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Eric Owens began his duties as Blaine County Deputy County Attorney on March 6. Owens is a native of Anchorage, Alaska and a 2015 graduate of the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana. He learned about the deputy's vacancy from Jordan Sabo, who previously held the position and was a friend from law school. Sabo is now living in the Bozeman area. Owens came to Montana to attend law school. After graduating from the U of M he returned to Alaska to find legal work. He sai...
When Montana’s sole U.S. Representative, Ryan Zinke, was appointed and confirmed as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, filling the vacated Congressional seat fell to the state political parties to select candidates and Montana’s 56 counties to fund the special federal election. The political parties have made their candidate selections, Governor Bullock has set the election for Thursday, May 25 and now the counties are preparing to hold the election. Back in mid-February a bill was introduced in the Montana Senate (SB 305) that would all...
A two-day instructor training to teach survival strategies for violent intruder or active shooter incidents was recently concluded in Chinook. The training opportunity, organized by the Blaine County Sheriff's Office, was presented by the ALICE Institute Training group. ALICE Institute has been conducting this type of training for more than 20 years. Blaine County Undersheriff Frank Billmayer said he thought the training was "great and very useful" and provided attendees with a lot of new...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tom Cook 406-444-1645 The Montana Historical Society is offering educators a free workshop on using Montana history to engage students in fun and interesting ways in other curriculums in the classroom. The workshops will be in April in Lewistown, Glasgow, Chinook, and Cut Bank and are open to teachers in surrounding areas. The free workshops also carry six OPI renewal units for teachers. The morning session involves “visual thinking strategies” using teacher led discussions of art images to teach ways to tea...
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...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 17, 2017 CONTACT: Tom Palmer MusselResponse@mt.gov The Joint Mussel Response Implementation Team will host an open house at Montana WILD in Helena on March 27 to discuss the upcoming watercraft inspection season, new regulations, and local boater program certification. The event will focus on Montana’s plan to contain, detect and prevent the spread of invasive mussels and other aquatic invasive species. The open house will run from 6-9 p.m., with a Joint Mussel Response Team presentation set for 7 p.m. Local boa...
The Chinook Food Pantry exists to serve the residents of Blaine County. We are open every Tuesday from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Please remember that an ID is required for receiving food from the Chinook Food Pantry. An ID number is required for all individual members of the family household as well. 96% of our clients have presented ID numbers for all household members and it is only fair that everyone else honor those same guidelines. The Food Pantry’s General Guidelines are that food may be picked up once per calendar quarter (basically every t...
Lilliane Thompson, 84, passed away on Sunday, March 5th due to complications with pneumonia and cancer at Benefis Hospital in Great Falls, MT. Lillian, better known as Lil, was a very jolly person who always had a smile on her face. She enjoyed shooting pool, dancing and playing cards. She also enjoyed traveling as she had gone to Hawaii 7 times and loved the relaxing time she had on those trips. Lil was also a very talented seamstress and loved to spend time doing crafts. Lil was born October 30, 1932 in Coderre, SK, Canada, to Frederick and...
Edward R. Dugan, 82, of Waterloo, IL, formerly of Harlem, MT, died March 15, 2017, in Waterloo, IL. He was born June 8, 1934, in Burksville, IL. He is survived by his children Ramona Vogt (Dennis Oxmann), Cynthia (Bill) Ragsdale, Patrick (Laura) Dugan, Brian Dugan, and George (Penni) Dugan; grandchildren;great grandchildren; sisters Mary Lou Draude and Georgia Fries; brother Joseph Dugan; nieces; nephews; and cousins. Edward is preceded in death by his parents Edward R. and Ida M. nee Hornung... Full story
Marvin Lloyd Potter, 71 passed away in his sleep, March 14, 2017 at Peace Hospice in Great Falls with his loving sister, Kelly Taylor at his side. A celebration of his life will be 2:00P.M., Saturday, March 25 at the Glasgow V.F.W. Post 3107. There will be sharing of stories and Military Honors. Lunch will follow the services. Condolences for the family may be left at www.kirkwoodfuneralhome.com. Marvin was born to Harold and Pearl (Whitish) Potter on July 22, 1945 in Glasgow. Montana. They divorced and Harold married Mary Wilson who Marvin... Full story
Q: I’ve gone through some hard times recently, and my aunt says I ought to be thankful because they’ll make me a better person. Is she right? I admit I’m having a hard time seeing things her way. A: We all want our lives to be smooth and trouble-free, of course—but unfortunately life isn’t always that way. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who was completely free of worries and problems. Job rightly said, “Man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward” (Job 5:7). The real question, therefore, is this: How will we react whe... Full story
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 14, 2017 Contact: Jonathan Moor 406-538-1943 jmoor@blm.gov (BLAINE COUNTY, Mont.) – The Ervin Homestead/Gist Bottom Historic District lies within the vast and isolated, but breathtakingly beautiful Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument. In 1997 Zane Fulbright was sent on a work detail from the U.S. Forest Service to record homesteads within the Bureau of Land Management Upper Missouri National Wild & Scenic River area. Twenty years later, on Jan. 20, 2017, he accepted the certificate recognizing the Ervin H...
