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  • Car Show Brings Friends, Community to Seeley Lake Lot

    Zoie Koostra, Pathfinder|Jul 12, 2018

    SEELEY LAKE - The sixth annual Seeley Lake Car Show on Saturday, July 6 gave old friends a chance to gather and community members the chance to show off their cars. The show's founder Ken Keith and his wife BeAnne began the car show five years ago. It wasn't intended to be a big event but just a group of friends hanging out. The Keiths, of Great Falls, have a cabin in the area and the car show started while they had other friends visiting them. "The first year we did the car show, it was just a...

  • Ovando Fourth of July Celebration

    Zoie Koostra, Pathfinder|Jul 12, 2018

    OVANDO - Ovando hosted their annual parade on the Fourth of July. True to tradition, "Everyone participates. No one watches." Following the parade, attendees enjoyed the beer garden at The Stray Bullet and a hamburger and hot dog barbecue hosted by the Ovando Volunteer Fire Department....

  • Ovando Fourth of July Celebration

    Zoie Koostra, Pathfinder|Jul 12, 2018

    OVANDO - Ovando hosted their annual parade on the Fourth of July. True to tradition, "Everyone participates. No one watches." Following the parade, attendees enjoyed the beer garden at The Stray Bullet and a hamburger and hot dog barbecue hosted by the Ovando Volunteer Fire Department....

  • Condon Fourth of July Celebration

    Colleen Kesterson, Pathfinder|Jul 12, 2018

    SWAN VALLEY - It was a full day of activities on the Fourth of July in Condon starting with the continental breakfast served by Condon Community Church and then the parade. In the afternoon, everyone enjoyed the O-Mok-See horse races followed by fireworks at dusk. Between the main events, people enjoyed huckleberry ice cream served by the Upper Swan Valley Historical Society as they stopped by the Swan Valley Community Hall, Swan Valley Museum and the Swan Valley Library used book sale. Free bur...

  • Condon Fourth of July Celebration - O-Mok-See

    Jul 12, 2018

    SWAN VALLEY - Games on horseback where great fun again this year in Condon during the Fourth of July festivities. Val Styler with the Swan Valley Saddle Club has been organizing the O-Mok-See since the late 1980s....

  • Music Festival Rocks Despite Weather

    Andi Bourne, Pathfinder|Jul 5, 2018

    SEELEY LAKE - For the third year, the Bob Marshall Music Festival took place in Seeley Lake June 28-30. Along with three days of music and 19 bands, attendees participated in races and yoga on the lawn at Lindey's Prime Steak House. "I thought the festival went great - 99 percent of my feedback was good," said festival organizer Chris Stout. "Turnout was what I expected with the weather but it turned out fine and I'm going to do it again next year."...

  • Seeley50K and Bad Bob's 5K

    Andi Bourne, Pathfinder|Jul 5, 2018

    SEELEY LAKE - The Seeley50K sported the largest field with more than 60 runners in the 50K and more than 100 racers including the 25K and 10K races. With a late start due to a course reroute, race organizer Chris Stout said everyone was out of the woods by 6 p.m. The Bad Bob's 5K Fun Run drew more than 30 racers. No official places were awarded but everyone who ran it got a goodie bag. Results for the 50K, 25K and 10K were not available at press time. They will be posted at w...

  • Changes Big and Small at this Year's Bob Marshall Music Festival

    Zoie Koostra, Pathfinder|Jun 28, 2018

    SEELEY LAKE- The Bob Marshall Music Festival is returning for a third year as Seeley Lake's own music festival but this year several big changes are afoot. Festival organizer Chris Stout is managing and funding the festival himself this year. This is a change from last year when he received financial support from the Seeley Lake Community Foundation. "Last year the foundation was very generous in putting it forward," Stout said. "But I think in the end they kind of felt that it wasn't...

  • Community Celebration for 100 Year Anniversary for Lincoln's Community Hall

    Pathfinder|Jun 28, 2018

    LINCOLN – To celebrate the 100-year history of folks coming together at the Lincoln Community Hall, Lincoln is hosting a free community-wide event July 7-8 with something for everyone. Attendees can learn about the history of the area, participate in contests including watermelon eating, pie bake-off, beard/mustache contest and enjoy live music at the Hall. There will also be games and activities throughout town on Saturday. Way back in 1918 when the Hall was constructed, having a place to c...

