Halloween!

Keri wants to know what kind of Halloween costume you wore tonight (or your kids, I suppose)! As for me…well, I’m actually pretty disappointed in myself…for the first time in memory, I skipped Halloween. No costume. Now, of course, I’m kicking myself for not enjoying the day by dressing up. Some of the folks at work dressed up; we had a wizard, a couple of zombie-types, a goth princess, a chain-gang prisoner with a warden, a kitty-cat…great fun! But dang….why did I pass up this once-a-year opportunity? Now I have to wait another year. *pout*

October 31, 2005 | Filed Under events | 2 Comments

Biting The Hand

Remember the string of vandalism that plagued the Park-n-Ponder restaurant a few months ago? Turns out that at least one of the incidents was committed by none other than an employee:

Police say 24-year-old Andrew Merenz admitted to breaking into Park and Ponder and breaking a window back in August.

Cripes. The only thing worse than being vandalized by an unknown criminal is being vandalized by someone you trust.

October 30, 2005 | Filed Under news, politics | Leave a Comment

BOO!

Don’t forget, there’s still time to get scared! And speaking of time, remember to “Fall Back” one hour sometime tonight or tomorrow, either before you hit the sack, or when you wake up on Sunday!

October 29, 2005 | Filed Under events | 3 Comments

The Big Game

GO CMR! So…do you cheer for the Great Falls Bison, or the CMR Rustlers? The big cross-town rivalry will be held tonight (Friday); I read a few years ago (in USA Today, IIRC) that the Bison/Rustler rivalry is one of the “10 Best” in high school sports.

UPDATE @ 10:18 pm: Sassy, my on-the-scene Sports Correspondent, reports that the Bison have defeated the Rustlers with a score of 14 - 7.

October 28, 2005 | Filed Under around town, events, sports | 4 Comments

Wedding Bells

A young lady left a comment on my Ryan Dam entry; she wants information about having a wedding at Ryan Dam. Anyone want to field this question? Leave a comment here if you know who to call or where to go..thanks!

October 27, 2005 | Filed Under outdoors, events | 2 Comments

They Report, They Decide?

Yes, the Greater Falls Election Blog has been taken down; hey, it was an interesting experiment, and at least we tried; I appreciate Dona Stebbins’ involvement. Maybe for the next election, the entire field of candidates will take advantage of web-based campaigning and interacting with voters.

Originally posted September 23: Continuing with the entry below, about Mayoral candidate Dona Stebbins replying directly to a voter’s question on a blog, consider this: KQDI 1450AM is sponsoring a “Citizen’s Forum” on their website:

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Here’s your chance to ask the candidates the questions YOU want answered! Newstalk1450 is sponsoring a Citizen’s Forum for the 2005 Great Falls City Elections, and we need your questions. Send us the questions you want answered — the questions that could very well decide your vote. We know you’re informed and concerned, so let us know what to ask the folks who want to lead you. We’ll take questions (via e-mail) from our listeners until Sunday, Oct 23. Then we’ll review submissions and choose three questions to submit to all candidates. The questions will be posted right here on Oct 25. The candidate responses will be posted by November 2nd.

Emphasis mine. What the heck…? Why on earth would anyone participate in this? THREE QUESTIONS, to be decided by KQDI…well, how very generous of them! Three whole questions! And then we get to wait until November 2nd to find out the answers!

Sorry. I don’t mean to sound rude, or sarcastic, but this is the year 2005, isn’t it? Dona Stebbins, in replying to Aaron’s question, demonstrated how silly the KQDI approach is. I understand that not everyone is on-line, and not everyone reads blogs, but come on…sifting through hundreds of questions and then choosing a whopping THREE questions for the candidates to answer is just laughable. Why doesn’t KQDI post all the questions right there on their site, and allow the candidates to answer right away?

Heck, maybe I’ll try my hand at organizing a Citizen’s Forum: you folks can submit any questions you want to, via e-mail (david @ greaterfalls.com) or simply by leaving a comment here…and then Dona Stebbins and Randy Gray can reply directly to the questions in one of several ways: they can reply in the comments; they can e-mail their answers and I’ll post them here; they can create their own sites and post answers there; or, I would be more than happy to create accounts right here at GreaterFalls.com and they can post their answers as independent entries.

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October 26, 2005 | Filed Under civics, media, election | 30 Comments

Rock-n-Roll

Here’s a shameless plug for a “modern alternative rock” band by the name of Enceladus, which is named for one of the moons of Saturn. You can catch Enceladus at the following locations in the next few weeks:

October 26: Loading Zone, 9 pm
October 29: The Hideout, 8 pm
November 5: Club Cigar, 10 pm
November 11: Bert-n-Ernie’s, 7 pm

The reason for the shameless plug is that the drummer is a friend of mine, who is known to some of you as the York Street Bum!

October 25, 2005 | Filed Under events | 3 Comments

Movin’ On Up

According to one news source, our wonderful community of Great Falls is about to become home to nearly 300 million people. Well, the story was written a couple of weeks ago, so I suppose they’re already here. Heh.

October 23, 2005 | Filed Under humor | Leave a Comment

SPOOKY!

Wanna get SCARED and have some FUN and get some Halloween SPIRIT?

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October 21, 2005 | Filed Under events | 2 Comments

Candidates Forum

From Dona Stebbins: “There will be a Forum for candidates tonight (Thursday) at the Labor Temple. I believe Mayor Gray will be there - I certainly will. Please come if you can. It is at 7pm on 10/20. Hope to see you there!”

October 20, 2005 | Filed Under around town, election | Leave a Comment

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