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My name is Lucille. I am a ghost and I don’t like it one little bit. I have just gone around for a lifetime haunting the house I lived in as a child and where I died. It must have been twenty or thirty years after I died that I learned that I could be heard by residents of the house. I have scared a lot of them a lot through the years. I learned that if I scream as loud as I can, I can break through some barrier between the truly dead and people like me who are stuck in sort of a limbo land. It is not pleasant. Once in a while a person can get...
Something new is being planned for Harlem’s Country Christmas—a Country Christmas Party! This event will be held Sunday, December 10, at the VFW Club, and all ages are invited. Vendors and games are encouraged to kick off the party starting at 3 P.M. From 4-6:30 a chili cook-off will be held with $200 going to the first place prize winner and $100 to the second place winner! Registration forms for the cook-off will be available at Albertson’s, Richman Insurance, City Hall and from Kayla Hudon. Pictures with Santa will be taken from 3-5 P.M....
In my jaded youth, my family and I had lots of fishing and hunting cabins. You know because you read about one or another several times a year. One of the biggest drawbacks to our hunting camps was that usually they were one room log structures and had no insulation. I remember one cabin on Clear Creek that you could lay in bed and look up at the stars through the shingles on the roof. And yet, that roof never leaked. Amazing. In our cabins we usually had a large black cook stove and included a hot water reservoir by the side. Heat the stove an...
Let’s start this week’s ramblings just north of the Little Rockies where the Thunderbirds play sports once a week or more some of the year. Something huge happened with the Thunderbirds this last week in that Isiah Runsabove won the first ever individual Cross Country Title. He is the first player at the Hays/ Lodgepole School to have ever been the State Champion for Class C Cross Country. And he got the headline above the fold in Sunday’s Great Falls Tribune for his achievement! Well done Isiah Runsabove and you will end up in the Olymp...
I owe you one last column about fall foliage, that is finding fall foliage where there is usually not much to find or finding it where most people do not think to look. This fall foliage season has been a very strange season as the leaves just simply refused to fall off the trees for the longest time. Fall foliage until the big storm in early October was really spectacular for weeks on end. Then finally there was a very big snow storm and foliage started falling and turning colors quickly. I don’t know just how much foliage is left since I h...
Lots of good football to watch these days. I have to mention Big Sandy who stunned everyone last weekend when they beat Geraldine 30 to 22. Maybe Big Sandy is upward bound once again. It has been a long dry spell for the Pioneers. I got to watch the Grizzlies beat North Dakota and while I knew it was going to be easy for the Griz to beat North Dakota, I did not realize that it was going to be that easy. The score was 41 to 17 in that Big Sky Conference Game. It was a wonderful game to watch because I knew my team was going to win. Only down...
It is that time of the month that I include a recipe for you. It is also Columbus Day so I guess something is in order for an Italian recipe. I have written again and again about spaghetti and meatballs. It is my original comfort food and for years I worked hard to improve my spaghetti sauce and to make my meatballs just simply melt in the mouth of the eater. Imagine my surprise when I was reading a copy of the elite “Bon Appétit” Magazine and on the front page, they have a picture of spaghetti and meatballs and recipes to go with, not only...
Good for the Bobcats and the Grizzlies this week. Both won their Saturday games. The Bobcats finished off Portland State 30 t0 22. The mighty Griz beat Idaho State 39 to 31. Good playing on the part of both teams. In the Frontier League about all I could come up with at press time is Western beating Montana Tech 42 to 35. That was a game that was supposed to go the other way. Carroll lost to the College of Idaho 21 to 6. That wasn’t supposed to end that way either. Closer to home Chouteau beat the Thunderbirds 74 to 6 and Havre lost to B...
Karolee Cronk Mark your calendar for Wednesday, October 11, when the Friends of the Harlem Public Library will hold its annual meeting starting at 6 P.M. at the Harlem Public Library meeting room. A salad supper will be served, and attendees will learn firsthand of how the Friends have helped to provide items which enhance our local library. All are invited to attend, and, if you’re not already a Friend, you may choose to become one. Our local library has much to offer in addition to a myriad of books, and this is an opportunity to learn m...
God is good! The Grizzlies won and the Bobcats lost! No, I don’t mean that. Those words were written by my evil twin brother, Mean Robby. I am sorry that MSU lost, but I am very happy that the Griz finally won a road game and now that curse is behind them. For those who just want to know the facts, Weber State beat the Bobcats 25 to 17. Meanwhile the Griz played Portland State with a score of 45 to 33. Closer to home, Chinook did a number on Simms, beating them 34 to 14. Kudos to Chinook! Far away in Big Sandy Land, for Homecoming and Chili F...
I love to view fall foliage! Each year about this time I review with you some of the best places in Montana to view the bold reds, oranges, yellows and golds not to mention purples and dark greens that make up some of the most vibrant fall foliage to be seen. This week we go through the Bear Paw Mountains. Next week it is off to Glacier to see foliage and the week after that it is foliage where you would not think to see any. The Bear Paw Mountains have had a terrible summer with the fire that burned much of the land between Clear Creek and...
Lots happening in the wonderful world of football these days. Take last weekend for instance. The Bobcats beat North Dakota 49 to 21, a blowout if there was ever a blowout to be had. Meanwhile back home in the Grizzly Nation the Griz lost to Eastern Washington 48 to 41. I got both those games wrong as did lots others. The Griz are 2 and 2 for the season. Same with the Bobcats. Meanwhile closer to home Havre lost to Glendive 36 to 26. Chinook beat Rocky Boy 50 to 0 and Harlem lost to Shelby 61 to 12. The Thunderbirds lost to CJI 56 to 12. Big...
