Articles from the August 29, 2018 edition
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Smoke, dust and combines make a unique photo
This weeks entry into our $100 Photo Contest is one featuring something we are all familiar with, Harvest. This photo is of Kurt Hansen's Combine with a sky that is filled with smoke from the fires...
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New "Chinook Plus" phone app will help Chamber members help customers
A new tool to help customers connect with Chamber Area businesses is now available. Chamber President Sarah Pratt created Chinook Plus, a new phone app that replaces the former "coupon book" used to...
Old "wooden bridge" play equipment removed from Sweet Memorial Park in Chinook
Last week Joe Kennedy volunteered to tear down the old "wooden bridge" playground equipment at Sweet Park. Kennedy said, "The Park Board wanted it removed and I volunteered to take it down." Joe...
CHS senior Brendan Edwards completed the Western Aerospace Scholars Program
CHS rising senior Brendan Edwards recently spent a week completing the residency component of the Western Aerospace Scholars program. The program, sponsored by NASA and the Seattle-based Museum of...
Harlem Food bank to hold annual drive starting September 1st
The Harlem Food Bank will begin their drive to raise funds for the year after September 1, 2018. Town Pump again has offered to help. This year they have offered to give us $2000.00 in Matching Funds. They treat Food Banks very well in Montana and...
Hogeland Happenings
Loretta Beck went to Turner on Monday to help with the distribution of the produce from the fruit truck. She dropped Merrilyn Billmayer’s order off and Mary Ann Olszewski’s off and visited at both places on the way home. Melissa Hiniker left Ed and...
Blanche Moxley Warburton
Blanche Moxley Warburton passed away of natural causes at the Sweet Memorial Nursing Home in Chinook on August 24, 2018. Blanche was born at home January 30, 1923 in Rattlesnake, Montana to Curtis... Full story
Roy A. Baeth
Malta- Roy A. Baeth 91, passed away at his home on August 23, 2018. Visitation was Sunday, August 26, 2018 7:00 P.M. at Kirkwood Memorial Chapel. Memorial services were Monday, August 27, 2018 11:00 A... Full story
Christina Hoppe, new Behavioral Health Provider spoke to Cancer Support Group
Chinook's Cancer Support Group's August gathering featured a presentation on sleep by Sweet Medical Center's (SMC) newest Behavioral Health Provider, Christina Hoppe. Hoppe, a native of Havre and a...
Harlem Library
The library will be closed Monday, Sept. 3 in observance of Labor Day. The Book Challenge for September is to read a biography about a person you wish you could know. Contact the library with the title of the book you read for the August Book...
Blaine County Library
Stop in and welcome our new Assistant Librarian, Kelsey Buhmann Brown this week. Fall programs will begin in September. Wednesday movies begin September 5th. The movies for the month will be: Against a Crooked Sky, Me Before You, 8 Seconds and On...
Harlem Senior Center
A big Thank You: To Jana Egeland for the jigsaw puzzles; To Ralph Schneider for the cookies; To Barb McDonald for the multi-pack of Pinochle cards; To Phyllis Heilig for the half-n-half; To Chuck Wasser and Paycee Leo for picking up the recliner...
Chinook Senior Center
Friday we had our planned power outage and everything went off without a hitch. A huge thanks to the volunteers and staff for your patience and willingness to make a good day a great day in spite of no power. Then, this morning, Monday the 27 all the...
Sugarbeeter Shout Out
By Darin Hannum, Chinook school superintendent As Chinook Public Schools gears up for the 2018-19 school year, there are several topics I would like to address with everyone: enrollment numbers and fall activities, new activity bus, weight room, and...
Local congregations learn ways to respond to active shooter situations
Ten members and two pastors from three churches in Chinook learned some basic ways to deal with an active shooter situation. The short course was taught by Blaine County Undersheriff Frank Billmayer a...
Poking around Eastern Washington: Baseball technology, The Bull on the Bench and Dry Falls
Reporter's note: I've been writing about places my wife and I found interesting in our travels. We've made numerous trips to the Seattle area to visit our daughter and her family. Usually those trips...
Mike Jones takes over as Head Football Coach for the Surgarbeeters
Mike Jones was hired this spring to take over the reigns of the Chinook High School Football program and is excited about the opportunity to lead a program and very happy to return to Montana. Jones i...
'Beeters fall 48-6 to Shelby in opener, head to Cascade Friday
The Chinook Sugarbeeters opened the football season against a team playing their first Eight-man football after dropping down from the Class B ranks. A year ago it was against the Chouteau Bulldogs an...
Sugarbeeters sweep Fort Benton, Play well at Malta Invitational
The Chinook Surgarbeeters wanted to get the season started off on a high note when they traveled to Fort Benton to face the Longhorns in a battle between two quality teams with high expectations for...
