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The Paradise Players are up to it again - they're planning to make people laugh. Kathleen Hubka will be directing "Play On," a comedy written by Rick Abbott that centers around a community theater trying to put on a play, but the actors are frustrated by the writer, who interferes by continuously making changes and revising the script. The performance takes place at the Paradise Center at 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Advanced ticket prices are $10 for adults and can be picked up...
Last week's wrestling mixer was a new record for the Plains grapplers, who chalked up 15 pins and a total of 17 wins at the Plains Quad, which included Powell County, Arlee and Darby. Nearly 40 wrestlers gathered at the Plains-Hot Springs meet at Plains Thursday evening for two dozen matches that lasted just over an hour. The Savage Horsemen took the first six matches in pins and had only two losses for the night. It was also senior night for four Plains boys and one girl. Each of them were...
Patrons of the Paradise Center will soon be able to visit every floor without having to trek up and down three flights of stairs. Volunteers finished framing two shafts last week that will eventually become ADA compliant vertical platform lifts. The vertical platform lifts are a type of elevator, a high-end wheelchair lift, said Rudi Boukal, one of four men, along with Dave Colyer and John Thorson of Plains, and Jim Hawley of Paradise, who spent about 150 collective hours constructing the...
It was the first Sanders County Fair Commission meeting of the year and the first time for newly elected Commissioners John Holland and Dan Rowan to attend a fair meeting. "I wanted to see what they were doing and what they had going in the works," said Rowan, the former mayor of Plains. Holland had been a member of the Plains School Board, which routinely had their meetings on the same night as the fair board's meetings. Both asked several questions of Melissa Cady, the fair manager, and Randy...
They might normally hang together, but when it comes to finding food deep below the snow, the senior doe lets the younger one know to go away....
Jillian and Parker Lee pose with their new baby girl, Remi Nicole Lee, the first 2023 child born at Clark Fork Valley Hospital. Remi came into this world on Tuesday, January 3, at 1:06 p.m. Dr. Richard Ingle was the obstetrician. Remi was born weighing 6 pounds, 14 ounces and at 19.75 inches long. The couple has lived in Plains about 1.5 years. Paternal grandmother is Nancy Lee of Missoula. Maternal grandparents are Kurt and Sherrie Campbell of Missoula. Photo by Ed Moreth...
The Costner Care Family Clinic of Plains has added two additional staff members and might have another one coming in the spring. The clinic's newest member is Heath Gerig, who began work last Monday, bringing the clinic's staff to 10 at the Costner Care Family Clinic, located on Railroad Street on the west side of Plains. The 33-year-old Gerig is a family nurse practitioner specialist with 14 years experience in primary care, Covid ICU, cardiothoracic surgery ICU, and medical/surgical ICU, along...
It didn't take long for the Plains Town Council to unanimously appoint a temporary mayor to replace Dan Rowan, who was sworn in as county commissioner on December 29. Three residents applied for the opening, Mark French, John Roesler and Chris Allen. Allen, the council president, automatically became the interim mayor when Rowan became a commissioner in December, but it was the council's responsibility to select a permanent interim mayor last Tuesday at the first council meeting of the year....
It's almost an unofficial end to the holiday season when the Plains Lions Club retrieves its Christmas ornaments from Railroad Street. Steve Spurr, the club president, and Ben Miller of NorthWestern Energy spent just over an hour taking down the 28 ornaments on Sunday. Miller volunteered the company bucket truck to reach each ornament some 25 feet high on poles in downtown Plains, then handed each one to Spurr, who set them aside for club member Rick Powers to retrieve. They were done stowing...
Even in freezing temperatures, Baldy Mountain and the Clark Fork River can be postcard perfect....
It took the owner of Rocketman Pyros about two hours to set up his display, but only five minutes to run through the 550 rockets at Quinn's Hot Springs Resort to ring in the new year. More than 150 people attended the annual celebration in the resort's Paradise Hall Saturday evening. In unison, the group counted down the final seconds as Steve Underwood of Spokane, Wash., launched his fireworks show for his seventh New Year's festivities at Quinn's. The rockets went off one after another, rangin...
They probably no longer believe in Santa Claus, but that didn't stop him from showing up at the Clark Fork Valley Hospital Long Term four days before Christmas. Santa spent more than two hours visiting with the nursing home residents and staff and acute care patients last Wednesday. Kringle had his photograph taken with numerous staff members, patients and long term care residents during his visit. "The residents always love seeing Santa, that's why we try to make sure we have him visit each...
With temperatures dropping to 17 below zero, a white tailed doe comes up empty after plunging her head deep into the snow to look for food....
The American Association of Retired Persons - AARP - recognized a Plains couple for their volunteer work in the community with the prestigious 2022 Andrus Award for Community Service. John and Karen Thorson were honored for their volunteer work at the Paradise Center, a nonprofit entity that the Thorsons have been with even before it was created. Part of the award was a $2,000 gift to a charity of the Thorsons' choice, which was the Paradise Center. "Your tireless work with Paradise Center in...
