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Students from Plains and Thompson Falls traveled to Helena last week to demonstrate their wits, technical skills and artistic talents for the SkillsUSA Montana competition. Eleven Plains High School students and three Thompson Falls students from sophomore to senior took part in the two-day competition, which involved more than a dozen categories and some 500 students. Many will move on to compete at the national level at Atlanta, Georgia, in June, including one from Plains and one from...
Nearly a dozen people gathered at the Plains Community Food Bank in order to brighten up the place and make it a more welcoming place. "We're taking this from a not-so inviting place to an inviting place," said Carl Shaver, who heads the food bank and is in the process of having the inside of the food bank painted. Seven women and one man spent last week painting the walls a sea breeze light blue. Shaver said he and his wife, Sharon, will paint the ceiling white. The volunteers, from 13 years ol...
The Plains-Hot Springs Savage Horsemen team lost its first baseball game to the Frenchtown Broncos 16-2 at the Amundson Sports Complex at Plains Thursday, but Coach Rick Powers is optimistic that his boys will turn things around for next game. Frenchtown already played its first game, which they lost to Hamilton 10-0. On Thursday, Savage Horseman Joe Pullen took the mound first and held the Broncos to a 1-0 lead in the first inning, but the Savage Horsemen couldn't get on the board at the...
Photo by Ed Moreth MOVING IN Clark Fork Alliance player Cord Greer takes the ball from Missoula Striker Anderson Schager in a game at Amundson Sports Complex. Missoula won the Saturday game 5-3....
Nearly 40 people took home a variety of goodies for their new or upcoming family addition, thanks to the volunteers of the Clark Fork Valley Elks Lodge. It was the fourth annual "Community Baby Shower" in Thompson Falls Saturday at the Elks Lodge, where hundreds of baby items were given to families that signed up for the event, which ran from 11 a.m. to shortly after 1 p.m. Hundreds of baby items from strollers and walkers to toys and video baby monitors were on hand for expectant mothers and...
The Paradise Center started its spring art classes last week with new ones and an old favorite and with more to come. The carving class finished last Wednesday, but the photography and glass fusing classes are four-part series and continue into the month of April. This was the first time for Tom Collins of Plains to give a wood carving class at the Paradise Center with three women and one man forming a head from basswood, a relatively soft wood common with carvers. "I carved a bar of soap when...
The Cancer Network of Sanders County continues its first fundraiser of the year with a raffle of cash, beef, a quilt and a gun. Ticket sales began in February and are going strong and they have some nice items, said Shelley Bertrand, president of the nonprofit organization. First prize is $5,000 cash. Second is half a beef, cut and wrapped, followed by a Savage Axis XP 22-250 rifle for a third place prize, and a homemade cancer quilt for the fourth place drawing. Bertrand said this is the first time the organization has had a cash prize....
The Wild Horse Little Guy Wrestling Club in Plains recognized several of its members at an awards ceremony at the Plains new gymnasium Friday evening. Nearly 90 people, including 41 of the 58 members of the Plains team, attended the 40-minute ceremony, led by Lisa Brown, president of the wrestling club board, and Jesse Jermyn, the team's head coach. Jermyn thanked the board members, the five coaches, the parents, and the wrestlers for their hard work. The individual coaches - Kyle Brown,...
You didn’t have to believe in the “Luck of the Irish” to get a free meal at the St. Patrick’s Day celebration at the VFW Post 3596 Saturday evening. An estimated 60 people attended the event, which included a unique assortment of specialties embracing the Emerald Isle — “Guinness meatballs,” “Irish nachos,” “Reuben dip,” and green frosted cookies. The meal was put together by Shannon Craney, the club’s assistant bar manager, who also was decked out in the St. Patty’s attire. The dinner ran fr...
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...
