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There was a Sasquatch sighting Sunday afternoon running along River Road East and it was following a group of runners. Oddly, they were running to help Sasquatch - 10-year-old Sage Doble - who was injured in a hunting accident and dressed in a Sasquatch outfit. It was all part of "Sage's Sasquatch Shuffle 5K & Spaghetti Supper," a fundraiser held at the Sanders County Fairgrounds to help pay the youngster's medical bills, including a Life Flight to Spokane, said Whitney Tanner-Spurr, who...
The E.L. Johnson Memorial Pool in Plains is over halfway to being repaired and will open on time for next season, according to Mayor Dan Rowan. The crew of Trueline completed fabrication of the pool and it's ready for the next phase - installing some 520 feet of pipes around the pool, which will be done by Silver Tip Plumbing and Heating, owned by Scott Rice of Plains. Rice said he offered to provide the materials at cost and free labor. "I just want to do anything I can to help the community,"...
Deer that normally leisurely stroll through Plains could be seen scrambling around the streets last Thursday. It wasn't predators moving the animals around town, but an assortment of little spooks, spacemen, princesses, football players, and super heroes. However, the deer had some reprieve, thanks to organized events that kept the kids in one place, temporarily. Despite that there was a witch at Sunset Hills Funeral Home, an estimated 400 adults and kids visited the funeral parlor for donuts,...
They might not be as nimble with the carving knives, but that didn't stop a group of seniors from making jack-o'-lanterns at the Clark Fork Valley Hospital Long Term Care Tuesday morning. Six nursing home residents from 76-year-old Sharon Wilson to 92-year-old Laurayne "Toddy" Silverthorn showed their pumpkin carving skills and artistic talents during a pumpkin carving session to decorate the facility for Halloween. Some went with the traditional jack-o'-lantern look, while others made their...
Each year the University of Montana hosts the All-Star Band and Orchestra Festival. In order to be selected for these groups, students must be nominated by their school director and then selected by the University of Montana. This year, the university received nominations from 65 high schools across five states, as well as Alberta. Two students from Hot Springs High School have been chosen to participate in this unique experience. Cameron Stearns, a senior, age 17, and Laneya Miller, a junior,...
A group of people last week had the opportunity to have an art class, take a pretty painting home, and help raise money for a veterans’ final resting place. The $30 art class was called “Painting for Purpose” and was sponsored by Joint Operation Mariposa, a nonprofit organization that was created to bring awareness to veteran suicides and the families that are impacted. The class instructor was Dave Williams, a Navy veteran and Joint Operation Mariposa founder. Williams said they were raisi...
Visitors coming into Plains from the west will see a new welcome sign, thanks to a Paradise artist. It took Steve Eberhardt of Paradise more than 100 hours, almost 70 pieces of wood, and over six gallons of 31 different color recipes to create the new two-sided sign, which was assembled Sunday afternoon with the help of a few friends. "I wanted to pick colors that look fun and inviting so even on a dull day it's bright and cheerful," said Eberhardt, an artist for 43 years. The former sign was...
Students at Plains High School and Junior High showed their school spirit Friday with a parade through town. Students from seventh-graders to seniors made floats with the overall theme of defeating the Victor Pirates at Friday night's homecoming football game. Included in the parade were the homecoming king and queen candidates. For the seniors, it was Ervin Reyes-Melendez and Grace Cockrell. Dustee Hayes and Ines Alvarez were the junior candidates. Payton Butcher and Genna Deschamps were the...
The Little Bitterroot Services is expanding its services to the community by opening a new store in Plains. The organization purchased the former Stageline Pizza and attached gym owned by Jim and Lin Foster in June and hopes to have their new gym and thrift store open within the next month, said Shannon Benson, the executive director. "We're looking forward to having the new store. It's good for the community and for our clients," said Benson. Little Bitterroot Services, Inc. is a nonprofit orga...
The Montana Highway Patrol is looking for a person who drove a vehicle through a guardrail at the Sanders County Fairgrounds bridge early Saturday morning. A passerby motorist discovered the car, a Chevy Cavalier 2-door sedan, shortly before 6:30 a.m. Saturday, and called 911 to report the accident, but there was no sign of the driver, said Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Zach Rehbein. He believes the accident took place between 5:30 and 6:30 a.m. Raige Steinebach, the car owner, reported the vehicle stolen that morning when he was about to...
The Cancer Network of Sanders County (CNSC) will now be able to help more than a dozen cancer victims, thanks to the raising of $12,288 at the annual Fall Extravaganza fundraiser at the VFW Hall last Thursday evening. "It was a successful night," said Sherry McCartney, the nonprofit organization's secretary and treasurer. McCartney said the group raised just over $6,500 in the silent and live auctions, which featured more than 50 items, including gift certificates, college football and...
For thousands of communities across the U.S., high school football is a big deal. The whole town comes down to watch, to support their team, to cheer on the players they've watched grow up. Noxon is no exception. However, things look slightly different in Noxon, because the town's 200 residents don't sit down to watch 11 of their players take their places on the field, or even the standard high school eight. As Noxon takes their seats, and the starters are announced, only six young men come...
