Category: Member Blog Posts
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Service Roads
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By Nick Bennett | November 1st, 2024 There is something special about being on the road here in Montana. In such a vast state, with large distances between population centers, the road inevitably becomes a key aspect of your life. Where I serve, in the northern Hi-Line region near Canada, travel takes a considerable amount…
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A Farewell to the Treasure State
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By Liv Sorenson | July 6th, 2024 This week in national service, I became a Certified Interpretive Guide. It’s an official declaration that I learned how to structure interpretive experiences and talks at museums and galleries; which I think will be useful to reworking the volunteer museum docent training materials at my service site. My…
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Butte-Silver Bow: Tying It All Together
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By Brandon Rubertus | September 1st 2024 As my time in Butte draws to a close, I find myself reflecting on the past year with a mix of emotions. It’s not totally unlike wrapping up a day down in the shaft — covered in a layer of grit but with a few hidden strands of…
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Accepting Accountability Without Blame
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By Joanna Massier | July 24th, 2024 Upon accepting the offer to perform a year of national service in Livingston, Montana, I quickly realized how troubled the market for housing was. Most of the rental units had sky-high rent in the thousands of dollars that would have accounted for all of my living stipend on…
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Feedback is Good, Actually
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Olivia Holstine | July 9th, 2024 I am an AmeriCorps VISTA currently in my second term at the Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes’ Office of Environmental Protection in northeast Montana. My project is to assist in the creation of a Climate Change Adaptation/Resilience Plan for the Tribes. Being in my second year, there are…