Hometowns
Change of scenery: Womack family – with children scattered around world – loving Montana life
NINEMILE CREEK – Here’s a story of two families joined as one. Think Greg and Peter Brady in Iraq. Think Marcia on a high-mountain elk hunt. Think Mike Brady poking pins in people.
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WESTERN MONTANA LIVES: Wayne Ward helped continue family legacy
Bob Ward was rushing to the Klondike back in 1900, hoping for gold, when his money ran out in Missoula.
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WE CARE: Veteran needs eye exam, glasses
A female veteran who does not receive Veterans Affairs benefits to cover vision care is in desperate need of a vision exam and new glasses. Gift cards/monetary donations to cover an exam and a pair of prescription glasses would be appreciated. If you can help, please call Robin at the A…
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On the hunt for treasure: Man’s flea market filled with the ‘greatest stuff in the whole world’
VICTOR – Myron Burns’ business attire doesn’t involve a tie or collared shirt. On a cold breezy day last week, Burns wiped dust off a box of kitchen ware under the tent that is his office. The sky was blue, but in the shade of the tent, the temperature cooled.
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WESTERN MONTANA LIVES: Hard work didn’t scare LaFreda Montana Sharp
All her 83 years, the woman known as Freda worked hard and looked sharp.
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NONPROFIT: Celebrate adoption on Nov. 17
Missoula's Fifth Annual Adoption Celebration will be held Tuesday, Nov. 17, from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St.
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WE CARE: Parenting Place in need of fridge
The Parenting Place is in desperate need of a refrigerator, which is used often for the children's program. If you can help call 728-5437.
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Slicing through time: Ruana Knives uses parts of old ‘Black Bridge’ in new project
WEST RIVERSIDE – A bridge connects, a knife divides. In a metaphoric world, the twain shall never meet. But not here at Ruana Knives. This is the unmarked wooden shop that Rudy Ruana took over after Eino Weimer moved his auto repair garage across the flats to the Blackfoot River in 1936.
Nov 02, 2009 | 8:00 am | Loading…
WESTERN MONTANA LIVES: Steven Sandtner was a brilliant inventor, centenarian
Looking at old photographs of Steven J. Sandtner is a bit like time travel. There's the brilliantined hair, the movie-star gorgeous wife, the retro charm of an old car.
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NONPROFIT: Quality Supply to hold food drive Thursday
Quality Supply, 2801 W. Broadway, will hold a food drive to benefit the Missoula Food Bank. Bring nonperishable food items to Quality Supply on Thursday and Quality Supply will deliver the items to the Missoula Food Bank. Anyone who donates food will also receive
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WE CARE: Assisted-living center in need of refrigerator
The Missoula Health and Rehabilitation Center, (a nursing and assisted-living center) is in need of a refrigerator. It does not need to have a freezer. If you can help, please call Mischelle, business manager, 549-0988.
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Prism of light: Woman uses empty wine bottles to fill part of fence
RATTLESNAKE VALLEY – The fences along this lower stretch run the gamut. But the gamut is ordinary, pedestrian, unimaginative. The cedar fence. The wrought-iron fence. The inevitable picket fence. Because it is Missoula, the falling-down fence, propped up by older tires and tied off with sh…
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WESTERN MONTANA LIVES: Ed Erlandson was an unflappable, hard-working editor
The Missoulian newsroom of the Vietnam and Watergate eras was populated by a couple of older men in suits and ties, and a squadron of younger reporters and editors who most often were not.
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NONPROFIT: County Employee Council to hold Halloween bake sale
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WE CARE: Woman with back pain seeks mattress
A 64-year-old woman diagnosed with renal failure, angina and other medical conditions is experiencing tremendous back pain from sleeping on a futon mattress laid on the bottom bunk of a bunk bed. She would greatly benefit from a double-sized mattress. Must be able to deliver. If you can…
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The gift of giving: 13-year-old devotes much of her time helping less fortunate
CORVALLIS - There's a blossoming force of good in this town, a do-good dynamo whose altruistic accomplishments only seem at odds with her age.
Oct 19, 2009 | 7:15 am | Loading…
WESTERN MONTANA LIVES: Halloween won’t be same without Rosemary Luedecke Baier
EAST MISSOULA - Come All Hallows Eve, the monsters will not meet on Montana Avenue, as they have in years gone by.
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WE CARE: Family seeks crib for daughter
The Joseph Residence, a Poverello Center program, has a family that needs a crib for their daughter. Call Amy Allison, case manager at the Joseph Residence at Maclay Commons, at 549-6158.
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NONPROFIT: Learn more about WORD at open house
Women's Opportunity & Resource Development Inc. will hold an open house from 4 to 6 p.m., Tuesday at 2525 Palmer St., Suite 1.
Oct 19, 2009 | 6:00 am | Loading…
Hot Springs retreat offers healing waters in eccentric, charming small town
HOT SPRINGS - You can't talk about the charming and quirky Alameda's Hot Springs Retreat, gathering place, motel and healing center without talking about the community of Hot Springs.
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WESTERN MONTANA LIVES: Don Hinton loved to race horses – and win
They were the salad days of a sport that's now toast in Missoula.
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WE CARE: Joseph’s Residence needs cups
The Joseph Residence at Maclay Commons, a Poverello Program, needs children's sippy cups for its respite program and Wal-Mart, Shopko, etc. gift cards in small increments.
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Back to life: Award-winning Greenough taxidermist serves clients from all over
GREENOUGH – A white-tailed deer slowly came back to life on a stand at Mountain Creek Taxidermy. In the shop, Rob Henrekin nudged the tip of a modeling tool under the glass eye of a whitetail deer, tucking the skin in place around it. He made the tool himself.
Oct 05, 2009 | 7:45 am | Loading…
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