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The students at Plains School spent last week showing their school spirit and getting revved-up for its homecoming showdown against Arlee. The school had a myriad of activities throughout the week to get them excited and pumped, starting with "Spirit Days" last Monday, when they dressed up in Hispanic apparel, and finishing with the crowning event of naming the king and queen. "The big sombreros were pretty funny, and they had colorful ponchos," said Luanna Revier, who works in the front office...
For the second consecutive year, the Plains High School seniors were the winners in the annual Horsemen Olympics Friday afternoon, defeating the juniors by only one point. The scores between the four high school classes were within nine points, but the final tally put the seniors on top with 34 points and the junior class at 33 points. The sophomores finished with 27 points and the freshmen with 25 points. The Olympic games got off to a late start, but organizer Ken Nelson and the student counci...
The Plains Horsemen were pumped for their bout against the Arlee Warriors and for a while it looked as though Arlee had met its match as the Horsemen kept pace with them for the first quarter. The Warriors drew first blood halfway through the quarter, but the Horsemen bounced back when quarterback Darren Standeford threw a bullet to wide receiver Aden West to tie things up 6-6. Neither team could get the two-point conversion. It wasn't long into the second quarter when Arlee scored and ran in...
A Plains man traveled to Israel to take in the sights of an ancient country, but he took time out to give a group of special needs kids a painting lesson. Artist Dave Williams spent almost eight hours in the village of ADI Negev-Nahalat Eran in the Negev Desert of Israel teaching children to paint. Rather than painting in a formal class setting, Williams had his session on a sidewalk in the shade. "I believe there was a misunderstanding because I prepared for a class setting and they thought I...
Hot Springs Superintendent Gerald Chouinard said it's possible a new English monarch might go to volleyball games, but he was skeptical that the queen actually gets out on the floor to play after her coronation. The newly crowned Hot Springs king, Nick McAllister, 16, joined the over 100 fans in the bleachers and his queen, Brooke Jackson, 16, took to the floor with the rest of her Hot Springs Lady Savage Heat team Saturday evening. The newly crowned king and queen, both juniors, were among...
A skipper butterfly takes a break at the edge of a juniper shrub while moving from plant to plant looking for flower nectar. The small colorful skipper butterfly is common throughout Montana and seen from late June and into September, according to the Montana Field Guide, which lists nearly 70 different species of skipper butterflies throughout the state. Wendy Carr, the agriculture and horticulture MSU Sanders County Extension agent, believes it is a sachem skipper....
The Hot Springs varsity volleyball team lived up to its banner in the school gymnasium - "Cage the Eagles" - and swept the Eagles at the Hot Springs homecoming game Saturday night. The Hot Springs Lady Savage Heat picked up their fourth victory this season by winning all three games against the Two Eagle River School Eagles 25-7, 25-8 and 25-4. "They did a great job. Our starters held the intensity even with our subs in," said Taylor Salmi, head coach for the Savage Heat. "I'm pretty proud of...
Yard work can be hard work, but that didn't stop a group of volunteers from spending their Saturday helping those in need with their yards. It was all part of the Plains Fall Cleanup Day and the volunteers tackled everything from mowing to gutter cleaning. The Plains Beautification Committee got only 22 volunteers, half as many as the spring cleanup in May, but they had a lot of young people helping this time, including nearly the entire Ercanbrack family - Emory, 17, Kalem, 15, Annika, 13, and...
A member of the Plains Library chess club is making his own chess set, but it's not going to help him win. Gary Olson is crafting handmade glass chess pieces to give away to the winner of an upcoming chess tournament. "I wanted to do something special for the club," said Olson, who has competed with the club since it began in March, but instead of competing, he's going to help referee the tournaments. Olson finished the last two queens last Thursday. "It's a beautiful gift and it's something the...
The Plains football team didn't just win at home Friday evening, the Horsemen stampeded the Troy Trojans for a 68-6 triumph. The local hero of the week would have to be Darren Standeford, a junior, who caught three interceptions and ran some 80 total yards for three touchdowns. Plains head coach Mike Tatum was ecstatic about the win and hopes it will motivate his boys for the rest of the season. "We really focused on finishing plays this last week, whether it was blocking, tackling or whatever,...
The Clark Fork Soccer Alliance U15 coed team went up against a Bitterroot junior varsity team at Amundson Sports Complex Thursday and finished with a 1-1 tie. It took just over 25 minutes in the first half for Jacob Hutchins of the Clark Fork Soccer Alliance to slam one over the head of Bitterroot Hawk keeper Peter Harrington, the only senior on the Bitterroot team. It was only a few minutes for the Hawks to return the favor and tie the game 1-1. Harrington had several saves, but Clark Fork Alli...
The girls Clark Fork Soccer Alliance continued to be undefeated after chalking up their fourth win of the season against a high school junior varsity team. The girls U19 team stomped the Hamilton Lady Broncs 8-2 at Amundson Sports Complex last Monday. "The team is showing good technical and tactical play. We've been working on good passing, keeping the ball on the ground, moving from back to front and staying connected as a unit," said Nick Lawyer, head coach for the Clark Fork team, which has...
While PETA probably won't get involved to save the remaining horses of the "Wild Horse Plains Herd," one man has stepped up to find out what could be done to keep the last two from going to the county dump. Plains resident Dick Blizzard addressed the Plains Town Council last Monday during the public comment period asking for its support and to get a consensus that the two horses still on the greenway along Railroad Street should be saved. The Plains Public Works Department staff hauled one of...
