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The Thompson Falls Public Library will host the Montana Conversations program “Montana Women Writers” with Caroline Patterson on Tuesday, March 19. The program will be at the library at 6:30 p.m. The presentation is free and open to the public. Funding for the Montana Conversations program is provided by Humanities Montana through grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Montana’s Cultural Trust, and private donations. Patterson provides an hour-long survey of Montana women writers, from early Native American writers throu...
More than 1,000 Montana students in grades 7-12 attended the annual Montana Council of Teachers Mathematics Contest held at the University of Montana last Thursday. Thompson Falls was well represented by forty students who were selected by mathematics teachers Jeffreyanne VonHeeder and Katrina Nygaard. In six, half-hour rounds, students were tested (grade level based) on Foundations, Number Concepts, Dimensions and Shapes, Problem Solving, Applied Math, Intermediate or Advanced Math and a Pot...
1 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 13, 1919 NARROW ESCAPE Patrick Duffy who lives three miles west of Heron had the misfortune to lose his team of horses in the Clark’s Fork River last Sunday morning. He was taking them across the river on the ferry, which consists of a cage suspended from a cable by means of blocks and operated by a gas engine. The cable spans the river at a height of 150 feet. When about half way across the sheave of one of the blocks came off the cable and during the delay which ensued in trying to remedy the trouble, the horses b...
DON HOPPE, Noxon – “Someone from Chattahoochee, like an Alan Jackson song.” SANDY DAVIS, Noxon – “Nice downtown people … pretty happy people.” JUDY AUGUSTINE, Noxon – “A good, solid country boy. The kind you can rely on.” JAEDYN MURRAY, Noxon –“Someone who is hard working and crazy.” JAKE MICKELSON, Thompson Falls –“I consider myself off the grid. I consider myself redneck.” (He blacked out his tooth for fun.) DONALD LORD, Plains –“It’s more like a rancher. Someone who was raised on a ranch....
The Lakeside Resort's convention room was full of camouflage and blacked-out teeth Saturday night as the rednecks gathered to celebrate their heritage and raise money for the Trout Creek Community Improvement Association (TCCIA). The fifth annual Cabin Fever Redneck Ball kicked off Saturday evening with Dave and Deb Oliver taking the stage as "Thelma Lou and Billy Ray." The duo led the crowd of about 150 people in the Redneck Oath and starting off the entertaining with actual Billy Ray Cyrus...
The September day started out early, before the sun rose, as most expeditions like this do. I laced up my boots, filled my water bottles, and headed out the door with my friend and his dog, a needed companion. After traveling an hour and a half up Bull River Road, we finally arrived at the trailhead, with a sign that read "Leigh Lake Trail." We admired the glorious rock table next to the trailhead, then headed up the steep incline to begin the most marvelous hike of all. We started up at a...
Next week, students from several Sanders County schools will be spending a day dedicated to "Kicking Tobacco's Butt." Ronnie Trentham, a six-time oral, head and neck cancer survivor, will share his story on Tuesday, March 19 with students from Plains, Thompson Falls and Trout Creek. Trentham's presentation centers on the consequences of his own addiction to smokeless "chew" tobacco. Trentham will be accompanied by Cherokee Nation storyteller Greg Bilby, who offers American Indian stories that...
Cold temperatures have us all looking for a little warmth. Turkeys have been seen huddling to keep warm throughout the county last week. Temperatures are supposed to be consistently above freezing starting next week, as spring is just a couple weeks away....
Plains School was invaded by prehistoric animals Friday, but they weren't the normal dinosaurs. They had names like T-Rex Thompson, Coal Colyer and Big Red. They turned out to be school staff – Casey Thompson, Tyrel Allen, and Kevin Meredith – dressed in dinosaur costumes and they were managed by Paleontologist Pete Thom Chisholm, the school superintendent. The dinosaur raid was part of the school's I Love To Read Program theme "Dino-Mite Book Fair, Stomp, Chomp, and Read!" which is held dur...
Two feet of snow on the ground and temperatures in the teens seems to be a good time to start planning for warm weather events. Members of the Plains Business Association gathered at Dog Hill Bistro last Thursday to begin planning efforts for the annual festival of Plains Days. Matt Jaramillo, owner of Big Sky Network in Plains volunteered to be the director of the festival this year. Jaramillo moved from Texas to Plains six years ago and has put on four large events in the Lone Star State,...
AN ONLINE PETITION proposes to sell Montana to Canada for $1 trillion to eliminate the national debt. One person took the cause one step further, placing a small "For Sale" sign below the Welcome to Montana sign at the Montana-Idaho border west of Heron. Travelers coming from Idaho who saw the sign got a good giggle. Polly Raymond captured photos of the prank. "Just want to clarify I was not the clever person who placed the sign," Raymond said....
It is time to polish up those Billy Bob teeth, display your hillbilly best and celebrate in Trout Creek — redneck style. Trout Creek Community Improvement Association (TCCIA) is hosting the 5th annual Cabin Fever Redneck Ball on this Saturday at the Lakeside Motel and Resort. “Last year we had a record-breaking fundraising event,” said Elizabeth Stender, TCCIA chairperson, “and we are really hoping to have a new record breaker this year.” She commented that last year more than $30,000 was raised by TCCIA and every penny went right back into the...
