Established 1865 SSpecialpecial ssection:ection: JJoyceoyce RRanchanch ccelebrateselebrates 115050 yyearsears DDrunkrunk onon a JohnJohn Deere,Deere, PagePage 3 InsideInside thisthis week:week: CountyCounty FairFair bookbook Man faces DUI after running This year’s theme construction zone stop signs is “Shootin’ for the Stars” VOL. 30, NO. 23 75 CENTS HOMEDALE, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2015 Towns consider pay raises for elected offi cials Homedale budget proposal includes hefty pay Establishment of salaries for Grand View hike for mayor; HPD requests a sixth offi cer mayor, council members to be discussed tonight Nearly every city employee and elected property tax revenue allowed by state law. Grand View elected offi cials could start The meeting starts at 6 p.m. at City Hall, offi cial could see a pay raise in Homedale’s Thursday’s workshop wasn’t a setting to drawing paychecks. 425 Boise Ave. fi scal year 2016 budget. make fi nal decisions but merely hash out City council members are scheduled Under the ordinance, each elected That plan and a proposal to hire another the proposed budget before it is published to consider an ordinance to establish a offi cial would make $600 annually. City police offi cer unfolded during Thursday’s ahead of the Aug. 12 public hearing. salary structure for themselves and Mayor Clerk Tammy Payne said that the elected fi rst budget workshop. The city also plans Under the preliminary budget, Mayor Franklin D. Hart during today’s monthly officials have never been paid in the to take the full three percent increase in –– See Homedale, page 5 meeting. –– See Grand View, page 5 June’s busy beginning weekend Car show revs up Grand View Days help the Chamber of Commerce Annual festival continue to carve out the town’s runs Friday greenbelt along Roosevelt Street/ Children fl ock Idaho highway 167. through Sunday On Saturday, the Eastern to Marsing Owyhee County Library will Grand View Days is about hold a half-price book sale and and Murphy more than fun. It’s also about the Rimrock Senior Center will At left: Jason Montgomery fundraising. present its annual ice cream so- reels in the line as Mikayla Proceeds from Saturday’s in- cial. Money raised with help in the Sotelo of Homedale looks on augural car show will benefit operation of both entities. during Saturday’s 16th annual another community event, the Throw in the Firemen’s Pit Leroy Breshears Kids Fishing Halloween celebration for the Barbecue on Friday and the Lions Day at Island Park pond in town’s children. Club breakfast on Sunday — both Marsing. Friday’s fi rst-ever fun run will at Lions Park on River Road help Grand View PTA continue its — and you begin to understand See Page 12 elementary school support. how much community means to for more photos Tickets are on sale for Saturday –– See Grand Vew Days, page 2 from the fi shing night’s raffl e drawing, which will at Island Park Property assessment At right: Nampa’s Brennen Cafferty, left, watches intently as Meridian’s Ron Manchester appeals due June 22 teaches him a firestarting Owyhee County property owners should have received their technique during an Outpost 2015 property assessments. Days lost arts demonstration The deadline to appeal assessments is 5 p.m. on Monday, Saturday in Murphy. June 22. See Page 13 County commissioners sitting as the Board of Equalization will hear all appeals. for more photos No appeals were fi led last year. from the weekend A rundown of how property values have changed from 2014 at the museum will appear in next week’s edition of The Owyhee Avalanche. Subscribe today Obituaries 6BOCC news 15 Get the news source of the Owyhees delivered Calendar 7Looking Back 17 IInsidenside directly to you each Wednesday Then and Now 7Commentary 18-19 Only $31.80 in Owyhee County Missionaries Call 337-4681 U of I Extension 7 Legals 20-21 retire Weather 9Classifi eds 22-23 Page 14 Page 2 Wednesday, June 10, 2015 From page 1 √ Grand View Days: Plenty of things to see at annual weekend festival this community and one of the big for 11 a.m. Saturday in front of Riverside Cemetery. Additionally, reasons why Chamber of Com- City Park near 2nd Street and Main the Chamber wants to bury elec- merce president Katy Carothers Street. The entry fee is $10, and trical wires all along the tree-lined fell in love with the place. the money will help her in-laws route to make lighting those trees “I love Grand View,” Carothers — Terry and Jackie Carothers — at Christmas easier. said. “I’m from Boise, actually. continue to put on their big com- “We