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Firefighters from the Plains/Thompson Falls Ranger District quickly staffed a wildfire, called the Bass Pond Fire, Sunday evening. Burning between the Clark Fork River and the railroad tracks across the river from mile marker 18 on Highway 135, crews used boats to gain access to the human-caused blaze and limited its growth to approximately three-quarters of an acre. With the fire contained, firefighters continued to work towards completely extinguishing it Monday. Right next to the railroad...
Team Feed-N-Fuel shot the low team gross and Bear Muscle Fitness the low team net to highlight play in the Tuesday Night Men’s League at River’s Bend last week. Feed-N-Fuel used the low individual gross of 39 posted by Mike Gillmore as Steve Clark, Dave Petteys and Doug Gunderson joined him to compile the low team gross of 175. Playing for Bear Muscle Fitness, Steve Fairbank used his handicap to arrive at the low individual net of 29, and Steve Anderson, Cody Mosher and Rick Hagedorn teamed up with Fairbank to record the low team net of 142 for...
The Whitefish Credit Union and First Security Bank teams shot the low team gross and net scores last week, giving the two banking squads the advantage in the early stages of the second half of Wednesday Night Men’s League play at River’s Bend. Wally Gibe, Rick Kendall, Ron Beaty and Rusty Sharp shot the low team gross of 168 for Whitefish CU while Bill Nolen, Dan Whittenburg, Michael Scharfe and Ben Mummert shot the low team net of 141 for First Security, leaving Whitefish as the current league leaders with 26.5 points followed by First Sec...
The gregarious group of local golfers known as the Over the Hill gang always seems to find a way to make their Monday mornings of golfing fun for everyone. Limited to only three clubs per customer this time, the Over the Hill players enjoyed another round of friendly golf at scenic River’s Bend Monday. Proving that a limited number of options was not all that bad a deal for the thrifty golfer, Rick Kendall went out and shot a stellar round of 40 to grab low gross honors. Also showing some good old River’s Bend grit with a limited selection of...
When it comes to the Cabinet Ridge Riders, it is the thought that counts and, over the years, they have spread a lot of good will with their kind thoughts and benevolent actions. Over the last 17 years, the Ridge Riders have been generous benefactors to local communities with over $155,000 donated so far, including $1,000 scholarships to a graduating senior from every county high school each year. The philanthropic Ridge Riders have also donated to local ambulance services, food banks, senior...
I shoot golf; I don't play golf. As opposed to shooting for score with clubs, I shoot for pictures with a camera. Thought that I should make this distinction clear because I think people actually believe that I know what I am talking about when it comes to golf and, the truth of the matter be fully told, I really don't. Take your local golfing leagues around here and some of the crazy games they play for example. Over time, I have learned the hard way (by making mistakes) about paying for par...
It's Sanders County's very own triathlon - a run, row and ride race through the splendor of our surrounding natural grandeur – and it is coming to Plains Sunday, Sept. 15. The 2019 Clark Fork Adventure Challenge, as the name implies, is an intentionally challenging race featuring an eight mile run on river Road East, followed by an eight mile kayak row in the Clark Fork River and concluded by a 15 mile bicycle ride featuring the spectacular scenery of western Montana, will begin and end at t...
Readers may find out about these games after the fact due to the Thursday publishing date of the Ledger, but Thompson Falls was set to host Sandpoint for an off-season softball doubleheader Wednesday night at 6 p.m. Lady Hawk high school coach Jared Koskela, who will guide the Thompson Falls girls for these summer games, says he and his team will then return the favor in two weeks by going to Sandpoint for another pair of games. Koskela said that due to limited availability of Lady Hawk high school players, several Plains-Hot Springs Trotters...
Twin golfing titans Ron Beaty and Gary Thompson tamed River's Bend in Over the Hill action Monday morning as both carded low-gross rounds of 41 to lead the locally famous group of gregarious golfers back to the clubhouse. Showing she has some River's Bend chops of her own, Lana Nolen led the Hill ladies in with the low gross of 50. Don Hansen and Liz Morkert shot the low men's and women's net rounds of 32 and 41. In other play of the day, Rick Kendall was closest to the pin in 2 on No. 1, Russ W...
Men’s league play took a holiday – and a rainy day – at River’s Bend Golf Course last week. With the Fourth of July falling on a Thursday this year, the Wednesday Night Men’s League decided to cancel last week’s play and the Tuesday Night Men had no choice but to stand down when active thunderstorms visited Sanders County that night. River’s Bend spokesman Jesse Mack said that, weather permitting, regulation league play will resume this week....
Her son Jacob said she could do it and it turned out he was right. Sarah Naegeli was totally capable of running a half marathon, even if it was on virtually only a moment's notice. And 12-year-old Olivia Fitchett had never run farther than five miles before she too ran the full 13 miles, 192.5 yards of the half marathon, all part of the Sanders County highlights from the Missoula Marathon race schedule in the Garden City last weekend. Although Sarah and Olivia, of Trout Creek and Thompson...
Shanks a Lot golfers Jens Jantzen, Dave Garr, Ron Beaty and Charlie Hooten posted the low team gross of 167 and jumped out to the early second-half lead in Wednesday Night Men’s League action at River’s Bend last week. The Internet Kitchen team of David Reedy, Carter Meyer, Don Lake and Ron Belger shot the low team net of 139. Jantzen shot the low individual gross of 40 and Doug Gunderson used his handicap to arrive at the low net of 30. Shanks a Lot, which finished second to Double H Dirt Works in the first half of league play, now leads the...
Call it a poker party played on the fairways and greens, and only very rarely from the bunkers and trees. The Over the Hill gang decided to play a friendly game of golf poker to usher in the week Monday morning at sunny River's Bend. Using their scorecards instead of playing cards, players would then put together their scores from each hole to arrive at their hand to be played. Playing the hands they arrived at best, Charlie Hooten won high hand honors, John Pritzkau finished second and Don...
