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To stimulate a love for reading, a challenge is being offered to students in grades 9-12 to read 100 books before graduation. Students enroll with a parent/guardian’s approval in person or via email through the Thompson Falls Public Library, where a reading log will be kept for each student. Books must be reading level appropriate and may be a classroom assignment, but not the class textbook. Using the provided form, students may report a completed book in person or via email stating the title, author, format, and signature of a parent, g...
The Cancer Network of Sanders County will be launching its lantern launch from a new site this year. The nonprofit organization will have the annual fundraiser on the Saturday after Thanksgiving — Nov. 25 — starting at 6 p.m. on the greenway along Railroad Street across from Colleen’s Country Store. The CNSC has normally held the event at the Sanders County Fairgrounds, but switched to downtown Plains this year to combine the event with the Plains Lions Club Christmas celebration, according to Shelley Bertrand, president of CNSC. The biode...
The 2023 Fall Mack Days Fishing Event on Flathead Lake sponsored by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes is in the books. A total of 17,502 lake trout entries were received. It was the second largest event total since the 2019 Fall Event which had 18,214 entries. Of the 344 anglers registered, 135 turned in one or more lake trout entries. Fishing all 60 event days was winner David Myers of Riverton, Wyoming, who had 1,399 lake trout entries for the Friday to Sunday competition days. His goal was to turn in an entry every day of the...
As ever-increasing food costs and other everyday expenses push more Montanans to local food banks for help, the Town Pump Charitable Foundation is again matching over $1 million to help raise $4 million during its annual fundraising campaign for food banks, including the Plains Community Food Pantry and Community Harvest Food Bank and Gospel Mountain Assembly of God Food Pantry, both in Thompson Falls. A record 110 food banks statewide are participating this year in the “Be A Friend in Deed” campaign, which originated in 2001. The campaign has...
SOLUTIONS ACROSS 1. BPM 4. VISHNU 10. LEI 11. UNTIED 12. MT 14. URN 15. SONG 16. ASSISI 18. UNEARTH 22. MASSIF 23. RESTORE 24. ARCHAIC 26. GD 27. EYAS 28. ELSE 30. SACS 31. KRA 34. DARNS 36. LEE 37. HALF 39. ROCA 40. APIO 41. SI 42. YUCATAN 48. THEREOF 50. CLEAVE 51. SENSORY 52. EARNER 53. ASTI 54. PIA 55. SD 56. SKIING 58. ART 59. RENEGE 60. NEE SOLUTIONS DOWN 1. BLUISH 2. PERSIA 3. MINIFIED 4. VU 5. INSURGENCY 6. STONED 7. HINES 8. NEGATES 9. UD 12. MAMA 13. TSAR 17. SSC 19. ROYAL 20. TRACE 21. HESSE 25. CLARIFYING 29. SRO 31. KHATS 32.... Full story
Beginners have one more day — Friday — to continue alongside the regulars of the Montana Mavericks Square Dance Club that meet each week at the Plains Paradise Senior Center in Plains for lessons. Last Friday was a record attendance for the Plains club with 58 men, women, boys, and girls for the second class of the season. “I don’t think we’ve ever had more than this,” said Terry Watkins, who’s been with the club since it began in 2004. Paradise resident Darlene Jolly, president of the club, said it was great to have such a good turnout for the...
