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Kevin Elias auctions off a Tree during the Live Auction portion of the Festival of Trees. A total of $3,120 was raised from the event. Trees had been on display in the First Bank Lobby for the past couple of weeks, during which time people could bid on the trees in a silent auction. Friday afternoon they were relocated to a canopy adjacent to the bank where the live auction would conclude the Parade of Lights. See page B4 for more photo's....
An always popular event in Chinook is the Community Thanksgiving Dinner. As usual, it was held at the Senior Center and there was a great turn out. Serving started promptly at 12 p.m., but some early birds enjoyed visiting as they awaited the delicious meal. A steady stream of people flowed through the door right away. Starting at 12:30, the Kitchen Band began playing for the guests to enjoy while eating their meals. This band is made up of community members Brad Taylor, Roger Fischer, Elaine...
The countdown to Christmas is in full swing and residents throughout Blaine County are planning family gatherings. Along side, communities are providing several great opportunities to share in the holiday spirit with friends and neighbors. Chinook just completed is annual Parade of Lights celebration the day after Thanksgiving and on December 14 Harlem will have its Country Christmas celebration. The Harlem Civic association is in charge of events for the Country Christmas contact Rod Becker or...
The Chinook Alliance church has had their carpenter tools out for more than a year now as they continue expanding and improving their ability to serve the congregation. This past spring the church completed renovation of the old L & L Pizza building the church had recently purchased. The 'Annex' as its now known holds four classrooms, a Pastors office and opened up space in the foyer of the church for people to visit after outside of the Sanctuary. The latest renovation began near the end of...
Wanda Ann Bahr McKinney, 69, of Havre, died of cancer, November 28, 2016. Visitation will be Wednesday, November 30, 2016 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at Holland & Bonine Funeral Home. Her funeral service will be 1:00 p.m., Thursday, December 1, 2016 at Fifth Avenue Christian Church with Pastor John Chapman officiating. Holland and Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Please visit Wanda's online memorial page at www.hollandbonine.com to leave a message of condolence... Full story
It is 1909 and quickly approaching the end of the year. Thanksgiving is over and Christmas is just around the corner. And yet there is news. Brace yourselves to become all agog and atwitter at the antics in this neck of the woods! Victor Griggs, late of Illinois arrived here last Saturday and assumed the duties of Chief Booster and official of publicity for Havre and the Milk River Country. Mr. Griggs was occupied Saturday evening in a meeting of the business men and Monday started out to learn everything he could about this area. He has...
Don’t forget to attend the Christmas Tea at the Turner Lutheran Church on Sunday, Dec. 4, at 2:00. A program and skit will be presented and refreshments will be served. All women and girls are invited to attend this festive event. Thanksgiving Day dinner guests at the Gene Billmayer home were Denny and Colleen Overcast, Marna, Stefan and Jennifer Strzelczyk. Harley Beck visited Grandma Loretta and Grandpa Wally Beck on Monday last week. Jen and Nito Cuaresma and Josiah and Sofia of Missoula spent the Thanksgiving weekend with Ed and Kathy Z...
The Big Flat 4-H met on ‘Wednesday and prepared the town Christmas lights for the season. Soon you can expect to see Christmas in the air.... Kent, Rachael, Tracer and Savannah enjoyed Thanksgiving at Curtis and Sheena Pursley’s home. Ethan spent the day with Kenny and Phyllis. They drove to Malta for lunch. Ron and Susan Fox had Thanksgiving with Brian, April and family. Max and Kirsti Cederberg were to Great Falls on Thursday. They took Edith and Bill Bilger of Chinook with them. They met up with Nellie Cederberg for Thanksgiving dinner. Bil...
The movie today will be “Heaven is for Real”, which runs for 99 minutes and is rated PG. Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served. “Christmas with the Kranks” 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. Plan to join us Thursday December 1st at 7:00 p.m. for the 25th Annual Hassle Free Christmas Program. We will have presentations and lots of wonderful food. Kelsey has put togethe...
There was a time long ago when the Dallas Cowboys were my team. I sort of started watching football with them and since I had a good friend who was always for San Francisco it made for sort of a wild and wooly rivalry to say the least. That was the age of Troy Aikman and the boys vs. any and all from San Francisco. It was the pre Joe Montana era at San Fran but they had some very good players including Steve Young, maybe their second or third best quarterback ever. Young is a part of the ESPN commentating crew these days. Well, Dallas coach...
The Turner Tornado girls and boys basketball teams will head to Glasgow this weekend to take part in the Class C Showcase as the 2016-17 basketball season gets underway. Head coach Jen Baird will lead the girls for the second season. The girls will open play Friday afternoon against Frazer with tip-off set for 3 p.m. Saturday they will play Nashua/Opheim at 4:30. Zach Holland will move one seat down the bench as he assumes head coaching duties this winter after being an assistant to the boys...
The Chinook Sugarbeeter volleyball team picked up a couple more post season awards as senior Kelsey Mathon and junior Sierra Swank received Honorable Mention All-State recognition. Mathon and Swank were part of a team that turned in a very successful season this past fall. Chinook captured it’s fourth straight District 6C-East Conference and District championships and earned a third place finish at the Northern C. Mathon has been a vital part of the Sugarbeeter success having played at the Class C state tournament her freshman and junior s...
The weekend of November 18th, our chapter traveled to Bozeman for the JDAE (John Deere Ag Expo). On top of individual events the chapter members had, they went to a leadership training each morning they were there. During which speakers came in to tell them of their business experiences and give them advice on how to be a good leader and how to be successful. The chapter officers competed in Parli Pro. The members also split up into teams for Quiz Bowl, one junior team and two senior teams....
