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Honoring Those Who Make a Difference The Chronicle’s 24 Over 64 Prime Awards honor those who have made a difference to our community and/or their profession. Each honoree has been nominated by others. All are inspirations. Enjoy their stories.

Special thanks to our exceptional photographer, Ryan Hetzel.

A newcomer to Bozeman, he volunteered many hours of his time and talent. The Chronicle is grateful and very delighted to share his work.

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Jeff Bagdanov....................................................4 Ed Brainard.......................................................6 Ed Brandt..........................................................8 Bill Bryan...........................................................9 Kay Campeau..................................................10 Dr. Gary Cook.................................................11 Bill Curtis........................................................12 George Satch Freswick...................................14 Sheila Gaub....................................................15 Shirley Hank Hancock.....................................16 The Reverend Roxanne Klingensmith..............18 John Leeper.....................................................20 Sally Maison....................................................21 Jan Matney......................................................22 George Mattson..............................................23 Rodger McCormick.........................................24 John Murdoch..................................................25 Dr. Jerry Nielsen..............................................27 Tom Parac.......................................................28 Jane Quinn......................................................29 Jeff Rupp.........................................................30 Mike Scholz.....................................................31 Marjorie Smith................................................32 Charles Russell Soha.......................................33

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Jeff Bagdanov For Love of Hockey

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“The list of things Jeff does is extensive but unfortunately has never been the subject of an award: assembling and disassembling player benches and penalty boxes, hanging dasher board advertising, fixing motors, replacing ballasts, repairing drywall, troubleshooting and replacing plumbing, photo and video filming and editing, compiling information and creating spreadsheets and endless cleaning. Much of this work is done as a volunteer, and he usually only ice skates himself once per year. The number of hours he donates is mind-boggling. He deserves an award for selflessness.”

Bagdanov, who retired in 2003 after 30 years as a field technician with the Fisheries Division of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, took up volunteering when the Valley Ice Garden closed and the Icedogs moved to Haynes Pavilion at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds. He’s been hooked on the sport since he saw his first game in Omaha, Neb., where he served with the Air Force.

“Once I saw the game live, I loved it. It’s just a nice, fast sport.” His wife, Carla, is a volunteer with the Icedogs too.

They have been Icedogs Booster Club members from the beginning and hosted players in their home. He has great admiration for all the young men he’s met over the years who come to Bozeman to pursue a dream in professional sports.

Keck has admiration for all he does to improve the environment in which the kids and adults who participate in amateur hockey spend their time. Bagdanov fixes and cleans things — lots of things — all over the arena because he loves the sport.

People who don’t know him get the chance to fall in love with hockey themselves because he does. And that’s just the way he likes things.

One of his favorite jobs is working as a videographer. He travels with the team to film games, and he’ll do as much extra, individual filming and editing as he can when asked by a coach or a player working to perfect his skills.

“I have extra time to give,” he said simply.

“They’re good people, they treat me well and if they need some help, why not?”

If you see him there this season, though, please don’t make too much of his award or his volunteering. “I just like to be the guy in the background and have everybody forget about me,” he said.

Bagdanov stays as anonymous in his other charitable work.

He and Carla also volunteer with Adopt-A-Sox, the local nonprofit that works year-round to fill and deliver overstuffed Christmas stockings to area military men and women deployed overseas and in the National Guard.

eff Bagdanov walked into The Daily Chronicle for his Prime 24 Over 64 Award interview, sat down and sighed, “I honestly don’t know why I’m here.”

Julie Keck, operations director for the Bozeman Amateur Hockey Association, knows. “Jeff works tirelessly for BAHA to the great benefit of the ice skating community in Haynes Pavilion, including thousands of ice users each season,” she wrote when she nominated him. “His official job is as snack bar staff, but that doesn’t touch the surface of his actual contribution of volunteer hours and skills. . . .

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Ed Brainard

He Plants Farm Opportunities in Youngsters

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ut near Manhattan, Ed Brainard and his daughter, Paula, work the land his granddad homesteaded. Her young sons may be the fifth generation of the family to take it over. Brainard has an interest in what they think about that. He cares about what all young people think about agriculture.

For the past 12 years, every May, Brainard, his wife, Punky, and now Paula have hosted the county’s entire crop of fourth-graders at their property to learn hands-on about animals and crops, bees and trees, the water cycle and farm safety.

“There’s 17 stations. We have presenters at each one, and groups of kids rotate through them,” he said. This May, 1,100 children visited the Brainards over the course of the three-day Farm Fair.

Duane Berkenpass, an FFA leader and John Deere dealer in Belgrade, wanted to bring a Farm Fair to Gallatin County as soon as he saw Montana’s first in Hamilton. He couldn’t have asked a person more concerned about education. Brainard served 33 years on the Manhattan Board of Education.

“I thought it sounded like a great thing for kids,” Brainard said of Berkenpass’ idea.

The first local Farm Fair lasted a day and hosted about 300 students. Enthusiastic volunteers, help from the Bozeman and Belgrade Chambers of Commerce and from the many groups that have signed on since helped it grow.

Brainard rattles off many of the helpers as he runs through the 17 stations. “The Forest Service helps with the forestry station, and the Gallatin County Weed District talks about weeds. The MSU beef people host the beef station, and the MSU Potato Lab explains potatoes. The 4-H kids make many of the animal presentations — the chickens, rabbits, pigs, ducks and geese. And the FFA kids from Belgrade are the group leaders for all the groups. At the sheep station, kids do everything from cleaning and carting to spinning the wool.

At the dairy station, every child milks a goat and a cow. At the wheat station, they grind flour. The Farm Bureau does the safety talk, mainly about four-wheelers.

“Everybody’s favorite station is the ice cream station, run by the Gallatin County Cattlewomen. Every child makes their own ice cream in a one-pound coffee can. My grandsons help at that station.”

The fair runs Tuesday through Thursday. “The kids leave at 3 and by 5 p.m., everything’s down.

You’d never know we put on anything.”

“We need to promote agriculture, and the more people that know about it the better,” he said. “A lot of these kids would never know where milk comes from. But when we show them in a hands-on way, they remember.

“Kids come here and see there’s a lot of occupations related to agriculture and a lot of opportunities for them. And you never know when one of them might see something and decide to become a farmer or a rancher themselves one day.

It’s not impossible.”

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Ed Brandt

An Effervescent Devotion to Community

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arly in his business career, Ed Brandt worked for Anheuser-Busch doing business analysis. He earned a master’s degree while employed by the King of Beers and later worked for a large department store company helping develop new shopping center locations.

In 1982, a friend recruited him to a small consulting company. They worked for family businesses, mostly in the beer distribution business. Brandt volunteered to come to Montana to close the sale of Cardinal Distributing after a coworker balked at visiting too-cold Bozeman. When the deal was done, the investors asked Brandt if he knew someone with beer distributing experience to run their new company.

He volunteered. He liked everything about Bozeman.

He’s been president and CEO for years now, and has

a reputation for being a good man to work for. He’s also known for rarely saying no to a community program that asks for assistance. As one of Bozeman’s beer, wine and soda sources, he gets lots of requests involving donations for various organizations. He doesn’t mind.

“We in the company have received so much because other people in the community have bought our products; we should give something back,” he said.

Cardinal Distributing is a big supporter of the YMCA, Eagle Mount, the Gift of Food and Spring for Food annual drives, Bobcat Boosters and the Bigger, Better Bobcat Stadium drive of 2011, Special Olympics Montana, Ducks Unlimited, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and more. But Brandt doesn’t stop there. “I’ve been fortunate enough that the business has been a success, and I have great people who work for me, so I have some time,” he said.

He gives it to the board of directors of Big Sky Western Bank.

He’s helped Reach Inc. find new ways to raise money. He’s a former director of the Montana Chamber of Commerce and a former president of the Gallatin Development Corp, (now Prospera Business Network).

His time with the development corporation, which mentors business owners, was especially rewarding. “It’s a kick to see people succeed. It’s a fun organization, and they’re good people. I understand numbers,” he said simply. “I know how to apply them to life. If other people don’t and I can help them with that, I will.”

Brandt’s latest passion is Warriors & Quiet Waters. He’s in awe of the strength and determination he’s witnessed in the wounded veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, whom the nonprofit introduces to the joys and peace of fly fishing. He serves on the board and has helped the 9-year-old organization make its facility accessible and grow its bottom line enough to hire paid staff.

“The human capital required to keep everything moving is huge, and volunteers simply can’t do it all,” he said. “Now we have been able to hire some great people to help.”

He especially loves going on fishing trips with the veterans.

“I talk to them and listen,” he said. “These guys gave everything for us when they put their lives on the line. Whatever we can do to provide them some hope for the future, I’m delighted to do.

There’s no downside to this operation.”

Brandt is generous with funding, advice and time, but his greatest gift to many Bozeman nonprofits may be his enthusiastic endorsement of their varied and meaningful missions. Thankfully, he’s not planning to retire soon. “People ask me all the time when I’m going to quit. I tell them that I like Mondays better than Fridays. When that changes, I’ll retire.”

Brandt has been married to his wife Barbara for almost 42 years. Together they have five children and a number of grandchildren, all of whom are able to live and work in Bozeman.

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Bill Bryan

Finding Solutions Through Listening and Connecting

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ill Bryan has spent a lifetime involved in environmental, rural and civic development concerns, helping people to connect and collaborate to make things better. Along the way, he’s also written a book, “Montana Indians: Yesterday and Today,” and started Off the Beaten Path, an outdoor adventure company, with his wife, Pam. He was a founding board member of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, and board chairman and anniversary capital campaign co-chair for the Museum of the Rockies. He’s currently helping with fundraising for the Bozeman Sports Park Foundation. And he serves on the President’s Advisory Committees for both the University of Montana and Montana State University without conflict.

It’s his way of giving back to a state and city that have given him so much. It’s also the result of following his passions, and one thing leading to another.

It all began in rural Maine. “I grew up on a subsistence farm. We ate most of what we grew,” he said.

Still, Bryan’s father was always volunteering, always working to make his community a better place. The son learned by watching.

Bryan came to Helena in 1972 to work on statewide energy concerns, then founded the Northern Rockies Action Group to help start and reorganize state and regional citizen groups concerned with environmental, agricultural, Native American and women’s issues. One of his early projects was helping the Northern Chey-

enne void the illegal mineral rights leases on their reservation.

He moved to Bozeman in 1983 and founded Silvertip Consulting Associates, specializing in organizational development, especially how to grow and maintain nonprofits. His clients included the Wilderness Society, American River, a Pittsburgh steel company and the Teton Science School.

The next year, he and Pam launched Off the Beaten Path, one of the first adventure and cultural travel companies to hire local experts to guide travelers, in this case through the Northern Rockies.

In 2004, inspired by a passion for rural sustainability, Bryan formed the Cook Center for Sustainable Agriculture in the American West. It became the Rural Landscape Institute, focused on sustainable agriculture and food security issues. One of its projects, the Rural-Urban Partnership, worked on building bridges across Montana’s rural-

urban divide.

That evolved into One Montana, which works to bring people together in cultural exchanges, community meetings, statewide conferences and online to foster understanding and new partnerships between communities and organizations.

“Montana is made up of not just wonderful scenery, but also some really interesting and diverse people,” Bryan said. “Those of us in the urban areas still look to the rural areas for the food, energy and open spaces we need. And the people in the rural areas need the professional services and the markets of the urban areas. We both need one another. And whether we like it or not, we are far more connected than divided.”

One Montana has studied the feasibility of building a meat processing plant in the state to meet urban Montanans’ desire for locally produced food, and rural Montana’s need to create jobs in small communities. A RuralUrban Student & Entrepreneur Exchange provides training to high school students and helps develop rural-urban business networks. One Montana is also working with the Center for Mental Health Research and Recovery to develop evidence based, rural mental health programs to address depression and suicide.

Success comes through getting people involved at the local level and through listening, Bryan said.

“You can make a difference if you start from where the other person is, and not where you are.”

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Kay Campeau Opening Her Home to a Whole Community

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sible, the Campeaus eventually moved into the adjacent carriage house, although Ray still keeps his studio on the third floor.

The union of the couple and the house, and the benefit to the whole community, is fable-like. It includes two women the five Campeau children have always called the fairy godmothers.

Kay grew up on the 700 block of Grand Avenue, so she knew something about the house. It was built by James Martin, a Bozeman banking pioneer. Martin’s daughter, Julia, lived there alone. When Kay was little, her father, a meter reader, took her inside while he was working. She was enchanted by the stained glass windows, the three floors and the 21 rooms, all still furnished like they were in 1892 when the Martins moved in.

