Maiden As Well As a 1931 Photo of His Grandfather George Wieglenda

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News Lite Duck ringtone helps rescue ducklings Would-be thieves steal frozen pizzas, SLIDELL, La. (AP) — Quack! Quack! A duck call ringtone then sell them to police helped a Louisiana firefighter rescue six ducklings from a storm ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers have drain. recovered 75 of 80 frozen pizzas reported stolen thanks to an Spokesman Chad Duffaut of St. Tammany Fire District #1 says enterprising thief. even with realistic quacking sounds coming from his cellphone, it The Alaska Dispatch News reports that 80 frozen pizzas were took Firefighter Cody Knecht about 90 minutes to catch the first reported stolen from a store in Gambell, a village on St. Law- four baby mallards in the southeast Louisiana community of rence Island in the Bering Sea. Police say they received a strong Slidell. tip when 29-year-old John Koozaata and 21-year-old Lewis Duffaut says Knecht rescued the others after giving them about Oozeva called the police department and tried to sell the pizzas to an hour to calm down. on-duty officers. All six ducklings were reunited with their mother in the canal Police say that the pair broke into the Gambell Native Store behind a home, where residents had reported seeing the ducklings warehouse and took five cases of pizza, valued at $1,100, or go into the drain. about $13.75 a pie. Duffaut says it was fire station’s second duck rescue in a week. Troopers say Koozaata and Oozeva were arrested and taken to On April 19, firefighters rescued a duck that got stuck in a chim- Nome. They are in custody at the Anvil Mountain Correctional ney. Center facing charges of burglary and theft.

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May 2015 — 2 Jim Miller, creator of the syndicated “Savvy Senior” information column, is a longtime advocate of senior issues. He has been featured in Time magazine; is author of “The Savvy Senior: The Ultimate Guide to Health, Family and Finances for Senior Citizens”; and is a regular contributor to the NBC “Today” show. How to Search for Lost Pension Money

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Fifty-eight. That’s the number of passwords my wife and I have for accessing everything online from email to bank accounts to energy bills to Netflix, iTunes and everything in between. Fifty-eight. It’s ridiculous, when you think about it, that it should be that way. But if you want to live in the digital age and be halfway, semi safe from hackers, that’s the price you pay. The biggest problem anyone faces with their unmanageable, cackling hen house of passwords is how to keep track of them. Do you keep them all in a “safe” place on your computer or smartphone? You’re crazy stupid if you do. carries its own risk. You could lose passwords before I do that. There is no safe place on any device them or someone could walk off with Anyway, apart from safekeeping, one that’s connected to the Internet. them. But most of us accept the risk of the biggest pains about passwords is Do you just tell your laptop to and keep them in a sort of hidden place creating one. Most people lazily type in remember the passwords for all the in our homes. It’s better than having a pet’s name followed by the numbers websites you access? All fine and good the passwords on your computer and 1, 2, 3. Well, you know that hackers until you loose your laptop or have it being plugged into the Internet, but not have that one figured out. All they have stolen. You could be a pauper by sun- a whole lot better. to do is type in some choice pet names down, not only with no money in your The techies gotta fix this pretty soon. like Spot or Mr. Snuggles with a few bank account but a stolen identity for There are already, of course, technolo- numbers after and they have access to frosting on the cake. gies like thumb print scans to access half the computers in America. So you do what most of us do: You your electronic device, but what if “Always create a strong password,” record the passwords on a thousand- someone figures out a way past that — the websites say, with lower and upper year-old device: paper. There are just and believe me, there’s a way — and case letters, numbers and symbols. way too many to remember otherwise. then has instant access to everything? Sure. But then you can’t remember the Well, you could remember them if you Back to the same problem. darn thing. That’s why you have to wanted to become a medieval monk, Maybe they’ll come up with a smart- write it down. consigning yourself to a cave, living life phone or laptop that pricks your finger Which brings us back to where we of deprivation dedicated solely to mem- and analyzes your blood and then lets started ... orizing all your user names and logins. you in. — Dwight Harriman But writing those passwords down I think I’ll keep my scrawled-out Montana Best Times Editor

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“Motoring West, Volume 1: Automobile Pioneers, 1900-1909 • Edited by Peter J. Blodgett • University of Oklahoma Press 2015 • Hardcover • $34.95 • 360 pages • 6.125 x 9.25” • ISBN: 978-0-87062-383-7

New book tells what it was like to cross the early West by automobile

By Montana Best Times Staff

Just released is a book that will be of great interest to Montanans with a love of automobiles or Western history: “Motoring West, Volume 1: Automobile Pio- neers, 1900-1909.” In the first years of the 20th century, motoring across the vast expanses west of the Mississippi was at the very least an adventure and at most an audacious stunt, says a recent news release from University of Oklahoma Press, publisher of “Motoring West.” As more motorists ven- tured forth, such travel became a curiosity and, within a few decades, commonplace. For aspiring Western travelers, automobiles formed an integral part of their search for new experiences and desti- coast to coast in a Franklin, and occasionally prescribe “touring nations — and like explorers and thrill seekers from earlier ages, outfits.” Blodgett’s engaging introductions to the volume and these adventurers kept records of their experiences. The scores each piece couch the writers’ commentaries within their time, the of articles, pamphlets, and books they published, collected for release says. the first time in“ Motoring West,” create a vibrant picture of the As reports of the region’s challenges and pleasures stirred American West in the age of automotive ascendancy, as viewed interest and spurred travel, the burgeoning flow of traffic would from behind the wheel, the release says. eventually and forever alter the Western landscape and the Documenting the very beginning of Americans’ love affair westering motorist’s experience. The dispatches in “Motoring with the automobile, the pieces in this volume — the first of a West” illustrate not only how the automobile opened the Ameri- planned multivolume series — offer a panorama of motoring can West before 1909 to more and more travelers, but also how travelers’ visions of the burgeoning West in the first decade of the West began to change with their arrival. the 20th century. Historian Peter J. Blodgett’s sources range Blodgett is the H. Russell Smith Foundation curator of West- from forgotten archives to company brochures to magazines ern American Manuscripts at the Huntington Library and author such as Harper’s Monthly, Sunset, and Outing. of “Land of Golden Dreams: California in the Gold Rush Under headlines touting adventures in “touring,” “land cruis- Decade, 1848-1858.” ing” and “camping out with an automobile,” voices from motor- “Motoring West” is available from online booksellers, in ing’s early days instruct, inform, and entertain. They chart routes bookstores, and directly from the University of Oklahoma Press through “wild landscapes,” explain the finer points of driving at (800) 627-7377 or www.oupress.com.

May 2015 — 5 A man of many talents Dave Osen stays busy with incredible range of hobbies

MT Best Times photos Lindsey Kroskob Dave Osen climbs into an antique wagon he restored from the frame up, which he drives with two Percheron draft horses named Bud and Bill. The equine brothers were another side project of Osen’s, spurred from seeing two Big Timber men drive a pair in a local Christmas parade.

