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Each October, the Nez Perce (nimi-pu) Tribe makes its way back to the Bear Paw Battlefield 15 miles south of Chinook to commemorate the final battle of the 1877 flight of their ancestors as they attempted to reach Canada. This humbling event often includes a drum circle a pipe circle, pictured above and testimony from descendants and tribal elders with first hand knowledge past down through the years of what transpired. This past Saturday many were on hand to solemnly pay their respects at this...
What can anyone say about the weather in North Central Montana, especially when it comes to October-March. Most residents of Blaine County have lived here for the majority of their life and as adults with 20-30-40 years of living on the Hi-line we can say we've pretty much seen it all. Even newcomers to the region, with just five to ten years of living in the region, can say they have pretty much seen it all. It's easy to look back to 2015 when we experienced a more than mild winter and plenty o...
The family of Tristan Billmayer is pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 Mental Health Field Scholarship in the amount of $500. Kiera Miller, a 2016 graduate of North Star High School is the daughter of David and Julie Miller. Kiera is a Senior at Montana State University majoring in community health with a minor in psychology. Keira plans on pursuing a masters in counseling. Congratulation Kiera and best of luck as you pursue your degree. The Tristan Billmayer Memorial Mental Health Field...
The Fort Belknap Indian Reservation held a Primary Election where the top two vote getters in each of eight districts will advance to the General Election on Tuesday, November 5, 2019. The Primary Election took place on Tuesday, October 1 with 32 individuals seeking 16 spots in the General election. On Wednesday the Fort Belknap Election Committee certified the primary results. The official results were certified and signed by Election Committee Chairman Maurice Gail Adams, Election Committee Member, Nickolee Kirkaldie, Election Committee Membe...
Every year on Veterans Day, our nation honors the people who risk their lives to protect our country. Social Security’s disability program is an important part of our obligation to wounded warriors and their families. For military members who return home with injuries, Social Security is a resource they can turn to. If you know any wounded veterans, please let them know about Social Security’s Wounded Warriors website. You can find it at www.socialsecurity.gov/woundedwarriors. The Wounded Warriors website answers many commonly asked questions,...
The local Iota Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International for women educators held their first meeting of the 2019-2020 year on Monday, September 23 at the Chinook Grill. Following the business meeting, Samantha French, Director of the Blaine County Museum in Chinook, spoke on her educational background and future plans for the museum. Our next meeting will be Monday, October 28 at 5:30 p.m. at the Chinook Grill....
In last week's Journal you might have seen a photo of students at the Turner School searching the school playground for ladybugs. It was found that excessive ladybugs can mean either a sign of good luck, or a sign of a weather change. Well, it was 100% right about the weather change. Two days after finding over hundreds of ladybugs, winter showed up on the Big Flat. The children went from playing on the playground and collecting ladybugs to building snow forts. Snow amounts varied throughout...
Elaine passed away suddenly of natural causes on October 1, 2019. She was born in Renton WA on May 5, 1943. She spent her early childhood there, and then returned to the Bleha family ranch south of Chinook on Raglan Bench in the spring of 1950. Elaine attended grade school on Lone Tree Bench before moving with her mother Helen and sister Joyce to Chinook to attend high school, from which she graduated in 1961. After that, she and William (Bill) Thompson were united in marriage. From that... Full story
John Chester Herndon "Sanitary John", died at the Waterford Assisted Living in Virginia Beach 3 days before his 102 birthday from a stroke. John was the son of the late James Herndon and Mary Beth Goggins. He was born 9/23/1917, in Omaha,Nebraska. His mother died of typhoid fever when he was only three months old. John lived withdifferent family members in Arkansas, Omaha, Scottsbluff Nebraska, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. At 15John went to live with an aunt in Sacramento where he completed high... Full story
Thanks Chinook , you helped this group from JUMP collect 743 lbs of food for the food pantry! - with Sara Paulsen, Nichole Greetham, Cheryl Barfett, Trisha Gordon-Gruszie, Julie Terry, Moses Gerard Deanon, Chech Fam, Dawn Colby, MB Live, Tawna Richman, Lesa MacLeod, Bonnie Miller, Julia Hofer, Heather Jorgenson, Tina Wilhelm Mord, Crystal Huckabee, Hope Huckabee, Tammy Neely Edwards, Tess Langford and Janelle Deanon....
Henny Penny's Cupcakes has been in business since 2012. Located in the heart of downtown Havre, you will find the cozy restaurant adorned with rooster motif and a feeling of hominess. The menu offers homemade soups, sandwiches, salads, and of course the award winning cupcakes! Penny expressed her amazement as she explained that her business won Trip advisors #1 desert for the fourth straight year. "Amazed is all I can really say!" Penny says, "When we won it the first year I was like wow! And...
Susie Mason of Lincoln is here visiting her daughter Elissa, Jordan and family this weekend. Susan Billmayer went to Great Falls to a Garden Club Meeting on Friday. On the way home Saturday, she stopped and picked up daughter Emily in Havre and brought her home for the weekend. Loretta Beck attended the auxiliary meeting in Turner on Wednesday evening. The Turner Lutheran Church held their fall Turkey dinner on Sunday. A large crowd enjoyed the wonderful dinner of Turkey and all the trimmings. Linda Hauge accompanied Dad, Harlan Krass to...
