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Dear Editor: Just thought I'd pass on our experience as we passed through Glasgow this past week. We were traveling back home along Highway 2 towards Manitoba, and an old camper caught our eye. We stopped on the yard but were unsure of how far to go on, so we went back to town and stopped at the VFW where we had initially turned around. We pulled in and asked some of the gentlemen sitting on the porch if they would know who happened to live back up the road. They were very helpful and one even offered to hop into his truck and take a drive out...
It's a subject of shame to some families, but it should be nothing to be ashamed of. The words suicide, depression and mental health issues holds such a stigma that people cringe, they avoid talking about it and change the subject when it arises. As part of National Suicide Prevention Month, I hope everyone takes at least five minutes to Google the facts. Imagine feeling alone, overwhelmed and fearful and covering it up with a smile. Those who suffer depression and think about suicide often suffer in silence. Montana has one of the highest suic...
Over the years I've found it really does help to know some basics about repairing vehicles and farm equipment. The first car my husband and I had was a Chevy four-door sedan. About a year after he purchased it, a problem developed. For some reason, the cotter key holding the clutch rod together would fall out. You never knew when it happened. Your only clue was that when you put your foot on the clutch pedal, it went straight to the floor. Consequently a package of cotter keys, a pair of pliers, and a screwdriver became standard equipment to...
The Glasgow City-County Library is constantly looking for ways to improve and expand our service. Recently, we have been evaluating expanding our interlibrary loan services to include items previously offered on a limited basis. Interlibrary loan allows us to access items in libraries across the continental United States to lend to our patrons. As always, we have to balance services with our funding and make hard decisions on how to use your monies to the best benefit of the entire community. Next week, we will be expanding the ability for...
Aloha e’ Komo mai. (Welcome.) August brought a lot of rain and with it some problems and delays. Flooding and being very wet has put the skids on many Saint Marie maintenance projects, according to the monthly newsletter. It was stated by Town Hall staff that it was so wet that siding, roofing and cement work has been delayed until it can dry out which explained why our cement work to be done was delayed too. Some basements had rain related problems and as one neighbor told me, “it was a down pour” in hers. The “tree guy” finally was able to c...
Do you think about what a luxury your shower is every time you take one? For many that is a daily routine. How many remember when showers were not in every home. I don’t know when this wonderful convenience became a common household bathroom feature, but I do remember the time before most of us had a shower in our house. The first shower, I remember, was a pretty basic shower stall. No fancy massaging shower heads or handhelds. My gosh, how did we wash our hair? Oh, that’s right, that was a once-a-week event, usually on Saturday. The most welco...
Walgreens, America’s largest drug store chain, says they are leaving the United States because our tax rate is too high. It must really be killing them, but it’s hard to know because last year they upped their CEO compensation by 13 percent, had increased 2014 third quarter earnings of 15 percent compared to a year ago, and their stock price has doubled in the last two years. Corporations are busy grousing about the high corporate tax rate in the United States. At 35 percent it sounds high, but any corporation that pays anywhere near that muc...
I've done something I rarely do. I actually did some research on what I'm about to expound your way via this broadcast. Seems it takes about 16 million barrels of crude oil to run this country every day. That's for gasoline, diesel fuel, aviation gas, heating oil and similar products and the sludge, or left-over stuff for bio-plastics. Most of the crude oil we consume in the United States is purchased from several or more foreign countries that ... hate us ... love our money. Some folks think that a barrel of crude is the standard 55 gallon...
Traveling is something I really enjoy. Several weeks ago, I accepted an invitation to accompany a friend to Iowa. A real plus was knowing I'd have the opportunity to visit with my brother as well as nieces and nephews and cousins. Getting to just ride along instead of doing the driving was a real treat. For a change I was able to really see the countryside. And it was fascinating. Not far into the journey, I saw water from recent rains surrounding large round bales and pooled in wheat fields. My heart went out to the farmers and ranchers for...
Dear Editor: Throughout the fall season, the Montana Alzheimer's Association is sponsoring Walks to End Alzheimer's in various locations. The purpose of these walks is to raise awareness and funds for advancements in research, support and care for this dreaded brain disease. Of the worst dreaded diseases, Alzheimer's is the most costly as treatments and caregiving involves many family members, professionals, and facilities providing extended care. Friends and family of Karen Jellum, who passed away in October of 2013, have been very supportive...
Dear Editor: My name is Sue Dewey and I am an English person, living in England. I am writing to The Glasgow Courier in the hope that some of your readers might consider helping me with my interest in your history. For many years I have enjoyed furthering my knowledge on the history of the Northern Plains and Midwest. I have a great interest and respect for the Native American tribal cultures of those areas and also of the pioneers and early settlers of the West. I have traveled frequently to the Northern Plains states over the last few years,...
The symbol that means Montana is the buffalo bulls head crafted by cowboy artist Charlie Russell. This year marks the sesquicentennial of Russell's birth. He would have been 150 on March 19. By all accounts, Charlie was as his adopted son Jack described him,“kind and gentle.” Charlie's wife Nancy, described as“money minded,” kept Charlie on task in his creative work, and was a hard bargainer in marketing it. This contrast is illustrated by a legend handed down in Montana's Mackay family extending back to the 1912 sale of a painting to family...
