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When I was about 15 years old a friend of my family rode his 10-speed bicycle on a 330-mile road trip from Salmon, Idaho, to our home in northwest Montana and then home again — a 660-miles that took about a week each way, averaging something under 50 miles per day. He was 16 years old, and this was in the dark ages before cellphones and internet. He had to use quarters in pay phones and know how to fold paper maps. I remember admiring that he even conceived of doing such a t...
People who are getting their kids age 6 and younger ready to compete in the tiny tots category of the Chippewa Cree Celebration powwow, Aug. 2-4, and the youth powwow, Aug. 1, are invited to the Box Elder Family Resource Center to make regalia. The center will have materials and people on site to help make basic T-design ribbon dresses for girls and breech cloths and fringed capes for boys — from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday next week and Monday through Wednesday, J...
The biggest problem with living a secluded lifestyle in the country is that you forget about the possibility of visitors, how to fit other living beings into the sum total of your day, or that you need to look in a mirror before opening the front door. At about 5 a.m. on July 5, I was awakened from a sound sleep by a sharp knock on the door. I’d stayed up late because fireworks and horses don’t really mix. I’d gotten the horses settled down soon after the first bangs, booms...
Organizer Tim “J.R.” Rosette Jr. said the 2019 Joel Rosette Memorial Golf Tournament to be held in conjunction with the 2019 Rocky Boy Celebration still has a few openings for teams in the Saturday, Aug. 3, four-man scramble tournament at Beaver Creek Golf Course. The $400 per team fee includes green fees, prize fund, mulligans and lunch, and a calcutta will be held prior to the event. Cash prizes go to first through third places, with the payout dependent on the number of...
The Third Annual Bears Paw SUPfest will be taking to the water at Beaver Creek Reservoir Saturday and Sunday, during what forecasters have said will be the two hottest days so far this year. Organizers Tony and Cortney Filler said they have a full schedule of fun activities on stand-up paddle boards including games for adults and youths, competition, a night paddle and yoga, along with overnight camping on site, catered meals and some local brews. Activities Saturday will incl...
By nature and nurture, I like just enough drama to make a good story. That’s the hallmark of a life being lived correctly — whether it’s a win-event or a fail, it’s all OK as long as the story is worth telling. What I don’t like, and I think pretty much everyone will agree with me on this, is a story that is whiny. A story that, even in print, has the sound of a sleepy, petulant toddler explaining that she can’t eat her lunch and go take a nap because the noodles in her mac-n-...
For reasons that still seem sound because we all made it home safe — which I’m happy to state at the outset for people who can’t handle suspense — two friends and I hauled horses to Power, Montana, and back home yesterday despite ill-weather predictions. To be fair, when the appointment was arranged, the forecast was for 70 percent chance of rain and thundershowers. The little storm icon only had clouds and rain that was depicted falling straight down from the clouds to the...
Big Sandy rancher and horse breeder Stan Weaver always wanted to have a production sale, but he never dreamed that his annual sales would lead to him taking the helm of the world's largest horse breed registry and membership organization. Weaver, who has already served four years on the American Quarter Horse Association executive committee, was appointed committee president during the organization's annual meeting in March. Ironically, though, even at the helm of an...
A caller on the 600 Block of 14th Avenue reported at 1:30 this morning that a man had been stabbed on his left side. Officers and an ambulance responded to the residence, and Havre Police Chief Gabe Matosich said the injured man was taken to Northern Montana Hospital. The extent of his injuries is not known, Matosich added. The lead investigator had not completed the paperwork, but Matosich said that the injured man said he did not know who stabbed him, and the investigation...
I respectfully submit this column to my current employer as a tentative notice of my possible eminent resignation should my application for a job in Denmark as a happiness investigator pan out. Ikea, the assemble-it-yourself furniture and other-home-stuff company based in northern Europe, is working on a promotions gig in its Denmark branch. Specifically, they want to fill the full-time, temporary position of “happiness hunter.” It’s a two-week, all-travel-expense-paid trip...
A principal in West Virginia has been disciplined for plagiarizing the speech he gave to his school’s graduating seniors. Now-graduated student Abby Smith listened to the speech Parkersburg High School Principal Kenny DeMoss gave to her graduating class and thought it sounded familiar. After she found the speech online and saw DeMoss had copied actor Ashton Kutcher’s 2013 Teen Choice Awards speech almost word-for-word, she did what modern teens know to do, she made a vid...
Scientific studies are great, but they often raise more questions than they answer, even if it’s just: “How much alcohol are we talkin’ here?” ABC4 News station WZTV, reported in April that a study by Penn State and University of Buffalo researchers found that people in jobs that require them to exaggerate positive emotions, or suppress negative ones, drink more alcohol after work than people who aren’t expected to be nice to others. The article gave food service workers,...
The principles behind installing gates are so simple even I can mess them up. Gates are essential when you have livestock, pets, small children and other animals that you need to keep confined in or out of a fenced area. I have a few miles of fence plus several pens and corrals, which are equipped with different types and sizes of gates — wire gates, wooden swinging gates, wooden sliding gates and metal swinging gates of all sizes and weights. Some of them I built and most o...
