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This Thursday, Friday and Saturday the 12th-grade students from the Havre High School theater troupe will be directing plays in an "Evening of Drama," comprising one-act plays they will be directing for the school and public. One of these plays will be an original play written and directed by senior Caroline Tuss. Tuss, whose play is titled "Dear Mom," decided to write the play after Havre High School Theater Director Angie Pratt encouraged the incoming seniors to write their...
Fundraisers will be held Thursday in Havre and Shelby for a Joplin girl who is in Denver receiving treatment for neuroblastoma. Scottie Marie Woods, 3, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a rare type of cancerous tumor that primarily affects children, on her second birthday in April of 2017. Woods and her family, parents Scottie and Drue and sister Steele, are from a farm north of Joplin but have been staying in Denver while Woods receives treatment at Children's Hospital...
Editor's note: This version adds the price of the onions. The North Central Montana Shrine Club will be holding their annual Vidalia onion fundraiser, with onions arriving from Georgia early next week. Fundraisers are held throughout the year by the Shrine Club including a beef raffle and a pig raffle, but the largest one is their onion fundraiser held in the spring/summer season. The onions are selling this year for $13 for a 10-pound bag. Shriner Alvin Bitz said they have 6,000 pounds of Vidalia onions on the road to Havre...
Though it's open year-round, Beaver Creek Park Superintendent Chad Edgar and park staff are amping up preparations at the park for their biggest holiday and busiest season of the year. Beaver Creek Park was established in 1916 by an act of Congress and is one of the largest county parks in the United States with 10,000 acres. "In the 1960s, the park board was started and the park started developing into the park it is today," Edgar said. Edgar, who is in his 15th season at...
Area community members are invited to attend various Memorial Day events that will be held Sunday and Monday in Havre. Sunday, starting at 9 a.m., the Veterans Honor Guard, American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars will be placing U.S. flags at the headstones, of all veterans, at Highland Cemetery. People can meet at the building at the center of the cemetery, near the flagpole. "Anyone who wants to can join," American Legion Havre Post 11 Vice Commander Les Johnson said,...
Monday night, Havre High School teamed up with the Yellow Bus Committee to present awards in two categories of films made and produced by high school students. Sixteen films were presented in the shorts and documentary categories of the Hi-Line Documentary and Shorts Film Screening and the prizes, which included plaques and prize money provided by the the Yellow Bus Committee, were awarded based upon the votes of the audience. The winners in the shorts category were Christian...
Plant a Seed … Read! is selling tickets for its fundraising raffle from now until it holds the drawing June 27. Plant a Seed … Read! which is a nonprofit organization that hopes to encourage and educate people about the importance of reading aloud to children aged birth to 5, will use this fundraiser to raise money for developing literacy activities for communities, families and child care providers; provide opportunities for volunteers; and to support the Dolly Parton Imagination Library for north-central Montana, which is a...
A fundraiser will be held Thursday for a community member who has gone through three brain surgeries and needs help funding his fourth surgery next week in Cleveland. Stanley Chamberlain III, 29, has gone through these three surgeries to help reduce the seizures he experiences due to his uncontrolled epilepsy, which started when he was 14 years old. "He would have one to three seizures a day," Chamberlain's mother, Barb Chamberlain, said about her son's condition that she...
Set Free Ministries will be holding their third annual Christian Fellowship Day in the Park Saturday where the ministry hopes to enjoy an outreach with the Havre community. Day in the Park will be held at Pepin Park from noon to 3:30 p.m., and will include a barbecue and family-fun activities like music, games and prizes, a bicycle giveaway, bouncy houses, and snacks. Set Free Ministries Havre Pastor A.J. Jensen said everyone is invited to this event. “This is a community event to show the love of Jesus,” Jensen added. He...
Monday, at 6:30 p.m., Havre High School will play host to the HHS and Hi-Line Documentary and Shorts Film Screening. The screening is a competition and also a night to celebrate the work of the Havre High School Media Production students, a joint letter from Havre High business teacher Vicki Proctor and Media Productions student tutor Christian Sorensen says. Students will present their projects with the theme of a social concern at this screening, and explain why they chose the topic for the film and the importance of the...
Saturday, May 19, is Pride Day and will also mark the end of Havre Pride Clean Up Week, which is a week designated for showing pride in and cleaning up the community, run by the Havre Chamber of Commerce. For Commerce Ambassador Kim Cripps, the history of Havre Pride is important but keeping the community clean goes beyond #HavreClean Up2018. Cripps, who has been a local realtor for over 32 years, said that the Havre Pride Clean Up has been going on for at least 20 years....
Wednesday, the Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Commission presented their 2018 Preservation Award to two Havre community homeowners. The Preservation Commission was created in 2003 to preserve and protect, through awareness, the historic and prehistoric resources of the community. "During National Preservation Month - the commission recognizes organizations or individuals in Havre/Hill County who 'preserve and protect our historic resources,'" Commission Historic Prese...