By Lindsey Erin Kroskob for the place, but their journey to the ranch just figuring out how to do it,” he said. Montana Best Times started long before while Osen was work- Osen can’t quite put a number on the ing in construction. He built three of the hobbies he’s taken up, which is likely BIG TIMBER — Dave Osen’s white five homes on the property with his broth- because he masters a trade and then moves Wrangler Jeep sits outside his shop with two er before the owner asked him to come on on to the next. pups staring lazily out the back window. full time. “After 60 years, you get around people It’s a blustery Saturday afternoon, and Revving up the Jeep, Osen takes a drive and you pick up little tricks here and Osen is inside, wearing a dusty coverall around the property, pointing out the vari- there,” Osen said. “You learn from them.” suit, tinkering on a lawn mower. ous projects he’s worked on throughout His shop is immaculate, each tool in its the years. Elk horn cribbage boards place. He’s a man of many talents. When the couple moved to the property, That’s his wife, Carolyn’s, doing, he But what is most impressive is the array a much younger neighbor, Josh Fjare, was says with a laugh. of hobbies he’s added to his repertoire. instrumental in helping Osen learn the Osen is the manager for Four Creek He rebuilds engines, mounts elk horns, ropes. Ranch, an immense property nestled near refinishes carriages, builds cribs, restores “Josh is young enough to be my son, U.S. Forest Service land on Lower Deer old trucks, drives a team of Percheron but I’ve probably learned more from him Creek Road in Sweet Grass County. draft horses, drills elk horn cribbage than anybody about a lot of stuff,” Osen boards and, really, does anything else that said. “If he wouldn’t have been here when ‘The fun part’: figuring it out catches his eye. I came on this ranch, I would have For 11 years he and Carolyn have cared “That’s the fun part about a lot of things, failed.”

On the cover: Dave Osen gives his horse, Hickory, a kiss in a field near his Four Creek Ranch home 15 miles up Lower Deer Creek Road near Big Timber. Horse training is one of many hobbies Osen picked up over the years. May 2015 — 6 Above: One of Dave Osen’s elk horn cribbage boards awaits a player’s next move beside the fireplace at the couple’s Four Creek Ranch home. His signature Baltimore Orioles cards are always on hand, a shout-out to a close friend who plays for the team. Right: A close-up of the brass pegs on the cribbage board.

That’s always how it seems to start. Osen sees the outcome of a from then on I did it myself.” project, it peaks his interest, and he finds an expert to show him how it’s done. Percheron horses His latest winter project, elk horn cribbage boards, started sim- The same thing happened with learning to drive two hefty Per- ply because he saw one at a friend’s house. cheron horses, which grazed happily in a nearby field that after- “I looked at that one at (John) Marshak’s for a long time,” Osen noon. said. “I thought, ‘That took something to build that. I wonder Bud and Bill are the product of a trip into Big Timber for the how you do it.’” annual Christmas Lighted Parade where two men, Jeremy Rob- Marshak kind of knew, but had never done it, Osen said. So erts and Cameron Mayo, lead a team with a hay rack behind. they gave it a go. “I said to Carolyn, ‘I’ve always wanted a team, and if those Dave started by smoothing the rough off one side of the horn two guys can pull it off …’” Osen said with a laugh. and running a compass along the edge to draw a line parallel to Again, Osen pooled his resources, found some knowledgeable the curve. Once that line was done, he moved it a half-inch in and friends and ended up with the gentle black giants. did it again. “I’d never even harnessed a (draft) horse before, but I knew I “Then I just used a ruler and put (marks) on quarter-inch spac- was getting a team so I’d already bought a forecart, and I bought ing with a half inch in between,” Osen said. “Then if I didn’t like a harness on eBay,” Osen said. it, I’d erase it and do it over again.” Steve Kryer found the horses and delivered him to the ranch. You don’t have to worry about the lines — they can be buffed Then he showed the Osens how to harness and drive them. out later, he said. Then he mounted the horn on a piece of ply- “He spent the whole day with us,” Osen said, saying it was wood, so no matter how it moved, it would be as if it was sitting easy to learn the process. on a table. Osen walked into the field where the horses were sprawled out With a brad point in his drill bit, Osen drilled the holes — 60 in a couple weeks later. Slowly, each one walked over to greet him, each board. looking for a belly rub or two. The hardest part, he said, was figuring out how to make the “It’s not like I made anything, but boy I had a lot of fun with pegs. The process of turning a raw stock, a brass rod, into a fin- those horses for a while,” he said. “But it’s like all the other stuff ished, smoothly graded piece required using a drill press as a — my mind goes in so many directions.” lathe with a file to shape the end. “I’m not real artistic, and it would be really nice if I was,” Osen A perfect fit said. “I’m more of a tape measure kind of guy.” Which may be why his job managing the Four Creek Ranch is Trophy mounting such a perfect fit. When Osen was working construction, he and Carolyn lived While that may be Osen’s opinion of himself, others might north of Big Timber off Wormser Loop Road. Every night, Osen argue his projects show a strong artistic talent coupled with a would come home and go out for a ride. focused eye for detail. “I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be something to go to a place where Above the Osen’s fireplace hangs a beautiful European mount- you got to do that for a living,’” he said. “And guess what, that’s ed elk rack, the result of a fall hunt on the property. what we got.” To learn this trade of trophy mounting, Osen took an earlier kill And when things are slow in the winter, Osen gets to follow his to a friend who was happy to oblige and mount the animal. The interests, wherever they may lead. next year, Osen returned with a special request. “I like to make old things look like they did,” he said, pointing “I said, ‘Can I come out when you do it, so I can see how you do it?’” Osen said. “So then I watched and helped him, and See Many Talents, Page 15 May 2015 — 7 Holding court Tennis coach teaches life lessons along with ground strokes

