MONTANA

May 2015

A Monthly Publication for Folks 50 and Better

Renaissance man
Tennis coach holds court
The last man standing
North Side Mission

INSIDE
Savvy Senior.............................................Page 3
Opinion.....................................................Page 4
Book..........................................................Page 5
Volunteering..............................................Page 19

Calendar....................................................Page 20
On the Menu.............................................Page 21
Strange but True........................................Page 22

News Lite
Duck ringtone helps rescue ducklings
SLIDELL, La. (AP) Quack! Quack! A duck call ringtone
helped a Louisiana firefighter rescue six ducklings from a storm
drain.
Spokesman Chad Duffaut of St. Tammany Fire District #1 says
even with realistic quacking sounds coming from his cellphone, it
took Firefighter Cody Knecht about 90 minutes to catch the first
four baby mallards in the southeast Louisiana community of
Slidell.
Duffaut says Knecht rescued the others after giving them about
an hour to calm down.
All six ducklings were reunited with their mother in the canal
behind a home, where residents had reported seeing the ducklings
go into the drain.
Duffaut says it was fire stations second duck rescue in a week.
On April 19, firefighters rescued a duck that got stuck in a chimney.

Would-be thieves steal frozen pizzas,

then sell them to police

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Alaska State Troopers have

recovered 75 of 80 frozen pizzas reported stolen thanks to an
enterprising thief.
The Alaska Dispatch News reports that 80 frozen pizzas were
reported stolen from a store in Gambell, a village on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea. Police say they received a strong
tip when 29-year-old John Koozaata and 21-year-old Lewis
Oozeva called the police department and tried to sell the pizzas to
on-duty officers.
Police say that the pair broke into the Gambell Native Store
warehouse and took five cases of pizza, valued at $1,100, or
about $13.75 a pie.
Troopers say Koozaata and Oozeva were arrested and taken to
Nome. They are in custody at the Anvil Mountain Correctional
Center facing charges of burglary and theft.

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Jim Miller, creator of the syndicated Savvy

Senior information column, is a longtime
advocate of senior issues. He has been featured in
Time magazine; is author of The Savvy Senior:
The Ultimate Guide to Health, Family and
Finances for Senior Citizens; and is a regular
contributor to the NBC Today show.

How to Search for Lost Pension Money

Dear Savvy Senior,
What tips can you offer for tracking down a lost pension from a
previous employer?
About to Retire

Dear About,
Its not unusual for a worker to lose track of a pension benefit.
Perhaps you left an employer long ago and forgot that you left
behind a pension. Or maybe you worked for a company that
changed owners or went belly up many years ago, and you figured the pension went with it.

Today, millions of dollars in benefits are sitting in pension

plans across the U.S. or with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), a federal government agency, waiting to be
claimed by their rightful owners. The average unclaimed benefit
with PBGC is about $6,500.

To help you look for a pension, here are some steps to take and
some free resources that can help you search if your previous
employer has gone out of business, relocated, changed owners or
merged with another firm.

Contact employer

If you think you have a pension and the company you worked
for still is in business, your first step is to call the human resources department and ask how to contact the pension plan administrator. Ask the administrator whether you have a pension, how
much it is worth and how to claim it. Depending on how complete the administrators records are you may need to show proof
that you once worked for the company and that you are pension
eligible.

Your old income tax returns and W-2 forms from the years you
worked at the company will help you here. If you havent saved
your old tax returns from these years, you can get a copy of your
earnings record from the Social Security Administration, which
will show how much you were paid each calendar year by each
employer.

Call (800) 772-1213, and ask for Form SSA-7050, Request

for Social Security Earnings Information, or you can download
it atssa.gov/online/ssa-7050.pdf. The SSA charges a $136 for
this information.

Some other old forms that can help you prove pension eligibility are summary plan descriptions that you should have received
from your employer when you worked there, and any individual

benefit statements that you received during your employment.

Search PBGC

If your former employer went out of business or if the company still is in business but terminated its pension plan, check with
the PBGC, which guarantees pension payouts to private-sector
workers if their pension plans fail, up to annual limits. Most people receive the full benefit they earned before the plan was terminated. The PBGC offers an online pension-search directory tool
atsearch.pbgc.gov/mp/mp.aspx.

Get help

If you need help tracking down your former company because

it may have moved, changed owners or merged with another
firm, contact the Pension Rights Center, a nonprofit consumer
organization that offers seven free Pension Counseling and Information Projects around the U.S. that serve 30 states. For more
information, visitpensionrights.orgor call (888) 420-6550.

If you, your company or your pension plan happens to be outside the 30-state area served by the projects, or if youre trying to
locate a federal or military pension,
use Pension Help America atpensionhelp.org. This resource can
connect you with government
agencies and private organizations that provide free
information and assistance to help your
search.

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pension
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see the
PBGCs free
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called Finding a Lost
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Send your senior
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May 2015

Opinion

Drowning in passwords

carries its own risk. You could lose

them or someone could walk off with
them. But most of us accept the risk
and keep them in a sort of hidden place
in our homes. Its better than having
the passwords on your computer and
being plugged into the Internet, but not
a whole lot better.
The techies gotta fix this pretty soon.
There are already, of course, technologies like thumb print scans to access
your electronic device, but what if
someone figures out a way past that
and believe me, theres a way and
then has instant access to everything?
Back to the same problem.
Maybe theyll come up with a smartphone or laptop that pricks your finger
and analyzes your blood and then lets
you in.
I think Ill keep my scrawled-out

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May 2015

MONTANA

Fifty-eight.
Thats the number of passwords my
wife and I have for accessing everything online from email to bank
accounts to energy bills to Netflix,
iTunes and everything in between.
Fifty-eight.
Its ridiculous, when you think about
it, that it should be that way. But if you
want to live in the digital age and be
halfway, semi safe from hackers, thats
the price you pay.
The biggest problem anyone faces
with their unmanageable, cackling hen
house of passwords is how to keep
track of them.
Do you keep them all in a safe
place on your computer or smartphone? Youre crazy stupid if you do.
There is no safe place on any device
thats connected to the Internet.
Do you just tell your laptop to
remember the passwords for all the
websites you access? All fine and good
until you loose your laptop or have it
stolen. You could be a pauper by sundown, not only with no money in your
bank account but a stolen identity for
frosting on the cake.
So you do what most of us do: You
record the passwords on a thousandyear-old device: paper. There are just
way too many to remember otherwise.
Well, you could remember them if you
wanted to become a medieval monk,
consigning yourself to a cave, living life
of deprivation dedicated solely to memorizing all your user names and logins.
But writing those passwords down

passwords before I do that.

Anyway, apart from safekeeping, one
of the biggest pains about passwords is
creating one. Most people lazily type in
a pets name followed by the numbers
1, 2, 3. Well, you know that hackers
have that one figured out. All they have
to do is type in some choice pet names
like Spot or Mr. Snuggles with a few
numbers after and they have access to
half the computers in America.
Always create a strong password,
the websites say, with lower and upper
case letters, numbers and symbols.
Sure. But then you cant remember the
darn thing. Thats why you have to
write it down.
Which brings us back to where we
started ...
Dwight Harriman
Montana Best Times Editor

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Bookshelf
Motoring West, Volume 1:
Automobile Pioneers, 1900-1909
Edited by Peter J. Blodgett
University of Oklahoma Press 2015
Hardcover $34.95
360 pages 6.125 x 9.25
ISBN: 978-0-87062-383-7

New book tells what

it was like to cross
the early West
by automobile
By Montana Best Times Staff
Just released is a book that will be of great interest
to Montanans with a love of automobiles or Western
history: Motoring West, Volume 1: Automobile Pioneers, 1900-1909.
In the first years of the 20th century, motoring across
the vast expanses west of the Mississippi was at the very
least an adventure and at most an audacious stunt, says a
recent news release from University of Oklahoma Press,
publisher of Motoring West. As more motorists ventured forth, such travel became a curiosity and, within a
few decades, commonplace.
For aspiring Western travelers, automobiles formed an
integral part of their search for new experiences and destinations and like explorers and thrill seekers from earlier ages,
these adventurers kept records of their experiences. The scores
of articles, pamphlets, and books they published, collected for
the first time in Motoring West, create a vibrant picture of the
American West in the age of automotive ascendancy, as viewed
from behind the wheel, the release says.
Documenting the very beginning of Americans love affair
with the automobile, the pieces in this volume the first of a
planned multivolume series offer a panorama of motoring
travelers visions of the burgeoning West in the first decade of
the 20th century. Historian Peter J. Blodgetts sources range
from forgotten archives to company brochures to magazines
such as Harpers Monthly, Sunset, and Outing.
Under headlines touting adventures in touring, land cruising and camping out with an automobile, voices from motorings early days instruct, inform, and entertain. They chart routes
through wild landscapes, explain the finer points of driving

coast to coast in a Franklin, and occasionally prescribe touring

outfits. Blodgetts engaging introductions to the volume and
each piece couch the writers commentaries within their time, the
release says.
As reports of the regions challenges and pleasures stirred
interest and spurred travel, the burgeoning flow of traffic would
eventually and forever alter the Western landscape and the
westering motorists experience. The dispatches in Motoring
West illustrate not only how the automobile opened the American West before 1909 to more and more travelers, but also how
the West began to change with their arrival.
Blodgett is the H. Russell Smith Foundation curator of Western American Manuscripts at the Huntington Library and author
of Land of Golden Dreams: California in the Gold Rush
Decade, 1848-1858.
Motoring West is available from online booksellers, in
bookstores, and directly from the University of Oklahoma Press
at (800) 627-7377 or www.oupress.com.
May 2015