The weather is cooling off and the nights are starting to see temperatures in the 20’s. Hoping the snow won’t start flying again until after Halloween, but this is Montana and the weather does what it wants to here and we just roll with it. Our condolences go out to the families of Elaine Thompson and Murial Jaha. Last week activity winners for; the Public Card Party, Paul Ramberg had the high with 6220 and Virginia Olson had the low with 3770, Pinochle were Marilyn Williamson and Don Durocher, and Marilyn Williamson and Virginia Olson, Jac...
Thank you Jim and Linda Murch for the sack of walnuts; Betty Walker for the Tomatoes; Deanna Bergstrom for the cookies for coffee and lunch, and Bum and Linda Petrie for the puzzles October 9th - 10:00 a.m. Intake and Living Life well with Mark and Amber in the Activity Room. Our Meals This Week Wed. Oct. 9 Short Ribs Thu. Oct. 10 Lasagna Fri. Oct. 11 Fish Sticks Mon. Oct. 14 Chili with Beans Tues. Oct. 15 Chicken Noodle Soup Upcoming Birthdays Sat. Oct 12 Ann Azure Tue. Oct 15 Kim Hansen Happy Birthday!!...
Free People Reading Freely Book Club will meet Monday October 21st at 7:00 p.m. For the next meeting we will read the Jamie Ford books. Stop in and pick up a copy of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet or Love and Other Consolation Prizes. You may choose to read one or the other or both. Attendees voted to change the format of the club from reading just banned books to having members select the books that everyone will read. We have an interesting selection of new books available this week....
Meadowlark Elementary Principal Shane Bartschi has announced the Students of the Month for September. Another fine group of well deserving students was selected and they are: Emma Klingaman, Rylee Chaffin, Gus Buck and Laura Danley, Akaysha Kelly, Jaxton Crowley, Claire Buck, Hadley Wicks, Hadley Smotherman, Natalie Hofeldt and Ashton Kokkeler. Harlem Elementary has chosen kindergartener, McKearen Stiffarm, and fourth grader, Persais Messerly, as the newest ROARing students for the first week...
The Hays/Lodge Pole Thunderbirds held Senior Day this past Saturday in their final home contest of the season against the Rocky Boy Northern Stars. The Thunderbirds defeated Rocky Boy 40-26. It was the Thunderbirds second win over the Stars this season after picking up a come from behind win week one. Those seniors recognized along with their families were Ethan Werk (77), Mikkel Main (99), Randall Werk Jr (56) and Wyman Bringing Good (18). The Thunderbirds Homecoming Royalty: King Ethan Werk,...
In an effort to connect better with the younger people of our community, the Chinook Police Department has made themselves more readily available to the students at Meadowlark Elementary....
There are plenty of worthy charitable organizations in North Central Montana that raise funds for their individual causes in a variety of ways. One popular way is a 'Trip of the Month'. In this particular way an organization sells a limited number of tickets for a set price. Tickets are sold in advance of the upcoming new year with a winner being drawn each month. Trips range from professional sporting events, NFL, NBA or Major League Baseball for example. Others may include remarkable getaways...
The Chinook Surgarbeeters dispatched the Big Sandy Pioneers in three quick sets Friday on the road to remain undefeated in the District 6C-East and then turned in a solid performance Saturday in Fort Benton, finishing second in the Longhorns mid-season tournament. The Harlem Lady Cats also earned a sweep dispatching the Poplar Indians on the road in straight sets. Saturday the Lady Cats rebounded from a first set loss to defeat the Wolves in Wolf Point in four sets and solidify their hold on the number two seed in the District 2B. The...
The Hays/Lodge Pole Thunderbirds validated their season opening, come from behind win on the road against the Rocky Boy Northern Stars by turning in a strong performance on the gridiron Saturday afternoon in their 40-26 Homecoming win. The Thunderbirds also honored their four seniors Saturday as they played in front of the hometown fans for the final time. In Shelby Friday night the Sugarbeeters forced four turnovers and out gained the Coyotes offensively, but penalties and timely miscues...
The 2019 High School Cross Country season is in the home stretch as teams are making their final preparations for the State Meet in Great Falls on Saturday, October 26. This past Saturday the Wildcat boys and girls teams went to Glasgow to compete in the Scottie Invitational. Harlem brought ten athletes to compete in the varsity and junior varsity races. Senior L'Tia Lawrence crossed the finish line in 19:50.20 to finish second in the girls race. Sophomore teammate Taya Trottier was close...
Firefighters in each Department as provided to the Blaine County Journal: Chinook Volunteer Fire Department Jim Conrad - Captain, Debbie Cross – Treasurer, Ian Davies – Captain Scott Gallus – Assistant Chief, Preston Gilmore, Jason Haider - Captain Kraig Hansen – Chief, Dennis Kleinjan, Kylee (Kaul) Minnis, Aaron Morrow, Greg Mosness - Secretary, Chris Mundlin, William Robb, Durwin Williams – Captain, Elmer D Zarn, Karla Kennedy-Zarn Donald Cross, Adrian Reichenberg, Billy Haugen – Reserve, Da...
Robin Allen, a CHS Educator has assigned each of her Junior high students in Exploratory Agriculture a noxious weed to research. Their job is to be able to recognize noxious weeds as well as educate others on how to eradicate and stop the spread of the weed. There are a total of 36 weeds we will learn about through this project and the Blaine County Journal will Spotlight 1 or 2 each week. Dyer's Woad By Dentin DePriest: Life Cycle: The amount of time from the start of the stem growth to seed is...
