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Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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Fort Peck has vast land and water. It holds fishing tournaments, foot races, bike races and a sailboat regatta. What else is missing from Fort Peck? Triathlon. The idea of starting a triathlon first came to Carin Barnett, a resident of Fort Peck, when she thought about attending a couple of out-of-town events. Friends encourage her to practice on her own right here at home. The idea grew more exciting as she realized that this could be a fun community event with more friends getting involved. She named it Under The Dam Triathlon. It's slated...
Still cutting time going into the finals, the Glasgow Kiwanis Thunder Swim Team had a solid performance from 22 swimmers at the state meet in Conrad this past weekend. Out of the 22 state qualifiers, 13 swimmers qualified for the finals on Sunday and went on to bring home three champions, six second-place and six third-place finishes. That gives the Thunder a fourth place in the A Division with 232 points, or ninth overall out of 22 teams from throughout Montana that competed in the state meet....
Experience reigned supreme for the Glasgow Kiwanis Thunder swim team at the Divisional swim meet in Chinook this past weekend. The Thunder took 28 swimmers with them to the meet and 22 of those advanced to the finals of the meet and qualified for the State swim meet that will be held in Conrad this weekend. Dalton Sand and Jordan Kulczyk highlighted the performances of Glasgow swimmers. Sand took first place in the boys 50 free, 100 free and 50 fly for the 9-10 age group. Kulczyk continued her...
The Glasgow Kiwanis swim team finished in fifth place this past weekend at the Glendive meet. The Thunder did have the highest average of points per swimmer despite the small number of swimmers who made the trek with 23.2 points per swimmer (pps) Sidney 20 points per swimmer (23 points for Glasgow). "The team did outstanding," said Thunder co-head coach Irene Whitmer. "We had several swimmers that tried out newer events and they excelled in those events." What has been the method of operation...
The Fourth of July weekend started off with a splash Saturday as the Glasgow Kiwanis swim team hosted the Glasgow Invitational swim meet. The meet, which saw 11 total teams compete in the two-day event, came down to the wire as Glasgow narrowly came out of the meet with a first place finish. The Thunder edged second place team Lewistown by 16 points as the Sea Lions finished with 550 overall points. "All of them did so well which is impressive especially when our younger swimmers haven't really...
The Glasgow Kiwanis Thunder swim team keeps on kicking as they took third last weekend at the Plentywood meet. "Our younger swimmers had so much personal improvement," said Thunder head coach Whitney Billing. "It was really fun to watch them swim and have better times." The team performance improved for the Thunder as they had more than double the amount of swimmers at the Plentywood meet than they did the prior week in Roundup. "This weekend was much more of a full team effort," Billing said....
The Glasgow Kiwanis Thunder swim team participated in their second meet of the season at Malta in which the Thunder finished sixth in the team standings. On the individual side, the Thunder were once again led by swimmers Britt Fairclough and Jordan Kulczyk. Fairclough finished had two first place finishes (200-meter individual medley and 50-meter backstroke) followed up by a second place finish in the 50-meter breastroke. For the girls, Kulczyk had a stellar day in the pool herself as she took...
The Glasgow Kiwanis swim team has started their season and one meet in is already beginning to make waves. The team traveled to Sidney this past weekend and ended up taking third place in the two-day event with a score of 532 points. Glendive finished in second with 648 points while Sidney took the first place finish with an astounding 1,465 points. The Glasgow squad is under new leadership this year as Whitney Billing and Irene Whitmer are the new coaches. Billing swam for the Kiwanis team in Glasgow from ‘93-’04. Since then she has been wor...
Warmer temperatures and longer daylight have our swimmers dreaming about lanes and laps again! The board members of the Glasgow Kiwanis Swim Team (GKST) have been busy planning for the 2014 summer. The officers on the board are: President--Melani Vandall, vice-president Mike Kaiser, treasurer Lynn Miller, parent liaison Georgie Kulczyk, secretary Lih-An Yang, and past-president Scott Billingsley. Registration for the new season will take place on Wednesday, April 23, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the basement of the library. We welcome new swimmers,...
Rosalie Holding, 76, originally of Glasgow, Mont., passed away peacefully from natural causes on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, in Valley Health Care Center in Billings, Mont. Services will be held at Bell Mortuary Saturday, March 15, at 11 a.m. with interment in the Highland Cemetery of Glasgow. A luncheon will follow at the VFW of Glasgow. Her life's journey began Sept. 30, 1937, in Glasgow, Mont. She was the first of four daughters born to Melvin and Velma Siggelkow (pronounced Sig-el-koh) of...
July • The airline that provides Essential Air Service to Glasgow and other small cities in Montana has decided to leave the state. Silver Airways notified the U.S. Department of Transportation that it will not bid for another two-year contract and will stop flying scheduled service in Montana on Sept. 27. Part of the reason for Silver's departure is the upcoming termination of EAS subsidies to Lewistown and Miles City on July 15, leaving only five cities in the program: Glasgow, Wolf Point, G...