A man of many talents

Dave Osen stays busy with incredible range of hobbies

MT Best Times photos Lindsey Kroskob

Dave Osen climbs into an antique wagon he restored from the frame up, which he drives with two Percheron draft horses
named Bud and Bill. The equine brothers were another side project of Osens, spurred from seeing two Big Timber men drive
a pair in a local Christmas parade.

By Lindsey Erin Kroskob

Montana Best Times

BIG TIMBER Dave Osens white

Wrangler Jeep sits outside his shop with two
pups staring lazily out the back window.
Its a blustery Saturday afternoon, and
Osen is inside, wearing a dusty coverall
suit, tinkering on a lawn mower.
His shop is immaculate, each tool in its
place.
Thats his wife, Carolyns, doing, he
says with a laugh.
Osen is the manager for Four Creek
Ranch, an immense property nestled near
U.S. Forest Service land on Lower Deer
Creek Road in Sweet Grass County.

The fun part: figuring it out

For 11 years he and Carolyn have cared

for the place, but their journey to the ranch

started long before while Osen was working in construction. He built three of the
five homes on the property with his brother before the owner asked him to come on
full time.
Revving up the Jeep, Osen takes a drive
around the property, pointing out the various projects hes worked on throughout
the years.
Hes a man of many talents.
But what is most impressive is the array
of hobbies hes added to his repertoire.
He rebuilds engines, mounts elk horns,
refinishes carriages, builds cribs, restores
old trucks, drives a team of Percheron
draft horses, drills elk horn cribbage
boards and, really, does anything else that
catches his eye.
Thats the fun part about a lot of things,

just figuring out how to do it, he said.

Osen cant quite put a number on the
hobbies hes taken up, which is likely
because he masters a trade and then moves
on to the next.
After 60 years, you get around people
and you pick up little tricks here and
there, Osen said. You learn from them.

Elk horn cribbage boards

When the couple moved to the property,

a much younger neighbor, Josh Fjare, was
instrumental in helping Osen learn the
ropes.
Josh is young enough to be my son,
but Ive probably learned more from him
than anybody about a lot of stuff, Osen
said. If he wouldnt have been here when
I came on this ranch, I would have
failed.

On the cover: Dave Osen gives his horse, Hickory, a kiss in a field near his Four Creek Ranch home 15 miles up Lower Deer
Creek Road near Big Timber. Horse training is one of many hobbies Osen picked up over the years.
May 2015

Above: One of Dave Osens elk horn cribbage boards awaits a players
next move beside the fireplace at the couples Four Creek Ranch home.
His signature Baltimore Orioles cards are always on hand, a shout-out
to a close friend who plays for the team.
Right: A close-up of the brass pegs on the cribbage board.
Thats always how it seems to start. Osen sees the outcome of a
project, it peaks his interest, and he finds an expert to show him
how its done.
His latest winter project, elk horn cribbage boards, started simply because he saw one at a friends house.
I looked at that one at (John) Marshaks for a long time, Osen
said. I thought, That took something to build that. I wonder
how you do it.
Marshak kind of knew, but had never done it, Osen said. So
they gave it a go.
Dave started by smoothing the rough off one side of the horn
and running a compass along the edge to draw a line parallel to
the curve. Once that line was done, he moved it a half-inch in and
did it again.
Then I just used a ruler and put (marks) on quarter-inch spacing with a half inch in between, Osen said. Then if I didnt like
it, Id erase it and do it over again.
You dont have to worry about the lines they can be buffed
out later, he said. Then he mounted the horn on a piece of plywood, so no matter how it moved, it would be as if it was sitting
on a table.
With a brad point in his drill bit, Osen drilled the holes 60 in
each board.
The hardest part, he said, was figuring out how to make the
pegs. The process of turning a raw stock, a brass rod, into a finished, smoothly graded piece required using a drill press as a
lathe with a file to shape the end.
Im not real artistic, and it would be really nice if I was, Osen
said. Im more of a tape measure kind of guy.

Trophy mounting

While that may be Osens opinion of himself, others might

argue his projects show a strong artistic talent coupled with a
focused eye for detail.
Above the Osens fireplace hangs a beautiful European mounted elk rack, the result of a fall hunt on the property.
To learn this trade of trophy mounting, Osen took an earlier kill
to a friend who was happy to oblige and mount the animal. The
next year, Osen returned with a special request.
I said, Can I come out when you do it, so I can see how you
do it? Osen said. So then I watched and helped him, and

from then on I did it myself.

Percheron horses

The same thing happened with learning to drive two hefty Percheron horses, which grazed happily in a nearby field that afternoon.
Bud and Bill are the product of a trip into Big Timber for the
annual Christmas Lighted Parade where two men, Jeremy Roberts and Cameron Mayo, lead a team with a hay rack behind.
I said to Carolyn, Ive always wanted a team, and if those
two guys can pull it off Osen said with a laugh.
Again, Osen pooled his resources, found some knowledgeable
friends and ended up with the gentle black giants.
Id never even harnessed a (draft) horse before, but I knew I
was getting a team so Id already bought a forecart, and I bought
a harness on eBay, Osen said.
Steve Kryer found the horses and delivered him to the ranch.
Then he showed the Osens how to harness and drive them.
He spent the whole day with us, Osen said, saying it was
easy to learn the process.
Osen walked into the field where the horses were sprawled out
a couple weeks later. Slowly, each one walked over to greet him,
looking for a belly rub or two.
Its not like I made anything, but boy I had a lot of fun with
those horses for a while, he said. But its like all the other stuff
my mind goes in so many directions.

A perfect fit

Which may be why his job managing the Four Creek Ranch is
such a perfect fit.
When Osen was working construction, he and Carolyn lived
north of Big Timber off Wormser Loop Road. Every night, Osen
would come home and go out for a ride.
I thought, Wouldnt it be something to go to a place where
you got to do that for a living, he said. And guess what, thats
what we got.
And when things are slow in the winter, Osen gets to follow his
interests, wherever they may lead.
I like to make old things look like they did, he said, pointing
See Many Talents, Page 15
May 2015

Holding court

Tennis coach teaches life lessons along with ground strokes

MT Best Times photos by M.P. Regan

Beaverhead County High School tennis head coach Lois Woodard, left, instructs one of her players, freshman Mariah Mosher, in the finer points of serving.

By M.P. Regan

Montana Best Times

DILLON At twilight on a recent

chilly, March afternoon, Lois Woodard,
71, stood surrounded by a dozen Dillon
high school boys on a tennis court, offering them instruction and encouragement
after a hard afternoon of practice.
Remember, practice like you play,
urged Woodard, the head coach of the
Beaverhead County High School boys and
girls tennis teams since 2005.
I want them to come to practice
focused, Woodard explained the next day.
I want them to focus on the process, not
the result. Its natural to focus on winning,
but when the focus is just on winning,
often there isnt success. You have to
focus on and enjoy the process first.
That message, like the many others
Woodard has delivered to her players
through actions and inspirational words
May 2015

over years of coaching in Dillon, was

received and applied with great respect by
her players.
Lois is a really great coach, said Mark
Waldrup, a junior at Beaverhead County
High School, where he started on the boys
State A championship football team last
season.
She knows what shes talking about
and is able to demonstrate what shes talking about and she is always encouraging, added Waldrup, who began taking
lessons from Woodard when he was in elementary school and Woodard was nationally ranked in her age group.
She does well with whatever age group
she teaches, added Waldrup, the BCHS
No. 1 boys singles player who hits with
Woodard when he needs someone who can
challenge him.

