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Who was Piano Pat?
Piano Pat was a popular fixture at the Sip N Dip since 1963, a year after the Motor Inn opened. She was hired as a fill-in for a piano player who went on vacation but he never returned to town cementing Pat s position at the lounge permanently. Pat had been a performer at the lounge for more than five decades and even though she cut down on her appearances in the current years but when she did, it was always a full house. This is my living room. It s more like my home. I m just comfortable here, she once said about the lounge that turned her into a celebrity. A Rudyard native, Spoonheim began playing the piano since she was 12 years old. She was a single mom of three kids with a day job for 35 years as a medical transcriptionist at the Great Falls Clinic.
Editor s note
This story is part of a three-day series on the 25th anniversary of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski s arrest in Lincoln on April 3, 1996.Â
It was a typical day at the Independent Record 25 years ago today, when the newsroom began getting questions about a Unabomber suspect by the name of Theodore Kaczynski.
âWe started getting these weird calls: âWhat do you know about this guy in Lincoln?ââ said David Shors, who was associate editor at the time.
Although skeptical that the infamous Unabomber whose mailed bombs killed three people and injured 24 others had been living just 60 miles north of town, a reporter and a photographer headed that way to see if they could figure out what all the fuss was about.
UM Journalism Students Again Report Daily Legislative News
Each weekday morning KLYQ and KGVO provides a daily report from the 67th Montana Legislature in Helena. That report is shared by over 200 editors, publishers, newspapers and broadcasters in Montana. University of Montana Journalism students have been covering the sessions since 1993, according to UM Journalism Director Denise Dowling in a UM news release.
This year, James Bradley and Austin Amestoy are producing the reports, which are produced by the UM students Monday through Friday. They also have web reports and weekly print and web features and roundups. Amestoy is the print reporter and Bradley voices the 1-minute daily report. Dowling said, These students witness the inner workings of our lawmaking process and rely heavily on the seasoned journalists they work alongside at the Capitol to make sense of it all.