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The top finishers in the local spelling Bee were: Tate Beck, Gracie Honey, Dakota Krass, and Chantry Jorgenson. The top four students will represent Turner School at the County Spelling Bee in Chinook on Tuesday, February 12th. The County Spelling Bee registration starts at 9:30 with the contest beginning at 10:00 in the Chinook High School Auditorium. Linda Hauge is spending the week in Washington with her grandbabies. She will be returning by train on Friday. The seniors being honored at the Box Elder games on Thursday, February 7th are Kurt...
On January 30, Region II of the Comprehensive System of Personnel Development, in partnership with Havre Public Schools, offered free training for schools who utilize the Quaglia Student Voice or any of the other Quaglia surveys. Janelle Deanon and Jordan Heilig, two educators from Meadowlark Elementary, attended this training to fully utilize the results of the data collected from students. The workshop, entitled Vision and Voice, was presented by Steve and Kim York at the Havre Inn & Suites. Steve York, who is a Montana native raised in the...
Sheep producers are encouraged to select fleeces to enter in the wool fleece show that is held in conjunction with the Montana Seed Show held in Harlem, Montana on March 14th in the Harlem High School Auditorium. The fleece competition will be held Thursday, March 14th. Judging of the fleeces will begin at 1 p.m. and entries will be taken between the hours of 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. of that same day. There is both youth and adult divisions with 21 categories in both divisions. Ribbons are awarded in all categories and a $100.00 cash prize will be...
Asher Brinkman was the grand champion speller at the Meadowlark Elementary School's Spelling Bee held on January 31. He will advance to the Blaine County Spelling Bee on February 12 with other qualifiers from schools across the county....
Homecoming 2019 was presented this Saturday at the Turner Tornado gymnasium with visiting teams, The Chinook Sugarbeeters meeting up. Grades 7-12 showcased their miniature floats decorated up with youngsters pulling them around the gym. The audience showed recognition of what they felt was the winning float by applause. The youngsters were happy to dress up and strut their float around the gym and hoping that theirs would win the winning vote! The Seventh grade class entitled theirs, "Even...
The Iota Chapter of the Montana State Organization of The Delta Kappa Gamma (DKG) Society International held its first meeting of 2019 on Monday, January 28, with a 5:30 p.m. dinner meeting at the Chinook Grille. Their special guest for the evening was Tracey Warburton, co-owner of Magic Carpet Travel located in Havre, Montana. As part of her presidential platform, Celebrating Stars of Our Community, Iota Chapter President for the 2018-2020 biennium, Paulette Cronk invited Warburton, who has...
Free People Reading Freely, the Blaine County Library Book Club, invites readers to experience the satisfaction of a book discussion by joining them at their next meeting, scheduled for Monday, February 11 at 7:00 p.m. in the Blaine County Library. To participate in the discussion, a reader needs simply to select and read a book from the list of Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books. Free People Reading Freely discussed the final two books on 2017’s Top Ten Most Challenged Books at their fifth meeting on January 14. And the readers present d...
For Immediate Release The Fisheries Division of Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is extending the public comment period for the Statewide Fisheries Management Program and Guide to Feb. 15. The draft Program and Guide was approved to release for public comment at the December Fish and Wildlife Commission meeting. Federal partner agencies have requested extension of the comment period because furloughed employees did not have the opportunity to review the document. The Program and Guide describes how programs within the Fisheries Division function...
It's been a crazy winter so far, with a little bit of everything from 50 degree days in January to -15 below and snow. Calving season is rapidly approaching, or in some cases already underway and one thing is certain, it will create some unique situations. This is Montana, and it can be any number of things, but local ranchers will surely find a way to handle it....
During the Middle Ages, people in England and France held a belief that birds started to look for their mates beginning February 14. For this reason, February 14 was called the "Birds' Wedding Day" in parts of Sussex. This historical note helped to link Valentine's Day with love and romance and likely explains why today, one of the most popular customs of Valentine's Day observed worldwide is to go on a date with a sweetheart. The community of Harlem will be honoring these ancient traditions...
When visitors reflect on their time spent at the Blaine County Museum, they often recall the museum's insightful and moving multimedia presentation, "Forty Miles from Freedom," on the history of the Battle of the Bear Paw and the Nez Perce (Nee-Me-Poo) of 1877, which took place 16 miles south of Chinook. Combining video, sound, and lighting effects and centered around artist Lorenzo Ghiglieri's spectacular paintings, the twenty-minute presentation recounts the events leading up to the battle and...
Rikki Swant, Montana Farm Bureau Federation Central Montana Regional Manager Young Ag Leadership Conference Coordinator I wanted to reach out with a positive note of citizenship displayed by some of your young students attending KMON/ the MAGIE in Great Falls over the weekend. I noticed a group of four young students in FFA jackets wandering the MAGIE tradeshow just as it opened on Saturday morning. They looked to be maybe 8th grade to sophomore age, three young ladies and one young gentleman....
The Road and Bridge Department is responsible for maintaining over 1200 miles of County roads and 62 bridges within Blaine County. That kind of responsibility is something that Jess Murphy took seriously for the past fourteen years. "I wanted to do the job right for the taxpayers," Murphy said. "They were paying my wages, and I wanted to be a good steward of the taxpayers' money." At the end of 2018, Murphy decided to retire. He was a blade operator for the last four years of his career with...
