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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...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Blaine County Rodeo Club is sponsoring the Blaine County Kids’ Rodeo for those 18 and under as part of the Blaine County Fair on Wednesday, July 4th at 1:00 p.m. Entries are due by June 25th. Entry forms can be picked up at the following businesses: E-Z Mart and Hair It Is in Harlem, The Journal and Bear Paw Livestock in Chinook, The Kwik Stop in Fort Belknap, Norman’s in Havre, Westside Self Service in Malta, and the Mountaineer in Big Sandy. A big THANK YOU to all these businesses. For further information call Cou...
With much reluctance and disappointment, the Montana Organic Association and Matt and Sonja Johnson have decided to cancel the farm tour planned at the Johnson Ranch in Hinsdale on July 24, 2018. The Johnsons were very excited to be hosting the tour but due to dry conditions this spring and an extremely dry season in 2017, it has been decided to post pone this event for a future year. MOA and the Johnsons are sorry for any inconvenience. Please consider attending the Organic Advisory and Education Council’s Organic Principles Review, July 1...
Marlane Wenzel began serving as the Director for the Chinook Senior Center on May 11. Wenzel, who grew up in Chinook, is a 1975 graduate of Chinook High ("The year we won the Class C Championship!"). She replaces Kristi Norby who served in the position for more than two years before opting to take on the role of "new grandma" for her and husband Scott's first grandchild. Marlane and her husband, Kent, moved to Minnesota in 1985 where he got his first job after graduating from North Dakota State...
