LOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

June 28th, 2017 Edition #26

Yellowstone Grill – Live music by The Resonant Rogues on Monday, July 3rd 6-9pm, doors open at 5:30pm. $5 cover charge for the band. Dinner: Ribs, BBQ Chicken, Puttanesca, apps. Come have dinner and enjoy some great music. ***Fireworks!*** The firework stand is at the rodeo ground with tons of great fireworks! Check for the coupon on the newsletter for 20% off! Again this year, there will be an area at the rodeo grounds set up to safely light your fireworks (18+ years old). Follow on facebook.com/gardinerfireworks for more specials and announcements. Like always, let’s be safe out there! July 4th 6-9pm, "Sundaes & Music" Bring your blankets, lawn chairs and guitars! Join Yellowstone Adventure Camp at Arch Park for sundaes and an evening of diverse musical skills during the Open Mic time. Cost: $5 per Sundae, music is free! All proceeds go to support the Yellowstone Adventure Camp program. Sign up Sheet will be available for 10 minute sessions for the Open Mic. Contact 425-495-7235 for more info. In observation of the 4th of July, Gardiner Pharmacy will be closed. The store will remain open for regular business hours. Relax, unwind, and de-stress at Wednesday night yoga. 6pm at the Gardiner Community Center, $5/person. I have extra mats. If you have a body, it's a yoga body. Join us for an hour of stretching and mindfulness. Facebook: Yellowstone Well-Being

The Gardiner Chamber of Commerce serves our community through developing local tourism while endorsing the stewardship of the Yellowstone Ecosystem.

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2017 Events

Flea Market - July 1

Resonant Rogues - July 3

Snoopy School’s 4th of July Celebration at the Arch - July 4

Big Bear Stampede - September 9

EPAC Show: Pearl Django - Oct 17

EPAC Play - December 6 & 7

Christmas Stroll - December 7

FOR MORE DETAILS, VISIT: http://www.visitgardinermt.com/events-blog/events

Spring Break 2018! Christina Cote-Reinhart, the GHS history teacher, is leading a tour to Italy and Switzerland with EF Tours. Pricing is reasonable. Students of all ages are welcome. Send email to cotechristina@gmail for information or to sign up. Refrigeration & appliance repair. Phone 406-823-9262. Get your cooling and appliances running good from a local business (Emigrant MT). $60/hr, no travel charges. I install efficient LG heat pumps. Google: Holt Rawlins Repair for more info. I am a buyer of Montana history. Maps, Yellowstone Park, Tokens, Beer Trays, Mining Ribbons, Horr MT, Books, Old Montana signs and plenty more. Call David 579-3500. Yellowstone Pizza Company is open from 12:00 to 10:00 every day. Serving pizzas, pasta & burgers. Call aheads welcome 848-9991.

HABITAT IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS PROPOSED FOR SW MONTANA WMAs

(BOZEMAN, Mont.)—Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is proposing a habitat improvement project for the Robb-Ledford and Blacktail Wildlife Management Areas southeast of Dillon. The proposed project includes removing expanding conifer trees to prevent the loss of sagebrush grassland habitat, increase sage-grouse nesting habitat, and increase year-round forage for elk, mule deer and other species. The Robb-Ledford and Blacktail WMAs provide year-round habitat, including critical winter habitat, for elk, mule deer, moose, pronghorn, greater sage-grouse, and ruffed grouse. The project is proposed to run through the year 2026 to minimize the impact at any given time and place. Volunteers will be solicited to help with the on-the-ground implementation of this project minimizing cost and building bridges between the community and local biologists. The completed environment assessment for the proposal can be found here: http://fwp.mt.gov/news/publicNotices/environmentalAssessments/conservation/pn_0038.html Public comments on the proposal can be mailed to: Robb-Ledford/Blacktail WMA Conifer Removal Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks PO Box 758 Sheridan, MT 59749 Comments may also be emailed to: dwaltee@mt.gov and must be received by 5 p.m. on July 10, 2017.

