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Up and coming country music star Cale Moon put on a spectacular show this summer during the Blaine County Fair. Last Wednesday, Moon returned and played for local fans at the Blaine County Fairgrounds Commercial Building. The Blaine County Fairboard and Top Dog Performance helped make the impromptu showing possible and the local youth group JUMP provided the concessions for those in attendance....
In this month's meeting of the Cancer Support Group in Chinook, Sheree Leo came to speak about 'An Update on Mental Health'. This group meets every third Tuesday of the month to showcase the assets and support available in town for persons with cancer and those caring for people with cancer. At next month's meeting, children will be visiting to sing Christmas songs! This was Sheree's first time speaking at one of the support group meetings but not her first time to Chinook. She comes to Chinook...
Yvonne Laird of Chinook has been selected by Governor Steve Bullock to fill the 17th Judicial Court seat being vacated by the retirement of Judge John McKeon. Laird is a graduate of Blue Sky High School in Rudyard, received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from Concordia College and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Montana. She currently owns her own practice, Laird Law Office, PLLC, and previously has worked for Montana Legal Services and the Blaine County Attorney's Office as both the...
The North Central Montana Relay for Life committee held its first meeting this past week. They started making plans for the various fundraisers they will hold before the Relay (tentatively scheduled in June). They have set a goal for this year at $30,000 for the combined Hill and Blaine County effort. Last year, Blaine County raised about $12,000 and Hill County raised about $14,400 in monetary donations (not including in kind donations). They are raising their goal this year to make it an even bigger and more successful event since it will be...
The Northwest Farm Credit Services staff came to the Chinook Food Bank on November 3 to help unload our food bank network truck delivery. Not only did they assist with unloading the stores they then presented us with a check for $750! Pictured above are: (L-R Allie Paulsen, Rene' Nagy, Jeanne Dalton (Chinook Food Pantry volunteers) with Courtney Ellefsen, Jennifer Dees & Adam Billmayer from the Havre office of Northwest Farm Credit Services. Not pictured: Shawna Billmayer....
Keith Hanson, owner of “The Blaine County Journal” says he figures I have been working as a writer for them for the last seventeen years. That would mean that this is my seventeenth Thanksgiving column for this good newspaper. You might think I don’t have much left to say but I do. First of all, Hurrah for the Turkey! You see, gentle readers, I have always loved turkey. It was the one meal that I was so very happy to learn how to cook myself. I know others feel the same way. In the grocery store last week a guy helping me out with my groce...
Shirley A. Bell, 84, passed away due to natural causes at Northern Montana Hospital on November 17, 2016. Wake services were held at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, November 18, 2016, at her residence, and continued until she was moved to the Medicine Bear Senior Center at 12:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 20, 2016. Funeral services were held at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, November 21, 2016, at the Medicine Bear Senior Center. Burial followed in the Lodge Pole Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been... Full story
Sandra Kay (Albright) Berger was born January 15, 1943 to Robert and Elsie Albright in Chester, Montana. She attended schools in Chester, graduating in 1961. Sandra married John Couturier on April 10, 1962 and moved to a farm outside of Chinook in 1969. She worked on the farm and was a housewife and raised her three children, Corey, Camie, and Dominique. When her children were older she went to work full time at the Blaine County Courthouse in the Clerk and Recorder's office from 1980 to... Full story
The four Princess beds auctioned by the local My Neighbor in Need group is completed. On the night of last week's general election, the four winning bidders were named. My Neighbor, a county wide group that helps neighbors in need, got the beds through the generosity of Jim Warburton. Warburton bought a used semi-trailer and discovered it had several pieces of upscale furniture still in it, including four complete Princess beds. The beds typically retail for about $1,000. Warburton approached... Full story
Havre, MT - Denny Johnson, Havre, passed away November 18, 2016 in Great Falls. Visitation will be Saturday, November 26, 2016, 11:00 Am to 2:00 PM at Edwards Funeral Home in Chinook. Graveside services will follow at 2:30 PM at Kuper Memorial Cemetery in Chinook. A full obituary will follow next week. Edwards Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.... Full story
Ted and Gerry Lenhardt celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary the weekend after Thanksgiving. The couple, originally from the Billings area, spent most of their adult life farming along the Hi-Line, first around Havre, then in the Zurich area. They retired to the Havre area in the late 1980's and moved to the Grande Villa, in Chinook, about five years ago. Ted and Gerry, both in their early 90's, were married at the German Congregational Church in Billings, December 6, 1941-one day before...
It is almost the end of November of 1909 and those who want to know want to know what is happening in your bedroom at night. A person required 20 cubic inches of fresh air for each respiration or on the average, 400 a minute and in ten hours of sleep, he or she consumes 130 cubic feet of air. The air of a bedroom ten feet square and having doors and windows closed and occupied by one person would become unfit for respiration in four hours. In the case of two occupying the room, the time would be, of course, decreased to two hours. Keep your...
Sandy Beck attended a Nimble Thimble Quilt Guild meeting in Harlem last Monday evening. Several people from the surrounding community attended the “Thanks for the Harvest” service and soup supper last Sunday evening at the Hogeland Lutheran Church. Loretta Beck went to Great Falls on Wednesday for a doctor appointment and enjoyed lunch with her sister, Laura Sherwood, while there. Harlan and Jane’s girls visited at the Krass’ home throughout this past week. Cassidy and Holly Grabofsky visited Grandpa Wally and Grandma Loretta Beck after s...
The movie today will be “The Lost Valentine”, which runs for 96 minutes. Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served. “Heaven is for Real” will be the movie next Wednesday. If anyone has a request for a movie to be shown, please let us know or tell Kristy at the Senior Center. We are now taking requests for movies in January. Join us Friday November 25th during the Christmas Stroll for several special events. At 2:00 p.m. we will have a Polar Express Storytime. From 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. there will be a Ring and Sing with the Ecum...
The first meeting of the Valley Clovers was held on Sunday, October 2 at Wallner Hall. The meeting was called to order by President Brook Elliot, pledge, roll call, minutes, correspondence, and treasurer's report were given. There were reports on the 4-H Council, The Sugarbeet Festival Booth promoting 4-H, and Montana Leaders Forum. The Valley Clovers will be providing concessions at the Gun Show October 7, 8, and 9 as a community service/fundraiser. They will also be responsible for desserts...
Montana State University-Northern athlete Makhayla Farmer is being honored this weekend during a game in a different sport for her work off of the basketball court. Farmer is one of 12 athletes Gov. Steve Bullock and Montana Campus Compact board members will honor for volunteer work during Saturday's Brawl of the Wild football game in Missoula between University of Montana and Montana State University. "Makhayla Farmer is extremely active in community service in both Havre and Chinook,"...
Chinook High School's Speech and Drama team charmed guests with a delightful mystery dinner theater performance. The students and teachers hosted the event at the Meadowlark Elementary School gym on the evening of Tuesday, November 15th. This wild west murder mystery kept the audience captivated and guessing throughout the dinner as they tried to deduce who murdered gold mine owner Dusty Jones. Two years ago, the Speech and Drama team held their first mystery dinner theater event to raise money...
