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I am a happy man. It has taken a lot of years but finally my team, Gonzaga, got to the final game. I know they lost to North Carolina 71 to 65 but that did not matter at all. Those of you who read these rantings regularly know that for years I have picked my Zags to go all the way. They never have until now. And to think that Oregon was also in the final four! It boggles the mind. I may not live to see it but one day there is going to be a western final game. It is going to happen! For now, I know of some who made huge amounts of money on...
A friend told me that her sister made a very simple but wonderful casserole. She started by browning hamburger, adding a sliced up cabbage and tomato sauce. She baked that until bubbling and it was wonderful. Last weekend I tried my version of that dish. Basically what I did was to add shredded cabbage to my hamburger/macaroni hot dish. It was very good and the shredded cabbage really added to it. What you will need is: - 1 pound of hamburger - One onion diced - 1 ½ cups dried macaroni prepared like the macaroni box says - 2 14oz cans of...
Happy April Everyone! Spring has sprung. Sympathy is extended to the Mohar family from the community. Their mother, Marge Mohar passed away this past week and services were held Saturday afternoon at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Harlem. Jordan and Elissa Zellmer and family attended the basketball Jamboree held Saturday in Turner. They came especially to watch son Caleb play. Ilona McGuire made a birthday cake for Grandson Cody Ballard for his 20th birthday. Family enjoyed the birthday get-together. Happy Birthday Cody!! Susan, Gene and Emily...
Condolences to the family of Marjorie Mohar. Services were Saturday at the Catholic Church. Thoughts and prayers to all the family. Kirsti Cederberg, Peggy Van Voast, and Amy Hutton travel to Kremlin to attend a WELCA convention on Saturday. Francis Van Voast and Max Cederberg were to Medicine Hat on Saturday to a Swap Meet. Congratulations to Sarah Billmayer for breaking the school record in the 300m Hurdles on Friday. She turned around and broke her own record on Saturday in Glasgow. Congratulations! It sounds as though all the tracks teams... Full story
Q: I’ve finally had to face the fact that my main goal in life is to get other people to like me. I guess most people are like this, but sometimes I’ll go overboard trying to win someone’s favor, even if it means doing something that’s wrong. How can I quit this? A: You’re right; most of us like to be liked. And sadly, we may even do things we know are wrong (like lying about ourselves or doing things we know aren’t right) in order to get someone to like us. But such “friendships” are seldom lasting. The Bible rightly says, “What a person desir...
Well, gentle readers, I am still in the middle of March Madness and can make a prediction about a final winner although I have never gotten those predictions right yet. I kicked myself because I dropped Oregon out of the Sweet Sixteen and then I began to think that this could be their year. But my final four is Kentucky, Kansas, Gonzaga and Villanova with Gonzaga winning it all. Will that happen? You know how I love the Zags and so hope springs eternal! I have been reading that the NFL is going to be different next year. It seems that their...
March can be such a fickle month. It is a month when we all are so anxious to see an end to winter and a beginning of spring and then when March comes in like a lamb, we think we made it through another winter only to have our hopes dashed with storm after storm after storm pushing us around like a ship in a hurricane. This March has been especially bad in that although there has been no really cold weather, it can be fifty above one day and then, like when these words are being written, the weatherman says that if it gets up to fifteen above w...
Q: I’ve gone through some hard times recently, and my aunt says I ought to be thankful because they’ll make me a better person. Is she right? I admit I’m having a hard time seeing things her way. A: We all want our lives to be smooth and trouble-free, of course—but unfortunately life isn’t always that way. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who was completely free of worries and problems. Job rightly said, “Man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward” (Job 5:7). The real question, therefore, is this: How will we react whe... Full story
It is Saturday afternoon and I have not heard yet how Northern’s women did in their playoffs. I do know that Carroll won and Western lost earlier on Friday. I finally got my brackets done in the 2017 Division I basketball tournament and March Madness had officially gotten off to a great start. I will give you my elite 8 this week and predict the winner of it all next week. I have the elite 8 as Villanova, Duke, Gonzaga, Arizona, Kansas, Louisville (although my heart is crying Oregon), North Carolina and Kentucky. I took a few chances but not m...
Q: My girlfriend and I are talking about getting married, but we’re reluctant to go ahead because so many of our friends have gotten divorced after only a few years. How can we be sure this won’t happen to us? A: I’m thankful you want your marriage to last—because this desire will be an important part of being sure it will last! Far too many couples, I’m afraid, enter marriage casually or thoughtlessly. But God gave marriage to us, and His perfect plan is for it to be a lifelong commitment of the husband and wife to each other. Jesus said, “Th...
First an update about the length of what is left of winter. As most readers know, in the west our ground hogs are marmots. We are fortunate living where we do because in the Bear Paw Mountains, on Clear Creek and far up White Pine Gulch lives a resident predictor of winter named Marmaduke Marmot. Sure enough there was a gathering in front of his instinctively through crevice and burrow, February 2, when he came out to see if he would see his shadow or not. Well, gentle readers up White Pine that morning there was a terrible blizzard raging and...
I am always finding a lobster on sale and sticking it in the freezer. That way when I want to I can have what I call a triple surf dinner. It is a hot lobster with drawn butter, lobster salad and a shrimp cocktail with homemade cocktail sauce. Please note that when I say lobster I mean lobster tail. It is very easy to steam a lobster. Get it thawed out and steam it a minute for each ounce it weighs. Take the shell off when the lobster is steamed and serve with a vat of good hot butter. For a salad, it is just as easy. Thaw the lobster; take...
