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This month this column is mainly recipes. Today a wonderful way to cook corn beef and cabbage using a secret sauce that took me years to find out how to make. It makes the dish. Be sure to serve the sauce warm at the table on March 17 or whenever you make your corn beef and cabbage. It is a perfect dunk for this meal. A friend served this sauce that she said was her secret sauce. After years of begging like a shameful dog, I finally found out that the sauce was simple, just equal parts of regular yellow mustard and brown sugar. So that is the...
Triangle Communications is hosting an Internet Security and File Sharing Class Tues., March 22, 6-8 P.M.at the library. You may register at itstriangle.com/free-training or by calling Angela at 394-2862 or the library at 353-2712. The next Learn at the Library will be a Fused Jewelry Class instructed by April Fox. This will be held Tues., March. 29, 7 P.M and is limited to 15 people. Please call the library to reserve your spot so you can make your own pendant. There is a $10 fee to cover the cost of materials. Three new nonfiction titles...
February 8th the Chinook FFA took the senior mechanics team to Melstone to compete and placed 9th. The team consisted of Garrison Mitchell, Ryle Elliot, Michael Warburton, and Ross Reed. Michael Warburton individually placed 6th in the mechanics competition. Tuesday the 9th of February the junior and senior mechanics team competed at the district level in Harlem. The junior mechanics team consisting of Austin Swanson, Colton Liddle, Rielly Weigand, Ryle Elliot, and Cord Schneider took 1st...
March can be a very fickle month. Or maybe it is that I am expecting so much of spring out of March and frequently the month is much more about winter than spring. The National Weather Service told me a couple of weeks ago to look for March to be the end of El Nino which has been providing us with such an open winter. It has been probably the strangest winter I have ever spent on the banks of the mighty Milk River. Day after day it is sunshiny, cold at first, then warming up to the 40’s. Lots of wind and more of the same week after week a...
The Harlem Library will be closed Friday, Mar. 11 because of the Seed Show. Hope to see you there! Events to mark on your calendar are an Internet Security workshop presented by Triangle Communications on Tues., Mar. 22, 6 P.M. in the meeting room. April Fox will lead a jewelry making workshop for the next Learn at the Library program Tues., Mar. 29, 7 P.M. There will be a small fee to cover the cost of materials. Books and Babies and Lego Club will take a break until the first week of June. Story Time continues to meet on Fridays at 10 A.M....
Once again kudos to area teams who won championships for basketball at the state level. For those who got so close but did not win what they thought they would, there is next year and just to get to play in a state tournament is a real honor for our far north teams. Good job girls and boys basketball players! I have been watching a little NBA basketball myself lately. And I have been listening to sports gurus who talk like they know what they are talking about. Most of them are really bragging up Golden State. As far as the NBA is concerned,...
Kick off for the Harlem Seed Show begins Thursday, March 10, 2016 at the Harlem High School. Thursday is entry day for Woodworking as well as both Commercial and Educational booths. Wool judging will also be taking place and will be open to public. The famous Chili Cook-Off will begin at 6 p.m. as well, however the chili must be set up and entered by 5 p.m. on March 10. Judges will start at 5:30 and the public may start at 6 p.m. to vote for the People’s Choice. This year there will be 2 divisions, People’s Choice and Judges Choice. The onl...
As many of you know I have been cooking some of my recipes gotten from Laened Black in February. I had a recipe that was called Black’s Party Beans. Well, I made it the other day, gave it to a church potluck and it was gone before anything else at the potluck! The beans serve 25. It is hard to lessen the amount but they freeze well so make the whole amount and give some away, fill your own bean pot and enjoy these wonderful beans. Laened recommended cooking them in a roaster. I filled a small turkey roaster. These are wonderful. Lots to buy b...
The Book Club is starting a new book “Cutting for Stone” by Abraham Verghese. You may pick up your copy today at 4 P.M. in the library meeting room. Get in touch with your inner leprechaun and read a book with a green cover for the March Book Challenge! You may win a gift certificate from a local business. Books and Babies will not meet again until May 31 and Lego Club will take a break until June 2. There are some great new “reads” for you at the library. Stop by and pick up a few (or more!) The latest installment of Karen Marie Moning...
It has been an abnormally warm two weeks in Big Sky Country. A couple of weeks ago the thermometer hit 73 one afternoon in Choteau and has been in the high 50’s and low 60’s every day for almost a fortnight in and around Havre. So far my flowers, lilacs and trees seem to be not paying attention to the warm weather. Not much happening in my gardens thank goodness. And, of course, there is little or no moisture of late and probably not going to be until we get into a moisture mode, then watch out, for it will probably flood! So, what shall we...
The library has great new selections for you to read. Stop by and pick up one of these titles. “The Girls She Left Behind” is by Sarah Graves. A forest fire rages near the town of Bearkill in northern Maine. Teenager Tara Wylie, who has a history of running away, has disappeared again. Kidnapper and rapist, Henry Gemerle, has escaped from prison and may be hiding out near Bearkill. Sheriff’s deputy, Lizzie Snow, teams up with her boss and state policemen to try and save an innocent and to stop a monster. Someone else is also on the hunt for Tar...
Kudos to the Havre and Chinook wrestlers for taking home State trophies. These two programs are as good as it gets for prep wrestling and it is a great testament to coaching, community support and drive of young wrestlers that they do so well year after year! Havre High Football is losing Mark Samson. The former Northern football coach led the Blue Ponies for one year to one of the best football seasons they have had for some time. He is going to be the head coach for the Great Falls Bison. We wish him well with the Bison and just wish he had...
