Yellowstone Gateway Unique and Fun Russell Holiday Gifts Found Locally Museum Curates Online Inside this Chatham & Military Exhibit Gift Guide edition! his legacy Page 3 Center 8 pages Page 6 CommunityPark County JournalJournalFREE Serving Livingston, Emigrant, Gardiner, Clyde Park, Wilsall & Cooke City • November 15, 2020 • pccjournal.com THE DELICIOUS AUCTION is now live TIME TO RALLY! Let’s support our lfrc.betterworld.org/auctions/delicious-auction Join the fun online! Bid on items donated by your community to raise money for families in need local businesses this holiday season

The Park County com- As a community, the investment we make and crafts stores, flowers shops, hardware munity has donated an in our local businesses is an investment in our stores, bookstores, hair salons, etc. amazing range of items city, our county and our quality of life. Local • If local shops sell merchandise online, that will be auctioned on- shops and restau- make purchases! line from Friday November rants face both the • Call and order 27 until Monday December effects of COVID by phone. Many 7. and online shop- businesses are Everything from home- ping, the fate of getting creative made pies and custom our small business offering curb side cakes to a quarter bison community is in pickup, delivery or from North Bridger Bison jeopardy. We im- shipping options and a guitar donated and plore you: Safely • Check to see if signed by Jeff Bridges will shop, dine and any of your service be on offer. All proceeds support local! providers are now will go to fund the Livings- We need to providing valuable Caption: Jeff Bridges’ custom-made guitar will be inscribed by him ton Food Pantry of Park to the winning bidder. do all we can to services online, County and other programs help them survive; therapists, tutor- at the Livingston Food Re- decorative items, and things for the kitchen. shopping local is ing, yoga, personal source Center. Need some spicy Southern cooking this win- the way to accomplish that. While we may not trainers, coaches, financial planners, music What’s in the auction? ter? Check out the “Books” category to find be able to give them all our patronage in per- classes, etc. You can preview all the items in easy-to-find Lucy Buffett’s signed cookbooks and bag of son right now, there is still much we can do to • Tip service workers extra if you can categories on the auction website at lfrc.bet- goodies. Want an online pasta-making les- show our support. • Give a donation terworld.org/auctions/delicious-auction. son or a dinner for 12 in New York City? Go to • Visit your favorite restaurant’s website • Be understanding! Look in the “Friends & neighbors” section “Things to do!” Start bidding on November and purchase gift cards. If restaurants are still In this unprecedented time of coronavirus, to find delicious home-made foods made by 27, follow the fun online, and share your bids offering takeout or delivery, make a point to we need to be there for our local businesses people you know. Check out the restaurant to encourage your friends to do the same. order from them, share menus on your social so that we can emerge from this with our section to get a great deal on gift cards, and Jeff Bridges’ guitar media page communities strong and intact, please shop browse through local business donations, See Auction, Page 2 • Get gift cards for massage studios, arts local this year! Unique and Fun Holiday Gifts Found Locally Inside this Gift Guide edition! Community Journal - 2 November 15, 2020

with Oregon guitar makers Breedlove, this makes nutritious food for pantry customers, Auction stunning, rich-sounding instrument was but also is open to food entrepreneurs and handcrafted in the USA entirely from sustain- apprentice cooks. The bakery donates bread from page 1 able woods and features Bridges’ “All in this to food pantries around Montana, but also Together” motto inlaid across its fretboard. sells fabulous pastries and artisan loaves to You may be wondering what a guitar is do- Tackling hunger and poverty in Park Park County residents to help subsidize its ing in a food-themed auction, unless you County programs. know that Jeff Bridges, who has had a home Jeff Bridges is a loyal longtime supporter of LFRC director Michael McCormick pre- in Park County for decades, is the national the Livingston Food Resource Center (LFRC) dicts the auction will be a safe and entertain- spokesperson for the No Kid Hungry cam- with good reason. He knows that the Center ing way for community members to engage paign. For almost 40 years, Bridges has been is much more than just a food pantry. With a with each other while they give. “With this