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Another week has come and gone. Another Thanksgiving has come and gone. The weather was not nice at all, so we stayed home, thankful for warmth, a well-stocked freezer, and each other. (We're also thankful for television.) I'd made both a candy apple and a chocolate pecan pie on Wednesday. Our plan had been to attend the community feast at the Outpost Cafe in Opheim, but the howling winds coupled with fresh powder and bad weather warnings changed our minds. I rustled through the freezer and...
Glasgow native Jake Dix is definitely a unique artist. His eclectic style of painting is inspired by the 1980s artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and other modern expressionist artists. His artwork will be on display at the Wheatgrass Arts & Gallery throughout the month of December and the community will have the chance to talk to him during the Artist of the Month reception on Friday, Dec. 6, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Gallery, 523 2nd Ave. S. Just as Basquiat reflects, “I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life,” Dix’s a... Full story
Let me offer up apologies for those of you who may have missed a column from me last week. I did write one, but it was all recipes for the holidays. So the Courier rightly put it into the holiday recipe special. I hadn't even really thought about that possibility, so the error (if such it was) is all on my lack of judgment. We've had another 6-8" of heavy, wet snow in the past week. I've been reduced to "indoor gardening" again. I've had a philodendron plant for over eight years. It was a plant...
The Glasgow High School Media Class traveled to Great Falls on Nov. 17 to be on set at KRTV News in Great Falls Nov. 18. According to class teacher, Rod Karst, the goal of the trip was to expose the students to various career opportunities encompassing the skills they were learning in class. They also had the opportunity to test their ability at deduction at Escape the Falls Escape Room. Basically, the goal is to escape a locked room with a team by solving clues and puzzles in under an hour – a...
It was a full house at the FMDH Foundation's annual event, held Nov. 2, at the Cottonwood Inn. Board President Shelly George welcomed everyone, thanked them for coming out and discussed what the Foundation has gifted to the community this year. Wonderful hors d'oeuvres were served and the room sparkled. Since 1982, the Foundation has given out over $2.1 million in financial gifts to FMDH, community organizations, medical scholarships, and Valley County Ambulance Services. Mary Kate Tihista...
Anyone who knows Mary Helland understands why she took on the challenge of renovating a hundred-plus-year-old building on Front Street in Glasgow. Mostly, it is because she loves the history of it. She sees the details of the past and appreciates them to the present. So, when the opportunity to buy up the old Stan's Saloon building – the one nestled between the Montana Bar and the abandoned Johnny's Cafe with the dilapidated roof and all but destroyed interior – she took it. Not because of the...
Dennis Stroughmatt et l'Esprit Creole performed in Frazer, Nov. 6 as the Artist in Performance of the Northeastern Arts Network Big Sky Series. Bringing the history of the Creole people of Illinois and Missouri to Montana, the band performed a medley of music, language and culture to K-12 students and faculty. Bob Knebel (l) of Bozeman, played the upright base for the group as well as served as the driver and tour guide during their stint in Montana. Stroughmatt (c) of Albion, Ill., played the...
Editor's Note: This column was written on Nov. 4. Due to space, we had to hold the column over to this week's issue. We've had yet more rain and some snow. Most of the earlier snow has melted away, but flakes were in the air again this morning (Monday). There's a heavy frost, but most of the ground is clearly visible this morning as I write this. My gardening is now limited to trying to keep the plants I brought indoors alive. I can still do a bit of weeding as some are popping up in the...
Art is created from all walks of life. Some art is honed through formal training. Others are products of a need to express a struggling life. Arts are inherently communicative, connecting people emotionally to each other. The Wheatgrass Arts & Gallery is honoring the art of a struggling life from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 8. Dan, Cindi and Kevin Taylor are sharing their collective Prison Art obtained from Glasgow's local jail and from Deer Lodge inmates. The public is invited to look... Full story
We managed to knock off another 1,000 acres of wheat, with some help from a neighbor. The remaining 1,000 acres will not get done. It’s all basically feed wheat now anyway. What’s left is mostly on the ground, where it will remain. We have a couple blocks that are accessible by a very poor road, which is in such deplorable condition that we wouldn’t be able to get the truck over it. It’s not feasible to run the grain cart 3.5 miles one way to unload what grain we’d be able to scrape up. There will be a meeting with the crop adjuster early nex...
So when I wrote that harvest had been killed, I was wrong. It had merely been wounded, severely, but not dead. The resurrection has us back in the field, harvesting what's still standing tall enough to get, without risking picking up rocks with the header. We know the quality of the wheat took a huge hit, so the value of the crop isn't much. Prices were abysmal before. Now they'll be worse. But the more we take off the ground now, the less we'll have to deal with next summer. What's on the...
He gave her the shirt off his back. And she returned it. Glasgow native Barbie Dahl caught a t-shirt Aerosmith lead man Steven Tyler tossed into the crowd at an Oct. 1 concert in Las Vegas. Tyler was wearing a black, sleeveless T-shirt, emblazoned with Vegas Strong in gold, for a show at Park Theater as a tribute to the victims of the infamous Route 91 Harvest concert shooting which took 58 lives. The Aerosmith concert took place on the second anniversary of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S....
