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SEELEY LAKE - Students from Seeley-Swan High School launched their literary magazine "Backroads of the Mind: Volume 3" on Saturday, June 2. The magazine is the culmination of a year in Creative Writing class. This year, the project had nine students working on it. At the launch Saturday, June 2, several students gave speeches, read their work aloud and signed magazines for attendees. Chief Editor Elizabeth Done said this year has been different from previous years because the funding the class...
Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? To answer this, Christ gave us one of the most influential parables ever recorded—that of the good Samaritan. I love this parable. We all know it…here we have a Priest, a Levite and a Samaritan who all responded in their own way to a traveler who was stripped, beaten and left for dead. When I first was taught this parable, I understood that the lesson was to become more like the good Samaritan. While comparing our lives to that of the good Samaritan is not a bad thing to do, today I invite you...
GREENOUGH - Sunset School celebrated its students' academic achievements and all they had learned at their year-end celebration Friday, June 1. Toni Hatten, the school's supervising teacher, thanked school board members, the school's staff, the caretaker and the bus company before summing up the school year for the gathered parents by talking about the science experiments, field trips and other activities the students had done. This included reading "Wonder," a novel by R. J. Palacio. The...
SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley Lake Elementary multipurpose room was standing room only for the annual kindergarten completion ceremony June 1. The kindergartners demonstrated that they learned how to read, write, add, subtract, write number sentences and work well with others. The students sang the Montana State Ballad and then read a letter from their puppet, puppy friend Copper who joined the graduation. Parents watched a slide show of their children doing various activities in the classroom t...
SEELEY LAKE – If Millie Mae is gazing into the distance instead of engaging in the group’s conversation, her friend Joan might say, “A penny for your thoughts.” But why only a penny? Does Joan assume Millie’s thoughts aren’t worth any more than that? And will Joan really pay Millie a penny if Millie reveals all? Probably not. The phrase is simply a way of pulling someone back into the conversation, or at least inviting them to share what seems more important to them at the moment. As for the worth of their thoughts, that involves a little histo...
Volunteers Sought to Staff Museum SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley Lake Historical Society has run into a snag for being able to staff the museum. The museum will be closed until further notice while a solution for the staffing situation is sought. Volunteers are needed to tend the museum while it is open to visitors. A typical day can be meeting anywhere from two to twenty groups. During a typical day there can be extended periods of undisturbed quiet time for reading, dusting, writing, etc. One needn’t be an expert about area history. Displays are...
