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Shannon, Dusty, and Derrick Downing visited Lenny Erickson, and Max and Kirsti Cederberg this past weekend. Congratulations to Britney and Matt Tempel of Chester. They welcomed a son on Wednesday, September 28th. He was 7 pounds, 13 ounces, and 19 1/2” long. The little lad has been named Carter Matthew. He was welcomed home by his big sister, Kenley. Congratulations to Grandma and Grandpa, Terry and Tammy Jones. Bruce McCracken of Great Falls, Brianna McCracken of Spokane, and great granddaughter, Samantha, were out to see Virginia McCracken o...
Congratulations to Mindy Liese and Damian Miller! They were married in Las Vegas, NV on Saturday, Oct. 1. The Annual Hogeland Fireman’s Spaghetti Supper, sponsored by the HHH Club, will be held on Sunday, Oct. 16, from 5-7:00 p.m. at the Big Flat Catholic Church Hall. Freewill donations will be given to the Hogeland VFD. Loretta Beck attended the District 2 American Legion Fall meeting and dinner in Turner on Sunday at the Legion Hall. Sandy Beck was to Havre on Saturday to watch her grandson, Landen, play football. The HHH October meeting w...
It seems that there is bad news for the NFL and it has been happening since this season started. Ratings are going down and smart people are trying to figure out why. Ratings going down are probably not from just one cause. It is from a lot of things that are meeting this season and altogether are causing people not to watch as much of Roger Goodell and company as before. First there is Goodell himself who is about as pompous as they come and yet gets right in the fray making sure that people like Tom Brady is punished for something he...
I have been told that when I was a little boy I was always very inquisitive. I was constantly asking questions of my mother and father and really wanted to know everything there was to know. Those questions really magnified themselves when driving up and down the Clear Creek road with my father, visiting one cabin owner or another or fishing in a particularly good fishing hole. I wanted to know what was up this coulee and that coulee and what the name of that mountain was and what was the road joining the Clear Creek road and why was Hungry...
The Suicide Prevention Walk was held Saturday morning. The rain had stopped and a large crowd of supporters joined in the walk to Turner from the Big Flat Catholic Church. There were kids on bicycles, some people on four wheelers and side by sides along with many walking. A meal was served and then Clint Malarachuk spoke to the group. He was a retired hockey player who had a message on depression and suicide and how he survived suicide. Word was received Friday that John McKellenan (Slim) passed away in Valentine, Nebraska. Slim worked for...
Glenna Ammen met up with her sister, Dolores Steimmetz from Butte, and Betty DeZort of Great Falls at the Chinook Festival Days. They enjoyed the day visiting. Tom and Lucy Fairbank took in the suicide awareness speaker at the Turner school on Saturday. Todd and Sherry Obrecht and Meghan visited Sonny and Nellie Obrecht on Sunday. Bonnie and Donnie Harmon took part in the Suicide Awareness walk on Saturday. Gerald and Shirley Keller took part in the awareness walk on Saturday. Doug and Tracy McCracken we’re out to see Virginia McCracken on S...
It is September and that is the birthday of America’s famous painter, Grandma Moses. She came from a very large Vermont family and had ten children herself. She worked and worked and worked and when she was in her 60’s or 70’s and her fingers would not work well enough for quilting and such, she took up painting, mainly water colors. Her subject matter was what was happening around her in her beloved Vermont Mountains. She was called a primitive painter or of the rustic genre and her paintings were sort of primitive but they were full of peopl...
Here is a perfect dish for a fall casserole that can be cooked best in a Dutch oven on the top of your stove. It is called Chicken in the Bog and I think I first heard the recipe from the Food Network. I think this is one of the best chicken recipes ever but you must use only Zatarain’s Dirty Rice for the rice in the dish. And, remember the rice is the bog so it needs to be wet. Dry rice ruins this dish. You will need • 1 cup of cubed ham or Polish sausage cut into half rounds • 3 chicken thighs • 1 red pepper, medium dice • 1 onion, medium di...