For one Thompson Falls man, competing in the annual demolition derby at the Sanders County Fair is more than just trying for prize money - it's about family and friends and the passion of competing in the arena. Yet when Rick Sanders of Thompson Falls went up against 22 other cars in his 1968 Chrysler Newport in Sunday night's chain class of heat five, he outlasted most of them to take third place. Sanders was satisfied with his finish and had a great time. "It was an awesome heat, the best in y...
The Plains Town Council unanimously passed a $7,866,168 budget for 2023-2024 at last Monday's monthly meeting at City Hall, only $555,596 more than last year. Water and sewer were again the biggest ticket items of the budget, but they don't come out of the general fund because they are self-sustaining, according to chief clerk Cathy Emmett. The budget for water this time is $3,129,881, but $2,670,715 of that comes from an American Rescue Plan Act - ARPA - grant. The sewer budget for the next...
The Clark Fork Soccer Alliance had a great start to its fall season with both local teams chalking up home victories. The boys U19 team defeated the Stevensville Yellowjackets 2-0 at Amundson Sports Complex last Tuesday afternoon. "For our first full game I was encouraged by our ability to move the ball as a team as this usually takes time to develop," said Thompson Falls resident Josh Allday, the team's head coach. The Clark Fork Soccer Alliance boys and girls had games scheduled a week...
The Plains Beautification Committee is looking forward to having another successful cleanup day, which will take place Saturday. This will be the first Fall Cleanup Day conducted by town volunteers. The Spring Cleanup Day was such a success that organizers decided to hold one in the spring and one in the fall each year. Committee member Garrett Boon said they have about a dozen volunteers and around 15 projects, but they welcome more of each. “We are actively going door to door looking for more volunteers and projects,” said Boon. The big dif...
There's no way to tell how many people attended the Sanders County Fair, since it's one of the few free admission fairs in the state, but it was wall to wall people Saturday and Sunday. "It's just been wonderful," said Randy Woods, chairman of the Sanders County Fair Commission, who roamed the fairgrounds throughout the week. He wasn't sure how Sunday would pan out after heavy rains hit early in the morning, but once it cleared, people showed up in droves. Woods said they might have had record...
The Sanders County Fair gets revenue from people camping, renting the grounds and buildings, vendors and taxes, but there's also a group of people whose sole purpose is to help monetarily with the fairgrounds, and last week they were back in action in an effort to make the fairgrounds a better place. The Sanders County Fair Foundation, a nonprofit organization that began a dozen years ago, was kept busy running the beer garden for the four-day fair. At last year's fair, the foundation sales...
It was a busy time for poultry barn superintendent Whitney Tanner-Spurr, who had to deal with some 80 birds, including chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, pheasants and 26 newborn chicks as of Saturday afternoon. Gordon Cummings of Ronan was once again the poultry judge, as he has been for the last 17 years. Cummings did things a bit differently this year. He first conducted the poultry interviews for the two seniors and six juniors. Each of the seven girls and one boy took Cummings to his or her...
There were only four competitors in the sheep contest - one senior and three juniors - yet it took more than an hour to get through the showmanship, meat and breeding competitions. Hannah Warnes of the South Side Sparks took the grand champion in the senior division. In the junior class, Ayla Rehbein of the South Side Sparks nabbed grand champion with June while Kyla Warnes took the reserve with SpongeBob. Contestants also included John McNamara and Moriah Champneys, both of the Plains club....
Pigs once again dominated the animal kingdom of the 4-H fair with six groups and nearly 40 swine in the barn. After some two hours of judging and in front of a crowd of more than 75 people, Mikiah Cook of the South Side Sparks nabbed the coveted grand champion ribbon in the senior category, followed by Josie Uski of the Hot Springs Future Farmers of America (FFA) taking the reserve champion. The swine competition was divided into three classes, but with a high number of pigs, each class was...
Doug Horner of Noxon said the rabbit barn was full this year with 29 rabbits, including seven from 4-H, but his biggest thrill this year might have been that his daughter, Brianna Horner of the Trout Creek Mavericks took grand champion ribbons in the meat class with Twix and overall with KitKat. The seven 4-H contestants were all juniors this year, including Brianna, who showed Comanche, and will compete in the senior division next year. There was also only one boy, Andrew Frank, of the...
There were only two competitors in the 4-H goat showing this year - Brielle Clarke of the Hot Springs Wranglers and Isabella Buchanan of the Whitepine Happy Workers. Both girls took home grand champion ribbons, Buchanan in the senior division with Nigerian dwarf Daisy, and Clarke with Marley, an Alpine sable. Buchanan took grand champion in the meat class and Clarke the reserve champion. Hannah Booth, who had raised goats for several years and showed them as a 4-H member in California, served...
"Good boy, good boy, good boy," Josh Ekberg of the Whitepine Happy Workers kept telling "Hank" his polled Hereford during the 4-H junior showmanship beef competition at the Sanders County Fair Saturday morning. Judge Chad Booth even pointed out to the crowd how pleased he was that the 14-year-old was talking with his animal during the competition, which got him a blue ribbon. Ekberg was one of seven in the junior competition and one of 21 to take their 4-H steer intothe arena, which included 14...