For Immediate Release Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Hunter Education classroom course dates have been set for the Havre area for this year. There will be three regular youth classroom courses offered this spring. The courses will be held at MSU-Northern at Cowan Hall, room 300, and are free of charge. The course dates are as follow: Class 1: Feb. 7, 6-7 p.m.- orientation Feb. 11-15- class Feb. 16- field day/live shoot Class 2: April 4, 6-7 p.m.- orientation April 8-12- class April 13- field day/live shoot Class 3: May 9, 6-7 p.m.-...
JUMP would like to invite the community to SOUPER BOWL OF CARING. On February 3rd, youth will be serving a Taco Soup lunch starting at 11:30, at Wallner Hall. A free will donation will be taken at the door with 100% of the proceeds going to the Chinook Food Pantry. Started in 1990 by a simple prayer from a youth group leader: “ Lord, even as we enjoy the Super Bowl football game, help us be mindful of those who are without a bowl of soup to eat”. Souper Bowl Sunday has grown into a nationwide event turning the “largest weekend of footb...
Last Weekend, Jan 19-20, Cassie Handran and Teresa Cornell traveled to Billings to visit with Dalton, Alyssa, Danial and Addison Cornell. While there, they celebrated Alyssa’s Birthday. Jordan and Kathy Zellmer attended the Turner School Spelling Bee on Wednesday morning. Games this weekend for the Turner High Varsity basketball teams are in Hays on Friday, Feb. 1, at 5:00/6:30 and in Turner vs. Chinook on Saturday, Feb. 2, at 6:00/7:30. Congratulations to Tate Beck for placing 1st at the Turner School Spelling Bee on Wednesday! This w...
Eighty-six years of tradition returns to the Hi-Line on Saturday, February 2 when First Lutheran Church serve up their 86th Annual Swedish Meatball and Norwegian Lutefisk Dinner at First Lutheran Church in Havre. The dinner is the longest running ethnic event in Havre. Serving begins at 12 noon in the Fellowship Hall and runs to 6 p.m. The Scandinavian dinner originally started as a small gathering in the old church parsonage where a handful of people were served a lutefisk dinner. As time went on the Swedish Meatballs were added to give those...
Four members of the Chinook High School Speech and Drama Team competed at State Competition this past weekend, January 25 and 26 in Three Forks. Jase Pursley placed second in pantomime, and freshmen Shay Hauer and Liam Edwards placed seventh in humorous duo with their piece about lies. The drama team was fourth overall for Class C, just one point away from third and two points from second, proving how tight state competition can be. Jase Pursley, Grace Ymzon, Shay Hauer and Liam Edwards advanced...
A team of ten Meadowlark Elementary School students from grades three through six and two of their coaches travelled from Chinook to Bozeman this past weekend to compete in the 2019 Montana State FIRST Lego League (FLL) Tournament, which was held on January 26, 2019 in Shroyer Gymnasium on the campus of Montana State University (MSU). Out of 78 teams, Chinook finished somewhere in the middle of the pack after three rounds of competition. Every year, FLL releases a Challenge, which is based on a...
The St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group (SMRWG) met on January 16 in Havre to discuss the repairing of the 100-year-old facility. The SMRWG discussed the upcoming legislative session. Right now, the state is short of funding. In the past the Coal Trust fund had yielded large volumes of revenue to address infrastructure need in the state. Now coal revenue is greatly reduced, and the state is looking for other streams of revenue. At this time the SMRWG did not see how it could find more money to...
It's been some time since we last seen a good snowfall and while many are enjoying a rather mild winter this weekend snow storm comes as a relief to many. December, January and February are typically dry, but we have had very little precipitation, rain or snow, so whatever this storm brings, it certainly will help....
In a collaborative effort, MSU Blaine County Extension, Chinook Veterinary Clinic, and Merck Animal Health are pleased to be bringing Dr. Rick Funston, a Beef Reproductive Physiologist Specialist, to North Central Montana. Area cattle producers are invited to the Chinook Eagles Club from 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. on January 31 for an evening that will include supper and a series of informational presentations. Doors will open at 6:00 p.m. with dinner at 6:30 p.m. Registration is necessary by January...
Reporter's note: The Harlem Seed Show committee, the group that plans and stages the annual seed show, is hard at work putting the finishing touches on the upcoming three-day event. This year's show is set for Friday through Saturday, March 14-16, and will salute the seed show's 70th anniversary. It seemed proper to recognize this ag-related happening at such a significant milestone. Ron Larson was a long-time seed judge at the Harlem show and served many years as the Manager of the Montana Seed...
The annual Montana Farmers Union (MFU) Producer Conference is once again coming to Havre. This year the Conference will be held January 25-26 at the Northern Ag Research Center (NARC). The MFU and the MSU-Northern (MSUN) Collegiate Stockgrowers invite area producers to join them for what promises to be relevant information on topics like cattle markets and cattle handling, Ag risk coverage, Ag advocacy, as well as a Beef N Brews celebration. The Conference will open at 12:30 on Friday, January...
How has access to high speed internet improved the local community? Any high school student having the answer to that question and interested in using video production skills to provide that answer might win a grand prize of $1500. Those are the basic details for Triangle Communications’ Best of the West Video Contest. They invite Youtubers, budding cinematographers, those with an interest in creating commercials, or simply youth who find fascination while learning about the video production process to enter their video contest by the March 1...
