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The movie A Dog Named Christmas will be showing in the library meeting room at 1:00 p.m. today. Next Wednesday we will be showing the movie Christmas Jars. The library will be closing at 6:00 p.m. tonight, due to a scheduling conflict. We apologize for any inconvenience. Free People Reading Freely chose the book "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Della Owens for our next meeting, which will be Monday January 20, 2020. We have copies of the book and the audio book available. New members are welcome to...
Tonight is the annual Friends of the Library Holiday Wine & Cheese fundraiser from 6:00-8:00 P.M. There will be delicious refreshments, door prizes, 50/50 raffle, silent and live auctions, and wine and beer tasting! The library will be open today from 10:00-1:00 to allow for set up. You may buy your tickets today for $10 at the library or call to reserve you tickets. You may also buy tickets at the door for $15. Kick off the holidays with this fun-filled event! The library has a great selection of books for you to read this holiday season. Chec...
Thank you to everyone who stopped by to see us at the Christmas stroll. Calvin Brown and Laura Danley were the lucky winners of the bee books. Free People Reading Freely chose the book "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Della Owens for our next meeting, which will be Monday January 20, 2020. We have copies of the book available. The display table has a variety of Christmas books for the month of December. New Christmas books include: "Finding Christmas" by Karen Schaler, "Christmas in Winter Hill" by Melody Carlson, "Spirit of the Season" by Fern...
The library will be closed Thanksgiving Day but will be open Friday, November 29. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! The seventh annual Holiday Wine & Cheese fundraiser is December 4 at 6 P.M. at the library. This is the major fundraiser event of the year sponsored by the Friends of the Harlem Library. There will be delicious food, silent and live auctions, door prizes, 50/50 raffle, wine and beer tasting, and just plain fun! Tickets for adults 21 and over are on sale at the library and will be available at the door for at a slightly higher price....
Plan ahead, 28th Annual Hassle Free Christmas Program will be Tuesday December 3rd at 7:00 p.m. As always we will have demonstrations, the Bell Choir will perform and we will have plenty of goodies to eat. Blaine County Library will be closed Thursday November 28th in observance of Thanksgiving. We will also be closed Friday November 29th, but you can find us at the Christmas stroll where we will be collaborating with Buhmann Apiaries. The Bell Choir will be performing in the Library Meeting Room during the Christmas Stroll. Free People...
Continuing their Christmas tradition established over the past several years, Montana Actors' Theater (MAT) will be presenting, Jack and the Beanstalk, the classic tale of magic beans, a giant, and treasure this holiday season. The show, which will open on December 6 at 7:00 p.m., will be performed as a panto at the MAT on MSU-Northern's campus on Cowan Drive. And it will feature Chinook resident Ben Hall, who will be playing the elderly Doctor Humberdunk. The play will run through December 21....
Plan ahead, 28th Annual Hassle Free Christmas Program will be Tuesday December 3rd at 7:00 p.m. As always we will have demonstrations, the Bell Choir will perform and we will have plenty of goodies to eat. The Blaine County Library Board of Trustees will meet Monday November 25th at 4:00 p.m. in the library meeting room. Blaine County Library will be closed Thursday November 28th in observance of Thanksgiving. We will also be closed Friday November 29th, but you can find us at the Christmas...
Please join us at the Creative Christmas program Nov. 26, 7 P.M. Start off your holiday season with a fun evening featuring guest crafters Jennifer Strzelczyk and Dorothy Harris who will share holiday crafting and decorating ideas. Refreshments will be served and all ages are welcome. You may be the lucky door prize winner. Bring a friend! The Book Challenge for November is to read a book set in Montana. You may wish to choose one of the ten nonfiction prose titles nominated for the Great Montana Read sponsored by Montana PBS. Check out our...
Hannah Schoen • Teen Leader Award -Up & Coming Young Leader Victoria Kirby • 4H Ambassador • 4H Teen Leader • 2019 "I Dare You Award" Winner • The Montana Black Angus Auxiliary Buckle • Grand Champion Jr. Showman Cody Arnold • Steers of Merit Award • Grand Champion Steer of Merit Carcass Award • Reserve Champion Senior Showman Natalie Richman • Super Sweepstakes Home Economics Award • 2019 Herdsmanship Award - Sheep Barn • Lamb Carcasses - Certified Lambs • Grand Champion Lamb Carcass Mad...
4H Achievement Night Winners Continued. Great Job Everyone!...
Many locals know Ken Finley as "the guy who gives away pumpkins for Halloween from his garden." For the last few years Finley has invited anyone, especially elementary school students and their families, to come out to his pumpkin patch and pick a pumpkin for Halloween. The pumpkin patch is part of a large garden Ken has each year along Cleveland Road next to the Chinook Water Plant. He said this year he even had a volleyball team from Hays-Lodgepole that stopped and picked pumpkins on their way...
The Harlem Library board hold their monthly meeting today at 4:15 in the library meeting room. Montana PBS is holding season two of the Great Montana Read event. Ten books, Montana nonfiction prose, have been nominated. Check out the display of the nominees at the library. Voting ends November 29 on the Montana PBS website at montanapbs.org/events/greatmontanaread/. The Harlem Library November Book Challenge is to read a book set in Montana which goes right along with the Great Montana Read. Please join us when Bob Quinn will be the guest...
