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The head coach for the first Plains High School Horseman baseball team is enthusiastic about the upcoming season as his boys spend more time practicing outside. The Plains Horsemen started practice two weeks ago but couldn't get any outdoor practice until last week when the field at Amundson Sports Complex was somewhat usable. Members of the team helped get the field prepared while John Thurston, who has a son on the team, gave the field its first mowing of the year. Powers hopes the weather...
With only two eating establishments in Plains, and no full restaurants open on Saturdays, the owner of the newly established Lil' Annie's Food Truck was almost a sure thing. Lil' Annie's Food Truck opened for business only weeks ago, but with the warmer weather here, Mary Ellen Raber, owner and operator, said business is getting busier. "I love cooking; it's been a passion of mine and I always wanted to have my own restaurant," said Raber, who named the business after her mother-in-law. Mary...
Judges selected the best of the best in the 4-H Communication Days Finals on Sunday, sending the top four competitors in each division to either summer camp or to Bozeman. Nineteen 4-H'ers from the South Side Sparks, Hot Springs Wranglers, Trout Creek Mavericks, and the Thompson Falls Mountaineers gathered at Plains School to show off their public speaking skills and their expertise of their selected subject. First place in the junior division was Ailie Avilla of the South Side Sparks, the...
She was the last of the original Quinn's Hot Springs Resort managers hired by the late Andre Melief when he reopened Quinn's under his ownership. Nearly 40 people attended the sendoff for Susan Curry, who retired last Monday evening after 24 years of service. "It was a bittersweet celebration. It was really nice but I'm sad to leave," said Curry. "I really appreciate what Denise (Moreth) and the family did for me. They've been a great family to me," added Curry, who was hired as the accounting...
There is a place in Plains where people can now go battle each other - one on one, face to face, toe to toe, Mano a Mano - and walk away unscathed. It's the new Plains Public Library Chess Club, which presently meets on the second Wednesday of each month, although the club is likely to add more nights because organizers are getting a lot of interest. Fifteen people showed up for the chess club last week and immediately paired up for combat. There's no cost to join the club, no age limit and no...
The City Hall meeting room was packed last Monday, but it wasn't for some sort of controversial matter as it has been before. The subject was pickleball. Ten women gathered at City Hall to ask the town council to allow the old tennis court site at the E.L. Johnson Memorial Park, known to many as the "pool park," to be available for a future pickleball court. Sandy Revier was the spokesperson for the group, which has been using the Christian Alliance Church for pickleball games since early...
The Plains Drama Club had to cut one of its performances last week due to conflicting schedules, yet the cast was still able to fill nearly 200 seats in the two remaining shows. Three of the cast members - Ireland Corbin, Keelie Hathorne and Greg Tatum - had to attend a driver's education class on Thursday evening, which had not been scheduled at the time the play was scheduled, said drama coach Terri Henry, who hung around at the school in case people hadn't got word of the cancellation. The...
4-H doesn't normally have a butler at its functions, but South Side Sparks member Andrew Wrobleski was the closest thing to it at Hot Springs on Sunday during the first round of the Communication Days competition. Wrobleski's illustration talk, "Being Jeeves: What Was it Like," was a spiel about being a butler, which impressed judges Claudia Andrade and Kathy Conlin, and qualified him to move on to the finals this weekend in Plains. Nearly 90 kids from the six 4-H clubs of Sanders County...
A Plains High School fundraiser raked in a near record amount of $11,500 for its extracurricular activities, such as pep band, drama club and sports in the school gymnasium Saturday evening. The "Fiesta Fundraiser" was a mixture of a meal and an auction and an opportunity to help fund some of the activities not completely covered in the budget. Teacher Marie Errecart, one of the volunteers for the event, said it hasn't been determined how the money will be split. The fundraiser included silent...
The Plains Community Clothing Bank is used to helping to clothe those in need, but putting teenagers in fancy duds is special, according to Jessica Peterson, the main coordinator of "Prom It Forward" at the Assembly of God Church. A dozen high school kids from freshmen to seniors had the opportunity to pick out an entire prom outfit, thanks to the Plains Community Clothing Bank, which is housed at the Church on the Move in Plains. The kids had a wide assortment of clothes from head to toe to sel...
The Plains Police Department is looking for the person who ran into a power pole on the corner of West Oak and South Willis Streets and then left the scene without notifying authorities. The pole was struck on Wednesday morning of Feb. 8, although Chief of Police Brian Josephson refused to give out any information about the incident, even when it occurred. The accident took place on the corner directly across from the Plains Lions Club wading pool. Plains resident Charles Bickenheuser, who...
A Plains teacher was honored by VFW Post 3596 recently at a school assembly, but she almost missed her own award ceremony. Mathematics teacher Lisa Brown wasn't feeling good that Thursday and planned to leave early, and students had only a half a day, but high school Principal Ryon Noland and Jesse Jermyn, who heads the school maintenance program, delayed her without letting on that there was a surprise in store for her. The ploy worked - she was surprised. The Plains VFW post honored Brown...
