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The Aaniiih Nakoda College Board of Directors and President Carole Falcon-Chandler welcomes all to the 30th Commencement Ceremony on Thursday, May 10, 2018. The commencement will be held at the Harlem High School Gymnasium at 5:30 p.m. ANC will have 41 potential graduates from Business to Carpentry. ANC will graduate two nurse education students with their Associate Degree of Nursing. The commencement address will be given by Miss Sharen Kickingwoman. A celebration feed will immediately follow...
The Harlem FFA Chapter traveled to Billings April 4-7 for 88th State Leadership Convention. Representing Harlem were Skylee Dirden, Daniel Rasmussen, Curtis Humphreys, Haylee Johnson, Alaynee Hawley, Andrew Rasmussen, and Zach Kinyon. The Chapter attended the nightly sessions, the hypnotist show, the career and trade show, and took in the sights around the city. In addition, the FFA Chapter competed in Agronomy, Livestock, and Mechanics Career Development Events. The Mechanics team of Daniel,...
Mark your calendar—the Montana Seed Show will be held March 8, 9 and 10 at Harlem High School with many events and exhibits to interest attendees. One of these is the Bread Contest. The categories for both youth (high school seniors and younger) and adult are regular white bread, 100% whole wheat bread, machine white bread and machine 50% combination whole wheat bread. All four categories will offer monetary prizes for youth and adults, with plaques in each category for the adults and a plaque to the over-all winner. The first place adult winne...
Harlem --- “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways,” wrote Elizabeth Barrett Browning back in the 1800s. This month, Harlem, Fort Belknap, and Big Flat community members can count the ways they love the Harlem Public Library during Library Lovers Month. Library Lovers Month is an international celebration hosted by libraries from Alaska to Australia as a way to celebrate the many things that libraries provide to patrons. This year, Harlem Public Library decided to join in the celebration. “Montana libraries are community anchors that enhan...
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 few 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...
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...
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...
It is that time of month, once again, for a December recipe of some sort. I confess that I love this time of year because I love casseroles, Crock pot meals and meals that are made in just one dish. This is one of those meals. It takes a couple of dishes but it is a wonderful supper for a cold winter night. First, a tip about your left over turkey from Christmas. Be sure to always freeze some dressing so when you are going to be making stuffed pork chops, for instance, which this meal is, you will have some of your own delicious dressing. You...
This time of year is always wonderful with all the good food and good cheer floating from town to town all across Montana. And, for me, the best of all of this time is the Christmas music which is like no other music I have ever heard. I remember one Christmas when I had a cabin up Alkali Springs in Beaver Creek Park, I was spending Christmas at that cabin. I had Christmas music playing and it was an English choir singing in very high pitched voices. That night it started to snow and my little evergreens in front of the house were covered with...
Lately there have been several sports people in Great Falls who are calling for the Grizzlies to get Dave Dickenson back. At present Dickenson is trying to win another gray cup for Calgary but no one denies that he would make a very good head coach. Dickenson was a great player in Great Falls, for the Grizzlies and in Calgary where he is a strong part of the Calgary organization. Some have even said that former Grizzly Coach Bob Stitt was not even a part of the Grizzly Nation, whatever that means. As for me, I say bring back Bobby Hauck and...
Pie is the traditional dessert for a good old fashioned Thanksgiving dinner. Only certain pies will do mind you if your theme is Thanksgiving from yesteryear. Of course pumpkin is an old time favorite and has been on the Thanksgiving dessert table for generations. So has mincemeat and mincemeat is much more interesting. Years ago the Presbyterian ladies used to can mincemeat for pies and they were very good pies. The secret ingredient of a good mincemeat pie is to have some deer meat or beef in it. With that is a combination of candied fruit,...
From “Jingle Bells” to “Angels We Have Heard on High” to “O Holy Night”, St. Thomas Catholic Church in Harlem will be celebrating Christmas time in a variety of ways. Beginning the season, the annual Christmas Bazaar will be held on Sunday, December 3, at New Horizons starting at 10 A.M. There will be a bake sale, Cookie Stroll, Candy Lane, lunch counter, raffle and bazaar tables. Maple sticks and cinnamon rolls will be available for early visitors. The Mitten Tree will provide collected mittens, gloves, scarves and hats for the school chil...
What Happened? The Brawl of the Wild was won by MSU last Saturday afternoon. The score was 31 to 23. I had predicted that the Griz would win the Brawl as they have the better team or so I thought. Anyway, had the Griz won, they would be off to the playoffs. Not so with Bozeman who played their last game of the season Saturday. I think that the Griz had a better team and I don’t think there was any home field advantage as both teams have played on both fields several times. No, the fact that the Bobcats won the game was simply because they h...
This month, Bear Paw Meanderings will be all about Thanksgiving. This week how about a recipe for that perfect dressing? There are several things to know about dressing. It can be dressing which is not ever put in the turkey to cook or it can be stuffing which is stuffed into the turkey and cooked with the turkey juices. Some people call them dry and wet dressing, dry is not in the bird and wet if it was stuffed into the bird More and more people seem to favor cooking dressing out of the turkey. The joy of this recipe is that it can be cooked...
