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School Elections were held across Blaine County on Tuesday, May 2. Trustee positions were on the Ballot for Chinook School District No. 10, Harlem School District No. 12 and Hays/Lodge Pole School District No. 50. Elections were not held in remaining school districts as Trustees were elected by acclimation. In Harlem two Trustees were elected to three year terms they were Jonathan “Chunker” Walker with 114 votes and Dave Doney Jr. with 105 votes. In School District No. 50 it was Leslie “Josie” Cliff with 96 votes and Kenneth W. Morin with 54...
Colleen Mulonet, one of three co-chairs for the new 2017 North Central Montana Relay, recently described how Blaine and Hill Counties will combine their efforts for the upcoming June 23 event. The collaboration marks a new stage in how the American Cancer Society (ACS) will stage its main, annual fundraiser in this part of Montana. In future years the relay event will rotate its location between Havre and Chinook. Mulonet said, “After a coin toss, the site for the first year’s combined relay is Havre, next year it will be in Chinook.” In additi...
Last week, at its regular monthly meeting, the Blaine County Fair Board approved the erection of an indoor arena at the county fairgrounds in Chinook. The project would utilize a surplus 100' by 200' metal building obtained by the county from the surplus program at Malstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls. The building was never erected and is, for the most part, packed and bundled the way it was originally delivered by the manufacturer to the air base. Dennis Kleinjan, one of a group of volunteer...
Last week Chinook's Jumping Junipers, a local garden club that is part of the Montana Federation of Garden Clubs, hosted 40+ members of four other area garden clubs that make up District 7, the Hi-Line District. Each spring one of the five clubs hosts the spring meeting-a combination of conducting district business, learning opportunities from each other and invited gardening professionals, good food and visiting with old friends and making new ones. The event was held at Wallner Hall. The...
I love May. It is because of the flowers. They come out, first the tiny yellow buttercups, and then a whole host of flowers follow them. It all starts in May. It is confusing. Old timers from Montana call yellow bells buttercups. So do I but actually the buttercups come out very early and hug the earth as if to get warm. On sunny and warmer days, in Beaver Creek Park, sometimes huge displays of buttercups can be seen in the flat just west of Eagle Rock close to the Beaver Creek Highway. Then come the crocuses. They are not crocuses either but...
Glenna Ammen was to a birthday party honoring Virginia McCracken on Sunday. Bill Hake helped with the Post-Prom breakfast at the Legion Hall Saturday evening. Word has been received that Glen Olson of Florida passed away on Friday morning. Glen was previously from Turner. Military funeral services are pending. Tom and Lucy Fairbank enjoyed taking in the Grand March at the prom Saturday night. Sonny and Nellie Obrecht took in the Founder’s banquet on Friday night at MSU-Northern. Sonny was a golden graduate of Northern and joined several o...
Cassidy, Holly, Cooper and Lucy Grabofsky spent Thursday and Friday with Grandma Loretta and Grandpa Wally Beck while their Mom, Crystal and Maggie Grabofsky went to Billings to take their First Responder course test. Susan Billmayer attended the Garden Club District meeting Wednesday in Chinook. A branding bee was held at Brenda and Terry Mohars on Saturday and Sunday. Those coming to help this weekend were Richard and LeAnn Hopkins, Ron and Austin Stevens,. Brad Lewis, and Crystal McDougal, and Dusty and Misty Mohar, Colter and Corbin. Sandy...
Q: I don’t think it matters what people believe about God. Everybody has their own opinion about religion, and they can’t all be right. In fact, maybe they’re all wrong. I’ve decided I’m not going to think about God. A: If you refuse to think about God, it means you are refusing to think about the most important truth in the universe! You wouldn’t ignore anything else that’s important—so why ignore God? God’s promise is for you: “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13). How can we know God—and not j...
