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The White Pine 4-H Club met in the Triple E Meeting Room in Chinook on Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 5 p.m. with 13 members, 2 leaders, and four guests present. Vice-President, Colton Liddle, called the meeting to order. Ethan Liddle led the American Pledge and Drake Berreth led the 4-H Pledge. Roll Call was answered by telling our favorite 4-H project. Minutes of the January 14th meeting were read by Secretary, Addison Olsen and approved with one correction. The Treasurer’s report was read by Addison. Kyler Johnson reported on the 4-H V...
It has been an abnormally warm two weeks in Big Sky Country. A couple of weeks ago the thermometer hit 73 one afternoon in Choteau and has been in the high 50’s and low 60’s every day for almost a fortnight in and around Havre. So far my flowers, lilacs and trees seem to be not paying attention to the warm weather. Not much happening in my gardens thank goodness. And, of course, there is little or no moisture of late and probably not going to be until we get into a moisture mode, then watch out, for it will probably flood! So, what shall we...
There once were two tails, one on each of two chickens, but they are irrelevant. This is a tale of two chickens. One chicken was big and one was small, analogously to great-grandfather and young teenager. They were not related to each other and lived on different farms. However, both were brought up with the minimum of human intervention and interference by the owners. Both were spared food full of things with scientific-sounding or unpronounceable names. Both were allowed to live in spaces where the fences were many yards apart and where...
Susan Billmayer attended garden club in Chinook on Thursday afternoon and Lenten services at the Hogeland Church in the evening. Diana Maloney, Linda Hauge, Hilary Richman and the girls and Anita Reed and the girls visited with Harlan and Jane Krass at their home throughout this week. Darwin Zellmer stopped to visit at the Wallace Beck home on Tuesday and they had coffee together. Merrilyn Billmayer attended the District 9-C Basketball Tournament in Havre this past week. Ed and Kathy Zellmer spent last Monday-Wednesday in Missoula visiting the...
Basketball is over for the Tornado Varsity teams. The community is proud of you all for working hard all season and entertaining the Big Flat community with your games. Congratulations to Seniors, Tyler Anderson, Tyler Humphreys and Bret Van Valkenburg on a great season. We wish you the best as you venture out of T.H.S. We are so proud of you! The community can be expecting the Little Tornadoes to be starting practice on Monday the 29th with elementary jamborees to follow shortly there after. Tom and Lucy Fairbank attend and enjoyed the...
The library has great new selections for you to read. Stop by and pick up one of these titles. “The Girls She Left Behind” is by Sarah Graves. A forest fire rages near the town of Bearkill in northern Maine. Teenager Tara Wylie, who has a history of running away, has disappeared again. Kidnapper and rapist, Henry Gemerle, has escaped from prison and may be hiding out near Bearkill. Sheriff’s deputy, Lizzie Snow, teams up with her boss and state policemen to try and save an innocent and to stop a monster. Someone else is also on the hunt for Tar...
The Blaine County Library Board of Trustees will hold their regular monthly meeting today at 11:00 a.m. in the library meeting room. Tech help will be Monday February 29th. If you need help learning to use MontanaLibrary2Go, would like to sign up for Shoutbomb, have a Facebook or an e-mail question, Tech Help day is the time to get the answers to those questions. All Federal tax booklets and forms are now available at the library. Montana tax booklets are available here as well. If you need a form we don’t have, you can get it anytime at w...
Kudos to the Havre and Chinook wrestlers for taking home State trophies. These two programs are as good as it gets for prep wrestling and it is a great testament to coaching, community support and drive of young wrestlers that they do so well year after year! Havre High Football is losing Mark Samson. The former Northern football coach led the Blue Ponies for one year to one of the best football seasons they have had for some time. He is going to be the head coach for the Great Falls Bison. We wish him well with the Bison and just wish he had...
I am still trying to comfort myself from the winter blues. Now, I know that as far as real Montana winters go, we have not really had a winter yet at all. And yet, not getting outside to garden and walk along a Bear Paw Creek has been putting me sort of in a funk to say the least. I decided one way I could cure the blues was to cook some old, old recipes that I had maybe never cooked before. For Super Bowl I cooked Francis and Laened Black’s Party Beans and they were wonderful. I got off funk while cooking and eating them both. That day I a...
It pays to have two dictionaries at hand. The old one will tell you what the words you run across used to mean. You need the new one to tell you what people are saying that words mean now. Strangely enough, meanings change so much and so often that the best we can do is say what “usage” says they mean. My old dictionary says that a pilot flag is one hoisted at the fore by a vessel coming into harbor and desiring a pilot. It was a “plate” of colored pilot flags that got me interested in flags at all. Curious as to how a newer dictionary would d...
The leader of the adult Lenten study course asked the class, “Who wants to read Luke 9: 57 to 62?” “I will,” one woman said, and read aloud, ”Someone said to Jesus, ‘I will follow you wherever you go.’ “And Jesus said to him, ‘Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but [I] have nowhere to lay [my] head.’ “To another he said, ‘Follow me.’ But he said, ‘Lord, first let me go and bury my father.’ “But Jesus said to him, ‘Let the dead bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.’ “Another said, ‘I will foll...
