"Thunderbear" Raises Money for Park County Libraries
Some people paint on canvas. Others use paper, or perhaps a computer. Mary Ringer and Dorci Newman Tremblay painted a grizzly bear. A big one, too. Okay, if you're going to get technical about it, they painted a fiberglass statue of a bear, and raised $16,500, most of which went to the Park County (Wyoming) Library Foundation.
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A Review of Essential Reading Related to Climate Change
by Gerald Davidson, Ph.D.
A short list of selected reading on climate change.
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Alan Goldin of Red Lodge Becomes the Oldest Person to Hike the Classic Inca Trail
Most of us are content to slow down a little bit as we age. Youth is the time for rodeoing, mountain climbing, and competitive skiing. By the time we hit 60, we're taking it quite a bit easier, perhaps a spin around Wild Bill Lake in the morning. By the time we reach our 80s, it's time to relax and watch someone else do the hard work.
Unless you're Alan Goldin.
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Bestsellers
by Gary Robson
What does it really mean when a book is listed as a bestseller? Gary explains all of the different bestseller lists, and which one he uses in Red Lodge.
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Charity Quilters Hope to Raise Big Money for Habitat for Humanity
Charity Quilters of Red Lodge are hand-quilting a queen-size quilt for a raffle to benefit the seventh house being built by Carbon County Habitat for Humanity.
Charity Quilters have been hand sewing on quilts once a week for over ten years. The ladies have raised over $14,000 for charities in and around Red Lodge and Carbon County. Last year one of their quilts was raffled and generated $2,000 for Baretooth Cupboards.
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Climate Change: What Scientists Really Know
by Gerald Davidson, Ph.D.
The debate on climate change has shifted gradually over the past 50 years. In the 1960s and early 1970s, the question was "Are we going to enter a new Ice Age?" During the 1980s, the question was "Is the climate warming?" During the 1990s, the question was "Is the warming due to man's activities?" Now the only question that hasn't been answered is "Omigod, what can we do?"
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Great American Beer Festival Travelogue
In which Justin Moore, Heather Patterson, Franklin Hughes, Lindsey Cadwell & Sam Hoffmann visit the Great American Beer Festival in Denver.
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It's Ski & Winter Gear Swap Time!
Beartooth Recreational Trails Association is once again sponsoring the annual Ski & Winter Gear Swap on Saturday, November 8th at the Roosevelt School Gym in Red Lodge from 12-3p.m. The Roosevelt School gym is located at 17th & Hauser, just one block west of Broadway, one block north of the Yodeler Motel. Proceeds from the Swap will help fund BRTA's mission to encourage and maintain year-round trails in the Red Lodge area for non-motorized recreation.
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by Douglas Robson and Ethan McDowell
This month, Ethan and I are reviewing a game that has been highly anticipated for years. From the depths of the Warhammer universe comes a game the MMO world has been waiting for, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning; a group effort by EA, Mythic Games, and Games Workshop (rated T for Teen by the ESRB).
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by Randy Tracy
If you've never had Port (or Porto, or Oporto) from Portugal before, you are missing out on one of the greatest wines ever made. Even at the lowest price points, the quality is remarkably even and consistently excellent. I can only describe entry-level port as a screaming bargain. I've written about port before, and this seemed like a good time to do so again, mostly because I was invited to a dinner planned around port, specifically to sample some ports and sherries for this column. It was a perfect excuse to hang out and have some good food with good friends.
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Cooking with John:
Adding Spice to your Thanksgiving Dinner
by John Overton
What do you think of when you think Thanksgiving? Ninety-nine and forty-four one-hundredths percent will say the two main things are roast turkey and pumpkin pie.
We are not talking turkey this time.
The following recipes are ways to add some spice to your desserts for Thanksgiving. These are not your mother's pumpkin pie.
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by Jay West
With hard times looming in the news, I started thinking about that staple from the depression-era, beans and wieners. My grandmother, who sometimes ran soup kitchens, said times were so hard back then that they began using cheap hot dogs because other pork was too expensive to use in pork and beans. I don't know about that, but I do know that, as things eased up a bit, folks took to chopping hot dogs into canned pork and beans.
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by Jeanne Thomas
Well, I've been talking to some local elves who are working hard to make sure that Santa's arrival in Red Lodge on Friday, December 5th, 2008 will be a glorious welcome and a wonderful time for all!
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by Gene Rodman
Every morning when we open our eyes we create our reality. We awake with all the possibilities of a world we can create anew. Consider the story of Chuang Tsu who awoke from a dream of being a butterfly. He was not sure if he was Chuang Tsu dreaming of being a butterfly or a butterfly now dreaming he was Chuang Tsu.
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by Clare Witcomb
Home on the Range" has become a way to describe a very special building in downtown Billings. At first glance, Billings' baby blue "Your Food Bank" grocery might seem an unlikely candidate to become Montana's first nationally-accredited and platinum-rated sustainable building. Take another look. The long-empty store has become a local landmark. Cutting-edge, energy efficient technologies, coupled with innovative conservation and recycling measures, have made this Montana's first commercial building to achieve Platinum Standard under the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.
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About Town:
Poll: Could/Should Red Lodge become Jackson Hole?
by Corey Thompson
Could (or should) Red Lodge become the next Jackson Hole? With its booming real estate business and the sale of Red Lodge Mountain Resort, a number of folks have speculated for some time now as to the direction of the town of Red Lodge. Will it become another Jackson Hole? Here are some random responses from a very unscientific polling of residents.
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