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The Turner School recently was privileged to have the honor of having Mr. Monte Yellow Bird, aka, Black Pinto Horse visit their school. He is Arikara and Hidatsa from the Three Affiliated Tribes Reservation in North Dakota. He came to the school and spoke to all the students K-12 through the entire week. He shares a message of making good choices and words of wisdom from his elders of how to set boundaries, making a better life and other beautiful things. Yellow Bird began his art education at...
Every year, Montana music districts 6 & 7 come together and decide, by audition, who their best band and choir students are. These students come together in late November and early December to perform. This year nine students from Chinook High School were selected to attend Honor Band and Choir in Choteau on November 30 and December 1. Chinook choir placed six students: Travis Hamilton, Kyler Johnson, Nicole McCracken, Kassidy Popchoke, Kylie Popchoke, and Alexis Warburton. Chinook band placed three students: Blake Downs, Elizabeth Hodgson,...
Harlem Elementary has chosen fourth grader, Beau, and fifth grader, Mylah, as this week's ROARing students. Beau and Mylah have practiced all aspects of the ROAR Rules by showing Respect, Organization, Safety, and Responsibility. These fine students are the perfect role models for citizenship, and deserve extra recognition for their success....
Reporter's note: Betty Billmayer, of Chinook, emailed and asked if I'd like to attend the 95th birthday party for Frank Pherson, Sr. The birthday party was to be held on a Monday night, the regular meeting night of Pherson's poker club, and would be held prior to the weekly game. I was out of town but promised I would follow up on the story when I got home. I did follow up and discovered an interesting history of two poker clubs that both began in the early 1940's. Here's a synopsis of 70+...
Thanksgiving Day will soon be over, then the Christmas holiday preparations can begin in earnest. That's true in our area as several organizations kick off the holiday season with a variety of bazaars and pre-Christmas events. Here's a summary of the events coming up, in chronological order: • Friday, November 27, Chinook. The annual Festival of Trees, Parade of Lights and Christmas Stroll culminates downtown. Vendors will be in Wallner Hall this year. There are several afternoon events, a coupl...
The annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner is scheduled for November 26 with a traditional Thanksgiving dinner being served from noon to 2 p.m. at the Chinook Senior Center. The dinner is free of charge and donations of time, talent and money are very welcome to help cover the cost as well as assistance with the preparation of the food and clean up. Take out dinners are provided for those who are physically unable to get to the senior center. Just call the Chinook Senior Center at 357-2648 or Jeanne at 357-2799 to leave your name, address and...
These six little tykes have fun going to preschool once a week on the Big Flat. They gather at the home of Kirsti and Max Cederberg's for a morning of socializing, games, lessons and learning! They enjoy learning alphabet letters, songs and weather. These little ones are taught by Kirsti and are lined up all smiles for a picture. They are Colt Leitner, son of Steve and Stacy Leitner, Hannah and Isabella Van Voast daughters of Alan and Shannon Van Voast, Hudson Simons, son of Nate and Billie Jo...
Reporter's note: Charles E. Morris was a photographer in the late 1800's-early 1900's. For a time he had a studio on Indiana Street in Chinook. He was a cowboy turned self-taught photographer who set about to capture life on the open range. He recognized he was seeing the end of an era and photographed much of the range area, and its people, in our part of the country. One of his granddaughters,Diana Morris Mann, was recently in Chinook and our publishers bought a copy of a book she was selling...
Reporter's note: This is the last story of the 'murder in north country' series. It was a double homicide and all three people involved lived outside Blaine County, but one had a connection that was important in the eventual capture of the perpetrator. Nancy Mahns, the granddaughter of former Blaine County Sheriff Dan Hay and niece of former Harlem Police Chief Blaine Hay, got me interested in this double murder. Mahns sent a copy of a July, 1953 issue of "Official Detective Stories." The...
If you have written history as long as I have, you would find it very interesting, like I do, that events change on whims from who knows where. Little tiny and seemingly events of no consequence cause major events to happen years later. This is a story of just how that happened in Montana maybe a dozen years ago. But the story would not have happened at all if World War 2 had not happened. Or if Grandpa Lucke’s favorite magazine wasn’t “Field and Stream” or if Bee Lucke hadn’t introduced his wife to sleeping bags in a desperate move to get mo...
The Turner American Legion held its annual Trap Shoot this past Sunday at the Turner Trap Club. The weather was perfect and a great crowd showed up to have some fun, support the Legion and take a chance at winning a turkey for their Thanksgiving dinner. A pot of stew was available to those who wanted to have a nice warm bowl of soup before or after they took their turn at a round of pigeons. Shown here is Connie Liese as she greets the guests and does the paperwork for the day. Connie has done...
On Thursday, October 15, four pre-service teachers from Aaniiih Nakoda College (ANC) and their instructor presented a workshop to an audience of teachers from across the state of Montana who were gathered in Billings for the annual MEA/MFT Educators' Conference. The presentation, "Evaluating Picture Books," shared their experiences with using a rubric to select picture books that align with the Common Core State Standards to complement content area curriculum while also meeting the literacy...
Undersheriff Frank Billmayer and Deputy Sheriff Billy Minnis stopped by the Funshine Preschool last Wednesday to give the kids some safety items for Halloween and to educate them on ways to make them feel safe. Another objective was to make the kids feel more comfortable talking to a police officer. Billmayer stated later, “I think it was a real positive thing. At the football game later that night, I had several kids approach me and give me a hug or a high five. Several of them were still w...
October is Fire Prevention Month and the Turner School students always enjoy participating in the events that take place throughout the month. The elementary students along with the Turner Colony students especially enjoyed taking a short field trip over to to the Turner Fire Hall. There, a few Volunteer Firemen had a short video on prevention and followed it up with a question/answer time. The Department Volunteers presented all the children with plastic fire helmets and a color/activity...
This week the Harlem Library is participating in Jumpstart’s Read for the Record campaign by sharing the children’s book “Not Norman: A Goldfish Story” by Kelly Bennett. This is the 10th anniversary of the campaign that generates public support for high-quality early learning and literacy. The library staff will join in the world’s largest shared reading experience by reading “Not Norman” during our children’s programming. Bring your children to Books and Babies on Tuesday at 10 a.m. or Story Hour on Friday at 10 a.m. so they can take part i...
Reporter's note: This is part three of a four part series. Frank Sharples left a note on my desk asking if I knew about the Lidstone Murders. I recalled a photo in the Chinook centennial book, but that was about the extent of what I knew. I searched the archives of the "Chinook Opinion" and found many details of the 1932 double homicide in the northwest corner of Blaine County. In the local history of northwest Blaine County, "The Unyielding Prairie...," there was a lot of information about...
Reporters note: I'm on my annual October temporary job at a pumpkin patch in western Washington State. It's the fourth year I've worked at the Black Crow Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze-about 50 miles north of downtown Seattle, near Arlington, WA. It's a family owned plot of five acres of pumpkins, squash and gourds plus another five acre corn maze. The owner comes from a long line of berry and pumpkin farmers. I've learned this year, from various media outlets, that "pumpkins are out and gourds are...
Reporter's note: While in Malta's riverside park to do a story about the Milk River Wagon Train's 47th annual trip, I could hear the roar of engines off in the distance. I remembered that there was a drag strip on the edge of Malta. My friend and I took a break from the horse and wagon era and drove over to check out the drag strip. I'd seen the drag strip once before but never while races were going on. I was a bit surprised at the number of dragsters lined up at the starting line for their...
