B2 Missoulian, Sunday, July 3, 201 1 MONTANA Today, Monday filled with July Fourth events WEEKLIES READER Fire crews battle Paradise railcar blaze Liquid Louie's to Community Hall sponsored by Swan Valley post 63, American Legion. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Barbecue lunch sponsored by QRU, Volunteer Fire Department, Mission Mountain Mercantile. lp.m. -O-Mok-See Horse Games in the Arena sponsored by Swan Valley Saddle Club.
Dusk Fireworks at the Arena sponsored by Nordique System Log Homes. Southgate Mall, along with 102.5 Mountain FM and KECI, will host the annual Independence Day celebration and fireworks. The celebration will take place in the parking lot of Bob Ward and SonsBed Bath and Beyond beginning at 9 p.m. with an invocation, presentation of colors and musical performances by Keara Robert, Rob Laing and the Missoula City Band. The fireworks display is scheduled to begin around 10:30 p.m.
102.5 Mountain FM will simultaneously broadcast choreographed music for the fireworks. While waiting for the festivities and fireworks to begin, folks can enjoy food and beverage concessions by Missoula Boy Scouts. Community members are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets to enjoy the show from the parking lot. Anacondanswill celebrate the dedication ceremony of the Yellow Ribbon Tribute Display Case, which contains those Montanans who are currently serving in the active-duty military. The dedication will be held in Kennedy Common across the street from the historic Washoe Theater after the parade or about 3 p.m.
Military vehicles will be on display, and entertainment will be provided by Doc Savage. The first 250 people will receive American flagyellow ribbon lapel pins. The Rocky Mountain Museum of Military History, BuildingT-316atFort Missoula, will hosts its annual collectors' sale from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., including a barbecue. Call 549-5346 for details.
"A Memorable Fourth of July in Seeley Lake" will begin at 7 a.m. with a pancake breakfast at the firehouse. Other activities include a flyover and VFW ceremony between 11:45 a.m and 12:15 p.m., parade at 2 p.m., duck races at 4 p.m. and fireworks at Lindey 's at 10:30 p.m. Call (406) 677-2880 for details.
The display will be held at the Ravalli County Fairgrounds on Independence Day at sundown. KarlaRocheleau, speaking on behalf of GSK, said it was a group effort from the company. After reading an article last week about the show being canceled, the company decided to put some money toward the effort. Annual Fourth of July celebration at the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula begins with a pancake breakfast sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 8-11 a.m. Music throughout the day at the gazebo includes the Montana Tuba Chorale, 10 a.m.; Black Mountain Boys, 11 a.m.; Silk Stocking, noon and 2 p.m.; City Slickers, 1:30 p.m.
and River Rock, 3 p.m. A welcoming ceremony at 1 p.m. with special guest Missoula founder, Mayor Frank Woody. A tractor parade will be held at 1:45 p.m. Activities throughout the day include model trains, ham radios, children's games, crafts, food, displays, tours of the lookout, school house and locomotive, pony rides, demonstrations and more.
Admission is $5 adults, $3 seniors, $2 students, $15 for a family, children under 6 and members of the Friends of the Museum are free. Call 728-3476. The Scott Family is hosting their annual Fourth of July barbecue and fireworks display, 61574 Hillside Road, St. Ignatius. This is their 25th anniversary of this event in honor of our service men and women.
Barbecue pork is provided, and is a potluck. There will be live music and a great atmosphere. Fireworks to music at dusk. Please, no alcohol. For more information, call 745-3019.
The American Legion of Paradise will provide hamburgers and hot dogs for a Fourth of July potluck luncheon, 11 a.m., Paradise City Park. A parade follows at 2 p.m. down Highway 200. Plus fun and games for all ages, tables for yard sales and jam session. Call (406) 826-2181, 546-9558 or (406) 826-4442.
July 4th celebration in Condon: a.m. -Pancake breakfast served by Swan Valley PTA. 9 a.m. -2 p.m. Historical Society Photo and Memorabilia Display in the Community Hall sponsored by Upper Swan Valley Historical Society.
11 a.m. Parade from one to bike and one to kayak or one person can compete in all three legs. Runners and bike riders will travel three miles along an abandoned railway. The kayaker will paddle three miles down a bay on Lake Koocanusa. The third leg is a two-mile run on a trail.
Call (406) 889-4636 or visit www.welcome 2eureka.com for details. Fourth of July celebration in Bigfork includes a parade at noon followed by a children's carnival and a "Ducks for Bucks" race on the "Wild Mile" at 4 p.m. Call (406) 837-5888 to purchase a duck. Parade, 10 a.m. in Kalispell.
