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In Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation and five other Montana communities, emergency medical services teams will soon be capable of providing non-emergency and preventative in-home care, a press release from Gov. Steve Bullock’s office announced Tudesday. Montana has revised its legislation and secured funding for a two-year pilot program to expand non-emergency services, the release says. Bullock, a Democrat, is unning for president in 2020. The six sites chosen for the pilot program, ii says, are Rocky Boy EMS, Great Falls Eme...
Because only three board members attended Tuesday’s Great Northern Fair Board meeting, it was adjourned after 10 minutes. Without a quorum of members, the board was unable to vote on anything on its agenda. Before adjourning the meeting, the board members invited the guests to raise any public concerns or comments to the board, which would not be voted on at that meeting, they added. Only one guest, Paul Nugent of Hill County Search and Rescue, spoke. He came to the meeting to report to the fair board about what Search and R...
With about 1 in 10 local mosquitoes testing positive for West Nile virus, the Hill County Mosquito Control District supervisor is warning people to take care. A species that carries the virus, Culex tarsalis, makes up 13 percent of the total mosquitoes trapped by the Hill County district, Hill County's weed and mosquito district supervisor Terry Turner said Monday. Recent testing shows that about 90 percent of tarsalis mosquitoes in the district are infected with West Nile,...
Havreites can learn how to respond to a mental health crisis this Saturday. After learning to identify people who may have mental health disorders or be suicidal, workshop participants will learn what to do next, Hill County Extension Agent Shylea Wingard said Thursday during a meeting of Hill County officials. The Mental Health First Aid workshop will be held Saturday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the Timmons Room of the Hill County Courthouse, Wingard said. The course will provide role playing, scenarios and activities to prepare...
Most of the mosquitoes in Hill County have West Nile virus, Kim Larson of Hill County Health Department said during a meeting of county officials Thursday. All but two pools of mosquitoes tested in the district came back positive for West Nile, she added. From the start of the mosquito season, the health department has advocated people take preventative measures. The "Four Ds of Prevention," she said, are: • Dress (in dark clothing with long sleeves and pants) • DEET (mo...
Editor’s note: This version corrects the spelling of Angel Care LLC Local people met with Kirk Bruce, executive director of Affiliated Developers Inc., Wednesday to discuss a potential $3.5 million renovation of the Oakwood Village apartment complex in Havre. They also had the opportunity to ask for an update on Affiliated Developers’ negotiations over Eagles Manor. Bear Paw Development Corp. hosted the meeting in its conference room and Bear Paw Executive Director Paul Tuss introduced Bruce to the attendees. The number one...
College students may drive horse trailers to class in coming years, if all goes according to Montana State-University Northern’s plan for a new equine studies minor. By next year, students may be riding horses at a new equine facility off-campus. A group met Wednesday in the Hill County Courthouse to discuss construction plans. The group has found a potential site, Commissioner Mark Peterson said, but it depends on clearing logistical “speed bumps.” Even so, Peterson added, “I think we can make this work.” The economic...
Representatives of visiting international technology companies and the Havre Public Schools Board had a chance to pay their respects to each other at Tuesday’s board meeting before the companies leave Aug. 17. The first order of business, however, was for the board to officially approve the 2019 final budget for the elementary district and high school district following the state timeline. Superintendent Andy Carlson said the board had reviewed the budget in May. He added that the board was still looking to fill counselor and...
People have a chance Sept. 11 to start training to help local children in need. More than 60 children who have been removed from their parents in Hill County due to cases of abuse or neglect do not have an advocate to represent them, the Hill County branch of Court Appointed Special Advocates Facebook page says. Hill County’s CASA is seeking new citizen-volunteers 21 years or older to become advocates, the page adds. If an application is accepted, the volunteer attends a no-cost orientation and 30 hours of pre-service trainin...
Jim Magera, local historian and former Havre High School history teacher, will speak on “Havre at the Turn of the Century” at the H. Earl Clack Museum’s final Summer Speaker Series event in September. H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board discussed during its meeting Monday Magera’s talk, which will be Friday, Sept. 21, at 7 p.m. in the conference room of Havre Inn and Suites. The event will probably include cookies and refreshments, the board members added. About a half-hour before the event, the museum board said, it will ho...
Spurred by Havre's affordable housing needs, a local economic development organization is hosting a community outreach meeting about a proposal to invest $3.5 million in a local housing complex. Residents of Oakwood Village, as well as the public, are invited to speak Wednesday with a company interested in buying and renovating the complex of three apartment buildings on the east edge of Havre, Samantha Chagnon of Bear Paw Development Corp. said. The meeting with Affiliated...
Meteors, commonly known as shooting stars, will rain across Havre’s northern skies this weekend. The Perseids meteor shower is one of the astronomical highlights of the year, astronomy hobbyist Steve Jamruszka of Havre said. “This one should be pretty exciting,” Jamruszka said. “The weather forecast is going to cooperate, and so is the moon.” This weekend’s new moon phase “essentially means no moon at all,” he added. Meteors will therefore be highly visible, Time.com reports, unlike the 2017 Perseids that were obscured b...
A lifelong friend and softball teammate of Jamie Young of Havre is leading a benefit to help defray Young's medical costs as she again battles cancer. Brandy Kurtz, the Havre Softball Association secretary, has organized four softball games, a raffle, a 50/50 pot, and a silent auction for Wednesday, Aug. 15, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Havre Softball Complex. Concessions will serve beer, burgers, hot dogs and polish dogs, the flyer says, and all net proceeds will go to Young. The...
