Community

Welcome to Bozeman, Mont., where the mountain men cook like
Wolfgang Puck and a lemon zester is as essential as a Buck knife.

The toolkit offers ideas for creating connections, encouraging dialogue, celebrating different cultures, involving youth and the media, and focusing on city employees and policies.

"Here you get to pick your family instead of being born into it," said Peggy Northup-Dawson, 79, a retired family therapist and mother of six who is legally blind. "We recognized that when you’re physically closer to each other, you pay more attention, look in on each other. The idea was to share care."

“There are a lot of kids who are angry in this community,” he said, and “Touching Spirit Bear” is one way to reach them.

Is this civic and community quality threatened by our success? If we want to preserve the special qualities that foster civic culture and vitality, we should be wary of community development schemes that neglect the emergent underclass in rural communities. As part of the new “code of the West”, we should be careful not to generate false expectations of success. To fail to do so will make the Gallatin Valley a poorer place in which to live.

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The Center does a wide range of work in the state and in the region – exploring our history, current challenges, and emerging opportunities.

Free tax help on Tuesdays beginning Feb. 7, 2005 for MSU students and individuals who made less than $35,000 last year, according to Anne Christensen, professor of accounting at MSU.

In the same vein as Western writer Zane Grey, who apparently first chronicled the Code of the West during the westward expansion of the United States, our code emphasizes self reliance. Example: 5.11 The trailing of livestock herds on roadways is an economic necessity and tradition. Slow down immediately whenever you encounter a cattle drive.

If you look at fresh water around the world today, something like 70 percent of the world’s fresh water supplies are already being fully utilized. And don’t be happy that 30 percent remains unutilized, because that 30 percent is in places like far northern Canada, Iceland and Northwest Australia. It’s unutilized for good reasons.