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Good for the Bobcats and the Grizzlies this week. Both won their Saturday games. The Bobcats finished off Portland State 30 t0 22. The mighty Griz beat Idaho State 39 to 31. Good playing on the part of both teams. In the Frontier League about all I could come up with at press time is Western beating Montana Tech 42 to 35. That was a game that was supposed to go the other way. Carroll lost to the College of Idaho 21 to 6. That wasn’t supposed to end that way either. Closer to home Chouteau beat the Thunderbirds 74 to 6 and Havre lost to B...
God is good! The Grizzlies won and the Bobcats lost! No, I don’t mean that. Those words were written by my evil twin brother, Mean Robby. I am sorry that MSU lost, but I am very happy that the Griz finally won a road game and now that curse is behind them. For those who just want to know the facts, Weber State beat the Bobcats 25 to 17. Meanwhile the Griz played Portland State with a score of 45 to 33. Closer to home, Chinook did a number on Simms, beating them 34 to 14. Kudos to Chinook! Far away in Big Sandy Land, for Homecoming and Chili F...
I love to view fall foliage! Each year about this time I review with you some of the best places in Montana to view the bold reds, oranges, yellows and golds not to mention purples and dark greens that make up some of the most vibrant fall foliage to be seen. This week we go through the Bear Paw Mountains. Next week it is off to Glacier to see foliage and the week after that it is foliage where you would not think to see any. The Bear Paw Mountains have had a terrible summer with the fire that burned much of the land between Clear Creek and...
Don’t allow evil to cloud your perception of God Q. I find the Bible interesting (or at least parts of it), but I don’t think we ought to follow it as a guide for our lives. After all, it’s thousands of years old, and we live in a different world today. A:Yes, we do live in a different world — and yet millions of people all over the world still look to the Bible to guide them and give them hope. They have discovered that Jesus’ words — spoken almost 2,000 years ago — are still true: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will neve...
Lots happening in the wonderful world of football these days. Take last weekend for instance. The Bobcats beat North Dakota 49 to 21, a blowout if there was ever a blowout to be had. Meanwhile back home in the Grizzly Nation the Griz lost to Eastern Washington 48 to 41. I got both those games wrong as did lots others. The Griz are 2 and 2 for the season. Same with the Bobcats. Meanwhile closer to home Havre lost to Glendive 36 to 26. Chinook beat Rocky Boy 50 to 0 and Harlem lost to Shelby 61 to 12. The Thunderbirds lost to CJI 56 to 12. Big...
I was never much of a hunter. I guess I loved watching wildlife too much and marveling over its beauty. However, if there was a hunting camp to go to, I was usually there. I loved hunting camps almost as much as fishing camps. Of course our hunting camps were usually centered on Clear Creek, and most of the ones I went to were in the Bear Paw School cabin, an old one room log building built on a little rise just above where Henderson Creek dumps into Clear Creek. However, my uncle Al went elaborate for several years and had his hunting camp in...
The Montana Grizzlies had a mixed bag last Saturday when they played Savannah State at home in Missoula. They won the game handily, beating Savanna State 56 to 3 of all things but their main quarterback Reese Phillips had a serious ankle injury. That called in freshman Gresch Jensen who did a great job as backup quarterback. Closer to home it was the Thunderbirds losing to Box Elder 22 to 6. Chinook lost to Fort Benton 36 to 2. Havre lost to Belgrade 43 to 6 and Harlem lost to Cut Bank 65 to 0. Bad day for the home teams, right? If that...
I hate wildfires. We used to call them forest fires if you will recall but then the prairies started burning as well so the name had to be changed to wild fires. The Bear Paw fire that we have been in the midst of for a week or more was one of the worst ever but there have been others that have been almost as bad. This is the first one that there was an actual loss of cabins in Beaver Creek Park and that shows how strong and terrible that fire really was. I learned most about fires when I lived for eight years in the Flathead Valley. I saw...
There were many wins and losses in football this last weekend. Great Falls Central really took the Thunderbirds to task, beating them 64 to 6. That led Central to a 3 and 0 record and a look of a winner in class C. Cascade beat Chinook and Laurel beat Havre. The Chinook score was 40 to 20 and Laurel beat Havre 42 to 21. I did not get a Harlem football score at press time but I saw that Harlem lost to Box Elder in volleyball. In the Frontier League Rocky beat Carroll 40 to 14. Talk about decisive. It was Rocky’s first win against Carroll s...
It is September and if it ever cools off September signals the beginning of fall and a wonderful time to start cooking those casseroles that you missed so much during the long hot summer. My version of Shepherd’s Pie I have given out the recipe before but it is so comforting, so delicious and so fall like that it is worth the work to put it all together. Consider Shepherd’s Pie to be a three pronged attack. First get a whole mess of the largest Yukon Gold potatoes you can find, boil them after peeling or leave the peelings on for that mat...
Don’t allow evil to cloud your perception of God Q. I don’t see how anyone can believe in God, especially in light of all the bad things that have been done in the name of religion over the centuries — wars, conflicts, oppression, hate, etc. We need to free ourselves from believing in God, because religion is evil. — H.J. A: It’s true that religion has sometimes been used as an excuse to commit great evil — tragically, even in our own time. The Bible warned that a time would come when “evildoers and imposters will go from bad to worse, deceivin...
Prep football like all prep sports in Montana is changing. Schools are getting smaller and there are more and more who opt out of football or go to eight man which is much easier to fill than the traditional eleven man teams. Chouteau this year is going to be playing eight man football which is sort of shocking considering what the size of that town has been through the years. Then there is the case of Poplar High School who cannot play its varsity football schedule due to a lack of boys to field positions. They started out with seventeen...
