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SEELEY LAKE - Seeley Lake Elementary fifth through eighth graders are doing electives. Sharon Teague, the sixth grade teacher, also teaches the art elective. Students are working with plastic and a heat gun to make plastic art. Teague got inspired by Chihuly's glass art which is glass heated and put into shapes. Teague's students took clear plastic recycled bottles and cut them into abstract shapes that reminded me of flowers, colored them with markers and then melted them a little. They turned...
SEELEY LAKE - Makerspace is a time for Seeley Lake Elementary (SLE) kids to unleash their creativity. Makerspace is an activity before school, 7-7:55 a.m. This is an activity in the 21st Century Program. Computer lab teacher Mrs. Holmes is the one who runs Makerspace. In Makerspace kids make a lot of cool things that take a lot of time. Their names are Bethany Hoag, Chase Haines and Kyle Contreras. Kyle made a Paracord Bracelet. Kyle said, "I am making this bracelet just for fun." Bethany...
SEELEY LAKE – One of the elective choices for fifth to eighth graders at Seeley Lake Elementary (SLE) is Multimedia. Mrs. Michele Holmes, the technology teacher at SLE, formed the class in 2005-6 because her oldest daughter, Ashley Holmes, thought that the school needed a yearbook. Mrs. Holmes has done the elective ever since then and each quarter is a new topic. For first quarter the topic is photography, second is usually videography, third is sale techniques and fourth quarter is making a...
My name is Danielle Sexton and here is my steer T-Bone! On Oct. 2, 2016, I went to the Two Creek Ranch to buy my steer for my 2017 4-H market beef project from rancher Wayne Slaght in Ovando. I have wanted to raise a steer most of my 4 years in 4-H. I was too small to raise a steer last year, but this year I am old enough. Sadie Smith and I were awarded the Mark Teague Memorial Scholarship which helps us pay for our steers. This opportunity makes me feel really happy and proud. My sister Gabby...
SEELEY LAKE - Students of Seeley Lake Elementary (SLE) run for Student Government each year, and this year may be the best yet. Twelve students ran, and it was astonishing to see how prepared and enthusiastic they were in their speeches and campaigns. I've never seen such outgoing candidates as they sat waiting their turn. Students talked about how they wanted to finish the rock wall, repair the playground, provide more reading time to students and give Junior High back their recess. SLE...
4-H was created to empower young people and to give them the tools to grow in their individual strengths. But many people still ask, "Why join 4-H? What's so great about it?" The benefits 4-H can have for young people are vast and different for each individual member. As the 4-H pledge says, all it takes is your heart, head, hands and health. As soon as I reached second grade, which is the grade level a student must be to join, I became a Cloverbud. I entered baked goods and school art...
I sit near Morrell Creek trying to think of a prompt I hear a name that the water whispers to me and allows my Imagination to fly on the wings of my broken heart And my eyes see the scales that are wrapped around my skin I feel the wind upon my wings as they beg me to take flight I feel the horns grow upon my crown, and my teeth lengthen and sharpen into fangs I feel my fingers, the ones that flipped through pages of many books, holding the pencil writing this very poem, become talons capable...
The sun glistens on the trees Through the brightly colored autumn leaves Shadows cast on the ground All near the ground squirrels' mound The birds' songs grow weak As the autumn mornings become more bleak Traces that summer was here Have yet to disappear But everyone knows fall is near The animals and plants leave or die And all that can be said is Goodbye It may be sad but not everyone can hibernate in a den But we all know that summer will be back again...
Jack and Belinda Rich currently run the Rich Ranch in Seeley Lake, Mont. with family and friends. The Rich family have shared their love for rural culture in Montana's outdoors for more than 40 years. Being in the middle of a technology revolution, the use of modern devices is being used, even in rural Montana on a dude ranch near Seeley Lake. The evolution of technology is undeniable and is even influencing the backcountry. Rich states, "Technology is not an enemy; it is helping more than...
The excitement the weeks before the temptation to run screaming fearing you'll explode from the anticipation daydreaming of warm weather and sandy beaches hoping to get a tan even though pale skin won′t let you the countless hours spent up at night thinking of what you'll need you're vibrating with excitement jumping with joy your time waiting is almost up! eyes peeled open all night you repeat in your head spring break's almost here, spring break's almost here for two weeks you're free! no b...
I believe, as our founding fathers did, that it is not a privilege but a right to own and bear arms. In our world today there are so many crimes and violent acts being committed that people are asking why. Some people say it is the gun's fault. This statement is untrue. The gun is merely a tool used by people to commit a crime and, yes, guns are the easiest tool to kill with because that is what they are designed for. There are many gun uses such as hunting, protecting your house and family...
