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The Blaine County Library in Chinook is winding down another outstanding summer. "Oceans of Possibilities" was the theme for this years Summer Reading Program and it was a huge success. As is the case with most Libraries in the state of Montana, the Blaine County Library acquired promotional materials at a lower cost through the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP). Blaine County Library Director, Valerie Frank offered some input as to what CSLP does for Montana Libraries. The CSLP...
Presented by Moxley Construction Incorporated, the Bear Paw Roundup PRCA Rodeo is scheduled for August 11-12. The Bear Paw Roundup Rodeo committee invites everyone to join them "for a top-notch PRCA rodeo on the Hi-Line!" The annual Bear Paw Roundup will be in Chinook at the Blaine County Fairgrounds with performances starting at 7:00 p.m. on both Thursday and Friday nights. Special events back by popular demand include Mutton Bustin' on both nights. In other featured entertainment, Monkey on a...
Based out of Miles City, Montana, Stolen Roan is a musical group known for playing anything from street dances to weddings and fundraisers to concerts in Eastern Montana and beyond. They will be the featured band at the Blaine County Fairgrounds following the Bear Paw Roundup PRCA Rodeo on Friday, August 12. The band's website describes them as "taking influences from a variety of genres. The boys of Stolen Roan put on a high energy show that can flip from country classics to Red Dirt to...
Following the Bear Paw PRCA Rodeo Roundup on August 11, the Wortman Sisters will take the stage in the grandstand arena at the Blaine County Fairgrounds. The musicians are the daughters of Lacy Wortman, who owns property in the Bears Paw Mountains. Georgia Wortman is 21 years old and completing her final year of college in Bozeman where she is studying Ranching Systems. Her sister Tavie is 18 years old and will be attending Blackbird Academy in Nashville this fall where she will pursue training...
There are 9 days left to turn in time logs for the Summer Reading Program. There will be a prize for Preschool/K students, and 4 prizes for grades 1 through 8. High School students and adults will be able to enter a drawing for gift certificates to Rads, Bikini Coffee, and The Creamery for every book they read. Time logs are due by 4:30 p.m. Friday August 12th. Names will be drawn at closing on that day. The reader with the most hours read this summer will win an after-hours pizza party. The winner will be able to invite up to 5 friends to...
Harlem Library The Harlem Library Board of Trustees will hold their monthly meeting today, July 27, 4:15 P.M. in the library meeting room. Thanks to everyone who participated and donated to the summer reading program. All children’s programs including story time, elementary school programs and Lego Club will take a break until this fall. If you have completed July’s Book Challenge please contact the library to be entered into the drawing. The Book Challenge for August is to read a family saga. We have a great display to choose from! Blaine Cou...
The Fun Day held this past weekend in Turner turned out to be a huge success! The day began with a FLY IN and Lions pancake breakfast. There were only about 6 airplanes that flew in, but they joined up with others who began registering their cars, trucks, bikes, and tractors at the annual car show. Around 90 vehicles were on hand for the viewing. There were old cars, new cars, restored cars and tractors, and an assortment of bikes, both motor and pedal! The Big Flat Grocery Store organized the...
Readers of a certain age may recall little "jokes" that people used to make about where they grew up or where they were currently living. The jokes were usually introduced with something like, "You know he/she lives in 'such and such a town' because they never pay any attention to the 'yield' traffic signs"....or some such 'insider' joke about the behaviors of residents of a particular place. When fax machines first became common there were jokes galore, flying from office to office, about...
This is the last week for the summer reading program. All participants are asked to have their reading logs and book totals to the library on July 22. There will be no children’s programs until fall. Thanks to everyone who participated and supported the summer reading program. The library board will hold its monthly meeting July 27, 4:15 in the library meeting room. The Book Challenge for July is to read a book featuring a baby. You may win a gift certificate from a local business! Mark you calendars for August 8 and 22 when Kerry Shabi, Busine...
