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The days are getting a little shorter, summer youth activities are winding down and junior and senior high school student athletes are gearing up for the fall sports season. As the community transitions from one season to the next the agricultural sector prepares for its annual harvest. The farming and ranching industries of Blaine County are vital to the well being of everyone who calls this section of the Hi-Line home, Winter wheat harvest is in full swing and spring wheat is ready to be cut...
Reporter's note: In June, 2016, Sweet Medical Center hosted the monthly Business After Hours event in Chinook. While writing a short history of the medical center before the After Hours, I was surprised when managers at the center said, "We don't know a lot of the specifics of the center's history." I decided to piece together a short history of the medical center and deal with why the facility is locally called both the Sweet Medical Center and the Chinook Medical Center. Fortunately, there...
Chinook Police Officer Jon Klobofski admits he has a soft spot for lost animals. In his job he sees lost or abandoned animals that are not claimed, even when it appears they've had good care and are likely missed by some owner. When a dispatcher at the Blaine County Sheriff's Office posted a photo of a dog someone had found on the local yard sale website, Klobofski got an idea that might help more efficiently reunite lost pets and their human owners. He created "Blaine County Lost and Found...
Final payments were made for the completion of the downtown sidewalk improvement project and the city will bill participating businesses for their portion of the costs. Four-way stop signs were approved to be installed at the corner of Ohio and 4th Streets. A special meeting to consider the 2016-2017 budget, and other items, was set for August 15 at 6:30 pm. The Chinook City Council held its regular monthly meeting on Thursday, August 4. Mayor Keith Hanson called the meeting to order. Council members present were Mitch Haider, Robert Smith and...
If during August you want to walk on the wild side, why not visit our giant neighbor to the north, Canada and explore the Cypress Hills? These days you will need a passport to get across the border and back into Montana as well. You can get an inexpensive and faster passport that lets you just into Canada and Mexico. I don’t know that there are any true cypress trees in Cypress Park which would be your destination. Just like I know that there are no true maple trees in the town of Maple Creek. It seems that the lowly box elder tree is called a...
Chief Justice Mike McGarth has notified the Judicial Nomination Commission that the Hon. John McKeon, district judge for the Seventeenth Judicial District (Blaine, Phillips, and Valley counties), will resign his position effective November 30, 2016. The Commission is now accepting applications from any lawyer in good standing who has the qualifications set forth by law for holding the position of district court judge. The application form is available electronically at http://courts.mt.gov. Applications must be submitted electronically as well...
JUMP, the interdenominational youth group in Chinook, just completed a week of mission service in what was described as a "destination" mission trip. Rather than joining other youth groups on large projects, this year the local group made their own contacts with orgnanizations in Helena, Missoula, Coeur d'Alene and a denominational camp on Flathead Lake near Kalispell. At each site the group did service projects for non-profits and religious groups. First stop was Intermountain Children's Home...
The “Journal” has been informed that the public event scheduled by Loaves and Fishes for the evening of Wednesday, August 10, has been canceled. Events set for Thursday noon and evening are still scheduled. Thursday, at lunch time, will be the ‘annual turkey dinner,’ a favorite every year with kids and parents. All are welcome to the turkey dinner served at noon in Wallner Hall. Thursday evening, at 6 p.m. in Sweet Park, there will be a meal provided with hunger awareness activities and singing by the children. There will be a swim party a...
Steve and Anita Reed and family enjoyed the Sawyer Brown concert Saturday night at the Phillips County fair in Dodson. Denise and AJ Watkins and girls recently enjoyed a family vacation to visit Aunt Kate Norman at Raton, New Mexico. Sonny and Nellie Obrecht enjoyed a birthday supper for Les Simons at the Charles and Pauletta Yates home in Turner on Sunday evening. Julianne and JB Solomon and family from Helena visited the Gerald and Shirley Keller home over the weekend. Also joining them were Karen Keller, Kendall and Kash, and Samantha and...
