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Articles with the Tag: St. Ignatius

Native American Chef teaches students how to cook Native American Chef teaches students how to cook

Sioux Chef Shawn Sherman visited the Mission Valley last week to teach students how to cook Native American style food the old way. “This is what my grandparents ate,” he said. Students from Ronan, St. Ignatius, Missoula, Bozeman and Kicking Horse Job Corps gathered in the kitchens at Ronan...

Blood moon casts crimson glow Blood moon casts  crimson glow

Blood moon sounds like the title to a vampire movie rather than the beautiful and rare celestial event that it is. Sunday evening’s super lunar eclipse presented the first such event since 1984 and another won’t take place again until 2033. A lunar eclipse occurs as the earth passes between...

St. Ignatius

St. Ignatius – Donated items are sought for the St. Ignatius Senior Citizens Fall Rummage and Bake Sale. The event is on Tuesday-Friday, Oct. 6-9. The bake sale will be held on that Friday. The sale hours will be from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.  The Lake County Health Department will provide flu shots in t...

Local wins Paint the State Local wins Paint the State

ST. IGNATIUS – Briar Ahlborn, 19, won the Montana Meth Project’s Paint the State contest in the celebrity artist category with her “Pass the Peace Pipe, Not the Meth Pipe” mural located on U.S. Highway 93 at mile marker 33.  “I didn’t believe it when I won,” ...

Principal reports closed achievement gap in middle school

ST. IGNATIUS – Administration positions at all levels changed this year in the Mission School District with former high school principal Jason Sargent coming in as the new superintendent. Dan Durglo became the new elementary principal moving from his position as the middle school principal. Shawn Hendr...

Bear sightings persistent in towns

News from the  news from St. Ignatius Neighborhood Watch Chapter ST. IGNATIUS — Grizzly and black bears have always wandered through Ronan and St. Ignatius and probably always will. Dan McClure, administrative sergeant for Tribal Fish and Game, explained to the St. Ignatius Neighborhood Watc...

Tribal culture shared with local, Missoula students Tribal culture shared with local, Missoula students

PABLO — A deer hide with grayish white hair was ready to be scraped, and students from the Missoula International School, a Spanish immersion school, were eager to try.  Randy Michel, who teaches hide tanning at the People’s Center, talked about hides and how they go from hairy and wet to...

Volleyball

Polson Polson Lady Pirates split their games again for the week – beating Thompson Falls on their home court Sept. 15 and falling to Columbia Falls on the road, Sept. 17. At home against the Bluehawks, the lady pirates won three in their four-set match with Lauren Lefthand contributing 10 kills a...

St. Ignatius

ST. IGNATIUS — The Lake County Health Department will provide flu shots in the St. Ignatius Senior Citizens Center on Wednesday, Oct. 21, from 4-5 p.m. Seniors are asked to bring their Medicare Cards with them. The center is seeking donations of items for its annual Fall Rummage and Bake Sale planne...

FJBC considers appointing rep to compact team

ST. IGNATIUS – The Flathead Joint Board of Control discussed the possibility of appointing a representative for the irrigators to the Compact Implementation Technical Team (CITT) at the last regular board meeting.  After the Montana Legislature ratified the CSKT Compact earlier this year, the p...


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