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National Volunteer Week is traditionally celebrated the third week in April. It’s a week when the country’s 60 million volunteers who volunteer 4.18 billion hours of service are officially recognized. Senior Center Director Ginger Hansen, who joined the Center only a few months ago, decided to celebrate the Center’s volunteers a bit early this year. She planned and held a special event for the Center’s volunteers in early October. Hansen explained, “Volunteers assure the Center is able to contin...
Sweet Home is holding a benefit fundraiser for long time employee, Jeannie Madril, this Friday at the Eagles in Chinook. Jeannie has recently experienced some major health issue and the money raised will go to her to help with expenses. The benefit will get started at 5:30 pm at the Chinook Eagles. Dinner will be served featuring taco soup and cornbread or traveling tacos with all the fixings. The dinner will be a free-will donation. There will also be a 50/50, random drawings and a variety of...
Wanda Bushman of Malta, formerly of Harlem, has begun a battle with stage 1 lobular carcinoma, a form of breast cancer. Wanda worked at the Harlem Elementary School for many years and is the office manager of the Phillips County news in Malta. She is mother of six adults, and grandmother of six grandchildren and two step-grandchildren. Wanda had a mammogram in June of 2023 which was an abnormal mammogram, from there a biopsy had detected the cancer. Wanda will have a lumpectomy with partial...
Flu Season Flu season is here, which means if you haven’t gotten your flu shot yet it would be a good idea to go and get it. There are four different strands of the flu virus: A,B,C, and D. According to the Centers for disease control and prevention (CDC) “Influenza A and B cause seasonal epidemics of disease in people (known as flu season) almost every winter in the United States”. Virus C infections don’t cause epidemics like A and B do but do generally cause mild illness, as for influen...
Thirteen members of the Chinook Chapter of the FFA attended Fall Districts in Lewistown on October 3 when eighteen teams from across Montana competed in Livestock Judging and Horse Evaluation. Based on their performance scores, the Chinook Chapter will be sending two teams to State FFA competition this spring. The Livestock Judging team from Chinook was comprised of Wylee Simenson, Wacee Simenson, Brockton Elliot, Ashlyn Hofeldt, Wesson Scovel, Ben Hofeldt, Lane Wicks, and Tucker Crawford. Altho...
On October 12, seven seniors from Chinook High School attended the MSU-Northern TekNoXpo & ShowCASE held in the Armory Gymnasium. With TekNoXpo, Montana high school students get the opportunity to explore their educational and career opportunities through MSU-Northern. According to event organizers, the TekNoXpo & ShowCASE is intended to introduce high school students to all that Northern has to offer in academic programs. These range from graphic design projects, to diesel equipment operation, to interacting with livestock, and even working...
Friend of the Pool & Park The Friends of the Pool and Park Foundation would like to invite people from across the Hi-Line to their upcoming fundraiser to help fund necessary improvements to the Pool and Park Complex in Chinook. The 2nd Annual Jean's Bakery Cheeseburger Soup Fundraiser will be held at Wallner Hall in Chinook on Friday, November 24th, 2023. This annual event was started in 2022 as a donation from Jean Kokkeler and the Nemetz Family as a way to help fundraise for the Pool and Park...
Harlem Elementary is proud to announce the following students as the September/October ROARing Students of the Month. Hats off to the first two sets of ROARing Students of the 2023-2024 school year! These wonderful Lil' Wildcats are Respectful, Organized, Always safe and Responsible, and have earned their places on the Rockin' ROAR Roster....
The Chinook volunteer fire department started in 1904 and is still going strong! They cover roughly 2,056 areas from the Canadian border, to Zurich, the Hill County line, and all the way to the Missouri river. They currently have 15 active members and 2 reserve members on the crew. The number for a full company is 28. The gap in those numbers may not seem that big but when majority of your crew work out of town during the week or when they have kids and can't find a sitter right away that makes...
Virginia Olson was back in Chinook from Great Falls after attending the annual Montana Governor's Conference on Aging. The event brings health care providers and caregivers together from across the state to discuss issues facing aging populations especially in a sparsely populated state like Montana. Organizers of the conference identified 35 Montanans who were at least one hundred years old and would be honored during the conference. Five of those invited, including Virginia Olson from Blaine...
Mark Vitaris, Canadian author and location photographer, spoke to about twenty-five people last week at the kickoff program of the Blaine County Museum's "Off-season Speaker Series." Museum Director Sam French said she was pleased with the turnout noting it "exceeded my expectations." She added, "Mark's presentation definitely resonated with folks who attended." The event was held at the Chinook Senior Center. Vitaris spent five years visiting, photographing and researching the borderlands along...
Anyone who missed opening night of the Montana Actors’ Theatre (MAT) production Lend me a Tenor has several chances yet to see the show. On October 12-14 and October 19-21, Valley Furniture will again present Ken Ludwigs’s version of this drama. Evening performances begin at 8:00 p.m., and matinees begin at 2:00 p.m. Director Dr. Grant Olson promises “a night of non-stop laughter and theatrical brilliance!” In this comedy set in 1934, the world of opera collides with chaotic farce as a renowned...
Blaine County Library Wednesday Homeschool Hour 1:00-2:00, Board Games/Drawing 4:00-5:00, and Teen Scene 6:00-7:00 (10/4 and 10/18). Thursday LEGO Club 4:00-5:00. Friday Movie Day 2:00-3:30. Harlem Library Tonight is the annual Friends of the Library membership meeting at 6 P.M. in the library meeting room. A soup supper will be served followed by the business meeting. Anyone interested in joining the Friends as well as current members are encouraged to attend. Annual dues of $10 may be paid at this meeting. The library is hosting the virtual...