MT Best Times photos by M.P. Regan Beaverhead County High School tennis head coach Lois Woodard, left, instructs one of her players, freshman Mariah Mosh- er, in the finer points of serving. By M.P. Regan over years of coaching in Dillon, was and the challenge of chasing down her Montana Best Times received and applied with great respect by powerful, pinpoint ground strokes as a her players. volunteer assistant for the Beavers tennis DILLON — At twilight on a recent “Lois is a really great coach,” said Mark team shortly after she and her husband chilly, March afternoon, Lois Woodard, Waldrup, a junior at Beaverhead County had moved to Dillon from Denver in 71, stood surrounded by a dozen Dillon High School, where he started on the boys 2000. high school boys on a tennis court, offer- State A championship football team last “I just walked over to the courts one ing them instruction and encouragement season. day and went up to the head coach and after a hard afternoon of practice. “She knows what she’s talking about offered to help,” recalled Woodard, who “Remember, practice like you play,” and is able to demonstrate what she’s talk- began her long tenure with the Beavers urged Woodard, the head coach of the ing about — and she is always encourag- team that day by hitting with Haley Beaverhead County High School boys and ing,” added Waldrup, who began taking McDonald, the Dillon girls top singles girls tennis teams since 2005. lessons from Woodard when he was in ele- player who would go on to win the state “I want them to come to practice mentary school and Woodard was nation- Class A singles title. focused,” Woodard explained the next day. ally ranked in her age group. Woodard has trained a number of other “I want them to focus on the process, not “She does well with whatever age group standout tennis players in Dillon. But she the result. It’s natural to focus on winning, she teaches,” added Waldrup, the BCHS emphasizes gaining character over gaining but when the focus is just on winning, No. 1 boys singles player who hits with trophies. often there isn’t success. You have to Woodard when he needs someone who can “Lois teaches her players more than just focus on and enjoy the process first.” challenge him. about how to play tennis,” commented That message, like the many others Waldrup’s mother, Ilene Cohen. Woodard has delivered to her players Teaching more than tennis “She teaches them on how to be a good through actions and inspirational words Woodard began offering her wisdom teammate, about being a leader, about May 2015 — 8 Despite her delayed start in the game, Woodard developed her tennis skills to the point where she began competing — and winning — at national tournaments in her 30s. “I played my first tennis tournament in Erie, Pennsylvania, when I was 30,” recalled Woodard. “My husband and I were living there and it was just a local tourney. I began to feel as if I could compete. I played in singles and doubles, and lost in both. But the bug had bit me. I thought, I could be better next time.” Six years later, Woodard advanced deep into the national women’s indoor 35s tournament in Milwaukee, where she and her husband had since moved. “A friend asked me to play doubles. We made it to the semifi- nals and I made it to the quarterfinals in singles. That’s when I thought, wow, I can really do this,” said Woodard, who kept competing in national tennis tournaments into her 60s. “I played in a lot of national tournaments after that, in a lot of age groups,” said Woodard. There she was, Miss Vermont Woodard first got bit by the sports bug during her youth, while growing up on Lake Champlain, which sits between the state bor- ders of New York and Vermont. Living in a small island community with a population of about 200, Woodard found only boys in her age range to play with when she wasn’t attending classes in the community’s one-room schoolhouse. The next to youngest of four children and the only daughter in her family, Woodard spent many winter days skating and playing hockey on the community pond, and summer days swinging a bat on the island’s sandlot baseball field. “I think I got competitive from playing all that sandlot baseball,” laughed Woodard. “I could always hit a baseball well, and I guess that swing helped me when I took up tennis.” Despite her growing love of and prowess in sports, Woodard didn’t get the chance to participate in competitive sports at her Lois Woodard addresses her players after a recent team prac- high school, which sat on the Vermont mainland, an hour-long tice. bus ride from home. “After I graduated eighth grade, I was bused to a high school being fair and honest, about taking the high road — even when on the mainland. The worst part of that was, since my father you’re struggling with your game,” added Cohen, whose son last worked and my mother didn’t drive a car, I had no way to take season became the first Dillon boys tennis player to qualify for part in after-school sports.” the state tournament. Denied the chance to earn a sports scholarship and with her “If you attend an end-of-the-year tennis banquet, she talks parents unable to afford tuition, Woodard worked her way about every single player on the team and about what they through college, in part by singing and by modeling for a local brought to the team as a person and how they grew during the department store. season.” Both callings helped her find another way to earn money — the Woodard said the value of what one learns on the tennis court Miss America Pageant. extends well beyond the baselines. “I was asked by the pageant’s Vermont director to take part,” “Many things come up during a season that we can use to teach recalled Woodard, who was crowned Miss Vermont and won the to the kids besides just how to be better tennis players,” com- right to compete at the 1965 Miss America Pageant in Atlantic mented Woodard on her approach to coaching. City, where she sang in the talent portion of the competition. “There are a lot of life lessons to be learned. And it’s very “The main reason I said ‘yes’ was that if I could win, it would rewarding as a coach to watch a person blossom as an individu- give me enough scholarship money to pay for my last year of col- al,” continued Woodard. lege,” said Woodard, who had begun taking voice lessons at the age of 19 from a retired professor from the prestigious Juilliard Late bloomer School of Music. Woodard didn’t start playing tennis until her college days at the “It turned out to be a fabulous experience. I met a lot of won- University of Vermont in Burlington, where she met her husband, derful people and sang at a lot of different functions,” said Wood- Michael, who introduced her to the game and to his parents, fine ard, who also performed throughout college in a folk group with tennis players who helped her progress quickly in learning the her husband, a guitarist. game. See Tennis coach, Page 14 May 2015 — 9 MT Best Times photo by Charlie Denison Jerry Hanley holds $10,000 worth of gold and silver collected from his days mining in Maiden as well as a 1931 photo of his grandfather George Wieglenda. In the picture, Wieglenda holds a 20-pound bar of gold he also collected from mining in Maiden. The last man standing Miner in Maiden, Montana, preserving historic town By Charlie Denison Born to E.D. “Red” Hanley and Selma of the next step to take, fate played its hand. Montana Best Times (Wieglenda) Hanley — Selma was one of “Larry Hoffman came by and said, ‘I see George’s three daughters — Jerry shares his smoke coming out of the chimney and was MAIDEN — Jerry Hanley sits on his passion for the area with several of his chil- wondering if you were looking for a job. gray reclining chair, takes a sip of coffee dren, cousins, nieces, nephews and most of I’m reopening the Spotted Horse Mine,’” and leans forward, partaking in one of his his 10 siblings, eight of which are still liv- Jerry recounted. “I thought, ‘Whoa, mining favorite hobbies: talking about Maiden. ing. where my grandfather worked? Yeah!’” Maiden is a historical gold and silver “Growing up in Lewistown, Maiden was Without any second-guessing, Jerry fol- mining town located about 20 miles north- always our summer getaway,” Jerry said. lowed in his grandfather’s footsteps and east of Lewistown. “Our family loved it, and so did I. The goal became a Maiden miner. “My grandfather, George Wieglenda, of my life was to live here.” arrived here at 19 years old in 1895 and Jerry might have known he wanted to A good hand spent his life here mining,” Jerry, 67, said. make Maiden his home, but he wasn’t sure “He put together a pretty good package for at first how he’d make his living. Jerry was ecstatic to work in the very the family — patented mining claims and “In the late ’60s and early ’70s, I was try- mines his grandfather worked in, especially homestead grounds. He must have been ing to be an artist, drawing pictures and the Maginnis mine, which he would eventu- thinking about his offspring. He must have painting signs,” Jerry said. “I probably sold ally own. been thinking about setting us up with a 25 originals, but I wasn’t really making But no matter what mine he worked in, nice place. Well, he sure did, and we sure enough to get by.” Jerry excelled, often leading the way for enjoy it.” Living in his grandmother’s house, unsure other miners. May 2015 — 10 Maiden is pictured in the late 1880s. The Maginnis mine and mill are at the far right at the head of Warm Spring Canyon. Maiden had just peaked in its prosperity and it was in decline at the time of this photograph. Photo courtesy of Jerry Hanley

“I just absolutely fell in love with min- quite a bit of success, Jerry said. her husband, Keith,” Jerry said. “Their son ing,” Jerry said. “I loved being under- “These three mines produced between James also lives close by.” ground, drilling drift rounds, loading up a 300,000 and 400,000 ounces of gold,” he Whether or not descendants of George couple hundred pounds of explosives, deto- said, “and they produced an equal amount of Wieglenda live in town or not, Jerry said nating and going back in after the smoke silver, which is pretty good production.” most of them still come around. clears.” “Just like it was growing up, much of the Mining, Jerry said, was in his blood, and Part of history family comes and meets us here in the sum- he took to it naturally. Jerry said it is an honor to be part of Maid- mertime,” he said. “I learned real quick,” he said. “Early on, I en’s rich gold-digging history. And much of the family is thankful for was recognized as a good hand.” “It all started in 1879, when Skookum Joe George’s generosity, leaving so much of the Anderson, Davey Jones and another guy town in their name, especially Jerry’s brother No mining like found part of a mustard jar full of gold,” Jer- Pat. Maiden mining ry said of the group that found the jar some- “Pat owns and cares for numerous build- one had buried when they sank a discovery ings in Maiden,” Jerry said. “He has really Interspersed with mining in Maiden, Jerry shaft. “They set up a camp, which later put a lot of time and money into making also mined in other areas — “from the hang- became my grandparents’ front yard. Appar- Maiden what it is today.” ing walls of Alaska to the footwalls of New ently Indians were giving them a tough time, But mainly it’s been Jerry keeping Maiden Mexico,” he said, and all over Montana, so they left, but they came back in 1880.” alive. Retired since 2013, Jerry leaves Maid- including the Jim Bridger Wilderness, the Jerry has taken it upon himself to study en only when he has to, and he is more Johns-Manville West Fork Adit. the history of Maiden and preserve it as best invested and connected in the area now than “It always depended on what mines were he can. ever before. operating,” he noted. “There is no one that knows more about “There is a spirit here,” Jerry said. “There Through it all, however, nothing filled Jer- Maiden than me,” he said, “and I am not is a spirit in this old town.” ry with more pride than mining Maiden. saying that to brag — it’s just the truth, espe- Although it’s unclear what the future Whether it was Maiden’s Spotted Horse, cially since my mother has passed on.” holds for Maiden, Jerry remains optimistic, Cumberland, Kentucky Favorite or Maginnis Going through archives of old newspa- still holding on to hope for another gold mines, Jerry was at home, and he was driven pers, old photos and studying any books rush. to keep his grandfather’s name in high written on the area, Jerry is the go-to guy on In retirement, Jerry’s passion has not regard by following his example, being a Maiden. This summer, he will lead a “Last waned, nor has his interest or investment in leader and stopping at nothing. If there was Big Gold Rush” tour of Maiden and Kendall both mining and Maiden, since he purchased gold, he was going to find it. as part of the Central Montana Education the Maginnis mine and still remains optimis- “I spent a lot of time working on the Center’s 2015 Adult Education series. tic there could be another rush. Spotted Horse, the Maginnis and the Ken- “I’m always looking for another mining tucky Favorite,” Jerry said. “The Kentucky Maiden: not a ghost town, deal,” Jerry said. “It’s kind of become a joke Favorite was the last real high-grade mine up between me and family and friends, but I here. It was mined in 1987, 1988 and 1989. but a Hanley town believe there is still gold to be discovered.” We mined exceptional high-grade there, Although the population of Maiden is some assaying as high as 700 ounces per slim, it is no ghost town. Instead, it is a Han- Charlie Denison may be reached at ton. That’s spectacular.” ley town. [email protected] or (406) 535- Through the decades, the mines have seen “My sister Barbara lives near here with 3401. May 2015 — 11 North Side Mission Ministry provides companionship, education and fun for youth

