Community Briefs

Cabinet Peaks employee honored

Cabinet Peaks Medical Center announced recently that one of its own has won the Frontier Medicine Better Health Program’s Innovator of the Year Award.

Laura Larson-Crismore’s project was voted on by her peers at the summit who chose her for this award.

She has worked at Cabinet Peaks Medical Center for almost nine years; her first eight years as a medical technologist in the laboratory before transferring to the quality improvement specialist position almost a year ago.

Call before digging on your property

In our world today, many of the utility services to our homes and businesses are buried underground. While visually nice, this adds responsibilities whenever digging occurs. The buried services, commonly called utilities, belong to those utilities and must be located in any proposed dig sites.

Whether you’re planting a shrub, rototilling a garden or installing a fence, you must call and request that the buried facilities in your dig area be identified prior to digging. The location of these underground facilities will be identified with paint colors.

UDIG is a free service that provides a single phone number for the public to call to notify utilities with buried facilities that may be affected by the excavation project. It’s provided by Flathead area utility companies and municipalities whose purpose is to make the excavating process safe.

Request your free locate by calling 1-800-551-UDIG (8344).

Cabinet Peaks revamps Paint it Pink

Since Paint It Pink fundraising efforts began in 2007, the fund has helped to provide a digital mammography machine, as well as over 150 free diagnostic and screening mammograms to uninsured men and women in Lincoln County.

However, with changes brought on by the Affordable Care Act, it is possible that in the near future there will no longer be uninsured men and women for whom to provide these free mammograms.

Because of these changes, the Paint It Pink committee decided to raise funds for a broader purpose - the detection and treatment of breast cancer for the people of Lincoln County.

A second Paint It Pink fund will be opened, and future donations will be deposited into that account.

The team is gearing up for another pink October, and is close to having a schedule of events ready for the public.

If you are interested in getting involved in the Paint It Pink program, or holding your own fundraiser, please contact Kate (283-7140) or Tanya (283-7221) at Cabinet Peaks Medical Center.

FVCC begins web marketing program

Starting this fall, northwest Montana residents can earn an online certificate of technical science in three different advanced manufacturing programs.

The one-semester programs include electronics technician, machinist technician and industrial maintenance.

Offering these entry-level programs will benefit students, particularly in rural communities.

Students across Montana will be able enroll at their local two-year colleges and access FVCC’s online manufacturing programs. FVCC will collaborate with assessment centers in Havre, Helena and Billings to provide students across the state the ability to complete the certificates’ hands-on work requirements in their local communities.

For more information, contact FVCC Navigators Jori Bullemer at 756-3905 or jbullemer@fvcc.edu or Will Richards at 756-4862 or wrichards@fvcc.edu.

 Outdoor-Woman program holds hike

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ Becoming an Outdoors-Woman program is offering a hike on Sept. 13 near Thompson Falls.

The workshop is hosted by the Becoming an Outdoors-Woman program of North West Montana.

To register, or for more information, contact event coordinator Nancy Fields at 949-412-8561. Registration forms are available on the agency’s website at fwp.mt.gov; click "Becoming and Outdoors Woman", under the Education tab.

Nordicfest quilt show all three days

The quilt show at the 2014 Nordicfest will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Asa Wood building in Libby.

The quilt show will be held from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Friday; from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Saturday; and from noon until 3 p.m. on Sunday.