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Coming this August, Region II of the Comprehensive System of Personnel Development (CSPD), in partnership with Havre Public Schools, will be offering free training for parents, general and special educators, paraprofessionals, and others who work with children. Although the workshops themselves are scheduled for August 12-15, registrations for the sessions will only be accepted through August 7, 2019, unless they fill prior to that deadline. The first two workshops: Get Secure with Number Sense and Multiplication, Division & Fractions—Oh My! w...
As a service project, the Paradise Pals 4-H Club has provided for some time now, a recycling trailer at Sweet Memorial Nursing Home in Chinook. Many local residents and businesses, including the Blaine County Journal News—Opinion, have used this service. However, the Club will have to discontinue this service since Pacific Steel and Recycling is no longer accepting paper products. Havre Day Activity Center will still accept shredded paper, but those who wish to recycle shredded paper will have to haul it to the Havre Day Activity Center t...
According to Juli Snedigar, MSU Blaine County 4-H and Ag Extension Agent, all seven of the 4-H clubs in Blaine County were represented at the Blaine County Fair and the ribbons and awards earned by their members reflect a job well done. "We were slightly down in numbers for the indoor projects, but the quality of the exhibits was outstanding. The kids did a great job on the projects they did exhibit. From what I have heard from the youth and their parents, and through now having my own children...
Kayla (Williams) Hudon didn't always know she would be in the child care business, but she knew she was interested in business. In fact, she dreamed of opening a fitness center/health club in Harlem. After she graduated from Chinook High School in 2006, she attended what was then Fort Belknap College, earning an Associate of Science Degree in Business Entrepreneurship in 2010. During that same year, she married Tylor Hudon on August 14. Intending to put her recently earned degree to work, Hudon...
The Milk River Wagon Train Company is gearing up for their 50th Annual Milk River Wagon Train (MRWT) trail ride, which will take place from August 28-September 2. Although the approximately 48-mile trek from Zortman to Malta won't occur until late summer, event organizers are putting a call out to Blaine County cowboys, cowgirls, and trail riding campers, with hopes to see 50 wagons for their 50th Anniversary. Because of the promotion of the event and its fiftieth anniversary, registration by...
With the Blaine County Fair in the books and other fairs close to follow, local 4-H and FFA youth are encouraging Montanans to support them and their livestock sales. Not only will such a purchase be cost effective, shopping locally has multiple additional benefits, provided a person understands farm to table computations. According to a University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture publication, "How Much Meat to Expect from a Beef Carcass," the amount of meat actually available from a beef...
Fort Belknap Agency has a new community garden, and Aaniiih Nakoda College (ANC) interns, Denise Stanley and Corbin Brockie are responsible for tending and promoting the site, which is adjacent to the Discover Fort Belknap RV Park/Don Addy Park on Fort Belknap. Stanley and Brockie were placed with the MSU-Extension program by ANC. Two days a week they spend at Hays/Lodge Pole, planting, transplanting, weeding, and tending the community garden there. Then, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, they garden...
Imagine being in a horrific situation such as a house fire or a vehicle accident where immediate help is required. In the event of such horror, someone typically calls 911 so that emergency personnel can be dispatched to render aid. In a small rural community like Chinook or Harlem, those emergency personnel are often volunteers, neighbors helping neighbors. Yet, departments across the country are finding it more and more difficult to recruit and retain volunteer firefighters and Emergency Medic...
Montana Actors Theater (MAT) invites Chinook youth, ages 5-15, to participate in KidsMAT, a unique theatre camp experience for younger children offered in Chinook from July 15-18 at Chinook High School’s Lloyd Sweet Auditorium located at 528 Ohio Street. This one-week theater camp offers young people the chance not only to develop their creativity but to learn essential teamwork and leadership skills by allowing them to create their own stories, sets, and costumes. Each day will begin at 9:00 a.m. and end at 3:00 p.m. with a culminating p...
By the time the fair opens on Thursday, July 4, exhibitors will have spent countless hours preparing their entries, hoping to win premium ribbons, bragging rights, or simply the personal satisfaction that comes with accomplishment. This year, the Blaine County Fair will offer four new open class entry opportunities to potential exhibitors. Three of the new categories: Cake Decorating, Knife Skills, and Culinary Education will be available in the Culinary Department where Hope Hamilton serves as...
On Friday, July 5 and again on July 6, as part of the Chinook High School All-Class Reunion, Mighty Big Jim and the Tall Boys will be the featured music at a street dance on Indiana Street beginning at 9:00 p.m. on both nights. Two former CHS students who graduated in 2003, Katelynne (Sharples) and Jayson Eslick are members of the Rock Jam Americana style band whose home base is Wibaux, Montana. Created on February 1, 2013, Mighty Big Jim (MBJ) and the Tall Boys have been influenced by Bruce...
Montana Actors Theater (MAT) is immersed in rehearsals for the MAT Youth Production, which this summer will be She Kills Monsters. If area youth missed the auditions on June 14 and June 15, they still have an opportunity to pursue MAT’s touring KidsMAT Summer Children’s Theatre camps. According to promotional materials, the Youth Production will feature a comedic romp into the world of fantasy role-playing games. She Kills Monsters tells the story of Agnes Evans as she leaves her childhood home in Ohio following the death of her teenage sis...
