LOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

November 9th 2016 Edition #45

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Public Meeting Notice: The Gardiner Resort Area District Board of Directors will be holding their monthly meeting on Monday, November 14th at 7:00PM upstairs at the Gardiner Visitor Center, located at 216 Park Street, Gardiner, Montana. The public is welcome to attend. For further information go to www.gardinerresorttax.com Free 5 person hot tub. U haul out of deck. Contact 406-224-2293 for info. Yellowstone Grill - Do you need your lunch party catered? We can do it! We will be closed for the Month of November. Catering will still be available, call/text Schalene @ 406-223-9433 with questions/needs. This week only! TurboKick will be on Thursday! Still at 6, still at the GCC and we're still in the early stages of learning, the perfect time to start. Check out my other classes on my Facebook page, Yellowstone Well-Being. Veterans Day Celebration: Monday, November 14th in the high school cafeteria. The music program will begin at 6:00, followed by a light buffet for veterans and nonveterans alike. Please join us in honoring the men and women who have served our nation. Note of apology: Unfortunately, our list of veterans in last week's newsletter was incomplete. To Jim Cole and the families of Dalton H. Swearingen (P), and Pat Rehmer (P), please accept our sincerest apologies. Monthly CVB meeting has been rescheduled for Thursday, November 17th at 11am, Monthly Chamber Board meeting to follow at noon, upstairs at the Visitors Center located at 216 Park Street. Public Welcome.

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

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EPAC Show: Supaman—November 15, 2016

EPAC Show: Yellowstoners - November 30 & December 1, 2016

Christmas Stroll—December 1, 2016

EPAC Show: Maracuja - January 5, 2017

EPAC Show: Bozeman Trail Chamber Players - January 27, 2017

Hear ye year ye! Gardiner Pharmacy will be closed Thanksgiving Day, Thursday the 24th and Friday the 25th but will re-open Monday the 28th for regular business hours. Yellowstone Perk will also be closed Thanksgiving Day, but will reopen Friday the 25th. Thank you all and enjoy this season to gather and give thanks. North Entrance Vacation Rental. Gardiner vacation rental home near Roosevelt Arch and school. Four-bedroom, two-bath, child-friendly, fenced yard. Go to vrbo.com/395658 for details and photos. Contact Wendi Burke, (406)223-2593 for more information. Operation Christmas Child through Samaritan's Purse, delivers shoe box gifts to children worldwide with hope through Good News. Shoe boxes are collected local-ly Sunday, November 14, 2016. Brochures with packing details and boxes are available. Annie @ 570-2385. The Yellowstone Mine now serving breakfast menu 7 days a week 7am-11am. Very reasonable entrée prices starting at only $2.95. Come try our Eggs Benedict weekend special available Friday through Sunday prepared with a delicious made from scratch Hollandaise sauce. Hutterite Turkeys – Do you want a Hutterite Turkey for Thanksgiving? Please pre-order with Schalene at 406-223-9433. Call or text by Nov 15th. Turkeys are between 15 to 20 lbs. $1.80/lb. The Hutterites will be in town to deliver Nov 18th. They will also have potatoes, canned goods, bread, rolls, carrots, blue hubbard squash, eggs & chickens. Please join the Bear Creek Council for a Holiday Party on Monday, December 5th, 5:30-9:00pm, at the Gardiner Community Center (210 Main Street). Silent auction, drinks, hor d’oevres and potluck supper. The annual Holiday Party is a time for residents of Gardiner and beyond to come together and celebrate our community and the holiday season. Free and open to everyone. Just bring yourselves. Bear Creek Council members provide the rest!

Election Results Montana Ballot Issues CI-116 (Victim’s Rights)

Passed I-177 (Trapping on Public Lands)

Failed I-181 (Brain Disease Research)

Failed I-182 (Expand Medical Marijuana)

Passed

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HOUSING

New study investigates groundwater from the air A new study providing an unprecedented regional view of the earth’s crust beneath Yellowstone National Park will begin with a helicopter electro-magnetic and magnetic (HEM) survey on November 7, 2016. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Wyoming and Aarhus University in Denmark hope to distinguish zones of cold fresh water, hot saline water, steam, clay and unaltered rock from one another to understand Yellowstone’s myriad hydrothermal systems. The flights will continue for the next two to four weeks. Although the park’s iconic hydrothermal systems are well mapped at the surface, their subsurface ground-water flow systems are almost completely unknown. The HEM survey, operated by SkyTEM, will provide the first subsurface view of Yellowstone’s hydrother-mal systems, tracking the geophysical signatures of geysers, hot springs, mud pots, steam vents and hydrothermal explosion craters to depths in excess of 1,000feet. A low flying helicopter, about 200 feet above the ground’s surface, will travel along pre-planned flight grids focusing on the Mammoth-Norris corridor, Upper and Lower Geyser Basins and the northern part of Yellowstone Lake. An electromagnetic system, resembling a giant hula hoop, will be suspended from the helicopter’s base. The equipment senses and records tiny voltages that can be related to the ground’s electrical conductivity. These observations, combined with existing geophysical, geochemical, geological and borehole data, will help close a major knowledge gap between the surface hydrothermal systems and the deeper magmatic system. For example, research shows that the hot water spurting from Yellowstone’s geysers originates as old precipitation, snow and rain that percolates down into the crust, is heated and ultimately returns to the surface. This process takes hundreds if not thousands of years. Little, however, is currently known about the paths taken by the waters. The data collected from the flight will guide future ground-based geological, hydrological and geophysi-cal studies.

