Area Briefs

Library book sale

slated for April 4

The Libby Friends of the Library will have its next book sale from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, April 4.  

Interested book-buyers should use the entrance from Main Street.  

Many new books will be available. Books are now arranged alphabetically and by category for shoppers’ convenience.  

There is also a new display of model railroading magazines.  

Women’s golf league

will meet on April 2

Members of the Women’s Spring Golf League  will meet at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 2, at the Fjord Room of the Venture Inn.

This year’s tourneys and events will be discussed.

For more information, call Anna Guthrie at 293-3877.

Hearing seminar

scheduled for May 1

A free educational seminar on hearing will be held 10:30 a.m. May 1 at the Venture Inn, 1015 W. 9th St.

The seminar will focus on enhancing communication and listening skills, understanding common hearing issues, what to look for in a hearing care professional and the truth about hearing technology cost.

Mission trip benefit

set for local woman

A spaghetti dinner fundraiser to help send Sarah Kirschenmann on a mission trip to Cambodia will be held 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. April 5 at St. John Lutheran Church.

Sarah, a sophomore at Concordia University in Portland, Ore., hopes to raise $2,800 for the two-week trip similar to her African voyage last year.

For more information, call Hope at 293-1074.

Attorney: Rapist

can’t blame victim

BILLINGS — A former Montana teacher convicted of rape wrongly blamed his 14-year-old victim when he argued that she bore responsibility in the case, an attorney for the state said Thursday in a court filing.

The office of Attorney General Tim Fox is appealing Stacey Dean Rambold’s one-month prison sentence to the Montana Supreme Court. The state says he should have served a mandatory minimum of four years after pleading guilty to sexual assault without consent.

Rambold is fighting the appeal.