Teaching more than tennis

Woodard began offering her wisdom

and the challenge of chasing down her

powerful, pinpoint ground strokes as a
volunteer assistant for the Beavers tennis
team shortly after she and her husband
had moved to Dillon from Denver in
2000.
I just walked over to the courts one
day and went up to the head coach and
offered to help, recalled Woodard, who
began her long tenure with the Beavers
team that day by hitting with Haley
McDonald, the Dillon girls top singles
player who would go on to win the state
Class A singles title.
Woodard has trained a number of other
standout tennis players in Dillon. But she
emphasizes gaining character over gaining
trophies.
Lois teaches her players more than just
about how to play tennis, commented
Waldrups mother, Ilene Cohen.
She teaches them on how to be a good
teammate, about being a leader, about

Despite her delayed start in the game, Woodard developed her

tennis skills to the point where she began competing and winning at national tournaments in her 30s.
I played my first tennis tournament in Erie, Pennsylvania,
when I was 30, recalled Woodard. My husband and I were living there and it was just a local tourney. I began to feel as if I
could compete. I played in singles and doubles, and lost in both.
But the bug had bit me. I thought, I could be better next time.
Six years later, Woodard advanced deep into the national womens indoor 35s tournament in Milwaukee, where she and her
husband had since moved.
A friend asked me to play doubles. We made it to the semifinals and I made it to the quarterfinals in singles. Thats when I
thought, wow, I can really do this, said Woodard, who kept competing in national tennis tournaments into her 60s.
I played in a lot of national tournaments after that, in a lot of
age groups, said Woodard.

There she was, Miss Vermont

Lois Woodard addresses her players after a recent team practice.

being fair and honest, about taking the high road even when
youre struggling with your game, added Cohen, whose son last
season became the first Dillon boys tennis player to qualify for
the state tournament.
If you attend an end-of-the-year tennis banquet, she talks
about every single player on the team and about what they
brought to the team as a person and how they grew during the
season.
Woodard said the value of what one learns on the tennis court
extends well beyond the baselines.
Many things come up during a season that we can use to teach
to the kids besides just how to be better tennis players, commented Woodard on her approach to coaching.
There are a lot of life lessons to be learned. And its very
rewarding as a coach to watch a person blossom as an individual, continued Woodard.

Late bloomer

Woodard didnt start playing tennis until her college days at the
University of Vermont in Burlington, where she met her husband,
Michael, who introduced her to the game and to his parents, fine
tennis players who helped her progress quickly in learning the
game.

Woodard first got bit by the sports bug during her youth, while
growing up on Lake Champlain, which sits between the state borders of New York and Vermont.
Living in a small island community with a population of about
200, Woodard found only boys in her age range to play with
when she wasnt attending classes in the communitys one-room
schoolhouse.
The next to youngest of four children and the only daughter in
her family, Woodard spent many winter days skating and playing
hockey on the community pond, and summer days swinging a bat
on the islands sandlot baseball field.
I think I got competitive from playing all that sandlot baseball, laughed Woodard. I could always hit a baseball well, and I
guess that swing helped me when I took up tennis.
Despite her growing love of and prowess in sports, Woodard
didnt get the chance to participate in competitive sports at her
high school, which sat on the Vermont mainland, an hour-long
bus ride from home.
After I graduated eighth grade, I was bused to a high school
on the mainland. The worst part of that was, since my father
worked and my mother didnt drive a car, I had no way to take
part in after-school sports.
Denied the chance to earn a sports scholarship and with her
parents unable to afford tuition, Woodard worked her way
through college, in part by singing and by modeling for a local
department store.
Both callings helped her find another way to earn money the
Miss America Pageant.
I was asked by the pageants Vermont director to take part,
recalled Woodard, who was crowned Miss Vermont and won the
right to compete at the 1965 Miss America Pageant in Atlantic
City, where she sang in the talent portion of the competition.
The main reason I said yes was that if I could win, it would
give me enough scholarship money to pay for my last year of college, said Woodard, who had begun taking voice lessons at the
age of 19 from a retired professor from the prestigious Juilliard
School of Music.
It turned out to be a fabulous experience. I met a lot of wonderful people and sang at a lot of different functions, said Woodard, who also performed throughout college in a folk group with
her husband, a guitarist.
See Tennis coach, Page 14
May 2015

MT Best Times photo by Charlie Denison

Jerry Hanley holds $10,000 worth of gold and silver collected from his days mining in Maiden as well as a 1931 photo of his
grandfather George Wieglenda. In the picture, Wieglenda holds a 20-pound bar of gold he also collected from mining in Maiden.

The last man standing

Miner in Maiden, Montana, preserving historic town

By Charlie Denison
Montana Best Times

MAIDEN Jerry Hanley sits on his

gray reclining chair, takes a sip of coffee
and leans forward, partaking in one of his
favorite hobbies: talking about Maiden.
Maiden is a historical gold and silver
mining town located about 20 miles northeast of Lewistown.
My grandfather, George Wieglenda,
arrived here at 19 years old in 1895 and
spent his life here mining, Jerry, 67, said.
He put together a pretty good package for
the family patented mining claims and
homestead grounds. He must have been
thinking about his offspring. He must have
been thinking about setting us up with a
nice place. Well, he sure did, and we sure
enjoy it.
May 2015

10

Born to E.D. Red Hanley and Selma

(Wieglenda) Hanley Selma was one of
Georges three daughters Jerry shares his
passion for the area with several of his children, cousins, nieces, nephews and most of
his 10 siblings, eight of which are still living.
Growing up in Lewistown, Maiden was
always our summer getaway, Jerry said.
Our family loved it, and so did I. The goal
of my life was to live here.
Jerry might have known he wanted to
make Maiden his home, but he wasnt sure
at first how hed make his living.
In the late 60s and early 70s, I was trying to be an artist, drawing pictures and
painting signs, Jerry said. I probably sold
25 originals, but I wasnt really making
enough to get by.
Living in his grandmothers house, unsure

of the next step to take, fate played its hand.

Larry Hoffman came by and said, I see
smoke coming out of the chimney and was
wondering if you were looking for a job.
Im reopening the Spotted Horse Mine,
Jerry recounted. I thought, Whoa, mining
where my grandfather worked? Yeah!
Without any second-guessing, Jerry followed in his grandfathers footsteps and
became a Maiden miner.

A good hand

Jerry was ecstatic to work in the very

mines his grandfather worked in, especially
the Maginnis mine, which he would eventually own.
But no matter what mine he worked in,
Jerry excelled, often leading the way for
other miners.

Maiden is pictured in the late

1880s. The Maginnis mine and
mill are at the far right at the
head of Warm Spring Canyon.
Maiden had just peaked in its
prosperity and it was in decline
at the time of this photograph.
Photo courtesy of Jerry Hanley

I just absolutely fell in love with mining, Jerry said. I loved being underground, drilling drift rounds, loading up a
couple hundred pounds of explosives, detonating and going back in after the smoke
clears.
Mining, Jerry said, was in his blood, and
he took to it naturally.
I learned real quick, he said. Early on, I
was recognized as a good hand.

No mining like
Maiden mining

Interspersed with mining in Maiden, Jerry

also mined in other areas from the hanging walls of Alaska to the footwalls of New
Mexico, he said, and all over Montana,
including the Jim Bridger Wilderness, the
Johns-Manville West Fork Adit.
It always depended on what mines were
operating, he noted.
Through it all, however, nothing filled Jerry with more pride than mining Maiden.
Whether it was Maidens Spotted Horse,
Cumberland, Kentucky Favorite or Maginnis
mines, Jerry was at home, and he was driven
to keep his grandfathers name in high
regard by following his example, being a
leader and stopping at nothing. If there was
gold, he was going to find it.
I spent a lot of time working on the
Spotted Horse, the Maginnis and the Kentucky Favorite, Jerry said. The Kentucky
Favorite was the last real high-grade mine up
here. It was mined in 1987, 1988 and 1989.
We mined exceptional high-grade there,
some assaying as high as 700 ounces per
ton. Thats spectacular.
Through the decades, the mines have seen

quite a bit of success, Jerry said.

These three mines produced between
300,000 and 400,000 ounces of gold, he
said, and they produced an equal amount of
silver, which is pretty good production.

Part of history

Jerry said it is an honor to be part of Maidens rich gold-digging history.

It all started in 1879, when Skookum Joe
Anderson, Davey Jones and another guy
found part of a mustard jar full of gold, Jerry said of the group that found the jar someone had buried when they sank a discovery
shaft. They set up a camp, which later
became my grandparents front yard. Apparently Indians were giving them a tough time,
so they left, but they came back in 1880.
Jerry has taken it upon himself to study
the history of Maiden and preserve it as best
he can.
There is no one that knows more about
Maiden than me, he said, and I am not
saying that to brag its just the truth, especially since my mother has passed on.
Going through archives of old newspapers, old photos and studying any books
written on the area, Jerry is the go-to guy on
Maiden. This summer, he will lead a Last
Big Gold Rush tour of Maiden and Kendall
as part of the Central Montana Education
Centers 2015 Adult Education series.

