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Bulletin BoardAll-nighter
The annual SnowSlam All-nighter is set for Sunday (today). The night is full of activity and is open to all sixth through 12th graders at a cost of $30.
Several area churches have information regarding this event. If your church does not or you do not have a church, please contact Sidney Assembly of God at 433-2550 or stop by and pick up the permission form and make payment at 414 E. Main. A drastic change for this year is that there will be an extra $5 charged for purchasing tickets at the door or the day of the event.
Coats availableSidney Kiwanis coat drive
project is underway. The coat drive was started to as-sist the children of Sidney who may be in need of warm clothing this winter. If you would like to make a donation or are in need of winter clothing, please stop at the Edward Jones – Nick Lonski office, 611A S. Cen-tral Ave., Sidney.
New Year’s EveEastern Montana Bible
Camp is excited to announce “New Year, New Night”, a New Year’s Eve party for students in seventh to 12th grade. The event will feature team games, activities, a “Minion Movie Marathon” and prizes – including BluRay and MP3 players, a “Nextbook” tablet, gift cards and free weeks at camp. The night kicks off at 9 p.m. at the Lambert school gym and wraps up at 8 a.m. the next morning.
The night will start at the school and finish across the street at the Lambert Alli-ance Church.
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BY LouISA ProvENzASidney Herald
Community profiles just got a little more detailed with the release of the new Census Explorer.
Right down to fertility rates, age of homes and number of rooms and incomes, the U.S. Census Bureau’s interactive mapping tool unveiled last week really does paint a picture of Montana’s culture.
The detailed reports collected over five years (2008-2012) are under the American Community Survey, which aren’t just creating a portrait of the state but of the communities themselves, including Sidney.
“It’s the one product that nation-ally is available at the smallest geographic level on all kinds of topics,” said Mary Craigle, bureau chief for the Montana Department of Commerce Census and Economic Information Center.
Some of the information gets quite detailed. There are 14,163 grandparents living with grandchil-dren under 18 in Montana and half of them are legally responsible for them. Most of these grandparents have had them for at least five years. Did you know that 13,037 women between 15 and 50 have given birth
in the past year? And 4,211 of them were unmarried.
Or how about the fact that of the 481,401 housing units in Montana, the majority, 89,982, were built in the 1970s. And most homes, 96,277, have five bedrooms. Another major-ity, 64,173 homes, were valued in the $200,000 range.
But that’s on the statewide level. It gets more specific when you take a look at individual communities. So let’s look at Sidney.
There are 792 renters, and of those 306 pay between $500 and $750 in rent, the majority. That’s followed by 197 who pay between $300 and $500 and another 140 renters who pay between $750 and $1,000.
And when it comes to income, it looks like most households are do-ing reasonably well. Many house-hold incomes, 573, fall between $50,000 and $75,000. The second high-est group, 320, falls in the $75,000 to $100,000 category. Interestingly enough, though, the third highest group, 302 households, earn just $15,000 to $25,000.
The data presents some fascinat-ing statistics on what the com-munity looks like and is likely to offer guidance when developing cities economically. “If I’m trying
to figure out where neighborhoods are and where they’re growing, this is the kind of data that will be most useful to the communities,” Craigle said.
The Department of Commerce also uses the data in determining which areas qualify for state and federal grants in terms of poverty rates, as well as evaluating popula-tion data for businesses to deter-mine which types will do best in certain areas.
“We use it in a million different ways,” Craigle said.
The American Community Survey
is the first of its kind, and econo-mists seem to like it since this cen-sus explorer is put out every year; the public doesn’t have to wait every decade for another snapshot of com-munity profiles. “Now we have new information every year,” she said.
Find more information at www.census.gov/censusexplorer. Find and compare statistics between Richland County and the state.
“The American Community Survey provides a wide range of important statistics about our com-munity,” Craigle said.
New census tool diagrams nation down to cities
BY BILL vANDEr WEELESidney Herald
There are many holiday wishes — some are better than others.
But the wish or decision that Sidney eighth-grade student Kaelyn Volk made last holiday season was an extremely good one. She told her parents, Ken and Teresa, that instead of giv-ing Christmas presents she wanted to save her money and donate the funds to a charity instead.
Kaelyn’s cousin Madison Hammer, daughter of Ron and Tracie, decided to join in the cause. The charity decided on was the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospi-tal.
“It’s a kids charity,” Kae-lyn noted.
The two girls saved all
their money throughout the year. Kaelyn’s money came from babysitting, good grades, allowances and birthdays. Madison, a seventh-grade student, saved the funds from al-lowances, good grades and birthdays. Then, the parents announced that they were going to match their daugh-ters’ donations.
The result was $3,000 going to the St. Jude Chil-dren’s Research Hospital.
The girls said they were pleased to receive a thank you e-card sent to them from the research hospital.
Kaelyn and Madison said saving their money to give to a charity is something that will consider to do again in the future.
local girls save money all yearto donate to St. Jude hospital
holiday gift
Bill Vander Weele | Sidney Herald
Kaelyn Volk, left, and Madison hammer donated $3,000 to the St. Jude Children’s Research hospital.
Bill Vander Weele | Sidney Herald
Dessert timetorri hanson, left, and erin Fitzgerald enjoy their pie at the Community Christmas dinner held by the Knights of Columbus wednesday.
BY BILL vANDEr WEELESidney Herald
The man who allegedly fired gunshots in downtown Sidney during the early morning hours of Dec. 2 is facing two felony charges in District Court.
Russell Bruce Pottenger, 23, Sidney, is facing the felony counts of assault with a weapon and criminal endangerment.
The charge of assault with a weapon is for purposely or knowingly causing reason-able apprehension of bodily injury to Nolan Gibson by shooting a .45 handgun in Gibson’s direction. The criminal endangerment charge is for firing a .45 handgun several times from his vehicle on the 100 block of Second Avenue N.E.
If found guilty of assault with a weapon, the penalty is a sentence not to exceed 20 years in the state prison or a fine of not more than $50,000 or both. The penalties for criminal endangerment is a sentence not to exceed 10 years in the state prison, a fine not to exceed $50,000 or both.
According to court re-cords, police were called at 12:17 a.m. Dec. 2 regarding a report of a male firing numerous shots in the area of the 100 block of East Main. Upon arrival, police were told that the suspect had left and headed north in a 1990’s model of a blue over blue Suburban. The officers fanned out to secure the area.
An officer then returned to the Cattle-ac and met with four individuals. One of them reported that the male suspect had bought her and her brother a shot of alcohol after winning at the casino. The suspect then offended the woman by touching the collar of her shirt many times. Her brother then
Man facesfelony chargesafter shootingoff handgun
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