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Havre Elks Lodge #1201 is working to help people with bedding and blankets to spare or share get the bedding to those who who need it with the group’s 2019 Blanket Drive. The service event started out as solely a blanket drive, organizer Brandy Kurtz said, but last year people who were cleaning out or downsizing homes contacted her at the same time the blanket drive was accepting donations, asking if they could donate other bedding sets. The response to the change was big, K...
Modeled after the Angel Trees that help provide Christmas presents or meals to families, the Veterans Giving Tree, organized by Havre Elks Lodge #1201, is specifically to help veterans during the Christmas season. Organizer Brandy Kurtz said the Elks Lodge has a tree decorated with tags that include the name of area veterans and up to three needs each. Sponsors can take one, two, or three of the tags to fulfill those needs for the veteran for Christmas. Started last year,...
Sometimes, in these modern times, it’s difficult for us to make sense of the world but, rest assured, I am here to tell you that there are very good reasons why things don’t make sense. The world of sports is fueled by longtime rivalries. One of those epic rivalries is between Australia and England who have been, and I kid you not, fostering a cricket rivalry over an urn filled with the ashen remains of the cricket bails burned after a cricket match in 1882. The rivalry isn...
“I just want my house clean enough so that if someone drops by unexpectedly, it doesn’t look like we’re six days into battling a poltergeist” — Author unknown. I don’t normally quote internet memes, but when I do it’s because the author gets me, like she’s lived my life or feels my pain or has actually read my mind. Somehow it’s winter already and the little pea- to dime-sized rocks are sticking to the dog’s feet and the soles of our shoes, so it looks like I’ve graveled...
Last week’s Part 1 of the “Ewww” series was about our resident over-the-door bat that made its way into our house, but this Part 2 really ups the ewww-factor, proving that we are not living the glorified Disney-like country life at the North 40. After we herded bat back outdoors to find a hibernation spot that wasn’t currently occupied by humans, I had about a week’s reprieve, in which the only wild ewww-things we had to contend with were the perpetual mice and a few mean fera...
I live out in the country with my dog, cat and horses, visited daily by deer, birds of all timidness and ferocity, and mysterious predators that slink through in the night, but this ain't a Disney movie out here. We have the creepy and disgusting creatures too, and thus far in October we've had encounters with two of them. As you can see from the title, I'm going to call this column Part 1 of a two-part "Ewww" series, because the protagonist of this part 1 was our resident...
Language is both a science and a mystery. I am not here today to bring some kind of resolution to the issue, but I do want to add my perspective to the mix. Plenty of studies have been published to tell us that language is both inherited and learned. Basically the findings boil down to this: 1) Human brains are genetically predisposed to language and human bodies are genetically influenced through traits like voice tone and how our bone and muscle structure create...
I thought that this era — when all our embarrassing, stupid stunts get filmed, posted on the internet and commented on by uncharitable strangers — was enough to make me glad that I grew up in another age, but now I’ve discovered the new Halloween tradition of “trunk or treating.” I don’t know if I could possibly be any sadder for all the little candy grubbers of modern America. Trunk or treating — for those of you who don’t know, as I didn’t until this week — is a Halloween...
Anticipation and Dread are like fraternal twins separated at birth, one raised by well-adjusted and supportive parents to think positively, and the other raised by well-meaning, but vaguely clueless people who mistake stillness and silence for maturity rather than the terror and general malaise it represented. Anticipation confidently looks forward to things happening, expecting positive outcomes — or at least expecting to be able to formulate and execute solutions that will o...
Winter is coming. It’s all everybody can talk about. This weekend’s storm is going to descend from the frozen Arctic wasteland of Canada’s hinterlands, envelop the Rockies in snow, roll it down the Rocky Mountain Front and sucker punch us right in the middle of autumn. And just like that, winter is coming. Then it’s going to sit around all week, astraddle of our prone bodies, poking us in the chest like it’s trying to type a letter to grandma. Sure it’s cool when winter come...
Hi-Line Rodeo Team is holding its second annual fall 2019 Little Britches Rodeo mini-circuit at the Great Northern Fairgrounds in October and November, and the first registration deadline is Oct. 7. Hi-Line Rodeo is co-hosting the sanctioned events with Laurel-based Big Sky Little Britches, the only Little Britches Rodeo franchise in Montana, and the rodeos will be held in the Bigger Better Barn. The events will feature nine rodeos over three weekends — Oct. 19-20, Oct. N...
I’m not much into Them and They or Us and We, but the struggle between Them and Us and They and We has been growing in the last decade. I heard it in town last week, a conversation about Them. The conversation, which did not include me, by its volume did not exclude me either. It filled the room with talk of They and Them as opposed to Us and We, and about how a grown man, one of Us, might become one of Them by virtue of proximity to too many of Them. The problem with Them i...
Friday, Sept. 20 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. — Friends of the Library Book Sale (Library Meeting Room) 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. — Anka’s Treasures Trunk Show and Demonstration (Bearly Square Quilt Shop) Noon - 6 p.m. — Quilt Guild Show and Vendors (former Famous Footwear location in the mall) 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. — Havre Eagles Club Burger Feed (Eagles Club) 6 - 9 p.m. — Street Dance featuring Sax Cadillac Band (Old Station Brewery) 6 - 9 p.m. — Steve Heil Memorial Car Show (3rd Street & 4th Avenue by Independence Bank) 6 p.m. - Sun. 6 p.m. — 48-H...
