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Sunday, Havre High School will be hosting its 29th Annual Salute to Senior Citizens, a salute to people who support the school system and volunteer to help children and the community - like Bob Evans Sr. "I've always been involved in Blue Pony sports," Evans said. The Salute to Senior Citizens event will start at noon at the Havre Middle School cafeteria with brunch at 12:30 p.m. After brunch the Havre High School Hi-Liters, Woodwind Choir, Belles Voix and Flute Choir will...
To observe Lent this year, students at St. Jude Thaddeus School decided to help out some animals. For the Lenten period, the students collected and donated approximately $150 and a number of items and food for the Havre Animal Shelter. "I've been amazed with our students and our teachers and what (first grade teacher Jessie Kuhn) has done with this," Principle Mike Haugen said. Haugen and three student council members, Dylan Kuhn, Mackenzie Kuhn and council president Kat...
Wednesday, Special Olympics athletes came from across the area to attend the Special Olympics Great Northern Area Spring Games, competing in track and field events in the morning followed by bowling and a celebratory dance in the evening. Special Olympics Local Program Coordinator Brandon Berreth said the day went well. The track and field events at Havre Middle school ran smoothly and allowed all the athletes to have fun. "Just seeing the smiles on all the kids' faces when...
The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting its annual Women’s Expo Saturday and Sunday, welcoming people from near and far to attend. “It’s just a fun event to draw people into our community,” event organizer and Chamber of Commerce Events Committee Chair Tera Verploegen said. Chamber of Commerce Director Jody Olson said that it is a two-day event of fun and vendors geared toward women’s interest. This event offers a place for women to get together for a shopping experience and education on a variety of topics. The event w...
Meat processors are converging on Havre this week. Starting Thursday, the 32nd annual processors convention for the Montana Meats Processors Association — MMPA — will be held in Havre, hosted by member and former president Jim Dumas, who owns Big Sandy Meat Shop. Lower Valley Processing Company owner and President Jeremy Plummer said he is excited for the event and looks forward to all of the seminars and events planned. Events and seminars will be at the Havre Ice Dome, Northern Agricultural Research Center of Montana Sta...
The Back to School Bash event is beginning to look for donations with a shoe drive for this year's event. This year will be the third annual Back to School Bash and will be held Aug. 24. The activities are in conjunction with the Salvation Army's Back to School Bash, which supplies backpacks and school supplies for low-income families as well as providing free shoes, haircuts, carnival games, lunch and a guest speaker. "So just kind of a fun day for kids," event organizer...
Havre Beneath the Streets is holding a fundraiser with a 100-year-old theme Friday at the Havre Eagles Club, seeking help repairing damage to its popular historical tourist attraction. "I am looking forward to seeing our community come together for such a great event and sponsoring our little treasure we have here," Havre Beneath the Streets Office Manager Christy Owens said. Beneath the Streets, which displays items from historical Havre businesses in the basements and tunnel...
On Earth Day, Montana State University-Northern had its Campus Improvement Day where students could turn bags of trash into a free meal. Northern students Parker Deighan and Kareem Elhajj said Monday they are both part of the recycling crew on campus, a paid student position which empties recycling bins on campus. They added that Monday's Earth Day event is the recycling crew's yearly event to try to get students to interact with cleaning up campus. Elhajj said that they give...
The Havre Police Protective Association donated $400 Thursday to Havre High School's senior class to help the students fund their annual Senior Week. Senior Week will be May 19-25 and will have events, activities and prizes throughout the week, such as baccalaureate, fishing and hiking, game nights, live music and costume contests. Havre High School Class President Senior Megan Whitford, 18, said that Senior Week is about students being able to spend their last week with...
After years of work that started with one man's dream, Fort Assinniboine, once the largest fort in Montana, was listed in January on the National Register of Historic Places, receiving the certificate earlier this month. "It's exciting," Fort Assinniboine Preservation Association Chair Ron VandenBoom said. "It's rewarding and a little bit bitter sweet because this was (former chair Gary Wilson's) dream and he isn't here to see it anymore." Wilson, a local historian and author...
Last year, because of the harsh, long winter, the Great Northern Area of the Montana Special Olympics had to cancel the Great Northern Spring Games, but this year the Special Olympics are back with approximately 60 athletes signed up to compete Wednesday. "A lot of athletes in our area don't have the financial means or the ability or have someone that can take them to the state games in Great Falls," Special Olympics Local Program Coordinator Brandon Berreth said, "so what we...
The Montana Association of Chiefs of Police has opened applications for its Montana Junior Leadership Academy this year, with next Friday the deadline to apply. “It’s a really good learning experience for the kids,” Havre Police Chief Gabe Matosich said. Montana Junior Leadership Academy is a week-long event from July 7 through July 13, he said. The academy is open for high school students of all ages and allows participants to spend a week at the Montana Law Enforcement Academy in Helena. While the students are there, they w...
