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This year’s musical themed Summer Reading Program (SRP) “Libraries Rock” started on June 18 and will end on July 25. Even though the program is into the third week, it’s not too late to register and participate in the remaining activities and events. The SRP is free and open to all ages: babies, children, teens and adults. On Thursday, July 5, “Alice” from the Fort Peck Summer Theatre for Young Audiences will read to the babies and young children. Following story time, there will be a “Queen of Hearts” dance party. This special event will be h...
We’ve been getting more rain, for which we are grateful. However, all that wetness means the weeds are really sprouting. The crops we want to grow are not the only plants thriving out there. So, while my husband is trying to get our wheat crop sprayed to kill those weeds, I’m out doing more hand-weeding in my garden. I do love my shelterbelt trees but I’m not so very thankful they drop lots of seeds. There is one tree with small serrated-edged leaves that have tons of seeds encased in a white papery disc that flutters nicely in the wind. They...
Children and families enjoyed songs and stories read by librarians as well as made disc and rock art at the Glasgow City-County library on June 21. In order to keep children and families engaged during the summer months, the library is putting on a "Libraries Rock" summer reading program. Each week there will be fun activities for children of all ages....
I did finally make some rhubarb muffins, but was disappointed in how they turned out. They tasted fine, but the topping wasn't the best. I do, however, feel that is my fault, not the fault of the recipe. I wasn't careful enough measuring the butter, so there was too much for the amount of sugar and cinnamon. That caused it to not sprinkle but to glop on in the center of each and then to sink into the muffins as they baked leaving the muffins with unsightly craters on top. I did consume several...
The library is a marvelous place with wonders between the covers of its books. I still remember the first time I went to the grade-school library with my class. I was fascinated by the many books just waiting for me to delve into them. There were times when I was a child that it was easier to disappear into the pages than to deal with real life. I could go to any time or place in history in both fiction and nonfiction books. In fiction, I could go to places and times that didn’t exist outside the author’s imagination. I was a voracious rea...
It’s that time of year where the garden is really starting to look like a garden, but it isn’t producing much yet. The weeds, however, are trying to take over. Therefore, I’m doing lots of weeding, trying to give my veggies a leg up. Weeding is grunt work, and the older I get, the more I grunt. My weeding is done by hand. I’d rather wear my kneepads and crawl alongside my rows than try to use a hoe. I find those are really hard on my back, and quickly give my hands blisters. I’ve had gas-powered tillers in the past but always found them to b...
Aug. 13, turned out to be such a wonderful day for Maxine Nicol who, along with over 140 family and friends, helped celebrate her 90th birthday at her home at Prairie Ridge Village in Glasgow. With assistance from her children: Janice Shanks (Dennis) of Nashua, Bill (Kareen) of Glasgow, Kathy Steele of Glasgow, (Greg from Minot, N.D.), Connie Culliton (Steve) of Belgrade and Bonnie Nicol from Joliet, Maxine's special day began with her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren treating...
I had the opportunity to attend the Montana Women's March on Jan. 21 in Helena. Going into this march, I thought this experience may be the most important thing I have ever participated in. After reflecting on the experience, I now believe my thoughts to be true. This march was held in coordination with marches all around the nation and in different countries. March organizers and supporters estimated that just over 5,000 people would attend, but these expectations were far exceeded as an estima...
Local favorite Pam L. Veis delivers a muddled effort with her directorial debut for the Fort Peck Summer Theatre. And who minds a little muddle? Under the circumstances, probably no one. Man of La Mancha is a well-known show, thankfully, and actor James Rio's Quixote hits most of the high notes needed to satisfy a friendly audience. That said, Veis' staging leaves key sections of the text needlessly confusing for those unfamiliar with this admirable work. To put a fine point on it, the...
Sincerity on stage trumps training every time. Especially with musical theatre. This rule holds true with Fort Peck Summer Theatre’s The Last Five Years, starring Daniel and Courtney Crary as a married couple whose respective narratives pass each other in time from opposing states of estrangement and engagement (interestingly, our stars are a married couple from New York in real life). Both actors carry their weight admirably, though Courtney, who doubles as Musical Director for the show, s...
Valley Cinemas is holding over the unstoppable Deadpool and adding Zootopia, an unexpected animated feature from Walt Disney.The latter film represents a real break from the conventional animated offering, which usually concerns itself with cute animals taking a trip to rescue one of their own or save their habitat. Zootopia is a film noir mystery disguised as a cartoon. In that way it slightly resembles Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but here the whole city is anthropomorphized. The story concerns as...
