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With enough passion, hard work, and in my case, a little luck, opportunities come about which just can’t be turned down—I’m writing this because today is my last day with Havre Daily News. While I have enjoyed getting the chance to diversify my work beyond sports with Havre Daily, I also freelance because sports are what I love. Now, I will get to mesh my childhood passions. I’m moving on to cover the incredibly unconventional worlds of professional wrestling and combat...
Havre's Van Orsdel United Methodist Church will have a "Fun" Raiser Pig Roast Saturday, Aug. 28, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to raise money for two new boilers to help heat the church through winter. Church Secretary Edna Gregory, part of the organizing committee for the event along with Judy Jones and Chris Vincent, said two of the church's four boilers that make up its heating system need to be replaced due to age and the estimated cost is around $20,000. "We have been told that...
Montana Horseshoe Pitchers' Association held its state championship at Tip-It Bar in Havre this past weekend, producing multiple champions for Havre with the event also raising money for fire relief in the area. Montana Horseshoe Pitchers' Association Vice President Dave Rowin - who won a world championship horseshoe competition this year - said 60 throwers competed over the weekend at the state horseshoe tournament held at Tip-It Bar in North Havre. Competitors throw 40...
Havre High School alumni are holding a memorial dedication for former football and wrestling coach Tom Molen, who died in January. Noel Henderson, part of the schools state champion football team in 1972, said he discussed the matter with the school and other former athletes and a fiery maple tree has been planted at the football practice field in Molen's honor. Henderson said Molen's family will be in attendance at the football team's game Friday, Aug. 27, with a plaque dedic...
The Montana Horseshoe Pitchers’ Association is hosting its annual state championship competition at Havre’s Tip-It Bar Saturday, Aug. 21 and Sunday, Aug. 22 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days of competition. Montana Horseshoe Pitchers’ Association Vice President Dave Rowin — who won a world championship horseshoe competition this year — told Havre Daily News this morning 60 throwers will be at the event this weekend. “We got 14 pips there. There’s a scorekeeping shack, which...
At the monthly meeting of the Great Northern Fair Board Tuesday night, Great Northern Fairgrounds manager Frank English announced plans to stage events in September and October, including a Halloween event featuring a movie on a blow-up screen, offering the community a safe place to trick or treat. For September, English said after the meeting there would be an event featuring vikings, meatballs on a stick, and scones which were not available during the Great Northern Fair this year. The event is set for Saturday, Sept. 4 at...
At its second meeting of the month, Havre City Council had a busy night last night, giving its blessing for work to continue on a splash park in Havre, approving the closure of streets for the 41st celebration of Havre Festival Days and confirmed the appointment of Havre Police Patrol Officer Brandon Murnion. At an ordinance committee meeting immediate following the Havre City Council meeting, the committee discussed a proposed ordinance concerning abandoned and boarded up structures, an issue the council has been looking at...
The Havre Public Schools Education Foundation will be having a local meet-up event Saturday, Sept. 4, in place of its Fossil Festival event to honor long-term graduates, “fossils” which could not take place last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The foundation’s executive director, Amanda Meyer, said the amount of planning, time and commitment necessary to plan the festival, typically held every five years, is extensive enough the foundation decided to have a different event since it didn’t know how things would play ou...
Girls on Shred, a division of The Montana Skatepark Association, hosted a noncompetitive, free skateboarding clinic at the Havre skatepark Thursday evening for girls and nonbinary people to learn to skate. "We try to create a safe space for anybody that wants to come out that maybe otherwise would be a little intimidated, because the skatepark can be a little scary if you've never skated before, so we'd like to give kids and grownups the opportunity to come out and have a...
Hi-Line Arts Council and Humanities Montana will be presenting a multimedia program Thursday, Aug. 19, at 7 p.m. at the Little Theatre in Cowan Hall on the Montana State University-Northern campus featuring Montana author and musician Ednor Therriault. “Finding Montana – From Alzada to the Yaak, to Culbertson and Back,” is part of Humanities Montana’s “Montana Conversations” series. “Finding Montana is basically a kind of a wrap up of all the traveling around Montana, I’ve...
Saturday, Aug. 14, Havre's Bullhook Community Health Center will be putting on its annual Color Fun Run/Walk to close out Community Health Center Week. "National Health Center week is a way to celebrate the community health centers and raise awareness about the mission and accomplishments that we have provided to our patients over the past five decades. And community health centers are part of a national network, but we're individual and we serve almost 30 million people...
At Rural Fire District 1's monthly meeting yesterday, district board chair Steve Jamruszka said while there is no fire suppression agreement in place with the City of Havre at the moment, some progress has been made as the board was granted another extension through August. Rural Fire District 1 is essentially a ring around Havre in which the Havre Fire Department previously provided fire suppression services. The city last fall canceled the previous contract effective at the...
Author Craig Lancaster, who had been set to come to Havre for a book signing and reading of his latest work, “And It Will Be a Beautiful Life” Wednesday, told Havre Daily News Monday he has had to cancel the event. Lancaster said in the email a pet’s illness requires hospitalization, forcing the cancellation. He said he hopes the owners of the Havre Book Exchange are open to rescheduling the event and he had been looking forward to coming to Havre. “And It Will Be a Beautiful Life” is about a traveling pipeline inspector...
