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Friday was a perfect day for skiing at Great Divide North of Helena. All of the students of the school boarded the school buses and made it a day of fun in the sun. Extras tagged along, too. Nice it was Friday. They could sleep in on Saturday.

Trish Reiss headed up the planning and decorating crew for the Valentine Dinner at the Cardwell Church. Red Apron Catering served prime rib (it was delicious!), along with baked potatoes, etc. Cindy Brennan and her helper always prepare a great tasting meal. Games to keep the crowd busy as the food line moved helped the crowd interact with each other. Zach Barr, his Mom, Angie, Dad, Josh and Grandpa, Mike, provided music and words of encouragement. The Barrs are from Belgrade area.

There will be an opening on the Cardwell School Board. Mike Mastel has chosen not to run again. The information to run for this position on the Board is elsewhere in this newspaper. Savannah Rossiter announced that she will not be returning to the school system next year. That makes an opening for a first and second grade teacher.

Been rummaging through the records at the School and am finding such interesting papers. Some correspondence is quite amusing considering that in today’s system there would be serious consequences for some of the behavior. (Of course, I laughed thinking about it.) The behavior was corrected.

Names on the rosters of track meets that included scholastic competition as well as the field events, will help with finding history of the 1930’s and 1940’s. The struggles that the High School dealt with in the early 1930’ves before the High School closed seem to have been very time consuming for the Clerk, Mr. Puckett, who also was the Principal and I think a teacher, too. More to come.

The new organization, Love, Inc., will be ministering to needs in the Whitehall area. God tells us many times to care for the poor. I think that this ending to a devotional says it quite well.

“A commitment to serve the poor has been one way the church lives out its faith from the beginning. The message of the gospel includes both words and actions! Would outsiders know from our words and actions that we have a heart for the poor? That we stand with those whom society has left behind? That God loves them through us?” I John 4:19, “We love Him, because He first loved us.”