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A group of Plains residents took part in the Montana State Wood Carvers Show earlier this month and came home with numerous awards for their work. "I'm so bloody proud of them. They did a great job," said Tom Collins, who heads the Plains Wood Carving Club and was the main coordinator for the annual show in Missoula for the sixth consecutive year. "I was surprised. It was the first time around for me and I didn't know what to expect," said Sean Ryan, who fetched a Best of Division and a Best of...
SOLUTIONS ACROSS 1. ROAR 5. SRI 8. TAB 11. AMBOS 13. HEN 14. RALE 15. DEBTS 16. ITS 17. ALAR 18. RACES 20. NIT 21. GANG 22. AMERICAS 25. PREMATURELY 30. RELATED 31. ELM 32. EDICT 33. BASIS 38. ARA 41. READERS 43. CAULIFLOWER 45. KOHLRABI 47. SCAB 49. LIT 50. KABOB 55. ALAE 56. ICE 57. ARMOR 59. GABY 60. ELL 61. RABIA 62. AMA 63. DEY 64. DULY SOLUTIONS DOWN 1. RAD 2. OMER 3. ABBA 4. ROTC 5. SHINER 6. RETIREE 7. INSTILL 8. TALAS 9. ALAN 10. BERG 12. SSE 14. RAGA 19. SATE 23. MUD 24. CYMBAL 25....
Attendance from the community was low but excitement from the student artists was high. "I anticipated we'd have a lower attendance due to COVID and that people wouldn't want to be coming into the school and we're just getting back into this," said Kristen Cole, the Plains High School teacher who coordinated the Plains High School Art Exhibition 2022 last Monday evening. An estimated 50 people attended the two-hour reception for the show of art students' work in the school's new auditorium,...
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A lone bison wanders along Mission Creek at the Bison Range. Read more about what is new at the National Bison Range on Page 9....
The Old Jail Museum's initiative to preserve its history while keeping safety as a priority has gained some traction as some much-needed renovations have finally come to fruition. After meeting with Sanders County Commissioners last year to request financial help, funding was granted through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). The museum received $23,400 in ARPA funds and renovations began this January. One of the main projects was the restoration of the plaster ceiling in the office and gift s...
14 YEARS AGO • 1945 Following is excerpts from the 1945-46 Thompson Falls High School Yearbook EARLY HISTORY OF THOMPSON FALLS The falls of the Clark's Fork River near the present site of Thompson Falls was the meeting place of many Indian tribes of the northwest country who came to hunt and fish. This country was abundant in game. In 1809, David Thompson built the famous Saleesh House, which was said to be the first roofed cabin in Montana. It was situated in such a position that they could s...
ALEC COLE, Plains - “My mom is the art teacher, so it supplied me with meals on the table, and I didn’t get the artistic genes she has.” KRISTEN COLE, Plains - “I just crave art. It’s part of my everyday life.” LEVI BLOOD, Plains – “It hasn’t impacted me too much, except in music. Music is a big part of my life.” MACEY SCOTT, Plains - “It gives me lots of creative outlets. And doing a show like this gives me a good perspective that I can make a career in art.” DENISE MONTGOMERY, Plains - “I couldn’t live without art.” PEYTON WASSON, Plains...
LaRue Hot Springs Museum hosted their annual Spud Fest fundraiser at the end of April with the focus of warm food and good conversation. Spud Fest was not held in 2020 or 2021 due to COVID-19, but community members and museum board members alike were ready and excited to celebrate again. This year, approximately 100 dinners were sold at the fundraiser, the same number of potatoes sold at the 2019 event. "We sold out of baked potatoes halfway through the event and it was exactly the 100 pounds...
Aiming high for grades took on a unique aspect last week when physics students took to the sky for fun and a few extra points. Eight Plains High School students got a first hand lesson in aerodynamics last Thursday when they gathered in back of the school to participate in the Annual Physics Airplane Competition. The primary goal was supposed to be observing the flights of their airplanes to learn the concepts of airflow, lift, gravity, drag, and other aspects of Bernoulli's Principle by seeing...
The animals are in a big cage - one that covers 18,700 acres - but even in an enclosure, it doesn't guarantee an up close look at animals. "It's not a zoo. You might see them real close or maybe not at all. You just never know, said Stephanie Gillin, the information and education project manager at the Bison Range in Moiese, which is now operated by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation. Gillin said the bison, as other animals, roam throughout the...
Branson Fryxell is a Plains Elementary student chosen for the Spotlight on the Arts. He is a seven-year-old in Mrs. Montgomery's first grade. "He dives right into projects with confidence," said Mrs. Montgomery." It is clear he loves creating projects and practices often." She states that many first graders lack confidence with expressing themselves with art. Bransen is unique in that he dives right to projects without hesitation while often encouraging his classmates offering help to them with...
Plans for this year’s Plains Day gala are shaping up and organizers are bringing in a blast from the past to help with the celebration. The festival will take place on Saturday, June 4, and has activities taking place along the downtown greenway, Fred Young Park and E.L. Johnson Memorial Park, commonly known as the “pool park.” The Free Americans, the group that stepped up to organize the festival last year, volunteered to do it again and they’ve selected Alvin Amundson as this year’s parade grand marshal. Amundson and the late Clark Coffee sta...
After seven months of playing, the winners for the 2021-2022 Pinochle Marathon conducted by the GFWC Thompson Falls Woman’s Club have been determined. Pat Ingraham and Nancy Gressang took top honors with a total score of 39120. Cheryl Godfrey and Patty Hopkins hold Second Place with 35400 and rounding out the top three teams was Pinky Nelson and Kay Rasor with 33590. In addition to being the top point getters, Ingraham and Gressang were the only team to achieve 1500 families. No team garnered 1000 aces. The Pinochle Marathon is conducted by t...