Maiden: not a ghost town,

but a Hanley town

Although the population of Maiden is

slim, it is no ghost town. Instead, it is a Hanley town.
My sister Barbara lives near here with

her husband, Keith, Jerry said. Their son

James also lives close by.
Whether or not descendants of George
Wieglenda live in town or not, Jerry said
most of them still come around.
Just like it was growing up, much of the
family comes and meets us here in the summertime, he said.
And much of the family is thankful for
Georges generosity, leaving so much of the
town in their name, especially Jerrys brother
Pat.
Pat owns and cares for numerous buildings in Maiden, Jerry said. He has really
put a lot of time and money into making
Maiden what it is today.
But mainly its been Jerry keeping Maiden
alive. Retired since 2013, Jerry leaves Maiden only when he has to, and he is more
invested and connected in the area now than
ever before.
There is a spirit here, Jerry said. There
is a spirit in this old town.
Although its unclear what the future
holds for Maiden, Jerry remains optimistic,
still holding on to hope for another gold
rush.
In retirement, Jerrys passion has not
waned, nor has his interest or investment in
both mining and Maiden, since he purchased
the Maginnis mine and still remains optimistic there could be another rush.
Im always looking for another mining
deal, Jerry said. Its kind of become a joke
between me and family and friends, but I
believe there is still gold to be discovered.
Charlie Denison may be reached at
reporter@lewistownnews.com or (406) 5353401.
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North Side Mission

Ministry provides companionship, education and fun for youth

MT Best Times photos by Steve Allison

Youth pastor Eddie Smith, left, conducts a meeting with older children at the North Side Mission in Miles City, recently.

By Amorette F. Allison

Montana Best Times

MILES CITY There are only a few homes in the 1200

block of North Jordan, adjacent to the old Milwaukee Railroad
yards on the north side of Miles City but, on Saturday afternoons, there are a lot of visitors. Those visitors are singing
songs, learning Bible verses, and enjoying a hot meal with
friends and family.
What used to be two rather ordinary houses has, over the years,
grown into the North Side Mission, an informal organization
affiliated with the Valley Drive Community Church. The mission
provides companionship, education and fun for children from
toddlers to teenagers in what started out as just one woman who
wanted to extend a helping hand.

Beginnings

Alice Swift, her husband, Archie, and their family, lived in a

small house at 1211 N. Jordan. Since the Milwaukee Railroad
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was still in business when they first lived there, Alice would
occasionally have a hobo asking for a meal. Alice always
obliged.
Her generosity extended to more than just hungry transients. If
Alice saw children who couldnt attend church because of the
condition of their clothes or lack of shoes, she took care of that.
And if someone was hungry, she fed them.
In addition to her home ministry, Alice conducted a ministry in
the local jail and also did hair dressing at the rest home, adding
some ministry to that as well.
The family counts 1968 as the year the home ministry tradition
really began. Thats when Alice started her Saturday Bible school
and lunch program. She ran it informally for several years, until
ill health forced her to retire.
While she was no longer active in her mission work, daughter
Bonnie said she served as a prayer warrior for anyone who
needed a few extra prayers.
After her death, in August of last year, her daughters took up
the cause.

Left: Debra Meyer greets visitors as they show up for a

meeting.
Left: Glenn Rice plays guitar
to start a meeting in the larger
living room area of the two
combined houses.

The house gets bigger

The North Side Mission isnt anything

official so much as its what Alices family
calls her old house, now turned into the
Bible school. On Saturday afternoons at 3
p.m., children from toddler age through
teenagers visit the house to sing songs,
study the Bible and have a late afternoon
hot lunch.
Usually between 30 and 40 children join
the family and friends for these sessions.
The family includes six of Alices seven
daughters. They are Bonnie White, who
currently lives in her mothers house, Sandra Beeler, Debra Meyer, Gerry Bloxom,
Nora Gambert and Janette Carpenter.
When they were young, her mother had
children over, teaching them crafts as well
as Bible study. Alice had a red station
wagon and used to collect neighborhood
children to bring to her house or take the
kids out for picnics to places like Woodruff Park.
Eventually, the wagon described by one
of the sisters as a little, teeny, red station
wagon was replaced with a bigger white
van and then a bigger red and white van.
That van is the current bus that is still used
to pick up kids.
Just as the transport got bigger, the
house itself got bigger. The North Side
Mission is located at both 1205 and 1211
N. Jordan. Archie took what was a fourroom house with just two bedrooms and
added on, eventually buying the neighbors house and connecting the two structures. The daughters remember holding up

rafters while Dad nailed them in place.

The house is decorated with religious art,
some of it drawn by Alice herself, and lots
of family mementos.
The sisters have helped with their Bible
studies and singing as well. Sandra taught
her sisters how to play the guitar. Eddie
Smith, youth pastor at Valley Drive Community Church, helps with the Bible study
group for teenagers, and Calvin Rice plays
the guitar for the sing-a-longs that open
each Saturday get-together.
Some of the attendees live in the neighborhood. Some are members of the Valley
Drive Community Church.
As daughter Sandy Beeler says, Children are the most important thing in the

world. They are the future.

Just follow the sound

Alices family continues to move into

the future, with something like 150 grandchildren, great-grandchildren and greatgreat-grandchildren.
So if you find yourself near North Jordan,
near the old railroad yards, now a repair
company for rail cars, and you hear a rousing chorus of Jesus Loves Me, just follow
the sound to Alices house and join in.
Lunch included.
Amorette F. Allison may be reached at
mcreporter@midrivers.com of ((406) 2340450.
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Tennis coach, from Page 9

We were kind of like Peter, Paul and Mary, except there were
only two of us, laughed Woodard, who began singing in church
during her youth. So, he was Peter and Paul, and I was Mary.

Of rods and racquets

Woodard and her husband came to Montana in 2000, when

Michael was named CEO of R.L. Winston Rod Co., the Twin
Bridges-based manufacturer of high-quality fly-fishing rods.
We decided that it would be a great adventure, recalled Woodard of her and Michaels decision to move from Denver to Dillon.
We thought it would only be for a few years. But he was very
successful and we loved it here way more than we could have
dreamed. So even though he has retired, were still here, said
Woodard, who after relocating to Dillon was forced to drive to
Bozeman twice a week to find tennis players at her level to practice
with to help keep her sharp enough to compete in national tournaments.
We really enjoy the beauty and the peacefulness and the community here, said Woodard, who finally gave up playing in national tournaments in 2006 after gaining a top-10 national ranking in
doubles and reaching the final of the national clay court doubles
championship that year.
I wanted to leave on a high note, she said. And I still get to
keep my hand in tennis through the Dillon high school team.

Staying in the game

Woodard said she still enjoys coaching and her players enough to
endure the high school tennis seasons half-dozen or so long road
trips, which usually require her to get up before dawn and return
home well after dark.
We do come home really late sometimes after midnight
when we have a meet in Billings or Lewistown, admitted Woodard.
But the meets we go to are the frosting on the cake for me. Its
really rewarding to watch the kids compete and grow. Its kind of a
reflection of what we are able to give to them as coaches, said
Woodard, who credits her Beaver assistant coaches Jenny Waldorf,
Jeff Koslosky and Tim Glueckert with her players many successes.
The kids gain the love of competing, and it has a snowball
effect because then they come back and practice harder so they can
compete better, continued Woodard, who often stays at practices
until dusk helping her players, and holds voluntary workouts on
weekends and during holiday breaks to prepare her players for
meets.
Why does she spend so much time on a job she doesnt need for
paying the bills?
I ask myself that, smiled Woodard. I guess I just love the
game. And I love the kids. They are there because they want to
learn the game. Many have taken lessons with me since third or
fourth grade. They love tennis, too, or they wouldnt be here late
on cold days trying to improve their games.
Though she retired from national competition, Woodard still
plays with a Montana United States Tennis Association team that is
vying for a spot at the regional tournament in Denver later this
year.
The team is for women 40 and over, though most of us are 50
and over, said Woodard. Im over 70, but they still invite me to
play.
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Woodard provides tennis instruction to Beaverhead County

High School player Mariah Mosher.

Not just tennis ...

