Articles from the January 12, 2001 edition

The Community Crime Intervention Program Advisory Council met Thursday evening in the City Council chambers at City Hall. The meeting was headed up by Chief of Police Kevin Olson, who opened discussion with the allocation of the year 2000 Local Law Enforcement Block Grant (LLEBG). The LLEBG funds are provided by the Department of Justice, and are based on an area's crime statistics. Local government is required to establish a trust fund to deposit all Federal payments received under the LLEBG Program. The 2000 LLEBG funds... Full story

The Havre Holiday Village Shopping Center has new ownership as of 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11. Security National Properties (SNP), with corporate headquarters in Eureka, Calif., purchased the property from the Ocwen company for an undisclosed price. "We bought the Havre mall, ... That's terrific!" Fred Griffith, senior vice president of acquisitions and development for SNP, said yesterday. Griffith said SNP specializes in buying distressed properties and turning them around. He said it usually takes about 18 months to start s...

The first thing you notice when you walk into the old Faubert Dairy barn at the end of 26th Avenue West is ... cats. Clean, well-fed, content cats wander everywhere. It's the location of Kitty Keepers, the no-kill cat shelter west of Havre on the Old Post Road, and there are plenty of cats in the shelter. Penney Bergren and Sue Markley, who started Kitty Keepers, said it is a non-profit no-kill sanctuary which offers lifetime sanctuary to animals; rehabilitating the injured, sick and frightened, and offers a large number of...

The first thing you notice when you walk into the old Faubert Dairy barn at the end of 26th Avenue West is cats. Clean, well-fed, content cats wander everywhere. It's the location of Kitty Keepers, the no-kill cat shelter west of Havre on the Old Post Road, and there are plenty of cats in the shelter. Penney Bergren and Sue Markley, who started Kitty Keepers, said it is a non-profit no-kill sanctuary which offers lifetime sanctuary to animals; rehabilitating the injured, sick and frightened, and offers a large number of cats...

BENJAMIN STROMBERG Benjamin Carl Stromberg, Sr., 79, died Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2001 at a Havre hospital of natural causes. Funeral services are 1 p.m. Saturday at First Lutheran Church in Havre, with Pastor Dorthy Nielsen officiating. Private family burial will follow at a later date. Stromberg was born in Havre Nov. 3, 1921 to Orvile, Sr. and Lucille Stromberg. He served in the Army during World War II with a tour in the European theater. After the war, he returned to Havre where he gained employment at the H. Earl Clack...

Skip Grodahl, also know as Walter Grodahl III, is about to become the fifth Havre High School graduate inducted into the Montana High School Athletic Hall of Fame. The 1971 Havre High grad is among six former high school greats from around the state scheduled for induction into the hall during a banquet in Billings Sunday. Grodahl was nominated for the honor last summer by Wells Lamey and Noel Henderson. Past HHS honorees he'll join are Ray Kuka, who went on to star in basketball at Notre Dame; Glenn Havskjold, who went on... Full story

These are not the best of times on the Hi-Line, however, the Hill County United Way did a great job of raising money this year. Thanks to the group's efforts and the big hearts of Hill County residents, the United Way can continue to provide the money needed for Hill County charities it supports. No one could have blamed the United Way if this year's fund raising failed to measure up to recent efforts. Everyone is aware that Hill County's economy is not booming. Farm commodities prices that are at all time record lows have hi...

A quilt donated to by the Bitterroot Quilters Guild and the Soroptimist International of Hamilton is on display at the JCPenney Catalog Office in Havre. The quilt will be raffled off to raise money for the seventh annual Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Race for the Cure, which will take place on May 19 in Helena. The Race for the Cure has become the largest series of 5K runs in the world. Races were held in 107 U.S. cities and two foreign countries last year. Proceeds from the race help fund important breast cancer...

