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Havre Beneath the Streets has finished second in voting to determine the best underground attraction in the United States. USA Today, the nation’s third largest newspaper which conducted the survey, announced the results Friday. Forestiere Underground Gardens of Fresno, California, finished on top in the voting. USA Today nominated 20 underground attractions in the nationwide voting that has taken place for the last month. In a news release, the newspaper said it would probably have a story in its print edition today. Q...
John Klein and his family have camped and hiked at Beaver Creek Park ever since they moved to Havre from Miles City eight years ago. "My family and I hike at Beaver Creek all the time," he said. "I like to hike." Now a freshman at Havre High School, he is working on earning his Eagle Scout badge. For his Eagle Scout project, he wants to give back to the park that has meant so much to him over the years. He's going to build a gravel parking lot, two picnic tables, a fence,...
Five-year-old Ernie Goettlich carefully placed the needle through cloth and pulled it through just as kids in 19th century America did. He then helped volunteer Terri Earl fold the piece of cloth into the formation of a flower. Then he sewed it onto a colored piece of paper as his nearly 2-year-old brother, Wesley, looked on. He had a colorful decoration to take home with him. The exhibit on traditional sewing was one of more than 40 displays at Hands on History, the annual...
A state hearing officer has awarded Randy Bachmeier, the dean of Montana State University-Northern's Extended University, $175,000 for emotional distress he suffered by being sexually harassed by then-Provost Rosalyn Templeton. Montana Human Relations Commission Hearing Officer Terry Spear, in a strongly worded finding, wrote that it was obvious that Bachmeier was being sexually harassed. Montana University System officials said this morning that they had filed an appeal in...
The city of Havre may launch an effort to curtail blight in the city, but first it wants to make sure it completely understands the complexities of state laws governing such efforts. City Council’s Ordinance Committee decided to wait taking any action on the effort until experts on the matter can be brought in to discuss the laws. Ordinance Chair Andrew Brekke is suggesting the city consider tax increment financing districts and Urban renewal districts as a way to fight the increase in delapidated buildings people have c...
Shortly after noon Sunday, the cafeteria at Havre Middle School was full of senior citizens dining on a meal prepared by the cafeteria staff. The seniors had browsed in the foyer through a large display of artwork done by students in all grades. They were taking part in the 26th annual Salute to Seniors put on by Havre Public Schools. Superintendent Andy Carlson said the program is designed to express gratitude to seniors who have supported Havre schools - financially and...
The surroundings will be 21st century commercialism, customers at Holiday Village Mall will be busy shopping, but at center court and elsewhere in the mall, young people will be taking a step back in time. They may be washing clothes using a 19th century washing tub and wringer. Or perhaps they will be panning for gold — or, rather, fool’s gold. Or they could be making sock puppets. It will be the annual Hands on History. It is a fundraising effort for the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum and the Wahkpa Chu'gn Buffalo Jump, and...
Fresno Chapter of Walleyes Unlimited held its 33rd annual Walleye Banquet to raise money for the group's work. All of kinds of prizes that were donated by local merchants and individuals were auctioned and raffled off, including jewelry, guns, trips, a large-screen TV and more. Just about everybody went home with something from the annual banquet at the Havre Ice Dome Saturday. The event annually attracts 500 people. In fact, it would attract more, but only 500 tickets are...
The city of Havre and the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce may be close to an agreement that will allow people to bring alcohol to Sounds on the Square, the weekly concert held at Town Square during the summer. A proposal discussed at Wednesday night’s Ordinance Committee meeting calls for the Chamber to get a permit that would inform the city who is in charge of the event and what time the events are being held. Controversy flared last year after city police charged an attendee at the event with violating the city’s open con...
The Eagles Club was jam packed Saturday night. Lines of chairs, decorated by volunteers, sat on display for bidders before being auctioned off. Head Start students proudly touted the chairs they had made People dined on Indian tacos. As the auction began, people were involved in aggressive bidding for the chairs, some items going for as much as $300. The event was A Seat at the Table, a gathering designed to raise funds for the Northern Montana Child Development Center. The...
Senior citizens will browse through special displays of work done by Havre Public Schools students. Then they will be entertained by Havre High School musical groups. And the seniors will dine on a brunch prepared by school cafeteria staff. All of this will take place at the 26th annual Salute to Seniors at noon, Sunday, at Havre Middle School. “This is our 26th annual Salute to Seniors,” said Superintendent Andy Carlson. “This is our way of saying thank you for the support they have shown to our students,” Carlson said. H...
For years, Candi Zion handed out the annual Environmental Heroes Awards at the Havre City Council meeting before Earth Day. This year, she was on the other end of the award-giving. Zion was one of the recipients of the heroes award at Monday night’s council meeting. Zion was a founding member of Recycle Hi-Line, the group that that educates the public on environmental topics, sponsors the monthly recycle drives at Pacific Steel & Recycling and hands out the heroes awards. She and Terry Turner founded the group in May 2008. Z...
