Area Briefs

LHS talent show

set for March 18

The annual Libby High School Talent Show will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 18, at the Memorial Center.

The event, which is free to the public, will feature the many talents of Libby High School students.

Libby Fine Arts

meets on Thursday

Libby Fine Arts, Inc., will hold its monthy business meeting at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, March 13.

The meeting will be at the Treasure Manor Community Room.  

The group will be reviewing old scrapbooks.

Free martial arts

classes for youth

The Libby Taekwondo Academy is offering a free class to children ranging in age from 7 to 10 years old.

The class is an introduction to traditional martial arts, basic self-defense skills as well as danger awareness and avoidance.

The class is held from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday at the academy located at the corner of Mineral and Sixth streets, behind The Joy of Books.

Equestrian group

will hold tack sale

The Kootenai Valley Equestrian Group will hold a tack sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 29, at Kootenai Valley Christian School.

This will be an opportunity to sell unwanted tack or to purchase needed supplies.

There will be breakfast, lunch and other goodies provided by the Christian school for a donation.

For more information, contact Betsey at 293-8361 or Michelle at 293-9295.

Money crunch

hampers wolf kill

BOISE, Idaho — The co-chair of the state’s budget committee says a bill asking for $2 million to kill Idaho wolves likely won’t get half that much money.

Republican Rep. Maxine Bell of Jerome says the money is instead needed to pay for the Idaho Education Network broadband program.

Legal wrangling over a contract the state awarded for an education broadband project has cut off federal funds for the program.

Bell tells The Times-News in a story on Sunday that lawmakers have flexibility when it comes to killing wolves, but they don’t with the Idaho Education Network.

She says the fund to kill wolves will probably get about $400,000.

Workers file suits

against restaurant

BOZEMAN — Two women have filed lawsuits against Buffalo Wild Wings in Bozeman contending nothing happened when they reported their manager harassed them.

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports that Elizabeth Rogers and Tara Slover filed the lawsuits against the restaurant in U.S. District Court in Butte last week.

The two women each filed two claims of intentional discrimination and one claim of negligent hiring and retention. Both women reported inappropriate actions by the restaurant’s general manager.

The owner of Bozeman’s Buffalo Wild Wings, Brad Anderson of Billings, was issued a summons last week.

Rogers contends that starting in June 2012, the general manager sought a relationship and began sending her repeated texts, asking to come to her home or for her to come to his.

The Montana Human Rights Bureau investigated and determined discrimination had occurred.