The Milk River Gobblers will be hosting a pair of events starting with a bear awareness presentation at Pepin Park Friday, Aug. 20, followed by the Gobblers’ Youth Day at Havre Trap Club Saturday, Aug. 21, which also will include the bear awareness presentation. Jeff Dibblee, who handles public relations for Milk River Gobblers, said Chuck Bartlebaugh of Missoula’s Be Bear Aware Campaign will be putting on a seminar largely centered around bear spray. Dibblee said the pre...
Billings-based author Craig Lancaster is coming to the Havre Book Exchange Wednesday, Aug. 11, at 5 p.m. for a reading and signing of his latest release, "And It Will Be a Beautiful Life." "I'm hoping that my friends in Havre, I have several, will help me get out the word. ... The main thing for me is that Derek and Jessica, the owners of Havre Book Exchange, they deserve the support of the community they serve (and) writers in the state. I really feel like it's a partnership...
The organizations Family Connections and Raise Montana are launching Childcare Connect Montana, a service that links fully trained, quality substitute child care staff with area child care programs. Raise Montana Shared Services Coordinator Suzy Bertsche said Childcare Connect Montana addresses both the state’s child care capacity and workforce shortages while supporting small businesses, families and community members. Family Connections and Raise Montana are looking for individuals in Havre, Glendive, Glasgow and Sidney t...
Community members held a sign-painting event last night outside Bullhook Community Health Center in Havre, updating the sign's COVID-19 vaccination total to 6,040 people, 48 percent of the goal of all 13,256 eligible people. Northern Montana Health Care Director of Infection Prevention Alysia Mosness attended the sign-painting along with Bullhook Community Health Center CEO Kyndra Hall. "So, just kind of talking on behalf of Northern Montana Health Care, we do feel that the...
A youth group in Chinook known as JUMP is putting on a “Big and Bold Vacation Bible School,” which started Aug. 3 and for the remainder of the week will be collecting money to aid Intermountain, a Helena-based mental health organization. Pastor Chris Haughee said Intermountain provides hope and healing to youth and families, including residential care. “We still have an aspect of the care that we provide for children that involves residential stay for those children that have...
Havre City Council Monday night approved authorization to submit a Montana Coal Endowment Program infrastructure planning grant application. The resolution says, “The City of Havre is applying to the Montana Department of Commerce for financial assistance from the Montana Coal Endowment Program to fund a Preliminary Engineering Report for water and sewer projects within the city.” Havre Mayor Tim Solomon referred Havre Daily to Havre Public Works Director Dave Peterson, who...
The start of school is just around the corner, and with that in mind, the 6th annual Back to School Bash will be held Saturday, Aug. 21, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Pepin Park in Havre. The free event was organized by Back to School Bash Chairperson Christy Edmonds and Havre's Salvation Army. "The backpacks and school supplies are run by Salvation Army, and they've been doing that for many, many years now. And they have like a specific income type qualification that people have...
Havre is hosting the American Legion Class A State Baseball Tournament this week, an event which Havre Youth Baseball Association Board Member Brian Jenkins expects to impact Havre and the surrounding area in a variety of ways. The tournament began Thursday morning at 10 a.m. The Havre Northstars began competing in the tournament Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. at Legion Field. "I think it's a huge impact. Legion baseball has a great following anyways, and we have an outstanding...
Beginning tonight, Montana Actors' Theatre will have performances of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" in the former Herberger's location in the Holiday Village Mall. The MAT performance tells Roald Dahl's classic story of poor Charlie Bucket's adventure through Willy Wonka's magical, Oompa Loompa-filled factory, with a unique spin. "Something that makes it their own is that it's all youth produced. That's, you know, different. So it's directed by youth, and it's starred in...
At a quarterly meeting of the Hill County Board of Health Wednesday, Hill County Public Health Director and Health Officer Kim Berg said the county has 16 active cases of COVID-19, which she said has gone up quite a bit in the last few weeks, mirroring national and state trends due to the Delta variant. Berg said there are no confirmed cases of the Delta variant in the county yet. “We haven’t had any Delta variants identified through the surveillance testing that Montana is doing for Hill County, yet. That doesn’t mean it’s...
The Montana State University-Northern student radio station, KNMC 90.1 FM College Radio, is looking for performers for its Rock Lotto event during Havre Festival Days, and the sign-up deadline is Friday, Aug, 6, at noon. Rock Lotto takes place in the fall during Festival Days. Station Manager Dave Martens said Rock Lotto will be taking place on the Northern campus this year. He said the plan is to have the event in the Pershing Hall amphitheater. Martens said the station hosts...
Havre’s Public Works Director Dave Peterson said this morning that multiple water main breaks in the city overnight resulted in flooding and some road damage. Peterson said the breaks occurred on Fourth Avenue between Fourth and Fifth streets, another occurred on Fourth Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues, and a main transmission line broke on Third Street between Montana Avenue and First Avenue. Peterson said he was unsure of the exact cause of the breaks and Public W...
