January 30, 2019

Local Announcements

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

Yellowstone Pizza Company will be closed on Mondays & Tuesdays for now. Open Wednesdays-Sundays 4-8:30pm. This week’s specials:

• Wednesday – Lasagna• Thursday – Stir Fry & Homemade Egg Rolls• Friday – Meatloaf• Saturday – Greek Night• Sunday – Ham Dinner

Come join us Super Bowl Sunday at the Rusty Rail Lounge & Casino. We will be serving food and drink specials. Hope to see you there!

Public Meeting Notice: The Gardiner Resort Area District will hold its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, February 12th at 7:00 PM at the Gardiner Visitor Center. The public is welcome to attend. For further information go to www.gardinerresorttax.com.

Time again to bust out your best chili recipe and dancing shoes! It is the 18th Annual Gardiner Chomp and Stomp. Saturday, February 9th, 6:00-8:30pm at the community center. We are asking for $8 do-nation at the door. Enter a chili and get in for free! To enter text Anna at 406-223-2751. Prizes for top three chili recipes. Live music, kids activities, ice cream bar, and tons of fun.

AAA Cleaning. Carpet, chimney, duct, and water damage cleaning. Call Ron Price: 581-5434.

Feed the Cat – Feed the Dog. Thank you for your pet food donations this winter to the Gardiner Food Pantry & Livingston’s Spur-Line.

Stop by the Rusty Rail for Happy Hour Monday through Sunday, 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. See you there!

I am a buyer of Montana history. Maps, Yellowstone Park, Tokens, Beer Trays, Mining Ribbons, Horr MT, Books, Old Montana signs and plenty more. Contact David at 579-3500 or davidperlstein@gmail.com.

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Pay what you can Sip and Paint February 5Chomp & Stomp Chili Cook Off February 9

EPAC Show: Bozeman Trail Chamber Players February 13BCC’s Jardine Ski Run February 24EPAC Show: The Interior March 29EPAC Show: Barn Dance April 13

Annual Hells A-Roarin' Horse Drive May 25Shakespeare in the Parks July 21

Gardiner Montana - Upcoming Events

For details and more information, visit:VisitGardinerMT.com/events-blog/events

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Fully furnished winter cabin rental on the Yellowstone River through to April 30, 2019. Two master suites, two full baths, satellite flat screen TV’s, washer/dryer, fully equipped kitchen, covered patio. No pets, no smoking, limited number of occupants, $1,250 per month, plus utilities. (406) 570-4500.

For Rent

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Gardiner Ranger District 2018 Year in Review Gardiner, MT – The Gardiner Ranger District has prepared a 2018 year in

review synopsis to share with the Gardiner and Cooke City Communities. The synopsis is meant to briefly share some of the activities that occurred last year. If people have questions please give Mike Thom, District Ranger for the Gar-diner Ranger District a call at (406) 848-7375 ext. 22.

Fire Management:• Wildland Fires: 7 fire starts burning about 70 acres on the Gardiner and

Yellowstone Ranger Districts;• 21 education and prevention programs, contacting over 1,100 people;• 377 acres burned using prescribed fire including 155 at Cutler Meadows for

range restoration; • Fire crews spent more than 1000 days collectively assisting other forests across the nation including FL,

GA, CO, NM, AZ, OR, CA, MT, and Africa.

Natural Resources:• The District partnered with Ecology Project International to conduct amphibian surveys involving over 80

students and 20 teachers/chaperones;• 28 students and 1 teacher helped with wetland restoration and invasive species removal at Beattie Gulch; • The District sprayed noxious weeds across approximately 760 acres in the Travertine, Eagle Creek, and

Bear Creek areas. The District also conducted joint weed spray days with Yellowstone Park in the Cooke City area.

Recreation/Special Uses:• The District administered 27 outfitter and guide permits and 52 non-recreation special use permits;• We managed the Upper Yellowstone Snowmobile Club agreement for grooming and Round Lake warm-

ing hut operations in Cooke City;• Cooke City snow rangers logged 60+ days of public contact and avalanche education;• Gallatin NF Avalanche Center hosted avalanche awareness classes every winter weekend in Cooke City; • We painted all the recreation site signs in the Cooke City and Gardiner areas.

