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As far as the first snow of the fall season Blaine County has been hit hard in recent years. We all remember 'Snowmageddon" the last weekend of September 2017. Record snowfall on trees full of leaves. Power outages that left some residents in the dark for 10 days or more. 2018 was a bit of a reprieve with the first snow of the fall falling on October 17 with just a skiff covering the Bear Paws. In 2019 heavy snow again fell the first week of October with 8-10" of the white stuff being reported...
Superintendent of Chinook Public Schools, Darin Hannum wishes to inform families and the community about the new early dismissal that will happen on Fridays. Starting November 13, as approved by School District #10 School Board at the October 13 meeting, the district will implement an early-out every Friday afternoon at 12:30 p.m. for all students. According to Hannum, the elementary and junior/senior high schools will coordinate morning classes and bus schedules, and lunch will be provided at both buildings before dismissal. Staff will remain...
Aubree Roth, the Montana Farm to School Coordinator and Montana Team Nutrition Program Member from Bozeman, invited all schools involved with Farm to School and Team Nutrition Programs to participate in Montana Crunch as part of National Farm to School Month. Principal at Meadowlark School, Shane Bartschi registered the school, and students participated on October 22. Head Cook for Chinook School District, Heidi Brown washed and bagged the apples in the morning, counting out an apple for every s...
This year’s Community Chest Fund Drive in Chinook has had to undergo some major reconfiguration due to the COVID-19 pandemic that we are all to familiar with. The Community Chest Fund Drive typically takes place in May and is a great source of revenue for multiple local non-profits. The drive provides local funding for Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, Food Pantry, AAU Wrestling, Youth Baseball/Softball, Youth Soccer, MCT, Swim Team, Chinook Rod and Gun Club, and PAWS. Without the support of our generous community, these opprtunities won’t be ava...
With support from First Interstate Bank, Montana Community Foundation (MCF) is proud to announce the grant program, ReImagine What Is Possible. As one of the twenty-five communities who participated in the Reimagining Rural Virtual Gathering, Chinook is eligible to apply for the MCF grant. The application process opened on October 16. The purpose of the grant program is to support projects, programs, or initiatives that result from ideas learned during the Reimagining Rural Virtual Gathering (RR2). Grants, which must be made to a 501c3...
I have lived in Chinook for over 39 years. I’ve always appreciated Chinook as a wonderful small town where everyone was entitled to their own opinion and to be secure in their own property. My husband and I have been Democrats for over 40 years. (Well, my husband since birth!) We thought we were entitled to show our support for our preferred political candidates in our own yard just as our neighbors are in theirs. Recently, on two separate occasions, our “Biden For President” signs were deliberately stolen from our yard. The second occas...
The Harlem Library Board will meet today, Oct. 28, 4:15 for their monthly meeting. If you have completed the Oct. Book Challenge please notify the library. The Book Challenge for November is to read a book about politics. Virtual Story Time is held each Tuesday at 10 A.M. via Facebook Live. The Book Club meets via Skype Mondays at 4 P.M. Call the library to be placed on the waiting list for mobile hotspots. The library now has an iPad available for checkout. The library will be closed Nov. 17-18 for staff training. Blaine County Library Mobile...
At 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 27, the National FFA organization dropped the gavel on its 93rd National FFA Convention & Exposition. During the American Degree Ceremony on Wednesday, October 28 at 6:30 p.m. on RFDTV and the Cowboy Channel, Chinook FFA members Cord Schneider and Rachel Gunderson will be receiving their American Degrees. The American FFA Degree is considered the gold standard since it is the highest degree achievable in the National FFA Organization. Earning an American FFA...
The Turner Junior High girls and boys basketball teams traveled to Big Sandy on Saturday and won all four games vs. the Pioneers. Great job! Lunch guests at the Wallace Beck home on Wednesday were Shawn Beck, Crystal and Lucy Grabofsky, Scott and Lesli Snider, Levi Hawley, and Nancy Snider. Susan Billmayer visited Jane Krass on Tuesday. Lunch guests at the Wallace Beck home on Thursday were Shawn Beck, Levi Hawley, Scott and Lesli Snider. Linda Hauge, Diana Maloney, and Anita, Brooke, and Bridget Reed visited Jane Krass throughout the week....
James F. Faber, 78, passed away due to complications from Parkinson's disease on Monday, October 12, 2020 at Northern Montana Care Center. Private graveside services were held in Calvary Cemetery with Deacon Tim Maroney officiating. A celebration of life will be planned for a later date when it is safe for family and friends to gather. Jim's family has suggested memorial donations be made in his memory to St Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church, Hill County 4-H, North Central Senior Center or the...
Glen Eugene Lewis, 80, passed away October 21, 2020 at Northern Montana Care Center. A Rosary will be said at 6:00 p.m., Sunday, October 25, 2020 at Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel in Havre. His Funeral Mass will be at 11:00 a.m., Monday, October 26, 2020 at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Harlem, followed by burial at Wing Cemetery in Hogeland. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Please visit Glen's online memorial page at www.hollandbonine.com to leav...
Linda Louise Haugen passed away peacefully at BeeHive Homes in Missoula, MT on October 15, 2020. She was born on November 3, 1938 to Ted and Lillian Westin. She graduated from Chinook High School in 1956 and attended Principia College. In 1960, she married E.L. Luckett. She later married Gordon Haugen and they made their home in Chinook, MT and Yuma, AZ. Linda was an active volunteer and member of several community groups: Girl Scouts, Sweet Park Board, Blaine County Library Board, Montana...
