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Megan Singh is a new face at the Chinook Area Chamber's downtown office on Indiana Street. She joined the Chamber on August 13 and will be in the office 8am-10am, Monday through Friday. She's a 2012 graduate of Chinook High and most recently was a seasonal worker in Alaska. The Chamber's phone is 357-2532....
This past week was one that was an exciting one for member of the Turner American Legion Auxiliary. They had member, Brenda Mohar, come to the Turner School to present awards from the American Legion Auxiliary Poppy Poster Contest and the Americanism Essay Contest. She was very happy to present awards from various grade levels. Class I winner of BOTH the Americanism essay and the poppy poster contest was awarded to Abigail Grabofsky. Abby is the daughter of Sadie and Matt Grabofsky of Turner....
The 4th Annual Tristan Billmayer Memorial Suicide Awareness Prevention Walk will be held this coming Sunday September 9th. Registration and breakfast will be at the Turner Legion Hall from 9-10:15 am. A short program at the Turner gym will follow. Busses will transport people to the St. Thomas Church, where the walk will begin and go back to Turner. Chuck, Joely, and Josh Hiniker spent Thursday-Monday at the Ed Zellmer home visiting family. On Thursday, Susan Billmayer was down to Harlem to help Pastor Ellen pack up to move to CA. Dixie...
There will be a bridal shower for Katie Jacobsen, future bride of Chad Jones, next Saturday at the Turner Lutheran Church, September 8th at 2:00 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend. Bob Fox from Buffalo, WY is at Turner for a few days helping with family harvesting. Max and Kirsti Cederberg were to Malta on Tuesday to visit with Sonny Anderson and Joyce Mord and then on to Chinook to visit Edith and Bill Bilger where they took hot fudge sundaes to celebrate Bill’s 97th birthday. Then later they visited the Maloney’s to help Garrett cel...
For Immediate Release With Montana’s bow hunting and upland game bird seasons opening Sept. 1, remember that slow moving, quiet or game-calling, scented and camouflaged hunters will soon be sharing the landscape with the state’s even stealthier bears that may be stalking similar prey. It may not be an encounter one hopes for, but all hunters must be aware there is that potential. Grizzly bears are found throughout the western half of Montana, not just the Rocky Mountain Front, Bob Marshall Wilderness complex and the Yellowstone ecosystem. The...
Although most hunters respect the land, property, and wildlife they are hunting, many others do not. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks would like to remind hunters and all outdoor enthusiasts to be good stewards of the land, and respect both private and public property. The FWP Region 6 Citizens Advisory Committee, recognizing that this is an ongoing issue, raised the need for more public outreach. Every hunting season, there are reports of vandalizing of Block Management Area (BMA) boxes,...
This weeks entry into our $100 Photo Contest is one featuring something we are all familiar with, Harvest. This photo is of Kurt Hansen's Combine with a sky that is filled with smoke from the fires in Glacier Park making for a very interesting photo. Send your entries in to us by Sunday the week before publication. Send photos to bcjads@mtintouch.net...
A new tool to help customers connect with Chamber Area businesses is now available. Chamber President Sarah Pratt created Chinook Plus, a new phone app that replaces the former "coupon book" used to provide coupons and special offers to customers. Pratt said, "We found one of the problems with the coupon books was customers often did not have a coupon with them when they wanted to make a purchases. Long term the books were often misplaced or lost. Smartphone users typically have their phone...
Last week Joe Kennedy volunteered to tear down the old "wooden bridge" playground equipment at Sweet Park. Kennedy said, "The Park Board wanted it removed and I volunteered to take it down." Joe added, "I started about 2pm taking it apart and hope to be done by dark." Kennedy was not sure when the equipment was installed at the park. Long time Lions Club member Jack Mattingly said he recalled that the wooden bridge play set and the taller, 'curly' slide beside the bridge were both installed by...
CHS rising senior Brendan Edwards recently spent a week completing the residency component of the Western Aerospace Scholars program. The program, sponsored by NASA and the Seattle-based Museum of Flight, was founded in 2006. Students accepted to the program spend a year doing STEM-based (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math program) lessons via the internet and projects focused on space exploration and earth sciences, then complete the hands-on summer residency component. The aerospace...
The Harlem Food Bank will begin their drive to raise funds for the year after September 1, 2018. Town Pump again has offered to help. This year they have offered to give us $2000.00 in Matching Funds. They treat Food Banks very well in Montana and we surely thank them for their assistance. We have been active in Harlem for 10 years and in the past year have given out over 29,000 pounds of food. We will be having Food Drives later this year. The community support in the past has been very good and we hope the support continues as there is a...
Loretta Beck went to Turner on Monday to help with the distribution of the produce from the fruit truck. She dropped Merrilyn Billmayer’s order off and Mary Ann Olszewski’s off and visited at both places on the way home. Melissa Hiniker left Ed and Kathy Zellmer’s home on Wednesday to go back to Havre after being there a few days. She will start her junior year at Northern. Diana Maloney, Cindy Reed, Hilary and Natalie Richman, and Anita, Lucas, and Bridget Reed as well as Harlan Krass helped Jane celebrate her birthday on Saturday. Happy...
Chinook's Cancer Support Group's August gathering featured a presentation on sleep by Sweet Medical Center's (SMC) newest Behavioral Health Provider, Christina Hoppe. Hoppe, a native of Havre and a 2007 graduate of Havre High, completed her PsyD (Doctor of Psychology) in 2016 from Pacific University near Portland, Oregon. She is a clinically trained psychologist currently doing a year-long residency as a prelude to licensure in Montana. After completing her academic work she did an internship...