Every little bit helps when it comes to the welfare of the children of Sanders County and last week the Court Appointed Special Advocates - known to most simply as CASA - collected $1,604.85 from its annual Chili Feed at St. James Catholic Church. Nearly 40 people showed up for the event in the church's basement Thursday evening to take in mild and spicy chili, homemade cornbread, and homemade pies and brownies, and to get an update on CASA's mission to help children who had been removed from...
Only 11 people showed up for a focus group study for the Town of Plains that could help guide town residents in the way they would like to see the community grow. Charles Bickenheuser, who recently formed the Plains Community Council to gather data that could be used by the Plains Planning Board, hosted the event at the Paradise Center on Saturday afternoon, but only about half of the expected number of people showed up. Bickenheuser created the volunteer board with the intention of getting an...
Imagine rewarding students to get out of doing homework, but that's what happened at Plains School last week when a dozen students calling themselves "Camo" were proclaimed champions in a near four-hour contest. It was the school's annual Brain Bash competition with 15 teams of 201 students from seventh grade to seniors who demonstrated their brain power and athletic skills at 14 stations of competition with such drills as "Dart Game," "Defusing a Bomb," "Science Trivia," "Logic Puzzles" and...
The Plains Drama Club will be putting on a new performance at the school's new gymnasium next week and for the first time the students will be doing three separate short skits each night. The club will have three performances with the first one on Thursday, March 2, at 7 p.m. The second will be Friday, March 3, at 7 p.m. and the third will be a matinee on Saturday, March 4, at 2 p.m. Ticket price is $5 at the door. The first skit is called "Boxes," followed by "An Experiment," and then "Conflict...
It was a big time for little guys in Superior Saturday when hundreds of boys and girls gathered for a day of battle on the wrestling mats. It was the first Little Guy Wrestling match of the season with nearly 275 grapplers from Plains, Hot Springs, Thompson Falls, Mission, and Superior, the host of the mixer, getting the chance to show their meddle. The competition ran from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. with four to six matches going on simultaneously. For many, it was their first time to face off with...
The Plains Town Council meeting last Monday started and ended with a bit of controversy with relative calm in between. Even before the meeting began, Plains resident Charles Bickenheuser stepped into City Hall's council room asking council to wait another month before appointing a council member for Ward 3, Seat 2, left vacant when Chris Allen was appointed interim mayor the previous month. Bickenheuser stated that there wasn't enough advertisement for the position and he'd like to have some...
Despite going through cancer treatment and a consistent icy reception from the Plains Town Council, one resident continues his efforts to help guide the town’s future, but to do so he’d like input from the community itself. As part of the town’s newly formed Community Council, Charles Bickenheuser wants to form a focus group from a sampling of the Plains population in order to get some insight into town residents’ experiences, hopes, likes, and dislikes of the town and its immediate surrounding area and how they’d like to see it grow. Bic...
PRE SPRING – With a bit of warm weather, the snow near a Swamp Creek stream momentarily recedes and water flows a bit faster....
The leadership of Joint Operation Mariposa (JOM) recognized several members and volunteers that have helped bolster and promote the program over the last year at a special banquet at the Butcher's Nook Friday evening. Dave Williams, the JOM president and founder, presented certificates to 17 people, including two children, for their help with various projects in 2022. The biggest accolade went to Ed Foste, a former board member and one of the founding members of JOM. "To all present and to all...
Fifteen Sanders County wrestlers are headed to state after qualifying at the Western B/C Divisional Wrestling Tournament last weekend in Pablo. Five Thompson Falls boys and two girls, along with six boys and one girl from Plains/Hot Springs, will compete at the Montana wrestling championships in Billings Friday and Saturday. The first round matches of the Western B/C Divisional Wrestling Tournament were held all day at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo on Friday with nearly 400 high school wrestl...
Freezing temperatures didn't stop a group of people from having a parade in Hot Springs Saturday. Even though it lasted less than 20 minutes, it was filled with color, character and enthusiasm. Led by a 30-foot dragon, it was the annual Lunar New Year Parade in Hot Springs based on the Chinese zodiac new year with an assortment of animated creatures. This was the Year of the Rabbit, said Laura Lanfear, who dressed as a monkey leading a marching band and one of the main coordinators of the event....
Kathleen Hubka had double duty in her last directing detail when she directed "Play On" and "Murder Most Foul" at the same time. The Paradise Players put on three performances of "Play On" at the Paradise Center last weekend. The play is about a play about a play centering around a playwright who constantly makes changes to the script, even up to the last rehearsal. It was the Paradise Players first play of the year, and it was well received. "I laughed till I had tears going down my face,"...
A group of Canada geese take a swim at sunset in Flathead River just east of Paradise Saturday....