The search lasted nearly a year, but Messiah Lutheran finally has a replacement for long-time pastor William Olsen. The choice is Pastor Rodney Mruk, who preached his first sermon at the south Havre church Sunday, Dec. 10. "We unloaded the truck the 9th," Pastor Mruk said. "It was 20 below (zero Fahrenheit) that day." Despite that first cold day and week, the Mruks, who hail from the Chicago area, insist they have had nothing but a warm welcome in Havre. "The community has been fine," Mruk (pronounced just like truck with an... Full story

Steve Frye, Glacier National Park's chief ranger, might have been born in Minnesota, but he considers himself Montana through and through. After all, when his mother and father met, they were working at the Lake McDonald Hotel and the family spent whole summers in Glacier since Frye was five years old. Frye started his own career in Glacier. "I started in 1970 working for the National Park Service as a seasonal ranger at Swift Current Lookout," said Frye. "And after that I had a variety of seasonal jobs in the park." In 1978...

Havre will celebrate Montana Teen Day with a range of activities for local teens, during the week of Feb. 4 -9. Montana Teen Day, which is observed Feb. 6, is organized by The Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies PATH (Promoting Action for Teen Health) project, in conjunction with the Montana Department of Health and Human Services' Child Adolescent and Community Health Program. Havre's Teen Day, which was turned into "Teen Week" by members of the local teen day committee, will feature activities such as teen movie night, church...

The Community Crime Intervention Program Advisory Council met Thursday evening in the City Council chambers at City Hall. The meeting was headed up by Chief of Police Kevin Olson, who opened discussion with the allocation of the year 2000 Local Law Enforcement Block Grant (LLEBG). The LLEBG funds are provided by the Department of Justice, and are based on an area's crime statistics. Local government is required to establish a trust fund to deposit all Federal payments received under the LLEBG Program. The 2000 LLEBG funds...

Tiffany Korb, head of the new T. K. Management Company, said she's excited about the new ownership of the Havre Holiday Village Shopping Center, which her company will be managing. "We went from one wonderful property manager to another," she said. Korb said Ocwen, the company Security National Properties (SNP) bought the shopping center from yesterday, made some good structural improvements after it took over in September 1999. These included reroofing the building, remodeling the interior common area and store fronts, repai... Full story

The Havre Holiday Village Shopping Center has new ownership as of 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11. Security National Properties (SNP), with corporate headquarters in Eureka, Calif., purchased the property from the Ocwen company for an undisclosed price. "We bought the Havre mall, That's terrific!" Fred Griffith, senior vice president of acquisitions and development for SNP, said yesterday. Griffith said SNP specializes in buying distressed properties and turning them around. He said it usually takes about 18 months to start... Full story

The Montana State University-Northern wrestling team traveled to Rexburg, Idaho, earlier this season against highly-touted Ricks College and barely escaped with a 24-21 victory. Well, Northern earned a victory in the rematch of the two schools last night, but this time the score was much more lopsided in the Lights' favor in a 29-12 win. Northern improved to 6-2-1 in dual meets with the victory. Ricks College came in ranked second in the NJCAA, but it was apparent early that the Lights, who are ranked third in the NAIA,...

Skip Grodahl, also know as Walter Grodahl III, is about to become the fifth Havre High School graduate inducted into the Montana High School Athletic Hall of Fame. The 1971 Havre High grad is among six former high school greats from around the state scheduled for induction into the hall during a banquet in Billings Sunday. Grodahl was nominated for the honor last summer by Wells Lamey and Noel Henderson. Past HHS honorees he'll join are Ray Kuka, who went on to star in basketball at Notre Dame; Glenn Havskjold, who went on...

