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Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) is seeking a member of a local Chamber of Commerce to fill one vacancy on the Upland Game Bird Enhancement Program Citizens’ Advisory Council. The Advisory Council is made up of 12 volunteers representing various interests across the state, including a Chamber of Commerce representative. The purpose of the council is to advise FWP on the maintenance of a long-term Upland Game Bird Enhancement Program (UGBEP) strategic plan and to evaluate annual UGBEP activities. Participation in the Council will require t...
Ed Foste collects American flags after having them on display on the greenway along Railroad Street in Plains for two weeks. Foste and Dave Williams held a short ceremony for their nonprofit organization Joint Operation Mariposa at the site March 26 to bring awareness to veteran suicides. Later that night, the Navy veteran decided to start building a field of flags by putting out 20 U.S. flags every night to represent the estimated 20 veterans who take their lives each day, starting with one...
Despite the freezing temps and wind chill, warm-fuzzy feelings were present at the Trout Creek Easter Egg-stravaganza. "We have some pretty tough Montana kids. We had over 240 kids registered – just shy of last year's numbers when the weather was better," said Liz Stender, whose efforts with Trout Creek Community Improvement Association (TCCIA) help to put on the annual Easter egg hunt, "it was too cold for little fingers to do arts and crafts and cookie decorating, but they didn't let the c...
Members of the Plains Business Association have big plans for Plains Day this year, including making the annual festival a three-day event and including nearly 20 events scattered over the weekend of June 1, 2, and 3. "I am excited. I think that there's a lot of community partners involved and when that happens good things are bound to happen," said Erika Lawyer, treasurer for the Plains Business Association, the overall sponsor of Plains Days. This is the first time it's been a three-day...
5 YEARS AGO • APRIL 6, 1948 GUNDERSONS SELL SKOGMOS Sale of the Skogmo Clothing store to a new, still-to-be formed local corporation effective April 20 was announced Tuesday by owners Gary and Betty Gunderson. Stockholders in the new corporation will be Dean and Liz Margelin, State Rep. Chris Stobie and his wife, Ruby, Herb and Juanita Stobie, K.A. and Gladys Eggensperger and Jim and Middie Frost, all of Thompson Falls. Gunderson who is retiring from the clothing business after more than 35 years, will continue to reside in Thompson Falls. Gun...
"Connie Gunderson is a once-in-a-lifetime student," says local dog trainer Jan Manning. Gunderson and her dog, Mel, recently accomplished something none of Manning's students have ever done, "and we're talking about thousands of people and dogs over 30 years," she adds. Two weeks ago, "Team Gunderson" (Connie and Mel, a mixed-breed herding dog) competed in a dog obedience trial in Bozeman. In three days of competition, they earned two prestigious American Kennel Club awards: a Companion Dog...
Thompson Falls students in kindergarten through sixth grade are getting a little extra encouragement in reading. The Running Start program, sponsored by the Thompson Falls Woman’s Club, began this week with the students at Thompson Falls Elementary. Each year, Principal Len Dorscher leads the students on a playground run. But this year, Mother Nature had other plans and a late snowstorm canceled the run portion of the event. Karen Gustavsen with the Woman’s Club delivered a book to each child in grades K-6 on Tuesday, and Dorscher said he wou...
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For the second consecutive year Charlie Woolley nabbed top honors in the pinewood derby competition at the LDS Church in Plains. With his "Lyman #2," Woolley was undefeated in his five heats with his fastest time at 3.678 seconds at the 2nd Annual LDS Pinewood Derby Friday evening. Woolley's slowest time was 3.696, faster than all the other cars. Woolley was one of four adults and four kids in this year's pinewood competition, which was open to anyone in the community. The rules for the...
The town of Dixon is preparing for a stampede of bison this Saturday – or so the event’s name suggests. The stampede is actually the 4th Annual Bison Stampede Fun Run that invites area runners, joggers, and walkers to help raise money for improvements on Dixon’s school campus that is nearly 100 years old. Participants can join the excitement and run in a 5 kilometer race, 10 kilometer, or the 1 Mile Run for Fun. Once the races are finished, a pancake breakfast will be served. The entry fee for the 5k/10k is $25. There is no charge for child...
After three weeks of competition and an Easter weekend with a variety of weather issues, Mike Benson of Lonepine continues to lead in the 2018 Spring Mack Days. Benson has caught 724 lake trout thus far in the Flathead Lake competition. Friday cooler temperatures came in and with the cooler temperatures came winds and big waves on the water. The ground was blanketed with snow and anglers were met with cooler temperatures on Saturday, and Sunday the weather was a little better. Entries were 645 Friday, 229 Saturday and 883 Sunday, bringing the...
Trevecca Nazarene University recently announced the Fall 2017 Dean’s List. More than 600 traditional and non-traditional students were named to the list. Former Plains Trotter Kristen Josephson has been named to Trevecca’s Fall 2017 Dean’s List. To be named to the Dean’s List, each non-traditional undergraduate student must have completed 12 or more hours between July 1 and December 31, 2017. Students must also have attained a grade point average of 3.50 or higher. Traditional undergraduate students must be enrolled as a full-time undergr...