Enter artist Ray Campeau, who fell in love with Kay. He had fallen in love with the Martin House too, when he took rooms on Grand Avenue while an undergraduate at Montana State. He was working toward his master’s degree in art when Julia Martin died in 1966. By then, he and Kay were married.

They had four children and no money.

Ray inquired about the house, but the estate manager had no reason to take him seriously. Enter the fairy godmothers.

They were his thesis advisers, Jesse Wilber and Frances Senska, friends of Julia Martin. A few phone calls determined that the distant relative who’d inherited it would take as little $5,000 as a down payment from the right purchaser. Wilber and Senska wrote a check each, the IOU was written in a sketchbook, and the Campeaus moved in.

“The heirs took the rocking chairs and the dishes, and we got the rest,” Kay said.

That made the home a nearly intact snapshot of 1890s Bozeman, and a city treasure. The Campeaus knew they had to preserve it. Then they realized they wanted to share it.

They’ve received many unusual family stories in return.

One night they hosted an event attended by former U.S. Senator and NBA star Bill Bradley. When Ray got behind while tending bar, Bradley stepped in to help. “They looked like Mutt and Jeff,” Kay said. Another visiting politician, Illinois Senator Paul Simon, was famous for his bowties. So was Ray. They switched ties for the night.

“The house has allowed us to contribute to so many nonprofits. It has enriched our lives so much,” Kay said. “We are the stewards of the house, and our kids feel that way too.”

ay Campeau has to be the most gracious, most enthusiastic hostess in the history of Bozeman.

As the owner and caretaker, with her husband, Ray, of the Julia Martin House at 419 S. Grand Ave., she has opened their home for events and overnight visitors every time anyone has asked for 49 years. They’ve hosted artists, writers and opera stars; Dr. Henry Heimlich, who invented the Heimlich maneuver; politicians; college students and MSU alumni; and events and fundraisers for groups as diverse as the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Bozeman Symphony Society. They’ve never charged a fee.

They have opened the house for tours too, even at odd hours. “Sometimes, when our kids were growing up, they’d have to play possum in their beds so we could bring someone through,” she said conspiratorially, offering the engaging smile that has welcomed thousands.

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his sons Jacy and Jeff were in the Bozeman schools, he’d bring his vet truck to “Show and Tell” presentations. He’s a frequent speaker at equine conferences, and he’s hosted veterinary students in his practice and his home for years.

“We learn as much from those young interns as they do from us,” he said. And the young doctors who work with Cook at All West, including Jacy and his wife, Karyn, share current veterinary protocols, research and technology. “You have to keep up, though the advancements have been tremendous.

Clients’ expectations have changed as well. Clients are more involved with their animals. Horses used to be work animals.

Now they are pets and part of the family.”

Cook is unpresuming about his part in the equation. “It’s very rewarding to see how animals heal themselves and how you can help them. The biggest reward is to know you saved a life.”

Jacy and his brother, Jeff, a helicopter pilot, and Cook’s wife, Joan, are more effusive on his behalf. “Gary Cook has shown us that hard work, being early, working at the highest level of expertise, and true compassionate caring are the most basic qualities that apply to all of life: home, family, friends and work,” they said in nominating him for a Prime 24 Over 64 Award.

Cook is inspired by his patients. Just get him talking about that Tevis Cup. Each year, riders and horses cover 100 miles in Excited by Life and Horses California’s Sierra Nevada Range in 24 hours. Joan Cook has ridden in and finished the endurance ride. Her husband keeps an eye on all 240 four-legged competitors for lameness and metabolic problems during the 24-hour period. r. Gary Cook knew when he was in junior high and “It’s amazing what a horse and rider can do when working together.” Do the horses get anyhelping out on his family ranch that he wanted thing out of it besides exhausted? Cook’s eyes to be a veterinarian. Even then, horses were his brightened. “They have a sense of accomplishthing, and he has spent 45 years in the Gallatin Valley and ment and satisfying their rider. They pick up elsewhere taking care of them and countless other creatures. more from us than we think they do. All animals are like that. They really do understand us bet“My family raised Thoroughbred race horses. I always liked ter sometimes than we understand ourselves.” horses. I’ve always had horses since I can remember.”

His best advice for pet owners? “Make sure you can take care of your animals before you get When not working with horses at his All West Vetthem. Make sure both financially and mentally erinary Hospital, he’s been the volunteer vet for the that you are able and responsible enough to take care of them.”

Montana State University Rodeo Team (for 43 years), It’s a straightforward answer from a vet whose best advice is for the College National Finals Rodeo (for 16 years until to “be as honest as you can be, as thorough as you can be, work it moved to Wyoming), for the 4-H Summer Fair Horse as hard as you can, and enjoy what you are doing. I still can’t Division (since 1973) and for the world renowned Tevis wait to get up and get to work each day. It’s exciting.”

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Bill Curtis

Retirement’s Not in the Bible

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ill Curtis was an electrical engineer with Northern States Power Company for 32 years before he and his wife, Janet, moved back to her home state and settled in Bozeman in 1993. Until 1989, his life had proceeded pretty much the way he thought it would — Navy service in the Korean War, college, a career, marriage and family.

“I wasn’t much into volunteering and helping people until I met the Lord Jesus Christ when I was 58,” he said.

He immediately became involved in four local endeavors, the Noon Rotary Club, helping the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) mentor young entrepreneurs, the Love Inc. board, and attending and serving at Bible Study Fellowship.

He can’t say enough good words about the organizations.

“Rotary does so many good things, so much and so many good things for people,” he said.

“I got a lot of fun out of helping people with SCORE, hearing the small business owners’ plans and how innovative and creative they were and watching them succeed. And Love Inc. does so many great things also for our

community.” Curtis isn’t sure how much he helped anyone, but he enjoyed every minute.

In the late 1990s he helped lead the construction of a new building for his church, Grace Bible Church, and he’s served on the board of Montana Bible College, mentored students there and is presently board chairman.

What really changed his

life’s direction, he said, was discovering a Bible Study Fellowship class in Bozeman in 2000. The organization, based in San Antonio, Texas, was founded in the 1950s and now sponsors Bible study classes in 40 countries. Curtis is a volunteer administrative supervisor locally, “just an administrator in the background,” he said.

“A lot of my life now revolves around Bible Study Fellowship. It changed how I look at people and the way the Lord has called me to serve. The Lord is interested in our service but also in our spiritual growth. As we serve people, we grow spiritually and become more like the Lord Jesus Christ.”

In 2009, Curtis was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer, a disease with a prognosis that’s only fair. It introduced him to the staff and patients of Bozeman Deaconess Cancer Center.

He still visits patients there and prays with them, and is thankful for the staff. “The doctors and nurses are so loving and kind.

We are blessed to have that center in our community.”

The diagnosis refocused his life efforts yet again, making Curtis a more joyful, prayerful, thankful man, said his friend Mike McLeod.

“Retirement is not a word that’s in the Bible,” Curtis said.

“I just want to give back for all the blessings God has given me. I don’t want to get churchy on you, but that’s what’s important to me.

God put you and me here to serve and love Him and each other.”

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George Satch Freswick Remembering His Song and His Helping Hands

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f a project involved shaping or building something or singing, George “Satch” Freswick was always among the first to step up and help. He served on the boards of the Salvation Army and the Soldier’s Chapel in Big Sky, helped build the Belgrade United Reformed Church and the Wayside Chapel in Paradise Valley, helped found the Bozeman Chord Rustlers Barbershop Chorus, and helped shape young lives in sports and church organizations.

He was born and grew up in Bozeman, then detoured to Korea with the Marines in the

early 1950s. In February 1954, he returned and went to work for the first of several area truck-

ing companies. At all of them, he was known for his melodic whistling. That year, he also married his wife, Ida Mae, and when they had four boys, he became a Little League coach and a Boys Cadet Club leader, and built his family’s home on N. 20th Avenue. He taught himself a lot building that home, Mrs. Freswick said.

He formed a memorable Cadet group too. Normally, a Cadet group stays together from third through eighth grade, meeting regularly for crafts, Bible lessons, camping and other fun. When Freswick’s group didn’t want to disband, he stayed with them three more years. “They liked what he did, and Dad was in it for the long run,” said his son, Ron. Freswick’s other long-term church commitment was to the choir. He was a foundational bass in church choir his entire adult life. He was also a charter member of the Bozeman Chord Rustlers Barbershop Chorus, sang with them for 45 years, served as their president and treasurer, and helped start their Tater Pig Booth at the Sweet Pea Festival.

“For a while, he was in so many singing groups that he met himself coming and going,” Mrs. Freswick said. “He loved to sing. His songs were his faith message.”

In 1968, Freswick and fellow church men constructed the 10-by-14-foot Wayside Chapel on Hwy 89. For 41 years, it was located 20 miles north of Yellowstone National Park. Tourists and locals stopped by to pray, enjoy the view and sign the guestbook.

In 2009, he and longtime friend

Henry “Rusty” VanderVos moved the building to its current location by Emigrant General Store.

Freswick told The Daily Chronicle then, “If you come by here and you’re stressed out, you can’t hear the wind outside and you can get your thoughts together.

There’s an awful soft spot in my heart for this place.”

Along with God and his family, singing and mentoring young people, Freswick loved building and tinkering with antique automobiles. When he tried his hand at building one, he put together a 1926 Model T from junkyard parts. Tires were his only new purchase. He was a charter member of the Bozeman Antique Auto Club and its president or treasurer for many terms.

A friend introduced him to antique car touring and crosscountry races, and the family spent many vacations motoring around Montana. “We didn’t win, but we always finished,” Mrs. Freswick said. “We never had to worry about breakdowns, because George could always fix it on the road.”

The past 19 years, the Freswicks spent two months each winter in Dallas volunteering with Wycliff Bible Translators. Freswick helped build the Cowan apartment building and also built furniture for the missionaries’ dorms. He liked being involved and staying busy and helping others best, his wife said.

Editor’s note: Mr. Freswick became ill after his selection as a Prime Award recipient, and much of this interview was done with his family.

He died on July 24, 2016.

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Sheila Gaub

Her Passion Is Montana’s Veterans

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illions of people all over the world wrap themselves in quilts each night.

Quilts provide warmth and comfort.

Millions of people give them as wedding and baby gifts too, tokens of love. When they are made by hand, quilts carry an extra portion of love.

Make them red, white and blue and present them to America’s veterans of World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Afghanistan and Iraq, and they become star-spangled messengers that say all that and five additional weighty words: “Thank you for your service.”

It’s a message military sister, wife and mother Sheila Gaub is honored to express on behalf of a grateful nation. She’s the founder of the Quilts of Valor: Montana Chapter, now nine

years old. She doesn’t make too much of her role, preferring to speak about the hundreds of volunteers across the state who piece together the quilt tops and the scores of Gallatin County residents and others who stitch those tops plus batting and a warm flannel backing together.

“Very talented quilters have contributed some awesome quilts to the Montana Chapter of Quilts of Valor. Many of the volunteer quilters are men, most of whom had never touched a sew-

ing machine before, but caught on to instructions given by our experienced quilters.,” Gaub said. To date, QOV-MT Chapter has delivered 600 quilts to Montana veterans and has more than 100 nearing completion.

Many are distributed through the Missoula Veterans Center and to veterans at facilities across the state. One Montana quilt hangs in the medevac area at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and another in Japan to cheer any military men and women who pass through.

“We’ve also sent quilts all over the U.S. and to other countries. People hear about the quilts and request them for family and friends,” she said. “We try to make sure there’s a Montana connection to every person receiving one.”

Raised in South Dakota, the

youngest of 10 children, Gaub learned to sew at age five. To this day she loves it. At age 16, she made wedding attire for two sisters. She made her own wedding dress and attendants’ dresses 47 years ago, when she married Lt. Gaub. He’s now retired Col. Gaub, U.S. Army. “I married an Eastern Montana boy and lived all over the United States with him. But we always had property in Bozeman,” she said proudly.

They live there now and follow the military travels of their two sons, Air Force Col. Christoff Gaub and Army Lt. Col. Darin Gaub. The two sons have deployed 10 times between them.

QOV-MT Chapter is supported through private donations.

Some of the first came from the Gaubs themselves, who later turned their garage into a quilting studio for the volunteers.

The group’s first fundraiser was an opportunity to win a quilt that raised $900. Then, as now, the proceeds went into shipping quilts and buying fabric, so anyone could sew regardless of their circumstances. Each quilt carries a label that states: “This quilt was made for you out of appreciation, admiration and respect for your service to our country. We salute you and hope this quilt brings you comfort and cheer when you need it.”