Havre City Councilwoman Janet Trethewey has resigned her position effective the end of April. Trethewey, who represents Ward 2, the Highland Park area, said because of her job with the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, she cannot adequately serve her constituents. In her job, Trethewey visits communities around Montana, helping them become more cardiac-care ready. She said she knew when she started the job she would be on the road a lot, but thought that...
Cub Scouts from four area packs - two from Havre and one each from Chester and Big Sandy - gathered at Holiday Village Mall Saturday to compete in the Hi-Line District Pinewood Derby. "Kids love taking a block of wood and making a car out of it," said Hi-Line District Chair Bill Lanier. "It's a good time for them. The kids get to meet other Scouts." The next step, he said, is the state championship meet in Great Falls May 7. Unlike most competitions, kids don't have to win at...
The Montana State University-Northern Lights football team spanned both sides of 5th Avenue Saturday morning, trash bags in their hands, picking up a winter's worth of trash along the sidewalks and in the gutters. The team started the work after meeting for coffee and cinnamon rolls with other Northern students helping out in the annual Havre Pride cleanup. "We need to be more interactive with the community," said the Lights' Dale Cummings as he walked down the street with...
More than 60 teachers from around Montana will be attending the annual meeting of the Montana Association of Family and Consumer Sciences Wednesday through Friday at the Best Western Havre Inn and Suites. To old-timers, the subject might be better known as home economics, said Mary Kay Rambo, a retired teacher at Chester-Joplin-Inverness and organizer of the event. But the new name better explains what the course offers today. “It changed dramatically over the years I was a teacher,” she said. The changes involved not onl...
Havreites will gather to help clean up their city Saturday morning. “We need everybody out there,” said Kim Cripps, the longtime chair of Havre Pride. Twice a year — at springtime and the week before Festival Days — Havre Pride organizes the effort to pick up trash around the city. Cripps said the volunteers will help clean the winter’s collection of trash from the streets and sidewalks. People will gather at 5th Avenue and 1st Street at 8:30 a.m., Cripps said. Volunteers will be given trash bags they can take with them. She...
More than 100 people volunteer at Salvation Army's Havre Service Center, the food bank and Feed My Sheep Soup Kitchen every year, and many were on hand Tuesday night to be praised by a series of speakers at the annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner. The Salvation Army, Feed My Sheep Soup Kitchen and Havre Food Bank help a joint dinner prepared by volunteers ranging from food bank director Lorna Bjerga to state Sen. Kris Hansen. "You don't know how thankful we are for you and yo...
A little more than four years ago, Melanie Vinberg knew nothing about CASA - the Court-Appointed Special Advocates. But a situation in her own family that she felt was mishandled by authorities got her thinking. Melanie had a troubled youth. She came from a dysfunctional home that made her childhood years very difficult. Someone should be there to help people in her kind of situation, she felt, and the more she learned about CASA, the more she was convinced they were the ones...
A little bit of Downton Abbey, the location of the Public Broadcasting System hit show about a ritzy mansion in early 20th century England, will be in Havre Saturday, April 30. Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea, a fundraiser for the Havre History Center, will be held at 1:30 p.m. at the Best Western Plus Havre Inn & Suites. The event will be a re-creation of a tea that might be held at the Abbey, said Judi Dritshulas, chair of the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board of Directors...
The Havre Police Department has been receiving reports that people calling the department on the regular line, 265-4361, are getting a message that the phone line is disconnected. Anyone calling the department who receives this message is advised to call 911 if it is an emergency, For non-emergency calls, dial or 265-4362. After calling the department, call your phone provider and report the problem to the....
The horseshoe pits in Havre's Optimist Park had become overgrown with weeds. The backboards were falling apart. The sand was full of dirt and trash, rendering the pits virtually unusable. Ellis Hawkes, then a Scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts of America in Havre, knew that one of his Scouts, Dakota Acor, was looking for a project to gain an Eagle Scout badge, and he told Dakota about the issue. Dakota put the need and the volunteers together, and today the pits are repaired and b...
The Havre Review Commission tentatively approved measures that could change the face of Havre city government. The three-member panel will hold a public hearing on the proposal Wednesday, April, 27, at 7 p.m. at City Council chambers. If given final approval, the proposal would go to voters in November. Under the proposal: • A city manager would replace the mayor as the chief executive officer of the city. The manager would report to the City Commission. • A seven-member City Commission would replace the City Council. Fou...
The Kallenberger family sat in the front of the row of tables at the Eagles Club Saturday night, dining on breakfast biscuits and breakfast cinnamon rolls. The family loves to read, and that's why they were at the "Breakfast at Suppertime" fund-raiser for Plant a Seed ... READ, the organization that encourages young people to read. "I love to read," said 9-year-old Cadence Kallenberger." "Once I read for 180 minutes." "Chapter book are the best," she told a visitor "because...
When Margaret Stallkamp retired from her career at the Havre-Hill County Library, she started looking for some volunteer work. She wanted something interesting and challenging. Margaret has an interest in history and has been fascinated in Havre since she and her husband, Lloyd, arrived in town when he accepted a position at Montana State University-Northern. Before long, she found the perfect fit. She has volunteered for three years now at the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum...
