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Lady Dogies Compete at State Track Meet Welcome Newcomers to Forsyth Thursday, June 3, 2021 | $1.00 Vol. 107 No. 22 ISSN (1041-3340) Independent-Press.com Telephone (406) 346-2149 Event will Lady Dogies compete at state track meet welcome newcomers to Forsyth By Pamela Ash Staff Writer Montana State University Extension Office in partner- ship with the Community Foundation is hosting a “Wel- come to Forsyth” event for newcomers to the area on Monday, June 28, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Rosebud County Fairgrounds in Forsyth. The event is open to the Forsyth area newcomers and is a free opportunity to meet repre- sentatives from local govern- ment and organizations as well as getting to know your neighbors in the community. Photos courtesy of J.P. Pluth, Dillon Tribune A light dinner and non-alco- Two Forsyth athletes competed at the State A/B Track Meet on Saturday. Cassandra Schiffer, senior, at left, finished 15th in the high jump with a height of 4' 6.” Jade holic beverages will be Montgomery, junior, finished 12th in the Triple Jump with a length of 31' 11.25.” served. The idea for the event was an outgrowth of last fall’s Reimagining Rural project, sponsored by the extension office, CRNRC, the Forsyth Clearwater Chamber of Commerce and the City of Forsyth. As part ‘Digital nomad’ taking a travel break of the Reimagining Rural Wind Farm Project we (Extension, By Pamela Ash the way, both fellow CFNRC, Chamber, City), Staff Writer nomads and locals. And which involved a series of is under the food! I travel for the events in which participants Colstrip native Gillian food, she laughed. Aperati- heard experts speak on how Miller, daughter of Becky vos in Italy overlooking one to revitalize rural communi- construction and Larry Miller, has of the oldest inhabited cit- ties and then brainstormed carved out her own niche as ies in the world, how can By Pamela Ash a digital nomad to fulfill her you beat that?” projects to undertake locally. Staff Writer dream of being a world Miller said she has Anyone that has moved traveler. learned so much about dif- into the Forsyth or surround- About eight miles north- Graduating from Colstrip ferent cultures, history, ing areas within the past five east of the Angela post office, High School in 2011, Miller food, wine, and music. years are invited to attend. Clearwater Wind is stockpil- studied sociology at Concor- “I’ve learned so much There will be information ing the needed gravel to dia College in Minnesota. about myself. It’s addic- available about community begin building the wind tur- She went on to spend a tive.” she said. events and activities. The bines that will stretch semester studying in Gal- She has advice for the Extension office asks that through areas of Custer, way, Ireland at NUI. Her newly graduated young you reserve your seat by call- Rosebud, and Garfield Coun- mother Becky is a retired adults in our communities, ing them at 346-7320. ties. Colstrip Elementary School “Find still moments to lis- The Clearwater Wind Farm Librarian and her father ten to yourself. Getting Larry is a retired engineer advice from other people will have the capacity of pro- from the power plant. Both can be helpful, but ulti- Course teaches ducing 750 megawatts of parents still live in Colstrip. mately no one knows your energy when completed. It is Since Miller completed hopes, dreams, and needs skills for shift currently projected to pay her Bachelor of Arts degree better than you. And if you out $226 million in landowner in Sociology, she has visited, want advice on something to remote work payments, an additional $227 studied, and worked in 27 new to you, ask someone million in tax revenues to the countries. For two years who has done it. Anyone The second Master of three counties, and it will add after completing her degree else will just answer you Remote Work Certification approximately 350 construc- she spent her time in the based on their own experi- Course offered by MSU tion jobs to the area during Balkans, particularly in ence and fears. Get out of Extension, launched June 2. the construction period. Bosnia, Herzegovina, and your hometown, even for a The course provides the Colstrip native Gillian Miller The current plan is to haul Croatia, volunteering with couple of months. Go live knowledge and skills needed Ecumenical Women’s Initia- is shown in Matera, Italy somewhere else for a bit, to transition to work from 240,000 tons of gravel to the Submitted Photo site that will be used in the tive, a nonprofit human make some new friends, home according to partici- concrete for the turbines as rights organization