Tough enough to wear pink
Submitted by Jessica Stenson
There are many reasons why you should attend the Marias Fair on July 18. There are the Carnival rides, the Marias Fair Rodeo, 4-H dog show, livestock sale, Fashion Revue, Robotics Exhibition, and the open and 4-H exhibits, but there is another event that some of you may not know about.
The “Tough Enough to Wear Pink” day at the Marias Fair will be on Saturday all day long. For every person who comes through the entry gates wearing pink, on Saturday only, the Marias Fair Board will donate one dollar to the Hi-Line Women Against Breast Cancer (WABC).
The Hi-Line WABC is a non-profit organization that helps breast cancer victims in the Hi-Line and surrounding area. They help pay for medical related bills from hotel rooms to medical costs not covered by insurance. Plus they assist with items that comfort victims and help maintain their dignity like wigs and prostheses. The WABC women invest a great deal of not only time but compassion, to bring hope and strength to those who need it when it counts most.
The Marias Fair Tough Enough events began last year with the Marias Fair Rodeo. This year the rodeo will again be kicked off by the 4-H horse participants, wearing pink of course, riding into the arena during the grand entry.
Several area businesses and individuals are supporting the event by providing added prize money. Normans Western Wear, Cut Bank; Scott and Sherri Johnson, Conrad; Home Connection Exit Reality, Conrad; Pony Expressions, Valier; One Stop Cenex, Valier; Frontline Ag, Conrad, Cutbank and Choteau; Judisch Spray Service, Conrad; and the Branding Iron, Conrad. .
Even the smallest cowboys and cowgirls have the chance to earn $25 added prize money in the miniature bull riding for the top scoring contestant wearing pink Saturday night.
Tough Enough to Wear Pink apparel will be for sale outside the main entry gate Saturday afternoon, and under the Grand Stands during the rodeo. When this event first started out the goal was to have the whole rodeo be pink.
This year 4-Hers want not only the rodeo to be pink but also the 4-H livestock sale, so the Prairie Pals 4- H club came up with an idea to sell t-shirts that promote both 4- H and the fight to cure breast cancer. The t-shirts will be sold under the grand stands during the rodeo or ahead of time from Dena Fritz. The t-shirts have a clever yet true quote, “Tough Enough to Wear Pink and Smart Enough to Be Green.” Proceeds from all merchandise sales will go to the Hi-Line WABC.
Also this year sponsorship forms will be available at your local extension office and at the merchandise table at the fair. You can donate any amount to the WABC in your own name or in honor of an individual.
If you have any question on the Tough Enough to Wear Pink event please call Jessica Stenson at 271-2484 or 472-3282, and if you have any question about the 4-H and Breast Cancer t-shirts please call Dena Fritz at 432-2845.
TOUGH ENOUGH TO WEAR PINK Official Tough Enough To Wear Pink apparel will be for sale at the Marias Fair, on July 18, in the afternoon outside the main entry gate, and during the rodeo under the grandstands. All proceeds for the merchandise sales will go to the Hi Line Women Against Breast Cancer. In addition to the women's apparel featured here, men's t-shirts will also be for sale. This event is organized by Pondera 4-Her, Jessica Stenson, pictured left and Skylar Stenson on the right. Photo courtesy of Amber Stenson
The “Tough Enough to Wear Pink” day at the Marias Fair will be on Saturday all day long. For every person who comes through the entry gates wearing pink, on Saturday only, the Marias Fair Board will donate one dollar to the Hi-Line Women Against Breast Cancer (WABC).
The Hi-Line WABC is a non-profit organization that helps breast cancer victims in the Hi-Line and surrounding area. They help pay for medical related bills from hotel rooms to medical costs not covered by insurance. Plus they assist with items that comfort victims and help maintain their dignity like wigs and prostheses. The WABC women invest a great deal of not only time but compassion, to bring hope and strength to those who need it when it counts most.
The Marias Fair Tough Enough events began last year with the Marias Fair Rodeo. This year the rodeo will again be kicked off by the 4-H horse participants, wearing pink of course, riding into the arena during the grand entry.
Several area businesses and individuals are supporting the event by providing added prize money. Normans Western Wear, Cut Bank; Scott and Sherri Johnson, Conrad; Home Connection Exit Reality, Conrad; Pony Expressions, Valier; One Stop Cenex, Valier; Frontline Ag, Conrad, Cutbank and Choteau; Judisch Spray Service, Conrad; and the Branding Iron, Conrad. .
Even the smallest cowboys and cowgirls have the chance to earn $25 added prize money in the miniature bull riding for the top scoring contestant wearing pink Saturday night.
Tough Enough to Wear Pink apparel will be for sale outside the main entry gate Saturday afternoon, and under the Grand Stands during the rodeo. When this event first started out the goal was to have the whole rodeo be pink.
This year 4-Hers want not only the rodeo to be pink but also the 4-H livestock sale, so the Prairie Pals 4- H club came up with an idea to sell t-shirts that promote both 4- H and the fight to cure breast cancer. The t-shirts will be sold under the grand stands during the rodeo or ahead of time from Dena Fritz. The t-shirts have a clever yet true quote, “Tough Enough to Wear Pink and Smart Enough to Be Green.” Proceeds from all merchandise sales will go to the Hi-Line WABC.
Also this year sponsorship forms will be available at your local extension office and at the merchandise table at the fair. You can donate any amount to the WABC in your own name or in honor of an individual.
If you have any question on the Tough Enough to Wear Pink event please call Jessica Stenson at 271-2484 or 472-3282, and if you have any question about the 4-H and Breast Cancer t-shirts please call Dena Fritz at 432-2845.
Barringer breaks own pool record, Conrad 3rd
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.
Union tries to make end run around PMC
By Buck Traxler, I-O Editor
At last week’s commission meeting, two union representatives from the Pondera Medical Center were on hand to address commission chairman Sandy Broesder and Joe Christiaens. Cyndi Johnson was present by use of speaker phone.
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.
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.