January 12, 2023 with Alzheimer's Association & Ukraine with Valeria Hellerman
NOTE: Next week's Hometown Helena on January 19th, will be at Shodair for a tour of their new facility on Colonial Drive.
Hometown Helena -- Thursday, January 12, 7 a.m. @ The Montana Club & Live via ZOOM hosted by AZ Technology Services:
- Alzheimer's Association -- Montana Chapter (alz.org)
- Ukraine with Valeria Hellerman -- Hands on global - Helena, MT - Alignable
- View recording here:
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Message from out host Jim Smith:
January 10, 2023
Greetings Everyone,
Hope you had a chance to look over the courses being offered at Helena College for the coming semester. The complete list of courses, instructors, dates and tuition was published in the IR yesterday. It’s quite a diverse list. Helena College is offering a wide range of subjects this coming semester, all taught by talented instructors. Something new and challenging to sink your mental teeth into helps the winter to pass; and when spring finally comes you will have learned something too.
The IR also reported on another successful legislative sausage-making afternoon last Sunday in Clancy, courtesy of Jon Bennion and the folks at the Old Salt Coop, who supplied the beef and pork for the event. I was pleased to see Jon defend both processes: making laws and making sausage. One of my first jobs in high school was at a butcher shop, so I have made—and seen made—a lot of sausage. Since then I’ve spent a bit of time here in Helena seeing laws being made, sometimes even having had a hand in the process myself. It was that nasty old Otto von Bismarck who said people should not be exposed to the making of either laws or sausage. That was back in the day of ‘Realpolitik’ in Europe. We’ve come a ways since then in some ways especially here in Montana, where you can still get good homemade sausage; and where the legislative process is quite transparent. It certainly looked like a good time was had by all at the sausage making party. Many thanks to Jon Bennion, and to the IR for their coverage of the event.
Not only is the process fairly transparent, but particularly during legislative sessions the Capitol lives up to its moniker: "The People’s House.” Especially in the Rotunda. Now that the session is underway, hardly a day goes by that there is not an event in the Rotunda. Yesterday was Recycling Day in the Rotunda. 406 Recycling (Matt Elsaesser and Haley McKnight) was on hand, along with representatives of the industry from all over the state. Educational displays surrounded the circumference of the Rotunda. Legislators and others were treated to a nice luncheon. Remarks from recycling leaders were extended to the lawmakers. Something like that will be going on darn near every day in the Rotunda. A highlight for me was always the Montana Outfitter and Guides Association’s biennial wild game luncheon. But then again, the Stockgrowers usually have beef, and the Woolgrowers feature lamb at their luncheon every two years. So, it’s all good, as the young people say. The Red Cross will probably have a blood drive in the Rotunda one of these legislative days. On another the home school parents will put up their banners, set up their tables and seek out the legislators. On yet another there will most likely be a rally for Public Lands. As spring comes schools from around the state take field trips to the session. The students usually bring a sack lunch, and they use the Rotunda as their headquarters and dining hall during their visit. There’s something for everyone in the Rotunda during the session!
Likewise, there’s something for everyone at Hometown Helena every Thursday morning. This week is no exception (see below). We will go from learning something about a single human organ (the brain and Alzheimer’s disease) to learning about something that, sadly, has the attention of the entire world (the war in Ukraine). Please plan to join Hometown Helena in person on the 6th floor of the Montana Club, or remotely via the zoom, this Thursday from 7-8 am.
Jim Smith
Jim(at)HometownHelena(dot)news
Greetings Everyone,
Hope you had a chance to look over the courses being offered at Helena College for the coming semester. The complete list of courses, instructors, dates and tuition was published in the IR yesterday. It’s quite a diverse list. Helena College is offering a wide range of subjects this coming semester, all taught by talented instructors. Something new and challenging to sink your mental teeth into helps the winter to pass; and when spring finally comes you will have learned something too.
The IR also reported on another successful legislative sausage-making afternoon last Sunday in Clancy, courtesy of Jon Bennion and the folks at the Old Salt Coop, who supplied the beef and pork for the event. I was pleased to see Jon defend both processes: making laws and making sausage. One of my first jobs in high school was at a butcher shop, so I have made—and seen made—a lot of sausage. Since then I’ve spent a bit of time here in Helena seeing laws being made, sometimes even having had a hand in the process myself. It was that nasty old Otto von Bismarck who said people should not be exposed to the making of either laws or sausage. That was back in the day of ‘Realpolitik’ in Europe. We’ve come a ways since then in some ways especially here in Montana, where you can still get good homemade sausage; and where the legislative process is quite transparent. It certainly looked like a good time was had by all at the sausage making party. Many thanks to Jon Bennion, and to the IR for their coverage of the event.
Not only is the process fairly transparent, but particularly during legislative sessions the Capitol lives up to its moniker: "The People’s House.” Especially in the Rotunda. Now that the session is underway, hardly a day goes by that there is not an event in the Rotunda. Yesterday was Recycling Day in the Rotunda. 406 Recycling (Matt Elsaesser and Haley McKnight) was on hand, along with representatives of the industry from all over the state. Educational displays surrounded the circumference of the Rotunda. Legislators and others were treated to a nice luncheon. Remarks from recycling leaders were extended to the lawmakers. Something like that will be going on darn near every day in the Rotunda. A highlight for me was always the Montana Outfitter and Guides Association’s biennial wild game luncheon. But then again, the Stockgrowers usually have beef, and the Woolgrowers feature lamb at their luncheon every two years. So, it’s all good, as the young people say. The Red Cross will probably have a blood drive in the Rotunda one of these legislative days. On another the home school parents will put up their banners, set up their tables and seek out the legislators. On yet another there will most likely be a rally for Public Lands. As spring comes schools from around the state take field trips to the session. The students usually bring a sack lunch, and they use the Rotunda as their headquarters and dining hall during their visit. There’s something for everyone in the Rotunda during the session!
Likewise, there’s something for everyone at Hometown Helena every Thursday morning. This week is no exception (see below). We will go from learning something about a single human organ (the brain and Alzheimer’s disease) to learning about something that, sadly, has the attention of the entire world (the war in Ukraine). Please plan to join Hometown Helena in person on the 6th floor of the Montana Club, or remotely via the zoom, this Thursday from 7-8 am.
Jim Smith
Jim(at)HometownHelena(dot)news
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- Jan 19: Tour of Shodair (at their facility)
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Sincerely,
