Articles with the Tag: Salish Kootenai College
PABLO – Francis Stanger, 87, is one of the last dozen or so World War II Veterans in Lake County. He enlisted in the Marine Corps when he was 17. He served from 1945 to 1947. He remembers being stationed in North China near the China Wall and seeing plenty of combat. During one mission, he remembers...
WWI film, music night set at museum POLSON — “A Night at the Museum” offers free, fun, family, educational entertainment Thursday, Nov. 12, at 6:30 p.m. at the Miracle of America Museum in Polson. Just one day after Veterans Day, the program will be showing “America Over There...
PABLO – Melanie Smith noticed a drug problem in the valley that is affecting children at all ages and income levels. “It’s taking beautiful people with all the potential in the world and robbing them of their lives,” she said. “And children are in the middle of it.” ...
FINLEY POINT — The 2015 Crown Guitar Summer Celebration Series, produced by the Crown of the Continent Guitar Foundation (COCGF), will present “Live at Finley Point Grill” on Wednesday, Aug. 5. The fundraising event will feature guitarist Mike Murray and his band performing on the lawn.&nbs...
PABLO — Organizers of the Crown of the Continent Guitar Foundation announced today that five students at Salish Kootenai College have been awarded a $5,000 scholarship to attend this summer’s Crown Guitar Workshop Aug. 30 – Sept. 6 at Flathead Lake Lodge in Bigfork. Two of the winners ha...
PABLO — Stones as big as Volkswagen buses hunkered in the rock yard at Cold Springs Granite Company, according to Corwin “Corky” Clairmont, nationally-renowned artist and art instructor at Salish Kootenai College. Clairmont chose a black granite “bus” with some flecks o...
With the sun shining on tipis, campers and tents scattered around the edges of the meadow and Valley Creek winding its way down the drainage, Agnes Vanderburg’s Camp was in full swing the week of June 8-14. Although Agnes has passed, her legacy lives on in the encampment where Salish Kootenai Colleg...
A caped superhero led the charge from the start and finished faster than a speeding bullet during Saturday’s benefit run for Salish Kootenai College’s Center for Prevention and Wellness. Overall winner Robert Dempsey, 13, sped through the 5k run in 30 minutes, 40 seconds. He was foll...
Yamncut drummed and head dancers Linda King and Wilbert Michel Sr. led the Salish Kootenai College graduates of 2015 into the Joe McDonald Health and Fitness Center on June 6, and Chief Cliff drummed them out into the world. Traditionally the women wear shawls, and the men wear vests during graduat...
PABLO — Twenty Salish Kootenai College nursing graduates marched into the Joe McDonald Events Center on June 5 for the pinning ceremony, ready to celebrate their degrees earned with hard work, late nights, endless studying, and sacrifice. “Sometimes we get so caught up in testing, class ...