Here we go again. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a new rule that would give the agency more control over waters of the United States. The farm industry is dead set against this change because the rule would give EPA more ability to impose restrictions on farms and industry under the Clean Water Act (CWA). Congress passed the CWA in 1972 for the purpose of banning the discharge of pollutants into navigable waters without a permit. The original concept of the CWA had merit but over time liberal interpretations of that act...
Do you remember the fine art of Norman Rockwell? Maybe you were among those who looked forward to receiving your copy of the Saturday Evening POST magazine each month, not only for the news it would bring but to enjoy the latest Norman Rockwell cover picture. Norman Rockwell chose to depict daily life in his drawings. I can still remember my grandfather studying those drawings. I suspect that the one he enjoyed the most was a drawing of a young boy in the doctor’s office, with his britches partially dropped in anticipation of a “shot in the...
I have recently received a thank you letter from a Mr. Chong, address Beijing, China, and I would like to share same with my 10.567 readers. It starts: Dear Mr Vaupel, A lot of us here in China prescribe (their word, not mine) to the World Famous Glasgow Courier in an attempt to keep up with American spending trends. We know that your column is always truthful and your 10,567,000,000 readers (again, their mistake, not mine) will appreciate this information. That said, on behalf of my 5 billion countrymen, I would like to extend a heartfelt and...
Media releases from the offices of U.S. Rep. Daines and Sen. Walsh: • Rep. Steve Daines on Aug. 26 applauded the announcement that the Office on Violence Against Women will designate $3 million to prevent and prosecute violence against women in eastern Montana and the Bakken region. The Fort Peck Assinboine and Sioux Tribes and the Montana Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence are among five grantees who will receive funds for a variety of anti-violence initiatives including “mental health counseling, advocacy, legal assistance, pre...
With all of the unrest in the world today, I was reminded of World War II and the fact that Glasgow housed POWs from Germany. I know there are residents of Glasgow and surrounding areas that can still remember those times. Of course, if you can remember that era, you can also remember the site of the old airport in Glasgow. This was the site of the POW camp. I understand that the Glasgow barracks housed at least 300 POWs. Due to the number of young men serving their country, there was a shortage of agriculture workers in the state. Glasgow was...
If national holidays have anything in common it’s that those of us who celebrate them by taking the day off don’t give much thought to the origin or meaning of the holiday. That’s true of secular holidays (never mind Religious holidays) from the Fourth of July to Memorial Day and right on through to this week’s day off, Labor Day. The first Labor Day was held in 1882 in New York City. It was proposed, depending on your source, by the Peter McGuire of the Carpenters’ Union or Matthew Maguire of the Machinists’ Union. I like the Carpenters...
In church last Sunday, I felt a very light touch on the back of my hair. Wondering what was touching my hair, I suddenly realized it was my almost 3-year-old granddaughter, who was ever so carefully using one tiny finger to gently go from about the middle of my hair to the end of the strands. And then I smiled as I heard her whisper to her mother, "Mom, I touched her hair!" My mind marveled at how much love a little girl's soft touch could bring to me and how she was so careful not to let it be more than fleeting. A bit later in the service, I...
This column comes from the group One Montana, which promotes a statewide program to build and sustain basic connections between rural and urban Montanans. Now that the primaries are over, it is a good time to take the temperature of the political climate in Montana. And wherever politicians in this state might stand on the issues of water and weather, they would all probably agree that, when it comes to politics, our state is going to get a whole lot warmer in the next few months. Primaries challenge individual candidates to gather support...
To say the last few weeks have been a roller coaster is an understatement. If you've ever had a life changing moment you will understand that life is difficult. We can't control the things that come our way, but somehow we face those difficulties and keep on going. I spent time talking to our new health department executive director, Connie Boreson, this week. She explained that she listened to a motivational speaker who used those three words, “Life is difficult.” I myself have given a few motivational speeches in my past. Most of the tim...
I love my computer, and really appreciate all of the time it saves me, especially in my bookkeeping. But is it so useful as far as gathering information goes? Just the other day, there was a featured article on how to peel peaches and tomatoes. How many of you readers, guys and gals, remember your mom requiring your help with the canning of the above mentioned? I still use the method my grandmother and mother taught me. So, I read this article wondering what this great method might be. Surprise – it involved blanching the peaches and t...
With all the hoop-la about “carbon footprints” it's important for you to know some interesting facts. Well, maybe not facts but just stuff I think about in my spare time. Environmentalist try to stymie and confuse us uneducated people by using words of more than two syllables along with some convoluted mathematical figures to show how much carbon we are spewing into the atmosphere every day. First off, I guess the carbon they're talking about is the smoke emitted by everything that burns fossil fuel. It's said that those who burn coal are the w...
We already know our government is shipping far too much of our tax dollars overseas to “developing counties.” We already know that our national debt has nearly doubled in size since Obama was given the office of the presidency by minorities, progressives (formerly known as liberals) and single white females 18 to 32 years of age. We already know our “entitlement society” has increased 10-fold in the past 10 years, costing this nation hundreds of billions of tax dollars and putting several states near bankruptcy. We already know our militar...
Dear Editor: The Glasgow cemetery ordinances need to be revamped, allowing those who purchase the plots to make their own choices. The problems are mainly which stones can be placed and what is allowed on the graves in the form of memorials. The flat stone ordinance was never well received and a change is welcomed. Uprights are now being allowed and that should be all that needs to be said on the issue. But the city likes to have control. Therefore the proposed ordinance is much of the same. Why must the city insist on having rules that will...
