Articles from the January 20, 2016 edition
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Chinook Chamber's 2016 banquet to feature tourism expert
The Chinook Area Chamber’s annual banquet will be held on Saturday, January 23rd at the Eagles Club. Gayle Fisher, Executive Director of the Central Montana Tourism Region, will be the speaker. Fisher is no stranger to the area having grown up in C...
Harlem city council swears in two returning councilmen, hears update on wastewater project
Prior to the regular January meeting Harlem's city department heads met with Fred Phillips and Carrie Gardner, engineers with Great West Engineering, to discuss final plans for the wastewater system u...
Blaine County Annual Relay for Life event set for July 8
The Blaine County Relay for Life coordinating committee recently met to set a date for the upcoming annual Relay for Life. This will be the sixth year for the event and organizers are hoping for at...
Sheriff's Office releases new Sexual and Violent offenders in Blaine County
According to Debbie Gomke, Blaine County SVOR Administrator, if and when new sexual and violent offenders move to Blaine County or move to a new residence that information will be released to the...
Bear Paw Meanderings
I turned 75 this January. That is a monument for me and for those who would say I am just a spring chicken yet, not true. I feel every one of those 75 years most of the time. How did I get this far? It was simple, brandy, martinis on Friday and...
Ice fishing class for woman, February 4 & 6 in Kalispell
The Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ Becoming an Outdoors-Woman program is sponsoring an ice fishing class on February 4 and 6. With modern gear, ice fishing is fun, safe and comfortable. This class is for beginning or intermediate female anglers who...
If You Are in a Crime Novel . . .
I don’t mean if you are deep in a crime novel and don’t want to be distracted. I mean if you are a character IN a crime novel, there are certain things you have to do. One is, if you are driving on a winding road to anywhere, with or without pur...
Looking Back In Time
It is January of 1907 and the news this week is mostly all about the Little Rockies. Abraham Gill has disappeared and the Ruby Gulch is getting bigger and bigger as a gold mine. Mr. Gill was a partner of a man named Winter who had a ranch close to...
Don't forget, January is Cervical Health Awareness Month
Cervical Health Awareness Month is a chance to raise awareness about how women can protect themselves from HPV (human papillomavirus) and cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is a type of cancer found on the cervix located at the entrance of the uterus...
Blaine County Library
The Hallmark movie today will be “Crossroads a Story of Forgiveness” at 1:00 p.m. in the library meeting room. Refreshments will be served and everyone is welcome to join us. The Blaine County Library Board of Trustees will hold their regular mon...
Chinook Senior Center
It’s cold outside this week, but nice and warm at the center, so be sure to stop by and enjoy a cup of coffee or tea and enjoy one of the many activities we have planned for this week. You can also stop by and meet the new cook Kirsten Shelor. She i...
Hogeland Happenings
Wally and Loretta Beck went to Havre on Wednesday and while there, had lunch with Crystal and Lucy Grabofsky. Susan Billmayer was up to Harlan and Jane Krass’ Wednesday morning and had coffee with them. Steve and Nora Zellmer of Havre visited L...
Turner Talk
Max and Kirsti Cederberg were to Great Falls on Friday. They took Edith and Bill Bilger of Chinook along with them. They met up with Lynda Cederberg and they all enjoyed lunch out on the town with Nellie Cederberg. Happy Birthday from the Big Flat,...
Chinook high school National Honor Society, Business Professionals of America host January Blood Drive
On Tuesday, January 7thth the Red Cross Blood Drive was held at the Chinook High School Auditorium with Elizabeth Hodgson as the coordinator for the drive. We, the Red Cross staff and I, are all much...
Spellers advance to Blaine County Spelling Bee
These six students from grades 5-8 will represent Turner Public School at the County Spelling Bee in Chinook. They were the top six spellers from the Local Bee held this week at the Turner School....
Snedigar Promoted at Independence Bank
Independence Bank is pleased to announce that Julianne Snedigar has been promoted to Consumer, Agriculture, Commercial and Real Estate Loan Officer in Malta. Snedigar grew up on a farm & ranch outside...
Harlem Library
You are invited to join the Harlem Library Book Challenge for 2016! Each month we challenge you to read a certain type of book. When you finish the book contact the library with the title and your name will be entered into a drawing for a gift...
Triangle-led computer class a big success in Harlem
Student learners show a lot of intense concentration in Triangle Communication's Basic Internet and Email class presented at the Harlem Library last week. Library Director Colleen Brommer said she...
Harlem Senior Center
What Happened in history on January 16th? 97 years ago... Prohibition (18th Amendment) becomes the law of the land 71 years ago... Adolf Hitler takes to his underground bunker near Berlin, where he...
Alliance Church hosts largest Business After Hours event to date
The Chinook Alliance Church had a large turnout when members hosted the January Business After Hours event in The Annex. Earlier, Pastor Dennis Fendorff said, "Part of the reason we wanted to host a B...
Wildcats drop a pair to Shelby, Poplar
The Harlem Wildcats had a tough go of things this past weekend. Friday they were bested at home by the Shelby Coyotes of the District 1B 70-55. Saturday the boys traveled east to Polar to take on District 2B Poplar falling in that contest 88-55....
Turner races by Big Sandy 61-41 for first conference win
The Tornado boys basketball team picked up their first conference win 61-41 Saturday afternoon. The Tornadoes fell to Box Elder Thursday.. Thursday the Bears led 36-13 after eight minutes of action...
