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Josh Kaupang lost his trailer house and all of his possessions in a fire Saturday morning, but he's pleased the blaze spared his five children. Havre firefighters spent two hours Saturday morning fighting the fire in Smithville that is believed to have been caused by a faulty water heater. Kaupang's children, ages 14, 10, 7, 6 and 3 months were not at home at the time. Kaupang was with his girlfriend, who was making plans to move in with him. Now he and the baby are living...
Cynthia Laufer has coped with mental health issues her entire life. She says that it can be tough having mental health issues in the city. “There is a real stigma to it,” she said. But she is bound to help other people with the same problems. Together, she said, they can improve their lives. She sees it as her role bringing people together. “I believe this is why God put me on this Earth,”she said. So she is involved in the organization of a NAMI chapter in Havre. NAMI — National Alliance on Mental Illness — is a group that...
The Town Pump Charitable Foundation will match up to $7,500 on behalf of Havre Food Bank, and $1,000 on behalf of Feed My Sheep Soup Kitchen between now and the end of November. That will be part of the $3 million the foundation hopes to raise for food banks and soup kitchens around Montana this year. Anyone who donates to any of the food banks will have their donation matched by the foundation. The money is used to purchase perishable food items such as milk, bread, fruit and vegetables. The funds are becoming more crucial...
Flags in the United Kingdom’s community of Rudyard are flying at half-staff this week to honor a friend from a community of the same name across the sea. Jan Delaney, who had lived in Rudyard, Montana, for 30 years and died Oct. 16, developed a bond between her community and Rudyard, UK, in an unusual manner. She had visited England 13 times for varying lengths of time over the last 20 years, becoming very good friends with people of the community on the shores of Rudyard Lake. She became a well-known and loved person in the...
Culture from Hawaii, Colombia and Serbia highlighted Saturday's Second Annual Festival of Nations at Montana State University-Northern. A dance troupe with Colombian traditions, a Hula dancer and a Northern basketball player from Serbia entertained and educated the crowd in the Student Union Building. Many people got in the spirit of it all and came dressed in the attire of other nations. Cristina Estrada-Underwood, the diversity director at Northern, came in Indian attire, th...
Fort Assinniboine is where Havre began... The fort was authorized in 1879 by President Rutherford Hays to settle disputes between settlers and Native American tribes. Havre wasn't dreamed of in those day. For the most part, Natives used the land for hunting, but hadn't settled in the area. At its height, the fort had more than 100 buildings. Many remain today, though some are in bad condition. Most forts of that era have been wiped out by the ravages of time. A group of...
Sheila Neuwerth was at Van Orsdel United Methodist Church Wednesday night, waiting for things to liven up. Havre firefighters were going door to door throughout the city's east side, picking up donations of food for the Havre Food Bank.Volunteers were accompanying them, and other volunteers were showing up at the church to help unload, sort and transport the food to the food bank building in North Havre. From there, it would go to families throughout the area who would go...
The people in the Havre Special Olympics program will be able to participate in activities this year because some people are willing to jump in a big vat of ice cold water Saturday. The SubZero SuperHero Polar Plunge will take place Saturday at Blue Pony Stadium after the Montana State University-Northern football game. Officials say it should happen between 4 and 5 p.m. People who can gather more than $100 in pledges will be invited to take the plunge into the cold water...
Sally Loftus was giving her annual report to the Hi-Line Pregnancy Resource Center at the annual banquet Tuesday night. She's the executive director of the organization that helps troubled women who are unexpectedly pregnant. Loftus and her volunteers help women understand options they face other than abortion. Loftus talked about assuming her new role a few years ago and how she was a bit unsure of herself. One day, as she was sitting at the resource center's table at the...
South side Havre resident Dave Kaasa got a surprise when he looked out in his yard Tuesday. There was a coyote. He called Havre police for advice. They said they could do nothing. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks came to the scene and decided it was best to euthanize the coyote. Kaasa said FWP told him that they often sedate other animals and take them into the wild and set them free, but their policy is not to do that with coyotes, Kaasa said. At first, Kaasa said, the...
State Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, will receive a Hero Award from the Montana branch of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Windy Boy was praised by NAMI-Montana, which advocates for the mentally ill in the state, for his work on a legislative interim committee that drafted many of the reforms that were approved in the 2015 session of the Montana Legislature. Matt Kuntz, NAMI-Montana executive director, said the award is given to "recognize people and...
Enrollment in Havre Public School has increased since a year ago. The increase encourages school officials, who have seen slight enrollment decreases in recent years. State assistance to schools depends on the enrollment figures, so school officials are always glad to see enrollment rise. Total enrollment for the district for this fall is 1,901, an increase from 1,862 in September 2014. “That’s not a big increase, but it’s going in the right direction,” said District Clerk Mike Decker. A second enrollment count will be held...
Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation may follow the lead of two other Native communities and banish from the reservation people who have been convicted of serious drug offenses. State Rep. Bruce Meyers, R-Box Elder, said more than 70 people attended a community meeting last week, and about 90 percent favored investigating the idea of banishment for drug pushers. A task force was appointed at the meeting to come up with proposals that will be submitted to Chippewa Cree Business Committee, the tribal council. Meyers said the a...
