Sports, Page 1B Looking Back, Page 9B Area DUIs Mike Greeley retires as Homedale Capture of Claude Dallas surge girls basketball coach recalled 25 years later Page 8A-9A Wednesday, April 25, 2007 Established 1865 VOLUME 23, NUMBER 17 HOMEDALE, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS Inside Educator moving on County School menus WNV page 6A Sports liaison pages 1B-7B, 16B Looking Back quits page 9B Homedale’s Dr. John Noak, who was placed in charge of spearheading Owyhee County’s Commentary West Nile Virus (WNV) campaign, pages 10B-11B resigned his position earlier this month. Noak, who was appointed as Legal notices liaison at the pages 12B-14B end of March, cited a lack of Classifieds desire to head pages 14B-15B Field gets on the court a committee Outgoing Homedale Middle School principal Keith Field doesn’t like being behind a desk, so he gets t o c o m b a t out and plays basketball with his students any chance he gets. the spread of WNV in 2007. Principal recalls 13 years in Homedale “I’m not angry, not The end of the 2006-07 school Asumendi-Mereness, who now South Junior High in Nampa, now disappointed, John Noak year marks the end of Homedale serves as language arts and it’s a middle school,” said Field, not bitter … none of that,” Noak Middle School Principal Keith literature teacher at Homedale who was a math teacher at South. said. Field’s tenure at the Homedale Middle School, as well as athletic “I did that for three years. I taught “ W h e n t h e y ( c o u n t y Student School District. director. a mix of seventh-, eighth- and commissioners) directed me to The 13-year Homedale educator Field recalled his tenure with ninth-grade, and I did a little bit form a committee … that is an mechanic will leave the district in June to Homedale, from his start here of tennis coaching as well. Then, impossible thing for me to do.” to nationals pursue a position as the principal in 1993 as a math teacher to In a resignation letter dated of Park Ridge Elementary in his current slot at the middle –– See Principal, page 5A April 6 and obtained by The Page 10A Nampa. school. –– Trustees approve He will be replaced by Luci “In the fall of 1990, I was at successor, page 5A –– See Liaison, page 5A Lengthy sentence Fink strives to expand city’s options When it comes to economic In the past two weeks, Fink “This individual will be for sex offender development, the City of has met with the executive working for, I believe, Grand Homedale’s philosophy seems to director of the Boise Valley View, Marsing and Homedale,” A Nampa man was sentenced to Gregory M. Culet sentenced be you can never have too many Economic Partnership (BVEP) Fink said. “We’ll become a joint up to 12 years in prison in Owyhee Scott on the charge of lewd and irons in the fire. and the Owyhee County Board partnership with Canyon County. County courts this month. lascivious conduct with a minor Days after announcing that of Commissioners in an effort to I think that helps us a lot.” According to a press release under the age of 16. Burley-based King’s Discount build options for Homedale. Sage Community Resources from Owyhee County Prosecutor Scott was sentenced to a Stores had taken a step toward Homedale is poised to join a will be writing the application Matthew Faulks, George L. Scott, total of 12 years with the Idaho becoming chief developer of group of small communities in for an annual grant of $41,500 62, will spend at least the next two Department of Correction, with commercial property near the Canyon and Owyhee counties that from the Idaho Department of years in the state penitentiary as two years of that sentence fixed. airport, Mayor Paul Fink held will apply for a state grant to hire Commerce & Labor to finance part of a plea agreement. two more meetings to discuss the an economic development officer On April 13, District Judge –– See Sentence, page 4A town’s economic future. for the region. –– See Options, page 4A Page 2A Wednesday, April 25, 2007 Effort to revive Marsing Chamber begins After months of inactivity, the Marsing Chamber of Commerce will try to kick-start its organization during a meeting Thursday. Chamber officials have invited business owners or representatives to a 7 p.m. meeting Thursday at the Essence of Life on 111 Main St. The purpose of the meeting, according to a flier being circulated, is to “revise and restart” the organization, which had played a big part in the city’s Old Time Festival and Doodlebug Ill HMS student returns Race in the past. Organizers are seeking ideas and support from the local to draw winning ticket business community. Homedale Middle School Lyndee Coombs and a series of “Now is the time to voice your seventh-grader Jorge Hernandez bake sales have raised nearly opinion and make a difference,” returned to campus Friday during $6,000. the flier states. lunch to draw the winning tickets During lunchtime in a crowded in a raffle started by his mentor, cafeteria Friday, Hernandez Betty Arriaga, to raise money to drew a ticket owned by Sherry help Hernandez’s family with Schoonover for the crab. Shelley medical bills. Blodgett won second prize of a Have a Hernandez has been out of sampler of smoke salmon from school since December fighting Yakatak, Alaska, which is near infection after doctors removed Arriaga’s former hometown of news tip? his gall bladder and discovered Dutch Harbor. Hernandez back in school for day a non-cancerous cyst on his “I cannot believe that people in Call us! Top: Homedale Middle School seventh-grader Jorge Hernandez, pancreas. Homedale would help me and my center, is all smiles as he poses with classmates Amanda Cook, left, Fund-raisers such as Arriaga’s family,” a soft-spoken Hernandez and Lyndee Coombs on Friday. Cook and Coombs helped organize a raffle for 25 pounds of Alaskan said after calling Schoonover and 337-4681 benefit in City Park for Hernandez. 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A UTV is defined as any At its April 16 meeting, recreational motor vehicle other the Owyhee County Board of than an ATV, motorbike or Commissioners passed resolution snowmobile, defined for and No. 07-04, which set a speed limit capable of travel over designated for various recreational vehicles. unpaved roads, having four or The Board also passed more low-pressure tires of 20 psi Resolution No. 07-05, which sets or less and a maximum width of weight limits for vehicles allowed 94 inches. to travel on Juniper Mountain and Golf carts, vehicles designed Pleasant Valley roads. The limit to carry a disabled person and will be 16,000 pounds per axle. farming implements are not Two (or more) horses for Homedale? County Ordinance resolution defined as UTVs. Homedale Middle School teacher Barbie Vander Boegh wants to start a drive to raise money and attract No. 07-04, which went into effect a grant to buy a horseshoe sculpture made by a Caldwell artist. on April 16, makes it an infraction Weight limits set on roads to operate “any UTV, motorbike or Commissioners also passed a ATV for travel upon any highway resolution to limit axle weight Teacher seeks sculpture grant or road in the county at a speed on Juniper Mountain Road and greater than 25 miles-per-hour.” Pleasant Valley Road. to a specific cause.” The resolution makes a violation After consulting Owyhee Vander Boegh strives to place unique Receipts will be given for any of this section an infraction. County Sheriff Gary Aman donations at City Hall because the artwork at town’s entrance Offenders could face a fixed fine and County Road District No. donations are tax deductible. of up to $100, plus court costs. 1 supervisor Larry McDaniel, Vander Boegh said she still is A Homedale resident wants to $49,000, but Vander Boegh said The resolution also provides officials found that truck traffic trying to round up collection cans bring the stage back to town, but the stagecoach and two horses legal definitions for ATVs, is causing significant damage to to place in local businesses, too. she needs community support to — valued at $21,000 — would motorbikes and UTVs. the two roads. Weight limits were The ICF grant board will make pull it off. work fine for a focal point on the According to documents set in an effort to avoid further a decision in October on which Barbie Vander Boegh, a teacher highway. received from Owyhee County damage. causes in the Southwest Region at Homedale Middle School, is As a way to start building Clerk Charlotte Sherburn, an “All- Vehicle weight limits on will get money.