The 2013 season is just a ripple in the pool now, and the Glasgow Kiwanis Swim Team is looking ahead. Most of the team’s 2014 schedule will be decided in March, but next year’s divisional and state meets already are set: • The Eastern Divisional Swim Meet will be July 26 and 27, 2014, at Chinook. • The Montana State Swim Meet will be Aug. 2 and 3, 2014, at Conrad. For those seeking results from this month’s state meet at Sidney, you can get them online at www.swimmingworldmagazine.com. Click on the “results” tab near the top of the homepage...
Seven event championships. A fourth place team finish. The Glasgow Kiwanis Swim Team made a nice, big splash at the Montana State Swim Meet. As a team, the 32 Kiwanis Kids competing Aug. 3 and 4 at Sidney made good on their qualifying performances at the Eastern Divisionals in their home pool. The top five teams at State, in order, were Bitterroot, Sidney, Lewistown, Glasgow and Chinook. Five Kiwanis swimmers were involved in the local club’s seven event championships. The 13/14-year-old g...
The Glasgow Kiwanis Swim Team, hosting the Eastern Divisionals last weekend for the first time since 2007, qualified 32 individual swimmers and 12 relay teams for the state meet. Four Glasgow swimmers were high point winners, quite a feat for one team. They were Khloe Krumwiede, Katie Kaiser, Trevor Johnson and Dalton Sand. “So many kids made big drops in time,” said co-coach Alex Leuchars. Khloe won three events in her 13-14 age group, shaving her best time in the 50-meter freestyle, cho...
Glasgow will be awash with young swimmers this weekend, when the Kiwanis Swim Team hosts the Eastern Montana Division Swim Meet for the first time since 2007. Somewhere between 600 and 800 people are expected for the two-day event this Saturday and Sunday, about 400 of them competitors hoping to qualify for the state meet Aug. 3-4 in Sidney. To qualify, swimmers must finish among the top 12 in their event. The Kiwanis team’s coaches have strong expectations for their kids at this meet. “I hav...
The Glasgow Kiwanis Swim Team placed second in combined team scoring over 70 events at the Lewistown Invitational Swim Meet last weekend, trailing only the host Lewistown Sea Lions in the eight team competition. The performance earned the local swimmers another team trophy as they moved on to practicing for this weekend’s 2013 Chinook Invitational Swim Meet from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, July 20, and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, July 21. After that comes the big event that GKST and its excited supporters have been anticipating: the Eastern M...
The Glasgow Kiwanis Swim Team came out of Glendive with a third-place finish as a team, two high-point winners and one big goal in mind, focusing on attitude during the homestretch of the season. Falling short of the Sidney Tiger Sharks and the Glendive Wet Devils, Glasgow topped Lewistown, Roundup, Plentywood, Scobey, Malta and Chinook during the two-day meet, scoring 511 team points. High-point winners Khloe Krumwiede and Trevor Johnson led the way for Glasgow with each accumulating three...
The most complete Glasgow Kiwanis swim team yet mustered enough strength for second place in Plentywood over the weekend. The two-day meet saw 34 Glasgow swimmers compete, the most the team has had so far this season. The results were immediate as Glasgow only fell to Sidney despite the long practices during the week. “They’re really tired right now so we were really happy with how well they swam despite the fact that they were broken down,” said Alex Leuchars, co-head coach. “Right now they’re not at a place in their training where we expect...
They are contenders this year. Returning for their second year as coaches, Matt Dangleis and Alex Leuchars were impressed to see the improvements made during last season carried over to the beginning of this year for the Glasgow Kiwanis Swim Team. Glasgow traveled to Harlem for their first meet of the year on Saturday and Leuchars and Dangleis came away excited for the upcoming season. “We were shocked about how much better they were this season than they were at the beginning of last season. W...
City employees discovered a mess at the Glasgow city pool last week. The Recreation Department secretary called police at about 6 a.m. on Tuesday, May 21, saying an employee just told her the pool had been “destroyed.” Officers found every light fixture in the building broken, 21 of them. In the lifeguard lounge, everything on the shelves had been dumped off. Perhaps the worst was the many trophies won by the Kiwanis Swim Team over the years, thrown to the floor. Many were broken. The plu...
1. Describe your background: family, education, occupation, community service, involvement with local schools. I have been married to my wonderful and supportive husband, Jim, for over 40 years. We have two children and three grandchildren. I received my education through the Glasgow School system, and I credit my successes in my career to that education along with dedicated, hard work. I am retired from the State of Montana Department of Labor & Industry, where I was the manager of the...
1. Describe your background: family, education, occupation, community service, involvement with local schools. I have lived and raised my family here in Glasgow for more than 45 years. I graduated from GHS in 1972. We were the first class that had the opportunity to go to all three years at the “New High School.” I attended college at the University of Montana and Eastern. I served in the Navy as part of the Seabee Construction Battalion squad. After the Navy, I worked for Pacific Steel in Hav...
1. Describe your background: family, education, occupation, community service, involvement with local schools. I was born and raised in Glasgow. My parents, Marc and Debbie Swanson, made their home in Glasgow following college, and raised my sisters and me here, surrounded by extended family and friends. I attended kindergarten through 12th grade in the Glasgow schools and graduated from Glasgow High School with honors. I then attended MSU Billings, majoring in business and accounting. I chose...
