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Ovando's annual Old West Christmas Fest wouldn't be complete without "Cowboy Claus" and his trusty horse, St. Nick. St. Nick has become a favorite of kids and families who come from the Ovando area and neighboring communities to browse the wares of the craft bazaar, take part in family-friendly activities, and have their photo taken with Cowboy Claus, Santa's Montana cousin. An appropriately fuzzy and somewhat diminutive blond gelding with a gentle demeanor, St. Nick belongs...
New Lincoln Schools part-time assistant custodian Jim Oly is no stranger to school hallways. A Drummond native, Oly was a janitor at Drummond school for three years before deciding to relocate to Lincoln, where he had lived previously for several years in the 1990's. Known for his quirky sense of humor, Oly can be seen driving around town in his Chevy S-10 pickup, to which he has affixed dozens of tiny toys and action figures. He's also been known to drive his lawnmower...
Ovando's Annual Old West Christmas Fest once again offered families and guests a small-town respite from the commercial excesses of Black Friday with a return to its traditional timeframe, immediately following Thanksgiving Day. "A lot of people don't want to go to town and deal with those crowds," said Leigh Ann Valiton, who took over as the event's lead organizer this year. In 2015, the celebration of the holiday season moved to the first weekend in December to give...
(StatePoint) Learning to play piano can boost children's confidence in many ways. So, if your family is looking to introduce a new hobby or after-school activity to your children, here are five reasons to consider piano. 1. Practice makes perfect. Practicing piano demonstrates that, over time, effort can lead to tangible improvement. This transformation will help give children the motivation and confidence they may need to hone their skills in other areas of life -- from organ...
Mark Christian is deeply concerned about the future of the Ponderosa Snow Warriors and hopes to see some of the younger snowmobilers in Lincoln step forward to lead the club into the future. "The club's 50 years old. It got started with a great corps of people who were all friends. They took care of the club as long as they possibly could, and people got spoiled because they did all the work. Unfortunately, time is time, and either we lost those great people or they're unable...
This year's Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce Community Benefit saw the Lincoln Community Players turn to the way-back (or the only-a-little-way-back) machine to recreate some of their funniest performances from the past couple of decades. Performances included their take on classic commercials and scenes inspired by The Carol Burnett Show, Rowan and Martin's Laugh In, Saturday Night Live and Home Improvement. A final tally of of how much money the benfit brought in wasn't...
"When I was 18, 19, 20 years old, I'd hay during the day and bartend at night," said Helmville native Katie Applegate. "Even then there was discussion of the bar being for sale, and the locals being like 'you should run the bar...'" Earlier this year, the idea that she would one day run the Copper Queen Saloon became a reality when she and her husband Tommy took over the business from Tammi Foell, who ran it for 21 years. "There was always a rumor that once we moved back that...
Two of Montana’s many veterans, Randy LeCocq and John Driscoll, military history authors, will be travelling around Big Sky Country promoting their new book, The Battle of the Bulge: A Montana perspective. LaCocq and Driscoll will be making their presentations in the public libraries at Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Glasgow, Great Falls, Helena, Kalispell, Miles City and Missoula, between November 7, the day following Election Day, and November 20, two days before Thanksgiving Day. Local details are being released by each L...
Last Wednesday about 45 members of the Mercy Flight air medical service from Benefis Hospital in Great Falls descended on the Lincoln Airport for their annual Safety Stand-down. Every year, Mercy Flight takes and operational break - effectively going out of business for the day- to review their safety procedures, conduct cross training between the medical specialties within their own ranks, and to train with other first responders in the various areas they serve. Mercy flight...
For the past 31 years, once a month, you can find a white motor home sitting outside the Sportsman's Motel. Inside, you will find Dr. Loren Keller waiting to care for the four-legged residents of Lincoln. During his college years, Keller spent his summers on a ranch in the Bitterroot Valley. When the vet would come, he would help out, which stoked his interest in medicine. During a summer spent doing research with a doctor at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md.,...
My grandfather, Alfred Briscoe, raised his family in Cascade, Montana. He served as mayor from 1920 to 1923 and postmaster until 1936, and owned the Briscoe Mercantile Co. After his wife Minna died he married Pearl, the only grandmother I ever knew. That added more relatives to our family. Pearl's daughter, Mae Weiderhold, had property in Lincoln called Dreamland Lodge and wanted Grandma and Grandpa to move there as they grew older. So, at age 72, Grandpa built a beautifully...
