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The Annual Sugarbeet Festival took place this past Saturday in downtown Chinook. The day began with the Jesse James Memorial Color Run and concluded with a street dance on Main Street. This years festival was held in conjunction with the 7th Annual Chinook Rod & Gun Club Gun show, the Sweet Memorial Nursing Home 50th Anniversary and the Blaine County Cruisers Car Show. With so much going on the town was busy all weekend long. The Jesse James Foundation did a wonderful job getting the day...
The Chinook Rod & Gun Club held its 7th Annual Gun Show at the Blaine County Fairgrounds Commercial Building this past Friday Saturday and Sunday and enjoyed one of their best shows ever. Chinook Rod & Gun Club Board Members Darin Hamilton, Frank Pehrson, Elmer Zarn, Ralph Cross, Doug McCracken and Keith Hanson were thrilled with how well things went over the weekend and look forward to improving on things next year. "Oh the vendors, they just love coming to Chinook," said Hanson. "We all heard...
Columnist's note: Alert readers may recall the June, 2016 "Journal" story about the Fred Robinson Bridge and its dedication in 1959. The giant celebration drew an estimated 10,00-15,000 celebrants. At the end of 2016 story I wrote, "Here's one interesting but somewhat mysterious connection between the bridge and Blaine County. Both the "Harlem News" and the "Chinook Opinion" reported, "The first person to walk across the bridge after the log was cut (like a ribbon cutting) and the bridge officia...
On October 4-5, Region II of the Comprehensive System of Personnel Development (CSPD), in partnership with Havre Public Schools, will offer free MANDT System training with presenter Clarissa Shaffer. To be held at Best Western Plus Havre Inn & Suites, located at 1425 Highway 2 Northwest, this training is for parents, general and special educators, paraprofessionals, agency personnel, and others who work with children. Registrations for this workshop will be taken through October 1 or until the course, which is limited to 20 participants, is...
Many residents across the Hi-Line can claim an affiliation to MSU-Northern, either as a former student, as an employee, or as a benefactor of the economic benefits that come from a college town. Given those common connections, all can celebrate the institution's 90th Anniversary on September 24. Northern actually had its beginnings in 1913 when the Thirteenth Legislative Assembly of Montana established Northern Montana Agricultural and Manual Training School to be located at Fort Assiniboine....
Elaine Robinson of Superior, Montana, Worthy Grand Matron of the Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star in Montana made her official visitation to Northern Star Chapter #23 in Chinook on Friday, September 13, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. Worthy Grand Patron Earl Bricker, of Moore, Montana accompanied her. Dinner at the Chinook Motor Inn at 5:00 p.m. preceded the meeting. All members of the Eastern Star were invited to attend. The Order of Eastern Star was developed in the 1860's by Rob Morris, who...
Virginia Lee (Lundberg)McCracken, 88, passed away peacefully, with loved ones by her side, September 12, 2019, at Northern Montana Hospital in Havre, MT from an abdominal aneurysm. Virginia was born in Hogeland, Montana on May 4, 1931, one of four children born to Mabel and Melvin Lundberg. She graduated from Turner High School in 1949, continued her education at Northern Montana College in Havre, graduating with a teaching degree in 1951. She taught in Great Falls and later in Turner. She... Full story
Jerry Lee Davidson, 58, of Chinook, MT, passed away on September 7th, 2019 in Great Falls, MT. A closed celebration of life service was held in Chinook, MT on Thursday, September 12, 2019 along with a celebration motorcycle ride following the service. Jerry was born in Kansas City, MO to Dean and Gladys Davidson on December 16th, 1960. He attended high school at Torrington High School and graduated in 1979. He went on to earn a degree as a Diesel Technician from the National Institute for Automo... Full story
September is Library Card Sign Up Month! To obtain your own library card please bring in a current photo ID to register. After you receive your card in the mail you may check out one item the first time you use it. When you return the item on time you may then have regular privileges. Parents with a current photo ID may register grade school children. Students age 14 and older may sign up for card using a student ID or driver’s license. Having a library card number allows you to check out free ebooks or audio books from MontanaLibrary2Go on you...
Banned Books Week (September 22-28, 2019) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. It brings together the entire book community - librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types - in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular. The books featured...
