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For nearly 40 years, students at Thompson Falls Elementary have participated in the school's Running Start Program. A program geared toward encouraging students to read for fun. On Friday morning, Elementary Principal Len Dorscher gathered students in K-6 for the traditional run around the basketball court to symbolize the start of the program. "I've been leading the run for all nine years I've been here," Dorscher said. "This is the longest running program of any sort we've done at this...
Spring has sprung for the Trout Creek Community Improvement Association (TCCIA) as they get ready to host their 8th annual Easter Eggstravaganza. Every year, up to 300 kids show up to hunt for the nearly 6,000 eggs that have been filled with candy and prizes by volunteers. Last year’s event saw over 200 children. “We are anticipating a lot of happy kiddos again,” said Liz Stender with TCCIA. This year’s Eggstravaganza is free and will be held on Saturday, April 16, at Trout Creek Park. Activities will include an easter egg hunt for differe...
6 YEARS AGO • MARCH 29, 1917 VOTERS FAVOR NEW BUILDING Work Will be Rushed as Rapidly as Possible for Occupancy in the Fall That new schoolhouse! We are going to have it. By a vote of 142 to 44 the voters of the district authorized the issuance of not more than $12,000 worth of bonds to provide for the construction and furnishing of a two-story brick school building. As soon as the bonds are sold, bids for the building will be advertised for. It is hoped that construction work can be s...
JUDY RIPKA, Thompson Falls - “Totally a dog person! I was born and raised with dogs; my whole life has been dogs! They call me the dog mom!” BOBBY JO FISHER, Trout Creek - “I love my animals! I have both cats and dogs.” LEON HELSTAD, Trout Creek - “I’m a dog person cause my wife makes me!” JARED WEBLEY, Whitepine - “I prefer dogs over cats because they are a little more interesting than cats. They want to be pet when you want to pet them, cats are kind of the opposite.” BOB REESER, Thompson Falls - “I just like animals of all kinds. I like d...
Have you ever wandered into your local feed store and walked out with not only four new Ameraucana chicks but two turkey poults as well? I have. I’m still not sure how it happened, but it did and I’m not even upset about it. Over the years I’ve read quite a bit about raising chickens and ducks but not so much about raising turkeys. I know they are similar to hens in the sense that they are social and friendly, but that’s about it. Before getting chicks, I spent the winter reading about how to raise them, before the ducks, another winter...
Beagle's Bakery and Espresso in Thompson Falls celebrated five years in business last Friday. Known for their homemade baked goods, breakfast sandwiches and burritos, owner Heather Chavez spent the day welcoming customers and celebrating with her family. To mark the occasion, customer's names were drawn every hour for prizes. From free drinks and breakfast sandwiches to the final drawing at 3 p.m. for a basket loaded with merchandise and coffee. "I'm very humbled that we've been able to...
SOLUTIONS ACROSS 1. SSE 4. GALAS 9. AMBOS 14. PEG 15. RIANT 16. VEINS 17. APR 18. EDDIE VEDDER 20. STELES 22. ACRID 23. MASAN 24. DAMASCENE 28. SIG 29. AC 30. ORAD 31. CAECA 33. MALES 37. MU 38. OSS 39. GRADATE 41. SAC 42. MI 43. EARED 44. PAUSE 46. EDOM 49. ME 50. ALB 51. SERENADES 55. RATES 58. ADOBE 59. MARINA 60. RATIONALIST 64. TAR 65. PROAS 66. RENEE 67. LCD 68. MERLE 69. SYNCS 70. ETA SOLUTIONS DOWN 1. SPASM 2. SEPTA 3. EGRESSES 4. GREENGAGE 5. AIDS 6. LAD 7. ANI 8. STEAM 9. AVERS 10....
Project ASCENT is opening camper sign-ups April 1 for statewide application. The nonprofit has been providing free summer camps to Montana youths ages 12 to 17 for the last seven years. The adventure camps provide a chance for exploration to any Montana student who applies and is selected. Depending on the funding available, Project ASCENT hosts five camps and each trip ranges from four to five days, providing up to 50 kids with the opportunity of a lifetime. According to the organization founder, these camps could be crucial to future mental...
