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Missoula-based painter Laura Blaker visited Havre Tuesday on her trek to paint every main street in Montana. This was her first time in Havre, Blaker said, adding that she couldn’t wait to visit Havre Beneath the Streets. Blaker, who studied drawing at the Florence Academy of Art, has been traveling across the state for the last year and a half, taking pictures of main streets and then returning to her home in Missoula to paint them. It has been a long and expensive process, Blaker said, adding that along with traveling a...
Bike the U.S. for MS made a stop in Havre Monday on the long Northern Tier section of the ride, which began May 27 in Bar Harbor, Maine, and will end in Seattle, Aug. 4. The ride is in support of multiple sclerosis, or MS, which is a chronic, often disabling disease that affects the central nervous system, the official website for Bike the US for MS says. Symptoms may be mild and cause numbness in the limbs or they may be severe, to the point where it causes paralysis or...
This Friday and Saturday the North Central Senior Center will be holding their Annual Fundraising Rummage and Food Sale featuring cinnamon rolls and Indian tacos, which are all cooked at the center. "We try to do it twice a year," transportation and volunteer worker Gwen Goar said, adding that it has been going on for as many years as she can remember. Friday from 1 to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. will be the rummage sale, Goar said. Saturday will also be the food...
Two community members are aiming to preserve annuals from the past while raising money for Havre High School. The friends, Ron Hellman and Jerry Engleson, are now housing, between them, more than 700 high school yearbooks, Hellman said. In 1991, Hellman said, he found out that the high school was going to throw out all the extra old annuals it had because of a lack of storage space. Remembering Engleson's dad had a collection of annuals, helped him come up with the idea to...
On the heels of a June that saw Seattle ban plastic straws and utensils at all restaurants, a Starbucks' announcement to ban plastic straws in their stores by 2020, and a cover story in National Geographic about the dangers of plastic, Recycle Hi-Line members, as they get older and busier, hope to get community members of all ages involved in the fight against trash that is piling up in this area. Recycle Hi-Line is a nonprofit organization organized by local residents with...
A semi-truck versus motorcycle crash on U.S. Highway 2 West sent one person to the hospital early this morning and temporarily closed all lanes of traffic on the highway. A call came to the Montana Highway Patrol at 5:40 a.m. for a crash injury on U.S. Highway 2 west of Havre in front of Walmart, Trooper Daniel E. Ohl says in The Montana Highway Patrol Crash Information report. The driver of the motorcycle, Anthony Blythe of Thomkinsville, Kentucky, 59, attempted a U-turn to go from traveling east to traveling west on U.S....
During their July meeting, the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board members voted and approved their new officers and discussed the future of the museum should the Holiday Village Mall close suddenly. H. Earl and Margaret Turner Clack Memorial Museum Foundation Chair Elaine Morse discussed with the board what they will do if the mall does have to close with the closure of two anchor stores in the Holiday Village Mall. “We need to think about what we will do if the mall closes on short notice,” she added. Both Her...
Saturday morning the Blaine County Fair brought sunshine, food, rides and animals to the Hi-Line. The Blaine County Fair, which started Wednesday and finished Sunday, included a carnival, food vendors, fireworks, 4-H events, the Kids' Rodeo, Double D Pig Wrestling, Bear Paw Roundup PRCA Rodeo, the youth livestock sale and the demolition derby. Though most of the events were held at night, the food vendors, carnival workers and 4-H members were up at the Blaine County...
An area man who fought and beat cancer last year found out last week that he again has cancer and this time it is incurable. Waylon Day Child, 35, who spent nine months in Seattle last year successfully battling lymphoma, was told the news last Tuesday that he has incurable lung cancer and doctors think he has about a year to live, his mother, Noreen Day Child, said. Her son started feeling sick again, she said, so he went to the medical center at Rocky Boy and the doctors gave him the bad news about him developing a...
Red, white and blue were the colors of the day, while the sounds of live music mingled with the laughter and happy squeals of children, the smell of hotdogs and hamburgers wafted through the air, and almost two decades of Havre's Fourth of July community camaraderie took over Pepin Park. The Fourth of July celebration started as a small gathering of a couple dozen people the first year, event co-founder and co-chair Allen "Woody" Woodwick said. It included some buckets of...
The annual Fourth of July celebration in Pepin Park provided fun for families and people of all ages Wednesday. The event included a flag ceremony, live music, a barbecue lunch, raffles, sno-cones, face painting, balloon animals, a small obstacle course and a giant beach ball for kids. "It is amazing how many people turned up," Havre Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jody Olson said. "We usually come. ... We have been coming since my daughter was young," said Tamika...
Updates about and pictures of the work done on the new trail near Rotary Falls at Beaver Creek Park were presented to the Hill County Park Board Monday during its monthly meeting. Lindsey Bennett of Havre Trails said Montana Conservation Corps was out helping, and they were able to get about 75 percent of the new trail completed. "(They finished) about a mile and a quarter of the loop," Bennett said, adding that they are calling it Rotary Canyon Loop for now until they extend...
Saturday morning, the Great Northern Fairgrounds were filled with the sound of lumber being unloaded and hammers working as members of the Great Northern Fair Foundation put together new picnic tables in preparation for the upcoming Great Northern Fair. After reaching out to Bear Paw Lumber to find out how much it would cost to get the lumber for new tables, the company said that it would like to donate the lumber, Great Northern Fair Foundation Secretary Christy Owens said....
