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The new pastor recently called to serve the Chinook and Havre Presbyterian Churches is no stranger to north central Montana. In August 2012 Maggie (Margaret) Lewis came as the first Young Adult Volunteer (YAV) to serve in Chinook. After leaving Chinook she attended the University of Iowa for a time, then began the Master of Divinity program at the University of Dubuque, also in Iowa. She completed the three year program of study in preparation for the ministry in May, 2018. Both the Chinook and...
Thank You to Blaine County Democrats for the cookies. Thank You to Barb McDonald for the peony on the piano. Thank you to Dale and Vonnie Klungland for putting the new board on the courtyard Get Ready for the Fourth of July midweek events!!! The Harlem Senior Center will be having a float in the parade, 4:00 pm. Riders are needed! Get out your red, white and blue clothes to wear on the float. Don’t forget the picnic in the park (bring salads, desserts) - hamburgers, hot dogs, drinks, plates provided - at 5:00 pm. Friday June 29 – Saturday Jun...
By Marlane Wenzel, Friday, June 29, is the birthday lunch and we will be having a 50/50 Raffle this month. This week in Bingo there were four winners on one game. It got pretty exciting. Thank you for the lovely centerpieces and bouquets of flowers Marilyne Berger, Tara Baird, and Debbie Ramberg. They are beautiful and we appreciate them. Last week activity winners are as follows: Bingo: Marlane Wenzel; Shanghai Rummy: Don Durocher; Pinochle: High Doris Hofeldt, low Elisabeth O’Brien Remember, your memberships are due this month. They are $10....
USDA Farm Service Agency encourages all farmers, ranchers, and FSA program participants to take part in the county committee election nomination process. Committees are comprised of locally elected agricultural producers responsible for the fair and equitable administration of FSA farm programs in their counties. Committee members are accountable to the Secretary of Agriculture. If elected, members become part of a local decision making and farm program delivery process. A county committee is comprised of three to 11 elected members from local...
The eighth annual Blaine County Cruise has a full slate of events planned for the weekend as activities get underway Friday afternoon at 5:00 p.m. with registration taking place at the Blaine County Fairgrounds. The Cruise welcomes everyone to participate in the weekend activities and this year will also include a 'Scavenger Hunt' Friday evening. Saturday Cruisers will head to Turner. The cruise is open to anyone with a vehicle. The club prides itself on being family-friendly. Bring the kids,...
My wife and I were driving to Conrad for a meeting. Readers who have traveled west along US 2 from Blaine County know that once you leave Havre, rest stops are virtually nonexistent until you reach Chester. In the winter the situation is worse since the Chester rest area closes. A couple of hours into the trip we stopped at the Visitors' Center on the east edge of Shelby for a bathroom break (this is another rest stop that is frequently closed in the winter months). We were browsing the...
Jana McPherson-Hauer, RN, is Lead Local Health Official and Public Health Nurse in Blaine County. The average adult takes 15 to 20 breaths a minute — more than 20,000 per day, according to the American Lung Association. Healthy lungs are important to deliver clean air to our bodies’ organs and tissues, which convert oxygen into fuel to support vital body functions. When a smoker lights up, it affects not only the health of the lungs, but also the body structures that depend on the lungs for oxygen. Smoking is the leading cause of pre...
Carter Alisch takes his turn in the batters box for the Ace Hardware team last week versus Havre in the season finale of the (Age 9-10) Minor League season. The team played every Tuesday at the Chinook Youth Baseball baseball field and began play the first week of May....
Producers are reminded to report prevented planting and failed acres in order to establish or retain FSA program eligibility for some programs. Producers should report crop acreage they intended to plant, but due to natural disaster, were prevented from planting. Prevented planting acreage must be reported on form CCC-576, Notice of Loss, no later than 15 calendar days after the final planting date as established by FSA and Risk Management Agency (RMA). For example, winter wheat planted/failed and the acreage is re-seeded to barley in the...
Reporter's note: In early May my wife and I rode Amtrak to Columbus, Wisconsin (just outside Madison) where we met two cousins from Iowa and then drove together 150 miles northeast to Door County, Wisconsin. Door County is a peninsula that sticks up in to Lake Michigan from near Green Bay. Our cousins had been there before for family vacations and knew their way around the peninsula quite well. We had reserved a cottage and spent a week exploring Door County. It is a major summer destination...
Searchers found the body of 35 year-old Noah Hofeldt in the Milk River outside Chinook. The Chinook native and resident was first reported by his family as missing on Thursday (June 14). Blaine County Sheriff Glenn Huestis said, “The body was found about 5:30 pm on Sunday just up river from the Chinook Waste Water Treatment facility.” That facility is on the river just south of Bear Paw Livestock. Huestis said Hofeldt was last seen “around noon on Monday.” On Sunday according to a news report on KRTV in Great Falls, Hofeldt’s mother, Carol, sa...
Lewis and Clark County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Brett Friede will retire Thursday after more than three decades as a law enforcement officer. Friede has served in Lewis and Clark County for the past 28 years as part of a 32-year law enforcement career that includes time in Toole County. Friede has spent time as a patrol deputy, crime scene photographer and hostage negotiator, and was well-known as the courthouse deputy. He said leaving the sheriff’s office is “bittersweet,” but he is looking forward to taking some time off to get healthy. “This w...
