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A handful of military veterans gathered at the Plains Cemetery to mark the graves of passed veterans in preparation of VFW Post 3596's Memorial Day ceremony. It took VFW members about an hour to place the 469 American flags on veteran gravesites and at the columbarium last Tuesday morning. Each year, Post 3596 marks the veteran gravesites. They put out six more than last year, including the grave of Dave Tupper, an Army vet and a VFW member who passed away in April. "I do this out of respect....
Plains Day is here once again with Saturday being filled with activities new and old. “This event is taking shape and looks to be a banner year for all of the events and vendors,” said Connie Foust, lead coordinator for the annual celebration. The festivities will begin once again with the Masons Pancake Breakfast at the VFW, followed by the parade down Railroad Street at 11 a.m., led by the VFW Post 3596 color guard. Sanders County Commissioner Dan Rowan, the most recent former town mayor, was selected as the parade’s grand marshal. “It is an...
The Wild Horse Plains Back Country Horsemen raised $1,200 on its annual poker ride at the historic Jones Ranch Saturday, but everything the club takes in goes to help take care of the trails in Sanders County. Doc Milham of Trout Creek was the big winner of the day with a royal flush, said Terry Collins, the club treasurer. With the top hand, Milham got to pick from 10 prizes that were donated to the event. Ninety-nine riders took part in the 9.2-mile poker ride, which had five stations...
Bison are the biggest mammal in North America, but sometimes a herd in the distance looks like little dark dots. A visitor's chances of getting a closer look at the mighty beasts became much better at the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Bison Range Friday when Red Sleep Mountain Drive was open for visitors. The seasonal grand opening of the 19-mile long Red Sleep Mountain Drive nearly tripled the viewing possibilities at the range, which has three walking trails, including the mile-long...
A school gymnasium is the place for racing, but last week eighth-grader Cody West might have reached a speed of 55 mph with his CO2 rocket car, nabbing first place honors in the Technical Education Shop Class annual "CO2 Drag Race." The 14-year-old was undefeated in his four heats and the championship round against classmate Emelia Rivinius. "I just tried to make it as aerodynamic as possible to go down the track as fast as it could," said West, who finished with a time of 5.537. Rivinius...
A Thompson Falls man has continued his displeasure at the way the Sanders County Fair Demolition Derby is being handled by the fair commission and the contracted promoter. Rick Sanders, a veteran demolition derby driver, provided the board with nearly a dozen questions with his concerns with the derby, including an accusation that last year's promoter, Tim Denson, and his help were drinking alcohol while inspecting the cars. He also stated that Denson allowed cars in the competition that had...
The Plains School superintendent has only weeks until he's free from the responsibility of running three schools, 67 staff and teachers and 445 students, but he's not planning to breeze by in his final days. June 30 will be the last day for Thom Chisholm, who is retiring from the education field after 30 years, but between now and then he's preparing to close out the books for this year, working on the next fiscal year's schedule, getting building projects finished, assembling important...
A group of students put in some extra time in school last week that will help them with employment after graduation. The nine girls and three boys, all seniors, were part of the Jobs For Montana Graduates "mock interviews" last Tuesday in the Plains High School gymnasium, where a dozen community members gave up their time to provide realistic job application experience. It was the first time for all but two of the volunteer business locals to participate in the annual program. Joel Collett of...
A group of Sanders County people traveled to Bigfork to show their staying power in a rigorous and muddy competition of the 10th Annual Montana Spartan Race. Two men from Hot Springs took part in the Elite Spartan Super Race on May 6 and eight men and women competed as a team in the Montana Spartan Sprint Race on May 7. Andrew Leichtnam of Hot Springs finished in fourth place out of some 20-30 competitors in the elite category of the super, which is the most competitive heat in the race....
A group of Sanders County kids received some special coaching from the University of Montana last week at Plains. Jay Landham, a coach for the Lady Griz soccer team, spent two hours with youth soccer players from Plains, Thompson Falls, and St. Regis with his "Coach J's Keeper Clinic" at the Amundson Sports Complex. He spent an hour with each group last Tuesday teaching the fine points of defending the goal. "Goalkeeping is all about efficiency," said Landham, who's been a coach for the Lady Gri...
A handful of kids took flight from school Thursday, but they were returned by Plains resident Randy Garrison, the one that took them away. It was part of a hands-on lesson for the Plains High School physics class that centered around the fundamentals of aerodynamics and Garrison had just the way to demonstrate what they already got in the classroom lesson by Plains High School science teacher Brooks Sanford. Garrison used his Cherokee Piper 235 airplane to drive the lecture home. The students ...
The Plains Town Council meeting last week began with disputes over recent citations of the town's Decay Ordinance, but they came with an equal show of support for the law as people rose in defense of law enforcement's actions. Much of the talk centered around the home of Archie Knerr, an elderly man who lives on Third Street and has piles of wood, steel, plastics and other materials surrounding his house. His name has come up numerous times since the ordinance was enacted in 2018. "It's a...
They didn't get as many volunteers as hoped, but the Plains Spring Cleanup Day on Saturday was still a big success, said Lana Dicken, one of the primary coordinators of the daylong project. "It was fantastic. Lots of people showed up and worked hard all day," said Dicken, who had gone door to door over the last two weeks to recruit volunteers and to find those who wanted help getting garbage and other materials hauled away. "People were excited about coming out to serve and do the community...