Five days of fun, food and events in Blaine County will kick off the summer fair season in the area. Chinook will play host to the Blaine County Fair at the Blaine County Fairgrounds with the main events Wednesday through Sunday and a 4-H horse show at 8 a.m. Tuesday. The fair starts with the Kids’ Rodeo at 1 p.m. Wednesday, with fireworks at dusk. Double D Pig Wrestling will be at 7 p.m. Thursday with 4-H entry also being held earlier that day. Friday and Saturday will have the Bear Paw Roundup PRCA Rodeo at 7 p.m. and t...
Asian cuisine highlighted the night as Montana State University's Hill County Extension Office finished up their four-session Cooking Across Cultures series. "This is something new in Hill County and Great Falls," said Jasmine Carbajel, the family and consumer science extension agent in Hill County, adding that she and an extension agent at the Cascade County Extension Office decided to plan the cooking classes to be held in both Great Falls and Havre to bring new cultural...
The 2018 Burning Bike Rally, hosted by the Warrior Creed Veteran Motorcycle Club, will be held July 6-7 at The Roadhouse Bar in Chester to support K9 Care of Montana. This is the third year of the rally, which will feature events such as a poker run, a dunking booth and a bike rodeo. Food booths, live music, raffles and a silent auction also will be part of the weekend, but the highligh will be Saturday evening at dusk, when they will hold the bike burning, Warrior Creed...
The Relay for Life of North Central Montana, which was formed by the combination of the Hill County and Blaine County relays last year, was unexpectedly canceled this week. The event, which has been held in Hill and Blaine counties for decades, is the signature fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, the official website for Relay for Life says, and is staffed and coordinated by volunteers in thousands of communities and 27 countries. The event typically includes speakers, a survivors lap for cancer survivors, luminaries...
This year marks the 18th year of what has become an important family-friendly Havre event — the Fourth of July celebration at Pepin Park. “Originally it started out as a family gathering … the Woodwicks,” celebration chair Sherri Simonson said, adding that it has become a kind-of tradition in the Havre community. The two Woodwick brothers ran the event for many years, Simonson said, and one brother, Allen “Woody” Woodwick still takes care of the music part of the event, but Vince Woodwick, who took care of the food and ki...
Officials have released the name of a women killed in an early morning one-vehicle crash in Beaver Creek Park Tuesday that sent two others to the hospital. Hill County Sheriff and Coroner Jamie Ross said the woman killed in the crash was June Marie Sutherland of Box Elder, 40. Alcohol, high speed and lack of seatbelt use are suspected to be involved, the Montana Highway Patrol said, adding that road conditions were bare and mostly dry and none of the four passengers in the car were wearing seatbelts. The MHP said the...
Friday at noon, the Hill County 4-H Chirping Meadowlarks will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony for their Little Free Library, or LFL, at Gary & Leo’s Fresh Foods. “(The) club decided to make a Little Free Library … to help provide opportunities for individuals to participate in an event — getting a book — that is sometimes difficult to do in a rural community,” 4-H parent and volunteer Jessica Myers said. “The mission of LFL is to ‘promote literacy and the love of reading by building free book exchanges worldwide and t...
A one-car rollover motor vehicle crash resulted in one fatality early this morning. The crash happened on Montana Secondary Highway 234 — Beaver Creek Highway — going toward Rotary Pond, Havre Fire Chief Mel Paulson said. The Hill County Sheriff’s dispatch log reports that a call came in at 1:49 a.m. that medical was requested for a crash with four occupants and unknown injuries, with the man calling having suffered a cut to his head. One person was declared dead on arrival and two passengers were transported to the hospi...
A free-will offering spay and neuter clinic being held in Havre June 30 and July 1 at the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line is full, but a waitlist and vaccinations are still available and a nonprofit is being formed that might help offer more clinics. “The response to this clinic has been more than we expected. The clinic is something we wanted to add as our first stage of dealing with an overpopulation of cats in and around the city limits of Havre,” Havre Animal Shelter’s Facebook page said. “The response was not only fr...
This Friday a new Blaine County commissioner will be sworn in as former chair Charles Kulbeck resigns from his position. Kulbeck, whose term was supposed to end in December of this year, put in his resignation about a month ago to end his term as commissioner Friday, Commissioner Frank DePriest said. Kulbeck has been working on recovering from a December 2016 motor vehicle crash and is now taking time to focus on himself and working on physical therapy, Commission Chair Dolores Plumage said. “We wish him well,” she add...
A free performance by Hays-Lodge Pole High School band director John Steinhardt as his alter ego Schizoid Johnny in Zortman was canceled last Friday and is now rescheduled for Saturday. The original concert, which was canceled because of the rain, will now be held at Zortman Amphitheater at 7 p.m and the fire department will be giving away ice cream, sundaes and root beer floats, Steinhardt said. The concert is open to everyone, and is for all-ages, he added. Steinhardt, a Zortman resident, received his Bachelor of Music...
One hundred years after the end of the Great War, H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum kicked off it's Summer Speaker series with a speech about World War I and Havre. The first speech of the summer, titled "Havre and the Great War" was given by Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Commission member Keith Doll. Doll, who said he has always been interested in World War I, said he started researching for this article and speech last September after he attended a history conference...
