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The American Red Cross comes up to Lincoln every eight weeks to host a blood drive. If you've donated at one of these drives in the last two years, you've likely met Sherry Sidell, Sue Anderson and Ellie Schouten, the trio that coordinates Lincoln's blood drives. Sidell had previously worked on blood drives in Seattle more than three decades ago. "This is a little bit different because it's a smaller community, and we didn't have computers back then," Sidell said. She said...
The coronavirus pandemic continues to take a toll on long-standing community events. The Pete Sitch Memorial Basketball Tournament, which usually takes place in Lincoln in mid-March, has been canceled for the second year in a row due to COVID-19. “We spoke with the Health Department and a few people at the school. It was just not going to be able to happen, unfortunately,” said Dave Sitch, one of the tournament organizers. The tournament, which began in 1988 in honor of Pet...
With sunshiny days and warm weather, it's difficult not to start thinking about spring. One of the first harbingers of spring in the Lincoln Valley is the sagebrush buttercup, or Ranunculus glaberrimus. Buttercups are one of the first flowers to bloom in the Rocky Mountain west and the flowers can be found locally by mid-to-late March. They prefer sunny damp slopes and, as the name suggests, are often found in sagebrush and grassland areas, particularly spaces with southern sl...
When Jen Dailey and her daughter-in-law Becky went in search of a big buck a friend had told them about, they didn't know the buck they found would be a Boone and Crockett Award qualifier. "I've been after a buck of that caliber for years. It was a deal with my dad. I needed to get a bigger buck than him. One of our friends called and said, 'Hey, I think I found Jen a buck,' so Becky and I drove over," Jen Dailey said of the 2019 hunt. Jen and Becky parked on the east side of...
The new movie "Ted K," directed by Tony Stone, debuted Mar. 1 in Berlin at Berlinale, the 71st Berlin International Film Festival. The film stars Sharlto Copley as Ted Kaczynski and "portrays him here on the basis of his diary entries and his written pamphlets," according to the Berlinale film description. The description goes on to say music and intense images combine with text fragments to "create a hypnotic composition about violence, isolation, and the nature of the...
The Montana Heritage House planned to make their new bulk offerings available on Mar 1. The bulk offerings are part of an ongoing effort by the Vallers to bring organic foods to Lincoln at an affordable price. So far, the business has offered a variety of other foods from Montana farmers, including local Mannix beef and steaks, as well as produce, which changes seasonally. "We've been bringing in foods from Montana farmers as much as we can, but we need to expand on some of...
Bill O'Neill graduated from Ronan High School and was drafted into the Army in September of 1953, when he was 18 years old. O'Neill was inducted in Butte and attended basic training in Fort Ord in California. From there, he headed to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri for combat engineer training. After training, O'Neill's company was shipped to Korea, where they were attached to the Air Force and served as maintenance and guard to an F-86 Air Force Base. He earned his military...
The Lincoln Loggers Wrestling Club has seen many successes since it started in 2016, placing twice as a team at State Little Guy Wrestling competitions, taking home the 2017 first place trophy for small teams. This year, the Loggers are looking to build on those successes with the purchase of new mats and uniforms with the help of several community partners. Mats are a significant expense for the wrestling club, with 6-foot by 30-foot mats costing an estimated $765 each. The...
The Upper Blackfoot Valley Historical Society received a grant from the Lincoln Valley Community Foundation in January to continue reconstruction of the Matt King house. The Lincoln Valley Community Foundation is run through the Montana Community Foundation, and grants are issued to local nonprofits. The $8,800 grant award to the UBVHS will be used to complete the roof on the Matt King house. Any grant funds leftover after the roof is completed will be utilized to complete...
The Lincoln Council for the Arts and the Upper Blackfoot Valley Historical Society have banded together for a local fundraiser selling pasties using Olga Perkl’s recipe. The fundraiser came to fruition after both organizations realized they were planning pasty sales independently. “The two organizations were thinking about doing pasties, so we just joined forces to sell more,” said UBVHS president Erin Dey. Dey and Laura Butler, president of the Lincoln Council for the Arts, are competing to see which president can sell...
Fireweed, or Chamerion angustifolium, is a native species found throughout Canada and in the vast majority of the United States, except for southeastern states and Texas. A circumboreal plant, it can commonly be found in coniferous and mixed forests, in aspen parklands, and alongside snowberry, thimbleberry and juniper. The name fireweed comes from the plant's ability to quickly establish in areas burned by fire, appearing as soon as three months after a fire, according to...
The Lincoln Branch of the Lewis & Clark Library has long offered digital materials for patrons to check out, including ebooks, streaming movies, music, and audiobooks. This week, the library launched access to 130 digital magazine subscriptions at no charge for patrons. These new magazine subscriptions are one of the ways the Montana State Library is investing funds received from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The Montana State Library manages the MontanaLibrary2Go collaborative collection,...
Lincoln high school students participated in the Business Professionals of America virtual regional competition Jan. 27. BPA strives to "develop and empower student leaders to discover their passion and change the world," according to their website. Students who participate can explore professional and civic opportunities and learn real-world business skills including finance and management. For the first time, middle school students from Lincoln also participated. Lincoln's...