The Alpine Artisan's Tour of the Arts returned to Lincoln last weekend as the Lincoln Art Haus Co-op once again hosted an exhibition and sale of their artwork at the Community Hall. Annie Allen, founder of the co-op, said the growing organization now has nine members, including new member Tammy Jordan, a fiber artiss who recently returned to Lincoln. Only one member of the co-op, Steve Woodhouse missed the tour this year, but they invited Margaret Rose Chiltwood, a visiting ar...
The Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce brought the Brewery Follies and their politically incorrect humor to Lincoln for a second year last weekend. The show drew about 130 people, mostly from Great Falls and Missoula. It was a downturn from last year's standing-room-only crowd, but more than covered the cost of bringing the troupe to town for the evening. (Roger Dey Photos)...
Beautifully filmed in Montana's Paradise Valley, the Sundance Film Festival hit, Walking Out, will provide a thrilling evening to hunters and back country enthusiasts alike. The powerfully-acted plot revolves around a hunting trip in a remote, snow-filled valley taken by a father and his 14-year old son, who have been estranged. The son, David (Josh Wiggins), lives with his mother in Texas, but comes to Montana once a year to spend time with his roughneck father Cal (Matt...
A Kawai grand piano purchased by Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild and intended for the use of the community and the park has taken up residence at the Methodist church. BPSW President Becky Garland said the park decided to put rental costs to good use by purchasing a fine instrument that could be used by Lincoln School students as well as by the sculpture park and the community at large. Garland said pianist Phil Aaberg, who was a featured artist in several of this...
The Montana Office of Tourism and the University of Montana are collaborating with Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild to gather data about who visits the sculpture park, and BPSW board members and volunteers were on hand during September's residency to distribute questionnaires to park visitors. Funded by the Montana Office of Tourism to gather information on park visitors, the length of their stay, what services they use and where they spend their money, the surveys...
New Installations at Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild...
Autumn colors create a warm frame for Steve Siegel's megalithic newspaper sculpture 'Hill and Valley,' one of the original sculptures created at Sculpture in the Wild in 2014....
Composer Adele O'Dwyer wrapped up her 2018 stint as Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild Composer in Residence with a final concert Friday, Sept 28. The concert at the Lincoln Community Hall featured original musical compositions by O'Dwyer performed by internationally renowned musicians in front of a backdrop of artwork by local students and was attended by more than 100 community members and BPSW supporters. O'Dwyer said she spent several months in preparation for the...
The ephemeral nature of art and beauty is an important theme of Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild's 2018 education program, according to BPSW Education Officer Hannah Demma. Demma, who guides children from small Montana communities on interactive tours of Sculpture in the Wild, meets school groups at the Lincoln Ranger Station, where rangers begin the program with a presentation. "This year we're doing bear safety. They've been playing a game with them, and it kind of...
Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild welcomed fall with Festival in the Wild 2018, a weekend program of events and music celebrating the sculpture park's fifth anniversary. The festival kicked off with a sold-out café music night and fundraiser art auction at the Lincoln Community Hall. The event featured refreshments in a candlelit café style ambiance accompanied by live music from performing artists Phil Aaberg, Pan Morigan, Marvin Suson, Aoise O'Dwyer and BPSW C...
Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild entered its busiest time of the year last week as this year's two artist-in-residence went to work on the newest installations for the park. Unlike some past artists, neither Cornelia Konrads nor Kate Hunt have released conceptual renditions of the work, which may make this year's launch Sept. 29 feel a bit more revelatory. Konrads in particular prefers to keep her concept, a span incorporating lodgepole logs and barn wood, close to...
Adele O'Dwyer admitted she was delighted and a bit surprised at the crowd that filled the Lincoln Community Hall for the first in a series of three Lunchtime Concerts celebrating both the 5th Anniversary of Blackfoot Pathways and the 100th Anniversary of the Lincoln Community Hall. "I don't think a lunchtime concert is a common place event, so I didn't know if the first one, would they respond?" she said. "There seem to be school children and all sorts of different people,...
Sculpture in the Wild's 2018 University of Montana Emerging Artist Anne Yoncha began work on "Tree Talk," a piece intended make the internal physiology of trees, and the networks between them audible, on Monday, Sept. 10. BPSW's first sound-based interactive installation, "Tree Talk" is described as temporary, performative art,and highlights the living presence of the Ponderosa pines within the Sculpture in the Wild. "Tree Talk "is designed to collect data from several trees...
