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Local youths got a shot to test their aim Sunday at the Thompson Falls Trap Club. The Clark Fork Valley Elks Lodge presented its second triathlon event. A dozen kids joined the Elks to learn the safety and fundamentals of trap shooting. Elks member Don Manning gave a very informative class on the history, safety and fundamentals of trap shooting. Shotguns go back as far as the early 1800's. There are a few different kinds of shotguns that are used within the sport of trap shooting. Manning...
The Thompson Falls 14U soccer team, coached by Cody Pallister and Ray Brown, celebrated another undefeated season on Saturday, finishing with a tournament win in Troy....
Senior citizens can reduce their auto insurance premiums by attending a four-hour driver safety course to be offered in Thompson Falls for all Sanders County senior residents. Sponsored by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) the course will be 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, at the Senior Citizen Center, 1191 Mount Silcox Drive, in Thompson Falls. Check-in begins at 8:30 a.m. Please call Mike Keymer, Instructor, at 847-5097 to register for this class or for more information....
The Thompson Falls Community Trails event Trick or Treat, Move Your Feet, is set for Saturday, Oct. 27. The event will include a festive Halloween themed 5K run and one-mile fun run/walk, and a BBQ. The Powerhouse Loop Trail and the Clark Fork River will set the stage for a family fun Halloween themed outing. Registration is available online at www.RunWildMissoula.org until Oct. 24 or starting at 9 a.m. on race day. The one-mile fun run is free and the 5K is $12 online through 5 p.m. on Oct. 24. Race-day registration for the 5K is $15. The...
The two newest members of the Paradise Players – and the youngest of the troupe – loved being on stage for last week's "The Treasure of Shiver River" and plan to be involved with future plays at the Paradise Center. It had all the makings of a successful melodrama – a villain and a hero, romance, comedy, and even a hidden treasure. A dozen local men and women took to the Paradise Center stage for three performances Friday, Saturday and Sunday, provoking big laughs each time, especially Sunda...
by Justin Harris When a full-time job fighting crime isn't enough, one could don a cape and become a superhero. Or just get sworn in with a neighboring department to wear another uniform. Sheriff Deputy Roy Scott did just that last Friday, being sworn in with the Thompson Falls Police Department. "We're happy to have Roy on the team and appreciate his willingness," said Thompson Falls police chief Chris Nichols. "Sometimes there are vacations or other shifts that need coverage, and this will...
Design plans are being finalized for the second phase of a project to repair a portion of Blue Slide Road that washed out earlier this year. The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) and construction contractor GSI are finalizing the design plans for the project. Once the plans are approved, construction can begin, according to Brandon Coates of consulting firm RBCI. Coates said that work is expected to be completed this year, but will depend on weather. A culvert at Cougar Creek, about 9 miles west of Thompson Falls on Blue Slide Road,...
What a beautiful day for running; and what a wonderful performance by the home team. The Western B-C Divisional cross country meet was held at River's Bend golf course Thursday and the host Hawks and Lady Hawks enjoyed great meets in the last tune-up before the Montana All-Class meet in Missoula Saturday. Bigfork won the Western B girls title and Eureka claimed the boys crown at River's Bend, but that was not the real story in Thompson Falls coach Sarah Naegeli's mind. "(It was) probably the...
The Lady Hawks are only getting better, the question is, will they have enough time to realize their full volleyball potential this season? The Lady Hawks lost a pair of five-set matches they could have just as easily won last week, falling 18-25, 25-15, 24-26, 25-13, 15-12 to the Lady Bulldogs in Mission Oct. 9 and 25-22, 18-25, 25-23, 15-25, 15-12 to Eureka in Thompson Falls Saturday. The Hawks have only one non-conference match this week, at Kalispell against Stillwater Christian Thursday....
There is nothing left to do now but go out and play football. The Thompson Falls Blue Hawks will wrap up season play at Anaconda Friday night against the Copperheads. Since both teams are winless up to this point, something will have to give. And that will likely be by the team that wants to win more after seasons full of losses to this point. The Hawks completed their home schedule with a 49-6 Western B conference setback to Florence Friday on Previs Field. Securing a playoff spot with the...