MT Best Times photos by Steve Allison Youth pastor Eddie Smith, left, conducts a meeting with older children at the North Side Mission in Miles City, recently.

By Amorette F. Allison was still in business when they first lived there, Alice would Montana Best Times occasionally have a hobo asking for a meal. Alice always obliged. MILES CITY — There are only a few homes in the 1200 Her generosity extended to more than just hungry transients. If block of North Jordan, adjacent to the old Milwaukee Railroad Alice saw children who couldn’t attend church because of the yards on the north side of Miles City but, on Saturday after- condition of their clothes or lack of shoes, she took care of that. noons, there are a lot of visitors. Those visitors are singing And if someone was hungry, she fed them. songs, learning Bible verses, and enjoying a hot meal with In addition to her home ministry, Alice conducted a ministry in friends and family. the local jail and also did hair dressing at the rest home, adding What used to be two rather ordinary houses has, over the years, some ministry to that as well. grown into the North Side Mission, an informal organization The family counts 1968 as the year the home ministry tradition affiliated with the Valley Drive Community Church. The mission really began. That’s when Alice started her Saturday Bible school provides companionship, education and fun for children from and lunch program. She ran it informally for several years, until toddlers to teenagers in what started out as just one woman who ill health forced her to retire. wanted to extend a helping hand. While she was no longer active in her mission work, daughter Bonnie said she served as a “prayer warrior” for anyone who Beginnings needed a few extra prayers. Alice Swift, her husband, Archie, and their family, lived in a After her death, in August of last year, her daughters took up small house at 1211 N. Jordan. Since the Milwaukee Railroad the cause. May 2015 — 12 Left: Debra Meyer greets visitors as they show up for a meeting.

Left: Glenn Rice plays guitar to start a meeting in the larger living room area of the two combined houses. The house gets bigger The North Side Mission isn’t anything official so much as it’s what Alice’s family calls her old house, now turned into the Bible school. On Saturday afternoons at 3 p.m., children from toddler age through teenagers visit the house to sing songs, study the Bible and have a late afternoon hot lunch. Usually between 30 and 40 children join the family and friends for these sessions. The family includes six of Alice’s seven daughters. They are Bonnie White, who currently lives in her mother’s house, San- dra Beeler, Debra Meyer, Gerry Bloxom, Nora Gambert and Janette Carpenter. When they were young, her mother had children over, teaching them crafts as well as Bible study. Alice had a red station wagon and used to collect neighborhood children to bring to her house or take the rafters while Dad nailed them in place. world. They are the future.” kids out for picnics to places like Wood- The house is decorated with religious art, ruff Park. some of it drawn by Alice herself, and lots Just follow the sound Eventually, the wagon described by one of family mementos. Alice’s family continues to move into of the sisters as a “little, teeny, red station The sisters have helped with their Bible the future, with something like 150 grand- wagon” was replaced with a bigger white studies and singing as well. Sandra taught children, great-grandchildren and great- van and then a bigger red and white van. her sisters how to play the guitar. Eddie great-grandchildren. That van is the current bus that is still used Smith, youth pastor at Valley Drive Com- So if you find yourself near North Jordan, to pick up kids. munity Church, helps with the Bible study near the old railroad yards, now a repair Just as the transport got bigger, the group for teenagers, and Calvin Rice plays company for rail cars, and you hear a rous- house itself got bigger. The North Side the guitar for the sing-a-longs that open ing chorus of “Jesus Loves Me,” just follow Mission is located at both 1205 and 1211 each Saturday get-together. the sound to Alice’s house and join in. N. Jordan. Archie took what was a four- Some of the attendees live in the neigh- Lunch included. room house with just two bedrooms and borhood. Some are members of the Valley added on, eventually buying the neigh- Drive Community Church. Amorette F. Allison may be reached at bor’s house and connecting the two struc- As daughter Sandy Beeler says, “Chil- [email protected] of ((406) 234- tures. The daughters remember holding up dren are the most important thing in the 0450.

May 2015 — 13 Tennis coach, from Page 9

“We were kind of like Peter, Paul and Mary, except there were only two of us,” laughed Woodard, who began singing in church during her youth. “So, he was Peter and Paul, and I was Mary.” Of rods and racquets Woodard and her husband came to Montana in 2000, when Michael was named CEO of R.L. Winston Rod Co., the Twin Bridges-based manufacturer of high-quality fly-fishing rods. “We decided that it would be a great adventure,” recalled Wood- ard of her and Michael’s decision to move from Denver to Dillon. “We thought it would only be for a few years. But he was very successful and we loved it here way more than we could have dreamed. So even though he has retired, we’re still here,” said Woodard, who after relocating to Dillon was forced to drive to Bozeman twice a week to find tennis players at her level to practice with to help keep her sharp enough to compete in national tournaments. “We really enjoy the beauty and the peacefulness and the com- Woodard provides tennis instruction to Beaverhead County munity here,” said Woodard, who finally gave up playing in nation- High School player Mariah Mosher. al tournaments in 2006 after gaining a top-10 national ranking in doubles and reaching the final of the national clay court doubles championship that year. Not just tennis ... “I wanted to leave on a high note,” she said. “And I still get to Woodard said she found her first sporting love, skiing, through keep my hand in tennis through the Dillon high school team.” her husband’s family and has helped pass that love down to her Staying in the game daughter and two sons. “All three of them got a good foundation in skiing by the time Woodard said she still enjoys coaching and her players enough to they were 6 or 7 years old,” said Woodard, who served on the ski endure the high school tennis season’s half-dozen or so long road patrol with her husband at Bromley Mountain in Vermont for 15 trips, which usually require her to get up before dawn and return years and continues to hit the slopes whenever she has time. home well after dark. “It was a wonderful thing for our children to learn, and they all “We do come home really late — sometimes after midnight went on to become great skiers,” added Woodard, whose daughter when we have a meet in Billings or Lewistown,” admitted Wood- married a ski racer. ard. Woodard also passed along the love of teaching to her two sons, “But the meets we go to are the frosting on the cake for me. It’s the younger of which worked as an instructor at Vail Mountain in really rewarding to watch the kids compete and grow. It’s kind of a Colorado and coached its developmental ski race team, while the reflection of what we are able to give to them as coaches,” said older son taught skiing in Colorado before becoming manager of Woodard, who credits her Beaver assistant coaches Jenny Waldorf, All Mountain Sports at Copper Mountain. Jeff Koslosky and Tim Glueckert with her players’ many successes. And though she and her husband recently and vigorously took up “The kids gain the love of competing, and it has a snowball a new pastime — golf — Woodard plans to continue with tennis, effect because then they come back and practice harder so they can especially with coaching it. compete better,” continued Woodard, who often stays at practices “Every coach in sports has the opportunity to be a role model. until dusk helping her players, and holds voluntary workouts on That’s the part I really enjoy,” said Woodard, who continued coach- weekends and during holiday breaks to prepare her players for ing tennis during her successful battle against breast cancer that meets. began in the summer of 2000. Why does she spend so much time on a job she doesn’t need for “I keep thinking about retiring. But I want to stay engaged and paying the bills? feel useful. I had no idea how much I would love coaching when I “I ask myself that,” smiled Woodard. “I guess I just love the took it up,” said Woodard, many of whose pupils are just taking up game. And I love the kids. They are there because they want to the game of tennis when they come to join her high school team learn the game. Many have taken lessons with me since third or and need to learn basics, like how to grip a racquet and keep score. fourth grade. They love tennis, too, or they wouldn’t be here late “It takes patience — and I find the better rested I am, the more on cold days trying to improve their games.” patience I have. But I just love watching someone jump on a learn- Though she retired from national competition, Woodard still ing curve,” smiled Woodard. plays with a Montana United States Tennis Association team that is “And it’s a really great way to stay engaged in the community,” vying for a spot at the regional tournament in Denver later this she said. “Working with these kids — that’s what helps keep me year. young.” “The team is for women 40 and over, though most of us are 50 and over,” said Woodard. “I’m over 70, but they still invite me to M.P. Regan may be reached at [email protected] or play.” (406) 683-2331.

