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Jill Cammon said she has seen many changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic as the Spanish teacher and assistant swim coach at Havre High School. Before the pandemic, she incorporated group activities, games, songs and conversations to provide students with Spanish speaking opportunities, she said. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, she spends a lot of time on the computer following up with students and attempting to create virtual lessons. “I like the students to practice c...
The year 2020 brought many changes to Montanans in almost every aspect of their lives. The Havre Public School District has seen many changes as well in an attempt to protect the safety of students, teachers and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. The beginning of the calendar year started out normally with the Little Pony Cheer camp, the addition of an Anime Club to Havre High School, Havre speech and debate team sending 15 students to state tournaments and Havre Middle...
Havre held its annual Community Christmas dinner, feeding 602 people Friday, a little down down from 800 in previous years, continuing a four-decade tradition that went on despite the COVID-19 pandemic. "I want to thank all the wonderful people in this community that stepped up to the plate and made sure everybody got fed and those that needed it got it," Eagles Club Tom Farnham said this morning. "Hopefully, we will continue over the years. What a great community, we take car...
Ever-present in the lives of people in Montana, the country, and around the world is the COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected nearly every aspect of life including the holiday season, which has seen local events cancelled or changed for the sake of public safety. Some events adapted to meet safety restrictions and still had success, with some still to come. The annual Community Christmas Dinner, with no in-club eating allowed, is set for people to pick up meals and to have...
A new business in Havre is offering some home goods during the holiday season. Foster Home and Hearth, a home décor and clothing store, opened in Havre the second week in November. The store is located in 305 Building on the corner of Third Street and Third Avenue. The owner of the store, Mayke Brenna, said she wanted to give some more shopping opportunities in Havre. "The goal of the store was to have somebody walk in and get a gift for somebody, whether its a housewarming,...
The Havre Eagles members held their annual toy drive this month and just finished delivering the gifts Tuesday in one of the biggest years in the history of the drive. Eagles Auxiliary President Candace Dess headed the drive and collected the toys and donations. She also was in charge of wrapping and distributing the gifts. She said there were a few girl scouts that came to assist with the wrapping. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the drive was different this year. In previous...
The Eagles Club is still looking for volunteers for the Community Christmas dinner. The event will be held despite the COVID-19 pandemic but will contain changes to follow social distancing guidelines. No in-club dining will occur, instead people will go through a walk-through line to receive the meal and leave the club. Masks will be required as well. Deliveries will still be made Christmas Day, and volunteers are still needed for that as well as for helping in the club...
The Havre Police Department had to make a change this year in its Christmas activities, changing as so much has due to COVID-19. The department was not able to do its annual Shop with a Cop event this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, the department pulled tags off the Angel Trees around town and were given the rest of the tags from the Salvation Army’s angel tree. Typically, the department takes children from Havre shopping for presents every year. The children a...
Editor’s note: Since this story was published, issues have arisen preventing the North Central Senior Center from taking meal delivery calls. People are asked to call the Hill County Commission office at 400-2327 by 3 p.m. Thursday to request a meal delivery. The Eagles Club is still looking for volunteers for the Community Christmas dinner, Eagles Club Manager Tom Farnham said. The event is continuing on despite the COVID-19 pandemic but with some changes for social d...
In a special board meeting Thursday, the Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees unanimously passed memorandums of agreement between the Havre Public School District and the Havre Education Association, Havre Public Paraprofessional Education Association and Teamster Local #2. The compensation is for work performed outside the duty day completed by staff to prepare for, respond to and mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on the school district. The memorandums passed Thursday are...
The change of the elementary trimester brought many changes to parents’ choices to opt their children out of school or opt the students back into in-person learning. “I have just talked to parents and just asked them what are your family’s needs?” said Lincoln-McKinley Primary School Principal Holly Bitz. “We kind of work out a plan. Sometimes they have pre-existing health concerns or they’re uncertain of the health effects due to the ongoing pandemic or they’re just more com...
6 hours of COVID Christmas … in Greece is the creative way Montana Actors’ Theatre has come up with to perform during the COVID-19 pandemic. MAT has done a 24-hour play fest for four years, said Artistic Director Grant Olson. “We get a group of actors, directors and writers, and they don’t know who they are going to be working with at all. Then on the Friday night before the play fest, we usually draw names to make teams,” he said. “We will then assign a playwrite t...
Highland Park Early Primary School first grade teacher DaNelle Bakke said that since COVID-19 hit, her job has become "challenging, yet so gratifying." She said she has had to find ways to actively engage students, teach concepts from a screen and organize the students entire learning days. "The organization of making sure that the kids have all of the supplies in from of them for a week at a time means that I have to know what we will be doing every minute of that week well...
