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Amanda Solomon has been a personal trainer for years and decided to open her gym, The Garage, to continue her passion. She and her husband used to be personal trainers in California before they moved to Havre, where her husband is originally from. Her husband now works for the railroad, and she decided to continue her work as a personal trainer. She took on Paula as a client over a year ago and helped her lose 70 pounds. "I really enjoyed doing personal training, so I just...
The Northern Alumni Foundation Chinese Auction raised funds for scholarships that will be given to Northern students. Saturday, people filed into the Student Union Building at Montana State University-Northern to bid on items in the live, silent and Chinese auctions. A Chinese auction is similar to a live auction, but the difference is to bid, you must give a dollar to a person holding up a numnered sign until the auctioneer says the number. When he says it, the sign goes down...
Bruce Harold Sunchild’s change of plea hearing has been reset for Oct. 30. Sunchild was chair of the Chippewa Cree Tribe’s Business Committee in 2011 and was later charged with theft from an Indian tribal organization and accepting bribes. He was originally scheduled to plead guilty Monday. He took the chair after his predecessor, Raymond “Jake” Parker, resigned the day before he pleaded guilty to embezzling from the tribe. Sunchild was indicted with former Havre Public School Board Chair Chad Huston, who received more in...
Montana State University-Northern is opening the doors of Dr. Slaughter's Horror Hospital tonight at 8 p.m. "The criminally insane on the second floor have escaped," a flyer for the haunted hospital warns. "The dead in the basement morgue have been reanimated, the power is out, the hospital staff seem possessed, and the patients are dying to escape." The haunted hospital will open every day at 8 p.m. until Halloween. It closes at midnight, except on Halloween, when it will...
"Haunted Hotel Oakland" opened Thursday and will continue to frighten those who dare enter it until Halloween night. Chelby Gooch, the president of the Havre Jaycees chapter, said they began working on the haunted hotel around three weeks ago. "We came up to do some changes," she said. "We try to change it up a little every year." She said this year, they changes four of the rooms to keep repeat visitors guessing as to what lies around the next corner. "Yes, it's going to be...
Around 2 p.m. Wednesday, Walmart west of Havre was evacuated after the store received a bomb threat. The store reopened at 10:30 p.m. after no bomb was found. Walmart employees called the Hill County Sheriff's Office at 1:44 p.m. to report they had received the threat. After deputies spoke with Walmart management, they determined the threat was credible, a press release from the sheriff's office said. The store was then evacuated. Employees were asked to gather on the other...
The Jaycees and volunteers are putting the final touches on “Haunted Hotel Oakland” on First Street, which they run every year for Halloween. Chelby Gooch, president of the Havre Jaycees chapter, said his group changed four rooms in the 21-room haunted house to keep things fresh. The Jaycees Haunted House opens at 7 p.m. today and will be open every day until Halloween night. Jaycees close down the haunted house when people stop coming. Saturday and Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m., they will have a “no-scare” run of the haunted...
The Northern Alumni Foundation Chinese Auction will be Saturday and will offer a wide variety of items for attendees to bid upon. Jim Bennett, executive director of the Alumni Foundation at Montana State University-Northern, said proceeds fund scholarships given out by the foundation every year. The auction is 6 p.m. Saturday at the Student Union Building, and tickets will be $20. Tickets will be available at the door, but they are on sale through the university. "We usually...
The restrooms at the Frank DeRosa Railroad Museum are being renovated to recapture a piece of Havre's history. Debbie Paulsen, who is on the museum's board, said firefighters and community members are volunteering to remodel the restrooms to imitate the front of the old Havre train depot, which is depicted in photos around the museum. In addition to the remodeling, those affiliated with the museum are moving some of the exhibits around to install more items that are tucked...
Fawn Patricia Ann Tadios, 52, of Box Elder, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison Tuesday. Tadios, the former chief executive officer of the health clinic at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, was ordered to pay $15,000 in restitution and two years probation. Tadios was convicted after she was discovered to have billed the tribe to pay for at least six trips to visit her husband, Raymond “Jake” Parker, in Yankton, South Dakota, in prison. He was serving a 16-month sentence for embezzling from the tribe while he was t...
At the Havre Public School District Board of Trustees board planning meeting Monday, the school board spoke of the award they received at the Montana Educators Conference Thursday and looked forward into the future of the district. Two school boards in the state are recognized for excellence every year, and this year Havre and Billings took the prize. The school boards are graded on a criteria of three areas: policy work, infrastructure and innovation. The Havre school board won it because of their major revisions in policy,...
At the Montana State University-Northern football game Saturday, leaders of Northern and its business partners announced that the university will receive the $3 million it needs to build a new automotive and diesel technology building. Those who helped grant Northern the funds gathered for a press conference before the game. Montana State University President Waded Cruzado was one of the many to speak at the conference. "This is a very happy day for the family at...
A Montana State University-Northern student will be named “Volunteer of the Game” during the home football game Saturday. Joseph Vernon will receive the recognition for his work in revitalizing the university’s recycling program. Vernon is the sustainability coordinator for the Student Senate at the university and, since he took the position last year, the recycling program has taken many steps forward. “Under Joseph’s direction as the Sustainability Coordinator, the numbers of recycling bins on campus has doubled,” a press r...
