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Most descriptions of Stuart Ian Frost's work sound like a narrative of the very idea upon which Blackfoot Pathway's: Sculpture in the Wild itself was founded: site specific sculptures related to a specific environment that are rooted in the history and culture of the area. Frost, is one of two artists slated to create new artwork at Sculpture in the Wild in September. He visited Lincoln at the end of June to get acquainted with Lincoln, the sculpture park, the area and its flo...
Ten firefighters based at the Lincoln Ranger District deployed to Alaska last week to help combat a major wildfire on the Kenai Peninsula. The Helena Type 2 Incident Attack crew is battling the 100,000-acre plus Swan Lake Fire near Sterling, Alaska, Jarel Kurtz, the district's Fire Management Officer, told the BVD. The Helena Hotshots crew out of the Helena office has also been sent to Alaska. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, 1.2 million acres have burned in...
The ability to remove an injured person from a wrecked car as quickly and safely as possible is a critical skill for firefighters who serve in towns accessed by winding two lane roads. To make sure they are up to speed on the best techniques, Lincoln Fire Rescue worked with the Montana State University Fire Service Training School last Saturday, July 13, at a staged accident scene at Fire Station 3. about five miles east of town. During the training, firefighters learned...
A recent donation to Lincoln American Legion Post 9 made its debut at the Lincoln Bike Rally last weekend. The 12-foot, double-axle trailer, donated by the family of Bill Whittenberg, was on display at the Wheel Inn, where Post 9 sold bratwursts as a fundraiser for an American Legion motorcycle-related cause. Post 9 commander Rick Foreman said after Whittenberg passed away earlier this year, his wife no longer had a use for the trailer. Lonnie Cox talked to her about the...
This year's Lincoln Rodeo faced its share of challenges. Their longtime stock contractor, Pistol Creek Rodeo*, moved on from supplying stock for the open rodeo, leaving the Lincoln Rodeo Club with the challenge of finding a replacement. The Fourth of July fell on a Thursday before the rodeo, not an ideal day. And thunderstorms over the weekend brought driving rain and wind to the valley. While any of those could have spelled disaster, Christ Lewenight with the Rodeo Club said...
Everybody loves a parade When New Zealanders Andrew and Diane Scott rode into Ovando July 3, they didn't know they'd be "international ambassadors" in a parade celebrating American Independence the next day. Kathy Schoendoerfer, Ovando's de facto ambassador for cyclists, said they had planned to leave on the morning of the Fourth, but were convinced to stick around for the towns annual Independence Day Parade. "We decorated up their bicycles, put cowboy hats on them and they...
The Annual July 4th Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce fireworks show lit up the sky over Lincoln for more than 10-minutes on Independence Day. This year served as a reminder of the dangers of the privately purchased fireworks when a large mortar on Hooper parks west ball field tipped over. The pyrotechnic shot through the fence and struck a spectator in the shoulder and face. The impact knocked the man down and caught his shirt on fire. He suffered a second degree burn on...
For nearly three decades, a converted horse trailer filled with cowboy hats has been a popular fixture at the Lincoln Rodeo, but nothing lasts forever. After Charlie "the Hat Man" Mason passed away in 2011, his wife Geri carried on with the business she and her husband built nearly four decades ago "All in all, 37 years on the road selling hats." Geri said. "(Charlie's) been gone eight years, so I've been carrying on pretty much solo." Despite the fun she has in seeing the...
A small brush fire near Stemple Pass Road Thursday singed grasses and sagebrush along Poorman Creek but didn't cause any major damage. Mona Fitzgerald reported the fire after smelling smoke while in her house. She looked out and saw smoke filtering through the trees at the back of her property, but knewnobody was supposed to be doing any debris burning. When she went to check she saw fire burning in the grass and heard it popping as sagebrush burned. She called 911 and said...
Lincoln School's POUNCE Program, which for ten years has offered after school programs throughout the school year and educational, cultural and recreational opportunities every summer for Lincoln kids, learned last week it wouldn't receive funding for next year. The program has been funded through a 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant, but wasn't among the schools selected to receive funding this year. With funding set to expire June 30, Lincoln Schools POUNCE...
A flight over the Lincoln Valley and surrounding mountains provided a different perspective on the legislative proposal unveiled last month by the Upper Blackfoot Working Group. Last Wednesday EcoFlight, a Colorado company that educates and advocates for the environment using small planes, took members of the group and guests on a tour of the proposal area, to get a different perspective on why the group proposed to designate certain areas for conservation management, forest...
A barbecue fundraiser to benefit the planned Lincoln Skatepark drew an estimated 200-300 people to Hooper park Saturday, June 29 to support efforts by Lincoln school students to build a skate park for Lincoln. Employees from the Lincoln Ranger District, working on their own time, spent their free time over the last four weeks coordinating the event after Jarel Kurtz, the District's fire management officer, heard about the project during an Envision Lincoln meeting he...
