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Valley View Nursing Home (VVNH) administrator Wes Thompson spoke to the Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital Board on April 27 requesting consideration to aid the nursing home financially in their operating expenses. In 2019, the home was cash flowing positive, however as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the nursing home was $1.2 million short in 2020 and $1 million short in 2021. In addition to asking the FMDH board as well as other entities, Valley County voters are also being asked to support a three-year, $300,000 levy to help keep the...
Valley County Health Department has received reports confirming twelve (12) positive COVID persons. Symptoms began May 7 through this past weekend, which means that these persons were contagious in our community beginning May 5. Each of these twelve (12) persons have been sick enough to seek medical care. Please - if you have any symptoms, if you think it’s just a cold or allergies - stay home. COVID is transmitted by breathing - everyone breathes and ANYONE can easily catch this highly infectious disease. VCHD has MANY free tests to give a...
The Valley County Community Pool Campaign recently received a generous anonymous donation of $250,000, now making the total raised towards the funding of a new swimming pool in Glasgow, as of May 9, $1,9501,141 of the $3,304,000 goal. The donor decided to support the cause as a way to give back to the community that has given them so much throughout the years. “Glasgow has been good to me since I’ve lived here. I love kids – they need every opportunity to develop socially and physically,” they explained on why they decided to donate. The don...
Glasgow's Irle School music teacher Christine Gilchrist was recognized during an all-school assembly on May 2 not only as the 2021 Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 3107 2021 Teacher of the Year but also Montana's 2021-2022 Teacher of the Year. She was also awarded the Smart/Maher National Citizenship Education Teacher Award in recognition of being selected the state VFW teacher award winner for citizenship education. As a result of Gilchrist's recognition, Irle School also received the...
Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital welcomes back Dr. Jahanara Graf as a full-time general and trauma surgeon after working at the hospital intermittently since 2018. With her addition, there are now two general surgeons on staff to be able to perform inpatient and outpatient surgeries without having to travel. Dr. Graf was born in Manhattan, N.Y., where she grew up until the age of seven, when she then moved to Bangkok, Thailand, as a result of her mom working for the United Nations. After three...
Greetings Everyone! The Glasgow High School All Class Reunion, June 16 thru June 19, 2022, is fast approaching and a lot of fun events and gatherings have been planned for returning alumni, family and friends and us locals too!! Starting with registration and social on Thursday followed by Friday night BBQ and music entertainment and a street dance downtown on Saturday night there will be plenty to do during the Reunion. Many individual class gatherings and group events are also planned during...
Dear Editor, I would like to encourage you to vote YES to extend the previous approved mill levy to support Valley View Nursing Home. Ten years ago, I would probably have voted no, but I got a wakeup call when my mother ended up at Valley View a few years ago. I was so thankful that she could be taken care of in Glasgow. I couldn't imagine having to drive to Billings, Great Falls or other places to visit her. She spent two years at Valley View and in that time, I got to know a lot of the...
Dear Editor, We, the below signed members of the State-Tribal Relations Committee, the Montana Legislature's liaison with tribal governments, write to congratulate Montana high school and postsecondary graduates and their deservingly proud families. Way to go! We extend our deep gratitude to the educators, administrators, and support staff who have contributed in countless ways over multiple years to the myriad achievements of the class of 2022. Thank you for all you do! We also write as a...
The Glasgow Police Department and our community are always looking for ways to keep our children safe and make our local drivers aware of potential conflicts. The Glasgow Police Department has noticed some confusion from the general motoring public on what to do when they approach a school bus that has red lights flashing and the stop sign out. Is it alright to slow down and drive slow around the bus? Can I keep going because I’m in the other lane? I don’t see anyone do I need to stop? There is not a school around do I have to follow the sig...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Deadline for calendar additions is Mondays at noon. Please email your event to [email protected] or submit in person at the Courier office, 531 2nd Ave. S., Glasgow. The Valley County Pioneer Museum hours through September are Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dime Bingo at the Glasgow Senior Citizen Center each Tuesday at 1 p.m. and Saturday at 7 p.m. weekly. Glasgow Senior Center is serving congregate senior meals Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 11:30 a.m. Call the Senior Center, 228-9500, before 9 a.m. each day to r...
As part of the Montana Conversations: Community Conversations by Humanities Montana series, the Valley County Pioneer Museum will be hosting Phillip Burgess on Thursday, May 19, 7 p.m. at the Museum, 54109 Hwy 2 West, Glasgow. Phil Burgess is a veteran, poet, storyteller, ex-gypsy, ex-therapist, and ex-cabdriver living in Missoula who still nourishes and honors his eastern Montana roots. He is the author of the collection of poetry Badlands Child, and Penny Postcards and Prairie Flowers. He will tell the story of Evelyn, a woman-child who came...
Daniel John Carney, age 82, passed away peacefully with family by his side on Tuesday, April 19, 2022, at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Mont. A Vigil Service (Rosary) will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 20, at St. Raphael's Church. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Raphael's Catholic Church in Glasgow, Mont., on Saturday, May 21, at 10:30 a.m. Burial will be at Highland Cemetery after the mass with a lunch being served at St Raphael's Parish Center after burial. Please join us...
