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It’s not the type of headlines you expect to have blowing up the internet: “Controversy over the advertising of sex toys at curling Olympic qualifier cancels televised coverage in U.S.” I would like to think that you have at least heard of the sport of curling, but in case you’re in the dark, curling is that team sport played on ice with a 42-pound polished granite stone. One person, with a push maneuver, kind of launches the stone down a 150-foot lane. The teammates frantical...
When your life is rich with irony and sarcasm, it’s easy to become jaded and hardened with the world, like having a nasty case of calcium buildup or plaque over the soul, so I was kind of surprised this week to find out that I could still be surprised. It is, of course, ridiculous — after more than half a century living in Montana — to be surprised by winter, so perhaps it’s an intelligence issue. I don’t know. Yes, logically, I know it’s coming. spring, summer, fall, winte...
After a two-year hiatus, the Big Sandy Gun Show is returning January 28-30, and organizer Keith Hanson said, at more than a month out, the venue has only 15 tables left for vendors interested in participating. Though Hanson has helped organize the annual Chinook Rod and Gun Club gun show for the past nine years, this is his first time spearheading the Big Sandy Gun Show, he said, so he’s limiting the vendors to those who sell and/or buy guns, ammunition and gun-related i...
The three-day 5th Annual Big Sandy American Legion Coyote Derby will kick off the new year Jan. 7-9 in the Big Sandy area. To be entered in the early drawing, organizer Lindsay Boyce said, paid entries must be postmarked by Dec. 23. Cost to enter the derby is $40 per person in the team — up to four people can be entered in each team. The teams will be entered in open class or calling class, and a $1,000 pot is guaranteed for each class. Friday, Jan. 7, 5-8 p.m. at the Jerry Ma...
In the most scandalous scandal to hit the beauty pageant world since Mary Leona Gage lied about her age and her marital and parental status then won Miss USA 1957 — proving that a married 18-year-old mother of two could beat the sashes off the 20-something-year-old single women — more than 40 beauty contestants at a festival in Saudi Arabia have been banned from competition for breaking rules that prohibit cosmetic alterations that unnaturally enhance the beauty of the con...
As tragedy, after strife, after contention, after attack rolls through the news cycle, the one news byte that really hit home is this: North Americans are facing a maple syrup shortage of such dire proportions that Canada has had to tap its national emergency strategic stockpile of maple syrup to get us through these desperate times. I am not joking about this. I have been craving pancakes with maple syrup for more than two weeks now, and the thought of not having maple syrup...
Tickets for the Fresno Chapter of Walleyes Unlimited 30 gun raffle are officially on sale. “We’ve had an annual 30 gun raffle for the last five years now,” Fresno Chapter member Chuck Wimmer said. “It’s just one of our local fundraisers the we put on to raise money for the club.” The money raised in the raffle and at their annual banquet goes to the club’s many projects to improve Fresno Reservoir, including work on their campground and pavilion and creating fish habitat...
Though upland game bird season for most species and some specialty seasons will continue into the coming months, the general big game hunting season ended Sunday and preliminary stats from the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks game-check station east of Havre show that the numbers are up in many areas. “It was busy,” Fish, Wildlife and Parks wildlife biologist Scott Hemmer said. “Yeah, I think more hunters than I’ve seen. … I started up here in 2010, and it’s more hunters tha...
About 30 north-central Montana ranchers and farmers gathered north of Kremlin Monday and, with the aid of their seven semitractor-trailers, seven pickups with trailers and eight tractors, got a month's worth of work done in one day to help a family in need. Mike Swinney of Gildford said he knew friends Shawn and Jessie Wall, fellow farm and ranch operators, had both been battling illness all November and weren't able to get their crop of 1,000 hay bales in from the field....
The president officially pardoned the turkey again this year, but really, a is that all about? Isn’t it weird to project a sense of humanity onto the animal we traditionally eat this holiday? Still, year after year, presidents have been issuing official pardons to turkeys that haven’t done a dang thing wrong. Shouldn’t it be called a stay of execution? Even saying they were saved from a lynching would be more accurate than being pardoned. Not only have those turkeys done no wr...
Local pet professionals are recommending that dog owners take precautions with their canine pets to guard against an illness commonly known as kennel cough. Kennel cough is the common name for canine infectious tracheobronchitis, which is actually a blanket term for an upper respiratory disease most notable for its cough. The highly contagious disease actually came through the area earlier in the year, Dr. Tari Mord of Eastside Animal Hospital said, but some cases are...
Saturday morning a law enforcement officer discovered a wreck on Duck Creek Road in Chouteau County, and the driver was declared dead at the scene. The Montana Highway Patrol report did not name the law enforcement officer’s department, but the crash occurred on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, and Rocky Boy Police had not released the woman’s name by print deadline this morning. MHP got the report of a crash at 8:23 a.m. Evidence at the scene showed that a woman from Box E...