Stuck in a church basement during a storm, five women learned a lot about life and each other last weekend. The church basement was the stage at The Paradise Center in Paradise and the women were five actors displaying their talents in The Paradise Players' presentation of "The Charitable Sisterhood of the Second Trinity Victory Church." The play is set in the 1970s and portrays a minister's wife who always knows just what the gorup needs to do, a mother of nine, a former nurse, a private...
6 YEARS AGO • MARCH 29, 1917 ICE MELTS IN LAKE During the past week the ice that has covered the lake above the dam to a depth of more than a foot has practically disappeared. Only a few small pieces remain along the shore. The warm weather rotted the ice away and almost all of it melted without going over the dam. The passing of the ice has released many of the logs along shore and they are beginning to drift into the runway that is to carry them over the dam. A crew of men is at work and the logs are kept moving as fast as they strike t...
Beau Mccormick, Thompson Falls - “My best prank is putting a video on YouTube of a screen breaking paused on the new TV and letting my parents walk in and see it.” Virgil Holtrop, Thompson Falls - “We were tricked into getting up an hour earlier because someone changed all the clocks in the house, and we didn’t even know about it until we got back home from school. Susan Becktold, Trout Creek - “My husband made a prank call to my brother who was a produce manager and asked for 'John berries,' and my brother’s name is John. He really had...
Thompson Falls students performed the play "Johnny Appleseed" for classmates and community members last week in the junior high gym. Missoula Children's Theatre (MCT) and Thompson Falls Schools have been working together to bring theater opportunities to students for the last 40 years. This year alone, MCT has worked with 65,000 children in more than 1,200 communities in all 50 states and 17 countries. "Auditions are open to anybody in K-12, but are limited to the students who live within our sc...
Kimberly Bates of Plains, Montnaa, would like to announce the birth of her iconic first granddaughter – Lainie Frances Bates Tangedal. Lainie was born to Ryan and Kara Tangedal on December 24, 2021, at St. Peter's Hospital in Helena. Even then Lainie knew the spotlight should be on her, so she immediately demanded to be life-flighted to Community Hospital in Missoula to get the attention she knew she deserved. After being feted and pampered by the doctors and nurses, she was released to her a...
One thing I have not done a lot of is ice fishing. As the year warms up, I find myself wanting to learn more about how to be successful next year. Just getting into it, I’m learning that it is like an extreme version of ordinary fishing in the sense that it is either “really on” or “really off.” Either every jig or drop nets you a fish or nothing you can do short of draining the lake and having a look around the bottom on foot can guarantee a fish. As with any fishing, the frustrations can be immense, but the rewards matching. However,...
SOLUTIONS ACROSS 1. BRAES 6. EAT 9. PACK 13. EAGAN 14. PALS 15. ABLE 16. EKES 17. SARAH 18. RIEL 19. SIDELINES 21. CABAL 22. SAROD 23. SUN 24. NY 25. TEE 28. PER 29. MOROS 31. ARAS 33. SATELLITE 36. TAMES 38. MOL 39. SAIGA 41. SEPARATOR 44. CLAN 45. SARIS 46. DOB 48. EDD 49. EB 51. ROB 52. PROAS 54. RAGAS 56. DIATHESIS 60. ABUT 61. BEAMY 62. ACNE 63. SENE 64. TANA 65. FLUTE 66. ELKS 67. UFO 68. ESTOP SOLUTIONS DOWN 1. BEES 2. RAKI 3. AGED 4. EASES 5. SN 6. EARED 7. ALAS 8. TSH 9. PARANOIAC 10....
Time is whittling down for the Plains Wood Carving Club to get pieces done for the big show in May, especially since the club leader is coordinating the carving gala once again. Tom Collins, who has directed the Plains club for six years, is one of a dozen locals putting knives, chisels and gouges to wood in an effort to woo the crowds at the 2022 Montana State Wood Carvers Show May 7-8. Club members meet nearly every Tuesday evening at 6:30 in the VFW conference hall to work on their projects...
Every March 14, math and science lovers around the world celebrate Pi Day, a commemoration of the mathematical sign pi. The date written numerically as 3/14 matches the first three digits of the never-ending number: 3.14. Pi Day was officially designated a holiday by the U.S. House of Representatives in 2009, but was first celebrated in California in the year 1988. Teachers embrace the holiday with fun math, science and art activities for their students. This year, Trout Creek Adventist School s...
