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Montana Association of Clerk & Recorders and Election Administrators - March 31, 2017 As efforts to revive Senate Bill 305 failed Friday, Montana’s elections administrators turned their attention to the forthcoming special election on May 25. SB 305, introduced by Sen. Steve Fitzpatrick (R-Great Falls) would have given Montana counties the option to hold a mail-only election to replace Rep Ryan Zinke. Despite the support of nearly all of Montana’s 56 counties and successful passage through the Montana Senate, SB 305 was tabled in the House Judi...
This June 23 Blaine and Hill County cancer support volunteers will collaborate to stage the first ever combined North Central Montana Relay. Co-chair Colleen Mulonet said the event, the major fundraiser that supports cancer research, will alternate between the two counties. The 2017 event will be held at Havre High School, next year's relay will be in Blaine County. Mulonet said the next regular meeting for the upcoming June event will be Wednesday, April 12 at the Chinook Eagles. She said,...
The Chinook and Harlem Libraries, in conjunction with Montana Humanities, are hosting stories and songs by Bill Rossiter in his presentation titled “Home, Home on the Ranch: Farm and Ranch Life in Story and Song.” The program, through songs and stories, illustrates the less glamorous but more enduring side of life on the ranches and farms in Montana. Both programs are at the respective libraries: Chinook’s performance is Wednesday, April 26, at 7pm, and Harlem’s is Thursday, April 27, at 7 pm. There is no charge to attend the program. Rossite...
Reporter’s note: Each time I attend the Blaine County Fair I’m impressed with the gaggle of kids following around a lady who’s wearing wild face makeup and outlandish, bright colored clothing. She’s usually pulling a cart full of surprises or has a bunch of surprises laid out on a table to entertain kids. Whatever she’s doing, the younger set is drawn to her like a magnet. Folks familiar with the Blaine County Fair, particularly if they have little kids or grandkids, know this ‘Pied Piper of Montana kids’ as Pippi the Clown. Thinking abou...
On this day in 1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia. He had just been sworn in for a fourth term in January of that year. It was war time and that was the reason President Roosevelt ran for a fourth term in the first place. He was very ill at that time. In fact the ceremony of celebration of his fourth term and the swearing in of him for that term was held at the White House, not the capitol as he was too ill to go through all the ceremonies that going to the capitol would bring. Then he went on a long and...
By Jane Krass Happy Easter Everyone!! Elissa and Jordan Zellmer and family and Kathy Zellmer attended the final Basketball Elementary Jamboree held in BoxElder on Saturday. The kids did a good job this season and the coaches did a good job teaching them the game. Lets look forward to next season. Susan Billmayer attended Lenten Services in Hogeland on Thursday night at the Lutheran Church. Last weekend, Teresa Cornell was in Great Falls to visit her Mom, Evelyn Hedstrom and brother Kris and his wife LeAnn and family. Teresa and Evelyn attended...
There will be a bridal shower for Annie Van Voast on Saturday, April 15th at 7:00 p.m. at Susan Billmayer’s home at 565 Bevolden Rd. Hogeland. Everyone is invited to attend. Please come wish the bride to be good wishes. Max and Kirsti Cederberg and Francis and Peggy Van Voast went to Billings to see Garrison Keillor this week. There is a track meet scheduled for this Thursday on April 13th in Whitewater beginning at 9:30 am. This is for grades 5-12. Family celebrated a belated birthday party for Linda Hauge on Sunday at the Harlan Krass h...
Phyllis Speak Thunder passed into the spirit world on April 1, 2017 due to complications from surgery surrounded by her sisters and loved ones. She was born on December 27, 1951 to George Speakthunder and Evelyn First Raised Speakthunder. She was raised in the valley and attended Harlem School until the 8th Grade. She then attended the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma and graduated in 1969. She attained a Bachelors degree in elementary education from Northern Montana College in 1980. Phyllis... Full story
Helen Elaine Brekke Thompson was born in Havre, MT on March 18, 1930 to Olaf and Pearl Brekke. She passed away on March 12th, 2017 in Kalispell, MT. She is survived by her husband, George S. Thompson, five children, ten grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at Harlem United Methodist Church on Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 2:00 PM. She will be buried in Harlem Cemetery....
Q: I admit I’ve always been kind of a “Christmas and Easter” Christian, since those seem to be the only times I manage to make it to church. What would you say to someone like me? A: The first thing I’d say is that I’m glad you at least make it to church twice a year! Even if God and church don’t mean very much to you right now, at least they must mean something—and in our increasingly secular age, this is noteworthy. But I’m also glad for another reason: God could use these two days to speak to you and give you a new understanding o...
The Midwinter Fair Youth Day was held on Friday, February 3, 2017 and began with the youth in attendance playing games sponsored by different Tribal Programs. Games included Basketball competitions hosted by the CDC program, a music booth that handed out headphones hosted by the Tobacco Prevention Program and go-cart riding through a maze hosted by The Hays/Lodge Pole Gear Up Program. The day was themed after the Mid Winter Fair, which was "Language Through Music." The opening acts were the...
Be sure to stop into the library this week and help us celebrate National Library Week! We have a table with 2 foot by 6 foot poster for patrons to color on. We have door prizes to register for and we have surveys we would like to have filled out. Everyone who checks something out will receive a book bag and bookmark, both of which can be colored with markers. “Sully” will be the movie at 1:00 p.m. today. On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed the “Miracle on the Hudson” when Captain “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) glided his disabled pl...
Don’t miss the Humanities Montana program on Thursday, April 27, 7 P.M. in the library meeting room. Speaker Bill Rossiter will present an informative and entertaining program “Home, Home on the Ranch.” Please come and bring a friend! Summer will soon be here. Each year the library hosts a Summer Reading Program for children ages preschool through grade six to support literacy skills and encourage reading enjoyment. The library is asking for your help. We have a list of supplies needed for the various projects we will do with the child...
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...
lass B/C ranks for several years and will look to be in contention again this spring. The 'Beeters had to wait a bit longer than most teams to see their first action due to a busy calendar for many of their players that made getting the required practices more difficult. The team faced the Chester-Joplin-Inverness Hawks in a dual on Thursday and then headed to Great falls over the weekend where they would get a chance to see a lot of action. In Chester the four varsity returners, senior Nicole...
The spring Track and Field season kicked into high gear this past weekend as more than 30 teams and 500 athletes converged on the Middle School track in Havre for the Annual Cal Wearley Invitational. Saturday many of the same teams were back for the Havre Invitational. The Chinook Girls faired very well at both meets finishing third in the Cal Wearley with 59 points and fourth in the Havre Invitational with 76 points. The Harlem boys had a great showing at the Cal Wearley finishing fourth....
Friday and Saturday, April 7th and 8th, the Chinook FFA Chapter hosted the 23rd annual Poets and Pickers Gathering. The Chinook FFA Chapter has hosted this for 12 years, and before that Speech and Drama for 11 years. Poets and Pickers is their own entity who bring in entertainers from all over to take part in their show. This entertainment is full of family fun storytelling, cowboy poetry and songs. Steve Hughes, Arnold Hokanson, Noel Burles, and Dale Mailand were just some of the performers tha...
The Montana Country Poets and Pickers 23rd Western Heritage Roundup took place this past weekend in Chinook. The three day gathering featured performances Friday and Saturday evening at the Chinook High School Auditorium as well as a Saturday morning show and a Sunday morning Cowboy Church. Several of the Poets and Pickers also took time to perform with the Kitchen Band at the Chinook Senior Center as well. Performers came from all over the state of Montana as well as Alberta and Manitoba,...
