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Oops, I made a mistake last week, the Wine and Dino is on the 16th, and the Loring picnic is on June 23! Sorry if I inconvenienced you! Dixie Stordahl helped out at the GPDM on Saturday for Kids Day! Bella Lawless, Serena Sanguins, Adrianna Bibeau and Alex were volunteer students to help with the stations! We had a great time with about 70 people! The summertime is a perfect time to renew old friendships. I have had a great renewal with my childhood friend, Frances Compton, of Douglas, Alaska!...
Thank you to all the veterans, soldiers and sailors out there who have fought for our freedom! David, Brandie and Rocco Stordahl from Billings, and Rod, Jeanie, Saige and Zoey Stordahl al, traveled over to Turner on Saturday with me to visit the cemetery. We flew kites and blew bubbles up there on the hill. It was epic. We had a picnic at the Turner Park, which was groomed to perfection! Always a good trip! Many ranchers have finished up branding this week and are moving their herds out to...
Gosh, the summer vacation has offcially started! I'm working at the Great Plains Dinosaur Museum in Malta a few days a week which is always interesting! Talk about fascinating, the moon, Venus and Mercury are lovely in the early morning, just before sunrise if you are up for a peek to the east! The king birds, goldfinches, and brown thrashers are adding some color to our vistas! But the most shocking is the oriole! They are so orange it's like seeing a flying orange in the trees! The...
Oh happy day! I saw a yellow warbler today! Their beautiful song is something to long for! Oh an update on my chicks, I hatched out 12 little black and white chicks and two had red heads! The students loved them! I put them up for adoption and they are all at LaBries for now! We've shot off a few rockets and flew some kites during this week! Final projects due this week! Should be fun! The full moon and Jupiter were racing across the sky this week! It was a super sight! Jeanie Schroder and girls...
Congratulations to the Whitewater Penguins choir and band and the individuals who put so much work into their performance at District Festival! Also congrats to the junior high tracksters on their track meet in Glasgow! DollyAnn Willcutt and I traveled to Glendive for a Montana Dinosaur Trail spring meeting at Makoshika State Park and Frontier Museum hosting. I enjoyed the scenery and spring nature! I saw a curlew, a few different types of warblers, and an eagle. I also noticed that the sweet...
Greetings everyone! I'm hoping that you all had a special Easter holiday! I certainly did. Rod and his family were here for the weekend and we went to the GPDM on Saturday because I had a previous tour scheduled. On Sunday we attended Loring Lutheran Church and Zoey Marie was baptized in a very special ceremony. Easter brunch at the church was enjoyed by many neighbors and relatives. Matt Norville's parents were here from White Hall. Brenda Clark's mom was visiting her grandkids. Also Becca and...
Yes, spring is here. The temps are moderate, the precipitation is fleeting, and the sunshine is sporadic! My tulips are up but not blossoming yet. The trees are budding and many of the blossoms are hanging on! Jupiter is prominent in the evening sky and Venus takes over in the dawn! Jeanie Green and I went on the Amtrak to Whitefish on Friday. My sister Dee picked me up and we spent the weekend exploring the area that she loves so much! We visited with Chris, Sally and Jessie Arndt, saw the...
Oh boy! I saw some crocuses this week, heard the red wing black bird, and have quite a patch of strawberries coming up in the garden. We only had one plant last year, which put out many runners, now providing us with many plants! Ah, nature at its finest! I took a team of high schoolers to Glasgow to compete in the Academic Olympics on Wednesday! We stopped on the way home for an ice cream! The kids did pretty good, bring home four ribbons and Trace also got a first place medallion in History!...
The meadowlark has arrived! Spring is here! Rodney Stordahl and Dixie Stordahl traveled to Billings to visit family and Dixie was involved with the science expo for the Montana Dinosaur Trail. Carol Lumsden attended a quilting retreat in Malta over the weekend. On Saturday evening a group of quilters went to the movie “The Shack”. Carol said she really enjoyed it. She says that it’s one that you can watch a couple of times. Loring Woman’s Club was held at Heather Simonson’s on Thursday....
Happy first day of spring this week! The temps have been amazingly warm for this time of year after we had a blizzard last weekend! Most of the snow is gone, ran down the hills into the coulees and then the dams! I spotted one cedar waxwing in our Russian olives, which is unusual since they usually appear in flocks! Also, I saw some big white birds that I'm calling swans. They were swimming in some snowmelt just off the Milk River! Someone said they were white geese, but I'm saying swans! Also a...
The moon is full and the day for spring ahead hour has come! It is my humble opinion that we have more snow this weekend than all the rest of the year! I'm sure this week most of it will be gone! Dixie Stordahl drove to Billings on Tuesday to attend a choir concert of Rocco's cross town singing group. There were 75 boys from grade 4-6 who practiced together all winter! It was marvelous four part harmony! So glad I went! Congratulations to all the state basketball tournament participants! We had...
Loring community has had a wonderful week to move the church. Monday the Big Flat came out to unhook the electricity so the church could be moved. It was moved just across the street to the park area. Then one more day it was moved beside the Loring Hall and the final day of moving was onto the new basement. Then on Friday it was set down and bolted on. It will be a few months until we can hold services there. Until then the services are held at the Loring Hall. Dixie Stordahl will be leading...
