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Havre Trails Group Hikes in Hays Area
This past Sunday, September 24, Havre Trails partnered with Hays-Lodgepole High School science teacher Rod Benson, who offered a hike to Hole in the Wall and Mission Ridge in Mission Canyon just...
4th ANNUAL BREWFEST RETURNS TO CHINOOK SEPTEMBER 30TH
The Friends of the Pool and Park Foundation would like to invite people from across the Hi-Line to help fund necessary improvements to the Pool and Park Complex in Chinook. The 4th Annual Brewfest wil...
Exchange Student Shares Experiences in Germany
On September 1, Ryley Hofeldt celebrated one week in Ahaus-Wüllen, Germany. She reported that she has met some really great people so far and that her host family has been "loving and helpful." "The...
Gala Supports New Play to Learn Preschool Museum
Plant A Seed... Read Saturday, October 14, 2023, Plant a Seed…READ will sponsor the first 2023 Denim & Diamonds Gala from 5:30-8:30 pm at the Havre Eagles Club. This event is to start the building of displays for a Play to Learn Center, where...
BEAR PAW DEVELOPMENT HAS FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR BUSINESS GROWTH
HAVRE – Bear Paw Development Corporation recently announced the organization currently has loan funds available to business owners and entrepreneurs in northern Montana interested in starting a new business or expanding an existing enterprise. The...
Journal Jots
Blaine County Library Monday 4-8 grade Activity 4:00-5:00. Tuesday Story Time 10:30-11:00, Hangout for grades 5 through 8 4:00-5:00. Wednesday Home School Hour 1:00-2:00, Board Games & Coloring for grades K-12 from 4:00-5:00, Teen Scene...
Harlem Library
The library board will hold their regular meeting today, September 27 at 4:30 P.M. in the library meeting room. The library, along with Blaine County MSU Extension, are hosting the program “Introduction to Beekeeping” on October 3 from 2:00 to...
Chinook Senior Center
Hello From the Chinook Social Senior Center! We kicked off our Cornhole League this past Monday & did we ever have fun!!! If you haven’t tried it, you should. We had people from 55-90 playing & it was enjoyed by all. We also had our first round of...
Blaine County Library
The Blaine County Library Board of Trustees will hold their regular monthly meeting Monday October 2nd at 4:30 p.m. This will be the September meeting. As September comes to a close, we are preparing for several events in October. Next week, October...
FFA Recruitment Deemed a Success
Last Sunday, September 10, the Chinook FFA Alumni held an FFA Recruitment Barbecue and Fundraising Trap Shoot at the shooting range on the Clear Creek Road. According to FFA Advisor Mitzi Cecrle, the...
Save the Date for Blaine County Fur Fest
On August 23, the Blaine County Fair Foundation announced that it would be hosting the coyote hunt this year after the Chinook Volunteer Fire Department decided to give it up. Foundation members are c...
Chinook Welcomes Four New teachers to town
Students returning to classes in Chinook have been greeted by new faces and a few familiar ones in new roles. Four new teachers have been added to staff for the 2023-2024 school year, though the school is still looking to fill some roles. Fred...
Our "Small Town, Big Community" Welcomes you to the 2023 Sugarbeet Festival
Are you a Chinook Sugarbeeter fan, or maybe just live on the highline? Come check out our little towns Sugarbeet festival. Whereas just like our new town slogan says "Small town, Big community" we are...
Chinook Blood Drive September 19 at the Blaine County Fairgrounds
I forgot to do the article after our last drive so am incorporating it with the pre drive article. If you could get this in the week before the drive that would be great. Thanks a bunch. Carla On July 25th, 2023 the Chinook community hosted the Red...
Fall Meat Shoot Set to Raise Funds for Overhead Lights
The Chinook Rod and Gun Club will be holding a Fall Meat Shoot Fundraiser on September 23. The purpose of the Shoot is to raise funds for the installation of overhead lights at the Trap Range and new Archery Range. With gates opening at noon and...
Reed completes Certified Appraisal Training
Lucas Reed recently completed three years of apprenticeship and schooling; officially receiving his license as a State Certified General Appraiser in August 2023. He completed 3000 hours of...
Phase II work on keelboat at Fort Benton will soon stop
For the past two summers a dedicated group of volunteers has been meeting in Fort Benton for two week-long work sessions each summer. They are refurbishing the "Mandan," one of three keelboats built...
Benefit for Charlotte Latray - Vermillion September 16
Charlotte LaTray-Vermillion thought the day was just like any other and the flu like symptoms she had was just another cold. This went on for three days, thinking her symptoms were finally going to...
Local Club Wins Grant to Improve Safety at Gun and Archery Ranges
The Chinook Rod and Gun Club received official notification on August 31 that they had received a grant award from the Fish Wildlife and Parks (FWP) in a program to improve safety at gun and archery ranges. The local Club was among twelve awardee...
Chinook resident Lesley Zellmer ran a 196-mile relay with 12,000 new friends
Lesley Zellmer, from Chinook, recently mentioned to me she had just returned from Oregon where she participated in a relay run from Mount Hood to the Coast at Seaside, Oregon. I knew she was a runner...
Aaniiih woman among first to graduate from UND's new Indigenous health program
When Amy Stiffarm was a graduate student at University of Montana, she learned that Native American women have low rates of breastfeeding. But she didn't understand why. "Until one day, I came across...
Drool in the pool a doggone good time!
Now in its second season, the Drool in the Pool event held this Labor Day weekend seems to be well on its way to becoming an end of the year tradition at the Chinook City Pool. Organizers said 19...
"The people" chose a new town slogan for Chinook
Businesses, non-profits, civic clubs, professional groups and even local chambers of commerce rely on slogans to quickly convince a target audience to buy a product, a service or to believe in...
Ann Armstrong wants to help kids in Blaine County to "go further in life"
Fairgoers may recall a young woman sitting at a long table in the Commercial Building. Her table was full of 'giveaways,' interesting 'do-dads,' and lots of informational pieces all promoting...
CHINOOK SOCIAL SENIOR CENTER
Today, we are having Meatloaf & Mashed Potatoes. We hope that you can join us. Please call by 10:00, this morning, if possible. Monday, Sept. 18th : Reuben Sandwiches Tuesday, Sept 19th: Baked Potato Bar Wednesday, Sept 20th: ASIAN DAY Egg Rolls...