The Big Flat Catholic Church will hold their Annual Spring Dinner and Bazaar on Sunday, March 26, from 12-2:00 p.m. A turkey dinner with all the trimmings will be served. Come out and enjoy a wonderful meal! Teresa Cornell attended the Nimble Thimble Quilt Guild meeting and sew day in Turner on Saturday. She also stopped by at the Steve Reed home for a visit. Sandy Beck played cards at Barb Ranstrom’s home in Chinook on Wednesday, Mar. 15. Wally and Loretta Beck attended the Turner Elementary Jamboree basketball games in Chinook on Saturday. D...
Mark your calendars for the Big Flat Catholic Church Spring Dinner! Stop by the Catholic Church Fellowship Hall this coming Sunday, March 26th from 12:00-2:00 for a delicious dinner. You’ll be glad you did!! Linda Hauge was to Havre with Harlan and Jane Krass on Tuesday for medical appointments. Birthday supper was held this past Thursday for Bridget Reed at the Reed home. Beside, her immediate family were Jim Reed, Harlan and Jane Krass, Linda and Darel Hauge, and Randy and Diana Maloney. Glenna Ammen took in the Elementary basketball games i...
(StatePoint) April, which is National Volunteer Month, is an excellent time to get involved in your community. Here are three ways to give back, depending on how much time you can commit. One Afternoon If life is complicated, consider a short, one-time project, such as a local park clean-up or tree-planting event. Or, contact a local soup kitchen about pitching in at a meal. A Weekly Commitment Becoming a mentor or volunteer tutor offers a young person longer-term support and can improve his or her chances of success in school and beyond....
"Extraordinary Measures" will be the movie at 1:00 p.m. today. "The Magic of Belle Island" will be the movie next week. If anyone has a request for a movie, please let us know or tell Kristi at the Senior Center. Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served. Story Time is Tuesday mornings at 10:30 a.m. Kids of all ages and abilities are welcome to attend. There will be no LEGO Club during the month of March. We have a number of books this week from some of our patron's favorite...
Teen Book Club starts this week on Thursday, Mar. 23, 4 P.M. Teens ages 13-18 are invited to come and pick up their copy of “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton. Refreshments will be served. The regular meeting of the Library Board of Trustees is Wed., Mar. 29, 4:15 P.M. in the library meeting room. The next Learn at the Library program will be Mon., April 3, 7 P.M. when Blaine Co. Deputy Sheriff Jim Beemer will present a program on Self-Defense. Refreshments will be served. Are you keeping up with the 2017 Reading Challenge? If you have read your 4...
Visitors to the Chinook Pharmacy might have seen the new 'dime store horse' at the front of the store. The mechanical horse is a fairly recent acquisition by Kelcey Diemert, who owns and operates the pharmacy with wife Nancy. Kelcey said, "I saw this horse for sale online. I'd always wanted one of those old timey horses and ended up buying it." Anyone of a certain age will recall the coin-operated kiddie rides that stood out front many businesses in the 1950's and 60's. Rides came in many...
Micah Conner, a nine-year old from Chinook, recently celebrated his birthday by making a donation to help dogs and cats in local animal shelters. His mom, Amy Gerky, said, "Micah did the same thing on his eighth birthday last year. We had just moved to Chinook and didn't yet know about PAWS so he gave his birthday donation to the Maclean Animal Adoption Center in Great Falls." This year he gave a donation to PAWS (Pets Are Worth Saving), in Chinook, as well as Maclean. PAWS shelters dogs, Maclea...
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...
Bidders at the recent 2017 March Madness Calcutta spent a total of $23,707 to purchase 64 teams that will be bidding for the national college basketball championship. The tournament will conclude on Tuesday, April 6, when the championship game is played. In its seventh year, the Harlem-based Calcutta is sponsored by the local Civic Association. The annual event is the major fundraiser for the community group that uses its share of the proceeds for a number of projects in and around Harlem. Assoc...
Officials with the Harlem Golf Association say the Harlem Golf Course is in financial trouble. Association Treasurer Ralph Schneider said, "Our annual projected expenses, over the next five years, exceed our normal income by $20,000+ each year." He described fundraising plans that club officials hope will save the course that first opened in 1992. Outlining the financial challenge that must be met to open the course this spring, Schneider said, "We've projected income of about $47,000. That...
The following are excerpts from the official Chinook School Board Meeting held on February 14, 2017. For a complete transcript of the meeting please stop by the High School office. Old Business: 1. Updating Required School Board Policies (2nd Reading): Mr. Hannum having made revisions to the policies as pointed out at the January meeting, noted on the Policy Updates 2nd Reading attachment, recommends the Full board that they approve the policies 1310, 1521, 1610, 1700, 2105, 2171, 2310, 2311, 2333, 3123, 4310, 5222, 6210, 7330, 7515, 8205, 8420...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March, 2017 USDA announced that starting March 20, 2017, organic producers and handlers will be able to visit over 2,100 USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices to apply for federal reimbursement to assist with the cost of receiving and maintaining organic or transitional certification. USDA reimburses organic producers up to 75 percent of the cost of organic certification, but only about half of the nation’s organic operations currently participate in the program. Starting March 20, USDA will provide a uniform, s...