Dad went home to heaven to be with Mom, Roberta, who was the love of his life. He was 88 years old when he passed on October 4, 2020, in the care of the staff at Rocky Mountain Care Center & Hospice. Dad was the first of seven children born to Marion Friedrich and June Amy (Toole) Kel-ley on November 25, 1931 in Bozeman, MT. He went to school through the 8th grade and got his GED while serving in the US Army. He also went to Vo-Tech while living in Butte, MT and studied Architecture. Dad and...
With demand for food bank services surging in Montana during the pandemic, the Town Pump Charitable Foundation is matching $750,000 in contributions during its 19th annual fundraising campaign for food banks across Montana, including the Chinook Food Pantry. A record-setting 93 food banks are participating in the statewide “Be A Friend in Deed, Helping Those in Need” campaign this year. The campaign has raised over $36 million for Montana food banks in 18 years, including about $7 million in matching grants from the Town Pump Charitable Fou...
My wife recently came home from a yard sale with a bag of marbles. I had not thought about marbles in years. When I was in grade school (the early 1950's) marbles were a major deal among boys. With dirt school yards it was easy to draw a big circle and start a game of marbles easily. It was mostly "boys only" though a few girls did like to shoot marbles. For readers not familiar with how to shoot a marble, see attached photo. When a shooter hits another player's marble or knocks a target marble...
Congratulations Harlem Volleyball and Cross Country senior athletes. We are proud of you! Harlem Homecoming Royal Court - After many delays, postponements and reschedules, Harlem High School was finally able to announce their Homecoming Royalty. They are left to right: Cassius Johnson, Tia Kuntz, Zack Kinyon, Homecoming King Trenton Main, Homecoming Queen Alaynee Hawley, Tyra Medicine Bear, Lance Blackcrow, Andrew Rasmussen and Gabi Bell. Thankfully the students got to experience this annual...
The Harlem Wildcat Cross Country team has had anything but a normal season. Head Coach Hope Doney and her athletes have had to overcome a number of obstacles just to be able to compete. The Cross Country team, along with the volleyball and football teams were forced to put their seasons on hold the end of September due to COVID-19 quarantines and restrictions put in place by the Harlem School Board. The safety of the student athletes has always been the school boards primary focus and with a rapidly rising number of Covid cases in Blaine...
The Chinook Sugarbeeters were knocking on the doorstep of the Montana Class C Eight-man Football Playoffs the past two weeks but following a heart breaking 40-38 loss to the Cascade Badgers on Friday night, their season is over. Chinook has given fans watching in person or at home through the NHFS Network plenty to get excited about. They sure have kept people tuned in with nail biters this fall, but unfortunately three of their four losses have come down to the final play of the game. The...
The Harlem Wildcat Football team had a tough go of things in a lot of respects this year. They were shorthanded with just 12 players eligible to play and only eleven dressed in each of their four games they were able to play. They were also under the direction of a new coaching staff headed up by Head Coach Derek Azure and Assistant Coach Ken Mount. That being said, everyone involved in the program bought in to what the coaching staff was trying to bring about. That being hard work, dedication t...
The Harlem Lady Cat Volleyball team has been on a roller coaster all season, never knowing what was coming and being prepared for it when it came. The Lady Cats had their season suspended the end of September when the Harlem School Board made the decision to suspend the season amid rising COVID-19 cases in Blaine County. On Monday, October 12 the Board made the decision to resume fall sports activities on Monday, October 19. After a lengthy layoff during the season any coach would like the...
The Chinook Sugarbeeters closed out the regular season on the road Friday night against the Geraldine/Highwood Rivals. The Sugarbeeters won the first match between the two teams 3-1 but the second time around it was the Rivals picking up a hard fought 3-2 win. Chinook got off to a good start, winning the opening set 25-17. The Rivals would even the match at a set a piece with a 25-21 win in set number two. Chinook regained the advantage again, winning set number three 25-22. The Rivals however...
Earlier this month, Secretary of State Corey Stapleton and Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen announced that the 2020 Montana Youth Election will take place on October 29. All students, kindergarten through grade 12, homeschool associations, private, and public schools are invited to participate. From 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, students can vote by visiting the website: https://youthvote.sosmt.gov/. The Youth Vote website also has resources helpful to parents, teachers,...
The library board of trustees will meet today at 4:15 in the library meeting room for its monthly meeting. Check out the library website at www.harlempubliclibrary.org. There you will find links for our online catalog, resources to assist with virtual learning, MTLibrary2Go ebooks and audio books, World Book Online, the links for The Book Club and Virtual Story Time and so much more! If you have completed the October Book Challenge to read a book with a body part in the title contact the library to be entered into the drawing to win a gift...
Hunting season is in full swing and hunters young and old are searching for that memorable hunt. This past weekend Emma Klingaman, Ethan Klingaman and Beau Henry were among those hunters returning home with a story to tell. These young hunters have taken full advantage of the Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks Apprentice program. This program allows young hunters to get in the field and harvest a animal under the watchful eye of an approved guardian. Beau Henry, age 10, of Havre is the Grandson of...
Turner School Recipient of Meat Donation There is already a Montana Beef to School Program in place. A newly formed organization is using this model as well as one from Winnett and Choteau. The program recently donated 300 pounds of delicious Montana grown Beef and patties to Turner and Big Sandy Schools. The processing costs for this donation was made possible by Dr. Lane Schmitt, DVM and the Beef was processed at Bear Paw Meats. The goal of the program is to have more quality, locally grown...
