Zumba: Noon-1pm on Wednesdays

Free Walking: Mon-Fri, 8:30am-10am, noon-1pm

Parent/Tot Time: Mon-Fri, 10am-noon

Roller Skating: Fridays from 6:30pm-9pm, no entrance into the gym until 6:20pm

Basketball Open Gym: Wednesdays, 6:30pm-7:30pm

Adult Indoor Soccer: Sundays, 7pm-9pm

And don’t forget that the Civic Center is available to rent for private events on days and times when it is not already booked. For more info contact Robyn at 222-8155.

Stafford Animal Shelter is pleased to work with local schools and youth groups to promote humane animal care and awareness. Young people are often our best – and certainly future – amabasadors and philanthropists. To celebrate Stafford Animal Shelter’s ”Furry Valentine” event where all adult cat adoption fees are $14 thoughout February, students at Arrowhead and Pine Creek Schools have selected favorite ‘Furry Feline Valentines’ to honor with hand made cards extolling their virtues as the purrfect valentine. Won’t you honor their work by considering adopting one of these Furry Valentines yourself?

Norris author and Raven Publishing owner Janet Muirhead Hill will read from her Miranda and Starlight series of books for young adults at Elk River Books, 115 E. Callender St., on Saturday, February 25 at 2 p.m. The six-book series tells the story of a spirited young woman and her equally plucky horse, as Miranda navigates first the disintegration of her family, then the trials of adolescence.
Miranda and Starlight was named a Notable Book by Writers Notes magazine, and is used in classrooms to help kids learn good decision-making skills. Hill has written a stand-alone novel, Danny’s Dragon, about a young boy’s grief after losing his father to the Iraq War, and two books of a planned trilogy, Kyleah’s Tree and the recently released Kendall’s Storm, about twins who were separated at age 4 by their parents’ divorce.
The reading is free and open to the public.

Elk River Books is pleased to host poets Ilona Popper and Cody Standish in the first of an ongoing series of events intended to highlight the work of local writers.

Ilona Popper, of Gardiner, is the author of the poetry book Break (The Bunny and the Crocodile Press, 2002). Her poems have appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, Beltway online magazine, The Antietam Review, and other journals and anthologies. Ilona has performed her poetry in theaters, bookstores, and on the radio show “The Poet and the Poem.”

Livingston’s Cody Standish started writing poetry at a young age, after a series of family tragedies. “I lived a lot of life as a little kid,” she says. Her first poem was published at age 8, and she’s been composing ever since, citing her favorites as Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Sexton and Robert Service among others. She grew up in Livingston, and spent time hitchhiking the country in lieu of a more formal education.

Standish and Popper will read from their work and discuss their craft at Elk River Books on Wednesday, February 8, at 7 p.m. A reception and signing will follow the event, which is free and open to the public.

This Friday, January 27th

At The Office Lounge

6-9PM

to Benefit the VFW “Bring the Cannon Home” Fundraiser

Purchase a Red Solo Cup for $5 Entitling you to Complimentary Bud Light Beer.

Plus Other Drink Specials will be Offered.

Proceeds from Cup Sales to Benefit the VFW Project.

Share this Valentine’s day with your loved ones, friends and family by ordering them a Balloon-O-Gram, hand-delivered by the Elementary class at Montessori Island School.  Last year, the MIS elementary students hand-delivered over 250 balloons, selling-out their entire inventory of candy, balloons and personalized messages. The MIS elementary program is charging $5.00 per order (same as last year) and accepting orders from now up until Friday, February 10th. Don't miss out on this fun opportunity to support Montessori Island School and do something extra special for the important people in your life! Proceeds from this event will be used for the Elementary program materials and science field-trips.  For any questions, please contact the Elementary Director, Ms Kelley Myer at 222-8808.

Montessori Island School is a local Livingston school offering Montessori programs for infants, toddlers, Preschool, Kindergarten, and Elementary (1st through 5th grades). In the Elementary Program students continue with their Montessori based education while also being introduced to the type of work they will be expected to do once they transition to public school. The low student to teacher ratio allows for extremely individualized learning with lots of teaching done through hands-on projects and field trips. For more information about the school please visit their website at www.montessoriisland.com

Award-winning journalist Scott McMillion will read from the new edition of his enormously popular bear book, Mark of the Grizzly, at Elk River Books on Friday, January 20th, at 7 p.m.

Mark of the Grizzly focuses on the nightmarish scenarios that can unfold when bears attack. A regional bestseller when it was first released in 1998, the latest edition includes new chapters on more recent tragedies (including the deaths at Kitty Creek and Soda Butte near Yellowstone in 2010), delves further into the science of bear biology, and continues McMillion’s examination into the ways people and grizzlies can walk away from such encounters unscathed,

McMillion is a Livingston native, known best locally for his years reporting at the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, but he’s lived and traveled around the world. His work has been featured on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and appears regularly in the Nature Conservancy magazine. He currently edits the Montana Quarterly.

We are thrilled to welcome him, and to invite the public to this free event. A reception and book signing will follow the presentation.

For more information call the Livingston Center for Art and Culture at 406-222-5222. Check out the event poster to see participating artists and learn about the bronze sculpture auction also taking place that evening.

It’s a thin line between cozy and overcrowded and Stafford Animal Shelter has crossed it: cats are piled in the hallways and atop each other. Won’t you consider making a Christmas Miracle come true by adopting a cat? Stafford Animal Shelter’s deepest holiday hope is homes for 25 cats by the 25th. Adopting a cat really is Karma you can cuddle! Unwrap the surprise gift waiting for you at the Shelter: at least 50% and up to 100% off feline adoptions. There are over fifty purrfect felines to choose from and if half found homes, it would at least give the rest some wiggle around room. So let’s get together as a community and make miracles happen! Happiest of Holidays to you from all your two and four legged friends at Stafford Animal Shelter.