Shirley Keller and Patty Simons braved the muddy roads and visited with Wally and Loretta Beck on Monday for Loretta’s birthday. That evening, Shawn and Bobbi Beck had Wally and Loretta up for a delicious steak supper. Kathy Zellmer came over to the Beck’s on Thursday to wish Loretta a happy birthday. Last weekend, Dave and Teresa Cornell, Richard and Cassie Handran and family and Dalton and Alyssa Cornell and family all traveled to Coeur d’Alene to attend the Service of Life for Teresa’s nephew Cori Hedstrom. Teresa stayed in Great Falls w...
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Jerry Schmitt for mowing the lawn. Kay Schmitt for all you do for me!. This week is Homecoming Week at Harlem High School. The Parade is on Friday, September 20th, at 1:00 p.m. Thursday 19th - HS Volleyball vs. Malta at 4:30 p.m. Friday 20th - HS Football against Round up at 7:00 pm. Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition. It occurs when the 13th day of the month in the Gregorian calendar falls on a Friday, which happens at least once every year but can occur up to three times in...
Our Meals This Week Wed. Sept. 18 Sausage & Sauerkraut Thu. Sept. 19 Chicken Salad Sandwich on Croissant Fri. Sept. 20 Baked Salmon Mon. Sept. 23 Tacos Tues. Sept. 24 Turkey Tettrazini Upcoming Birthdays Fri., Sept. 20 Kathy O’Brien Sun., Sept. 22 Mary DePriest Sun., Sept. 22 Lyla Kaldor Mon., Sept. 23 John Hebbleman Mon., Sept. 23 Mary Harder Happy Birthday!!...
Although Columbus Day was made official by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1937 and the Federal Government will close on October 14 for the 82nd commemoration of that holiday, some cities in the United States will mark the day in a different way. One of those cities is Harlem, Montana. At its regularly scheduled meeting held on the evening of Monday, September 9, the Harlem City Council voted on a resolution to change the second Monday of October from Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day. Although the minutes of that meeting will not be m...
Free People Reading Freely, the Blaine County Library’s Book Club, will meet on Monday evening, September 23 at 7:00. The Club will kick off this year by celebrating Banned Books Week, September 22-28, with a book give-away and by reading two books by Jamie Ford, who recently visited the Hi-Line. According to Library Director, Valerie Frank, Ford was well-received on Tuesday night, September 10. About his presentation, she said: “He is so entertaining and down-to-earth.” Ford spoke to a crowd of 29 people. Of those, ten per cent were under...
Harlem Elementary has chosen third grader, Wynnter Anderson, and sixth grader, Kyler Mount, as the newest students to join the ROCKIN' ROAR ROSTER. Wynnter and Kyler have gone out of their way to show Respect, Organization, (Always) Safety, and Responsibility at all times. Wynnter and Kyler, you are phenomenal!...
Columnist's note: In early July I looked out a bedroom window and saw an empty flatbed truck go by our house pulling a trailer with a machine I recognized as one used for moving beehives. A few days later, along Whitlash Road, I saw a couple of groups of beehives that I was sure were not there earlier. I asked some local ranch families about the hives and they assured me I was not confused, the hives had just arrived. I'd never wondered about beehives in the Sweet Grass Hills. I talked to some...
We hope you all enjoyed the 2019 Sugarbeet Festival!...
The Chinook Sugarbeeters welcomed the North Star Knights to town Friday night for a match featuring two of the heavy favorites to battle it out for the District 6C-East Crown. The 'Beeters have had their way when it comes to volleyball in the District 6C-East and it seems that any path to a conference title inevitably has to come through Chinook. North Star has been a solid program for years and anytime the two teams meet on the volleyball court it seems there is always something on the line. It...
It was another difficult week on the gridiron for all three Blaine County football programs as they went winless for the second straight weekend. So far this season only the Hays/Lodge Pole Thunderbirds have found the win column (Rocky Boy). The Sugarbeeters have been competitive each week but costly mistakes at crucial times of the game have kept them from gaining the advantage on their opponents. This past weekend the 'Beeters were in Simms looking for their first win of the season against a...
The Missoula Children's Theater came to Turner this past week to provide acting experience to the students of Turner School, with the production, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. With his ship wrecked and his trusty computer JCN on the fritz, brave explorer Gulliver finds himself lost in space with nothing but an invisible Force to guide him! While transporting from world to world, under the control of the Maniacal Scientist of Lapunta, Gulliver discovers fighting aliens, arrogant Horse Leaders of the...