decorate the trees each When I moved down here, I didn’t munity Halloween party. year, but we haven’t had a great know anybody and I thought the Katy said she was inspired by source of wire,” Carothers said. way to make a name for yourself similar car shows in Mountain “We want to run underground is to get yourself out there and Home and Melba and also wanted wire and put a box at the base of volunteer in the community. to pay homage to her grandfather, each tree.” “Volunteering helps me person- who spent 50 years restoring clas- There is also a plan to put ally and it helps my community.” sic automobiles. sod down and plant more trees. Carothers volunteers the PTA “It’s always fun to see what Carothers said former Grand View and she also teaches hunters edu- people have and to have them resident George Tortorica helps cation in addition to heading up bring their things and check things with the sod through his Clover- the Chamber. out,” she said. dale Nursery and Turf Farm near Her children and their friends “I enjoy looking at classic cars. Kuna. Tortorica’s company is have gotten in the act, too, raising I think it’s neat, the creativity that also supplying the sod for July’s $1,002.59 to help pay for Friday’s goes into restoring cars.” Basque soccer friendly at Albert- fi reworks. Katy and Calvin Caroth- Carothers sees the car show as sons Stadium in Boise. ers’ children Shyann, 10, Braxton, another way to keep folks inter- Steve Gifford has used juniper 11, and Zoey, 5, joined forces ested in the long-standing Grand harvested from the Owyhees to with Becca Collett (the 5-year-old View Days celebration, which create benches along the path- daughter of Chris and Kim Collett) will include its tradition parade way, too. and Zelda Hurtado (7-year-old at 10 a.m. Saturday and the water Carothers said the focus of the daughter of Jessica Hurtado) to sell play between the children and the greenbelt is to provide a better hot dogs and chorizos at the Gus’ fi re department afterward. place for people to walk and A group of Grand View children pose with Chamber of Commerce Gas car wash. There will be vendors and the bicycle because there are few treasurer Bob Swenson after presenting more than $1,000 to help pay The Carothers children started carnival and midway games in sidewalks in Grand View. for Friday’s Grand View Days fi reworks display. Back row, from left: the fireworks fundraiser five City Park after the parade and “We want to make the town Swenson, Shyann Carothers and Braxton Carothers. Front row, from left: years ago. during the car show Saturday. more welcoming and get families Zelda Hurtado, Zoey Carothers and Becca Collett. Submitted photo Katy has organized a car show The winning tickets for the out there to get involved in the Chamber’s gun raffle will be community and be more active,” drawn Saturday during the street she said. dance. The free event runs from 9 Grand View Days also includes Homedale Lions Club Annual p.m. to midnight on Main Street. a 3-on-3 basketball tournament Raffl e tickets are $1 each and Friday inside the elementary six for $5. The top prize is an AR school gym and the annual soft- .223 rifl e. Second prize is an AR ball tournament across the street .22 rifl e, and third prize is dinner from City Park. and a movie in Boise. Tickets are Sunday’s festivities include available at Simplot Livestock, the Lions breakfast and church DEMOLITION Gus’s Gas and JC Landing. service at 10 a.m. at City Park. Proceeds from the raffl e will “Not a lot of people know help the Chamber continue its where Grand View is, and if they work on the greenbelt. do, they say, ‘Well, I go fi shing Carothers said the next phase there,’ ” Carothers said. “We have DERBY of the project is to extend the ce- a lot more than fi shing to offer.” Saturday, July 4 ment pathway along an area near — JPB Grand View Days schedule TICKETS ON SALE NOW! Friday Owyhee Auto Supply Homedale or Marsing All day — Softball tournament Entry — $150 per team If You Plan To Drive Get Your Rule Book on our Website: 9 a.m. — Grand View PTA fun run, American Legion hall www.homedalelionsclub.com Entry — $15 per person, $40 per family 6 p.m. — 3-on-3 basketball, Grand View Elementary gym FireWorks Entry — $10 per person ***MANDATORY*** Display 6 p.m. — Firemen’s pit barbecue, Lions Park Pricing — $9 for adults, $7 for seniors, and $5 for children and Dusk — Fireworks DRIVERS MEETING Live DJ Saturday All day — Rimrock Senior Center ice cream social; Eastern after Owyhee County Library half-price book sale Wednesday, June 17 - 7:30pm the 9 a.m.