Wilderness/Trails:• 7 trail crew members cleared 2,415 trees from 288 miles of trails, cleaned 1,686 existing water bars and

installed 19 new water bars;• There were over 1,720 volunteer hours donated from American Hiking Society, Back Country Horsemen

of America, Unity College, and Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness Foundation;• Local outfitters helped clear 30+ miles of trail cleared by local outfitters;• We contracted trail work for the North Fork Bear Creek and Pine Creek trails; and• Groomed Bear Creek Ski Trails on December 6, 2018 - the earliest ever.

Bear Education:• The District hosted 14 events reaching 1,155 people; and• Bear education specialists made over 215 campground contacts and campground hosts spoke with hun-

dreds of people daily.

Other items of note:• The Emigrant Crevice Mineral Withdrawal was signed by Secretary Zinke.• Assisted in the extraction of a Forrest Fenn treasure hunter’s F-250 from National Forest System lands by

helicopter. Who thought trucks couldn’t fly?• Greeted over 1,700 visitors in the office (a 15% increase from 2017).• Sold 82 firewood permits, 42 Christmas tree tags (thanks Gardiner Market for helping), and 171 maps

(23% increase).• Issued 55 petrified wood permits (27% increase)

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Help WantedYellowstone Riverside Cottages in Gardiner is accepting applications for housekeeping, can possibly develop into year-round positions. Email applications to info@YellowstoneRiversideCot-tages.com, apply in person, or call 406-848-7719.

Housekeeper wanted for 2019 Gardiner peak season vacation rentals. Lucrative compensation. Call (406) 570-4500. Chico Hot Springs is always looking for great new employees. Are you ready for a new oppor-tunity? Do you want long-term, steady job with room for growth? Do you want great benefits and competitive pay? Chico Hot Springs wants you! Come join our spirited, service-focused culture. Please come by our front desk to complete an ap-plication or call Andrew at 406-333-4933.

Timeline for Resumption of Operations at Yellowstone National ParkWith the enactment of the continuing resolution, staff at Yellowstone National Park will resume regular operations beginning tomorrow. Employees are happy to return to work serving the American people and welcoming visitors to Yellowstone. Here are the details for the next few days:• On Sunday, January 27, visitor centers that are normally

open at this time of year will reopen by 11:00 a.m. (this includes the Albright Visitor Center, the Old Faithful Visitor Education Center, the lobby of the Canyon Visitor Education Center, and the ranger-staffed desk at the West Yellowstone Visitor Information Center). As soon as visitor centers open, the public will again be able to obtain backcountry permits.

• The park will resume collecting entrance fees on Sunday, January 27.

• On Monday, January 28 a majority of furloughed staff will return and open the remaining park functions. For example, employees will begin to process the backlog of applications for special use permits, film permits, commercial use authorizations, and research permits. By midday Monday, the public will also be able to obtain permits for the non-commercially-guided snowmobile access program. The public affairs office will reopen on Monday.

• The park asks for patience as employees work to reopen facilities and operations in a manner that is safe for them and the public. There is a lot of snow removal needed around buildings and safety checks that must be completed.

• Again, the park extends a special thank you to the concessioners, especially Xanterra Travel Collection, who made donations during the shutdown enabling NPS staff to groom roads and allow oversnow access to continue. In addition, we thank our local gateway communities and partners who provided incredible support over the last 35 days, not only for the park, but also for our NPS family.

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Chinese New Year. 2019 is the Year of the PigWhen is Chinese New Year?Chinese New Year begins on 5 February 2019 and is celebrated by a quarter of the world’s population. It will be a public holiday in several countries in East Asia. Each year in the Chinese calendar is represented by one of twelve animals in the Chinese Zodiac. 2019 will be the year of the Earth Pig. The Pig is a symbol of diligence, compassion, and generosity in China.

