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The 2021 Homecoming was held this past weekend on Turner's Main Street. A carnival hosted by grades 7 and 8 kicked off the festivities. A variety of games, including Bingo, was held as well as corn dogs and Taco's in a bag. Everyone loved eating out for the day and having fun with the kids. A group of older ladies in the community were escorted down the street by Max Cederberg in his old Cadillac, which had the top down! The ladies who led the parade of floats were those who are regular Friday...
Hays/Lodge Pole Elementary, Junior High and High School celebrated Native American Week in grand fashion. The celebration began on Monday with the ‘Deadly Auntie’ contest which consisted of teams of three girls racing to put up Teepee’s. The activities and games continued throughout the week. The students, staff and community came together to enjoy all that was offered in a wonderful traditional celebration....
Although Pokémon Go was all the rage a few years ago, a more low-key, unplugged treasure-hunt trend is steadily growing in popularity in Montana communities: finding painted rocks. In an effort to join the trend, the Harlem Public Library hosted a Rock Painting Party on Thursday, September 16. People gathered at the library from noon until 6:00 p.m. to support the Harlem Rocks! movement. Library staff estimated that 45 people came and painted rocks. The movement began in Harlem after a patron...
Through a Presbyterian Church program called Young Adult Volunteers, Emma Kate Lander and Brendan Stump will be spending a year in Chinook, Montana. After a week of orientation delivered virtually, they arrived in late August and are staying with Wade and Carla Anderson, who are performing as their host family. The area's Young Adult Volunteers (YAV) site coordinator, Jack Mattingly-who also serves as the Pastor of the United Methodist Church-described the YAV program as an ecumenical, faith-bas...
Two Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks law enforcement cases from the fall of 2020 were completed, including an unlawfully killed bull elk in Blaine County, and a bull moose in Phillips County. Lucas Sterling, 42, of Columbia Falls, plead guilty to charges of hunting without a license and unlawful possession of a bull elk. Sterling killed the elk during the 2020 archery season in the Bear Paw Mountains in Blaine County. Sterling was hunting without the required special permit for the hunting district. He was ordered to pay $460 in fines, $1000 in...
With the beginning of the 2021-2022 academic year, Harlem Elementary School is already adding to their esteemed Rockin' ROAR Roster! Under the leadership of two female American Indian Educators: Principal Evelyn Bigby and Assistant Principal Jessica Cochran, the school year began on August 25. At an assembly on the first day of school, students were introduced to the ROAR Guidelines so that they could start school on positive footing by learning how to be Respectful, Organized, Always safe, and...
Havre, Montana –Northern Montana Health Care (NMHC) recently presented the C.A.R.E. Award to two employees. Paul Schuschke, RN, part of the Emergency Medicine team, won the Award in June and Shannon Hansen, a member of the Northern Montana Pharmacy team, won the Award in September. Customer Service is important to Northern Montana Health Care. "Being the healthcare provider of choice" is part of their mission statement. Taking the time to recognize excellence in their employees is one of the w...
It is not every year that Blaine County Museum organizes something special for the community in observation of the anniversary of the Battle of Bear Paw. This year, however, we are hosting an event that will honor the history of the Nez Perce Flight of 1877, Bear Paw, and the Nimiipuu (Nez Perce). We have invited Nimiipuu Tribal Elder LeRoy Seth and Pendleton blanket designer Terry Ball to give a talk on their collaborative work of art, “Hear Me, My Chiefs”. “Hear Me, My Chiefs” is the title of a limited-edition Pendleton blanket designe...
Each week, Harlem Elementary has been naming a trio of students to join the Rockin' ROAR Roster. For the week ending September 17, kindergartener Isaiah Doney, fourth grader Kayleigh Gray, and fifth grader Renessa Doney were selected. The newest learners to earn this distinction on the last Friday of September are second grader Jaxton Brady, third grader Kaleb Filesteel, and sixth grader Jasper Lamere. According to Janice Gilham, a spokesperson for the school, these students have proven to be...
Havre, Montana –The Havre Women's Golf Association (HWGA) recently awarded the Northern Montana Health Care Foundation with a check for $48,900. This was the total proceeds from their 2021 "Golfing for a Cure" Tournament and will go towards the Havre Women's Golf Association Assistance Fund. 2021 marks the 16th Annual Golf Tournament that the Havre Women's Golf Association has held, with the exception of 2020. Originally it was created to help our Hi-line community members who suffered from B...
The election for council members and mayor in the City of Chinook and City of Harlem will be voting by mail ballot. This type of election allows the voter the convenience of voting at home and simply returning the ballot by mail or delivering it to the Blaine County Clerk and Recorder’s office at the courthouse. No precinct polling place will be open on Election Day, November 2, 2021. Ballots must be voted and received by the Blaine County Clerk & Recorder’s office not later than 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 2, 2021. The Blaine County Cle...
When Jessica Cochran applied for and received the position of Assistant Principal at Harlem Elementary School, her promotion created a vacancy in the sixth grade classroom. With Kristin Landre leaving the district, that left two openings for sixth grade teachers. One of those was filled by Ken Bigby and the other by Amber Whiteclay. Enrolled as a Gros Ventre but raised as an Assiniboine, Bigby was born to Poncho and Mary Bigby and grew up on Fort Belknap. He graduated from Harlem High School in 1989 and married Arlene in 1993. He and his wife h...