The presence of the U.S. Border Patrol in north-central Montana has changed since the Spokane District established a sub-office in Havre July 31, 1924, and since it became the Havre Sector Headquarters in 1933, but its role is the same - protecting the U.S. border. The presence of the U.S. Border Patrol has increased significantly in north-central Montana in the last 20 years. The Department of Homeland Security was created in 2002, integrating part or all of 22 different...
Less than a year after purchasing McLain's Cabinets and Countertops from his father, Steve McLain, Eric McLain is keeping the family business going beside his brother and father - with his 9-year-old son starting to help, as well. Steve McLain said selling to his son seems to be working out well. "It just seemed to be the right thing to do," Steve McLain said. "He's been doing a good job since we've started this thing. ... There is not a lot of people out there who want to...
Havre's Dog Park Club continued Wednesday planning work for the new park on land south of town near the Havre Ice Dome that Havre City Council approved leasing to the club for $1 at its Feb. 20 meeting. Board member Renee Pribyl - who resigned from the board Wednesday during the monthly meeting at the HRDC Building because she is moving to Great Falls - said the club's Fundraising and Advertising Committee is discussing selling signs to be displayed at the park. "We are going...
Local employers filled the Havre High School cafeteria for the first job fair for students in the past 12 years. Havre Job Service Manager Carol Lamey said her office wanted to bring the opportunity for students back. "High school kids are always so willing and excited to get into work," she said. Lamey said about 17 employers and 40 students attended the job fair this year and she hopes in the future more will be able to attend. The event is a job fair, not a career fair,...
Montana Actors' Theatre is starting a run this week of a play by a Virginia playwright adapted specifically to this part of north-central Montana Suzanne Beal adapted her play "I am (not) my Mother" just for Havre, taking stories from community members in the region to bring something everyone can relate to at the show's opening Friday in Cowan Hall's Little Theatre at Montana State University-Northern. "It touches everyone," director Audrey Barger said. "I love how universal...
Editor’s note: Havre Fire Chief Mel Paulson told the Havre Daily News after the paper went to press that the Havre City Council vote to approve donating a fire truck to the Kremlin Rural Fire District was an error. The Rudyard Volunteer Fire Department had agreed to take the truck, but the wrong district was listed in the motion voted on by the council. Paulson said a resolution to donate the truck to the Rudyard department will be on the next City Council agenda. Havre City Council approved helping out a rural volunteer f...
Monday, 176 people spent the evening tasting refreshments and listening to student performances in the Havre High School gymnasium during the Havre High School music department's annual Taste of Jazz event. "My favorite part is the music itself," Havre High School band director Zachary Paulus said in an email. "Jazz is an organic form of American art and it's great to showcase the students who keep it alive." The event started at 7 p.m. and included live and silent auctions...
The Havre City Council Ordinance Committee tabled until its next meeting a proposed ordinance to regulate vacant properties after community members and members of the city government raised concerns about its wording and about the idea of the ordinance itself. The committee decided to work on the language of the proposed vacant property registration ordinance and to ask City Attorney Jennifer Forsyth about the legality of the document. “I want this to be relatively painless, but I also want people to take responsibility f...
Friday's Havre legislative teleconference from Helena to Havre was canceled because no legislators were able to attend, but Rep. Jacob Bachmeier, D-Havre, and Sen. Russ Tempel, R-Chester, both gave comment Sunday on the past week of the Legislature including on the proposal to continue the state's Medicaid expansion. House Bill 658 introduced by Rep. Edward Buttrey, R-Great Falls, stalled last week in the Senate, with Tempel voting on several amendments to the bill Thursday,...
Traditional culture came together on the Montana State University-Northern campus Friday and Saturday when Northern's Sweetgrass Society held its annual powwow in the Armory Gymnasium. Sweetgrass Society President Jonathan Nepoose said the event went well and he was glad to see people from different areas all come together to celebrate the event. "It's important," he said. "I think it's (our) duty to keep it going." He said that the powwow is a celebration of American Indian...
Hill County Commissioner Mark Peterson and Havreite Bob Sivertsen asked Thursday at a Montana Department of Transportation meeting with local officials if counties could put weight restrictions on county roads. “We are going to look at it, talk about it and see what can be done,” Peterson said during the meeting in the Blaine County Library in Chinook. He said the issue came up Wednesday at a public meeting about the county’s plan to apply for a $25 million BUILD grant. The restrictions discussed would apply to trucks such...
A number of students from Montana State University-Northern and North Star High School in Rudyard received honors Wednesday at the SkillsUSA award ceremony for their work in a variety of competitions held this week at Northern for the 2019 SkillsUSA Montana State Leadership and Skills Conference. "Hard work pays off," North Star Industrial Technology teacher and SkillsUSA advisor Steve Simonson said after the ceremony. People who earned a gold medal at the Havre conference qua...
While a few people did speak at a second meeting about Hill County’s plan to apply for a $25 million infrastructure grant, Hill County Commission Chair Mark Peterson said he was disappointed more did not show up. “Quite frankly, if people are not interested enough to come to the meeting, do we want to focus on their roads?” Peterson said. “Maybe we need to focus on areas where people are interested and want to come to the meeting and let us know what’s going on.” He said that the county has approximately 1,800 miles of ro...
