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I feel like my whole education and employment history has come together today to bring you this column which celebrates liberal arts in the news. To start this list off, we’ll look at the headline I read titled “Punctuation Marks.” Grammar and punctuation are like candy to word nerds. Then I saw that the article was from Architectural Digest and I was all “Ooooooh, I do wish to see the myriad ways high-brow architects incorporated the comma into their buildings. Did they us...
A federal appeals court in Michigan gave unanimous support Wednesday to your First Amendment rights to communicate clearly with your middle finger. The Associated Press reports that in 2017, Taylor, Michigan, police officer Matthew Minard pulled over Debra Cruise-Gulyas and gave her a ticket for a minor offense. After the stop was over Cruise-Gulyas flipped off Minard, who then stopped her again and gave her a ticket for a more serious speeding offense. Cruise-Gulyas sued,...
The 70th Annual Montana Seed show will be running Thursday through Saturday, March 14-16, at Harlem High School. Thursday is all about agriculture with entry and judging of the wool fleeces, grain, legume, grass and potato and woodworking projects. The public is welcome to attend the judging portion, which starts at 2 p.m., to watch the process and ask the judges questions as they are evaluating the entries. Friday and Saturday, the Seed Show will be in full swing, from 8...
Award-winning author Jim Robbins of Helena was at the Havre-Hill County Library Thursday evening for the library's Winter Reading Series to talk about his book "The Wonder of Birds." Speaking to about 30 attendees, Robbins said he looked at a variety of bird topics from bird evolution to how they have fed humans, ways science is studying them to better understand humans and how they can help improve human interaction. He tried, he said, to approach all his research guided by...
Twice a year, when the time change comes around, I am stunned by the amount of whining and complaining people do over one hour of sleep more or less. It’s an hour, not the end of times, you’ll survive. You’ll even adjust; it’s true. You will adjust, your pets will adjust, your kids will adjust, your bio-rythms will adjust, even your clocks will adjust given a minimum of effort on your part. It’s not like the sun stops shining, the earth stops spinning on its proper axis or the...
Montana State University-Northern Rodeo teams will be hosting a variety of events in Havre - including a new PRCA-sanctioned rodeo - leading up to the teams' participation in the annual spring rodeo in Bozeman. Roping Friday Night Roping Jackpot will kick off the events this Friday at the Bigger Better Barn on the Great Northern Fairgrounds with open team roping and breakaway roping. "We're hoping the weather cooperates," Northern's head coach Doug Kallenberger said, because...
Internationally renowned Big Sandy organic farmer Bob Quinn spent Tuesday, the day his book "Grain by Grain" was released, in his hometown of Big Sandy signing books and speaking at the Big Sandy Library to a crowd of supporters and people interested in his message. Quinn and his co-author, Liz Carlisle, will be promoting the book at major venues across the U.S. and internationally for about the next year. His return home to launch the book in the rural community where his...
Internationally renowned Big Sandy organic farmer Bob Quinn will be launching his book, “Grain by Grain,” at the Big Sandy Library Tuesday. Co-authored by Liz Carlisle, who wrote “Lentil Underground” about organic farmers in north-central Montana, Quinn said, the book is a culmination of his ideas, experience and research he has developed over the years. Quinn came back to his hometown to spend the official release date speaking to his community members and signing books....
Award-winning author Jim Robbins of Helena is set to lead discussion about his book which looks at mankind’s relationship to, and lessons from, birds, as part of the Winter Reading Series hosted by Havre-Hill County Library. Robbins will speak at the library Thursday at 7 p.m. about his book “The Wonder of Birds,” winner of the 2017 Montana Book Award, which recognizes literary and artistic excellence in a book with Montana ties through setting, themes or issues or through the...
Psychologists have long lists of terms for what they — and we, the flawed masses — call coping or self-defense mechanisms because, in the end, we all have to do what we can to get through to happier, or less suckier, days. Like spring. I’m not a big fan of winter. Even when I used to ski, it was just something I did because I was surrounded by both snow and mountains. Ice fishing wasn’t my thing, but to be fair, fishing any time of year isn’t my thing. Snowshoeing and cross...
My husband doesn’t like beets. I do like beets. This is, I'll admit, inconsequential and the beet-thing obviously hasn’t been a deal breaker in this marriage or much of a “thing” at all (and you know what I mean by “thing” if you’re married). However, there’s always room for escalation, though, right? I like fresh-boiled beets, canned beets, pickled beets. John hates them all, especially pickled beets. I even like commercially canned and pickled beets. John hates those the...
Ian Hammond, which sounds like an actual name and not a user name, started as a joke an online petition to sell Montana to Canada for $1 trillion to help pay down the U.S. debt, arguing that: “We have too much debt and Montana is useless. Just tell them it has beavers or something.” As of 11:30 p.m. Thursday the petition had just under 5,000 signers. This is not any kind of real petition with aspirations of getting legislation changes on a ballot. It’s just a whimsical suggest...