Editor's Note: This column was written on Oct. 7. Due to space, it was held over to this week's issue. We are done with worrying about our wheat crop. The snow and strong winds combined to finish it off. Most of it is broken off or lying on the ground. Now we wait to see if the crop insurers agree with us and how they'll treat us. I do still have tomatoes. Covering the plants with blankets and then with old truck tarps has kept the plants green. I think it helped a lot that the cages and stakes...
The WaterWorks Art Museum in Miles City held its annual art auction on Sept. 28. Cathryn Reitler (McIntyre) of Glasgow was one of 58 artists who contributed work to the fundraiser to help the museum's outreach education program to bring art education to 13 counties in the region. The nonprofit organization provides exhibits in the visual arts and humanities, educational opportunities and informational services for the public, schools and civic groups, and management of and access to visual...
Glasgow Scottie fans were treated to a special performance by the Glasgow Pep Band at the Homecoming game Sept. 20. After five solid weeks of preparation, the pep band became a marching band at halftime. "We wanted to show the town how good the kids can be," explained Todd Truscott, new music teacher and band director. A Glasgow High graduate himself, Truscott took advantage of the opportunity afforded by the big Homecoming weekend to "show off the kilts." The GHS pep band had not done a half...
Now that this year's formerly promising crop has probably been ruined (the strong winds and heavy snow looked to be crushing it to the ground) we're regrouping and trying to think of a plan B...or plan C. The quality of the wheat is way down. It might be feed wheat, IF we can get it. Even though we knew this horrible weather was probably coming, the garden isn't finished. There were long days trying to combine the wheat, and then it was just wet and miserable outside. I wasn't going to pick...
In support of up and coming artists, the Wheatgrass Arts & Gallery is excited to host Halle Paige Reddig as its October Artist of the Month. Seventeen-year-old Halle grew up in Lustre, Mont. Like many artists, as a child Halley would spend hours painting and coloring. Eventually her abilities and dedication to her art matured to the level of sketching lifelike images of those objects around her. By the time she was a sophomore at Wolf Point High School, art became a serious endeavor for her....
We might have 25 percent of this year's crop in the bins now. Harvest is going to be a long, drawn-out affair. Dennis was born Sept. 25, 1950, and his mom tells us she and Dad were only half finished with harvest when her time came. We aren't even close to half done yet. Of course, the farm has grown these last 69 years, but so has the machinery, which has advanced such that considerably more can be done in a comparable amount of time. We are being held up by Mother Nature and her gifts of...
Another week had passed without any wheat being harvested. Unfortunately, there’s still more rain in the forecast. Granted, only small amounts are forecast, but it’s just enough to keep things from drying enough to go after our wheat. The humidity is so high there’s a heavy dew even on the dry days. It’s very frustrating to see your year’s work (and income) going bad in the fields and there isn’t anything you can do about it. As a friend who works in the weather service said to me, “Farmers! You all want rain until you don’t.” The g...
I was tempted to use last week’s report again this week. The rain is a bit of deja vu, although we were able to get some of the wheat crop in and binned. I’ve spent a few hours this last week out in the tractor hauling the grain cart between the combine and the semi parked at the end of whatever field we were working. The first afternoon (Wednesday) of combining was done without my help. He was just going to “try” it, and the tractor I use needed some repairs. So he trundled the combine back and forth to the truck while I stayed home. A call...
September is Library Card Sign-Up Month, and the Glasgow City-County Library is joining with the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries nationwide to encourage people of all ages to obtain a free library card. This year, Disney Pixar’s Toy Story 4 characters are Library Card Sign-Up Month honorary chairs, helping to promote the value of a library card. In addition to giving the ability to check out books that enter a reader into another world or help a reader learn something new, a Glasgow City-County library card also opens a number...
The weather seems as though it just doesn't want us to harvest our wheat. First the cool month of June delayed the start of the crop. Now the cool, wet August has delayed the ripening of the wheat. Yes, I know it's now September, but that cool, wet August is lingering. I want more summer. I'm not ready for fall. I'm afraid the wheat harvest is going to drag on until it seems like forever. The hours we can actually combine will be short. Last week I did manage to get all my onions and shallots...
Shortly after I wrote last week's column I was perusing the new and used Glasgow sale site via Facebook. I happened to be the first respondent to an offer of free locally-grown apples. Having received about five gallons of smallish green apples and with a week still to go on the Whole Life Challenge, I went searching for sugar-free apple recipes. I'm sharing the two I tried. Now, lest you think I've completely surrendered all sense to the sugar-free life, I will confess I used the majority of...
Our wheat crop is rapidly ripening, and so harvest is looming. I may still have a week to 10 days before I switch gears from gardener to grain cart operator. The days of being able to plan my days around my own "to do" list will soon become days of cramming my gardening chores into a couple early morning hours. The rest of the day will be spent driving a tractor, hauling the grain cart. Once the combine is full, I'll be driving alongside with the cart properly lined up as we unload "on the go"...