at the forefront of efforts to end child hunger mission to tackle hunger and poverty in Park online auction, everyone can help their Park around the world and in the USA. And as well County, LFRC works toward its goals with County neighbors without leaving home,” he as being an Oscar-winning actor, Bridges is a range of programs. The Center produces said. a musician with his own range of bespoke senior meals and kids’ summer lunches guitars. For the auction, Bridges is donating and grows fresh his signature guitar, which will be inscribed Paula Coleman’s Maple Pecan Kringle will be produce. Its com- by him to the winning bidder. Developed ready for the lucky winner on December 9. munity kitchen Nelson Tree Care, LLC Serving Livingston & Park County for over 25 years. NelsonTreeCareMT.com Hot Spring Chicken: Three People Pruning - Removal - Bracing Stump Grinding - Fire Fuels Reduction Cited for Yellowstone Culinary Caper Tree & Lawn Fertilizing YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. Yellowstone backcountry. As for whose idea 406-222-TREE (AP) — Cooking chickens in a Yellowstone it was: “It was kind of a joint thing,” Roberts hot spring landed three people in hot explained. Roberts and Dallas Roberts, of water. A park ranger heard that a group West Valley City, Utah, were ordered to serve with cooking pots were hiking toward the two days in jail and pay $540 in fines and fees park’s Shoshone Geyser Basin. The ranger for the Aug. 7, incident, according to court found two whole chickens in a burlap sack documents. Eric Romriell, of Idaho Falls, paid in a hot spring. A cooking pot was nearby, $1,250 in fines and fees. All three are banned Yellowstone spokeswoman Linda Veress from Yellowstone while serving two years said. “Make dinner,” said defendant Eric of unsupervised probation. Dallas Roberts Roberts, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, when asked didn’t have a working listed number and Thursday what the group was up to in the Romriell didn’t immediately return a message Thursday at his ophthalmology clinic. Getting too close to and messing around with Yellowstone’s hot springs are no-nos and can Park County be dangerous but violations aren’t unusual. A Dutch man was ordered to pay $3,000 Community for allegedly crashing a drone into the park’s Journal famous Grand Prismatic Spring in 2014. 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[email protected] November 15, 2020 Community Journal - 3 Yellowstone Gateway Museum Curates Online Military Exhibit Livingston, Montana: The weekly post on Facebook and org or 406-222-4184. Visit our Yellowstone Gateway Museum Instagram, are also offered. For Facebook or Instagram page for announces a new online exhibit, more information, please contact updates. Sign up for the museum’s Honoring Park County Veterans: Karen Reinhart, interim director/ monthly e-newsletter at www. A Military History, which tells curator, at kreinhart@parkcounty. yellowstonegatewaymuseum.org. the stories of Park County, MT servicemen and women from the Civil War to present day, including the Spanish American Philippine War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, RIDE FREE and the Iraq War. Visit www. yellowstonegatewaymuseum.org. FIXED-ROUTE Beyond individual veteran’s TRANSIT biographies, the exhibit highlights the challenging experiences of local residents and Montana issues during World War I, including sedition, drought, and the Spanish flu pandemic; and stories of the homefront, women, and Yellowstone National Park interviews and a Vietnam War during World War II. exhibit. Upcoming veterans’ stories Monday - Friday The museum is interested in will also be added to the online hearing more stories about local exhibit. The year 2020 marks the 6:15 am - 6:15 pm people who have served (or are 45th anniversary of the end of the 113 West Callender Street [email protected] serving) in the military. Oral history Vietnam War. Downtown Livingston • 406-222-5483 406-922-5683 interviews with Park County Korean The military exhibit is the third War and Vietnam War veterans will online exhibit now available, soon be scheduled. Please contact making history more accessible Anna Simons, [email protected], to people who are unable to if you would like to be interviewed climb stairs or who are looking or if you know a veteran who for a rich experience from should be contacted. The museum the comfort of their couch. recently received a Community Exploring Yellowstone through Closet grant, which funds the ART and Glimmers of History, a Happy Thanksgiving Wishing you and your family a joyous holiday filled with family, love, peace, food and many blessings!

