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Special section: Barack Obama Rally, Missoula, Montana 4/5/08
Tina LaSalle sits atop a 73-foot tall cottonwood tree at 1316 19th avenue that was planted when she was six years old. The high winds blew the tree over Tuesday night, June 28 in Longmont.<br> Muarine Hughes reminisces over old photos and experiences of growing up in the Bitterroot Valley, where her father came on April 28, 1911 to play minor league baseball at the Hamilton City League.<br> Darrel Sperry, and Clark Carpenter, back, practice the art of shocking oats the way Montana's first farmers used to Monday morning south of Corvallis. <br> Eddy Muechel stands in front of his fridge in his apartment looking for something to drink. Eddy is a well-known and loved icon around Hamilton, Montana. Although his speech is mostly incomprehensible, he is always talking, and the community always seems to understand him. (Part of a larger photo story called Everybody Loves Eddy)<br> Eddy looks at used books in Chapter One Book Store in Hamilton. He often frequents the downtown bookstore. <br> Sarah Harmsworth spells out a word on her sleeve at the Ravalli County Spelling Bee Wednesday night. Harmsworth won the bee with the word 'bayou' and will represent Ravalli County along with Jebediah Rosen at the state competition in Butte at the end of the month.<br> Clem Greenup looks at his large collection of axes and hatchetts that hang on his garage wall. He also has buckets of ax handles and heads waiting to be put back together. Greenup has been collecting hatchetts and axes for many years.<br> Participants in the Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge enjoy the festivities on Jan 1, 2008 after plunging into the icy waters.<br> Robert May takes off the top of his Smart car in order to make it a convertible. Smart cars are made by Mercedes-Benz and Swatch, and come in both coupe and cabriolet models. The Mays own the only Smart car in Ravalli County.<br> Hutterites at the Mountain View Colony pull weeds from the sweet peas in their garden on Friday, June 30. The colony is growing all kinds of crops from cucumbers to lettuce to sweet corn to be sold at the first farmer's market on July 15.<br> Florence and Clyde Trollope hold pictures of themselves some 52 years ago that they sent to eachother while separated after meeting in Casablanca, Morroco when Clyde was a sergeant during World War II. <br> Matt Watrous, 17, welds a section of a frame Monday that will become one of three cars students are building in A.J. Dahlberg's Transportation Technology class at Darby High School. The students will take the cars to race in the Electrathon America Competition in Portland.<br> Montana Highway Patrol Sgt. Pete Richarson investigates the scene of a crash at the intersection of Bear Creek and Meridian Road near Victor on Thursday afternoon. <br> Millie Hughes and Mildred Singleton share a laugh during a lunch gathering at a friend's house Tuesday afternoon. This is the second year seven 89-year-old friends get together for lunch, and an event that only occurs once a year. <br> Lending a helping hand, Jeff Olson shovels a neighbor's walkway on S. 3rd Street in Hamilton Thursday morning. Olson shoveled most of the block between Desta and Baker Streets. "We all kind of take care of each other [on this block]," Olson says. "I just looked out and decided I needed to shovel and saw that no on else had gotten to it yet."<br> Children at a basketball camp on the Crow Reservation participate in an activity where the group boxes out two people who are trying to get the basketball, located within the circle.<br> Lori Yearian of Huls Dairy Farm monitors the milking of the cows. The cows rotate on a circular platform with individual machines monitoring the amount of milk produced. <br> Bill Fluke and one of his employees, T.J. Jensen, work on extracting the last round of honey from the hives on a sunny mid-September morning.<br> A member of the Trapper Creek Job Corps takes a break from picking apples at Mountain View Orchards in Corvallis, Montana<br> Brittany Meyer, 18 and Kenny Henry, 16, take a break in between sessions at summer school at Longmont High School on Thursday, July 14.<br> Mac McQuaid and his neighbor's kid, Arthur, leave the greenhouse, where they are currently growing lots of starter plants that will be transplanted to the gardens soon at the Corvallis Conservation Farm.