Susan Billmayer and Jennifer Strzelczyk attended the Garden Club Convention in Helena this week. Melissa Hiniker spent the Father’s Day weekend with her grandparents, Ed and Kathy Zellmer. Cindy Reed and friend Alan surprised Harlan and Jane Krass on Saturday for a visit. She brought them some plants, and on Father’s Day, Hilary Richman, Diana Maloney, and Anita, Lucas, Brooke, and Bridget Reed helped plant them. David Jones and Jennifer Baird were married on Saturday at the Jones Farm, and their reception followed at the Turner Park. Qui...
Thank you to: Helen Hornung for the spaghetti sauce; To Chuck Wasser for the Vidalia onions; To Anonymous for the jigsaw puzzle; To Barb McDonald for the case of water, milk, chicken and tuna. Did you know that in Japan anything associated with senior citizens is called Koreisha, meaning “upper”, “age” and “person”? Japan is very pro-active in accommodating seniors along with their much-deserved special needs. Coming up - This weekend Fort Peck Theater is showing “Cabaret” Next weekend is the Milk River Gospel Jamboree at Malta High School. Ea...
We had a great turnout for our Father’s Day meal on Friday! I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful Father’s Day. Thank you to Marilyne Berger for the bouquet of peonies and the daisies for the tables. Thursday marks the start of summer. The annual board meeting will not be held on July 20, 2018. The new date will be announced soon. Last week activity winners: Bingo: Irene Gauthier scored a blackout to win the meal ticket. Public Card Party: Judy Chapman-high, Mike Randall-low, Myrla McCoy and Judy Chapman-double pinochle. Friday Pinochle: Luc...
SPOKANE, Wash. (June 15, 2018) - The following Gonzaga University student from Hays, Montana participated in graduation exercises during our Commencement Ceremony that was held on Sunday, May 13th in Spokane’s Veterans’ Memorial Arena. This student has either completed their undergraduate degree or are expected to complete their degree requirements this year. Colette Werk - Hays, MT Gonzaga University is a private Catholic, Jesuit, and humanistic university providing education to more than 7,800 students. Situated along the Spokane River nea...
As part of a 33-year effort to protect sensitive lands and improve water quality and wildlife habitat on private lands, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will resume accepting applications for the voluntary Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Eligible farmers, ranchers, and private landowners can sign up at their local Farm Service Agency (FSA) office between June 4 and Aug. 17, 2018. FSA stopped accepting applications last fall for the CRP continuous sign-up (excluding applications for the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP...
Each year, the Blaine County Fair Board pauses in their activities to acknowledge special efforts by special people by dedicating the fair premium book to a person, or persons, who have made significant contributions to assure a successful and continuing Blaine County Fair. This year's honor belongs to Dan and Sandy McNeill. The two McNeill children always had horses and enjoyed riding. From the time Courtney was a little girl, she would take her horse to the local kids' rodeo, which was the...
The Blaine County Democratic Central Committee met Monday night (June 18) and selected three names that will go to the County Commissioners. From those three names the two incumbent commissioners will pick a person to fill the unexpired term of Charlie Kulbeck. Kulbeck, representing District 3, resigned effective July 1. The person selected by the commissioners will serve Kulbeck's unexpired term-a six month stretch running from July 1 to January 1, 2019. At the end of that period a...
Producers with CRP contracts expiring on September 30, 2018 may wish to contact FSA concerning the Transition Incentives Program (TIP). The TIP offers incentive payments to retiring producers that sell or lease their expiring CRP acreage to beginning farmers or ranchers. All requirements of the TIP contracting process must be finalized by September 15, 2018. The CRP “Land Tenure” provisions authorize the early termination of CRP contracts (without penalty) when eligible lands are sold to a beginning farmer or rancher, or socially disadvantaged...
Local outdoor swimming pools are now open in Harlem and Chinook. With the heat of summer ratcheting up a notch, the pool has been the perfect place to cool off and have a little fun while doing so. Swim teams have just completed their second week of competition and area school students seemed to have had little trouble making the transition from the classroom to the pool....
Statewide there was a 41.3% turnout of Montana’s 679,231 registered voters for the recent primary election. In Blaine County, the turnout was 36.1%, a bit lower than the state turnout. The 2018 primary election results will not be official until the county commissioners ‘canvass’ the ballots. The commissioners will review and confirm the primary results in the next few days. Here are the primary results as reported by the Blaine County Clerk and Recorder’s office and as posted on the Montana Secretary of State’s official website (see more resu...
Blaine County Commissioner Charlie Kulbeck submitted a letter to fellow county commissioners on June 7 resigning from his post as commissioner for District 3. In the letter Kulbeck wrote, "I unfortunately am forced to resign my position as a Blaine County commissioner due to health reasons." Kulbeck said in January, 2018, he would not file to run for a second term this election cycle citing his wife's battle with cancer and his ongoing recovery from a car accident in December, 2016 that left him...
Jessica (Hansen) Aberg was named Branch President for the First Bank of Montana in Chinook effective June 7. Dean Comes, President of the branches that make up First Bank of Montana, made the announcement after reviewing applications from within the Glacier Bank system. A native of Harlem, Aberg began with First Bank in Chinook in 2007 as a loan processor and most recently served as a consumer lender. Aberg replaces Craig Lowham who took a banking job in Mountain View, Wyoming, to be closer to...
Juli (Sather) Snedigar is the new Ag & 4-H Extension Agent in Blaine County. Juli served as the county's 4-H & FCS (Food and Consumer Science) Agent about ten years ago. A Blaine County native, she grew up on a farm in the Milk River Valley near Harlem. Juli began her new duties on June 1. She attended grade school in Zurich and graduated from Chinook High in 2000. She went on to earn an Associate's Degree in Agriculture Business from Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming and a Bachelor's Degree...