8 BUSINESS PARK ROAD • LIVINGSTON, MT 59047 406.222.7852 • ALLSERVICEHVAC.NET Community Journal - 4 November 15, 2020 The Great Sandpiper Game By Joyce Johnson not new, and worse, the actor’s So important to know that and it is Given.”...a promise in the bible that costumes confuse protagonist with thoughts banked and fueled awaits our pivoting to at least try it. I smile now Staring out the antagonist. But I think of the word with feeling are magically with great respect, gratitude and with stinging window I frown with “crucible,” which means, other creative—make things eyes, as I recall the multi- millions of people out indignation at this than a pot to heat metals in,...”a happen; bring solutions to there, silent or active, God- loving or Life-loving first snow fall further very significant and difficult trial problems, sometimes seem advocates of spiritual and/or of human and isolating me with or test.” The scales are seriously to miraculously fix appliances, animal well-being; rescuers, heroes, healers, serious cabin fever and loaded and heavy but we are not cars or bring help. Positive and protectors of our Earth. Good hearts in the temptation of the helpless. And there is still much thought is tangible-seeming action, not found in the news. Just align with chocolate covered nuts in the fridge. I know I am if not more great spirit and good magic. Look around the world this truth of a higher ground now and then. not alone in this. I pace anxiously past Ron and going on everywhere. It’s just not that now exposes the living Awesome uplifting antidote. complain that I am unable to go for a walk which priority TV news. But I so want proof of this law misused in is my antidote for getting the energy up and out. to share from the wise council of greed and dark behavior, again, Those Goofy Sandpipers! What fun, Ron said, “why don’t you do laps in the house?” timeless wise sages of old that: and again. Our planet is being feathered teachers! Only about 8 inches tall. (Oh...!) So I made him do the math, and did “The conflict is temporary and cannot prevail.” exploited and abused by negative thought and a They run on long skinny legs down the muddy mindfully walked a half mile of 47 lengths of 75 And, Truth as the Law of Life, cannot be snuffed force that has accumulated a lot of power to fuel floor of the receding surf to snack, rather feet each, including four or five 45 degree angle out. Ever. Rest in this antidote. the most effective weakener of people, FEAR, quickly, on tiny crabs just under the wet sand turns and a nice flowing “S” through the living which historically sets the stage for control. It’s who give themselves away by blowing tiny room—all the time stepping over my little elder Antidote - “A medicine or other remedy for old. It is global, not just about our election. bubbles in the mud. Then the new shore wave dogs crashed here and there, underfoot, and counteracting the effects of poison, disease, breaks inches from him, and he sometime drops answering the loud dweep of our parrot who etc., and or something that prevents or One method of creative thought which lunch, yells “twee wee wee!,” (quote a science often greeting me as I passed by. It worked! counteracts injurious or unwanted effects.” I I think and use, and we should not hide or report) pivots and runs back up to higher Got me out of my head, for a while,... body was share a few antidotes in this column that I have apologize for anymore is simply prayer. If you do ground. It’s a little overly dramatic I think and rather tired, actually, so I took a nap. found work. First, turn off the TV and computer not like the word, use “positive thought.” Try to laugh, but kids of all ages play the sandpiper But seriously, many of us are waking up and instead putter around the house and fix pivot to this power and practice this tangible act game at the sea shore (even cavemen kiddies to worry, dealing with distrust and fear of the things, study/read, cook, sew, clean, craft, draw, that you can really DO about things. In prayer, I did I bet.) So our Sandpiper runs back down for apparent end of life as we knew it (red or blue and get off your chair, if possible, and move request answers to everything and have learned another try, and the hissing shore wave chases just costumes on the stage) and wondering what when you are not caring for or homeschooling to recognize the symbolic answers that happen him away again just like that old street game, changes are coming down. It is widely believed your kids. Our electronic gizmos are emotionally or find a way into my mind. Also, I creatively “steal the bacon.” He runs to higher ground, that this is a play about the wicked squaring and mentally addictive. Cut way back if possible ask the Universe, or “heaven” to send help and flapping and screeching,...but all he had to do offof the worst of us against the best, and and get to know your own mind/soul again. kick butt on Earth, on a regular basis lately. “Ask was lift off and fly.

