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I am a happy man. It has taken a lot of years but finally my team, Gonzaga, got to the final game. I know they lost to North Carolina 71 to 65 but that did not matter at all. Those of you who read these rantings regularly know that for years I have picked my Zags to go all the way. They never have until now. And to think that Oregon was also in the final four! It boggles the mind. I may not live to see it but one day there is going to be a western final game. It is going to happen! For now, I know of some who made huge amounts of money on...
A friend told me that her sister made a very simple but wonderful casserole. She started by browning hamburger, adding a sliced up cabbage and tomato sauce. She baked that until bubbling and it was wonderful. Last weekend I tried my version of that dish. Basically what I did was to add shredded cabbage to my hamburger/macaroni hot dish. It was very good and the shredded cabbage really added to it. What you will need is: - 1 pound of hamburger - One onion diced - 1 ½ cups dried macaroni prepared like the macaroni box says - 2 14oz cans of...
Well, gentle readers, I am still in the middle of March Madness and can make a prediction about a final winner although I have never gotten those predictions right yet. I kicked myself because I dropped Oregon out of the Sweet Sixteen and then I began to think that this could be their year. But my final four is Kentucky, Kansas, Gonzaga and Villanova with Gonzaga winning it all. Will that happen? You know how I love the Zags and so hope springs eternal! I have been reading that the NFL is going to be different next year. It seems that their...
March can be such a fickle month. It is a month when we all are so anxious to see an end to winter and a beginning of spring and then when March comes in like a lamb, we think we made it through another winter only to have our hopes dashed with storm after storm after storm pushing us around like a ship in a hurricane. This March has been especially bad in that although there has been no really cold weather, it can be fifty above one day and then, like when these words are being written, the weatherman says that if it gets up to fifteen above w...
It is Saturday afternoon and I have not heard yet how Northern’s women did in their playoffs. I do know that Carroll won and Western lost earlier on Friday. I finally got my brackets done in the 2017 Division I basketball tournament and March Madness had officially gotten off to a great start. I will give you my elite 8 this week and predict the winner of it all next week. I have the elite 8 as Villanova, Duke, Gonzaga, Arizona, Kansas, Louisville (although my heart is crying Oregon), North Carolina and Kentucky. I took a few chances but not m...
March 24 and 25 the Farmers Union is putting on a Producers Conference at the Havre Best Western Plus That is a Friday and Saturday. Farmers Union President Allan Merrill said that for a long time that conference used to be held at Fairmont but did not seem to be doing the job. Then one of the conference organizers who went to MSU Northern asked why not put the conference right in the middle of Montana agriculture and close to the Agricultural Research Center south west of Havre. The conference was moved to Havre for the first time last year an...
Spring is around the corner, and that means Montana Seed Show time in Harlem, March 9-11. This event includes the Bread Show, which will be held Friday, March 10, with entry time 8:00 A.M.-9:30 A.M. in Harlem High School big gym. Categories (adult and youth) are: white bread, 100% whole wheat bread, machine white bread and machine 50% combination whole wheat bread. There are prizes in each category. Adult first place winners may not enter that category for three years, but are eligible to enter the other categories. Youth winners may enter each...
I got excited the other day because somewhere I had picked up a recipe for Christmas Morning Breakfast Casserole. Now there are many breakfast casseroles floating around but few that call for potatoes in them rather than bread. I love potatoes in my breakfast casserole and when I saw the first ingredient in this one was for cheesy hash browns it had my attention quickly. I spent a lot of time in the frozen potatoes department of a grocery store looking for the cheesy hash browns only to find that they were not there! So I put my good recipe...
First an update about the length of what is left of winter. As most readers know, in the west our ground hogs are marmots. We are fortunate living where we do because in the Bear Paw Mountains, on Clear Creek and far up White Pine Gulch lives a resident predictor of winter named Marmaduke Marmot. Sure enough there was a gathering in front of his instinctively through crevice and burrow, February 2, when he came out to see if he would see his shadow or not. Well, gentle readers up White Pine that morning there was a terrible blizzard raging and...
It was with great pleasure that Aaniiih Nakoda College presented to the Board of Nursing in Helena on January 19th Ms. LaVerne Parker, RN, MSN, as the Director of our 'Grow Our Own' nursing program. After having interviewed several candidates by the ANC selection committee, Ms. Parker was chosen as being the best fit for this unique Indigenous program. She is a highly experienced professional, accruing many awards for nursing, and leadership. Ms. Parker has previously served as a Director of...
I am always finding a lobster on sale and sticking it in the freezer. That way when I want to I can have what I call a triple surf dinner. It is a hot lobster with drawn butter, lobster salad and a shrimp cocktail with homemade cocktail sauce. Please note that when I say lobster I mean lobster tail. It is very easy to steam a lobster. Get it thawed out and steam it a minute for each ounce it weighs. Take the shell off when the lobster is steamed and serve with a vat of good hot butter. For a salad, it is just as easy. Thaw the lobster; take...
“Let the Good Times Roll at Your Library!” That’s the theme for “Love Your Library Month.” During February each time you check out materials, your name will be entered in a drawing to win one free hour of bowling for you and your family or friends generously donated by the Harlem VFW. The week of Feb. 13-17 the library will showcase the seventy-four wonderful new children’s books added to our collection thanks to a Children’s Books Project Grant from The Pilcrow Foundation with additional funds contributed by the Friends of the Library. Also...
