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A group of kids and military veterans braved the cold temperatures last week to give a batch of U.S. flags a proper sendoff. With the weather dipping into the low 20s, VFW Post 3596 held a flag retirement ceremony in the rear parking lot of the post Friday evening. The ceremony included members of the 4-H South Side Sparks and Plains Boy Scout Troop 1957. "The American flag, otherwise known as Old Glory, the Stars and Stripes or the Star-Spangled Banner, represents the land, the people, the...
W.B. RUSSELL TIMBERMAN By Mike Scott contributor to The Plainsman William Bruce Russell is best remembered as the Eddy Sawmill man. He learned the timber business as a youth in the New York area. At age sixteen, in 1880, he headed west to seek his fortune. By 1891 he had moved to Thompson Falls where he operated a mill. Late in that year he moved to what was known as Russell Spur on the NP line, a mile east of Eddy. This was an ideal location for a lumber mill for driving logs downriver to the...
KENDA BRESTER, Trout Creek – “I’ve probably read five or six. I read mostly novels my mom hands down to me.” ELLEN BROWN, Thompson Falls – “At least 10. I like mysteries and animal-oriented.” GAYLE BORREGA, Thompson Falls – “I read a lot. Probably 120. I like history and mystery and nature, especially John Muir’s writings. I moved here three years ago and still haven’t unpacked boxes of books.” KATRINA GOATLEY, Thompson Falls – “Over 100. I like sci-fi and mysteries. I have no special favorites. There are too many books. My youngest reads at...
Compassion, excellence, integrity, unity, respect... the core values spoken at Thompson Falls School District. How do you teach a child what these complicated words mean? Crystal Buchanan with Sanders County Coalition for Families knew the answer: with fun, hands-on projects. Buchanan organized Thompson Falls Elementary School's seventh Family Literacy and Art Night, which took place last Thursday evening. "She tied the core values and found books that teach that value and then had a project to...
HONORING THEIR SERVICE – A group of veterans were recognized for their military service when Ed Foste and Dave Williams presented each of them with a Quilts of Valor custom made quilt. From the left: Charles Foreman, Jim Gillibrand, both Army veterans, Gary Jenson, Navy, Ron Chisenhall, Army, Ron Kilbury, served both in the Army and Navy, Bob Kunch, Navy, and Jimmie Allison, Air Force. Foste and Williams are members of the nonprofit organization Joint Operation Mariposa, which works with Q...
Editor’s Note: During this special season of giving, The Ledger and First Security Bank would like to salute all the local nonprofit agencies that provide services to our Sanders County communities. They volunteer time, services, hearts and souls to help others. They truly put the “unity” in community. While there are many wonderful and worthy organizations in our country we hope you will consider a donation right here at home this holiday season. Cancer Network of Sanders County PO Box 1311 Plains, MT 59859 Phone: 826-4278 Contact: Kathy...
You start by looking at people's faces, the whole point is that the width between the eyes is the same as one eye width, the bridge of the nose doesn't come to a sharp point, it is rounded.... Things you do not think about until you must. A time when you are carving Santa Claus's face perhaps. John Meckler, a retired English teacher who now volunteers as a woodworking teacher, put on a demonstration at the Paradise Center for those interested in learning how to carve a wooden Santa Claus last Sa...
One Plains teacher took her students out of the classroom for their lesson last week to learn art and to help spread the holiday spirit. Forty-three students from Plains High School scattered throughout Plains Friday to paint Christmas designs on business windows. “They’ve done a fabulous job and they love doing this, especially the new ones, and they love being out of the classroom,” said Kristen Cole, the school’s art teacher, who spent the day going from one end of town checking on her stu...
"It gave me such great memories when I went to school here," said 94-year-old Betty Meyer after the 2nd Annual Christmas Tree Lighting Celebration at the Paradise Center, formerly Paradise Elementary School Sunday evening. Meyer was one of more than 60 people who gathered in the multi-purpose room, which used to be the school gymnasium, to attend the Christmas program, sponsored by the Paradise Elementary School Preservation Committee. Meyer was a student at the school from first to eighth...
Plains is known for horses. It's the school mascot. The former elementary school was called Wild Horse Plains. An entire herd of horses recently lined the fence along the greenway. The town police patches had been Wild Horse Plains. Chief of Police Shawn Emmett said the town was called Horse Plains until it was incorporated in 1907. And now there's a new horse in town standing by itself on the grass along Railroad Street near Central Avenue. It's a 600-pound, 8-foot long, 9 ½-foot tall...
NOXON SCHOOL COOKS Louise Chandler (left) and Cristina Summers have some fun at the Noxon PTO Christmas Bazaar on Dec. 2. Proceeds from the event go to the PTO Senior Scholarship fun. Organizer Cecilia Beardsley said the group raised the most money in the last three years and thanked all the vendors and volunteers for their help....
The Sanders County community's Christmas spirit is bursting at the seams. Holiday bazaars, pictures with Santa, tree lightings and the annual Christmas on Main Street in Thompson Falls had even the grinches singing carols over the weekend. In Thompson Falls, the annual Sanders County Christmas Bazaar welcomed 46 vendors offering arts and crafts, baked goods and other items. Organizer Janie McFadgen, in her second year as leader of the bazaar, said the feedback from vendors and participants was...
