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The week of February 17 - 24, 2024 brought about National FFA week. This was a week of celebration, recognition, and advocating for FFA and Agriculture. According to FFA.org, there are 946,000 student FFA members nationwide! Of those members, 6,684 reside in Montana (montanaffa.org) and 116 registered FFA members here in Cascade! Monday, February 17th, grades PreK - 12 at Cascade Schools celebrated National FFA week with a great assembly put on by the Cascade FFA officer team, under the...
A public hearing on short-term rentals was held at the Cascade Public Schools cafeteria Thursday evening with about 25 citizens in attendance. The Zoning Committee was proposing changes to the current ordinance on short-term rentals. Currently, short-term rentals are limited to business areas, to existing airbnbs and those grandfathered in. There are currently 3-5 airbnbs in the town of Cascade. Mayor Moore said that the Zoning Committee was proposing to remove all restrictions to anybody who...
There are folks who endeavor not to feel emotions. We’ve all known people who hide their tears, their sorrow, even their love. We mistakenly call that “being strong”, but it isn’t. Burying emotions is corrosive and ultimately erupts in some way, as anger, as depression, some other way. I’m no expert but I do know what grief feels like and, of one thing I’m certain, it doesn’t just disappear once and for all. I know folks who do their best to overcome grief by chasing constant distraction. They f...
HELENA – Superintendent Arntzen will host the ninth monthly virtual community discussion focusing on the implementation of HB 549, Authorizing establishment of public charter schools by Representative Fred Anderson. This discussion will be held on February 28, 2024, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM via Zoom and will be moderated by the Office of Public Instruction’s Chief Legal Counsel, Rob Stutz. These are open opportunities for parents, families, teachers, school leaders, and legislators to participate. The theme is Local Accountability: How Rec...
Patricia Ellen (Kinyon) Durocher of Cascade, MT passed away on February 19, 2024 after a short and courageous battle with cancer. Patty was the 3rd of 5 children born to Lavern and Judy Kinyon on July 3, 1965. She grew up in Shelby and Devon and attended Galata Elementary and Shelby Public Schools. Patty graduated from Havre High School in 1985. Patty married Dwight Larson in 1984 and together they had 3 wonderful boys. They later divorced. While attending college in Havre, she met the love of...
Gary Allen Clevenger, lifelong Montana resident, passed away on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, at Benefis Peace Hospice in Great Falls, MT. Gary was born in Billings, MT on October 27, 1950. He was the first of four children born to parents, Clarence and Lucy Clevenger. The family lived in Shepherd briefly before settling in Missoula in 1955 where Gary attended grade school and graduated high school. In 1968, Gary married Wilma Mace. Together they had two children, daughter Pamela Jean, and son, Casey Allen. They later divorced. In 1975, Gary...
Though still a month away, my thoughts this morning are on the celebration of Easter. The event that forever changed the world. The event that impacts every soul that has ever lived. The first Easter was the day the disciples and enemies of the Lord Jesus Christ discovered that the tomb in which Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus had laid the body of Jesus was empty. The disciples of Jesus were perplexed and sorrowful over the empty tomb. Even though Jesus had been telling them for months, that He would be rejected, crucified (he used the term...
The Badger basketball season ended this last weekend at the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls. We entered the Divisional tournament with our first game against the Winnett-Grass Range Rams. The Rams have been State-ranked all season and proved to be a tough test for our team. Despite being down double digits throughout the game, the boys continued to fight hard and closed the gap multiple times. With seconds on the clock, the Badgers were within 3 points and had the ball. Unfortunately, a ref's...
On January 10th, the Cascade Leadership High School group and I attended the Great Falls Leadership High School "Education" day to examine the education system in Great Falls. We started at a local preschool, meeting with our groupmates to discuss our final projects. Once the preschoolers arrived, we split into different classrooms to read to the kids. I was in the special education classroom, so we helped the kids with their breakfasts and played with them in their play area. After this, we...
The Cascade Government Class was able to have Former Governor Brian Schweitzer zoom call on 2/20/24. One of the class assignments is to write to Montana, U.S., or World government representatives and one of the senior students wrote to Mr. Schweitzer to ask him questions about while he was the governor. Instead of writing back he asked if he could zoom in and talk to the class. He talked about his life as a governor and gave the students great advice for their futures. It was a fantastic...
The library is offering some bear education. Are we educating the bears?? Well, as that might be a good course of action, it might be more productive not to try and educate the bears, as they seem to do their own thing and keep on learning how to open those doors. So let us offer some education to us humans who also like to ignore common sense and do our own thing which often leads into interesting situations. Bears are fuzzy, adorable, but can be crazy terrifying. Bears of course, have been seen right here in our own backyards. And while your...
