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The Summer Reading Program is in full swing. A big shout out to our helpers last week. Patty Hall, Erica Smith, and Jill Paulsen, as well as all the parents and childcare givers who helped out. We couldn't have done it without you! Our first Summer Reading program was all about worms. The kids got to examine their worms and then we had worm races, which was really exciting! We have a worm composting system set up in the library and we will be making compost all summer. We should have compost by...
Happy Flag Day on Wednesday to everyone! Did you know… Woodrow Wilson established June 14th as Flag Day in 1916, but it wasn’t until August of 1949 that Congress officially established Flag Day. Only the president, state governors and the mayor of Washington DC have the authority to order American flags to be flown at half-staff. There are 6 American flags on the moon. Montana Senior Olympics will be held June 15-17 in Polson, Pablo & Ronan. Any individual age 50 or older may participate in archery, basketball, cycling, golf, racquetball, hor...
The Chinook Senior Center is proud to announce that Art Kleinjan was voted “Senior of the Year.” Congratulations, Art! Whist is scheduled for Wednesday, June 14 at 1 p.m. Thursday morning is the Strong People exercise class at 10:30 a.m. and then we have Bingo at 1 p.m. Our winner last week was Francis Ewing. Friday, June 16, will be our Father’s Day celebration with a roast beef lunch. Don’t forget, meal cards make great presents for Father’s Day. The Kitchen Band will be playing and Pinochle is scheduled for the afternoon. Last week’s Pi...
Whether you’re tying on a salmonfly or threading a night crawler onto a hook, on Saturday and Sunday, everyone in Montana can fish for free. “Montana is home to some of the finest fishing anywhere in the world. It’ll be a great chance to get your family outside.” said Martha Williams, director of Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks in Helena. While the promotion allows anyone to fish without a license on June 17-18, all other fishing rules and regulations are in effect and must be followed. Williams encourages all would-be anglers to be aware o...
Independence Bank is pleased to announce the recipients of the Independence Bank New Student Scholarship the 2016-2017 academic year. All of the students will be attending Montana State University-Northern and will receive a $1000 scholarship during their freshman year. April Balek is graduating from Chouteau High School and is planning to major in Criminal Justice. Her parents are Robbie and Pamela Balek of Chouteau. Brooke Elliot is graduating from Chinook High School and plans to pursue a...
3th Grade Erika Anderson Shiloh Brewer Rochelle Chaffin Sydney Chaffin Katelyn Copenhaver Brooke Elliot Kyler Johnson Kelsey Mathon Nicole McCracken Taylor Neibauer Paul Niederegger Rio Overcast Kassidy Popchoke Kylie Popchoke Trevor Reid Wade Schneider Alexis Warburton Casey Young Bailey Zumbrun 11th Grade Erika Arnold Chelsie Fox Carrie Hofer Tamer Jamieson Heaven LaForge Hailey McMaster Brandon Morneau Megan Pruttis Erin Pula Jamie Roth Sierra Swank 10th Grade Brendan Edwards Cristen Friede Larissa Getten Rachel Gunderson Trajan Hannum...
3th Grade Kade Friede Kyle McMaster Franklin NezPerce Christian Quincy Talia Sharples Michael Warburton 11th Grade Jaye Anderson Caleb Dumas Garrett Lowham Rylan Mitchell Steven Mulonet 10th Grade Christopher Barfett James Christensen Cord Schneider Cristina Shackelford 9th Grade Joshua Gillett Allyssa Gruszie Sally Halingstad Jasmine Klingaman Hunter Neibauer Ella Sharples 8th Grade Ethan Bell Benton Elliot Erik Pula 7th Grade Drake Berreth Braden Eoff Kyleigh Knight Stacie Liddle Leonard McKee Tylie Richman Gemma Sharples...
The Chinook Chamber schedules its monthly Business After Hours on the first Thursday of the month. June's featured business was the Sweet Medical Center, which had its event set for 6-8pm, the normal time for the after hours gathering. The Blaine County Wildlife Museum scheduled the first public viewing of the new Foothills Exhibit, inadvertently, on the same night, from 7-9pm. The museum board wanted to make sure the Acorn Exhibits principals, who finished the exhibit, would still be in town....
Records, as they say are meant to be broken and all eventually will but there can only be one 'First' and Turner junior Eddie Harmon was the Tornadoes 'First' State Champion in track and Field. Eddie won the Class C Boys 800 Meter Run at State Track and Field Meet in Laurel on Friday, May 26 with a time of 1:59.33. Harmon's State C effort was impressive, it was an exciting race that was won in the final meters and was also the schools first sub two minute 800 Meter race, but his accomplishment...
On Memorial Day a group of Boy Scouts held a 'retirement ceremony' for 125+ U.S. flags that were no longer serviceable. The ceremony was part of an Eagle Scout project designed and carried out by Kougar Lanier. His idea for an Eagle project that would gather used flags to be "destroyed in a dignified way" was in large part based on inquiries from citizens to Scout troops about retiring flags. Lanier said, "I discovered there was no regular, ongoing process to retire U.S. flags." Lanier...
MISSOULA – At the University of Montana, 2,743 students made the spring semester 2017 Dean’s List and President’s 4.0 List. To qualify for the Dean’s List or President’s 4.0 List, students must be undergraduates, earn a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher and receive grades of A or B in at least nine credits. Students who receive any grade of C+ or below or no credit (NC/NCR) in a course are not eligible. The Montana students listed below made UM’s spring semester 2017 Dean’s List or the President’s 4.0 List. Double asterisks after a name indicate t...
