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September is Library Card month. If you don’t have a library card stop by and we will register you for your very own card. All you need is a current photo I.D. and contact information. Book Club members may pick up their copy of “H Is for Hawk” by Helen Macdonald this week. The first discussion will be held Monday, September 11, 4 P.M. in the library meeting room. There will be NO Lego Club this week. Beginning September 14 Lego Club will meet on Thursdays at a new time: 4:30-5:30 P.M. The VHS tapes will be on sale through the month of Septe...
I’m hoping everyone had a safe Labor Day, especially with all the smoke outside and fires around the county. The Senior Trip is headed to Colorado and we wish them the best of luck! The movie showing this week in the Library Meeting Room is “Stand Your Ground” on Wednesday, Sept. 6 at 1 p.m. Drinks and popcorn will be provided. Next week’s movie is “A Dog’s Purpose.” Bingo is at 1 p.m. on Thursday. Virginia Olson was last week’s winner. The Kitchen Band will be playing on Friday starting at 11 a.m. Pinochle will be played at 1 p.m. Last week...
Susan Billmayer attended Ikebana meeting in Malta on Thursday. Loretta Beck attended the 3rd Annual Suicide Awareness Walk on Saturday. Cassidy and Holly Grabofsky went home with her afterwards and spent the night with Grandma and Grandpa Beck. Loretta and the girls enjoyed attending church together on Sunday morning. They spent the afternoon sewing together and helping Grandma do chores. They were awesome helpers! Wally and Loretta took the girls home that evening and enjoyed supper at the Mike Grabofsky home. Anita Reed took Jane and Harlan...
Max and Kirsti Cederberg enjoyed a visit from Tom Gill on Tuesday. He is from Evergreen, Colorado. Don and Bonnie Harmon went to Bozeman for the weekend to spend some time with Paula Harmon and Emily Cole. They stayed at Adam Cole’s home in Bozeman. Gerald and Shirley Keller were to Barb and Ted Crowley’s in the Bears Paw Mountains a couple times over the weekend to take food and help out during the time of fire. Shania Maloney was home for a couple days over the Labor Day weekend. Sam, Bryan, and Kase Bignell, Kass and Daryn Cederberg, Jam...
Reporter's note: Ed Obie, Chinook Airport Manager, called to tell me a group of planes would be landing the next day at the local airport. He said, "You might be interested in seeing these planes. There'll also be some students coming over from Meadowlark." Later, Blaine County Undersheriff Frank Billmayer told me one of the pilots was his dad, Jay. I'd talked to Jay when I was gathering information about the old Harlem stock car track. A trip to the airport would be fun to see the planes and...
Chinook Public Schools is off to a great start. Our enrollment numbers are 207 students in the elementary, 62 in the middle school and 107 in the High School. Over the last three years we have witnessed a drop of thirty students in the High School. We have had a small growth in the elementary which at this time is filled close to the maximum per class students that we can accommodate in some grade levels. Our staff turnover was very low from last year as we welcome one new teacher, Marcel Top Sky, in the art program and Krista Drugge in the Kit...
Montana Farm Service Agency (FSA) reminds farmers and ranchers of federal farm program benefits that may be available to help eligible producers recover from drought and fire. FSA offers disaster assistance and low-interest loan programs to assist agricultural producers in their recovery efforts during drought, fire or similar qualifying natural disasters. Available programs and loans include: Non-Insured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) - provides financial assistance to producers of non-insurable crops when low yields, loss of...
Proceeds from a "Ride-Fly-Drive Poker Run" generated 'just shy of $1,600' for the North Central Montana Relay for Life. Forty participants on motorcycles and in vehicles made the run that started and ended in Chinook with stops at Fort Belknap, Zortman and Malta. The ACS Relay for Life is the signature fund raising event by volunteers in 5200 communities and 20 countries around the world. John and Angie Hebbelman organized the local poker run and deemed it a "great success with a good turnout...
Eighteen members from the Chinook Senior Center made a visit last week to the North Harlem Colony. Eli Hofer, minister for the North Harlem Colony and clerk for the North Harlem Colony School, led the group on a tour of some of the facilities that make up the complex five miles north of Harlem on the highway to Turner. Eli's daughter-in-law, Gail, also helped guide and answer the guests' questions. The 45 people who live at the community are Hutterites, a branch of the Anabaptist movement that b...
Walk-in donors will be accepted from 12:30 P.M. - 1 P.M. Story submitted by, Carla Jenewein THE RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE is Tuesday, September 12th in Chinook at Wallner Hall. The Red Cross will be accepting walk-ins only from 12:30PM-1:00PM Appointments and walk-ins will be accepted between 1:00PM and 6:00PM. Appointments are highly encouraged by the American Red Cross. So, if you have not made an appointment you can go on-line at redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-733-2767 (1-800-REDCROSS). Any healthy person age 18 (or age 16 or 17 with a signed p...
These kids didn't waste anytime picking up were they left off in May as they prepare for their first day of school in a new grade. Students K-12 reported for school last week and we remind those to be on the lookout for children as they pass by schools and remember to stop when the School Bus does while on their routes....
Volunteering your time and effort to help others is a fantastic thing to do no matter how old you are but is always refreshing when it is a young person recognizing and wanting to do something to help his or her community. Chinook sixth grader Clara Laird is one such person. The energetic 11 year old first began thinking about wanting to volunteer somewhere way back in fifth grade as the school year began to wind down. "I just thought that their had to be something that somebody my age could do...
Kathy Creighton Smith, Chinook, Montana; and Klinton Swanson, Chinook, Montana have been elected as a delegates to the 134rd Annual American Angus Association® Convention of Delegates, Nov. 6 at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas, reports Allen Moczygemba, CEO of the American Angus Association. Gavin Maloney, Turner, Montana; Marvin Cross, Chinook, Montana; Jeff Nissen, Chinook, Montana; Kelly McCracken, Turner, Montana all have been elected as alternate delegates to the Annual Convention. All are members of the American...