6 YEARS AGO • MARCH 22, 1917 ARREST MOOCHERS AT PLAINS Several I.W.W. Organizers Causing Trouble – Authorities Are Active The sheriff’s office has been busy in the past week picking up troublemakers at Plains, many of whom carry I.W.W. cards. There are eight in the county jail now serving thirty-day sentences for vagrancy. In the vicinity of Kalispell, Eureka and Great Falls there has been so much trouble from the agitators that vigilant committees have been formed among the citizens and in several instances the governor has been appea...
ALEXANDER HORODYSKI, Plains - “Cleaning up camp sites because of the sewage and all the plastics they leave out.” KENDYL ELIAS, Roseburg, Oregon - “Dusting because it takes forever!” EMMA STILES, Roseburg, Oregon - “My least favorite thing is dusting because it makes me sneeze.” TRAVIS CARNEY, Running Springs, California - “Putting winter things away in the attic every year. You got to get the ladder out, move stuff around and reorganize.” COURTNEY WOODS, Thompson Falls - “I hate picking up leaves and doing yard work because it’s very laborio...
A local button club has formed following a surge of interest in buttons after a display was set up in the Thompson Falls Public Library by Willina Lueb. The club has been operating for almost a year now, and meets monthly. The group has five members, with another possibly joining. "It's been a lovely spreading out of interest in the community," Lueb said. According to members, the group has been very active, especially with March being National Button Month. As was done last year for the same...
Thompson Falls High School held its prom on Saturday, March 19, crowning royalty. Thompson Falls students voted Olivia Pirnat and Ryan Bucher as king and queen (right). Other senior class members included in the royalty were Ben Croft, Cella VanHuss, Nolan Ward, Shayla Micklon, Maggie Lever and Connor Dogan....
SOLUTIONS ACROSS 1. RUER 5. MST 8. RAT 11. OXBOW 13. AKA 14. RABI 15. MOLTO 16. NIL 17. AGEE 18. RACES 20. ILL 21. SETS 22. ABOLISHES 25. TRANSLUCENT 30. SHINNED 31. DNA 32. KOREA 33. TABES 38. FAA 41. EBONIES 43. UNDESIREABLE 45. SUBSIDIES 48. MAGI 49. MUT 50. EAGAN 55. EBRO 56. ICH 57. AUBER 59. SEIS 60. ZEE 61. RABBI 62. ARC 63. ERR 64. REED SOLUTIONS DOWN 1. ROM 2. UXOR 3. EBLA 4. ROTC 5. MANIOC 6. SKILLED 7. TALLINN 8. RAGEE 9. ABETS 10. TIES 12. WOE 14. RASH 19. SALE 23. BUD 24. STATOR...
Three Sanders County students were chosen to participate in this year’s Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Good Citizens program and scholarship contest. The Good Citizens program is intended to encourage and reward qualities of good citizenship. There were a total of seven area students that were honored by the Kuilix Chapter of the DAR at the Mission Valley United Methodist Church in St. Ignatius. Each student received a Good Citizen certificate and pin, a money award and a delicious lunch. Vanessa Horner of Noxon High School was a...
The Clark Fork Valley Elks (CFVE) hosted their fourth annual community baby shower for expecting mothers and families with children in Sanders County on Saturday. "We have 21 mothers or expecting mothers at this year's baby shower," said Michelle Blackstone with CFVE. The event is made possible with funding from the Elks National Foundation's Spotlight grant. Funding is given to those events that focus on health, nutrition and literacy in the families. Kay McKinzie, the Sanders County Tobacco...
The leprechaun's "gold" coins on bingo spots might not have brought any more luck, but the contestants had fun, said Heather Allen, who coordinated the St. Patrick's Day Dinner and Bingo night at the VFW in Plains last Thursday night. Twenty-two kids and adults participated in the club's first St. Patrick's Day Dinner and Bingo celebration from 5:30-8:30 p.m. at the VFW hall. The VFW Auxiliary ran the dinner with corned beef and cabbage tacos and the club conducted the bingo session after...
