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This year's rodeo was dedicated to the memory of Kathy Daniels, a lifelong Helmville resident who dedicated more than 45 years of service to the Helmville Rodeo Club. https://www.blackfootvalleydispatch.com/photos...
Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild awaits the arrival of Artistic Director Kevin O'Dwyer and the 2019 Artists in Residence, but the park has been plenty busy already this year. If you've been out to the sculpture park recently, you may have seen the new Memorial Benches and picnic tables. The new picnic tables were acquired through a matching grant through the Montana Department of Commerce. Ten picnic tables, four of them wheelchair accessible, provide an area for...
The Montana State Old Time Fiddlers Contest in Lincoln last weekend seemed to be a hit. "It went really well," said Montana State Old Time Fiddlers Association President Isaac Callendar. "Everybody seemed to have a good time. It was everything I hoped it would be." The contest drew 52 fiddlers in the age categories, which was an increase from about 30 contestants last year. Callendar said that included about a dozen kids younger than eight who competed in the Peewee division....
Ryan Alter of Missoula says you don't drive a DeLorean if you aren't prepared to be noticed. Alter, who owns the custom IT firm Alter Enterprises, Inc., came up to Ovando last Wednesday in his 1981 DeLorean DMC 12 to spend time with his former co-workers at the Blackfoot Challenge Block Party. Alter explained that he worked with Elaine Caton to develop the Challenge's trumpeter swan database, invented an automatic bear trap used by Jamie Jonkel, the bear specialist with...
The Upper Blackfoot Valley Historical Society celebrated Heritage Days Saturday, Aug. 17. The event celebrates the history of Lincoln and crafts and skills used by early settlers. Heritage Days is a fundraising event for the UBVHS, which is raising money for the purchase of property and the reconstruction of the Historic Matt King House....
The annual Heritage Days Vintage Fashion Show makes a return for year three....
For the first time in nearly four decades, the Lincoln Library has a new librarian handling the literary needs of the community. Kate Radford took her new post as the Lincoln Library Branch Manager July 31, after a couple days of training at the main Lewis and Clark County Library in Helena, and has been busy getting to know both the library and the community. "Everybody has been super kind and friendly and supportive," Radford said. "but I have heard a number of times what...
The 2019 Barn Dance at the Grantier Barn provided family friendly fun and entertainment Friday night, Aug. 9....
Things looked pretty grim for the success of the 3rd Annual Lincoln Arts and Music Festival and the first Lincoln Trails Day event last weekend, as a series of major rainstorms headed toward western Montana, trigging flash flood warnings across the area. When all was said and done, however, it seemed like things had gone pretty well. "All the music played and 90 percent of the artists stuck around for most of the two days, so it was a success in my book," festival organizer...
A group of seven performers who took the stage at the Delaney Mill TeePee Burner Wednesday, Aug. 7 to read some of their favorite passages from the various plays and poems of William Shakespeare for "Shakespeare in the Wild" Klara Varga of Lincoln, a devotee of Shakespeare, worked with Mary Dietz and Stacey Berquist, a retired high school theater teacher from Great Falls, to bring a group of like-minded fans together for the presentation. Varga persuaded Annette Gardner,...
I have received several calls about plants that have either just shown up, or have increased in density and distribution with the additional precipitation we have received in many parts of Powell County this summer. Two such plants are poison hemlock and Western waterhemlock. Ingestion of either by humans or livestock can result in illness or death. Poison hemlock, the most toxic of the two, was used to create the potion Socrates was forced to drink in 329 B.C. Some Native...
Gary Zadick's Lincolnstock returned to Hooper Park Saturday. The free concert featured performances by the Back Adit Band, The Halladay Quist Trio and Wiley and the Wild West. The small festival returned as a standalone event after a two-year absence. Featuring country, bluegrass, folk and a bit of jazz, the festival has been a popular among locals and visitors....
Classic and custom cars and trucks flooded into the Lincoln Rodeo Grounds Saturday for the Rev Mountain Car and Bike Show. The event featured the free car show Saturday, featuring the Horny Mike's Roadshow. Two nights of music, featuring six performers, bracketed the car show Friday and Saturday nights....
The Annual Lincoln Airport Open House and Barbecue drew a healthy crowd Saturday, with guests showing up throughout the day to have a bite to eat and to check out the airport and the visiting aircraft. The event, hosted by Jerry and Liz Cain for 17 years, began as a fly-in Barbecue and meeting of the Helena Vigilante Hangar of the Montana Pilots Association but it has since become part of Jerry Cain's ongoing effort to get the community interested in supporting the Lincoln...
Whether it's hiking, horseback riding or off-highway vehicles, information on the various public trails around Lincoln can be hard to come by, for both visitors and locals alike. This year, an effort to raise awareness of the public trail system around the Upper Blackfoot Valley is underway, with the ultimate goal of developing a website specifically for Lincoln-area trails. Montana Conservation Corps intern Paige Havener began working on that task in June, and for the past...
Nearly 50 shooters took part in this Treasure State Cowboy Mounted Shooters Association event at the Lincoln Rodeo Grounds. Last weekend marked the fourth time since 2014 that the Treasure State CMSA has hosted shoots at the Lincoln Rodeo Grounds, having missed 2015 and 2017 due to the Rodeo Grounds being used as a base camp for fires during those year...
In this three-part series, Montana Free Press examines how federal land management agencies have approached wildfire in the past and highlights public sector efforts to make communities more resilient through land-use planning, strategic building processes, and targeted fuel reduction treatments. In Part 3, we explore a private sector development: the growth of private firefighting companies deployed by insurance companies to protect properties from loss by wildfire. BOZEMAN...
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...
(SPM Wire) Summer is here, and nature beckons. The benefits of spending time outside -- from an increase in vitamin D levels to the healing powers of nature -- are common knowledge, and outdoor activities are widely encouraged by various health organizations. But while you're out and about enjoying fresh air, don't forget to take precautions against the possibility of being bitten by a tick. Ticks are tiny arthropods that live by feeding on the blood of other animals and peopl...
The Back Adit Band Kicked off the Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild summer concert Series on the Fourth of July....
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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 2019 Lincoln parade, July 6....
Note: As the West enters another fire season, where, how and why federal land management agencies decide to suppress wildfires and implement fuel reduction projects will be hotly debated, as residents, environmentalists, agency heads, and politicians tangle with how much, if any, thinning, logging, and prescribed burning is appropriate to mitigate fire risk. Three trends play an important role in the discussion: hotter and drier conditions wrought by climate change, which have...
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...
