Beacon Community Foundation 29th Annual Meeting

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The Beacon Community Foundation held its 29th annual meeting Wednesday, April 17 at the Nemont Friendship Room at the Museum Visitor Center.

There were about ten in attendance.

Financial reports were presented by Darrel Tade, CPA. Beacon started 2023 out with a balance of $1.822 million and brought in new funds through donations, dividends, interest, rental income etc. of about $162,500 for the year.

Total expenses were $155,149. This number includes about $63,000 in grants and scholarships distributed by the foundation, management fees, building expenses and more. Richardson Theatre, owned by the Beacon provided $41,608 of the expenses while producing about $47,000 in income. In a later report by Burl Bowler from the volunteer Theatre Operating Committee, the theatre had some additional expenses but showed a net of about $3,320 for the year. He reported that the theatre generally had a poor attendance year. Beacon’s total ending balances for the year showed an increase at $1,992, 808.

Laurel (Wageman) Fewer with LPL Financial Services reported a good year in investments with the firm. Investments through LPL showed a 15.46% return. They started the year with $1,229,262 and an ending balance of $1,516,405.

President Logan Olson reported that the board in addition to granting money and scholarships, spent a majority of its time focusing on updating the foundation by-laws and cleaning up unclear items that happen with a revolving board. They also are working on educating board members better on how the endowment process works.

BeckyHansonreportedon scholarships. About $5,500 have been awarded this year so far.

Dollars for Scholars $500.00 ea. : Jimi Jones; Emmie Fishell; Gracee Lekvold; Abby Summers; Samantha Lundquist;Aiden Fouhy; and Zachary Turner.

Dollars for Scholars (Women’s Club) – $500.00,: Kylee Cook BuckyBucksScholarships – $500.00 each, Leah Ridley and Danielle Cahill.

More will be determined later including the Sue Hellickson Memorial Scholarship – $900.00: Virginia Miller Scholarship(s) total of $1,100; Doris Mahler MemorialScholarship-$900; Charles Daniels Family Memorial Scholarship $400.00; Chester and Marjorie Solberg Memorial Scholarship with $6,000.00 in scholarship money;theJackReinerscholarship for music campers is due May 15th.

Two $100 door prizes are given each year. The winner choose a local charity to donate the cash to in the winners name. It was decided that the door prizes would go to the two students in attendance. Danielle Cahill gave hers to the Lutheran Love Room Quilters and Emmie Fishell gave hers to Richardson Theatre.

BEACON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION board at its annual meeting on Wednesday April 17. They are Perry Wolfe, Matt Girard, Joan Bjarko, Logan Olson, Deanna Ferestad, Jennifer Fugere, Mayra Tade and Brandi Halverson, (not pictured, Brenda Cook). Elections were held: President Logan Olson did not seek another term but Mayra Tade and Joan Bjarko were reelected. There remains an open spot in the east district, needing to fill the vacancy when no one offered to run for Logan’s position. Following the annual meeting the board reorganized with Joan Bjarko as president; Perry Wolfe was reelected as v.p. and Deanna Ferestad was reelected secretary/treasurer. —Leader Photo, b

Sheridan Electric Cooperative Seeks Nominations

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Sheridan Electric Cooperative has set its annual meeting for October 5, but in the mean time are seeking candidates who may be interested in a board seat in Districts 6, 8, and 9.

The nominating committees meet in early July to submit their nominations for the fall meeting.

To be eligible candidates must reside within the district they would be running in. Nominating committee members have a list of all eligible members.

Inside this issue appears an advertisement with all the people on the committees and their contact numbers.

Brewery Cinco de Mayo

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Pleasant Prairie Brewing has Cinco de Mayo most of the day on Sunday, May 5 including live music, food and pinatas. The Taco Trot starts at 2:30. See ad inside.

THERE IS A SEASON FOR ….

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THERE IS A SEASON FOR ALL THINGS and right now we’re all getting ready for baseball and softball. Volunteers have been busy cleaning up the three Scobey ball fields. Majors and Minors Baseball have their season opener May 6 in Plentywood.

The Scobey Girls Softball teams two Minors and one Majors team start practice on May 6. Season opener for Minors- Scobey A vs. Scobey B at home 5 p.m. on May 14. Majors opener is May 28 when they host Culbertson at 7 p.m.

The softball teams will be holding most of their practices on the “Legion” field as well as a few games.