May 2015 — 14 Many Talents, from Page 7

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May 2015 — 15 Travel Saddlebreds and silver in Shelbyville, Kentucky

Photo courtesy of ShelbyKY Tourism Commission and Visitors Bureau/TNS Saddlebred horses are pictured at the Undulata Farm in Kentucky.

By Kathy Witt because it’s where the best horses were ers and trainers and the hobbyists who KathyWitt.com/TNS — and still are. buy and show saddlebreds. All involved “If you want to get into the country are looking for the next champion. In the rolling bluegrass of central Ken- music business you go to Nashville,” said “What makes a Saddlebred a champion tucky, there are more than 90 farms dedi- saddlebred horse breeder Hoppy Bennett. is inside, it’s his heart, his will to win,” cated to a singular vocation: breeding and “If you want to get into American Saddle- said Bennet. “We breed for that. We training Saddlebred horses — the “pea- bred, you come to Shelby County. know what pedigrees produce that. They cock of the horse world.” These high- move and go like they’re breathing fire, stepping equine beauties, highly regarded Historic horse yet they have to be trained to be manner- for their grace and athleticism, are per- ly enough for anyone to ride them.” fectly at home in Shelbyville, Kentucky, The breed actually dates back to the Groups of 15 or more and families the “American Saddlebred Capital of the late 18th century when explorer Daniel overnighting in Shelby County can take World.” Boone, his brother Squire and many a an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of Deemed as such by state legislative pioneer traveled to Kentucky on “Ameri- the cosseted world of the saddlebred, proclamation, Shelbyville and Shelby can Horses,” the forerunner of the mod- including to Bennett’s Undulata Farm. A County became the hub of saddlebred ern Saddlebred horse. These days, the Shelbyville landmark that is also on the horse breeding activity, quite simply, pioneers have been replaced by the breed- National Register of Historic Places,

May 2015 — 16 up-close, stroll through the barn, talk to a trainer. You’ll learn about the distinctive gait of these beautiful show horses and you might even get to pet a new foal. There’s silver in them thar hills Shelbyville is not only where you’ll find the world’s largest concentration of saddlebred-related facilities; it is also home to one of the world’s largest antique silver collections at Wakefield- Scearce Gallery. Loving cups, Photo courtesy of ShelbyKY Tourism Commission and Visitors meat skewers, snuff boxes, Bureau/TNS cake baskets, tankards, tea Mint julep cups are hand- services — these pieces and made and hand-engraved at hundreds more gleam from Shelbyville’s Wakefield- within their cases in the shop’s Scearce Gallery. aptly named Silver Vault. Perhaps most famous are Undulata is where Civil War the handmade sterling silver veteran Harry Weissinger and Presidential mint julep cups. his sons once bred the great Since Franklin Roosevelt, stallion, American Born. Wakefield-Scearce Gallery “He was a history-making has sent every president a cup, stallion, born right here, and he hand-engraved on the side made a great contribution to the with the Presidential Seal. Of breed through his off-spring,” nearly equal importance is the said Bennett. “He added a lot official mint julep cup of the of beauty and refinement.” Kentucky Derby, distin- Saddlebred stables are abuzz guished by signature mark- with activity all year long, but ings, including an eagle car- the most exciting time is dur- touche combined with the ini- ing the spring when the babies tials of the current president. arrive — the best time to tour. Both cups owe their creation Each spring, as many as 300 to gallery co-founder Mark J. foals are born in Shelby Coun- Scearce, who originated the ty. (Nationally about 1,500 pattern during World War II saddlebred horses are born from a Kentucky cup design each year.) from the early 1800s. “You’ll see the babies with Besides a treasure trove of their mamas, playing in the silver, Wakefield-Scearce Gal- field,” said Charlie Kramer, lery has fine English antiques, horse farm tour director. paintings, garden and archi- “You’ll see some 2-year-olds, tectural accessories, chande- working toward getting ready liers and more — all staged in to show. They’ve been training beautiful vignettes in a build- for four, five, maybe six ing that dates back to 1825 months, and they’ll be under and the Kentucky wilderness saddle or pulling a cart.” when it was a school for The approximately 90-min- young ladies. Known as Sci- ute tour includes a discussion ence Hill School, its founder, of the breed, the training aids Julia Hieronymus Tevis, did the horses may be wearing and the unthinkable: In addition to how and why saddlebreds do the traditional “gentlelady’s what they do. Visitors will get education” of reading, writing to see this “jewel of a breed” and the social graces, she May 2015 — 17 Photos courtesy of ShelbyKY Tourism Commission and Visitors Bureau/TNS Above: Once a former school for genteel ladies, the Wakefield-Scearce Gallery today is an antique lover’s idea of nirvana. Below: Tap into your inner designer and sign up for a class at Making Ends Meet.

a ride through 400 acres of heavily forested Kentucky country- side. • Head to Smith-Berry Winery for dinner and a concert in the vineyard. Every other Saturday in spring and summer the winery hosts live concerts, featuring music of all genres — everything from oldies rock ‘n roll to tribute shows (Jimmy Buffet, the Beatles). Concert/dinner tickets at the door are $28.95. Visit the tasting room first to sample and select wine to pair with the meal. • Coordinate your visit to Shelbyville with an artisan-taught workshop offered at Making Ends Meet. Several jewelry- making classes are offered in late May by Deb Guess where students will work in metalsmithing and tooling and with the jeweler’s saw to create earrings or pendants. See classes here: www.MakingEndsMeet.com/store/c85/STUDIO_Classes. html. • Give your taste buds an authentic Kentucky culinary treat at the Bell House Restaurant with a Classic Kentucky Hot Brown. Locals will tell you this hearty concoction of tender turkey breast topped with juicy tomatoes and crisp bacon and simmer- ing in a cheese bath is as close as you can get to the original taught her students the sciences. recipe created in the 1920s by Chef Fred Schmidt of Louis- Today, Science Hill houses not only Wakefield-Scearce Gal- ville’s Brown Hotel. lery, but also the one-of-a-kind Shops of Science Hill and the • Pack your shopping shoes for the Outlet Shoppes of the Science Hill Inn Restaurant, which specializes in Southern-style Bluegrass, 90 designer shops in a setting of lushly planted home cooking using locally sourced farm-fresh ingredients. courtyards and arched roofs providing shade. Ann Taylor Facto- ry Store, Banana Republic, Brooks Brothers, Coach, Fossil, the Adventure guide to don’t-miss moments Fragrance Outlet, Gucci, J. Crew, Kate Spade, Michael Kors, • When in Rome . . . Since you’re in American Saddlebred Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH — they’re all here and plenty more Horse Country, saddle up a horse at Shelby Trails Park and take and with savings of 20 to 70 percent. May 2015 — 18 Below is a list of volunteer openings available through the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) in communities across southern Montana. To learn more about RSVP, call 1-800-942-2677 or log on to www. RSVP seniorcorps.org.

