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As August winds down the residents of Chinook start looking forward to the 11th Annual Sugarbeet Festival. The Chinook Sugarbeet Festival is an event that honors an industry or area of the community that has had significant impact on the small town. This year it will celebrate the railroad industry, from the time that James J. Hill first laid tracks through north central Montana to the present day. Beginning Friday, September 23rd the festival will kick off with a Health Fair being put together by the Sweet Medical Center as well as a showing...
Often when having a brandy just before bed, I go into my mother’s bedroom which has not changed much from when she lived in it. Mother died six years ago. It is a big room and is filled with a wonderful cannon ball bedroom set. her grandmother’s desk, a cannonball rocking chair and ottoman and many interesting pictures along with a huge gilt edged mirror. The floor is hardwood and is covered with Oriental carpets along with one huge mountain goat rug made from seven mountain goats. Mother loved that rug as she suffered from cold feet for a long...
Congratulations to our grand prize winners for the summer reading program! In the K-3 age bracket Orion Cuts The Rope was the top reader finishing 166 books! Alaura Hawley was the winner in the 4 - 6 grade bracket reading a total of 79 hours! Thanks to everyone who participated in the summer reading program. Story Hour and Books and Babies will not meet again until after Labor Day. Lego Club will not meet August 18, but will start again August 25, 6 P.M. in the library meeting room. There will be no library board meeting this month. The Book Ch...
If during August you want to walk on the wild side, why not visit our giant neighbor to the north, Canada and explore the Cypress Hills? These days you will need a passport to get across the border and back into Montana as well. You can get an inexpensive and faster passport that lets you just into Canada and Mexico. I don’t know that there are any true cypress trees in Cypress Park which would be your destination. Just like I know that there are no true maple trees in the town of Maple Creek. It seems that the lowly box elder tree is called a...
The Book Challenge for August is to read a book set in the future or the distant past. There will be no Story Hour or Books and Babies the rest of the month. They will resume the first week of September. Lego Cub will not meet August 11 and 18, but will start again Thursday, August 25, 6 P.M. in the library meeting room. The library has a new service called “Shoutbomb.” Patrons may sign up to be notified via test message if they have holds available, items due soon, and items overdue. Call the library for more information or go to the lib...
It was one hundred and one years ago when William Arthur Davies first came to Blaine County and this weekend the family got together to celebrate. Relatives and friends came from all over to partake in the festivities. William Davies was born in Denbighshire, Wales in 1890. He lived there until he made his way to United States in March of 1912. It's a bit of a family story that he even made it to the United States. Apparently William had sought passage on the Titanic but tickets were sold out,...
By the time you have read these words there will have been a Hall of Fame game played in the NFL and broadcast on ESPN. It was on last Sunday and even though our print deadline won’t let us tell you the score, it was Green Bay vs. Indianapolis. I imagine that Green Bay won it but if quarterback Luck is stinky enough, maybe Indianapolis won it. We had a report a couple of weeks ago that Quarterback Andrew Luck did not like to shower. After the Hall of Fame, the rest of August if filled with pre season games. You know it is that time of year b...
The Summer Reading Program draws to a close this week with a finale on Thursday, July 28, from 1-3 P.M. for all children who participated. Ice cream floats will be served and the movie “Zootopia” will be shown. Children have until Aug. 5 to turn in their reading logs. The grand prize winners will be announced after August 5. Don’t miss the “Tea with Alice” summer fundraiser sponsored by the Friends of the Library. This formal Victorian high tea is tonight from 6:30-8:00 with a program scheduled for 7 P.M. All ages are welcome and prices ar...
I cried in my beer a couple of times at least this week. First, I was sad that the East did not win the East/West Shrine game last weekend. It was a 45 to 14 rout with the west picking up an easy win. I guess the East has won a bunch of times but it is always good when the East can best the West in something. Or anything! This game has been going on a long time for a very good cause. I can remember when I was a teenager listening to it on the radio out in cabins on Clear Creek. And the Shrine continues to help children with proceeds of the...
With the Bear Paw Mountains so nice and green yet, there is no better time to pack a picnic lunch and take a summer drive somewhere or other just to see how great this land is that we call North Central Montana. The trip I am going to suggest is a little more rigorous than most and should be done in a SUV or a pickup or at least a car with high clearance. Take your lunch, your family, the dog and head to Harlem. At Harlem turn south and go to Hays. From Hays be looking to the right or west as there is a road that is marked to go to Cow Creek....
There is an old saying in Montana that if a person does not like the weather, just wait five minutes and it will change. That has never been more true than this winter, spring and early summer in the Big Sandy area. Just before this story came to see the printed word, there was a good inch of rain in the Big Sandy area. Some areas of the Bear Paw Mountains were reporting up to three inches of rain and some low land flooding. Many have commented that it is almost the middle of July and the prairie is that wonderful early spring green color. All...
Summer Reading is quickly drawing to a close. Children are reminded to bring in their reading logs to earn prizes and to move ahead on the reading race track. The summer reading finale for all children who have participated will be July 28, 1 P.M. when we will celebrate with root beer floats and the movie “Zootopia.” The party will last until approximately 3 P.M. The Friends of the Library fundraiser “Tea with Alice” will be July 27, 6 :30 P.M. at the library. This tea party will have an Alice in Wonderland theme and is a family friendl...
I accidently tuned in to the ESPY awards on ABC television last Wednesday. It wasn’t the awards I will remember. But I will long remember the beginning of the program when LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade all came out dressed in very somber clothes and called for an end of the killings that are happening around the United States. Specifically they talked about Dallas, St. Paul and Baton Rouge. What they had to say was very moving. I think that when strong athletes like those four are, get up and talk, young people w...
