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Voting closes at 10 a.m. our time for USA Today's Best Underground Attraction contest. Havre Beneath the Street is now in second place. You can vote once every 24 hours. To vote: http://bit.ly/23mYZW3...
A total of 379 students from 30 Montana high schools - including several on the Hi-Line - took part in the SkillsUSA competition at Montana State University-Northern this week. Thousands of dollars in prizes were given out to students who took part in 36 competitions; Sgt. Cody Saranto, a U.S. Marine Corps Infantryman who graduated from Plains High School in 2006, was the keynote speaker for the event. He gave an inspiring talk. He has been deployed in Bahrain and Kuwait, and...
Early detection of health problems in young people is key to finding solutions, so a group of community organizations are holding a health screening program for children 5 and younger next week. The sessions will be at the centrally located Van Orsdel United Methodist Church Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Children through 2 years of age are invited to come Tuesday, where they will undergo a series of screenings for vision, hearing and a host of other tests. Wednesday and Thursday, the children 5 and younger can undergo the...
Havre High School student Emily Brurud is organizing Fight Childhood Hunger Week, with activities that will try to raise awareness of local hunger issues. The weeklong efforts, starting Monday, will be aimed at educating people about hunger issues, raising money to help fight hunger and getting people involved in volunteering for anti-hunger efforts. Brurud appeared before Havre City Council Monday seeking — and getting — their support for the effort. The organizers will place bright orange boxes Gary & Leo’s Fresh Foods and...
Discover Downtown, a celebration of Havre life and an effort to promote downtown, will be held Saturday, May 14. The all-day event will involve blocking off 3rd Avenue from 3rd to 4th streets to traffic where vendors — local and home-based businesses — will be encouraged to set up booths. A walking path down the middle of the avenue will encourage people to mingle. A 5-K run and a one-mile fun run will be held through downtown streets. The program is being put on by doctors Marc Whitacre and Erica Farmer of Havre His...
A small crowd gathered at Town Square in downtown Havre Saturday morning with equipment in hand to spruce up 1st Street. They were from AmeriCorps, the nationwide group. AmeriCorps sends it members to communities where they can be of help. Five of the 75,0000 service members are in Havre, working with community organizations and Montana State University-Northern. Mayor Tim Solomon said AmeriCorps service members came to him asking if the city needed any projects done that...
Twelve-year-old Ryanne Briere of Harlem walked into the Havre Pizza Hut Thursday night with a big smile, a smile that is almost always on her face. She walked with a severe limp and her arms were withered due to the TAR Syndrome she has had since birth. But she was happy because she and her three sisters were coming with her parents, Wendy and Ben Briere, for a pizza dinner. Then she noticed something unusual. As she headed into the corner where her table was, a group of...
Janie Randles stood at the starting line at Eagles Park Saturday. Her two sons, Quinten, 9, and Zeke, 6, were in front of her, as were a horde of other young people. They were ready to pounce on hundreds of eggs that were placed around the field for anxious youngster to pick up. Some were having a hard time staying behind the starting line. It was the annual Easter egg hunt put on by Havre Jaycees and the Havre Eagles Club. Similar hunts were held by the Havre High School Key...
The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce and Havre Pride Committee will have its annual community cleanup Saturday, April 16. People are being asked to donate some time between 8:30 and 11:30 a.m. to clean up. “The long winter has taken a toll on our community,” said Shawn Holden, Chamber board president. “Can you help? You bet. Just an hour of your time can make a big difference.” The Chamber teams up with the city of Havre, Montana Department of Transportation and community volunteers to put on the event. Business people and com...
Some consider the traffic light boxes in downtown Havre to be a bit unsightly even if they are necessary. But soon they will be covered with locally produced drawings that depict some of the Hill County’s most interesting sights. The downtown group that is hoping to make the center of the city more attractive came up with the idea, and it caught on, said Paul Tuss, the executive director of Bear Paw Development Corp., and a member of the committee. Havre City Council last week approved an agreement with Montana Department o...
Families will have three options this weekend when it comes to taking part in the annual ritual of Easter egg hunts. The Eagles Club and the Jaycees will jointly hold one on Saturday as they have for decades, and the Optimists will conduct a hunt on Sunday. New to the mix this year is the Havre High School Key Club, which will hold an Easter egg hunt at 11 a.m. on the practice field west of the school. Kids up to 18 will be able to take part at the high school, with the...
Cody Welch and his 1-year-old business, Live Real Media, will be livestreaming Havre City Council meetings so people can see proceedings on YouTube from the comfort of their homes. Welch experimented at Monday night's City Council meeting, and except for a few glitches, things went well. The meeting is up on YouTube now, he said. The idea to broadcast or telecast council meetings first came from newly elected council member Caleb Hutchins. He said having meetings accessible...