By Darin Hannum, Chinook school superintendent As Chinook Public Schools gears up for the 2018-19 school year, there are several topics I would like to address with everyone: enrollment numbers and fall activities, new activity bus, weight room, and out of district students. Enrollment and Fall Activities We have had an excellent start to the school year. Chinook High School enrollment is 115 students, Chinook Junior High has 53, and Meadowlark Elementary has roughly 200 students. With the numbers at the elementary we have several classes that...
Ten members and two pastors from three churches in Chinook learned some basic ways to deal with an active shooter situation. The short course was taught by Blaine County Undersheriff Frank Billmayer and Sheriff's Deputy Chris Adair. Billmayer and Adair have taught a similar program to several schools, local government agencies and businesses in the county. ALICE instructor training was first offered locally in the spring of 2017. Billmayer said, "We've done parts of the ALICE training about eigh...
Reporter's note: I've been writing about places my wife and I found interesting in our travels. We've made numerous trips to the Seattle area to visit our daughter and her family. Usually those trips are a mad dash to get there (800 miles and 14 hours straight driving), then a made dash to get back to Chinook. The last couple of trips we've spent some time exploring eastern Washington-that area of the Evergreen State that runs from east of the Cascade Range to the Idaho border. Unlike the west...
Mike Jones was hired this spring to take over the reigns of the Chinook High School Football program and is excited about the opportunity to lead a program and very happy to return to Montana. Jones is very familiar with Class C Eight-man football in Montana. He is a 2007 graduate of Power High School. The 'Beeters and the Power-Dutton-Brady Titans have played some great games through the years but Jones won't get the opportunity to face his alma-mater because the Titan's dropped down to six-man...
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, Region 6 With our region of northeast Montana beginning to dry out and with the increasing threat of wildfires, hunters and other recreationists taking to the field must be aware of local fire restrictions and take precautions. Montana archery antelope hunters are already hunting with their 900-20 hunting licenses. Montana’s upland game bird season (and mourning doves) open Sept. 1, along with the archery-only hunting season for deer, elk, antelope, bighorn sheep, black bear, wolf and mountain lion. Hunters a...
Sweet Medical Center (SMC) kicked off 2018 National Health Center Week with the Sweet Swim! at the Chinook Pool on the Saturday before the special week long celebration. SMC organizers finished the week with a first ever Sweet Market on the parking lot of the clinic in Chinook on Thursday night. National Health Center Week recognizes the five decades that community health centers have been serving special populations across the country. Nationwide health centers like Sweet Medical Center serve...
In response to dry, warm weather that could increase the danger of human-caused wildfires, under the recommendations of county officials, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks fishing access sites (FASs) and wildlife management areas (WMAs) are now under Stage 1 Fire Restrictions in Phillips co. and on Brush Lake State Park in Sheridan co. Both counties will enter Stage 1 restrictions beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 17. These Stage 1 restrictions join both Hill and Blaine counties, who went into restrictions last week. County officials in...
Sixteen seniors from Blaine County recently spent a day in Fort Benton, the town known as the "Birthplace of Montana™." The day-long bus trip was organized through the Chinook Senior Center and was open to any adult in the county. Based on the positive response to the trip, organizers are hopeful future outings to places of interest in the region can be arranged. The charge for the trip included the cost of the bus trip, lunch at Fort Benton's Golden (Senior) Center and admission to two m...
Helena, Mont., July 30, 2018 – The Montana Community Foundation, Inc. (MCF) announces the opening of a grant cycle to benefit the communities and residents of Blaine County. Grants will be made from the Blaine County Community Foundation Fund, established at MCF by Warren Ross in 1997. Financial support for this grant program also comes from the Ross 87 Ranch Endowment Fund, established by Warren Ross as well. Applicants must be either a 501(c)(3) nonprofit or an exempt governmental unit. Grants will range in size from $500 to $2,000. While g...
Who doesn't like recess? If you were to ask these little ones, they would all agree that recess on a hot day of school is just what the "students" ordered! These littles are from grades one through three at Turner School. They take a moment from their play to pose for a quick photo near a new piece of playground equipment on their playground. They are as follows. Back row: Harley Beck and Amos Billmayer. Middle Row: Olivia Keller, Willie Krass, Lex Wolery, Quin Billmayer, Alaina Egbert, Gracie...
With a week under their belt, the Turner School has resumed classes with bells ringing on Wednesday for grades 1-12. Kindergarten will begin this Monday. The staff attended two PIR days prior to the students return. Pictured are a portion of teachers and staff that were available for a picture. Back row L-R are: Mr. Zach Holland, K-12 PE and 7-12 History, Mrs. Shelly Harmon, Kindergarten, and Library, Mrs. April Fox, Welding, K-12 Art, Mrs. Michelle Keller, Math, Superintendent, Mr. Russ...
Havre Elks Lodge #1201 and the Elks National Foundation announce that the 2018-2019 Most Valuable Student Scholarship program is now underway. All high school seniors who are U.S. citizens are welcome to apply. The entire MVS application process is handled on-line with applicants being judged on scholarship, leadership and financial need. According to local Elks Scholarship Chairman Bob Nieuwenhuyse, applicants will be judged at three levels with the opportunity to earn scholarships at the local, state and national level. Six scholarship...
