Friday, June 20, 2025 - Speaker Judge Dan Wilson, Candidate for 2026 Candidate for Montana Supreme Court

Dan has been a Flathead County state district court judge since 2017. He is again running for Supreme Court in a non-partisan race in 2026. He pledges to respect the Constitution and rule of law and not to legislate from the bench. Check out Dan's campaign page on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/WilsonforJustice/.

Friday, June 13, 2025 - Speaker - Joel Baird, General Manager at Missoula Community Access TV

Joel will discuss how MCAT provides free equipment, training, studio use, cameras, and distribution help to individuals and organizations in Missoula who want to create media shows and clips. Find out about Missoula Community Access TV at https://mcat.org.

Friday, June 6, 2025 - Speaker - Christel Palmer, Air Traffic Control Manager

Christel Terrell has been the Air Traffic Control Manager at the Missoula Montana Airport since 2022. She will tell us how all the air traffic control facilities at the airport operate to maintain safety, and efficient flow of air traffic. It will be great to get an insider's view of the air traffic control system, upcoming changes, and past practices. If you are interested in what is happening specifically at the Missoula airport, check out their website. 

Friday, May 30, 2025 - Speaker - Brandi Atanasoff, candidate for Mayor of Missoula

Brandi, a candidate for the mayor of the City of Missoula will talk about her ideas on running the city, including taxes, homelessness, and affordability and answer questions about why she is running and the expertise and experience she could bring to the office. Find out more about Brandi on her website brandiatanasoff.com.

By the way, you can keep tabs on all the Missoula municipal candidates running in 2025 on the elections office candidate filing (which closes June 11) website for judges, city council and mayor at here (click on the tabs at the bottom to see the different races). Municipal elections are mail in only and non-partisan, the primary is September 9 and the general is November 4.

Friday, May 23, 2025 - NO MEETING - Enjoy your Memorial Day Weekend

Here are some of the outstanding services on Memorial Day around Missoula, curtesy of Susan Campbell Reneau.

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99^th Annual MEMORIAL DAY WREATH CEREMONIES

MONDAY, MAY 26, 2025

FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - PLEASE COME!

7 a.m. – Western Montana State Veterans Cemetery, Military flag poles. Sunrise Service. One wreath presented at base of flag display with potted plant. Playing of Taps. Schedule for day given to public.  No shooting.  Just flags and honor and color guard standing at attention, if available.  Playing of Taps at the end of service.

9:30 a.m. – VFW Post 209 Headquarters, 245 W. Main Street, Missoula. Opening prayer and send-off to American Legion Post 27 Color Guard and VFW Post 209 Honor Guard as they begin the day of wreath presentations around Missoula. Schedule for day given to public.

10 a.m. – Van Buren Street Bridge between Eastgate Shopping Center and Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce building.  Tossing of patriotic wreath into Clark Fork River by Navy representative. Full military honors. Playing of Taps. Schedule for day given to public.

10:30 a.m. – Missoula County Courthouse on front lawn beside World War I Doughboy Statue (3). Retirement of American flag. Short procession and wreath presentation at Doughboy Statue. Full military honors. Playing of Taps. Schedule for day given to public.

11:15 a.m. – Fort Missoula Old Post Military Cemetery, Ole Beck Grave, World War I. Presentation of wreath. Full military honors. Playing of Taps. Schedule for day given to public.

11:30 to 12:30 p.m. – Western Montana State Veterans Cemetery, Wreath presentations at each military flag and American Legion rock. Full military honors. Playing of Taps. Service starts at Noon. Historic World War II plane Miss Montana will do a triple flyover at noonish.

1 p.m. – Sunset Memorial Gardens, Veteran’s Monument.  Flag dedication and wreath ceremony about 1:45 p.m.. Full military honors. Playing of Taps.  LUNCH WILL BE SERVED HERE.

2:15 p.m. - Missoula City Cemetery, Veteran’s Monument. Wreath presentation. Full military honors. Playing of Taps.

2:30 p.m. - St. Mary’s Annex Cemetery, Jesus Statue. Presentation of wreaths. Full military honors. Playing of Taps.

3 p.m. - St. Mary’s Cemetery, Veteran’s Monument. Wreath presentation. Full military honors. Playing of Taps.

3:15 p.m. – Rose Memorial Garden Park, Full military honors and playing of TAPS at start of wreath presentations. Audience with leader goes to EVERY monument (18) in park. Takes about 15 minutes. Start at Vietnam Memorial and end at Vietnam Memorial.

4 p.m. – Iraq-Afghanistan War Memorial, University of Montana. Wreath presentations. Full military honors.  Playing of Taps.

Special thanks to American Legion Post 27 Color Guard, VFW Post 209 Honor Guard, Missoula Civil Air Patrol. Wreaths made by the American Legion Post 68 Auxiliary. Beach Transportation provides a charter bus, driver, and fuel to take the honor and color guards to cemeteries and parks. Benson’s Farm provides baskets of red, white. and blue flowers. Staples for the patriotic flyer paper. To receive this schedule, email us at bluemountain@montana.com.