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This novel takes place in the Yellowstone area issues in the “Park County Community Journal.” On the Old Yellowstone Trail: The around 1900 where mysterious things have been In Book 1-The Quest- Deacon Quist arrives on New happening in Yellowstone National Park. The Year’s Eve 1900 in Aldridge, Montana, protagonist (Deacon Quist) is an investigator who just after a murder in the Redeye Saloon. Mystery Deepens has been sent from Minnesota to secretly investigate Deacon tells everyone he is looking for a friend; what is going on in the however, he has been sent by the Federal government by William C. Edwards Yellowstone area. to investigate mysterious happenings in the Park. After several adventures Deacon makes his way to The storyline is fictional; however, some Fort Yellowstone where the Acting Superintendent of the places existed and some of the tells him about the mysterious happenings which people mentioned existed. include stage holdups and people disappearing. Deacon meets several interesting people who live in Book 2 in the series is being presented in a series of the Gardiner area including a lovely lady. Book 3 -- Chapter 55: Dream Analysis

CHAPTER 55 - Dream Analysis before he is hit by a pole. his face. Maybe, just maybe, he was howling in the night outside the tent so He wracks his brain to remember associating the flickering shadows with he arose to close and fasten the tent Deacon’s reoccurring dream of what had occurred when he was his sickness at night! flap. When he slipped back under the dodging poles awakes him shortly after young. He remembers sleeping in a If his analysis was correct maybe buffalo robe the women was gone. he falls asleep. He lies awake thinking crib with doles on the side. When he he would not have the dream of Again he awoke and this time he did about the dream. He remembers that was very young he was afraid of the the falling poles any more. Maybe, hear a mournful howl which sounded in the dream he was a child walking dark and would cry until his parents just maybe, he had solved this long far away. Next time he had this dream down a country road. Toothpick like lit a candle by his bed. As he grew standing mystery! As he fell back to he hoped to solve that mystery as well. structures along the road start falling older he overcame his fear of the sleep he wondered if he would have The next morning he mentioned inward. He keeps walking and the dark and the candle was no longer lit; any more dreams that night. Indeed having several dreams and it turned structures get bigger. Soon they are however, when he was sick in the night he did. It was the buffalo robe dream the others had dreamed as well. the size of fence posts still falling and started crying, his parents would again. As in earlier versions he was Billy suggests, “Maybe it was the inward. They next grow to the size of revert to lighting the candle again to sleeping under a buffalo hide robe and Blue Camas we had for dinner last telegraph poles and continue falling “vanish the dark” as they called it. The someone else was sleeping with him. night!” They all laughed but they also inward. He has to duck to keep from flickering flame of the candle then It was a woman and she whispered his wondered. getting hit. Finally, the dream ends threw shadows of the doles across name. But who was she? He heard a Community Journal - 6 November 15, 2020 Local Art Scene Russell Chatham and his legacy The Danforth Museum of the percent of the proceeds of sales the Arts. For more information call Arts and The Frame Garden are will go to the Danforth Museum of 222-5122. celebrating Russell Chatham and his legacy with an exhibit and webinar. Chatham was a larger than life character, active in the local art, restaurant, and publishing scenes. He was known for his landscape paintings and perhaps known to most locally for his lithographs. Exploring his art and his artistic impact on Livingston will be three panelists, his daughter November 19th at 7pm. The video Lea Chatham, his printer Geoff will also be available for viewing Harvey, and fellow artist Parks later with details on The Frame Reece. Storrs Bishop will moderate Garden website and Facebook the evening’s presentation. page. The exhibit of lithographs The webinar will be live will be at The Frame Garden streamed on Facebook Thursday starting November 20th. Ten Small Gems Holiday Show The Small Gems exhibit at the Livingston Center for Arts and Culture is the perfect way to shop local while supporting local artisans. Small paintings and photographs, handcrafted jewelry and fiber pieces, as well as a variety of decorations ready to wrap and place under the tree. This year the entire exhibition will be available for shopping online and curb- side pick up as well November 17th through December 31st, 2020. Best wishes for a safe holiday season. We will be offering in town delivery of online purchases, Tuesday through Friday between 10 and noon. Shipping is also availalbe thorugh Friday December 18th and, as always, gift wrap available and curbside pick up too. Shop safe and shop local. www.livingstoncenter.org November 15, 2020 Community Journal - 7 Outdoors / Sports little cleaning as well. Depending injury and make your first several your style and level of flexibility. on how many seasons you have days much more enjoyable. I’m a The other movements that I would on your foot beds, the texture huge believer in yoga and or yoga blend in would be some front and could be overly smooth from the inspired stretching routines. I highly side lunges. These movements