Community Notes
The article, “6-year-old St. Regis girl fighting leukemia” in the January 11 issue listed Rosemary Simkins as the contact for donation items. This was incorrect, Stacey O’Neil and Taunya Erikson are coordinating the spaghetti feed and auction to be held on February 25. If you have items to donate, contact Taunya at (406) 207-5242.
County Chamber
Mineral County Chamber of Commerce will hold their monthly meeting on Jan. 19 at 6 p.m. in their new location at 180 River Street.
Coat drive
Superior’s National Honor Society is collecting unused winter coats until Jan. 30th. Bring gently used coats to the high school for children in need.
DUI Task Force
A Mineral County DUI Task Force Quarterly Meeting will be held on January 19, 2017 at 4:00 pm in the Mineral County Commissioner’s Meeting Room.
Basketball
Varsity St. Regis plays Clark Fork Mountain Cats on Jan. 19 starting at 2:30 p.m. in St. Regis
Varsity Clark Fork plays Clark Fork Idaho in Alberton on Jan. 21. They will play Thompson Falls in Alberton on Jan. 26 starting at 5:30 p.m.
Ski Report
Lookout Ski Area located on Lookout Pass on I-90 is 100 percent open and reporting 103 inches at the base and 121 inches at the summit. Snow Bowl Ski area located near Missoula, reports 34 inches at the base and 49 inches at the summit.
Weather
Weather reports indicate a mixture of snow and rain and temperatures reaching the mid-thirties on Wednesday, Jan. 18. The rest of the week will be in the mid-twenties to low-thirties with a high chance of snow on most days.
What’s in the sky tonight?
According to the Earth and Sky website, two of the five bright planets rise to great prominence in January 2017 sky. Venus rules over the evening sky while Jupiter rules the morning. Venus, the brightest planet, blazes in the west first thing at dusk, and reached its greatest elongation as the “evening star” on January 12.
Jupiter, the second-brightest planet, lords over the eastern half of sky between midnight and sunrise. Mars is near Venus in the evening sky, but it’s higher up and much fainter than Venus, setting in the west shortly after Venus does. Meanwhile, Saturn appears in the southeastern sky before dawn. Mercury a short hop beneath Saturn, just as darkness is giving way to morning twilight.