Custer & Rosebud counties - Community Cupboard (Food Bank): Vol- reading to a resident. - American Legion: Will need volunteer unteers are needed to help any week morn- - Gallatin Valley Food Bank: Volunteers ticket takers this summer. ings as well as with deliveries. needed to deliver commodities to seniors in - Clinic Ambassador: Need volunteer to - Council on Aging: Volunteers needed to their homes once a month. Deliveries in Bel- greet patients and visitors, providing direc- assist at the Senior Center (Grubstakes) and grade are especially needed. tions and more, two locations. with home delivered meals and senior trans- - HRDC Housing Department Ready to - Custer County Food Bank: Volunteers portation. Rent: Curriculum for families and individuals who have rental barriers such as lack of poor assistants needed for 8 a.m-1:30 p.m., Mon- - Library: Volunteer help always appreciat- rental history, property upkeep, renter respon- days, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, to process ed. sibilities, landlord/tenant communication and donations, stock shelves and more. - ROWL (Recycle Our Waste Lewistown): Recruiting volunteers for the 3rd Saturday of financial priorities. - Custer Network Against Domestic Vio- - Habitat for Humanity Restore: Belgrade lence: Crisis line volunteer needed. the month to help sorting, baling and loading recyclables store needs volunteers for general help, sort- - Friendship Villa: Volunteers needed to help ing donations and assisting customers. with activities. - Treasure Depot: Thrift store needs volunteers to sort, hang clothes and put other items - Heart of The Valley: Compassionate vol- - Gramma’s Ice Cream Shoppe: RSVP will unteers especially needed to love, play with need help selling ice cream at the Eastern on display for sale. - Always have various needs for your skills and cuddle cats. Montana Fair Aug. 19-22. - Help Center: Computer literate volunteer - Historic Miles City Academy: Volunteers and volunteer services in our community. - Current RSVP volunteers are encouraged interested in entering data into a social servic- store clerk needed. to turn in your hours each month; your con- es database. Also volunteers needed to make - Holy Rosary: Volunteer receptionist need- tribution to the community is greatly appreci- phone calls to different agencies/programs to ed at front desk. ated! make sure database is up to date and make - Meals on Wheels: RSVP will be delivering Contact: RSVP Volunteer Coordinator Sara safety calls to home bound seniors. the last two weeks in May. Wald, 404 W. Broadway, Wells Fargo Bank - Jessie Wilber Gallery at The Emerson: - Miles City Historic Preservation Office building, (upstairs), Lewistown, MT 59457; Volunteers needed on Wednesdays, Thurs- and City Clerk’s Office: Clerical help needed. phone (406) 535-0077; email: rsvplew@mid- days, and Fridays to greet people at the main - Range Riders Museum: Volunteers needed rivers.com. desk, answer questions and keep track of the 7 days per week to greet visitors, run the cash number of visitors. register and more. Gallatin County - MSU Alumni Association: Volunteers - Soup Kitchen: Volunteers needed to greet - American Cancer Society-Road to Recov- needed to help with decorations for MSU (seated position), serve and/or prepare food. graduation and reunion weekend. - St. Vincent DePaul: Volunteers to assist in ery: Drivers needed for patients receiving treatments from their home to the hospital - Museum of the Rockies: Variety of oppor- several different capacities. tunities available such as helping in the gift - VA Activities: Urgent need for someone to - American Red Cross Blood Drive: Two volunteer opportunities available: an ambas- shop and more. help with activities. - RSVP Handcrafters: Volunteers to quilt, - VA Community Living Center: Volunteer sador needed to welcome, greet, thank and provide overview for blood donors; and knit, crochet and embroider hats for chemo with people skills needed to interview CLC patients, baby blankets and other handmade residents on a monthly basis. Must be able to phone team volunteers needed to remind, recruit or thank blood donors. Excellent cus- goods once a week (can work from home). objectively ask questions, work on a laptop Items are on sale in our store in the RSVP while doing so, and be accurate. Select your tomer service skills needed, training will be provided, flexible schedule. office at the Senior Center or on Saturday own hours. People skills and accuracy are Farmers Markets until September 13. important. - Befrienders: Befriend a senior; visit on a regular weekly basis. *Donated yarn needed for the quilting, knit- - WaterWorks Art Museum: Volunteer ting and crocheting projects. receptionists needed, 2-hour shifts Tuesdays- - Belgrade Senior Center: Meals on Wheels needs regular and substitute drivers Monday– - Three Forks Food Bank: Volunteer needed Sundays. on Mondays and/or Thursdays to help with If you are interested in these or other volun- Friday, to deliver meals to seniors before noon. administrative duties, including answer teer opportunities please contact: Betty Vail, phones and questions, some paper and com- RSVP Director; 210 Winchester Ave. #225, - Big Brothers Big Sisters: Be a positive role model for only a few hours each week. puter work. They will train. MT 59301; phone (406) 234-0505; email: - Warming Center: Volunteers are needed [email protected]. - Bozeman and Belgrade Sacks Thrift Stores: Need volunteers 2- to 3-hour shifts on for overnight shifts at the center, training is Dawson County any day, Monday-Saturday 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. provided. - Bozeman Deaconess Hospital: Volunteers - Your unique skills and interests are needed, - Local Farm to Table Store: Someone to needed for the information desks in the Atri- without making a long-term commitment, in help in and during store hours, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. um and the Perk, 8 a.m.-noon, noon- 4 p.m. a variety of ongoing, special, one-time - Makoshika Visitors Center: Volunteers - Bozeman Senior Center Foot Clinic: events. needed to assist on Mondays and Tues- Retired or nearly retired nurses are urgently Contact: Debi Casagranda, RSVP Program days. Training provided. needed, 2 days a month, either 4- or 8-hour Coordinator, 807 N. Tracy, Bozeman, MT Have a need, a special interest or desire to shifts. 59715; phone (406) 587-5444; fax (406) 582 volunteer somewhere in the community? - Galavan: Volunteer drivers needed Mon- 8499; email: [email protected]. Contact: Patty Atwell, RSVP Director, 604 day-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. CDL required and Grant, Glendive, MT 59330; phone (406) Galavan will assist you in obtaining one. Vol- Musselshell, Golden Valley, 377-4716; email: [email protected]. unteers also needed to make reminder calls Petroleum counties and confirm rides for the following day. - Food Bank: Distribute food commodities Fergus, Judith Basin counties - Gallatin Rest Home: Volunteers wanted to seniors and others in the community; help - Art Center: In need of volunteers on Satur- for visiting the residents, sharing your unload the truck as needed. days. knowledge of a craft, playing cards or See RSVP, Page 20 May 2015 —19 Thursday, May 7 Interpretive Programs, Thursdays and Fridays, 8 p.m., through Sept. 5, Whitehall • Book reading by Peter Bowen from his newest book, “Bitter Creek,” Elk River May Friday, May 22 Books, 120 N. Main St., Livingston 2015 • “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, Fridays Friday, May 8 Calendar and Saturdays 8 p.m., Sundays 3 p.m. through June 14, Blue Slipper Theatre, 113 • “West Side Story,” Fridays and Saturdays 8 Saturday, May 16 E. Callender St., Livingston p.m., Sundays 3 p.m., through May 17, Shane Lalani Center for the Arts, 415 E. • VFW Armed Forces Day, flag display and Saturday, May 23 Lewis St., Livingston barbecue, Glendive • Nevada City Living History Weekends, 10 • Laurel Garden Club Spring Garden and Sunday, May 10 a.m.-6 p.m., through Sept. 27, Lantern Bake Sale, Thomson Park Picnic Shelter, Tours start at 9:30 p.m., Nevada City • All City Garage Sale, Glendive 313 East 6th Street, Laurel • Mother’s Day Horse Racing, 1 p.m., • Southeastern Montana Fiddlers, Range Sunday, May 24 Eastern Montana Fairgrounds, Miles City Riders Museum, Miles City • Laurel High School Graduation, 203 E. • Handgun Safety and Familiarization, Monday, May 11 Eighth St., Laurel (Adult Ed class) Courthouse Conference • Beginning Golf, Overland Golf Course, Room, 1-5 p.m., Big Timber Monday, May 25 5:30-7 p.m., Big Timber • Memorial Day VFW Program, 10 a.m., Sunday, May 17 • Understanding and Observing the Night Gazebo Park, Glendive Skies, (Adult Ed class) Math B Room, Sweet • High School Graduation, 2 p.m., Joliet • Frontier Gateway Museum tentative Grass County High School, 7:30-9 p.m., Big • High School Graduation, 1 p.m., Park City opening, Glendive Timber, through May 12 Monday, May 18 • Peruvian Cooking Class, (Adult Ed) Family • Tap into Montana: A Craft Beer Week Consumer Science Room, Sweet Grass County and Brew Fest, various locations in • Beginning Golf, Overland Golf Course, High School, 5-7:30 p.m., Big Timber Livingston, through May 16 5:30-7 p.m., Big Timber Thursday, May 28 Wednesday, May 13 Tuesday, May 19 • Cast Iron/Beautiful Shrubs for Montana, • Beginning Golf, Overland Golf Course, • Noxious Weed Identification, (Adult Ed (Adult Ed) Blake Nursery, 6-7:30 p.m., Big 5:30-7 p.m., Big Timber class) Math B Room, Sweet Grass County Timber High School, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Big Timber Thursday, May 14 Friday, May 29 Wednesday, May 20 • 65th Annual Bucking Horse Sale, through • Montana Junior High Rodeo Finals, May 17, Miles City • Beginning Golf, Overland Golf Course, through May 31, Millers Horse Palace, 7215 5:30-7 p.m., Big Timber Friday, May 15 Mossmain, Laurel Thursday, May 21 • NOTE: For more information contact • Miss Southeastern Montana Rodeo • Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park the appropriate local chamber of Pageant, through May 16, Miles City commerce or organization.

