Montana is the oldest state west of the Mississippi, and demographic projections show the state growing collectively older as more Montanans enter their senior years. The economic, cultural, and personal impacts of that trend present the state and its residents with new challenges and, with those challenges, opportunities. Graying Pains is a series of weekly stories and broadcasts exploring those challenges and opportunities in communities statewide. By investigating how other communities have responded to the issues raised by aging, Graying Pains hopes to point the way toward policies and innovations that can help Montana, and Montanans, improve with age. The series...
DIXON — Dixon Senior Center continues to serve our community. We are still adhering and following social distancing precautions. We are accepting take-out meal requests only. Meals will be served Monday and Thursday evenings, at 5:30 p.m. Meals are $4 per serving and are deliverable to Dixon residents ...
POLSON — We are open. Masks are required and social distancing. Activities at the Polson Senior Center are: — Exercise every Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 10:30-11:30 a.m. — Bridge every Tuesday and Friday beginning at 12:30 p.m. — Pinochle o...
ST. IGNATIUS — The St. Ignatius Senior Citizens Center has hired a new site manager. She is Irene Pritsak, a retired special education teacher. She starts work at the center Aug. 24 and said she is “thrilled and anxious to work for and with the center’s members, officers and staff.”&n...
RONAN – This summer, families that don’t have the resources to purchase fresh produce will be able to access weekly boxes of food, grown in the region, through food banks and other community support organizations. Here’s how it works: farmers harvest food in fields across western Montana...
FLATHEAD RIVER – Lake County Sheriff’s Office deputies and search and rescue crews were called to the Buffalo Cliffs on July 18 after it was reported that a man went under the water. Lake County Sheriff Don Bell said that Dayton Conrad, 21, was swimming with a friend before the accident. Conra...
POLSON – U.S. representative Greg Gianforte presented his plan for bolstering the state economy at an event at Lake City Bakery on July 15. Gianforte is the Republican candidate for governor. His running mate Kristen Juras also attended the event. The visit was part of Gianforte’s &ldquo...
RONAN – The Lake County fairgrounds weren’t the bustling hub they usually are in late July, but that didn’t stop 7-year-old Tuneya Moran from bringing her bunny to the show. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fair changed rules for livestock showing to reduce the spread of the virus. ...
RONAN – The Lake County Fair Ranch Rodeo in conjunction with the Lake County Fair hosted its annual barrel race event to close out this year’s fair with a perfect sunny sky on Sunday. “Today went very well,” said race co-organizer Sharon Guenzler. Barrel racing is a rodeo ...
OKLAHOMA — Mission Valley cowgirl Morgan Shepard and bull rider Caden Fitzpatrick both recently competed at the National High School Finals Rodeo. The event began on Friday, July 17, and ended last Thursday, July 23, at the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie, Oklahoma. Shepard made her first appearance at t...