Blaine County Library Board of Trustees will hold their regular monthly meeting Monday July 25th at 4:30 p.m. in the library meeting room. We have one non-fiction book available this week. "From Savvy Saver to Smart Spender: How to Pick a Tax-Wise Retirement Withdrawal Strategy" by Daniel W. McDonald will guide you through implementing a retirement withdrawal strategy. We have four thrillers ready for checkout. In "The 6:20 Man" by David Baldacci a cryptic murder pulls a former soldier turned fi...
Montana State University Northern's radio station, KNMC 90.1 FM, is seeking musicians of all skill levels to participate in their annual Rock Lotto. This is an event in which musicians put their name in a drawing to be randomly placed into bands for a one-time only performance on Saturday, September 17 as part of the Havre Festival Days celebration. Musicians sign up to play an instrument (guitar, bass, drums, keys, horns) or as a lead/backup vocalist. If participants can play more than one...
On Thursday, July 7 at 7:00 p.m. in MSU-Northern's Hagener Science Center, the Montana Audubon organization hosted a presentation about chimney swifts. Led by Peter Dudley, Big Sky Watershed Corps Member with Montana Audubon, the presentation covered the ecology and identification of swifts, followed by a walk around Havre to survey local chimneys for nesting sites. Event organizers invite area residents to get involved with the research on one of Montana's newest residents, the chimney swift....
The July Book Challenge is to read a book featuring a baby! Check out the titles we have on display for you to choose from. Summer Reading is flying by! There is still time to get those reading logs completed to earn prizes and chances at the grand prizes. This year’s grand prize for ages 0-kindergarten is a Code’N Learn Kinderbot robot. For grades 1-8 the grand prize is an under water camera. Teens and adults may win a $50 gift card. Summer Storytime for ages 0-5 meets on Tuesdays at 10 A.M. Elementary students are invited to Summer STEAM on...
Harlem Library The Book Challenge for July is to read a book featuring a baby. Summer Reading continues! Keep reading to earn prizes and chances to win grand prizes at the end of the program. Summer Storytime for the little ones is held Tuesdays at 10 A.M. Summer STEAM for elementary aged students meets on Wednesdays at 1 P.M. Lego Club for all ages is held on Thursdays at 3:30. Bear Paw Cooperative The Bear Paw Cooperative, through your local school district, assists in the provision of special education and related services to children with...
We have a couple of non-fiction books available this week. To create a more sustainable, equitable, and peaceful world, we must reimagine education and prepare a generation to be solutionaries-young people with the knowledge, tools, and motivation to create a better future. "The World Becomes What We Teach: Educating a Generation of Solutionaries" by Zoe Weil describes how we can (and must) transform education and teaching; create such a generation; and build such a future. Every day we work...
Harlem Library The Book Challenge for June is to read a book that features water. The library board will hold its monthly meeting June 29, 4:15 P.M. Summer Storytime for ages 0-5 meets on Tuesdays at 10 A.M. Summer STEAM for elementary students is held on Wednesdays at 1 P.M. Lego Club for all ages meets on Thursdays at 3:30 P.M. There is still time to join summer reading. Parents may register their children to set goals of books/minutes to read to earn prizes and chances to win grand prizes at the end of the program. Bear Paw Cooperative The...
In the good old summertime stop by and visit your library! Take advantage of all the services we offer as well as the comfortable cool surroundings. There are magazines and newspapers as well as a coffee bar in the reading room. Families can come and spend time in the children’s area. There you will find wooden blocks and train set, magnetic tiles, a computer with children’s games and activities, puppets, puzzles and of course wonderful books! We offer free wi-fi, patron computers, and other devices. If you need a place to hold a meeting or...
