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Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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While the green of spring hasn't shown up outdoors yet, green was in full bloom at the Glasgow High School Auditorium this past weekend. In front of a packed house, Glasgow Middle School students presented the fruits of their spring labors, Shrek the Musical Jr. From the opening scene of a young Shrek (Mandy Ye) being forced to leave the swamp to the encore performance of "I'm a Believer," audience members laughed, clapped and bobbed along with the music. Young guests and the young at heart...
Fort Peck Summer Theatre (FPST) is preparing for the 50th Anniversary Season! The season promises to celebrate the history of the theatre and showcase a wide variety of productions, which continue to engage and attract audiences of all ages. Artistic Director Andy Meyers is returning for his ninth season, and is honored to be welcoming back a rich roster of talent, including many alum, audience favorites and local cast members. Lend Me A Tenor: June 1 – June 16 Director: John Rausch Back by p...
Now that most of my snow reserves are gone, I'm getting more serious about gardening and yard work. I'll admit my powers of procrastination have not lost any strength at all, and so, no seeds for gardening have yet been ordered nor have any of the multitude of downed and broken tree branches been picked up off the lawn. But hope springs in turtles. (YouTube that comedy bit. I shouldn't be the only one wasting time there. But be warned, there's language you wouldn't want youngsters to hear.) I...
While it is starting to seem like spring in North Middle of Nowhere, there’s still plenty of winter hanging about. I’m sure I could get to my garden space now. I’d only have to high step through one to two feet of soft, slowly-melting snow. Most of that garden space is still covered in more of that slowly-melting snow, so what would be the point? However, I am starting to seriously consider breaking out the gardening catalogs to order some seeds. I’ll probably procrastinate more and end up purc...
Another week has gone by without me cracking open a single seed catalog. We have had a few sunny afternoons, but the mornings have mostly been foggy. There's an old saw (adage? old wife's tale? farmer's lore?) that says you'll have moisture 90 days after a fog. If so, it could mean a late, muddy seeding of our wheat crop. Right now most of our fields are still snow-covered, although some hill tops are peeking through. It's been warm enough that the snow is trying to melt away. It makes the...
Since we've "sprung ahead" to save daylight for after-work recreation, can we please spring ahead into actual spring? We had some lovely ice fog last night, along with a dusting of fresh snow (again!). While it's gorgeous outside with the clear, deep blue sky, we are thoroughly, completely, definitely over winter. I'd much rather have green grass sprinkled with fresh dew than the icy cold glitter of the unending expanse of white that is our current situation. I know I'm not alone in this...
This past weekend, several Glasgow High School students took to the school's stage to spell success with their performance of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The show hit all the right notes with audiences as the local thespians sang and danced their way through a show that delivered plenty of laughs. The story of young students struggling with the pains of growing up showcased the dynamism of the students' creativity. The Bee was a light-hearted romp with surprising depth, portrayed...
The adult fiction section of the library is full of a variety of genres that help readers define the types of books that they enjoy reading. The umbrella of fiction covers any book that is not completely true, even though some of the books have roots in actual events, such as historical fiction. At the Glasgow City-County Library, we emphasize five main genres, although there are others. Books that fit into these five genres have stickers on their spines that classify them to make them easier fo...
With temperatures still predicted to be below freezing this weekend and spring still a ways off, locals looking for an indoor distraction need look no further than Glasgow High School this weekend. Opening Friday night, March 8, and playing through the weekend is The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The talented cast of students perform a heartwarming and humorous production, showcasing the ups and downs of adolescence. Full of laughs and love of knowledge, the play highlights the...
The Whole Life Challenge, New Year's edition, has officially ended. I was released from their food restrictions last Saturday March 2, so Friday was my last day. I failed miserably that day. We'd braved the weather and road conditions in order to attend the Artist of the Month event at the Wheatgrass Art Gallery. Jason Myers is the featured artist this month, with his decorated sugar eggs. Jason and I had become friends at my showing of odd-ball pottery there last year. He's also a gardener, and...
Gary Luck is in his element. It's 5 p.m., dinner time, and people are waiting for food, his homemade food, which tonight includes prime rib and glazed pork loin. He is clearly enjoying serving and talking about his food, while his partner, in life and business, Lynelle Boucher, gathers drinks and suggests slices of her homemade carrot cake to complete the meal. They bought the old Nelson's Repair building in May 2018 and utilizing Gary's extensive construction experience (he built homes in Virgi...
We’re all still living in a deep freeze, aren’t we? I’d love to be able to go for long hikes outside rather than getting my exercise on the treadmill. The dangerously low temps as well as the impossibly deep snow are keeping me inside, though. Thank goodness for books to read on my small tablet that’s easy to hold while using the treadmill. I have ventured outside a few times. Snow got swept away from the front door before the wind packed it solid. The snowblower has gotten a couple of workout...