Meadowlark Elementary Principal Jon Martin gave the signal for the assembled students to quiet down, but there was still an undercurrent of excitement on the last day of school. It was Awards Day and students would be recognized for superior attendance, completing an online course to learn about managing money, being good citizens and reading achievements. Sixth graders, who would be moving on to junior high next fall, got a sendoff from their fellow students with a song, cheers and high-fives....
Don't miss Clifford the Big Red Dog who will be a special guest at the library on Monday, June 12, 1 P.M. This event is sponsored by PBS Montana and is a family friendly event. There will be activity stations and opportunities to have photos with everybody's favorite big red dog! This will replace the usual summer programs for that week. There is still time to sign up for summer reading. Children preschool through grade six are invited to participate. Stop by the library, call 353-2712, or you...
The Summer Reading Program has officially begun! Join us today at 2:00 p.m. for Clifford the Big Red Dog! There will be stories and activities and kids can get their picture taken with Clifford. This presentation is brought to us by PBS Montana. Mondays we will have Beat the Heat Family Movie at 2:00 p.m. Children under 5 are welcome to come to the movies, but they must be accompanied by an adult. We're excited to introduce a Summer Storytime Tuesday mornings from 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. The...
The Chinook Golf and Country Club will be hosting a dinner this Friday at the Chinook Eagles Club in an effort to raise funds for the course to be used for general maintenance and upkeep. Club board members have expressed the possibility of hosting multiple dinners over the summer to help the club rebound from a spring that saw flood damage result in the loss of the main water pump. In addition the course needs fertilizer, sand, tools, and many other things to make the course presentable to the...
The 2016-2017 Awards ceremony was held this past Monday evening in the school gymnasium. Junior and Senior High students along with their parents were in attendance along with school staff. A welcome was done by Student Council President, Ella Billmayer. Dessert and beverages were served to the group before extra curricular awards were announced. Mr. Russ McKenna presented the Academic All State awards. Those receiving an award for basketball were Ella Billmayer, Sarah Billmayer, Raegan Conlan,...
Michael "Donnie" Hutton was honored at a reception after school one day this week. A lovely cake was baked and decorated by co-worker, Michelle Keller, as well as coffee. Donnie has been at Turner High School for the past two years teaching Science. He will be retreating to ponds filled with trout and spoiling grandbabies! Congratulations on your retirement and best wishes as you move away from Turner....
Thursday, May 11th, found Harlem Elementary staff and students raring to go in anticipation of their favorite day of the school year, Track & Field Day! Each student and staff member quickly donned their 'color-coded by grade' t-shirts, compliments of JOM, and made their way down to the high school track. After forming a huge 2017 to thank JOM for their support, the games were ready to begin! Every student, kindergarten through 6th grade, chose three events in which to participate. Between all...
Reporter/grandfather's note: Many readers met our granddaughter, Kayla, who spent a couple of months living with us in the spring of 2015. Kayla has epilepsy and was recovering from a seizure while at college, that required her being flown from Pullman, Washington to Seattle for treatment. She was forced to withdraw from college for the semester while recuperating. While with us she worked some for the school system as a sub and did some writing for the "Journal." (she's studying communications...
A chance comment by a customer to a local merchant eventually resulted in a patented product now being used at Sweet Nursing Home in Chinook. Kelcey Diemert, a local pharmacist, said, "About 17 years ago Russell Benson came into the pharmacy and said, "I was just visiting some of my buddies at the nursing home. They were all rocking away in their wheelchairs but weren't going any place. You should invent a wheelchair that rocks." Diemert shared the idea with John Iverson, a classmate when the...
Voters headed to the polls on Thursday, May 25 to fill the congressional vacancy left by President Trumps appointment of former Congressmen Ryan Zinke as Secretary of the Interior. The Special Election included three names on the ballot: Republican, Greg Gianforte, Democrat Rob Quist and Libertarian Mark Wicks. Gianforte won the election with 50% of the vote (189,473), while Quist was second with 44% (166,483) and Wicks third with 6% (21,509). In Blaine County Quist claimed victory receiving 928 votes or 49% to Gianfortes 43% (819) and Wicks...
The public is invited to a preview of the recently completed Foothills Exhibit at the Blaine County Wildlife Museum on the evening of Thursday, June 1 from 7-9 pm. Museum Manager Tammy Edwards said the event is the opening day for the museum's summer season that runs through the end of August. She added, "There will be no charge for that evening and this will replace the regular free admission Saturday held each June." Kurt Wohnsen and Liz Marshall, the owners and operators of Acorn Exhibits,...
Now in its seventh summer Loaves and Fishes, the ecumenical summer feeding program in Chinook, has taken on a fairly defined way of operating. Josh Seymour, pastor at Chinook Assembly, is the President of a recently created Board of Directors to oversee the program. He said, "Loaves and Fishes has evolved to a level where it has a regularized way of feeding and teaching local children. But there will also be some new things that we hope will improve the program." Loaves and Fishes was created...
Flowers will be beautifying our main street in the coming weeks and we have the Jumping Juniper Garden club to thank for this. We truly appreciate their helping to make our streets a little more lively! We are in the planning phases of this year’s Blaine County Farmer/Rancher night - Appreciating Agricultural customers. If anyone would like to become more involved with the planning of this event we are welcoming you to contact us at info@chinookmontana.com. The Sweet park equipment will be undergoing changes in the upcoming months; we are w...
On May 9, 2017, the parents, community, and the school board was treated to an unbelievable treat as the first Hays – Lodge Pole High School Band performed for the first time in eight years! Starting band just this year on Jan. 15, 2017, the talented students accomplished with excellence a full thirty minute concert, in just seventeen weeks of preparation. The success is due “ to intelligence, talent and a true love of music!” so says Band Director Steinhardt. Taking the stage in their Sunday best, the band played everything from Classical to J...