Traditions of Chinese New YearThe Chinese New Year has a great history. In other traditions, by this time in the year, most resolutions have been forgotten or put back to the following year. However, all hope is not lost, as there’s a second chance to get it right with the celebration of Chinese New Year.

The origin of the Chinese New Year is itself ancient and obscured by the amount of time. It is popularly recognized as the Spring Festival and celebrations last 15 days.

Preparations tend to begin a month from the date of the Chinese New Year (similar to a Western Christmas), when people start buying presents, decoration materials, food and clothing. A huge clean-up gets underway days before the New Year, when Chinese houses are cleaned from top to bottom, to sweep away any traces of bad luck, and doors and windowpanes are given a new coat of paint, usually red.

The eve of the New Year is perhaps the most exciting part of the event, as anticipation creeps in. Here, traditions and rituals are very carefully observed in everything from food to clothing.

Rituals include cleaning the house, putting up new posters of “door gods” on front doors, fireworks before the family union dinner, which should be at least 10 course meal with a whole fish entrée symbolizing the abundance of the coming year.

It’s usual to wear something red as this colour is meant to ward off evil spirits - but black and white are out, as these are associated with mourning. After dinner, the family sit up for the night playing cards, board games or watching TV programmes dedicated to the occasion. At midnight, the sky is lit up by fireworks.

On the day itself, an ancient custom called Hong Bao, meaning Red Packet, takes place. This involves married couples giving children and unmarried adults money in red envelopes. Then the family begins to say greetings from door to door, first to their relatives and then their neighbours. Like the Western saying “let bygones be bygones,” at Chinese New Year, grudges are very easily cast aside.

Traditional foods eaten during the Spring festival are fish (the Chinese word for ‘fish’ sounds like the word for ‘surplus,’ so the eating of fish is supposed to bring a surplus of money and good luck); Chinese dumplings (as their shape is said to be like that of silver ingots, which were used as money in ancient Chinese); spring rolls; rice cakes and rice balls.

The end of the New Year is marked by the Festival of Lanterns, which is a celebration with singing, dancing and lantern shows.

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Church ServicesGardiner Baptist Church Sundays:Bible Study 6:30pmWorship 11amWednesdays:Worship Service 6:30pm

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Sundays: Sacrament Service 10am

St. Williams Catholic Church: Sundays: 11:00am

St. John’s Episcopal Church (Emigrant): Sundays: Worship 8am

Mt. Republic Chapel of Peace (Cooke City)Sundays: Worship 9:30am

Gardiner Community ChurchSundays:9:00 am Fellowship9:15 am Sunday School10:15 am Worship ServiceWednesdays:7 pm Bible Study at ChurchOther Bible Studies throughout thecommunity during the week,contact Pastor Jeff Ballard

Community Services & CommitteesAA Meetings: Wednesdays @ 7pm at St. William’s Catholic Church. Contact 1-724-496-9894

AA Meeting: Wednesdays @ 7pm at Mount Republic Chapel of Peace.Cooke City. Contact: (406) 838-2397

American Legion Meeting: 2nd Tuesday @ 7pm at the Gardin-er Community Center.

Bear Creek Council Meeting: Meets monthly at the Track Ed Center, 9 Jardine Rd.For more information: 406-223-2152 www.bearcreekcouncil.org

CVB Meeting: 3rd Thursdays at 4:30pm at the Gardiner Visitor’s Center, 216 Park St.

Electric Peak Arts Council Meeting: Sept-May, 3rd Wednesdays @ 5:30pm at the Gardiner Visitor’s Center, 216 Park St.

Gardiner Chamber of Commerce: Mon-Fri: 9am-5pmMonthly Board meeting, 3rd Thurs-days 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: 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 second Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Gardiner Visitor’s Center.

Gardiner School Board Meet-ing: 2nd Wednesdays @ 6pm in the Gardiner School Conference Room.

Gateway Hose Company:Board of Trustees February 18, 2019 @7 pm at the Fire Hall.

Greater Gardiner Community Council Advisory Board Meeting: 1st Tuesdays @6:30pm. 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.

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