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Œ New Museum director on board... Dawg Fight tonight “The Dawg Fight\ a nonalcoholic Rawhide event is being sponsored by the University of Montana Western Rodeo Team on Wednesday, March 2. The event will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Straugh Gymnasium on the UM-Western cam pus. The “Dawg Fight\ matches members of the UM*W Rodeo Team versus a solid group of cow boys and cowgirls from the Big Sky Region and -boxers from College of Southern Idaho. The .'event, featuring Flint Rasmussen as Master of ^Ceremonies, is a night of non-alcoholic fun fea turing great boxing, ring girls and boys and spe cial guests. benefit set for cancer patient at Dillon Elks A benefit spaghetti dinner will be held to assist Deb Robinson of Dillon, who was diag nosed with breast cancer just before Christmas. Robinson is an RN at Barrett Hospital and Healthcare. The dinner will be Monday, March 7 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. at the Dillon Elk’s Lodge. Cost is $15 for families and $5 for singles. For more information, call the Barrett Hospi tal Nurses Station at 683-3086, Paula at 683-4793, or Cassle at 683-6418. Library hosts tots' story time in March The Dillon Public Library has announced its Children's Story Times for March. The library ]will have a story time for children ages three and.older on Wednesday, March 2. The theme for the story will be kites. A story time for babies and toddlers, birth through age two, will be held Wednesday, March 9. Springtime and chicks will be the theme for this event. Both groups will meet on their respective dates from 10:00-10:45 a.m. in the basement of the library. Please use the side door entrance. All babies, toddlers, and children are wel come to attend. Call the library at 683-4544 for more information. Dillon man takes part in Letterman Show A Dillon man, Cory Birkenbuel, was part of an appearance on the David Letterman Show Monday night. Birkenbuel, a videographer, left last week for Colorado with SCS Inc. coordinator, Steve Miller, of Bozeman for Colorado and then to New York. The two Montana men took part in the dem onstration of Extreme SCS Rider Jay Quinlin of Valdez, Alaska, of aerial snow machine jumps. The jumps, up to 60 feet, utilize portable take off and landing ramps. They were ready, if need be, to make snow for the jumps if the weather did not cooperate. fill \ l ill '. ill’ll I lillnn s Rob H i u itt Uiis pilotin' ;i 11-1 ~ across tI k - skif s of It a l y oik ! Cicrmnny. d in - in i’ tin* c lo s i n g m o n t h s of 1945. R e a d tin* c o m p le t e s t o r y o f tin* c o lo r b lin d p ilo t on p o ii v l S of th i s m o n t h s M o n t a n a R e s t r i m e s , in th i s is s u e o f th e D i l l o n T r i b u n e . Getting acquainted Donna Jones, president of the volunteer group, the Beaverhead County Museum Association (left) and Lynn Westad, the chairman of the Beaverhead County Museum Board of Trustees, go over some historical items at the museum with its new Executive Director, Lyle Dechant. Director brings unique talents to post By Joka Barrows Both the president of the volunteer group, the Beaverhead County Museum Association, ang the, chairman county-based Beaverhead ■ Cnhahrti|ii^Mi<W, i o ^ tasaHid,;.ati$-aii»uaias-;i'/ new director, r . Lyle .Dechant begins Wednesday as the Ex ecutive Director of the Beaverhead County Museum. Dechant has an extensive background and education in history and archeology, including experience , working with volunteers, visitors and tourists, historical research and dealing with historical artifacts and records. Dechant was hired two weeks ago at a public meeting of the Beaverhead County Museum, which owns the artifacts of the museum and operates the museum. As part of the hiring process, three finalists met with a joint committee that included three members from the County Museum Board and the Association. Each of the finalists underwent a similar set of questions, and Dechant was the group's unanimous first choice. The County Museum Board accepted the committee's recomraen- rdntjapiwMiiwmiely as well and forwarded it to the couhty commissioners who approved his selection. Dechant is an employee of Beaverhead County, and reports to the seven-member Bea verhead County Museum Board, which is ap pointed by the commissioners. A major part of the funding comes from the county, but the Association is the fund raising and volunteer group that aids the museum. It also is the owner of the actual main museum building. Jones said she is excited about the choice, and is especially impressed with his work with volunteers. \Volunteers are the lifeblood of the museum, and it's important the direc tor has experience in helping promote and See MUSEUM on page A-3 UMW students get real on reality show... \Extreme Makeover\ UMW students work on a playhouse village at a cancer wing of a Phoenix, Arizona hospital as part of the reality show, \Extreme Makeover\ A group of University of Montana-Western students and staff members recently participated in ABC Television’s reality show, \Extreme Makeover: Home