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February is “Love Your Library” month. To celebrate you are invited to fill out a heart with the name of your Literary Valentine (a book character you love!). Your name will be entered into a drawing for a door prize to be given away at the end of the month. Our next Learn at the Library program will be Tuesday, Feb. 23, 7 P.M. when undersheriff Frank Billmayer will present a program on protecting yourself from identity theft and scams. Mark your calendars so you don’t miss this important information. Are you aware you may check our catal...
Happy February, everyone! We have a lot going on this month, so I better get started. The Hallmark movie “A Taste of Romance’” will be on Wednesday, Feb. 3 at 1 p.m. Snacks will be provided. We have a new activity called Senior Exercise that will be starting on Thursday, Feb. 4 at 10 a.m. Carmen Van Voast from Spring Back Therapy will be the instructor. We have quite a few participants signed up already. Come try out this special class tailored just for seniors. We will also be playing Bingo on Thursday afternoon at 1 p.m. Last week’s Jackpot B...
The American Red Cross has an emergency need for blood and platelet donors. Severe winter weather since Jan. 1 has forced the cancellation of more than 300 blood drives across 20 states, resulting in more than 9,500 donations uncollected, further depleting an already low winter supply. Blood donation appointments can be quickly and easily scheduled by using the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visiting redcrossblood.org or calling 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767). “Blood products are being delivered to hospitals as quickly as donations are coming i...
The students from Professor Cheryll Alt's Introduction to nursing class were asked to sign up for a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) class during the course. Twelve students, out of 26 that were in the course, did sign up and participated in the Certified Nurses Training over the Christmas holiday break. Ten students successfully passed the State of Montana CNA exam given at the end of the training. The students are Barbara Gardipee, Haeli Gardipee, Kaye Brown, Deanna Bigby, Tia Zander,...
Part of the 'package' that the Missoula Children's Theatre (MCT) brings to communities where it stages a production starring local children, is a series of hands-on workshops in the local schools. The workshops happen during school hours and outside the time of normal practices for the big production at the end of the week. One of those workshops was held at the Zurich Elementary School last week. Four of the students from Zurich also had roles in the major production of "Aladdin" that was prese...
The Turner High School celebrated their 2016 Homecoming this past week. During spirit week, each day was designated to do something fun and unique throughout the school. Whether it be Pajama Day, Favorite Team Day, Super Hero Day or Green and White Day, the entire school chimed in on the fun and dressed accordingly. One evening was set aside for "team" night. Both the lady Tornadoes and Tornado teams competed with the parents/grandparents of the players. The "oldies" dressed in green and white...
The 2016 cast of “Aladdin” poses for a photo call after their second and final performance on Saturday in Chinook. There were 64 actors, three technical assistants, a pianist, two Missoula Children’s Theatre directors and a large number of volunteers who made the two performances a memorable experience for the young actors and the appreciative audiences....
How little is little? In this case, little means age two but not yet two and a half, and four, but not yet four and a half. The girl is older. Parents were not on the scene; this was an overnight with Grandma. Grandpa was out of town, but Grandma is brave. Two is too young for some children of two to spend the night away from parents but somehow this little boy can do it. Grandma had had the foresight to stop at the craft store before picking up Alice and Edward Saturday afternoon. After mud, modelling clay, Silly Putty, and Play-Doh, now...
Let’s get one thing out in the open right away. There is no such thing as wind chill numbers unless you are going to school, work or the grocery store buck naked. For wind chill is the measurement of the wind on bare skin. If it was any good it would be used in summer as well. Can you imagine the weatherman telling you to dress warm today because even though it is eighty above, it is only sixty due to the wind chill! It is hogwash and not to be believed. I have been trying to debunk this craziness for over fifty years now and have to admit, I...
The Blaine County Library Board of Trustees will hold their regular monthly meeting today at 2:00 p.m. in the library meeting room. Story Time is Tuesday mornings at 10:30 a.m. All kids are welcome to join whatever fun things Kelsey has planned. LEGO Club is Tuesday afternoons from 3:30 to 4:30 and is open to grades K though 6. Middle School Hangout for February is scheduled for Thursday February 11 at 3:30 p.m. There will be ping pong, Wii, board games, crafts and food! The Middle School Hangout is for kids in grades 6 through 8. We have a...
At the end of the annual meeting, just before the prayer of dismissal, the pastor turned to Jeremiah 29 and read to the congregation: “Surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.” I wonder how many times in the past 2600 years this passage has thrilled and inspired God’s people. People are often reminded that God has a plan. He has a plan for each individual life and he has a plan for the people collectively, as a whole, as a Church. In this case, most of the peopl...
I’ve always been fascinated with the Old Testament, and how the experiences of God’s people in those ancient pages grant us insight and direction into our own life’s spiritual journey. The New Testament writer Paul declares in 1 Corinthians 10:11-12 “Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction….,” Speaking about the exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt. Their journey began after the God of Heaven brought 10 horrible plagues against the Egyptians to show both the Israelites and the Egyptians that t...