<br> Mac McQuaid takes a phone call while Arthur and Mark play on the stairs inside the intern housing at the Corvallis Conservation Farm, a farm that is nearly self-reliant.<br> While shopping for imaginary dots, Hamilton High drama students take part in a mime workshop put on by Bill Bowers, a professional mime from New York.<br> Jeff Burrows debones an elk and prepares it to be cut into different cuts of meat at Hamilton Packing Co. during hunting season in November.<br> Participants in the Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge enjoy the festivities on Jan 1, 2008 after plunging into the icy waters.<br> Judy Bethke stands in what was formerly her kitchen and looks at all belongings leftover when her house caught fire last Wendensday after a lamp shorted out on her back porch. She and her husband Floyd are antique collectors and lost nearly all their belongings.<br> Buck Yockey and Susan Kidd take a break during the workday in Helena, Montana. Buck works two jobs and Susan works more than 40 hours a week to be able to take care of their four boys. Neither of them make a living wage according to Montana state standards. (Part of a Master's Thesis looking at the Lack of living wage jobs in Montana).<br> Soft Voices art group volunteer Margaret Hartsook installs an exhibit called "Putting Our Best Feet Forward" at Javastop in Longmont, Colorado on Wednesday, June 1. The show exhibits shoes decorated by those coping with mental illness, and will be on display through Friday, June 10.<br> Steve Davidson circles lower to get a better view of a large herd of elk recently during spring elk surveying with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.<br> Porter Medlar and Jack Couch, both 7, spend Wednesday afternoon looking for bugs during the Keystone to Discovery afterschool program. However, the weather proved to be a bit too chilly for bugs to be out.<br> David Lusk, a volunteer from Hellgate High School, holds a piece up for auction at the Missoula Art Museum annual art auction in April.<br> Ex-Vietnam combat pilot Milt Harshbarger of Conner Aviation Inc., transports douglas fir logs from various areas in the Middle East Fork to a common landing area. The helicopter logging project is said to be a near zero-impact form of logging, eliminating the need to build roads into the forest, according to Conner.<br> Apples are transfered into buckets to be pressed for cider during Apple Day Saturday in Hamilton. <br> Mustangs player Chris Valaika throws the ball back to first base after tagging out Raptors player Michael Rivera at Cobb Field on Sunday, August 20, 2006 in Billings, Montana.<br> Advertising work for Posh Chocolat, Missoula, Montana<br> Advertising work for Posh Chocolat, Missoula, Montana<br> Advertising work for Red Oxx adventure travel gear<br> Advertising work for Red Oxx adventure travel gear<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Providing a hand of comfort, Buster holds his wife Doris' hand while she gets her catheter changed by a Hospice nurse. Hospice nurses typically come to visit Buster and Doris about once a week.<br> Unable to do much work in the yard anymore because of the constant care Doris needs, Buster still must collect wood to heat their home. Their home was built solely by volunteers after the trailer they were living in burned down. "I've got enough wood for the next few days now," Buster says.<br> Buster prepares chicken noodle soup with his oldest daughter, Patricia Burk. Patricia lives in Stevensville and comes to visit her parents once a week. "It's hard to leave them becauase they're so vulnerable," Patricia says.<br> Buster enjoys his dinner while Patricia feeds Doris in the other room. When Patricia is not there the other six days of the week, Buster feeds Doris himself.<br> Buster helps the Hospice nurse change Doris' adult diaper. She is unable to get up to use the bathroom, so must be changed mutiple times a day.<br> Buster relaxes one evening while his wife sleeps in the background. Buster usually stays up late watching The Tonight Show and David Letterman.<br> Buster Glass, 89, loves hunting, traveling, music, and cares extensively for his 84-year-old, bed-bound wife. Buster stays young and active by taking ginko boloba, an herbal supplement for circulation and memory. He is only on one medication, a blood thinner for potential blood clots.<br>
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