Announcements

Couple wed in San Antonio

Jack Ausick and Ashley Kaupert were married on Saturday, March 17, in San Antonio, Texas. Ashley is the daughter of Jeffrey and Veronica Kaupert of San Antonio. Jack is the son of Paul and Diana Ausick of Park County, near Clyde Park. Ashley and Jack met during a campus production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance” at Harvard University, where both were students. Ashley is employed in the library at The Brattle Group in Boston, and Jack works in administration at Public Consulting Group, also in Boston. The couple resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

BIRTHS

The following births were recorded at Livingston HealthCare’s Shane G. Lalani Family Birth Center.

• March 28, 2018: Josie Anne Beers, 6 pounds 13 ounces, a girl born to Jeremiah and Jenna Beers.

• March 29, 2018: Zepher Eddy Johnson, 6 pounds 10 ounces, a boy born to Rachel Wrigley and Josh Johnson.

• March 31, 2018: Olivia June Bilbao, 6 pounds 3 ounces, a girl born to Shannon and Josh Bilbao.

Economist to discuss world hunger, policy process at MSU

With an unprecedented number of people around the world in need of emergency food aid, the right reforms to the forthcoming 2018 farm bill could help U.S. aid reach millions more people at no additional cost to taxpayers, said Vincent Smith, an agricultural economist at Montana State University.

COMMUNITY BRIEFS

Guns & Hoses compete April 28

Join the community for the second annual Guns & Hoses basketball game 5-8 p.m. on Saturday, April 28 at the Livingston Civic Center. Proceeds will benefit the Livingston Recreation Department and Livingston Fire/Police Association. The game will feature the Livingston Police Department versus Livingston Firefighters in a fun and epic battle to win bragging rights and the traveling trophy. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. and game tips off at 5 p.m.

Donations needed for garage sale

Center, shop host ‘Poetry in the Windows’

April is National Poetry Month.

The Livingston Center for Art and Culture, in collaboration with Elk River Books, will celebrate the annual monthlong poetry event by sponsoring Poetry in the Windows, according to a LCAC news release. 

Poems by local authors will be displayed in the windows of downtown businesses through the month of April.  

Community members may pick up a map in the gallery at 119 S. Main St. to follow a “poetry walk” or find a map online at the LCAC’s website at ww.livingstoncenter.org.  

BIRTHS

Births

February 21, 2018: Mia Elaine Waldvogel, 9 pounds 0 ounces, a female born to Meghan Kelley and Damien Waldvogel at The Shane G. Lalani Family Birth Center at Livingston HealthCare.

Resident, community nominated for awards

 

The City of Livingston along with a resident was nominated for the 2018 Montana Tourism Awards.

Livingston could win for the category of “Film Friendly Community” for assisting with the film, “Walking Out” which was shown at the South By Southwest Festival.

Chamber Director Leslie Feigel was nominated as “Tourism Ambassador” for the community.

Livingston has already won awards for “Community of the Year” and “Event of the Year” for the Hoot festival in the past.

EVENTS

THURSDAY

• “A Darkness Lit by Heroes” book reading, Elk River Books, 5:30 p.m.

• Daniel Kosel (songwriter), Murray Bar, 8 p.m.

FRIDAY

• Live poker, Whiskey Creek Saloon, 7 p.m.

• Dan Henry (songwriter), Norris Hot Springs, 7 p.m.

• “Big River,” Shane Lalani Center for the Arts, 8 p.m.

• Gary Small and the Coyote Brothers (boogie), Chico Hot Springs Saloon, 9 p.m.

• Band of Drifters (American roots), Murray Bar, 9 p.m.

SATURDAY

Student wins patriotic essay contest in Livingston

Fifth-grader Morgan Sites’ poem won first place in the Livingston School District for the American Immigration Council‘s “Celebrate America” essay contest. The poem will then be judged in Washington state

Woman novelist wins $20,000 Story Prize

NEW YORK (AP) — Elizabeth Strout, already a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, has now won a major award for short stories. Strout is this year’s winner of the $20,000 Story Prize.