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SEELEY LAKE – A petition, to return the speed on Highway 83 to its original limits prior to the changes implemented this past October, has been available at businesses in Seeley Lake and Condon for nearly two months. The intent is to get as many signatures as possible and return it to the Montana Transportation Commission (Commission) this spring asking them to reconsider their decision for the speed limit change. The petition also requests pedestrian-operated crossing lights on Highway 83 at Riverview Drive and the south end of Boy Scout R...
SEELEY LAKE – Hip-hop music was blaring, colored lights were flashing and three 14-foot screens carried rotating Say Something logos as fifth through eighth-grade students from Seeley Lake Elementary (SLE), Potomac School and Swan Valley School entered the SLE gymnasium Jan. 17. The ultimate purpose was to convince them to say something if they saw or experienced bullying, were having thoughts of suicide or knew of someone else contemplating suicide. An evening program covering the same topic w...
Many horses, cattle and dogs live in rural areas and experience subzero weather in the winter. Each species has certain needs during cold snaps. Missoula County Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) Bill Brown has practiced for the last 25 years. He said horse and mule, or equines, needs include extra hay, fresh water and a place to get out of the wind during subzero temperatures. He said having something for the animals to stand by, like a building or tree, provides extra warmth by transferring...
SEELEY LAKE – Saturday, Jan. 28 will mark the 35th annual Over Seeley's Creeks & Ridges (OSCR) 50 kilometer (K) ski race. The OSCR has become a local legend in the ski community because of its length, history and reputation for ruggedness and delivering the unexpected. Avid racer and race director since the early 1990s Lynn Carey said the only thing constant with OSCR for the past 35 years has been change. Prior to the OSCR was the Marathon Ovando Seeley Tour (MOST) race. The course started a...
Hometown. You spend the entirety of your childhood waiting for the day to leave this god-forsaken place just knowing there must be a bigger, better world out there awaiting you. And there possibly is. But what you don't realize at the time is you will come to miss what your hometown has truly manifested in your heart of hearts. It won't be a sense of success or money that you seek but the first time you come back home after a long period of being gone, your heart will see what really mattered...
As a young resident covering night shifts, I remember my first 'code blue.' I was nervous but the staff was competent and confident. We did CPR, we pushed meds, and we did everything as we were suppose to, yet the patient died anyway. He was about the same age as I am now and died of a blood clot to his lungs. I've been thinking about him a lot lately, having recently developed a blood clot myself...pretty scary. Blood clots are more common (and more dangerous) than you might think but don't...
SEELEY LAKE - The Seeley Lake Sewer Board discussed options as they try to retain a $10 million funding package after the failure of the bond election. The board was also informed at their Jan. 19 regular meeting that three positions on the board are up for election this May. The district received a letter dated Dec. 14 from the United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Development (RD) informing them that the funding package was no longer available as a result of the bond election failing. RD’s funding package consisted of $5.7 million i...
SEELEY LAKE – Seeley Lake Elementary School Board discussed the SLE Outside store’s income and expense report for November 2015-November 2016 at their meeting Jan. 17. The board also accepted Sally Johnson’s resignation. Johnson will be retiring in April. The Income and Expense Report for SLE Outside gave a revenue total of nearly $233,000. Expenses reported were nearly $243,000, a $10,000 deficit. “With the dust settled after a year, I’m pleased with this number,” said Superintendent Chris Stout. “[SLE Outside’s] not just straight invent...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley Lake Rural Fire District Board approved a 2.5 percent raise for District Administrator Lynn Richards and Maintenance staff Mark Kues at their Jan. 17 meeting. This was less than the three percent raise Seeley Lake Fire Chief Bob Vanden Heuvel recommended. The board also approved the budget, new carpet at Station 2 and the Walmart gift cards Vanden Heuvel gave to the volunteers as a Christmas gift. Vanden Heuvel first asked the board to approve a three percent raise at their November meeting. The raise was accounted f...
The American marten is a very charismatic creature despite its small size. The house-cat sized member of the weasel family has short legs, pointed ears and a well-furred tail that extends to about a third of its total body length. Perhaps best characterized by a pale buff or orange patch on the throat or breast, the marten is typically 21-26 inches long and weighs about 1.5 to 2.75 pounds. Marten select for mesic closed-canopy stand types characterized by large tree diameters, plentiful coarse woody debris, snags and with a high degree of...
SEELEY LAKE – Women from around Montana came to Seeley Lake this weekend to learn how to ice fish with the Montana Fish, Wildlife &Parks (FWP) Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) program. Leader Kim Driscoll of Potomac said it is all about having fun and catching fish. The BOW program provides participants with information, encouragement and hands-on instruction in outdoor skills such as fishing, shooting, archery, map & compass, survival, canoeing and outdoor cooking. Driscoll said BOW is d...
SEELEY LAKE – Minx Beauty Bar is holding its Grand Opening Jan. 28-29 in the Lazy Pine Mall. It offers sunless tanning, full body waxing, facials, eye lash extensions and lash lifts. Owner Jenifer Flannery and co-worker Krisy Stout look forward to bringing services to the community that are not currently available and making clients feel good about themselves. Flannery is from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. As a teenager she worked with her mother who owned a salon. Later Flannery went i...
SEELEY LAKE – Seeley Lake Elementary (SLE) junior high students shared their final science projects Wednesday, Jan. 18 at the SLE Science Fair. Eighth grade students built Rube Goldberg machines to demonstrate their understanding of forces and motion. The seventh grade students each researched and presented on one plant and one animal that lives in the Morrell Creek ecosystem. The eighth-graders built Rube Goldberg machines, a contraption, invention, device, or apparatus that is deliberately o...