Winter Rental Available: 3 bedroom house on Scott Street with full kitchen and 1 bathroom is available until May 15th. Fully furnished and very convenient to everything. It is an older home with stairs to lower level kitchen and living area. Great views out to the river and Electric. No pets. $800 per month plus utilities. Please call Sandy at 605-359-6852. For Rent: Newly remodeled 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath Apartment at 316 Stone Street. Available beginning of De-cember; $1000 per month. Please contact Pat or Jennifer Herriford at 406-580-5819 or pjherriford@gmail.com. Responsible, mature adult looking for a long term place to rent or to be a caretaker for beginning January 1, 2017. I am a multi-skilled handyman with 15 years property management/caretaking experience. Contact Gary: 540-817-4296 or gary.barker25@gmail.com. In search of year-round rental. Responsible couple, no pets, perfect credit, references available. Please call Corrie at 303-489-5644.

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HELP WANTED Gardiner Public School has a position available for a part-time custodian, afternoon shift, $12.24/hour. Anyone interested, please send a cover letter and resume to JT Stroder, District Superintendent, 510 Stone Street, Gardiner, MT 59030. Any ques-tions, please call the school at 848-7563. The Goose is looking for Bartenders to add to our team, contact Sophie Curtis at 813-494-3847 or Nasko at 980-299-7735. Help wanted at the Two Bit. Weekend evening cook, will train the right person. Ask for Jen. Help Wanted: The Yellowstone Mine Restaurant is hiring for the following year round positions – full time or part time morning and night cooks and dish-washers. Please apply in person 8am-10am or 4pm-6pm.

October Visitation Decreases Visitation for First Ten Months of 2016 Surpasses 2015 Record MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – Visitation numbers for October decreased in Yellowstone Na-tional Park. The overall decrease for October 2016 totaled nearly 4 percent below October 2015. Howev-er, the first 10 months of 2016 are up 3.6 percent compared to the previous year. When comparing vis-itation for the first 10 months of 2016 with the same period in 2014, the park experienced a 21 percent in-crease (729,174 more visits) in 2016.

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Public Invited to Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee Meeting David Diamond Selected as New GYCC Executive Coordinator MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – Federal land managers within the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) invite the public to join them in a conversation to help assess ecosystem issues and to build stronger relation-ships in the future. The meeting will be held on November 15 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Cody Public Library in Cody, Wyoming. Managers intend to develop and strengthen their working relationships with the public and stakeholders by understanding and collaborating on the joint challenges of managing these shared landscapes. Additional information about the meeting can be found at http://www.fedgycc.org/meetings-and-events/. The public can meet the federal land managers who make up the Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Commit-tee (GYCC), get updates from its working groups, and hear a presentation from guest speaker Arthur Middle-ton of the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Middleton will talk about the critical role that elk and other ungulate migrations play in sustaining the ecosystem and local economies. He will also show how photography and mapping are helping to tell the story of these migrations. This work is on display in Cody in the Invisible Boundaries exhibit at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. The GYCC has a new executive coordinator who will facilitate the meeting in Cody next week. David Diamond was selected to coordinate the GYCC Executive Managers and the ten GYCC Subcommittees. Mr. Diamond brings a wealth of skills gained through more than 15 years of federal service with the Department of the Interior, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). As a Presidential Management Fellow, Mr. Diamond served in the Secretary of the Interior's office in Wash-ington D.C. and the Idaho State Office of the BLM. In the Yreka Fish and Wildlife Office of FWS, he brought together diverse partners, including federal and state agencies, tribes, farmers, ranchers, and NGOs to solve complex natural resource issues in the Klamath River basin in Oregon and California. And, in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary for Operations at NOAA he provided senior leaders with alternatives and evidence to support sound decision-making. Mr. Diamond received his masters degrees in public administration and environmental science at the School for Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana Uni-versity. He received his bachelors degree in history and environmental science from the University of Virginia. “We are fortunate to have David facilitate the GYCC because of his deep experience in federal land manage-ment,” said Superintendent Wenk. “He will bring a renewed emphasis on creative problem solving and community involvement in the Greater Yellowstone region,” added Bureau of Land Management Western Montana District Manager Richard “Rick” Hotaling, GYCC Chair. The GYCC includes federal land managers from national parks, national forests, national wildlife refug-es and Bureau of Land Management’s National System of Public Lands across the GYA: the largest, essential-ly intact natural area in the lower 48 states. Together, these agencies manage 15 million acres of federal land. The committee was formed to pursue opportunities of mutual cooperation and coordination in the manage-ment of core federal lands within the GYA. Participat-ing federal land managers administer three national parks (Yellowstone, Grand Teton & John D. Rockefel-ler, Jr. Memorial Parkway), two national wildlife refuges (National Elk Refuge, Red Rock Lakes), five national forests (Bridger-Teton, Caribou-Targhee, Shoshone, Custer Gallatin, and Beaverhead-Deerlodge), and Bureau of Land Management lands in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Information about the GYCC and links to member agency websites are available at: http://www.fedgycc.org/. For more information please contact David Diamond at david_diamond@nps.gov or 406-587-6733.

