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02:31:03

No. 271: West Side Shriners

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/06/19

The 78th Montana East-West Shrine Game will be played Saturday in Great Falls. The game will kick off at 7 p.m. and will be broadcast live around the state on the Montana News Network.The West team is once again practicing in the Mining City. On Wednesday, the West Side players selected four captains to lead them as they look for their fifth straight win.Merek Mihelish and Cole Graham of Helena Capital and Mark Ahner and Kobe Dorcheus of Kalispell Glacier were voted captains by their pears.Mihelish,

00:14:20

Tap 'er Light: Only a barbarian would drink white...

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/06/17

When my Grandma Jean's younger brother Tom Leeming passed away last September, we lost of the last of one incredible group of siblings.Last week, we hosted Tommy and those siblings, and we might have set a record for laughter. Here's a little big about Tommy and the rest of the Leeming clan. Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Park Street

01:23:00

No. 270: Sarah Borduin and Denise Herman

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/06/11

As Donald Trump is celebrating his birthday with a Putin-style military parade in Washington on Saturday, the group “Indivisible Butte” will be holding a No Kings rally and food drive.The rally, which is being held in conjunction with No Kings rallies across the nation, will take place from noon to 2 p.m. on the sidewalk outside the Butte Plaza Mall.The group has been holding similar rallies for the last several months. It has held protest outside Sen. Tim Sheehy’s office, outside the Social

00:13:04

Tap 'er Light: A eulogy for Grandpa Bill

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/06/10

On June 6, my grandpa, Bill Foley, would have turned 100 years old.A World War II veteran, Grandpa Bill passed away at the age of 89 on Feb. 12, 2015. As I searched for a photo to mark his birthday, I came across the eulogy I wrote for him in the days after his death.So, in honor of 100th, I thought I would share this with you so you might be able to see why I still think and talk about Grandpa Bill every day more than a decade after he passed. I read this at his funeral at St. Patrick’s Church on

01:42:42

No. 269: Tom Lazzari

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/06/07

Podcast No. 269: Tom Lazzari They call him “Papa Big Guns.”That does not only go for his grandchildren, either. American Legion Baseball players — and some of their parents — refer to Tom Lazzari by the nickname that he swears he did not give to himself. He just relishes in that moniker.Tom jokes that the key to having such big arms, or guns as he calls them, is to lose the use of his legs. That happened to Tom when he was diagnosed with a neurological disorder that robbed him of his ability to walk

01:28:12

Podcast No. 268: Mike Beckworth

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/06/04

Occasionally, Facebook turns out to be a very good thing.That is the certainly case with today’s guest. Facebook is how I found Mike Beckworth. Recently, I saw a post by “M.C. Beckworth” on the Butte 411 page. It was a composite photo. It showed the Badger Mine headframe looking from the south to north, and Mike replaced the blue sky with a beautiful sunset with birds flying by.When I saw some people complaining that the photo wasn’t “real” because the sunset was in the north, I chimed in with a

00:14:07

Tap 'er Light: Stand up to the bullies and fly that flag

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/06/03

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01:27:54

No. 267: Sam Henderson

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/05/28

If Sam Henderson was to walk away from track & field today, we would still be talking about him decades from now. On Saturday, Henderson won the Class AA State title in the triple jump. His winning mark, which came on his final jump, was 47 feet, 1 ½ inches. That was his fourth best jump of the season. His three best — including his personal record of 48-7 ½ at the Western AA Divisional meet the week before — would have placed fifth at the Big Sky Conference Championships.He set and reset the

00:13:38

Tap 'er Light: Dr. Farren and his smile will be missed

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/05/27

Dr. Daniel J. Farren passed away last week.Not every guy will be as sad as I am about the passing of his longtime optometrist, but Dr. Farren was special. Dr. Farren was so much more than an eye doctor.The good doctor came into my life in 1983, when I was 9. I remember the day we met like it was yesterday. It was also one of the most important days of my life.Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Park Street

01:31:43

No. 266: Dom Tibbetts

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/05/22

During his two years covering sports for KXLF-TV in Butte and KBZK-TV in Bozeman, we could tell that Dom Tibbetts was going to be off to bigger and better things.I used to joke with him that he was headed to SportsCenter because of his world-class hairdo. He does have nice hair, too. He made all of us jealous.The truth is, though, we knew Dom was going places because was doing a really good job. If there ever was a guy built for prime time, it was Dom.That is why he was picked to be a contestant on