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HELP WANTED Postal Service job opportunity! Bid solicitations are being accepted for mail route, Contract NO. 590B0, Gardiner, MT to Cooke City, MT. Please inquire at the Gardiner Post Office or email alexis.a.croxton@usps.gov. Help Wanted: Rosie’s Bistro is hiring morning servers. Please come apply in person. Ask for the manager. Help wanted at Kremers Conoco. Part-time and full-time positions available. Applications can be picked up at Kremers, or call Patty at 406.848.7742. Help wanted: The Yellowstone Mine Restaurant is seeking applicants for the following positions - full and part time: prep cooks, back up cooks, swampers & dishwashers. Please apply in the office above Gold Strike Gifts 9am to 1pm. Help wanted: The Yellowstone Mine Restaurant is hiring for the following positions for the breakfast shift: morning cook, prep cook & dishwasher. Help Wanted: The Best Western by Mammoth Hot Springs is looking for maintenance and groundskeepers and the front desk. Please apply at the front desk. Help Wanted: Outlaws is now taking applications for kitchen & wait staff. Please apply at the office above Gold Strike Gifts. Help Wanted – Jim Bridger Cabins. Full and part time housekeeping and front desk. Apply at Jim Bridger office. Gardiner Public School is looking for a full-time custodian starting immediately: This position is a full-time/year-round afternoon/evening position that comes with benefits (including health insurance). In the summer, the hours change to mornings and afternoons. Wage to be determined. If interested in this position, please submit a cover letter, resume with references, and fill out the application on the Gardiner School webpage, www.gardiner.org, and send to JT Stroder, District Superintendent, 510 Stone Street, Gardiner, MT 59030. Any questions, call the school at 848-7563.

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REAL ESTATE Home for Sale. Price reduced $169,000 308 5 ST West Gardiner. This home is move in ready. 1 Bath, 1bed 4,000 Sq ft lot. Very short walk to post office, supermarket. Take a look. Call Chris Lyness, Realtor 406 930 0299. Red Lodge, MT - $79,900 – .79 acre corner lot, great mountain views, city sewer, custom house plan, below the ski mountain. By contractor. Can email david@davidsimpsonconstruction.com. Can be viewed at www.davidsimpsonconstruction.com. Motivated Seller! Huge Price Reduction- $195,000 4+ acres on High-way 89, south of Maiden Basin Road. Contact Edwin Johnson, (406) 848-7265, www.landbrokers.net

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Environmental Assessment on proposed National Ecological Observatory Network Site available for Public Comment MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – Yellowstone National Park seeks comments from the public on an envi-ronmental assessment (EA) that assesses the impacts associated with the proposed construction and operation of a National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) site in the park. NEON requested the National Park Service (NPS) allow a site within the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park. The NPS is not the sponsor of the project, but is considering the benefits and impacts of the proposal. NEON is a continental-scale ecological observation facility, funded by the National Science Foundation. It is designed to gather and synthesize data needed to study the impacts of climate change, land use change, and invasive species on natural resources and biodiversity. The EA was prepared in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act. The EA also provides a summary of consultation under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and a Biological Assess-ment evaluating potential impacts to species protected by the Endangered Species Act. The EA assesses two Action Alternatives and a No Action Alternative. If approved for installation by the NPS, two sites would have equipment funded by NEON and installed by its contractors. The first would be south of Grand Loop Road near the intersection with Blacktail Plateau Drive. The second would be at Blacktail Deer Creek. Key infrastructure would include a tower with sensors, a precipitation collection system with fencing, five soil sampling arrays, an instrument hut, aquatic instrumenta-tion (in-stream sensors, a meteorological station, and a groundwater observation well network), and an auxilia-ry portal and electrical service. In addition to the data gathered via instrumentation, contracted personnel would conduct field observations in order to characterize organisms and soil to investigate biogeochemical cycles, infectious diseases, and charac-terize local patterns, dynamics, and linkages in terrestrial ecosystems. An annual flyover with small aircraft would collect airborne observations. Plot markers, tree tags, and equipment to monitor insects and plants would also be deployed within the NEON study area. Equipment at the sites would collect data for 30 years. NEON data is available to researchers and the public. The EA may be viewed and written comments submitted using the Planning, Environment and Public Com-ment (PEPC) system, hand-delivered, or mailed to the address below. Comments will not be accepted by fax, e-mail, or in any other way than those specified above. Comments must be received by midnight MDT, July 18, 2017. Hand deliver comments during business hours to: Albright Visitor Center Attention: NEON Proposed Core Site Project Mammoth Hot Springs Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 82190 Mail comments to: Yellowstone National Park, Compliance Office Attention: NEON Proposed Core Site Project P.O. Box 168 Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 82190 Public Comment Considerations • Bulk comments in any format (hard copy or elec-

tronic) submitted on behalf of others will not be accepted.

