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With so many new faces in Lincoln, the Lincoln Council for the Arts wanted to give a small update on things they are doing in the community and remind people of ways they can get involved. If you are a local artist and would like to be featured on our website and social media, the Arts Council would like to meet you. Lincoln Council for the Arts meets the third Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m. in the back room at Lambkins. They invite anyone interested in the arts, or those...
Christmas will be here before we know it. Luckily for locals and those coming to visit during the holidays, especially during the weekend of Dec. 4, there will be lots of festivities for everyone during Lincoln's annual Christmas Stroll. The goal of the Christmas Stroll is to bring people to town to get into the holiday spirit, shop, visit attractions, eat, drink and enjoy everything Lincoln has to offer during the holidays. Folks can start or end their day with a wagon ride...
The Lincoln Council for the Arts had their first meeting of 2022 to discuss their upcoming Pasty Fundraiser as well as upcoming events for the year. They are excited to bring more entertainment and art to Lincoln in the coming year. To get the year started, The Lincoln Council for the Arts, in conjunction with the Upper Blackfoot Valley Historical Society, will again be selling pasties as their first fundraiser for the year. Last year, there was a competition between the...
The Lincoln Council for the Arts is bringing the Empire Trio for a night of music and entertainment to Lincoln on Thursday, April 6th at 7pm. The performance, which will be held at the Lincoln Community Methodist Church will feature the Trio in conjunction with several local students and residents including M'Liss Weisner, Bill Quay, Elyssa Longson, Dick Birkholz, Diane Krier, Aubrian Van Winkle, and students from the Lincoln School. The Empire Trio has performed at Carnegie...
Something occurred to me this past week that I thought I would share with you all. As most of you know, I knit (among many other fiber-related activities). I knit small things and large things; items for myself, but mostly gifts for others. I knit at home, in the car (only when I’m a passenger, I promise), out on our deck, and when I’m out, even in the bar. I find the process soothing, sometimes challenging, occasionally frustrating, but most of all, when I’m done, it gives me...
Over the past several weeks, there has been something missing in my day-to-day life. Not a person, not a place, not even something to be bought. My heart was feeling heavy, and trouble seemed to be around every corner. I found myself getting frustrated easier, sharp words coming more quickly, and the judgmental side of me in overdrive. I’m normally a pretty happy person, but glancing back at the past few weeks, possibly even the past couple of months, I can see clearly now, I...
We all have a to do list of some sort. Many of us are ruled by all of the things we have to get done, and often one thing becomes more urgent and knocks something else off or down a rung on the list. I have worked, lived and planned many things in my life with to-do lists. They are my task-master of everything that needs to get done. If I don’t write things down, I sometimes don’t remember. Heck, even when I do write things down I don’t always remember. My other half says...
More than 130 people from throughout the state of Montana, Washington, and Oregon attended the annual Blackfoot River Ducks Unlimited banquet and fundraiser Saturday, April 23. There were several raffles and games throughout the evening, giving attendees the opportunity to win various items, including several firearms. There was also a silent auction with more than 35 items ranging from wall art to jewelry, and everything in between. Of particular interest, the chapter had a...
Yeah, this one should prove to be a little controversial, but maybe that’s what we need. A calm, explanation and an opportunity for dialogue that helps. Here’s to hoping… So as almost everyone knows, there was a leak last week from a Supreme Court Justice that indicate a possible overturning of the infamous Roe v. Wade ruling from 1973. Immediately, there was an uproar from women feeling they were losing their right to a choice. Personally, after doing a little more resea...
I may not watch the news, but that doesn’t mean I’m not informed. Most of my friends who do watch the news hadn’t even heard of the destruction of our food processing and distribution plants. Those who do know and have been paying attention are very concerned. For those of you who may not have heard, right here in the United States, several of our food supply chains and distribution centers are being destroyed by fire, explosions and planes crashing into their build...
The Lincoln Community Garden has scheduled an open meeting for garden members and individuals interested in gardening on Tuesday, April 26. The gathering will be at Valler Coffee that evening at 5 p.m. The garden board invites all members of the garden and individuals interested in gardening to come hear what the organization has planned for the gardening season, and to participate in a mini class on "Companion Planting." The garden, which was created in 2011 and had their...
There’s been a lot of talk lately about gender, gender identification, choosing a gender, sexuality, biology, how it affects our kids of today, and the age they or their parents should be deciding how they “identify” themselves. Can I please just say, “What the hell?” Seriously, what is this world coming to? In some states it’s now legal for a parent to authorize a surgical procedure to change their child’s sexual anatomy by the age of three. I don’t know about you, but...
