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The newly appointed Rural Development State Director, Kathleen Williams was at Aaniiih Nakoda College on March 9 to meet with community stakeholders in the Fort Belknap Indian Community. With the group gathered, she spoke about the Equity Project and what it means for this area, as well as about programs available for addressing the food supply chain. Describing her tour to visit the ten communities across the state that have been identified as underserved, Williams said she's focused on...
The 72nd Annual Montana Seed Show is in the books. While attendance was down this year, those who attended and participated expressed a general sense of satisfaction about the event. With multiple exhibits and vendors, the agriculture community was on display at Harlem High School on March 10-12. In the Cereal Grains, Eric Billmayer from Hogeland won both Best of Show and Overall Champion awards for his hard red spring wheat. And John Schneider captured the Best Overall rosette for his camelina...
One phase of the reconstruction/remodel of the former Vets Club building in Harlem is nearing completion. Fetter Construction has transformed the once bowling alley and Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Club at 530 Central Avenue West into a home for Milk River Pharmacy and One Health Sweet-Harlem. To celebrate the grand "reopening" of the clinic side of the project, there will be an open house in Harlem with tours on April 6 from 1:00-5:00 p.m. According to Allison Gray, Site Director for One...
One of Blaine County’s promoters of shooting sports, fishing, and outdoor recreation in general, the Chinook Rod and Gun Club (CRGC) will be hosting its Annual Meet & Greet Dinner on March 19. The membership invites everyone to join them this Saturday at 6:00 p.m. at the Eagles Club in Chinook for door prizes, raffles, a gun giveaway, a free will donation taco feed, and a guest speaker. According to a spokesperson for the group, every year the CRGC holds their Meet & Greet event to bring members and the general public together to socialize. A...
Art Superintendent Mary-Kate French conveyed pleasure about the array of artwork on display at the 72nd Annual Montana Seed Show. With everything from self-portraits created with continuous string art to charcoal drawings and liquid glue art, the creativity on display was diverse and plentiful. The top youth award winner was Harlem High School sophomore, Emjai Stiffarm for her charcoal rendering of a staircase that resembles a nautilus shell. With her piece titled Staircase, Stiffarm's artistic...
The Alternative Energy Resources Organization (AERO) announced in late February that one of its affiliated programs, Abundant Montana (AMT), has expanded its team by adding several regional Local Food Coordinators (LFCs). In Blaine County, that person is Randi Fetter. Fetter began her new role as Nakoda Aaniiih Economic Development Corporation Food Sovereignty/Local Food Coordinator in September 2021. Located across the state, LFCs act as "boots on the ground" AMT representatives. Currently,...
When Western Ranch Supply (WRS) announced the selection of their Future Generation Leader of the Month award winners, Wylee Simenson from Chinook was among those honored for the month of February. The son of Tomi and Justin Simenson and a sophomore at Chinook High School, Simenson learned of his selection on March 10. According to a WRS spokesperson, the award intends to showcase the youth in communities across Montana that raise the bar for all of us and have a great impact on their...
Country and blues musician, Alex Billmayer released his first album, It's All There, on February 3, 2022 with R&D Recordings based in Big Sandy. To promote the album, Billmayer spent February 9-March 3 on a tour of the Hi-Line. Billmayer's first stop on the Hi-Line Tour was The Gateway Club in Fort Peck. The next night, February 10, he played his "songs about family, love, and livin'" at Busted Knuckle Taproom in Glasgow. Then, February 15 saw him at Kennedy's Bar in Harlem, and on Thursday...
On the third Monday of each month from 6:30-7:00 p.m. on Yellowstone Public Radio, host Stella Fong shares her personal love of food and wine in a series called "Flavors Under the Big Sky." On February 21, one of her guests was Leslie "Josie" Cliff, Executive Director of Nakoda Aaniiih Economic Development Corporation (NAEDC). In February's episode, "Flavors: Food Insecurity in Our Community Under the Big Sky," Cliff informed Fong's audience that Fort Belknap is located in a food desert. Food...
The culinary arts are always well represented at the Annual Montana Seed Show, and this year was no exception. On Saturday afternoon, March 12, Pie Superintendent Lisa Hamilton and Bread Superintendent Karolee Cronk reported their winners. In the pie competition, the four adult finalists were Kellie Rasmussen in first place with her strawberry rhubarb pastry, Amanda Powell in second with her blueberry/raspberry combination, Jan Egeland taking third with classic apple, and Diane Maloney trailing...
Juniors Jessica King, Mylah Rider, Nellie King, and Ma'Lea Moore have gained notoriety at Harlem High School as the OGs. They are the 'originals' who found satisfaction in the poetry unit taught during Matthew Hodgson's Sophomore English course and who continued writing and pursuing poetry on their personal time. In January of 2022, the quartet formed a movement, the I'Abi Waštena Poetry Movement. I'Abi Waštena is a Nakoda phrase which translates in English to mean "pretty with words." As l...
Next month when the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center (MCHF & WHC) hold their ceremony for the 14th class of inductions into the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame on April 9, some art from Chinook, Montana, will be part of the event. A resident of Lloyd and a three-year member of the Board of Directors for the MCHF, Clayton Hofeldt approached Ashley Liddle, a designer with Marie Laveau Creations who also works at Shores Floral, and Tomi Simenson, the owner of Shores Floral, about...
