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PABLO — With April designated as “Sexual Assault Awareness Month,” SAFE Harbor and partners are creating a new way to bring awareness and community support to honor survivors. This year they will use beadwork. “We thought about beadwork in the sense that it’s inspiring, it’s timeless. It’s been a part of indigenous communities since the 16th century, so we thought it’d be a chance to remember those artists who create those images, using their imaginations to literally transform hundreds of tiny objects into a magnificent visual creation,” Dana Grant of Safe Harbor explained. “We thought about how everyday survivors work to...
News from OPI HELENA — Superintendent Elsie Arntzen is expanding the Montana Alternative Student Testing (MAST) Pilot Program to grades three through eight in math and reading for the 2023-2024 school year. Due to this expansion, the Office of Public Instruction (OPI) is seeking a Field Test Flexi...
POLSON — The April full moon is above us now. The natives of New England called it the Pink Moon, because that was the time of year when a variety of creeping phlox bloomed with pink flowers in April. Do not be fooled. It still looks yellow, like cheese. We recently offered a turkey dinner on...
RONAN — The Mission Valley Senior Center is located across from St. Luke’s Hospital. We are open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for lunch and other activities. Our menu is: — April 5: enchiladas, salad, dessert — April 7: ham dinner, salad, dessert (Easter din...
ST. IGNATIUS — I think Mother Nature is upset with us. She continues to deliver snow and cool weather. Easter is early this year. There will be an Easter Egg Hunt in St. Ignatius on April 8 at the High School at 10 a.m. Don’t be late. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy a meal with us on ...
News from USDA BOZEMAN — USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is accepting applications for grants until May 26, 2023, to fund Montana projects that could stimulate the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies. Conservation Innovation Gr...
Methodist Church announces Easter services News from Mission Valley United Methodist Church ST. IGNATIUS — Four events for Easter morning, April 9, are planned for the MV United Methodist Church, on the top of Post Creek Hill. A sunrise Easter service will be held at Ninepipes Restaurant&r...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) encourages urban producers, innovative producers and other stakeholders to submit comments for and virtually attend the fifth public meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee for Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production (Committee) on April 18, ...
RONAN — St. Luke Community Healthcare celebrated 70 years this month, a landmark for the community-owned healthcare organization. Opened in March of 1953, St. Luke Hospital was built by Mission Valley residents from the ground up. “I think the community came together back in the late &ls...
MONTANA — Roberta Duckhead Kittson Nyomo said she and her brother were among the last Native American children adopted out of Thompson Falls before the federal Indian Child Welfare Act was passed in 1978. The siblings were sent to live with a non-Native family. Nyomo remembers them lacking empathy.&nbs...
