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Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks is seeking public comment on a draft management plan for the Fresno Reservoir Wildlife Management Area (WMA). The comment period will run from March 29, 2017 through April 27, 2017. The Fresno Reservoir WMA is located in Hill County just upstream of Fresno Reservoir. The WMA is on Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) property, but is managed by FWP under a joint management agreement between FWP and BOR. The management plan identifies the objectives for wildlife habitat, weed management, infrastructure, and public...
By Steve Edwards BCJ News At its March meeting the Chinook-based Cancer Support Group heard an update on the upcoming Relay for Life event. Colleen Mulonet, one of three co-chairs for the new 2017 North Central Montana Relay, explained how Blaine and Hill Counties will combine their efforts for the June 23 event. The collaboration marks a new stage in how the American Cancer Society (ACS) will stage its main, annual fundraiser in this part of Montana. Each year the relay event will rotate its location. Mulonet said, “After a coin toss, the s...
If plans by the Chinook High Future Farmers chapter (FFA) work out, a community garden should be ready for this year's gardening season. CHS Vo-ag teacher Robin Allen said the garden spot, across Illinois street to the east of the high school, will have 26 raised beds, each 12 feet by 12 feet. There'll be a common shed for storing hand tools and water will be available. The FFA members plan to have plots available by May 1. A garden plot can be rented for $15 per season and garden season will ru...
The Blaine County Fair Foundation was incorporated the end of November, 2016. The Fair Board created the organization to accept gifts that could go directly to help with improvements to the fairground facilities. Dale Williams, a fair board member and architect of the foundation, said, "We incorporated the foundation the end of last year and recently received certification from the IRS as a 501(c)(3) organization." That allows donors to take an income tax deduction for a gift to the new...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 23, 2017 Montana’s Fish and Wildlife Commission, in a special teleconference meeting this week, approved new rules for boaters at Canyon Ferry and Tiber reservoirs. The rules are part of Montana’s response to the discovery of invasive mussel larvae last fall in Tiber Reservoir and a suspected sample from Canyon Ferry Reservoir. Approved on March 22, the rules require boaters to launch and exit Tiber and Canyon Ferry reservoirs at designated boat ramps, unless they are officially certified as local boaters by Monta...
The Chinook Post Office Staff would like to offer two very important suggestions to help guarantee the timely delivery of your tax returns. 1. Be sure you have adequate postage. Sate and Federal offices Do Not pay postage due! If you do not have the correct amount of postage your letter will be returned to you, providing you have a return address on your envelope. 2. Always place your return address in the upper left-hand corner of all material being mailed, including tax forms. Bring your forms to the post office window and we will weigh them...
(StatePoint) While each year millions in the U.S. are sickened during flu season, many can’t distinguish between symptoms of the seasonal strain of the flu, a cold and the “stomach flu.” Knowing the difference, and how to properly treat each virus, can speed recovery. Similar Yet Different While cold symptoms come on slowly and are limited to the head and upper respiratory system, flu symptoms affect the whole body and come on quickly. Telltale signs of the flu are fever and body aches. However, these are also symptoms of stomach flu, which...
The Blaine County Library Board of Trustees will hold their regular monthly meeting today at 11:00 a.m. in the library meeting room. “The Magic of Belle Island” will be the movie at 1:00 p.m. today. Morgan Freeman plays Monte Wildhorn, a famous Western novelist whose passion for writing hits an impasse. He takes a lakeside cabin for the summer in picturesque Belle Isle, befriending the family next door, an attractive single mom and her young daughters who help him find inspiration again. “Wish You Well” will be the movie next week. If anyone...
Have you read your four books for March as part of the 2017 Reading Challenge? Let the library know so we may enter your name into a drawing to win a gift certificate from a local business. Keep reading! Join us for the next Learn at the Library program on Monday, April 3, 7 P.M. when Deputy Sheriff Jim Beemer will give an informative and helpful presentation on self-defense. Everyone is welcome and refreshments will be served. Summer Reading is just a couple of months away. We have put together of list of supplies needed for our children’s p...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 27, 2017 Contact: Greg Lemon, 406-444-3051, glemon@mt.gov It’s time for landowners to enroll in the state-sponsored “Open Fields for Game Bird Hunters.” The voluntary program, offered through Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ Upland Game Bird Enhancement Program, is available to private landowners who have a minimum of two years left on their federal Conservation Reserve Program contract or are enrolling new lands into CRP. Nearly 60,000 acres have been enrolled in Open Fields since 2012. Participating landown...
Submitted by Jennifer Hellman The Chinook Area Chamber of Commerce held their monthly meeting at the Chamber office on main street March 9th, 2017 at 6:00pm. In attendance was Bonnie Weber, Mitzi Cecrle, Hayley Yost, Heather DePriest, Robert Kelley, Jennifer Hellman, and guest Clint Greytak. The minutes were read and approved by the board. New certificates for memberships have been finalized and will be sent out for our new members as they become available. The License plate fundraiser is on hold for the time being as there is a much higher...
FWP would like to remind folks to watch for deer (and other animals) on the road, especially during the early morning and early evening hours when both visibility is difficult and animals are sometimes more active. With the recent hour time change, many folks who are commuting are now an hour “forward” and may see more activity. As our deer numbers are continuing to make a comeback across the region, more and more animal-vehicle accidents are bound to occur. In addition, the spring “fawning” season is just around the corner, and deer are oft...