The Blaine County Library invites parents and caregivers to participate in their Books and Babies program. In its first year, the program is designed to build language and social skills. The program, which began on June 7, meets on Friday mornings from 10:30-11:30 through July 5. Librarian Valerie Frank reported that the Books and Babies program began as a request from local parents. “Anytime we try a new program, it takes a while for it to take off, so we will continue to offer this program at least for the summer and assess whether it is a v...
Twenty five years ago in July, Kelcey and Nancy Diemert moved to Chinook, just in time to share in the All-Class Reunion and its festivities. As the community's new Registered Pharmacists who had recently graduated from the University of Montana's Pharmacy School in 1993, the couple was struck by how welcoming and supportive people were. After having spent a year in Seattle, the Diemerts were ready to put down roots and set up shop in a small town. "Chinook is like one big family, and this has b...
Sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) and by the Aaniiih Nakoda College (ANC) Library, the ANC Library will host a free “make and take” workshop on Tuesday, July 2, from 1:00-4:00 p.m. According to ANC Librarian Eva English, supplies will be provided and everyone is welcome to join the crew to make a wreath out of pages from old books. The workshop will take place at the ANC Library located at 330 Assiniboine Avenue on the ANC campus. Courtney Werk, Bryce Stiffarm, and English will be the presenters at the book wre...
In its ninth season of providing service to the community, Loaves and Fishes will again be offering a summer lunch program at Wallner Hall, located at 337 Ohio Street in Chinook. The program began on June 3 and will extend until August 8. Because Loaves and Fishes is supported solely by personal and church donations, organizers of the program are seeking individuals interested in sponsoring a day. The program has a long and storied history. Approximately ten years ago, while she was serving as...
By the time the fair opens on Thursday, July 4, exhibitors will have spent countless hours preparing their entries, hoping to win premium ribbons, bragging rights, or simply the personal satisfaction that comes with accomplishment. This year, the Blaine County Fair will offer four new open class entry opportunities to potential exhibitors. Three of the new categories: Cake Decorating, Knife Skills, and Culinary Education will be available in the Culinary Department where Hope Hamilton serves as...
Fifty one years ago, those attending the 1968 National FFA Convention engaged in heated debate. Donald Shinn from New Jersey had declared on the business floor, "Any student who is regularly enrolled in vocational agriculture is entitled to become an active member of any chartered FFA chapter." At that time, approximately 3,300 females were enrolled in vocational agricultural classes. The motion was quickly seconded by Richard Posthumus from Michigan, but it was defeated. The FFA would not...
Humanities Montana is now accepting nominations for the annual Montana Center for the Book (MCB) Prize. Up to five award-winning programs will receive $1,000 cash in recognition of their creative and wide-reaching literary programming such as family reading groups that promote youth literacy, reading series that encourage active engagement with the literary arts, or high school workshops that support student participation. The deadline to submit nominating letters is July 15. With a mission to promote an awareness of books, writing, reading,...
Sounds on the Square, a free summer concert series, continues on June 19 with the ROC band, whose members are from both Chinook and Havre. These concerts will recur each Wednesday through August 14 at the Town Square, 332 First Street in Havre, Montana, and feature various local musicians. Hosted by the Havre Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by NorthWestern Energy, along with Triangle Communications and Triangle Mobile, Sounds on the Square music will start at 6:00 p.m. and continue until 8:00 p.m., weather permitting. Sounds on the Square on...
Although organizers of the Annual Blaine County Kid's Rodeo have released a Save the Date announcement for their rodeo event, they would also like area youth to be aware of the rapidly approaching registration deadline of June 24. Entry forms are available on the Blaine County Kid's Rodeo Facebook page, or they can be picked up at various area businesses: EZ Mart in Harlem, The Blaine County Journal News Opinion office or Bear Paw Livestock in Chinook, The Kwik Stop in Fort Belknap, Norman's...
Twenty-three youth and adults from the Jesus Uses Motivated People (JUMP) group will be travelling to Puyallup, Washington, this summer for their third mission trip to that city. From June 16-24, they will work at three different sites. At Helping Hand House (HHH), an emergency shelter that serves families with children who are experiencing the crisis of homelessness, the group will perform maintenance and landscaping labor. Operating under the core values of urgent relief, trust, and dignity, HHH helps families through one or more of their pro...
Chinook School District advertised a vacancy on May 28 for an elementary school principal. After four years in that leadership role at Meadowlark Elementary School (MES), Jonathan Martin will be moving on in an effort to be closer to his parents and family, who live in the Bitterroot Valley, as well as to continue to grow professionally. He has interviewed in the Missoula County School district and has also applied for a position in Polson. "When I announced at the end of year assembly on May...
Historically, June has been the most popular month for weddings, and many ideas offer explanations for its matrimonial popularity. For example, the month of June derives its name from Juno, the Roman goddess known as the protector of women in all aspects of life, but especially in marriage and childbearing. Given those connections, it was thought that couples who married in June would be blessed with prosperity and happiness. An anonymous poem further claims "Marry when June roses grow, over...
One of the planned events during the All-Class Reunion scheduled for July 4-7 is a Brewfest. According to event organizer Kelsey Harry, the Brewfest will be held on Thursday, July 4 beginning at 4:00 p.m. at Sweet Park, located at 700 New York Street in Chinook. Besides providing a venue for groups to gather and reminisce, the purpose of the Brew Fest is to raise funds for upgrading the playground equipment at the park, which Harry describes as "almost everyone's favorite park while growing up...