The small Montana town of Rudyard sits on the Hi-Line and has a colorful, varied history. Rudyard sits 40 miles west of Havre on U.S. Highway 2 and has a population of 275, according to the 2010 census. An old sign for the town reads "596 Nice People and 1 Old Sore Head!" but the population of the town has dwindled since it was erected. However, they still name an official Old Sore Head at bigger events. The town has a few businesses, including a theater, restaurant, beauty...
Leadership Montana began its tour around Montana communities in Havre this year and will spend three days learning about the businesses in the area. Chantel Schieffer, the executive director of Leadership Montana, led Thursday's events at the Duck Inn, where Havre businesspeople spoke of their work. "Leadership Montana is a collaboration of business, neighbors, education, government and nonprofit leaders coming in to talk about ways we can make Montana better," Schieffer...
Havre High School’s headcount of students has been dwindling for years and saw another drop this school year. “It’s just a trend we’ve been seeing,” said Andy Carlson. The elementary school’s numbers are looking pretty good, he added, but the high school is continuing to decrease. For the 2014-2015 school year, the school district has 1,904 students, which is 57 fewer than the previous school year. Ten of those left the area or graduated from their 12th year of high school...
Randy Bachmeier, dean of extended studies at Montana State University-Northern, is asking for $250,000 in damages because he says his life was made a "living hell" because of sexual harassment by then-Provost Rosalyn Templeton. But Northern’s attorney, Vivian Hammill, insists that Bachmeier was not harassed, that he suffered no adverse employment action, that he is at fault for not utilizing the internal procedure at the university that deals with sexual harassment in the workplace and that MSU-Northern did not take any a...
Sunnyside Intermediate School students were bused to Beaver Creek Park to take part in hikes and learn how to read compasses Tuesday. The field trip to the park near the Jaycees Campground was part of a multi-day event for the students, who were able to apply math to real-life situations. Joel Hagen was one of the Sunnyside teachers who helped with the activities in Beaver Creek. "They get very good spatial awareness skills and learn how to apply real math in the real world,"...
The results of the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation vote for eight candidates to vie for the four tribal council seats are in. The eight out of 54 candidates, in descending order of number of votes, are: • Harlan Gopher Baker, with 268 votes • Calvin Jilot, 189 • Joshua “Waff” Seaton, 180 • Beau Mitchell, 178 • Ted F. Whitford, 157 • Jody LaMere, 155 • Jonathan Windy Boy, 139 • Russell Standing Rock, 134. There were 1,158 voters. Four council members will be chosen on Nov. 4 in conjunction with the state elections....
A Havre and a Big Sandy business won awards for their success out of all other Montana towns' submissions. Gary and Leo's Fresh Foods won the 2014 Family Business Day award. It will be presented at the 2014 Montana State University Jake Jabs College of Business and Entrepreneurship State Farm Insurance Family Business Day Friday in Bozeman. Weaver Cattle of Big Sandy also won the award. "We're a farm and ranch, but we're pretty diversified," said Stan Weaver. Weaver's wife...
Autumn Elliot has been working on the windows of the Messiah Lutheran Church on 5th Avenue since June. The eight windows she is creating will replace the eight windows in the main hall of the church. She is using traditional methods to create the new panes, which will have real stained glass instead of the plastic-covered windows currently installed in the church. Vicke Schend has been spearheading the project, along with Allan Roush. Schend contacted Elliot a year and a half...
At the public debate Thursday at Havre High School, House District 32 state Legislature incumbent Democrat Clarena Brockie and Republican candidate Gilbert Bruce Meyers answered questions created by Havreites and Hi-Liners. House District 32 includes the Rocky Boy’s and Fort Belknap Indian reservations, adjoining area and stretches from Hill to Phillips counties. Brockie was elected two years ago. In her opening statement, she said she is from Fort Belknap and is of the Gros Ventre tribe. She got a degree in health a...
The candidates for House District 28, Republican Stephanie Hess and Democrat Janet Trethewey answered questions at the forum for state Legislature candidates. Trethewey said she grew up in Hingham and chose to return to the Hi-Line after going to college. She said she has worked here, volunteered here and is very active in the community. She serves on Havre City Council. Hess is a social worker, working with the elderly and disabled at the Northern Montana Care Center for the last few years. She said she has spent her career...
Stu McIntosh is an avid antique tractor collector, but because he has had trouble working on them, he is selling his 26-piece collection. In Big Sandy, Oct. 18, McIntosh's tractors that have decorated his neighborhood east of the high school, will be up for auction. "We're going to sell all 26 of them," McIntosh said, adding that most of his tractors are from the 1930s and 1940s - four of them from the 1920s. One 1920 model tractor is on steel wheels. Two of the tractors are...
Tonight, there will be a bonfire at the Great Northern Fairgrounds, which is yet another Havre High School homecoming tradition being revived this year. “They’re just trying to get the school spirit back at Havre High and let the kids have fun,” said Lisa Kudrna, parent of an HHS student. Pizza Hut and Domino’s Pizza are each donating 15 large pizzas and Kmart is donating beverages. The bonfire used to be held at the football field, but the schools lost the practice years ago. Fairgrounds Manager Tim Solomon agreed to let...
