Regional Briefs
Handel’s ‘Messiah’
set for Sunday
A performance of Handel’s oratorio, “The Messiah,” is scheduled for 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15, at the Memorial Center in Libby.
The Libby orchestra and chorus are again conducted by Lorraine Braun. Many motivated, dedicated and talented local musicians have helped to reinstitute the tradition of gathering and performing “The Messiah” to honor Christ at Christmastime and help us prepare a place in our hearts.
Braun has been directing this volunteer labor of love since she moved to Libby in 2005.
Admission is free, and cookies and coffee are provided for a time of fellowship after the performance.
School choral
concert is Dec. 19
The public is invited to come to the Libby Choral Department’s annual celebration of Christmas and Holiday music in concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19, at the Memorial Center.
The choirs that will be featured are the Middle School Honors Choir, the Middle School Choir, the High School Concert Choir and the award-winning Libby Children’s Select Choir.
The concert will be jam-packed of both heart-stirring and toe-tapping music.
Please join the choirs in a musical journey that is guaranteed to touch the hearts and feed the spirit. Before the concert there will be a silent auction which will made up of baked goods for the holiday, mostly cheesecakes.
Admission to the concert is free.
Two micro-chipping
dates set at KPFL
Kootenai Pets for Life will hold two sessions to microchip pet animals at its facility on County Shop Road this month.
The first micro-chipping opportunity is 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 14. The second opportunity is Saturday, Dec. 21. Both events will run until 2 p.m.
Microchips hold contact information on the owner of the animal and facilitate the return of lost and strayed animals to their owners.
Interested persons should call 293-4936 for an appointment.
Men plead guilty
to elk poaching
HELENA — Three Broadwater County men have pleaded guilty to various charges involving the killing of two bull elk.
The Independent Record reports that 70-year-old Arnold Kolberg and 36-year-old Ronnie Nehring pleaded guilty Monday with unlawful possession of a game animal and obstructing justice for concealing an elk in a hay stack.
Twenty-nine-year-old Skyler Kolberg, Arnold Kolberg’s grandson, pleaded guilty to hunting without a license, unlawful possession of a game animal and for conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Former justice
dies; Lee was 68
BUTTE — A former Butte-Silver Bow justice of the peace who was given deferred sentences in two cases related to his use of methadone has died.
Butte-Silver Bow Coroner Lee LeBreche tells the Montana Standard that 68-year-old Robert “Bob” Lee died early Saturday morning.
In December 2012, Lee pleaded guilty to two felony counts of fraudulently obtaining dangerous drugs by seeing several doctors simultaneously and receiving prescription painkillers from all of them. In May, he received a three-year deferred sentence.