Seeley Swan Pharmacy offers medication disposal receptacle
SEELEY LAKE – Seeley Swan Pharmacy is now a collection site for unused medications. The MedSafe Collection Receptacle allows residents a safe collection site in the Valley where medications will be properly destroyed.
When dropping off medications, please leave it in the original packaging/containers when possible. Liquid containers of more than four ounces will not be accepted. All liquid medication must be placed in a plastic bag before depositing.
The MedSafe Collection Receptacle is not for sharps containers, needles, syringes, batteries, aerosol spray cans, trash, medical devices, chemicals, hazardous material or illegal drugs.
2018 Picture Wild Montana Photo Contest
HELENA - Montana Wilderness Association is pleased to announce the launch of the 2018 Picture Wild Montana Photo Contest. The contest aims to gather photos highlighting Montana’s wild and public lands and showcase the work of professional and amateur photographers across Montana.
In 2017, the contest received over 1,000 submissions from photographers across the country who had been captivated by Montana’s wild places. Entries for the 2018 contest may be submitted at http://www.wildmontana.org/photocontest through 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 16. Prizes include a gift certificate to a Montana outdoor shop The Base Camp, a free pair of boots from Bozeman-based Oboz Footwear, packages from Red Lodge-based Crazy Creek, bear spray from Kalispell-based Counter Assault, and more.
Finalists will be judged by Luke Duran, art director at Montana Outdoors magazine. Judging criteria include artistic value, content, composition, originality and technical expertise. Photos can be shot on smart phones or cameras and can showcase natural landscapes, wildlife or outdoor activities that are particularly beautiful or meaningful to the photographer. All submissions must be taken on public lands in Montana.
For more details and full contest rules, visit http://www.wildmontana.org/photocontest.
Swan Valley Library Highlights
Swan Valley – The Swan Valley Library has a new archive-quality scrapbook depicting the beginnings of the Swan Valley Library. The new scrapbook was built from the old one which was deteriorating from age. The pages of original plans and its history in photos are included with archival paper, sheet protectors and embellishments added.
The plans for the library began in 1976 which involved a lot of work and fundraising among community members to get the land, the legal papers filed and the objections addressed. The residents procured the logs which were donated by locals and the library was set up by Rustics, a local log home builder, with donated time and labor.
The library opened in November, 1979 at its current location, north of the Swan Valley Community Hall. Its forty-year anniversary is swiftly approaching.
November’s book chat will be on “Cleopatra a Life” by Stacy Schiff the Pulitzer Prize winner for her biography “Vera” (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) in 2000. This biography sheds a different light on Cleopatra, not as a beautiful femme fatale as many have imagined her from the movies but according to Schiff, was a shrewd power broker who knew how to use her manifold gifts—wealth, power and intelligence—to negotiate advantageous political deals and military alliances. The difference between the warring Romans and the cultured, intellectual Egyptians of Alexandria with their vast library that Caesar admired is explored in the book.
Stop in for a copy. The book chat about “Cleopatra” will be Nov. 28 at 1 p.m. at the Swan Valley Library. The library is open Mondays and Fridays from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. and on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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