Q: I know you’ve said that God sometimes answers our prayers with a “no”—but if that’s the case, then why bother to pray? A: Yes, it’s true that God sometimes says “no” to our prayers—and with good reason, because He alone knows what is best for us. Just as a loving parent sometimes says “no” to their child’s demands, so our loving God sometimes says “no” to our demands. But sometimes God also says “yes” to our prayers—and that’s certainly one reason why we ought to keep on praying! But we don’t pray only to get things from God. Not only would...
When I was a boy there were lots of Oriental people in Havre. I am reminded of this because the Chinese New Year is January 28. Many Chinese and Japanese had come here to work on the railroad and when the railroad was finished they liked the country and stayed or maybe some could not afford to go anywhere else. I saw a lot of Chinese people in particular because Havre was full of Chinese restaurants and it seemed as if there was not a Chinese restaurant, why then many Chinese started laundries in the town. Some of the best food I have ever...
Tis the time for New Year’s Resolutions. Tis also the time for very up close and personal dreams as well. Are they related, that is my question? For the past two years I have been having very up close and personal dreams. Let me tell you about one I just finished a few minutes ago. I was staying with a friend at the School House Log cabin on Clear Creek where Henderson Creek meets Clear Creek. In the cold reach of reality, that cabin is not even there anymore. Across the road from that cabin was another large structure that is gone now too. I...
I always like to start a new year with a recipe that has fewer calories. I have done one of my favorite shrimp cocktails many times before but it never fails to taste great on a cold January night. Cook your own shrimp. Get some that are called U 16 to 20, thaw them out, take the shells off and as you are deveining the shrimp, cut down and split the middle section to the tail. When you cook them they will puff up and appear much larger than they are. Do not overcook but do not undercook as well. There is nothing worse than undercooked shrimp. A...
It is playoff season in the NFL. But first, it is national championship time in college football. It took many years but finally instead of a bunch of disjointed bowl games there are now a bunch of disjointed bowl games and a couple of national championship games. I have not been the slightest bit interested in those games because one can come to only one conclusion. No matter who plays whom, it is going to be Alabama who comes out on top. Now it won’t always be that way and I imagine that those games will be a lot more fun to watch and m...
This is the time of year that we look back in time at what good and bad has happened during the past year and we look forward to see what good and bad we can look forward to in the coming year. This has been a strange year. The politics of it , that seemed to be the worst for me at any rate. To be able to say that I did not want to vote for either political ticket, that has never happened before. Not for me anyway. Usually one of the candidates has some redeeming features that I can hang my coat on. Not these two. Nothing. But one had to win...
This is the last column of newspaper stories for 1909. However, through the magic of old newspaper stories, we will continue on with 1909 in January. But for now, let’s see how it all ended up! There are still Christmas trees available at the Havre Commercial Company. They have been drastically reduced in price after Christmas. At the beginning of the New Year, 1910 just think of it. The citizens of Havre are so optimistic about building the city into the best anywhere. So many things happened in 1909 to make the city civilized instead of the r...
The biggest news in the football world is that it is all coming to an end. This signals week seventeen and after those predictions, it is on to the playoffs and finally who is going to be in the Super Bowl? There was some late breaking Bobcat news this weekend, however. Let’s start with that. DeNarius McGhee, famed Bobcat star quarterback has been hired by MSU Bozeman as their quarterback coach. This is a good move for the Bobcats as he knows the field very well even though the Big Sky has been changing. Look for McGhee to add much to the B...
Once again it is that magical time of year called Christmas. To paraphrase Robert Frost, we stop often to watch the falling of downy flake along the streets and boulevards of our home towns or even better, we stop out on Beaver Creek to watch those woods fill up with snow. Christmas is for giving and those who have been giving all year long certainly know how to do it now. It is a time to share, reflect and wait for the Christ Child to be born and once again come into our homes and families. In the meantime we light candles, get Yule logs roari...
I have written about this recipe for dressing or stuffing for many years now. I write about it for two reasons. First, it is the best dressing you will ever eat (I have people stop me on the street and tell me they have used my dressing recipe for years now and it simply is wonderful) and it is simple to make. Try it and you will never make another dressing. • You will need a couple sacks of seasoned bread crumbs • A cup of fresh chopped sage • A cup of chopped fresh rosemary • A half cup of black olives, sliced and drained • A half cup of gree...
It is the beginning of December of the good year of 1909. Christmas is just around the corner and the big bird has already come out of the roasting pan and onto the plates of hungry Thanksgiving eaters as Thanksgiving is over and the loving work comes across of getting the right present for a loved one and the right Christmas tree to put up Christmas Eve for that was when they went up at that time. Of course there was depression just like now. People are people. I remember an old poem about what was thought about when in a depressive funk. It...
It is 1909 and quickly approaching the end of the year. Thanksgiving is over and Christmas is just around the corner. And yet there is news. Brace yourselves to become all agog and atwitter at the antics in this neck of the woods! Victor Griggs, late of Illinois arrived here last Saturday and assumed the duties of Chief Booster and official of publicity for Havre and the Milk River Country. Mr. Griggs was occupied Saturday evening in a meeting of the business men and Monday started out to learn everything he could about this area. He has...
There was a time long ago when the Dallas Cowboys were my team. I sort of started watching football with them and since I had a good friend who was always for San Francisco it made for sort of a wild and wooly rivalry to say the least. That was the age of Troy Aikman and the boys vs. any and all from San Francisco. It was the pre Joe Montana era at San Fran but they had some very good players including Steve Young, maybe their second or third best quarterback ever. Young is a part of the ESPN commentating crew these days. Well, Dallas coach...