Gaub gets teary when she talks about some of the replies veterans have sent after receiving the quilts. “Many say it’s the first time they’ve been thanked for their service. . . . My heart goes out to them, because every veteran deserves a thank you.”

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Shirley Hank Hancock

Always Pledged to Family, Country & Service

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ow age 95, Shirley “Hank” Hancock has served his country and his home state of Montana, but he’s most proud of the service he’s given his family.

“I grew up during the Depression, when you could go to the store and get a pound of hamburger for 15 cents. But a lot of the time, we didn’t have that,” he recalled. He helped his family get through by hunting rabbits.

He graduated high school in Virginia City, moved to Dillon and married his wife, Althea, in 1942.

He was drafted into the Army, then moved to the Army Air Force. By 1944, he was a machine gunner for a crew based in Italy.

On their 19th mission, in September 1944, their plane was shot down over eastern Germany. Hancock was taken prisoner and a few months later became part of the Germans’ forced, 500-mile march of some 80,000 Allied prisoners

to prevent their being liberated by the Russians. It was one of the coldest winters in Europe in the 20th century, with blizzards and temperatures well below zero. At least 1,000 American and 2,000 British soldiers died. On July 4, 1945, Hancock came home to Montana and Althea. The couple raised three sons.

“After the war, my wife and my family were my greatest inspiration because I loved them so much and wanted to see them happy and well. And the greatness of America and what it means to everybody in the world, even to this day,” he said.

Encouraged by his uncle Con McClurg, who would become Gallatin County Sheriff, Hancock

joined the Montana Highway Patrol. He started out giving drivers tests, but was regularly promoted.

In August 1959, the Hancocks were living in Billings when they were shaken out of bed. It was the Hebgen Earthquake, 7.5 on the Richter scale.

It struck in Madison River Canyon west of Yellowstone National Park. The resulting landslide sent 80 million tons of rock and debris into the canyon. Twentyeight people died.

When Hancock and his men arrived the following morning, they found large parts of Hwy 287 in Hebgen Lake. The first task was to plow a new road so they could search for survivors. Hancock walked through the debris ahead of a bulldozer, picking out the new path. His men helped rescue and identify survivors.

In 1968 he was named chief of the Highway Patrol. It was a satisfying career. “I didn’t kill anybody and nobody killed me, and I did save some lives.” Two years later,

he retired, but he wasn’t really ready to. He and Althea moved to Sheridan, and he went to work with the MT Power Co., driving heavy equipment and repairing lines after storms knocked out power. “I was serving people, and I thought that was important,” he said.

In the Ruby Valley, he was also active in the American Legion and served two years as mayor of Sheridan. He and Althea became known for their large garden and their generosity in sharing the produce. In 2011, they moved to Parkhaven Retirement and Assisted Living Community.

Althea died in January, and Hancock stays active tinkering in Parkhaven’s garden and keeping tabs on his family, including five grandchildren and 13 greatgrandchildren. If he were to give them advice, he said, it would be simple. “It’s everybody’s job to do the best they can, with their family and for their family and their country. In a nutshell, that’s the way it is.”

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he privilege of her life, the Rev. Roxanne Klingensmith says, has been to walk along side others and encourage them. Her natural leadership skills and a personali ty as constant and powerful as a Western wind have made her a change agent too, for the sick and lonely, poor and margin alized people of Gallatin County.

She was born in Duluth, Minn., and spent time in Illinois and Iowa before her parents moved to Minneapolis. “We settled in an affluent community though we didn’t have the money, because my dad believed in buying into the best education you could,” she said.

There, she absorbed the truth that for no reason and not through fault, some people don’t get the same opportunities others do.

She became a high school teacher, then an office manager. She moved to Bozeman in 1981 and became active in St. James Episcopal Church. She branched out to city organizations to help women in transition, the homeless, those needing assistance to pay utility bills. She led Love in the Name of Christ, the League of Women Voters and Bozeman Business and Professional Women.

“I’ve been drawn to societal issues that keep people from achieving, from becoming who they are meant to be, and I’m vocal about my passions.”

In the mid-1990s, friends encouraged her to study for ordination as a deacon. In the Episcopal Church, deacons minister under a bishop’s leading, with their highest call being to make Christ’s love known by word and example to those they live among. “It’s taken me many years to figure out my call,” she said. “I would rather set the table than preside.” Now Archdeacon for the Episcopal Diocese of Montana, she does both as a

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founder and faculty member of the diocese’s School of Deacons.

Since 2005, her ministry has focused on the incarcerated. That call was loud and clear. She had just finished reading Matt.

25: 21-41 in church (Christ’s judgment story about feeding the hungry and visiting those in prison). “I turned to put the book back on the altar and God said to me, ‘I want you in that place.’”

With help from Gallatin County Sheriff Brian Gootkin, then administrator of the Gallatin County Detention Center, and detention center Sgt. Jamie Young, she began her visits on Dec. 26, 2005. “I walked up, said a prayer and rang the bell. Six inmates said they’d like to talk to me, and I’ve been rocking and rolling there ever since. It’s a real honor to be associated with such a forward-thinking place.”

She is at the jail every Monday, leading devotions and listening to and encouraging inmates. “I’m not an evangelist,” she said, “but something happens to me when I go in there. I am able to tell them who Jesus is and how he loves them. I am unabashed about that, and it feeds my own soul.”

In recent years, she’s been part of a county task force that initiated Fresh Start, a program to aid inmates re-entering society and reduce recidivism. It is the only grassroots program of its kind in Montana. In 2015, Gov. Steve Bullock appointed her to be a member of the Commission on Sentencing, which is about creating more effective sentencing policies and legislation for the 2017 Montana legislative session.

“I can’t fix people, but I can walk the journey with them and be their cheerleader and encourage them to get on with their lives. We are all connected, a circle with God in the middle,” she said. “Awful things happen when we disconnect.

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John Leeper

Maritime Expert Gives All Credit to the Navy

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ohn Leeper, who started life in Great Falls, Mont., has been a longview, big-picture thinker all of his professional life, beginning with his ac tive Navy service from 1960 to 1964.

He spent the next 30 years earning the credentials that have made him an international expert on maritime and port affairs. He’s been the principal investigator or senior analyst for more than 300 projects relating to transportation, trade and economic development from Shelby, Montana, to Singapore and Toronto. In and among those travels he found Big Sky and brought his organizational skills home again. He resides there still with his wife, Margaret, who inspires him to keep active. They’ve been married 53 years, “and I still like her too,” he said with a grin.

Leeper’s decision for the Navy over the Army, made when

he joined the NROTC at the University of Colorado, made all the difference. “I was going to be drafted and my uncle, who was a Navy pilot in World War II, asked me, ‘Do you want to sleep in a foxhole or a bed?’

“The decision changed my life. I thought I was heading for law school in Missoula, but I met my wife, served as an officer for the Navy, worked for the Office of Naval Intelligence as an analyst and the Defense Intelligence Agency as a civilian, got my MBA at The American University, worked for the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council and spent 30 years in the maritime industry, some with a consulting firm and

some as the owner of the firm.

I got to travel the world. Before all that, I was a Teamster, a soda jerk and a waiter.”

His role models were his grandfather and father. “They were both resilient, self-made men.”

Leeper conducted a coastal port and highway evaluation for the state of Oregon and an antiterrorism study for the U.S. Coast Guard, did strategic planning for the San Diego Unified Port District and the Port of Pascagoula, Miss., and worked on the master plan for the Port of Anchorage, Alaska. He’s provided consulting, planning and expert testimony services for the Departments of Justice, Transportation, Defense and Commerce; for more than 30 domestic and foreign government entities; and for manufacturers, engineering firms and shipbuilders.

When he’d gotten all that out of his system, he settled in Big Sky with Margaret. For several years, he was a volunteer mountain ski host. Then he took his organizational skills to the Big

Sky Owners Association and the Big Sky Community Association.

“I chaired that the year we put in the ballfields and community park. That was a lot of fun, because we were creating something that improved the lives of the people who lived in Big Sky and set up attractions for visitors as well.”

He’s become a faithful writer of Letters to the Editor to The Daily Chronicle too. He figures his time with the intelligence community has given him a different view of some things.

“There’s only one constant in life, and that’s change,” he said.

“Also the realization that there are no perfect human beings. If you keep your eye on those two things, and anticipate and adapt, you will do okay.

“Get as much education as you can, and keep building on it and stay with it. Remember that everything changes, but your education continues. And there’s more reward working for yourself than for someone else.”

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Sally Maison

Putting the Emphasis on Wonder and Fun

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fter 30 years of working as a partner in a large psychological counseling practice in Minneapolis, Sally Maison moved to Bozeman in 2001. She wasn’t burned out or wanting to leave that life behind. “It was easy to listen to people. It’s like a puzzle, and it was a privilege to get let into people’s lives that way. I loved it. It was fascinating.”

She was simply looking for her next fun, fascinating life experience. The two words come up regularly in conversation with Maison, along with wonder.

Shortly after she arrived, she created a fun, fascinating experience any area adult can take part in: Wonderlust Lifelong Learning. Affiliated with Montana State University Extended University, the program offers wide-ranging adult learning opportunities, no grades or papers

required. More than 480 adults annually take advantage of the workshops and courses.

Contributing to the city she loves also inspired Maison’s work with the Montana Wilderness Association, the Community Mediation Center and The Daily Chronicle Editorial Board. These days, she is a board member of PBS Montana and president of the Montana League of Women Voters. “I had a professor who used to say, ‘I only do that which

intrigues me. Unfortunately, too many things intrigue me.’ I’m that way too.”

She’s also contributed mightily to Bozeman’s Cancer Support Community as a board member and organizer, and loaned them her daughter, Becky Franks, as executive director. Maison knows about cancer. “I’ve had it twice, in 2004 and 2012,” is all she cares to say. Both bouts were serious but caught early. “I feel very lucky, and I just wanted to give

back some.” She’s also mentored cancer patients.

The feminist movement and her experiences in graduate school were pivotal in her life, she said, noting that not many women got graduate degrees and began careers when she did. Her father was an inspiration. “He was a bright and very ethical man. He had lovely values that he transmitted to me, and hopefully I transmitted to my children. . . . When I was a kid he used to say to me, ‘Do you think you have a little green ticket to happiness?’

And I’d say, ‘Yeah, I do, and I want it punched.’

“I’ve always thought life should be fun and it is. I’ve had some grim times but always told myself to just go for it. As near as I know, you only get to go around once, so you better do it up.”

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Jan Matney Inspiring by Example, Living with Intention

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an Matney grew up in a small farming community in west Texas 60 years ago, knowing she wanted to help people. “At age seven, I said I was going to be a preacher.” She was told what nearly all little girls who said that then were told: “You can’t. You’re a girl.”

“But I wasn’t asking permission,” she recalled. Looking back, she believes she put her intention out there and it took shape. “Honestly, I think life is full of miracles. . . . It is possible to be what we aim for. We get a response back when we aim for something, when we set our intention and put our will toward it, and often what happens is more than we could have dreamed possible.”

In 1969, while a music student at Baylor University, Matney left Texas for a summer job at Many Glacier Hotel in Glacier National Park. It was the rippling of her first significant life change. She met fellow Texan Claud Matney, earned her degree, married him and they moved to Bozeman. She worked

as a music teacher and the activity director at a nursing home, then stayed home for several years with three small children.

In 1985, a friend introduced the Matneys to More to Life, an international course designed to help people access their best personal qualities and be more authentic, caring and real. “We liked it so much that Claud and I worked as volunteers to start the program here.” More For Life has operated in Bozeman since 1987, and Matney believes it has helped over a thousand people be more of who they are, see more of what is possible and offer more of what they have to give here in Montana.

“I think most of us don’t know what gets in our way of becoming what we want to be,” she said. “And because of this, too often we’re not making decisions to be who we want to be in our heart of hearts.”

More to Life led Matney back to school. In 1990 she earned a master’s degree in mental health counseling and her license as a Clinical Professional Counselor and opened Aspen Counseling, all while staying active with More to Life. She has since pursued training in neurofeedback and in 2012 opened the Center, which uses counseling and neurofeedback to help adults and children with learning and behavioral problems, attachment and mood disorders, autism, traumatic brain injury, anxiety and depression. She continues studies in neurofeedback and Quantitative Electroencephalogram brain mapping to help her clients.

Experience has taught Matney that life isn’t limited by what our choices seem to be at any one moment, and that all of us have the potential to meet our destiny. The best way we lead is when we lead our own lives with self-awareness and self-understanding, able to forgive ourselves and others for our human foibles. That speaks louder than anything as an example to others, she said.

The lessons can empower us at any age, and especially as we age. “It’s a question of generativity vs. regret. Are we going to accept ourselves, forgive ourselves and continue to generate our lives at every stage, or regret our lives and resent ourselves?”