To this day, thousands of babies are in a "live or die" situation, in which their mothers decide whether or not to keep them or to terminate them without even knowing them. If you were a woman and you were to get pregnant, would you keep the baby? Give him or her up for adoption? Or abort? The Pro-Life group argues that even though the baby is in the mother's body and she has rights, the baby does as well. The Pro-Choice side argues that since the baby is living in the mother's body, she has...
by Kaelin Reiley Seeley-Swan High School Grade 12 I. Night Run Settin' up with the setting sun. Pull the snowhook as darkness descends. Unable to see anything beyond the halo of your headlamp; The dogs' breath coming back to you in little puffs. The thrill of the run amplified by the all encompassing night. II. Frostbite and Other Ailments Get done with a fifty mile training run and find that every part of your body aches and there's a chill down to your bones. Put the dogs up and give them...
In the gloom of late winter, I sometimes glimpse, the fleeting form of a will-o-the-wisp. I turn to follow my Destiny, to know what it is I'm to do I wish to find my Fate, to learn what is in store for me. But, the wisp becomes a snowflake. A vision of white, to be lost in a white-washed world....
What do you think causes school shootings? Do people hit a breaking point that just sends them over the edge? Or is it that they are "mental" and just missed their medication timeline? Not a lot of people go through the tragedy of school shootings, and hopefully not many will but most brush the person's actions off. Why is it that when adults ask questions, we the teenagers, usually say 'you don't understand'? They ask us to explain and we don't know how to explain all the pressures on us. We...
Ever since I entered high school, I have had the major goal to graduate and go to college. My dad always says, "The time will come when you grow up, and you'll have to decide what you want to do in college." Now I'm a junior and it's creeping around the corner. In order to attend college, I have to take either the ACT or the SAT. But leading up to those tests, are other standardized tests. All these tests are part of the path that will help get one into a good college, so why go to four years of...
SEELEY LAKE - Seems with everything these days money is always a factor. It mostly is everyone's first priority but why won't that change? For the sake of the environment and ourselves, why can't money be our last priority? Seeley Lake isn't getting any smaller and no one in town that I know of would want our lakes and rivers to become unsanitary for recreational sports and for the animals that depend on them. Not many people think about where our waste goes and not very many people would think...
Remember when you were 18, finally becoming the adult that your parents expected you to be. Remember the good times with friends, staying out late, having a few drinks now and then. Wasn't it great? Now, as an adult, you have children of your own. They're growing up to be like you; staying out late with friends and having the best time of their lives. But they're not having as much fun as you used to because they're too young to drink alcohol. Think about this, boys at the age of 18 are being...
When you hear the word wolf what is the first thing that comes to mind? A voracious killer that will kill you just to see you die? Or, a cute, harmless dog that resembles your family pet? Or a mammal like all of us trying just to survive on this land, where certain groups of people want them eradicated? Wolves need to be kept in our ecosystem for generations to come and not go back to the times where the massive eradication of wolves was not only accepted, but encouraged by the federal...
For as long as humanity has built scattered civilizations all around the world, the wolf has been portrayed as the enemy of this progress. And, in some ways, this was true. Wolves and humans had clashed in every way conceivable: by competing for prey, combating for the safety of livestock and keeping one another at bay. Wolves have acted as a barrier between what belonged to the land and what belonged to mankind. Then why, in these modern times where humans have breached into every imaginable...
I. Last Day No assignments, nothing to do, but sit and watch the hours tick by. The energy is almost tangible. Every nerve firing off simultaneously. Everybody day-dreaming about long summer nights. Thoughts of school Far from consciousness. II. The Reality of Summer School gets out and you dream of parties and relaxation. Then, two weeks go by and reality hits; chores, work, and sunlight until 9:30. No time for more than two or three parties and no time to relax. That's when you wish it was...
In 2014 the Auggie Forest, situated near the Seeley Lake Nordic Ski Trails in Seeley Lake, Mont., was logged in multiple areas. The areas, acres long, had trees felled and the beautiful forests were reduced to vacant fields resembling more meadows than a wooded location. The forest was logged in order to reduce the possibility of fire spreading to, or starting near, the Seeley Lake surrounding woods, making the area safer for human habitation. However, the resulted logging of the forest...
Silence of another snowy slow-going evening. Fog pouring off the lake, slinking away, Staying lower than my knees, Revealing a perfectly flat mirror of water. Reflecting a stillness onto the steep mountain walls surrounding it. As a gray tint floods this isolated lake. Dark clouds gather overhead. Without warning, Without sound, Larger snowflakes fall, Slowly drifting down from the heavens. Their movement stolen from them as they touch the glassy surface of Marshall Lake. Like the hope of...
