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Hello From the Chinook Social Senior Center! We have had another wonderful week, here. If you haven’t joined us, you should! We had a very full house this past Saturday, Sept. 2nd for the Celebration of Life for Mitzi Bruss. You could certainly tell...

Hello from the Chinook Social Senior Center! We had a wonderful crowd here, yesterday for our German meal/presentation. How nice to see every single table full of community members as well as people from out of town to enjoy our meal & the presentati...

Susan Billmayer judged at the county fair in Glasgow on Tuesday. Annie, Matt, and Carol Klindworth were at the Blaine County Fair in Chinook and watched Isaac and Hannah show their pigs on Saturday. They did a good job! Crystal, Cassidy, Holly, Coope...

Greetings From the Senior Center! It has been a HOT week, around here, but we are staying cool, inside with activities that bring people together for food, fun, fellowship & laughter. We had the most wonderful turnout for our Pie Social! We had...

Darwin and Betty Zellmer, Laura Sherwood, and Loretta Beck enjoyed a road trip to the Yaak to visit brother Wynn and Shirley Zellmer, July 28-30, stopping in Kalispell to visit Art and Gloria Schroeder, Jody Eichner and family, the Jenks family at La...

Greetings From the Senior Center! Did you know that anyone over the age of 62 is considered a Senior? Did you know that all of the wonderful meals prepared here are available for only $5.00 for people over 60 & $6.00 for people under 60? We had anoth...

By Anita Reed Wayne Deloach’s sister left Monday for Minnesota and Wayne and Mary Ellen endured the heat by staying close to fans and the window air conditioner. Tuesday, Mary Ellen and Wayne went to Fred and Sylvia Mohar’s for a visit with them and...

Loretta Beck visited with Darwin, Betty, and Keith Zellmer in Harlem on Tuesday afternoon, and Darwin was a visitor at Loretta’s on Thursday. Susan Billmayer visited with Marna Strzelczyk in Harlem on Wednesday morning. Anita Reed took Jane Krass to...

Ashley and Cody Houle and John Wing, from Missoula, arrived to visit Wayne and Mary Ellen DeLoach at the farm last Saturday. They did a tour of the countryside around Hogeland and Turner. They had dinner at the Border Bar with Nancy and Ralph Snider....

Greetings From the Senior Center! We had a great week here, at the center, with lots of new people participating in our activities and wonderful lunches, which our cooks, Candice & Karla are making each day. We are still in the early stages of...

Terry and Brenda Mohar, Dusty Mohar and boys, and Ashley and Chris Burke went to Sidney, MT on Friday for a Carda reunion held over the weekend. Loretta Beck spent a fun day in Chinook with Crystal and crew having pizza and watching the kids swim on...

Greetings From the Senior Center! Our annual meeting was held this past Friday, and was very well attended. We were delighted to welcome Roxanne Townsend to our board of Directors. We had a wonderful turnout for our June birthday lunch celebration....

Senior Center Greetings! Lots of fun things coming up this month at the Senior Center! We are in the preliminary stages of forming a CORNHOLE league. We would also like to form a BILLIARDS league. We are open to suggestions, so please do share your t...

Greetings From the Senior Center! We have big news to share. We would like to welcome our new Director Ginger Hansen and our new assistant cook Karla Zarn to the center. Stop by and say hi to them! We are having our Foot Clinic on July 10 due to the...

Susan Billmayer attended the State Garden Club Convention in Billings this past week. Loretta Beck was a guest at Shawn and Bobbi Beck’s home on Saturday evening along with other friends and family to help Ty celebrate his 14th birthday. Jane K...

Greetings from the Senior Center! There are a lot of new things going on here, so be sure to stop by and check them out. We still have Bingo every Thursday at 1 p.m. Anyone can play. Each card is a dime, only one card for each player wins per round....

Susan Billmayer visited with Jane Krass and Diana Maloney on Friday morning. Lucy Grabofsky visited with Grandma Loretta Beck on Monday afternoon, and then met Crystal in Turner and Loretta attended the store shareholder meeting at the Legion Hall....

“All Together Now” is the summer reading theme! Let’s all work together to keep reading over the summer. Children are invited to come to the library to register for summer reading. They may earn prizes for books or minutes read and chances to win g...

Summer programs will start Monday June 5th and run through July 28th. Mondays will be Hangout for grades 7 & 8 at 3:30 p.m. Tuesdays we will have Summer Story Time for kids ages 5 and under, which will last approximately 30 to 45 minutes. Each week...