Blackfoot's Randy Teague accepts a check for $150 from Seeley Lake Chamber President Eric Hayhurst. Blackfoot donated the money back to the Chamber. The Seeley Lake Area Chamber of Commerce sponsored the parade awarding the top three places in three categories $150, $75 and $40 for first, second and third place. They are grateful to everyone who participated and attended this year's Fourth of July Celebration.
Wildlife Awareness Campfire Talk, July 20
Swan Valley - Swan Valley Connections will host a Campfire Talk on Wildlife Awareness on Friday, July 20 at 8 p.m. at Holland Lake Day Use Area in Condon. Learn about recreating with bears, lions, wolves, moose and other wildlife and birds - what to do in an encounter and how to tread lightly in their habitat. The presentation will be given by the Swan Lake Ranger District.
Campfire Talk presentations are free. Everyone is welcome. Attendees are encouraged to bring a lawn chair or picnic blanket and flashlight. Contact 754-3137 or info@svconnections.org for more information.
"Wildlife Biologist – Show & Tell of Nature," July 21
CLINTON - The Montana State Parks will host Julie Golla's program "Show and Tell of Nature" at Beavertail Hill State Park amphitheater July 21 at 7 p.m. This is a kid-friendly presentation, and is FREE and open to the public.
Golla is a wildlife biologist based out of Anaconda. She has completed extensive research on urban bobcats in Eastern Texas by trapping and placing GPS trackers on them. She has also worked up-close with wolves, mountain lions and many other carnivore populations and is responsible for the management of habitat on wildlife management areas.
Bringing her collection of pelts and skulls, Golla is going to present a hands-on show and tell of wildlife for all ages! She will touch on people and wildlife sharing the landscape from birding to hunting to ranching.
Golla added, "If folks have wildlife questions/interests, they should come to add to our discussion!"
Swan Valley Community Library Highlights
Summer has arrived and with it a chance for children and adults alike to keep track of books they have read and receive a prize for their efforts after Aug. 31. Come in and get a sheet on which to write the titles of your reading and a bookmark each entitled "Libraries Rock."
Browse the large selection of adult, young adult and children's fiction and non-fiction books, DVD's and books on CD. If you can't find anything to suit you, we can order a book more to your liking from our partner libraries. It will be delivered to the Swan Library.
Preschool children Story Time is held each Friday at 11 a.m. in the library. Youngsters hear a story and then do an art project.
Book Chat will be held Wednesday, July 25 at the Swan Valley Library at 1 p.m. The library is located next to the Community Hall in Condon.
We will be discussing "Caleb's Crossing" by Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks. It is a story based on true events about Bethia, a young, restless Puritan girl and daughter of a Calvinist minister, who meets Caleb a young son of the chieftain of the native Wampanoag tribe. It takes place in the 1660s in the tiny settlement of Martha's Vineyard. The two begin a secret friendship which blends them from their separate worlds.
Caleb, who later became the first Native American graduate of Harvard, and Bethia, who is denied an education because of gender, are two brave open-hearted souls who risk everything in their search for knowledge in a time of superstition and ignorance.
Copies of "Caleb's Crossing" are available at the library.
The Swan Valley library is open Mondays and Fridays from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Wednesdays from 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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