{"id":6225,"date":"2015-04-17T18:11:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T00:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=6225"},"modified":"2015-04-18T23:10:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T05:10:12","slug":"sales-dances-flea-market-raise-money-for-hysham-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2015\/04\/sales-dances-flea-market-raise-money-for-hysham-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales, dances, flea market raise money for Hysham pool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t<div id=\"slides-6225\" class=\"navis-slideshow\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"slide-nav\">\n\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"prev\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"next\"><\/a>\n\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"slides_container\"><div id=\"6225-slide1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hysham7-1-of-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hysham7-1-of-1-771x514.jpg\" \/><\/a><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>All proceeds from sales at the Junque Store in Hysham are going toward the town's new pool.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"6225-slide2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hysham4-1-of-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hysham4-1-of-1-771x542.jpg\" \/><\/a><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>You never know what people will donate to the store.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"6225-slide3\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hysham6-1-of-1-771x491.jpg*771*491\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hysham6-1-of-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Volunteers Ruth Baker, left, and Bonnie Steiger check out an old adding machine recently donated to the Junque Store.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"6225-slide4\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hysham5-1-of-1-771x524.jpg*771*524\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hysham5-1-of-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>The Junque Store is located in what used to be the Jenkins Mercantile.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"6225-slide5\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hysham2-1-of-1-771x457.jpg*771*457\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hysham2-1-of-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>A boxful of donated coffee cups in the sorting room.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"6225-slide6\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hysham1-1-of-1-771x406.jpg*771*406\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hysham1-1-of-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Need some religious figurines? The Junque Store has those, too.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"6225-slide7\"><a href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hysham8-1-of-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hysham8-1-of-1-771x426.jpg\" \/><\/a><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Construction of Hysham's new pool is nearing completion.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><script>jQuery( document ).ready( function() { loadSlideshow( 6225, 'https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2015\/04\/sales-dances-flea-market-raise-money-for-hysham-pool\/', 7 ) } );<\/script>\n<p>HYSHAM\u2014In this Yellowstone River town 75 miles east of Billings, residents have learned how to get things done on a shoestring.<\/p>\n<p>When the town\u2019s 60-year-old swimming pool started leaking\u2014as much as 1,000 gallons a day before it was closed last summer\u2014supporters of a new pool got to work.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the past two years, they have raised half of their $160,000 goal by throwing a harvest dance, a New Year\u2019s dance, bingo games, a burrito breakfast and bake sales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBake sales at the post office go very well,\u201d Janet Jensen said. \u201cPeople flock in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another important source of funding has been the Junque Store on Hysham\u2019s main drag, just across the street and down half a block from the town landmark, the Yucca Theatre.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6226\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 336px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-6226 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hysham3-1-of-1.jpg\" alt=\"Pancho\" width=\"336\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors to the Junque Store in Hysham are greeted by the guitar-playing Pancho. He also collects donations in a spitoon near his feet.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Located in what used to be Jenkins Mercantile and then a succession of grocery stores until the last one closed five years ago, the flea market opens for the summer season on May 2 and will be open every other Saturday from 9 to 1. If volunteers are working there at any other time, however, they won\u2019t turn shoppers away.<\/p>\n<p>Since the store opened a year ago, sales of donated merchandise have raised $12,000 toward construction of the pool. The Pool People, as the committee leading the fund drive is called, was charged with raising half the pool\u2019s total cost of $320,000.<\/p>\n<p>The committee can also add donated labor as part of its in-kind donations. Treasure County commissioners agreed to put up the other $160,000. The pool has been under construction since last summer and backers hope to be able to open it by June 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe community has really been behind the project,\u201d said Ruth Baker, like Jensen a volunteer at the Junque Store.<\/p>\n<p>Hysham has a population of about 200, with 70 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The young people are the biggest users of the pool, Baker said, but it\u2019s popular with all age groups.<\/p>\n<p>People have been good about donating goods to the store and good about buying what\u2019s there. As Baker said, it\u2019s almost more of a \u201credistribution store\u201d than a flea market.<\/p>\n<p>The store, which is closed in the winter because it has no heat, has clothes, dishes, books, Christmas ornaments, televisions, household utensils and \u201cmost every kind of furniture you can think of,\u201d Baker said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to buying things from the store, volunteer Bonnie Steiger said, people kick in contributions another way: \u201cWhat happens is, people don\u2019t make us make change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steiger said people from Forsyth have even stopped in to make donations to the store. For more information on contributing to the pool fund, or donating merchandise to the store, call Steiger at 406-342-5487.<\/p>\n<p>Donations can also be sent to Stockman Bank, Box 426, Hysham, Montana, 59038. Make checks out to \u201cPool Fund.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"well\"><div class=\"dfad dfad_pos_1 dfad_first\" id=\"_ad_652\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/mjhWkW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/201703_capeair_variable.jpg\" alt=\"CapreAir_Variable\" width=\"510\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18069\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYSHAM\u2014In this Yellowstone River town 75 miles east of Billings, residents have learned how to get things done on a shoestring. When the town\u2019s 60-year-old swimming pool started leaking\u2014as much as 1,000 gallons a day before it was closed last summer\u2014supporters of a new pool got to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2367,1645,2369,2366,2368,2365],"class_list":["post-6225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-montana","tag-bonne-steiger","tag-hysham","tag-janet-jensen","tag-junque-store","tag-ruth-baker","tag-treasure-county","prominence-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}