heat and compression. A brush or recommend that you have both can be scaled down and eased textures sponge is a good tool to a short and a longer hold style of into. You don’t have to do many to help revive the texture. This texture stretching going on. Before bed is feel it, so start with a super slow is important so your foot and toes a great time to hold your positions amount and turn up the volume with does slide around. For the ultimate for longer. As I’m sure you already time. With some consistency, in two control and to avoid foot cramps it know, there are incredible amounts weeks time you can make amazing helps to prevent excess movement. of videos on YouTube to get into. improvements. Have fun getting While you’re getting used to having Bare minimum, I would try to stretch your gear and body ready to shush by Tyler Erickson your boots really buckled down, twice a day. Many of the routines and schralp. It’s going to be a great its important to intermittently flex you can find online are short and year of skiing! [email protected] Ladies and Gentleman, welcome the forward aggressively. You may sweet. Select a couple that suite to the 2020/2021-ski season! I have find that the buckle settings are good feelings about this winter different on each boot. Just some and believe it will be exactly what fine-tuning makes each boot behave the doctor ordered. With less than the same. Since your doing this at two weeks until the lifts spin, there room temperature, it should allow for are plenty of tricks of the trade to full range flex. While alternating as brush up on. Beyond the tricks and you flexing, feel the heal of the foot and ankle bone push back into the liner of the boot. This position is ideal so you can achieve the right leverage as you flex. As it turns out, making sure your base and edges are buff makes a huge difference. If the edges are snarky gear related intricacies, the most the skis will catch and hook. It’s important thing to get ready is your common to have a few rusty sections body. This opening session I would from storage and or like most years like to suggest a couple gear check- you kind of get lackadaisical about in rituals and also few dry land ski tuning. Since the fist few weeks training routes to consider. of the season are man made texture As you start to sorting and heavy, a burred or gouged edge scanning the needed gear from the will catch on the chalky slick snow snow and up, the most important texture. You don’t need to have items to spend time on are the razor sharp edges here, you just boots, and a little edge spruce. need some sharpness under the foot After the long break its important and relatively smooth all the way to to reacquaint your feet and chins the tip. Consistent edge condition with all the compression and will most definitely help you achieve pressure points. A long-standing better edge control. ritual in my season prep is getting The final and most important the boots a couple times and at thing to polish up on is your and least for a couple hours. I always flexibility, dynamic movements recommend using a thin sock so and your core strength. Improving that balance points on bottom of the your flexibility is supreme. I don’t foot connecting. During this time know how to stress it any further. It I also like to give the foot beds a really will help prevent early season Community Journal - 8 November 15, 2020 Essential Oil Spotlight: Adaptiv & OnGuard

2020 has been a CHALLENGE for Adaptiv was developed to give us all an everyone. It has kept children home from all-natural tool to help combat stress and school, it has kept adults home from the tension. It has a number of oils in it that workplace. It has constricted our movements are known to aid in calming and relaxing by Shannon Kirby, doTERRA Wellness Advocate and interaction. It has required a tremendous (lavender, copaiba, rosemary), relieving stress amount of attention on handwashing, masks, (neroli, magnolia), and in lifting the mood etc. It has been even harder for those with and getting us energized again (wild orange without hesitation that OnGuard would be I love to slice up a couple apples and put compromised immune systems or who have and spearmint). It is wonderful to use when in my top 5. I am literally never without this them in a bowl of cold water with several underlying health issues that make them you are nervous about something (you have doTERRA essential oil blend, especially during drops of OnGuard. Not only are they delicious more susceptible. In my conversations with a big presentation at work), you are feeling this time of year when colds and flu and other but they are a healthy snack that supports my people all around the US and even in Europe, stressed out, etc. things are circulating… immune system. stress is the common theme. It has certainly This oil can be used in so many ways. It This essential oil blend contains wild Let me know if you want to get your hands increased the amount of stress we are all can be added to Epsom salts in a bath so help orange, cinnamon, clove, rosemary and on Adaptiv and OnGuard to help you and your feeling and we have been under stress for an you relax and feel calm before you turn in for eucalyptus. It smells like fall – warm and family handle their stress more effectively and extended period of time. a good night’s sleep. spicy. But these oils are also very helpful in to help support their immune system…two For this article, I wanted to highlight two It is fantastic in a diffuser. I adore the supporting your immune system. things I think we could all use! amazing oil blends from