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The Blaine County Fair kicks off today! Well, readers may be aware that some 4-H events, like the Interview Judging started on Tuesday of Fair Week. Last week some parts of horse judging were completed to speed up competition during the actual fair event. Things have been happening at the fairgrounds and Fair Week is on us. New VIP seating available this year for arena events Back in the late winter the Fair Board heard a proposal from Justin Simenson, on behalf of the Bear Paw Roundup organizin...
The Blaine County Sheriff’s Department was recently awarded a Selective Enforcement Traffic Enforcement (STEP) grant through the Montana Department of Transportation. Per Debbie Gomke, with the Sheriff’s Department, this will be the eleventh year the local department has received the grant. The grant combines intensive enforcement of specific traffic safety laws with extensive communication, education and outreach informing the public about the enforcement activity. This year the grant related enforcement will occur on Saturday, July 16. Gom...
About 70 volunteers and celebrants gathered at Hoon Field on Friday night for the 2016 cancer walk. The walk, and related activities, is the culmination of a year of fundraising by local teams to support cancer research and provide services to cancer victims. Local organizers believe 2011 was when the Blaine County walk began. Prior to that volunteers joined Havre's annual walk. Before the walk began at Hoon Field on Friday night, a group of cancer survivors gathered for a dinner hosted by the...
Roy Stone began his new duties on June 1 as a Park Ranger at the Bear Paw Battlefield. A native of central Kentucky and a Navy veteran, Stone said he finds the people in north central Montana "very friendly and helpful." He added, "They remind me a lot of how nice people are back home, except folks here talk different." The new ranger has a recognizable drawl that indicates he's spent time somewhere in the south. Stone said, "Since I was a little kid, I've wanted to be in law enforcement with...
During the evening of April 1st, 2016 at approximately 9:30 pm a male individual entered the Chinook Golf Clubhouse and attempted to steal items of value and damaging the building inside. The individual used a mask and gloves to obscure his identity but does have an identifying walk. The crime was captured on a closed circuit video camera system and one of the still frame captures has been included in this information request. The public are also invited to visit the Blaine County Sheriff's...
Finally I can sit back in a lawn chair and really enjoy my garden. You see finally the cotton season from my older than dirt cottonwood tree has all gone away (most tracked in the house) and baring a July freeze, which is unlikely, or a hail storm, which is more likely, it is a time to watch my zinnias, dahlias and later perennial flowers just go great guns in the growing department. I have scores of blooms on my dahlias. That is really good to see because last year between a freeze and hail, I had few buds until it was ready to freeze in the...
It has been just over six years since President Obama signed his sweeping health care legislation into law, subjecting every American to federal mandates. How is it working out? Are your insurance premiums lower? Are your deductibles lower? Is it easier to get an appointment to see a physician? Were you able to keep your same physician? The legislation was passed in such a fashion as to strain the boundaries of the Constitution so severely that the Supreme Court had to decide if several of its components were legal, including whether the costs...
Kathy "Kat" Lou Bilger, 59, of Havre passed away peacefully at her daughter and son in law's Misty and Trinity Swenson's home in Chinook Mt, on July 3, 2016 from Peritoneal Cancer. Memory Service and Pot Luck Gathering will be at 3:00 p.m., July 30th, 2016, 1 ½ miles East of Old Plainsman Bar off Hwy 2, in Chinook MT. Kathy was born to Raymond "Dutch" and Ardis Gertrude (Kelsey) Gamble in Quietus Mt en route to hospital in family automobile. She lived in Sheridan Wyoming where she...
Ronald Evan (R.E.) Swenson, 92, of Chinook passed away Thanksgiving Eve, November 26, 2015 at The Sweet Memorial Nursing Home in Chinook of natural causes. Ronnie was born to Knute and Carman (Taylor) Swenson in Harlem on October 23rd 1923. His family lived in Zurich where he attended grade school, they later moved to Chinook where he attended High School. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Ronnie enlisted in the Army on December 19, 1941. He was a member of the Army Air Corp, Headquarters Squad...
Scott Angelo Pizzini, 52, owner of Hi-Line Roofing of Havre, passed away June 29, 2016 of natural causes, A celebration of life will take place at the Shanty Bar at 1:00 P.M. on Saturday, July 9th. Hi-Line Funeral Services is assisting the family with these arrangements and condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.hi-linefuneralservices.com Graveside services will be at a later time. Scott was born to Angelo and Marilyn Pizzini on January 16, 1964. He was raised in Havre, Montana all of his life and in his free time he enjoyed goin...
The Chinook Assembly of God installed their new pastor, Joshua Seymour, last Sunday. Seymour was raised in Helena and has spent the past six years as the Associate Pastor in charge of youth and children's ministries at the Havre Assembly of God Church. Seymour's first Sunday at the church was June 26. He's pictured here with his wife, Kristi, and their son, Enom. The Seymour family will be moving from Havre to Chinook to begin their new ministry. A community reception was held after the...
State and local public health officials are reminding Montanans to take steps to avoid mosquito bites and prevent infection with West Nile Virus (WNV). Summer is a prime time for exposure to mosquitos capable of transmitting WNV. However, Montanans can reduce their chances of being bitten by following the advice of public health experts. Public health officials are also reminding the public that while WNV is a concern in Montana, Zika virus is not. In fact, the mosquitos that carry Zika virus have not been found in Montana or neighboring states...