Music is back on the slate this year at Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild with series of free weekly concerts in the Delaney Mill TeePee Burner beginning on the Fourth of July. Last year Sculpture in the Wild added music to its annual September artistic offerings, with Composer-in-Residence Adele O'Dwyer curating a series of concerts culminating in a Cafe Music Night Fundraiser. This year, the music moves to the sculpture park every Thursday evening, with a series of...
The Rocky Mountain Model T Club gave residents from Lincoln to Philipsburg a glimpse into the past and at the most ubiquitous car in history. The club brought 11 "Tin Lizzies" to Lincoln on one of the club's two back road tours they take each year.. "We went up over Huckleberry pass, then back into Seeley Lake, came in the back side there. Then we went down to Philipsburg, went to Garnet and dropped down the back side of Garnet into Bearmouth, Drummond and on into...
The Lincoln Volunteer Fire Department took advantage of an empty house at 728 Main Street in Lincoln to conduct real-world training Saturday, June 22. Using smoke bombs, small piles of burning straw and a simulated casualty, firefighters practiced making their way through a building none of them had been in before, in the low visibility of a smoke-filled building. "It gave us a real-life scenario with live fire and we were able to do different scenarios; from a rescue of an...
The Alliance for Wild Rockies and the Native Ecosystems Council filed suit last week in federal district court to halt implementation of the Willow Creek Vegetation Project southwest of Lincoln. The environmental groups claim the Forest Service designated the area as a "threatened landscape" without conducting the proper environmental analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act. Without that analysis, they claim the public has been denied the opportunity to review or...
Reminders of the Lambkin Park clean up day brought in seven volunteers, including Zach Muse and Markj Christian. A lack of younger volunteers and volunteer leaders to help with Snow Warriors' projects and events, including the Lambkin Park clean up, has been a growing concern of Christian's recently. Many of the most active volunteers who helped make the club one of the largest and most active in the state are growing older and are no longer able to tackle more physically...
Two and a half months after local fisherman James Savstrom, 70, was found dead on the Blackfoot River west of Lincoln, the state crime has lab released its findings in his cause of death. Information provided by Lewis and Clark County Sheriff/Coroner Leo Dutton listed Savstrom's primary cause of death was Atherlosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, also known as hardening of the arteries. Hypothermia was listed as the secondary cause of death. According to Dutton, Savstrom's...
Ronald Reagan was President, no one had heard of the internet and deer were more of a traffic problem in Lincoln than cars, trucks or semis when Sherri Wood began her job as library director at the Lincoln Library. "I started when my oldest boy was a baby. He turned 36 and I thought, 'What? I think I've been here a long time,'" Wood said, showing her deadpan sense of humor last Wednesday as her tenure drew at the library drew to a close. More than 25 people (and a large...
The PureView Health Center board of directors voted June 5 to end its 25-year partnership with Lewis and Clark County and strike out on its own as an independent nonprofit in 2020. The move has been under consideration for more than a year, Lewis and Clark County Commissioner Susan Good Geise said at the June 7 Lincoln Government Day meeting. The announcement of the decision comes as PureView prepares to apply for the Health Resource Service Administration grant that has...
The first Lincoln Farmers Market, organized by Envision Lincoln members, received a warm welcome Friday, June 7 as community members showed up to check out the latest bi-weekly event in town. Shoppers seemed to enjoy the small but varied selection of vendors, as well as the live music and food offered at the event. But, like any inaugural event, it hit a few rough spots. Some patrons were unhappy that the event is enforcing Health Department regulations against dogs at such...
The Lewis and Clark County Heritage Tourism Council honored Kevin O'Dwyer and Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild this week with a 2019 Historic Preservation Award for O'Dwyer's "Montana Memory: Re-Imagining the Delaney Sawmill TeePee Burner." The TeePee Burner is the last major remnant of the Delaney Sawmill and served as the inspiration for the development of Sculpture in the Wild just east of Lincoln. "One of our members nominated it for the award. A bunch of us had b...
With cleanup work at the Upper Blackfoot Mining Complex set to resume next week, representatives of the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, U.S. Forest Service and the Natural Resource Damage Program returned to Lincoln Thursday, June 6 to provide the community with an update on the progress of the cleanup. "We said last winter we'd come back and give an update before construction. They're starting to mobilize now onto the site." Project Manager Dave Bowers told this...
Members of the Upper Blackfoot Working Group unveiled their final draft of the Lincoln Valley Public Lands Proposal at a meeting in Lincoln last Wednesday/ Nearly 40 people showed up at the Lincoln Community Hall May 29 to learn more about the proposal that, if successful, would use the legislative process to improve forest management, create additional recreational opportunities and protect sensitive areas on the federal lands around Lincoln. Members of the working group...
Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild will be hosting a series of two-hour tours next week in hopes of increasing local knowledge about the sculpture park, the artwork there and how it benefits the community. "As a board, we've been talking about this for quite some time, that we need to figure out a way to let as many people in Lincoln as we can - business owners and their employees - know more about Sculpture in the Wild. Just to have them tour it and let them know it's...
