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As conditions deteriorate and drought expands across much of the Northern Plains, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is offering assistance to farmers and ranchers through numerous federal farm program provisions and continues to monitor the situation to ensure all viable program flexibilities are offered to producers. USDA’s Farm Service Agency announced that Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has authorized emergency haying on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) lands beginning July 16 through Aug. 30, 2017 for counties in Montana, N...
There is a stretch on the calender where communities all over Montana are provided an opportunity to be more socially active than the rest of the year. That stretch begins for those of us on the Hi-Line in mid July with the start of the Blaine County Fair followed by the Great Northern Fair in Havre, The Phillips County Fair in Dodson, The Montana State Fair in Great Falls and concluding with the Choteau County Fair in Fort Benton August 17-20. Small communities along the Hi-Line go all out...
USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) in Montana reminds producers affected by the recent drought that disaster assistance programs are available. As of July 13, 2017, the following 17 Montana counties have met the extreme drought (D3) criteria on the U.S. Drought Monitor and are eligible for disaster assistance programs: Blaine, Custer, Daniels, Dawson, Fallon, Fergus, Garfield, McCone, Petroleum, Phillips, Prairie, Richland, Roosevelt, Rosebud, Sheridan, Valley and Wibaux. These 17 Montana counties met qualifying drought ratings that ‘trigger’ eli...
In February, Governor Steve Bullock appointed me to the Montana Transportation Commission, representing Commission District #3. The three corners of the District are Blaine County in the northeast, Glacier County in the northwest, and Lewis & Clark County in the south. Since my appointment, I have been poring over data related to highway transportation throughout my district, the revenue availability to various kinds of highway projects, and the mounting needs for reconstruction, repair, and maintenance that exceed the current revenue stream....
BOZEMAN— Montana State University awarded 1,512 undergraduate degrees during MSU’s 2017 spring commencement ceremonies held May 6 in Brick Breeden Fieldhouse. Students with two asterisks after their name (**) graduated with highest honors. To graduate with highest honors, undergraduate students must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.70. Undergraduate students graduating with honors have a single asterisk (*) after their name. To qualify for graduation with honors, students must possess a cumulative grade point average of 3.2...
Helen and Jim Billmayer went to Nelson Reservoir on Wednesday and stopped back in Malta and had lunch with Linda and Bum Petrie. Susan and Emily Billmayer were to Malta on Saturday. Susan judged flowers at the flower show and Emily visited Kris Boothe. Annie and Matt Klindworth and family returned home Wednesday after a vacation to Washington to visit family and touring the area. Susan and Emily Billmayer went to the Blaine County Fair on Sunday and then Susan took Emily back to Havre. Sandy Beck was to Billings Tuesday for a Dr. appt and retur...
Remember that this coming Friday, July 21st, is the Annual Firemen picnic at the Turner Park. Potluck salads and desserts are asked and the main course will be served by our local Turner Firemen. The drawing for the half of beef will also take place. If you would like a ticket, please contact any Turner Volunteer Firemen. There is still time to purchase yours at $15.00 a ticket. Besides the firemen, tickets can also be purchased at Big Flat Grocery. Come help fill the boot and come have a great time at the park!! There will be a cereal plot...
Summer reading programs will meet for the final time the last week of July. Read-to-Me meets on Tues., July25 at 10 A.M. The Reading Club meets on Thurs., July 27 at 1 P.M. Children have until August 4 to bring in their reading logs. Grand prize winners will be announced the second week of August. Lego Club will continue to meet on Thursdays at 6 P.M. in August. The Letter by Letter game continues until the end of August. The regular meeting of the library board of trustees will be Friday, July 28, 9 A.M. in the library meeting room. Two new...
Thank You! Thank You! To Raye Thompson for the color books, markers and toothbrushes; To Helen Hornung for jigsaw puzzle; To the Helen Brekke families for the flower arrangement; To Jan Egeland for the radishes; To Mrs. Hofer for the buns; To Vonnie Klungland for the wafer cookies, small crockpot and veggie chopper; To Barb McDonald for the cases of water. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. ~ Abraham Lincoln When and Where: Havre Fair is this weekend. QTR Advisory Meeting...
