December 5- 11, 2019
Young and old alike enjoyed a free Thanksgiving dinner at the Drummond Community Hall last Thursday.
Ski hill to open
“We’re excited to get open,” President of Discovery Ski Area Ciche Pitcher told the Mail Monday morning.
The ski hill will be open this weekend, Dec. 7 and 8. The hill will be closed through next week and reopen on Saturday, Dec. 14 and should be open seven days a week after that, Pitcher said.
“It’s later than we wanted to open,” he said, adding that they had hoped to be open Thanksgiving Day.
While the area received lots of cold weather in September and October, the warm November melted all the snow on the south side of the hill back down to the dirt, while the north side has stayed pretty white, Pitcher noted. Even the snow looked pretty good from town, they had to restart building snowpack in the main part of the ski area.
Both Jubilee and Easy Chair will be open this weekend, and adult lift tickets will be discounted to $38.
Democrat John Mues visits Philipsburg Brewery
John Mues does not only think that he is qualified to be a US senator, he believes he is qualified in singular ways.
“I am the only candidate who has served their country and seen a combat zone,” he began, then went on to list other ways he feels he stands out in the 2020 race.
Mues said that he is the only candidate that ever lived in rural Montana or on a tribal nation and that he is the only candidate who spent any time in the agriculture business. He has lived in Wolf Point, Fort Peck and on the Fort Belknap Reservation where he was also a public school teacher. Again, no other candidate, but Mues he pointed out, has ever taught.
“People always tell me thank you for your service for the time I spent in the military,” said Mues, “but I think we should also say thank you for your service to educators.”
No easy solutions to ambulance woes
Granite County Commissioners met last week with Patrick Little, Director of the Philipsburg Volunteer Ambulance Service, along with crew members of Drummond’s Volunteer Ambulance, to discuss ways to improve on ambulance service in the county.
Little had told Commissioners earlier in the month that the service in Philipsburg has been hampered by a lack of volunteers, despite multiple Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) training sessions he has conducted, and many attempts to recruit volunteers by him and others on the crew.
“We don’t want to do something county-wide that screws up everything. We just want to get your opinions about how we can improve the participation of volunteers on the ambulance, and by the way, every other county our size is running into exactly the same issues,” said Commission Chair Bill Slaughter.
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Ski hill to open
“We’re excited to get open,” President of Discovery Ski Area Ciche Pitcher told the Mail Monday morning.
The ski hill will be open this weekend, Dec. 7 and 8. The hill will be closed through next week and reopen on Saturday, Dec. 14 and should be open seven days a week after that, Pitcher said.
“It’s later than we wanted to open,” he said, adding that they had hoped to be open Thanksgiving Day.
While the area received lots of cold weather in September and October, the warm November melted all the snow on the south side of the hill back down to the dirt, while the north side has stayed pretty white, Pitcher noted. Even the snow looked pretty good from town, they had to restart building snowpack in the main part of the ski area.
Both Jubilee and Easy Chair will be open this weekend, and adult lift tickets will be discounted to $38.
Democrat John Mues visits Philipsburg Brewery
John Mues does not only think that he is qualified to be a US senator, he believes he is qualified in singular ways.
“I am the only candidate who has served their country and seen a combat zone,” he began, then went on to list other ways he feels he stands out in the 2020 race.
Mues said that he is the only candidate that ever lived in rural Montana or on a tribal nation and that he is the only candidate who spent any time in the agriculture business. He has lived in Wolf Point, Fort Peck and on the Fort Belknap Reservation where he was also a public school teacher. Again, no other candidate, but Mues he pointed out, has ever taught.
“People always tell me thank you for your service for the time I spent in the military,” said Mues, “but I think we should also say thank you for your service to educators.”
No easy solutions to ambulance woes
Granite County Commissioners met last week with Patrick Little, Director of the Philipsburg Volunteer Ambulance Service, along with crew members of Drummond’s Volunteer Ambulance, to discuss ways to improve on ambulance service in the county.
Little had told Commissioners earlier in the month that the service in Philipsburg has been hampered by a lack of volunteers, despite multiple Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) training sessions he has conducted, and many attempts to recruit volunteers by him and others on the crew.
“We don’t want to do something county-wide that screws up everything. We just want to get your opinions about how we can improve the participation of volunteers on the ambulance, and by the way, every other county our size is running into exactly the same issues,” said Commission Chair Bill Slaughter.
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