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Wednesday, 15 July 2009 06:13 |
 HITTIN THE WATER As Allison Broesder touches home, Angel Dugan dives in to swim a leg of the Girls A team 100m Free relay race in Cut Bank. The A team swam to a first place in the race. Photo courtesy of Amy Salois
Senior swimmer Melissa Barringer, swimming in the 100 breast, broke her own record on Saturday set in 2002 at 1:25:86, knocking it down to 1:24.87 in the qualifying round. In the finals on Sunday, she just smashed that record again, clocking in at 1:22.94.
She and her sister Makayla (Intermediate swimmer) each brought home High Point honors, helping Conrad to a third place finish.
The overall team places for the meet went like this: 1. Bitterroot, 2. Shelby, 3. Conrad, 4. Cut Bank, 5. Columbia Falls, 6. Fort Benton, 7. Chester, Fairfield, 9. Plains, 10. Sunburst and 11. Choteau.
Individual results for the swimmers in their divisions went like this:
BANTAMS
Dania Jones 3rd-100IM, 3rd-50 free, 2nd-25 fly; Blake Larson 2nd-25 free, 2nd-50 free, 3rd-25 back; Jette Pruttis 6th-25 free, 8th-50 free, 2nd-25 back; Angel Dugan 11th-25 free, 6th-25 back; Maggie Baldwin 5th-25 free, 5th-50 free, 10th-25 back; Jessica Kinamon 4th-25 free, 6th-50 free; Brooke Mycke 9th-50 free, 10th-25 fly; Roper Mycke 9th-50 free, 10th-25 back; Allison Broesder 9th-50 free, 5th-25 back, 5th-25 fly; Naomi Yeager 9th-25 fly.
In the Girls 100 Free relay, the A team of Baldwin, Kinamon, Broesder and Dugan placed 1st. The B team of Morgan Skinner, Tyla Kimball, Yeager, and Nyssa Welker took 9th, and the C team of Jalynn Krause, Hayden Dugan, Riley Larson, and Rachel Skinner were in 10th place.
The Girls’ 100m relay team of Kinamon, Dugan, Broesder and Baldwin placed 4th.
MIDGETS
Nolan Dugan 6th-100IM, 7th-50 back; Ivy Kinamon 11th-100IM, 9th-50 Free; Nicole Erickson 6th-100IM, 4th-100 free, 5th-50 fly; Andrea Russell 4th-100IM, 2nd-50 back, 8th-50 fly; Minda Baldwin 3rd-100IM, 1st-50 breast, 3rd-50 fly; Talia Stephens 2nd-100IM, 1st-50 free, 2nd-100 free; Sheridan Johnson 12th-50 free, 12th-50 breast, 9th-50 back; Raelynn Jones 4th-50 free, 6th-50 back; Hunter Nesbo 8th-100 free, 4th-50 back; Parker Larson 9th-100 free; Hunter Mycke 10th-50 back, 5th-50 fly, 6th-50 free.
In the Boys’ 100m Free relay, the A team of Mycke, Nesbo, Larson and Dugan placed 4th The B team of Kale Larson, Pruttis, Blake Larson and Parker Larson placed 8th.
The Girls’ 100 A free relay of Stephens, Jones, Russell and Baldwin came in 1st, and the B team of Johnson, Mycke, Ivy Kinamon, and Raelynn Jones were in 2nd.
JUNIORS
Kyleigh Salois 2nd-200IM, 7th-50breast,5th-50fly; Lacey Jones 2nd-50 breast, 8th-100 free, 4th-50 back; Hailey Yeager 10th-50 back, 11th-50 breast.
In the Girls’ 200 Free relay, the team of Jones, Yeager, Erickson and Salois placed 3rd and the 200 Medley team of Jones, Yeager, Salois and Erickson were in 3rd.
INTERMEDIATE
Makayla Barringer 1st-200IM, 1st, 100 back, 1st-50 fly; Kelci Watterud 3rd-200IM, 11th-100 breast, 8th-50 fly; Jayde Richardson 2nd-50 free, 4th-100 breast, 3rd-100 free; Taryn Erickson 5th-100 breast, 3rd-100-fly, 7th-100 back; Jerry Swan 7th-100 free, 9th-50 free; Tony Swan 6th-100 free, 2nd-100 back, 8th-50 free.
SENIORS
Laura Linn 5th-200IM, 4th-100 fly, 3rd-50 fly; Jenny Silvernale 2nd-200IM, 3rd-100 breast, 1st-100k back; Shelby DeVries 7th-50 free, 7th-100 free, 5th-100back; Melissa Barringer 1st-50 free, 1st-100 breast, 2nd-50 fly; Kylee Schlepp 6th-100 breast, 5th-100 fly, 9th-50 fly.
The weekend the team goes to Shelby for competition. |
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Thursday, 09 July 2009 09:21 |
By Buck Traxler, I-O Editor
 LUMINARIA BAGS After the sun began to set at the Relay for Life event the Luminaria bags were lit in honor of loved ones who had battled cancer. What an outpouring of support and quite a sight at that. Cook made a point to take her team members around to the bags that she had sold and tell them a little something about the people who purchased them. Photo courtesy of Ruth Cook
The union representatives from the PMC were Judy Miller and Marilyn Copenhaver. Union representative Chris Laslovich was also on hand but did not speak.
Miller told the commissioners that they have been in negotiations with the hospital since November; however, “The Pondera Medical Center Board is not negotiating in good faith.”
Copenhaver pointed out that the workers in the hospital are essential to the PMC and that the facility is vital to the community. She also told the commissioners there is strong support of the employees and many want this to go through.
Nevertheless, while not being specific, they feel like they are hitting a brick wall with the PMC board, and “We would like the commissioner’s help to make this work.”
Broesder explained to the union representatives, “We, as commissioners, have no jurisdiction. We can look into the complaint, but they are a legal board. We can express our concerns, but legally we have no standing.”
She went on to add that the only involvement the commission has with the board is to appoint members.
The PMC board is not involved in the negotiations with the union.
The hospital has engaged the services of attorney Dan Johns who has experience in working with unions on labor contracts.
There has never been a union at the hospital and the local management has little if any experience in that field, while on the other hand, the union has sent three paid professionals to each session in order to pursue its interest(s).
The PMC is digging out from a very bad, financially, last year where they missed their budget by close to one million dollars. |
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Thursday, 09 July 2009 09:18 |
By Buck Traxler, I-O Editor
 Alicia Wood Mrs. Conrad Montana
She might be coming back from Billings as the new Mrs. Montana. The 33rd annual pageant takes place at the Petro Theatre.
Wood relates to the I-O that the mission of the Mrs. Montana Pageant is to empower married women to gain personal growth and to enrich their lives and the lives of others through their individual preparation for and experience in the pageant.
“I’m really excited about this,” she told the I-O on Monday. “I don’t know what to expect, but I hope we come back with the title.”
The winner of the pageant will receive an $8,000 prize package and an all expense paid trip to the national Mrs. America Pageant which is the only televised beauty competition for married women.
There is no age, height or the having of children requirements to be a Mrs. Montana contestant, although some sort of community service is required.
Readers will recall, she came to Conrad in 2005 to be closer to her mother and met Wyatt Wood (No relation) and it became “love at first sight.” The couple has two sons, Xavier and Ezra.
She is currently attending the University of Great Falls where she attained a GPA of 4.0 as a part-time student.
Wood is working for a license to practice addictions counseling and eventually work towards her Masters degree in Psychology.
At the pageant on Saturday, Wood hopes to highlight the need for age appropriate programs for Montana’s youth. |
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