Congratulations to the ball players from this weekend! The North Country Mavericks and Lady Mavericks both played in the Divisional tournament in Wolf Point! The Malta M-ettes won their divisional tournament in Glasgow ! They will be on their way to state! Also congrats to Gregg Wasson's team in Harlowtown for earning a spot to state, too! The Loring Lutheran Church has been rolled off the foundation and is sitting on wheels east of the original location. Things are starting to move along. It...
Sally Austin called me on Sunday to report that the Canada geese have flown in. She said there must be a thousand out in her front yard by the Whitewater creek! Spring must be right around the corner! And I noticed the waning moon with Jupiter very close to it in the sky early in the morning! Not much snow left up here after the beautiful week of above normal temps! Most of the area people attended a tournament this last weekend, either in Malta following the Mustangs or M-ettes, or Glasgow...
As the full moon shone on the Milk River Valley Saturday night, the North Country Mavericks and Lady Mavs won the last regular season games against Frazer! Now on to District Tournament play this weekend! The Malta/Whitewater Mustang wrestlers finished their season at state this weekend! Congrats to Trey Simanton on his 3rd place! Also congrats to Luke Lawless for his season! The team did very well! Dixie Stordahl volunteered at the HLRC to put up bulletin boards to brighten the hall ways! It...
Well, the ground hog says six more weeks before spring weather! Ok, I'll make the best of the next six weeks and welcome spring when it arrives! Right now influenza is making the rounds. Wash hands, stay home, get plenty of sleep. That last part is just for fun! Carol Lumsden went into Malta Friday for a funeral and Saturday she attended the birthday party of Dean Kienenberger, Pete's uncle. Many activities took place at the last basketball game of the season in Whitewater on Saturday. A paper...
About 20 years ago, I read Michener's Centennial and I felt so bad for the early pioneers who had to put up with so little. The wind this weekend is driving me insane! I hope it stops soon. Sunday afternoon several people got together and cleaned everything out of the church and set up a temporary meeting place in the Loring Hall. I am confident that the soil conditions will be conducive to transporting the church building to the basement sometime this spring! You should have seen the piano...
The Bad Larrys music duo played at Saturday night’s Great Plains Dinosaur Museum benefit at the Tin Cup in Malta on a night featuring great food, music and merriment. The evening started with a dinner of lasagna, corn, and French bread, or if you preferred you could order off the menu. I believe about 75 people came for dinner and another 75 people just came for the music! The music started at 7 p.m. The Bad Larrys are two musicians from Kalispell area who play a myriad of different styles a...
The Loring Lutheran Church will hold their annual meeting on January 22 after the 9:30 a.m. service. Everyone welcome. Carol Lumsden and Dixie Stordahl put the new bulletin boards up at the Hi-Line Retirement Center on Friday. Carol's granddaughters, Ellie and Aubrey helped also. Dixie Stordahl was in Havre on Thursday! If you have something you want included in this article, be sure to give me a call!...
Happy New Years! I hope that you all have a wonderful, peaceful, and successful year! My Christmas holidays were most enjoyable. Christmas Eve service at the Loring Church was full of tradition, which I love, and innovations which I am learning to embrace! I think there were 50 people in attendance. I had the good fortune to have lunch with Kayla Howard one day in Malta. She has been doing an observation at the physical therapy in the hospital for her college studies. Then on Friday I was happy...
Wishing all my readers a blessed season full of surprises! Dixie Stordahl attended the wedding of Keith Cowan and Sarah Young in Great Falls this weekend. Dixie's brother, Scott Cowan of Phoenix, Ross Cowan of Denver, David, Brandie and Rocco Stordahl of Billings, also were there for the weekend. We also visited the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, and watched the mermaid at the Tiki Bar! Loring community has received a bounty of snow this last couple of days! Looks like Christmas will be wh...
What a beautiful week! Are you getting tired of reading about the awesome fall weather we've been having? No snow or rain now for a while, breezy but we can still stand upright. I went to Billings on Friday to attend my nephew's wedding. It was all planned by my nephew Ben. He told his bride on Wednesday. The ceremony venue was MoAv, a coffee shop in the refurbished Carlton on Montana Ave. The cake was baked and decorated by the bride'ss mother in the shape of a geode. It was beautiful as was...
I wish everyone a great Thanksgiving and pray that we all appreciate what we have! Last week Rodney and I traveled to Billings for a few days. We were lucky enough to get in on a school band concert that Saige was in! On Saturday I went out to the Pryor Mountains with my sister Debbie to her family cabin to check on a few things before winter set in. It was a beautiful day and we enjoyed the super moon coming up over the mountains. When we got back to Billings, Rod and I drove back north! So...
Mother Nature finally straightened up and this week has been beautiful! The corrals have dried enough to allow shipping calves to take place! Heck, the Loring Lutheran Church might even get moved yet! The ground has been too soft so far. Many of the women from this area were in this weekend to participate in the Specialty Fair at the City Hall. Dixie Stordahl and Lu Besel sat at the GPDM table and right across from them was Brenda Clark with her creations! It was a fun day and we saw many...
1-26. Hey, all! This is mostly about Dixie Stordahl's trip to Arizona! I had a flight with Allegient which I love because it is a straight flight with no layovers. But this time it was late by about two hours. My brother Scott met me at the Mesa airport and drove me to his home, where a delicious dinner was waiting, thanks to Roxanne, my sister in law! Scott and I took in the meteorite museum at the ASU campus which is awesome! Not a large museum, but very well done and informative! Then on to...