We had a very large turnout at the annual meeting Friday. Rochelle Wohlschlager and Kathy O’Brien were elected to serve on the board again. The center has a new mission statement, “To provide identified needs of older patrons.” We will be striving to meet this goal in the incoming year. Thursday afternoon, we will have Bingo at 1 p.m. Last week, Gerry Lenhardt was the blackout winner. On Friday, “The Kitchen Band” will be playing at 11 a.m. Come down for lunch and play cards afterwards. Last week’s winners were Mike Randall and Leatrice Faber....
The LEGO Batman Movie will be the movie at 2:00 p.m. Monday July 24th. It is rated PG and is 104 minutes long. It will be the final movie for the summer. LEGO Club will be Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. and Middle School Hangout will be Thursday at 2:00 p.m. Next week will be the last week of our Summer Reading Programs. Kids can still read and put their name in for prizes until Friday August 4th. We will draw for prizes at 5:00 on Friday August 4th. Accelerated Reader tests will be available until...
In late June the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) issued a notice describing its plans to “repair/replace up to 37 culverts spanning about 24 miles of U.S Highway 2 east of Chinook in Blaine County.” The area of roadway involved begins at mile marker 404.0, just east of Chinook, and extends for 23.9 miles to marker 427.9, near the Milk River Bridge north of Fort Belknap. Greg Jergeson, a commissioner on the Montana Transportation Commission representing District 3 (an area from Phillips to Glacier County and south, including Gre...
The Japanese art of flower arranging, Ikebana, continues to bloom in Chinook and northeast Montana where Ikebana has been practiced for 60 years. Allie Marie Uyehara who is originally from Chinook, brought the art back from Japan in the 1950s, sharing with the local garden club the lessons she’d learned at the famed Sogetsu School of Ikebana. Ikebana International Chapter No.8 began in Chinook in 1957, and remains the only club of its kind in Montana today. Its principles are that of Sogetsu: anyone can arrange flowers, flower arrangements can...
The 2017 Blaine County Fair is history. In many ways weather was the 'fair story' with hotter than normal temps, a couple of days of serious wind, a "crash bang" storm with very little rain as a result, then one more relatively cooler day with a mild breeze, but still with temperatures in the mid-90's. Don Richman, Fair Board Chairman, described this year's edition of the fair as "the best ever!" It was a year of several new features, a return of many old favorites and some expressions of new...
Bareback Riding 1.) Troy Vaira, 76 points on Brookman Rodeo’s Montego Bay, $526; 2.) Hunter Carlson, 73, $395; 3.) Cavan Wrzesinski, 72, $263; 4.) Chase Redfield, 70, $132. Steer Wrestling 1.) Jordan Holland, 4.5 seconds, $978; 2.) Mike Gollaher, 4.9, $733; 3.) Hank Hollenbeck, 5.2, $489; 4.) Jabe Anderson, 5.3, $244. Team Roping 1.) Max Kuttler/Kory Mytty, 5.3 seconds, $1,005 each; 2.) Jason Carlson/Zachary Schweigert, 6.0, $832; 3.) Grady Branden/Quentin Branden, 6.9, $659; 4.) Chase MItchell/John Bell, 7.0, $485; 5.)Haven Meged/Hank H...
Mini (Ages 4-8) Goat Ribbon Tying 1.) Kruz Ereaux - Hays 2.) Ryan Bell - Chinook 3.) Gus Buck - Chinook Barrel Racing 1.) Hadley Not Afraid - Hays 2.) Hayden Strauser - Havre 3.) Kruz Ereaux - Hays Flag Racing 1.) Hadley Not Afraid - Hays 2.) Kruz Ereaux - Hays 3.) Ryan Bell - Chinook Sheep Riding 1.) Aspen Burchan - Chinook T2.) Wyatt Tallent - Chinook T2.) Ky’us Bradley - Harlem 3.) Killiam Liddle - Chinook Juniors (Ages 9-13) Barrel Racing 1.) Josie Robbins - Custer 2.) Savannah Jone - Harlem 3.) Kenzie Kallenberger - Havre Steer Riding 1...