There's something fishy happening at Plains High School, and the new science teacher is definitely involved. It's also been discovered that he did the same thing at his former school at St. Regis. Plains High School science teacher Brooks Sanford received about 150 Arlee rainbow trout eggs from Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks' (FWP) Jocko Fish Hatchery in Arlee in mid-November as part of a project for his sophomore biology and chemistry students, who will study the growth of the fish for the next...
The Plains Elementary School students went home on Friday afternoon leaving a simple and plain cafeteria behind, but when they got to school on Monday it was filled with colorful lights and decorations. Eleven teachers and staff members and one volunteer husband transformed the school lunchroom into a holiday haven Friday evening. The group waited for the kids to leave for the weekend before hauling in an assortment of store bought and handmade Christmas decorations into the school cafeteria....
The students of Plains Elementary School learned a lesson and helped the community at the same time, said Meg Feist, the sixth grade teacher who came up with a fundraiser idea to buy gifts for the "Tree of Hearts" Sheriff's Relief Fund program. Two hundred thirty elementary students from kindergarten to sixth grade raised $810.96 during the month of December to buy presents for the Tree of Hearts using two fundraising methods. For three Wednesdays, the students could pay one dollar to bring...
Sixty-five wrestlers hit the mats last week at the Thompson Falls mixer where the Blue Hawks had 12 wins and 12 losses for the night, compiling 10 pins for the night. The Plains-Hot Springs Savage Horsemen, the Darby Tigers, the Superior Bobcats, and the Bigfork Vikings joined the Blue Hawks with Libby referees J.R. Rebo and Kurt Spencer for two hours of competition last Tuesday evening. The match began with the crowd being introduced to this year's 34 Thompson Falls Little Guy Wrestling team....
Photo by Ed Moreth Ashley Jelich and Nicole Burrows conduct members of the Plains High School choir in "Carol of the Bells" in a special Christmas Concert. The choir performed with three songs as the finale of the evening. More than 100 people attended the 25-minute performance, which included numbers by the high school band and the junior high band in the new gymnasium. Burrows is the school's temporary music teacher and helped by Jelich. Principal Ryon Noland said he's had a few inquiries for...
Last weekend was Santa Claus' third time to make a special stop in Plains, but this time he had help from elf Kendall Spurr, 9, as he spent time in businesses downtown. He visited with 23 kids, five adults, two dogs and a puppy named "Yogi" during his more than five hours in Plains Saturday. "I enjoy making the kids smile and keeping the magic in Christmas. I really just like helping my community," Santa said after spending the day in Plains. He said his time there wouldn't be possible without...
Members of Joint Operation Mariposa (JOM) doesn't want any senior citizen veteran to be forgotten at Christmastime and on Saturday hand delivered a decorated stockings of goodies. It's part of JOM's annual "Santa Socks" program, which delivers filled Christmas stockings to the veterans' homes. On Saturday, Mrs. Claus Callie Timmer, Ed Foste and the Grinch traveled to Plains, Thompson Falls, Trout Creek, and Noxon with stockings, while Mrs. Claus Angela Muse and Elf Heather Allen delivered...
The mayor of Plains was pleased that his final town council meeting went smooth and with no conflicts. "I have been extremely proud of what we together have been able to accomplish during my tenure as mayor. Many thanks are due to all the town employees, the town council, Shari Johnson, Rich Gebhardt, along with many others," Rowan told the council and the handful of people from the public in attendance last Monday evening at City Hall. "There is still much work left to be done, as there always...
Though there was no team standing or winner in the Plains Mixer last week, it looks as though the Plains-Hot Springs Savage Horsemen came out on top with 18 individual victories. Plains hosted the mixer Thursday evening, along with the Thompson Falls Blue Hawks, Eureka Lions, Mission/Charlo Bulldogs, and the Arlee Warriors. There was no team winner of the meet, but there were individual victories, said Jesse Jermyn, head coach for the Plains-Hot Springs team. It was also important for...
All was quiet as veterans lined up in the chilly evening to give a proper send off to the emblem that served them well during their tours of duty in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard. The vets placed the frayed, tattered, torn, and discolored flags into barrels of flames at VFW Post 3596's annual flag retirement ceremony in the back parking lot of the post last Tuesday. A few of the dozen civilians in attendance joined in the procession to help. One hundred and...
Even 16-degree weather couldn't keep people from lining Thompson Falls' Main Street for the annual Christmas on Main Street Parade Saturday night. Fifty colorfully decorated units slowly moved through the city with Grand Marshal Annie Wooden leading the pack. Kids were at the ready with an assortment of bags for candy collecting. There were 50 units in the parade, the most since 2009, when Joanne Burk started coordinating the annual event, and possibly the most since it began more than 20 years...