The principles immensely aided Matney when her son Andrew, now 36, was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer three years ago. Friends from all stages of her life came forward to help the family, and reminded her to focus on what is possible, rather than settling for an outcome. “I don’t believe everything always goes our way,” she said. “I’m just saying, ‘Keep the faith. We never know what life has in store for us.’ We are all going to suffer, but when we embrace suffering, we’re going to be easier with it too.”

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medical buildings, schools, Fire Station No. 2, the 1981 Bozeman Library (now City Hall), the Museum of the Rockies and renovations of the Emerson Auditorium and Ellen Theatre.

For the museum, two one-story buildings already on the property were incorporated into the final building. Visitors can still find their forms inside. That kind of thinking informed all of the community projects he became involved with.

Among the first was the 1975 conference, “Is Downtown Bozeman Worth Saving?” It grew out of concern that impending construction of the Gallatin Valley Mall would adversely affect downtown.

“Someone said, ‘Get some funding and put on a conference about it,’” Mattson said. “So we did. I directed it because no one else stepped forward. We invited a writer from Harper’s Magazine, and planners and architects from other cities. I think it gave some inspiration to merchants downtown.”

It led to the historic restoration of many storefronts, and the planting of the first trees on Main Street. “I still enjoy downtown,” Mattson said.

Two years later, a conversation among friends led to creDesigner of Delightful Spaces ation of the Sweet Pea Festival in 1978. “Eight of us were having dinner, and we began talking about how the town needed & Sweet Events an art festival. And then we said, ‘Let’s see what we can organize.’” The initial team included Mattson’s wife, Bev, Eileen Tenney, Richard and Kathryn Helzer, Nancy House, and John and Marietta Sincell.

Several months into planning, they learned ince Roman times, the three elements of architecture that Bozeman had a Sweet Pea Carnival in the have been Firmness (can the project stand), Commod - early 1900s and adopted that name. The team developed the festival format and ran it as volity (does it serve its purpose) and Delight. Architect unteers for its first decade. “We were amazed George Mattson has put all three into his many Bozeman the first two, three, four years at how successful buildings and community actions, always while collaborat it was,” he told The Daily Chronicle in 2006.

Now, the festival presents the work of artists, ing with others. Decades from now, Bozemanites will still be musicians, dancers and actors and draws more contented with the results. than 15,000 attendees annually to its three-day run. “I love being in the park and watching all Son of a landscape architect, Mattson thought in high the performances,” Mattson said. school that he would become an engineer. A visit to a Among his favorites are the jazz musicians. No surprise. He Bozeman architect’s office changed that. “I looked around was one of the founders of Jazz Montana, an event that ran for at the models and drawings and thought architecture two decades and hosted performers such as Diana Krall and looked like more fun.”

Dave Brubeck.

He got his degree from Montana State University in Mattson is famously modest and low-key about all of it.

1959, and spent the ’60s in the Navy and apprenticing “When I saw opportunities for community things I thought with architects in San Francisco. He returned to Bozeman were worthwhile, I did them, generally with other people. It in 1971 and worked 37 years in the city. His specialty has takes people together to put things together,” he said. “I think been public and commercial buildings. Projects included I’ve been a good team player.”

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Rodger McCormick Basketball Advice to Guide a Life

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odger McCormick began working at his parents’ hotel at a young age, worked as a teacher, coach and administrator in Bozeman schools for 26 years, then worked three more jobs af ter that. “I flunked retirement four times,” he joked. Now he’s acing it.

He grew up in Three Forks’ historic Sacajawea Hotel in the 1940s and ‘50s. His parents operated it for railroad tourists, with help from their six sons and only daughter.

“We all had a job,” he remembered. “Mine was to operate two big washing machines and wash 60 sheets a day. One of my brothers hung them up, and another ironed them. My sister and mother made all the beds.

Our ‘slave quarters’ were above the dining room. Twenty-four hours a day, we were anchored to the place.”

He escaped to college and became a high school history teacher. In 1959, he hired on with Bozeman schools. Three years later, he took over a down and about out basketball program. The Class A team won just

two games the year before. His first season, he coached the players to 11-11 and a berth in the state tournament. Two years later, the team was a state powerhouse. In six seasons, his teams won 70 percent of their games, two Big 32 titles and compiled a 50-game winning streak at home.

“That really was all about the kids,” he insisted. “They made Bozeman a basketball school.”

McCormick retired from teaching in the early 1980s. When he finally quit working altogether in the late 1990s, he and his wife, Sylvia, visited the Bozeman Senior Center. “I went there to use the saw in the carpenter’s shop and never left,” he joked.

Executive Director Shannon Bondy figures the couple has donated 80 hours a month to the

center ever since. “Rodger has served on the Board of Directors for nine years, the building committee for 12 years, the endowment committee for 10 and he’s been the president of the Carpenter’s Shop for several years too.”

In addition, he’s chief repair- and handyman, and he and Sylvia deliver Meals-on-Wheels.

McCormick prefers to talk about the Carpenter Shop, where he designed and helped build the system that vents all the sawdust outside, and he and other members make birdhouses and wooden spoons for sale at the Farmer’s Market. The proceeds go to purchasing shop equipment. Another program he’s happy to discuss is the center’s Rest Stop Fundraiser Project. “Charlie Stablein and I came up with that idea, and

Sylvia’s always by my side for this program.” Many Friday and Saturday mornings May through September, the couple gathers donated baked goods, coffee and lemonade and takes them to the freeway rest stop near Costco.

Other Senior Center members join them, and they give the goodies to tourists for tips. “At least twice, people have put a hundred dollar bill in our jar.” Donations benefit Meals-on-Wheels.

McCormick also volunteers with the Evangelical Free Church, Love Inc., the city Ethics Board and Special Olympics.

Through all the years and generous acts, his inspiration has been basketball coaching legend John Wootten. “I went to a couple of his clinics, and always shared his words with my teams.” The words he shared most often, he took to heart: “Talent is Godgiven, be humble. Fame is mangiven, be grateful. Conceit is self-given, be careful.”

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to Bozeman. In 1994 he bought a single store called Big R Ranch & Home Supply and turned it into the first of 14 Murdoch’s. He retired again in 2007, selling to his associates, who oversee 30 stores in five states, two distribution centers and 1,300 team members.

When pushed about his philanthropy, he said, “What better way is there to use your time and funds than to help others who don’t have either of those so much?” He went on to make it sound like everybody in Bozeman does that. “This is an amazing town for philanthropy.

People share so much of themselves money- and time-wise. I can’t imagine a group of folks doing it better anywhere else.”

He’ll suggest that the Murdoch acronym called GET (which stands for Golden Rule, Excellence and Trust) is a good way to get through life. “The Golden Living the Advice He Was Given Rule is a biggie. It’s worked pretty well for me.”

He’ll tell stories about the man he met while both alking to John Murdoch, founder of a chain of served on a Nebrasfarm/home stores, widely respected Bozeman ka hospital advisory philanthropist and one-time board member for or- board. “I went to ganizations including Glacier Bancorp, Montana 4-H Foun- work for him and his ranch and home dation, MSU University Foundation and Bozeman Health, supply business. He is educational, entertaining and inspiring – as long as you taught me about the business, to work don’t ask him for specifics about being a good guy. hard, be ethical, have integrity and Ranch & Home Supply, the third “If you do things for the do your best. I’ve publicity, that’s for all the wrong retail chain Murdoch owned or always been proud of the folks at created. He retired from comreasons. I don’t talk a lot about our store for doing that.” it, and I don’t think our company pany No. 2 in the early 90s, And he’ll talk about the day but was soon bored. His wife, talks a lot about it,” he said.

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to see the nonprofit’s staff and volunteers helping disabled clients reach their potential.

“It was just incredible to think about what a difference they were making. In each corner there were volunteers holding up towels so the clients could change in privacy because there were no changing rooms. It was a no-brainer to help them out.

Anyone who looks at what Eagle Mount does is blown away.”

Folks who worked with him say more. “There is business success, and there is personal success. He has both. From his charitable contributions, to our local community, to the way he really cares about the people who work for Murdoch’s: I don’t believe there is anyone like him,” said Murdoch executive Chris Yahraes.

Kalispell store manager Craig Reinke added, “Not only did John instill the ‘GET’ philosophy into the business, he ‘walked the talk.’. . . He always asked about my wife and my children. Then we would talk about ‘store’ stuff.”

Asked about such praise, Murdoch changed the subject to the nine years he just finished on the Bozeman Health Board of Trustees. “Being involved with the hospital has been amazing.

They are working so hard to keep current and ahead of the curve in a rapidly changing environment.

Some of the things they are doing are going to be great for the valley. And the friendships I made on that board were huge.”

People who don’t take the time to serve others, and don’t get to know the people they serve with, miss out, he concluded.

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Dr. Jerry Nielsen

Spreading an Enthusiasm for Soil

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son of Wisconsin, Dr. Jerry Nielsen fig ured he would go into dairy or wildlife management studies when he started college in Madison. But a soils scientist named Francis D. Hole changed that.

“Isn’t that some name for a dirt scientist?” Nielsen asked. “Dr. Hole taught me that all soils are arranged in layers, and the layers tell stories. It’s been my goal in life to learn those stories.”

With his high school sweetheart and wife of 61 years, LaVonne, Nielsen has devoted years to researching soils, helping identify, map and name hundreds of types in Montana alone. He’s published more than 100 professional papers, and was part of a team that established the College of Agriculture in Kabul, Afghanistan, in the 1960s.

In 32 years of teaching at Montana State University, he has mentored many prominent soil scientists.

Together, he and LaVonne have

established the Nielsen Graduate Research Assistantship at the university to continue soil exploration.

Nielsen changed U.S. agriculture the day he called the USDA to ask about applying GPS technology to agriculture. The response was a gigantic “What?”

But his idea — to use the technology to locate and map the different soils present in most farm fields, then use specific farming techniques and applications on each soil type to increase yield — earned MSU the first grant to research what Nielsen called “farming soils — not fields.” Today, the process is called “precision agriculture.” It’s practiced all over the world.

Because it’s underfoot, soil is underappreciated. Montana has more than 1,000 different soils named and mapped. “They have different talents, and we need to know what they are. We often pave over the best soil we have without knowing or understanding that.”

Some soils are terrible for crops but offer strong support for buildings, roads and airfields.

“The soil in Belgrade is a great place for an airport, for example.

Other soils are great at holding water. Some deep silty soils near Bozeman are as great as any in Iowa. They are only limited by the colder and shorter growing season here.”

He continued, “Soil contains so many bugs and organisms, we don’t even know how many yet. We don’t understand what they do or how they collaborate with the bugs in our gut. Imagine what we can learn. We need to start collaborating with each other like all the organisms on the planet do.”

Last year, during the International Year of Soils, Nielsen and friends excited the entire fourth grade at Longfellow Elementary School about soil. Together with teachers Debbie Nelson and Kristin Sigler, the students learned about and made models of soils, wrote a bill and launched a statewide campaign asking the state legislature to declare Scobey soil the official soil of Montana. The students wrote papers to back their idea and hundreds of letters to gather support. They traveled twice to Helena to testify, and they succeeded.

One of the students, 11-yearold Ursula Vlases, nominated Nielsen for the Prime 24 Over 64 Award. “Being around Professor Nielsen is the best place to be,” she wrote.

He was as enthusiastic about Ursula and her classmates. “I don’t know what those kids are going to be, but I know the world is going to be in great hands.”

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Tom Parac

The Team Player Who Led MSU Skyward

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or former Montana State University Head Football Coach and Athletic Di rector Tom Parac, life has pretty much been a team sport, and he’s had a good run.

He credits his success to his Lewiston High School football coach, Dale Bohart, who gave him the tools and motivation, and to former MSU Football Coach Tony Storti, who had a major impact on his university career.

As a player at MSU, Parac was All Conference in football and basketball and a pitcher on the baseball team.

As he was preparing to graduate and move on to Officer Candidate School, his transcript came up short. “I needed a life and water safety certification, and I couldn’t swim.

So I enrolled in beginning swimming and spent that extra quarter at the bottom of the pool,” he chuckled.

He served with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division for two years, then returned to MSU for a master’s degree in education administration. His thesis was one of the first computerized football scouting analyses. The Dallas Cowboys later used it to computerize their scouting system, becoming the first pro team to do so.

While studying, he ran the freshmen football players for Coach Storti, then the backfield offense and defense for the team. “After that, you try to keep your job by doing the best you can every day, and getting better every day. But more important than that is helping student athletes get better every day of their lives, whether it’s in the classroom or on the field. That’s the really rewarding part.”

