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When life gives you hard news, read here for the soft and fluffy stuff. Things get crazy in the capitol In the nation’s capitol at the end of November Gavin Clarkson, a New Mexico resident, and his fiancee had their request for a marriage license declined by a clerk in the District of Columbia Courts Marriage Bureau. The Associated Press reports that after Clarkson requested the license and showed the clerk his up-to-date New Mexico driver’s license, the clerk informed Cla...
The Montana State University-Northern rodeo teams are hosting their 19th annual Cowboy Christmas fundraiser Saturday. The annual event will be held in the Armory Gymnasium on the university campus, with no-host cocktails starting at 5 p.m. and the prime rib and shrimp dinner at 6 p.m. Along with dinner and drinks, the evening entertainment will include door prizes, raffles, silent and live auctions and dancing to live music. Set between the teams’ fall and spring rodeo s...
My purpose here today is simply to explain to you why the tonsils are the stupidest organ in the human body. I know this comes as a shock to everyone who thinks that title belongs to the appendix but, with all due respect, that internal organ must settle for second place. Sure the appendix just sits in your belly, uselessly dangling there like a wart on the nose of the large intestine, until it gets an infection and has to be removed. Some appendixes never even bother to do...
Big Sandy’s Christmas Stroll will be taking over the town Saturday, Dec. 1, one of the event organizers, Tina Cook, said. The day, organized by the Chouteau County Community Service Improvement group, will start with Breakfast with Santa at 8 a.m. at the Mint Bar and Cafe on Johannes Avenue. For $5 the kids will get breakfast with Santa Claus, a small toy and a chance to win a Christmas stocking. Along with businesses being open for holiday shopping a craft show and sale will...
In a world where it seems the only thing humanity has in common is our divisiveness, scientists from around the globe have met and shown the world that people of the human race come together in one voice to tell the world they can accurately measure the weight of their nerdiness. It’s the astounding news you likely A) didn’t know happened, and B) didn’t know affected your everyday life: Scientific and policy-making representatives from more than 60 nations voted unani...
Havre residents who can’t travel to the Havre Community Thanksgiving Dinner Thursday can arrange to have the free dinner delivered by calling North Central Senior Citizens Center between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. today or Wednesday at 265-5464. People receiving a delivery need to provide their name, address, phone number and the number of meals needed, and they need to be able to take the delivery between the hours of 9 and 11 a.m. Thanksgiving Day. The dinners include turkey, m...
Sometimes I believe all the people who love me beyond my faults, and those people who just don’t know me well enough, when they say, “Oh, it’s too bad you didn’t have kids. You would’ve been a great parent.” Nope. My animals, aka the four-legged family, often remind me of my weaknesses, which make pet ownership complicated. In the higher-stakes game of parenthood, though, these failings most likely would have proven fatal. Not so much for the kids, but me. I am, by my very...
Bear Paw Volunteer Fire Department responded with four units and 11 firefighters to a structure fire reported Monday at about 11 a.m. on the 50000 Block of Sucker Creek Road. Bear Paw Fire Chief Josh Bebee said the fire in the dwelling was contained to the entry way area, but the house sustained significant smoke and heat damage. Cause of the fire is not known for certain, Bebee said, but he believes it was related to the wood stove in the kitchen. Havre Fire Department...
Just like I prepared our property for winter by clearing the driveway verge of vegetation that would cause drifting and other problems when the snow and cold hit, my mental and emotional preparedness for winter weather was impeccable this fall. By mid-September I had myself in an admirably zen-like mental state about winter — not capital-letter Zen as in of the school of Mahayana Buddhism, but lower-case zen in the Western sense of being in the moment, accepting, open-hearted...
Halloween has brought out all the spider decorations, but a man in Fresno, California, who was house sitting for his parents, had a problem Oct. 24 with real spiders, a problem he felt compelled to take care of himself. With a blowtorch. To be honest, the story, the visuals, the laughs, they just about write themselves after that last part. The details are pretty standard and, frankly, on the lighter side of tragedy. No one was killed or injured, no other structures or...
I’m not a fan of reality TV because I can’t stand all the drama, worse, it’s manufactured drama. That is just not my thing. I know that makes me sound old and stodgy, but I was there and of that age when MTV descended from music video television to reality television. I hated it then, too. Reality TV programs are like an online comment section come to life, only you can’t easily skip across the nonsense you don’t want getting into your brain. Plus, it’s so much worse to pu...
I wish to unread a news article I found this week but, apparently, until my hereditary Alzheimer’s sets in I’m stuck with it in my brain. The Associated Press reported that a bowling alley owner got stuck in his pin setting machine Sunday and died there. For real. It’s the kind of tragedy you expect to see in a movie — a dark comedy or a horror movie — not something you expect to happen in real life. Many years ago, now, two friends and I were watching a video of horse and...