I’ve been a big, fat, liar, liar, pants on fire all week long. I’d be more concerned with this uncharacteristic laps in moral standards, but I’ve been on vacation and I just can’t muster the energy to show the proper amount remorse. This general laziness also explains why all my lies include the phrase “a few minutes.” “I’ll get started on that in a few minutes.” “I’m just going to lay back down for a few minutes.” “I’ll be there in just a few minutes.” “I’m just going t...
We’ve read the reports of how joblessness is down, seen all the help wanted signs and listened to the ’70s generation talk about how “jobs were so scarce back in my day, there was 80 people applying for every job listed, and if you didn’t show up in a suit, carrying a 10-page resume, for a mechanic job you were culled at the door.” Maybe that last one is just my cross to bear, nevertheless, these days, plenty of job opportunities exist, and here are some of them: The Scott...
While the Catholic Church gets bashed frequently for its outdated church-sanctioned laws and pressured to modernize its ways, I’m here to lend some non-church support for one of those canons which started in the Detroit-area in the 1700s: muskrats on the menu for Lent. Yes, in the 1700s the missionary priests in the Detroit area allowed Catholic parishioners to eat muskrat “on days of abstinence, including Fridays of Lent,” the Archdiocese of Detroit told The Associated Press...
U.S. Postal Service carriers in north-central Montana are joining fellow carriers across the country who will be collecting non-perishable food items Saturday for the 27th annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. “It’s a tough time of year for some of these local food banks,” Havre USPS city mail carrier Travis Abdallah said, and the mail carriers want to help alleviate some of the shortages. Customers can leave non-perishable food donations in a bag near their mailbox before their...
Winning the big payout in any lottery is rare because the odds are astronomically against that happening, but that holds true for a lot of things. Because the lottery folks are in the business of making money, they take paying it out very seriously. In the U.K., people who play the British National Lottery have about a 1-in-45 million chance of winning the scratch ticket’s big payout, which is significantly better than the 1-in-292.2 million odds of winning the U.S. Powerball....
Earlier this week a friend of mine was puzzling over why English speakers use the word “disgruntled” all the time, but we never drop the “dis” prefix and say “gruntled.” A “disgruntled” customer can file a complaint, but why don’t we ever hear of “gruntled” people being satisfied with, well, anything? “Gruntled” is actually an official word. I think we don’t use “gruntled” because it doesn’t sound like what it means: pleased, contented, satisfied. Words like “dreary” an...
Big Sandy organic farmer and businessman Bob Quinn will be speaking about his book “Grain by Grain” along with co-author Liz Carlisle tonight at Montana State University-Northern. The public is invited to the event, which will take place at Vande Bogart Library 6:30 to 8 p.m. The book is part biography, part history lesson on farming practices and policies, part revelation of food and agriculture production industry practices, and part tutorial on rural business and com...
For the record, I don’t need anyone to applaud me or approve of the way I negotiate life for me to feel validated, but sometimes that kind of support makes me want to laugh like a jerk, “haaaa haaa hah!” while pointing my bust-a-cap fingers in that sort of “middle-aged white woman tryin’ a be all gansta” way. A clean house? Overrated. And now they’re also a waste of taxpayer dollars in Beaverton, Oregon, where a babysitter got several cops, including a canine unit, involve...
Farmer and businessman Bob Quinn said that in 1978, when he returned home from California to the family farm in Big Sandy with his with his wife and children, he simply intended to make a living on his family's farm. What he did though, was become a leader in organic farming in North America, start an international grain business with an ancient grain he brought back to prominence from one jar of seed stock and become a leading advocate in the movement to change standard pract...
It’s spring, so the annual harassment has begun about my fat horses. It didn’t help that we went to see some friends over the weekend and all their horses looked trim and fit. Apparently the difference between our horses’ physiques was glaring, but I came to our defense. I was, like, “What are those faint ripples on their torsos between their shoulders and hips?” And everyone was, like, “Ribs.” So I was all, “Ribs? I’ve heard of them. Are you sure it’s not some trick of light...
Montana State University-Northern Rodeo’s showcase fundraiser event, the PRCA Extreme Bares and Broncs Challenge, will be bringing in some of the nation’s best pro-rodeo bareback and saddle bronc riders tonight and Saturday in the Bigger Better Barn. Northern head coach Doug Kallenberger said this competition is replacing their annual BullDazzle fundraiser, giving the other two rodeo rough stock events a spot in the limelight. “It’s going to have the same feel as the BullDaz...
For those people tired of elected officials fighting over trivial matters that have nothing to do with properly governing our country at federal, state and local levels, this saying offers some comfort: Everything must come to an end one day. I am here today to assure you that today is not that day. The New York Times reported Tuesday that on Jan. 14 New York City councilman from Brooklyn Robert Cornegy Jr. was recognized and officially certified by Guinness World Records as...
