Parenting

Conrad Christian School will be hosting an open house this evening, Monday, for preschool through 1st grade. Enrollment is on NOW for the 2022--2023, school year. . Open house hours tonight will be from 5:30, to 7:30, & you'll have an opportunity to meet & greet all the teachers, tour the facilities & learn about the curriculum & learning environment. For more infor...

Montana author Melody Dobson from Billings, will be at the Prairie Peddler here in Shelby this morning (Saturday) from 9:30, until noon with her brand new & latest book, "A History of Montana Agriculture; A Life of Discovery," & she'll will be autographing the book along with reading a chapter or two. Melody...

The Dutton Senior Center will be serving up dinner EARLY this Monday. In fact, the dinner bell will ring at 5. Then the senior center will be hosting a card night at 6:30. How about that! Dinner AND cards & everyone's invited to come on down......

Tomorrow, Saturday morning, at 7:30, on Puff Man Sports Trivia, I'll have a beautiful Montana 2022 calendar up for grabs. I didn't ride into town on the pumpkin truck, so I'm aware that 3 months of '22, have already passed us by, but this is a spectacular full size calendar with beautiful pictures of our Treasure State...

Today, the FIRST day of April, marks the grand reopening day of the NEW location of Lena's Smile Shop downtown. The new location's at 202 Main Street, right next to the Tiber Agency. Lena's not one to let moss grow under her feet either...starting today, she's taking in sewing again in addition to ironing...

Conrad Schools will be conducting kindergarten screening this Friday, 4/1, by appointment. Friday's screenings pertain to children who'll be 5 years of age BEFORE September 10th, 2023. If your child falls in that age parameter, you can make an appointment now by calling the Meadowlark School at 278 5620...

The Parkview Senior Center over in Cut Bank, will be serving up real Mexican dinners to go on Monday, April 4th. You can stop by the senior center between 5 & 6 o'clock, Monday afternoon & you can grab 2 beef or 2 chicken enchiladas (or 1 of each,) rice, beans, sweet corn cake along with a slice of tres leches cake for desert. Your $...

The 73rd Annual Cut Bank Area Chamber Banquet's coming up on NEXT weekend,  Saturday night, April 9th, & tickets are on sale NOW. The banquet will be at the Joe Meagher Memorial Civic Center from 6 until 11. You can stop by Billman's True Value, or contact the Cut Bank Area Chamber of Commerce. 73 year...

Valier Public Schools will be conducting an early childhood/kindergarten readiness screening tomorrow (Thursday) morning from 8 to 11 o'clock in the Valier School multi-purpose room. The screening will cover vision, hearing, speech, language, fine motor, gross motor & concepts. Yo...

Numerous hospitals AND trauma centers all around the country report they're in dire need of blood donations. In fact, our American Red Cross has called a nationwide blood crisis! Help's on the way this Thursday, when there'll be a blood drive over at the Shelby Civic Center...

The Pondera Arts Council is announcing & hosting a very special LIVE presentation scheduled for this weekend at the beautiful Orpheum Theatre in Conrad. All I can say today (Tuesday) is, I'll  share all the details along with a "mystery" guest in the studio" from the Pondera Arts Council tomorrow afternoon (Wednesday)) at 2:30, on the Puff Man Show. Stay by...

This week's Thursday Lenten Lunch here in Shelby, will be hosted by the United Methodist Church. Christians deepen their relationship with God during these 40 days of Lent, as we're reminded to devote ourselves through prayer & reading the Scripture. Lu...