Susan and Emily Billmayer attended the HHH club picnic on Thursday evening at the Turner Park. This past week, from Tuesday-Saturday, Grandma Loretta and Grandpa Wally Beck were busy with all the grandkids while their parents were harvesting. On Friday, Abby Grabofsky also joined them and played with the kids. They had a lot of fun and it was a memorable time for all! Susan Billmayer was in Dodson on Friday to judge the flowers and vegetable section at the Phillips County Fair. Diana, Linda, Hilary, and Anita were out periodically throughout...
The Book Challenge for August is to read a book set in the future or the distant past. There will be no Story Hour or Books and Babies the rest of the month. They will resume the first week of September. Lego Cub will not meet August 11 and 18, but will start again Thursday, August 25, 6 P.M. in the library meeting room. The library has a new service called “Shoutbomb.” Patrons may sign up to be notified via test message if they have holds available, items due soon, and items overdue. Call the library for more information or go to the lib...
We would like to send a shout out to Kourtney Hanson, who volunteered this summer and helped with our Tuesday programs. Many of our hectic programs went so much smoother with Kourtney’s help. We appreciate you! The final day to turn reading logs in will be this Friday, August 12th, prizes will then be drawn for and top reader prizes will be awarded. Accelerated Reader Tests will continue to be available on all computers at the library until school starts. New books this week include: “A Time of Torment” by John Connolly, “The Unseen World...
It was one hundred and one years ago when William Arthur Davies first came to Blaine County and this weekend the family got together to celebrate. Relatives and friends came from all over to partake in the festivities. William Davies was born in Denbighshire, Wales in 1890. He lived there until he made his way to United States in March of 1912. It's a bit of a family story that he even made it to the United States. Apparently William had sought passage on the Titanic but tickets were sold out,...
By Steve Edwards BCJ News Reporter's note: Through the various Homestead Acts, some 1.6 million homesteaders settled nearly 10% of the total area of the U.S., mostly in the western states. The families of many of those homesteaders still live on parts of the original tracts settled by their forbearers. Others, for a variety of reasons, left the land. Of the latter group, it's not unusual their families still have an interest in the places where their relatives first settled and current generatio...
This weekend the 60th Annual Hays Powwow will take place at the Mission Canyon Powwow Arena on The Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. Visitors by the thousands will converge on the Powwow grounds where they will be surrounded by breathtaking scenery and moved by the glamour, spirit and colors of another spectacular celebration. For those who have yet to witness the pageantry of the American Indian Powwow, this weekends event will certainly be among the finest as it features a full weekend of...
The time is finally here for the fall high school sports season to get underway. For the seniors their final season is upon them and each and everyone of them will look to help their team make it memorable. For the juniors and sophomores, they bring another year of experience to the table and will look to fill important roles to help the team succeed. The freshman have yet to experience the rigors of high school but don’t look past them as there will be a few that are asked to be major contributors to there respective team. Volleyball teams i...
By the time you have read these words there will have been a Hall of Fame game played in the NFL and broadcast on ESPN. It was on last Sunday and even though our print deadline won’t let us tell you the score, it was Green Bay vs. Indianapolis. I imagine that Green Bay won it but if quarterback Luck is stinky enough, maybe Indianapolis won it. We had a report a couple of weeks ago that Quarterback Andrew Luck did not like to shower. After the Hall of Fame, the rest of August if filled with pre season games. You know it is that time of year b...
This past Sunday new Men’s and Women’s champions were crowned as the Chinook Golf and Country Club held its annual club tournament. Troy Azure won the men’s championship flight with a round of 38-37 75. Azure earned a par on the 18th hole to take the overall lead on the final hole after trailing by a stroke through 17. Brent Schellin (38-39 77) and Lane Seymour (39-38 77) finished in a tie for second. Mike Seymour was fourth in the clubs top division and Jeff Finley rounded out the group. Barb Eslick’s 49-43 92 won top honors for the woman a...
When my wife, Sherry, graduated from seminary, she was called to be the minister of three yoked churches in the eastern part of North Dakota. We flew to the interview and when we stepped off the plane in Grand Forks, North Dakota, we met Dick and Phyllis Clark. They were the first people we ever met from and in North Dakota. They served as our hosts during the interview process and became some of our closest friends in North Dakota. We've kept up with the Clarks through the years and recently...