Parade, noon, Main Street, Poison. After the parade, Main will be blocked off for two hours for family-friendly activities including music and games. Call (406) 883-6355 for more information. The Flathead Historical Museum, 708 Main Poison, will host a free ice cream social following the parade. Whitefish Fourth of July Celebration, 7-11 p.m., Whitefish Lake City Beach.
Live music kicks off the evening, along with dancing, food and a fireworks display. Visitwhitefishchamber.org. Red White Blue's July 4th Celebration, 4 p.m., Hot Springs City Park; $8 in advance, $10 at the gate. Bridger Mountain Concert Series in association with Big Sky Rockin' Rendevous presents blues great Roy Bookbinder with Missoula blues artist Kevin Van Dort. Fireworks display at dark, after show meet and greet at the Symes Hot Springs Hotel.
Tickets available at Symes Hot Springs Hotel, Hot Springs Trading the Coffee Hound in Hot Springs and the Midway Mini-Mart Conoco Happy Valley on Highway 93 north of Kalispell. Fireworks and potluck, p.m., HideOut Mountain, Florence Carlton Loop, Florence. Meat and buns supplied by the Florence Volunteer Fire Department. Bring your own drinks, utensils, plates, chairs and a dish to share. There will also be a flag ceremony and items to purchase to support the FVFD.CaU 273-0012.
Hamilton's Fourth of July fireworks display is back on. On Tuesday, GlaxsoSrnithKline offered to pay the difference for the city of Hamilton's fireworks show, which had been canceled. Western Montana communities are planning a wide variety of events to celebrate Independence Day. July 3 Charlo Fourth of July parade, 2 p.m. Pre-register by calling 644-0102 or at the parade at the Charlo schools starting at noon.
Fireworks at the baseball field at dusk. Commemorate the 205th anniversary of Lewis and Clark's stay at Travelers' Rest and the 10th anniversary of the state park, at Travelers' Rest State Park near Lolo. The event features a new museum exhibit, historical re-enactments, family activities and a community barbecue. From 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., the anniversary celebration will feature the Travelers' Rest Brigade a group of re-enactors in period costume.
The event will also feature ongoing demonstrations that include historic firearms, brain tanning, leatherwork and more. Kids will have a chance to try out a number of activities and hands-on projects. On Sunday evening from 5-7 p.m., the park will also host a community barbecue. For a detailed lineup of the event and other upcoming activities at the park, call 273-4253 or visit travelersrest.org. July 3-4 The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation's Great Elk Tour, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Wold's Valley Market, Seeley Lake.
The Great Elk Tour is a traveling taxidermy display and features some of the biggest bull elk in the world. The tour also features RMEFs inflatable SAFE Challenge shooting booth, where children and youth can learn to shoot BB guns as well as BB gun safety. RMEF representatives will be on hand to answer questions. Visit www.rmef.orgoi www.greateBctour.org. Grizzly Peak retirement community, 3600 American Way, invites area seniors to its Fourth of July weekend events.
Ice cream sundaes will be served Sunday at 2:30 p.m. and an American lunch with live music will be held Monday from noon to 4 p.m. For more information or to RSVP, call 721-2292. July 4 Fourth of July Team Challenge, 9 a.m. -noon, Riverside Park, Eureka.
Teams can be made up of three members one to run, store in Poison. "They don't need the whole pie." Preston said that while Poison needs jobs, when a business is owned outside of the community, the profits go outside of the community as well. "I don't know what's going to happen to the other grocery stores," she said. The Journal said the target date for a new Wal-Mart Supercenter is the first quarter of 2013. To Preston's question of how such a Supercenter would improve the economy and lives of Poison residents, a Wal-Mart representative said the immediate impact would be the creation of an additional 60 jobs, plus lower grocery prices.
The commissioners eventually passed the motion to allow Wal-Mart to sell the adjacent lots. Tribute rider aims for Arlee by Fourth DEER LODGE Leon Wieder is riding 615 miles on horseback as a tribute to his aunt, who struggled with cancer for eight years before passing away last year. "I started from Arlee on May 16," Wieder told Steve Waggener of the Silver State Post. "I trailered to Beach, North Dakota, and started the ride the following day." Since then, Wieder's traveled an average of 20 miles per day and raised $13,000. His goal is to be back in Arlee by the Fourth of July, the anniversary of his aunt's death, with $20,000 to give to cancer organizations like Tough Enough to Wear Pink and Head, Heel and Hope.
Wieder advertises his own campaign, Spur the Cancer Out of Montana, with a faded pink shirt. The ride has not been easy. His horse skinned itself a bit while loading into the trailer, and he ran into a skunk, barely avoiding the spray. He told the Post he's killed two rattlesnakes and nearly stepped on a badger. "I let out my man scream and took off running! Wieder told Waggener.
