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The Mountaineer announces a 2018 Photographic Contest. There are four categories: Community People, Agriculture Activities, Community Activities, and Nature (Scenery/or Animals) Photos can be either be in color or in black and white. Each photographer can enter one photo per month. Each photo will be required to be digitally emailed to bsm1@mtintouch.net. The Mountaineer reserves the right to publish the photographs, which are entered depending on the availability of space in the paper,...
New Year brings new events into the Big Sandy Library. There is a Library Lego Checkout Club which is a fun way for people to check out books at the library. There is a Lego platform in our front window where our friends will be helping to make something awesome during the continuous build. This build will be complete on Wednesday April 11th during National Library week. The concept is for every book checked out they get a Lego to help build the structure and for every book brought back they...
Dear Santa, This Christmas I am 3 years old. This year, I have been good all of the time. What I would like most this Christmas is a baby doll and a reindeer. I promise to leave out a treat for you! Merry Christmas, Santa! Love, Brookelyn Dear Santa, This Christmas I am 1 year old. This year, I have been naughty (but nice!). What I would like most this Christmas is a pair of sunglasses for Mexico. I promise to leave out cookies for you! Merry Christmas, Santa! Love, Waylon...
Mary’s Little Lamb Daycare Dear Santa, This Christmas I am 1 year old. This year, I have been good all of the time. What I would like most this Christmas is little toy trucks and cars. I promise to leave out a cookie for you! Merry Christmas, Santa! Love, Alyssa Dear Santa, This Christmas I am 4 years old. This year, I have been good all of the time. What I would like most this Christmas is smashems. I promise to leave out cookies for you! Merry Christmas, Santa! Love, Ashlynn Dear Santa, This Christmas I am 4 years old. This year, I have b...
As a child making a tasty and, of course, sweet treat for the reindeer did not happen every year, but the years it did happen were the most memorable. My grandma, cousins and I would mix oatmeal, sugar and sprinkles together to put out in the snow for the reindeer on the night of Christmas Eve. Then they, too, would get a snack on their long ride around the world. Waking up on Christmas morning was so exciting, but it also was a marathon. For instance, it was very important to be the first one to wake up, but it was also so important to check...
Christmas in rural areas is more than the gifts lying under the tree, or the lights strung down Main Street. The material items are diminished as the people come together as a family: we remember those we have lost since the last eve, we support the organizations that hold the town together like glue, and we praise the glory above. The hardships that our daily lives hold are forgotten as we step into our city halls and feel the essence of joy that is in the air. As his wife rubs Aquaphor lotion into his hands, he winces; the cold nights have...
Don’t forget the Story book time every Wednesday. Lego Land is the second and fourth Friday. This week Debbie has chosen “HAUNTED” by James Patterson. Detective Bennett is ready for a vacation but before he knows it, he has kids in trouble all over the north woods! If you like Bennett or you like Patterson, you are going to love “HAUNTED”. “HAUNTED” is available now at the Jeff Reichelt Memorial Library in Big Sandy, Montana....
Remember that library story hour is every Wednesday at 10:30am. Lego Club is every second and fourth Friday at 11am. This week Darlene has chosen “THE PROVING” by Beverly Lewis. Having left the Amish life for the English world, Amanda Dienner is shocked when she learns that her mother has passed and left her Lancaster County’s most popular Amish Bed and Breakfast. The catch is she has to run it herself for one year, acting as hostess. Amanda accepts the terms but coming home to people she left behind will not be easy. “THE PROVING” is availa...
Don’t forget that Story Time at the library is every Wednesday at 10:30am. Lego Club is every second and fourth Friday at 11am. This week Darlene has chosen “16TH SEDUCTION” by Maxine Paetro to review. Fifteen months ago detective Lindsay Boxer’s life was perfect. She had a beautiful child and a doting husband, Joe who helped her catch a criminal who had brazenly detonated a bomb in downtown San Francisco, killing twenty-five people. But Joe wasn’t everything that Lindsay thought he was and she is still reeling from his betrayal as a wave of m...
Remember that Story Hour is up and running every Wednesday at 10:30am. Every second and fourth Friday is Lego Club at 11am. This week Darlene chose “THE IDENTICALS” by Elin Hilderbrand. Nantucket is only two and a half hours away from Martha’s Vineyard by ferry. But the two islands might as well be worlds apart for a set of identical twin sisters who have been at odds for years. Just because twins look exactly the same doesn’t mean they are anything alike------and Tabitha and Harper Frost have spent their whole lives trying to prove this po...
Don’t forget that Story Hour is up and going at the library every Wednesday at 10:30am. Lego Club is the second and fourth Friday at 11am. This week Darlene has chosen “VICIOUS CIRCLE” by C. J. Box. The plane circled in the dark. Joe Pickett could just make out down below a figure in the snow and timber and then three other figures closing in. There was nothing he could do about it and Joe knew that he might be their next target. The Cates family had always been a bad lot. Game warden Joe Pickett had been able to strike a fierce blow again...
Don’t forget Story Hour is every Wednesday at 10:30am. Lego Club is every second and fourth Friday at 11am. This week Darlene has chosen “FAST AND LOOSE” by Stuart Woods with Tony Roberts as the narrator. Stone Barrington is enjoying a boating excursion of the Maine coast when a chance encounter leaves him somewhat the worse for wear. Always able to find the silver lining in even the unhappiest circumstances, Stone is pleased to discover that the authors of his misfortune are, in fact, members of a prestigious family who present a unique busin...
Don’t forget that Story Hour is running every Wednesday at 10:30. Lego Club is running every second and fourth Friday at 11am. Don’t miss the fun! This week Darlene chose “ANY DREAM WILL DO” by Debbie Macomber. Shay Benson adored her younger brother Caden and that got her into trouble. When he owed money, Shay realized she would do anything to help him avoid the men who were threatening him, and she crossed lines she never should have crossed. Now determined to start fresh, she finds herself in search of a place to stay and wanders into a...
Get ready for a Halloween eve show sure to inspire and make your whole family laugh. Chouteau County Performing Arts, in partnership with Benton Pharmacy, Big Sandy Pharmacy and The Governor’s Keep, are pleased to present a performance of The Great Pretender, starring Trent Arterberry. The show starts at 7 PM at the fort Benton Elementary School Auditorium, on Monday, October 30th If you think that mimes are just silent white-faced fellows in striped shirts, stuck inside invisible boxes, prepare to have your ideas of the art form challenged. B...
“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat etc” is the US Postal Service Creed. They vow to deliver despite the weather. Not so Big Sandy Book Club. We caved last Tuesday. We were to have met October 3 in Havre. As everyone knows we got that terrible snowstorm. Not only were we snowed in but our hostess was without power. However, last night, October 10 , we gathered in Havre’s old post office building for our meeting. Megan, Barb and Helen were our hostesses and as usual they did an amazing job! Our long meeting table was decorated with garlands of lea...
This week how about a “LOVE STORY” by Karen Kingsbury? From the day they met, John and Elizabeth were destined to fall in love. Their whirlwind romance started when they were young college students and lasted nearly thirty years--until Elizabeth died of cancer. So when John Baxter is asked to relive his long-ago love story with Elizabeth for his grandson Cole’s heritage project, he is not sure he can do it. The sadness might simply be too great. But he agrees and allows his heart and soul to go places they have not gone in decades. Back to th...
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...