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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...
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...
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...
Ah, summertime! Sleep until noon? Play video games until 3 a.m.? Not for some local go-getters who see free time as an opportunity to earn money. With a constant parade of tourists looking for a burger and shake, the Pit Stop restaurant puts on extra help in the high traffic season. Teenage helpers who don't mind hard work amid rushes of "every table full" days scurry about taking orders and delivering food. Sophomore Ivy Corrigan is learning the ropes of this fast-paced job...
(StatePoint) New research suggests that Americans may be picking up paint brushes over remote controls. Two-thirds of adults in a recent survey say they seek to use their creativity more in life, and 77 percent would rather give up their Netflix subscription for a year than their favorite creative hobby. The study, conducted by Bluprint, NBCUniversal's state-of-the-art digital lifestyle learning platform and streaming service, in partnership with IPSOS, explores the growth of...
Lincoln has many outstanding artists and a vibrant art community. Taking her place among this talented group is 13-year-old Miyah Davis, winner of the Montana PTSA "Reflections" fine arts competition in photography with her photo, "My Dad, a hero among us." The winning photograph depicted Miyah's father, Jim Davis, building a fire to heat their home on a freezing January day. "I love my Dad," said Miyah with tears in her eyes. "He brings so much joy into our family." Miyah's...
"I love the light here, and the silence. It's one thing I find ... the quiet is so great," Eldon Beck said . In that great quiet Beck, 87, found a new voice in the form of poetry 16 years ago, during a winter visit to his daughter's home near Helmville. Beck joked that when he began writing poetry at 71, he was called one of the new "young" authors. The view from the window in his daughter Jean Pocha's house inspired a poem called 'The Wind Blows White,' which became the...
Explosive growth was on the horizon for Lincoln in early 1969. Just 12 years before Lincoln's population and economic prospects saw a boost when, Highway 200 - then Highway 20 - officially opened in 1957, providing a direct route between Missoula and Great Falls. In 1965, the Anaconda Copper Mining Company began exploring development of a copper and molybdenum ore body in the Heddleston mining district - now known as the Upper Blackfoot Mining Complex- and by 1968 there was...
In a nod to Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild's cultural and economic impact, the Montana Office of Tourism and Business Development recently awarded the sculpture park their Heritage and Cultural Tourism award. In the award's wake, local business owners reflected on the park's impact on tourism commerce in Lincoln. Laurie Richards, who owns the Wheel Inn Bar, provides BPSW brochures on the tables in her business and often steers travelers to Sculpture in the Wild....
The Blackfoot River Chapter of Ducks Unlimited celebrated 20 years last weekend, and at the same time paid tribute to the man known for developing the organization's largest, most successful sealed bid auction program. Former Lincoln District Ranger Daina Bambe, her husband Dick Denslinger and Ernie and Renee Lundberg started the Blackfoot River Chapter and annual banquet in 1999, as a way to help Ducks Unlimited preserve wetlands and also to help the community's economy with...
Firefighters with the Lincoln Volunteer Fire Department arrived at Hooper Park at about 11:15 a.m. Easter morning to set up for their annual Easter Egg Hunt. As the firefighters trickled into the park, they got to work scattering the brightly colored, candy-filled plastic eggs throughout the three different areas of the park for the different age groups. Ward Roberson said it took the firefighters about two hours to fill the plastic Easter eggs with candy on Thursday night,...
Lynn Tefzger's routine, which often incorporates audience members, includes characters like Camelot (a camel), Chloe, a three-year old girl and Simon, her first dummy with a complex about being called a "creepy puppet."...
Most Montanans view their state as being largely rural in character because of its many open, sparsely populated spaces and the lack of any truly large cities. However, in reality Montana is steadily becoming a largely urban state, at least in terms of where most of the state's residents live and work. A key aspect of Montana's growth and change is the steady emergence of its small cities as growing centers of commerce and trade, as well as high quality places to live and...
Springtime is here, and for a lot of forest landowners it means getting back into the woods on their property for cleanup and upkeep. It also means that forest insects start to show themselves again. Forest insects are found throughout Montana, with some being more of a problem than others depending on conditions. Below are a few facts that may help forest landowners address concerns. Douglas-fir beetles typically infest damaged, sickly or recently broken Douglas-fir trees....
The Community Halls annual clean-up is a significant undertaking, with a to-do list covering about two pages. Doug Vulcan, who has been volunteering for the clean up for the last four years, said part of the trick to maximizing volunteer efforts is to break tasks down into small chunks that don’t seem overwhelming. Cleaning the walls of the century-old building may look fairly straightforward, but Vulcan said it can present a challenge. He said the first year he helped clean t...
Lincoln firefighters descended on the Lincoln Community Hall Friday afternoon and Saturday morning to prepare the hall for their annual Fireman's Ball. Lincoln Fire Chief Zach Muse said efforts to get the Fireman's Ball up and running was "a bit chaotic" this year, following a few tough months. Muse said circumstances this year, including the passing of Fire District Chairman Bill Frisbee, health issues within the families of various firefighters and even the extra plowing...
Dave Sitch said his family is so thankful and appreciative for the continued support of the Pete Sitch Memorial Basketball Tournament. This year marked the 32nd annual tournament created in honor of the Sitch family patriarch, who was killed in a logging accident in 1984. The Lincoln Telephone Company team took home the top spot after beating Big Rock, a team based out of Boulder, in the championship game Sunday afternoon. Sitch said this year's tournament had a full roster of...
After a snowmobile season that got off to a slow start in January, followed by a bitterly cold February and that saw the Ponderosa Snow Warriors' groomer out of commission for a month, conditions finally turned favorable for the club's annual scholarship fun run Saturday, March 9. Clear skies, bright sun and temperatures that finally rose above freezing gave the 40 or so riders who took to the trails a long-awaited nice day. Organizers took advantage of the conditions and the...
If you ever took a CPR class and found the old Resuci-Annie CPR dummies a little...creepy, the idea of a medical mannequin that can scream at you, move its eyes and deliver a moving baby may seem like the stuff of nightmares, but such a simulator provided important and realistic training for members of the Lincoln Volunteer Ambulance last weekend. A mobile lab from the non-profit Simulation in Motion-Montana, Inc. made its first visit to Lincoln Saturday as part of the...
Old Man Winter’s strangle hold on Montana this year caused Ovando residents to tap out on their annual effort to shake off the winter’s dreariness with a little Hawaiian whimsy. After last weekend’s extreme cold weather and wind chills scuttled a second attempt to host the Annual Ovando Community Mid-Winter Luau, residents cried “Uncle!” and called off the event this year. It was the first cancellation of the event since it began in 2005. Typically held every year on the Saturday following the Super Bowl, the Luau has serve...
Lincoln's Bonnie Joseph waves at the camera while running in the 40th Annual Snow Joke Half-marathon in Seeley Lake Saturday, Feb. 23. Joseph, the only runner from Lincoln to take part, completed the route that loops around Seeley Lake in three hours and two minutes. The run is the areas oldest and largest winter half-marathon and drew 553 registered runners...
After Jack Beckstrom died unexpectedly of a heart attack last March, Seeley Lake musher Roy Etnire began looking for a spot along the Race to the Sky trail for a sign or plaque to honor the man who founded the event in 1986. "There are a lot of people who use this trail who would, I think, enjoy knowing the story of Jack Beckstrom," said Etnire. "He affected so many people that we shouldn't ignore him." Pam Beckstrom, Jack's widow, said the idea for a sign to honor him came...
