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The Sweet Home was the place to be this past Friday. In honor of Native American Heritage month, Native Connections, Tiwahe and Nakoda Aaniiih Economic Development Corporation (NAEDC) visited to “amplify indigenous dances for the people. Showcased were the Fancy, Traditional and Grassdance following with our Elders.” Jeremy Ritchie who mentors through NAEDC highlighted the youth who are at the core of their powwows. “It is the youth who do everything from budgeting to all the background tasks...
Harlem High School English Teacher Heather Jorgenson found herself on the adventure of a lifetime last July after being one of 28 teachers selected from about 250 applicants nationwide to participate in the Bimini Shark Lab Teacher Institute in the Bahamas. After getting herself to Fort Lauderdale, her scholarship covered the rest of her expenses. The program sought teachers from under-resourced, landlocked schools, where the students would not likely otherwise have exposure to studies about...
Brandon Nissen of Brick Cent$ has been busy recently. On September 8, he opened his online store; late last month, he was invited to serve as a judge for the Montana History Portal; and on Thursday, November 2, he completed his latest build, Olaf the snowman from the film Frozen. Although not his own creation, Nissen acquired the idea for building Olaf from an online forum called Rebrickable, where a designer called PetProject posts designs. Comprised of 4,587 parts, Olaf is approximately 25...
The Turner School Pep Club had plenty of activities leading up to Homecoming. Painting miniature T’s throughout downtown Main Street was a big hit. At the center of Main, a large T was painted with all the class years to represent the students in Junior and High School this year. The community also enjoyed hearing the Wet Weather Band play music throughout the afternoon of the Homecoming events. A huge thank you to them for taking time from their daily routine to come entertain the crowd. J...
The Friends of the Pool and Park Foundation would like to invite people from across the Hi-Line to the upcoming New Year’s Eve Gala event on December 31st. The event will be held at the Blaine County Fairgrounds Commercial Building in Chinook and will feature a professionally catered dinner. Chef Shaina from Bow and Marrow will be serving her delicious Prime Rib, Chicken Thighs in a Cream Sauce, Mashed Potatoes, a Dinner Salad, Seasonal Vegetable, and a Dinner Roll that evening. This fun-filled event will feature live music from the Dan H...
The library will be closed Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23; but we will be open Friday, November 24. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! The library board will hold its regular monthly meeting Wednesday, November 29, 4:30 P.M. in the library meeting room. The Book Challenge for November is to read a book about a different culture. Please contact the library when you have completed the challenge to have your name entered to win a gift certificate from a local business. The Book Challenge for December is to read a book about music, bands or musicians. The...
Hello From the Chinook Social Senior Center! We have had many fun things to do & join here this past week & we have many more to look forward to!! If you haven’t joined our Cornhole Class, or our Paint with Jack Brandon class, or our Pinochle Marathon, or our Cribbage group, or Bingo or the Billiards league, you are MISSING OUT! You don’t have to be an expert at ANY. Just show up. It is FUN & FUN is very good! Let’s face it, this world has enough pain,……but not nearly enough FUN! GET IN HERE!! I have never painted, before these classes....
Judy Ann Dunbar, 81, passed away November 8, 2023 at Sweet Memorial Nursing Home. A service was held at 10 AM, November 18, 2023 at Chinook High School Auditorium. Graveside Service and Luncheon Following at Wallner Hall. Public viewing will be held Friday, November 17, 2023 at Wilderness Funeral Homes from 3-5 PM. Judy was born January 17, 1942 in Choteau, MT to Flora and Paul Parker, Judy spent her childhood traveling the state of Montana as her dad, Paul, followed his dreams. She returned to... Full story
Elsa M. Olson Pomeroy, 94 passed away peacefully with family at her side on November 6th, 2023. Elsa was born July 3rd, 1929 to Fred and Martha (Solomon) Olson. She was always considered their “little firecracker” being born so close to the 4th of July. Her personality and be-haviors prove this to be true throughout her life and even in her final hours. Elsa was feisty, in-dependent and loving to her last breath. Elsa was a born “mother”, from the early age of 2 she cared for her younger sister Janet. The love and the bond between these t... Full story
Winter sports have arrived and student athletes from Chinook, Harlem, Hays/Lodge Pole and Turner have been hard at it in the gym, practicing and preparing for the upcoming season. The Blaine County Journal takes great pride in covering our eight boys and girls basketball basketball teams like no other publication. For the past 10 seasons we have included at the very least a brief recap to multiple pictures and full length stories for each team. For the past four seasons we have provided results and a story for all four of our wrestling teams an...
The Friends of the Pool and Park Foundation has recently received notification that the Chinook Pool Rehabilitation project was not selected for grant funding from the Montana Land Water Conservation Fund program. The Friends of the Pool and Park Foundation have been in contact with the MLWCF’s Grant Manager who informed the Board that there was “nothing that they could have done any better” when submitting their application. Unfortunately, there were more than $3 million in requests and the MLWCF was not awarded enough funding this year for a...
The 38th Annual Parade of Lights and Festival of Wreaths will take place on Friday, November 24th with activities in full force across the community throughout the day. Invite your family and bring your friends to shop with numerous local vendors from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at both the Senior Center and the Library. The Festival of the Wreaths will once again fill the First Bank Lobby and your participation in the silent auction is anticipated and appreciated. Before or after wandering through the exhibits and wreaths, take time to enjoy the...
Hello! My name is Olivia Downs, and I am Blaine County Museum's new collection assistant. While I have been at the museum since July 2022 working on various projects, I am excited to now have a permanent place here at the museum! I was practically raised here in Chinook and graduated from CHS in 2015. Shortly after, I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah and obtained a bachelor's degree in Sociology and Anthropology. When asked what I wanted to do as a career, I always hoped I'd end up in a museum...
A stop at a suburban Seattle parking lot reminded me of the large number of crows in the Pacific Northwest. In the parking lot I could hear the familiar “caws” of foraging crows. Ten years ago, when my wife and I lived in Arlington, Washington (north of Seattle) every morning from my desk I could look out our second story window and see a small flock (called a “murder of crows”) working their way along the street, picking up bits of dropped food, forcing their way in to garbage bins set out for...