The internet is full of farm animals that have gone wild in the past two weeks, and I’m not talking about Youtube videos of farm cats being all crazy cute and stuff. I am talking about the livestock participating in shenanigans that could get someone’s eye poked out. In no particular order, we have: 14 goats and sheep, all employees of a Virginia landscaping business who walked off the job sometime late Monday night or early Tuesday morning. The four-legged work crew was sup...
Once upon a time in Montana we all would’ve been swimming with the fishes, but times change. The ice ages melt. The inland sea recedes. The Missouri River settles into a drainage 60 miles south. And the Milk River is left to meander through a gumbo valley that cuts through a high plains gumbo desert. This is modern times and everyone lives happily ever after. The End. You can’t see it, but I’m wiping away tears of laughter right now. Don’t feel left out, they’re not happy tea...
We had that weird dry spring, so I scheduled a week off to get some work done outside — I even booked a rental tractor to help with the work — and then the skies opened up and it rained all that week. I canceled the tractor, but kept the vacation, which turned out to be a good move on my part. I slept all that week and kind of stared at the walls as if I’d had a chemical lobotomy. Apparently, I needed a little down time. But not this week. I am on vacation from the offic...
I don’t know what you’ve heard about Greenland, but it’s a strong, independent, saucy country that don’t take no nonsense off of any countries, even Denmark, which it is married to but not necessarily living with. If you know what I mean. Archaeologists have found prehistoric evidence that different Inuit cultures have inhabited Greenland starting in about 2500 B.C., but life was not easy there on the largest non-continental island on the planet. If you recall from almost...
For its inaugural Youth Day, the Milk River Gobblers group is bringing experts to Havre Trap Club Saturday for youth, along with their parents and guardians, to enjoy fun activities and a free lunch as they learn about Montana game birds, their habitat and how to hunt them safely and effectively. The event is set for 11 a.m. to about 4 p.m. at the trap club off the south end of Fifth Avenue on the same road as the softball complex, Milk River Gobblers member Jeff Dibblee...
I was going to start this column with the eye-catching phrase: I am tired of being a woman. But that’s not true. I’m just tired of all the falderal around the status of womanhood as a whole. Are we objects like doormats or arm candy? Are we being reviled, or are we being too sensitive? Are we being paid less than men; or is it the same amount in some financial mathematics form of “separate but equal,” making that discrepancy true; or is it less because we deserve it? Are fem...
Photos by Colin Thompson and Havre Daily News staff No matter the activity, helmets come with some basic features: The shell, an impact management - foam - liner and a chinstrap or harness to attach it to your head. Other features can include a liner between the foam and your head, or some type of face protection like a visor or shield. Helmets that have proven to meet standards set by industry experts are certified by the organization that performed the testing. Snell...
Professional skateboarder Mitchell “Mitchie” Brusco, 22, competing Saturday in Skateboard Big Air at the X Games Minneapolis 2019, became the first skateboarder in history of the world to land a 1260 in the competition. That’s a spin of 3.5 rotations. Did anyone imagine such a thing could be done in the beginning? Skateboarding is relatively new in the history of sports. Sure the wheel has been around literally for ages, but it wasn’t until the 1940s that someone yanked...
Havre Police Department will be holding a bicycle sale Monday from noon to 3 p.m. in the southeast corner of the Havre City Shop area, which is located at 195 12th Ave. off Second Street West, across from the National Guard Armory. Assistant Chief Jason Barkus said the department will have at least 50 bikes at the sale for $5 cash each. The bikes are all abandoned and unclaimed, found by either the police or someone in the community. Barkus said anyone with cash on hand can...
Many ancient and traditional medicinal recipes call for animal parts, but modern medicine has its share of animal ingredients, too, and I ain’t just talking about how grandma told you chicken soup would cure your cold. From bear gallbladders to tiger testicles, bird beaks to fish bladders and deer eyes to alligator skin, animal body parts in traditional medicines are believed to cure everything from acne to cancer, malaria to erectile dysfunction and phlegmy lungs to organ f...
Between them, Anthony and Ashley Windyboy, owners of Boxcars, had a combined 23 years in the food service industry before buying Boxcars in April 2018. Ashley, who runs the bar at Boxcars, had waitressed for about 10 years and Anthony had run a restaurant kitchen for 13, but they both knew that they wanted to own their own restaurant one day. "This opportunity presented itself, and we just jumped on it," he said. The building had housed both a bar and restaurant from the...
Driving across the stark north-central Montana prairie on an early-January afternoon is, perhaps, the best preparation for walking into Carolyn Anderson's art studio that looks over the tail waters from Fresno Dam. Something about the low winter sunlight scuttling into the infinite, muted tones of tan grass stalks - accented by white patches of snow and dark slashes of leafless trees and shrubs - that readies the eye to take in Anderson's oil paintings. Anderson, a nationally...
