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MISSOULA - The drive to fix up some Garden City playgrounds is getting a boost. Noon's Food Stores is starting a fundraising campaign to help Missoula schools like Franklin Elementary and Lewis & Clark Elementary rebuild their playgrounds. Noon's says in a press release that after hearing ...

But, one daytime activity is teaching kids some lessons straight out of their school's curriculum. Children and their families were invited to a teddy bear picnic at the Western Montana Fairgrounds on Tuesday, where they could eat, play and help plant garlic in the Missoula Pizza Garden ...

MISSOULA - This week's One Class at a Time grant from KPAX goes to Tracy Hardy at Cold Springs School. Her students are learning about the responsibilities and the joys of having their own garden. Ms. Hardy's class is using the grant money to beef up their greenhouse with new seedlings and supplies after the structure toppled over in the wind. The class has plans of transporting their seedlings to a plot in a nearby community garden ...

... "Schools can also provide a substantial and consistent market for local farmers and ranchers, which support our rural communities. My goal is to help empower our delegation to go in and talk about this issue."   There are more than forth school gardens in Montana, and Juneau believes a well-funded Farm to School program could help increase the number of programs and develop curriculum to turn those gardens into classrooms ...

... "Schools can also provide a substantial and consistent market for local farmers and ranchers, which support our rural communities. My goal is to help empower our delegation to go in and talk about this issue." There are more than 40 school gardens in Montana, and Juneau believes a well-funded Farm to School program could help increase the number of programs and develop curriculum to turn those gardens into classrooms ...

BILLINGS - Missoula's AA softball teams got a taste of the eastern part of the state at last week's Great Falls Jamboree, and on Friday they took them on again. The Garden City was taking on the Magic City in a trio of matchups.We start with Big Sky battling the Bears of Billings West.  In the bottom of the second, Andrea Walt was dealing for the Eagles and fanned Ali Jordan to keep it scoreless ...

The students voted for their favorite trading cards with a little help from the First Lady. She said this is just one way to get kids to explore the beautiful state.    After the kids voted the students got to ask the First Lady any questions they wanted, many questions focused on Jag, the Schweitzer's Border Collie. Before she left the First Lady visited the school's Helping Hands Garden ...

... will graduate 26 students this year and the commencement speaker is Chris Stout, superintendent of Seeley Lake Elementary District. Many students in the Alternative High School programs at Willard School will also be receiving diplomas on June 5th.   ...

MISSOULA - Monday marks the beginning of Bus Walk Bike Week here in the Garden City and the University of Montana is encouraging people to get to campus any other way than driving alone. The University is hosting "Walk N Roll" days all this week. The Associated Students for UM says you can walk ...

The Missoula Invitational tennis tournament took the court Saturday as the Garden City schools welcomed some competition from Kalispell and Helena to Playfair Park. In the boys singles title match, it's Glacier's Kellen Bates taking on Hellgate's Tony Mayer and Bates was playing well at the net ...

MISSOULA - UM students in the School of Business Administration got a first-hand lesson in philanthropy when they gave $10,000 to five nonprofit organizations.  Students in the Individual and Corporate Philanthropy class received 25 submissions from local nonprofits for grant money from ...

MISSOULA, MT - The Missoula Phoenix football team is changing hands.  Michael Burks purchased the squad from current owner John Velk.  The Missoula businessman also owns the Missoula Maulers junior hockey team, Big Sky Specialized Carriers, the Garden of Read'n, and two Fuel Fitness gyms.  He received a Top 500 Entrepreneurs award in 2000.        Burks plans to update the Phoenix logo and its website ...

MISSOULA - The Montana High School Association sanctions 11 different sports, but many Missoula teens find other ways to get their athletic fix. One of those came to an end of another season Saturday, but it is just starting to take off in the Garden City. "One time during my freshman year ...

That eventually led to the combined efforts of over 20 million demonstrators across the country. There are several events planned to mark Earth Day across Western Montana on Thursday to mark the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. The Potomac School is marking the event by setting up 13 stations to show off ...

Missoula residents, business owners and Internet enthusiasts tell Missoula Mayor John Engen an ultra-high speed fiber network would be the perfect thing to spur the city's economy. Those comments came Thursday evening as Engen hosted an informal meeting discussing the pitch for Google to build the pilot project in the Garden City. Mayor Engen has been saying going for Google is "taking a swing" at a project that could give the city an economic boost ...

Kenzie of Newcastle University said in a news release from the school, were likely to be of "considerable interest to the general public in the debate over the relative merits of consuming organic food ...

... in Tivoli Gardens and Denham Town, officials said. A woman in the area said the front of her house had been "shot up," and that police had taken away her nephew and grandson for questioning ...

... m. * Five Missoula Cemetery Ceremonies - 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Leave Western Montana Veteran's Cemetery by Beach Transportation bus at 12:45 p.m. for the Fort Missoula Military Cemetery, Sunset Memorial Garden Cemetery, St. Mary's, St. Mary's Annex and the Missoula City Cemetery. Then you can go to Rose Park at about 2:30 p.m. from Missoula City Cemetery. A free lunch will be served at Sunset Memorial Gardens to all in attendacne ...

... " The attempt to arrest Christopher "Dudus" Coke, a suspected drug kingpin in the Jamaican capital of Kingston has resulted in the arrests of more than 500 people and the confiscation of firearms and ammunition, In the Kingston neighborhoods of Tivoli Gardens and Denham Town, street battles raged between ...

... * Helena Golden Nuggets    * Montana Kids CountAWARDS: 2005-present    * MT Food Security Council: Recognized Mary for innovative solutions to hunger for the community garden project     * Veterans of Foreign Wars: Recognized Mary for her legislation ...

Emergency surgery five hours after birth saved her life, but she has never had full use of her legs. "I walk with long leg braces and crutches, and always have," said Wallace, who lives in Garden City, N.Y. "I will use a wheelchair for long distances." Despite her disability, Wallace says, she kept up with her five siblings at school and play. She went to college and got a master's degree. And in 1998, she married ...