4-H members needed for documentary
Montana Public Television, in cooperation with Montana 4-H, plans to produce a documentary about the 4-H experience.
The documentary will take a comprehensive look at Montana 4-H and the positive influence it has on young lives, families and the surrounding community. It will profile a handful of 4-H members as they pursue various projects from October 2010 through September 2011.
Montana 4-H is the largest, out-of-school youth development program in the state, reaching about 25,000 youth in all counties each year.
Producers hope to select a diverse group of participants who will represent a variety of ages, backgrounds, projects and geographic locations. They are looking for participants who likely will achieve the most meaningful experience during their 4-H year, along with those who are already standouts. Selected participants will work closely with Montana PBS and the Montana 4-H Center during pre-production, filming and post-production.
Application forms and more information for those new to 4-H or seasoned veterans who would like to be possible subjects for the documentary are online at http://www.montana4h.org/#program:48. Applications must be postmarked by Sept. 20.
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Hamilton street reconstruction
The City of Hamilton has hired a contractor to install a new water main on Erie Avenue between Adirondac and Pennsylvania. The project will include total reconstruction of the road with curb, gutter, and sidewalk. The contractor has begun removing the old pavement. The street will be closed except to residents living on Erie Avenue. The contractor will maintain one lane of travel and access to driveways for residents during the construction. The project is expected to last approximately 60 days. For further information, contact the Public Works Department at 363-2131.
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Call for crafters and artisans
The Daly Mansion Preservation Trust invites crafters and artisans to apply for jury consideration for the Mansion’s annual Holly Jolly Craft Show. This year’s show takes place November 5-7. Vendors who produce and sell hand crafted and homemade goods are encouraged to apply. The Daly Mansion, located at 251 Eastside Highway between Hamilton and Corvallis, offers a unique venue on all three floors. Holiday items are strongly encouraged but not required. There is a nominal booth fee of $55.00. The application deadline is September 10. To request an application form or for more information, contact April at 363-6004m ext. 3# or email your request to april.johnson@dalymansion.org and include your mailing address.
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Call for volunteers
South Valley Child and Family Center is looking for volunteers to help with the Suppertime Program. Four volunteers are needed who enjoy mentoring youth, like to cook and are available four hours a week on Monday or Tuesday evenings twice a month. The free community meal program starts in October and runs through April/May. SVCFC is also looking for individuals, families or organizations that would like to help prepare, serve or sponsor meals for community families and those in need. Call Faylee at 363-3450 to volunteer or sponsor.
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Temporary park closure
Hieronymus Park and Trail in Hamilton will be closed for weed maintenance on Thursday, August 26 and will reopen on Saturday, August 28. For more information contact Terry Cole at 363-1519.
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Outdoor groups collaborate on Blodgett Trail project
The Bitter Root and Missoula Back Country Horsemen, Selway-Bitterroot Foundation, and Sierra Club worked together recently to accomplish a group goal: pack in a week’s worth of food and gear for a Sierra Club crew so they could clean the upper Blodgett Trail system. Bitter Root BCH packers, joined by two Missoula BCH members, packed in food and gear for the work project on Blodgett, one of the most popular trails in the Bitterroot National Forest. Ten Sierra Club members from across the country traveled to the Bitterroot Valley to spend the week performing trail maintenance and conducting campsite inventories.
Due to the large amount of food needed, BCH members started the operation with a pre-pack day on Saturday, August 14. They loaded and weighed food and gear to make sure pack boxes and panniers were equally balanced for the pack animals. Bright and early Sunday morning, they met Sierra Club volunteers and the Selway-Bitterroot Foundation crew leader at Blodgett Trailhead, loaded the pack boxes and panniers onto horses and mules, and traveled seven miles up the trail to the group’s campsite.
According to Sierra Club member Didi Toaspern, who hails from Chico, California and served as the crew’s cook for the week, their volunteers perform service projects like this every summer and pay their own way to project destinations. Last week on Blodgett they cleaned over 100 water bars, cleared brush from the trail, and cut out numerous trees with crosscuts and hand saws, working from their campsite to Blodgett Lake, a distance of four and half miles.
