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Boy was I shocked last weekend when I found out that Buffalo had beaten the Patriots. Not only did they beat them but they didn’t even allow the Patriots to score in their own stadium! That has not happened for a while. It couldn’t have happened at a better time for Rex Ryan. That was his first win for the season and rumor had it that if he did not win the Patriots game he would be looking for a job! So, before this last round of games has been played let’s see who is where and what is what in the mighty NFL. New England is at the top of the A...
It is much cooler this fall and it is a great time to get out that recipe for cabbage rolls which are a perfect food for this time of year. I have a new way of getting the cabbage leaves off the cabbage. More about that shortly. For now here is what you will need to make around fifteen large cabbage rolls. • One pound hamburger • One pound breakfast sausage • Your favorite rice mix in a box cooked off • Salt and pepper to taste • One large jar sauerkraut, washed and drained • One large onion chopped fine • 1 pint tomato juice • 1 large cabbage...
It all starts with Luke 6:31, also known as the Golden Rule, “Do to others as you would have them do to you” One of the greatest things about small communities is the simple fact everybody is willing to lend a helping hand to whomever deserves it. If you need it and deserve it, you’ll get it. The person to help you may not even know you personally. People will help just because they might want help someday in return, others just help because they can and they expect nothing in return. Few weeks’ back a stranger, to me, stopped and assiste...
The Friends of the Harlem Public Library Annual Membership Meeting will be held Wed., Oct. 12, 6 P.M. at the library. Salads and beverages will be served followed by the business meeting. Annual dues of $10 may be paid at this meeting. One free membership will be given away. All members of the Friends or those interested in joining are encouraged to attend. In this week’s column I would like to focus on the wonderful work the Friends of the Harlem Library do to support your public library. According to the Constitution and Bylaws of the F...
It seems that there is bad news for the NFL and it has been happening since this season started. Ratings are going down and smart people are trying to figure out why. Ratings going down are probably not from just one cause. It is from a lot of things that are meeting this season and altogether are causing people not to watch as much of Roger Goodell and company as before. First there is Goodell himself who is about as pompous as they come and yet gets right in the fray making sure that people like Tom Brady is punished for something he...
I have been told that when I was a little boy I was always very inquisitive. I was constantly asking questions of my mother and father and really wanted to know everything there was to know. Those questions really magnified themselves when driving up and down the Clear Creek road with my father, visiting one cabin owner or another or fishing in a particularly good fishing hole. I wanted to know what was up this coulee and that coulee and what the name of that mountain was and what was the road joining the Clear Creek road and why was Hungry...
The Harlem Public Library is celebrating the freedom to read by observing Banned Book Week. This event highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community -librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types-in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular. Come and see the display of challenged or banned books that Carly has put together and pick one out to read. Please mark your...
It is September and that is the birthday of America’s famous painter, Grandma Moses. She came from a very large Vermont family and had ten children herself. She worked and worked and worked and when she was in her 60’s or 70’s and her fingers would not work well enough for quilting and such, she took up painting, mainly water colors. Her subject matter was what was happening around her in her beloved Vermont Mountains. She was called a primitive painter or of the rustic genre and her paintings were sort of primitive but they were full of peopl...
Our children’s programming is in full swing for fall. Books and Babies for infants and toddlers and their parents/caregivers meets on Tuesdays at 10 A.M. for a time to begin developing those all-important early literacy skills. To encourage creative imagination and building children are invited to come to Lego Club on Thursdays at 6 P.M. Preschoolers must be accompanied by a parent. Lego Club makes a great family activity! On Fridays at 10 A.M. Story Time is held for children ages 3 through grade five. This is am hour sharing stories, activitie...
The Beginning Genealogy class is full. If you have registered but are no longer able to attend please call the library as soon as possible as there are people on a waiting list. Remember the first session meets Tuesday, Sept. 20, 6:30-8:30 P.M. Bring your own devices or you may use the library’s computers. The library has some new services to offer. We now have a laminating machine that will laminate letter-sized pages for $1.00 per page. We also have phone chargers that can be checked out to use in the library. Remember we also send and r...
The Harlem Public Library will offer a four-part beginning genealogy class the last two weeks of September and the first two weeks of October. Instructing the class will be Sylvia D. Murray, Accredited Genealogist for Midwestern and Great Plains States by the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists. Murray has been a researcher for over 41 years and has taught college level genealogy classes for 36 years. She has also taught Adult Education genealogy classes for several years. Week one of the class will...
Here is a perfect dish for a fall casserole that can be cooked best in a Dutch oven on the top of your stove. It is called Chicken in the Bog and I think I first heard the recipe from the Food Network. I think this is one of the best chicken recipes ever but you must use only Zatarain’s Dirty Rice for the rice in the dish. And, remember the rice is the bog so it needs to be wet. Dry rice ruins this dish. You will need • 1 cup of cubed ham or Polish sausage cut into half rounds • 3 chicken thighs • 1 red pepper, medium dice • 1 onion, medium di...
Those interested in joining The Book Club may pick up their copy of “The Secret River” by Kate Grenville today at 4 P.M. in the library meeting room. The Book Club will continue to meet on Mondays, 4 P.M., starting Sept. 12. The library is offering a four-part series on Beginning Genealogy starting Tues., Sept 20, 6:30-8:30 P.M. The class will continue Sept. 27, Oct. 4, and Oct. 11. The class size is limited to 12 and you must attend all four sessions. Please call the library by Sept. 16 to register. The Book Challenge for Sept. is to read a bo...
