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October 1, 2017

Sheila Rice

Sheila Rice: A Life of Community Service

by DR. AARON PARRETT

Sheila Rice embodies what the phrase “Montana Citizen” is all about. Born in Anaconda and raised in Great Falls, Rice has devoted her life and career to public service in the Great Falls community and throughout the state of Montana.

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1890 Spokane Baseball Club, champions of the pacific NW League. William H. Colgan seated far right.

Safe at Home

by JEREMY WATTERSON

For 122 years, a Major League Baseball player has rested at Great Fall’s Old Highland Cemetery in an unmarked grave. An effort on behalf of William H. Colgan, the first former player to be buried in the state of Montana, hopes to remedy this in time to unveil a new memorial at the 8th annual Waking the Dead Tour to be held on June 24, 2018.

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Gut Pain

Gut-Wrenching Pain

by DR. HOLLY CARLING

We’ve all heard the words “gut-wrenching pain,” but until you have colitis, irritable bowel, diverticulitis, Crohn’s Disease, or any other inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), you really don’t have a clue how accurate those words are.

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Soul Man: Sam & Dave, October 1967

by RANDALL HILL

In their shows, Sam Moore and Dave Prater became a freewheeling bundle of collective energy, joyfully bobbing, weaving, and gyrating, all the while singing at full throttle.

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The Day I Died

THE ONE-YEAR CAREER OF VAUGHN MEADER by RANDALL HILL On November 22, 1963, when a Milwaukee cabbie picked up his passenger, the driver recognized 27-year-old

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Recommended Reading: Copper Sky

by CONNIE DAUGHERTY

Milana Marsenich’s descriptions of the 1895 warehouse fire and of Butte in 1917 in her book “Copper Sky” are vivid and detailed, and this summer’s skies helped take me back to when smoke in the air and danger underground were routine.

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Mentor preparing cappelletti

Mentors Without Measure

by GAIL JOKERST 

When forest fires ignited near my home two years ago, I began compiling a list of items to pack once word came to evacuate. My laptop and family photos made the roster. So did a cracked, nine-inch-long box that’s priceless to me and of questionable value to anybody else.

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