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When the Blaine County Fair Foundation learned that their semi-formal prime rib dinner and dance fundraiser was scheduled for the same night as the Seed Show Banquet, they changed the date of their event from Saturday, March 14, to Friday, March 13, at 6:00 p.m. in the Commercial Building at the Blaine County Fairgrounds. "We're grateful that the band booking was flexible," Fair Manager Debbie Ramberg reported. Although the Fair Foundation is putting on the event, which is in response to the...
Beginning at 7:30 a.m. with coffee and donuts on March 18 and concluding at 5:00 p.m. on March 19, the Little River Institute at MSU-Northern will be hosting an Indigenous Gathering in the Student Union Ballroom (SUB) on the campus in Havre. The Gathering is a call to action for all educators and leaders—including youth—throughout Indian country to share the work of reconnecting American Indian youth to their ancestral roots so that they can flourish. The event is the collaborative effort of the Little River Institute (LRI), the Montana Dep...
Earlier this month, Director Grant Olson announced the cast for the touring dinner theatre that will travel throughout the region from mid-March to the beginning of May. Auditions were held Monday evening, February 3, at the Montana Actor’s Theater (MAT) on the campus of MSU-Northern for three female and two male roles in the original play Ticked Off written by Rachel Hutchison. Chinook resident Anjenette Hawk landed a role in the show as the Great Tiki. Ticked Off is a tale of star-crossed lovers. The plot revolves around whether a love b...
March Madness, the moniker given to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments, captures the concentrated hype from the second week of March through the first week of April when 68 teams vie for college basketball's biggest prize in a single-elimination tournament: the national championship. On Selection Sunday, March 15, the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee will reveal which teams have made the field for this year's basketball championships and then release the seeding and the bracket...
On March 2, Chinook Junior High School will host the Music District 7 East Junior High Band Festival. Attended by more than 200 students from Big Sandy, Box Elder, Chinook, Fort Benton, Havre, and North Star, the Festival will culminate with a concert at 6:30 p.m. on Monday night in the Floyd Bowen Gymnasium at Chinook High School. The student group will form two bands: an Intermediate Band, directed by the local band directors; and an Advanced Band, under the direction of guest conductor Susan Walker. A retired music teacher, Walker has been...
The first female from the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation to win a national championship in boxing, eleven-year-old BreeAnn Cochran captured the 119 pound 2020 National Silver Gloves Title in Independence, Missouri, on February 1. On February 10, the Fort Belknap Indian Community (FBIC) Tribal Council honored Cochran for her distinctions along with Frank LaTray, the first male national boxing champion from Fort Belknap. Cochran, who is a member of the Hays Amateur Boxing Club, defeated Emily...
On Wednesday, February 5, Advisor of the Chinook Chapter of the FFA, Robin Allen learned that three of her members: Shyla Benzing, Torin Cercle, and Ben LaVelle had received SAE Grants from the National FFA Foundation to start a supervised agricultural experience (SAE) in Animal Systems. Allen also reported receiving grants from the Masonic Foundation and the Montana FFA Foundation for upgrades to the welding stations in the Chinook High School shop. On February 13, she learned she had also won...
On February 24, Region II of the Comprehensive System of Personnel Development (CSPD), in partnership with Havre Public Schools, will offer free training to schools that are not only new to the multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) process but to Montana Behavioral Initiative (MBI) schools who are making the transition to MTSS. Interested participants should register by February 20. Retired school psychologist, Carla Heintz and retired special educator, Sandy Elmore will present Making the Transition: MBI to MTSS at the Best Western Plus Havre...
Although the International Morse Code of …---… was chosen as the international distress signal by the nations who met at a maritime conference in the early 1900s, the sequence of three dots and three dashes followed by three more dots really isn’t supposed to stand for the three letters SOS. The code string was simply a unique signal that would transmit clearly and quickly via telegraph and wouldn’t be confused for other communications. Today, it is the universal signal to attract attention, signal distress, and ask for help. In contemp...
Fifty-one spellers from across the county qualified for the Blaine County Spelling Bee on February 5. The event was held in Chinook High School's Lloyd Sweet Auditorium and was directed by Blaine County Superintendent of Schools, Valerie White. After twelve rounds, Mekayla Brown, who is a seventh grader at Chinook Junior High School, was declared the winner. Hadessa Hofer, an eighth grader at North Harlem Colony Elementary School captured second place, and Gracie Honey, an eighth grader from...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Although the Chinook FFA Chapter mechanics team was slated to travel to Fergus High School in Lewistown for the Fergus Mechanics Contest and FFA Winter Meeting on January 25, the group decided to privilege work over that event on their Career and Leadership Development pathway. The Fergus of Lewistown FFA Alumni Mechanics Competition featured contest categories that are comparable to the state mechanics contest and included tests in welding, construction, electricity, equipment, small engines,...
The Fort Belknap Indian Community invites everyone to its 52nd Annual Mid-Winter Fair (MWF), which is slated for February 5-8. For this year's MWF, the theme is "Envisioning the Future, Embracing the Past," and event organizers promise four fun-filled days. Although most activities will take place at the Fort Belknap Bingo Hall, others will be held on the Aaniiih Nakoda College campus. Booth set-up will begin on Monday, February 3, when various college and community groups and organizations...
Blaine County has a new Extension Agent. Friday, January 10 was Sarah Johnson's sixth day on the job. Johnson comes to Chinook from a small town in Minnesota with a population of approximately 2,043, so she's no stranger to small town life or to a life where the railroad, crops, and cattle contributed to the early economy. Although Johnson enjoyed her time in Minnesota, she was ready for a change and expressed excitement about her new position with the MSU Extension Service in Blaine County and...
