Out & About
OUTWRITE
Huckleberry Haiku inspires readers
A bumper crop of huckleberries has inspired readers to take up our challenge and send in some delicious deep purple verse.
Sample some of their best Huckleberry Haiku.
Inside/page T2.
OUTRAGEOUS
Bear feeder fined
A Montana man has been fined $7,100, given a suspended jail term and had his hunting and fishing privileges taken away for life for continually feeding black bears on his property near Rogers Pass in Lewis and Clark County.
Wayne Maclean, 51, was sentenced in Helena on two counts of providing supplemental feed: dog food and grain.
It was the third time Maclean had been cited for feeding bears on his 40-acre property along the Rocky Mountain Front.
In August 2005, Maclean was arrested for “purposely or knowingly feeding bears” (violating a law passed by the 2001 Legislature) and creating a public nuisance.
While authorities were serving a search warrant then, seven black bears came onto Maclean’s property looking for dog food that he had been providing.
OUTMEDIA
Snowboard film tour
“Ready,” a film —indeed a new action flick captured on film, not video — featuring a stable of snowboarders overcoming obstacles with spontaneity and skill, is coming to the Garland Theater on Thursday, starting 8 p.m.
Some of the boarders starring in the film are scheduled to be at the showing.
The $7 tickets are a fundraiser for environmental efforts.
OUTSEE
Elk trophies displayed
If you missed them this spring at the Big Horn Show, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s tour of trophy elk mounts will be on display Friday through Sunday at Cabela’s in Post Falls.
OUTLOOK
Best fishing times
Lunar tables from the U.S. Naval Observatory. Be fishing at least one hour before and one hour after peak times. Applies to all time zones.
(* indicates best days.)
Through Sept. 14
* Today: 7:15 p.m., 7:40 a.m.
* Monday: 8:05 p.m., 8:30 a.m.
* Tuesday: 8:55 p.m., 9:20 a.m.
Wednesday: 9:45 p.m., 10:10 a.m.
Thursday: 10:35 p.m., 10:55 a.m.
Friday: 11:20 p.m., 11:40 a.m.
Saturday: — 12:05 a.m.
Next Sunday: 12:25 p.m. —
Hunting 2008: Special section on hunting seasons coming Thursday.