00:13:55

Tap ’er Light: 500 Mariah’s Messengers

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/05/20

Mariah’s Challenge rose from the ashes of an unspeakable tragedy in October of 2007. Today, that movement to curb underage drinking and drinking and driving is still going strong.When 17 seniors in high school receive the 2025 Mariah Daye McCarthy Scholarship Wednesday at the Montana Tech Auditorium, it will run the total of “Mariah’s Messengers” to 500. It will raise the money given away to $500,000.That is a milestone that should be celebrated. The ceremony begins at 6 p.m. Take your children and

01:22:34

No. 265: Leo McCarthy Part 2

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/05/16

In October of 2022, Leo McCarthy appeared on Episode No. 16 of the ButteCast.In that episode, Leo talked about losing his 14-year-old daughter, Mariah, to an underage drunk driver in October of 2007. He talked about forming Mariah’s Challenge in its aftermath.Mariah’s Challenge came from a promise made by Leo as he delivered a touching eulogy for his daughter at St. Ann’s Church. If they didn’t drink while underage and promised never to get into a car with a driver who had been drinking, he said, he

01:30:27

No. 264: Carter Barsness

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/05/15

Podcast No. 264: Carter BarsnessFor the better part of a decade, I have called him “The Professor.”Unfortunately, nobody else refers to Carter Barsness by that moniker. It is only me.That is too bad because Carter earned that nickname. I coached him in Little League Baseball, and talking to him back there was like talking to a professor. And he was only 8 years old.He was always offering a theory as to why something was happening with the game or just in life in general. I could see that he was

00:13:33

Tap 'er Light Hudson Willse

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/05/13

Hudson Willse, who worked 27 years as the sports editor of The Montana Standard, was a trendsetter in the newspaper business. He set the standard for sports coverage that papers around the state tried to copy. Whether you were a star on the Butte High football team or the No. 5 player on the Butte Central golf team, Hud made sure your sport was covered. He made us all feel like a big deal.That is why, in 1997, Hud was enshrined in the Butte Sports Hall of Fame with many of the Butte legends he

01:31:16

No. 263: Jerry Worley

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/05/08

On Nov. 9, 1973, Butte Central beat Cut Bank 27-6 on a frozen field on Montana’s Hi-Line.The win gave the Maroons their third straight Class A State football championship. It was BC’s fourth title in five years.The game was filled with sports legends from both sides. That includes on the field and on the sidelines.While we don’t have a flux capacitor, Jerry Worley will take us back in time to that day in 1973 next Wednesday. He will give two presentations about the game — and so much more. The first

00:13:37

Tap ’er Light: Their fight should not be a lonely one

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/05/06

Sid DeBarathy and Mike Foley feel like they have been in a lonely fight as they battle for the female athletes of Butte. That is the saddest thing of this really sad story that has dragged on for more than two decades.We should all fight alongside Sid and Mike. We should tell the district that what Sid and Mike are saying about the subpar softball fields at Stodden Park is true. We should demand that the district follow through with the promise that it made to the girls in 1990.Today's bonus

01:27:18

No. 262: Jeff LeProwse

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/05/06

If there is ever a fourth legend added to the cathedral that is 3 Legends Stadium, it will be Jeff LeProwse.It is safe to say that without Jeff, American Legion Baseball would not exist in the Mining City. At least it wouldn’t in its current form.Jeff coached the Butte Miners from 2012 through 2021, and that era will go down as the most important stretch in program history. The Miners down to 11 players by the end of his first season as coach. Then, the team lost its home at Montana Tech’s Alumni

01:26:39

No. 261: Amanda and Ben Wlaysewski

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/05/04

Amanda Wlaysewski started working in the fish industry six days after she graduated from Butte Central in 2003.What she thought was a summer job, turned into career. Every summer since, she has gone to Bristol Bay, Alaska to work. She founded the Kvichak Fish Co., and for the last 15 years she has run her own small processing facility. She will be heading north again later this month.Amanda describes her community supported fishery model as “salmon gone girl scout cookies.” Her company takes orders

01:18:28

No. 260: Dr. Patrick Gallus

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/05/01

Dr. Patrick Gallus is one doctor who doesn’t like to play the waiting game.Maybe it was all the years he spent as an emergency doctor in Prescott, Arizona, where he served as chief of staff at Yavapai Regional Medical Center. There, Dr. Gallus developed two emergency departments, and his staff of 18 physicians saw 72,000 patients per year.Now, the 1981 Butte Central graduate is back in his home town, seeing walk-in patients at the Mercury Street Medical Group at 300 W. Mercury St.There, you can

00:13:35

Tap 'er Light: Raiders pick Tommy, end nightmare

The ButteCast with Bill Foley ·

2025/04/29

Raider Nation has now idea what it just got with the selection of Butte boy Tommy Mellott. They will quickly learn why they call him "Touchdown Tommy."Even better, he isn't going to Green Bay.Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Park Street

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