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Halloween, a time of costumes and candy, is a fun holiday for the entire family, and for some people a great time to give back to the community. Community members Perry and Jennifer Atchison have taken the traditional door-to-door trick or treating a step further, making it a large event for the whole community. “It just brings people together to have fun,” Perry Atchison said. The Atchison’s have been hosting an annual “Haunted Walkway” event for the past 12 years, starting in 2007, shortly after purchasing their home, he sa...
Montana State University Extension Local Government Center Director Dan Clark will be in Havre to share information and answer questions on using SIDs, special improvement districts, to repair roads and infrastructure Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Havre City Hall. “I think it’s a great opportunity for all community members to become informed on how we can fix our streets as individual neighborhoods,” City Council member Lindsey Ratliff said. “There is no easy fix and there is no cheap fix.” SIDs are created when residents of an are...
Snowdance Ski Association is gearing up for the coming season and is looking for a number of volunteers to help with the maintenance of Bear Paw Ski Bowl and the operation of the hill once the season begins, ski association member Dave Martens said. He added that the ski association has also gotten a new piece of equipment for the hill and will be reopening the ski and snowboard rental shop. The Bear Paw Ski Bowl is entirely operated by volunteers, with the exception of a few...
Havre Art Association is gearing up this year for its 49th annual Havre Art Association Show and Sale Saturday and Sunday Nov. 2 and Nov. 3 at Van Orsdel United Methodist Church, featuring a local artist and hosting a fundraising event for Feed My Sheep Soup Kitchen. "When I look back in history, they've had some of the top artists in the state come here," Art Association member Kris Martens said. This year's featured artist is local artist Garrette Brough of Big Sky Bones,...
As puffs of smoke drifted high into the air from a ceremonial fire, hundreds of Native Americans from Gros Ventre, or Aaniiih; Assiniboine, or Nakoda; Crow; Northern Arapaho, and other tribes gathered together outside of Dodson Saturday to hold a ceremony, held to help put to rest the spirits of those who died in a smallpox outbreak 150 years ago. "I feel really good," organizer and Gros Ventre tribal member "Snuffy" Main said. "There has been a lot of community members who...
Havre's vacant property registration ordinance has been at a standstill since it was last sent in June to the city attorney, who advised the city that enacting a VPRO would not be in the best interest of Havre. Local officials agree that perhaps the only way of proceeding with a VPRO would be changing Havre from a general law municipality to a charter law municipality. "We are fighting an uphill battle," Havre Mayor Tim Solomon said. The city has been looking at some kind of...
Editor's note: Watch for more on this in Friday's Hi-Line Living. Hundreds of Native Americans from across Washington, Wyoming and Montana gathered together Saturday outside of Dodson for the 150-year anniversary of a smallpox outbreak which left many Native people from the Gros Ventre, or Aaniiih; Assiniboine, or Nakoda; Crow; Northern Arapaho, and other tribes dead. Organizers hope the ceremony will help reduce modern suicides as well as. The healing ceremony for the Aaniiih...
The annual Jaycees Haunted House is returning once again this year with a number of new frights and attractions for the community, Jaycees Haunted House Committee Chair Tyler Tate said. The haunted house is one of the community event fundraisers the Jaycees host during the year, with all the money raised going back into the community, he added. "It's just a good time," Tate said. The haunted house is located above the Havre Eagles Club and will be open Thursday through Oct. 31...
Havre Public Works Director Dave Peterson told Havre City Council Monday that this part of the Bullhook Storm Drain Project has moved into its final phase and hopefully, depending on the weather conditions, will be completed within the next two to three weeks. “This takes care of the critical portion,” he said. In October 2013, sections of streets and sidewalks over the drainage began collapsing. One of the first was a 10-foot by-4-foot section of the street near Taco Treat on the 500 Block of Third Street, which collapsed Oc...
The United States Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency and Montana State University are hosting a meeting Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Havre High School Auditorium to discuss programs in the 2018 Farm Bill. See related story on Page B6. A press release says that the meeting is free and open to the public and the meeting will be reviewing the FSA’s Agricultural Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage programs, which were authorized in the 2014 and 2018 farm bills. FSA District Director Bryan Schoenfelder said the FSA is h...
Two local men have joined the Havre Fire Department as firefighters, getting the department closer to being fully staffed, helping improve the response time and general operations of the team, Fire Chief Mel Paulson said. "It's going to help with response," he said. "We've been behind for the last year and you can feel it. ... It's going to be nice." Jordon Brough and Jake Williams have been training for the past couple of months to meet the requirements to become...
Ballots are being mailed out today in the only contested Havre City Council election in this part of Montana, in Havre's Ward 4. In that nonpartisan race, Derek Eldridge is challenging incumbent Erik Meis in his bid to retain the seat. Meis was appointed to City Council in December of last year, taking the seat after Andrew Brekke resigned after moving out of Ward 4. In September, the City Council passed a resolution canceling the Nov. 5 general election this year for the...