The Blaine County Museum will host the Montana Conversation program "Kid Gloves and Brass Knuckles: The Life of Nancy Cooper Russell" with Mary Jane Bradbury on July 19th. The program will be at Blaine County Museum at 7:00 p.m. The presentation is free and open to the public. Funding for the Montana Conversations program is provided by Humanities Montana through grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Montana's Cultural Trust, and private donations. Against the backdrop of the...
Johannas, Shannon, JR and Jake Brown spent several days camping in Glacier Park. While in Kalispell they visited Joe’s sisters Breck Don and Leila Avery and her family. Guests over the July 4th week at the Johannas and Shannon Brown home were the Hickel’s cousins Shawn, Tanya, Jacob and Garrett Latham from Seattle. Also joining the Brown/Hickel/Latham bunch for the holiday barbecue at the Brown home were Steve and Anita Reed and family and Colter Cederberg. Glenna Ammen took in the fireman picnic in Turner on Saturday. Don and Val Van Voa...
Richard Hopkins of Great Falls visited at the Terry Mohar home Wednesday-Saturday this past week. Carol Klindworth and her sister, Nancy Mahns went to the celebration at Virgille on Sunday. Brooke Reed was over to see Sharon Goodrich a couple of afternoons this past week for some quilting lessons. Emily Billmayer has been in the Great Falls hospital with pneumonia this past week. Get Well soon, Emily. Visitors Sunday at Brenda and Terry Mohars were Dusty, Misty, and Colter Mohar. The Turner Fire Department held their Annual Picnic at the...
July is Montana Open Land month which celebrates our state’s outdoor heritage. Check out our display of books which highlights Montana’s agriculture, wildlife, parks and recreation areas, clean water, and more! Each week our display will feature a new collection of books. Summer Reading continues until July 28 when we will have our grand finale for all the children who participated. Be sure to keep reading and bring in your logs for prizes. Mark your calendars for July 27, 6:30 P.M when the Friends of the Library will hold an “Alice in Wonde...
Just so you know… The Harlem Senior Center served 4430 meals in the building and delivered 899 meals for the fiscal year just ending (July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016). I’m not even going to tell you how many plates and bowls that added up to that got scraped and washed! The Meal Program is one big undertaking for the Harlem Senior Center. Thanks to everyone who helps in any way possible to make all this happen smoothly week after week! Notice!!! Please watch for the young kids out playing, riding bikes and skateboards, running, heading to the...
Well, it is fair week for Blaine County, but we still have a lot going on at the center. Our Thursday morning senior exercise class has been cancelled this week but we still have Bingo at 1 p.m. Last week, Karyn Higgins was our blackout winner. The Kitchen Band will be playing at 11 a.m. on Friday. Come down for lunch and play cards afterwards. The Public Card Party was Sunday with High Pinochle- Elva VanDessel and Low Pinochle- Cassie Morgan. Double Pinochle winners were Connie Stanley and Elisabeth O’Brien. Pool will be played on Monday, J...
Last week we had an art themed program. Kelsey read book about art and artists and then we turned the kids loose with paint in squirt guns and salad spinners! The works of art will be displayed in the library. Tuesday July 19th we will have a yoga theme. LEGO Club will be today for kids grades K through 6. Kids not in school yet may attend with adult supervision. Thursday will be Middle School Hangout for grades 6-8. Minions will be the Beat the Heat Movie on Monday July 18th. It is rated PG...
astern Blaine County gathered last week to visit with Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte. The meeting with the candidate was put together by Don Richman, Chairman of the Blaine County Republican Party, and was held in Richman's offices in Harlem. The group, all invited by Richman, was made up of ranchers and farmers, some county party officials and small business owners. Richman described the group to Gianforte as "friends of mine who I believe are also supporters of your...
Openings still remain for three Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Wolf Trapper Certification classes being held around the state later this summer and winter. Classes will be held in August in Bozeman and Missoula and one will be held in December in Kalispell. The Bozeman and Missoula classes are already filling up, but the Kalispell class has several openings. The Bozeman class will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Aug. 13 at the FWP Region 3 headquarters office on South 19th. The Missoula class will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 27 at...
The summer swim season is reaching the home stretch with just three weekends left. This past Saturday and Sunday a small contingent of swimmers from Harlem and Chinook made the trek east to Glendive. This coming weekend the teams will head to Fort Benton where they will put the finishing touches on the regular season. The Eastern Divisional swim meet is the following weekend in Malta and the Federation State swim meet is in Hamilton the last weekend of July. In Glendive Harlem's Andrew...
Anglers that participated in the Upper Missouri River paddlefish season this spring reported very good catch rates and reduced angling pressure from prior years. For some families, the new season structure was a welcome change after years of fighting crowds rushing to harvest a paddlefish before the quota was filled. Butte angler Michael O'Brien and his family were ready to quit paddlefishing until the lottery tag system was implemented in 2016. "My old man and I both agreed that most of the...
Not a lot of sports going on right now. NBC is broadcasting the most, with their Olympic Trails. The Olympics will be upon us soon and that will make for some great viewing in our living rooms as it is doubtful that many of us will be heading to Brazil where the nuts come from to once again use an old, old joke that wasn’t very funny sixty years ago. I prefer the winter Olympics. I think I have shared that with you readers before. It is just that I love to see snow events and be snuggled up in my living room with a brandy in my hand and a f...
Reporter's note: I appreciate when readers catch and share a mistake in an article I've written. Sometimes I make a serious misinterpretation of the facts and sometimes it's a less critical inaccuracy-like an incorrect date or the slightly misspelled name of a person or a place. Still, I like to put things right if I can. In the June 1, 2016 story about the Japanese families that came to Blaine County during World War II, much of the war-time experiences of the Tom Matsuoka family were...
