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Buzzing industry: Beekeepers swarm to pick up colonies
Hearing help: Clinic celebrates 10 years of assisting children with language
By PAMELA J. PODGER of the Missoulian
Anna LaCroix, 2, marches purposefully toward the rocking horse in her sturdy orange boots.
About halfway to her goal, she encounters several women in the hallway of a language clinic on the University of Montana campus.
She wants the horse. But now, she has to navigate around adults.
Clomp. Clomp. Clomp. The pint-size girl, who was born deaf, advances toward the rocking horse.
Scent of a tiger - Rock Creek woman featured in BBC documentary trains dogs to alert villagers of man-eating predator
By LORI GRANNIS of the Missoulian
Weeks before Rock Creek dog trainer Marielle Schmidt touched down in Bangladesh, news of her coming stretched far and wide through the tiny villages that surround the mangrove forests of the Sundarbans.
A “crazy American” was on her way to pair dogs with people to fend off tigers - a notion inconceivable to a culture that barely acknowledges dogs, let alone forges a relational bond with them.
Sweet success - Pastry chef Margaret Ambrose-Barton has made a career out of baking for Missoula’s finest eateries
By GREG PATENT for the Missoulian
If you’ve dined out in Missoula over the past 17 years or so, chances are you’ve eaten one of Margaret Ambrose-Barton’s fabulous desserts. A professional baker since 1991, when she graduated from Missoula’s Vo-Tech Institute (now the College of Technology), Margaret bakes all the special occasion cakes, including wedding cakes, at Pearl Cafe and Bakery. She also provides desserts for Biga Pizza and The Shack.
Evolving downtown: New merchants excited about opportunities in busy district
Infectious knowledge: Workers learn about heath care-associated infections in mobile classroom
By ROB CHANEY of the Missoulian
We all have a general idea of a school bus: big, yellow, full of kids on their way to class.
“Big” is the only part that fits Kimberly-Clark Health Care's HAI education rig, which pulled up in front of St. Patrick Hospital on Tuesday. It's predominantly blue. It's full of doctors and nurses. And they're in class the minute they step on board.
Teacher search: Students scope out their futures at annual education fair
By ROB CHANEY of the Missoulian
Watch a video from the Multi-state Educator's Career Fair
Numbers were down, but business was brisk at the 23rd annual Multi-state Educator's Career Fair Monday.
“I'm a little surprised at the light traffic this morning,” Missoula County Public Schools Superintendent Jim Clark said while scanning the booths in the Hilton Garden Inn. Somewhere in the flow of students and recruiters, Clark hoped to find five special-education teachers who wanted to come to Missoula.
Tall in the saddle: Sitting atop a horse - or mule - benefits special needs people
By PERRY BACKUS/Ravalli Republic
CORVALLIS - Linda Olson knows what it’s like to witness something miraculous.
It’s happened time after time almost right in her backyard.
She’s seen speechless children begin to babble. She’s watched wheelchair users learn what it’s like to walk. And Olson has witnessed the magic of an unspoken bond unfold between animal and humankind.
Home for the castoff: Llama sanctuary takes in once trendier pack, guard animals
Putting skills to work: Stimson workers get help looking at options after lumber mill closure
By PAMELA J. PODGER of the Missoulian
BONNER - Ninety-two workers at Stimson Lumber Co. who face an indefinite layoff in mid-May from the Bonner plant were briefed Tuesday on their options for retraining, education and other prospects by a variety of government agencies.
The briefings, held in two sessions at St. Ann's Catholic Church in Bonner, urged the millworkers to start considering their future plans.
“There are some of us who are just bamboozled by the ‘what next' step,” said Larry Keogh, a sawmill equipment operator since 1990.
