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Sarah Calhoun grew up on a farm in Connecticut. Often, she helped do chores with her father. She was looking for jeans she could wear while doing the work, but there was no such thing as women's work pants. She started wearing her father's work jeans, "but they never seemed to fit right." As years went by, she received an environmental sciences degree from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, and came west to teach outdoor education to young people. Still, when she worked...
John Kelleher [email protected] Montana Actors' Theatre presents "God of Carnage" starting tonight. A playground altercation between 11-year-old boys brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first, diplomatic niceties are observed, but as the meeting progresses, and the rum flows, tensions emerge and the gloves come off, leaving the couples with more than just their liberal principles in tatters. Dates for performances...
There is a consensus on the three-member Study Commission reviewing Havre’s form of government that some kind of city executive is needed to run the day-to-day operations of the city. That’s the thought of commission chair Dave Brewer, who spoke at Tuesday night’s meeting. He said the executive would either be a city manager who would work at the direction of the mayor and the city council or an executive who would work under the mayor. The commission met with representatives of the Local Government Center at city hall....
The H, Earl Clack Memorial Museum will be closed from Saturday to Feb. 17 because of budgetary problems and to give volunteers a chance to clean up. Museum Board Chair Judi Dritshulas said the museum is running short on money. Cash-strapped Hill County commissioners, who provide some funding for the museum, are urging the museum to become self-funding by relying more on the museum’s foundation, she said. “That’s difficult to do when we are undertaking a pretty large project of our own,” she said, referring to the gradual...
Brenda Friede, assistant manager at Gary & Leo's Fresh Foods summed it up in three words. "It was awesome," she said. She spoke as she saw store employees pack lots of food into a truck that would be unloaded at the Havre Food Bank and the Salvation Army's Havre Service Center. Almost $9,000 worth of food was collected. Throughout the Christmas season, people could buy a $40 basket of food or a $25 basket. The money went to the Feed the Hunger program. This was the largest...
The Havre community has once again come forward and donated food, money and work to get the Havre Food Bank through its toughest time of the year. So says Lorna Bjerga, the food bank manager. The community at-large, the business community and schools all came forward with donations, she said. She was especially pleased with the increase in participation from young people. Some schools contributed 400 to 600 pounds of food, she said. One rancher donated a side of beef that will...
Andrew Brekke, starting his third term on Havre City Council, is now starting his second term as council president. Without a word of dissent, Brekke was re-elected to the post Monday night, which puts him first in the line of succession behind Mayor Tim Solomon. Brekke laughingly said he expected that Solomon would retain his present policy of rarely leaving the city, so the job should entail little work. As president, Brekke will represent the council at various functions....
When our new reporter Paul Dragu started covering news along the Hi-Line, he quickly noticed one thing: Use of meth was something that was involved in a lot of news stories: • The Havre school board hired a part-time drug counsellor at the high school. Abuse of prescription drugs was a concern, but the biggest topic was meth. • In many of the court cases he covered, the reason given for the criminal behavior was very often meth. • Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation is considering banning drug dealers in general and meth dealers...
The Hi-Line’s deteriorating infrastructure is the main thing most community leaders would like to see as a priority for 2016. But issues ranging from the city’s annexation of areas west of the city, discussion about a Hill County tax increase, work on attracting businesses to the new industrial park, improvements to Highway 232 north of Havre and a religious spiritual explosion are among other things people would like to see during the coming year. The Havre Daily News contacted a cross-section of leaders in the area to see...
Whitacre and Farmer are on their way to preserving another historic landmark. They purchased the century-old Masonic Temple, right across the street. It was getting worse for the wear, and the Masons were unable to pay for the needed repairs. The couple is already undertaking renovations to the building. Havre also got attention when three colleges students were brutally stabbed the morning before graduation at Montana State University-Northern when an intruder broke into their Highland Park apartment. The students are in...
All sorts of people showed up for the Christmas dinner at the Eagles Club Friday. Young folks, older people and dozens of volunteers who said they have as much fun as the people who come to eat. Michael Cuneo dished out turkey to people at the serving line during the entire four hours of the feast, meeting new people and saying hello to folks he knew. He's a relative newcomer to Montana - he's been here only six years - and wants to meet more people. He said he enjoyed his...
The Havre Eagles Club is always full of people celebrating something. In many ways, it is the center for social life in Havre. On an average night, people will be gathering at the bar while social groups, fraternal organizations or political organizations will be meeting in the assembly room or in the basement rooms. Or perhaps a group will be holding a benefit for someone who is ill or has sustained an injury. Veteran Eagles manager Tom Farnham helps put on the benefits for t...
A small-town Christmas is an important part of Americana. North-central Montana offers an abundance of small-town Christmas activities. The season has been marked with visits to kids by Santa Claus, school concerts, community celebrations, Christmas tree lightings, parades, school plays and Nativity scene re-enactments. Some new events took place this year but, while things change as years ago by, many of the area traditions of years past remain intact. Those who have left...