Several things happened this week in the wonderful world of football that were mildly disturbing. Colin Kaepernick would not stand for the National Anthem during two pre season football games. While most thought he was protesting the flag, it seems that was not the case. He was protesting police brutality to other than the white race. One day to further show his displeasure with the police, he wore sox that had pigs on them wearing police caps. At this writing another team mate has joined Kaepernick’s protest from the San Francisco 49er team a...
The Harlem Public Library will offer a four-part beginning genealogy class the last two weeks of September and the first two weeks of October. Instructing the class will be Sylvia D. Murray, Accredited Genealogist for Midwestern and Great Plains States by the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists. Murray has been a researcher for over 41 years and has taught college level genealogy classes for 36 years. She has also taught Adult Education genealogy classes for several years. Week one of the class will...
Often when I think of Labor Day, I think of the various labor I have struggled with during my 75 years on this orb called earth. I started working early. I learned that there was nothing in high school for me but if I could keep my grades up, I could get out at 3 p.m. and go to work at the downtown Havre store that bore my grandfather’s name. That was good enough for me to keep my grades up because I loved working in that great store which sold high grade merchandise for men and high grade shoes for everyone and had a dry cleaning department a...
The library is offering a “Beginning Genealogy Class” starting September 20. This four part class will meet Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30, in the library meeting room. Sylvia D. Murray, an accredited genealogist from Havre, will be instructing the class. The class is free and you must attend all four sessions. Class size is limited to 12 and you must register by Sept. 16. Call the library to register or for more information. Books and Babies will not meet the first week of September in Harlem or Turner. Lego Club meets Thursday, Sept. 1, 6 P.M. at the...
The town of Chinook would like to report that after a recent shut down of the water system to replace a fire hydrant, that the water is now safe for people to drink. Any time a water system is shut down for any reason, a sample must be sent to DEQ for testing and the results of those samples were returned this morning and the water is safe for human consumption. The town of Chinook would like to thank the residents for their patience in this process....
I was at the Big Sandy Senior Citizens Center the other day and the cooks were working on Polish sausage and sauerkraut for lunch that day. I had not thought about that dish for years and it looked simply wonderful. It brought back memories of my father cooking at one cabin or another on Clear Creek and one of his main dishes was spare ribs and sauerkraut cooked with apples, brown sugar and onions. He cooked that dish most all day in an old Majestic Range in an oven that was not high at all. It turned out great. Matter of fact I am going to...
Story Hour and Books and Babies will not meet the rest of August. Lego Club will meet on Aug. 25 at 6 P.M. in the meeting room. The Book Challenge for August is to read a book set in the future or the distant past. “The Charmers” is a new novel by Elizabeth Adler. Mirabella Matthew’s finds herself the owner of a villa in the South of France when her aunt Jolly dies suddenly and under mysterious circumstances. The mysteries continue when Mirabella is run off the road by a motorcycle and men from Jolly’s past show up. Which ones can be trusted...
As August winds down the residents of Chinook start looking forward to the 11th Annual Sugarbeet Festival. The Chinook Sugarbeet Festival is an event that honors an industry or area of the community that has had significant impact on the small town. This year it will celebrate the railroad industry, from the time that James J. Hill first laid tracks through north central Montana to the present day. Beginning Friday, September 23rd the festival will kick off with a Health Fair being put together by the Sweet Medical Center as well as a showing...
Often when having a brandy just before bed, I go into my mother’s bedroom which has not changed much from when she lived in it. Mother died six years ago. It is a big room and is filled with a wonderful cannon ball bedroom set. her grandmother’s desk, a cannonball rocking chair and ottoman and many interesting pictures along with a huge gilt edged mirror. The floor is hardwood and is covered with Oriental carpets along with one huge mountain goat rug made from seven mountain goats. Mother loved that rug as she suffered from cold feet for a long...
Congratulations to our grand prize winners for the summer reading program! In the K-3 age bracket Orion Cuts The Rope was the top reader finishing 166 books! Alaura Hawley was the winner in the 4 - 6 grade bracket reading a total of 79 hours! Thanks to everyone who participated in the summer reading program. Story Hour and Books and Babies will not meet again until after Labor Day. Lego Club will not meet August 18, but will start again August 25, 6 P.M. in the library meeting room. There will be no library board meeting this month. The Book Ch...
If during August you want to walk on the wild side, why not visit our giant neighbor to the north, Canada and explore the Cypress Hills? These days you will need a passport to get across the border and back into Montana as well. You can get an inexpensive and faster passport that lets you just into Canada and Mexico. I don’t know that there are any true cypress trees in Cypress Park which would be your destination. Just like I know that there are no true maple trees in the town of Maple Creek. It seems that the lowly box elder tree is called a...
The Book Challenge for August is to read a book set in the future or the distant past. There will be no Story Hour or Books and Babies the rest of the month. They will resume the first week of September. Lego Cub will not meet August 11 and 18, but will start again Thursday, August 25, 6 P.M. in the library meeting room. The library has a new service called “Shoutbomb.” Patrons may sign up to be notified via test message if they have holds available, items due soon, and items overdue. Call the library for more information or go to the lib...
