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In an era when over half the employees in the U.S. stay in one job for only 4.3 years Jim Teel's 37 years with the City of Chinook is a serious statistical abnormality. Jim started with the city as a maintenance worker on June 30, 1986 and retired on June 30, 2023. When I was asked to write a story about his completed career with the city I was curious to learn about this quiet guy that I really only knew in passing. As we started talking about his long tenure as Superintendent of Streets his...
Superintendent Fred Hoffman noted that with Chinook High School Business Clerk Moses Deanon being gone to drop his daughter off at the University of North Carolina and Chrissy Downs gone due to personal reasons that the monthly school board meeting minutes may not be released prior to the start of the school year. Mr. Hoffman expressed, “I think it is important to note the tax cuts made last night when the board adopted the budget as well as to give an update on our bussing situation. Hopefully we have enough buses here to run all three r...
Holly Grabofsky, who will be a freshmen at Turner High School this fall, learned last month that she had won the American Legion Auxiliary (ALA) Poppy Poster Contest at the national level for both the Northwestern Division Class IV and also as Best Overall Poppy Poster Winner in her division. Later this month, Grabofsy's poster will be displayed at the 102nd National Convention for the American Legion Auxiliary scheduled for August 25-31 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Beginning in September, her...
The Harlem Public Library invites area community members to join library personnel on Wednesday, August 16 for an Open House, expressing community appreciation and celebrating the children's books received through a grant from The Pilcrow Foundation. According to Library Director, Colleen Brommer, the Friends of the Library—the nonprofit, tax-exempt organization which supports and promotes the library’s causes and services—provided one third of the grant funds in a matching requirement of the $1200 Children’s Book Project Grant awarded by The...
Blaine County Library Story Time Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m., Beat the Heat Movie Wednesday August 9th, and 16th at 1:30 p.m., Teen Scene Wednesday August 9th and 16th at 6:00 p.m. Harlem Library Today is the “Let’s Celebrate” event at the library from 4 – 6 P.M. This open house celebrates the 112 new children’s books received through a grant from the Pilcrow Foundation. The Friends of the Library are hosting this community appreciation event and providing refreshments. The Books Challenge for August is to read a book set in a school. Children’s pro...
Each first Sunday of the month the four churches that joined to form the Milk River Churches hold a joint worship, typically rotating among the three churches in Chinook (Methodist, American Lutheran and Presbyterian) and the Havre Presbyterian Church. For a summer break from the pattern the coordinating committee opted to hold a Saturday night campout and a Sunday worship and potluck lunch at the Zurich Park lodge. About 40 people attended and all four churches were well represented. It was a...
Hello from the Chinook Social Senior Center! We had a wonderful crowd here, yesterday for our German meal/presentation. How nice to see every single table full of community members as well as people from out of town to enjoy our meal & the presentation prepared by the Hall family. Thank you to the Hall’s for their presentation of their knowledge of Germany! We had a meal count larger than there has been in years! How exciting for us. Please call us the day before or even the week before so that we are certain to prepare enough for everyone who...
Join us today at the library for the "Let's Celebrate!" event from 4:00-6:00 P.M. This open house celebrates and showcases the 112 new children's books received through a grant from the Pilcrow Foundation whose mission is "to provide new, quality, hardcover children's books to rural public libraries." The Friends of the Library are the local sponsors of this grant and are hosting this event to express their appreciation to the community for their support of the library. Refreshments will be...
Almeda Madge "Mitzi" Wolff Bruss passed away peacefully on Friday July 21, 2023 at the Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Mandeville, Louisiana. She went to Jesus at the age of 92 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. She was a happy, loving, caring and blessed person who always had a smile on her face. She loved to laugh and sing and she was a wonderful mother. Mitzi and Spike had a beautiful life together and she loved living and working in Chinook. They had so many friends and were so...
Connita (Connie) Edgington Uuckovic passed away August 1, 2023 following a battle with lung cancer. Connie was born to Richard & Carol Edgington, April 29, 1953 in Havre, MT. She was raised in Chinook, MT until she married Tom Mellon. Then moved to Pennsylvania in the 70's. They had 4 children, Tawnya, Nicole, Tara, and TJ. They later divorced. She then met husband Stan Uuckovic (love of her life). They married in May of 2014. Connie had many positions in life, but one she loved the most was...
You know, Lord, not every day is easy…. J.J. from out of town, shared that as she was driving the two-lane highway toward her neighbors, a loud vehicle zoomed up behind her, could have passed, but waited until a vehicle was coming toward them in the left-hand lane, then zoomed by her, nearly hitting her car, nearly running into the one coming. In a moment, that vehicle was behind another car, could have passed, but again, waited until a truck was buzzing toward them in the lefthand lane, then, again, zooming around that car that was in front o...
Susan Billmayer judged at the county fair in Glasgow on Tuesday. Annie, Matt, and Carol Klindworth were at the Blaine County Fair in Chinook and watched Isaac and Hannah show their pigs on Saturday. They did a good job! Crystal, Cassidy, Holly, Cooper and Lucy Grabofsky helped Grandma Loretta with outdoor chores on Monday. Susan Billmayer visited Jane Krass and Diana Maloney on Friday morning. On Tuesday afternoon, Merrilyn Billmayer, Nancy Snider, Patty Simons, and Loretta Beck were over to visit Shirley Keller. Susan Billmayer helped with the...
Brad Taylor was recently selected as "Senior Citizen of the Year" by the members of the Chinook Senior Center. The annual award recognizes a volunteer who made significant contributions toward the operation and services at the Center. At a recent recognition luncheon at the Center Brad received the award accompanied by his wife of thirty years, Sharon, as well as the couple's two adult daughters and six grandchildren, family members and other well-wishers from the community. He is now part of...
About 30 Japanese Americans recently stopped for a visit to the Blaine County Museum. The multi-generational group had traveled to this area for a reunion of the Sasaki, Yoshida and Arakawa families. Those three families were among several Japanese American families who came to north central Montana to work on local farms during WWII. Some of the senior members of the group were children when their parents came to do farm work and several attended local schools. The group was especially...
On Saturday, August 5 at the Big Sky Pro Rodeo in Great Falls, Wacee Simenson and his family received the 2023 Perseverance Character Hope buckle. Sponsored by the Heckman family in collaboration with Hoglund's Western Wear and Montana Silversmiths, the award is presented annually in the memory of Rocky Joe Heckman. On April 22, 2017, at age 58, Heckman passed away from brain cancer. About the award, Wacee's mother, Tomi Simenson, said: "We were blessed with an amazing surprise last night...