RSVP, from Page 19 - Meals on Wheels Program: Deliver meals MT RSVP, 315 1/2 Main St., Ste. #1, Round- - RSVP Handcrafters: Volunteers to knit and to the housebound in the community, just one up, MT 59072; phone (406) 323-1403; fax crochet caps and scarves for each child at day a week, an hour and a half, meal provid- (406) 323-4403; email: rdprsvp2@midrivers. Head Start, also as gifts for children of prena- ed. com; Facebook: South Central MT RSVP. tal classes, and baby hats and afghan’s for the - MVH Museum: Volunteers needed to in hospital newborns. Thursdays at 1 p.m. at the many capacities such as guides, maintenance, Park County Senior Center. yard work, historic preservation, board meet- - Big Brothers Big Sisters: Mentor and posi- - Senior Center Main Streeter Thrift Store: ings, record keeping and fundraising. tive role model to a boy or girl, one hour a Someone who enjoys working with the pub- - Nursing Home: Piano players and singers week. lic. Come help greet customers, ring up pur- needed on Fridays to entertain residents, - Fix-It-Brigade: Needs volunteers of all skill chases, label and hang clothes and accept also assistant needed in activities for residents levels for 2-hour tasks on your schedule to donations. to enrich supported lifestyle. help seniors or veterans with small home - Stafford Animal Shelter: Kindhearted vol- - Senior Bus: Volunteers to pickup folks who repairs and chores, such as changing a light unteers needed to socialize cats and kittens, are unable to drive themselves. bulb, mending a fence, cleaning up a yard. - Senior Center: Volunteers are needed to and to walk the dogs. - Food Pantry: In need of drivers to deliver - Transportation: Volunteer drivers needed to provide meals, clean up in the dining room senior commodities once a month on an on- and/or keep records; meal provided. going basis. help patients keep doctor appointments; some - RSVP offers maximum flexibility and - Livingston Health and Rehab: Activity vol- gas mileage assistance may be provided. choice to its volunteers as it matches the per- unteers needed weekends for bingo callers - Yellowstone Gateway Museum: Volunteers sonal interests and skills of older Americans and movie showings; Monday-Friday 9-11 needed for an array of exciting projects. with opportunities to serve their communities. a.m. for coffee and reading the local news; - Volunteers needed for many one-time You choose how and where to serve. Volun- Tuesdays and Thursdays 7 p.m. movie night. events including mailings and fundraising. teering is an opportunity to learn new skills, - Loaves and Fishes soup kitchen: Volun- Contact: Deb Downs, Program Coordinator, make friends and connect with your commu- teers needed to help prepare meals. 111 So. 2nd St., Livingston, MT 59047; phone nity. - Meals on Wheels: Needed substitute driv- (406) 222-2281; email: debdowns@rsvpmt. Contact: Shelley Halvorson, South Central ers to deliver meals to seniors in their home. org. May 2015 — 20 On The Menu With Jim Durfey Healthy doesn’t have to mean boring and tasteless Interest in healthy cooking is growing exponentially. That’s a will cook quickly. Thin slices of zucchini, good thing. yellow squash and onions are good exam- But when healthy means food that bores one’s taste buds to ples. death, that isn’t so good. A piece of parchment paper should be used that is large enough We know we’re supposed to eat fish at least twice each week. to cover the fish and veggies when it’s folded over to make a Frying fish is an easy way to cook fish but it’s not a very healthy pouch. The ends of the paper are crimped together and then sta- method of preparing it. pled. Leave about a half inch of space around the fish and veg- Parchment paper can liven things up while producing some of gies. the healthiest fare that’s made by the home chef. It’s available in The dish should be served right after it’s taken out of the oven. nearly all supermarkets. When dinner guests poke a hole in the parchment paper to begin Fish cooked in parchment paper with vegetables makes for the process of peeling it away from the fish and vegetables, an superb eating. The secret when adding veggies is to use ones that aromatic steam will escape. That should produce oohs and aahs. Fish Fillets and Vegetables antioxidants of the blueberries make this cocktail at least marginally healthy. As a in Parchment Paper friend of my quipped, this could be called the “Antioxidant Cocktail.” 2 - 6 to 8 oz. fish fillets, such as cod or tilapia 5 thins slices zucchini My favorite adult beverage is a White Russian 5 thin slices yellow crook neck squash which contains vodka, coffee liqueur and an Small handful onion slices, sliced thin embiber’s choice of cream, half and half or 4 thin slices lemon milk. I tell friends of mine that, since I make 2 tbsp. olive oil mine with skim milk, my White Russians are 2 tbsp. white wine good for me. The usual response I get is, Fresh dill, chives or tarragon “Yeah, right.” Salt and pepper A word to the wise — don’t be tempted to use Preheat oven to 400°. Spread oil on both sides of fillets. curaçao liqueur instead of Triple Sec as I did Place on parchment paper. Sprinkle wine over fillets. Scatter \ fresh herbs over fillets. Add salt and pepper to taste. Place when I served blueberry margaritas at Easter lemon slices over fillets. Spread vegetable slices over fillets. dinner. Although the blue color of the liqueur Bring edges of parchment paper together. Crimp edges. gives the drink an even more intense blue Secure with staples. Place on cookie sheet. Put in oven for 10 color, the flavor is not very compatible with to 15 minutes depending on thickness of fillets. Serves two. the blueberries. The cocktails did not win any fans.