On Saturday, August 21, Bitter Root and Missoula BCH members headed back up to the campsite and packed out the tired but happy crew’s gear and tools, a much lighter load this time with the food gone! Groups like these work closely with national forest personnel to keep forest trails open and accessible to the public.
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Obituaries
Glenn Shorter
1952-2010
Glenn Kenneth Shorter, born October 2, 1952, died at home on August 14, 2010. He was one of four children born to the late Elsie and Douglas Shorter in Bloomfield, NJ. At age 17, he moved to California where he finished high school. Glenn then moved to Montana where he met Victoria and they were married in 1973 and settled in Hamilton. Glenn worked for several years as a logger. They had two children, Rosalee and Jared. Glenn and Victoria divorced and Glenn later met Pamela Kennedy and her daughter Cayanne. Glenn and Pam married and moved to Havre, MT where Glenn received a bachelor’s degree in construction engineering and then moved to Las Vegas where he worked as a construction site supervisor. Glenn and Pam moved back to Montana where Glenn worked in the Stillwater Mine for five years. They sold the house that Glenn had built at Nye and moved back to California. Glenn built another house in Anderson where he resided until his death.
He was preceded in death by his parents, his son Jared and his wife Pamela.
Glenn enjoyed playing drums and listening to music, gardening, fishing, hunting, and most of all being with family and friends. Glenn will forever be loved and remembered by his daughter Rosalee Shorter and her husband John Masar and three grandchildren, Orion, Marin, and Ara, of Sacramento, CA; brothers Ron (Cassie) of Livingston, MT, and Doug Shorter of Helena, MT; sister Elaine Shorter in Oregon; his aunt Beverly Kulick, and stepdaughter Cayanne Ott, as well as countless other family and friends.
Memorial donations can be sent to Rosalee Shorter, PO Box 1212, Anderson, CA 96007.
Muriel George
1915-2010
Muriel (Wankel) George, 94, died Tuesday, August 3, 2010 in a Nampa, Idaho hospital after a short illness.
Muriel and her twin brother Merrill were born to Arthur and Mabel Wankel on December 6, 1915, in St. Paul, Minnesota, coincidentally one of the twin cities, while their parents were there to attend a national grain elevator convention. Muriel was raised on her parents’ farm northeast of Raymond, Montana, and attended a country school, graduating from high school in Dooley, Montana. She then attended teacher's college in Dillon, Montana. Later, moving back, she taught at the Wankel School for a period of time.
Muriel married Walter George in Miles City in 1937, where she was a teacher at a country school. She met Walter at a country dance in the area. The family moved to Hamilton, Montana, in the beautiful Bitterroot Valley in 1945. Muriel was a great wife and mother, working alongside her husband on the farm and in the home. She was a homeroom mom and a 4-H leader and helped many young people learn and flourish through their projects. Muriel and Walter retired from farming in the late 1970’s, when they moved back to Sheridan County, in Northeastern Montana, to the farm where she grew up, and where she enjoyed being with her many relatives. After Walter’s death in 1983, Muriel continued to spend the winters at the old homestead and summers in Hamilton. While living at Raymond she attended the Congregational Church in Plentywood, Montana, where she was active in the Women’s Fellowship. In 2005, she moved to live with her son and family in Nampa, Idaho until her death.
Muriel was a very special grandmother who truly enjoyed any time that she spent with her grandchildren. They will be forever grateful for her love and care. Muriel was wonderful to everyone she met, totally non-judgmental.
She is survived by her three daughters, Gayla (Raymond) Fowler, Stevensville, Montana and Candace and Sandra George, Hamilton; her son Bruce (Priscilla), Nampa, Idaho; her sister Katie Zeidler, and her sister-in-law Wanda (Bob) Wankel, Plentywood, Montana, numerous nieces and nephews and nine grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her parents, her husband Walter, her sisters Wynona Kenney, Joyce Fortner, twin brother Merrill and younger brother Bob.
Services and burial will be at the family cemetery out on the great northern prairie in Sheridan County, on a date to be decided.
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