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This week the library recommends “THE DUTCHESS” by Danielle Steel. Angelique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. At eighteen she is her father’s closest, most trusted child, schooled in managing their grand estate. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. Angelique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty and en envelope of money her father pressed upon her. To survive, she w...
This week Darlene chose to feature “NO MAN’S LAND” by David Baldacci. John Puller’s mother, Jackie, vanished thirty years ago from Fort Monroe, Virginia when Puller was just a boy. Paul Rogers has been in prison for ten years. But twenty years before that he was at Fort Monroe. One night three decades ago, Puller’s and Rogers’ worlds collided with devastating results and the truth has been buried ever since. Military investigators, armed with a letter from a friend of Jackie’s arrive in the hospital room of Puller’s father-------a...
This week Darlene has chosen” THE GLASS CASTLE” by Jeannette Walls. “THE GLASS CASTLE” is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibilit...
This week Michael Connelly writes a new thriller called “THE CROSSING”. Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD but his half brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed and all the evidence points to Haller’s client, a former gang member turned family man. Though the murder rap seems ironclad, Mickey is sure it is a setup. Bosch doesn’t want anything to do with crossing the aisle to work for the defense. He feels it will undo all the good his has done in his thirty years a...
Full Body Sculpting/Toning and Cardio Class is underway! Tuesdays and Thursdays - September 5 through December 21. -- 5:30 - 6:30 P.M. in the gym annex. $10 registration fee. Jeri Roth is the instructor. Big Sandy Adult Education Sewing Classes September 18, 25 and October 2, 2017 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm The sewing classes will include learning the parts of the sewing machine, sewing tools, fabric information, using a rotary cutter and mat and then sewing some simple projects leading up to elastic waist pants, capris or shorts. We will be using n...
By Robert Lucke This week “BEST FRIENDS FOREVER” by Jennifer Weiner. Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That is what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when they are both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is swept into the popular crowd while mousy, sullen Addie becomes her school’s scapegoat. Flash forward fifteen years. Valarie Adler has found a measure of fame and fortune working as the weather girl at the local TV station. Addie Downs lives alone in her p...
Big Sandy Schools started classes on August 21, Eclipse Day. They provided all the students with safe eclipse glasses to view the historic event. Some of the high school students taking a look. Elementary students were enjoying recess during the eclipse. Most stopped to take a look and the eclipse and were obviously amazed at what was taking place. The ladies at the Grocery Store, Marlys Myers of Agri-Prarie, and Adele made homemade viewers out of boxes to view the eclipse. Seanna Demontiney,...
6 years ago, while I was interviewing for pastor jobs, right before my wife and I decided to come to Big Sandy, I visited a small church in southern Indiana. The congregation had declined in the previous years after the pastor left his wife and children to run off with a Sunday School teacher. During the visit, my wife made an offhand remark about how she wasn’t perfect and committed sins daily. The leaders of the church panicked over what she said and asked me directly if my wife was living a wild life. I laughed at the question, mainly b...
Nine players gathered at The Mint on August 4th to spend an afternoon of playing cards. The entry fee was $5 to enter the tournament and the winners were: 1st place: Laurence Ophus (7880) who won $20, 2nd Place: Marvin Works (7630) who won $10, & 3rd place: Rebecca Wiehe (7360) who won $5. Joe L. low score of 4690 points for the tournament earned his entry fee of $5 back. High score for the 8 rounds played was earned in the 6th round by Reggie Jappe and Laurence Ophus for 1830. Rebecca Wiehe was a little upset that her high round of 1610 with...
Turf to Trees (Applied Urban Integrated Pest Management Workshop) Montana State University’s Urban Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program will host its first training on August 24, 2017. Are you interested in Urban IPM Certification or do you want to learn more about plant diseases, insect pests and plant identification in urban environments in Montana? Then this workshop is for you! Continuing education credits will be available. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Megan Kennelly from Kansas State University. Dr. Kennelly received her Ph.D. in Pla...
It is the first column of August and time for another recipe. This is a summer recipe and is all about cooking the best tasting bratwurst you will ever eat! First, get four of five large bratwursts. If you can get some that the butcher shop has made specially, those will probably be the best but whatever you get, get some large ones. Larger the better. For this recipe along with the bratwurst you will need a bottle of good beer or ale, a barbeque, several banana peppers or hot peppers of your choice, some easy melting cheese cut into long,...
It was a hot July much like this one and Bee Lucke was spending some vacation time at our cabin on Clear Creek. It was too hot to fish but it was not too hot to drink beer so Bee had consumed his share and then some as the week progressed. Bee was planning a big feed for some of his friends on a Friday night during the week in question. He wanted to have a mulligan or spaghetti and meatballs or even steaks. Remember this was just the very beginning of people actually barbequing their meat outsid...
Over the weekend, my wife and I sent our kids to stay with a friend and set out to a bed and breakfast in Cascade to celebrate our 19th wedding anniversary. The spot we picked to stay at was beautiful and situated right on the Missouri River. We had grand plans of floating the river, swimming, hiking, and spending time away from the responsibilities of life. We drove the 105 miles to the B&B and arrived to the news that our reservations were no good. The hotel had been overbooked and we arrived last, with no place to stay. We scrambled to find...