The Havre Public Schools district announced this morning that rumors of a gun being found in a local school are false, and stem from a toy gun on a bus. Superintendent Andy Carson said they received the report through a phone call and started investigating right away. The district said someone reported to school administration that a student had a gun at a bus stop within city limits. The administration, after an extensive search, determined the gun to be a toy one, a statement on the district website said. Local law...
Local high schools are set to graduate the Class of 2018, with ceremonies starting this weekend and running through May 27. North Star High School in Rudyard and Turner High School both are holding their ceremonies Saturday, with both schools starting their commencements at 2 p.m. in the respective schools’ gymnasiums. Several schools are holding their ceremonies the next day. Harlem High School is starting its commencement at 1 p.m. in its gym, while Big Sandy High School and Chinook High School are holding their c...
The Great Northern Fair Board Tuesday evening talked about repairs at the fairgrounds, heard committee reports, welcomed new member Bobbie Dolphay and discussed different ways to generate revenue for the board. Board member Ray Kallenberger said the Financial Planning Committee met last week and went over some costs from hail damage last year that he thought could be covered by insurance money. The cost to repair the damage was about $6,900, he said, and the county agreed to put the money in the fair’s account. He added t...
This summer, working parents of the community will have another option for child care as St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic School will be opening up its Summer Child Care Program. “Our mission is to provide the youth of Havre and surrounding communities with summer child care to enhance your child’s development of life.” Extended Care Director Alicia Richmond said in a letter to prospective parents. St. Jude’s Principal Jolene Christensen said that the school decided to open a summer day care because after First Lutheran Prescho...
Friday at 11 a.m. community members joined representatives from District 4 Human Resources Development Council, Montana Department of Commerce Housing Division and various other companies and organizations who contributed to the development of Antelope Court, to brave the rain and clouds to attend the ribbon-cutting for Havre’s newest low-income housing unit. Antelope Court, located next to senior housing complex Buffalo Court on Fifth Avenue, was completed during late summer in 2017 but had to postpone the ribbon cutting u...
Saturday, The Salvation Army will be holding their annual Talent of the Hi-Line Fundraiser. The dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. with the theater part of the dinner beginning at 7 p.m. The performances will include a variety of music including Western, Jazz, Barbershop Quartet, harp and clarinet. There will also be a lip syncing performance and skit by Disciple Seven and the Master of Ceremonies, T.J. Overcast, will also do his own performance. The Salvation Army-Havre Service Center, which is dependent on donations, provide...
Havre resident Eileen Viall still faces a long road of treatment and recovery in Seattle, but she is feeling optimistic and grateful for the support that her hometown community has given her, as her family and friends back in Havre hope for her to come back soon. Viall was diagnosed with a rare form of acute myeloid leukemia in February and went through three weeks of treatment in Great Falls before going to Seattle to receive further treatment. Fundraisers are in the works...
This summer, area children will have the opportunity to learn and experience life on stage, as well as backstage, during the the KidsMAT theater camp put on by Montana Actors’ Theatre. A summer camp has been going on for around 20 years but it officially became an intern-led theatre camp called KidsMAT four years ago. During the camp, kids have the opportunity to write and develop their own script, MAT’s Artistic Director Jay Pyette said. “We focus on creative development, team building and participation in every phase of pr...
This Saturday, in Havre and across the rest of the country, the National Association of Letter Carriers will be holding The Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, the nation’s largest single-day food drive. The Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive is annually on the second Saturday in May and happens in 10,000 cities and towns in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam. This year will mark the 26th year that the food drive has been held. Havre postal worker Travis Abdallah said the food drives held in H...
Havre Public Schools Superintendent Andy Carlson told the Havre School Board Tuesday during its monthly meeting about a group coming to the schools to help with technology. Carlson said Consortium for School Networking is coming to Havre in May. He said this initial group would come to tour the schools as well as check the technology systems at the schools in the district. “This is an incredible opportunity,” he said. The group will also be training teachers and students, introducing low-cost items and apps the school can...
Editor's note: This version corrects several items were misreported in the original edition including about the reorganization of the board, bids to replace fences, that cabins were repaired due to snow damage and that the Beaver Creek Park assistant to the superintendent had reported the board Planning and Finance Committee had tabled several items which they had not. Monday night the Hill County Park Board voted to keep Steve Mariani as chair and Larry Kinsella as vice chair, while both missed the meeting in approved...
Friday, District 4 Human Resources Development Council will be holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Havre's newest low-income housing apartment complex. The new apartment complex, Antelope Court, is located on Fifth Avenue near the senior living complex Buffalo Court and was built through a partnership between District 4 HRDC, GL Development, the city of Havre, Bear Paw Development Corp., Mountain Plains Equity Group, Glacier Bank of Montana, Montana Housing and Montana...
Friday, Montana State University-Northern's Vande Bogart Library hosted the graduates of 1968 who attended the school while it was still Northern Montana College as they spent the afternoon reminiscing about life as college students and what their futures brought them. Becka Stone, who said she has worked for the Northern Alumni Foundation since 2014, said that the Golden Grad program celebrates former students who graduated more than 50 years ago with the focus on graduates o...
