November 14-20, 2019
Violet Farrell runs off stage after performing during the Autumn Collective Dance Recital put on by the Philipsburg Childrens Performance Arts Council. Photo by Scott Sylvester.
Library sale earns $15k
The Philipsburg Library held a sale over the weekend to raise money for furniture for their newly purchased building.
The purchase of the Broadway Trading Company building included the merchandise in the building, which the library offered up for sale first to members of the Friends of the Library, and then to the public, with 75% off the retail price listed.
Proceeds from the sale, which totaled just under $15,000 will be used to purchase new furniture for the more spacious building.
The sale was such a success, it will be continued this weekend, Sat. Nov. 16 at 10 a.m.
County seeks solutions to ambulance response issues
The Philipsburg Volunteer Ambulance service has had some problems maintaining a staff of Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) and providing consistent and reliable service to the community. Patrick Little, Jaime Bancroft and Scott Wilson of the Philipsburg volunteer ambulance crew met with the Granite County Commissioners last week to address the problems and discuss how to solve them.
“To be honest with you I understand where they’re coming from. If you come from Missoula to check on your Mom and find she’s been lying on the floor for two days, you call 911 and say you need an ambulance, and the ambulance doesn’t show up. I get where the frustrations are coming from,” said Little.
Powerful sniffers put to work protecting wildlife
Wet nose to the ground, Barley works his way through a field, searching for red fox and black footed ferret scat, his black and white tail wagging faster and faster, his mouth closing more and more as he gets closer to his target until at last, he lies down.
“Show me,” his partner says.
Barley jabs at the scat with his nose. And with that, he finally gets his prize: a ball.
Barley is one of many canines at Workings Dogs for Conservation who put their noses to work protecting wildlife and wild places. While Barley is trained to scent black footed ferrets and red foxes along with zebra and quagga mussels, others can be trained to find dozens of scents.
Working Dogs for Conservation works with high energy dogs, many of whom were too energetic for the shelters from which they came, using their extraordinary sense of smell to aid in research projects and conservation.
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