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Straight up front I have to say that I do not believe in the use of torture. Torture is inhumane. Torture is an ineffective tool in bringing about true change. And I believe that the pain inflicted with torture actually scars the spirit of the torturer. On the other hand I do believe in justice and the righteousness of an eye for an eye — so I bought a hand-held, battery operated bug zapper to wreak vengeance on every fly, wasp, gnat, spider or box elder bug that invades my h...
Break out the second layer of clothes, dust off the galoshes, turn up the thermostat and take out the parka, we finally got rain, a cold first-of-the-fall dribbling soaker. I couldn’t be happier unless it was snow. I thought I’d go a lifetime without ever longing for early winter snow. And honestly, if I go the rest of my life without having cause to be hopeful about the possibility of snow again, or even quite this happy about a cold fall rain, I’ll be grateful. National Weat...
Editor’s note: Due to an editor’s error, information about this show was misreported in a story on Page 11 of the Festival Days special section in Wednesday’s edition of the Havre Daily News. The Steve Heil Memorial Car Show is returning to Havre Festival Days for the fourth time Friday, starting at 6 p.m. The show, which has been held in the parking lot of Independence Bank, will be on the blocked-off streets south and west of bank lot this year due to construction at the b...
Havre is seeing work from local people, businesses and organizations to bring color and vigor to the downtown community and the local economy. Main Street Projects Inspired by a presentation from the Main Street Montana Project on ways to boost the vitality of local communities and economies, a group of people representing a wide cross-section of local organizations and businesses is seeing projects come to fruition and working to develop and implement more plans. Asking...
All I’m saying is that it’s a good thing it’s not against the law — legally, biblically or otherwise — to covet thy neighbor’s horse, or I would’ve been busted last week — thrown in the hoosegow, tossed out the pearly gates or otherwise had my birthday taken away. I’d forgotten what it’s like to have broke horses around and, honestly, I’ve never had a really seasoned horse, so towing a couple of no-nonsense campaigners under less than ideal conditions was better than a box of...
Last Sunday, a century to the day after her birth, Marybelle Miller attended her 100th birthday party with friends and family at Sweet Home in Chinook, where the Havreite has lived for the past year. "This is a really remarkable thing," Scott Slone, Marybelle's grandson, said. Born in Havre Sept. 3, 1917, to Frank and Vina Stirling, who ranched 16 miles south of Havre in the Bear Paw Mountains, Marybelle grew up with two brothers and one sister, her daughter Linda Slone of...
Havre Pride fall cleanup will be a weeklong affair this year, Monday through next Saturday, said Havre Area Chamber of Commerce Director Jody Olson. Members of the Chamber board decided to put the garbage bins out, at the parking lot at Fifth Avenue and First Street and at Zip Trip in Highland Park, for a week, she said, to give people more opportunity to fit their cleanup into their schedules. She added that the bins would be out by Labor Day but maybe as early as today, and...
In the face of impending doom, my instinct is to collect up everyone precious to me, like a hen gathering chicks or me filling my plate with my 20 favorite treats in a dessert bar. Mine. Mine. Mine. You are all mine. Come here to me. At the first report of a fire in the Bear Paw Mountains Sunday, my chest went all achy with a heart palpitating need to have every last one of my family members by my side, now. Like, right now. Not just my husband and my four-leggers, not just fa...
Marvel Logging occupies a former mechanic shop east of Havre. The stack of delimbed pine logs that occupy a portion of the parking area sit in stark contrast to the backdrop of Milk River Valley cottonwood trees and the vast stretch of prairie that fills the horizon all around. "Logging is logging," Pat said, whether logging in mountainous western Montana or the hills of the east. The trip to the job site is similar. You follow a series of ever smaller, more rugged roads...
I suppose it’s a form of oppositional defiance disorder, a compulsion to both stick it to The Man and not become a The Establishment that makes me shy away from things labeled as “your duty” and “your responsibility.” I see it in statements that include word combinations like “have to” and “need to.” Many times my mouth says “yes,” while my brain is saying “nope.” I’ll do what I agreed to do, while my brain is still at it with “Nopity. No.” It’s a backward and unhealthy w...
For two consecutive Saturdays in early spring groups of volunteers, guided by Friends of the Missouri River Breaks Monument and Bureau or Land Management staff, headed out to the upper end of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument to plant cottonwood trees at campsites along the river. This effort was part of an ongoing improvement program in the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument and a sort of symbol of the cooperative effort put forth in the daily...
This has been a tough week, so to get through it I thought long and hard about what the people I know and respect do to cope with adversity: They play to their strengths — meditation, prayer, binge eating. So I turned to the only thing I have going for me, writing. Sometimes you need that knife’s-edge state of mind to cut out that which is troubling you. Specifically, the so-called alt-right rally of white nationalists, white supremacists and Ku Klux Klan members in Cha...