  • Airplane Fly-in Held to Show Support for Backcountry Airstrips

    Zoie Koostra, Pathfinder|Jun 21, 2018

    SEELEY LAKE - Over the weekend, the Recreational Aviation Foundation hosted a fly-in event at the Seeley Lake Airport to show its support for small, backcountry airstrips in rural communities. Attendees included local pilots from Seeley Lake and other towns in Montana as well as pilots from Canada and as far away as Atlanta, Ga. Many attended the Airplane Owners and Pilots Association Fly-in which was held in Missoula in the days before. "Instead of everyone flying in and only seeing Missoula,...

  • Potomac Rendezvous - Fun for the Whole Family

    Sigrid Olson, Pathfinder|Jun 21, 2018

    POTOMAC - The Blackfoot Rendezvous made more than $2,500 from the day-long event. It will help fund the Potomac School Explorers Program. Supporters were pleased to see such a great turnout of hardy folk in the rain. Parent Tom Brown said, "I would like to personally say thank you to everyone that was able to come and enjoy the day. You made our first Blackfoot Rendezvous a huge success."...

  • Maddox Helms Kids' Fishing Tournament for the First Time

    Zoie Koostra, Pathfinder|Jun 21, 2018

    SEELEY LAKE- Seeley Lake's annual Kids' Fishing Tournament is passing into new hands this year as Bobby Maddox takes over as the event's organizer from Gary Ikerd who began the event in 2002. Maddox and his wife moved to Seeley Lake two years ago after he retired from the military. Last year he volunteered at the tournament. He decided he was willing to take on the work to continue putting on the tournament after Ikerd began to lose his eyesight. "[Ikerd] approached me last year and asked me if...

  • Free Concert in Ovando Honors Community's Hospitality

    Zoie Koostra, Pathfinder|Jun 21, 2018

    OVANDO - Ovandoans were treated to a free concert Friday, June 15 in honor of their community and the hospitality they show to bikers along the Great Divide long-distance biking route. Ben Weaver, a traveling musician and poet who is also riding the Great Divide trail and providing free concerts at various locations along the way, headlined the event. The concert was set up by Missoula non-profit Adventure Cycling as a way to highlight all the community has done for riders of the Great Divide....

  • First-timers Top Mr. Pike Leaderboard

    Andi Bourne, Pathfinder|Jun 14, 2018

    SEELEY LAKE – Fishermen and women took to Seeley Lake and Salmon Lake to land the biggest and most pike for this year's Mr. Pike Tournament June 9 and 10. This year's entrants drew 40 fishermen from around western Montana. Rookie fishermen Robert Hopp and Tristan Persico from Missoula, Mont. swept the tournament by more than 11 pounds with their six fish over the two-day tournament weighing in at nearly 45 pounds. Many fishermen reported that it was tough fishing on the first day. The only f...

  • Ovando Hosts Celebration Concert

    Zoie Koostra, Pathfinder|Jun 14, 2018

    OVANDO - This Friday, June 15, Ovando will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Great Divide Trail as well as its 2018 award for Montana Community of the Year for Tourism and Recreation with a concert and party. Ben Weaver, a songwriter, performer and bicycle advocate will be riding in to town with his guitar and banjo to “highlight, celebrate and give back to all the people and communities that have supported riders on the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route,” according to the Ovando newsletter about the event. After Weaver’s performance, Adin...

  • Farmers' Market Opens for 10th Anniversary Year

    Zoie Koostra, Pathfinder|Jun 14, 2018

    SEELEY LAKE - This upcoming Sunday, the Seeley Lake Farmers' Market will have its first market of the summer from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 110 Larch Lane, across from Seeley Lake Elementary. It will continue every Sunday through the rest of the summer. The market is in its 10th year of business. Organizers Vicki Voegelin and Karen Pratt said this year will include a food truck, the same great stands Seeley Lake residents are used to as well as new vendors and vendors who are returning after several...

  • Dr. Jack Cohen presents Can YOUR Home Survive a Wildfire?

    Clearwater Resource Council|Jun 14, 2018

    SEELEY LAKE - "Your home can survive a wildfire," is the message from Dr. Jack Cohen, retired research physical scientist from the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory. Cohen will share in full detail the results of his years of research at Clearwater Resource Council's Clearwater Partners Workshop Thursday, June 21, 7 p.m. at the Seeley Lake Community Hall. The event is free and everyone is welcome. Cohen demonstrates through video segments and years of fire lab research that it's not the wall of...