Isaiah 21:6: "For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth." With the passing of Harper Lee last week, it's a thoughtful time to ponder her work, and what was her latest published book, Go Set a Watchman. For those unfamiliar, the author of the beloved To Kill a Mockingbird didn't start out of the gate as a revered writer. In fact, she put aside the draft of the Southern Gothic classic in 1957 and published instead To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960 to great acclaim. A gifted storyteller, she wrote "in...
Two new offerings make their debut at the Valley Cinemas this week. Zoolander No. 2 is a film that didn’t need to exist – except for once existing already previously in 2001 when the first film came out. That satire on the fashion industry was so popular on video that many years later carrying on with the characters seemed like a profitable idea. As heavily promoted in the media as Deadpool, Zoolander No. 2 is silly and a whole lot dumber, and not just because the two male models at the center of the contrived and barely comprehensible tal...
Andy Meyers, known to many in Valley County as the artistic director for the Fort Peck Summer Theatre, is now also known as Best Director of a Musical, taking home the accolade in the 2015 BroadwayWorld Phoenix Awards. About the award, Meyers said he feels, "Great! It's kind of a funny award, being peer voted." He described his award-winning show, The King and I, as "the little engine that could," noting that much of the production was new, from designers to his experience with the material. He...
D.K. Holm is on hiatus this week, so I'm taking a whack at standing in for the great man with a condensed version of his usual offerings. Valley Cinemas has sunk to new lows with the romcom How to Be Single. I'd tell you all about it, but they didn't screen it for critics (hint: that's a bad sign). I can tell you that it's about a woman searching for love in NYC and is based on a debut novel by Liz Tuccillo, who is known primarily for writing/directing bits of Sex and the City (strike two!). Kung Fu Panda is being held over for the...
The third Kung Fu Panda prevails at Valley Cinemas this week, with the theater adding Sisters. This is a Tina Fey and Amy Pohler comedy that flips the usual expectation that Ms Pohler would be the messy, drunken, white trash sister, with Ms Fey playing as usual the uptight square. Its slim premise has the two sisters in Florida dealing with their childhood home, which their aging parents (James Brolin, Dianne Wiest) are selling off. A house party ensues, among other tedious things. The large cast is padded out with Saturday Night Live staffers...
This week the Valley Cinemas carries on with The 5th Wave and adds the family friendly Kung Fu Panda 3 to the mix. Panda has received glowing reviews, and the previous two films were successful as funny and touching and also tolerable to parents chaperoning their kids. The 5th Wave, meanwhile, is the latest teen dystopian multi-part narrative based on a popular YA series. What's unusual about this first entry, however, is that it tells the story of the alien invasion from the day before. Cassie...
This week, Valley Cinemas is holding over the already-award-winning misery-fest The Revenant. When one resides in a town with a single movie theater, it can be hard to pass on a feature that garners as much praise as director Alejandero Gonzalez Inarritu's film has thus far. But be warned: It's pretty rough stuff, and the rough stuff isn't much fun. Being added to the mix is The 5th Wave, a dystopian, world-in-the-balance film for the teenage set directed by J. Blakeson. The Worx, the local vide...
This week, Valley Cinemas holds over The Revenant, the Alejandro González Iñárritu's survival tale about Hugh Glass, the region's trapper scout in the early 1800s. The film has been validated by a Golden Globes win for the film, the director, and lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The film is joined by the new animated sequel, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Road Chip, in which the 'munks conspire to come between their manager Dave (TV's Jason Lee), and his girlfriend. If you liked the novelty songs from 19...
It's still a Star Wars New Year at Valley Cinemas, as Star Wars: The Force Awakens stays on for a fourth almost unprecedented week. It's joined by The Revenant, Oscar-winner Alejandro González Iñárritu's film about Hugh Glass, the historical figure who scouted for trappers in Montana and thereabouts in the early 1800s. For the past few seasons and for the foreseeable future, we've been surrounded by remakes and reboots. That man from U.N.C.L.E., James Bond, the Mission Impossible team. The Ha...
It's a Star Wars New Year at Valley Cinemas. Star Wars: The Force Awakens stays on for a third week. It continues to be paired with the lame comedy Daddy's Home, this month's Will Ferrell enterprise. That's probably because there is no other "product," as theater operators sometimes call movies. But the New Year will bring good tidings as well. Coming up as possible VC candidates are The Revenant, the survival western partially set in Montana. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as the real life...