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Spring is traditionally a time for field trips. Warmer weather and predictably passable roads make such scheduling possible. In the spirit of spring travel, on April 11, Meadowlark Elementary School fifth graders will be traveling to Great Falls, where they will visit Giant Springs Fish Hatchery and the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center. Originally constructed in 1928 and updated in 1984, Giant Springs Fish Hatchery is a production facility adjacent to the Giant...
The first National Autism Awareness Month was declared by the Autism Society in April 1970, and in 2015, then President Barack Obama issued a White House proclamation recognizing World Autism Awareness Day as April 2. These designations are part of a nationwide effort to promote autism awareness, inclusion, and self-determination for all and to assure that each person with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is afforded the opportunity to achieve the highest possible quality of life. ASD affects about one in every 68 children in the United...
Dr. Jed Baker, Director of the Social Skills Training Project, an organization serving individuals with autism and social communication challenges, was at the Fifth Avenue Christian Church in Havre on April 3, the day after Autism Awareness Day, to present a workshop entitled “Managing Frustration, Anxiety and Teaching Social Skills.” Jon Martin, Meadowlark Elementary School Principal; Anne-Marye Ymzon, Special Education faculty; and Tammy Edwards, first grade teacher at Meadowlark Elementary, attended this free training designed for parents, g...
Guitar pickers, poets, and storytellers from across Canada and Montana will take up residence in Chinook for three days to pick cowboy tunes, recite cowboy poems, and tell cowboy jokes. This smörgasbord of talent, humor, history, and entertainment is called the Montana Country Poets and Pickers Western Heritage Roundup. Presented by the Chinook Chapter of the FFA, the event will take place from April 12-14 in Chinook High School's (CHS) Lloyd Sweet Auditorium at 7:00 p.m. In its 25th year, the...
A hardy group of Free People Reading Freely, Blaine County Library’s Book Club, met on March 4 at the library. Their next meeting is scheduled for Monday, April 8 at 7:00 p.m. at the Blaine County Library. The book club’s March conversation began with the January release of Montana Public Broadcasting Service’s “The Great Montana Read” and their list of Montana’s “best-loved novels.” One of the books that made the Top Five was Fools Crow by James Welch, a novel that has received challenges in high schools in both Helena and Bozeman because...
On Friday, April 5, Meadowlark Elementary students will be taking a field trip to the Montana Actors' Theater, the resident theatre company on the campus of Montana State University-Northern. The upper grade students who will be traveling for the evening performance will see the production of Fantastic Mr. Fox, not only for further exposure to a theater experience but because one of Chinook's fifth grade students, Mara Edwards plays a role. In the show, which opened on March 22 and runs through...
Ever since she was a young girl growing up on the family ranch south of Chinook near Cleveland, Shaina Hofeldt has known that she wanted to be in the restaurant business. "Because I have always loved to cook, I would often, unsuccessfully, beg Dad to let me stay home and cook instead of going to chase cows. When Kyla and I were little, we would imitate a steakhouse in our basement by setting up a table with cloth napkins and candlelight. We made menus for the dinner and served our mom, dad, and...
Travelers driving the Hi-Line will likely notice evidence from town to town that they are in Ag country. This evidence might manifest in the form of an alfalfa field, a pasture dotted with grazing cattle, or a grain field swaying in the breeze. Further indication occurs in nearly every small town, which features an agriculture supply store or an implement dealership so that the diverse and colorful group of farmers and ranchers that call the Hi-Line home have access to all the parts and...
Last week during National Agriculture Week, a week set aside to recognize and celebrate the abundance provided by agriculture, Blaine County Veterinary Service learned that they had won a 2018 Best of Chinook Award in the category of Veterinarian. The doctors and staff at the clinic were honored to receive the community's support and approval implied by this award. "We would like to thank everyone for this great award," Lynette Nussbaum said in a phone interview. "The award arrived in the mail...
On March 21, Meadowlark Elementary School staff and students brought awareness to people with Down syndrome with a "Rock Your Socks" Day. Down Syndrome International (DSI) selected the date for very clever reasons; the 21st day of the third month is a hat-tip to the uniqueness of the triplication of the 21st chromosome which leads to Down syndrome. DSI coordinates the Twitter campaign, #lotsofsocks and encourages people all over the world to wear socks, t-shirts or brightly colored clothing to...
The Western Governors' Association (WGA) announces its 4th Annual "Celebrate the West" regional art competition that challenges high school students to create works of art inspired by their state. The 2019 competition entry deadline is April 28, and students are welcome to submit artwork used for other contests or assignments. Last year's overall winner was Karina Yang of Hamilton High School in Arizona who took home First Place and $1,000 cash prize for her acrylic painting, The Old and the...
It was the main event on July 20, 1969. Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins, NASA's Apollo 11 crew, had made the historic, 240,000 mile trip from Earth to the moon. At 10:56 p.m. EDT, with millions of people gathered around their televisions to watch or their radios to listen, Armstrong and Aldrin stepped off the lunar landing module, the Eagle, and became the first humans to walk on the surface of the moon. After the two stepped onto the lunar surface, Armstrong...
