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Mrs. Courtney Bell, the physical education teacher at Meadowlark Elementary School is leading students in the Kids Heart Challenge, a program of the American Heart Association. Once the pledges are counted and winners determined, school officials will hold a Slime Assembly to celebrate on Monday, February 17 at 2:30 p.m. The heart health program was introduced on February 3 and will end on February 14. The Kids Heart Challenge offers several physical activities to get students’ hearts pumping. Bell has integrated three of these into her PE clas...
The following Montana State University Billings undergraduate students excelled academically during the 2019 fall semester and have been named to the Honor Roll. The Honor Roll is a list of all undergraduate students who earn 12 or more credits which are not of a Pass/No Pass nature and who earn a grade point average of 3.5 or better. Chinook Kourtney Hanson Lauren Harshman* Lincy Johnson Ashley Macleod* Megan Pruttis Harlem Vanessa Horn...
The Turner School was honored to host a Mental Health First Aid class at their school for anyone who wished to train. They saw teachers, Ambulance crew, nurses, Psychologists, and administrators wishing to attend the class. MSU-N, Interim Dean and LCPC , Darlene Sellar, and Dr Curtis Smeby came to train those attending. The class proved to be very interesting, being both informative and emotional. Thanks to those who came to train and also our guest instructors for coming out to Turner to...
In celebration of its Tenth Anniversary, the Plant a Seed . . . READ Program is hosting a Crunch for a Cause promotion in partnership with Taco John’s to raise the importance of reading aloud to preschool children. The event will take place from 5:00-7:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 13 at the Taco John’s location at 505 First Street West in Havre. The organization is also inviting people to join the March 21-Day Challenge to help build a universal read aloud habit. When a patron brings in a copy of the organization’s Crunch for a Cause flyer fro...
In honor of I Love to Read Month, Meadowlark Elementary will be celebrating the entire month of February with prizes for 80% or higher on Accelerated Reader tests as well as with a grand prize drawing at the end of the month. To further promote reading, students will be participating in other various activities. The Accelerated Reader (AR) program is a computerized program that tests reading comprehension. Students select books at their reading level, read independently, and take an independent, computer-delivered comprehension test. Every...
Jump youth group prepared and served a delicious Taco Soup lunch for the community on Super Bowl Sunday. They accepted free will donations at the event, which will all go to the Chinook Food Pantry. This year they raised $450.00 to help our neighbors out. This is an annual nationwide event that is celebrating its 30th year. This was the 10th year Jump has participated in this event, as always the community support is greatly appreciated!...
Way to go Meadowlark Students of the Month. Keep up the good work!...
Competitors from across the state faced off in a showcase of imagination, creativity, quick thinking, oratory skill, and acting talent in seventeen different events during the State Class B-C Speech and Drama Tournament, hosted by Bigfork High School on January 31-February 1. When all the frayed nerves were once again settled, winners were announced and awards presented. Chinook High School brought home two titles and a fourth place in Drama Sweepstakes while the Dodson and Hays-Lodge Pole Co-op...
As one of the 2020 Mid-Winter Fair events, the Montana State University Extension Office sponsored a program called Ranchers’ Round-Up on February 6-7. The program was held in Room 213 of the Returning Buffalo Building on the Aaniiih Nakoda College campus. Beginning at 9:00 a.m., coffee and donuts were served. Following a welcome and introductions at 9:30, the Nakoda Aaniiih Credit Agency (NACA) not only provided Youth Finance Training but shared some details about Youth Akiptan Loans. Stationed in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, Akiptan is a N...
Correspondent's note: A fellow Chinook senior coffee drinker, Larry Wisch, asked me a few weeks ago if I'd ever heard about the weird event that happened to Ray Reid at the end of World War II. I finally connected with Ray on one of our trips back from Whitlash and he shared a remarkable story. Ray admitted, "I've forgotten some of the specifics, like the time of year and some other details. I wrote an essay about the experience for a class I took at teachers' college after the war. Now I can't...
Saturday night at 9:49, Fire Chief Kraig Hansen received a page that a house was on fire in the 900 block of Ohio Street. When fire crews arrived, they went to work to extinguish the blaze. The Chinook Police and the Blaine County Sheriff's Office also responded to the scene. Although the fire was put out before midnight, Kody Farmer, who was in the house at the time of the fire, sustained injury and was transported to the hospital. "The cause of the fire is still under investigation," Kraig...
Tonight, at 6:30 p.m. at the Hays/Lodge Pole High School, there will be a screening of the award-winning film Looking Forward From Yesterday: Fighting for Our Culture produced by Harlem High School students with generous support from Harlem High School, Montana Gear Up, MAPS Media Institute, and the Greater Montana Foundation. The documentary film will be shown at the Mid-Winter Fair Banquet. Later this month, the film will screen at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (BSDFF), which will be h...
In the past month, schools across the county have been abuzz holding their site spelling bees to determine who will represent their schools as champion spellers. The results are in and forty-six spellers from across Blaine County will gather today, February 5, at 10:00 a.m. in the Chinook High School Auditorium for the 2020 Blaine County Spelling Bee. Bailey Billmayer (grade 6), Grace Honey (grade 8), Trent Billmayer (ninth grade), and Tate Beck (grade 7) will represent Turner Public Schools....