As I’ve said before, I’m not much of a conspiracy buff, mostly because you have to keep track of so many details and care very deeply and madly about stuff, and I’m all, “Bleh, this is just crazy talk. I’m gonna go watch funny cat videos on Youtube.” Sometimes, though, I look at the headlines and I think the animal kingdom is fixing to mount a coordinated effort, an animal war of sorts, to take humans down. My ongoing coverage of this phenomenon is an attempt to create a pe...
Hi-Line Rodeo Team is holding a fall 2018 Little Britches Rodeo mini-circuit in Havre in coordination with the Laurel-based Big Sky Little Britches Rodeo group, and entry deadline for the first event is a week away. Little Britches Rodeo is big across the country, said co-organizer Karen Gibson, but the group in Laurel is the only franchise in Montana. Hi-Line Rodeo is co-hosting the sanctioned events in Havre with Big Sky Little Britches to get interest going in the area and...
Turns out, whistling is a little more sophisticated than just putting your lips together and blowing. When I was a kid of 10 or so, my older brother took whistling beyond the old puckered-lips technique of our younger days after someone showed him how to whistle in some mysterious fashion that involved using the first two fingers of both hands between his pursed lips. It was a windy, but deep and round-toned sound, very unlike our regular whistling. It was a new and...
Sure, we all joke about it being true, but it’s not. The truth is that not all Canadians are polite people. It’s impossible. Mathematicians will tell you it’s statistically impossible for 36.3 million people to all be polite. Statistically speaking, some will be crude, some will be crabby and some will be jerks, among other impolitenesses. If you don’t believe math, choose a different area of study; they’ll all tell you the same thing. Sociologist will tell you about the...
The 2018 Air Fair is set to soar at Havre City-County Airport Saturday starting at 7 a.m. Willie Hurd, president of the event-organizing club the North Central Hangar of the Montana Pilots’ Association, said that this year everyone can come for the annual display of aircraft, the airplane rides for kids and the breakfast, but they will also be able to see some of the improvements made at the main hangar and in progress on the tarmac. Local and visiting pilots will have t...
Sometimes life hands you a series of complications and issues, but if you keep working through the mess, in the end they all come together to create a simple answer — kind of how one of those complex mathematical formulas with a mess of numbers, letters and symbols turns out to equal “y.” First of all, last summer the drain to our kitchen sink plugged up. It’s a dying, old trailer house scheduled for demolition, not the new house we’re still working on. These things happen. I...
I don’t like writing about the craft of writing, the process of writing, for a variety of reasons — top among them being that I don’t want to make myself look stupid as I pretend to know what I’m doing here. We’ve all been around those people who read the Reader’s Digest condensed version of an article on nuclear physics and then they hit the lecture circuit of all the dinner parties and casual gatherings of friends and family, expounding on the virtue of nuclear-wha...
Local family members and other caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease and dementia had access to a network of assistance and instruction Tuesday and Wednesday. Alzheimer's Association reports that 1 in 3 seniors in the United States dies of Alzheimer's or another form of dementia, and 16.1 million caregivers provide unpaid care for people with Alzheimer's or a dementia. These numbers are the driving force behind the formation of the Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Group,...
While news sources are waging a battle of perspectives in articles about humans — an easy example being: Is Trump crazy like bat guano or crazy like a fox — recent articles about animals have another side, as well. A Association Press article about a Belleville, Illinois, man who was trying to rescue his parrot but had to be pulled out of the quicksand-like mud himself, had these informative sentences: “Firefighters had to rescue a southwestern Illinois man from deep mud after...
Paris is known as a city of beauty and history. It is the icon of sophistication. It is now sullying its reputation, literally, with its new urinals. Ah, Paris, you are going in the toilet, or as the city officials prefer “le urinoir.” “Paris residents peeved at very public eco-friendly urinals” reads the Aug. 13 headline to a Reuters article by Jack Hunter. Picture this: Beneath the headline is a photo of a stylish twenty-something man facing, and standing quite close t...
Scientists have finally solved the great mystery of the Bermuda Triangle that has haunted mankind for a century, but no one can figure out why Christmas season is now emerging like a mirage through the shimmer of a summer heatwave. Several news media outlets are reporting about a BBC-aired documentary in which Dr. Simon Boxall, an ocean and earth scientist at the University of Southampton, says that the hundred years of hype about the Bermuda Triangle being an unnatural...
Skip political races and cultural wars, Egypt and Mexico have officially gone toe to toe for the title of most outrageous jackassery literally involving a jackass of the four-legged variety, and Egypt has kicked Mexico’s jackass in the brawl. My one trip into Mexico, roughly one hundred years ago, was a quick jaunt across the border to Tijuana, which, it might be argued, isn’t real Mexico, but the touristy side-show is technically within the borders of the country, so technica...
A man was assaulted Wednesday afternoon on the east edge of Havre and taken to the hospital, and law enforcement are searching for the assailant. Hill County Sheriff’s Office dispatch received a call at 5:07 p.m. about an assault in progress on 22nd Avenue North near the east crossing of the BNSF Railway tracks. Sheriff’s deputies, Havre Police officers and emergency medical personnel with Havre Fire Department all responded to the scene. Witnesses who work for BNSF saw two...