Although most people are familiar with March Madness and the hype surrounding basketball this time of year, perhaps only the die-hard fans closely monitor Selection Sunday or concern themselves with which at-large teams have made it into the tournament. However, one local organization, the Harlem Civic Association invites Blaine County residents to care since they will be hosting their March Madness 2022 Calcutta Auction on Monday, March 14. Selection Sunday is when the complete bracket for the 68-team NCAA men’s basketball tournament is r...
For the last several years, Shores Floral has conducted a daffodil fundraising campaign during the month of March. The shop's current owner Tomi Simenson has decided to carry on the tradition and has named A Serving of Hope as the benefactor of the funds generated from daffodil sales. According to Simenson, the daffodils will begin to arrive this week, so anyone interested can speak for them now or at any time during the entire month of March-unless supplies run out before then. "The sunny...
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced on February 24 that the USDA is making available up to $215 million in grants and other support to expand meat and poultry processing options. The purpose of these grants is twofold: to strengthen the food supply chain and to create jobs and economic opportunities in rural areas. “Today’s funding announcement, which includes the expansion of meat and poultry processing options, provides more opportunities for Montana’s agricultural businesses to keep resources, money, and o...
On March 25-26, when Miss Indian MSU reigns over the 46th Annual American Indian Council (AIC) Powwow in the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse on the campus of Montana State University-Bozeman, Maleeya Knows His Gun will be wearing the beaded artwork of former Fort Belknap resident Wozek Chandler. Knows His Gun was crowned on October 9, 2021, and although she does not know Chandler personally, she claims to have heard amazing things about her. However, Knows His Gun does have first-hand knowledge of...
Kathleen Williams, the new State Director for United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development, Montana, will be on the road in the coming weeks to meet with rural communities to discuss USDA Rural Development's new Equity Project. On March 9, two of her meetings will take place on the Hi-Line, one in Harlem and the other in Glasgow. Today, from 9:00-11:00 a.m., Williams will be at Aaniiih Nakoda College sharing information about the Equity Project and what it means for this...
PAWS of Chinook is partnering with national nonprofit Petco Love to give pets their best shot for a healthy life by hosting a free pet vaccine event on March 12-13, 2022. The event will take place from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday at the Commercial Building on the Blaine County Fairgrounds in Chinook. Petco Love established March as “National Pet Vaccination Month” to encourage pet parents to keep their pets up to date on vaccinations. To facilitate this process, the two partners will provide free pet vaccines for fam...
From February 19-26, FFA Chapters across the nation celebrated National FFA Week. National FFA Week is a time to showcase what FFA is and the impact it has on members every day. The Chinook Chapter of the FFA took part in the celebration with Dress-Up Days, FFA Fact of the Day, and a membership drive. On Monday, Chinook High School students were invited to wear flannel or camouflage gear, Tuesday was Blue and Gold Day, Wednesday welcomed the wearing of overalls and suspenders in a tribute to...
The deuces were wild on February 22 when one of the grandest palindromes of 2022 arrived on Tuesday, which was unofficially dubbed as "Two's Day." The date was so rare that the National Weather Service claims another such Two's Day won't happen again for another 400 years, in 2422 when February 22 again falls on a Tuesday. Besides all of the twos of this date, the palindrome aspect makes it significant. A palindrome is a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backwards as forwards-like ma...
A special feature of the 72nd Annual Montana Seed Show will be a Health Fair. Last week, Allison Gray, Site Director for One Health—Sweet, shared details about the upcoming event. Beginning at 6:00 a.m. and extending until noon on Friday, March 11, One Health will be offering various lab tests. According to Gray, due to staffing shortages, only lab draws will be performed at the Health Fair. Furthermore, because of an issue with the laboratory that processes specimens, technicians are only able to do labs for one day during the Seed Show. H...
When the curtain rises on The Harvest this weekend, the show will not only feature local talent in the cast, crew, and director but with the script's author. Opening night is Friday, March 4 at 8:00 p.m. in the Montana Actors' Theater (MAT) on the campus of Montana State University-Northern. Written by MAT's Executive Director, Jay Pyette, the script explores the struggles of a farming family in North Central Montana. Because the patriarch of the family is in poor health, the children return...
On Friday, February 25, Czelsi Gómez, a Public Information Officer with the Montana Department of Revenue, confirmed that the department would begin offering office hours with a remote office in Chinook. According to Gómez, the Department of Revenue (DOR) will have a presence in the Blaine County Courthouse. Department employees will be in the County Attorney’s Conference Room every Wednesday from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Blaine County residents unable to do their business with the DOR on Wednesdays can still visit the Havre Field Office at 315...
Harlem Junior/Senior High School has started her own podcast. The first episode of Rez Check released on February 10 with an introduction of the team. Longknife hopes to continue to drop new episodes of Rez Check every two weeks. A podcast is an audio program similar to Talk Radio, but listeners subscribe to it on their computers or mobile devices and listen whenever they like. The digital audio files made accessible on the Internet for downloading are typically available as a series. Subscriber...
Max Cederberg and Alan Van Voast, the co-managers of the Car and Tractor Show to be held in conjunction with the Montana Seed Show, invite all car and farm enthusiasts to consider entering their vehicles for the one-day show on Saturday, March 12. According to Cederberg, the Harlem High School Shop has again been designated as the Car Show area. There will also be tables available for individuals to display their toys and models. Cederberg is hoping for sunny conditions on March 12 since the...
