Articles with the Tag: Mission Valley
News from the Flathead Reservation Area Historical Society With a deep sense of appreciation and honor after serving for over 16 years, Flathead Reservation Area (FRA) Historical Society, President Joyce Decker Wegner is resigning her office and membership on the board. With the two-volume Lake Coun...
POLSON – Two-year-old Marguerite Brenner looked a bit red-faced as she floated across the finish line for the first annual Mission Valley Kids Walk Run 5K in Polson. In some ways the tiny tot had a good reason to be exhausted; five kilos is a long way when your legs are that small, but Brenner...
Ten years ago the Valley Journal was nothing more than a wisp of an idea tossed back and forth on a summer breeze by four local journalists sipping sweet tea on a back porch with ambitions of launching a new, better source of media for the community. By autumn, the dream had turned into reality, and the firs...
News from Friends of Ronan Parks and Trails The nonprofit Friends of Ronan Parks & Trails, FORPAT, group is sponsoring the first annual Mission Valley Kids Walk 5K Run on Sunday, Sept. 21 at 2 p.m. in Polson. The event will start at Walmart and travel by many local businesses and sponsors. Registratio...
In some ways Mission Valley’s new horse trainer is a young man just trying to get his start in the business. In other ways he’s been preparing for the job for his entire life. “I could ride before I could walk,” 20-year-old cowboy Dusty Morigeau said. “There’s jus...
Sunday, Aug. 17 update FLATHEAD INDIAN RESERVATION — The lightning-caused Seepay Fire burning on the Flathead Indian Reservation 20 miles west of Dixon is currently at 1,050 acres, with hot spots primarily on the western flank. Humidity and rain throughout the past three days has s...
RONAN — Volunteers for the Lake County Council on Aging’s commodity program are worried that they will have problems making food delivery to hundreds of Mission Valley seniors in September, after the container where most of the delivery bags are collected broke. Volunteer Sylvia Krantz s...
RONAN — Well, can summer go any faster? At least the heat spell is over. Seventy-nine people joined us last Friday for our birthday dinner. Thanks to our cooks for preparing such a great meal. Our Thursday evening meal will be at 5 p.m. on Aug. 7. We will be serving a great chicken dinner and all th...
RONAN — Many, many years ago, I was at an amusement park in Portland, Ore. One of their biggest attractions was a big, wooden roller coaster. I was a chicken, never went on it and have always regretted it. Last Wednesday, my daughter and I took four grandkids to Silverwood, where there is a b...
RONAN — “Honestly, it came to me in the middle of the night,” said Joe Johns about incorporating the Donner Party history into this year’s vehicle-based scavenger hunt in the Mission Valley. Johns and Jim Morgan, both former firefighters who serve on the Pioneer Days Committe...