner pigs Fall Special $30 hitch. Good shape, $7,000 or À yers, business cards, etc. Call 389-9200 Boat & RV Storage, Marsing each. 3 or more $25 each. Better best offer. Jordan Valley, OR for more info. 573-8583 Storage 867-2466 hurry, only 18 left! 482-6772 541-586-2432 Kindergarten Readiness limited 1 bedroom apt, partially Beef for sale, quarter/half/whole, 1989 S15 GMC pick-up 5spd enrollment, 10 students per class. FARM & furnished. $350 mo. $200 dep. no drugs. 337-4480 evenings w/shell, 67k miles, snow tires Accepting enrollments until full. 495-2809 Westing House upright freezer, $2500; 1994 Chevrolet Lumina Instructor has 14 years experience RANCH frost free, 18 cubic feet $150. van, seats 7, make offer. 880- in public education, Vallivue Horse conditioning – not 337-5954 4599 School District, specializing training! 13 yrs. exp. in riding. .41acrelotfrontingHwy95 Micro¿ ber couch & love seat, 86 Chevy 1/2ton shortbox 4x4, in preschool-¿ rst grade. Hyer $10/horse/hour. Get ‘em ¿ t for bypassinHomedale.HasCity stain resistant, lifetime warranty, lots of extras $3500 OBO 695- Education Preschool. Ages 3 ½- hunting season! 573-8583 Sewerandwater.Wouldmake brand new in boxes. Retail $1295. 4535 or 695-4532 5. Sept-May 2006-2007 Tuesday Must sell $499. 208-888-1464 2006 ATV’s New 50cc, 110cc, & Thursday 9:30-11:30am or Alfalfa hay, grass hay, oat hay greatlocationforbuisness. $80-$120 per ton small bales, Bedroom set 7-piece cherry set. 150cc, 250cc. Special prices!!! Tuesday & Thursday 12:30- straw $2 per bale. 337-3936 or Zonedcommercial. Brand new in boxes. List $2450. Call for details. DL#3024 208- 2:30pm $60 monthly fee & $25 941-9417 $79,000,callmefordetails. Must sell $450. 208-888-1464 896-5720 one time enrollment/supply fee. Alfalfa seed, corn seed ($59/ Two1acrelotsNearmarsing. Bed-queen pillowtop mattress Wednesday only 9:30-11:30am bag), super winter hardy, farmer Twoniceirrigatedbuildinglots set. Brand new, still in plastic, YARD SALE $30 monthly fee & $15 one to farmer, many grasses, we inthecountry.Buy1orboth. warranty. Retail $599. Sell $119! time enrollment/supply fee. Pam 208-921-6643 Yard sale Fri & Sat (9/15 & Hyer, 20838 Sequoia, Greenleaf, deliver. Ray Odermott 208-465- $69,900each. 5280 1-800-910-4101 King-sized pillowtop mattress 9/16) 8am-4pm 3645 W Pioneer corner of Whittier & Sequoia. 9.61AcresonUstickRoad set. New, in bag, with warranty. Rd. Books, clothes, toys, lots of 454-8860 Slightlysloped,wouldmake List $750. Sacri¿ ce $199. 208- misc. Owyhee Mountain Lawn Care. goodbuildinglot.Currentlyan 921-6643 Estate/garage sale Fri & Sat Lawn mowing, trimming, clean orchard.$229,000 Cherry Sleigh bed. Solid wood. Sept. 15 & 16 8am-? Furniture, up. Free estimates call Tyler 880- New in box. Value $799. Sacri¿ ce household items & lots of misc. 1573 Listing Agents Ihaveabuyerfor"fixeruppers"in 508 Selway, Homedale. theHomedale,Marsingarea. $195. 208-888-1464 th Best price for on-site computer Wanted Bedroom set, cherrywood, solid Yard sale Sat. Sept. 16 7am- cleaning and repair. Call Tom or wood construction. Sleigh bed, ? Antiques, baby items, clothes, Colette at 899-9419 or 896-4676, 2 nightstands, dresser w/mirror, toys, house décor, great prices. Technical Computer. tall chest, TV armoire, dovetail 113 Silversage Tim’s Small Engine Repair: drawers. Will sell all or part. Complete servicing & repair Cost $10,000, sell $2,900. 208- FREE available on lawnmowers, tillers, 362-7150 Super-cute adorable friendly wheel-line motors, motorcycles, Dining set, cherrywood, 63” little kittens need loving home. ATVs, all 2 & 4 cycle power ENT IMON hutch & buffet, 78” table w/2 Call 695-8442 equipment. Karcher pressure K S leaves, 6 curved back chairs. washer factory authorized repair HOMEDALE, IDAHO Fax letter or resume Dovetail drawers. Side server center. 