A larger than normal group of canvassers took advantage of a pleasant spring late afternoon to complete the 2017 canvass of Chinook. Volunteers, many representing groups that receive support under the Community Chest, were assigned specific blocks of houses and set out to knock on doors. The non-profit Community Chest was created in the late 1970's and one of the goals of the canvass is to make contact with every household in Chinook. According to Kasie McIntosh, one of the organizers of the...
Intergenerational events and activities, where people from multiple generations get together, are all the rage nowadays. As the population ages researchers and service providers are realizing the potential benefits when young and old people are linked through shared programs. Now there are intergenerational vacations, specialized adventures (like grandparents doing zip lines with grandkids) and websites devoted to providing intergenerational activities. Mary Pyette and Marilyn Williamson, both...
Tonight is the Friends of the Library Spring Basket Social beginning at 7:00 with the final bidding on the fabulous baskets donated by local organizations and individuals ending at 8:00. Delicious desserts will be served and there will also be a 50/50 drawing. This will also be an opportunity to see the new shelving. Please join us for a fun evening! I would like to highlight the Friends of the Library this week. This is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that has three main purposes: to aid in the development of public library service by maintaining an...
“Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” will be the movie at 1:00 p.m. today. Steve Martin and Michael Caine are two con men living in the south of France who join forces to bilk rich American women of their fortunes. “Love is Never Silent” will be the movie next week. Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served. We have had several large donations of book given to the library and the entryway is full of new additions. Stop in and spend some time looking through the books for sale. You may find a keeper, or two, or more! Prepara...
In the start of the twentieth century, the area papers stated how the Milk River Valley was prime ground for sugar beets. The paper also stated three things were needed to raise them, a farmer, a train and sugar beets. Thanks to the railroad, the farmer could raise large amounts of sugar beets in the Milk River Valley. They would plow the ground in the spring to a depth of 12 to 15 inches. The seeds came in a burlap bag weighing 100 pounds each. Some farmers that had flood irrigation would split the bag and use it to dam up the ditch. Most...
Jason DeShaw performed before two audiences of students in Blaine County. Last Wednesday, in the Chinook High gym, he sang and spoke to about 350 students gathered from Chinook, Harlem and Turner. The next day he did a similar performance at Hays-Lodge Pole High. His performance was a combination of country music, singing several songs he wrote himself, and conversation about his own challenges of mental illness and alcoholism. Jason DeShaw grew up in Plentywood, Montana and after college began...
The Chinook Sugarbeeters have had their way at the Northern B/C Divisional having qualified their entire varsity roster the past three seasons for the State Tournament and in the process easily winning the Divisional crown. This spring the team doesn't have quit the depth as in the past but will still be the clear favorite heading into the weekend. Senior Nicole McCracken and junior Jamie Roth have shined in the singles competition and senior Bailey Zumbrun has acclimated herself very well to...
The Chinook Sugarbeeters picked up the final component of their State C Tournament Golf Team this past weekend as senior Tate Niederegger shot a qualifying score of 99 in Harlem on Friday. Head Coach Mike Seymour now has three boys and four girls entered into the State C Tournament which will be played in Seeley May 15 -17. Joining Niederegger on the boys team will be senior Kade Friede and junior Jacob Huckabee. The girls lineup includes junior Carrie Hofer, sophomore Ashley MacLeod and...
It is Saturday afternoon and the nags are running at Churchill Downs as the Kentucky Derby got underway. It is too close to my deadline to tell you much about the race. More about that next week. For now though it has been raining most of the day in that part of Kentucky and the track is muddy. Classic Empire is the 4 to 1 pre race choice but there is no really dominant horse in this year’s Derby. What there is are lots of women’s large and floppy hats, lots of men in seersucker suits and strange hats, and many, many mint juleps. When I moved i...
The District 9C and District 2B Track and Field schedule concluded its regular season this past week and now athletes will turn their attention to the post season. The District 9C will gather in Havre today, Wednesday May 10, and the District 2B will meet in Wolf Point with athletes competing for a spot at the Divisional level next week. The North East Top 10 was held in Glasgow last Tuesday and featured the top ten qualifiers from the region in each event. The Top 10 Includes athletes from the...
