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This beautiful Christmas display was created by Keough Fournier at his home on the 800 block of Indiana Street in Chinook. Keough's yard is always a sight to see, any time of year. During the holidays he takes the art to whole new level lighting up the night with holiday cheer. Their are many great Christmas displays all over Blaine County and a drive through the streets of any one of our small communities is sure to find Christmas joy being lit up with lights....
The Blaine County Library, in Chinook, held its Annual Hassle-Free Christmas program recently. It was the 26th year for the event that offers simple to make holiday gift ideas and decorating tips, holiday music and a Christmas-time story. At the end of the event guests are invited to try a variety of treats prepared by the library staff and library trustees. About 80 people attended the program this year. It all started as an adult ed class by the MSU-Extension Library Director Valerie Frank...
The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission approved the Bridger Special Chronic Wasting Disease Hunt at its regular monthly meeting Thursday. The hunt will begin on Dec. 15 and go through Feb. 15. Licenses will go on sale Dec. 11. The goal of the hunt is to determine prevalence and distribution of chronic wasting disease within the hunt area. This is critical information for FWP as it plans for long-term disease management in the area. “For the hunt to be successful in obtaining enough samples to accurately determine disease prevalence, participa...
Kayla Bonar, pictured with her seizure response dog Charley, takes a moment to savor her new degree during Washington State University's winter commencement. Many locals will recall the months Kayla spent recuperating in Chinook after a particularly bad seizure. During that time she did some substitute work at Meadowlark and wrote occasionally for the "Blaine County Journal." Many helped Kayla, during that period, as she did fundraising to acquire Charley. She and Charley will soon move on to...
Hays, MT, December 7, 2017– On Tuesday, December 5th, 2017, Island Mountain Development Group (IMDG), the economic arm of the Assinniboine and Gros Ventre Tribes of the Fort Belknap Indian Community (FBIC), opened their new 13,400 square feet eCommerce call center in Hays, MT. This new building is equipped with 1,200 mega bites of broadband capability, houses space for 270 call center representatives, executive offices, a training center for employees, an exercise room, and employee kitchen a...
Montana farmers and ranchers with base acres in the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) or Price Loss Coverage (PLC) safety net program may now enroll for the 2018 crop year. The enrollment period, which began on Nov. 1, 2017, will end on Aug. 1, 2018. Since shares and ownership of a farm can change year-to-year, producers must enroll by signing a contract each program year. The producers on a farm that are not enrolled for the 2018 enrollment period will not be eligible for financial assistance from the ARC or PLC programs for the 2018 crop...
Friends of the Harlem Public Library hosted a Wine and Cheese Christmas! last week. According to Library Director Colleen Brommer it was the fifth year for the winter fundraiser. The Friends group provides financial support for library programs, like the very popular summer reading program for kids, and donate items that the library might not otherwise be able to purchase. The winter event offers donors wine and other items. The summer fundraiser's theme varies and has included a pie and ice...
You know, Lord, as we rush about, this article seemed timely. Ruth C. Ikerman wrote this many years ago, entitled, “Do What You Don’t Have to Do.” “A friend who thoroughly enjoys each new Christmas season once told me in a moment of fellowship that rich secret of her perennial enjoyment, “Do what you have to do for Christmas first of all and get it out of the way. Then you can do what you don’t have to do. Therein lies the real meaning of Christmas and it provides fun for all the year.” Her philosophy explained how she was able to accomplish...
Three long running annual holiday events were held last weekend around the county. Sweet Nursing Home held its annual bazaar on Saturday while Edwards Funeral Home and the Harlem Civic Association held there events on Sunday. Sweet Nursing Home bazaar and beef stew luncheon Activity Manager Jeanne Buffington, who oversees the annual bazaar at the Sweet Nursing Home, said of this year's event, "There were 18 vendors, about the normal number for the bazaar." Buffington added, "The nursing home doe...
Melissa Hiniker came out Friday from Northern to spend a few days with her grandparents, Ed and Kathy Zellmer. Carol and Duane Klindworth spent a few days in Billings with Ashley Bare after she had surgery. They returned home this weekend. Susan Billmayer attended a Seed Show meeting in Harlem on Monday night. On Saturday, Ed and Kathy Zellmer and Melissa Hiniker went with John and Donna Schneider to Chinook to attend basketball games. On Friday, Susan Billmayer went to Havre and picked up Emily for the weekend. Anita Reed went with Helen and...