In 1968, he became head coach. The Bobcats earned a share of the Big Sky Conference title, and Parac was named Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year. In 1971, he was named athletic director. “That’s when I fired the football coach — that was me — and focused on administration.” He hired Sonny Holland to succeed him, and the Bobcats won the NCAA Division 2 national title in 1976.

In 1984, the year before Parac retired, the team won the title again, as a Division 1-AA school.

He was a driving force in the construction of MSU’s Reno H. Sales Stadium, now Bobcat Stadium. Parac, though, gives more credit to Athletic Director Gene Bourdet and the booster groups that raised the money. “I just got the construction part put together,” he insisted.

He was instrumental in the first remodel of the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse, and in the growth and prosperity of MSU’s Athletic Scholarship Association, now the Bobcat Club. In 2012, the Montana State University Foundation gave him its highest honor, the Blue and Gold Award.

Parac’s teammate in life has been his wife, Arty.

They’ve operated businesses together and raised two children. Daughter Kimberly lives in Bozeman. Son Wade has worked for many years as a human resources manager for the U.S. Forest Service in Arizona. As a teenager, Wade was paralyzed in a car accident. “We saddled up and met the challenges of the day, and Arty had the bigger role in that,” Parac said. “Wade’s had to adjust every day of his life too, and I admire his tenacity and strength.”

Being a coach and a teacher has been great, being part of a team has been better, he figures. “Being part of a team brings out the best in people, because you have to give up something of yourself for the benefit of a family or a team.”

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Jane Quinn Stitching Friends Together for Life

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nvisible threads of friendship tie Jane Quinn to women past and present all across Montana and America, as sure as real threads bind together the hundreds of quilts she’s helped them make for more than a quarter of a century.

She’s still at it, though she closed her popular Bozeman shop, Quilting in the Country, last year. “I closed it reluctantly, she said, though she protested with a laugh, “I had to quit eventually. I simply stuck with the parts I love to do and gave up the stressful ones.”

She is still offering quilting classes and retreats, and working on a new book on scrap quilts. “The creative pieces and stuff for that one are all over my house.”

And she’s involved in fundraising for some of her favorite Bozeman nonprofits, including the Gallatin History Museum. She’s an organizer of the annual Barn Tour and Pie

Social and the Books and Brunch fundraiser held this spring.

Quinn always has loved to sew. Her grandmother and aunt taught her as a child, and her earliest projects were “play things and outfits for the cat. My mother didn’t like to sew, but she really encouraged me. From the beginning, quilts were always around our house, and my grandmother’s friend took in quilts for finishing and made one for President Eisenhower.”

Quinn made her first quilt the summer after her freshman year in college. With her aunt’s encouragement, she pieced it out of scraps of leftover material from years of 4-H sewing projects.

“Then I was dragged west by my man,” she joked. That would be veterinary pathologist Bill Quinn. The year was 1968. In 1976, she went to work in a quilt shop, and in 1991 she opened Quilting in the Country in her home, the old J.L. Patterson Homestead she and Bill bought and preserved.

Five years later, it was so popular, they had to renovate the farm’s bunkhouse and move the shop there. Two years after that, Quilting in the Country was named one of America’s 10 best quilt shops by a Better Homes and Gardens publication. “That was truly amazing. That and a lot of loyal customers put us on the map,” she said.

With her natural high energy and love of quilting and quilters, Quinn did more than her share to make it happen.

She became a quilt designer, with projects in many popular books, and the author of several quilt/cooking books. She organized an annual quilt show that ran for more 17 years and brought first hundreds, then thousands of quilters from around the world to Bozeman. And she helped start the Quilters Art Guild of the Northern Rockies.

“I didn’t know it would all be so rewarding. I know I got to meet and become friends with so many people, and other people’s excitement as they learned to quilt was really fun for me.”

She’s taught several mother-daughter pairs to quilt.

Some of her classes became friend circles that didn’t end.

“One group took care of a fellow member who was dying,” she recalled. “I was so proud of that. It’s not about the quilting so much as it is about something like that.”

Or, as she wrote in her book “Quilting in the Country’s Daily Desserts,” “I love passing on the passion for patchwork and uniting the hearts, hands and minds of quilters in engaging and lasting ways. . . . The quilt captures the love we feel for those in our lives . . . provides the power of connection, joy, love and healing.”

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Rupp went on to work for Montana’s elected officials in Washington, D.C., then for the Montana Department of Community Affairs in Helena. He was excited by the opportunity to work in Chicago but grew tired of the arguments and lost interest in the politics. Chicago taught him that the most satisfaction comes from accomplishments made at the local level. This led him to HRDC in 1981.

At the time, the council was a few years old and struggling.

Rupp would help build it into a leading nonprofit human service organization that employees over 100 people and offers more than 40 opportunities to help people build a better life. Programs vary from affordable housing, senior programs and energy assistance to A Career That Began with Chicago early childhood education, food Politics Made a Tremendous Impact and nutrition, and youth programs.

Each year, HRDC assists one out on Southwestern Montana of six people in our community.

One of the first initiatives Rupp led was the creation of the eople have remarked over the years about the time Jeff Gallatin Valley Food Rupp spent working for Chicago Mayors Daley, Bilandic Bank. “Lack of food and Byrne before he took over leadership of the Human for our families was a real problem, and Resource Development Council. Most assumed he was from I knew we could be Chicago, but he’s not. Raised on a small farm east of Billings a part of the soluon the Huntley Project, Rupp attended MSU on an agriculture tion,” he said. “The potato farmers said scholarship but fell in love with history and political science. we could clean their fields. We talked to life,” he said. Eck played a major He met longtime State Senathe churches. They provided hunrole. “She led by example,” tor Dorothy Eck in one of those dreds of volunteers who offered he said of the woman who was classes, and accepted an interntens of thousands of hours, and known for advising, “If you see ship at the 1972 Montana Conthat’s how our food banks began.” something that isn’t working, stitutional Convention. “It was In 1983, senior citizens were don’t just complain. See if you the brightest group of people running Galavan, using a couple of vans to give fellow seniors can do something about it.”

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rides to the doctor and to volunteer. They asked HRDC to take it over, the program grew, and in 1999, Bozeman residents taxed themselves to keep it going.

Rupp used HDRC’s reserves in 1999 to establish a land trust and build affordable homes off of W. Babcock Street. That was a first in a multitude of efforts that continue today to address the need for affordable housing.

In 2006, a larger transit system was proposed. “We had a seat at the table because of Galavan.

The college kids said they would make it work if we would start it. My hope was that it would be free.” Streamline is celebrating 10 years of free-fare service.

Following the tragic death of a homeless man in winter, the community came to HRDC for a solution in 2010. The HRDC Board committed to a seasonal shelter funded by the community. Now HRDC prepares for a seventh season of keeping people warm and safe. “HRDC’s successes have all been accomplished by local people,” he said. “I loved the diversity of the job, the partnerships and the different conversations.”

Rupp announced retirement plans in June but will stay on for two years as a Senior Advisor. “It makes you feel good when you can help people with more than their basic needs and change their future. We’re just doing what the town wants to be done, and I am proud of that.”

He’s most proud of his 33-year marriage to his wife, Eileen, and being able to raise his four children in this community.

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Mike Scholz A Big Heart in Big Sky

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ike Scholz moved to Big Sky 44 years ago when his parents, Carl and Caroline, bought a cafe and bar with six cabins. He was 22, had a civil engineering degree and was just back from a seasonal job in Antarctica working for the Na tional Science Foundation.

A year later his parents returned to Ohio. They loved the West and knew how to run businesses — Carl had construction companies — but the hospitality business was not for them. They left their son in charge. Scholz added his dad’s construction knowledge to mentoring advice

from the cafe’s previous owner, Buck McKnight, and top Montana hoteliers, and built the little place into Buck’s T-4 Lodge, one of the area’s finest upscale hotels with a nationally noted restaurant.

“My parents always told my brother, sister and me that as an entrepreneur, you make a living in a community, and you need to give back to both your community and your industry,” he said.

Scholz has done both throughout his career and left a mighty mark on Montana tourism. For two years, he was chairman of the board for Best Western International. He was a driving force in the creation of the Big Sky Chamber of Commerce and the Big Sky Lodging Association. He worked with the chamber to lobby Montana legislators to allow unincorporated areas to collect resort tax dollars for community development, including creating their own convention and visitors bureaus.

“Twenty years later, I sit on the resort tax board for Big Sky, and it’s very gratifying to look back at all of the good works it has helped fund,” including the fire department, search and rescue and community counseling efforts, a stoplight, the arts and affordable housing. “Twentythree different organizations are helped by that tax.”

Also gratifying has been watching the maturation of Montana’s tourism industry. “It’s now the second leading industry in the state,” he said. “Not only is it great for the economy but for state residents and visitors alike in creating and preserving the outdoor recreation that everyone comes here and lives here for.

It’s also taking a leadership role

in helping people understand that we have to preserve and set aside special places to sustain our industry and our way of life.”

His efforts have earned him the Montana Office of Tourism’s Person of the Year Award twice, and the Big Sky Chamber of Commerce Chet Huntley Lifetime Achievement and the Montana Lodging & Hospitality Association’s Person of the Year awards.

Those who have worked under Scholz, such as Buck’s T-4 coowner David O’Connor, laud his influence on them as a tremendous teacher, coach, mentor and friend. Some of the highest praise you can give him, O’Connor said, “is that he helps others to achieve their best.”

“I look forward to seeing (co-owners) David and Chuck (Schommer) exceed my expectations and dreams for Buck’s T-4, just like Buck and Helen Knight wished for me,” Scholz said.

Throughout his career, Scholz said, the payback for him “was always being able to go home fulfilled knowing you had made others happy. That’s the essence of hospitality. You do work long hours, and not everything goes right, but you can go home happy because you made someone else’s life better. Nowadays,” he added, “it’s nice to get recognition, but when people in our organization call back years later and say, ‘You really made a difference in my life,’ that’s probably the most rewarding accolade you can get.”

He likes to encourage others to get in touch with past mentors. “I’ve done it now that I have time, and those are some memorable moments in my life.”

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Marjorie Smith Daring & Action & Dramatic Flair

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arjorie Smith has said yes to nearly every out of the ordinary experience life has offered. Take a reporting job in Guam? Why not? Dare to take the Foreign Service test? Sure? Start a theater company?

Let’s do it.

Her itch for adventure was the perfect accomplice for a desire to act. Yet she equally enjoys working behind the scenes at the sound board or at the computer writing the press release about someone else’s starring turn.

Raised in Bozeman, she’s spent the past three decades back in town, helping the show go on anywhere there’s a stage or an audience. And she likes nothing better than helping anyone who desires it to join her at center stage.

Ask Smith what brought her to Bozeman. With a dramatic flair she’ll tell you: “My parents. I was 9 months old.”

Her father, Roy E. Huffman, was dean of the College of Agriculture and eventually Vice President for Research at Montana State.

But Smith chose to attend the University of Denver. She didn’t like it, and came home to Montana State.

In 1962, the theater carried her away. She was cast in the school’s production of “Three Men on a Horse,” and the show was picked for a USO-sponsored tour. She fell for the leading man, Carl Smith.

They became engaged in Japan, married and settled in his hometown of Boston. “I might have had a little culture shock there, stomping around Beacon Hill in my cowboy boots,” she deadpanned.

When Carl landed a job in Guam, Smith found work as a newspaper reporter. She founded the Micronesian News Service in 1968 after they moved to Saipan and held several news jobs in the Western Pacific until the marriage ended. She moved to San Francisco, where a short-term boyfriend quipped, “You think you’re so good at tests? Why don’t you try the Foreign Service exam?”

“I took that as a dare,” she said. She did well, then successfully bluffed her way through an oral exam she hadn’t studied for. “That one tested my ability to fake it on my feet, which is what diplomats do constantly anyway, especially lower-ranking ones.” She served as a foreign service officer for the U.S. Information Agency from 1975 to 1983 in Washington, D.C., Bangkok, Thailand, and Yokohama and Sapporo, Japan.

In 1985, she returned to Bozeman, found work as a drama director at Bozeman High School, then as an editor for the Montana State University Extension Service and again became active in theater, serving as a board member for Bozeman’s Vigilante Theatre Company, an associate producer for the Bridger Mountain Theatre Festival and marketing director for Bozeman Intermountain Opera. She took a turn with Bozeman’s Loft and Equinox theaters too. From 1987 to 2012, she wrote opinion pieces and freelance reviews for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.

She has written two plays; a book of travel essays, “Kaleidoscope, The World My Passport Met With”; and the novel “Making Up Amelia.”