SOLUTIONS ACROSS 1. ERAS 5. BERTH 10. ACCUSE 12. AGOUTI 14. DOUBLES DOWN 16. CP 18. BAN 19. DAG 20. SIREE 22. OPS 23. DEWED 25. SALE 26. OTO 27. MED 28. SIB 30. TAW 31. NSEC 33. SALINE 35. CHAIR 37. SPODE 38. HANDED 40. MANN 41. ART 42. SIR 44. PAL 45. ADP 48. LEAH 50. NADER 52. LAO 53. ELLAS 55. PAN 56. ICE 57. TI 58. NATIONALIZE 63. PENTAD 65. ERASES 66. BOOBS 67. DADO SOLUTIONS DOWN 1. ECU 2. RUB 3. ASL 4. SEEDED 5. BADGES 6. EGO 7. ROWS 8. TUNIS 9. HT 10. ADAPT 11. CONSONANTAL 13. ICELAND...
During the month of April, students at Thompson Falls Elementary participated in the annual Running Start reading program, designed to encourage students to read for fun. The program kicked off in April with the traditional run around the school playground led by principal Len Dorscher. Students then spent the month reading as much as they could to earn entries for a drawing to win a Kindle. For every 21 books or 21 chapters read, students filled out shoe shaped reading logs to keep track of...
A new batch of goslings swims in the Clark Fork River near the Thompson Falls dam. Share your pictures of local wildlife on our Facebook page and tag #scledger....
This weekend, the uniqueness of gardening in the northwest corner of the county will be explored at the Heron Garden Expo. The Laurie Hill Memorial Library is presenting this event as a "funds-for-books" raiser and to create an opportunity for old and new gardeners to share garden secrets. The event will begin at 11 a.m. at the library and is free to attend. The program includes information on local terrain and how it affects each gardens soil types, frost dates, and water availability. There will be expert advice about beginning a garden,...
Thompson Falls students had the opportunity to learn the finer points of dining last week at the 7th annual etiquette luncheon hosted at Thompson Falls Elementary School cafeteria. The school's seventh and eighth grade students are taught an etiquette unit by K-8 school counselor Rob Christensen. Lessons consist of restaurant, sports, public, online, flag and job etiquette and concludes with an etiquette luncheon. The lunch room is set up to mirror a fine dining establishment. Lunch staff and...
4 YEARS AGO • MAY 6, 1982 FALLS WOMAN CITED FOR 60 YEARS OF VOTING Few people in Montana can boast of voting in 15 presidential elections, but a pioneer Thompson Falls citizen, Mrs. Susan Thayer, 82, can, and she received a certificate from Secretary of State Jim Waltermire attesting to her long voting record. Mrs. Thayer first voted for a president in the 1920 general election, shortly after her 21st birthday. Women got the right to vote August 18, 1920. She cast a vote for republican Calvin Coolidge and every four years since cast a vote f...
ERIC WILSON, Rex Community Theater - “Our focus is the youth of this community and their future. We have to take care of them.” KATHY JACKSON, Thompson Falls Pickleball Club - “I just want to help out the community at large, for any age group. I care about this community.” SHEILA VINCENT, Thompson Falls Pickleball Club - “I volunteer to help my community.” GAYLE SERATT, Sanders County Coalition For Families - “Volunteering is so important because it shows support to the victims we save. It’s a way of supporting your fellow human beings in...
To some of the neighbors of Plains High School it might have looked like an invasion, but it was instead a group of teenagers and an adult launching rockets at night. It wasn't all fun and games - but most of it was just that - it was part of a science class at Plains High School. Ten students and science teacher Carl Benson gathered at the high school football field shortly before 9 p.m. last Monday to launch the model rockets they made for physics class. In all the years that Benson has been...
Tomorrow is the day of all days. The day when the honey bees come. This year, three additional colonies will be coming home with me. In the past when ordering bees, I’ve stuck with Italian honey bees, merely for the docile nature they possess. However, this time around, I am going to try my hand at tending to Carniolan honey bees. The temperament of a honey bee has always played a big factor for me when deciding on what species I want to keep. I’ve steered away from Carniolan bees in the past because they tend to be more aggressive than Ita...
For the first time in two years the Plains High School Art Department will host a live reception for an exposition of its students’ work. Plains High School Art Exhibition 2022 will take place on May 9 from 6-8 p.m. in the school’s new auditorium. Cole is unsure at this point how many pieces of art will be in the show, but believes there could be around 200 with a variety of mediums on display — graphite, ink, acrylic, watercolor, colored pencil, marker, digital, wire, metal, plaster, tape, ceramic, and digital photography. The art displ...
SOLUTIONS ACROSS 1. ESP 4. HASP 8. CORN 10. BETTA 11. ZOEA 12. COATIS 13. ENSUE 15. SLOVENE 16. METRO 17. HAULING 18. AROUND THE BEND 21. END 22. RAG 23. DST 24. MON 25. MET 26. LAO 27. MARILYN MONROE 34. PAIRINGS 35. TEALS 36. DERIDED 37. CUBIC 38. RAINED 39. SIVA 40. AGNES 41. SEEP 42. BEES 43. SSE SOLUTIONS DOWN 1. ECZEMA 2. SOONER 3. PRESTO 4. HEAVING 5. ATTEND 6. STING 7. PASE 9. NAURU 10. BOOLEAN 12. CLUBROOM 14. SAE 15. EON 17. HHD 19. DESTINED 20. TNT 23. DERIDES 24. MAN 25. MARINES 26....