SEELEY LAKE – SLE Outside hosted their fifth annual Skiesta Saturday, Jan. 21 at the Seeley Lake Nordic Trails. This year 40 racers from Seeley Lake, Missoula, Sandpoint and Whitefish youth ski clubs participated in the 1 kilometer (K), 3K, 5K and 10K races. First, second and third places were awarded for five different age groups split by boys and girls. Very few racers did not receive a ribbon for their efforts and a few lucky ones received a door prize for participating. "I think it was r...
SSEELEY LAKE – The Seeley Lake Elementary (SLE) Drama Club presented "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" Jan. 18. Sixth-grade teacher Sharon Teague led an elective entitled "Stage Craft" that did all of the set design, production and props. Teague's afterschool sewing club, funded through the 21st Century Grant, made all of the costumes. When the new schoolmaster Ichabod Crane (Bethany Hoag) showed up in Sleepy Hollow, he was quite the ladies' man. However there was only one lady that won his h...
SWAN VALLEY - Swan Lake District of the Flathead National Forest (FNF) Ranger Rich Kehr presented updates to projects in the works for the Swan Valley, the FNF forest plan revision draft and answered questions from attendees at the Swan Valley Community Council (SVCC) meeting Jan. 17. Kehr briefly explained that community residents had concerns pertaining to wilderness expansion onto the Swan front addressed in the draft forest plan. Kehr said FNF Supervisor Chip Weber will make recommendations about the plan draft to the United States Forest...
SWAN VALLEY – The Swan Valley Community Council (SVCC) discussed the $100,000 that will be used for updating the Swan Valley Community Library at their meeting Jan. 17. They assigned the Ad Hoc Committee to ask Director of Missoula County Library Honore Bray about transferring the $100,000 to the library board so they would have control of the money. On Sept. 13, 2016 the Montana Department of Labor and Industry conducted a limited service safety and health consultation for the Swan Valley Community Hall and Library that was requested by S...
SEELEY LAKE - Marion Burmeister nee Schmutz was born New Year's day 1927 in Queens, N.Y. to Anna and Walter Schmutz. She was raised with her brother Bob in Queens, N.Y. where she graduated from high school a year early. Marion was a secretary in Manhattan, taking the crowded subway from Queens to the office. In 1947 she met Charles Burmeister and they were married in 1949. In 1950 she became a mother with the birth of her son Stephen. In 1953 she had her second son Roger. In 1964 they welcomed... Full story
PLACID LAKE - Kenneth Wayne Lowe passed away of natural causes on Dec. 31, 2016 in Clancy, Mont. at the age of 88. Wayne was the son of Virgil and Urena Lowe. He was born in Williston, N.D. Jan. 2, 1928. He was the fourth of six children. In 1929, Wayne's family moved from Williston to Eastern Montana where the family ran a dairy farm. He was educated in the Poplar, Mont. school system and joined the navy in 1947. He was stationed in Attu Alaska during World War II. In 1949, he married June... Full story
DEER LODGE - Our mother disliked long obituaries. She threatened to come down and haunt us if a lengthy one was ever written for her. So, we told her we would write, “she was born, she lived, and she died”. She said, “Fine!” However, after 98 years of living it was decided she deserved more than that. Mom was born Feb. 13, 1919 in Butte, Mont. to George and Frances Potts. She was raised in Helmville, Mont., the oldest of eight children. She attended St Vincent’s Academy in Helena and later business school in Butte. In 1940 she married C... Full story
SWAN VALLEY – The Swan Valley Warhawks had a busy week travelling to Helmville and Hall and hosting the Avon Elks at home for their last game of the regular season. The A team was won on the road while the B team won their last game of the season against the Elks. Versus Helmville The Warhawks traveled to Helmville Thursday evening, Jan. 19 with a bit of an attitude as the Helmville Mustangs has been the only team to beat the Swan Valley "A" team this year. The action started off quickly with t...
SEELEY LAKE - The Seeley-Swan Lady Blackhawks marked down a pair of victories this week against Valley Christian and Drummond. The wins extend the Lady Blackhawks' overall record to 11-1. Versus Valley Christian For the second time in two weeks, the Lady Blackhawks took on the Valley Christian Eagles Jan. 20. The game was a blowout two weeks ago at home and it was a blowout last week on the road. The Lady Blackhawks thumped the Eagles 58-11. Alex Bohlman led the ladies with 15 points followed...
SEELEY LAKE - The Seeley-Swan Blackhawks fell to Valley Christian and defeated Drummond last week. They now have a 7-5 overall record. Versus Valley Christian The Blackhawks headed to Missoula to take on the Valley Christian Eagles Jan. 20. The Eagles proved to be the team to beat in the district as the Blackhawks fell behind early and couldn't stage a comeback. The Blackhawks fell 37-66 while the Eagles remain undefeated in the district. Bradley Miller led the Blackhawks effort scoring 12...
Imagine you’re facing an assassin, an assassin who has been hired to kill you. Now imagine handing him the weapon to kill you with. I know this is difficult to imagine and yet that is exactly what pride is like. Satan, the great deceiver, comes to “destroy both body and soul” (Matthew 10:28). We give him the tool of destruction when we willfully become prideful. Scripture records the following words, “I hate pride and arrogance” (Proverbs 8:13), “Pride goeth before the fall” (Proverbs 16:18) and “those who walk in pride he is able to humble....
