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XAVEAN KINSMAN, Trout Creek - “First you have to put it in the oven!” CAMRYN EATON, Trout Creek - “You juice the turkey, then you put it in the oven, then you take it out.” GARRETT MURRAY, Trout Creek - “You juice it, then you have to cook it, then you have to wait until that red dot comes out and then take it out and then enjoy.” BOBBIE MCKENZIE, Thompson Falls - “You stuff it then you put it in the oven and then you take it out!” AVA BROWN, Trout Creek - “You put in the oven and then you take it out and that’s it!” CAYDENCE ETIENNE, Nox...
With the first snowflakes falling on the area, the Thompson Falls community is preparing for its annual Christmas on Main Street event. The theme for this year’s event, scheduled for December 2-4, is “Christmas is Coming.” The Thompson Falls Chamber of Commerce will present the Holiday Stroll 4-6 p.m. on Thursday, December 2. Businesses will be open offering goodies and specials, and carolers will be singing up and down Main Street. Craft stations will be set up at First Baptist Church, The Ledger and Rex Community Theather, and at 6 p.m....
The relationship between food and art has allowed the students of Noxon to explore their creative side as well as their cooking skills. Noxon's middle school art class and Intro to Art students attended a launch party last week in the school's multipurpose room to celebrate their newly published cookbook. "Each student was responsible for writing and illustrating a recipe," said Noxon School art teacher Jessie Novak. The cookbook contains nearly 30 recipes and took the students only a week and...
Square dance caller Than Peake (left) combines singing with commands for members of the Montana Mavericks Square Dance Club dance recently at the Plains Paradise Senior Citizens Center....
The Plains Lions Club put up their Christmas decorations along Main Street a week early, not to spread holiday cheer earlier, but to make sure everything was working. After putting them up the lights in 2020, the club found several that weren't working and couldn't get them all fixed until they were well into the season. Nevertheless, Steve Spurr, club president of the Plains Lions Club and member of six years, hopes to make the town more festive and putting out the decorations puts him in an...
When Sir Isaac Newton formulated his law of gravity over 350 years ago after seeing an apple fall from a tree, he probably didn't envision raw eggs being tossed from a roof to validate his findings. Nevertheless, for the last three decades at Plains High School, raw eggs have been sent to their doom in the name of science. The students of Carl Benson's physics class are learning Newton's Principia Mathematical Philosophiae Naturalis not with apples, but with their annual Egg Drop Project. One...
The Plains Ladies Auxiliary VFW Post 3596 was formed in 1939 and began sending care packages at the beginning of World War II. Every year since, the group has been sending packages to soldiers overseas during the holidays. According to group president Deborah Davis, in the past the packages used were big metal coffee cans, but over the years postage prices and shipping restrictions have limited the group to medium sized post office boxes. "My husband served 17 years in active duty and received...
I love yard sales. One of my favorite things to do is to walk around collections of old stuff to see what I can find. I have found that something I tend to do is stop and look at paintings. Of all the things in the sale, these are probably my favorite. I have a habit of finding gems in the rough, often looking at a piece of art and thinking, “something about that is important.” I then stare at them for a while. If it is a real painting and not a print, I will often get it, especially if it is cheap. A good painting that speaks to a person is...
6 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER 17, 1916 AT THE HUNTERES’ CABIN The Cakes are Good But the Hunting is Rotten Ten Men to Get One Deer The official opening of the hunters’ cabin at the junction of Thompson River and Deerhorn Creek occurred last Saturday when “Slim” McNair and Frank Woodard arrived with a brand-new stove and an insatiable ambition for deer. Saturday H.O. Bond, W.T. Utz, H.C. Austin and H.A. White footed it up the trail and joined the gang around the supper table. Sunday “Doc” Miller resigned the drug store to “Skeeter” and arrived to get t...
JUDY BERTRAM, Thompson Falls - “My favorite food for Thanksgiving is turkey because it’s so darn good!” JESSE MOSHER, Thompson Falls - “Green bean casserole. I don’t know why, I just love it.” ANN DONALDSON, Thompson Falls - “My mom’s homemade sweet potato casserole. We only make it one time a year.” PATTY KARDOKUS, Heron - “Stuffing, because it’s a good hardy dinner.” BECKY YODER, Thompson Falls - “Sweet potatoes. I like them plain, not necessarily in a casserole. Just plain fired sweet potatoes.” LILLI CUPP, Noxon - “Homemade mashed potatoes...
For over 10 years the Shakespeare in the Schools program has been bringing high quality productions to numerous rural schools in the state. The program is a branch of the Montana Shakespeare in the Parks program out of Montana State University. It presents a different play every year and is generally a condensed production of a longer play. Many of the plays chosen are Shakespeare's more famous or popular ones. The play presented on Tuesday was a fun and comical performance much enjoyed by the...
The Paradise Center has a new club that will hopefully encourage more participation in working on one of the center's main displays. The Paradise Center Railroad Club, which presently has a handful of "members" to work on the railroad display located on the main floor. Dave Colyer of Paradise and Mac Hall of Plains have been heading the project, which started in 2017. Colyer said the COVID pandemic has stifled progress, but he feels the group has come a long way. They've had workshops and a few...
The Montana Mavericks Square Dance Club had its first lesson in two years Friday night at the Plains Paradise Senior Center. It had synchronized moves and some good musical beats, but more than the occasional stepping on toes. On Saturday at the club's November dance, there were no students, fewer toe mishaps, and the gathering was done in a more colorful setting as the participants donned their square dance apparel. It'll be about three months before the nine students of Friday's class will be...