Havre City Council members expressed support for a former council member who said the ordinance banning cellphone use while driving needs to be enforced or strengthened. Bob Kaul told council members Monday night that he sees the ordinance being violated all the time. Violators drive through stop signs, don’t look as they go through intersections and fail to see pedestrians, he said. He said he saw one person driving down 5th Avenue the other morning with his laptop computer on the steering wheel. Kaul said he supported t...
Havre businessman Tom Baker and Northern Montana College's first football coach, the late-George Bandy, will receive the Montana State University-Northern's Founders Award at the annual dinner May 6. Jim Bennett, executive director of the Montana State University-Northern Foundation, said the committee that makes the choices for the award praised the two for their contributions to Northern over the years. It was felt that honoring these two is long overdue, Bennett said....
Former Havre Public Schools Superintendent Dennis Parman will become the executive director of the Montana Rural Education Association. Since leaving Havre seven years ago, Parman has been Montana's deputy superintendent of public instruction, serving as the top aide to Superintendent Denise Juneau. Parman will assume the office on July 1, succeeding Dave Puyear, who is retiring after 18 years in office. Parman has 35 years in public education, serving in Shelby Public...
The three finalists for Harlem school superintendent will be introduced to the community and interviewed by the school board Wednesday. The board narrowed down its list to three after initially considering eight candidates for the post being left vacant by the resignation of Rhonda Baker. The candidates will visit the schools, meet with staff and faculty, take a tour through the community, eat lunch in the cafeteria and be interviewed by the school board. Then, there will be a meet-and-greet for all three candidates at the...
Havre Beneath the Streets is in first place in USA Today’s survey of the best underground attractions in the United States. People can vote online for their favorite choice at the Web page, http://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-underground-attraction. People can vote once a day through April 11 at 10 a.m. MDT. Twenty attractions from throughout the United States are on the ballot....
Havre Beneath the Street is one of 20 finalists for the honor of being USA Today's Best Underground Attraction. People are asked to vote for their favorite attraction at http://www.10best.com/awards/travel. People can vote once a day for the duration of the contest. Voting started Monday and continues through Monday, April 11, at 10 a.m. MDT. The contest is one of a series in USA Today's 10 Best Readers Choice series in which readers of the nationwide newspaper cast votes for...
Editor’s note: As of noon, Havre Beneath the Streets had taken the lead in the contest. Havre Beneath the Streets is in second place of 20 candidates in voting for USA Today’s Best Underground Attraction. Only the Port Angeles Underground is ahead of the Havre attraction in the voting. People are allowed to vote every 24 hours in the contest. Voting will be open through Monday, April 11, at 10 a.m. MDT. To cast a vote online, go to http://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-underground-attraction/....
The union representing Havre firefighters claims the department’s management is discriminating against firefighter DJ Olson by denying him the opportunity to take a promotional test. The Havre chapter of the International Association of Fire Fighters filed a grievance against the city that was heard by City Council’s Labor Committee Tuesday night. Olson, president of the local, and management have been involved in a series of disputes that have resulted in grievances being filed. Recently, Olson took a test so he could obt...
Participants will get an overview of the economic condition of Montana and the Hi-Line region at the economic outlook seminar planned for 8 a.m Wednesday at Hensler Auditorium at Montana State University-Northern. Patrick Barkey, director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana, will highlight the session, which is expected to last until 2 p.m. The session will also include a detailed look at Montana’s property tax system and the problems it faces. The seminars travel to seven cities in th...
People under 18 will be able to hunt for Easter Eggs and contribute to the March of Dime on Saturday, March 26. The Havre High School Key Club will hold an Easter Egg hunt on the practice field west of the school. Adviser John Ita said the club decided to try something new to raise money for the March of Dimes, which fights birth defects. The Key Club has supported March of Dimes among many other projects for years. Ita said members are already buying East Eggs that can be hidden on the field — different colors for d...
Harlem's annual celebration of rural life, the Montana Seed Show, will take place Thursday through Saturday. Paul Rasmussen, a longtime organizer of the event, said activities will be pretty much as they have in the past. The community always support the events, he said. Different organizations will help with the programs, and Harlem High School closes so events can be held at the school gym, library and elsewhere. People usually come from throughout the Hi-Line to enjoy the...
Members of the Havre City Government Study Commission expressed disappointment at the turnout of a public hearing Tuesday night, but said they were pleased with some of the suggestions made by the public. Three people from the general public and two reporters were on hand for the session, aimed at getting ideas on what form the city’s government should take. Bob Nault said he hoped the commission’s work would be the first step in revitalizing the town he has lived in all of his 76 years. He called on the panel to propose that...
Too many people are keeping junked cars on their property in violation of city codes, and the city of Havre isn’t doing enough to stop it. That was the opinion expressed by Val Murri, a Havre resident who spoke to City Council on Monday night. Murri addressed council during the public comment part of the meeting. He said cars with no engines that are clearly inoperable can be seen strewn across lawns, he said. Especially when it is on main thoroughfares, this can present a poor image of the city, he said. He said the p...
