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Savage School registrationSavage School would like
all kindergarten, preschool students and new students in Savage to come to the school to register as soon as possible.
The school is usu-ally open from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Please call 406-776-2317.
Parents should bring im-munization records, birth certificates and information from the previous school attended.
Substitute teacher trainingSidney Public Schools will
hold a workshop for substi-tute teachers on Thursday, Aug. 7 in the Sidney High School computer lab from 3-4 p.m.
Substituting offers a flex-ible schedule and you are able to choose the grade level(s) you prefer or are most comfortable in.
Anyone interested in subbing for the 2014-2015 school year please attend the workshop.
To sign up for subbing see Leigh at Central School/Ad-ministration office.
Graduation photos readyGraduation photos for 2014
Sidney High School gradu-ates have been received and are ready to be picked up at the high school office.
Office hours are 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thurs-day and 7 a.m. until noon on Friday.
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Published for Richland County and Bob & Gloria RalstonSunday, july 27, 2014 ~ 106th yeaR, no. 60 ~ Sidney, Montana ~ www.SidneyheRald.CoM ~ 75 CentS
Fan perspectives different at baseball tourney
By CHriS BAilEySidney Herald
Open the tap. The water flows. Flush the toilet. Away it goes.
Oh, if only it were that simple. Sidney city officials know delivering clean water from ground to tap and then returning dirty water back to nature is a complex and expensive undertaking.
When projects take years to complete and demand is expanding, anticipating future needs accurately and preparing for them becomes paramount. For example, the city’s decision 15 years or so to purchase land for its future water or waste wasted related needs now looks prescient. Trying to purchase the property at today’s land prices would be more expensive or prohibi-tive altogether.
Also as part of its prepara-tion, the city recently cre-ated a waste water depart-ment separate from its water department and reorganized its personnel.
Greg Anderson, a 35-year city employee, was moved from water supervisor to utilities manager, with responsibility for both de-partments. Kevin Bast now heads the new waste water department, and Jason Elletson took Anderson’s water supervisor position. Jennifer Sult was hired as a water operator and the city is currently seeking one or two more operators.
Why all the changes?
Community spotlight
ellen Wznick | Sidney Herald
Super volunteer Stan lindblom stamps the hand of a man heading to the eastern a district tournament in Sidney wednesday.
local retired chiropractor turns into super volunteerBy SuSAn MiniCHiElloSidney Herald
After retiring in 1994 from a 47 year career as a chiropractor, Sidney resident Stan Lindblom has become a fixture community volunteer.
During basketball season, he volunteers to collect tickets. At the local hospice, he helps care for residents. At the Lutheran Brethren Church, he serves on the church board and as an usher. He volunteers at the MonDak Heritage Center, sitting at the front desk on Saturdays.
“I help out wherever I can,” Lindblom said. “I enjoy being with people and work-ing with people. When I retired, I decided I’m not going to sit down, watch TV, sit on a rocking chair. I like to be in contact with people.”
Through his life, Lindblom loved to serve others. A Montana native from the Plenty-wood area, Lindblom led an adventurous life of travel and service in his earlier years.
He studied in the Quad Cities on the Iowa-Illinois before heading to Chicago to study medicine. He passed his state board in Montana and also has a medical license in North Dakota.
He met his late wife, Lillian, while on a mission through the Christian Chiroprac-tor Association in Bolivia in from 1961-64. They kept in contact after the mission was over and married in 1968. In 1969, the couple spent a year and a half on a mission in cen-tral Mexico, where they served at a mission clinic and school for the blind. It was there that Lindblom learned how to read braille.
Lindblom and Lillian came to Sidney in
1971. The chiropractor in town had just retired, and after conversing with him, Lindblom decided to start a practice.
“Sidney’s been a nice community. I enjoy Sidney,” Lindblom said. “I’ve enjoyed living here, working here.”
Deeply connected to his Christian beliefs, he served as an officer in the Gideons Inter-national organization, handing out bibles and testaments at the Richland County Fair in past years. Lindblom also served on the board of the Sunrise Women’s Clinic for a few years.
His volunteer work at the Sidney Health Center hospice began as soon as he retired 20 years ago. When he first started, Lillian volunteered with him. Lindblom helps the family and aids patients with their medica-tion.
“They’re reaching their final days. Final-ity of life is what it is,” said Lindblom, who admitted he gets attached to the patient and the family. “They’re some real dear people.”
While the Bakken oil boom has its impacts on local workers and employers in Richland County, as a volunteer and resident, Lindb-lom feels the impacts, too.
“A lot of people come, they live in trailers and they have a tough time,” said Lindblom, who shakes his head at the high housing costs in the area.
Despite some of the negative oil impacts in the last few years, Lindblom is still en-joys the Sidney community.
“Most of the people are very open and friendly,” Lindblom said. “They are willing to share with you and make friends. If you need some help, they’re willing to help you out.”
By CHriS BAilEySidney Herald
Fans of the Richland County Patriots Legion baseball team seemed happy they didn’t have to travel to watch their team play for a change. And the players no doubt appreci-ated the bigger crowds watching them play.
But for one set of Patriots parents, the fact that the Eastern A District Legion Tournament was being played in Sidney altered their experience only a little.
“For us, every game’s a road game,” Jeff Anderson said of he and his wife, Wanda. “This trip is just a little shorter than most.”
That’s because they live 84 miles from Sidney in Plenty-
wood. Their son, Payden, who plays with Patriots because Plentywood has no team, lives in Sidney with his sister, Kayla, during the summer. For him, the tourney games are all home games. For his parents, they are home games only because they brought their own home with them.
“We had to bring the camper down,” Jeff Anderson said.Other out-of-town fans seemed to have a great time in
Sidney despite the fact they did have long drives.“I’ve heard no complaints from parents,” Scott Spickard
said of Billings and father of the Billings Cardinals second baseman. “I’ve heard some teams are staying in campers.”
His biggest concern was trying to juggle work require-ments in Billings with the ever-changing schedule created
reorganizing, planning city’s water future
SEE BASEBAll, page 4a SEE WATEr, page 4a
ellen Wznick | Sidney Herald
Fans watch wednesday afternoon’s game during the five-day eastern a legion district tournament in Moose Park in Sidney.