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December is shaping up to be a great month over here at the museum! On Wednesday December 6th we put on a “parfleche workshop” for 28 area kids in conjunction with the wonderful folks over at the Blaine County Library. The parfleche workshop was an...

Hello from the Chinook Social Senior Center! We are very busy around here, preparing for Christmas & the many fun activities here at our wonderful Center! It seems the same each year! Pretty soon, we run out of days! We’ll get there, before C...

Hello From the Chinook Social Senior Center! Here we go on another adventurous week, here at our wonderful Center! As of this writing, we have all had our Thanksgivings & counted many blessings. We have shared with neighbors, families & friends. We...

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3 c. sugar 1 (7oz.) jar Kraft marshmallow crème 2/3 c. undiluted Carnation Evaporated milk ¾ c. margarine 1 c. chopped nuts 1 tsp. vanilla 1 (12 oz.) pkg. semi sweet Chocolate pieces Combine sugar, margarine and milk in heavy 2 ½ quart saucepan, br...

Hello From the Chinook Social Senior Center! We finally have high rise toilets & grab bars in the lady’s potties. Yay! Yay! Thank you to the Blaine County Commissioners & the budget which allowed for this to happen! When you see Shane Fox or Miles H...

Hello From the Chinook Social Senior Center! Gosh, these weeks are flying by! This morning appears to be December 25th, rather than Oct. 25th, if we look outside. However, as we always say……moisture is good! We have had a most wonderful week, while l...

You know Lord, it seems like it’s best to do A GOOD DEED, right? Three gals were busy gabbing as they cleaned up a kitchen and dining room. ‘Gayle’ was busy chatting when several kids from the other room popped in. “We heard you talking about d...

Hello From the Chinook Social Senior Center! Please remember that both Inez Halseth & I will be teaching a super fun card game, entitled Lambsey on Tues. Oct. 24th @ 1:00. The sign -up sheet is at the desk, or you can call & let us know @ 357-2648....

The Harlem Library Board of Trustees will meet today, October 25, at 4:30 P.M. in the library meeting room for their regular meeting. There will be no After School Squad today, October 25, and no Lego Club on October 26. The Friends of the Library...

Hello From the Chinook Social Senior Center! Wow! What a great week we have had! We had the Presentation/Book Signing with Mark Vitaris (Author) of the Book: Borderlands (5 years in the making). That was a wonderful presentation! Sam French, Blaine...

Hello From the Chinook Social Senior Center! We have had another great week, here, so if you weren’t here, you should have been! Our meals have been phenomenal! Our Pinochle Marathon will be starting soon and we will have a sign-up sheet here, so s...

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....