Articles from the October 25, 2017 edition
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Sweet Medical Center Health Fair is Friday
The Sweet Medical Center will hold its Annual Health Fair this Friday at the Blaine County Commercial Building and will include something for everyone. This years event is focused on being family friendly and encourages everyone to join in on the...
Interview with a Ghost by Presence in an old Haunted House
My name is Lucille. I am a ghost and I don’t like it one little bit. I have just gone around for a lifetime haunting the house I lived in as a child and where I died. It must have been twenty or thirty years after I died that I learned that I could b...
Active shooter drill conducted at Chinook Jr./Sr. High School
The Chinook Jr./Sr. High school recently held an Active Shooter drill as part of their continued ALICE Training. ALICE stands for Alert Lockdown Inform Counter Evacuate, not in progressive order. The...
Mail Ballot questions for the City of Chinook General Election
Mail ballot elections are being used more and more across Montana. They allow the voters the convenience of voting at home and increased voter turnout in the election. Ballots are mailed directly to each eligible active voter. Inactive voters may...
Harlem Country Christmas has something special planned this year!
Something new is being planned for Harlem’s Country Christmas—a Country Christmas Party! This event will be held Sunday, December 10, at the VFW Club, and all ages are invited. Vendors and games are encouraged to kick off the party starting at 3 P.M...
Northern Montana Sletten Cancer Center – What a Godsend!
Havre, Mont. – When her father’s job on the Railroad brought the Phillipp family from Moorhead, Minnesota to Montana in 1967, Connie Phillipp Petersen liked her new home in Havre; but, Havre was the lucky one. A graduate of Montana State University -...
Bear Paw Meanderings
In my jaded youth, my family and I had lots of fishing and hunting cabins. You know because you read about one or another several times a year. One of the biggest drawbacks to our hunting camps was that usually they were one room log structures and h...
DAVID W. ANDERSON
David William Anderson was born March 30, 1955, in Havre, MT to Leroy Anderson and Rena Anderson. He was the youngest of four children, Chris, Steve, Vickie and Dave. He grew up in Chinook, MT where...
Anna Marie Gallus
Anna Marie Gallus, 73 of Chinook passed away Saturday October 21st at Northern Montana Hospital with family by her side. She was born February 17, 1944 to William and Margaret (Goodbar) Hirter in Chinook, MT. Anna Marie married Robert Gallus on Febru...
Warren Fontaine Barger
Warren Fontaine Barger passed away on October 14, 2017. Warren was born in 1939 to William and Florence (Campbell) Barger in Big Piney, Wyoming. Warren attended school in Chinook, Montana. He married...
My Answer
Q: I don’t understand myself. Sometimes I believe very strongly in Jesus and feel close to Him, but then it all fades away, and I’m filled with all kinds of doubts. Why can’t I have a strong faith, like some of my friends do? A: The most impor...
Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame announces 2017 inductions
PRESS RELEASE Recently the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame & Western Heritage Center (MCHF & WHC) announced the tenth class of inductions into the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame. The inductees were chosen...
Chinook Senior Center
Once again this community amazes me! What a wonderful turnout we had for the Pie Social. Over 60 people came to visit and enjoy a slice of pie with our Board of Directors, including Tom Tilleman,...
Turner Talk
The American Legion Auxiliary of the Big Flat is in the process of setting up a wall of local (Hogeland and Turner) Veterans that ARE NOT members of the American Legion. They are looking for photos (preferably in uniform) of our local veterans. If...
HARLEM LIBRARY
The regular meeting of the library board of trustees will be held today, Oct. 25, 4:15 in the library meeting room. The final presentation in the “End of Life Planning and Preparation” series will be held Monday, Oct. 30, 7 P.M. at the Harlem Sen...
Hogeland happenings
The Turkey Shoot will be held on Sunday, October 29th, beginning at 12:00 noon, at the Turner Trap. Everyone is welcome. The American Legion Post #109 is sponsoring this event. Poinsettia orders are being taken now by the Turner WELCA. 6.5” pots a...
Blaine County Library
In "Origin" by Dan Brown, Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement-the unveiling of a...
HARLEM SENIOR CENTER
Many Thanks: Vonnie Klungland for the rubber scrapers; Diane Peterson for the pie fillings, candy melts; Alan Brekke for the tomatoes; Harlem 4th Graders for the Halloween lunch sack wall & table decorations; The Coloring Gals for the napkins in the...
Big Flat 4H Club Holds Monthly Meeting
The Big Flat 4-H Club held its first meeting of the new 4-H year on Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. at the Turner Lutheran Church. There were 6 members, four leaders, and four new members present. Bridget gave a report on cleaning out the town...
Kody Farmer
The South End Business Main Street Block Party held this past Friday was an overwhelming success. The Blaine County Museum, The Blaine County Wildlife Museum, Chinook Tire & Lube, The Blaine County...
Sugarbeeters ready for the post season head to Districts Thursday
The Chinook Sugarbeeter volleyball team concluded the regular season last Tuesday by defeating the Box Elder Bears in the final conference match the regular season. The Sugarbeeters topped the Bears...
What 'cher point?
Let’s start this week’s ramblings just north of the Little Rockies where the Thunderbirds play sports once a week or more some of the year. Something huge happened with the Thunderbirds this last week in that Isiah Runsabove won the first ever ind...
Farmer - Rancher Night returns to packed house
After a 21 year hiatus the Annual Farmer/Rancher night made it's return this past Saturday. Hosted by the Chinook Are Chamber of Commerce the gathering served more than 400 Prime Rib Dinners to our...
Isiah Runsabove: State Champion Cross Country, Hays/Lodge Pole Thunderbirds
Hays/Lodge Pole senior Isiah Runsabove climbed all the way to the top of the Class C Boys Cross Country world this past Saturday in Helena at the State meet. Runsabove worked his way through the field...