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While seeing Christmas through the eyes of the clients of Big Sandy Activities you once again discover the magic of the season. We discover we can celebrate life in the smallest things and find real joy in the process. On every other Monday Sister Kathleen, Connie Green, and LeRita McKeever from Saint Margaret Mary's Catholic Church come and lead the individuals with a fun and interactive bible study at the BSA center. The individuals role play the lesson at least three times, before they get...
The Big Sandy music program has grown to 30 students in band and 43 in choir. There were 8 students chosen from Big Sandy for the North Central Honor Band and Choir that took place on Nov. 27 and 28 at Choteau High School. The students had to submit an audition along with an application. The band students had to play two scales, a chromatic scale, an expressive etude, and a technical etude. The choir students had to sing two scales, an arpeggio exercise, and the first verse of America, all...
With the success of the Christmas Stroll and raising funds for the Elaine Courtnage Scholarship for the Arts or Nursing. It's a great time to look at the value of the arts and the continued development of the Art Program at Big Sandy High School. Besides the fact of course that the arts help teach creativity it might surprise you to learn it has been proven to improve academic performance. It also develops better motor skills and decision-making skills. While participating in the arts you must...
Jessica Roth was reading Christmas books to our most treasured members of our community. It was a relaxing moment. Muriel Silvan was listening, sitting in the TV room at the medical center, she looked so much like her mother Stella Lund, I smiled because I hadn't thought of Stella for years. She wanted to talk about her memories of sitting by a Christmas tree watching the candles burn. I could picture her there with Elmer and Stella Lund. They'd sit by the tree watching the flames dance until th...
There is a core group of people representing the Chamber of Commerce who are responsible for the entire celebration of the Christmas stroll, but for Tracy Schuster, a member of the committee, this Christmas stroll was missing a huge piece of the celebration, an Elaine Courtnage designed Christmas stroll button. Facing this first Christmas without Elaine's design for the stroll, meant just one thing for Tracy, find every button Elaine ever designed, which was 17 years. It took one month to find...
While Robin Pearson was driving to the Bear Paw Coffee Shop and Deli he was thanking the Lord for giving him the idea to find volunteers to work at the Coffee Shop and Deli, allowing it to be open for the Christmas Stroll. Kind of like farmers finishing the combining when a neighbor needs help. Community supporting community. Neighbors helping neighbors. Robin said there were three key elements that he knew he would need in order to make a volunteer crew work. First Steve and Cherie Stiles...
Big Sandy Activities is holding an Open House December 14th between 1-4 PM. It will be held at the new Day Program Building. There will be treats and drinks and an opportunity to tour the new facility. Big Sandy has been looking forward to the day, when all the construction issues were fixed and they could finally welcome in the community. The individuals served at BSA are excited to have the public in. Lorrie Merrill, Executive Director, said, “It’s been a long and frustrating process, but currently everything seems to be working. We had moi...