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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...
During the joint Montana Council for Exceptional Children (MCEC) and Montana Council of Administrators of Special Education (MCASE) Conference on Exceptional Children and Youth held February 20-22 at the Delta Hotels Helena Colonial in Helena, Montana, Louise Nissen was honored with a Special Education Lifetime Achievement Award from the MCEC. "I felt very honored by the award," Nissen commented. The award was presented on Thursday evening during a no–host social held in the hotel's Grand B...
For Montana’s Public Broadcasting Service (MontanaPBS), February meant the highly anticipated launch of the Fred Rogers documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor. This award-winning film shares an intimate look at the life and philosophy of America’s favorite television-acclaimed neighbor. To celebrate the launch of this film, MontanaPBS invites youth (Pre-K - 12) across Montana to take inspiration from the legacy of Fred Rogers and to create submissions for a writing contest that responds to the prompt, “What does it mean to be a good neighbo...
Do you watch Shark Tank, the critically acclaimed and multi-Emmy Award-winning entrepreneurial-themed reality show? Maybe you have a business idea that you want to pitch or you’ve dreamed of running a company that would contribute creativity and innovation to the business world. Often, products or ideas are born out of necessity; other times they grow from a seed that sprouts and takes shape on paper. These are the scenarios to explore in a 2019 Entrepreneurship Essay Contest sponsored by Teen Ink and the Gifted and Talented Institute (...
Dr. Jed Baker, Director of the Social Skills Training Project, an organization serving individuals with autism and social communication problems, will be in Havre on April 3 presenting a workshop entitled "Managing Frustration, Anxiety and Teaching Social Skills." This is a free training for parents, general and special educators, paraprofessionals, agency personnel, and others who work with students or individuals on the autism spectrum or who present behavioral challenges. Anne-Marye Ymzon, Sp...
The 70th Annual Montana Seed Show, scheduled for March 14–16 at Harlem High School, is rapidly approaching. In partnership with event organizers, the Blaine County MSU Extension Service is bringing to the Hi-Line several speakers who will be featured during the Seed Show. Blaine County Extension Agent, Juli Snedigar invites area producers to mark their calendars for these sessions, which are free of charge and open to the public. On Friday, March 15 from 9:00–10:00 a.m., Rick Caquelin will sha...
Thursday, March 14 is entry day at the Seed Show. Those with agricultural exhibits, such as grains, legumes, grasses and potatoes, should bring them to the Harlem High School Gymnasium from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Questions about the agricultural exhibits should be directed to Agriculture Co-Chairs, John Schneider or Juli Sneidgar. This is also entry day for woodworking, with judging to occur at 2:00 p.m. Anyone with questions about this category should contact Woodworking Chair, Dale Klungland. Furthermore, from 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. on Thu...
With this having been the second coldest February on record, it may be difficult to think about gardening, but spring is right around the corner. Personnel from the MSU-Fort Belknap Reservation Extension Office encourage everyone to mark their calendars for tonight, February 27, and plan to attend the first Gardeners' Meeting of the new year. Hays and Lodge Pole gardeners, and anyone who just wants to learn to garden, is invited to attend this meeting scheduled for 6:30 p.m. The meeting will be...
Comedian Lukas Seely, a native of Billings, Montana, will present a live performance on March 8 at 7:00 p.m. in the Commercial Building at the Blaine County Fairgrounds located at 300 Cleveland Road West in Chinook. Hosted by the Fair Foundation, Seely will perform with Arlo Sanders, Conner Roma, and Gary Busby, staging a 90-minute variety show, Laugh to the Future, that includes improvisation, song parodies, and both stand-up and sketch comedy that will take the audience back to the 80’s. A lover of golf and a diehard San Francisco 49ers f...
Despite the nine degrees below zero mercury readings, six members of Free People Reading Freely, Blaine County Library’s Book Club, met on February 11 at the library. Their next meeting is scheduled for Monday, March 4 at 7:00 p.m. at the Blaine County Library. At their February meeting, members shared what they love about the books that others have banned or challenged. Discussion leader, Dr. Donna L. Miller distributed hearts to each book club member in attendance and invited them to record and then to share how the book they had read t...
Founded in 1949, the Montana Seed Show will celebrate its Platinum Jubilee this March 14 – 16 at Harlem High School, located at 610 First Avenue South East in Harlem, Montana. The three-day celebration is packed with exhibits and events to attract attendance and to commemorate this 70-year milestone of the only surviving seed show in Montana. The Seed Show will kick off on Thursday at 9:00 a.m. as entry day for most exhibits and will close with the Banquet and Auction on Saturday with a prime rib and shrimp dinner at 7:00 p.m. in the Harlem Hig...
Each year, FFA chapters around the country celebrate National FFA Week, which this year took place February 16 – 23. And last week, Chinook FFA Chapter member Alyssa Gruszie was indeed celebrating after she learned that she had won a National FFA Grant. The $1,000 award will enable her to expand her hog farrowing operation. In 2012, Gruszie, who is currently a junior at Chinook High School, purchased her first sow. Now she owns ten. What began as a 4-H project transitioned into a show pig b...
Last October, outgoing Montana Art Education Association (MAEA) Teacher of the Year, Cortni Harant, crowned April Fox the Montana Art Teacher of the Year at a reception held at the Yellowstone Art Museum on October 17. Fox recently learned that she has also been selected as the 2019 Pacific Region Art Educator of the Year, an award that will be conferred at the National Art Education Association (NAEA) National Convention to be held in Boston at the John B. Hynes Veteran's Memorial Convention Ce...
Forty-seven spellers from across Blaine County gathered in the Lloyd Sweet Auditorium at Chinook High School on February 12 to determine who would emerge as Blaine County's Spelling Bee champion. After fifteen rounds, J.J. Jendro, a seventh grader who attends Zurich Elementary School, was declared the winner. Jacoby Ball, a seventh grader representing Hays/Lodge Pole, captured second place. Blaine County Superintendent of Schools, Valerie White presented Jendro and Ball with plaques honoring...