Wild animals are not the only danger he's run into. Cars provide a problem. Wieder related an experience to the Post about crossing the Three Forks Bridge when it was covered in ice. "I got about halfway across and looked back and Editor's note: Each Sunday, the Missoulian publishes a sampling of reports from weekly newspapers throughout western Montana. Missoulian PARADISE Good thing it hasn't been the warmest start to the summer.
The Sanders County Ledger reported Thursday that "spontaneous combustion" was responsible for four railroad cars three of them hauling cedar wood chips catching fire last week. Before the fire was noticed, it started several small spot fires along the tracks as the train chugged between St. Regis and Paradise. While Plains firefighters raced to extinguish the train fire when the train stopped in Paradise, crews from the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, and the U.S. Forest Service, were deployed to put out spot fires that were spread as the train traveled along the Clark Fork River near Montana Highways 135 and 200.
Plains-Paradise assistant fire chief Lee Mercier told Ledger contributor Ed Moreth that June's rains and cooler weather had kept areas green. That, along with the fact that several of the smaller fires started in very rocky areas, kept the spot fires from spreading on land. Meantime, six iretrucks from the Plains-Paradise district, the city of Plains and St. Regis responded as the train stopped at the depot in Paradise after the conductor noticed the fire. It took an hour to extinguish the blaze, according to Mercier, and firefighters spent another hour soaking the smoldering cedar chips.
Mercier told the Ledger that spontaneous combustion can occur in wood products that sit for long periods. The train, which had just picked up the chips from a lumberyard in St. Regis, remained in Paradise overnight. Wal-Mart hears Poison opposition POLSON-Wal-Mart came looking for permission to sell three lots adjacent to its proposed Supercenter here, but left with an earful from a couple of city commissioners. The Valley Journal reported this week that Commissioners John Campbell and Judy Preston both wanted to talk about the Supercenter itself when the agenda item came up.
Campbell questioned the wisdom of saddling Main Street businesses with much of the costs of an ongoing "streetscape" improvement project, then allowing an out-of-state, low-priced competitor to build on the highway leading into town. "I sure don't see the common sense in that," Campbell said in the story written by Journal reporter BerlTiskus. "They have a pretty good piece of the pie," Campbell said of Wal-Mart, which already has a THIS WEEK IN GOVERNMENT Holiday trims schedule MONTANA Tally iSf'MiT By Voterama For the week ending July 1 How your lawmakers voted e'e'e (Voted yes) (Voted no) (Did not vote) NY Senate Senators about presidential nominees yes vote streamline cumbersome End Line of Confirmation Reforms: voted, 73-20, to reduce from 1,200 to about 1,000 the number of appointees other than judicial who require Senate approval. A was to pass 679 that would several aspects of the Senate's confirmation process. International Monetary Fund Credit Senators refused.
44- 55, to cut off a special $1 00 billion U.S. Sne of credit to the International Monetary Fund. Congress approved the loan in 2009 to help stabilize the global economy, joining 1 9 other nations in that IMF rescue effort. A yes vote was to end the line of credit. (S 679) there's just a whole flock of cars coming! I kept going as fast as I could, trying to make it across and they just kept getting closer and closer, not slowing down at all.
They missed me by this much," he said, showing only a few feet with his arms. Weeklies Reader is compiled this week by Missoulian reporters Vince Devlin and Lindsey Gahpeau. Five More Reasons to Love Summer Market Booth to get to Love Summer K2) 1 Mark Bills That Duplicate Existing Programs: Senators failed, 63-34, to NY Department Basem*nt Conference Room, 301 W. Alder St. Contact: Brenda Lynch, 258-4188 PARKING COMMISSION When: Noon Thursday Where: Jack Reidy Conference Room, 140W.
Pine St. Contact: Anne Guest, 552-6244 CEMETERY BOARD When: 1 :30 p.m. Thursday Where: Ruth Bennett Memorial Chapel, 2000 Cemetery Road Contact: Mary Ellen Stubb, 552-6070 HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION When: 7 p.m. Thursday Where: City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St.
Contact: Philip Maechiing, 258-4657 PARTNERSHIP HEALTH CENTER When: Noon Fnday Where: Health Department Conference Room, 301 W. Alder second floor Contact: Brenda Lynch. 258-4188 MISSOULA CITY COUNCIL No meeting due to Fourth of July holiday. MISSOULA COUNTY COMMISSIONERS No weekly public meeting. Until further notice, public meetings will be held on second and fourth Wednesdays of the month.
BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY BOARD When: 3 p.m. Tuesday Where: City Council Chambers, 140W. Pine St. Contact: Peggy Diamond, 552-6351 MISSOULA CONSOLIDATED PLANNING BOARD When: 7 p.m. Tuesday Where: City Council Chambers, 140 W.
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