Woodard said she found her first sporting love, skiing, through
her husbands family and has helped pass that love down to her
daughter and two sons.
All three of them got a good foundation in skiing by the time
they were 6 or 7 years old, said Woodard, who served on the ski
patrol with her husband at Bromley Mountain in Vermont for 15
years and continues to hit the slopes whenever she has time.
It was a wonderful thing for our children to learn, and they all
went on to become great skiers, added Woodard, whose daughter
married a ski racer.
Woodard also passed along the love of teaching to her two sons,
the younger of which worked as an instructor at Vail Mountain in
Colorado and coached its developmental ski race team, while the
older son taught skiing in Colorado before becoming manager of
All Mountain Sports at Copper Mountain.
And though she and her husband recently and vigorously took up
a new pastime golf Woodard plans to continue with tennis,
especially with coaching it.
Every coach in sports has the opportunity to be a role model.
Thats the part I really enjoy, said Woodard, who continued coaching tennis during her successful battle against breast cancer that
began in the summer of 2000.
I keep thinking about retiring. But I want to stay engaged and
feel useful. I had no idea how much I would love coaching when I
took it up, said Woodard, many of whose pupils are just taking up
the game of tennis when they come to join her high school team
and need to learn basics, like how to grip a racquet and keep score.
It takes patience and I find the better rested I am, the more
patience I have. But I just love watching someone jump on a learning curve, smiled Woodard.
And its a really great way to stay engaged in the community,
she said. Working with these kids thats what helps keep me
young.
M.P. Regan may be reached at mregan@dillontribune.com or
(406) 683-2331.

Many Talents, from Page 7

I dont know how

many projects Ive
done ... I like to make
old stuff new ...
Dave Osen
Dave Osen checks the oil on his latest
fancy, a vintage John Deere tractor he
plans to restore in the next year.
to his newest fancy, a John Deere tractor waiting to be restored.
A vintage pickup belonging to Osens friend Frank Chounet is
also waiting inside the shop for an engine. Beside it is a carriage,
which he built up from just the frame.
I dont know how many projects Ive done. Ive probably

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done more since Ive been here because it seems like in the winter I have more time, he said. But I like to make old stuff new
like this tractor. Carolyn doesnt know this, but one day thats
going to really shine
Adding with a smile, Well, maybe she knows.
With anything, Osen said he likes to learn and he likes to stay
busy. The cribbage boards, the animals, they are a way to keep
moving and someday, he may just come back around to those old
interests.
When I think of all these different things Ive played
around with and stuff, at some point if I cant do the things I
like to do now, I could go into the littlest shop in the world
and do these cribbage boards, Osen said, like his old friend
John Moreland, who built knives when he couldnt ride horses
anymore.
Everybody has a gift, Osen said. Its funny how life works
out.
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Travel
Saddlebreds and silver

in Shelbyville, Kentucky

Photo courtesy of ShelbyKY Tourism Commission and Visitors Bureau/TNS

Saddlebred horses are pictured at the Undulata Farm in Kentucky.

By Kathy Witt

KathyWitt.com/TNS

In the rolling bluegrass of central Kentucky, there are more than 90 farms dedicated to a singular vocation: breeding and
training Saddlebred horses the peacock of the horse world. These highstepping equine beauties, highly regarded
for their grace and athleticism, are perfectly at home in Shelbyville, Kentucky,
the American Saddlebred Capital of the
World.
Deemed as such by state legislative
proclamation, Shelbyville and Shelby
County became the hub of saddlebred
horse breeding activity, quite simply,
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because its where the best horses were

and still are.
If you want to get into the country
music business you go to Nashville, said
saddlebred horse breeder Hoppy Bennett.
If you want to get into American Saddlebred, you come to Shelby County.

Historic horse

The breed actually dates back to the

late 18th century when explorer Daniel
Boone, his brother Squire and many a
pioneer traveled to Kentucky on American Horses, the forerunner of the modern Saddlebred horse. These days, the
pioneers have been replaced by the breed-

ers and trainers and the hobbyists who

buy and show saddlebreds. All involved
are looking for the next champion.
What makes a Saddlebred a champion
is inside, its his heart, his will to win,
said Bennet. We breed for that. We
know what pedigrees produce that. They
move and go like theyre breathing fire,
yet they have to be trained to be mannerly enough for anyone to ride them.
Groups of 15 or more and families
overnighting in Shelby County can take
an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of
the cosseted world of the saddlebred,
including to Bennetts Undulata Farm. A
Shelbyville landmark that is also on the
National Register of Historic Places,

up-close, stroll through the

barn, talk to a trainer. Youll
learn about the distinctive gait
of these beautiful show horses
and you might even get to pet
a new foal.

Theres silver
in them thar hills

Photo courtesy of ShelbyKY

Tourism Commission and Visitors
Bureau/TNS

Mint julep cups are handmade and hand-engraved at

Shelbyvilles WakefieldScearce Gallery.
Undulata is where Civil War
veteran Harry Weissinger and
his sons once bred the great
stallion, American Born.
He was a history-making
stallion, born right here, and he
made a great contribution to the
breed through his off-spring,
said Bennett. He added a lot
of beauty and refinement.
Saddlebred stables are abuzz
with activity all year long, but
the most exciting time is during the spring when the babies
arrive the best time to tour.
Each spring, as many as 300
foals are born in Shelby County. (Nationally about 1,500
saddlebred horses are born
each year.)
Youll see the babies with
their mamas, playing in the
field, said Charlie Kramer,
horse farm tour director.
Youll see some 2-year-olds,
working toward getting ready
to show. Theyve been training
for four, five, maybe six
months, and theyll be under
saddle or pulling a cart.
The approximately 90-minute tour includes a discussion
of the breed, the training aids
the horses may be wearing and
how and why saddlebreds do
what they do. Visitors will get
to see this jewel of a breed

Shelbyville is not only

where youll find the worlds
largest concentration of saddlebred-related facilities; it is
also home to one of the
worlds largest antique silver
collections at WakefieldScearce Gallery. Loving cups,
meat skewers, snuff boxes,
cake baskets, tankards, tea
services these pieces and
hundreds more gleam from
within their cases in the shops
aptly named Silver Vault.
Perhaps most famous are
the handmade sterling silver
Presidential mint julep cups.
Since Franklin Roosevelt,
Wakefield-Scearce Gallery
has sent every president a cup,
hand-engraved on the side
with the Presidential Seal. Of
nearly equal importance is the
official mint julep cup of the
Kentucky Derby, distinguished by signature markings, including an eagle cartouche combined with the initials of the current president.
Both cups owe their creation
to gallery co-founder Mark J.
Scearce, who originated the
pattern during World War II
from a Kentucky cup design
from the early 1800s.
Besides a treasure trove of
silver, Wakefield-Scearce Gallery has fine English antiques,
paintings, garden and architectural accessories, chandeliers and more all staged in
beautiful vignettes in a building that dates back to 1825
and the Kentucky wilderness
when it was a school for
young ladies. Known as Science Hill School, its founder,
Julia Hieronymus Tevis, did
the unthinkable: In addition to
the traditional gentleladys
education of reading, writing
and the social graces, she
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Photos courtesy of ShelbyKY Tourism Commission and Visitors Bureau/TNS

Above: Once a former school for genteel ladies, the Wakefield-Scearce Gallery today is an antique lovers idea of nirvana.
Below: Tap into your inner designer and sign up for a class at Making Ends Meet.

taught her students the sciences.

Today, Science Hill houses not only Wakefield-Scearce Gallery, but also the one-of-a-kind Shops of Science Hill and the
Science Hill Inn Restaurant, which specializes in Southern-style
home cooking using locally sourced farm-fresh ingredients.

Adventure guide to dont-miss moments

When in Rome . . . Since youre in American Saddlebred

Horse Country, saddle up a horse at Shelby Trails Park and take
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a ride through 400 acres of heavily forested Kentucky countryside.

Head to Smith-Berry Winery for dinner and a concert in the
vineyard. Every other Saturday in spring and summer the winery hosts live concerts, featuring music of all genres everything from oldies rock n roll to tribute shows (Jimmy Buffet,
the Beatles). Concert/dinner tickets at the door are $28.95. Visit
the tasting room first to sample and select wine to pair with the
meal.
Coordinate your visit to Shelbyville with an artisan-taught
workshop offered at Making Ends Meet. Several jewelrymaking classes are offered in late May by Deb Guess where
students will work in metalsmithing and tooling and with the
jewelers saw to create earrings or pendants. See classes here:
www.MakingEndsMeet.com/store/c85/STUDIO_Classes.
html.
Give your taste buds an authentic Kentucky culinary treat at
the Bell House Restaurant with a Classic Kentucky Hot Brown.
Locals will tell you this hearty concoction of tender turkey
breast topped with juicy tomatoes and crisp bacon and simmering in a cheese bath is as close as you can get to the original
recipe created in the 1920s by Chef Fred Schmidt of Louisvilles Brown Hotel.
Pack your shopping shoes for the Outlet Shoppes of the
Bluegrass, 90 designer shops in a setting of lushly planted
courtyards and arched roofs providing shade. Ann Taylor Factory Store, Banana Republic, Brooks Brothers, Coach, Fossil, the
Fragrance Outlet, Gucci, J. Crew, Kate Spade, Michael Kors,
Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH theyre all here and plenty more
and with savings of 20 to 70 percent.