The Harlem Library board hold their monthly meeting today at 4:15 in the library meeting room. Montana PBS is holding season two of the Great Montana Read event. Ten books, Montana nonfiction prose, have been nominated. Check out the display of the nominees at the library. Voting ends November 29 on the Montana PBS website at montanapbs.org/events/greatmontanaread/. The Harlem Library November Book Challenge is to read a book set in Montana which goes right along with the Great Montana Read....
Bob Quinn, farmer from near Big Sandy and leading green businessman, will be the guest speaker at the Harlem Public Library November 19. In 1986 Quinn's company Montana Flour and Grains introduced the natural food industry to an ancient Egyptian wheat, called khorasan (similar to durum wheat) marketed under his own brand name KAMUT® (the ancient word for wheat.) Through the trademark an ancient grain has been preserved and guaranteed not to be genetically modified or altered. Quinn, a Farming Futurist, is always looking for ways to improve...
“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.” -Andrew Carnegie Between 1901 and 1922 seventeen Montana communities built libraries with money given to them by the era’s richest man, Andrew Carnegie. In a new book available at the library “The Best Gift: Montana’s Carnegie Libraries” architectural historian Kate Hampton and photographer Tom Ferris showcase fifteen of those libraries that stand today. “The Chelsea Girls” is by author Fiona Davis. Playwright Haze...
The Blaine County Library will be closed Monday November 11, 2019 in observance of Veterans Day. Free People Reading Freely will meet Monday November 18th at 7:00 p.m. We will be discussing the book "Love and Other Consolation Prizes" by Jamie Ford. We have copies available for anyone who would like to participate. We will have a list of books available to choose from for our next book club meeting. Plan ahead, 28th Annual Hassle Free Christmas Program will be Tuesday December 3rd at 7:00 p.m....
Leaves are changing color From summer’s shades of green To rusts and golds and shades between. There’s a nip in the air; a chill, Frost on the pumpkin, SNOW! And it seems so dark; so very, very dark. Summer’s gone. Autumn is here. With autumn comes Halloween, oh dear! With Halloween, come the VISITORS, Nocturnal creatures, grotesque features. Witches with brooms and pointy hats Clothed in nothing but the blackest of black! Zombies just arose from their graves, They are stinky and smelly from rot and decay. Beware of a ghost or two Lurki...
Free People Reading Freely will meet Monday November 18th at 7:00 p.m. We will be discussing the book "Love and Other Consolation Prizes" by Jamie Ford. We have copies available for anyone who would like to participate. We will have a list of books available to choose from for our next book club meeting. We have one non-fiction book available this week. "Tough Love My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For" by Susan Rice is a recollection of pivotal moments from her career on the front lines of...
This past weekend, Bear Paw Mountain Outfitters produced the closing of The Vorbit Incident at the Montana Actors' Little Theater on the campus of MSU-Northern in Havre. Former Blaine County resident and 2008 Chinook High School graduate, MaryBeth Blankenship was a member of the cast. She recently shared her challenges and satisfactions in personifying the lone female role of Andromeda, a mythical princess featured in the drama. The play, with its adult humor and language, as well as some mild v...
The Blaine County Library Board of Trustees will hold their regular monthly meeting Monday October 28th at 4:00 p.m. The Book Display for October is full of Spooky Reads, including these new thrillers: “Her Father’s Secret” by Sara Bladel, “The Liar’s Child” by Carla Buckley, “Stealth” by Stuart Woods and “Quantum” by Patricia Cornwell. We have a couple of non-fiction books this week. “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed” by Lori Gottlieb is a revealing portrait of what it means to be human. ...
What is Trunk or Treat? Trunk or Treat is an event where individuals decorate their trunks or tailgates and hand out candy while kids trick or treat from car to car. It is a fun, safe place to start or end your house-to-house trick or treating! The 1st annual Trunk or Treat will be held on the 500 block of Main on Oct 31. Lineup will be from 5:30-6; event is from 6-8. To register, people can go to Facebook and search Chinook’s 1st annual trunk or treat, or they can email me at Julie.a.terry@live.com and I will send them a registration link. D...
The Blaine County Journal is looking to promote hunting amongst our youth here in Blaine County. Many local youth have just completing a successful Hunters Education Course and are looking to go out on their first hunt. Others are part of the Apprentice Hunter Program which allows children as young as 10 to be accompanied on a special hunt. In any instance we would like to share those experiences with our readers. Understandably there are more experienced youth hunters and even adults who are...
Plan to attend the next Free People Reading Freely Book Club Monday October 21st at 7:00 p.m. We are reading the Jamie Ford books. Stop in and pick up a copy of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet or Love and Other Consolation Prizes. You may choose to read one or the other or both. Attendees voted to change the format of the club from reading just banned books to having members select the books that everyone will read. If you have a book or several books you think we should read, bring...
Best Bus Behavior: On Friday, October 11th, Harlem school bus driver, Deni Carey, and her People's Creek student riders, earned their Best Bus Behavior award. The Elementary and Jr./Sr. High students displayed exceptional citizenship and manners while adhering to all bus safety rules. For their efforts, the Best Bus Behavior Buddies were able to share this well-deserved pizza party with their amazing driver, Deni. ROARing Students of the Month: Harlem Elementary has chosen second grader, Isaiha...
Local businesses throughout Blaine County show their support for 4H with window displays. 4H Pledge: I Pledge my HEAD to clearer thinking, My HEART to greater loyalty, My HANDS to larger service, and my HEALTH to better living, for my club, my community, my country, and my world....