This school year has seen a lot of changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Havre High School and Middle School music programs have had to adapt to the changes as well. That includes the Havre High School band concert tonight and the choir concert Tuesday having limited tickets, and the middle school not planning a live holiday concert at all. Havre High School Choir Director Danielle Stoll said the biggest challenges have been the loss of instructional time, having...
Allen Mullins, aka Captain America, passed through Havre Thursday while on his fight to help a retired U.S. Air Force medic. "He needs our help in getting a healthier and safer living situation," Mullins said. A nearly 3,000-mile benefit walk Mullins is now walking from Pullman, Washington, to Harrisonburg, Virginia, a walk he began in July, to benefit Master Sgt. Gary Jorgens. Jorgens is a retired Airforce medic that served for over 20 years. He led the primary military...
At the end of a special meeting of the Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees, the board voted 5-2 to appoint Scott Adams to the position vacated when Brian Williams resigned from the board due to moving from Havre. The other candidates were retired Havre Public Schools Transportation and Facilities Director Jim Donovan and retired Havre Public Schools teacher Lorraine Larson. Each candidate was asked questions from each board member during the meeting. Scott Adams Scott...
Editor’s note: This adds the record of the vote on the school reopening proposal. At the Havre School District Board meeting Tuesday Interim-Superintendent Craig Mueller presented his recommendation for re-opening to the board, with plans to go to Phase 3 re-opening in January. Mueller said that depends on if the community cases per day is fewer than 50 per 100,000, based on the matrix developed and updated by the Hill County Health Department, prior to January 8; the c...
Havre High School Head Speech and Debate Coach Tim Leeds said his team, and the state entered a whole new world of competition last weekend. The state held three speech, drama and debate tournaments Friday and Saturday, one for Class A, one for Class AA and one for Class BC, with all competition and judging done online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The competition had some difficulties with glitches and cutting in and out while competitors were talking, and some competitors -...
In the midst of trying to run a school district during a global pandemic, Havre Public Schools Interim Superintendent Craig Mueller recently experienced COVID-19 firsthand. Mueller said he has been tested for the virus four times and the last time he tested positive and was quarantined in the basement at his home. "I was not hospitalized, which I am very thankful for," Mueller said. Mueller said he experienced an extended fever and various other symptoms at one time or...
Havre High School drama students are putting on a musical production of the holiday classic "Elf" with some modifications due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The play will be produced both live for a limited audience and livestreamed this weekend, Friday and Saturday, and next weekend, Dec. 11 and 12, with a showing at 7 p.m. each day and an additional 2 p.m. showing on both Saturdays. Due to COVID-19, attendance at the event is limited. For each show, members of the production...
People in the Havre Area again have the opportunity to join a toy drive that has been running for more than half a century. Edward Jones Investments Havre office has been a part of the U.S. Marine Corps’ annual Toys for Tots for the past two years and will be running its third annual Toys for Tots drive this year. The toys will be given to children in the Havre area. There is a great need for toys for older children ages 12-18, local Edward Jones Financial Advisor Jennifer T...
The letters to Santa mailbox is back again this year and is located at the Havre Holiday Village Mall. People can drop letters to Santa off and they will be read live on North Pole Radio at 92.5 KPQX. No other events have been confirmed at the Havre Holiday Village at this time due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch for updates in The Havre Daily News...
During a meeting set to work on selecting a new board member, the Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees heard an earful about opening the Havre Schools to full classes four or five days a week. The comments at Tuesday's special board meeting came the same day that Montana Federation of Public Employees said a Great Falls educator had died from COVID-19. "Everyone in MFPE mourns this loss with great pain and extend our deepest condolences to the family," MFPE President Amanda...
Havre native Gerrad Bohl recently published his first book with Pegasus Publishers. "Goode Oliver Dooley and the Palace of Keepers Book 1" took Bohl three years to write. He was given a contract by the first publisher he turned the book into. "One day I just kind of woke up and decided I'm going to write a book," Bohl said. He has been writing as a release since he was 15, he said. Teachers have often asked to keep his academic papers for writing references and Bohl always...
A Great Falls-based recycling company with a Havre branch is stepping into climate change reduction as the first Montana business awarded the first certificate by a foundation working to reduce greenhouse gas in the environment. Pacific Steel & Recycling is the first Montana business to purchase carbon offsets from the Well Done Foundation offsets and was issued the very first Climate Benefit Unit Certificate from the foundation. The certificate represents the removal of 21...