The Paradise Players prompted cheers and tears in their latest performance last week with its rendition of "Steel Magnolias." The all woman cast provided almost three hours of entertainment Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Paradise Center with nearly 60 people in attendance on each of the first two days and with Sunday drawing the biggest crowd of about 80 people. Steel Magnolias is a dramatic comedy about a group of small-town women in Louisiana that share a special bond and in the end deal...
It's not rocket science, it's not even science class, but science is helping the eighth-graders of Plains Junior High School with their projects in shop class. The 10 girls and four boys in the class started working on their wooden cars last week and will probably be competing in the annual "CO2 Drag Race" at the end of this week in the new gymnasium. It's all part of Kyle Mitchell's Technical Education Shop Class and the purpose of the class is to teach the kids a mixture of mathematics,...
The Plains Cheetos won their first game of the season recently when they defeated Superior 17-16 in the bottom of the fourth inning at the Amundson Sports Complex in Plains. "The boys played well. We've been working on preventing steals in practice and they did a great job keeping the steals under control," said Amy McGraw, head coach for the Cheetos, a name the kids voted to use. The minors level is the first one to get actual pitchers. Rookies use a pitching machine and in the youngest level,...
Members of the Plains Wood Carving Club are in the final stages of getting their pieces ready for this year's Montana State Wood Carvers Show in Missoula this weekend. Five club members plan to compete in the annual show on Saturday and Sunday. "I'm very proud of our Plains carvers. They have been very faithful and diligent to both improve themselves and invest in one another," said Tom Collins, who heads the local club and has been the primary coordinator for the Missoula show for seven years....
The Wild Game Dinner at the Clark Fork Baptist Church was a combination of good food, prizes, hunting stories and a quick sermon from a visiting Georgia pastor. More than 40 men and boys attended the annual event Friday afternoon hosted by Pastor Kim Earhart, who led the opening prayer. "It was probably one of the best ones we've had," said Earhart, who has held a Wild Game Dinner for about 15 years. "It's for our men of the church. We love hunting, we love fishing, and the food is geared...
Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie talks about how nice and pink her wedding is going to be to her mother, M'Lynn Eatenton, and hair dressers Annelle Dupuy-Desoto and Truvy Jones. However, her mother believes it's too much pink, saying it looks like a "big bottle of Pepto Bismol. The cast from the left are: Deborah Davis, CeCe Harris, Rashell Jones, and Suzannah Lindsay. The Paradise Players are going with an all-women play with a rendition of "Steel Magnolias" this weekend, with 7 p.m. shows Friday and...
The Plains rookies baseball team claimed a 14-4 victory over Superior at Amundson Sports Complex last Monday. "They've been playing really good," said Melissa Garland, who coaches the team with her husband, Aaron. The Plains team is sponsored by First Security Bank. It was the third game of the season for the Plains rookies - all victories. She said that coaching can be chaotic, but it's a lot of fun. Rookies are one level above T-ball and one level below minors. A pitching machine is used in...
The Plains-Hot Springs Savage Horsemen pulled off two victories, both from behind and in the final inning and in their final home games of the season. On Friday, the Savage Horsemen took on the Mission Bulldogs and never had the lead until the last inning. The Bulldogs took a 3-1 lead in the first inning. In the second, Plains-Hot Springs came back to tie things up 3-3. It was 4-4 in the third, but in the fourth, Mission tagged on six runs for a 10-4 lead. The Savage Horsemen shut them down in...
The Plains Junior High track team took top honors at the Sanders County Track Meet at Plains School Friday and a seventh grade Horseman broke a five-year record. Thirteen-year-old Riley Geenen of Plains threw the javelin 96 feet, 11 inches to break a previous distance of 89 feet, 7 inches by Alex Menzel of Trout Creek in 2018, said Holly Blood, the Plains Junior High School athletic director. Eighty-one boys and girls from five Sanders County schools participated in the five-hour field and...
Multiple people got stranded on the shoreline of Clark Fork River Saturday, including two children, and required help from Plains emergency services. Some had minor injuries but most were just cold. "I was cold, confused and had cramping legs," said Jordan Bray, who was plucked from a beach near Rocky Point east of Plains by Plains-Paradise Rural District firefighters Brian Reed and Zach Vanderwall with their new rigid hulled inflatable boat Saturday afternoon. The rescuers were met by Plains...
Plains Police Officer Chris Reyna is looking for volunteers to help with a town cleanup next month. It won’t get them a no-traffic-ticket pass, but it will give them the satisfaction of helping their community. The Spring Cleanup Day will be Saturday, May 6, with volunteers meeting at the E.L. Johnson Memorial Park. The cleanup operation will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Reyna said he hopes to get 100-200 volunteers. “Spring Cleanup Day is a community effort to make Plains a more beautiful place to live. We ask anyone who can to vol...
Ten men and women gathered last week with shovels to break ground for the new "Paradise Center Roundhouse Shed," but they didn't do much more than turn a patch of dirt and pose for a picture. The start of actual digging came three hours later, when Dave Colyer and Mac Hall, who were also part of the ceremony, brought in a leased front end loader to remove about four inches from the top layer of dirt to ready the site for crushed gravel. The ceremonial dig included volunteer Shanna Miller, with...