Reporter's note: Nita Jergeson called asking if I'd like to do a story about an old nativity set on display at St. Gabriel's Church in Chinook. I was interested and went the Sunday after New Years to see the nativity set. I was expecting a table top small statues around a stable, like most nativity sets I'd seen in other churches. This set was made up of figures that were displayed on the floor because of their size. It was a large, spectacular scene with all the figures associated with a...
The Turner Tornadoes are celebrating Homecoming this week. Activities are planned for each day of the week and will culminate with the Coronation during halftime of the boys game Thursday against Dodson. The daily schedule is as follows; Monday - Pajama Day, Tuesday - Super Hero Day, Bonfire/Pep Rally at 7:00 p.m. Wednesday - Favorite team day, Parents vs. players scrimmage 6:00 p.m. Thursday, Green and White day. Basketball, Thursday night, girls at 6:00 p.m., boys at 7:30 p.m. Float...
The ROARing students for the third week in January are both students in Ms. Brown's fifth grade class, Maciah Talks Different, and Sequoia Beaumont. Maciah and Sequoia have demonstrated they are worthy to join the ROAR roster by demonstrating Respect, Organization, Safety, and Responsibility. Harlem Elementary is very proud of these two young ladies!...
February is Library Lovers Month! When you stop by the library fill out a heart with the name of your Literary Valentine ( a book character you love!). Your name will be entered into a drawing and you may win a basket of fabulous prizes! Did you finish your all-time favorite book for the January Book Challenge? Contact the library with the title and we will enter your name into the drawing for a gift certificate from a local business. The challenge for February is to read a young adult novel. The library has a great selection of young adult...
February is soon upon us and we have a very busy schedule planned for the month at the center. We have our new menu out, so stop by and get one or pick one up when you come in for a delicious cinnamon roll on Thursday mornings. If you want more than 6, please order a week ahead of time. We are in the process of setting up a new class called Senior Exercise starting on Thursday, Feb. 4 at 10 a.m. Carmen Van Voast from Spring Back Therapy will be instructing this activity. We will have a sign up sheet and are looking for participants. Come try...
What Happened in history on January 16th? On 3-23-1977, The Mini-Series "Roots"... debuted on ABC TV... it became the single most-watched program in American history This Week's Dining Pleasures Jan. 27: Salad Bar Jan. 28: Roasted Chicken Jan.29: Breakfast Meal Jan. 30: Beef Stroganoff Birthdays to Celebrate January - February Ardis Hewitt - Jan. 31 Ione Schilling - Feb. 1 Tom Ragsdale - Feb. 2 Please check out the colorful art in the Activity Room on the refrigerator. Our coloring gals are...
After casting the 60+ roles for actors, filling positions for behind the scenes technical assistants, recruiting a pianist and a full week of after school practices, the Missoula Children's Theatre's (MCT) production of "Aladdin" was staged, in two performances, last Saturday. Rhea Miller, the local coordinator for the annual event, said, "Things went very well, we had good audience turnout and the kids did a great performance." This was the 37th appearance in Chinook of the traveling theatre...
I turned 75 this January. That is a monument for me and for those who would say I am just a spring chicken yet, not true. I feel every one of those 75 years most of the time. How did I get this far? It was simple, brandy, martinis on Friday and Saturday nights and a huge white sheepskin rug to make me feel good every time I look at it! There was a time I was the holder of a huge collection of stuffed animals. Real stuffed animals. It was a collection that had belonged to the Lou Lucke Company and I added to it through the years. It got too big...
I don’t mean if you are deep in a crime novel and don’t want to be distracted. I mean if you are a character IN a crime novel, there are certain things you have to do. One is, if you are driving on a winding road to anywhere, with or without pursuers, you have to snake your way through the trees, the brush, or whatever the terrain offers. Gone are the days of winding roads; if they aren’t straight, they are snaking their way through the wilderness or up a mountain. If a mechanical object is a potential sound-maker, when someone uses it, it [d...
It is January of 1907 and the news this week is mostly all about the Little Rockies. Abraham Gill has disappeared and the Ruby Gulch is getting bigger and bigger as a gold mine. Mr. Gill was a partner of a man named Winter who had a ranch close to Landusky. The ranch had belonged to Johnny Curry and Curry eventually shot Winter to get the ranch back. There is a wonderful ghost story about Winter being seen yet in his night gear, brushing his teeth as that was what he was doing when he was shot. Anyhow, Abraham Gill came out looking for...
Award Winners...
So, this weekend in the NFL it is the Chiefs at the Patriots. It is Green Bay at Arizona. It is Pittsburgh at the Broncos and it is Seattle at the Panthers. Last week every non home team won. Could it be that this week every home team will win? As usual I have not seen the games yet. More about that at the end of this column. There are local basketball standings to go over first of all this week. In standings on the boys side in A Havre is third right now. That is all the statewide standings regarding boys basketball teams. On the girls side of...