In 2014, Smith co-founded Bozeman’s newest theater company, Open Door Theatre. The players haven’t had a bad run yet. And the company has been true to its name, welcoming all who want to participate onstage or off, beginning and practiced actors, Bozeman newcomers and old-timers alike. “I love watching different people work together,” she said, “and I love theater’s ability to change people’s lives.”

She knows about life changes. She’s led an unconventional life, creative and wholly her own. Along the way, she’s encouraged dozens of others and helped them find their place in the Bozeman spotlight.

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Charles Russell Soha Montanan Determined to Succeed

By Charlie Russell Soha

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orn and raised in the Seattle area during the Great Depression, Charlie Russell Soha’s parents were from Great Falls and Belt. His Bavarian-born maternal grand mother, Mary Gabrielson, managed the Great Northern rail workers’ hotel in Kenmare, North Dakota, receiving pay of $30 per month plus board for herself and two young daughters.

In 1910, Mary and her girls made the trip to Great Falls. She arrived with 15 cents in her purse. In time, they moved to Fourth Avenue North, becoming neighbors with the not yet famous artist Charlie Russell and his wife, Nancy. Charlie Soha’s mother, Martha, became their house girl, attending to all required household chores. Mike Mansfield, who would later become a U.S. senator, delivered the Russell’s groceries.

Because Russell had spent six months in Alberta

with the Blood Indians, he learned their sign language.

He passed this skill along to Nancy, enabling the couple to discuss adult matters in Martha’s presence without compromise or embarrassment. This fact appears in print for the first time nearly 100 years later.

Charlie Soha’s high school years were spent at Seattle’s Roosevelt; he graduated in 1948. During that time, he participated in a musical production with Bill Gates’ mother. Following graduation, he journeyed to Dillon to accept a job at Montana Auto Sales, prior to enrolling as a student at Montana Western. He became active in the Montana National Guard prior to the Korean War, eventually retiring from the reserves at the rank of colonel. Other campus activities were membership in art, journalism and music clubs, plus athletics, where he lettered in baseball and football.

His first teaching position was in Fergus County at the Roy Junction School, 18 miles northeast of Lewistown, where there was no power or running water.

Six students in five grades from two families attended the one-room country school where the term ran from Easter through Thanksgiving, with no break to escape severe winter weather and no bus service.

Following teaching assignments at Broadwater County, rural Crow Creek School and Three Forks Elementary, he joined the Army’s Dependent’s Education Group with assignments in Zweibrucken, Germany, and Poitiers, France. Sandwiched between, he completed his master’s degree at Montana State in 1959.

He accepted other career civilian positions in adult education, logistics, recreation and resource management in Germany, Turkey and the U.S., primarily near Washington, D.C. Upon retirement, the family relocated to Emerald Isle, North Carolina, where they developed oceanfront rentals.

He returned to Bozeman in 2000, being active with the Chord Rustlers Chorus and assisting with the Museum of the Rockies’ outdoor construction of the keelboat and ticket booth. He’s participated in three Montana Senior Olympics competitions, winning gold, silver and bronze in ping pong. He was a substantial financial donor to Madison Care and Share, Ennis Food Bank’s move into larger quarters in 2015.

Charlie remains active with the Singing Souls senior group and Bozeman Senior Center, and has been a life member of the MSU Alumni since 1959. He is the proud grandpa of two boys, the youngest of whom is five months old.

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ing to their prevalence in our state.

Those ranked 1A and 1B have limited or no presence here. The 2A category weeds are present only in certain areas of the state. Those ranked 2B pose a serious threat, and include familiar, dreaded names such as leafy spurge, Canadian thistle and spotted knapweed. Category 3 plants, such as Russian olive trees, have the potential for negative impact.

2B NOXIOUS WEEDS IN MONTANA:

We All Have Duty to Control Noxious Weeds

By Jan Cashman

Are some noxious weeds worse than others?

Why should I care about noxious weeds?

It is against the law to permit a noxious weed to exist on your property.

Driving through our beautiful state, you can easily see the impact of noxious weeds, including large stands of the deceivingly pretty, pinkish-purple flowers of spotted knapweed. All noxious, invasive weeds choke out native plants, reduce the natural variety of plants in the area, make areas more susceptible to fire, and reduce productivity in agriculture by invading range and cropland. The cost to us and our government to

• Canadian Thistle • Field Bindweed • Leafy Spurge • Whitetop • Russian Knapweed • Spotted Knapweed

control these weeds runs to the billions of dollars.

What is a noxious weed?

A noxious weed is a plant that is “competitive, persistent and harmful.” Most have been introduced from Europe or Asia. They are not native to the area. Therefore, they have no natural enemies to limit their spread.

Categories of noxious weeds: The state of Montana has ranked noxious weeds accord-

Difficult to control spotted knapweed is probably the most widespread and invasive weed in the state, especially in Western Montana. In 1920 knapweed was found in one county in Montana; today it is found in every county and infests 4.5 million acres. Each knapweed plant produces thousands of seeds that live more than eight years after landing on the ground. Its long taproot makes it difficult to pull.

• Herbicide. Use the proper herbicide. Multiple sprays may be necessary.

• Mechanical means, such as pulling works. This works for small areas. Be aware that some weeds are strengthened by pulling if some of the root is left in the ground, so be sure to get all the taproot. Wear gloves.

• Biological control. Introduce insects that are a natural predator of the weed. This can take years to work.

• Reseeding. Plant desirable plant species, usually grasses, that will compete with the weed.

• Grazing, most often with sheep or goats.

• Other controls, including mowing (before weed flowers), tilling, or burning. Not all weeds respond to these methods.

Everyone benefits when landowners control the noxious weeds on their property, whether big or small infestations.

What can I do to control noxious weeds?

The best way to control a noxious weed is to limit weed seed dispersal by vehicles, clothing and animals. If the weed is found on your property, remove it before it becomes established.

If weeds have become established, the following methods of control are recommended:

Jan Cashman has operated Cashman Nursery in Bozeman with her husband, Jerry, since 1975.

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Wonderlust Fall Courses Previewed Sept. 7 at Country Bookshelf

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ountry Bookshelf, 28 W. Main St., will host a preview reception highlighting the fall Course, Side Trip and Friday Forum offerings of Wonderlust, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 7.

Wonderlust is a member-run organization offering lifelong learning opportunities for inquiring adults. There are no requirements, grades or papers. Wonderlust is simply learning for the sake of learning. Cost is $35 annually to join, plus course fees.

Fall Courses include: Contemporary Water Issues; T.S. Elliot; Exploring the Relationship Between Food and Health from National Statistics to Gut Flora; Cosmology & You; Ripping Off the Copper Collar: Montana’s Second Progressive Era 1965-80; MOR Exhibit Companion Course: Leisure and Luxury in the Age

of Oplontis; Intro to Islam; and From the Closet to the Courts: Contraception in America.

Special Workshops & Events include: Writing from the InsideOut; Classic Mystery Series Book Club; Field Trip to Yellowstone; and New Ways to Think About Viruses. Sidetrips include: Centennial Celebration of the National Park Service; What Flora Has to Say; Do Political Campaigns Really Matter; What’s So Funny About Computer Science; New Zealand: Paradox in Paradise; and Reflections on the Life & Legacy of Jeanette Rankin, First Woman in Congress.

Course locations include Hope Lutheran Church, Pilgrim Congregational Church and the Holiday Inn, with limited courses also available in Belgrade and Livingston. Wonderlust is affiliated with MSU Extended University.

For details, call 406-994-6683, email info@montanawonderlust. org, or visit montanawonderlust.org.

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Ah Yes, Technology

By Lois Stephens

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uring the course of an average day, most of us never consider how technology has changed our lives. Young and old, we all use technological gadgets of one sort or another to help us negotiate a typical day both on the job and off. We use electronics to get the job done whether we are 20-something or approaching retirement. Our varying attitudes regarding technology rarely surface, nor are they generally discussed.

Every once in a blue moon, however, some technological glitch completely separates the oldsters from the youngsters. I’m thinking of a day on the job a few weeks ago. It began as a normal day but suddenly, at about two in the afternoon, we completely and simultaneously lost landline phones, cellphone communications and Internet service. I mean we lost them, totally and completely, all at the same time. No communication devices worked.

This didn’t faze me. I actually felt a little gleeful that I had an excuse not to keep pounding away at the computer. The other older person in the office felt the same way. Hey, this was a bit of a

break for us. No one could call us, whining about anything at all, or contact us asking for something.

What a great event! We reveled in the freedom.

The younger generation, however, had no idea how to behave or what to do. I could almost feel the rising panic as one of them realized she had no link whatsoever to the outside world through any of her technological paraphernalia. She said to me with great anxiety, “We are isolated! We are cut off! We have no way of contacting anybody!”

I thought the poor child might break down in tears. When she voiced her concerns, I started to laugh. I didn’t mean to belittle her consternation, but the exchange highlighted today’s total dependence on technology. I gently told this frightened colleague that she need not panic. We were NOT isolated, and we were not out of communication with the rest of the world. We could easily walk or drive to Virginia City where we would find lots of people, if in fact we needed to find them, which we did not.

I attempted to explain that I grew up without a cellphone, texting or the Internet. We also rou-

tinely lost landline service, and no one ever panicked. Likewise, if we were not within earshot of the landline phone when it rang, we never knew anyone had called, as answering machines were still in our future. And you know what? We survived. We never felt isolated, lonely or cut off from civilization. We enjoyed our surroundings. We made it without technology. We had friends and family, we were not in constant communication with someone or another, and we were just fine.

Instant and constant communications would have driven me mad.

This brings up another point: The virtues of solitude. We can actually like and trust ourselves enough to spend precious time alone, out of contact if you will, with only ourselves for company.

Personally, I love solitude. I require it if I am not to go absolutely crazy. I need time by myself, with no one around to jabber and disrupt me, and this includes interruptions by text and by phone. How else can I rejuvenate, think through problems or troubling situations, reflect on my life or decide what course of action to pursue? I can only center and calm myself down by inner reflection that comes with solitude, not by chattering on the phone or endless texting.

Youngsters don’t understand the concept of solitude, which differs

greatly from loneliness. Solitude means reveling in time alone, taking stock, communing with your inner self. A person can feel acute loneliness in the midst of a crowd, but solitude never feels lonely. It feels right with the world, right with nature and our surroundings, and right with our souls.

Technology has spoiled this, particularly for the younger set.

Technology has its good points, of course. We have a wealth of easily accessible knowledge at our fingertips. Want to know the answer to a question? Google it, and within a minute we have an answer. I used to have to use an encyclopedia to find answers.

Technology allows us to work faster and smarter in some ways, but people also tend to grow dependent on this easy access, rapid information gathering, and instant communications. People forget what solitude means, how to listen to themselves and how to handle situations by using only their own good sense. Most of all, they truly forget how to communicate face-to-face and interact with others on a personal level, without the use of devices.

Technology is a great tool.

However, it ought to be just that, a tool. It truly cannot replace face-to-face conversations, and people do NOT need technology to survive and successfully navigate through a day.

Lois Stephens joins the Prime magazine team with personal experience of the aging process. She enjoys writing about her observations of becoming a member of the senior citizen age group. She lives and works in Virginia City.

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Growing a Healthy Appetite & Avoiding Malnutrition

By Hannah Stiff

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2014 American College of Emergency Physicians study reported that 60 percent of surveyed emergency room patients ages 65 and older were malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. Malnutrition in cluded being over- and under-nourished. Among senior citizens, causes of malnutrition ranged from isolation to dementia or depression, or physical, social and psychological issues, according to Mayo Clinic Physicians.

Taking in too many or too few nutrients each day can eventually lead to a weakened immune system, slower healing time and muscle debilitation. Bozeman Registered Dietitian Lindsay Kordick offers a few suggestions to battle malnutrition.

“Decreased appetite is common in seniors as metabolism tends to decrease with age,” she said. “Additionally, some medications and diseases can lead to a low appetite.

Weight loss is the most significant side effect from this. For someone not carrying excessive weight, it can be worrisome.”

While the recommended caloric intake varies from person to person depending on age, gender, height, weight and activity level, Kordick has a simple way for folks to evaluate their own diets.

“The best way to assess if your calorie level is adequate is to track your intake for a week,” Kordick said. “If your weight is currently being maintained, you are likely consuming enough calories on average each day.

However, if you have been losing weight, try adding in an additional 500 calories daily to help prevent further weight loss, or to

gain weight.”

Appetite is often formed by habits, so establishing or changing routines around food is important, she said. For example, if you are struggling to remember to eat, try setting an alarm. Eating small amounts every two or three hours is a good way for lowappetite folks to build healthy new routines.

