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On December 16 Governor Steve Bullock announced that Lake and Hill Counties were designated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as primary natural disaster areas due to extreme weather and drought conditions. Because contiguous counties to a declared natural disaster county also are affected, Blaine County ranchers and farmers may be eligible for help for lost production. Earlier in the month there was another declaration of a physical disaster that affected Blaine County. This declaration applies only to physical damage to buildings...
The Alliance Church will be hosting the Chinook Area Chamber's first Business After Hours event of the new year. The Alliance Church, located at the corner of Highway 2 and Indiana Street, moved in to an additional facility last fall. Pastor Dennis Findorff said, "Our congregation has been wanting to have an open house to let locals see our new Sunday school and office facility. The Business After Hours seemed like a good way to introduce the community to The Annex." The Annex is located at the...
There will be basketball games this weekend. On Friday Hays will be playing the Tornadoes in Turner. Game times are 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Then the Tornadoes travel to Chinook where they will play on the Sugarbeeter floor on Saturday. Game times are at 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. On Wednesday, January 13 there will be a spelling bee at the school for grades 5-8. Ron and Susan Fox attended the New Year’s Eve party at the Old Gym on Thursday. Dwight and Alice Hauge visited Linda and Darel Hauge on Saturday. Don and Val Van Voast attended the New Y...
On Monday, Dec. 28, Loretta and Wally Beck went to Great Falls for medical appointments. They also took Laura Sherwood out for lunch in honor of her birthday. On the way home they visited Darwin, Betty and Keith Zellmer in Harlem. Meagan Wilkenson and Eric Billmayer were dinner guests on New Year’s Day at Gene and Susan Billmayers. Teresa and Dave Cornell had supper Wednesday nightt with Dalton, Alyssa and Danial in Billings. Dusty and Misty Mohar and son Colter were out Saturday to Brenda and Terry Mohars to visit. Landon Beck and a friend w...
Four individuals were charged in Hill County Justice Court for violations that resulted in the killing of eight buck deer in Hill County in Sept. and Oct. of this year. Elisha Rulison, 21, of Plains, and Tyler Adams, 20, of Havre, plead guilty to multiple counts of unlawful possession of a game animal, unlawful hunting from a public road, hunting during a closed season, unlawful use of artificial light while hunting and a single count of killing an over limit of a game animal. Janelle Baird,...
Chinook Public Schools and all of its schools are engaged in an ongoing continuous improvement process, of which all stakeholders are an integral part. Chinook Public Schools is using the AdvancED Parent Survey as a means to elicit your opinions to help target areas for the school system to improve and areas to continue to be effective. The five sections on the survey represent the five AdvancED Standards for Quality School Systems and provide a means for learning about parent expectations of a high-quality school system. Soon you will receive...
The Commencement Ceremony for Class 33, Montana Youth Challenge Academy was held on Saturday, Dec. 19 in the Straugh Gymnasium on the campus of the University of Montana Western in Dillon, MT. Seventy four cadets, including Lawrence Gardipee, of Harlem, graduated during the formal two-hour ceremony. The keynote speaker during the ceremony was Governor Steve Bullock. Other distinguished guests and speakers included former Navy Seal and 2005 MYCA graduate, Cadet Bo Reichenbach, Major General Matthew Quinn, The Adjutant General, Montana National...
Kayla Hanson was named to the fall semester Dean’s List at the University of Mary, in Bismarck. To qualify for the honor, traditional undergraduate students must earn a 3.50 or better grade point average while carrying at least 12 credit hours. Students enrolled in University of Mary’s Worldwide program must earn a 3.50 or better grade point average while at a full-time adult learner status....
My Student in Need, a division of My Neighbor in Need, has created a new logo and has revised and launched a new website. “Updating the My Student in Need website and logo to partner with the My Neighbor in Need website, positions the organization to meet continuing requests for growth,” said Kim Wombolt, Executive Director. As of the 2015, Christmas Break, My Student in Need was operating in 72 schools and had completed 1,325 need fulfillments since it launched on September 17, 2013. My Student in Need is the creation of Great Falls res...
Major projects by local governments to a late July rain helped define the county's news stories for 2015. Activities to preserve native languages produced stories of local efforts to influence state policies and new efforts to preserve native cultures. And stories that reflected the close-knit nature of our communities on the prairie shaped the news for this year. Here are some of the news stories that shaped our lives during the past year. Government actions at all levels Late November Blaine...
It certainly was a "White Christmas" all throughout Blaine County as those venturing outside Christmas morning were greeted by an astonishing, fantasy-like wonderland of frost that made everything from tree branches to electrical wires, fence posts and buildings sparkle in a way not normally seen. This barn is just past the spring on Cleveland Road....
Reporter's note: The Chinook Area Chamber holds an informal competition each year to select the best Christmas yard light display. In an email to the "Journal," Chamber President Heather DePriest listed the three top displays and noted, "The competition has no prizes, just bragging rights." And she thanked all the local residents who put up some fantastic decorations this year, that help make the season just a little more festive. First place went to Ken and Teri Pelesky, whose house is on the...