doTERRA: Adaptiv fragrance. I often add Serenity at night to I add a drop to a hot cup of tea and know I continue to get emails and calls with and OnGuard. I have both of them at home, boost the calming and relaxing properties and that, as I am sipping it, it is helping to boost questions or interest in learning more or who at work, in my car and I am never without help me drift off to sleep. and support my immune system. just want to tell me how much they have either one of these. But I also use my Adaptiv rollerball so I doTERRA also has a whole line of OnGuard enjoyed reading my article. THANK YOU ADAPTIV have the scent with me and on me whenever products and I am a huge fan of them. I SO MUCH FOR REACHING OUT! I truly love Adaptiv is a doTERRA oil blend that smells I want. You can also choose the Adaptiv always have the OnGuard softgels on hand in communicating with each one of you who absolutely divine. It has distinct citrus notes, capsules and take them daily to help you case I need a little more firepower. I also love contact me – I am always ready to share a floral notes and minty notes….and contains system handle stress and tension more the cleaning concentrate and the foaming sample of an oil, answer questions, or give a few of my favorite single oils – copaiba, effectively. handsoap. It is a wonderfully reassuring you a scan. Please keep it up – always magnolia and neroli. thing to have an all natural way to clean happy to hear from you! Our bodies are meant to respond to a ON GUARD your house, wash your laundry, and support stressor and then return to a normal state of Not only have we had the additional your immune system without chemicals and Shannon Kirby being. Our bodies are NOT meant to remain challenge of that pesky virus….but this is also synthetics. dōTERRA Wellness Advocate in a near constant state of stress. In today’s the time of year that all sorts of colds and Two ways I LOVE to use the OnGuard oil…. [email protected] world, we all seem to be subject to a great flus circulate. I am also happy to support This is the season of apple cider. Get 406-930-2174 deal more stress, anxiety and tension – my immune system but it seems even more some good apple cider, heat it up, pour into a especially over longer periods of time. Our important this year. mug and add 1-2 drops of OnGuard. Curl up * These statements have not been evaluated bodies and minds are not designed to handle Although I would find it exceedingly in front of a fire, under a blanket, and read a by the Food and Drug Administration. This the negative effects of prolonged exposure to difficult to pick a single oil that I could not book or listen to some soothing music while product is not intended to diagnose, treat, stress. be without or that is my favorite, I can say you sip on something warming, delicious, and cure, or prevent any disease. wonderful. News from the Gardiner Chamber Join EPAC for a fun and interactive withdrawing our role in planning the 2020 Hello community friends. The Annual help. Text Tah at 406-223-3282. Thank you! free live performance with jazz singer Dee Gardiner Christmas Stroll. We're sad to not Graham Cracker House Decorating Event Dee Darby Duffin on Friday, November gather with you for our favorite holiday for community children is happening again The next Chamber of Commerce Board 20 at 7pm on Facebook Live. Born in tradition, but stay tuned for upcoming this year - just a little differently. Details of Directors meeting will be Thursday, the "Charm City" of Baltimore, Dee-Dee smaller events and activities to enjoy. are still evolving - nothing is written in November 19 at noon upstairs at the has been delighting audiences with her Please connect with us if you have any stone - some things may change. We have Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center. mixture of jazz standards, R&B, soul and questions or concerns. to be flexible and creative - we’ve got this Masks required, social distancing will be funk for a quarter of a century. Now she's down - we’re MammoGardinerites! It is followed. Public welcome. putting together an intimate live show We are back!! It’s been a long couple time to start constructing the “houses”. This for the communities north of Yellowstone of months but Gardiner Pharmacy is now post is a “reach out” to find builders. I will Due to limited staffing, the Gardiner National Park where the audience can not open at 318 Park Street (the stone building have building kits to distribute so you can Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center may only enjoy the music, but ask questions across from the arch). We are thankful construct at your home. (There will not be have intermittent closures during normal and interact with Dee Dee in the chat. Join to Yellowstone Forever for providing this building workshops this year). I will have business hours. Public restrooms are the event at https://www.facebook.com/ beautiful, temporary spot to serve our instructions as well. These can be dropped available from 6am-9pm daily. If you have electricpeakarts. community. We are open from 10am to off at your home and picked up when they Chamber related business, please call 406- 6pm Monday through Thursday. Be sure are finished. If anyone has ideas on how we 848-7971 or email info@gardinerchamber. In lieu of COVID-19 continuing to spread to give us plenty of time to transfer your can make this a covid-safe event your ideas com. Thank you in advance for your in the community, The Gardiner Chamber is prescriptions back home! 406-848-9430. are very welcome. Would love to have your adaptability.