Lincoln's junior high and high school students participate in a Science Circus every two years, and this year, community members can see all the Science Circus projects from the comfort of their homes. Science Circus projects allow students to pick a science law to demonstrate in a fun and engaging way, said Lincoln science teacher Nancy Schwalm. "Normally, we would host it in the gym. It would be like a circus, and the kids are demonstrating some sort of law or phenomenon,"...
Heidi Ressie opened Lincoln Leather and Fur Traders at 206 Main St. in Lincoln this past October and offers a wide variety of goods. An avid lifelong hunter and trapper, Ressie started selling furs out of her home a few years ago. "I grew up all my life around trapping and hunting, and it's just always been in my blood to do," said Ressie, who was raised on a farm. "I grew up with two brothers, so I was kind of a tomboy at the time." When Ressie first moved to Lincoln, she...
Lincoln School's wildlife class received a donation of eight wildlife cameras this fall from Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, which helped them to continue their hands-on studies throughout the remote learning process. "We learn by doing rather than book work," science teacher Nancy Schwalm said about the wildlife class. There are nine students in the class, so the donation, combined with two personal cameras Schwalm had, allowed each student to place their own camera to...
The Lincoln position on the Lewis and Clark County Weed District board has been open for well over a year, said County Commissioner Jim McCormick, who serves on the board. A Lincoln representative helps support the county-wide control of weeds and ensure problematic areas can be addressed in a timely manner. “Weeds know no boundaries,” said McCormick. “Invasive non-native species of plants can choke out forage, can choke out native plants and do (and) are harmful on the environment. The more eyes on the ground, the bette...
The Race to the Sky board met on Jan. 10 to make final decisions about the race and whether or not to proceed. "We canceled for this year because of COVID," said race manager Chris Jewett. "We couldn't make it work. The rock got too hard to push up the hill." The race had been scheduled from Feb. 12-16. Jewett attributed many factors to the overall cancelation, and noted that all of them were related to COVID-19. "We're sorry it got canceled, because everybody looks forward...
The Blackfoot Valley Optimist Club held a successful fundraiser over the Christmas holidays and is looking forward to new events and opportunities for 2021. "It went very well," said club president Shayne Lindsay. "It looks like our net on it was just over $3000." The Optimist Club had planned to raffle one quilt as well as a large stocking filled with donated items. There were so many donations that the club was able to raffle off two, said Lindsay, one that included a...
Heidi and Jim Agner have lived in Lincoln since 2013 and are the husband and wife duo behind Lincoln Gulch Engraving and Leatherworks. They live with their two dogs, Shep, a collie, and Sally, a springer spaniel. Heidi handles the leatherwork part of the business, and Jim does the en-graving, though they got their starts at different times. Heidi began working with soft leath-er over 30 years ago, she said, using deer skin and similar materials. She eventual-ly started...
Lewis and Clark County Com-missioner Tom Rolfe was sworn in Dec. 29, 2020 for his first term. Rolfe, who was elected to the position Susan Good Geise vacated, said he started attending meetings almost two years ago, working to decide if running for County Com-missioner would be a good fit. "I've been interested in public policy all my life," said Rolfe, who was elected to the Montana Legislature as the Bozeman and Livingston area representative for the 1973-74 term. "I spent...
Blackfoot Pathways Sculpture in the Wild looks forward to a full event season in 2021, after the cancellation and postponement of last year’s events and artists due to the COVID-19 pandemic. BSPW will welcome three artists in residence and one composer in residence to Lincoln this year. Three of the creators are based in Montana. Michael Brolly and Bently Spang had previously been selected for 2020, but their residencies were postponed due to the pandemic. Spang is a Montana artist and has shown work throughout North America,...
The Lewis & Clark Library was again the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Big Read grant this year, which supports a community-wide reading program. The $15,000 grant helped purchase copies of the selected book, "Into the Beautiful North" by Luis Alberto Urrea, and fund programs throughout the county. "Into the Beautiful North" follows the adventures of a 19-year-old Mexican woman and her friends as they travel from Mexico to the United States in search of seven...
Bob Armstrong joined the National Guard as a junior in high school and served two years, before going on to serve two years in the Army and four more years in the reserve, half active and half inactive. Armstrong attended high school in Dickinson, ND and graduated in 1954. "They took our Guard unit that they had in town to Korea," said Armstrong. "When they did that, they started up a new unit there in Dickinson." Students had to get the permission of their parents to join ear...
Hooper Park in Lincoln recently received an anonymous $3,000 donation. “They wanted half of it to go to the skatepark, enhancing the skatepark, the other half to the park itself,” said Nyle Howsmon of the Lincoln Park Board. The Park Board plans to meet in January to discuss some of the options for the skatepark, which could include benches, potentially some shelter, as well as an improved parking area. “We need some kind of better irrigation system there,” added Howsmon. For the main portion of the park, Howsmon said th...
