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This weeks entry into our $100 Photo Contest is one featuring something we are all familiar with, Harvest. This photo is of Kurt Hansen's Combine with a sky that is filled with smoke from the fires in Glacier Park making for a very interesting photo. Send your entries in to us by Sunday the week before publication. Send photos to bcjads@mtintouch.net...
A new tool to help customers connect with Chamber Area businesses is now available. Chamber President Sarah Pratt created Chinook Plus, a new phone app that replaces the former "coupon book" used to provide coupons and special offers to customers. Pratt said, "We found one of the problems with the coupon books was customers often did not have a coupon with them when they wanted to make a purchases. Long term the books were often misplaced or lost. Smartphone users typically have their phone...
Last week Joe Kennedy volunteered to tear down the old "wooden bridge" playground equipment at Sweet Park. Kennedy said, "The Park Board wanted it removed and I volunteered to take it down." Joe added, "I started about 2pm taking it apart and hope to be done by dark." Kennedy was not sure when the equipment was installed at the park. Long time Lions Club member Jack Mattingly said he recalled that the wooden bridge play set and the taller, 'curly' slide beside the bridge were both installed by...
CHS rising senior Brendan Edwards recently spent a week completing the residency component of the Western Aerospace Scholars program. The program, sponsored by NASA and the Seattle-based Museum of Flight, was founded in 2006. Students accepted to the program spend a year doing STEM-based (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math program) lessons via the internet and projects focused on space exploration and earth sciences, then complete the hands-on summer residency component. The aerospace...
The Harlem Food Bank will begin their drive to raise funds for the year after September 1, 2018. Town Pump again has offered to help. This year they have offered to give us $2000.00 in Matching Funds. They treat Food Banks very well in Montana and we surely thank them for their assistance. We have been active in Harlem for 10 years and in the past year have given out over 29,000 pounds of food. We will be having Food Drives later this year. The community support in the past has been very good and we hope the support continues as there is a...
Loretta Beck went to Turner on Monday to help with the distribution of the produce from the fruit truck. She dropped Merrilyn Billmayer’s order off and Mary Ann Olszewski’s off and visited at both places on the way home. Melissa Hiniker left Ed and Kathy Zellmer’s home on Wednesday to go back to Havre after being there a few days. She will start her junior year at Northern. Diana Maloney, Cindy Reed, Hilary and Natalie Richman, and Anita, Lucas, and Bridget Reed as well as Harlan Krass helped Jane celebrate her birthday on Saturday. Happy...
Blanche Moxley Warburton passed away of natural causes at the Sweet Memorial Nursing Home in Chinook on August 24, 2018. Blanche was born at home January 30, 1923 in Rattlesnake, Montana to Curtis and Mildred Moxley. She was delivered in the family's small log cabin by her Grandmother Bloomer. She was the second oldest of six children. Growing up south of the Bear Paws on the family homestead, Blanche played paper dolls cut from the Montgomery Ward catalogs and walked a mile each day in the... Full story
Malta- Roy A. Baeth 91, passed away at his home on August 23, 2018. Visitation was Sunday, August 26, 2018 7:00 P.M. at Kirkwood Memorial Chapel. Memorial services were Monday, August 27, 2018 11:00 A.M. at Kirkwood Memorial Chapel. Internment at Malta cemetery. Condolences for the family may be left at www.kirkwoodfuneralhome.com. Roy was born March 26, 1927, in a log house on Content Road, to Henry and Marie Kliewer Baeth. He spent his childhood on Sun Prairie and in the Larb Hills. He told st... Full story
Chinook's Cancer Support Group's August gathering featured a presentation on sleep by Sweet Medical Center's (SMC) newest Behavioral Health Provider, Christina Hoppe. Hoppe, a native of Havre and a 2007 graduate of Havre High, completed her PsyD (Doctor of Psychology) in 2016 from Pacific University near Portland, Oregon. She is a clinically trained psychologist currently doing a year-long residency as a prelude to licensure in Montana. After completing her academic work she did an internship...
The library will be closed Monday, Sept. 3 in observance of Labor Day. The Book Challenge for September is to read a biography about a person you wish you could know. Contact the library with the title of the book you read for the August Book Challenge. “The Word Is Murder” is a new mystery by Anthony Horowitz. On a spring morning in London, wealthy mother of a famous actor Diana Cowper goes into a funeral home to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found strangled by a curtain cord. Fredrik Backman, author of “A Man Called Ove...
