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A wind driven wildfire burned about 1,000 acres east of the Fort Belknap Agency last Wednesday afternoon and evening. According to Byard Lame Bull, Fort Belknap's Acting Fire Management Officer, the fire began about 2:30 p.m. and winds gusting to 60 miles per hour eventually created a fire five to six miles long and a mile wide in some areas. Lame Bull said in a midmorning phone interview on Thursday, "We are doing mop up operations and the fire is 95 percent contained. A few cottonwoods and...
The Harlem Civic Association's eleventh Country Christmas celebration was well attended last Wednesday evening. Strollers enjoyed a mild, but at times windy, evening for the annual event. City workers had hung electric decorations along the main street and volunteer groups decorated each light pole to their chosen theme. The town looked festive. In the library lobby, Civic Association chairman Brad Becker, and association member Jim Nissen, were cooking popcorn and handing out bags to strollers....
Reporter's note: As regular readers know, I've been trying to educate myself about the cattle industry, having attended a couple bull sales, traveled with veterinarians doing "cattle things" and spent a day with a cattle buyer. My friends Rita and Larry Surber were catering the sale lunch for the Shipwheel Cattle Company's annual bull sale. Larry invited me to come along as a helper to serve the lunch. It gave me a chance to actually participate in a sale, well, to an extent. Here's what I...
Mayor William Taylor presided over the Harlem City Council December meeting held on Friday afternoon, December 11. Council members present were Kim Hansen, Ralph Schneider and Marc Arensmeyer. Council member Eva English was absent. City Clerk Rebecca Skoyen and Public Utilities Supervisor Richard Mohar were present. Mayor Taylor with approval from council changed the agenda to allow Fred Phillips, an engineer with Great West Engineering, to present a progress report on Harlem’s wastewater system improvements. Prior to the regular council m...
Julie Unfried has joined the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in the Chinook office. The Oregon native is working as a Farm Bill Wildlife Biologist, a position funded primarily by Pheasants Forever with support from the NRCS and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Unfried will work with NRCS, Montana's FWP and local landowners to promote creation and preservation of upland game bird and animal habitat. There are two other similar three year funded positions starting this year...
The American Lutheran Church W.E.L.C.A. hosted a Women's and Girls Tea this past Sunday at the Church in Turner. The fellowship hall was beautifully decorated by members of the church. Kirsti Cederberg read a couple readings/stories while another group of ladies prepared a humorous holiday skit. A group of high school students sang a couple Christmas selections and a delicious lunch was served. This tea has been an annual event for the past few years and is looked forward to by ladies and girls...
The Blaine County DUI Task Force is tasked with “reducing the number of impaired drivers, crashes, injuries and deaths related to drug and alcohol use and motor vehicles.” The Task Force was recently rejuvenated and new leaders and task force members are taking their charge to reduce traffic deaths seriously. They’re using two traffic safety programs on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day to reduce deaths on the highway from drunk and impaired drivers. Some sobering numbers about the New Year’s holidays Experts say, technically, New Year’s Eve...
Tuzz Langford, on behalf of the owners and employees of Jamieson Motors, welcomed guests to the Business After Hours event Jamieson Motors hosted last Thursday. Predicted snow didn't seem to deter the guests as a good crowd showed up to enjoy cups of chili and holiday cheer. The event was held in the showroom of the dealership. One holiday specialty being served was the traditional Tom and Jerry drink. It was a nice treat as guests visited into the evening and could look out the showroom...
Finding the perfect live Christmas tree can be a stressor each holiday season. With 25-30 million live trees for sale in the United States annually, there are a lot of choices. Then there are considerations of the type of tree needed, size of the room where the tree will be displayed, shape to fit in the usable space and even what variety of tree for the natural aroma desired. It's a lot of choices. It gets even more complicated when the tree is for a church and ultimately everyone gets to be a...
Most people now days get to have Christmas off. They sleep in or get up early to open presents. Breakfast is made, everybody sits and eats together and stays in the warm house with their family. If some are lucky, they will get to spend a little time outside sledding. Most of the time when you are in town you don’t get the opportunity to do such activities. Ranchers get to wake up before the sun to go take care of the animals that provide them with what they own. Without the animals, ranchers wouldn’t have the open skies above them, and the...