The term “healthy cocktail” might seem like an oxymoron. But there are ways to make an Blueberry Margarita adaptation of an adult beverage that’s 1/4 c. blueberries, fresh or frozen healthier than the standard version. 4 oz. tequila Take the margarita, for example. While the 2 oz. Triple Sec traditional way to serve a margarita is in a 1 oz. lime juice glass with a salted rim, chances are pretty 1/3 c. ice good your body doesn’t need all that salt. On Blueberries for garnish the other hand, if you’re a marathon runner, Put first four ingredients in blender. Puree until blueberries go ahead and do the salted rim thing. are broken into small pieces. Put ice in blender. Puree until ice is in very small pieces. Pour into cocktail glass. Garnish with The blueberry margarita is tasty and the three or four blueberries.

May 2015 — 21 schizophrenia, for instance, actually can tickle themselves for unknown reasons.)” Q. If there were a Hall of Fame for By Bill Sones and Rich Sones, Ph.D. Hobos (homeless migrant workers of the Send STRANGE questions to brothers Bill and Rich at [email protected] early 20th century), who might be some of its illustrious members? A. Folk legend Woodie Guthrie (1912- A question for our times: 1967) wrote over 1,000 songs and often sang in “hobo jungles” and migrant camps, reports “Mental Floss” magazine. One-time hobo, actor Clark Gable (1901-1960) later became the “King of Is email dead? Hollywood.” Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Carl Q. Is e-mail dead? three bank robbers “escaped from their Sandburg rode across six states for a year A. Not dead as a doornail but creeping cells through holes they had dug using looking for work. along toward the same fate as snail mail, sharpened spoons, then inflated a raft made Author Jack London started hopping though this may be hard to believe if your from a patchwork of stolen raincoats and trains at 16 to look for work, which he later in-box is filled with hundreds of unread cast off into the night, never to be seen immortalized in his 1907 memoir “The messages, says columnist David Pogue in again,” reports Thomas Sumner in “Science Road.” “Scientific American” magazine. Yet the News” magazine. According to researchers Jack “The Manassa Mauler” Dempsey total volume of the digital letter has using computer simulation of the Bay, rail-hopped for several years on the way to dropped about 10 percent just since 2010! whether the convicts’ escape was successful becoming world heavyweight boxing “The incoming generation after all doesn’t depended on the time and tides: If they cast champion from 1919-1926. do e-mail,” which requires a greeting like off between 11 p.m. and midnight, they Hobo-turned-author James Michener had “Hey” or “Dear Casey” that seems to could have reached a beach just north of the a book of his adapted into the classic justify a longer message. E-mail has Golden Gate Bridge, as the outgoing tide musical “South Pacific.” become an “activity,” taking too much slackened; if, however, they set off before energy and big blocks of time. 11 p.m., strong tidal currents could have Q. Barnes & Noble, Johnson & Enter today’s instant electronic memos swept them into the Pacific Ocean. Johnson, AT&T ... You’ve seen the “&” — texting, Twitter and Facebook — which “Resolving the mysterious disappearance symbol hundreds of times and probably dispense with the salutation and the sign- of the convicts wasn’t the team’s even know its name. But do you know off and are more direct and concentrated intention,” said coastal scientist Fedor anything of its strange origins? and efficient. “I can now send you an Baart of Delft, Netherlands. Rather, they A. The ampersand was once the 27th unobtrusive easily consumed message that were studying how future sea level rise letter of the English alphabet, having you can read — and respond to — on the might affect industries on the banks of the derived from Roman scribes who wrote go,” adds Pogue. It’s faster, briefer and a Bay, enabling them to predict how rising the Latin word “et” (for “and”) in cursive, natural for smartphone typing. Especially sea level would affect coastal flooding linking the two letters together. In the on Facebook, “instant messaging can take during storms. early 1800s, the alphabet ended “X, Y, Z, on the character of a chat room, with &,” but since this would have been several people carrying on at once.” Q. What’s a funny thing about a good awkward to say, schoolchildren instead Still, e-mail has certain advantages in tickling? ended with “& per se and.” “Per se” in staying around better than ephemeral- A. You can tickle others all you want (so Latin means “by itself,” so they were feeling tweets and texts and giving you long as they’ll put up with it) but not essentially saying “X, Y, Z, and by itself something you can keep, file, and return to yourself, reports Dinsa Sachan in and.” Over time, this phrase was slurred later. It just seems right for more formal “Discover” magazine. Exactly why this is together into “ampersand” (from agreements, important news, and longer true is not known: One theory is that the Dictionary.com and from Anu Garg’s A. explanations. brain’s predictive powers regarding our Word.A.Day website). So, no, e-mail won’t go away own movements take away the surprise ... & now you know! completely. “Postal mail found its (smaller) necessary for a good tickle; another is that niche, and so will e-mail. Technology “the brain simply dampens all sensory Q. How many people could point up at rarely replaces an institution completely; it input during any movement, including the moon and make the curious boast, just adds new avenues.” tickling, to better react to new sensations.” “Did you know part of me is buried up “It’s a serious question,” says there?” Q. How did three convicts escape from psychologist George Van Doorn at A. Upwards of 10 million earthlings, if the the “inescapable” Alcatraz Island prison Federation University in Australia, “since Lunar Mission One project is successful, in 1962 using just a crude makeshift tickling gives us a clue as to how the brain says Paul Marks in “New Scientist” raft? Did they make it to shore? processes sensations and can even teach us magazine. It’s the brainchild of British space A. On the night of June 11, 1962, the a bit about mental illness. (People with consultant David Iron, who plans to charge

May 2015 — 22 people some 50 pounds each to place a per of the Australian Center for Ancient leyball net so oriented that the prevailing DNA-sample strand of hair in “an archive to DNA, “for long-term storage, DNA from winds blow through it. Fog droplets adhere to be buried on the moon, alongside a digital cheek cells or blood would be more stable.” the fine plastic mesh net, forming larger history of as much of their lives as they want Q. “Fog Catchers Bring Water to drops that drip down into a collection trough to record, in the form of text, pictures, music Parched Villages,” the magazine and then flow into a storage reservoir. and video.” Fog catchers make sense where water is The seed funding from this “hair-raising announced. Fog catchers? What’s that all expensive and fog plentiful. For example, in moon shot” will set up a company to design about? the Atacama Desert of Chile, considered the the spacecraft for a hoped-for 2024 blast off. A. Some places on Earth, though arid, are After landing on the moon’s surface, Lunar regularly bathed in fog, containing myriad driest desert on earth, experiments with sev- Mission One will drill 20 meters (70 feet) tiny water droplets that are carried along by eral 48-meter (158 feet) nets yielded 1000 into the lunar crust, insert the DNA and digi- the wind. Think of it as an aerial sea flowing liters (264 gallons) of fresh water per day. tal data into the borehole and then seal it. across the parched terrain. Harvesting this The nonprofit organization FogQuest has As Marks concludes, “The hope is that the ethereal moisture — for drinking, bathing or been installing fog catchers for many years to archive can serve as a sort of ‘backup drive’ agriculture — requires a device known as a “bring water to parched villages” (from Fog- for human civilization.” But, says Alan Coo- “fog catcher,” looking like an overgrown vol- Quest.org and other online sources). “Ask me about the This auto and home insurance is designed exclusively for AARP ® members — and is now available through your local Hartford AARP independent agent! Call Today for your FREE, no-obligation quote: Auto & Home Now available in your area! 406-652-4180 InsuranceProgram CINDY JOHNSON, DARNIELLE INSURANCE AGENCY from The Hartford.” 1320 28th St WPO Box 21300Billings, MT 59104 www.darnielle.com ®

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