Bear Paw Development Corp. is planning to update its long-range development plan for northern Montana, and it’s looking for the public's help. They want people to come forth with ideas about economic and community development priorities for this part of the Hi-Line. “We really want to have a good idea of what people think are the strengths and weaknesses of our regional economy, and the type of projects that would help make our communities stronger, more resilient and better places to live, work and invest,” said Eryn Nissen,...
Two new members of Havre City Council were sworn in Monday night, though they won't formally take office until Jan. 1 Caleb Hutchins of Ward 3 and Ed Matter of Ward 1 took the oath of office for four-year terms, while Andrew Brekke of Ward 4 was sworn in for his third term. Council member Brian Barrows was unable to attend Monday's council meeting and will be sworn in later. They were installed in a simple ceremony during the regular council meeting. Mayor Tim Solomon called...
Marcia Miller of Havre admits that when her son, Josh Miller, bought her a carbon monoxide detector as a gift last Christmas, she wasn’t sure what she was going to do with it. But now she’s sure that the detector saved her life when her furnace malfunctioned. Josh, a Cut Bank police officer, gave his mother the gift out of concern for the colorless, odorless gas that can cause death without warning. Josh was at his mother’s Havre home for a few days earlier this month, and noticed that the detector, which she put on a shelf...
"It was awesome, crazy and awesome again." That was the summation 8-year-old Finnly Wiens offered at the conclusion of her ride through Havre on a horse-drawn wagon Saturday afternoon. She was taking part in the second annual Christmas celebration and hayride in Havre sponsored by the Havre-Hill County Library. Children could visit Santa Claus, eat cookies and other Christmas treats, take part in arts and crafts and enjoy a hayride through Havre in a horse-drawn wagon. The...
Executive Director Trina Crawford sat in the middle of the Salvation Army Emergency Services office Thursday. The place was an organized mess. Bags of Christmas gifts filled the office and spread over the floor. Most were in big sacks. There were clothes, toys and other gifts, headed to young people in poor families throughout Hill County. Since 2005, Trina has held a job that is technically part-time. Throughout the year, she is busy making sure poor families have enough to...
Hill County has been declared a primary natural disaster area due to extreme weather conditions this summer. The July 4 hail and wind storm and the lack of precipitation over the course of the year were blamed for the crisis that affected the agriculture community in the county. The declaration opens the possibility of aid to farmers and ranchers. Chouteau, Liberty and Blaine counties were named contiguous disaster areas, meaning they border on counties declared disaster areas. Farmers in those counties will get less substant...
Cathy Olthoff of Great Falls has been collecting Nativity scenes most of her life. She has a special fascination with the depictions of the birth of Christ. She believes they mark the true meaning of Christmas. She collected several hundred types of Nativity scenes of all shapes and sizes. They are made out of everything from wood to enamel. They come from all over the world - Japan, Thailand, Mexico, Peru and all over Europe. She kept them in her home for many years, even...
The H. Earl Clack Museum's annual Dinosaur Christmas was set to begin at 1 p.m. Saturday, but at the starting time there were already large crowds gathering around the tables set up in front of the museum in Holiday Village Mall. Elementary school-age children have an attraction to dinosaurs, and so the program is aimed toward them, said Judi Dritshulas, the museum board's chair. Children had an opportunity to take part in four activities. They could help make dinosaur eggs...
A decade-long controversy between Hill County and the city of Havre may be resurfacing. County commissioners have notified the city that they will end the contract under which the county pays $20,000 for the operation of the swimming pool at the city hall complex. Presently, the city pays $160,000 for the pool, the county contributes $20,000 and Havre Public Schools chips in $19,000. Commission Chair Mike Wendland said the county didn’t want to exacerbate the sometimes tense relations with the city government but was f...
For Roger Meredith, ringing the bell and soliciting contributions to the Salvation Army's red kettle is part volunteer work and part socializing. As he stood in at the south door of Gary & Leo's Fresh Foods Saturday, he chatted with people he hadn't seen in some time, pulled out shopping carts for shoppers and took donations from folks who wanted to help out the Salvation Army. He's been doing this for years - standing at the red kettle, ringing the bell and chatting with...
The city of Havre is considering a plan to outsource its ambulance services to Northern Montana Hospital. The mayor said the plan would provide quality service to the public while saving the city a considerable sum of money. The city’s fire department, which now provides emergency medical technician service, would remain full-time, he said, but fewer people would be needed on staff, according to Mayor Tim Solomon. Solomon brought up the matter while answering questions Tuesday night from members of the Havre Study C...
It’s time the city of Havre looks at having a city manager form of government, Mayor Tim Solomon believes. Solomon was interviewed Tuesday night by the Havre Review Commission, the panel that is determining whether the city should change its form of government and how. When panel members asked him about the city manager proposal, he said it was a tough question, but he came down on the side of an appointed city manager who would answer to city council. He said the city needed a professional to run the day-to-day operations o...