If you’re breathing, you’ve heard about the recent Oscar Awards fiasco involving Chris Rock and Will Smith. Photos of the punch and the constant talk of it have it front and center, over everything else. Even those who didn’t know these individuals squared off, and don’t care, have no choice but to hear about it or see it, over and over and over again. In my opinion, the Oscar Awards is an elite show, with elite status people, dressed up to look good in front of the world t...
Planning is underway for the Blackfoot River Ducks Unlimited Chapter's annual banquet. The committee began meeting in January to organize the event, which is scheduled be held Saturday, April 23 at the historic Lincoln Community Hall. Tammy Jordan assumed the role of Banquet Chair when long-time organizers of the event, Ernie & Renee Lundberg stepped down after last year's banquet. They had been the chairs for the committee and organizers of the event for more than 23 years...
I grew up in a very small town. I was five years old when we moved there in 1975, and the population sign read something just over 1,000 people. That same population sign as you enter that town, now an incorporated city, reads 113,381. It doesn’t really matter what the population is, I still have many of the friends I grew up with who still live there. What does matter is remembering the way, and the people I grew up with. And let me tell you, thinking back on those m...
Holy cow! In the last ten days we’ve seen the start of a war, the release of Pfizer court documents regarding the COVID vaccine side effects, and our little town of Lincoln is fighting and divided over a community master plan. Pile all of that onto two years of a pandemic and isolation and we have the makings of a sad and hostile environment. Never in my life did I think I would see the day that we’d be faced with another world war, and a time when people would be wor...
The Pete Sitch Basketball Tournament returns to Lincoln after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is slated for the weekend of March 19 and 20, 2022. "We're back! And we're really excited to be back," tournament organizer Dave Sitch said. The co-ed tournament began in 1988 in honor of Pete Sitch, who was killed in a logging accident in 1984, and raises funds for a scholarship awarded to a Lincoln graduate each year. The tournament is a way for the family to...
Just last week I thought spring had arrived. The weather was unseasonably warm and sunny. I had that lighter feeling, the one I get when spring is about to take hold. Even though earlier than normal this year, it made me think I was ready tell the cold dark days of winter goodbye. What I forgot is that we hadn’t even had second winter yet. You native and long-time transplanted Montanans know exactly what I’m talking about. For those of you new to Montana, well, buckle up, we...
Next week, we’ll celebrate Valentine’s Day with all the mushy cards, candy, flowers, and more. Not that there’s anything wrong with any of those things, it just seems to me that rather than having a specific day to show those important to us that we love them, it’s really something that should be shown to those we love every day of the year. Like my last column, where I expressed that we should or could be celebrating everything, big and small alike, we could be showing...
There are many reasons to celebrate, birthdays, weddings, graduations and milestones. Some are celebrated once a year, once a decade, or just once. But what about all of the others? It really got me to thinking about how, especially after the last couple of years and more especially right now, we should be celebrating damn near everything. Everything from waking up in the morning to those big momentous occasions known for celebration. We should be celebrating our little...
We all have our own Christmas and holiday traditions and memories that we either continue or that motivate us to create new ones. Some change and evolve over time, and sometimes we go back to the original traditions we knew and loved the most. Some are elaborate, others simple and less demanding. I have so many memories of the holidays as I was growing up. We had family traditions, food traditions and more. Some of my earlier holiday memories were spent with an entire family....
Sometimes in life, we find friends that mean the world to us. We just connect with them, and they become part of us. I can count on one hand the number of extremely close friends I have, both in Lincoln and elsewhere. It takes a lot to make my one-handed list. And please don’t take it the wrong way - I have LOTS of friends, and even more acquaintances. It’s bound to happen when you are one of those “people-persons” like me. I am grateful, and value every single one of those co...
Everyone has a talent, whether they realize it or not, and there are so many different ways to express ourselves. There are those who create art with a paintbrush while others have an amazing voice. Some can make something out of nothing, or have a sense of style people wish they had more of, and yet others can make people feel good just by being in the same room with them. Some people create amazing food, others raise awareness, some raise funds to help those less fortunate....
It’s been a busy couple of weeks with travel, in-person shows and getting ready for upcoming holiday shows. Throughout all the hustle and bustle, however, it occurred to me how many connections we create along our journeys. Sometimes these connections are with other people and sometimes these connections happen within ourselves. Regardless of who the connections are with, I find myself being grateful for all of them. Yes, you read that correctly, all of them. We have c...
In this last segment of my repeating history series, I’d like to point out a few things about our recent history, within the last ten years or so, and how all of our history is affecting us today, how it will affect us tomorrow and in the future. In our not-so-distant history there was a time when the right to choose whether a women could have a legal abortion, and whether it would be covered by government funding, was at play. There were women everywhere (not all women, j...