Anyone who attends the Lil’ Shots Carnival Friday can be immunized at no cost, Kimberly Larson, public health director at the Hill County Health Department said Wednesday. “It doesn’t have to be back-to-school related,” she added. “That’s just how we’re promoting it since it’s that time of year. Infants can come and also older students who just need an update, like tetanus or something. They can call or they can just show up, either way.” Immunizations are available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Health Department, altho...
High temperatures are currently a safety threat to people in Havre, as the National Weather Service in Great Falls issued a heat advisory, in effect from noon today to 9 p.m. Friday, that includes Havre. Temperatures above 100 degrees may continue today through Saturday and reach a record-breaking 107 degrees Friday, National Weather Service forecast predicts. Safety warnings “Heat exhaustion or stroke is possible if proper precautions are not taken,” the heat advisory said. “… Temperatures in parked cars can become lethal...
A couple who played Wednesday night at Sounds on the Square has been touring the country for six years, Cie Hoover, the guitarist of the duo You Knew Me When, told the audience in between songs. "As a married couple on the road," he said, "home is a relative concept, depending on where the other one is." Cie and Karisa Hoover then began their next song "My Home is You." The two live in Ouray, Colorado, the band's Facebook page says, "by way of Nashville, Tennessee." They play...
Families came together on Montana State University-Northern's Student Union Building lawn Tuesday evening for the Havre Police Department's seventh National Night Out event. As local band Blind Luck covered songs by the likes of the Blues Brothers and Chuck Berry, kids and adults lined up for pulled-pork sandwiches. Other lines formed to explore a helicopter and several police and fire department vehicles, as well to take part in the dunking booth and a game put on by Hill...
The Hill County Park Board discussed instituting a burn ban during its meeting Monday due to drying vegetation and a prediction of temperatures hotter than 100 degrees later this week. Board and audience members said the East Fork Fire from last season, which burned more than 20,000 acres in the Bear Paw Mountains including on the south edge of Beaver Creek Park, is on their mind and a burn ban would be a good idea. Hill County Commission Chair Mark Peterson said he doesn’t think a ban is necessary. Peterson said most people...
A Freon container exploded at Gary & Leo’s Fresh Foods Saturday evening, releasing Freon gas into the store, Assistant Havre Fire Chief Kelly Jones said, leading to the evacuation of the store. The fire department sent one ambulance to the store. “One of the employees who was back there was taken, for precautions, up to the hospital,” Jones said. “They aired out the building and then let everyone back in.” The evacuation process took about a half an hour, from 5:29 p.m. to 6:05 p.m., he added. The leak came from a failed self...
Water mains on Washington and Grant avenues broke repeatedly this weekend, despite repairs, although at press time Monday both water mains were repaired and working. “We’re hoping it holds right now,” Havre Public Works Director Dave Peterson said this morning. “They put in close to 100 feet of pipes into the breaks they had on Washington and Grant on the 1200 Block. They finished about 5 p.m. last night on the one on Washington.” “But they’re just fixes, it’s not replacement,” Peterson said. “The system needs to start repl...
Four siblings have organized fundraisers this week for their mother, Shannon Larsen of Havre, including a Pizza Hut benefit Thursday and a benefit dinner at the Eagles Saturday. In Dec. 2017, Larsen suffered a stroke and two large brain aneurysms and was Mercy Flown to the Intensive Care Unit in Great Falls, the flyer says. It adds that she underwent surgery in Seattle and will return in September for a second. "This is the beginning of a very long journey," the flyer reads....
July 22, spectators packed the Great Northern Fair arena to watch the first Indian Relay Races held during the fair surge around the racetrack. Riding bareback, in shorts and without helmets, each team's rider raced three horses in the relay. The crowd, many of whom stood up for a better look, cheered after each rapid exchange. Organizer Tim Rosette Jr. said he hopes the relay races will become an annual tradition at the fair. So did fair board Chair Tyler Smith. "I was very...
Residents at the Eagles Manor retirement living facility are trapped by real estate negotiations in an overheating building. The air conditioning has been broken this summer, they said, causing rooms to overheat during the hottest months of the year. July temperatures in Havre reached 103 degrees fahrenheit, Weather Underground reported. A member of the Eagles Manor Resident Council spoke about the temperatures in the building with the Havre Daily News Wednesday on condition...
Havre's Police Department will host National Night Out Tuesday, Aug. 7, on the lawn of Montana State University-Northern's Student Union Building. Sgt. Ryan Pearson said the event will last from 6 to 8 p.m. and includes a free barbecue of pulled pork sandwiches, live music and face painting by the Havre High School cheerleaders; bike and gun raffles will be held at 7:30 p.m. Depending on the weather and mission-availability, he added, the event may also feature a dunking...
Linda Ferguson stood in the sunshine at the deserted Great Northern Fairgrounds chatting with someone through a truck's window, gathering information about her fourth-grade class for this year. "We were talking about, 'How many kids do I have this year,' you know, 'Anybody new?'" Ferguson said with enthusiasm and giggled. "This is the time of year that you start asking those questions.'" She was referring to her job at St. Jude Thaddeus School, where she said she has held a...