The fall season is here, and with it comes Harlem’s Fall Festival. The event will begin with the Harlem Hunger Walk starting at 2 PM; entry forms for this 5K walk are available at Richman Insurance (forms have all the needed information). The walk proceeds will benefit the Harlem food pantry. All are invited to the potluck picnic to be held in City Park at 4 PM; sloppy joes and lemonade will be provided. To add to the afternoon’s enjoyment, Tim Whitney’s band will be playing. Also, get your tickets for chicken bingo from Helen Schroeder; this...
I was never much of a hunter. I guess I loved watching wildlife too much and marveling over its beauty. However, if there was a hunting camp to go to, I was usually there. I loved hunting camps almost as much as fishing camps. Of course our hunting camps were usually centered on Clear Creek, and most of the ones I went to were in the Bear Paw School cabin, an old one room log building built on a little rise just above where Henderson Creek dumps into Clear Creek. However, my uncle Al went elaborate for several years and had his hunting camp in...
The Montana Grizzlies had a mixed bag last Saturday when they played Savannah State at home in Missoula. They won the game handily, beating Savanna State 56 to 3 of all things but their main quarterback Reese Phillips had a serious ankle injury. That called in freshman Gresch Jensen who did a great job as backup quarterback. Closer to home it was the Thunderbirds losing to Box Elder 22 to 6. Chinook lost to Fort Benton 36 to 2. Havre lost to Belgrade 43 to 6 and Harlem lost to Cut Bank 65 to 0. Bad day for the home teams, right? If that...
I hate wildfires. We used to call them forest fires if you will recall but then the prairies started burning as well so the name had to be changed to wild fires. The Bear Paw fire that we have been in the midst of for a week or more was one of the worst ever but there have been others that have been almost as bad. This is the first one that there was an actual loss of cabins in Beaver Creek Park and that shows how strong and terrible that fire really was. I learned most about fires when I lived for eight years in the Flathead Valley. I saw...
There were many wins and losses in football this last weekend. Great Falls Central really took the Thunderbirds to task, beating them 64 to 6. That led Central to a 3 and 0 record and a look of a winner in class C. Cascade beat Chinook and Laurel beat Havre. The Chinook score was 40 to 20 and Laurel beat Havre 42 to 21. I did not get a Harlem football score at press time but I saw that Harlem lost to Box Elder in volleyball. In the Frontier League Rocky beat Carroll 40 to 14. Talk about decisive. It was Rocky’s first win against Carroll s...
It is September and if it ever cools off September signals the beginning of fall and a wonderful time to start cooking those casseroles that you missed so much during the long hot summer. My version of Shepherd’s Pie I have given out the recipe before but it is so comforting, so delicious and so fall like that it is worth the work to put it all together. Consider Shepherd’s Pie to be a three pronged attack. First get a whole mess of the largest Yukon Gold potatoes you can find, boil them after peeling or leave the peelings on for that mat...
Prep football like all prep sports in Montana is changing. Schools are getting smaller and there are more and more who opt out of football or go to eight man which is much easier to fill than the traditional eleven man teams. Chouteau this year is going to be playing eight man football which is sort of shocking considering what the size of that town has been through the years. Then there is the case of Poplar High School who cannot play its varsity football schedule due to a lack of boys to field positions. They started out with seventeen...
I have not shared any mail with you gentle readers for some time now. Old time readers know that my mail is usually about the same each time I get any and varies from those who are in love with me to those who hate the ground I walk on. Yet, it is always good to stay humble so here is a sample of what the last three months have brought in. I call it the good, the bad and the ugly. Dear Mr. Lucke, I see you hobbling down the street using a walker these days. Surely I think we will not have to read any more of your drivel in the paper as you are...
Prep football like all prep sports in Montana is changing. Schools are getting smaller and there are more and more who opt out of football or go to eight man which is much easier to fill than the traditional eleven man teams. Chouteau this year is going to be playing eight man football which is sort of shocking considering what the size of that town has been through the years. Then there is the case of Poplar High School who cannot play its varsity football schedule due to a lack of boys to field positions. They started out with seventeen...
I have to go to the doctor in Great Falls today. I am not looking forward to that but I am looking forward to stopping at Borries in Black Eagle on the way home and picking up some spaghetti sauce and meat balls that are to die for. Borries sauce is a very old fashioned spaghetti sauce and is as good as any I have ever eaten. Best of all I do not have to go to Borries to get great spaghetti sauce for Nalivka’s in Havre has it as well. They use a very old recipe and their meat balls are simply wonderful too. I think that spaghetti and meat balls...
Webster's dictionary defines adopt as: to legally take another's child and bring it up as one's own. Adoption is not at all unusual in blended families, and customarily takes place when children are young and still living at home with their parents. The recent adoption of Cheyanne Dawn Hamilton-Stuart was anything but customary. Sam and Ann Stuart of Forsyth celebrated their twelfth anniversary on July 9th of this year. On August 7, at 10:00 a.m., at the Rosebud County Courthouse, Sam Stuart...
There is a lot of wildlife to view in our area but not everyone sees it. I had to laugh when I was driving a bus in Glacier National Park. People used to ask if they would see wildlife and I would say probably not in my bus as I had bad luck in the wildlife viewing department. That is not to say that I have not seen plenty of wildlife in my life. I have seen two mountain lions in the Bear Paws. Both of them at the end of June and both by the school house coulee that runs west from the Faber School. It was light so long that the lions nocturnal...
There is plenty of football news all of a sudden this month as the NFL starts their pre season and college teams regroup for yet another season. I notice that for fantasy football freaks there is no end to trades and the like all making the choosing of a fantasy football team more difficult. If you are a Cowboy Fan your star running back Ezekiel Elliott has been suspended for six games for injuring his former girlfriend in three separate accidents last summer. So, you can’t use Elliott for the first six games and if more people had their w...
