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One hundred and seventy-five youth from kindergartners to seniors participated in this year's Sanders County Arts Council Art on the Walls Student Show in the Main Street Hallway at the Clark Fork Valley Hospital. The Arts Council and hospital, which co-sponsors the show, hosted a reception in the hospital lobby Thursday to kick off the student exhibit, which will be up until March 27. "It never ceases to amaze me how much talent we have in our communities from kindergarten to high school,"...
4 YEARS AGO • JANUARY 11, 1979 TROUT CREEK PUPILS ENJOY NEW SCHOOL Several boxes of tile are still piled in a corner of the basement lunchroom, workmen’s tools are still located temporarily in one classroom, but while some work remains, students and faculty of the Trout Creek Elementary School moved into their new building last week and they’re happy to be there. Steve Hendrick, head teacher at Trout Creek, says even the inconveniences being experienced because the new building is not entirely finished, beat the conditions under which classes...
FRANK RIBERTS, Thompson Falls – “The ‘haves and have nots’ in this depressed economy. I moved here from Spokane and would like them to promote economies in line with people’s philosophy of life.” LARRY LACK, Thompson Falls – “I’m the chairman of the aquatic species committee and we need new helicopters and parts. We have three helicopters. The cost of one rotor is $100,000. They are not cheap.” DONNELL SIRUCEK, Paradise – “I wish they would change the law so the issues can be voted on separately instead of lumping so many together.” MICHAEL...
Montana Behavioral Initiative (MBI) Youth Ambassadors at Noxon have taken a proactive approach to making positive changes at school. Under direction of Dana Grupenhoff, a business teacher and woman who wears many hats at the school, the ambassadors have directed a "positive activity every six weeks or so this year," according to Grupenhoff. "Our school was lacking a little in spirit and we were passionate about making a change," junior Brittany Hagen said sharing as the main reason the...
The lasting effects of a stroke can be very different depending on how fast a patient receives treatment. Advances in treatment are helping more people survive stroke without serious disability. But these treatments are only used in a narrow window of time four and a half hours after the known start of symptoms. During the next two months, Sanders County residents will hear about the signs of stroke and the need for urgent medical care. Clark Fork Valley Hospital and other local providers are...
Thompson Falls students in grades 4 through 8 competed in the annual Geography Bee earlier this month, with fourth-grader Addie Traver (front center) coming out on top. Each grade level had a geography bee, and then the top two students from each grade competed in the school-wide event. Traver won the school bee after several tiebreaker rounds with sixth-grade student Braedon Ferris (front left). Third place went to Alex Olesen (front right), also in sixth grade. Traver will now take a test...
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures! Remember a few months ago when the Sanders County Solid Waste Board (with the help of Environmental Health) sent letters to all the food vendors in the county, encouraging them to find better alternatives to Styrofoam for go-boxes, coffee cups, etc.? We have seen some progress! Kudos to those businesses that have made the switch. New York City has recently decided enough was enough: “On January 1, 2019, New York City stores and food-service businesses can no longer offer, sell or possess s...
The Noxon Business Professionals of America (BPA) team attended the regional competition last month, with 14 students qualifying for the state competition, to be held in March. Several students qualified for state in multiple events. The Global Marketing Team and the Admin Support Team also qualified state. The students attending the state competition include Delany Weltz, Kali Murray, Laurel Miller, Jenna Freeman, Nate Cano, Vanessa Horner, Chelsea Vohs, Jaedyn Murray, Cade VanVleet, Andy...
The following Montana Tech students have been placed on the Honor Roll (HR), Dean’s List (DL), and Chancellor’s Honor Roll (CL) for the fall semester 2018 at Montana Tech in Butte, Montana. Students are listed by hometown. A student who earns a 4.0 GPA is placed on the Chancellor’s Honor Roll. Those earning a 3.5 GPA will receive recognition for being listed on the Dean’s List. A full‐time undergraduate student (enrolling in and completing a minimum of 12 credits) who earns a 3.25 GPA during the semester is listed on the semester Honor Rol...
It has been over a two-year battle of valor, and Noxon's Danni Rae Hill has remained strong and persevered. She is a 6-year-old that has just received her last round of chemotherapy in efforts to kick Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), a cancer of the blood. On January 6 Hill crossed the finish line; the last dose of chemo was administered. For the next year she will have her blood drawn monthly to be sure she is in remission. If all is clear for five years, she will officially be diagnosed as...
There's nothing like the great outdoors. During these short, dark, dreary winter days, nothing brings a body to life more than the feeling of cool, crisp air tingling cheeks, noses, fingers and toes. The deep snow and balmy 25-degree weather did not stop Noxon or Thompson Falls schools' 46 junior high students from participating in the annual Winter Tracks program, sponsored by Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness (FSPW) last Thursday. In fact, it appears that these conditions are beneficial...
The Committee For Safe Swimming (CSS) is once again stepping up to help the Town of Plains repair the E.L. Johnson Memorial Pool. Janice Hanson, president of the nonprofit organization, said they placed a symbolic thermometer at McGowan’s Grocery Store to show the fundraiser progress to the community. The thermometer was placed at the store last Monday and they’ve already received a $250 donation, in addition to the $20,000 the group had in its kitty. Hanson said the group picked McGowan’s to show the thermometer because of the heavy traff...