Weldon James Reddig, 74, passed away on Friday, April 22, 2022, in Billings, Mont. A memorial service will be held at the Lustre MB Church, in Lustre, Mont., on Saturday, May 28, at 12 p.m. He was born Aug. 7, 1947, in Glasgow, Mont., to Calvin and Martha Reddig. He was raised on the family farm in Lustre. He took pride and joy in sharing stories of his youth helping his father Calvin with harvests and daily chores. He also enjoyed playing basketball. The second floor of the Reddig barn was wher...
Patricia K. Lind, 98, passed away peacefully on Friday, April 29, 2022, at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center. A service of remembrance will be held at St. Raphael's Catholic Church, Thursday, May 26, at 11 a.m. A reception will be held at the VFW from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Born in The Germantown Hospital on April 29, 1924, in Philadelphia, Penn., Pat was the daughter of John R. and Ellen M. (Quinlisk) Glemser, and the second eldest of seven children. Pat graduated from the Little Flower Catholic...
Clinton Trotter, 92, of Deer Lodge, Mont., formerly of the Glasgow area, died on Sunday, May 8, 2022, at his residence. Services are pending. Longfellow Finnegan Riddle Funeral & Cremation Service is entrusted with Clinton’s funeral arrangements....
Russell "Russ'" M. Mattfeldt, 80, passed away at his home in Malta, Mont., with his loving wife, Sweetie, by his side on Sunday, May 8, 2022. A celebration of life will be held at a later date. Russ was born to Hugh and Carrie (Storkson) Mattfeldt on July 17, 1941, in Glasgow, Mont. He joined four big brothers in the family home. Russ graduated from Hinsdale High School in 1959. After high school Russ applied his many talents to the variety of the jobs he worked throughout his life. Russ...
Colette Rae Bell, age 67, passed away on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, after a long courageous battle with cancer. At this time, there is not a funeral or memorial service immediately planned. The family will notify loved ones in the future when a service is scheduled. She was born on Jan. 3, 1955, in Lewistown, Mont., to Dorman "Scotty" and Mary Bell. She graduated from Nashua High School as valedictorian. She earned her teaching degree at the University of Montana and graduated Magna Cum Laude and...
Vera Jane Barnett left us to be with her Lord Jesus Sunday, Mother’s Day, May 8, 2022, in Manhattan, Gallatin County, Mont. Vera was born May 12, 1928, to Elmer Padgett and Laura (Bourque) Padgett in Vanderburgh County, Evansville, Ind., the fourth of seven children. Vera worked several jobs after quitting high school at age 16. She met her husband, Joseph David Barnett, in Evansville when his family moved there from southern Illinois. They were married 64 years before J.D.’s passing in 2018. Two children were born to this union, Jarita Bly...
Our computers are, in the most basic sense, tools. They’re tools for education, they’re tools for blowing off steam and they’re tools for productivity. Arguably it’s this ability to create, produce and construct which is the PC’s strongest suit, because anything else you might use a computer for was actually itself, created on a computer. The chicken vs. egg discussion aside, the landscape of programs we can use to get things done with a keyboard and a screen is vast. Where to start, then? And how can we maybe save some cash along the way?...
We’ve finally had a wonderful transfusion of rain to bring life back to our parched land. It’s wonderful to see the prairies and pastures turning green again. I was so tired of the many depressing shades of brown/tan/burnt umber the landscape had been showing us. We’re able to report rainfall in tenths of an inch instead of hundredths. I can’t tell you how much we actually received because those not-so-wonderful winds I’ve whined about had blown a blade of dead grass into our gauge. It slithered through the screening that’s supposed to...
Here I am, writing to whomever takes the time to read this. Why read this you ask? Because I CARE, because I want to see CHANGE, and because I want YOU to know that I am here. Who am I? Brianna Leader. Do you know me? More than likely. Do you like or respect me? Hopefully! Am I a skilled writer with formal training? Absolutely not! Will I struggle with correct usage of tense and proper punctuation throughout this piece? With 100 percent certainty! What am I to you? I could be A LOT of different things, but for this purpose, I am a community...
The Glasgow High School Choir students had a very successful District Music Festival, which was held on April 22 and 23 in Wolf Point. In addition to all groups receiving either a score of Superior (I) or Excellent (II), freshman Gabriel Proctor also received a perfect score, which is the first time in five years any Glasgow student received the honor. Proctor is also the first student to receive a perfect score in the solo performance category. The results ran on a I, II, III, IV, V scale with...
Glasgow's track and field teams claimed the top slots at the District 2B Meet held at Scottie Field on Saturday. The Scottie girls ran up 202 points for their first place, outpacing Malta, 169; Harlem, 63; Poplar, 49, and Wolf Point, 31. The Glasgow boys scored 191.67 points, putting them ahead of Malta, 155; Wolf Point, 95; Poplar, 55, and Harlem, 25.33. The Scottie girls claimed their fifth title in as many years led by Blaire Westby, 100 and 200 meters; Iris McKean, 400, 800 and 3200 meters;...