RSVP

Below is a list of volunteer openings available through the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) in
communities across southern Montana. To learn more about RSVP, call 1-800-942-2677 or log on to www.
seniorcorps.org.

Custer & Rosebud counties

- American Legion: Will need volunteer

ticket takers this summer.
- Clinic Ambassador: Need volunteer to
greet patients and visitors, providing directions and more, two locations.
- Custer County Food Bank: Volunteers
assistants needed for 8 a.m-1:30 p.m., Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, to process
donations, stock shelves and more.
- Custer Network Against Domestic Violence: Crisis line volunteer needed.
- Friendship Villa: Volunteers needed to help
with activities.
- Grammas Ice Cream Shoppe: RSVP will
need help selling ice cream at the Eastern
Montana Fair Aug. 19-22.
- Historic Miles City Academy: Volunteers
store clerk needed.
- Holy Rosary: Volunteer receptionist needed at front desk.
- Meals on Wheels: RSVP will be delivering
the last two weeks in May.
- Miles City Historic Preservation Office
and City Clerks Office: Clerical help needed.
- Range Riders Museum: Volunteers needed
7 days per week to greet visitors, run the cash
register and more.
- Soup Kitchen: Volunteers needed to greet
(seated position), serve and/or prepare food.
- St. Vincent DePaul: Volunteers to assist in
several different capacities.
- VA Activities: Urgent need for someone to
help with activities.
- VA Community Living Center: Volunteer
with people skills needed to interview CLC
residents on a monthly basis. Must be able to
objectively ask questions, work on a laptop
while doing so, and be accurate. Select your
own hours. People skills and accuracy are
important.
- WaterWorks Art Museum: Volunteer
receptionists needed, 2-hour shifts TuesdaysSundays.
If you are interested in these or other volunteer opportunities please contact: Betty Vail,
RSVP Director; 210 Winchester Ave. #225,
MT 59301; phone (406) 234-0505; email:
rsvp05@midrivers.com.

Dawson County

- Local Farm to Table Store: Someone to

help in and during store hours, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
-Makoshika Visitors Center: Volunteers
needed to assist on Mondays and Tuesdays.Training provided.
Have a need, a special interest or desire to
volunteer somewhere in the community?
Contact: Patty Atwell, RSVP Director, 604
Grant, Glendive, MT 59330; phone (406)
377-4716; email: rsvp@midrivers.com.

Fergus, Judith Basin counties

- Art Center: In need of volunteers on Saturdays.

- Community Cupboard (Food Bank): Volunteers are needed to help any week mornings as well as with deliveries.
- Council on Aging: Volunteers needed to
assist at the Senior Center (Grubstakes) and
with home delivered meals and senior transportation.
- Library: Volunteer help always appreciated.
- ROWL (Recycle Our Waste Lewistown):
Recruiting volunteers for the 3rd Saturday of
the month to help sorting, baling and loading
recyclables
- Treasure Depot: Thrift store needs volunteers to sort, hang clothes and put other items
on display for sale.
- Always have various needs for your skills
and volunteer services in our community.
- Current RSVP volunteers are encouraged
to turn in your hours each month; your contribution to the community is greatly appreciated!
Contact: RSVP Volunteer Coordinator Sara
Wald, 404 W. Broadway, Wells Fargo Bank
building, (upstairs), Lewistown, MT 59457;
phone (406) 535-0077; email: rsvplew@midrivers.com.

Gallatin County

- American Cancer Society-Road to Recovery: Drivers needed for patients receiving

treatments from their home to the hospital
- American Red Cross Blood Drive: Two
volunteer opportunities available: an ambassador needed to welcome, greet, thank and
provide overview for blood donors; and
phone team volunteers needed to remind,
recruit or thank blood donors. Excellent customer service skills needed, training will be
provided, flexible schedule.
- Befrienders: Befriend a senior; visit on a
regular weekly basis.
- Belgrade Senior Center: Meals on Wheels
needs regular and substitute drivers Monday
Friday, to deliver meals to seniors before
noon.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters: Be a positive
role model for only a few hours each week.
- Bozeman and Belgrade Sacks Thrift
Stores: Need volunteers 2- to 3-hour shifts on
any day,Monday-Saturday 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
- Bozeman Deaconess Hospital: Volunteers
needed for the information desks in the Atrium and the Perk,8 a.m.-noon,noon- 4 p.m.
- Bozeman Senior Center Foot Clinic:
Retired or nearly retired nurses are urgently
needed, 2 days a month, either 4- or 8-hour
shifts.
- Galavan: Volunteer drivers neededMonday-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.CDL required and
Galavan will assist you in obtaining one. Volunteers also needed to make reminder calls
and confirm rides for the following day.
- Gallatin Rest Home: Volunteers wanted
for visiting the residents, sharing your
knowledge of a craft, playing cards or

reading to a resident.
- Gallatin Valley Food Bank: Volunteers
needed to deliver commodities to seniors in
their homes once a month. Deliveries in Belgrade are especially needed.
- HRDC Housing Department Ready to
Rent: Curriculum for families and individuals
who have rental barriers such as lack of poor
rental history, property upkeep, renter responsibilities, landlord/tenant communication and
financial priorities.
- Habitat for Humanity Restore: Belgrade
store needs volunteers for general help, sorting donations and assisting customers.
- Heart of The Valley: Compassionate volunteers especially needed to love, play with
and cuddle cats.
- Help Center: Computer literate volunteer
interested in entering data into a social services database. Also volunteers needed to make
phone calls to different agencies/programs to
make sure database is up to date and make
safety calls to home bound seniors.
- Jessie Wilber Gallery at The Emerson:
Volunteers needed on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays to greet people at the main
desk, answer questions and keep track of the
number of visitors.
- MSU Alumni Association: Volunteers
needed to help with decorations for MSU
graduation and reunion weekend.
- Museum of the Rockies: Variety of opportunities available such as helping in the gift
shop and more.
- RSVP Handcrafters: Volunteers to quilt,
knit, crochet and embroider hats for chemo
patients, baby blankets and other handmade
goods once a week (can work from home).
Items are on sale in our store in the RSVP
office at the Senior Center or on Saturday
Farmers Markets until September 13.
*Donated yarn needed for the quilting, knitting and crocheting projects.
-Three Forks Food Bank:Volunteer needed
on Mondays and/orThursdaysto help with
administrative duties, including answer
phones and questions, some paper and computer work. They will train.
- Warming Center: Volunteers are needed
for overnight shifts at the center, training is
provided.
- Your unique skills and interests are needed,
without making a long-term commitment, in
a variety of ongoing, special, one-time
events.
Contact: Debi Casagranda, RSVP Program
Coordinator, 807 N. Tracy, Bozeman, MT
59715; phone (406) 587-5444; fax (406) 582
8499; email: dcasagranda@thehrdc.org.