Sheena Binder from Castle Rock, Colorado is visiting her mother, Glenna Ammen for a few days. Tom and Lucy Fairbank spent a few days camping up at Beaver Creek Park this week. Gerald and Shirley Keller welcomed in their 18th grandchild on September 3. The little Miss weighed in at 6 lbs. 12 oz. and has been named Aliyah Rae Carr. Mom and Dad, Deldre and Cheryl Carr, and Addysen and Nyah are proud to welcome her home! Sonny and Nelly Obrecht were to Glacier and enjoyed the red buses. While there they visited with Jim and Diane...
Word was received Sunday that Elvin Johnson, former resident of the Big Flat Area, passed away on Saturday. Memorial services will be held later in Hogeland. Loretta Beck went up to Bobbi Becks on the 29th to help Bobbi celebrate her birthday. Later in the evening, Bobbi and Wally Beck celebrated their birthdays with a supper at the Shawn Beck home. Susan and Emily Billmayer attended a family reunion in Wisconsin the previous week, & returned home on Monday evening. Carol Klindworth hosted H.H.H. Club last Thursday at her home. Roll call was...
Several things happened this week in the wonderful world of football that were mildly disturbing. Colin Kaepernick would not stand for the National Anthem during two pre season football games. While most thought he was protesting the flag, it seems that was not the case. He was protesting police brutality to other than the white race. One day to further show his displeasure with the police, he wore sox that had pigs on them wearing police caps. At this writing another team mate has joined Kaepernick’s protest from the San Francisco 49er team a...
Often when I think of Labor Day, I think of the various labor I have struggled with during my 75 years on this orb called earth. I started working early. I learned that there was nothing in high school for me but if I could keep my grades up, I could get out at 3 p.m. and go to work at the downtown Havre store that bore my grandfather’s name. That was good enough for me to keep my grades up because I loved working in that great store which sold high grade merchandise for men and high grade shoes for everyone and had a dry cleaning department a...
I was at the Big Sandy Senior Citizens Center the other day and the cooks were working on Polish sausage and sauerkraut for lunch that day. I had not thought about that dish for years and it looked simply wonderful. It brought back memories of my father cooking at one cabin or another on Clear Creek and one of his main dishes was spare ribs and sauerkraut cooked with apples, brown sugar and onions. He cooked that dish most all day in an old Majestic Range in an oven that was not high at all. It turned out great. Matter of fact I am going to...
Often when having a brandy just before bed, I go into my mother’s bedroom which has not changed much from when she lived in it. Mother died six years ago. It is a big room and is filled with a wonderful cannon ball bedroom set. her grandmother’s desk, a cannonball rocking chair and ottoman and many interesting pictures along with a huge gilt edged mirror. The floor is hardwood and is covered with Oriental carpets along with one huge mountain goat rug made from seven mountain goats. Mother loved that rug as she suffered from cold feet for a long...
If during August you want to walk on the wild side, why not visit our giant neighbor to the north, Canada and explore the Cypress Hills? These days you will need a passport to get across the border and back into Montana as well. You can get an inexpensive and faster passport that lets you just into Canada and Mexico. I don’t know that there are any true cypress trees in Cypress Park which would be your destination. Just like I know that there are no true maple trees in the town of Maple Creek. It seems that the lowly box elder tree is called a...
By the time you have read these words there will have been a Hall of Fame game played in the NFL and broadcast on ESPN. It was on last Sunday and even though our print deadline won’t let us tell you the score, it was Green Bay vs. Indianapolis. I imagine that Green Bay won it but if quarterback Luck is stinky enough, maybe Indianapolis won it. We had a report a couple of weeks ago that Quarterback Andrew Luck did not like to shower. After the Hall of Fame, the rest of August if filled with pre season games. You know it is that time of year b...
