Community Briefs

Mobile Unit in Seeley Lake, March 5

SEELEY LAKE – The Mobile Unit offering free and confidential ultrasounds and pregnancy testing will be in the Lazy Pine Mall parking lot March 5 from 10:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. They also offer STD/STI testing. Some tests may carry a low lab fee.

Sparrow’s Vine and Care Net of Missoula sponsor the Mobile Unit. Call Sparrow’s Vine, 677-1900, or Care Net, 549-0406, to make an appointment. Walk-ins welcome as time allows.

Swan Valley School presents “Beauty Lou and the Country Beast,” March 6

Swan Valley – Everyone is invited to attend the Missoula Children’s Theater production of “Beauty Lou and the Country Beast” at the Swan Valley Elementary School gym Friday, March 6 at 7 p.m. Thanks to the wonderful contributions of the Swan Valley community, the show is free to attend. Get out of the house for a date night of great entertainment and support the local elementary students at the same time!

Federal programs informational meeting at Potomac School, March 9

POTOMAC - The Potomac School District #11 will be hosting a meeting for all interested parties, including any private or nonpublic schools and home schools on Monday, March 9 at 6 p.m. in the library building at Potomac School during which all of the federally funded programs will be described. At this meeting, District staff will go over our Title I Improvement Plan for 2019-20 and gather feedback and input from interested citizens regarding the 2020-21 Title I Plan. Public input will be collected regarding the Title I program plan design for 2020-21.

Talent search for Music Galore VII

SEELEY LAKE - The Seeley-Swan Mountain Bells invites local musicians to perform at their annual musical talent show known as Music Galore. The performance will be Sunday afternoon, May 3 at Seeley-Swan High School. In the past, the concert has featured piano pieces, accordion, harp, recorder, guitar and vocals, a banjo, barbershop ensembles, drum and cello.

“We have quite a smorgasbord of musical talent in Seeley,” said Mountain Bells Director Joann Wallenburn. “Past performers are invited to return and we are always looking for new performers who would like to share their talent with the Seeley Lake community.”

Music Galore is family-friendly, open to the public, and is free. For more information or to volunteer to perform, please contact Wallenburn at 406-370-2483.

Swan Valley Community Library highlights

Swan Valley - The Swan Valley Library Book Chat group will be discussing “The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek” on Wednesday, March 11 at 1 p.m. It is written by Kim Michele Richardson of Kentucky where the story takes place. Richardson spent years visiting the state’s rural areas getting stories of the people and their traditions along with their hardships and social injustices they endured.

It is the story of Cussy Mary Carter. The book is based on the true story of the brave and dedicated packhorse librarians of the 1930s. The mobile librarians were funded by President Franklin Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration which was created to lift Americans out of the Great Depression. Unemployment in Kentucky rose to 40 percent during the Depression.

Carter tells the story with a thick Kentucky accent laced with local expressions of that time. She is afflicted with a genetic condition which causes a blue tint to her skin. It causes her much grief and suspicion from locals resulting in prejudice against her kind for any sort of trouble or from participating in local events and ceremonies. Even the laws at the time forbade “blues” from marrying those with “white” skin.

Carter wove her way on treacherous ground from shack to shack on a loyal but cantankerous mule named Junia delivering reading material, “hope and just as importantly, a compassionate human connection.”

A reviewer said “this well-researched tale serves as a solid history lesson on 1930s Kentucky.”

To be added to the mailing list for book chat meetings call the library.

The Swan Valley Library is located on Highway 83 in Condon and is just north and adjacent to the Swan Valley Community Hall. The library is open Mondays and Fridays from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. and Wednesdays from 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. For more information call 406-754-2521.

Missoula County Sheriff’s Office Call Activity Feb. 24 – March 1

• 2/24, 9:06am, 156XX S. Sperry Grade Road, Greenough: Stolen Vehicle

• 2/25, 12:12pm, N. Placid Lake Road, Placid Lake: Vandalism

• 2/27, 7:11am, 3XX Sias Spur, Condon: Civil

• 2/27, 7:49pm, Cottonwood Lakes Road, Seeley Lake: Slide-In No Property Damage

• 2/28, 2:13pm, Mill Street, Seeley Lake: Suspicious Activity

• 2/29, 7:52am, 29XX Highway 83, Seeley Lake: Burglary

• 2/29, 9:49am, 5X mile marker Highway 83, Condon: Accident - Injury

• 2/29, 3:18pm, 30XX Highway 83, Seeley Lake: Suspicious Activity

• 3/1, 5:53am, 446XX Highway 200, Clearwater Junction: Burglary

Seeley Lake Rural Fire District Response Log Feb. 23 – Feb. 29

• 2/23 Lodge Way, Seeley Lake: Medical

• 2/24, Highway 83, Seeley Lake: Medical

• 2/24, Highway 83, Seeley Lake: Medical

• 2/29, Boy Scout Road, Seeley Lake: Medical

• 2/29, School Lane, Seeley Lake: Medical