They were stormed out by lightning and rain. Last week’s Wednesday Night Men’s League golfing was washed away by what River’s Bend spokesman Tom “The Hammer” Holleran called a “big, huge, gigantic storm that was very scary for our men’s league play.” Easing past their fear of frying in a lightning storm, the Wednesday Night Men are expected to regroup at the Bend for regular league play this week, weather permitting of course....
Brian Smith and Tony Bierwagen were the only two area shooters in last weekend's Montana State Field & NFAA Northwest Outdoor Sectionals archery tournaments south of Butte, but they both represented Sanders County quite well. By the time the tourneys were concluded Sunday, Smith, who resides in the Trout Creek area, had earned first place honors in both of the tournaments which were run concurrently, taking first place in the Male Senior Freestyle Class in the Sectionals and the State Field...
Sports live after all. A few weeks removed from some heavy whining I did on these pages about the dearth of sports action to follow right now, I feel the need to apologize. There are a lot of people playing important games, matches and friendlies all over the world at this very instant, and I need to respect that fact, and watch what happens like a good sports fan should. My friend Arlene pointed this out to me while out having breakfast the other day at a local eatery. Arlene was very polite with her protest but made the point clear that there...
The weather was fine and the golfing conditions absolutely perfect for the Over the Hill gang at River's Bend Monday. Thirty-seven of Sanders County's finest took advantage of yet another golden opportunity to shoot for par. Thoroughly enjoying that beautiful weather, which featured mixed sunshine with temperatures in the low to mid 60s and, most importantly, no fickle winds, Mike Gillmore bumped the Bend hard by carding a 40 for the men's low gross and Dennis Gripp used his handicap to arrive...
The Tuesday Night Men’s League suspended hostilities and took to River’s Bend for a friendly, fun night of play last week to celebrate successfully playing through the first half of league play for the season. Proving that they know how to have a good time on the Bend, no matter what they are playing for, Sparky’s Gutter Time team of fearless leader Kevin Sparks, Tom “The Hammer” Holleran, Mike “Money” Thilmony, Doug “The Gas Man” Czerwinski and Sean “Machine Club” Kelly posted the low team net of 30. In Tuesday night hole play, Steve Fair...
Team Wild Coyote won the first half but First Security Bank sent a message for the second half by combining to shoot the low team net of 29.5 on the midseason play night in Wednesday Night Men’s League action at River’s Bend last week. Sending that links message for First Security were Dan Whittenburg, Bill Nolen, Ben Mummert, Mike Baxter and Howard Morkert; those five hope to make a run, along with all the other Wednesday teams, at the second half title, beginning this Wednesday. In other play night highlights, Randy “The Hit Man” Hojem p...
Trae Thilmony wants to be the very best wrestler that he can be. Proving his dedication to the sport is limitless, the rising Thompson Falls sophomore has spent most of the last month in a summer intensive wrestling program which wound up at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at 700 South Victory Way in Orlando, Florida for the 2019 National Scholastic Duals June 19-24. The Western B-C champion and State B-C third-place medal winner at 113 pounds last winter for the Blue Hawks, Trae began his trip to Florida back in early June, according to...
He has been a Savage, a member of the Crew and, most recently, a Red Devil. Now it is time for Trevor Paro to be one of the Thundering Herd. One of the best athletes to ever come down the pike in western Montana, Paro, the pride of Hot Springs, has signed a scholarship offer to play baseball for Marshall University. Paro signed his NLI (National Letter of Intent) with Marshall last week. Yep, that Marshall University, the Division I NCAA school located in Huntington, West Virginia. The one they made a movie about after a tragic plane crash...
In Thompson Falls, Tony Bierwagen is the face of competitive archery shooting. The long-time president of the Thompson Falls Archery Club and the current tournament director for the Montana Archery Association, Bierwagen doesn’t just talk the talk about competitive target archery, he continues to walk the walk as well, maintaining his edge by continuing to participate in shoots across Montana and elsewhere. Bierwagen has had a couple of busy months shooting already this year, between tournaments and practicing regularly in Thompson Falls, f...
Rain, rain, go away, the Over the Hill gang wants to play. Over the Hill golfers teed off in the rain Monday for their weekly tour around River’s Bend, but it wasn’t long before that rain gave way to sunshine and brightened everyone’s day. It was almost like the golfing gods were smiling once again upon the friendly players of the Over the Hill gang. Playing through in the clean fresh air produced by the showers, Gary Thompson and Lana Nolen went out and shot the low men’s and women’s gross rounds, while Jens Jantzen and Barb Wooden captured...
Shanks a Lot won the battle but Double H Dirt Works won the war. Shanks a Lot golfers Jens Jantzen, Dave Garr, Ron Beaty and Charlie Hooten posted the low gross of 178 in Tuesday Night Men’s League play at River’s Bend last week but it was not quite enough as Double H Dirt Works held on to the lead and won the first half of league play. The Shanksters big day of play gave them 166.5 team points on the last night of the first half, just short of Double H Dirt’s final tally of 168. Sparky’s Gutter Time – Kevin Sparks, Tom Hollearn, Doug Czer...
Wednesday’s winners are the wily Wild Coyotes – at least for now. The Wednesday Night Men’s League wrapped up the first half of season play as Wild Coyote golfers Gary Thompson, Dave Petteys, Scott Pardee and Howard Morkert teamed up to shoot the low team net of 146 and clinch the title for the first half. At the conclusion of league play later this summer, the Wild Coyotes will then face the second-half winners (providing they don’t win that, too) in a playoff. First Security Bank players Mike Baxter, Bill Nolen, Ben Mummert and Michael...