The Lloyada Ladies met on November 6, 2015 at the Motor Inn for a No-Host Luncheon. Hosts Barb Swenson and Colette Olson had pumpkin pie served after the meal. The membership discussed the Sugarbeet Festival and the float they had in the parade entitled “Communications, You’ve Come Along Way Baby.” The group had a planning meeting on September 14, and on September 23 decorated the float for the parade on September 26. For new business the membership decided to make a “gift basket” for the Festival of Trees held during the Parade of Lights. M...
Pre-holiday events are beginning to wind down in Chinook. There are school concerts and programs still to come, but soon the focus will be on last minute shopping, gatherings for friends and family and, finally, special Christmas Eve church services and family get togethers on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The final week of community events in Chinook was busy as the countdown to Christmas began. Sweet Memorial Nursing Home Bazaar Sweet Home hosted its 13th annual bazaar last Saturday. The...
Harlem Elementary's ROARing students for the second week of December are Darryl Doney and Angelique Oats. These talented fourth graders have the behaviors and citizenship skills necessary to be chosen for the Little Wildcat ROARing Roster. Way to go, Darryl and Angelique!...
The Chinook Sugarbeeters may have only two players with a lot of varsity experience but after an opening weekend that saw them win two games by an average of 19 points and with an infusion of young talent it may just be a matter of time before that is a distant memory. Chinook opened play Thursday with a 60-42 victory over the Great Falls Central Catholic Mustangs. Saturday they handled the Dutton/Brady Diamondbacks 60-44 in a contest that didn't seem that close. The 'Beeters led just 12-9...
The Harlem Wildcat boys basketball team faced a top notch Box Elder Bears team in their season opener at the Native American Classic Basketball tournament in Havre Friday evening falling 60-30. Saturday however the boys responded with a resounding 63-34 thumping of the Kainai Warriors to even their record at 1-1. The Wildcats are young team with little varsity experience but contested the Bears throughout the contest doing a good job at forcing turnovers and running the floor. The Wildcats fell...
The Chinook Sugarbeeter girls basketball team continued their winning ways this past weekend at the Chester season opening tournament. Thursday the girls opened the new season with a stiff test from a solid Great Falls Central Catholic team earning a hard fought 43-38 victory. Saturday the team wasn’t challenged nearly as much as they cruised to a 43-21 win over the Dutton/Brady Diamondback to start 2-0. Chinook trailed early but slowly chipped away at the Mustang lead before securing the w...
The outcome of the first two contests of the new campaign was exactly what head coach Laramie Schwenke and her team was looking for. Friday, Harlem scored 39 first half points over the Kainai Warriors en-rout to a 56-32 season opening win. Saturday they held the Heart Butte Warriors to a single point the first fifteen minutes of the contest before locking up a 45-17 win to improve to 2-0 on the young season. Friday against Kainai, senior Mari Ereaux drained a pair of first quarter three-point bo...
The Hays/Lodge Pole Thunderbirds girls and boys basketball teams were in Billings this past weekend taking part in the Annual All-American Indian Shootout at Metra Park. Both squads came up short over the weekend however. The girls took on Lodge Grass Friday falling by a count of 77-44. Saturday they faced a talented Lame Deer team and lost 77-24. The boys had similar luck as they fell in the season opener to St. Labre 70-34. Saturday the Thunderbirds were much more competitive but still...
restling program is still battling a bit of the injury bug but those competing on the mat are improving each time out. "We're starting to knock some of the rust off and the kids are really getting better," said co-head coach Adam Tilleman. Chinook was at home Friday night for the first of two appearances in front of the home crowd prior to the Divisional Tournament in February. Saturday the team traveled to Glasgow to face some tough competition from the east. "We got hit with some injuries...
Chairperson Miller called the meeting to order. Board members present were Travis Buck, Scott Gunderson, James Hodgson, Ernest Johnson, Pauly Miller, Joel Pruttis, Keith Raty and Viki Tilleman. Absent was Michael Copenhaver (Excused). Miller welcomed visitors. Elizabeth Hodgson, Student Council President reported: a recycling project that will be in place January 1; a Red Cross Blood Drive is set for January 5th; and the National Honor Society will be wrapping gifts for the Angel Tree. Student Council will sponsor Movie Day for December 18th. S...
The final results are in at Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Havre check station for the 2015 hunting season. The check station was open from Oct. 10 (the open of general antelope) through Nov. 29 (the end of the big game season). In general, both hunter numbers and big-game harvest increased from last year. Hunter numbers were up 12% from 2014, but are still down 18% from long-term average. “Weather conditions this year were mostly warm and dry, which may have helped increase hunter participation from last year,” said Havre-area biologist Sco...