Edition\. The show won an Emmy Award last year for best Reality Series. Each self-contained episode features a race against time on a project that would ordinarily take at least four months to achieve, involving a team of designers, contractors and several hundred workers who have just seven days to totally rebuild an entire house, every single room, plus the exterior and landscaping. The lives of the lucky families are forever changed when they learn that they have been selected to have their home walls moved, their floors replaced and even their façades radically changed. The result should be a decorator's delight, if it can be done in time. “I had an interest in the show, because of what the show does,” said Western Dean of Students Eric Murray. “It serves a great purpose in helping families in need. I sent a letter to the producers volunteering to help with a project, and if the project site was close enough to Mon tana, I would be happy to bring students with me. They called me a week later and told me they would be in Phoenix and hoped we could make it. They needed our group in ten days from the time of the phone call. We gathered our group of students and staff in two days and made preparations for the trip.\ The storyline of the episode was that an eight-year old girl wrote to ABC and said the cancer wing of her hospital needed a makeover. The girl suffers from cancer and asked ABC to make the wing less dreary and a better place for its patients and their families. ABC agreed to do the makeover at the hospital and whisked the family away for a week’s vacation while the work would be completed. What they didn’t tell the family was they were also going to give the family home a com plete makeover as well. Because of her cancer, the little girl has limited abilities, the show also wanted to produce a backyard that would be a fantasy land for the little girl. The contractors assigned the Western group the task of refinishing a 1930 carousel that would be in the backyard. Half-way through the carousel project, the group was given a second assignment. They were asked to renovate a set of antique theater chairs that would go into a family movie room. The Western group divided into two teams of eight to complete the two projects. The group was then given a third project, that of painting a series of children's play houses for the the back yard. Western student Caleb Olson designed a series of carnival themed patterns to be painted on the playhouses. As the week drew to a close, the group joined other See REALITY on page A-9 Hospital finances raising concerns By John Barrows Continuing financial difficulties at Barrett Hospital and Healthcare have prompted a call for department heads to look at reducing expenses at least 15 percent. John Mootry, the hospital's chief executive officer, told the hospital board of trustees last week Expenses have exceeded revenues for the past four months, Mootry said, See HOSPITAL on page A-3 Little fire loss in city, much more in rural district Although damage and the result ing financial losses from fire in the city were slight last year, it’s a differ ent story in the county. Fire Chief Mike Shafer has com piled figures for the past year, which shows only $8,500 in losses during 2004, coming from a building fire and two vehicle fires. The city volunteers answered 17 calls, with an average response time of just 3 minutes and nine seconds. In the county, in the rural fire dis trict, Shafer said, the number of inci dents rose 50 589, with a total net loss of $221,679. Major losses included a building and mobile property on Highway 91 North, that resulted in a loss of over $105,000. Other major losses included $11,738 in a building fire on North Lane and another building fire on Anderson Lane. The average response time in the county was 11 minutes and 59 seconds reflecting the longer distances the tricks generally have to travel, Shafer said. Lima students return from Degeneris show The saga of the senior class at Lima High School continues. Last week the class flew to Los Angeles, the guests of the Kllen Degeneris show. The entire class appeared on the show and took part in a number of special events, including a visit to Universal City. The class gained national recogni tion for their $5,000 gift to a Lima teacher, Karla McGraw, who is facing major cancer treatments. The class gave up its senior trip, for which they have been saving money (almost $5,000), since the eighth grade. See STUDENTS on page A-3 Passportfees going up now Beaverhead County Clerk and Re corder Sheila Brunkhorst is also the Passport Acceptance Agent for the federal government, and she has an nounced that she received word that effective March 8 passport fees are going up, by $12. The current cost, which includes the application fee and execution fee, is $70 for those under the age of 16 and $85 for persons over age 16. On March 8 a new security sur charge goes into effect to fund secu rity enhancements in the passport and upgrading passport delivery from first class mail to priority mail with deliv ery confirmation. 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