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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 11:34 |
 MINOR BOO BOO We all make a mistake now and then and who ever put the hunter orange, high visibility access, signs together for Busch Ag showing an alternate route to take to the Busch Ag elevators while road construction is going on made a good one by forgetting to add the C to the company name. I-O Photo by Buck Traxler
He will receive $475 per month for services to the county concerning local and use decisions and compliance with the Montana Subdivision and Survey laws.
The motion to approve was made by Commissioner Cynthia Johnson and seconded by Joe Christiaens.
In other business, it was moved to approve the Montana Association of Counties Workers’ compensation Trust Agent Appointment/Service Agreement appointing Northern Montana Insurance as the county’s agent representative and Pat Greany as the agent’s designated liaison with the county and trust.
The commission approved an agreement with the State Department of Health and Human Services whereby the formula for state reimbursement for these services is changed to comply with Montana law.
This deals with sanitation inspection services.
Two right-of-way forage removal agreements were approved, one requested by Ray Denney for the north and south sides of the Pondera Coulee Rd., between the Price and Mouleson School roads and the other requested by Mike Koenig for both sides of the Derby Road, parts of Healey Spring Road and Midway West Road.
Commissioner Johnson moved to appoint Jaynie Gollehon and to reappoint Karla Styren to the Pondera Medical Center board of directors.
Both appointments are for three year terms. Commissioner Christiaens gave it a second and the motion carried.
The commissioners received a letter from the Dupuyer TV district board requesting that “the assessment be taken off the districts’ tax roll and dissolved.”
It was moved to remove the assessment, beginning with the 2009 tax year and to research the dissolution process.
This motion passed. |
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 11:23 |
 VENTING Fireman Keith Hruska practices venting a roof with a chain saw while Dave Richardson and Joel Farkell look on. Roof venting is part of the CVFDs weekly training. The training house was donated by D. Richardson. Photo courtesy of the CVFD
This year’s convention was in Hamilton. The Convention’s theme was “Montana Fire Service – Motivating From Within” and was hosted by the Hamilton Volunteer Fire Department.
Chief Kevin Moritz, Keith Hruska, Joel Farkell, and retired fireman Carroll Klette attended the business meetings and trainings. The firemen attended a basic fire investigation class, toured the new Fire Service Training School Smoke Trailer, and met with various fire fighting equipment vendors to get updated on what’s new. Hruska and Farkell even went up in the basket of Hamilton’s 100 foot ladder truck for a spectacular view.
The main training session highlighted Montana’s major fire incidents.
Chief Lance Taylor of the Worden Fire Department gave a presentation on the Huntley School Fire. Chief Taylor went through step by step how his department and others handled the fire from the first call through mop up. The Chief provided numerous pictures of the entire life of the fire. He discussed what they did right and what they did wrong and fielded questions from the audience.
Chief Jason Shrauger of the Bozeman Fire Department gave a similar presentation on the natural gas explosion in downtown Bozeman.
Chief Shrauger provided both audio clips and pictures from the whole incident. He went over how their department worked with the police and sheriff department, ambulance personal, and the city water personal. Shrauger stated that when it was all said and done his department used 4.7 million gallons of water.
While the firemen were in meetings and trainings the spouses (Colleen Moritz, Helen Hruska, Kody Farkell, and Gayle Klette) had their own agenda.
Friday was filled with a shopping poker run around Hamilton and then a bus tour to Chief Victor Days in Victor for more shopping. Saturday consisted of an open shopping period in the morning and then “fun and games” in the afternoon.
The finale of the weekend was Saturday night with a parade of fire trucks through Hamilton to the Driscoll Park.
At the park, the firemen and families attended a nice picnic and watched the annual Water Games.
This year’s games included a bucket brigade, and keg shoot (two teams try to shoot a keg across a zip line with a 1-½” water line – like tug-of-war), and SCBA Dodge Ball (teams of fire fighters play dodge ball with their full gear on including air packs).
The Conrad Volunteer Fire Department sat this year’s games out but still had a lot of fun. |
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 11:20 |
3 Rivers Communications has an agreement with Bresnan Communications to acquire Bresnan’s established cable television businesses in four north central Montana markets, with the sale tentatively scheduled to close on July 1. 3 Rivers will offer cable television in Choteau, Conrad, Fairfield and Shelby, markets where 3 Rivers already provides local telephone and broadband Internet services. The service will be promoted under the name 3RTV.
“This acquisition allows 3 Rivers to offer what we call a triple play to customers in these markets,” said Steve Krogue, 3 Rivers’ General Manager. “Folks will be able to buy phone, Internet and video from a local company, and they’ll be able to get it all on one bill.”
3 Rivers initially plans no changes to the current video programming lineup and pricing will remain the same. 3 Rivers will explore programming modifications based upon local customer preferences in the future. 3RTV will be offered to all customers within the coverage area of the cable facilities regardless of whether or not they are 3 Rivers telephone subscribers.
“Our telephone and Internet services will be more attractive to current 3 Rivers and non-3 Rivers customers alike when we are able to bundle them together with video at a discounted price,” said 3 Rivers Sales and Marketing Director Terry Noyd.
Current Bresnan customers will be notified of the impending acquisition by Bresnan. 3 Rivers will be in contact with customers with information regarding billing and other details once the sale has closed.
For more information call Don Serido at 3 Rivers Communications, 800-796-4567, ext. 4107. |
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