One of the struggles for those who train combat troops is to condition soldiers to run forward, attacking, when ambushed rather than retreat. Experts say fleeing causes chaos which feeds into the effectiveness of the ambush, while attacking forward provides the greatest chance of survival. The question here is whether that theory applies to the scenario in which a lone woman is in the bathroom, sitting (y'know), and then spies a giant spider lurking in the shadows a few feet a...
The 2017 Hays Community Pow-wow and related events are set for Wednesday through Sunday in Little Peoples Canyon, also called Mission Canyon, on the southern end of Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. Powwow committee Secretary-Treasurer Alicia Werk said the community has worked this summer to get a new arbor built, with some volunteers putting in 18-hour days to make sure it is ready for the weekend. The activities start with youth events Wednesday and Thursday. The youth...
“Well, that was a lucky water break.” Trust me, if you have to say you had a water break, it’s best to have a lucky one. Way back in the early days of Pam and John, we had a water break under the trailer house we were living in. It flooded the pit that the water cistern was in under the house. The temperature was 50 degrees below zero. The water break was inside the pit of water. That was not a lucky water break. Last winter we had a water main break somewhere in the 400 f...
Data analysts say, if you torture the numbers long enough, they’ll tell you anything. I just read that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has compiled the statistics and crunched the numbers, and the official data says more people in the U.S. get killed by cows every year than get killed by sharks. In averages taken from between 2001 and 2013, cows killed 20 people per year and sharks killed only one person per year. In fact, alligators and bears each averaged o...
The 53rd Annual Milk River Indian Days at Fort Belknap Indian Reservation is gearing up for the weekend of July 28-30, but even before the opening grand entry next Friday, different tribal organizations will be hosting events for a youth day Thursday and an ultimate warrior-like challenge for adults Wednesday. This powwow is a big celebration for the reservation and the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine tribes and the weekend should be a big one because no other powwows will be...
Today I would like to take a departure from my usual frivolous subject matter to touch on the serious topic of people’s worth, specifically, the value of my own life. How much is my life worth? Is it worth, for example, $750? When I was a small child, I was worthless for earning any wages or being productive in any helpful way. I was, as most babies are, a burden. I was not special in this way. Perhaps if I had been a pretty child or one who made people feet compelled to s...
The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors has hired Jody Olson to take over as executive director of the Chamber. Olson and her husband, Brian, had become so enamored with Havre during their years living here from the late '80s to the mid-'90s that, even after 16 years away, they still wanted to move back to stay after retiring, Jody Olson said. "In those years he worked for Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad, so the railroad was what originally brought us here...
Any ideas I might have had for this week’s column were immediately erased in the moment I realized my home was not going to burst into flames, burn to the ground and start a wildland fire that obliterated the Hi-Line. I’m sure you can imagine the degree of my elation. This feeling was topped by a jumbled free-for-all kind of emotional brawl as events played out Tuesday. I had some clothes drying in the dryer that morning and I needed to get them swapped out for the last loa...
With wildfires, earthquakes, drought, grizzly bears invading the prairie and our descent into the heart of bug season, Pamville News brings its readership news and commentary on what’s happening in the man vs. nature struggle across the country. • KHQ News in King County, Washington, reported Tuesday that a GMC Envoy died in a fire after a 14-year-old took his parents’ SUV and a few friends on a joy ride to buy fireworks earlier that morning. Officers reported that the boys...
Although the most significant contribution to what has kept my husband and I together for the past 200 years (rounded up) is lack of imagination about what else to with ourselves, we have a few other gimmicky tricks, too. One of the biggies is this: Sometimes you have to rise up to the occasion, leave your happy place and do something beyond the normal for your spouse. May all the saints and dragon-slayers help us, but this weekend I have to be the trophy wife. John’s class r...
A modern expression warns that “a boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into.” I like that and the format applies to many of our specialty splurges. A monster truck is a hole in the mud you throw money into. See what I did there? A craft room full of fabric is a hole in a quilt you sew money into. There I added a new twist. But truth is truth and found even in my own hobby. A horse is a hole in a corral you throw money into. But this is not the whole truth. Not for...
Once upon a time, when I was young, which was in an era far far away, I wanted to live anywhere except in a little no-account town in Montana where nothing happened, so when I had the chance to live and work in the Los Angeles area for a summer I grabbed it. It was one of the best choices I made as a just-hit-drinking-age adult. It was like stepping into an alternate universe, or hell. Yeah, maybe it was hell. Like I made a conscious decision to walk through a doorway into...
The Fresno Walleye Challenge fishing tournament saw 81 teams vying for day and weekend money Saturday and Sunday at Fresno Reservoir and fishing for points that could go toward placing in Montana's four-tournament series. "I think the tournament went very well again," said Brian Olson, tournament organizer for the event host Fresno Chapter of Walleyes Unlimited. "With the 81 (teams), we fed them both on Friday and Saturday nights," Olson said. "Mother Nature - actually the...
