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The Harlem Civic Association, a group of local volunteers who take on all sorts of projects to improve their town, has launched a new undertaking to create a recipe book. Organizers have set a goal to have the recipes collected by Harlem's annual July 4 picnic, also hosted by the civic association, and have the recipe books ready to sell during the 2016 Harlem Country Christmas. Association members emphasized, "This is not a book just for recipes from the Harlem area. We want it to be an...
By Steve Edwards BCJ News The 22nd annual gathering of the Montana Country Poets and Pickers will begin Friday night, this coming weekend, and run through Sunday noon. According to Dale Mailand, long-time organizer and secretary of the group, "We'll pretty much follow our regular schedule with invited musicians and poets for the Friday and Saturday evening performances and 'open mic' on Saturday." The Saturday sessions are open to performers wishing to try out their poetry and receive feedback f...
It is recipe time once again. Here are three ways to make steamed cabbage. All three turn the cabbage into a very different food than the others. One or more just may be hits around your house. First, my mother’s recipe. It is very simple. She was a simple but good cook. This recipe makes for a very traditional and might I say pure steamed cabbage. Core out a medium cabbage and cut it into very fine shreds. Take a medium onion and dice it using a medium to large dice. Put a quarter of a cup of butter or margarine in a heavy frying pan. S...
The wooded lot needed sprucing (joke) up after several years’ neglect of the fallen trees and a record-breaking snowstorm the previous winter. Karl and Hubert are neighbors on a wooded mountainside. Over time, their respective tracts had become littered with fallen branches and dead, fallen trees. They decided to rent a machine that would chew, chomp, and grind up all that debris which was in the way and was a fire hazard but which held the promise of almost unlimited mulch for a new method of gardening which they wanted to initiate on their r...
By Steve Edwards BCJ News Diners at JUMP's mystery meal, in late February, enjoyed a throwback to the old "Flintstones" TV series. The winter mystery meal has become a favorite with locals who enjoy a bit of mental challenge while enjoying a nice meal and visiting. Costumed servers, in Flintstone-themed outfits, seated guests and offered menus. Each guest had to select from a list of 17 items with Flintstone-related names, list them in one of three courses and hope that the pasta came before the...
The Turner Junior High School Choir traveled to Havre recently for music to join six other schools for the annual music festival at the Havre Middle School. The students split off and practice the same selections throughout the day with various directors. At the finale of the day, they come back together as one choir and sing for the public. Schools participating were Chinook, Chester, Sunburst, Havre, Shelby, Cut Bank, and Turner. The reports were that the group sounded spectacular and made...
Kirsti Cederberg, Amy Hutton, Peggy Van Voast, and Glenna Ammen were to Joplin for a Lutheran Church Cluster meeting on Saturday. Don and Bonnie Harmon were to Glasgow for a track meet on Saturday. They were lucky enough to see their grandson, Eddie, set a new record in the 800m run. Congratulations! Lyndsay Hutton is home for spring break. On Friday Linda and Lyndsay visited Adrienne Hutton in Great Falls. Terry and Tammy Jones returned from Las Vegas where they spent a week celebrating their 30th anniversary and Tammy’s 55th birthday. V...
April is Autism Awareness Month and the Big Flat Catholic Church will be hosting a free will offering breakfast in honor of Connor VanValkenburg. Please join us at the church on Sunday, April 10th, from 9:30 a.m. until 12:00 noon. Thank you and feel free to wear your “Connor” shirt if you have one. Contact Nancy Snider if you have any questions. Harley Jo Beck visited Grandma and Grandpa Beck while Mom was subbing on Tuesday last week. Jen, Josiah, and Sofia Cuaresma and Joely, Melissa, Troy, and Joshua Hiniker are visiting Ed and Kathy Zel...
“Save Those Seeds” is the next Learn at the Library program on Monday, April 11, 7 P.M. in the meeting room. Hillary Maxwell will share information on reading a seed catalogue for zone, fertility, and other factors. We will also learn how to determine the difference between hybrid, non-hybrid, and GMO seeds. Hillary will also tell how to save your most viable seeds and how to become involved in a community garden club. If you are a beginning or experienced gardener you won’t want to miss this event. This is a family friendly program appro...
Next week, Blaine County Library joins libraries in schools, campuses and communities nationwide in celebrating the dynamic changes that are happening in today’s libraries. April 10-16 is National Library Week, a time to highlight the changing role of libraries, librarians and library workers. Libraries today are more about what they do, for and with library users as opposed to what they have for patrons. Libraries aren’t only a place of quiet study, but also creative and engaging community centers where people can collaborate using new tec...
We have had wonderful weather this week, so take a walk and come see us. We have a lot of activities going on this month you won’t want to miss out on. “The Man From Snowy River” will be playing at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6 in the library meeting room. This movie is one of my favorites. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Thursdays are a big day around here. First we have cinnamon rolls and coffee. Then at 10:30 a.m., Carmen Van Voast teaches the senior exercise class. Bingo is played at 1 p.m. with our new Bingo caller Ray Reid. Rosal...
Chinook High School held its Junior Prom Saturday with the theme being 'Alice In Wonderland'. The gymnasium was filled with color and presented guests to a true Wonderland experience. The prom began with th Grand March which gave family and friends a chance to see all the couples in their dresses and tuxedos. The Grand March concluded with the presentation of royalty and the crowning of the King and Queen....
By Robert Lucke BCJ News It is called a Young Producer Conference but it should be a great conference for agriculture producers of all ages. Put on by the Montana Farmers Union, the conference will be held at the Best Western Plus, April 1st and 2nd in Havre. Big Sandy farmer Alan Merrill, president of the Montana Farmers Union said there will be something for everyone interested in agriculture at the conference. “The speakers we have will all speak very well to the general public,” continued Merrill. On Friday Kate Vogel will be talking abo...