When people think about changing routines or eating more, the first impulse can often be unhealthy. “Even though it may be tempting to turn to large portions of high-calorie foods such

as pastries, ice cream and fried foods, try to focus on healthy choices instead. When you need to gain weight, it’s not necessary to dramatically increase the volume you are eating.”

Try adding healthy options such as avocados, olives, oils, nuts and nut butters. One quick trick to add calories is to drizzle one tablespoon of olive oil onto cooked vegetables at mealtime. The simple addition packs an extra 100 calories to a meal without increasing food intake. For a quick, on-the-go option, Kordick recommends meal replacement shakes.

“Liquids are digested and absorbed more quickly than solid foods, so people can typically consume more calories in liquid form,” she said.

To create your best health plan, consult with your primary physician or a registered dietitian.

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1-1/2 Hass avocados, ripe•• 1/4 cup unsweetened dark cocoa powder 2/3 cup dark chocolate chips, melted 1/4 cup honey 6 Tbsp milk (or almond or coconut milk as a non-dairy substitute) 1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Banana Nut Oatmeal Smoothie

Place all ingredients in a large food processor.

Mix until very smooth (several minutes).

Serves 1

Spoon into four small ramekins or dishes and refrigerate for one hour prior to serving. Top with whipped cream, berries or chopped nuts.

3/4 cup almond milk 1 frozen banana, cut into slices

**A ripe avocado will give in to pressure from your finger at the stem. Avoid “squeezing” avocados; this may damage their flesh.

1/2 cup rolled oats

Nutrition info per 1/2 cup: 371 calories, 21 g fat, 3 g protein, 50 g carbohydrate

Mix all ingredients together in a small blender until a smooth puree is formed. Add more or less almond milk to get desired consistency. Enjoy!

Avocado Chocolate Pudding Serves 4

Recipes and photos courtesy of Lindsay Kordick: from her blog: Eighty Twenty www.eat8020.com

2 Tbsp walnuts 2 tsp honey

Nutrition Info per 1 smoothie: 513 calories, 17 g protein, 17 g fat (to keep you full until lunch), 69 g carbohydrates, 9 g fiber Lindsay Kordick has been a registered dietitian with Bozeman Deaconess Hospital for more than six years. She is also a Certified Exercise Specialist and writes a blog featuring recipes based on her 80/20 principle: eating wholesome, healthy meals 80 percent of the time and indulging a bit, 20 percent of the time.

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Bozeman Senior Center

Closed on Monday, September 5 for the Labor Day Holiday.

EVENTS ■ We will have a team for the Walk to End Alzheimer’s on Sunday, Sept. 18. Call to join or sponsor a team member.

■ Valley of the Flowers Grant Recipient. We have been chosen as a recipient for the “BYO Bag for Change” grant program. From August to October, if you bring your own bag and shop at Heebs, Joe’s Parkway and Rocky Mountain Toy Company, your bag refund will be donated to the Senior Center. We will use the funds to furnish indoor recycling bins. The Valley of the Flowers Project is a local initiative with a mission to help communities become sustainable, healthy, creative, vibrant places to live.

■ Fall Festival 2016: Friday & Saturday, Oct. 14-15. Our annual Fall Festival is approaching!

Come shop for household items, jewelry, winter clothing, Christmas decorations, plants, handmade wooden items, baked goods, gifts, quilts, antiques & much more! To volunteer, call 406586-2421. If you have items to donate, please bring them in before Oct. 1, so we have time to price & sort them. A delicious lunch will be served each day.

■ Area IV Agency on Aging Fall Visit, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 11 am-1 pm. Staff available to answer your questions on community services for seniors.

■ Google Finance 101, Sept. 13-15, 10-11 am, Richard Masters, retired computer industry professional and part-time stock day trader, will teach you how to use Google Finance to track stocks and mutual funds by creating sample portfolios. If you can create an email account, you can do this.

■ Law and Justice Center Presentation: Sept.

21, 1 pm. Brief presentation from representatives from the City of Bozeman and Gallatin County on the proposed Law and Justice Center coming up on November ballot. General information and time allotted for questions.

■ New Member Coffee, Thursday, Sept. 29, 10:30 am: Have you joined the center recently?

If so, we would love to get to know you better!

• 807 North Tracy • (406) 586-2421 • www.bozemanseniorcenter.org Shannon Bondy, shannon@bozemanseniorcenter.org (Executive Director) Find us on Associate Director: Deb Earl, deb@bozemanseniorcenter.org Facebook!

Meet staff, board members and other members.

Light refreshments. Please call ahead to sign up!

■ Hiking Club (Tuesdays, 8:30 am) and Walking Club (Thursdays, 9 am) continue through September. Schedules at front desk or on our website.

■ The Diabetes Empowerment Education Program (DEEP): Sept. 21- Oct. 26. (Wednesdays, 10-11:30 am). Stephanie Paugh will teach this class which offers a fun, informative & interactive way to understand the benefits of making healthy lifestyle changes & healthy choices in diabetes prevention and management. The class is open & free to all adults with concerns about diabetes. Call to sign up.

■ Flu Shots: Wednesday, Sept. 21, 8-11 am.

Come to the senior center for your Flu Shot!

Administered free with your Medicare card.

No appointment needed.

■ Fresh Cinnamon Rolls are back! Friday, Sept. 9, at 9:30 am for $1.25.

We also have coffee & tea available. Join us!

■ Pancake/Bingo Supper. Monday, Sept. 19, 5:30 pm. All-you-can-eat pancakes and sausage for just $3.50! Bingo to follow, with cash prizes!

■ New Exercise Class! Video & Lecture Series: How to Stay Fit as You Age. On Mondays, Sept. 12, 19, 26 & Oct. 17, 24, 31 at 1 pm in the Exercise Room. Topics covered will include motivation, activities, strategies for success, mindful fitness, dealing with pain, and choosing a direction.

■ Changes in T’ai Chi Exercise schedule starting in September: On Tuesday and Thursday, there will be one class, 11:30 am Yang T’ai Chi. On Monday and Friday, 11:30 am, Gentle T’ai Chi is now T’ai Chi for Arthritis.

■ The Drumming class on Tuesday mornings will not be meeting until further notice.

■ Region Travel: Costa Rica! Thursday, Sept.

15, noon. Join us as we celebrate Costa Rica this month! Been there? Born there? Lunch on us if you answer ‘yes’ to either question!

■ Movie Afternoon: “Eddie the Eagle.”

Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1 pm. A biographical sports

comedy-drama about a British skier who in 1988 became the first competitor to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping. Popcorn provided.

■ Day of Caring Fire Alarm Installation, Oct. 1: Free fire alarms will be installed and fire safety information will be provided by volunteers. If you would like one installed, please call the senior center.

TRAVEL ■ Golden Sunlight Mine: Sept. 13: $52 a person, includes bus fare, lunch at Wheat Montana, and mine tour.

■ Jackpot Trip: Sept. 28-30. Sign up by Sept.

9. Motorcoach to Jackpot, two nights at Bartons Club 93. $190 a person, double occupancy.

■ Coeur D’Alene Winter Getaway: Dec. 7-9: Motorcoach, spend two nights at the gorgeous resort. Enjoy a boat ride the first evening to enjoy thousands of lights. Next day: historic tour of the area and fun Holiday Musical directed by Ellen Travolta. $450 a person, double. Pay in full by Sept. 23.

■ Panama: Feb. 9-17, 2017. Fly from Bozeman to enjoy 9 days in a beautiful part of the world.

Includes one day traveling through Panama Canal locks. Itinerary at front desk. $3,579 a person, double.

■ Oregon Trails & Portland Rose Festival: June 8-13, 2017. Fly to Portland, tour Mt. St. Helens and Johnston Ridge Observatory.

Enjoy the Portland Rose Festival, International Rose Testing Garden, Pittock Mansion.

Motorcoach to Astoria, visit Ft. Clatsop National Memorial, Tillamook Cheese Factory.

Visit Multnomah Falls. Columbia River Gorge sternwheeler ride. $2,199 a person, double.

■ National Parks Tour: June 25-30. Spend one night in Las Vegas. Motorcoach to Hoover Dam, Lake Mead. Travel to Kingman, Arizona; Route 66 Museum; the Grand Canyon; Bryce Canyon; and Zion National Park. Itinerary soon.

■ Scotland: May 14-23, 2017. Itinerary at front desk. $4,279 a person, double.

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■ Peru: Oct. 28-Nov. 6, 2017.

■ Wednesdays: 8:30 am Strength

Itinerary at front desk. $5,279 a person, double.

■ Fall Colors, Great Lakes Lighthouses: Sept. 28-Oct. 6, 2017.

Includes Chicago; Grand Rapids, Mich., Mackinac Island, 2 nights at Grand Hotel; Upper Peninsula; Door County & Wisconsin Dells. $2,999 a person, double.

■ Slide Presentation: Friday, Sept. 2, 10 am. Covering Portland trip, Fall Colors trip. Everyone welcome.

Training, 9 am Gentle Aerobics, 10 am Core, 10:30 am Aerobics Plus, 1 pm Balance, 1:30 pm Gentle Yoga.

■ Thursdays: 11:30 am Yang T’ai Chi, 12:30 pm Strength Training, 2 pm Arthritis Fitness.

■ Fridays: 8:30 am Strength Training, 9 am Gentle Aerobics, 10 am Core, 10:30 am Aerobics Plus, 11:30 am T’ai Chi for Arthritis.

SERVICES/SUPPORT SERVICES ■ Forgetters & Friends: 2nd Wednesday of month, 1 pm.

■ Computer Assistance with Jack, Paul, Jay & Molly. New tutor, Mike, starts in September on Thursday mornings. Call to sign up.

■ Medical Equipment available for those 50+.

■ The Hearing Aid Institute of Bozeman offers free services: clean & check, adjustments, batteries, repairs, & wax check.

Sept. 21, 11:30 am-1:30 pm.

■ Foot Clinic by appointment.

Sept. 19 & 26.

■ Free blood pressure checks every Wednesday 11:30 am-1 pm.

■ Association for the Blind meets 2nd Thursday 1:30 pm. Open to anyone who is visually impaired.

HEALTH & EXERCISE ■ Mondays: 8:30 am Strength Training, 9 am Gentle Aerobics, 10 am Core, 10:30 am Aerobics Plus, 11:30 am T’ai Chi for Arthritis, New class: 9/12, 19, 26, 1 pm Video Series.

■ Tuesdays: 11:30 am Yang T’ai Chi, 12:30 pm Strength Training, 2 pm Arthritis Fitness.

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES ■ Adult Coloring: Wednesdays 9 am.

■ Bingo: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1 pm.

■ Book Club: Monday, Sept.

19, 10:30 am.

■ Bridge: Wednesdays & Fridays, 12:45 pm.

■ Duplicate Bridge: Mondays, 12:30 pm.

■ Creative Writing: Tuesdays, 10 am.

■ Cribbage: Tuesdays, 1 pm.

■ Hiking: Tuesdays, 8:30 am.

■ Line Dancing: Tuesdays, 10:30 am.

■ Oil Painting: Monday, Sept.

12 & 26, 1 pm with instructor May Mace.

■ Pinochle: 1st and 3rd Mondays 1 pm. Wednesdays 1 pm. Thursdays 1pm.

■ Red Hat Ladies Luncheon: Thursday, Sept. 15, 11:30 am at Wasabi Japanese Steak House ■ Scrabble: Thursdays 9:30 am.

■ Walking: Thursdays, 9 am.

■ Watercolor Painting: Wednesdays 9:30 am.

■ Woodworker Shop open to members only 8:30 am-4 pm.

■ Wood Carvers: Mondays 9:30 am.

NUTRITION SERVICES ■ Congregate Meals at center Monday-Friday, Noon.

■ Meals-on-Wheels delivered Monday-Friday to homebound individuals.

■ Frozen Meals available for pickup at center Monday-Friday.

■ FREE Birthday Dinner Celebrations on Wednesdays during the month of your birthday for members.

EXTRAS ■ Second Hand Rose Thrift Store: 10 am-2 pm, Monday-Friday. Bring donations of clothes, household items, books, games, crafts, & more, 8:30 am-4:30 pm, Monday-Friday.

■ Do you or someone you know need an electric scooter? These are donated occasionally and we give them away to those in need.

Call to get on waiting list.

■ We need temporary, donated storage space to store items for Fall Festival fundraiser. Please call if you know of a storage shed, barn, or other space we could use.

■ Interested in playing Canasta?

Call to get on the interested list.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Call 406-586-2421 if you are interested: ■ Meals-on-Wheels is looking for volunteers to deliver meals in Bozeman.