Original interpretations of creativity and "sweet" equity were the driving forces shown off at the Sanders County Historical Society's 21st Annual Gingerbread Contest on Saturday. This year's contest theme was "Christmas in the Old West." Fourteen entries vied for the top prize, the "Auntie A Award," named after long-time supporter of the contest the late Alice Nakamura. This year the Auntie A Award with the most votes cast was for Pam Peters and Kate Baxter's Family/Group entry, an Old West...
11 YEARS AGO • FEBRUARY 14, 1980 LIGHTWEIGHTS LEAD HAWKS TO TITLE At the beginning of this year’s wrestling season the odds favored the Blue Hawks to repeat as state champions, but as the year progressed the Hawks stock rose and fell. The Blue Hawks did have a winning dual season and they did extremely well in the four tournaments they participated in but they could do no better than tie with Arlee behind Seeley-Swan at the division tournament. By that time quite a few people had written off the Blue Hawks’ chances for repeating at State...
JANICE STERNS, Thompson Falls – "Yes. It is called, June’s Journey. It’s a mystery. You find clues to find out who dunnit. It’s a little bit different.” CHANTEL ELDER, Thompson Falls – “Yes, I do. I play all four of the Candy Crush games. I play pretty much every day. It occupies my mind and makes me think.” TOM NORRIS, Thompson Falls – “My grandson, Cooper, does play Minions and Marco. When I’m traveling by plane, I play waste basket.” DYLAN ROSS, Paradise – “Yes, I do. I play Candy Crush and Runescape.” JOSEPH ALTMAN, Thompson Falls – “Yes...
The Polar Express is making a stop at Plains School for the month of December, compliments of train enthusiast Bill Beck. The Plains resident set up the train and a winter village last week and left it in charge of train "conductor" Thom Chisholm, the school superintendent, who will turn the train on periodically throughout the school day. "I think the teachers like it more than the kids," said the 77-year-old Beck, who worked on the train village for about six hours. He finished Monday by...
Donations of new and unwrapped toys are being accepted throughout Sanders County for the annual Toys for Tots campaign. Boxes have been placed at Gamble’s in Hot Springs, the Plains VFW, and at Harvest Foods, Valley Bank, Thompson Falls Trading Post and Ace Empire Builders in Thompson Falls. Requests for toys can also be made locally and must be received by Thursday, Dec. 13, for distribution on Saturday, Dec. 15. To apply for toys for children or for more information, email [email protected], call (406) 212-2622 or visit w...
Now in its fifth year, the Montana Youth Leadership Council met last Friday to develop projects addressing childhood hunger during Fight Childhood Hunger Week next April 8-14, 2019. Over 50 applications were received, and 20 members were selected to represent middle and high schools in 19 different communities across Montana. First Lady Lisa Bullock attended the meeting with student representatives at the Capitol Building in Helena. "I commend you for reaching out and being here to help us," Bul...
Thompson Falls high school counselor Jodi Morgan shared some good news at the school board meeting Monday. Morgan proudly announced that senior Nathan Burwig received the QuestBridge scholarship, which includes more than $70,000 a year for four years at Tufts University near Boston, Massachusetts. This year, the program received a record high 16,248 applications. Of those, 6,507 were chosen as finalists. Burwig was one of 1,044 students to receive the QuestBridge College Match Scholarship. According to the QuestBridge website, “College Match S...
One Trout Creek woman has traveled the world as an ambassador of the United States, first as a member of the Air Force, then for the U.S. State Department. Now that she's retired, it's time for her to devote her energies full time to promote her own Native American heritage and she's doing it with music. "I want to help people be more at peace with themselves and with each other," said Chilaili Wachiwi, who moved to Trout Creek in June and has already performed with her flute in Plains, Noxon...
Local non-profit Sanders County Coalition for Families (SCCFF) is one of 10 non-profit groups selected as a finalist for Blackfoot’s 4th Annual Great Give Back award. Votes can be cast online at www.blackfoot.com (click on the Great Give Back logo). The group with the most votes will earn a $500 grant, and one contest voter will receive a $250 gift card. According to Blackfoot, the 10 finalists were chosen to represent several communities and a wide variety of worthwhile causes across their service areas. The company said that there were s...
The night sky over the county fairgrounds was dotted with colored lights last weekend as people's messages drifted to the heavens. Nearly a dozen people participated in the Cancer Network of Sanders County's (CNSC) eighth annual Chinese Lantern Launch Saturday evening. The lanterns carried a variety of messages to mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, and others as a flame inside the lanterns raised them into the night. Most of the handwritten notes went to people who had lost their battle with...
5 YEARS AGO • DECEMBER 5, 1968 MUSEUM, AIRPORT GET TOP C. OF C. PRIORITIES State Sen. Eugene H. Mahoney was elected president of the Thompson Falls-Noxon Chamber of Commerce at the annual banquet Monday night at the Thompson River Ranch. In accepting the presidency, Mahoney said three projects which the chamber should work on in the future include construction of an airport at Noxon, a museum at Thompson Falls and improvements and additional deluxe facilities for Thompson Falls State Park. D.J. Brockway in relinquishing his post told c...
