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1 "Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best. - St. Jerome Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture Newsletter 808 N. Merrill, Ave June, 2018 Events coming up Send your events to us for the community calendar: events@glendivechamber.com June 5th Baby 3:30-6pm June 7th Summer Youth Program Water 9:30am-11:30am Jun 7th DCYP Thirsty Thursday 6-8pm Jun 9-10th Eastern Montana Horse Show Circuit Open Arena Jun 9th Sadie Sampson Jun 8-9th Buzzard Day Jun 9th Sadie Sampson Jun 9th 3rd Annual Outdoor Quilt Room 10am-4pm Jun 10th Evangelical Church 100 year Church 9am Jun 12th JSEC 30th Annual Wood Country Club 12pm June 12th Baby 3:30-6pm Jun 14-16th Miss Montana 7pm each night Jun 14th Makoshika Youth: Backbone 9:30-11:30am Jun 15th Miss Montana 1pm Jun 15-17th Dawson County Fair Spring Opening Thur 5pm Jun 16th Miss Montana Royal 1pm Jun 16th Loren Boese Memorial Bump N 3pm Jun 18-21st DCC Summer Basketball 8am 4:30pm Jun 18-21st VBS Day 9am-2:30pm Jun 21st American Bank Grand Bank 11:30am-1:30pm Jun 21st Makoshika Youth: What s for 9:30am-11:30am Jun 21st Makoshika Movie Night: Journey to the Center of the Earth 9pm-11:45pm Jun 22-23rd Badlands Drifters Car Park Jun 22nd Makoshika Campfire: Astronomy 9pm-10pm Jun 23rd ABATE Poker Jun 23rd Montana Wilderness Association 10am-1pm Jun 25-26th Community Blood Church 12:30pm-5:30pm Jun 27th Makoshika Event: Full Moon 9pm-10pm Jun 28-29th Makoshika Youth: A Grasshopper s 9:30-11:30am Jun 29th Makoshika Campfire: Early Bison Hide Working 7-9pm In This Issue Vacation Bible School JSEC Classic Miss MT ABATE Poker Run Out Here The Gallery in June Stick Horse Rodeo Outdoor Quilt Show Chat with Christine To get an event online send your information to events@glendivechamber.com Want to submit a photo of Glendive for the front page? your name & photo to Chamber@midrivers.com

2 Miss Montana Contestants Prepare to Compete June GLENDIVE - Kristi Cullinan is hoping to be the 69 th Miss Montana as she competes for the first time in the Miss Montana Scholarship program June at the DCHS auditorium in Glendive. Miss Montana receives a $5000 scholarship and the opportunity to represent Montana at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City in September. Thanks to generous sponsors, the Miss America Organization is the nation s leading advocate for women s education and the largest provider of scholarships to young women in the USA. Maddie Murray, Miss Montana 2017 has driven over 32,000 miles this year sharing her message to school children to gift your gifts of service. The 2018 Miss Montana contestants are Toby-Jean Almy of Miles City; Jessica Criss, Bozeman; Kristy Cullinan, Glendive; Justiss Firemoon, Poplar; Laura Haller, Helena; Abigail Helland, Glasgow; Madison Kuehn of Bozeman; Rayna Laakso, Park City; Zion Lutheran, United Methodist, and First Congregational Churches welcome all area youth to Vacation Bible School 2018! Day camp is scheduled for Monday, June 18th - Thursday, June 21st at Zion Lutheran Church, 401 Riverview Ave. For preschoolers (ages 3-5), our camp day will be from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, and K-5th (grade for school year) attend from 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM. Badlands Ministries staff will lead this program for children in preschool (3 years of age) through 5th grade and Savannah Leidholt, Miles City and Julie Theis of Sidney. Competing to be Miss Montana s Outstanding Teen now held by Allie Baisch of Glendive are Taitlyn Berry of Glendive, Cammie Heck,Sidney; Rachel Jakovac of Helena, Sloan Orrell, Belgrade;Eden Paressini, Billings; Kinsey Ross, Bainville and Samantha Young of Glendive. People can vote online at for contestants to become a finalist Saturday night and earn scholarship money. Attend this fabulous production as young women compete in talent, evening gown, swimwear and interview to represent Montana. Tickets for the Miss Montana and Teen program are $15 Thursday, $20 Friday and $25 Saturday, or $50 for the package. Front center tickets are $60 for all three nights, available at the Glendive Chamber or the Farm-to- Table Store. Tickets are also on sale at the door. their friends! Youth who have completed 6th grade and up are invited to serve as Staff in Training. Each day is action-packed with Bible stories, crafts, indoor and outdoor games, songs, and more! It will be a great week for all kids in the community! Thanks to generous local fundraising, a week of Day Camp costs $10.00 per youth and includes a camp T-shirt. You can register at Zion Lutheran Church, Monday Friday 9:00 AM to noon and 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM or call Cami White at Preregistration is appreciated.