The 50th anniversary of the Clark Fork Valley Hospital is two years away, but last week community members in Plains had the opportunity to hear stories from some of the hospital's first doctors and nurses. Twenty-three people showed up at the Llano Theatre last Thursday to listen to Drs. Jack Lulack and John Drye, and Registered Nurses Doris Larson and Betty Boehler, who for more than an hour gave some insight on how the hospital got started and talked about some of the unique work problems of...
Whoever said members of the Plains Woman's Club don't have soul didn't see them working on hundreds of soles last week at the United Methodist Church. It was all part of the club's involvement with Soles4Souls, an international program to provide shoes for the less fortunate. Nearly two dozen club members gathered after their regular meeting at the church Thursday afternoon to box 216 pairs of shoes destined for the Soles4Souls warehouse in Wadley, Alabama. "We just learned about this program...
There was a shooting and a case of poisoning in Paradise last weekend - two people died, but no one was arrested. The sheriff turned in the badge and ran off with a private detective. It was all part of "Blazing Guns at Roaring Gulch" put on by the Paradise Players and hosted by the Paradise Center. Nine actors, directed by Mary Lou Hermes, gave three shows of the two-hour melodrama Friday and Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. Susannah Lindsay, the stage manager, prompted the audience with...
The lone horse along the greenway in Plains might have company by the end of the year. Artist Kenton Pies of Plains is about 75 percent done with the Wild Horse Plains Herd's second horse and hopes to have the brown and white 9.5-foot-long steel equine posted on the greenway next month. He started working on the second horse in January and even though he's not done with it, he started on number three two weeks ago and has about 35 hours into it. Pies, 87, started on the herd two years ago,...
The chairman of the Sanders County Fair Commission gave this year's fair a top grade, although that doesn't mean there weren't minor problems, according to Randy Woods, who took over as the board leader earlier this year. Fair Manager Melissa Cady said at the September fair board meeting last Wednesday that the fair grossed more than $190,000, so far. She said not all the payments are in and not all claims have been paid out, so the fair profits have not been tallied, but Woods believes the...
American flags seem to be multiplying by the day along the greenway in Plains. They are. It's all part of Joint Operation Mariposa, a nonprofit organization created to bring awareness to veteran suicides and the families who are impacted. Each evening, Ed Foste, vice president of the organization and a Navy veteran, puts out 22 flags, most of the time under the cover of darkness. Seldom is he noticed and the following day, 22 more American flags appear around a silhouetted kneeling soldier and...
Even with leg cramps, Andrew Ordelheide poured on the speed on Combest Creek Road, motivated by what he saw looking over his shoulder - competitor Scott Richardson - less than a minute behind him. Ordelheide was one of 10 men and four women to compete in the Clark Fork Valley Hospital Foundation 4th Annual Clark Fork Challenge at the Sanders County Fairgrounds Sunday. The owner of MT West Dentist in Plains has competed in the Clark Fork Challenge all three years. It was canceled one year due to...
It was a little like a precision drill team, but with music, and no rifles, flags or pompoms. It was opening night for the Montana Mavericks Square Dance Club of Plains, which started their season at the Plains Paradise Senior Citizens Center Saturday evening. It was also the first time for the club to hold an event at the senior center. For the last 15 years, they met in the basement of the First Security Bank in Plains, but that ended in May when the bank needed the space. Darlene Jolly, the M...
by Ed Moreth A Plains organization is closing its doors after 82 years of service to the community. Plains Grange No. 101 held its final official meeting at its hall last Tuesday. The grange will use the next two months to get its finances ready to turn over to the state grange officials and to find a home for much of the kitchenware, furniture and miscellaneous items at the hall on Lynch Street. The Plains grange received its charter in April 1937, but in recent years they've had trouble...
It's now a smooth ride through Plains - for about 500 feet on Willis Street, which was repaved and reopened for traffic last week. For much of the 12 miles of roads through town, it's still a bumpy ride, but that's something Mayor Dan Rowan is making one of his top priorities while in office. It took contractor D.W. Wipplinger of Plains about a week to complete the paving job alongside City Hall, reopening the road Friday. Roadwork began prior to the fair with a new drainage system and sidewalk...
Not being able to walk didn't stop residents of the Clark Fork Valley Hospital Long Term Care from venturing into the parking lot Saturday to take in the Wild Horse Plains 4th Annual Car and Bike Show. Resident Joan Draszt was especially taken with a 1931 Ford Model A that was only five years older than her. She even took time to push one of the car's front tires. Resident Eldon Johnson, 88, came out and immediately asked about Plains-Paradise Rural Fire District's 1939 fire engine, which has...
The Sanders County Fair Board held a special meeting Sunday morning in an effort to clear up payment disputes concerning the demolition derby. Fair Board Chairman Randy Woods of Hot Springs called the meeting because he wanted to get people involved with the derby paid as soon as possible. The demolition derby, held on the last evening of the fair, is the fair’s biggest draw. It utilizes the Plains Lions Club and volunteers to help pull off the event. This year the fair sold 3,100 tickets and fetched $75,000, an increase from 2018, according t...
Animals, animals and horsepower – the kind found in engines – are the three biggest draws to the Sanders County Fair. Fair Commission Chairman Randy Woods said people come to see the 4-H animals, the rodeo, and the demolition derby. "I said it was going to be the greatest show on earth and it was," added Woods, who joined the fair board late last year. "Sales were up, attendance was up, and we provided the best entertainment in the Northwest," he said shortly after driving a tractor to smo...
