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Garfield County Fire Foundation developed an
Internet-delivered Teen Fire Safety five-course,
mini-curriculum for use in grades 7-12, FFA and
4-H courses.
Make It Happen Montana - Kindness Project
spearheaded the production and assembly of a
project that honors outstanding young people and,
"seeks to make kindness cool again!"
Kindness Project co-founder, Renee Stephens,
based in Lewistown, Montana, shares: "is incred-
ible gift allowed us to make the 2019 Project the
biggest and best ever, featuring MTV Music Video
Award winner,"Supaman."
One of the Foundation's first-year grant recipi-
ents in 2012, "Madison Farm to Fork," in Ennis,
Montana, utilized initial financial planning funds
to, "kickstart," a greenhouse project that evolved
from producing local crops, to ongoing planting
and education projects for the local school district,
notes planner and organizer Erica Evans Mita.
During an interview focused on, "Changemak-
ers." Russ Stoddard, founder and president of
Oliver Russell, a public benefit corporation, asked
Calhoun, "What does corporate social respon-
sibility look like in a rural western community?"
Calhoun's reply: "Just being a good neighbor. at
is all there is to it. Pitch in, listen, work hard, com-
municate honestly, treat your people well."
"I like hosting and bringing people together,
small or large scale, and there is a collective power
in that," Calhoun said in an article in the Missou-
lian, July 2017. "What I am finding is that people
are wanting to be part of something worthwhile."
e late Reidar Johnson, aged 90 during last
year's festival, was one of Calhoun's greatest fans
and supporters, lending his classy, renovated barn/
dance/hall/bar, to Red Ants Pants meetings and
parties over the years. He summed up then, what
seems to be the past and future motto for the work
of the Red Ants Pants Festival and Foundation
with one of his favorite sayings: "It's been a busi-
ness doing pleasure with you!"
CALLOUT: Hard, intense work! Rockin', amazing fun!
9TH ANNUAL RED ANTS PANTS
MUSIC FESTIVAL
JULY 25-28, 2019
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
MONTANA
CONTACT
www.redantspantsmusicfestival.com/tickets
MUSICIAN LINEUP
Patty Griffin
Shakey Graves
Bobby Bare
Colter Wall
Valerie June
Suzy Bogguss
The White Buffalo
…..and more!
ERIK
PETERSEN
The Foundation's Timber Skills workshop in action.
Video about Sarah Calhoun
and the festival
www.distinctlymontana.com/calhoun193
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