Lots of strange things happened in the wonderful world of football this last weekend. I had gotten interested in six man football when Big Sandy started doing so well this year and I thought that if there was a team to beat it would be Valier who is continually a power house for six man. Not so this year. In the end of the season it was Westby-Grenora beating Valier 59 to 19. I still can’t believe that one. Then the Griz took on Northern Colorado in Missoula and beat them 44 to 14. I knew that the Griz would win that game but not by that m...
Ag Education Teacher, Harlem High School The Harlem FFA Chapter traveled to Bozeman November 8-11th for the John Deere Ag Expo. The chapter competed in Agronomy, Mechanics, and Livestock Judging contests. The students represented Harlem well in the events. Highlights include the Junior Mechanics team of Zach Kinyon, Andrew Rasmussen, and Gabi Bell placing 31st out of 49 teams with Zach placing individually 77th out of 172 competitors. In Junior Livestock, the team placed 40th out of 60 teams...
For many people, Thanksgiving is their favorite holiday because it stresses getting together and having a great meal. There is no gift buying and none of the religious overtones that come with Christmas, just a month away. No, Thanksgiving is simply a time to get together and watch some football and have that great meal. That is all different for people selling things. They have worked to the bones to make their stores and shops beautiful for buying those Christmas gifts for everyone and traditionally it all starts the day after Thanksgiving...
It was an up and down weekend for Montana football. Big Sandy lost to Bridger on Friday night leaving them out in the cold until next year. I think that next year will see great things from the Pioneers. Montana Grizzlies played Northern Arizona and won which was a shock to the experts most who thought that Northern Arizona was a walk in to win that game. The score was 17 to 15 and one thing that made it easier for the Griz to win that game is that in about the first or second play of the game, the Arizona quarterback just blew up and was...
I have some elk steaks in the freezer that a friend gave me. Now, let me tell you that in the circles I run in, elk steak is akin to lobster for tasting wonderful. I know of more than one family who gets an elk every year just so they can have elk steaks for Christmas Eve. Those same people go into great detail to say that elk is better than venison, better than moose, better than bear and more like bison when comparing it to beef. In other words, it is just very good meat to do something with. Elk steak is best cooked over the grill in the...
Talk about six man football. When Big Sandy beat Richie/Lambert last week it put them in line for quarter finals next week when they will be playing at Bridger. By the way that Big Sandy vs. Richie score was 55 to 32. Meanwhile Bridger beat Missoula Valley Christian 66 to 0. The Big Sky League did not go the way I wanted it to go at all this weekend. It was fine that the Bobcats beat Idaho State Colorado 28 to 14 on Saturday afternoon and it was a good game to watch. But then the Grizzlies went bad and Weber State beat them 41 to 27. There...
My name is Lucille. I am a ghost and I don’t like it one little bit. I have just gone around for a lifetime haunting the house I lived in as a child and where I died. It must have been twenty or thirty years after I died that I learned that I could be heard by residents of the house. I have scared a lot of them a lot through the years. I learned that if I scream as loud as I can, I can break through some barrier between the truly dead and people like me who are stuck in sort of a limbo land. It is not pleasant. Once in a while a person can get...
Something new is being planned for Harlem’s Country Christmas—a Country Christmas Party! This event will be held Sunday, December 10, at the VFW Club, and all ages are invited. Vendors and games are encouraged to kick off the party starting at 3 P.M. From 4-6:30 a chili cook-off will be held with $200 going to the first place prize winner and $100 to the second place winner! Registration forms for the cook-off will be available at Albertson’s, Richman Insurance, City Hall and from Kayla Hudon. Pictures with Santa will be taken from 3-5 P.M....
In my jaded youth, my family and I had lots of fishing and hunting cabins. You know because you read about one or another several times a year. One of the biggest drawbacks to our hunting camps was that usually they were one room log structures and had no insulation. I remember one cabin on Clear Creek that you could lay in bed and look up at the stars through the shingles on the roof. And yet, that roof never leaked. Amazing. In our cabins we usually had a large black cook stove and included a hot water reservoir by the side. Heat the stove an...
Let’s start this week’s ramblings just north of the Little Rockies where the Thunderbirds play sports once a week or more some of the year. Something huge happened with the Thunderbirds this last week in that Isiah Runsabove won the first ever individual Cross Country Title. He is the first player at the Hays/ Lodgepole School to have ever been the State Champion for Class C Cross Country. And he got the headline above the fold in Sunday’s Great Falls Tribune for his achievement! Well done Isiah Runsabove and you will end up in the Olymp...
I owe you one last column about fall foliage, that is finding fall foliage where there is usually not much to find or finding it where most people do not think to look. This fall foliage season has been a very strange season as the leaves just simply refused to fall off the trees for the longest time. Fall foliage until the big storm in early October was really spectacular for weeks on end. Then finally there was a very big snow storm and foliage started falling and turning colors quickly. I don’t know just how much foliage is left since I h...