3 or in joint ventures with friends like the Glendive Convention Visitors Bureau we make things happen! Congrats to and Glendive Chamber. The best part our Chamber for a great 2017 and best about TBID is that it is funded by adding wishes for a fantastic upcoming year. only $1 per night to area motel room Speaking of great times ahead, this charges. Unlike the bed tax, all of that year the Dawson County Tourism one dollar stays right here! Now since Business Improvement District (TBID) the purpose of the district is to fill more will break the $300,000 mark in total motel rooms through tourism, and since grants since 2011 that assists events or room rents are paying an extra dollar to projects that bring tourism to our area. fund the district you get it now, right? These grants are partnerships the TBID While they are here they STAY, PLAY, has with an event or project committee SHOP, REPEAT. It s a wonderful thing where we agree to help with some of for us all! If you are involved in the their costs as long as it promotes good planning process of a project that will things in the area to the good people we bring leisure or business tourism to seek to bring here. Heads in beds is Dawson County, feel free to contact the term we use as it is by law the TBID at visitglendive@midrivers.com or county s motel industry that is the basis Connie Hilger at to see for TBID. Aside from the grants, TBID how we can help move your project to also funds cool things like billboards, the next level in hopes of showing off advertising, website, promotional our little piece of badlands paradise to materials and maps either on our own the world. Out Here The Gallery in June Friday June 8th-After Five Rewind-featuring June's artist Mary Knapp and Peggy Ames -Nerud. Artistic objects, standing and wall pieces of glass and metal. Monday June 11 the Gallery will host a luncheon for the Miss Montana contestants. Save the date-saturday Sept, 8th, The Gallery will host the annual "Sunset Over the Yellowstone" bridge dinner and auction.

4 Chat with Christine As I write this for the Chatter, I find my mind is overloaded and wandering. How many fish will come in today for paddlefish harvest? Will the anglers arrive to help us fill the quota? Will I have my tourism presentation done in time? Will I get my son back off to college for his summer transmissions program? Lots to think about. What it means for the Chamber is we are busy and moving forward at a very consistent fast pace. We are already seeing travelers and visitors at our Visitor Information Center so the summer is off to a very nice start. If your business has informational flyers or other promotional information you would like at the VIC for visitors please bring them to our office. We do have a great area day trip scenic stops and inspirational places map from SE Montana so bring you visitors to get ideas of what to do and where to explore when they visit this summer. Remember, the web site is a great place to start to find events, places to explore and activities available right here in our community. June is full of activities so plan to take some time and get out and enjoy! June 8-9 th we kick off another great season for Makoshika State Park with Buzzard Days, the Enchanted Room Quilt Show, Kirke Vintage Market and other great ShopGlendive events. The Chamber is pleased to host the Miss Montana Shoe Us Your Shoes parade, Friday, June 15 th at 1 pm. This will be followed by our annual community ice cream social downtown at the Gazebo! Father s Day weekend also showcases the Dawson County Fair Carnival & Outdoor Show along with the first Bump-n-Run Saturday June 16 th. Follow these great events with the Badlands Drifter s Car Show June 22 nd & 23 rd and the Abate Poker Run and you will have an exciting and jam packed June! Remember to get your organizational events into the community calendar by simply logging on the go to the Calendar of Event and take a few minutes to fill out the form. This is free service for all in our community so lets fill that calendar up. As we look beyond June the Chamber is planning for some other exciting events. We will host the first Annual Downtown Rumble 3on3 Basketball ½ court tournament, July th which will also be the Crazy Dayz weekend. Get your registrations in! This tournament is for 4 th grade all the way through oldtimer (over 30) adults. Planning is also in full swing for the BBQ in the Badlands, September 29 th, and this year we are bringing a new event to Glendive with the Badlands Women s Expo. This will be two days of inspiration to foster entrepreneurial spirit and networking opportunities to grow women owned businesses and strengthen professional skills. Judy Blunt, author of Breaking Clean will be our keynote and this promises to be a premier event for our region. If you would like to volunteer to help with any of these exciting events please contact our office at, we d love to plug you in to all we are doing at your chamber. Well, I need to be off to the river soon, so I hope your summer is filled with sunshine, adventure, safe travels and a little bit of time on the porch enjoying friends and neighbors. Remember our Visitor information when you are hosting friends and families. If you stop and fill out an invite postcard we will be happy to mail those to your guests. Thank you all for being Glendive ambassadors with us and let s get out and Live Glendive! Contact Us For more information give us a call or visit us on Facebook Glendive Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture 808 N. Merrill Ave. Glendive, MT chamber@midrivers.com Visit us on the web at Thank you to BOSS for providing the Chamber with color prints! Sincerely, Christine Whitlatch We Welcomed the following new members in March: Gifts In the Wild, LLC Michael D. Meissner, PO Box Next Meeting: Wednesday, June, 13th 8:15 am At the Chamber Visit Glendive is proud to announce the launch of the new website. Visit the new site at: Follow Visit Glendive on Building Connections that keep the community moving forward.

5 Monday July 2nd-deadline to register for summer watercolor classes with Carol Flynn. Two 2 day sessions, 1st one is July and second is July Check the Community Calendar glendivechamber.com/calendarevents/for events coming up. If you have events going on let others know by filling out the event form! glendivechamber.com/event-submission-form/

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9 Guns N Things is again selling sinkers with all of the money going to the Boys & Girls Club. The 5 oz. Sinkers are $.95 each.

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14 WATCH East We would like to extend an open invitation to all who would like a tour of the facility and see the amazing work being done in our community. For those wanting a tour, please call ahead of time and speak to Derek Gibbs, Program Administrator, to schedule a day and time. He can be reached at

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