A group of happy art makers participated in an art workshop conducted by Roberta Edwards and Doug Giebel in the new Big Sandy Cultural Center. More sessions are planned throughout the summer. They are free and open to all ages. Contact Roberta Edwards or Doug Giebel for information....
When Glacier Park Incorporated lost their major concession for hotels and restaurants in Glacier National Park, little did I know that it would be a return back to my childhood for me. Because Glacier Park Incorporated lost that major concession, they aggressively bought most all of West Glacier from the Lundgren family who had owned that large concession since just after World War II. I became acquainted once again with cabins 6 and 8 at the Village Lodge, a major concession in Apgar. Both cabins 6 and 8 had been very favorites of our family...
This is the ninth year former Big Sandy High School graduate Ellaraine Lockie has provided the English students at BSHS the opportunity to participate in the Walter Gerson Poetry Contest. Each year Ellaraine Lockie judges students’ poetry, makes comments about the poems and awards students for their excellent poetry and participation. This year is no exception. There are several cash prizes and several honorable mentions. Two teachers at Big Sandy high school have been involved in the poetry contest. Lauren Clampitt handled the Gerson poems f...
When I was a much younger man than I am now, I spent the time leading up to the Fourth of July figuring where to go for the Fourth to have the maximum amount of fun. Often I ended up on Clear Creek, Howard’s Hill, Beaver Creek or somewhere in the Bear Paw Mountains. When spending the time there, I dreamed of spending that holiday somewhere close to Glacier National Park. Well, that time finally came and we had a cabin at Lakeside on Flathead Lake. I dreamed often of spending the Fourth at that cabin and Christmas there as well. You know t...
This is the ninth year former Big Sandy High School graduate Ellaraine Lockie has provided the English students at BSHS the opportunity to participate in the Walter Gerson Poetry Contest. Each year Ellaraine Lockie judges students’ poetry, makes comments about the poems and awards students for their excellent poetry and participation. This year is no exception. There are several cash prizes and several honorable mentions. Two teachers at Big Sandy high school have been involved in the poetry contest. Lauren Clampitt handled the Gerson poems f...
Mulching is a must for lawn and garden landscapes during the hot summer The single most serious problem with ornamental plants in Northern Plains region is not a disease, insect or mite problem; it is environmental stress. Stress affects plant material in direct and indirect ways. It can cause damage directly and weaken the plants to the point where they are vulnerable to insect and disease attack. Stress is a problem in the Plains region because we, in our landscaping efforts, are attempting to grow “alien” species (non-native for the mos...
Kudzu vines are a species of Japanese leafy vines that were imported to the United States in 1876 and planted throughout the southern states in an effort to stem soil erosion. They performed this job very well. The climate in the South is perfect for the plant and it quickly took hold and spread far and wide. Unfortunately, as good as the Kudzu vine is at preventing soil erosion, it is far more effective at wiping out every other species of plant it encounters. The vines grow quickly, climbing and covering everything they encounter....
The Latin name for a grizzly bear is Ursus Horribilis and it gets that name because it is one of the few animals in the world that exhibited not the slightest fear of man in many situations and it was only after the great hunting guns were invented did man have much of a chance against the grizzlies. Montana has always been grizzly bear country but for many people the notion of those great bears out here on the prairie was unbelievable. Grizzlies belong in Yellowstone to a small degree but...
Precautions must be taken to ensure your personal information and finances are secure when banking online. The first important piece to look for is if the bank displays the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) logo to attest to the bank’s insurance status, especially when deciding on a new bank. You may also want to check out the Bank Find website at https://research.fdic.gov/bankfind/ to find additional information about the bank and be sure they are registered. When accessing the bank’s website, verify the web address. Fraudulent web...
This week Vicki has chosen “THE GIRL WITH NO SHADOW” by Joanne Harris. This book is a sequel to “CHOCOLATE HOLY FOODS” and is delightful dark and a far darker chocolate recipe. The wind has always dictated Vianne Rocher’s every move, buffeting her from the French village of Laansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to still the wind at last and keep her daughters, Anouk and baby Rosette, safe. But the w...
When I am driving to Big Sandy and back these days, I see that the fields are full of folks sowing their crops and hoping for a good harvest and good prices. I think of that famous favorite hymn of the famous Methodist Missionary Brother Van, “Harvest Time” by W. A. Spencer. The hymn is about planting and reaping and tears and singing and mostly about life which is not always pleasant. In addition the hymn is not really about planting and reaping at all but about grace, our souls, good times and bad and how to live life. You don’t have to be...
Four tables of players enjoyed another Sunday in the Mint family room playing 7 rounds of pinochle on May 21st. Many of the regulars were absent and very much missed! Highest round for the day was 1480 played by Roberta Whetham and Nora Grubb. The low score went to Karla Whetham with her 2780 which did get her $5 back! High scorer for the day was Nora Grubb with her 7250 earning $30 for first place finish. 2nd went to Frank Moravec for his 6390 netting $25. 3rd went to Charlene Moravec for her 6160 for $20. Play for June is set for the 4th and...