When I was in high school we lived in a house that had a metal-covered gambrel roof — aka barn roof — with a shallow slope from the peak to the first angle and a steeper slope to the eve which was actually an 8-foot deep porch roof that was at a very shallow slope You could say it was built like a ski jump. The easy slope at the top to get your legs under you and your direction lined out, then a steep section to build some great speed, and finally the jump that shoots the ski...
While the whole country is debating the mary jane, ganja, dank, 420 issue of legalizing marijuana, I’m obsessing over weed of the noxious list kind. I know. I wrote about noxious weeds sometime in the last year or two. I swear I had every intention to consider it a spent topic, to ignore my single-minded obsession with the idea that weeds are my mortal enemy, y’know, just let the obsessive compulsiveness go. But no. Blame my day job. Call my boss. I had to interview the cou...
Northside home likely a total loss in early morning fire A residence that burned on the north side of the railroad tracks early this morning is likely a total loss. Havre Fire Chief Mel Paulson said the call for a structure fire on the 1000 Block of Second Street Northwest came in at 3:28 a.m. An all-department page was issued for a full response from Havre Fire Department, Paulson added. The full residence was on fire, he said, but the home occupants had gotten out safely...
Yes, 40 years is a long time to hold a grudge, but I think it’s safe to say, now, that my whole brain can let the resentment go, thanks to some German researchers and a small herd of horses. In 1979 an art teacher named Betty Edwards wrote a book called “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” that quickly became a bestseller. Because I was a young artist with some talent I was given a copy. Because I was a bit of a nerdy studier, I devoured the book — the first two chapter...
The other day I was presented this mind-bending analogy by someone attempting to put the government shutdown and border wall into perspective: “Trump is asking for $5.7 billion out of an annual budget of $4.407 trillion … In other words, Trump is asking for $57 out of an annual budget of $44,070.” You see what the author of this tidbit did there? Yeah, removed all those pesky “illion” endings and zeros they represent to put the numbers in amounts the average intellect...
The Chinook FFA Chapter is hosting a free, low-stress cattle handling workshop Tuesday that is open to the public. Local organizer of the clinic Larry Surber said he and a group of the FFA students saw clinician Tom Curtin give this presentation in Malta. “It’s about how you handle cattle easily and make (moving them) seem like their own idea,” Surber said. The Stockmanship Clinic with experienced stockman, Curtin, and will start Tuesday at 9 a.m. in the Commercial Build...
Fatberg, it’s like an iceberg, but made of fat. It’s a thing. You can look it up. In fact, you can look up the word definition in a 28-volume Oxford English Dictionary — which is arguably the premier authority on words in the English language — so if the OED says it’s a thing, it’s a thing. Fatberg is, in fact, a very big thing, hence its blending of the words fat and iceberg. The term for the blended words — like smog, Brexit and jakalope — is portmanteau, in case you wanted...
A couple in Wyoming has received confirmation from Guinness World Records that they are the fastest two-man tent assemblers on record in the entire world. Yes, that’s a thing, and Elizabeth and Daniel Minton did it in just over a minute. No, actually they did it in under a minute, but the Guinness rules said they couldn’t just assemble the tent, they had to put the rain fly on, as well, and they had to crawl into the tent, zip the flap shut and say “done.” This Guinnes...
I know, the Christmas presents have been opened, half of them are already broken or the batteries drained. The tree and all the decorations have come down. The Christmas songs have been cut off, cold turkey, at midnight Dec. 25. It’s over. Christmas 2018 is finished. But before you throw it in the trashcan with the rest of the non-recyclables and move on, I have to bring up one Christmas-related news item that I just cannot believe I missed. An Omaha, Nebraska, school p...
The law of diminishing returns says that if all the factors in a process remain the same, except one, and that one is steadily increased, eventually a tipping point will be reached and everything will start failing, lose its luster, fall to wreck and ruin. You get what I’m saying. As an example, let’s say your favorite full meal includes ice cream for dessert. One day you have your favorite meal with ice cream, but you just keep eating more and more ice cream. Eventually, you...
A fundraising account has been set up to help the Kremlin family whose house burned early Tuesday morning. The Muller family escaped the fire shortly before 2 a.m. Fire trucks from Kremlin, Havre and Gildford responded to fight the fire, but the home was a total loss. People who want to help the family can donate to the Muller Family Donation Account at Wells Fargo banks. A representative of Wells Fargo in Havre said people can donate at any Wells Fargo bank by using the...
Three people today escaped an early morning house fire in the middle of Kremlin that officials say totally destroyed the residence. Kremlin Fire Chief Kody Peterson said the call came in sometime before 2 a.m. today, but the fire was already significantly established by the time firefighters arrived. Havre Fire Department and Gildford Volunteer Fire Department were also called to help fight the fire. Havre Assistant Fire Chief Kelly Jones said a Havre crew responded with one...
In case you are wondering, sympathy is defined as feeling compassion, sorrow for another person, and empathy is being able to sense other people’s emotions combined with the ability to put yourself in that person’s place. I like to think of it as that we feel sympathy in the heart and empathy in the gut. While I have a normal human capacity for sympathy, it’s my overactive empathy disorder that I always have to keep in check. For instance, despite the fact that I once sold...