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AA Meetings: Wednes-day @ 7pm at St. Wil-liam’s Catholic Church. Contact 1-724-496-9894 American Legion Meet-ing: 2nd Tuesday @ 7pm at the Gardiner Communi-ty Center. Bear Creek Council Meetings: Wednesday, November 16. At the Track Ed Center, 9 Jardine Rd. For more information: 406-848-9445 www.bearcreekcouncil.org CVB Meeting: 2nd Thursdays @ 10:00am at Gardiner Visitor’s Center. Electric Peak Arts Coun-cil Meeting: Sept-May, 1st Wednesday @ 5:30pm in the Gardiner High School Library.

G-Town Thrift Store Saturdays 1-7pm located at the Community Church 318 W. Main St. Gardiner Chamber of Commerce / Visitor Center: Open Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. Monthly Board meeting, 3rd Thursdays 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 Hours: 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 sec-ond Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Gardiner Visitor’s Center. Gardiner School Board Meeting: 2nd Wednes-days @ 7pm in the Gardi-ner School Conference Room. Gateway Hose Company: Board of Trustees Meeting: November 21st, 2016 @ 7pm at the Fire Hall.

Greater Gardiner Community Council Advisory Board Meeting: 1st Tuesdays @7:15pm. www.gardinermt.org Livingston HealthCare Gardiner Rehab Out-reach 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 Narcotic Anonymous Meetings: Sundays @ 7pm at the Gardiner Bap-tist Church. Contact 314-602-6672

If you have a community service group or committee that you would like to add to our list call the Chamber of Commerce at 848-7971 or email ads@gardinerchamber.com

The Gardiner Community Newsletter is sponsored by the Gardiner Chamber of Commerce. Its pur-pose is to inform local residents and visitors regarding items of local interest. Occasionally opinions are expressed herein that do not necessarily reflect the viewpoint of the Gardiner Chamber of Commerce.

The Chamber reserves the right to omit or edit ads/copy for length, gram-

mar, good taste and to prevent defamation.

Gardiner Baptist Church Sundays:

Bible Study 9:45am Worship 11am

Lunch 12noon, All welcome Bible Study 6:30pm

Wednesdays Bible Study 6:30pm

St. John’s Episcopal Church

(Emigrant): Sundays

Worship 8am

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Sundays: Sacrament Service 10am

Mt. Republic Chapel of Peace

(Cooke City): Sundays:

Worship 9:30am

St. Williams Catholic Church: Sundays 11:00am

Gardiner Community Church: Sundays

9:15am Sunday School 10:15am Worship Service

Bible Studies Throughout the

community during the week, contact Pastor Dave Gable

406-848-7300

COMMUNITY SERVICES & COMMITTEES

Deadline for all newsletter ads is Tuesday before noon. Newsletter ads must be paid for in ADVANCE. There is no billing. Ads submitted without full payment will not be run.

Ads are $7.00 for 40 words or less in paragraph form for non-chamber members and $6.00/40 words for chamber members plus 10 cents for each additional word for members and non-members alike. Email or call for display ad pricing. 848-7971. Ads may be submitted by email to ads@gardinerchamber.com and/or by coming directly to the Chamber office at 216 Park Street dur ing business hours. (there is an after hours drop box too!) If payment is required, then please drop off a copy of the ad with payment at the office or mail in advance to Gardiner Chamber of Commerce, PO Box 81 Gardiner, MT 59030.

It is helpful if you submit your ads before Tuesday. Ads CANNOT be placed over the telephone. Lost and Found, Free, Thank you, Condolences & Memorial Services ads are free up to 40 words & .10cents/word over 40. Nonprofit status does not guarantee a free ad. Call if you have questions. phone 406.848.7971

CHURCH SERVICES

If you are feeling sad, as if no one cares or that life isn’t worth living any more …

Please - Call the Montana Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) Someone does care~ They will listen to your story