An organization that specializes in tourism met with Sanders County residents on a fact-finding mission in an effort to help the nonprofit group decide on an effective tourism plan, but making sure the people's concerns are heard. Sixteen people showed up at the meeting Wednesday morning at the Paradise Center to participate in the Glacier Country Regional Tourism Commission Town Hall research probe. Racene Friede, the organization's CEO, said tourism is important, but it's also imperative to...
4 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 8, 1981 MANY CHANGES OCCUR IN PLAINS' CENTURY by Lenora Brown With the Plains Centennial Celebration coming up, this reporter came out of a recent Chamber of Commerce meeting, looked up and down Main Street and tried to picture just what Wild Horse Plains was like 100 years ago. Here is the beautiful Clark Fork River running past town. Here are the railroad tracks where the wild horses used to roam. What was it like to come into town just after the railroad tracks were l...
GAIL SOPER, Plains - “My father who was in the Navy and my husband who was in the Army and the service that they did for our country.” SONYA WHITE, Plains - “Reminds me of all the veterans that I drive. I drive for the DAV. They are so interesting with all their stories because they all have unique paths." GINGER GOERTZ, Trout Creek - “On Veterans Day I think of all the vets that aren’t getting what is due to them. I wish the government would do more for our veterans.” MATTHEW LINDSAY , Thompson Falls - “Jack Dempsey Mercer. He was my great...
After waiting for a couple months, students from the Trout Creek School had a painting returned to them that they had the privilege of naming last year. The painting of a horse, done by Joint Operation Mariposa artist Dave Williams, is one of a set of five military branch-themed pieces to be featured in several schools in the county. Each one will link a military unit from a corresponding branch to a school in Sanders County. Previously, Plains was linked with a unit of the U.S. Coast Guard,...
There's no snow yet, but it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Sanders County Fairgrounds. Fair staff members and volunteers spent four days last week positioning Christmas decorations throughout the grounds. "I am happy that everyone enjoys the lights and hope it brings joy to many," said Fair Manager Melissa Cady, who worked with Administrative Assistant Hailey Coe and volunteer Marcia Bulich, while Caretaker Kim McNeil and his wife, Margaret, set up the Nativity and hooked up...
The Noxon community is coming together to support a Noxon athlete who suffered an injury this football season. Senior Nathan Cano, quarterback for the Red Devils, was injured during a game in White Sulphur Springs on October 16. After being life flighted to Great Falls, it was discovered he had two small brain bleeds which caused him to have seizures. According to Cano's family, doctors aren't sure if a specific hit caused his injuries. Coach Bart Haflich called a timeout and Cano walked off...
Thompson Falls was blooming with festive spirit last Saturday. Thompson Falls Community Trails hosted their annual Trick or Treat, Move Your Feet fun run, which was followed by the Thompson Falls Chamber's Fall Festival at Ainsworth Park. Fun run organizer Kathy Conlin said the event, which started and ended at NorthWestern Energy's Power Park, saw 41 participants. The top male finisher was Alessi Rolando, who crossed the finish line in the 5K run in 20 minutes, 52 seconds. Sarah Polmounter was...
Fred Young Park had a lot of spooky celebrities – monsters, zombies, werewolves, dinosaurs, and vampires, and plenty of hot dogs, compliments of the Plains Lions Club, which has put on their Halloween Weenie Roast for more than 60 years. Lions member Marvin Tanner guessed there were more than 150 people at the annual event, which included roasting hot dogs over an open fire and costume contests for kids and adults. Some banded together for a group theme, such as the Rehbein family, who d...
7 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 31, 1951 LOGS TO GO THROUGH WEEKSVILLE RAPIDS About 700,000 feet of sawlogs are to be put through the Weeksville Rapids on the Clark Fork River near Plains soon by Thompson Falls Lumber Co., it is reported by Arden Davis, superintendent. The logs are to be floated through a few at a time to avoid jams on the jagged boulders in the river and then will be caught in booms below to be towed by Terry Payne down to the sawmill, a distance of about 20 miles. Tows of 10 to 15 miles on the river are not uncommon for the c...
Bebe Townsend, Thompson Falls - “I say any time before Thanksgiving is too early.” Terry Holo, Trout Creek - “Before Thanksgiving!” Lisa Smith, Thompson Falls - “I think its too early before Halloween.” Beth CaRter, Trout Creek - “Right after Halloween is way too early.” Betty Jo Handford, Thompson Falls - “After Thanksgiving is a good time for Christmas decorations.” Kathleen Mathers, Plains - “I think it’s too early to put up Christmas decorations any time before Thanksgiving....
'Tis the season to be spooked and what better place for it to happen than at a funeral home, including a skeleton hearse driver. For the last 12 years, the owners of Sunset Hills Funeral Home and Crematory in Plains have opened up their business to provide residents a chance to get out of the cold and have some treats. "It was a great night full of fun and interesting costumes and smiling faces. It was great to see so many families come in together and parents enjoying it as much as the kids,"...
Ready to start the holiday season by getting creative? The theme for the annual gingerbread contest, sponsored by the Sanders County Historical Society Old Jail Museum, is “Christmas is Coming.” Think about adding some spice to the holiday season by participating in the 24th annual competition, which will be part of the Thompson Falls Christmas on Main Street celebration December 4 and 5. “You’ll find a festive escape from the hustle and bustle of the shopping season, exploring at your own pace numerous creations,” museum officials said in a...