From a career in law enforcement to becoming a full time artist, Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation resident Theodore Koop said his love for art has always been a constant throughout his life. Koop, this month's featured artist at Artitudes Gallery in The Atrium, said his love for art really blossomed when he was a freshman in high school. His art teacher and friend, Tom Marinkovich, played a large role in his artistic pursuits. He said his family is also artistic, adding he...
Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series looking at repeat offenders arrested in connection with drug and alcohol use. Drug and alcohol abuse has been a large issue in the area for a very long time. More than 65 percent of the people law enforcement officers arrest are reoffenders and more than 90 percent of the crimes in the area involving drugs and alcohol, officials report. This is a large drain on resources and tax dollars, local law enforcement...
Bergren Transmission and Auto Care has been a staple of Havre for more than 60 years, and since Steve Neiffer bought the business in the mid '80s, he has worked to keep it moving forward as a family business. He said the business was originally established in Highland Park on Boulevard Avenue in the mid 1950s by Bernard "Abe" Bergren, whose name is on the business. At the time, it was not a transmission shop and the business was called Highland Park Repairs. The business was...
Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series on the issue of repeat offenders with drug and alcohol problems. Watch for Part 2 in Friday's edition of The Havre Daily News. Repeat arrests of people with alcohol and drug abuse problems has been an issue in this region for many years, Havre Police Chief Gabe Matosich said, and has played a role in increased crime rates and domestic abuse. Although law enforcement and the court system have been working to combat the...
Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services officials said today the department has identified the state’s first death associated with the national outbreak of e-cigarette use, or vaping. The officials said in a press release the case involves a person in their late teens with a history of vaping. State and local health officials have been investigating and officially identified this as a case Tuesday. No further information about the individual is being released at this time due to confidentiality. The a...
Sweet Medical Center will be hosting its premier Diabetes Beat Down Race Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the Blaine County Fairgrounds to raise awareness and funds to fight diabetes in the area, event organizer and Sweet Medical Center Nurse Practitioner Lindsay Rucinsky said. “We are just really excited to do this,” she said. Rucinsky, who is originally from Havre and is a Montana State University-Northern alum, said that the idea for the event originated from the fact that diabetes is a huge issue in the area and acr...
Fort Belknap Indian Community and nearby communities are hosting the tribes’ annual Domestic Violence Awareness Walk Friday to help bring light to the issue of domestic violence and to let people know help is available and people who are willing to help. “Domestic violence is a huge issue, and it’s really sad because people think it’s normal now because it happens so often, but it’s not and it’s not OK,” organizer and Fort Belknap Tiwahe Initiative Domestic Violence Crime Advocate Kayla Horn said. “… Hopefully they wi...
The Rocky Boy Health Center is hosting a free drive-through influenza shot clinic event this year, the first ever held there, for the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation community. The event will be at the Rocky Boy Health Center Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will be for people ages 19 and older. Clinic Health Department Program Assistant Kayla LaSalle said people are reminded to wear short-sleeve shirts so it is easier to administer the shot. The event will be at the clinic and will be a full drive through, with three differ...
Harlem City Council recently passed a resolution to change the federal holiday Columbus Day, Oct. 14, to Indigenous Peoples’ Day, joining other cities in Montana, such as Bozeman, Missoula and Helena, and some U.S. states in recognizing this change in focus for this federal holiday. “I felt it was an appropriate, long overdue, change that needed to be made,” Harlem City Council member Eva English, who proposed the resolution, said. “It is an effort to acknowledge who has had more of an impact, historically, currently and int...
The Milk River Watershed Alliance has released an educational video about the St. Mary Diversion Project, a more than 100-year-old system that supplied the majority of the water to the Milk River and the surrounding areas. "Water is the lifeline," Milk River Watershed Alliance Coordinator Deborah Clayton said. "If we don't have water, how can anybody survive, let alone a community or an area." The St. Mary Diversion was one of the first five projects the U.S. Bureau of...
Hill County Sheriff's Office has hired Katherine Lewis as a new deputy. A former Hill County Detention Center detention officer, Lewis said she always wanted to be in law enforcement and, although she is new to the team, she is excited to get involved with the community. "I have a lot of experiences for being young and so I think that's something that I am excited to bring," she said. "I'm just excited to learn and be working this job." Lewis said she lived in Sandpoint, Idaho...
Montana State University-Northern Office of Diversity Awareness and Multicultural Program's Multicultural Center will be hosting Friday its annual celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, which is from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. "It will just be a fun time," Multicultural Center Diversity Committee member Jasmine Carbajal said. "I'm really excited because they think that it is going to be the one big event of the year where we are going to be able to shed light onto the Latino commun...
The Natural Resources Conservation Service and Liberty and Hill County Conservation districts have rescheduled their tree-pruning workshop for next spring due to the weather conditions, NRCS District Conservationist Laurie Massar said. The event was originally scheduled for Thursday, at VFW Park at Lake Elwell. At the event, Montana State University Extension Forestry Specialist Peter Kolb was to demonstrate different methods to enhance tree survival through different trimming techniques. It also was going to offer a...