Stop in and welcome our new Assistant Librarian, Kelsey Buhmann Brown this week. Fall programs will begin in September. Wednesday movies begin September 5th. The movies for the month will be: Against a Crooked Sky, Me Before You, 8 Seconds and On Golden Pond. All movies begin at 1:00 p.m. and everyone is welcome to attend. If anyone has a request for a movie, just let us know. You can also put in a request to Marlene at the Senior Center. Story Time will begin Tuesday September 11th at 10:30 a.m. Middle School Hangout will also be held...
A big Thank You: To Jana Egeland for the jigsaw puzzles; To Ralph Schneider for the cookies; To Barb McDonald for the multi-pack of Pinochle cards; To Phyllis Heilig for the half-n-half; To Chuck Wasser and Paycee Leo for picking up the recliner chair and to Reuben Kuntz for helping them get it inside the building. Have you picked up your Lifetime FREE Activity Pass for all Harlem Sports HOME events? Anyone 60 and older qualifies. Just stop by the Harlem High School Business Office and they will make you one. Reminder: The Senior Center will...
Friday we had our planned power outage and everything went off without a hitch. A huge thanks to the volunteers and staff for your patience and willingness to make a good day a great day in spite of no power. Then, this morning, Monday the 27 all the problems that were happening last week that required fixing happened over the weekend. As a result of the freezers losing power all of our ice cream melted. Yes, all our ice cream social, ice cream. Not enough time to order, but Jeff Finley at Finley Food Farm came to our rescue, we will have an ic...
By Darin Hannum, Chinook school superintendent As Chinook Public Schools gears up for the 2018-19 school year, there are several topics I would like to address with everyone: enrollment numbers and fall activities, new activity bus, weight room, and out of district students. Enrollment and Fall Activities We have had an excellent start to the school year. Chinook High School enrollment is 115 students, Chinook Junior High has 53, and Meadowlark Elementary has roughly 200 students. With the numbers at the elementary we have several classes that...
Ten members and two pastors from three churches in Chinook learned some basic ways to deal with an active shooter situation. The short course was taught by Blaine County Undersheriff Frank Billmayer and Sheriff's Deputy Chris Adair. Billmayer and Adair have taught a similar program to several schools, local government agencies and businesses in the county. ALICE instructor training was first offered locally in the spring of 2017. Billmayer said, "We've done parts of the ALICE training about eigh...
Reporter's note: I've been writing about places my wife and I found interesting in our travels. We've made numerous trips to the Seattle area to visit our daughter and her family. Usually those trips are a mad dash to get there (800 miles and 14 hours straight driving), then a made dash to get back to Chinook. The last couple of trips we've spent some time exploring eastern Washington-that area of the Evergreen State that runs from east of the Cascade Range to the Idaho border. Unlike the west...
Mike Jones was hired this spring to take over the reigns of the Chinook High School Football program and is excited about the opportunity to lead a program and very happy to return to Montana. Jones is very familiar with Class C Eight-man football in Montana. He is a 2007 graduate of Power High School. The 'Beeters and the Power-Dutton-Brady Titans have played some great games through the years but Jones won't get the opportunity to face his alma-mater because the Titan's dropped down to six-man...
The Chinook Sugarbeeters opened the football season against a team playing their first Eight-man football after dropping down from the Class B ranks. A year ago it was against the Chouteau Bulldogs and this year it was against Shelby Coyotes who lost in the State B Championship a season ago. The 'Beeters fell 48-6 in the opener but the contest had a much closer feel to it. The Sugarbeeters forced Shelby into a three and out on their first possession but after picking up a couple of first downs o...
The Chinook Surgarbeeters wanted to get the season started off on a high note when they traveled to Fort Benton to face the Longhorns in a battle between two quality teams with high expectations for the season. The Surgarbeeters did just that sweeping the District 7C Longhorns 25-22, 25-18 and 25-17 to win their first match of the season. Saturday the team was in Malta for the M-ette Invitational where they turned in a solid effort. Friday night in Fort Benton the 'Beeters took a back and forth...