A crane from Baltrusch Construction, in Havre, had to be called to move a semi-tractor and trailer crash last week at the drainage near the Red Rock Creek Bridge west of Chinook on Highway 2. The crash occurred about 2:45 p.m. on Wednesday, December 16. The truck caught the guardrail and skidded off the highway. The tractor and trailer remained connected with the trailer still on the highway and the tractor dangling off the road. Ace Towing, also from Havre, assisted with the separation of the...
Sarah Gone joined the Bear Paw Battlefield Park staff in September, 2015. No stranger to the park, the Fort Belknap woman worked with the National Park Service each summer while a college student, from 2008-2012. Now she’s back and trying to determine a new direction, having completed law school at the University of Montana last spring. She is preparing to sit for the bar exam this coming February. Gone graduated from Harlem High School in 2007. She went on to complete two bachelor’s degrees, at U of M, one in sociology, with an emphasis in cri...
The Blaine County DUI Task Force is sponsoring a bus service in the Fort Belknap and Harlem area and a ride home service in Chinook during the upcoming New Year’s holidays. Be responsible during the holidays, take the bus or call for a ride. In the Fort Belknap and Harlem area, a bus will leave Fort Belknap Casino for Harlem at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. and return from Harlem VFW at 12:30 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. In Chinook, rides will be available from 10 p.m. until 2 a.m. on New Year’s Day. Call 357-3260 for a ride within a five mile radius of the tow...
The library will be open Thursday, December 24 from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. We will be closed Friday, December 25 in observance of Christmas. Next week we will have the same hours for the New Year's Holiday; open Thursday, December 31 from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. and closed Friday, January 1. The Blaine County Library Board of Trustees will hold their regular monthly meeting Wednesday, December 30 at 2 p.m. in the library meeting room. Story Time is Tuesday mornings at 10:30 a.m. All kids are welcome...
A wind driven wildfire burned about 1,000 acres east of the Fort Belknap Agency last Wednesday afternoon and evening. According to Byard Lame Bull, Fort Belknap's Acting Fire Management Officer, the fire began about 2:30 p.m. and winds gusting to 60 miles per hour eventually created a fire five to six miles long and a mile wide in some areas. Lame Bull said in a midmorning phone interview on Thursday, "We are doing mop up operations and the fire is 95 percent contained. A few cottonwoods and...
Mayor William Taylor presided over the Harlem City Council December meeting held on Friday afternoon, December 11. Council members present were Kim Hansen, Ralph Schneider and Marc Arensmeyer. Council member Eva English was absent. City Clerk Rebecca Skoyen and Public Utilities Supervisor Richard Mohar were present. Mayor Taylor with approval from council changed the agenda to allow Fred Phillips, an engineer with Great West Engineering, to present a progress report on Harlem’s wastewater system improvements. Prior to the regular council m...
The Blaine County DUI Task Force is tasked with “reducing the number of impaired drivers, crashes, injuries and deaths related to drug and alcohol use and motor vehicles.” The Task Force was recently rejuvenated and new leaders and task force members are taking their charge to reduce traffic deaths seriously. They’re using two traffic safety programs on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day to reduce deaths on the highway from drunk and impaired drivers. Some sobering numbers about the New Year’s holidays Experts say, technically, New Year’s Eve...
The Lloyada Ladies met on November 6, 2015 at the Motor Inn for a No-Host Luncheon. Hosts Barb Swenson and Colette Olson had pumpkin pie served after the meal. The membership discussed the Sugarbeet Festival and the float they had in the parade entitled “Communications, You’ve Come Along Way Baby.” The group had a planning meeting on September 14, and on September 23 decorated the float for the parade on September 26. For new business the membership decided to make a “gift basket” for the Festival of Trees held during the Parade of Lights. M...
Chairperson Miller called the meeting to order. Board members present were Travis Buck, Scott Gunderson, James Hodgson, Ernest Johnson, Pauly Miller, Joel Pruttis, Keith Raty and Viki Tilleman. Absent was Michael Copenhaver (Excused). Miller welcomed visitors. Elizabeth Hodgson, Student Council President reported: a recycling project that will be in place January 1; a Red Cross Blood Drive is set for January 5th; and the National Honor Society will be wrapping gifts for the Angel Tree. Student Council will sponsor Movie Day for December 18th. S...
The final results are in at Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Havre check station for the 2015 hunting season. The check station was open from Oct. 10 (the open of general antelope) through Nov. 29 (the end of the big game season). In general, both hunter numbers and big-game harvest increased from last year. Hunter numbers were up 12% from 2014, but are still down 18% from long-term average. “Weather conditions this year were mostly warm and dry, which may have helped increase hunter participation from last year,” said Havre-area biologist Sco...