  • Gone But Not Forgotten

    Andi Bourne, Pathfinder|Jun 7, 2018

    SWAN VALLEY - "So long Sarge," said Swan Valley American Legion Post 63 Commander Rick Ferguson after sharing the story about his platoon sergeant William Washington Hence who was killed in Vietnam June 2, 1968, "Gone but never forgotten." The Swan Valley remembered and honored all men and women who gave their lives in service to the Nation on the traditional Memorial Day May 30 at the Cold Creek Bridge. Ferguson also recognized WWII Naval Gunner Dick Wilhelm and Vietnam Specialist Four Richard...

  • Valerie Hemingway Reads from Her Memoir "Running with the Bulls, My Years with the Hemingways"

    Carol Brodie, Open Book Club|Jun 7, 2018

    SEELEY LAKE - Alpine Artisans’ Open Book Club presents Valerie Hemingway who will be reading from and discussing her memoir, “Running With the Bulls: My Years With the Hemingways” 7 p.m., Saturday, June 9 at the Grizzly Claw Trading Company. There is no charge to attend and all are welcome As a young Irish reporter, newly arrived in Spain, Valerie Danby-Smith met with Ernest Hemingway in his hotel room for an interview. The interview was awkward and brief but before it ended something had clicked into place. Thus began Valerie’s life as his...

  • Fire Department Leadership Installed Followed by Fun

    Zoie Koostra, Pathfinder|Jun 7, 2018

    SEELEY LAKE - The Seeley Lake Fire Department welcomed a new chief and promoted several members of their company in a ceremony June 2 that was then followed by food and games for the community. Interim Fire Chief Michael Greer gave a speech about the importance of leadership as he awarded several members of the company with honors as well as promoting new officers. Greer then announced James Sackett's promotion to the department's official safety officer, which had previously been a rotating...

  • Local Memorial Day Ceremony Honors Veterans

    Zoie Koostra, Pathfinder|May 31, 2018

    SEELEY LAKE - Seeley Lake honored its veterans this Memorial Day at a ceremony that included prayers and a demonstration of the 13 folds of the U.S. flag was accompanied by an explanation for each fold. Barbara Knopp, who lead the ceremony, gave a brief history of Memorial Day's origins. "The observance of this day was born in 1863 when Confederate women were cleaning their soldiers graves and noticed how badly the Union soldiers graves were overgrown with weeds and mud," she told the crowd....

  • Hydrofoilers' 10th Annual Invitational Takes Place on Seeley Lake

    Zoie Koostra, Pathfinder|May 31, 2018

    SEELEY LAKE - Sixteen-year-old Bailey Boyles shouted "Hip hip!" and the boat she was trailing behind accelerated, allowing her to sit upright on her hydrofoil. The group of people in the boat cheered as she rode, they were all members of her family or other hydrofoilers that her family had known for years. The 10th annual Seeley Lake Invitational hydrofoiling event took place over this Memorial Day weekend, hosted by Missoula residents Keith Gyles, his wife Robin and Seeley Lake resident Woody...

  • Swan Valley Graduates Three

    Zoie Koostra, Pathfinder|May 31, 2018

    SWAN VALLEY - It was a big day for the Richardson family at Swan Valley Elementary. Seth Richardson, an eighth grader, was presented with his diploma by his father and honored in a graduation ceremony alongside two other students who were graduating from kindergarten. Richardson's father Nathan presented him with his diploma and gave his son a big hug. "It was pretty overwhelming," Nathan said. "It's a little silly to have a ceremony for graduating eighth grade, but it's still a milestone....

  • A Lot More than Practicing Music

    Zoie Koostra, Pathfinder|May 31, 2018

    SWAN VALLEY - At the Swan Valley Elementary spring concert, students from kindergarten to middle school sang, played instruments and even acted in a musical play about ancient history. "She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain" was one of the songs performed by kindergartners, first and second graders with accompanying actions. The third and fourth grade group sang several tunes, one of which included percussion instruments such as drums and maracas. The fifth grade band performed "Frère Jacques"...

  • Musicians Celebrate Year of Success

    Andi Bourne|May 31, 2018

    SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley-Swan High School Music Department hosted their spring concert and awards ceremony May 23. Students performed selections from their District Music festival and several others they worked on throughout the spring semester. Musicians also received awards recognizing their accomplishments at the District and State Music Festivals, various achievement awards including Outstanding Musician, Outstanding Band or Choir Member, Director's Award and Most Improved selected by D...

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