I’m sorry I missed getting a column in the paper last week, but I was away visiting our youngest daughter in Illinois. She’s also a cross fit enthusiast, and friends with a nutritionist. Therefore, she’s very strong on portion sizes, and having the right varieties of food on the plate. She isn’t doing the Whole Life Challenge, but might as well be. I didn’t worry about straying from the nutrition side of things. There was a lot of freezing rain while I was there, so for exercise, I hiked up and down the staircase and around the living ro...
The Valley Community Food Bank, located at 1020 1st Ave. No., Glasgow, has been helping out members of the community for over 30 years, providing food staples for those who need it the most. As a volunteer-based service to the community, many hands play a role in making sure food is delivered, organized, and packed for families in need. The Food Bank is open one day a month, the third Tuesday, for distribution day, where those who come are provided with a paper bag full of food including pasta...
I have survived my first week plus of this Whole Life Challenge. I am feeling better about my health and my stamina. Those two miles on the treadmill are being accomplished in slightly less time, partly because I’m walking faster and not feeling out of breath at all. I won’t lie, I’m still missing bread and dark chocolate. I’m allowed a bit of honey, so I’m trying to stave off the need for sweets with herbal tea with a bit of honey stirred in. Or I’ll eat a date. I did make a loaf of oats/banana/almond butter “bread”, but it’s not toasta...
While in Florida our daughter talked several times about a Whole Life Challenge she and her husband had done shortly before (and during) their trip to Israel. She was signed up for the next one and talked me into signing up also. The challenge involves six areas of your life, with the aim of improving in each area. Those areas are nutrition, exercise, mobilization, sleep, hydration, and well-being. There are three levels. I’m doing the beginner level, called kickstart. Of course, I’d thought I was already doing pretty well nutritionally, but...
When you stop to consider Montana's great destinations, it is unlikely you would ever list off Hays, Mont. Nestled in the heart of the Little Rocky Mountains on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, the little north-central Montana town is not a major tourism draw for many travelers to the Big Sky State. But for those locals with more time to spend, Hays offers both cultural and natural wonders of Montana. In late Dec. 2018, I volunteered to venture to Hays to deliver shoeboxes full of gifts and...
We are home again with no immediate plans to return to Florida. It’s really nice to be sleeping in our own bed again. The air bed we slept on was good for two weeks, but wasn’t so great the third week. I do miss being with the grandsons. Their youthful exuberance was catching, but it can also wear a person out. I’m ready for slower days, without places we need to be or things we have to do. We had three weeks’ worth of mail to get through upon our return. Bills never stop, do they? The immedia...
Seven kids and 11 adults came to celebrate Christmas at the Tallow Creek School on Dec. 8. Linden Holt's broken arm meant he couldn't play any musical instruments, but Zora Holt played a piano piece from the movie Frozen and then accompanied them both while they sang "White Christmas." Linden sang a song he'd written himself with the refrain, "Snow, snow, please don't go. If you ride the white horses then don't shout, 'Whoa!'" They had to change their Czech carol a week before the program when...
So my gloating about being in “sunny” Florida is rebounding on me, biting me in the backside, as well it should. It’s been very rainy the past couple of days, with areal flood warnings as well as a tornado watch. While we haven’t been impacted by a tornado, it has been very wet. And windy. The Tampa area has had about 4” in the last three days from what I can cobble together from the weather service. While we are a little ways from there, I’m pretty sure there’s been about the same amount here. Our daughter isn’t the weather geek her father...
We are heading off to Florida to have Christmas with our middle daughter and her family. This time Dennis is with me, having had his shoulder repair surgery and then receiving the doctor’s okay to travel. I’m sure we’ll have nicer weather there. As the annoying commercial says, “Not sorry.” We’ll both get to watch our grandsons compete in an ice hockey game Friday night. And they are in the championship game in their roller hockey league. It was rained out last weekend, so that game will be played Saturday morning. I really hope those games...
The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system was developed by Melvil Dewey in 1873 and published in 1876. Libraries either use the DDC or the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) system to organize materials. The DDC is a system that organizes assigned numbers to subjects. This makes it so that materials can be shelved with other items of similar topics, and found easily in a library. The DDC is the most widely used system in the world, for public and small academic libraries, to organize and classify books by fields. There are 10 main...
By Mary Helland's recollection, for the first time in over at least 20 years a barber pole is spinning on Front Street and the first time in a few years an actual barber is again cutting hair and shaving faces in the Bonnie City. Shelbie Irvin, barber and owner of the newly minted Whistle Stop Barber Shop, has taken up residence in the old Stan's Saloon building on Front Street next to the Montana Bar. Helland has undertaken the monumental task of renovating the more than century old Stan's Salo...
Some of you might cluck your tongues at me, but I’ve already opened and used two of my this year’s Christmas presents. The snowblower arrived Thursday night, and was assembled by noon on Friday, and in use before dark. I’d have used it as soon as it was assembled, but had to wait while the batteries charged. I’m really going to enjoy this present. I can tell, though, that I’m going to have to get it going before we drive out of the garage and pack the snow down. It did chunk out more of that packed snow than I thought it would. I just have...