Musselshell, Golden Valley,

Petroleum counties

- Food Bank: Distribute food commodities

to seniors and others in the community; help
unload the truck as needed.
See RSVP, Page 20
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 Thursday, May 7
Book reading by Peter Bowen from his
newest book, Bitter Creek, Elk River

Books, 120 N. Main St., Livingston

 Friday, May 8
West Side Story, Fridays and Saturdays 8
p.m., Sundays 3 p.m., through May 17,
Shane Lalani Center for the Arts, 415 E.
Lewis St., Livingston
 Sunday, May 10
All City Garage Sale, Glendive
Mothers Day Horse Racing, 1 p.m.,
Eastern Montana Fairgrounds, Miles City
 Monday, May 11
Beginning Golf, Overland Golf Course,
5:30-7 p.m., Big Timber
Understanding and Observing the Night
Skies, (Adult Ed class) Math B Room, Sweet
Grass County High School, 7:30-9 p.m., Big
Timber, through May 12
Tap into Montana: A Craft Beer Week
and Brew Fest, various locations in
Livingston, through May 16
 Wednesday, May 13
Beginning Golf, Overland Golf Course,
5:30-7 p.m., Big Timber
 Thursday, May 14
65th Annual Bucking Horse Sale, through
May 17, Miles City
 Friday, May 15
Miss Southeastern Montana Rodeo
Pageant, through May 16, Miles City
RSVP, from Page 19
- Meals on Wheels Program: Deliver meals
to the housebound in the community, just one
day a week, an hour and a half, meal provided.
- MVH Museum: Volunteers needed to in
many capacities such as guides, maintenance,
yard work, historic preservation, board meetings, record keeping and fundraising.
- Nursing Home: Pianoplayers and singers
neededon Fridays to entertain residents,
alsoassistant needed in activities for residents
to enrich supported lifestyle.
- Senior Bus: Volunteers to pickup folks who
are unable to drive themselves.
- Senior Center: Volunteers are needed to
provide meals, clean up in the dining room
and/or keep records; meal provided.
- RSVP offers maximum flexibility and
choice to its volunteers as it matches the personal interests and skills of older Americans
with opportunities to serve their communities.
You choose how and where to serve. Volunteering is an opportunity to learn new skills,
make friends and connect with your community.
Contact: Shelley Halvorson, South Central
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May 2015
Calendar

 Saturday, May 16
VFW Armed Forces Day, flag display and
barbecue, Glendive

Laurel Garden Club Spring Garden and

Bake Sale, Thomson Park Picnic Shelter,

313 East 6th Street, Laurel

Southeastern Montana Fiddlers, Range

Riders Museum, Miles City

Handgun Safety and Familiarization,

(Adult Ed class) Courthouse Conference

Room, 1-5 p.m., Big Timber
 Sunday, May 17
High School Graduation, 2 p.m., Joliet
High School Graduation, 1 p.m., Park City
 Monday, May 18
Beginning Golf, Overland Golf Course,
5:30-7 p.m., Big Timber
 Tuesday, May 19
Noxious Weed Identification, (Adult Ed
class) Math B Room, Sweet Grass County
High School, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Big Timber
 Wednesday, May 20
Beginning Golf, Overland Golf Course,
5:30-7 p.m., Big Timber
 Thursday, May 21
Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park

MT RSVP, 315 1/2 Main St., Ste. #1, Roundup, MT 59072; phone (406) 323-1403;fax
(406) 323-4403; email: rdprsvp2@midrivers.
com; Facebook: South Central MT RSVP.

Park County

- Big Brothers Big Sisters: Mentor and positive role model to a boy or girl, one hour a
week.
- Fix-It-Brigade: Needs volunteers of all skill
levels for 2-hour tasks on your schedule to
help seniors or veterans with small home
repairs and chores, such as changing a light
bulb, mending a fence, cleaning up a yard.
- Food Pantry: In need of drivers to deliver
senior commodities once a month on an ongoing basis.
- Livingston Health and Rehab: Activity volunteers needed weekends for bingo callers
and movie showings; Monday-Friday 9-11
a.m. for coffee and reading the local news;
Tuesdays and Thursdays 7 p.m. movie night.
- Loaves and Fishes soup kitchen:Volunteers needed to help prepare meals.
- Meals on Wheels: Needed substitute drivers to deliver meals to seniors in their home.

Interpretive Programs, Thursdays and

Fridays, 8 p.m., through Sept. 5, Whitehall
 Friday, May 22
Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Fridays
and Saturdays 8 p.m., Sundays 3 p.m.
through June 14, Blue Slipper Theatre, 113
E. Callender St., Livingston
 Saturday, May 23
Nevada City Living History Weekends, 10
a.m.-6 p.m., through Sept. 27, Lantern
Tours start at 9:30 p.m., Nevada City
 Sunday, May 24
Laurel High School Graduation, 203 E.
Eighth St., Laurel
 Monday, May 25
Memorial Day VFW Program, 10 a.m.,
Gazebo Park, Glendive
Frontier Gateway Museum tentative
opening, Glendive
Peruvian Cooking Class, (Adult Ed) Family
Consumer Science Room, Sweet Grass County
High School, 5-7:30 p.m., Big Timber
 Thursday, May 28
Cast Iron/Beautiful Shrubs for Montana,
(Adult Ed) Blake Nursery, 6-7:30 p.m., Big
Timber
 Friday, May 29
Montana Junior High Rodeo Finals,
through May 31, Millers Horse Palace, 7215
Mossmain, Laurel
NOTE: For more information contact
the appropriate local chamber of
commerce or organization.

- RSVP Handcrafters: Volunteers to knit and

crochet caps and scarves for each child at
Head Start, also as gifts for children of prenatal classes, and baby hats and afghans for the
hospital newborns. Thursdays at 1 p.m. at the
Senior Center.
- Senior Center Main Streeter Thrift Store:
Someone who enjoys working with the public. Come help greet customers, ring up purchases, label and hang clothes and accept
donations.
- Stafford Animal Shelter: Kindhearted volunteers needed to socialize cats and kittens,
and to walk the dogs.
- Transportation: Volunteer drivers needed to
help patients keep doctor appointments; some
gas mileage assistance may be provided.
- Yellowstone Gateway Museum: Volunteers
needed for an array of exciting projects.
- Volunteers needed for many one-time
events including mailings and fundraising.
Contact: Deb Downs, Program Coordinator,
111 So. 2nd St., Livingston, MT 59047; phone
(406) 222-2281; email: debdowns@rsvpmt.
org.

On The Menu

With Jim Durfey

Healthy doesnt have to

mean boring and tasteless
Interest in healthy cooking is growing exponentially. Thats a
good thing.
But when healthy means food that bores ones taste buds to
death, that isnt so good.
We know were supposed to eat fish at least twice each week.
Frying fish is an easy way to cook fish but its not a very healthy
method of preparing it.
Parchment paper can liven things up while producing some of
the healthiest fare thats made by the home chef. Its available in
nearly all supermarkets.
Fish cooked in parchment paper with vegetables makes for
superb eating. The secret when adding veggies is to use ones that

Fish Fillets and Vegetables

in Parchment Paper
2 - 6 to 8 oz. fish fillets, such as cod or tilapia
5 thins slices zucchini
5 thin slices yellow crook neck squash
Small handful onion slices, sliced thin
4 thin slices lemon
2 tbsp. olive oil
2 tbsp. white wine
Fresh dill, chives or tarragon
Salt and pepper

Preheat oven to 400. Spread oil on both sides of fillets.

Place on parchment paper. Sprinkle wine over fillets. Scatter \
fresh herbs over fillets. Add salt and pepper to taste. Place
lemon slices over fillets. Spread vegetable slices over fillets.
Bring edges of parchment paper together. Crimp edges.
Secure with staples. Place on cookie sheet. Put in oven for 10
to 15 minutes depending on thickness of fillets. Serves two.

The term healthy cocktail might seem like

an oxymoron. But there are ways to make an
adaptation of an adult beverage thats
healthier than the standard version.
Take the margarita, for example. While the
traditional way to serve a margarita is in a
glass with a salted rim, chances are pretty
good your body doesnt need all that salt. On
the other hand, if youre a marathon runner,
go ahead and do the salted rim thing.
The blueberry margarita is tasty and the

will cook quickly. Thin slices of zucchini,

yellow squash and onions are good examples.
A piece of parchment paper should be used that is large enough
to cover the fish and veggies when its folded over to make a
pouch. The ends of the paper are crimped together and then stapled. Leave about a half inch of space around the fish and veggies.
The dish should be served right after its taken out of the oven.
When dinner guests poke a hole in the parchment paper to begin
the process of peeling it away from the fish and vegetables, an
aromatic steam will escape. That should produce oohs and aahs.

antioxidants of the blueberries make this

cocktail at least marginally healthy. As a
friend of my quipped, this could be called the
Antioxidant Cocktail.
My favorite adult beverage is a White Russian
which contains vodka, coffee liqueur and an
embibers choice of cream, half and half or
milk. I tell friends of mine that, since I make
mine with skim milk, my White Russians are
good for me. The usual response I get is,
Yeah, right.
A word to the wise dont be tempted to use
curaao liqueur instead of Triple Sec as I did
when I served blueberry margaritas at Easter
dinner. Although the blue color of the liqueur
gives the drink an even more intense blue
color, the flavor is not very compatible with
the blueberries. The cocktails did not win any
fans.

Blueberry Margarita
1/4 c. blueberries, fresh or frozen
4 oz. tequila
2 oz. Triple Sec
1 oz. lime juice
1/3 c. ice
Blueberries for garnish

Put first four ingredients in blender. Puree until blueberries

are broken into small pieces. Put ice in blender. Puree until ice
is in very small pieces. Pour into cocktail glass. Garnish with
three or four blueberries.
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schizophrenia, for instance, actually can

tickle themselves for unknown reasons.)
By Bill Sones and Rich Sones, Ph.D.