On September 9, a spokesperson for the Friends of the Pool and Park Foundation announced that they had received a generous financial gift from the Davies Family Endowment. The endowment was established by Jack, Mark, Rick, and Dan—the sons of Reg and Vonnie Davies—who entrusted the Montana Community Foundation to establish a donor-advised fund to support charitable purposes for non-profits in Blaine County. The Davies Family Endowment not only provides a way to honor their parents’ legacy and the life they spent in Blaine County but to give...
HARLEM – Seven months after being nominated for a Student Production Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) Northwest Chapter, one of the highest honors in the United States for high school filmmakers, student-led filmmaking organization from Harlem, Montana, Milk River Productions, returns for the Annual Native American Week celebration with their third student-produced film. Their third feature film, Waking the Generations, will premier during Native American Week’s family night at Harlem High School (HH...
The sound of emergency sirens sounded in Chinook last Saturday on September 11. Local first responders participated in the commemorative parade to honor first responders and civilians who died or were injured 20 years ago in the terrorist attacks around the nation. Chinook Fire Chief Kraig Hansen explained how the local event became a reality. Chief Hansen said, "I saw on social media that several groups of first responders around the country were organizing low-key memorials for the 9/11...
The 7th Annual Tristan Billmayer Suicide Walk was recently held on the Big Flat. It was a beautiful day for the walk on the Big Flat under Montana's Big Sky Country. There was a great turn out for the event and walkers consisted of various groups and individuals. Some rode bicycles or side by sides, while others either ran or walked. Once again, the MSU-N Cross Country walkers came to participate in the event. Shawna Billmayer gave a short talk prior to heading out on the approximate 8 mile trek...
I visited recently with Ken Finley out at his garden and pumpkin patch adjacent to the Chinook Water Treatment Plant just off Cleveland Road on the south edge of town. I'd walked through the pumpkin patch during the growing season and was impressed with some of the 'lunkers' I could see down in the vines. But an orange wooden contraption had been erected at the south end of the patch and I was curious to learn what it was. Ken was happy to talk about this most recent addition to his patch. He ex...
On October 9, Vernice Doughten will celebrate her 100th birthday. To preserve her memory and the history of her life, Vernice’s grandson Rob Doughten composed her life story. In it, he tells the story of a resilient and religious woman who doesn’t count sheep to get to sleep; she talks to the Shepherd. Born in 1921 to Helen (Gardner) and Frank Bergren, Vernice spent her early years living on the eastern plains of Montana in a small town called Twete, which was later renamed Hogeland. From the Big Flat, which is how many people refer to the are...
In early September, the Montana Office of Public Instruction (OPI) released information regarding the August 31 announcement made by Governor Greg Gianforte regarding the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) emergency rule to reinforce parental rights regarding masking in schools. Recognizing parents as the ultimate decision makers on matters pertaining to the health of their children, including on the issue of wearing masks in schools and on school buses, Gov....
The Roman Catholic Church has been dealing with a shortage in priesthood vocations for some time now. Even with the number of priests that Bishop Michael Warfel-the eighth Bishop of the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings-has recruited from beyond the borders of the United States, the vacancies continue to increase. Given that situation, Reverend Father Michael Schneider will take on expanded responsibilities. With seven churches now under his direction, Mass times will change for many communities i...
Late afternoon and into the early evening on September 10, the Montana Department of Transportation had striping crews out working. Caution cones lined US Highway 2 from Chinook to East of Zurich to make motorists aware of the wet paint and to stay off the road's shoulder. Periodic signage also asked motorists to not cross wet lines. As striping took place throughout the 24 mile project from Chinook to the Milk River Bridge at Fort Belknap, travelers experienced short delays as they came up...
As the country was preparing for the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, individual memories of that day surfaced for many area residents. With the date's approach, various people no doubt reminisced about the question from Alan Jackson's country song: "Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?" Now that the date has passed, we still reflect-our memories tumbling in a fashion similar to the water cascading into the two enormous reflecting pools at Memorial Plaza in New York...
Harlem Junior/Senior High School (HHS) is offering a new course: Journalism. HHS English Instructor, Matthew Hodgson rallied to get journalism approved as a class so that students would have protected time to construct the school newspaper rather than having to use extracurricular time. The school has been without a newspaper since approximately 2000 when interest in sustaining the publication waned. Aware of the multiple lessons that being a student journalist provides, Hodgson determined that...
With school starting Chief Zarn wants to remind everyone to be more mindful of the children out and about on bicycles and in crosswalks. The following is the law on PEDESTRIANS’ RIGHT-OF-WAY IN CROSSWALK--SCHOOL CHILDREN AND CROSSING GUARDS. 61-8-502. Pedestrians’ right-of-way in crosswalk--school children. (1) (a) Except as provided in subsection (1)(b), when traffic control signals are not in place or not in operation, the operator of a vehicle shall yield the right0of-way, slowing down or stopping if necessary, to a pedestrian crossing the...
The faculty and staff at Harlem Elementary School has chosen the second trio of ROAR winners for the week ending September 10. Because first grader Brody Plumage, fourth grader Aizha TalksDifferent, and fifth grader Lucas Blackcrow have been following the ROAR Rules, they have been chosen as this week's ROARing Lil' Wildcats. Each day during the morning announcements, School Counsellors, Melody Sand and Ruth Stephenson read aloud the components of the ROAR Rules and explain how they apply to...
