Tammie Reynolds has gone to Nez Perce, Idaho, to be with her daughter who is expecting a child in the next few days.

While she is gone, Darrel is home babysitting the Emus. They are really growing and love to play in the swimming pool bought for them.

Connie Zeller, librarian at the school, reports that the library will be open from noon-4 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays throughout August. She says “hi” to everone.

Some of you folks out there are going off on their final vacation before school starts, so Connie suggests that you take the audio cassette of Nocolas Evans’ new book, “The Loop,” along with you. I listened to it on my recent trip to Portland and Evansdoes a fantastic job of blending the struggle of man and wolf sharing the same land into a well-rounded story of suspense and life in the Big Sky country. Connie said she almost quit the story after the first couple of chapters because it sounded like it was going to be about wolves and bad ranchers. However, “The Loop” turns in to a great adventure story of a band of wolves that attack the livestock of the fictional town of Hope, Mont.k, and later it comes to a head in an suspenseful, explosive ending.

The only problem she found is with the author’s antagonist rancher, Buck, who is stylized after many of Larry McMurty characters, which is not bad in my eyes. Nicholas Evans storytelling has really blossomed since “The Horse Whisperer” and I can’t wait for the next book.

Darlene Moore from Lewiston was a visitor at her sister-in-law’s, Lila Moore, and Bonnie Pierce’s Satruday. She is the wife of Marlin Moore who is farming Orvis Moore’s place (the Moore brothers).

Mary Louise Carlsen is having her Bible study every Wednesday at 10 a.m. Come and join us.