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Articles with the Tag: Pablo

Local YWAM has cross-cultural, international focus Local YWAM has cross-cultural, international focus

By Caleb M. Soptelean Valley Journal PABLO – In 2005, Sika Ulutoa came to visit northwest Montana with plans to move to Japan. He never made it.  Sika, a Samoan who moved to the Mission Valley with his wife, Rita, from her native Ohio, planned to go to Japan for missionary work.  ...

County has new elections administrator County has new elections  administrator

POLSON – Katie Harding has big shoes to fill, but she’s ready to step into them. Harding recently replaced Lake County’s longtime elections administrator Kathie Newgard, whose last day was June 30. Harding came on board as an assistant elections official in December. Newgard was em...

5.8 earthquake shakes Montana

Montana has thousands of earthquakes each year, and people never feel most of them. That wasn’t the case with the July 6 quake, which measured 5.8 on the Richter Scale. It was the state’s largest since 1964, which was another 5.8 quake whose epicenter was located south of Ennis in the Madison ...

Ronan Fire Department quickly puts out trailer fire Ronan Fire  Department  quickly puts out trailer fire

PABLO – The Ronan Fire Department responded to a 1 p.m. fire on Light Road Monday, July 3. A man was barbecuing outside when a spark from the grill fell to the ground and ignited some pine needles which then caught the trailer’s vinyl siding on fire, said Ronan Fire Chief Mark Clary. The trailer ...

Briefs for June 21, 2017

People’s Center announces July activities PABLO — On most Tuesdays and Wednesdays, The Traveling People’s Center will be at various reservation communities. We host a family fun day with a free lunch for children 18 years old and under from 10 a.m.- 1 p.m. A Performance Circle will ...

SKC students cross the finish line

PABLO – More than two hundred graduates crossed the stage during the 2017 Commencement Ceremony at Salish Kootenai College on Saturday. Yamncut Drum group played an honor song as graduates filled the chairs in front of the stage. Many graduates wore shawls, vests or regalia with their graduation cap...

SKC students cross the finish line SKC students cross the finish line

PABLO – More than two hundred graduates crossed the stage during the 2017 Commencement Ceremony at Salish Kootenai College on Saturday. Yamncut Drum group played an honor song as graduates filled the chairs in front of the stage. Many graduates wore shawls, vests or regalia with their graduation cap...

Briefs for June 7, 2017

Sensory Processing’ explained PABLO — What exactly is “Sensory Processing?” You have likely heard this phrase, but may not understand exactly what it is. We are lucky to have an expert in our area, Cyndi Elliott, who will be happy to explain sensory processing development at a fr...

Silent powwow gives women voice Silent powwow gives women voice

PABLO – Marita Growing Thunder’s graduation ceremony from Polson High School on Saturday, June 3, marked the finish point of her yearlong project to give voice to missing or murdered indigenous women.  “As many times as I wanted to give up, I made it,” she said. She vowed t...

Bear spray skills taught at festival Bear spray skills taught at festival

PABLO – A sub-adult grizzly bear weighing 390 pounds stood on the grass at Salish Kootenai College to welcome people to the Fifth Annual Community Birds and Bears Festival on Thursday. The grizzly looked like it might be walking through campus on its way to forage for food, but it turns out that it ...


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