Finally I can sit back in a lawn chair and really enjoy my garden. You see finally the cotton season from my older than dirt cottonwood tree has all gone away (most tracked in the house) and baring a July freeze, which is unlikely, or a hail storm, which is more likely, it is a time to watch my zinnias, dahlias and later perennial flowers just go great guns in the growing department. I have scores of blooms on my dahlias. That is really good to see because last year between a freeze and hail, I had few buds until it was ready to freeze in the...
It has been just over six years since President Obama signed his sweeping health care legislation into law, subjecting every American to federal mandates. How is it working out? Are your insurance premiums lower? Are your deductibles lower? Is it easier to get an appointment to see a physician? Were you able to keep your same physician? The legislation was passed in such a fashion as to strain the boundaries of the Constitution so severely that the Supreme Court had to decide if several of its components were legal, including whether the costs...
July is Montana Open Land month which celebrates our state’s outdoor heritage. Check out our display of books which highlights Montana’s agriculture, wildlife, parks and recreation areas, clean water, and more! Each week our display will feature a new collection of books. Summer Reading continues until July 28 when we will have our grand finale for all the children who participated. Be sure to keep reading and bring in your logs for prizes. Mark your calendars for July 27, 6:30 P.M when the Friends of the Library will hold an “Alice in Wonde...
Not a lot of sports going on right now. NBC is broadcasting the most, with their Olympic Trails. The Olympics will be upon us soon and that will make for some great viewing in our living rooms as it is doubtful that many of us will be heading to Brazil where the nuts come from to once again use an old, old joke that wasn’t very funny sixty years ago. I prefer the winter Olympics. I think I have shared that with you readers before. It is just that I love to see snow events and be snuggled up in my living room with a brandy in my hand and a f...
July is here and so is a new book challenge. This month you are challenged to read a book that is set in the summer. Summer Reading continues through the month of July so, kids, keep reading! Bring your reading logs in to earn prizes and to zoom ahead on the Reading Race Track. Extreme Readers Club meets Thursdays at 1 P.M. for elementary students and the Read to Me program meets Tuesdays at 10 A.M. for infants and preschoolers. Lego Club is held Thursdays at 6 P.M. Lisa Scottoline’s newest book is “Most Wanted.” Christine and Marcus, despe...
I was saddened this week to hear that NFL defensive guru Buddy Ryan died at age 85. I was trying to think of where I watched him that I enjoyed his antics so much. It was like looking at the Bobby Knight of the football field. Maybe it was when he was running the defense for Chicago. Chicago Bears chairman George H. McCaskey said, “Buddy Ryan was the architect of the greatest defense our league has seen.” Buddy Ryan left a legacy of two children who have achieved greatness in the NFL. Son Rex is the head coach of the Buffalo Bills and to the...
We have come a long way in the celebrating of the Fourth of July in this neck of the woods. It used to be that homesteaders would fire a gun out the front door of their houses early in the morning of the 4th and that would be their celebration of the Independence of the United States. After that was the time of the grand rodeos, some of which linger to this day. For years and years the Fourth of July Rodeo at Warrick, on the south side of the Bear Paw Mountains was the place to be. I have talked to many old time cowboys who went on to do great...
The library will be closed Monday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day. New titles are ready for you to check out. “The Fireman” is by Joe Hill. No one is safe. A terrifying new plague is spreading across the country. Dragonscale is a highly contagious spore that tattoos its victims with black and gold-before they burst into flames. And there is to antidote. Nurse Harper Grayson has discovered the gold-flecked marks on her skin. She and her husband, Jakob, had made a pact to take matters into their own hands if they became infected. But...
A couple of weeks ago I was staying at a cabin in Apgar Village which is a part of Glacier National Park. From the cabin picture window I had a wonderful view looking up Lake McDonald to the northeast and the grand mountains that form part of Going-To-The-Sun Road. There is no more beautiful view in Glacier and maybe in North America than looking at those mountains that ring the upper McDonald valley. A few of them are Gunsight, Edwards, Brown, Cannon, Stanton, Vaught, McPartland, and the Garden Wall itself. While at that cabin I got to see...
This is a great time of the year to visit Glacier National Park. You are going for several reasons. First, there is never a bad day in Glacier and you will experience that for yourself. Second, Going-To-The-Sun Road should be open around the sixteenth of June so you are seeing it when it has the most snow on it of the season which is a wonderful time to traverse this great road. Third, this is a great time to come in the Lake McDonald area so that you can see that wonderful phenomenon called Alpenglow. Look up at the north end of Lake McDonald...
Stop by the library and check out the new materials that have arrived. Two new DVDs are “5th Wave” and “Kung Fu Panda 2.” A new magazine the library subscribes to is “Montana Quarterly.” Movies and magazines may be checked out for one week. Author Jude Deveraux begins a new Summer Hill series with the book “The Girl from Summer Hill.” Chef Casey Reddick left Washington, D.C., leaving behind a demanding boss and a boyfriend who was jealous of her success. She arrives in Summer Hill, Virginia, looking for peace and quiet on the Tattwell Planta...
The Denver Bronco Football Team went a calling at the White House last week. It is customary for winners of last season’s Super Bowl to come a calling. While there President Obama made a funny so to speak. It was a funny that must have crushed the ego of one large ego, Peyton Manning. All the while the team was at the White House and President Obama was bragging them up, he avoided any mention at all of Peyton Manning. He also reminded the Broncos that he is a large Chicago Bears fan. The only thing not reported was whether Montana quarterback...