Tonight is the Friends of the Harlem Library annual membership meeting. A soup supper will be served at 6 P.M. with the business meeting following. Those interested in becoming a member and current members are encouraged to attend. Annual dues of $10 may be paid at this meeting. The library is hosting the Montana Library Network virtual program “Hauntings of Montana” with speaker Ellen Baumler October 12, 6:30 – 8:00 P.M. via Zoom. Historian, storyteller, and award-winning author Baumler weaves a ghostly web in a thought-provoking journ...
Hello From the Chinook Social Senior Center! We have had lots of fun this past week, with the September birthday party. We had 10 birthday guests to celebrate! Everyone enjoyed a wonderful Ham dinner & Birthday cake as well as a few surprises. Saturday, Sept 30th we also had an Ice Cream Social. We had lots of people in to build their favorite Ice Cream treats, from Banana Splits to Sundaes, to Cones. A good time was had by all. Vanda Montgomery cut her beautiful Dahlias & Sunflowers for us all to enjoy on the tables. Thank you to Charlotte Bru...
Just in time for homecoming and the 2023 Sugarbeet Festival, a hay sculpture turned up on September 27 just west of Alfalfa Road. Two stacked round bales feature the Sugarbeeter mascot head, black, orange, and white paint, and the message, "Go Beeters" on the base. Some twigs jut from the upper most bale to resemble a beet top. Credit for the artwork goes to two 2015 Chinook High School graduates: Mariah (Swank) Kellam and Justin Kellam. The couple, who were married in 2019, currently farm East...
The first in a series of diverse presenters and topics will kick-off on Thursday, October 5 at 7pm. Museum Director Sam French said the off-season series begins when the museum's focus can shift from hosting out-of-staters and tourists during the summer to offering more programming and exhibits geared to locals. This particular program will be offered at the Chinook Senior Center (at 324 Pennsylvania). First off-season speaker lives in Canada Mark Vitaris earned a B.A. in Communications, from...
The family of Tristan Billmayer is pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 Mental Health Field Scholarship in the amount of $500. Aspyn Colby, a 2023 graduate of Chinook High School is the daughter of John and Dawn Colby. Aspyn is a Freshman at UND this Fall and plans on majoring in Criminal Justice with a minor in psychology. She was awarded this scholarship with the intent to spread awareness of mental health within the criminal justice system. As the youngest of a generational law...
Sawyer Loney became Chinook's Superintendent of Streets back in late July. He succeeds Jim Teel who retired after thirty-seven years with the city, most of it in the position Loney now holds. I caught up with Sawyer recently at the City Shop to learn a bit about his personal history, his career to date with the city and his thoughts about how he might shape the position he now holds. Sawyer Loney's background First, I was curious about Sawyer's first name. He hails from the Eureka, Montana area...
Blaine County Library Wednesday Homeschool Hour 1:00-2:00, Board Games/Drawing 4:00-5:00, and Teen Scene 6:00-7:00 (10/4 and 10/18). Thursday LEGO Club 4:00-5:00. Friday Movie Day 2:00-3:30. Saturday 10/7 and Sunday 10/8 we will be at Finley’s Pumpkin Patch from 10:00 to 4:00. The library will be closed 10/9 for Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and 10/10-10/11 for staff meetings. . Harlem Library The Book Challenge for October is to read a cozy mystery! The library will be closed Oct. 9 in observance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day/Columbus Day. The Frien...
(Billings, Mont.) Nutra-Lix Dealers from a five-state region met in Billings for Nutra-Lix "Better by Far" annual sales meeting. During this meeting, Nutra-Lix dealers listened to experts ranging from beef nutrition to sales techniques. George and Karen Yost, owners of Nutra-Lix, also use the meeting as an opportunity to recognize dealerships that topped the rest with their sales tonnage from the previous year. The winning dealerships received a custom Gist Silversmith buckle and were...
October’s Book Challenge is to read a cozy mystery! Come check out the selection we have on display. The library will be closed Monday, October 9 in observance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day/Columbus Day. The Friends of the Library needs you! The annual membership meeting will be held Wednesday, October 11, 6 P.M. in the library meeting room. A free soup supper will be served followed by the business meeting. New members are needed and all current members are encouraged to attend. This is your opportunity to support your library. Annual dues of...
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Fun Run at the Sugarbeet Festival. We had 42 participants. Congratulations to the first-place winners: Craig Sohn-Men’s (9.38 minutes), Carol Warburton-Women’s (11.30 minutes), and Emma Klingaman-Youth (10.42 Minutes). Best costume prize went to Thomas and Michelle Gullickson. This week is Banned Books Week. Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. For more than 40 years, the annual event has bro...
Hello From the Chinook Social Senior Center! We continue to have more & more fun here, with the Cornhole, the Billiards, the Cribbage & the Bingo. Several of our local people adventured off on the Senior Connection tour bus with Steve Edwards and his lovely wife Sherry, to Cincinnati to visit the “Replica of the Ark”. They all came back happy that they had gone and filled us in with marvelous stories. Rose Noel, Janet Gruszie, Pam Davidson & Sharon Taylor are a few of our local ladies who went on this trip and are glad that they did. Per...
JUMP youth Group will be conducting a food drive to benefit the Chinook Food Pantry. The Food Pantry benefits anyone with a need as long as they are Blaine County residents. JUMP has been involved in a yearly food drive for well over 10 years and have collected thousands of pounds of food and household items for the pantry. The drive will be held the evening of October 11th, youth will be going door to door collecting your donations. If you would like you can leave your donations outside the...