■ Foot Clinic is looking for current or retired nurses to help at our monthly foot clinic service!

■ Our thrift store, Second Hand Rose, sometimes receives more donations than we can use. We occasionally need volunteers with a truck, SUV or other large vehicle to take surplus to other thrift stores.

Menu Mon-Fri at Noon 1 - Fruit, Swiss Steak, Mashed

Potatoes, Beans, Cookie 2 - Apricots, Chef Salad, Bread,

Brownie 5 - CLOSED 6 - Pears, Chicken Parmesan,

Noodles, Peas, Cake 7 - Jello, Ham, Scalloped

Potatoes, Carrots, Bars 8 - Salad, Cod, Rice, Broccoli,

Bars 9 - Peaches, Spaghetti, Beans,

Ice Cream 12 - Beets, Chicken Fried Steak,

Hash Browns, Salad, Blondies 13 - Applesauce, Pork Chops,

Mashed Potatoes, Veggies, Cake 14 - Fruit Salad, BBQ Chicken,

Macaroni Salad, Cauliflower, Cookie 15 - Cranberries, Turkey, Dressing, Veggies, Costa Rican Dessert 16 - Salad, Ham & Cheese Quiche, Fruit, Chocolate Pie 19 - Salad, Beef Goulash, Veggies, Cookie 20 - Watermelon, Blue Cheese Steak, Salad, Peach Almond Crisp 21 - Salad, Polish Dogs, Sauerkraut, Potato Salad, Cake 22 - Salad, Chicken Pot Pie, Fruit, Pudding 23 - Fruit, Fish Tacos, Coleslaw, Lemon Pie 26 - Salad, Ham & Cheese Sandwich, Steak Fries, Bar 27 - Beets, Ramen Chicken Salad, Roll, Cake 28 - Salad, Roast Beef, Mashed Potatoes, Brussel Sprouts, Apple Crisp 29 - Salad, Pork Roast, Potato Bake, Carrots, Bar 30 - Salad, Beef & Cheese Burrito, Beans, Ice Cream Please make reservations for lunch so that we can have an adequate amount of food!

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Belgrade Senior Center 92 East Cameron Avenue • (406) 388-4711 www.belgradeseniorcenter.com Email: belgradesrcntr@bresnan.net Executive Director: Kathryn Manz

BOARD MEETING: Monday, Sept. 19 at 1pm.

Open to the public.

EXERCISE: ■ Movement in Motion M-WF at 9am ■ No class Monday, Sept. 5, due to Labor Day. ■ Yoga Tuesdays 9am; Fridays 8am SOCIAL ACTIVITIES: ■ Bake Sale: The 3rd Thursday. Sept. 15, starting at 9am ■ Canasta: Tuesday at 12:30pm ■ Spaghetti Feed: The 3rd Friday. Sept. 16, 5-7pm. $6 Adult; $4 Child. Open to the Public! No reservations required. NOT AN ALL-YOUCAN-EAT MEAL! ■ Pancake Breakfast: Saturday, Sept. 10, 7am-10am; $6 adults; $3 children. Special Thanks to Town & Country for the product donation! Come enjoy a delicious meal before heading to the Fall Festival on Main Street! Check out our booth!!

■ Pinochle: Fridays at 12:30pm; Thursdays at 9am.

■ RED ROCKERS! 2nd Tuesday of month. Sept. 13, 11:30am. Enjoy a meal with your friends at Old Chicago on 19th Ave. in Bozeman. Call 388-4711 to get your name on the dinner list.

■ Saturday Bingo: 2–4pm. No bingo on Sept. 10. On Sept. 24, $20 buy in to play!

■ Big Buck Bingo: Wednesdays at 1pm. Buy in is $1/ card, which is split for the five games played; Blackout is $1/ card, winner takes all!

ONSITE COMMUNITY SUPPORT & HEALTH SERVICES: ■ Area IV Agency on Aging Summer Visit: Our contract managers always available for a visit.

■ Blood Pressure Check: At noon, Sept. 1, 15 & 29.

■ Hearing Aid Check: Tuesday, Sept. 13, 12:30pm.

■ HRDC Food Pantry: Every Wednesday, 11:30am ■ Medical Equipment Loan Closet: Wheelchairs, canes, bedside commodes and walkers available on a temporary basis. Equipment and cash donations welcome.

VOLUNTEER POSITIONS AVAILABLE AT CENTER: ■ Helpers for the kitchen during noon meals plus fundraiser volunteers needed. Call 388-4711 or stop by the senior center for information.

NUTRITION SERVICES: ■ Congregate Meals at center Monday through Friday, Noon.

Please make reservations for lunch so we have an adequate amount of food!

■ Meals-on-Wheels delivered Monday through Friday to homebound individuals.

■ Frozen Meals available for pickup at center Monday through Friday. Call 3884711.

■ Meals on Wheels – please let us know if your circumstances have changed. If we haven’t seen you and you can’t get to us, perhaps we can come to you!!

SEEKING BOARD MEMBERS:

■ Are you passionate about

community services, a champion of senior rights, interested in helping to build a stronger future for the local senior center? Have business skills or abilities? If so, we want to talk to you!

■ FREE Birthday Dinner Celebrations: on Thursdays during the month of your birthday for members of the Senior Center.

COMMUNITY RESOURCES:

■ Senior’s Farmer’s Market

Nutrition Program: Through the US Dept. Agriculture, allows participants to purchase locally grown, unprocessed produce at farmers markets.

Each participant gets 25 $2 coupons, for a total of $50, per market season. Income guidelines apply.

■ HRDC Outreach providing additional nutrition resources 1st & 3rd Thursdays of month with pre-packaged food boxes. Pick up these extra groceries at Lexey’s Acres or call Dana Mitchell, 600-6269, for assistance.

Menu

Mon – Fri at 12:00 Noon 1 - Homemade French Bread Pizza,

Veggie 2 - Clam Chowder, Egg Salad Sandwich 5 - CENTER CLOSED FOR MOW ONLY. BBQ Pork Loin Sandwich, Macaroni Salad 6 - Rosemary Chicken, Oven Fries, Veggies 7 - Taco Salad Bar, Corn Chips 8 - Turkey, Mashed Potatoes w/Gravy, Veggie 9 - Spaghetti w/Meat Sauce, Garlic Bread 12 - Country Fried Steak, Mashed w/ Gravy 13 - Salmon Patty, Rice, Veggies 14 - GUEST COOK – TBA 15 - BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION, Pork Roast, Mashed w/Gravy, Cake & Ice Cream 16 - Fish & Chips, Coleslaw FRIDAY NIGHT – SPAGHETTI FEED! 19 - Caesar Salad, Lasagna, Garlic Bread, Veggies 20 - Bratwurst & Sauerkraut, Mac & Cheese 21 - Roast Beef, Mashed w/Gravy 22 - Baked Ham, Roasted Red Potatoes 23 - Chicken Alfredo Noodles 26 - Beef Stroganoff, Egg Noodles, Veggies 27 - Green Chili Pork, Spanish Rice, Veggies 28 - Salad, Meatloaf, Mashed w/ Gravy, Veggies 29 - BBQ Chicken, Pasta Salad, Veggies 30 - Salad, Stuffed Cabbage, Rice, Veggies All Meals Include Salad, Dessert Bar, Roll & Drink.

Gluten and dairy free items upon request.

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Hollowtop Senior Citizens Broadway St., Pony, MT • 685-3323 or 685-3494 ■ Serving Harrison, Pony, Norris and surrounding areas ■ Fee: $5 a year. Meals $3.50 members and $5 for guests ■ Dinner served on Wednesdays all year long and on Mondays October – May ■ Lending library and medical equipment

Manhattan Senior Center 102 East Main Street, Manhattan, MT • 284-6501

■ Fee: $10.00 a year ■ Meals: $3.50 over 60 years of age, $6 under 60 ■ Noon meal is served Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday; call Monday – Friday before 10:00 am to reserve a seat ■ Pinochle: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday after lunch Center Hall and kitchen are available for rental. Hall rental $50, kitchen and hall $75. Cleaning deposit of $25 and key deposit $10. Call Susan for more details to reserve the space.

Park County Senior Center 206 South Main Street, Livingston, MT • 333-2276 www.parkcountyseniorcenter.com • Open Monday - Friday 9-5

■ Please call Senior Center for news and events.

Three Rivers Senior Club 19 East Cedar Street, Three Forks • 285-3235 Director: Jean Farnam • 570-0800

■ Annual Dues: $10 for folks 50 years or older. Applications are available at the Center.

■ Meals at noon: $3.50 over 60 years of age, $6 under 60. Meals are served every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Reservations are required one day in advance. Call 285.3235 and leave a message.

■ Birthday Celebration: Once a month either on 2nd or 3rd Thursday.

■ Extensive lending library of books, videos and jigsaw puzzles. Medical equipment such as walkers, shower seats, crutches, are also available. Call Jean Farnam for lending information.

ACTIVITIES ■ Pinochle: Wednesdays at 1:00 pm ■ Bingo: Thursdays after lunch ■ Meals on Wheels: Delivered to the homebound ■ Information on the Three Forks bus for seniors and disabled folks - call Jean.

Menu 1 – Chef Salad 6 – Chicken 7 – Tacos 8 – Roast Beef 13 – Sweet and Sour Chicken 14 – Pork Chops 15 – Spaghetti 20 – Chicken Salad 21 – Meatloaf 22 – Tuna Casserole 27 – Beef Stew 28 – Chicken Fried Steak 29 – Soup and Sandwich

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Southwest Montana

807 N. Tracy Ave., Bozeman, MT 59715 • 587-5444 Debi Casagranda, Program Coordinator (dcasagranda@thehrdc.org) 111 South 2nd, Livingston, MT 59047 • 222-2281 Deb Downs, Livingston Program Coordinator (debdowns@rsvpmt.org) • www.rsvpmt.org ■ American Red Cross: Volunteers needed for 3 different areas. Blood Drive Ambassador needed to welcome, greet, thank and provide overview for blood donors. Team Leader volunteers to help recruit, train and schedule Donor Ambassadors and Couriers. Community Outreach Specialist to seek out locations to set up a table to sign up prospective volunteers and/or blood donors. Excellent customer service skills needed. Training provided. Flexible schedule.

■ American Red Cross: Donor Ambassador needed. This is someone who greets and assists blood donors at the various blood drives at the Bozeman Red Cross center or in the community.

At the center, blood drives are on Friday, 10 am to 2 pm. Looking for a volunteer who can work one or more 4-hour shifts per month, preferably committing to same schedule each month.

■ Cancer Support Community: Monday morning volunteer receptionist needed. The shift is 10 am to 1 pm, volunteer is responsible for greeting participants, giving tours and helping staff members with various responsibilities.

■ Bozeman Deaconess Hospital Information Desk: Make a lasting impression for those who enter Bozeman Health by greeting, providing help and delivering flowers.

■ Bozeman Senior Center Foot Clinic: Retired or nearly retired nurses are urgently needed! Just 2 days a month, 4- or 8-hour shifts.

■ RSVP Handcrafters: Join this group of ladies in quilting, knitting, crocheting & embroidering hats for chemo patients, baby blankets & other handmade goods for our community. Meet once a week (can work from home). Items are on sale in our store in the RSVP office at the

Senior Center and the Farmers Market on Saturdays until Sept. 13.

■ Sacks Thrift, a Program of Help Center: Volunteers needed to sort merchandise, retail sales, assist customers and display merchandise. Sacks Thrift is a 100% local nonprofit providing major financial support to Help Center, Inc. 50% in-store discount with certain amount of hours. Volunteers needed in Belgrade and Bozeman.

■ Gallatin Rest Home: Volunteers wanted for visiting residents, perhaps sharing your knowledge of a craft, playing cards, reading or using your musical talents to help entertain. Your compassion is the only requirement.

LIVINGSTON: ■ Yellowbus Tours: Needs drivers able to drive a double clutch bus, also tour guides needed on the bus to point out historical places in Livingston.

■ Spay and Neuter Clinic: Needs strong volunteers this summer at the Farmers Market on Wednesdays to set up and take down wooden booth used for a lemonade stand for their fundraiser.

■ Loaves and Fishes: Needs people who enjoy cooking who can help with the evening meal.

■ Livingston Depot Center: Looking for volunteers from late May to mid Sept. as Museum attendants, gift shop attendants, maintenance helper, and offseason office assistants. Schedules vary and training is provided.

■ Chamber of Commerce: Would like a volunteer to help stuff visitor packets on an ongoing basis on Tuesdays or Wednesdays for a couple of hours.

■ Senior Center Foot Clinic: Could use volunteers and nurses twice a month to help our seniors with foot care.