As residents were shoveling winter's bounty over the weekend, the local wildlife population was braving the winter weather. As much as six inches of wet, fluffy snow fell on the valleys of Sanders County last weekend. A young whitetail buck (above) looks around for any exposed grass during a snowstorm Sunday afternoon near Plains. Below, a doe and two fawns trudge through the snow near Thompson Falls....
5 YEARS AGO • JANUARY 23, 1969 STATE ISSUES CALL FOR PERMA CURVES PROJECTS The Montana Highway Commission will open bids for reconstruction of three sections of Montana 200, including the Perma Curves. Scheduled for grading, paving, fencing and related work are .4 miles at Gould’s corner located 4.5 west of Dixon, .7 of a mile at McDonald Siding located 6.4 miles southeast of Perma and 3.5 miles of the Perma Curves located southwest of Perma. This section of highway was built by the CCCs in the 1930s and except for surfacing, little con...
JAMES STENERSON, Thompson Falls – “By keeping on getting the firewood. Yesterday was wood day.” KEN MONTOURE, Thompson Falls – “I try to find guys who have a joke to tell. You can usually find somebody who does.” STEVEN HUFF, Thompson Falls – “I keep busy on home improvement projects. Right now, I’m painting. I just got paint today for interior jobs.” TERRY JACKSON, Trout Creek – “I don’t. I got it at the beginning of Winter, and this is the first time I’ve been out in two weeks.” TERESA JACKSON, Trout Creek – “I work. I’m the bartender and...
The Sanders County Arts Council's Visual Arts Committee met at the Paradise Center Saturday to go over this season's special events and new classes, beginning with a new adult pottery class beginning Feb. 5. The Arts Council has had pottery classes in the past, but this is the first time the nonprofit organization will offer an extended lesson, said Karen Thorson, president of the Arts Council. Thorson and Ellen Childress, both Plains residents, will be giving the four-week long class, which wil...
Inga Scharnhorst recently purchased The Beauty Bar Salon in Trout Creek. "It's a dream come true," the salon owner said recently. Scharnhorst is originally from the Troy area, but went to cosmetology school in Utah. She said she knew what she wanted to do but wanted to go out of state for training. She chose Utah because their cosmetology license required the same number of hours as Montana, 2,000. She noted that some states require fewer hours, which makes transferring a license more...
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY Montana State University in Bozeman announced its undergraduate honor rolls for fall semester 2018. There are two MSU honor roll lists: the President’s and the Dean’s Honor Roll. Students must complete a minimum of 12 credit hours to be on either list. Students with a perfect 4.0 grade point average for the semester were named to the President’s Honor Roll (noted by an asterisk). The following Sanders County students are among the 3,541 students earning grade point averages of 3.5 or above for the semester. Heron...
Montana State University Extension will offer farm management workshops in eight communities, including Plains, this spring. MSU Extension economists George Haynes, Kate Fuller and Joel Schumacher will lead the workshops. Other contributing faculty members will include agricultural economists Anton Bekkerman, Diane Charlton and Eric Belasco; family economist Marsha Goetting; cropping systems specialist Kent McVay; beef cattle specialist Megan Van Emon; rangeland weed specialist Jane Mangold; soil fertility specialist Clain Jones; and forage...
The Wild Coyote Saloon took advantage of the winter weather last weekend, hosing a winter carnival for local families. Non-profit Project ASCENT hosted games and sold comfort food including cocoa and chili to participants. Children and adults tried their luck at games such as a reindeer ring toss, magnet ice fishing and a shooting gallery in which contestants shot foam darts at a wall of yeti targets. Kids earned tickets at each game, and could trade their tickets in for prizes including bouncy...
5 YEARS AGO • JANUARY 16, 1969 BRONCO LIZ, TF DANCE HALL QUEEN ALSO DROVE THOMPSON PASS FREIGHT WAGON The heavy snow and low temperatures being experienced in Sanders County this winter had a parallel 85 years ago, according to Will John. The account of that winter in 1883 appears under the title, “Frontier Cheer,” and it is reproduced below. Snow and the temptation of new gold diggings in the Coeur d’Alene mountains in Idaho combined to make a little town close by the falls in the Clark Fork River one of the brawlingest tent villages in the...
ANSON ROWNDY, Idaho Falls –“I pay my income taxes by March.” MIKE MARICH, Thompson Falls – “I pay my property taxes as soon as I get the bill. Income taxes, the latter part of February.” KENDRA HELVEY, Thompson Falls – “I pay my property taxes in November for the full year. I pay my income taxes quarterly as soon as the accountant is done.” SCOTT RYDER, Trout Creek – “I don’t own property so I don’t pay taxes. I pay income taxes in April if there are any due.” JERRY SANDERS, Thompson Falls – “Property taxes the first of the year. I’m on Socia...
Pajamas, PJs, jammas or jammies...stripes, solids, flannels, fleece, silk, cotton, nightgown, long sleeves, short sleeves, pants or shorts, footed set or a union suit? The options are endless and Noxon's National Honor Society (NHS) has honored the late Kathy Fitchett by continuing the Pajama Drive she began years ago. Under the direction of Lucas MacArthur, NHS members "put their heads together to come up with a special community service project," MacArthur shared, adding that the society...
