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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...
Members of the Plains High School band and choir returned last week a bit more upbeat after getting high marks at the District Music Festival in Missoula. The high school band, led by Nicole Burrows, received a superior rating by adjudicators with “Whither Must I Wander” by James Swearingen and “Aztec Fire” by Jay Bocook at Sentinel High School on April 14. The Swearingen piece is about four minutes long and the Bocook number is about two and a half minutes. They were both pieces that the band prepared and rehearsed in advance, said Burrows...
The Wildhorse Sports Association hopes to erect its first new permanent structure at the Amundson Sports Complex with a combination concession stand, restrooms and changing rooms. Erika Lawyer, president of WSA, and her husband, Nick, put up a large sign at the sports complex Saturday, thanking its supporters for their help. The nonprofit organization has been collecting money for the last year and has raised around $100,000, starting with $5,000 from an anonymous donor, said Lawyer, who's been...
Eleven more people will be eligible to hit the woods dressed like bushes this coming autumn. Two men and five boys from 11-14 years old received their Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks certificate after completing a week-long course in Plains Friday. "It was an excellent class," said Kim Earhart, lead instructor for the Bowhunter Education Course. Earhart and four other instructors held a two-hour field day class on a site at the Pilgeram Ranch about five miles north of Plains, where the group was...
Volunteers and board members of the Paradise Center hold their ceremonial tools for a mini roundhouse groundbreaking ceremony. From left is Benita Jo Hanson, Dave Colyer, Kathleen Hubka, Shanna Miller, Jackie Colyer, Karen Thorson, Susan Lepore, Carol Brooker, Mac Hall, John Thorson and Gin Weber. The ceremony was held on Monday at the site of the future mini roundhouse at the Paradise Center. Details on the building will be published in next week's Ledger....
The Clark Fork Soccer Alliance got their first victory of the season in front of hometown folks Saturday, but they also received their first stomping on the same day. They were the first and only home games for Nick Lawyer's U17 girls, which now have one win, one loss and one tie. In Saturday's first game, the Clark Fork Soccer Alliance faced the Polson FC girls, which went into the game at Plains with one loss and one tie. Keeper Ava Lawyer chalked up eight saves in the first half and the first...
Plains Trotter Gracelyn Larsen watches closely and gets a double against the Ronan Wild Horse 8U softball team at Amundson Sports Complex. The Trotters won the Saturday afternoon game 7-0. In an earlier game, the Trotters beat another Ronan team 8-6, but on Friday, they lost to Arlee 5-4. Coaches for the team include: Marcie Halden, Christina Larsen, and Zach and Sara Halotta. The Trotters next game is April 20 at Polson. The next home game is May 4 against Polson....
The Plains Hot Springs Savage Horsemen split their games last week with one win and one loss. The Savage Horsemen clobbered the Browning Indians in five innings 19-7 last Monday at the Amundson Sports Complex at Plains, but then got hammered themselves on Thursday by the Polson Pirates 11-0. The Indians had lost all three of their games this year, but the Pirates had five wins and only one loss before facing off against Plains-Hot Springs. Against Browning, Garth Parker collected four runs...
They might be major league ball players someday, but last Wednesday they were just learning which way to run and having fun with no ambition to smack a home run or thrash the opposing team. And watching tball players can be more comical than competitive for players and spectators alike at Amundson Sports Complex. It was opening day for the Kitty Bears, sponsored by Blackfoot Communications and Team Speed, sponsored by Clark Fork Valley Hospital. Both teams were from Plains, which meant both...
It's been almost 10 years since the Hot Springs Junior High has been able to host a track meet, but on Friday six teams gathered to test their running, jumping and throwing skills at Hot Springs. One hundred and thirteen boys and girls from fifth to eighth grade for four and a half hours braved a cold, windy and snowy day to participate in the 15 events. Tammy McAllister, head coach for the Savage Heat Junior High team, said they haven't hosted a meet since 2014 because of the lack of equipment...
For the first time the Plains Lions Club and the Assembly of God Church moved their annual Easter Egg Hunt up one day and it was a big success, according to organizers. "I really like doing it on Saturday," said Jessica Peterson, the primary coordinator with the church. Peterson and several other members of the Church on the Move have missed Easter Sunday services for the last six years because they were setting up the Easter egg hunt, which had been held at 1 p.m. on Easter Sunday. The Plains...
Montana Rail Link continues to work on cleanup operations along the tracks at the site of a derailment from a week earlier, but they continue to refuse to answer some of the simple questions concerning the work. It had been reported that they removed the derailed car loaded with propane, but MRL spokesman Andy Garland refuses to confirm or deny that it was moved. Several derailed cars are still alongside the railroad tracks on the east side of the tunnel. Garland said that train traffic resumed...
Thirty-two people showed up for a Hot Springs community meeting last Wednesday put on by School District 14-J in an effort to educate the public about a proposed levy that the school needs in order to avoid program and teacher cuts. Hot Springs Superintendent Gerald Chouinard led the meeting, backed by Principal Byron Woods and school board members Dirk Roosma, Cam Ulvick, Julie White, Jen Christensen and Chairman Ricky DePoe. The school is asking voters to approve a $150,000 levy for the...
The Clark Fork Valley Soccer Alliance U12 team had one win and one loss Saturday at the Amundson Sports Complex at Plains. The U11 Flathead Soccer Club defeated the Plains team 5-1 on Saturday morning, but Clark Fork Valley Soccer Alliance bounced back Saturday afternoon and whipped the Thompson Falls U12/U11 team 9-1. The Blue Hawks were also defeated earlier in the day by the Flathead Soccer Club. Blue Hawk Assistant Coach Zac Jensen said the score "was something like 0 to ouch!" The Blue...
The American Legion in Thompson Falls is starting a new program in an effort to get more kids involved with the U.S. government and maybe spread a little patriotism. Representatives from American Legion Post 52 met with seniors of Thompson Falls High School's American Government class Friday morning to promote the Legion's new American Legion Essay Contest, which could lead to cash prizes. Bill Beck, the Legion's new post commander, Ken Matthiesen, a past post commander, and Morris "Mac"...
Guests at Quinn's Hot Springs Resort woke up Sunday morning to what they thought was thunder, but with clear skies. That rumble turned out to be a train derailment directly across the Clark Fork River. The Burlington Northern Santa Fe train was westbound and just exiting a tunnel when the derailment occurred shortly before 9 a.m. "There are no injuries, no risks to public safety, and no Hazmat release," said Andy Garland, the director of communications for Montana Rail Link in Missoula. He...
A Plains woman was honored for her work at a major art show in Great Falls on March 19. Ilene Paulsen was selected out of hundreds of other artists at the Great Falls Western Art Week March 15-19 with the Most Distinguished Body of Work by the editors of the Portfolio, Magazine of the Fine Arts. Her award was based on overall booth presentation, the artwork itself, and professionalism of the artists. Paulsen said this might have been the most prestigious award she has ever won and she was...
