Articles with the Tag: Mission
They may be small but the cause is mighty. Dozens of model aircraft including helicopters, propeller driven planes and jets touched down on the St. Ignatius airport runway over the weekend for the fundraising event Wings for Wishes. The program was developed by Eric Kendall to bring model aircraft pilots ...
Michael Martinez, 14, gritted his teeth and pulled at the end of a thick muddy rope with his back to an almost knee deep watery mud hole in the Good Old Days park. He pulled with friends Daniel Lozeau, 11, and Brent Lozeau, 8, until the opposing team on the other end of the rope went into the mud during the ...
ST. IGNATIUS – The Good Old Days weekend kicked off Friday afternoon with a pageant for boys and girls where Lola Schock, 7, was crowned Little Miss Good Old Days. Later that evening, Lola’s mom, Mrs. Montana 2013 Alyssa Schock, passed her crown on to Mrs. Montana 2014, Cindy Archer.&nb...
ST. IGNATIUS — Life in the town of St. Ignatius is pretty quiet 51 weekends out of the year, but beginning on Friday folks will flood into town for the year’s largest shindig. The 32nd annual Good Old Days Celebration is expected to bring between 500 and 1,000 people to town fo...
ST. IGNATIUS – Superintendent Bob Lewandowski doesn’t like to brag, but he said it was hard for him to not puff out his chest with a little pride for the staff and students of St. Ignatius Schools after annual standardized test results revealed leaps in achievement levels. In 2010, 42 percent ...
ST. IGNATIUS – Quilts bring in hundreds of people to the Mission Valley Amish School Auction each year. Lorene Yoder watched auctioneers taking bids on the quilt she brought to the auction. “Can I get $1,000?” Auctioneer Orlie Troyer asked the crowd shaded under a tent facing her quilt. ...
ST. IGNATIUS — The annual Good Old Days breakfast will be held in the St. Ignatius Senior Citizens’ Center on Saturday, July 19. The breakfast, featuring pancakes, eggs, sausage, coffee, juice and more, will begin at 7 a.m. and run until 11 a.m. The bingo, at 25 cents per card per game, will be p...
ST. IGNATIUS – The St. Ignatius Town Council will temporarily increase the hours of the town’s part-time police officer to have more coverage during the hiring process for a new chief. The council’s decision came after three citizens voiced their concerns about lacking protection f...
ST. IGNATIUS — The St. Ignatius Senior Citizens Center activities: • Bingo is played after almost every lunch. • Lunches begin at noon. • Quilters quilt in the center on Mondays and Thursdays. • Lunches can be delivered to ...
ST. IGNATIUS – Every year for the past 20 years, volunteers have taken the time to put together the St. Ignatius Volunteer Fire Department’s picnic to raise funds to help offset the department’s operating costs. “We started this picnic so we wouldn’t have to go after tax paye...
