By Suzanne Waring
Meeting a deadline means another is looming. That’s the ongoing routine at the office of a periodical. Treasure State Lifestyles has had 240 deadlines of putting together and getting out a magazine with fantastic stories for Montanans over the last twenty years. In October it was time to stop, take a breath, and reflect. The magazine staff invited the community to celebrate with them at the Great Falls Airport Convention Center on October 4 with a bash that also supported breast cancer awareness.
The evening included live music by Philip Page and Chuck Fulcher, tastings by Willies Distillery, appetizers, wine, cash bar, silent and live auctions, standup bingo and raffles.
Over two hundred people came and celebrated. “It was a fun night,” said Ed Brown, President of the Great Falls Chamber of Commerce. “I especially enjoyed the diversity of people— young and old and from all walks of life. The Chamber fully supported the evening. We had a table for our staff and their spouses to attend.”
Breast Cancer Awareness
Hope Good, publisher of *Treasure State Lifestyles, is a* breast cancer survivor herself. She personally knows that it is important to raise awareness about breast cancer, promote early detection and screening, support research, and care for those affected by the disease. Some of the proceeds from the annual Breast Cancer Awareness event have gone to produce a booklet to help people diagnosed with breast cancer navigate their diagnosis and treatment plan. A copy of this booklet is included in this issue. Furthermore, profits from the tickets and auctions during the recent celebration have gone to advance breast cancer awareness.
The significant effort to save more people’s lives (men can have breast cancer too) by conquering breast cancer is ongoing. Even with all of the advances of this age, one in eight women continue to be diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetime.
“We all know someone who has had breast cancer,” said Brown. “We need to continue to support breast cancer awareness because it touches so many people and their families.”
Good, along with other breast cancer survivors from surrounding communities, observes October, which is nationally recognized as Breast Cancer Month, every year with an event to celebrate advancements that have been made to treat this world-wide affliction.
Treasure State Lifestyles Magazine Marches On
As a leading statewide Montana magazine, the celebration of Treasure State Lifestyles 20th year brings new vigor to its staff to continue to record for present enjoyment and future documentation the people and the events pertaining to its readership.
Good and her sidekick, Joanne Sanford, are passionate about focusing on the Western lifestyle in the magazine. Like the two of them, Montanans love the mystique of their state and through living, writing, and reading about it, the mystique lives on. Lifestyles’ writers seek out hidden gems in every community to share with readers, such as holidays, arts, Western traditions, seasons, travel spots, and agriculture—the state’s leading industry.
“I congratulate the efforts of Lifestyles magazine to publish both a digital and hard copy of the magazine. Through a former position as a college bookstore manager, I learned that a percentage of our population connects better with hard copy over digital,” said Brown.
“Now that the celebration has come and gone, it’s time to get out upcoming issues with themes of the holidays, art week, and Montana’s heritage,” said Good.
Look for a complimentary issue of Treasure State Lifestyles at a site in your neighborhood and patronize the businesses that advertise in Lifestyles and make the publication of it possible. AND if you know of one of those hidden gems that should be shared through an article, please let Lifestyles know.