A great big thank you to everyone who supported the 5th Annual Wine and Cheese Holiday Fundraiser. A special thank you to the Friends of the Library, the donors of auction items and door prizes, local businesses who made donations, everyone who brought refreshments, and to Kim Hansen for assisting as auctioneer. A special note of appreciation to all who attended and donated to the auction and 50/50 raffle. The 2017 Reading Challenge is almost over. If you have read 4 books in the month of December let the library know and your name will be...
A Dog Named Christmas will be the movie today at 1:00 p.m. in the library meeting room. It is a Hallmark movie and running time is 95 minutes. Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served. A Heavenly Christmas will be December 20th. We are showing the movies with closed captioning whenever possible. Hopefully this will encourage those who may have difficulties hearing the movies to attend. We have three new movies this week. Despicable Me 3 and The Dark Tower are new releases ready for checkout. We have the latest DVD of The...
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Rose Noel and Vonnie Klungland for making 11 dozen sugar cookies that we will be decorating on Monday, December 11th at 2:00 p.m. Thank you Barb McDonald and Phyllis Heilig for hanging up the newest coloring pictures and Barb, for the milk, Irene Stout for the sugar, Diane Peterson for the onion powder, and basil leaves. Thank you Harlem High School for the two poinsettias; Bank of Harlem, via high school, for the poinsettias for the elderly housing unit...
The center is decorated for the holidays, so now we get to sit back and enjoy! The movie “A Dog Named Christmas” will be shown this Wednesday in the library meeting room at 1 p.m. Popcorn and drinks will be provided. Whist is played this Wednesday at 1 p.m. The Strong People exercise class with Lauren Lamonica is Thursday, Dec. 14 at 10:30 a.m. Bingo is played Thursday afternoons at 1 p.m. Last week there were 14 people playing and Irene Gauthier won the blackout prize. The Kitchen Band will be playing at 11 a.m. this Friday. Pinochle is pla...
It was a big weekend on the hardwood for area Class C and Class B basketball teams as the Harlem Wildcats, Chinook Sugarbeeters and Hays/Lodge Pole Thunderbirds saw their first action of the 2017-18 campaign. The Chinook Sugarbeeters easily won their opener defeating the Dutton/Brady Diamondbacks 64-21 and then fell in a thriller on a last-second shot to the Sunburst Refiners 71-69. The Harlem Wildcats were in Pablo on the campus Salish Kootenai College for the Annual Native American Classic....
The 2017-18 high school Basketball season is in full swing now with the Chinook Sugarbeeters, Hays/Lodge Pole Thunderbirds and the Harlem Wildcats getting into the mix of things this past weekend. The Turner Tornadoes began their season last weekend at the Class C Showcase in Glasgow and did not play this weekend. The Sugarbeeters were in Chester as part of the Chester-Joplin-Inverness preseason basketball tournament and returned home with a 2-0 record following a 34-23 victory over the...
The Chinook Sugarbeeters hosted their first mixer of the season this past Friday and were joined on the mats by the Harlem Wildcats and Hays/Lodge Pole Thunderbirds. The Mixer provides each wrestler with the opportunity to wrestle three matches against similar caliber opponents if possible. No teams scores are kept. Saturday the three teams headed to Glasgow for the 22nd Annual Scottie Invitational which would provide our local wrestlers an opportunity to face opponents they may not see again...
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Region 6 game wardens are seeking any information regarding a mule deer buck that was shot and left about sixteen miles south of Chinook, sometime on or around Nov. 14. The head was removed from the deer, and all the meat was left to waste. The incident occurred on private property about 1.5 miles east of the Chinook Clear Creek Rd., near the junction with the Havre Clear Creek Road. The deer was found along what is locally referred to as the "gas well road,"...
FSA’s Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) provides compensation to eligible livestock producers who suffer grazing losses for covered livestock due to drought on privately owned or cash leased land, or fire on federally managed land. Livestock producers in 42 Montana counties are eligible to apply for 2017 LFP benefits on small grain, native pasture, improved pasture, annual ryegrass and forage sorghum that is produced on dryland acres and used for grazing. Irrigated acres used for grazing or aftermath grazing are not eligible under this p...