Send STRANGE questions to brothers Bill and Rich at strangetrue@cs.com

A question for our times:

Is email dead?

Q. Is e-mail dead?

A. Not dead as a doornail but creeping

along toward the same fate as snail mail,
though this may be hard to believe if your
in-box is filled with hundreds of unread
messages, says columnist David Pogue in
Scientific American magazine. Yet the
total volume of the digital letter has
dropped about 10 percent just since 2010!
The incoming generation after all doesnt
do e-mail, which requires a greeting like
Hey or Dear Casey that seems to
justify a longer message. E-mail has
become an activity, taking too much
energy and big blocks of time.
Enter todays instant electronic memos
texting, Twitter and Facebook which
dispense with the salutation and the signoff and are more direct and concentrated
and efficient. I can now send you an
unobtrusive easily consumed message that
you can read and respond to on the
go, adds Pogue. Its faster, briefer and a
natural for smartphone typing. Especially
on Facebook, instant messaging can take
on the character of a chat room, with
several people carrying on at once.
Still, e-mail has certain advantages in
staying around better than ephemeralfeeling tweets and texts and giving you
something you can keep, file, and return to
later. It just seems right for more formal
agreements, important news, and longer
explanations.
So, no, e-mail wont go away
completely. Postal mail found its (smaller)
niche, and so will e-mail. Technology
rarely replaces an institution completely; it
just adds new avenues.
Q. How did three convicts escape from
the inescapable Alcatraz Island prison
in 1962 using just a crude makeshift
raft? Did they make it to shore?
A. On the night of June 11, 1962, the

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three bank robbers escaped from their

cells through holes they had dug using
sharpened spoons, then inflated a raft made
from a patchwork of stolen raincoats and
cast off into the night, never to be seen
again, reports Thomas Sumner in Science
News magazine. According to researchers
using computer simulation of the Bay,
whether the convicts escape was successful
depended on the time and tides: If they cast
off between 11 p.m. and midnight, they
could have reached a beach just north of the
Golden Gate Bridge, as the outgoing tide
slackened; if, however, they set off before
11 p.m., strong tidal currents could have
swept them into the Pacific Ocean.
Resolving the mysterious disappearance
of the convicts wasnt the teams
intention, said coastal scientist Fedor
Baart of Delft, Netherlands. Rather, they
were studying how future sea level rise
might affect industries on the banks of the
Bay, enabling them to predict how rising
sea level would affect coastal flooding
during storms.
Q. Whats a funny thing about a good
tickling?

A. You can tickle others all you want (so

long as theyll put up with it) but not
yourself, reports Dinsa Sachan in
Discover magazine. Exactly why this is
true is not known: One theory is that the
brains predictive powers regarding our
own movements take away the surprise
necessary for a good tickle; another is that
the brain simply dampens all sensory
input during any movement, including
tickling, to better react to new sensations.
Its a serious question, says
psychologist George Van Doorn at
Federation University in Australia, since
tickling gives us a clue as to how the brain
processes sensations and can even teach us
a bit about mental illness. (People with

Q. If there were a Hall of Fame for

Hobos (homeless migrant workers of the
early 20th century), who might be some
of its illustrious members?

A. Folk legend Woodie Guthrie (19121967) wrote over 1,000 songs and often
sang in hobo jungles and migrant camps,
reports Mental Floss magazine.
One-time hobo, actor Clark Gable
(1901-1960) later became the King of
Hollywood.
Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Carl
Sandburg rode across six states for a year
looking for work.
Author Jack London started hopping
trains at 16 to look for work, which he later
immortalized in his 1907 memoir The
Road.
Jack The Manassa Mauler Dempsey
rail-hopped for several years on the way to
becoming world heavyweight boxing
champion from 1919-1926.
Hobo-turned-author James Michener had
a book of his adapted into the classic
musical South Pacific.
Q. Barnes & Noble, Johnson &
Johnson, AT&T ... Youve seen the &
symbol hundreds of times and probably
even know its name. But do you know
anything of its strange origins?

A. The ampersand was once the 27th

letter of the English alphabet, having
derived from Roman scribes who wrote
the Latin word et (for and) in cursive,
linking the two letters together. In the
early 1800s, the alphabet ended X, Y, Z,
&, but since this would have been
awkward to say, schoolchildren instead
ended with & per se and. Per se in
Latin means by itself, so they were
essentially saying X, Y, Z, and by itself
and. Over time, this phrase was slurred
together into ampersand (from
Dictionary.com and from Anu Gargs A.
Word.A.Day website).
... & now you know!
Q. How many people could point up at
the moon and make the curious boast,
Did you know part of me is buried up
there?
A. Upwards of 10 million earthlings, if the
Lunar Mission One project is successful,
says Paul Marks in New Scientist
magazine. Its the brainchild of British space
consultant David Iron, who plans to charge

people some 50 pounds each to place a

DNA-sample strand of hair in an archive to
be buried on the moon, alongside a digital
history of as much of their lives as they want
to record, in the form of text, pictures, music
and video.
The seed funding from this hair-raising
moon shot will set up a company to design
the spacecraft for a hoped-for 2024 blast off.
After landing on the moons surface, Lunar
Mission One will drill 20 meters (70 feet)
into the lunar crust, insert the DNA and digital data into the borehole and then seal it.
As Marks concludes, The hope is that the
archive can serve as a sort of backup drive
for human civilization. But, says Alan Coo-

per of the Australian Center for Ancient

DNA, for long-term storage, DNA from
cheek cells or blood would be more stable.

leyball net so oriented that the prevailing

winds blow through it. Fog droplets adhere to
the fine plastic mesh net, forming larger
drops that drip down into a collection trough
Q. Fog Catchers Bring Water to
and then flow into a storage reservoir.
Parched Villages, the magazine
Fog catchers make sense where water is
announced. Fog catchers? Whats that all
expensive and fog plentiful. For example, in
about?
A. Some places on Earth, though arid, are the Atacama Desert of Chile, considered the
driest desert on earth, experiments with sevregularly bathed in fog, containing myriad
eral 48-meter (158 feet) nets yielded 1000
tiny water droplets that are carried along by
the wind. Think of it as an aerial sea flowing liters (264 gallons) of fresh water per day.
The nonprofit organization FogQuest has
across the parched terrain. Harvesting this
ethereal moisture for drinking, bathing or been installing fog catchers for many years to
bring water to parched villages (from Fogagriculture requires a device known as a
fog catcher, looking like an overgrown vol- Quest.org and other online sources).

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Crossword

Across

1 Caret-shaped letter
7 Entertainer whose
name is Spanish for
churches
15 Film set in 2035
16 Connected with
17 Chinese discipline
18 Hood
19 Duke collaborator
20 Sign of a spill
22 __ Chicago
23 Torments
26 Fast sports cars
27 Capital that starts
with a month
31 Lacking heat?
32 2009 MTV
Generation Award
winner
36 Carol kings
37 Stud site
38 Medium
42 Desert
45 Capital that starts
with a month
47 Pay stub?
50 Common knowledge
51 __ again?

53 One of four Holy

Roman emperors
54 A Few Good Men
gp.
58 Item required to be
included on Nutrition
Facts labels since 2006
60 Predicament
62 Walter White on
Breaking Bad, for one
63 Rode
64 Placed a confident
bet
65 Claim

Down

1 Like some salad

dressing
2 Sea ruined by
extensive irrigation
projects
3 Work like a dog
4 Doctor Who airer
5 Am I an idiot!
6 Debatable
7 Certain media darling
8 Word of thanks
9 Most long and slender
10 Hosp. readout

11 Zaires Mobutu __
Seko
12 Security aid
13 Blast from the past
14 Thing thats no fun
to be out of
21 Pet controller
24 Sum, to Claudius
25 Footwear item for
Bode Miller
27 __ shot
28 Article in El Sol
29 90s Cleveland

Indians pitching
standout Charles
30 Label on some whole
foods
33 Californias selfproclaimed Zinfandel
Capital of the World
34 ... crafty seer, with
__ wand: Pope
35 Kevins Tin Cup
co-star
39 Horde
member

40 Embarrassed
admission
41 Tart filling
42 Early Bee Gees label
43 Bean expert
44 Soul, to Sartre
46 Dustups
47 In base eight
48 Daughter of Lady
Dugal, as it turns out, in
an 1869 novel
49 Violin pioneer
52 Two-part poem in
Idylls of the King
55 Convenient encl.
56 Video file format
57 Turn over
59 Homeland sta.
61 Dopey picture?

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