The August 20th meeting was held at the Chinook Library meeting room and called to order by Raynee Hasler. The Valley Clover Club was active and involved this summer. Many reports were given. Hannah Schoen and Kourtney Hanson reported that the yearly 4-H camp held at Camp Kiwanis in Beaver Creek Park south of Chinook was well attended. Hill County joined in on all the fun this year too. One hundred nineteen children participated and enjoyed all the super fun activities. They did fun crafts like...
Acting President, Britton Elliot, called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. on August 17, 2017 at the Meadowlark School Cafeteria. Jenni Mord led the American Pledge and Ethan Klingaman led the 4-H Pledge. Roll Call was taken by Secretary Amanda Mord. Minutes of the June 15th meeting were read and approved. No Treasurer's Report was available. 4-H Record books were turned in and White Pine 4-H Stall signs were turned in. A motion was made by Charley Buck to adjourn our meeting and seconded by Lori Mord. Motion carried. Emma Klingaman presented...
Rose Noel, complete with party hat, is pictured holding up a "Grizz" steering wheel cover she received as a gift during her recent retirement party at the Harlem Senior Center. Rose began cooking at the center two days a week in 2012, then cooked six days a week for a 10 month stretch and has filled in for periods when a permanent cook was sought. For three years she cooked the Harlem Center's Sunday Community Meal, a once-a-month event open to the community. She vowed to retire when she turned...
The Chinook Area Chamber of Commerce held their monthly meeting at the Chamber office on main street August 10th, 2017 at 6:15 p.m. Our last Training workshop was held August 15th at the Chamber office on Main Street. Heather DePriest with Montana Grafix discussed Social Media, and taught the basics of Facebook pages and how it can benefit your business. Did you know that when you shop LOCAL, you have helped the environment? Buying from a local Business conserves energy and resources in the form of less fuel for transportation, less packaging,...
Last weekend, Max and Kirsti Cederberg went to Great Falls and took Nellie Cederberg to lunch. Susan Fox attended a DCCW Board Meeting in Billings this weekend. Denise and A.J. Watkins took Rennay to Missoula where she begins college soon. The kids at Turner School have a full week of school in. Best of luck to them as they begin their routines and sports. Brooke Reed, and the Wildcat Volleyball team, participated in an all day volleyball tournament in Malta this past Saturday. If you get a...
If you have participated in the Letter by Letter game this summer you have until tomorrow, Aug. 31, to let the library know what books you have read so you may be entered in the drawing to win a $50 gift card. Please notify the library if you have read four books this month as part of the 2017 Reading Challenge. After the busy summer it's time to get back into the swing of things and start reading again. You may win a gift certificate from a local business! The library will be closed for Labor...
It is hard to believe it is already September and the days are starting to get cooler. The new calendars are out, so you can pick one up. We have added movies back into the fall schedule. They will be shown in the library meeting room every Wednesday starting on Sept. 6 with “Stand Your Ground.” Last Friday, Mary Pyette, Joyce McSloy, Marilyn Williamson, Judy Chapman, Elisabeth O’Brien and I went to the Sweet Home to host the August birthday party. We enjoyed the residents, the cake and especially the music from our own Kitchen Band. Thank...
The Blaine County Library Board of Trustees will hold their regular monthly meeting Wednesday August 30, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. in the library meeting room. We have a little bit of everything available this week. Filled with heartbreak and betrayal, triumph and fulfillment, “The Right Time” by Danielle Steel is an intimate, richly rewarding novel about pursuing one’s passion and succeeding beyond one’s wildest dreams. “Need to Know” by Fern Michaels is a new Sisterhood novel. Through all their missions and adventures, the tightknit group of fr...
Thank you to the family of Teonna Green for the bouquets of flowers and the memorial funds to the Harlem Senior Center; To Rhonda Baker for the fresh corn on the cob; To Phillip Hofer for the cucumbers; To Phyllis Heilig for the cucumbers; To Raye Thompson for the card shuffler machine. The winner of the May-June-July-August Foot Clinic Drawing to receive a free treatment on their next visit was Mary Hake. Reminders for Activities and Events! Foot Nurse will be here on Friday, Sept. 1 (due to Labor Day). Bus Trip to Colorado Springs, Sun.,...
If all goes as planned, the northwest corner of the property around the Chinook Post Office should have "a bit more aesthetic appeal" according to AgEd teacher Robin Allen. She's directing the work of 30+ students in the Exploratory Agriculture course she teaches for seventh and eighth graders. Using a grant from the Montana Future Farmers of America (FFA) Foundation the students are building a low maintenance rock garden in the area around the flag pole at the post office. The FFA chapter at Ch...
CHINOOK, MT. August 24, 2017 – Sweet Medical Center (SMC) is a partner in the Benefis Realizing Education And Community Health (REACH) Telehealth Network. This network consists of 14 hospitals and clinics across Central and Northcentral Montana. From the hub site at Benefis Health System in Great Falls, REACH connects with facilities throughout the state and across the United States through a secured network, eliminating the challenge of distance, while facilitating productive medical consultations and educational seminars. A variety of p...
Marko Manoukian is the County Agent for Phillips County's Extension Service. He was one of the original members of the St Mary's Working Group, first convened in 2002. He became Co-Chair of the group when Blaine County's Randy Reed passed. Summarizing the work of the working group, he said, "We've been chipping away at the rehabilitation of the St. Mary's Conveyance and the Milk River System Irrigation Project. No big pieces have fallen off yet." On August 14 and 15 the St. Mary Rehabilitation...