Saturday and Sunday night at the Blaine County Fair is always a good time especially when you consider the Blaine County Showdown Demolition Derby takes center stage Saturday night and the ever popular Pig Wrestling concludes the fair Sunday evening. This year fairgoers enjoyed a number of great events and were treated to a trio of free concerts by Cale Moon following the Bear Paw Roundup Rodeo Thursday and Friday and the Derby Saturday. The Blaine County Showdown Derby is one of the biggest eve...
A typical warm and somewhat breezy July 4th made for good conditions for several local celebrations around Blaine County. There were family gatherings as well as more organized community-based events. In Chinook at mid-morning of the 4th, the 71st edition of the July 4th Races, put on by the VFW, did not disappoint. There was a good turnout as youngsters, and oldsters, battled for prize money and bragging rights. Local VFW Commander Ray Reid said he was pleased with the turnout and the weather....
A week before the Blaine County Fair kicked off, two 12 by 24 feet electronic sign boards were delivered and set up at each end of Chinook on Highway 2 (believe me, they are hard to miss). The signs are provided through support from the two Diamond level businesses that support the fair-Triple T Sales and Shipwheel Cattle Company. John Skoyen, Fair Board member who first floated the idea of using the signs, said, "This year we'll be using the signs to recognize the businesses and individuals who...
The 2017 edition of the Blaine County Fair opens today and runs this Wednesday through Sunday (July 16). The Kids' Rodeo kicks thing off, literally, at 5 pm at the grandstand arena at the fairgrounds. Other events fill virtually every day and evening until the final hurrah at 5 pm, on Sunday, with the Pig Wrestling event in front of the grandstand. Don Richman, Chairman of the Fair Board, said he believes, "This will be the biggest and best fair in several years." Citing the return of Cale...
When you ask the members of the Chinook High School Class of 1952 where the best place on earth is to grow up – the answer is a unanimous, Chinook, Montana. It is hard to believe that it has been 65 years since we crossed the stage in the high school auditorium proudly dressed in our caps and gowns and received our diplomas from Superintendent Walter Conway. His message to us was, "You have a long journey before you in this life. May it be a happy one." And for most of us our journey has been a...
The first weekend in July Fr. Felix Nayak celebrated mass with three congregations he served after first arriving in Montana from Orissa, India in June, 2012. He conducted mass at St. Gabriel's in Chinook, St. Thomas the Apostle in Harlem and St. Thomas Aquinas in Hogeland. They were his second good-bye masses as he had said his good-byes last September when he moved to Malta to take on new responsibilities at St. Paul's in Hays, St. Thomas in Lodge Pole and Sacred Heart at the Agency. In...
Loretta Zellmer visited with Darwin and Betty Zellmer in Harlem Monday. Richard Hopkins of Great Falls is spending some time at the Terry Mohar home helping with haying. Mary Ellen and Wane Deloach are back home on the farm working on house projects and visiting friends in the area. They spent the 4th of July at Nancy and Ralph Sniders. Welcome back Mary Ellen and Wayne. Guests 4th of July at Merrilyn Billmayers were Aimee and PJ Timmons and family, Miles and Linda Hutton and Lindsey, and Bobbie and Andrew Brekke. Cody Ballard spent a couple of...
Loretta Beck visited Shirley Keller on Tuesday. Independence Day visitors at the Max and Kirsti home were Jack and Carla Van Voast, Lenny Erickson, Glenna Ammen, Peggy and Francis Van Voast, Mark Van Voast, and Les Simons. Hilary Richman visited and had lunch with Maloney’s on Saturday while her girls were at the basketball camp. Bill and Mary Hake enjoyed having friends from Minnesota for a few days this past week. Condolences are extended to the Eleanor Harmon-Bickel family. Mrs. Harmon p...
New titles at the library include “Anything Is Possible” by Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Strout. This novel tells the story of a small-town and unforgettable characters who cope with love and loss. Tosca Lee has written “First Born,” the sequel to “The Progeny.” Luka is in the custody of the Historian with his time running out. Audra must save him by finding and killing the Historian and putting an end to the war between the Progeny and Scions. But she is on the run as an international fugitive and struggles to control her growing...