dedicat- eat some new foods, gain pants in the first course ed to women’s rights, peace, some new perspectives. well as to gravel roads. A which wraps up this week. reconciliation, and econom- atia and bonded with a lot of has embraced their cultures Whether you decide to batch plant is being set up on “Things are changing due ic development in a post other young people there. and now has friends in sev- come back or not, you’ll be the site to make the concrete to more people working from war context. She joined a choir, took lan- eral countries. It has all all the better for it.” home during COVID. The needed for the turbines. Since most of her work is guage lessons, and integrat- given her a much wider Because of the pandem- prospect of working from Each turbine uses about 1,200 ed into their culture well. view of the world.” in freelance research, con- ic, Miller has taken a break home is intriguing to me” tons of concrete. The con- Miller said her family When asked her favorite tent development, and writ- from travel and continues says course participant struction information calls traveled a lot throughout part of traveling, Miller ing she has been able to her work from Austin, Nicole Buerkle who lives on a for 250 turbines to be built, the United States and fos- said, “It would be very hard work on her laptop from Texas, where she stays with farm north of Plevna. “Work- with 82 of them in Rosebud anywhere. She has traveled tered a love for travel and to pick one thing. The sense her sister Phoebe and their ing remotely, would save me to Scotland, Italy, Mexico, curiosity in her. According of absolute freedom, forg- adopted cat, Tigger. When County. nearly an hour of driving Ireland, Georgia, Bulgaria, to her parents, “We are ing my own path, living in it is safe to travel, Miller The turbine fans will be each day and would give me delivered to the construction and all the Balkan coun- proud of the way Gillian has places I only dreamed about will be on her way to new stepped out of her comfort as a kid, meeting so many more time with my family.” site his fall. Subject to local tries. She said she has a countries, cultures, people, zone and traveled to so different people. The Nine participants from and state approvals, the proj- particular fondness for Cro- and of course, “foods.” many different places. She friends I have made along Montana took the month-long ect is scheduled to begin operations by the end of 2022. Continued on Page 2 Forsyth honors those who gave ultimate sacrifice The sun shone brightly for the annual Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion Memo- rial Day Service held on Monday at the Rosebud County Ceme- tery in Forsyth. Approximately 40 people joined in the remem- brance of the veterans and what these white crosses on the hill truly stand for. Let us not just express on Memorial Day our thanks to our veterans and their families; let us remember every- day to thank them. IP/Photos/Connie Brown PAGE 2 / Thursday, June 3, 2021 Independent Press Obituaries Korinna (Willson) Barbara Kiser Dyer, 78 Schweitzer, 59 H.S. in 1960, she went to col- took on the role of matriarch; may have lost her battle with lege in Billings, MT where always supporting her girls, cancer, but is now forever she met George Edwin Dyer helping raise her grandchil- free, spreading her butterfly A Celebration of Life for they made and sold Ele- whom she married in 1962. dren, doting over them and wings. A celebration of life Korinna Schweitzer will be phant Ears. They had two daughters and the great grandkids, never will be held at Colusa Golf held on June 12th from 2 - 4 She is preceded in death found their home in Califor- missing their important and Country Club, 2224 HWY p.m. at the Rosebud Commu- by her father Lee Willson nia’s Bay Area where Barba- events, celebrating holidays 20, Colusa CA 95932 on July nity Park. of Rosebud and Mike Sch- ra worked as a buyer for together, and providing 10th at 1:00 p.m. Everyone Korinna left us on January weitzer of Washington. She Carl Zeiss of Pleasanton for strength and advice during who is able to attend is wel- 26, 2021 to be with her beloved is survived by her mother over 30 years until she hard times, and to pick up come. Let this day be filled husband, Mike. She was born Joyce of Rosebud, brother retired in 2016. Upon retir- the pieces when they fell. with gratitude and love as we on February 19, 1961 in Miles Shane Willson of Missoula ing, Barbara moved north The love for her family was celebrate this wonderful City, MT to Lee and Joyce and brother Travis (Becky) and made Colusa her perma- deep and unconditional.
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