Tomorrow is Sunday and there is no football. I volunteered at church to usher for awhile hoping that shock would chase away the shock of no football. But things are still going on. Let’s look at some standings. That is a good place to start. In the Frontier League it is on the women’s side of things Lewis and Clark in first followed by Carroll. Northern is fourth followed by Rocky in fifth place. On the men’s side, it is Lewis and Clark in first followed by Carroll. Rocky is in fourth and Northern is in fifth. Looking at the woman’s side in the...
Not yet. We’re still wandering around this beautiful campus looking for the art museum. These streets are not streets; they are simply beautifully designed and maintained brick walkways which students can march down ten abreast and not feel crowded. It is not clear where the walkway goes but it is not to the parking lot of the art museum. We’ll turn around here and hope not to back over any students or into the concrete posts that make it clear that we can’t drive any farther. The map of the campus seems to say that the art museum is just...
This is a month of columns to send away the winter blues. One thing I do to feel better about winter is to eat Oriental take out once a week. That all started many years ago. When I was working part time at the Lou Lucke Company I would go to lunch once a week with Willie Garrahan at Tommy Woo’s Boston Café. There the Chop Souy was unbelievably good! I would ask Tommy what made it so good. He always said it was the gravy. I believed him. Many years later Laened Black made Chow Mein that tasted like the Chop Souy at the Boston. I asked her fo...
Have you had the experience that you hear a song once or twice and it runs through your head for days, or weeks? It is not a rare occurrence, yet I have never heard or read an explanation for it. The hymn, “Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken,” has been my constant companion for over a year. It doesn’t leave me alone. Actually, I am not sure I want it to. The melody is beautiful and the words are loaded with poetry and Christian meaning. They were written by John Newton who also wrote “Amazing Grace.” Perhaps it is the mental images the words...
The Big Flat 4-H Clover Buds spent Sunday spreading good cheer to seniors of the Little Rockies Retirement Center. They happily constructed Valentine crafts and wrapped up their monthly meeting by putting all sorts of beautiful Valentine cookies on plates to distribute to the residents of the Senior community. They not only had fun doing this activity, but they saw the happiness that their good deed shed upon the residents. Shown here is back row, Hilary Richman, Clover Bud Leader and Senior...
Happy Harlem Elementary students who earned 60 or more ROARing tickets since the beginning of the school year enjoy their hot chocolate reward. Principal Shiloh Seymour serves up delicious hot chocolate to her very deserving students....
Congratulations to Dave and Teresa Cornell who have recently become grandparents again! Teresa spent the weekend in Sidney with Cassie and Richard Handran welcoming baby boy August David Handran, born Friday, Feb. 5 at 2:23 p.m. He weighed 7# 11 oz. and was 20” long. Mike and Crystal Grabofsky, Shawn Beck, and Adam and Shawna Billmayer were dinner guests at the Wallace Beck home on Monday. Cooper and Lucy Grabofsky kept Aunt Bobbi and Harley Jo Beck company that day. Susan Billmayer visited Emily Billmayer in Havre on Wednesday. Ed and Kathy Z...
Although the month of January is usually much colder, this year's almost balmy weather played right into the scenario surrounding Harlem Elementary's Winter Luau showcase. Tropical backdrops and Hawaiian scenery greeted students, family, and friends as they perused each grade level's showcase. Kindergarten through sixth grade chose topics which they investigated, researched, collected data for, and finally turned into visual props for their projects. The halls were filled with décor ranging...
The next Learn at the Library program will be presented by Blaine County Undersheriff Frank Billmayer Tuesday, Feb. 23, 7 P.M. He will give timely and vital information on protecting yourself against identity theft and scams. You will not want to miss this important presentation. Refreshments will be served. The library will be closed Monday, Feb. 15 in observance of President’s Day. The regular meeting of the library board will be Monday, Feb. 23, 9 A.M. in the library meeting room. “A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for...
Story Time is Tuesday mornings at 10:30 a.m. All kids are welcome to join whatever fun things Kelsey has planned. LEGO Club is Tuesday afternoons from 3:30 to 4:30 and is open to grades K though 6. Middle School Hangout for February is scheduled for Thursday February 11 at 3:30 p.m. There will be ping pong, Wii, board games, crafts and food! The Middle School Hangout is for kids in grades 6 through 8. For the Love of Grace will be the next Hallmark movie on Wednesday February 17th at 1:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome to join us. We have four...
The Super Bowl is over and I am already into serious football withdrawal but there are other things happening that are neat to observe and write about. I don’t know at this writing who won the Super Bowl. More about that next week. For now I do know that some of the stories that attracted most of my attention were that Peyton Manning needed a hip replacement (can you imagine a starting quarterback in the NFL needing a hip replacement?) Probably that was not a true story although time will tell for sure. Then there was the strange fate of the P...
The ROARing students for the beginning week of February are first grader, Kacia Boushie, and fifth grader, Harmonii Not Afraid. Kacia and Harmonii have proven to be model students, and have earned the privilege of joining the ROAR Roster. We, at Harlem Elementary, are very proud of these marvelous young ladies!...
