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BBBS celebrates volunteers, fundraiser

Preparations are underway for the Perfect Pairings Party, a fundraising event for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Park and Sweet Grass Counties as it celebrates 40 years in the area.

This year’s event is scheduled for Friday Oct. 20 at the Livingston Depot Center. The event will include a four course dinner prepared by Chef Hans Friedmann, paired wines with each course, and an array of auction and raffle items. Part of the celebration will be to honor the Big Brother of the Year, Tim Anderson, and Big Sister of the Year, Jeanine Dashnaw, according to the BBBS release.

LCAC to host art classes and events this week

The Livingston Center for Art and Culture is offering two classes this week starting Thursday with a scarecrow making class.

From 1 to 2:30 p.m. Thursday is BYOS: Build your own scarecrow taught by Julia Reichert, according to a LCAC release.

Livingston Lego robotics leagues team up

Livingston 4-Hers along with Links for Learning have combined robotics teams this year to pool resources and compete in area competitions.

Links Director Terri Hartly said the Links robotics team has existed for about five years in conjunction with FIRST or For Inspiration and Recognition Science and Technology, and has always had a fairly high turnout as opposed to the 4-H robotics group that has only a few registered children and is still in its infancy.

ASPEN hosts series of activities, fundraisers in town for Domestic Violence Awareness month

October is Domestic Violence Awareness month and ASPEN has several ways community members can participate to support ASPEN’s efforts to reduce domestic violence.

Starting on Saturday, the Livingston Golf Club and Treasure Lanes will sponsor their Oktoberfest Biathlon, according to an ASPEN news release.

Local theater to sell costumes Saturday

On Saturday, the Blue Slipper Theatre will host a costume sale to clear out its  overabundance of hats, gowns and wigs to make room for renovations and newer pieces in the future.

“As a director, it is so hard to figure out what we need when there is so much stuff to go through,” Blue Slipper Director Peggy Weisgerber said.

The sale will start at 9 a.m. at the theater, with almost everything under $10.

Weisgerber said the basement of the Slipper will be remodeled at some point and that it was clear that it needed to be cleaned out before that.

Prepare to be scared at Livingston’s haunted attraction

There will be no peeled grape “eyeballs” or spaghetti “worms” at Livingston’s upcoming haunted attraction, which will feature real bones and creepy characters, opening Friday the 13th.

These popular Halloween attractions will have no place in this spooky Halloween experience in the basement at Bob N Lu’s Thrift — which is soon changing its name to Thrift Weis — where a team will have a full length haunted house for the month of October.

Depot makes new director official

The Livingston Depot Center will officially recognize a new director of the facility Oct. 1.

Laura McCarthy-Cota has been working part time at the Depot since May as she she adapts to her new directorial role.

McCarthy-Cota is taking the place of Diana Sieder, who has been director of the facility for over 20 years.

“I am so lucky that I got to pick Diana’s brain for the last few months,” McCarthy-Cota said.

McCarthy-Cota studied geology at Colorado College as an undergraduate.

Library promotes free speech, reading

When visiting the Livingston-Park County Public Library this week, patrons may notice that some of their favorite books now look like a crime scene. These red taped books are to signify the 37th year of Banned Books week.

Banning books across the U.S. has been happening for many years, based on books’ content such as being sexual in nature or having blasphemous language. However, in the last week in September, libraries celebrate the dissemination of information without restrictions.

Woman raising funds for African maternity clinic

A Gardiner-Kenya connection will celebrate successes and hold a fundraiser for future projects.  
 
Danielle Kellem, who grew up in Gardiner, founded a nonprofit, called Teaching More, to assist small communities in Kenya. 
She’ll hold an informational fundraising event at Chadz coffee bar in Livingston Friday evening. 
 
Kellem said she got involved with the project through her love of travel. 
 

Livingston woman teaches children in Fiji over summer

Over 6,300 miles from Montana, a Livingston woman headed to Fiji over the summer to teacher eight weeks, learning what it was like to live on another side of the world.

Lindzi Printz, 20, who graduated from Park High School just a few short years ago, was looking for a way to go somewhere while she took a year off of school at Montana State University.

Printz said she had never really spent anytime outside of the country so she was looking for some new experiences. However, she said she didn’t want to travel just for the sake of traveling, she wanted to help people.