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Plans call for a new computerized system for notifying county residents about emergency situations to be in place by mid-March. Blaine County Sheriff Glenn Huestis said the initial training for lead county employees on how to use the new system should be completed this week. Those trained will soon begin instruction for the rest of the county departments and other agencies that will be using the system. Huestis has met with county school systems and the city council of Chinook. He will also be...
The regional 2017 American Cancer Society's (ACS) Relay for Life will be held on Friday, June 23 at the track at Havre High School. This year's event, renamed the North Central Montana Relay for Life, will be the first under a new collaborative effort between Blaine and Hill counties. A number of reasons led to the combining of the Blaine and Hill County relays and organizers are hoping for a new synergy from the combined efforts. The ACS Relay for Life is the signature fund raising event staged by volunteers in 5200 communities and 20...
Harlem Elementary's Disney Showcase kicked off Wednesday afternoon (January 25th), with a concert performed with the 4th grade class singing all of the Disney movie favorites for their families, friends, and school mates. Later that evening, the Elementary opened its doors to the public as they showcased Disney themed hallways, characters, and student projects. Each grade level chose popular Disney movies including "Inside Out," "101 Dalmatians," "Zootopia," "Moana," "Madagascar," "Winnie the Po...
Thanks to the generosity of the Montana Masonic Foundation and Chinook's Masonic Lodge #50, band and choir students at Chinook High will soon receive new music folders to be used during performances. CHS music teacher Levi Williams, also a Mason, wrote the successful grant application that resulted in the $1000 grant award from the Montana Foundation. The grant and a nearly $300 donation from the local Masonic organization will be used to purchase the new folders. Williams explained the grant an...
The Mountain River Indian Relay team, from Fort Belknap reservation, earned a place in the 2016 All Nations Indian Relay Championship held last September at MetroPark in Billings. It had been a few years since Fort Belknap fielded a relay team, but there is a rich tradition of racing and winning from the reservation. Two of the current team members, Byard and Dave Kirkaldie, were part of a family team that over the years won four national championships, three of them back to back in the early...
Reporter's note: I was invited to a meeting of a group of Girl Scout Daisies (kindergarten and first graders) who were learning about respecting authority. Our daughter was a Brownie, about 35 years ago, but a lot of what I remembered about Girl Scouts and their organization has changed. For example, there's no longer just "a Girl Scout." There are Girl Scout Daisies, Girl Scout Brownies...all the way up to Girl Scout Ambassadors. Girl Scouting has a whole new system of describing their members...
The Blaine County Sheriff’s Office has scheduled a Concealed Weapons Permit “Legal Review” class for Wednesday, February 8 at the Turner Lions Building. The class will run from 6pm to 8pm and is a prerequisite to obtain a Concealed Weapons Permit in Blaine County. The training is part of the new process for obtaining a permit that went into effect on July 1 of last year. State law now mandates that the sheriff in each county meet with each permit applicant and also requires the successful completion of the legal review course. The review cours...
Reporter's note: A few years ago my wife Sherry, and I, took a motor coach trip to the Grand Canyon when we lived in the Seattle area. The trip was organized through the local senior center. We knew none of the other passengers when the trip started but ended up with 30 new friends during the trip. After moving to Chinook we went on one of the adult DC trips led by Doug Hayes and also made new acquaintances and had a great time. Some locals told me the Havre hospital used to do tours and the...
The 38th annual local production by Missoula Children's Theatre (MCT) did not disappoint this past Saturday afternoon. The stars were 50+ students who auditioned on Monday, after school, began practices that evening and presented two performances just five days later at CHS auditorium. MCT actor/directors have been providing the opportunity for kids to perform before hometown audiences for 40+ years. This year's actor/directors were both graduates of performance programs at Central Washington...
The Chinook Area Chamber of Commerce held its annual banquet this past weekend at the Eagles Club. Members enjoyed a prime rib dinner, by chef Doug Mitchell and Shirley Fisher, met the officers who will serve the chamber in 2017 and heard about some new projects planned for the coming year. The speaker for the banquet was Russell Nemetiz who grew up in the Chinook area and went on to a broadcasting career reporting on topics of interest to farmers, ranchers and residents of rural America. Most...
Most every reader has some curiosity about words-what a new word means or what the origin of a common word or saying might be. Despite the ascendency of technology in how we communicate, there are still a large number of people who enjoy words and playing around with how they can be used-doing word games. A logophile (lover of words) sent me, in one of those "internet joke postings" that flood our emails, an old list of the winning entries in a contest, hosted by the "Washington Post," to...
Reporter's note: I saw a notice about a Boy Scout Merit Badge College to be held in Havre on a Saturday in January. Having written some stories about boys completing their Eagle Scout rank, I knew about merit badges but had no idea how merit badges connected to college. I went to the LDS Church in Havre to see if I could 'shadow' some Scouts from Blaine County and learn what the merit badge college was all about. In the foyer of the church, at the registration table, I ran into Bill Lanier. Blai...