I have not shared any mail with you gentle readers for some time now. Old time readers know that my mail is usually about the same each time I get any and varies from those who are in love with me to those who hate the ground I walk on. Yet, it is always good to stay humble so here is a sample of what the last three months have brought in. I call it the good, the bad and the ugly. Dear Mr. Lucke, I see you hobbling down the street using a walker these days. Surely I think we will not have to read any more of your drivel in the paper as you are...
Prep football like all prep sports in Montana is changing. Schools are getting smaller and there are more and more who opt out of football or go to eight man which is much easier to fill than the traditional eleven man teams. Chouteau this year is going to be playing eight man football which is sort of shocking considering what the size of that town has been through the years. Then there is the case of Poplar High School who cannot play its varsity football schedule due to a lack of boys to field positions. They started out with seventeen...
I have to go to the doctor in Great Falls today. I am not looking forward to that but I am looking forward to stopping at Borries in Black Eagle on the way home and picking up some spaghetti sauce and meat balls that are to die for. Borries sauce is a very old fashioned spaghetti sauce and is as good as any I have ever eaten. Best of all I do not have to go to Borries to get great spaghetti sauce for Nalivka’s in Havre has it as well. They use a very old recipe and their meat balls are simply wonderful too. I think that spaghetti and meat balls...
There is a lot of wildlife to view in our area but not everyone sees it. I had to laugh when I was driving a bus in Glacier National Park. People used to ask if they would see wildlife and I would say probably not in my bus as I had bad luck in the wildlife viewing department. That is not to say that I have not seen plenty of wildlife in my life. I have seen two mountain lions in the Bear Paws. Both of them at the end of June and both by the school house coulee that runs west from the Faber School. It was light so long that the lions nocturnal...
There is plenty of football news all of a sudden this month as the NFL starts their pre season and college teams regroup for yet another season. I notice that for fantasy football freaks there is no end to trades and the like all making the choosing of a fantasy football team more difficult. If you are a Cowboy Fan your star running back Ezekiel Elliott has been suspended for six games for injuring his former girlfriend in three separate accidents last summer. So, you can’t use Elliott for the first six games and if more people had their w...
Q: If Jesus came back to earth and walked down the street of almost any one of our major cities, would anyone recognize Him? I’m curious about this, because we don’t really know what He looked like, do we? A: No, the Bible doesn’t tell us exactly what Jesus looked like while He was on earth. He lived in the Middle East—a part of the world that touches the continents of Africa, Asia and Europe—and He probably was similar in appearance to any other man living in that part of the world. Remember: He came for all humanity. Over the centuries...
This week I was going to advise going for a couple of days to Zortman and having a good steak dinner, staying maybe at the historic Buckhorn cabins and exploring Mission Canyon. The terrible forest fire there stopped that travel guide. It reminds me of hearing of the great fire of 1936 that burned most all the timber in those wonderful mountains causing the forest de jour these days to be lodge pole pine due to that tree being the first to reforest itself after a major forest fire. So, instead of the smoky Little Rockies, how about going on...
Hasn’t this weather been tough on so many of us? Just hot and hotter and hotter and little or no rain and the National Weather Service says it is going to stay that way all through the rest of July. I was afraid to ask them about August. I can well remember going through drought periods like this before. Now, this is not really true but I once said that in the 1980’s there was a period of one summer what there was never a cloud in the sky. Never! Only the incessant sun day after day after day. Then in the 1990’s in another very dry perio...
Q: Sometimes I feel like God is very close to me, but then something happens and I begin wondering if He's even there. I wish my faith wasn't so up and down, but it is. Am I always going to be this way? A: No, you don’t always need to be this way—because God doesn’t want you to be this way! In fact, He has given you everything you need to strengthen your faith and help you know He is with you every moment of the day. Let me explain it this way. I note from your email that you are married—but how do you know? You know you are married because...
My bedroom is a wonderful gallery of some of the best art that I own. It started out as a tribute to Grandma Moses. I love her art and through the years have collected seven large prints covering such subjects as winter scenes, Halloween, harvest time, and the Fourth of July. The Grandma Moses prints did not seem enough for that room. I have a lot of pictures of relatives; two buffalo head ducks that were mounted by Grandpa Lucke in 1925, a couple Pasma “Thinkum Happy People”, and some of my own art on the walls. Two of my favorite pai...
I am just glad that it is not football season right now much as I miss the game. With this horrible July heat wave, it would be difficult to play football or any outdoor game that requires exertion. One would hope that when August rolls around, it will be more like fall than this very hot and dry summer. Not that we have not had these summers before. In the 1980’s there were several years that were dry in the mountains and out on the prairie. And for those following the story of the Little Rocky Fire, remember 1936 when practically the e...
I have written before that I am not a big fan of potato salad. That is strange because I like everything that goes into potato salad. The other day I found a very old recipe in a Betty Crocker cookbook and thought I would try that. The biggest difference between that potato salad and today’s potato salads is that today, cooks recommend adding the dressing while the potatoes are hot so the dressing gets in the potatoes themselves. This salad recommends the potatoes be very cold when applying the dressing. Anyway I did like this potato salad. It...
The University of Montana football team is getting a new and better schedule as the years roll on. Most know that when the Grizzlies started playing the University of North Dakota, that brought a whole new level of football to the Big Sky much as it pains me to say that. Nothing should be as good in North Dakota as in Montana but that University of North Dakota football team is not good. Try great! In 2024 the regular Big Sky season will move to twelve games and that will make some extra slots to fill. One that the Grizzlies are going to use...