Montana Highway Patrol investigated two injury vehicle crashes in the Havre area Friday. Two callers reported at 9:30 p.m. a rollover on U.S. Highway 2 East just outside of the city limits, and Montana Highway Patrol was notified of the crash at 9:32 p.m. Trooper Matt Erickson said the driver of a vehicle swerved and entered a broadside skid causing the vehicle to roll in the ditch. The driver, the only occupant of the vehicle, was ejected from the vehicle during the roll and...
I don’t acknowledge signs, those supposed metaphysical, philosophical and esoteric Signs from the Universe that require interpretation to guide me through life’s journey. Those signs are a hard no from me. Signs from the Universe are pointless for over-thinkers. Let’s say you’re working hard to make a dream come true. Your first break comes along and you garner some success from it, but not without some problems and painful sacrifices. You feel this momentous moment is a si...
After missing last year due to the concern over a surge in COVID-19, the Havre Community Thanksgiving Dinner will be held this year, though all the meals will be either delivered to those who can't get out of the house or handed out at St. Jude Parish Center as to-go meals. To ensure a successful community dinner, though, volunteers are needed, organizer Deb Rhines said. People can volunteer for as little or as much as they can fit into their schedule, she added. Times when...
Kremlin Rural Fire District volunteer fire department will be holding its annual fundraiser Saturday, Dec. 4, at Fresno Tavern starting at 6 p.m. Fire Chief Kody Peterson said this is the fire department’s main community fundraiser and will include door prizes, as well as games with the opportunity to win ham, turkey and smoked turkey. Though the event is called a turkey raffle, the raffle tickets will be for a whole pig and two halves, and the tickets will be sold through t...
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Region 6 has announced that fall mountain lion hunting season in Hunting District 690 has closed as of 30 minutes past sunset Nov. 5. The announcement came after FWP officials were notified that the quota of harvested mountain lions for the district had been met. HD 690 is part of Region 6 which runs from the western edge of Hill County to the northern edge of Marias River down to the north side of the Missouri River, which it follows east to...
Monthly Bingo Night at Havre Elks Lodge No. 1201 is set for Friday, Nov. 19, with the backdoor to the lodge opening at 6 p.m. and bingo starting at 6:30 p.m., and it will last until about 9:30 p.m. Cost is 16 games for $20. The money raised at these monthly events is used for different needs identified by the lodge, including programs like the Veterans Giving Tree, paying the bills and helping families in need and the community. Each Bingo Night is scheduled prior to and...
Havre Elks Lodge No. 1201 is accepting donations and looking for recipients for two of their annual charitable events, the Blanket Drive and Giveaway and the Veterans Giving Tree. The organization is accepting donations of blankets, along with any bedding, both new and used, for its annual Blanket Drive and Giveaway, which has distribution dates before Thanksgiving and prior to Christmas. Elks Lodge Secretary Brandy Kurtz said they are looking for bedding of all kinds from blankets to sheets, comforters, afghans and more....
For as long as I can remember, my brain has been wired to notice those moments in life when two things that are entirely not connected to one another occur at the same time, like when the furnace turns on at the same moment a train whistle blows. Why, with so many elements that govern when a furnace might turn on and when a train whistle might blow and none of the elements having any ties whatsoever, why in all the world would those two things occur at the exact same time?...
Sometimes it feels good to know that in a variety of odd little ways people are doing the best they can with whatever resources they have available. A bus tour business in Hong Kong called ulu travel needed to ramp up income hit hard by lack of tourism. In response the company’s marketing and business development manager, Kenneth Kong capitalized on an idea from a social media post by a friend who said he was stressed out and couldn’t sleep at night, but he could always fal...
A local business instructor, inspired by her volunteer work with the elderly, has put her academics into practice by creating a product designed to help people engage in more meaningful conversations. Barb Zuck, creator of Heart to Heart Conversations: A to Z Activity Cards and member of the business faculty at Montana State University-Northern, has for years visited with and played therapeutic harp music for residents at various care centers and assisted living facilities....
Havre's annual E.L.F. Food Drive, with local firefighters going door-to-door in the city collecting non-perishable food items for donation to the Havre Community Food Bank, is happening Wednesday and Thursday. Havre Fire Fighters union IAFF Local 601 Vice President Cody McLain said the fire department will be taking to the streets with lights and sirens 5:30-7:30 p.m. each night, or until they make their way down all streets. And they are splitting their focus into two areas...
Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm round of applause as we officially welcome into the human species, and perhaps an election near you, the 80-some hippopotamuses affectionately known as the “cocaine hippos,” and if you are confused, just wait until the end, where I make none of this clear. For those who haven’t heard or read in the news about these hippos and their legal case, the recap of the situation is that in the 1980s four hippos were illegally imported to Colom...
The Federal Communications Commission has announced that starting Sunday, Oct. 24, people will have to dial local numbers preceded by the state 406 area code. The FCC adopted “988” as a new three-digit number to be used nationwide to contact the National Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Crisis Lifeline. This is similar to calling 911 for emergency services or 811 for call-before-you-dig. Because Montana has a working 988 three-digit prefix, the entire state has to swi...