What are the odds of two entire classrooms earning their place on the Rockin' ROAR Roster in the same week? That is exactly what happened at Harlem Elementary during this last week of January, 2020! Mrs. Kittson's kindergarten class and Mrs. Kinyon's fourth grade class each earned an extra recess with Principal Seymore, proving that staying Respectful, Organized, Always safe, and Responsible will result in great rewards. "You've outdone yourselves, Mrs. Kittson's kindergarten, and Mrs. Kinyon's...
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Chinook High School - Junior High 2nd Quarter Honor Roll 12th Grade Wylee Brown Samuel Dumas Josh Gillet Alyssa Gruszie Sally Halingstad Raynee Hasler Jasmine Klingaman Kendra McMaster Hunter Neibauer Natalia Pomeroy Jase Pursley Kurtis Slaughtner Rielly Wiegand 11th Grade Izayah Abayomi Hailey Bell Jade Cecrle Brittney Cox Damon Hannum Virginia Hauer Crystal Hofer Delaney Kellam Jayden Miller Martin Nussbaum Garrett Pruttis Allyssa Schoen Lily Surber Grace Ymzon 10th Grade Robyn Chaffin Liam Edwards Braden Eoff Anna Morrow Medina Nelson...
The Chinook Rod and Gun Club held their first ever Ice Fishing Derby on Saturday, February 1 at the Dry Fork Reservoir from 9 am to 3 pm. There were a total of 14 participants. The Gun Club provided lunch for all participants. The weather was warm and the wind blew like crazy, but the ice stayed firm and was still plenty thick. Fortunately for one fisherman Bruce Kennedy on the left caught the one fish that was caught all day and is the proud winner of the $300 prize presented by Elmer Zarn,...
Mid-Winter Fair events are in full swing this week, and the Fort Belknap Mid-Winter Fair Committee invites area residents to take part in the fun. The theme for this year’s fair is “Envisioning the Future, Embracing the Past.” Today, February 5, the Fort Belknap Child Support Program will host a Family Strengthening presentation from 10:00 until 1:00 at the Child Support Office, located at 781 Agency Main Street in the Old Diabetes Trailer. The community is invited to come listen to elder stories and to enjoy a warm meal. Door prizes will...
The Emperor, his friends and subjects, and a bunch of busy Silkworms entertained audiences on Saturday, January 25 in two afternoon performances at the Lloyd Sweet Auditorium at Chinook High School when the Missoula Children's Theatre (MCT) and 36 local students presented an original musical adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen classic, The Emperor's New Clothes. Chinook Junior High School eighth grader, Listat Pope played the leading role of the Emperor. Other featured performers included...
The Hill County Early Childhood Investment Team invites area community members to a free workshop, Poverty 101, presented by Dr. Donna M. Beegle. The workshop will take place at Best Western Plus Havre Inn & Suites at 1425 Highway 2 Northwest on Friday, February 7, from 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Dr. Beegle is a poverty expert, inspirational speaker, and recognized author from Portland, Oregon, who will share realistic strategies for individuals, organizations, and communities that want to make a m...
A number of Havre High School graduates have become professional athletes over the years, but none has possessed greater longevity nor more national and international prominence than the running Raunigs, the first brother and sister duo to qualify for the US Olympic marathon trials in the same year. Debbie Raunig, HHS Class of 1973, and Tom, Class of '77, both long-standing world class marathoners, will be featured speakers at the carbo-load dinner the evening before the Bear Paw Marathon...
The 17th annual Montana Seed Show is March 12,13, 14,2020. It is the 28th year for the Nimble Thimble Quilt show. The dates for the Quilt Show are March 13 and 14,2020. Friday March 13 from 10:00 a.m to 6:00 p.m. and on Saturday, March 14th from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Band room at Harlem High School. Quilts and entry forms must be returned to the Richman Ins office in Harlem by Friday, March 6th at 5:00 p.m. NO LATE ENTRY FORMS WILL BE ACCEPTED. Get busy and get those quilt projects finished and enter them in our show. You can enter...
Eighteen Northern Division Class B and C schools packed the house in Coyote Country this past Saturday, January 25, when Shelby High School hosted the Northern B/C Divisional Speech, Drama, and Debate Tournament. Speech events were held at the elementary school while drama and debate events were conducted at the high school. After each round of competition, anxious competitors milled in the hallways waiting for results about who would advance. Those anxiety levels reached a peak during finals....
In an effort to raise awareness and to remove some of the stigma associated with mental illness, especially depression, Tony Warren, Superintendent of Schools in Turner, Montana, applied for and received a School Safety Grant from the Montana Office of Public Instruction (OPI). In fulfilling the terms of the grant, Dr. Curtis Smeby and Dr. Darlene Sellers from MSU-Northern will teach the first session of a Youth Mental Health First Aid class on Thursday, January 30, and will return again on Thursday, February 6 from 4:00-8:00 p.m. at Turner...
The Harlem Public Library is offering a Parenting Class series based on the Circle of Security® program. The five-week series will be held on Thursdays beginning February 6 from 6:00-7:30 P.M. in the library meeting room. Instructing the class will be Jacob Strissel from the Havre Bullhook Community Health Center. There is no charge for the class and free child care will be provided. The Circle of Security® is an innovative relationship based parenting program designed to improve the developmental pathway of children and their parents. This e...