30916 Peckham Rd., 5 337-4170 • CELL: 484-0075 also available. Cost $9,000 sell WANTED miles west of Wilder. 482-7461 (208) 344-0936 WWW.BUYMOUNTAINVALLEY.COM $2,800 ¿ rm. 208-362-7150 Single non-smoker, no pets Pool table, 8 ft. table, 1” slate, wants to rent a small home in the leather pockets, Aramith balls, country, Parma-Homedale area. acc. Pkg. included. New in box. Please call Mark 454-2232 Cost $4,500 sell $1450. 208- Guitar teacher in Homedale 362-7150 wanted for 10 & 14 year old Queen orthopedic pillow-top students. Please call Stephanie mattress & box. New in plastic. 602-4024 Cost $400 sacri¿ ce $195. 208- 919-3080 Mattress, king pillow-top & THANK YOU box. Never used. Still in factory God is truly gracious and 459-8777 wrapper. Cost $550 sacri¿ ce merciful! We wish to give our Jessica Ehinger Tami Steinmetz $295. 208-919-3080 thanks to all who helped in any 353-4315 899-2263 way to make Larry’s bene¿ t Used tractor parts 100’s of th A Powerful Team Working For You! salvaged farm tractors and dinner and auction on Aug. 26 combines. Nampa Tractor a tremendous success! Words Salvage, 9055 Hwy 20, Nampa, alone are not enough to show ID 83687 (208) 467-4430 our appreciation! A special Roll ends: Great for packing thanks goes to Sue McBride and material, building ¿ res, lining the small army of people who birdcages or for your kids helped her organize and work to doodle on. The Owyhee at the event. Also, we thank the When will it Avalanche, Homedale Homedale Senior Center for the ASPEN use of their facilities. People be time... to OFFICE: 896-5312 everywhere have shown their GEORGE WILSON: 573-6405 love and support through this advertise? JOHN CONTI: 880-7829 • STAN CAPOUCH: 880-2414 Need Cash? time of trial with cancer for Larry. BOB BRINEGAR: 250-2207 • DIXIE GERDES: 899-2784 We pray God’s rich blessings on View Properties At: www.idaholand4u.com each and every one of you. Larry and Donna McBride. 22 ACRES WITH APPROVED 14 LOT SUB. in Wilder 1/2 mile to River I CAN HELP! A special thank you to Paul’s Don’t wait ‘til Bend Golf Course and Snake River. $475,000 MLS98239271 Market & the community. Once v Buying Houses & again you have overwhelmed and 3 BDRM, 1 BATH IN HOMEDALE Mature landscaping, outside recently Property it’s too late! painted, Bathroom has new tub/enclosure and toilet. New carpet throughout humbled me with your generosity home. $112,500 MLS 98257042 of spirit and your love. I can only v Buying Contracts say thank you a million times for 2.5 ACRE BUILDING LOT ON THE SNAKE RIVER all you’ve done, especially upon Pressurized irrigation, great view of the Owyhees. $225,000 MLS 98257219 v Loaning Money my retirement. Jo Howell NEW CUSTOM BUILT 3 BDRM, 2 BA HOME with central air/heat in on Real Estate Equity one of Marsing's nicest subdivisions. $174,900. MLS 98259656 3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH HOME ON 5.6 ACRES v Buying Estates Beautiful landscaping, fenced pasture w/ irrigation, 4-bay shop and garage, Subscribe Today! 58x30 steel barn/tack room, hay storage, 140x80 arena. Gorgeous view of the Call Mike Vance The Owyhee Avalanche Since 1865 valley. PRICE REDUCED $288,950 MLS 98254865 208-389-9200 208-337-4681 Page 16B Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Help Homedale's Middle School activities and... Keep informed of local events Subscribe to DRIVE ENDS through the school's annual on Sept. 26 magazine and newspaper sales drive, and we will donate 25% of all subscription sales to the school activities program. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Owyhee County ...... $31.50 Out-of-State...... $40.00 Malheur, Ada, Canyon Counties...... $36.75 Elsewhere in Idaho...... $42.00

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