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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...
Micah Conner, a nine-year old from Chinook, recently celebrated his birthday by making a donation to help dogs and cats in local animal shelters. His mom, Amy Gerky, said, "Micah did the same thing on his eighth birthday last year. We had just moved to Chinook and didn't yet know about PAWS so he gave his birthday donation to the Maclean Animal Adoption Center in Great Falls." This year he gave a donation to PAWS (Pets Are Worth Saving), in Chinook, as well as Maclean. PAWS shelters dogs, Maclea...
Bidders at the recent 2017 March Madness Calcutta spent a total of $23,707 to purchase 64 teams that will be bidding for the national college basketball championship. The tournament will conclude on Tuesday, April 6, when the championship game is played. In its seventh year, the Harlem-based Calcutta is sponsored by the local Civic Association. The annual event is the major fundraiser for the community group that uses its share of the proceeds for a number of projects in and around Harlem. Assoc...
Officials with the Harlem Golf Association say the Harlem Golf Course is in financial trouble. Association Treasurer Ralph Schneider said, "Our annual projected expenses, over the next five years, exceed our normal income by $20,000+ each year." He described fundraising plans that club officials hope will save the course that first opened in 1992. Outlining the financial challenge that must be met to open the course this spring, Schneider said, "We've projected income of about $47,000. That...
The following are excerpts from the official Chinook School Board Meeting held on February 14, 2017. For a complete transcript of the meeting please stop by the High School office. Old Business: 1. Updating Required School Board Policies (2nd Reading): Mr. Hannum having made revisions to the policies as pointed out at the January meeting, noted on the Policy Updates 2nd Reading attachment, recommends the Full board that they approve the policies 1310, 1521, 1610, 1700, 2105, 2171, 2310, 2311, 2333, 3123, 4310, 5222, 6210, 7330, 7515, 8205, 8420...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March, 2017 USDA announced that starting March 20, 2017, organic producers and handlers will be able to visit over 2,100 USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices to apply for federal reimbursement to assist with the cost of receiving and maintaining organic or transitional certification. USDA reimburses organic producers up to 75 percent of the cost of organic certification, but only about half of the nation’s organic operations currently participate in the program. Starting March 20, USDA will provide a uniform, s...
From the latest musical entertainment on television and in Nashville to pies and breads by some of the best bakers in the area, the Montana Seed Show provided plenty of fun, entertainment and activities for all ages. Despite a serious return of winter snow and wind, guests made the trek to the Harlem High School for the annual event. There was a wide array of commercial and non-commercial exhibitors, health screenings, lots of giveaway prizes, food and raffles of every color and stripe. Veering slightly from the normal dedication of the show...
Each year members of local ambulance crews review and practice their Mega Code skills. A Mega Code training session is designed to assure crew members can successfully aid and transport a heart attack victim. Recently Blaine County ambulance crews, along with invited medical providers from other local health care facilities, completed a five-hour review using a series of simulated situations to practice and hone their skills. About 30 people participated in the training. Dan Friede, Co-crew...
Thanks to memorial funds contributed by supporters, Sweet Memorial Nursing Home (SNH) is implementing some new therapies to help residents with memory issues and dementia. SNH Administrator Jenni Pula recently explained two new therapies supported by memorial funds and underway at the Chinook facility. Several employees just completed training to allow the local nursing home to become a Music and Memory Certified Care Organization. And a new blanket warmer is in use, with plans to add a second...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lowell Long, 406-357-2387 or e-mail: lowell.long@hotmail.com INDIANAPOLIS (March 13, 2017) – Military veterans in and around the greater Billings area are invited next week for a special service session hosted by The Montana American Legion at the Best Western Great Northern Hotel located at 1345 First Street in Havre. National and state teams from The American Legion will be in town to discuss veteran’s benefits and service to the community. All wartime veterans in these areas are invited to the post to lea...
Story submitted by, Greg Jergeson Blaine County Democratic Vice-Chair Carol Elliot led a delegation of Blaine County Democrats on March 5 to the State Democratic Convention where Rob Quist from Creston was chosen as the party's nominee for the vacant congressional seat in Montana. A special election will be held on May 25 to replace Congressman Ryan Zinke who resigned to accept appointment as the US Secretary of Interior. Joining Carol Elliot of Chinook at the convention were State...
The Aaniiih Nakoda College Library will be hosting the 10th Annual Spring Break Activities, March 21 through March 23. All presentations will take place at the Aaniiih Nakoda College Library, Multi-purpose Room. All presentations are free and open to anyone wishing to attend. Presentations this year are: Tuesday, March 21 - 1PM to 3 PM - Cindy Heppner will teach beading techniques. Tuesday, March 21 - 3 PM to 5 PM - Opportunity Link will be available to prepare taxes. It is recommended that people call 265-3699 and talk with Suzanne to set up...
Congratulations to Rita Richman! She is the lucky winner of our “Love Your Library” month drawing for Feb. The Harlem VFW has generously donated one free hour of bowling for Rita and guests. Thanks to everyone who took part in the Feb. activities including the Mardi Gras Fun Night. The next Learn at the Library program will be held Monday, March 20, 7 P.M when master gardener Hillary Maxwell will present the program “Be Fearless-Garden.” This program will feature information, tips, and encouragement to beginning gardeners and those interested i...