On March 25-26 during parent-teacher conferences, Meadowlark Elementary held a Scholastic Book Fair. Those attending encountered "Pardon the Inconvenience" signs to indicate that the school is under construction. The method previously used for releasing the locked doors to allow visitors to enter is no longer functioning as the elementary school undergoes the process of upgrading to a security system similar to the one at the high school. In other news from Meadowlark, at an assembly last week,...
Principal Jon Martin reported that Family Learning Night, which was held at Meadowlark Elementary School earlier this month, saw around 100 children attend, the largest turn-out yet for this event in four years. The theme for Family Learning Night was "Across the Universe." Parents accompanied their children on a journey through various stations and activities, collecting passport stamps as they made progress through ten different stations, including the STARLAB® from the Museum of the...
Miss Montana 2018, Laura Haller visited Zurich on March 19, where she presented to Zurich Elementary, Bear Paw School, and Cleveland School students. During her Crown to Classroom Tour, Miss Montana promoted a program called Own Your Movement, her social impact initiative focused on physical activity and working to advance shared ideas and beliefs. Using narrative, videos, and lessons learned from her life as a professional dancer, pre-med student, marathon runner, triathlete, small business...
The 70th Annual Montana Seed Show is in the books, and paging back, one might recall an event rich in breads and pies and quilts and art. Others will remember the meals, auctions, and entertainment provided by Party Rock Project. The three-day event also featured vendors with wares or services to sell, as well as craftsmen, artisans, and Ag exhibits. For the 27th year, the Nimble Thimble Quilt Show took place on both March 15 and 16 in the Harlem High School Band Room. At the entrance to the...
Scammers do not discriminate when it comes to their targets; they’ll try to steal money or information from anyone. These crooks use clever schemes to defraud millions of people every year. They often pretend to be someone a person might trust, like a government official, a family member, a charity, or a familiar company or business representative. Both the Blaine County Sheriff’s Office and the Chinook Post Office want local residents to be alert in order to avoid becoming the victim of a scam. According to Sheriff John Colby, scammers can...
The Hi-Line Regional Science Fair was held March 5 at MSU-Northern. Students from Liberty, Hill, Blaine, Phillips, Valley, Daniels, Roosevelt and Sheridan Counties were invited to compete in a type of dress rehearsal for the state science fair. Although no Blaine County students competed in the event, three former Chinook High School students served as judges in a pool of several others who judged the junior high and middle school projects. Joe LaPlante (2000), Christy Baker Smith (2002), and...
Michelle Summers, a professional artist originally from Portland, Oregon, who currently serves as a resident artist with the Holter Museum of Art in Helena, Montana, presented an art program to Zurich Elementary and Cleveland School students in Zurich on Wednesday, March 6, as part of the Art Mobile Montana Program. Similar to a bookmobile that expands the reach of traditional libraries by transporting books to potential readers and providing library services to people in otherwise-underserved...
Traveling dinner theatre with Montana Actors' Theater (MAT) is back-with five separate weekend performances in four different communities, including Chinook. Area residents are invited to join MAT for dinner at 6:00 p.m. followed by the hilarious insanity of The 39 Steps on March 22 and 23 at the Eagles Club located at 305 Indiana Street in Chinook. Based on an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon and reminiscent of the book by John Buchan which was adapted for theater by Patrick...
March Madness, the moniker given to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Men'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. Following selection Sunday, which will take place on March 17, when the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee reveals which teams have made the field for this year's basketball...
I Love to Read Month activities culminated for Meadowlark Elementary students on Monday afternoon, March 4, during a school assembly when winners for the Accelerated Reader reading challenge were announced for each grade. School Librarian, Mrs. Kelsey Harry reported that during the month of February, Meadowlark students attempted and passed 512 Accelerated Reader (AR) tests. Of that total, 13 tests were conquered by kindergarteners, 220 by first graders, 140 by second graders, 62 by third...
On Thursday, March 14, Family Learning Night will take place at Meadowlark Elementary School from 6:00-7:00 p.m. The theme for the event will be "Across the Universe" and will feature the STARLAB® from the Museum of the Rockies (MOR) located in Bozeman, Montana. The evening's events will focus on science, technology, engineering, and math-typically referred to as the STEM subjects. Although MOR provides multiple resources that support STEM education, Montana Content Standards, and Indian...
The Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA), an organization for young men and women in Family and Consumer Sciences education at Chinook High School (CHS), is accepting dress donations for their Dress Boutique. The Dress Boutique, located in Room 106 at the Chinook High School at 528 Ohio Street in Chinook is a place to trade, buy, sell, or borrow formal gowns and dresses. According to Hope Hamilton, the grade 7-12 Family Consumer Science teacher and FCCLA advisor, the Boutique...
Three additional Chinook FFA Chapter members, Jade Cecrle, Bree Swanson, and Morgan Friede received grants and scholarships through the FFA organization's granting and scholarship program. The three learned of their awards last month during National FFA Week. Bree Swanson and Morgan Friede, two eighth graders in Chinook, were awarded scholarships to attend the Alumni Leadership Camp (ALC) this summer. Held for four days each June in Highwood, Montana, ALC brings together young FFA members who...
