Southwest Montana Snapshots

By The Montana Standard Staff - 11/15/2008

Dental screening for senior citizens

A free dental hygiene screening for Butte-silver Bow County senior citizens age 60 or older will be held from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday at Marquis Vintage Suites, 300 Mount Highland Drive.

It's sponsored by the Community Health Center, which received a

$170,000 grant from the state to provide screening for senior dental care.

For details, call Sandi at the Community Health Center at 496-6021.

Accordion players wanted for stroll

A jam session for

accordion players

interested in performing indoors at the Christmas Stroll in Butte is planned this week.

The first practice session runs 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Business Development Center, Mercury and Idaho. Use the Idaho Street entrance.

In keeping with the

multicultural theme of the stroll, which is Dec. 5, a variety of ethnic music will be provided at the session. Novice to master level

players are welcome and encouraged to participate.

Call Rose at 494-3087 (weekends and evenings) for information.

Mai Wah seeks participants

The Mai Wah Society is seeking people to serve on its board of directors or as a volunteer for the

organization.

The society will hold its annual meeting at 6 p.m. Monday at the Broadway Cafe, 302 E. Broadway St. The agenda includes an overview of progress on its museum's capital

improvement project. Interested people are

invited to attend this

meeting.

For details, call Deb Bishop at 782-4867 or Dori Skrukrud at 723-3959 or contact the Mai Wah Society at info@maiwah.org.

Cinderella focus

of storytime

Storytime starts at

6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Children's Room of the Butte Public Library, Broadway and Idaho.

"Cinderella" stories from around the world will be read. Youngsters will also make sparkly headbands and play a game. Children of all ages welcome. For details, call Cathy at

723-3361.

Book sale set

at library

The Friends of the Butte Public Library will hold a special holiday book sale on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 20-22.

The "Buy a Book, Save the Glass" sale is the

kickoff for the Friends' stained glass fundraising effort. The group recently acquired a historic stained glass window from the original Butte Public Library building. Proceeds go toward its restoration. It will ultimately be exhibited at the library.

Book sale hours are noon to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 21-22. Best-sellers, favorite authors and recent

publications will be sold for $5 or less. Volunteers are needed to help with the sale. Call 723-3361.

‘Life of Spirit'is course topic

Starting at 7 p.m. Monday, Sacred Ground will host the 12-week course on "Reflections of the Life of the Spirit."

The course uses Baha'i writings to explore the

concepts of prayer, purpose and the life of the spirit. For information, call Betty Bennett at 782-8194 or Shahab Samieian at

723-6609.

The class is free, but $3 donation to Sacred Ground is asked to cover the costs of its overhead.

Located at 126 S. Main St., Sacred Ground is a non-profit, all-volunteer organization whose mission is to promote wellness,

sustainability and community building activities.

Mountain climbing focus of discussion

ENNIS — Jennifer Lowe-Anker will be at Madison Valley Public Library,

221 Main St., Ennis at 7 p.m. Thursday to discuss her memoir, "Forget Me Not."

The book is about her life with mountain climbing superstar Alex Lowe and how she coped with his death by an avalanche in the Himalayas. Lowe-Anker lives in Bozeman with her family.

Annual lutefisk, meatball dinner set

Gold Hill Lutheran Church Scandinavians, with the help of many others, will serve their annual Festive Lutefisk, Lefse and Swedish Meatball dinner from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the church,

934 Placer St., Butte.

The menu includes

lutefisk, pickled herring, Scandinavian meatballs, boiled potatoes, white cream gravy, cooked

carrots, pickled beets, lefse, Scandinavian cookies, fruit soup and hot coffee.

Everyone is invited to join in keeping Scandinavian heritage alive. Tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for children and available at the door. No reservations are needed. Call 723-4242 for home delivery.

Butte history is lecture topic

DEER LODGE — Thomas Satterly will give a free, public lecture on "Workers of the World Who Came to Butte" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Kohrs Memorial Library,

501 Missouri Ave., in

Deer Lodge.

In this Chautauqua

presentation, Satterly takes you back to ethnic Butte in the 1920s and 1930s.

Satterly, a Butte native, studies Butte history. He works in the Environmental Sciences Department at the University of Montana-Western.

Call Lee Silliman evenings at 846-1561 for details.

Social Thursday at senior living

Big Sky Senior Living will have a Resident Appreciation Social from

6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, at 3701 Elizabeth Warren.

Residents, friends and family members are

welcome. For reservations, call Renee Cox at

494-4900.

Children's issues on agenda

A special community meeting on children's issues will be held from 7 to 9 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 25, at St. James Healthcare, Ballrooms A and B. A

continental breakfast will be served.

The meeting is being held to assess children's needs in Butte and the

surrounding area and to review a children's

legislative agenda to be

presented to the 2009 Montana Legislature.

People interested in

children's issues will have the chance to meet with local leaders, legislators and organizations addressing children's issues in the

community.

The meeting is sponsored locally by the Butte 4-C's. Statewide co-sponsors include Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies, The Montana Coalition and the Montana Council for Maternal and Child Health. For information, call Brenda Hergott at

723-4019.