Glenna Ammen was an Easter dinner guest of BG and Darci Ammen on Sunday. Bill and Mary Hake helped with the Easter festivities at the Turner School cafeteria that the Christian Church hosted on Sunday. Don and Bonnie Harmon were to Havre on Sunday where they were Easter dinner guests of Bob and Linda Brandon. After their dinner, they all enjoyed taking dinner to Eleanor Bickel at the Comfort Care home. Joining them were Todd and Tami Brandon and kids. It was a nice afternoon! Dan and Amy Hutton were dinner guests of Susan and Ron Fox on...
The new Book Club selection “Whistling Season” by Ivan Doig may be picked up April 6, 4 P.M. in the library meeting room. Call the library to let us know the book you read for the March Book Challenge. For April you are challenged to read a book your friend loves. Two new books to help reach your goal to become a more healthy you are “Eat Fat, Get Thin” by Mark Hyman, MD and “Fast Metabolism Food Rx” by Haylie Pomroy. “Flight of Dreams” by Ariel Lawthon is a work of historical fiction that brings the fateful voyage of the Hindenburg to l...
Hope everyone had a Blessed Happy Easter with family and friends. The weather was perfect, sunny and the kids were able to be outside to play and hunt their eggs. Joely Hiniker and kids came from Missoula for the Easter Holiday to spend the time with her folks, Ed and Kathy Zellmer, and the rest of the family in the area. They were able to spend time outside with the weather being nice and even got in on some branding. Easter Day was spent at Carol and Duane Klindworths for their family. Present were Bill and Betty Hay, Nancy Mahns, Morgan...
Harlem High School celebrated Prom on March 19th with 'Je T'aime Paris' as their theme. Prom is always such an exciting time for students and their families and this event was no exception. Senior King and Queen candidates, pictured below left were (Left to right), Sheldon Shields, Hailley LameBull, Colten Stiffarm, Anita Bentley, TJ Allen, Brook LeValdo, Kevin Hawley, and Raven Salois. T'Jay Allen and Hailley Lame Bull were crowned King and Queen capping another fun Prom. Junior candidates for...
The Victorians spoke of, if they were not actually speaking in, the language of the flowers. It seems that using the language of the flowers allowed courting couples to say things to each other that propriety forbade their saying in plain English. Much was said in those days without actually saying it. Indirection, for which read quite often, flirting, must often have been annoying, yet some people enjoyed it. Some would have said that all the mystery was taken out of life when plain speech (and beyond) became the way to speak in all situations...
This month this column is mainly recipes. Today a wonderful way to cook corn beef and cabbage using a secret sauce that took me years to find out how to make. It makes the dish. Be sure to serve the sauce warm at the table on March 17 or whenever you make your corn beef and cabbage. It is a perfect dunk for this meal. A friend served this sauce that she said was her secret sauce. After years of begging like a shameful dog, I finally found out that the sauce was simple, just equal parts of regular yellow mustard and brown sugar. So that is the...
The meanings of Holy Communion for Christians are many and various. To many believers, the aspect of inclusion is very important. Undoubtedly there are many people for whom inclusion of all people overshadows all other meanings. So if any human being bars another human being from taking Communion, for them there is no meaning in it; what Christ meant to be a uniting sacrament has become a dividing wall. For other believers, the aspect that in offering Communion and accepting it we are obeying the command and invitation of Jesus Christ himself...
Hilary Richman was out to visit and help Mom and Dad Krass on Tuesday. Linda Hauge came over late morning to help out too. Susan Billmayer spent most of the week in Harlem helping get ready for the Seed Show. Teresa Cornell was in Billings Tuesday and Wednesday. While there, she visited Dalton, Alyssa and Danial Cornell. Anita Reed was over Wednesday to help Dad and Mom Krass. Diana Maloney came after school and brought them some goodies. Loretta Beck helped the quilt ladies set up quilted displays on Thursday and worked there on Saturday at...
Harlem Elementary celebrated I Love To Read Week February 29th through March 1st. Students participated in themed dress-up days such as Sweat it out with a good book (Wear sweats), Dr. Seuss' Birthday (Wear all green for Green Eggs and Ham) and Character Day (Dress as your favorite book character). Grades kindergarten through 2nd took Dr. Seuss' birthday to a higher level as they centered activities around Dr. Seuss books, special hats, and concocting awesome oobleck! The students and community...
March can be a very fickle month. Or maybe it is that I am expecting so much of spring out of March and frequently the month is much more about winter than spring. The National Weather Service told me a couple of weeks ago to look for March to be the end of El Nino which has been providing us with such an open winter. It has been probably the strangest winter I have ever spent on the banks of the mighty Milk River. Day after day it is sunshiny, cold at first, then warming up to the 40’s. Lots of wind and more of the same week after week a...
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” The poet means a person, but many people would say this about their downfall. Fortunate are you if you can take ‘em or leave ‘em—sweet things to eat, that is. One woman already of grandmother age says she simply doesn’t dare have a cookie or piece of cake, because the taste of one of these would result in bingeing on such goodies till the whole plateful is gone, “and I’d go looking for more.” Other people, granted, probably many fewer, are indifferent to the whole tribe of sweet things and actual...
You know, Lord, friends were planning their dream vacation. They showed us brochures, were choosing a date and then were getting ready to purchase tickets. Oh, they had some wonderful plans. Although some of us may not have a dream vacation here on earth, we do have something wonderful to look forward to that is even greater than the plans of our dear friends. Your word tells us all about it, Lord, IF we believe in You! Sometimes stress gets unbearable; that’s when we need to pick up our personal brochure (the Holy Bible) and turn to R...