When I was in college I had two good friends who were in college as well. One was my cousin Butch (James Lucke) and one was a high school mate by the name of Jim Dullenty. Jim went off to Journalism School at the University of Montana and Butch and I stayed home and attended Northern. We spent many weekends visiting Jim in Missoula. He had introduced us to the famous Montana author Dorothy Johnson (The Man who Shot Liberty Valance and The Hanging Tree). For some reason she loved having coffee with the Havre ruffians on Saturday morning....
Did you know February is “Love Your Library” month? This year the Harlem Library will celebrate with a Mardi Gras theme “Let the Good Times Roll at Your Library!” Each time you check out material your name will be entered into a drawing to win one hour of free bowling at the Harlem VFW. Also on Feb. 28 the library is hosting a Mardi Gras Fun Night from 6:00-7:30 P.M. Wear purple, green, or gold and join us for fun, food, games and more! Bring your family or a friend. Today at the Harlem Elementary School Winter Showcase Carly will be registe...
When I was a boy there were lots of Oriental people in Havre. I am reminded of this because the Chinese New Year is January 28. Many Chinese and Japanese had come here to work on the railroad and when the railroad was finished they liked the country and stayed or maybe some could not afford to go anywhere else. I saw a lot of Chinese people in particular because Havre was full of Chinese restaurants and it seemed as if there was not a Chinese restaurant, why then many Chinese started laundries in the town. Some of the best food I have ever...
One of the goals of the Harlem Public Library this year is to increase circulation. We challenge you to read more books from the library in 2017. The 2017 Reading Challenge encourages you to read at least 52 books this year. To help you keep on track, each month you read 4 books contact the library and your name will be entered into a drawing for a $10 gift certificate from a local business. If you complete the challenge for the year, you will be entered into a drawing for a fabulous gift basket which will include a $25 Visa gift card!...
Tis the time for New Year’s Resolutions. Tis also the time for very up close and personal dreams as well. Are they related, that is my question? For the past two years I have been having very up close and personal dreams. Let me tell you about one I just finished a few minutes ago. I was staying with a friend at the School House Log cabin on Clear Creek where Henderson Creek meets Clear Creek. In the cold reach of reality, that cabin is not even there anymore. Across the road from that cabin was another large structure that is gone now too. I...
I always like to start a new year with a recipe that has fewer calories. I have done one of my favorite shrimp cocktails many times before but it never fails to taste great on a cold January night. Cook your own shrimp. Get some that are called U 16 to 20, thaw them out, take the shells off and as you are deveining the shrimp, cut down and split the middle section to the tail. When you cook them they will puff up and appear much larger than they are. Do not overcook but do not undercook as well. There is nothing worse than undercooked shrimp. A...
It is a new year but we are going to stay with 1909 for a while yet as it is just getting interesting. Lots going on. Let’s start with the Dodson Dam. A well known resident of Valley County who was in the city yesterday is authority for the information that the Dodson Dam is three quarters completed and that if the weather continues favorable the crest should be affixed by March 1. Construction work is being trusted to the utmost, three gangs of men being worked in eight hour shifts, says the Great Falls Tribune. The dam will be the cheapest o...
It is playoff season in the NFL. But first, it is national championship time in college football. It took many years but finally instead of a bunch of disjointed bowl games there are now a bunch of disjointed bowl games and a couple of national championship games. I have not been the slightest bit interested in those games because one can come to only one conclusion. No matter who plays whom, it is going to be Alabama who comes out on top. Now it won’t always be that way and I imagine that those games will be a lot more fun to watch and m...
This is the time of year that we look back in time at what good and bad has happened during the past year and we look forward to see what good and bad we can look forward to in the coming year. This has been a strange year. The politics of it , that seemed to be the worst for me at any rate. To be able to say that I did not want to vote for either political ticket, that has never happened before. Not for me anyway. Usually one of the candidates has some redeeming features that I can hang my coat on. Not these two. Nothing. But one had to win...
This is the last column of newspaper stories for 1909. However, through the magic of old newspaper stories, we will continue on with 1909 in January. But for now, let’s see how it all ended up! There are still Christmas trees available at the Havre Commercial Company. They have been drastically reduced in price after Christmas. At the beginning of the New Year, 1910 just think of it. The citizens of Havre are so optimistic about building the city into the best anywhere. So many things happened in 1909 to make the city civilized instead of the r...
The biggest news in the football world is that it is all coming to an end. This signals week seventeen and after those predictions, it is on to the playoffs and finally who is going to be in the Super Bowl? There was some late breaking Bobcat news this weekend, however. Let’s start with that. DeNarius McGhee, famed Bobcat star quarterback has been hired by MSU Bozeman as their quarterback coach. This is a good move for the Bobcats as he knows the field very well even though the Big Sky has been changing. Look for McGhee to add much to the B...
Editors note: This story originally ran in the Big Sandy Mountaineer a week ago. Our faithful reporter Robby Lucke and Mountaineer cohort Leslie Gregory did a fantastic job and we wanted to share it with our readers. When Leslie Gregory suggested that we do a story about Christmas cookies, I cringed. I cannot bake. No exactness about what I cook. But that is exactly what Leslie can do is stick to the directions and come out with some great cookies. At the Big Sandy Christmas Stroll crafters had...
Once again it is that magical time of year called Christmas. To paraphrase Robert Frost, we stop often to watch the falling of downy flake along the streets and boulevards of our home towns or even better, we stop out on Beaver Creek to watch those woods fill up with snow. Christmas is for giving and those who have been giving all year long certainly know how to do it now. It is a time to share, reflect and wait for the Christ Child to be born and once again come into our homes and families. In the meantime we light candles, get Yule logs roari...