• Before including your address, phone number, email address, or other personally identifiable in-formation, be aware that your entire comment – including your personally identifiable information – may be made public at any time. You may ask us to withhold your personally identifiable infor-mation from public review, but we cannot guaran-tee that we will be able to do so.

• The proposed project is an undertaking as outlined under Section 106 of the National Historic Preser-vation Act (NHPA) (36 CRF § 800). As such, we welcome comments about historic properties or other cultural resources that fall within the project area.

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Gardiner Baptist Church

Sundays: Bible Study 9:45am

Worship 11am Wednesdays:

Bible Study 6:30pm

St. Williams Catholic Church: Sundays 8:00am

St. John’s Episcopal Church (Emigrant):

Sundays Worship 8am

The Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter-Day Saints Sundays:

Sacrament Service 10am

Mt. Republic Chapel of Peace (Cooke City):

Sundays: Worship 9:30am

Gardiner Community Church:

Sundays 9:00 am Worship Service

Bible Studies Throughout the

community during the week, contact Pastor Jeff Ballard

406-848-7300

COMMUNITY SERVICES & COMMITTEES

Deadline for all newsletter ads is Tuesday before noon. Newsletter ads must be paid for in ADVANCE. There is no billing. Ads submitted without full payment will not be run.

Ads are $7.00 for 40 words or less in paragraph form for non-chamber members and $6.00/40 words for chamber members plus 10 cents for each additional word for members and non-members alike. Email or call for display ad pricing. 848-7971. Ads may be submitted by email to ads@gardinerchamber.com and/or by coming directly to the Chamber office at 216 Park Street during business hours. (there is an after hours drop box too!) If payment is required, then please drop off a copy of the ad with payment at the office or mail in advance to Gardiner Chamber of Commerce, PO Box 81 Gardiner, MT 59030.

It is helpful if you submit your ads before Tuesday. Ads CANNOT be placed over the telephone. Lost and Found, Free, Thank you, Condolences & Memorial Services ads are free up to 40 words & .10cents/word over 40. Nonprofit status does not guarantee a free ad. Call if you have questions. phone 406.848.7971

CHURCH SERVICES

If you are feeling sad, as if no one cares or that life isn’t worth living any more …

Please - Call the Montana Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) Someone does care~ They will listen to your story

AA Meetings: Wednesday @ 7pm at St. William’s Catholic Church. Contact 1-724-496-9894 American Legion Meet-ing: 2nd Tuesday @ 7pm at the Gardiner Communi-ty Center. Bear Creek Council Meeting: Monday, January 23rd. At the Track Ed Center, 9 Jardine Rd. For more information: 406-848-9445 www.bearcreekcouncil.org CVB Meeting: July 20th, 5pm, at Gardiner Visitor’s Center. 216 Park St. Electric Peak Arts Council Meeting: Sept-May, 1st Wednesday @ 5:30pm in the Gardiner Elementary School Library.

G-Town Thrift Store Saturdays 1-7pm located at the Community Church 318 W. Main St. Gardiner Chamber of Commerce / Visitor Center: Mon-Fri: 9am-8pm Sat-Sun: 1pm-5pm Monthly Board meeting, 3rd Thursdays at noon. Located at 216 Park Street. 848-7971. Gardiner Community Library Tuesdays 10am-5pm, 6pm-8pm & Thursdays 6pm-8pm. 406.848.7835. Book Sale Tuesdays 10am-5pm. Gardiner Food Pantry Hours: Tuesdays from 1pm-6pm. 307.344.9006 Linda Gray.

Gardiner-Park County Water District Board Meeting: 2nd Tuesday @ 6pm at the District Office. Gardiner Resort Area District monthly meeting is held every sec-ond Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Gardiner Visitor’s Center. Gardiner School Board Meeting: 2nd Wednesdays @ 6pm in the Gardiner School Conference Room. Gateway Hose Company: Board of Trustees Budget Meeting July 17, 2017 @ 6 pm at the Fire Hall. Greater Gardiner Community Council Advisory Board Meeting: 1st Tuesdays @7:15pm. www.gardinermt.org

Livingston HealthCare Gardiner Rehab Outreach Clinic: M/W/F from 9am-4pm at Gardiner Baptist Church Call 222-7231 or 222-3541. Livingston Lodge #32 A.F. & A.M. meets 1st Tuesday at 7pm at the Livingston Masonic Temple Narcotic Anonymous Meetings: Sundays @ 7pm at the Gardiner Baptist Church. Contact 314-602-6672