You know Lord, family, friends and loved ones seem to be losing family, friends and loved ones, every week or every month. How great that remaining dear ones have a ‘time’ together, sharing special deeds and thoughts of those who’ve passed on. At one ‘gathering’, friends and family shared about their special ‘Ms. B.’; what she’d meant to them, all she’d shared, quilts she’d made for family, friends and even several she’d sent to an orphanage. On and on they chatted when suddenly there was a pause of silence and elderly ‘Uncle Al’ loudly sai...
Blaine County Library will be closed Monday July 4th in observance of Independence Day. We have several thrillers available for checkout this week. Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a nefarious conspiracy preying on Chicago’s weak and vulnerable, in “Overboard” by Sara Paretsky. “Two Nights in Lisbon” by Chris Pavone is a riveting thriller about a woman under pressure, and how far she will go when everything is on the line. In “Every Cloak Rolled in Blood” James Lee Burke continues the epic Holland family saga with a writer grievi...
Kevin Beck and Loretta Beck enjoyed lunch together at Char’s on Monday in Havre. On Tuesday, Crystal, Cassidy, Holly, Cooper, and Lucy Grabofsky and Tate and Ty Beck were over to help with yardwork and to visit with Grandpa Wally. Darwin Zellmer was a visitor on Wednesday at the Wallace Beck home. Susan Billmayer had coffee with Jane Krass, Diana Maloney and Anita Reed on Saturday and they all had a good visit. On Thursday Wally and Loretta Beck helped Ty Beck celebrate his 13th birthday at Shawn and Bobbi Beck’s home along with other family me...
Harlem Library The Book Challenge for June is to read a book that features water. The library board will hold its monthly meeting June 29, 4:15 P.M. Summer Storytime for ages 0-5 meets on Tuesdays at 10 A.M. Summer STEAM for elementary students is held on Wednesdays at 1 P.M. Lego Club for all ages meets on Thursdays at 3:30 P.M. There is still time to join summer reading. Parents may register their children to set goals of books/minutes to read to earn prizes and chances to win grand prizes at the end of the program. Bear Paw Cooperative The...
Media Arts in the Public Schools (MAPS) was in Blaine County from June 7-10 working with area youth. Clare Ann Harff, Executive Director of MAPS, and Craig Falcon, Media Lab Director, set up at Aaniiih Nakoda College (ANC) to assist Milk River Production filmmakers with their current project on the subject of blood quantum. Milk River Productions is a student driven filmmaking group that resulted from a 2018 Harlem High School (HHS) MAPS project. According to Harff, part of the MAPS workshop model includes idea generation and instruction on...
Be sure to explore the “Oceans of Possibilities” summer reading program at the library! Children may still register with a parent or guardian to earn prizes for books/minutes read. Teens and adults may enter to win a $50 gift card by letting us know each time they finish a book, ebook or audio book. Summer reading weekly programs include Summer Storytime for the littles on Tuesdays at 10 A.M.; Summer STEAM for elementary students on Wednesdays at 1 P.M. and Lego Club for all ages on Thursdays at 3:30. The Book Challenge for June is to read a b...
The library will close at 5:00 p.m. today, due to staffing issues. Teen Scene for grades 9 through 12 will be from 5:00 to 7:00 this evening. There will be activities and plenty of food and drinks. We had a great turnout for our Summer Reading Kickoff. Winners of the Shark Week prizes were Landon Minnis, Knut Halingstad, Claire Buck, and Hannah Halingstad. Congratulations to the winners. If your children have not signed up for the Summer Reading Program yet, there is still plenty of time. For every 2 hours read, kids can enter their name for a...
Thanks to the Friends of the Library for sponsoring the Basket Raffle fundraiser. We are so grateful for all the outstanding items that were donated and for everyone who placed bids. Your support is greatly appreciated. There is still time to take part in the Summer Reading program “Oceans of Possibilities.” Parents/guardians may bring their children in to the library to register. Prizes will be awarded for books/minutes read and children can earn chances to win grand prizes at the end of the program. Summer Storytime for ages 0-5 meets on Tue...
