Huckleberries to the Missoula Fire Department for sending yet another winning group to the Trent Firefighter Stairclimb competition in Seattle. Firefighters Andy Drobeck, Ben Brunsvold and Blake Meyers scaled 69 stories – using complete gear, no much less – in a combined complete time of 36 moments and 42 seconds. Drobeck bested 1,490 others competitors and Brunsvold came in 2nd overall. finest of all, Missoula’s firefighters have actually raised thousands of dollars for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. To know much more or make a donation, go to firefighterstairclimb.org. Fundraising will certainly go on with the month of March.
Chokecherries to Montana’s second-position ranking in a list of the a lot of pricey states for automobile insurance. Insure.com released its annual rankings this week and named Michigan as the a lot of pricey say for auto insurance coverage in the nation, along with Brand-new Jersey, Louisiana and Oklahoma rounding out the best 5 behind Montana. The the very least pricey states? That would certainly be Maine, Ohio, Wisconsin, our neighbor Idaho and Brand-new Hampshire, in that order.
Huckleberries to the Darby Area People Library for hosting “Perspectives about Islam” as section of its Life-Lengthy Understanding Series. The presentation about Wednesday brought University of Montana Arabic language professor Samir Bitar to provide a “well-rounded discovering of Muslims and Muslim society,” according to the library’s calendar. Educational occasions similar to this one need to be welcomed as an possibility for a smaller-dimension Area to combat misinformation and know much more regarding a religion along with which it could otherwise have actually little direct experience.
Chokecherries to the electrical outage that left Rattlesnake School and hundreds of Rattlesnake residents free of electricity for numerous hrs about Tuesday. According to NorthWestern Energy, a dead cottonwood tree fell about a electricity line offering nearly 900 residents, and electricity was restored shortly after 2 p.m.
Huckleberries to the 200 or so classrooms in western Montana that participated in this year’s Newspaper in Education along with the Missoulian. Students wrote editorials and creative stories, drew editorial cartoons and weather illustrations, and also created advertisements for neighborhood businesses. Grand prize winners were awarded $25 gift cards, and all of participants gained a little first-hand expertise of the distinct role of newspapers.