Students in grades 3-12 were recently invited to write Americanism essays for the American Legion Auxiliary, Post #109. Mrs. Brenda Mohar represented the Auxiliary recently to acknowledge their writing and show encouragement to continue writing. She also presented the top winners of the contest a certificate and monetary prize. Second place winners received a certificate. She spoke about how difficult it was judging these papers as each one is so unique in its own content and the Auxiliary just...
Interested in meeting Common Core ELA and Math standards and engaging your students in active learning while helping them understand the world around them? This workshop is for you. The workshop will take place at the Blaine County Museum, 501 Indiana St., Chinook, Montana on Tuesday April, 11 from 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. The morning will be spent on Visual Thinking Strategies, a technique that uses teacher-facilitated discussions of art images to train students in “key behaviors sought by Common Core Standards” (vtshome.org) and learning abo...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, March 22, 2017 – Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced additional steps to keep the food supply safe for American families in light of the recent investigations of Brazil’s meat industry. While none of the slaughter or processing facilities implicated in the Brazilian scandal have shipped meat products to the United States, FSIS immediately instituted additional pathogen testing of all shipments of raw beef and ready-to-eat products from Brazi...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 22, 2017 Contact: Bill Meyer (800) 392-3202USDA United States honey production in 2016 from producers with five or more colonies totaled 162 million pounds, up 3 percent from 2015. There were 2.78 million colonies from which honey was harvested in 2016, up 4 percent from 2015. Yield of honey harvested per colony averaged 58.3 pounds, down 1 percent from the 58.9 pounds in 2015. Colonies which produced honey in more than one State were counted in each State where the honey was produced. Therefore, at the United...
Eric Owens began his duties as Blaine County Deputy County Attorney on March 6. Owens is a native of Anchorage, Alaska and a 2015 graduate of the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana. He learned about the deputy's vacancy from Jordan Sabo, who previously held the position and was a friend from law school. Sabo is now living in the Bozeman area. Owens came to Montana to attend law school. After graduating from the U of M he returned to Alaska to find legal work. He sai...
When Montana’s sole U.S. Representative, Ryan Zinke, was appointed and confirmed as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, filling the vacated Congressional seat fell to the state political parties to select candidates and Montana’s 56 counties to fund the special federal election. The political parties have made their candidate selections, Governor Bullock has set the election for Thursday, May 25 and now the counties are preparing to hold the election. Back in mid-February a bill was introduced in the Montana Senate (SB 305) that would all...
A two-day instructor training to teach survival strategies for violent intruder or active shooter incidents was recently concluded in Chinook. The training opportunity, organized by the Blaine County Sheriff's Office, was presented by the ALICE Institute Training group. ALICE Institute has been conducting this type of training for more than 20 years. Blaine County Undersheriff Frank Billmayer said he thought the training was "great and very useful" and provided attendees with a lot of new...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tom Cook 406-444-1645 The Montana Historical Society is offering educators a free workshop on using Montana history to engage students in fun and interesting ways in other curriculums in the classroom. The workshops will be in April in Lewistown, Glasgow, Chinook, and Cut Bank and are open to teachers in surrounding areas. The free workshops also carry six OPI renewal units for teachers. The morning session involves “visual thinking strategies” using teacher led discussions of art images to teach ways to tea...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 17, 2017 CONTACT: Tom Palmer MusselResponse@mt.gov The Joint Mussel Response Implementation Team will host an open house at Montana WILD in Helena on March 27 to discuss the upcoming watercraft inspection season, new regulations, and local boater program certification. The event will focus on Montana’s plan to contain, detect and prevent the spread of invasive mussels and other aquatic invasive species. The open house will run from 6-9 p.m., with a Joint Mussel Response Team presentation set for 7 p.m. Local boa...
The Chinook Food Pantry exists to serve the residents of Blaine County. We are open every Tuesday from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Please remember that an ID is required for receiving food from the Chinook Food Pantry. An ID number is required for all individual members of the family household as well. 96% of our clients have presented ID numbers for all household members and it is only fair that everyone else honor those same guidelines. The Food Pantry’s General Guidelines are that food may be picked up once per calendar quarter (basically every t...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 14, 2017 Contact: Jonathan Moor 406-538-1943 jmoor@blm.gov (BLAINE COUNTY, Mont.) – The Ervin Homestead/Gist Bottom Historic District lies within the vast and isolated, but breathtakingly beautiful Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument. In 1997 Zane Fulbright was sent on a work detail from the U.S. Forest Service to record homesteads within the Bureau of Land Management Upper Missouri National Wild & Scenic River area. Twenty years later, on Jan. 20, 2017, he accepted the certificate recognizing the Ervin H...
"Extraordinary Measures" will be the movie at 1:00 p.m. today. "The Magic of Belle Island" will be the movie next week. If anyone has a request for a movie, please let us know or tell Kristi at the Senior Center. Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served. Story Time is Tuesday mornings at 10:30 a.m. Kids of all ages and abilities are welcome to attend. There will be no LEGO Club during the month of March. We have a number of books this week from some of our patron's favorite...
Visitors to the Chinook Pharmacy might have seen the new 'dime store horse' at the front of the store. The mechanical horse is a fairly recent acquisition by Kelcey Diemert, who owns and operates the pharmacy with wife Nancy. Kelcey said, "I saw this horse for sale online. I'd always wanted one of those old timey horses and ended up buying it." Anyone of a certain age will recall the coin-operated kiddie rides that stood out front many businesses in the 1950's and 60's. Rides came in many...