DANIEL RASOR – VETERAN PACKER Daniel M. Rasor was born Aug. 23, 1909 in Kendall, Montana (which is now a ghost town), to Martin Rasor and Adeline LaTry, a member of the Chippewa Tribe. They had 10 children of which, Daniel was the youngest. After their marriage, Martin remained in eastern Montana working on various ranches for at least 10 years or so until he finally packed his belongings and left the family. Adeline tried to provide for her children, a task that wore her down. In 1914 she died and all of the children were taken to the orphanag...
TIM NELSON, Thompson Falls – “We should do it!” ZITA KENNEDY, Trout Creek – “YES! I wish they would leave Trump alone and let him do his job. They keep him running from one problem to another.” BILL BROWN, Trout Creek – “Yes I do believe it is a national security issue and it’s their job to protect our borders.” ROSALEA CONTRERAS, Costa Rica – “I’m not a U.S citizen, but I agree they should do it.” TROY FRYXELL, Plains – “Yah. Let’s all protect it. Trump’s right. It is an emergency. I’m originally from Arizona but have lived here for 20 ye...
They say that a way to a man's heart is through his stomach – the Committee for Safe Swimming (CSS) hopes that the way to donations is the same route. Janice Hanson, president of the CSS, is heading a "Fill the Pool Easter Truffles" campaign to raise money to repair the E.L. Johnson Memorial Pool in Plains. The pool is in need of major repairs and the town doesn't have the budget to get it fixed, said Mayor Dan Rowan, who added that it was leaking around 15,000 gallons of water each day last sum...
The Flat Iron Quilting Guild is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, and will sponsor their traditional quilt show in April. The theme for this year's event is Reflections. The quilt show is set for Saturday, April 13, with doors opening at 9:30 a.m. at Thompson Falls School. Admission allows your entry into a world of quilts for you to explore. A variety of quilted items will be displayed in seven categories, including favorites of past quilt shows and a section of antique quilts. To com...
If you like memorizing for fun, then Myra Lindborg has got something special for you. The Plains resident has 26 pages of lines of a one-act play and needs two more actors. “There’s a lot of lines, but it’ll be fun,” said Lindborg, who is directing Ledge, Ledger, and the Legend, a black comedy written by Paul Elliott. It’s one of three one-act plays being put on by the Paradise Players at the Paradise Center April 5, 6 and 7. Tickets are $13 in advance and $15 at the door. The first of the three plays begins at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, 7:30 p.m....
The Sanders County Arts Council (SCAC) is changing pace a bit with its March event for the Tapestry Performing Arts Season. On Saturday, March 9, the council will present “Bunkhouse Beans and Bacon” at the Clark Fork Valley Elks Lodge in Thompson Falls. The featured artists is Montana’s poet laureate Lowell Jaeger. According to SCAC, Jaeger will share his poetry and that of others, combined with his commentary, storytelling and humor. He believes that poetry can be employed in a variety of ways and can stimulate thoughtful reflection and discu...
PERCHED HIGH ON a tree above the Clark Fork River, an adult and juvenile eagle rest. As spring nears and snow berms next to area roadways melt, several eagles have been seen feeding on animals near the roads....
PUT UP YOUR DUKES – Two deer battle it out in the snow west of Plains. The deer smacked each other a couple of times, then moved on....
5 YEARS AGO • FEBRUARY 27, 1969 TWO VETERAN PACKERS END CAREERS FRIDAY Two of the real “old timers” among United States Forest Service personnel in western Montana – Earl Hendren of Thompson Falls and Dan Rasor of Trout Creek – will end their careers Friday with retirement. Hendren’s career started 51 years ago in the spring of 1918 and according to Irv Puphal, Thompson Falls district ranger, he is the only person now working for the Forest Service who can claim service that far back. Rasor began working for the Forest Service eight years...
WILLIAM BUTTE, Thompson Falls – “Little Bitterroot Services in Thompson Falls. It helps people with special needs. They do good work down there.” RICK SORENSON, Trout Creek – “The Little Bitterroot store in Thompson Falls. My mom shops there. But I also give to St. Jude’s Hospital for Children and Wounded Warriors.” BECKY FREEMAN, Thompson Falls –“If I were going to pick, I would donate to all of them.” CINDY KEPPNER, Thompson Falls – “I pick the food bank. We’ve used them before and they have saved my bacon. The volunteers are awesome. W...
This past year, the Clark Fork Valley Elks Lodge received $4,000 in an Elks National Foundations Grant to target the needs of youth in Sanders County. Thompson Falls Youth Baseball received $1,000 of the grant money, and the Blue Hawk Wrestling Club received another $1,000 to help students with financial needs to attend tournaments out of town. Trout Creek Community Improvement Association received $500 to help purchase school supplies for Trout Creek School. The remaining $1,500 was used to...