In last week’s “Getting to Know You” article on Karen Dwyer, her title with the Sanders County Health Department was incorrect. Dwyer was a program assistant. Also, of Dwyer’s church, she says that “Everyone is welcome at our table if they are baptized and believe in Jesus Christ....
The Heron Grandview Museum is hosting 'A VISIT WITH TEDDY ROOSEVELT' on Wednesday, April 11, 2018, at 7 p.m. at the Heron Community Center. The program is free and made possible with the assistance of Humanities Montana Speaker's Bureau 'Conversations' program. Meet the vibrant 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. Even Roosevelt's critics admired the man who took on the corporate trusts, charged up San Juan Hill, defied the party 'bosses', built the Panama Canal, defined...
Despite his post-traumatic stress disorder and a fear of public speaking, Plains resident Ed Foste knew his message to help veterans was important enough to get up and talk along the greenway in Plains Monday afternoon. Foste is part of Joint Operation Mariposa, a nonprofit organization created to bring awareness to veteran suicides and the families that are impacted. Foste spent 20 years in the U.S. Navy before retiring in 2002 – much of that time on the flight deck of aircraft carriers – and...
Easter Sunday’s forecast is a brisk 20 degrees, but area organizations are preparing for entertaining events. Noxon Town Park Committee has an egg hunt planned for kids in the area, Easter Sunday, April 1 “beginning noon sharp,” according to longtime organizer Sharon Larkin. The committee welcomes the public to join them at Noxon Town Park, across from the store, to hunt for candy filled eggs, as well as 20 eggs carrying $20 bills. Chocolate bunnies and other prizes are up for grabs and the hunt is divided into age groups to keep things fair;...
7 YEARS AGO • APRIL, 1948 MAIN STREET AT ITS BEST Public spirited citizens of Thompson Falls turned out in full force Sunday morning to clean Main Street, a project sponsored by D.J. Brockway. The accumulation of mud was shoveled from the curbs, then was washed away. The fire department equipment and the city grader were used effectively. This is the beginning of a campaign to make Main Street more attractive. OBITUARY – ARA DAVIS DOLSON Ara Davis Dolson was born near Novelty, Missouri March 8, 1869, and after being in ill health for ten years...
KYLE HOFFMAN, Thompson Falls — ”I’m from Thompson Falls but I’m now stationed in the Navy in Virginia. I’m home for the holiday to spend time with my family who I don’t get to see too often.” KEITH GOULLETTE, Sandpoint, Idaho — “We always have church services in the open air at sunrise. We start at 6:30 a.m. Then we come back to church for service. He is Risen Hallelujah!” CINDY SARTAIN, Trout Creek — “Given that it’s my first week in Montana and my husband and I are caretaking The Lodge at Trout Creek, we expect to meet a lot of new people...
Health. Epidemics. Statistics. Tobacco use. Kaitlynd (KT) Todd, 23, is studying epidemiology (the study of epidemics) and biostatistics (the study of health statistics) as a master of public health student at University of California-Berkeley. As a college student, she is also in the Truth Initiative's fellowship program. Because she cares deeply about the impacts of tobacco on health and environments, she shared last week with Noxon High School students, how she has pursued all of the above....
The Thompson Falls Public Library welcomed the tooth fairy (Annie Sundstrom) for story time on Saturday. Sundstrom read books to local kids and helped with tooth-inspired crafts. Story time is held each Saturday at 11 a.m. at the library....
County Christians will visit their preferred house of worship to observe the Easter holy days, this weekend. Noxon’s Baptist Moutain Church will hold a Passover dinner, Friday, March 30 (RSVP 847-1020). The congregation will meet Sunday, 11 a.m. for Easter service. The Noxon Mission will hold Easter Mass on Saturday, March 31 beginning at 4 p.m. Cabinet Mountain Bible Church in Trout Creek will hold a Good Friday service 6 p.m. at the church. A sunrise service will be held at 7 a.m. at the Trout Creek boat launch Easter Sunday, followed by brea...
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It was called a turkey shoot, but the targets were pigeons and the prizes were chickens, hams, and bacon. Between 35-40 people participated in the Plains Trap Club Spring Turkey Shoot Saturday, competing in 48 squads of seven different classes of competition – ladies, junior, doubles, mixed, buddy shoot, Annie Oakley, and the final event of the day, the "5X40." "This is the toughest one here," said Plains resident James Jermyn of the 5X40 contest. Each person put $5 into the kitty and took f...
Frank Tyro became visibly tearful when talking about his longtime friend and colleague after showing a documentary film about the man who dedicated his life to research on polar bears. The nearly hour-long film about the late wildlife biologist Chuck Jonkel was shown at the United Methodist Church Sunday afternoon to a small crowd of people from Plains, Paradise, Trout Creek, and Missoula. The event was free, donations went to the Great Bear Foundation, a nonprofit organization that was...
Within a few seconds of meeting Karen Dwyer, it is easy to determine that she is full of life and certainly embraces adventure. Who would expect anything else from a gal who was born and raised in Montana? The small town of Opportunity, Montana was blessed the day Dwyer was born. She joined a family of five; father, mother, two older brothers and an older sister. She claims being the youngest is "a much better position to be in...most of the time anyway." Dwyer's father was a chemist, proudly...