I am still trying to comfort myself from the winter blues. Now, I know that as far as real Montana winters go, we have not really had a winter yet at all. And yet, not getting outside to garden and walk along a Bear Paw Creek has been putting me sort of in a funk to say the least. I decided one way I could cure the blues was to cook some old, old recipes that I had maybe never cooked before. For Super Bowl I cooked Francis and Laened Black’s Party Beans and they were wonderful. I got off funk while cooking and eating them both. That day I a...
Be sure to come to the next Learn at the Library program Tuesday, Feb. 23, 7 P.M. Undersheriff Frank Billmayer will present vital information to protect against identity theft and scams. This timely and important presentation is one you don’t want to miss. Refreshments will be served. It has been fun to find out patrons’ “Literary Valentines” as we celebrate Library Lovers Month. Do come in and complete a heart with the name of your favorite book character. Your name will be entered to win a door prize awarded at the end of the month. The Boo...
Tomorrow is Sunday and there is no football. I volunteered at church to usher for awhile hoping that shock would chase away the shock of no football. But things are still going on. Let’s look at some standings. That is a good place to start. In the Frontier League it is on the women’s side of things Lewis and Clark in first followed by Carroll. Northern is fourth followed by Rocky in fifth place. On the men’s side, it is Lewis and Clark in first followed by Carroll. Rocky is in fourth and Northern is in fifth. Looking at the woman’s side in the...
This is a month of columns to send away the winter blues. One thing I do to feel better about winter is to eat Oriental take out once a week. That all started many years ago. When I was working part time at the Lou Lucke Company I would go to lunch once a week with Willie Garrahan at Tommy Woo’s Boston Café. There the Chop Souy was unbelievably good! I would ask Tommy what made it so good. He always said it was the gravy. I believed him. Many years later Laened Black made Chow Mein that tasted like the Chop Souy at the Boston. I asked her fo...
The next Learn at the Library program will be presented by Blaine County Undersheriff Frank Billmayer Tuesday, Feb. 23, 7 P.M. He will give timely and vital information on protecting yourself against identity theft and scams. You will not want to miss this important presentation. Refreshments will be served. The library will be closed Monday, Feb. 15 in observance of President’s Day. The regular meeting of the library board will be Monday, Feb. 23, 9 A.M. in the library meeting room. “A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for...
The Super Bowl is over and I am already into serious football withdrawal but there are other things happening that are neat to observe and write about. I don’t know at this writing who won the Super Bowl. More about that next week. For now I do know that some of the stories that attracted most of my attention were that Peyton Manning needed a hip replacement (can you imagine a starting quarterback in the NFL needing a hip replacement?) Probably that was not a true story although time will tell for sure. Then there was the strange fate of the P...
I had some good prime rib in the freezer since Christmas. I decided to cut it up and turn it into a Saturday night supper of beef Stroganoff. In the middle of my cutting the prime rib into strips, I got an inspiration. I remembered a meal that I had forgotten for years. It was my mother’s meal and one that we had in our family home at least once every two weeks for years and years. Mother called barbecued sirloin tops over rice. I call it barbecued prime rib tips over noodles. A word about the noodles. I prefer them to rice for this dish and f...
February is “Love Your Library” month. To celebrate you are invited to fill out a heart with the name of your Literary Valentine (a book character you love!). Your name will be entered into a drawing for a door prize to be given away at the end of the month. Our next Learn at the Library program will be Tuesday, Feb. 23, 7 P.M. when undersheriff Frank Billmayer will present a program on protecting yourself from identity theft and scams. Mark your calendars so you don’t miss this important information. Are you aware you may check our catal...
Teenagers have joined forces with other teens and scientists across the United States as part of “National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week” (NDAFW). The week-long health observance, organized by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), both part of the National Institutes of Health, takes place Monday, January 25th through Sunday, January 31st. NDAFW celebrates the inquisitive minds of teens by giving them a space (virtual or physical) to ask questions about drugs and alcohol and...
Let’s get one thing out in the open right away. There is no such thing as wind chill numbers unless you are going to school, work or the grocery store buck naked. For wind chill is the measurement of the wind on bare skin. If it was any good it would be used in summer as well. Can you imagine the weatherman telling you to dress warm today because even though it is eighty above, it is only sixty due to the wind chill! It is hogwash and not to be believed. I have been trying to debunk this craziness for over fifty years now and have to admit, I...
February is Library Lovers Month! When you stop by the library fill out a heart with the name of your Literary Valentine ( a book character you love!). Your name will be entered into a drawing and you may win a basket of fabulous prizes! Did you finish your all-time favorite book for the January Book Challenge? Contact the library with the title and we will enter your name into the drawing for a gift certificate from a local business. The challenge for February is to read a young adult novel. The library has a great selection of young adult...
I turned 75 this January. That is a monument for me and for those who would say I am just a spring chicken yet, not true. I feel every one of those 75 years most of the time. How did I get this far? It was simple, brandy, martinis on Friday and Saturday nights and a huge white sheepskin rug to make me feel good every time I look at it! There was a time I was the holder of a huge collection of stuffed animals. Real stuffed animals. It was a collection that had belonged to the Lou Lucke Company and I added to it through the years. It got too big...
It is January of 1907 and the news this week is mostly all about the Little Rockies. Abraham Gill has disappeared and the Ruby Gulch is getting bigger and bigger as a gold mine. Mr. Gill was a partner of a man named Winter who had a ranch close to Landusky. The ranch had belonged to Johnny Curry and Curry eventually shot Winter to get the ranch back. There is a wonderful ghost story about Winter being seen yet in his night gear, brushing his teeth as that was what he was doing when he was shot. Anyhow, Abraham Gill came out looking for...