Defense is not normally the name of the game in Montana 6-Man football. After all, how do you find enough bodies to cover everyone when there are only six players on each side and the field is so wide open? As a result, 6-Man games are often high-scoring affairs where racking up a lot of points and not allowing quite as many is the way to win. Coach Jim Lawson and his Hot Springs Savage Heat have been busy setting that conventional wisdom about all-offense and no-defense on its ear this season. Witness the Heat’s 67-0 shutout win over Valley C...
Has anybody seen our old friends Jacob and Rusty? Two of the mainstays for the Plains Horsemen football only a few weeks ago, Jacob Peterson and Rusty Stuart have been lost for the season, leaving some very large shoes to fill, particularly on defense, for coach Eddie Fultz. And Fultz really could have used his old friends Jacob and Rusty in the Clark Fork Mountain Cats’ 76-34 win over the Horsemen in Plains Friday. “Without those two in there, we are really at a disadvantage, especially on defense,” Fultz said. “Clark Fork was able to manhandl...
The Plains Trotter volleyball team is gaining steam as the season winds down and the rest of the teams in District 10C had better take notice. Coach Jesse Butcher's Trotters won two matches last week, clubbing St. Regis 25-17, 25-21, 25-22 in a conference match at Plains Thursday, and putting down the Valley Christian Eagles 25-20, 18-25, 18-25, 25-22, 15-5 in a non-conference encounter in Missoula Saturday. The Trotters were set to play their final regular season match against Arlee in Plains...
The Hot Springs Savage Heat volleyball team might not win every match, but they will not back down to anyone at any time either. "These girls are definitely hard workers, they love the fight," coach Alisha Pablo said. "I am proud of the fact that they never say die. Grit is one of this team's favorite words, they just love competition." The Savage Heat split a pair of hard-fought matches last week, dropping Arlee 25-23, 22-25, 19-25, 15-11 in Arlee Thursday and falling 20-25, 25-22, 25-12,...
When was the last time a team scored 72 points in a football game and lost? In western Montana, the last (and possibly first?) time it ever happened was in Noxon Friday night when the West Yellowstone Wolverines gave up 72 points to the Red Devils but still won by scoring 82 themselves. Believed to be one of the highest scoring games in Montana prep history – and at the very least certainly the highest scoring grid contest in Red Devil history – the 82-72 victory left West Yellowstone tem...
Coach Rachel Hanson’s Lady Hawk JV volleyball team played at Troy Oct. 6, at Mission last Tuesday and against Eureka in Thompson Falls Saturday. At Troy, Caity Alexander led the Lady Hawks with eight assists and six digs and Dani Hodges hit four kills and eight service aces. At Mission. Alexander hit 13 assists, Kelsey Frank had 13 digs, Angel Whiting nine kills and Hodges two blocks. Hodges, Faith Frields and Gracie Claridge hit two aces each. Against Eureka, Alexander was good for 15 assists, Frields for 15 digs, Whiting for five Kills, H...
Noxon High School senior Kali Murray invited the public to get creative with old bras for a good cause. About 10 people attended Murray's Bras for a Cause event at the Noxon fire hall on Sunday, bringing old bras to decorate. Murray was raising money for the Cancer Network of Sanders County. She has received about $140 so far, she said. Murray's mentor is Roberta Smith of Trout Creek, a cancer survivor. Smith told Murray that she had seen similar bras for a cause events at large galas on the...
The Trout Creek Community Improvement Association (TCCIA) is inviting area families to join them at they transform the Trout Creek Park into a haunted maze on Halloween. Haunted park chairperson Jean Manning with the TCCIA has been planning the event for weeks, making sure to provide a fun and spooky time for children and adults. The fun begins at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 31, with trips through the maze and roaming through the graveyard. On the agenda is a costume contest, a performance by Dance Xplosion, and a bobbing for worms in dirt...