The Community Crime Intervention Program Advisory Council met Thursday evening in the City Council chambers at City Hall. The meeting was headed up by Chief of Police Kevin Olson, who opened discussion with the allocation of the year 2000 Local Law Enforcement Block Grant (LLEBG). The LLEBG funds are provided by the Department of Justice, and are based on an area's crime statistics. Local government is required to establish a trust fund to deposit all Federal payments received under the LLEBG Program. The 2000 LLEBG funds... Full story

The Havre Holiday Village Shopping Center has new ownership as of 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11. Security National Properties (SNP), with corporate headquarters in Eureka, Calif., purchased the property from the Ocwen company for an undisclosed price. "We bought the Havre mall, ... That's terrific!" Fred Griffith, senior vice president of acquisitions and development for SNP, said yesterday. Griffith said SNP specializes in buying distressed properties and turning them around. He said it usually takes about 18 months to start s...

The first thing you notice when you walk into the old Faubert Dairy barn at the end of 26th Avenue West is ... cats. Clean, well-fed, content cats wander everywhere. It's the location of Kitty Keepers, the no-kill cat shelter west of Havre on the Old Post Road, and there are plenty of cats in the shelter. Penney Bergren and Sue Markley, who started Kitty Keepers, said it is a non-profit no-kill sanctuary which offers lifetime sanctuary to animals; rehabilitating the injured, sick and frightened, and offers a large number of... Full story

The first thing you notice when you walk into the old Faubert Dairy barn at the end of 26th Avenue West is cats. Clean, well-fed, content cats wander everywhere. It's the location of Kitty Keepers, the no-kill cat shelter west of Havre on the Old Post Road, and there are plenty of cats in the shelter. Penney Bergren and Sue Markley, who started Kitty Keepers, said it is a non-profit no-kill sanctuary which offers lifetime sanctuary to animals; rehabilitating the injured, sick and frightened, and offers a large number of cats...

BENJAMIN STROMBERG Benjamin Carl Stromberg, Sr., 79, died Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2001 at a Havre hospital of natural causes. Funeral services are 1 p.m. Saturday at First Lutheran Church in Havre, with Pastor Dorthy Nielsen officiating. Private family burial will follow at a later date. Stromberg was born in Havre Nov. 3, 1921 to Orvile, Sr. and Lucille Stromberg. He served in the Army during World War II with a tour in the European theater. After the war, he returned to Havre where he gained employment at the H. Earl Clack...

These are not the best of times on the Hi-Line, however, the Hill County United Way did a great job of raising money this year. Thanks to the group's efforts and the big hearts of Hill County residents, the United Way can continue to provide the money needed for Hill County charities it supports. No one could have blamed the United Way if this year's fund raising failed to measure up to recent efforts. Everyone is aware that Hill County's economy is not booming. Farm commodities prices that are at all time record lows have hi...

A quilt donated to by the Bitterroot Quilters Guild and the Soroptimist International of Hamilton is on display at the JCPenney Catalog Office in Havre. The quilt will be raffled off to raise money for the seventh annual Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Race for the Cure, which will take place on May 19 in Helena. The Race for the Cure has become the largest series of 5K runs in the world. Races were held in 107 U.S. cities and two foreign countries last year. Proceeds from the race help fund important breast cancer...

The search lasted nearly a year, but Messiah Lutheran finally has a replacement for long-time pastor William Olsen. The choice is Pastor Rodney Mruk, who preached his first sermon at the south Havre church Sunday, Dec. 10. "We unloaded the truck the 9th," Pastor Mruk said. "It was 20 below (zero Fahrenheit) that day." Despite that first cold day and week, the Mruks, who hail from the Chicago area, insist they have had nothing but a warm welcome in Havre. "The community has been fine," Mruk (pronounced just like truck with an... Full story

Steve Frye, Glacier National Park's chief ranger, might have been born in Minnesota, but he considers himself Montana through and through. After all, when his mother and father met, they were working at the Lake McDonald Hotel and the family spent whole summers in Glacier since Frye was five years old. Frye started his own career in Glacier. "I started in 1970 working for the National Park Service as a seasonal ranger at Swift Current Lookout," said Frye. "And after that I had a variety of seasonal jobs in the park." In 1978... Full story