D.J. Olson, the president of Havre chapter of the local International Association of Fire Fighters, has a target on his back, and the fire department's administration is retaliating against him for filing a complaint against the assistant fire chief, said Cody McLean, the union's grievance committee chair. McLean was speaking before City Council’s Police and Fire Committee Monday night. “This is out of hand. It’s complete retaliation, it keeps going around and around. There is no end in sight,” McLean said. The dispute...
Hi-Liners who receive natural gas through Havre Pipeline Co., have complained in recent years of declining service for years. Now the Montana Public Service Commission will hold a public hearing at 9 a.m. Monday in Hensler Auditorium at Montana State University-Northern to determine what to do about it. Commissioner Travis Kavulla of Great Falls, whose district includes the Hi-Line, will conduct the hearing. At least two of his colleagues on the five-member commission will attend, he said. Kavulla said about 100 customers in...
Andrea Gilham looked a little tired after running three miles Saturday morning. She took part in the Family Violence Stops Here Fun Run/Walk. Andrea is a sometimes-runner, but it was more than the run that prompted her to drive in from Fort Belknap for the run/walk which started and ended at the RC Model Flying Club field south of the city. "My sister died at the hands of domestic violence," she said. "Oct. 29, 1997." Her death is coming up on its 15th anniversary and it's...
When Pat Conway was drafted on Feb. 6, 1958, he was about to begin one of the most interesting parts of his life, one he still talks about today. During his time in the U.S. Army, he struck up a friendship with Elvis Presley, the ultra-famous rock and blues star. Conway regaled the audience at the annual meeting/dinner of the H. Earl and Margaret Turner Clack Memorial Museum Foundation Saturday with stories about the time he spent with Elvis. "You may think we are at the Best...
When Brian Harris attended Havre High School, he never liked English and hated writing. So who would have thought that years later he would be writing a book about his experiences as a police officer. But Harris was back in his hometown Saturday speaking to a group at the Havre-Hill County Library about his first book, "I'll Spell It Out." He read the first chapter of his book, which tells a blood-curdling story about a murder. One of the police officers in the case got a...
Fired Great Northern Fair Manager Mike Sharp questions whether his firing last week was done in a valid meeting. He is asking interested people to come to the Great Northern Fair Board’s regular meeting Tuesday night. In a statement issued Friday, said he understands there was no notice of the meeting Thursday at which the board voted to fire him. “It is my understanding there was no published notice, and it was not posted anywhere that I’m aware of, so I don’t know if it was a valid meeting or not,” Sharp said. He said he b...
The union representing Havre firefighters has begun the process of filing a grievance against the city claiming that management is paying no attention to the last grievance the union filed. And, tensions between union and management grew more tense after the suspension of firefighter D.J. Olson, the subject of an earlier grievance. Firefighter Cody McLean, chair of the Grievance Committee for Local 166, International Association of Fire Fighters, confirmed that Olson had been suspended with pay pending an investigation....
The H. Earl and Margaret Turner Clack Museum Foundation Board Saturday looked back and forward as it discussed the state of the museum. Elaine Morse, longtime chair of the foundation board, talked at the annual dinner and meeting about plans to gradually move the museum displays to the new Havre History Center, the old Anderson Wholesale building where Griggs Printing is located, in downtown Havre. The new location will have more room and have more space for supplies, Morse said. Some of the artifacts that have been in...
The Ward 1 candidates for Havre City Council agree they have no problem if people want to have a drink at Town Square while enjoying music at Sounds on the Square. They would favor allowing the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce to continue operating the program as it always has. "I think it was blown out of proportion," said Ed Matter, a former school board president and radio station manager. "If a man and his wife want to drink a wine cooler that's no big deal," he said. The...
The two candidates who are running unopposed for Havre City Council spoke on their plans for the next four years at the forum sponsored by the Havre Daily News Thursday night. Brian Barrows, the pastor of Abundant Life Ministries, is seeking his second four-year term on the council. He recalled entering the race four years ago. Fellow council member Pam Hillery had suggested that he run. “Little did Pam know that I was already praying about that,” he said. He decided that he would run if two other people asked him to. They di...
Candidates for Havre City Council from Ward 3 agree on some issues and differ on others. J.D. Cass, who is retired and works part-time, is opposing Caleb Hutchins, an instructional designer at Montana State University-Northern. On various issues: Annexation Hutchins said he isn't familiar with the details of annexation rules, but in general favored the idea that people receiving city services pay full city taxes. Many properties on the west wide of Havre pay the city for...
Havre Police Chief Gabe Matosich says he believes city government is working well the way things are, and there is no need for a city manager form of government. Matosich was the most recent in a string of city department heads who was interviewed by the city’s Study Commission, a three-member panel that is looking for way to improve the city’s form of government. The most frequent idea heard by the commission is for a city manager to run the day-to-day operations. Under that system, a mayor would become the presiding off...