I cried in my beer a couple of times at least this week. First, I was sad that the East did not win the East/West Shrine game last weekend. It was a 45 to 14 rout with the west picking up an easy win. I guess the East has won a bunch of times but it is always good when the East can best the West in something. Or anything! This game has been going on a long time for a very good cause. I can remember when I was a teenager listening to it on the radio out in cabins on Clear Creek. And the Shrine continues to help children with proceeds of the...
With the Bear Paw Mountains so nice and green yet, there is no better time to pack a picnic lunch and take a summer drive somewhere or other just to see how great this land is that we call North Central Montana. The trip I am going to suggest is a little more rigorous than most and should be done in a SUV or a pickup or at least a car with high clearance. Take your lunch, your family, the dog and head to Harlem. At Harlem turn south and go to Hays. From Hays be looking to the right or west as there is a road that is marked to go to Cow Creek....
A friend was explaining some basic Christian ideas to a very new Christian. Up to now, the new learner of the faith would probably have checked “none” on a form asking for religious affiliation. Our friend quoted Psalm 111 to her, verse 10 of which says, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” I thought, well, yes, it is, but this might be a bit heavy for someone coming to faith a matter of a few weeks ago. Some fruitful ideas of what the fear of the Lord is can be found in some basic reference books, together with hundreds of refere...
I accidently tuned in to the ESPY awards on ABC television last Wednesday. It wasn’t the awards I will remember. But I will long remember the beginning of the program when LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade all came out dressed in very somber clothes and called for an end of the killings that are happening around the United States. Specifically they talked about Dallas, St. Paul and Baton Rouge. What they had to say was very moving. I think that when strong athletes like those four are, get up and talk, young people w...
Finally I can sit back in a lawn chair and really enjoy my garden. You see finally the cotton season from my older than dirt cottonwood tree has all gone away (most tracked in the house) and baring a July freeze, which is unlikely, or a hail storm, which is more likely, it is a time to watch my zinnias, dahlias and later perennial flowers just go great guns in the growing department. I have scores of blooms on my dahlias. That is really good to see because last year between a freeze and hail, I had few buds until it was ready to freeze in the...
It has been just over six years since President Obama signed his sweeping health care legislation into law, subjecting every American to federal mandates. How is it working out? Are your insurance premiums lower? Are your deductibles lower? Is it easier to get an appointment to see a physician? Were you able to keep your same physician? The legislation was passed in such a fashion as to strain the boundaries of the Constitution so severely that the Supreme Court had to decide if several of its components were legal, including whether the costs...
Not a lot of sports going on right now. NBC is broadcasting the most, with their Olympic Trails. The Olympics will be upon us soon and that will make for some great viewing in our living rooms as it is doubtful that many of us will be heading to Brazil where the nuts come from to once again use an old, old joke that wasn’t very funny sixty years ago. I prefer the winter Olympics. I think I have shared that with you readers before. It is just that I love to see snow events and be snuggled up in my living room with a brandy in my hand and a f...
I was saddened this week to hear that NFL defensive guru Buddy Ryan died at age 85. I was trying to think of where I watched him that I enjoyed his antics so much. It was like looking at the Bobby Knight of the football field. Maybe it was when he was running the defense for Chicago. Chicago Bears chairman George H. McCaskey said, “Buddy Ryan was the architect of the greatest defense our league has seen.” Buddy Ryan left a legacy of two children who have achieved greatness in the NFL. Son Rex is the head coach of the Buffalo Bills and to the...
A couple of weeks ago I was staying at a cabin in Apgar Village which is a part of Glacier National Park. From the cabin picture window I had a wonderful view looking up Lake McDonald to the northeast and the grand mountains that form part of Going-To-The-Sun Road. There is no more beautiful view in Glacier and maybe in North America than looking at those mountains that ring the upper McDonald valley. A few of them are Gunsight, Edwards, Brown, Cannon, Stanton, Vaught, McPartland, and the Garden Wall itself. While at that cabin I got to see...