Absentee Ballots For Primary Will Be Mailed May 10

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Absentee ballots for the June 4 Primary election will go in the mail Friday, May 10. They will also be available on May 6 for those who would rather pick them up in person. Regular voter registration closes May 6 and late registration options open May 7.

Cinco de Mayo On May 4?

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Scobey Golf Club will be celebrating May 5 ON May 4 with food and drink specials starting at 5 p.m. Saturday.

The regulations greens opened April 25. Along with that, memberships are due.

School Ballots Due Back By May 7

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Scobey School election ballots are due back to Scobey School by Tuesday May 7. Either by mail or people can personally drop them off, see page 10.

There are four candidates running for two board of trustee positions and two special levies: a proposition to finance the school’s General Fund for only $8,844.18 per year and becomes permanent; and a mill levy proposition to finance the school’s Technology Fund at $25,000 per year for ten years. See the ballot for tax increase estimates.

We’ll report the results as soon as possible at: danielscountyleader.com.

Minnow Tank Is This Friday, May 3

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Local Business, Moonlight Laserworks Is A Finalist Sara Fischer owner/operator of Moonlight Laserworks in the Peerless area will be competing against four other existing businesses for $5,000 in cash as finalists of the 3rd Minnow Tank Business Plan Competition.

There are also six startup businesses pitching their business plans in the format of the popular TV show “Shark Tank”.

The annual competition is sponsored by Great Northern Development Corporation (GNDC) and the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) over a seven- county region of Northeastern Montana, including Valley, Garfield, McCone, Richland, Roosevelt, Sheridan, and Daniels.

Finalists will present their business plan ideas to a live audience at 6:00 p.m. May 3rd, at the Great Northern Development Corporation Conference Room in Wolf Point. The live event is open to the public, and audience votes count as a percentage of each finalist’s score.

After competitors pitch their plans of using the award to the audience and a panel of judges, one start-up and one existing business will win $5,000 cash towards implementing their ideas.

Attendees are encouraged to RSVP at https://gndc.org/ minnow-tank/.

Area Graduation Dates Set

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Scobey High School graduation ceremonies will be Sunday, May 26 at 2 p.m. Graduate photos will appear in the May 16 issue. There are 21 graduating.

Lustre Christian Graduation is Sunday, May 19 at 3 p.m. Graduate photos will appear in the May 9 issue. There are 13 graduating and 14 eighth graders moving up.

Opheim High will graduate 3 seniors on Saturday, May 18 at 7 p.m. Photos will appear in the May 9th issue.

Things, Ideas & People . . .

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We’ve all raided the old man’s beer and wine stashes. Well this one’s been around a while. At a gathering the other night Don Hagfeldt hit his dads old supply and brought a 1938 wine to the dinner party. It was a gift to his dad Cliff from my dad, Larry Bowler, and it had a nice, personal season’s greeting taped to the back, typed on an old manual typewriter (without any X’s). As one might expect from him, the message included a little quip of wisdom. “A certain amount of aging in some wines and men adds lustre to the passing years depending on the quality to start with.”

After some deducing, but without real proof, we decided the bottle was probably a gift in the early 70’s, so over 50 years ago. Don thought it would be fun to open it and see how well it aged.

We’re pretty sure it was not cared for in a way wine likes to be babied in a still, dark, cool place.

We opened it. This bottle of burgundy was not burgundy but rather brown. Some old wines can be brown and tho not appealing may still be good. However this was not pleasant on the nose or palette. To say it tasted like vinegar would not be fair, as vinegar is a much better drink. Regardless we toasted our dads and those who dared had a few sips.

Just for the heck of it we did an Internet search and found the last auction for a 1938 Francois Martenot Corton Collection du Docteur Barolet was in 2013. It sold on “Wine Bid” $415. –bb

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Montana continues to rank number one in the

country in chickpeas, dry edible peas and lentils produced. They come in second for durum wheat.

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One thing about the so-called “Elite” of this world, which means they have boat loads of money and we do not, is they always inform the world ahead of time what they will be doing. This occurs via television, radio, videos, commercials, things on your smart phone, et cetera. Just a few minutes past 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, there was a commercial on my cell phone showing a trailer of an upcoming motion picture. Telling by the actors in the trailer, who were speaking in English, and the setting clearly being the U.S.A., the title of the forthcoming movie was this: Civil War.

That way if Civil War does actually break out across our nation, they will be able to say: “We told you it was going to happen and we did it through a movie.” — mike

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Of the 11 percent of disposable income Americans spend on food each year, the dollars are split fairly evenly between food eaten at home and dining out, takeout or delivery.