Local children will take to the stage this Saturday for the annual Missoula Children's Theatre's (MCT) production. This year's play is "Rapunzel." It will be the 38th appearance of the traveling production for audiences in Chinook. MCT's "Rapunzel" is based on a classic fairytale of a damsel's escape from a towering imprisonment, aided and foiled by a cast of gardening ogres, corn and potato spies, wood elves, a troll and the Three Billy Goats Gruff. About 50 local children will be performing...
Talya Johnson, a 2014 graduate of Chinook High, will leave in February for Australia to attend the University of Southern Queensland for six months. Johnson, who is a junior majoring in community health at Montana State University-Bozeman (MSU), hopes to eventually work in a global setting promoting health and disease prevention. Part of her international study program is supported by a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. The Gilman scholarship was created in 2000 and is administered...
Ellie Solem, CPA, has retired effective the end of December. She's been a practicing accountant since graduating from the University of Montana in 1968. She passed the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam in 1974. Ellie recalled, "When I received notification that I'd passed the CPA exam the accompanying letter noted I was one of about 4,000 female CPAs in the U.S." She added, "When I was studying at U of M the gender ratio was typically two women to 50 men in accounting classes." The...
The 'snowy season' seems to have set in and that means winter is official by the calendar and real outside. I grew up in the Midwest and experienced winter, but it wasn't until my own family lived in the western part of the country that I began to really understand winter-bitter cold, lots of snow, and howling winds. We first lived in Wyoming, bounced back east and south for a few years, then to North Dakota, western Washington and parts of both western and eastern Montana. I'd say we've had a...
Shipwheel Cattle Company, located on Clear Creek Road south of Chinook, held its eighth annual bull sale in mid-December. Three members of Chinook High's Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapter were at the sale barn, decked out in their blue jackets and helping serve lunch prior to the start of the bull sale. Asked if a larger number of FFA members would be coming to the sale after lunch, Wade Schneider, the president of the CHS chapter, said, "No, the three of us are here as part of the Bulls f...
Reporter's note: Each year the Presbyterian Church in Chinook decorates a Christmas tree with white and gold handmade ornaments. The ornaments are known as Chrismons. I'd seen these ornaments on trees in other parts of the country, mostly in churches, but didn't know the history and origins of the unique three-dimensional decorations. Readers familiar with Chrismons will recall they are always white and gold (with a couple of rare exceptions). Chrismon is a combination of 'Christ' and...
A large crowd of well-wishers gathered last weekend at the Chinook Eagles Club to celebrate the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Doug and JoAnne Mitchell. Doug and JoAnne have ranched for many years in the Bear Paws, south of Cleveland. The couple have three sons, three daughters-in-law, 10 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Son Dennis welcomed family and friends to the celebration. He noted, "Mom and dad were married on December 10, 1966. It was -20 that day! The weather was much like...
Organizers of the annual holiday bazaar at the Sweet Nursing Home said there was a record number of vendors this year. Activity Manager Jeanne Buffington explained, "We've reached the point that vendors begin contacting us as soon as the bazaar dates are publicized. Even a few days before we were getting calls asking about space availability." This year there were 21 vendors offering gift items including clothing, handmade rugs, books, soaps and birdhouses. Buffington, who was at home...
The six church congregations that make up the Chinook Ministerial Association hosted their annual community Christmas program last Sunday evening at St. Gabriel's Catholic Church. It was the fourth year for the congregations and community to come together for the pre-Christmas gathering. The idea for the joint community service was first suggested by Father Felix Nayak, who was pastor at St. Gabriel's at the time the event was started. Pastor Dennis Findorf of the Chinook Alliance Church,...
The four Princess beds auctioned by the local My Neighbor in Need group is completed. On the night of last week's general election, the four winning bidders were named. My Neighbor, a county wide group that helps neighbors in need, got the beds through the generosity of Jim Warburton. Warburton bought a used semi-trailer and discovered it had several pieces of upscale furniture still in it, including four complete Princess beds. The beds typically retail for about $1,000. Warburton approached...
Ted and Gerry Lenhardt celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary the weekend after Thanksgiving. The couple, originally from the Billings area, spent most of their adult life farming along the Hi-Line, first around Havre, then in the Zurich area. They retired to the Havre area in the late 1980's and moved to the Grande Villa, in Chinook, about five years ago. Ted and Gerry, both in their early 90's, were married at the German Congregational Church in Billings, December 6, 1941-one day before...
Dr. Jessica Robb, DVM, has joined Drs. Baxter and Aiton at the Blaine County Veterinary Clinic. Robb started with the local practice in early June then took maternity leave for birth of her first child, Braxton. She resumed duties at the clinic in mid-October. She and her husband, Will, live in the Cleveland area. Robb grew up in McCook, Nebraska, a town of about 8,000 residents, in the southcentral part of the state. She noted an interest in becoming a veterinarian since she was a young girl....
