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“He was hitting all the development milestones that you would expect, and then one day when we weren’t paying attention it just went away, and we assumed that he was just a quiet guy. Well, no, it was autism taking affect,” Jeremy Malley said about his first-born child, Henry. When Jeremy told the story of his son, Henry, 7, he began by saying that he and his wife, Lee Ann, started parenting a little later in life. Both were almost 34 years old when Henry was born. Life kept...
Canada has officially become my first alternate for home country. Sure, Montana will always be the country that calls to my soul, but there’s a push in Canada to “update” their laws by making it not illegal to get in a duel with someone. In Canada. Dueling. How awesome is that? I mean, we’re talking about the land of the nicest people and the country that’s the home of the Canadian standoff: “You go first.” “Oh, no, you go ahead.” “Ah, I wouldn’t hear of it. You go, eh.” “Ple...
The Fresno Chapter of Walleyes Unlimited still has a few slots open in this weekend's walleye fishing tournament and area youth have an opportunity to experience their own fishing adventure Friday in the chapter's Fresno Kids Fun Fishing Day. The fun day, which acts as a sort of preamble to the tournament, is open to all youth to give them an opportunity to get out on the water fishing for walleye with experts, said Brian Olson, Fresno Chapter member and tournament director. T...
"Yeah, for sure," Miller said, chuckling. A lot. "Yeah, who would've known, right? I certainly didn't plan to end up here, but it's a good place to raise a family, and there's obviously work, and I'm challenged by it because it is different and diverse." Miller grew up in Glendive, got her Masters of Architecture at Montana State University in Bozeman and interned for three years before passing her exams to become a licensed architect. After she married Justin Miller, a...
Though beef cattle producers constantly assess the condition of their cows and heifers, agriculture nutrition specialists say applying a more scientific approach, called body condition scoring, can help producers assess their nutritional program and make better informed business decisions about production. Research has proven that body condition, or how much body fat a beef cow or heifer has, directly affects the health of its calf through amount and quality of colostrum...
So I lived beyond the summer cold, with some lingering signs, but life just keeps throwing it at me like I’m a fan, and I’m really thinking I should have something like worker’s compensation, but I wouldn’t have to work for it, just live for it — maybe survivor’s compensation. “Oh,” I would say. “I never would’ve lived through it without my survivor’s compensation that paid for the help I needed after, y’know surviving.” As I have battled the last hints of cough and sniffl...
Dear Summer Cold, I hate to be rude, but I see why nobody likes you. I realize it was unrealistic of me to think you would just go away that first day. But, seriously, all you did was sneak in and annoy my tonsils until they became angry and red. You seemed relatively harmless and I underestimated your determination. I see that now — but you’re no flu bug, Summer Cold. You are definitely not the mighty flu. Yeah, I know. I couldn’t do anything about it when you moved into my s...
Visiting family is like looking at yourself in a funhouse mirror. You know you are seeing yourself reflected back, but everything is skewed, cockeyed and out of proportion. Some of the reflections scare you, but some make you laugh out loud. Half my family tree was lost in the divorce. Not my divorce, but my choice of tree branch to follow. Admittedly, I was young and very much interested in self-preservation of my early teenage psyche, but still I lost touch with half my...
After 22 years as the public face and the driving force of the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce, Debbie Vandeberg is retiring as executive director of the Chamber. Vandeberg said she had planned to retire in a few years, but recent health issues have made keeping up with the high demands of the job difficult. But, because the Chamber position is as much a passion as it is a career, Vandeberg said she doesn't plan to simply walk away. "I don't feel like I'm walking away because...
I could be writing about a lot of really interesting things that happened this week, but instead it’s all about the water. Again. This time, though, I now have it, but apparently don’t know how to use it. Sure, no one who really knows me expected me to go into a frenzy of cleaning after regaining running water in the house, even if it was a four-month dry spell. You would think I could transition back to using it at least out of habit, though. I mean, I wasn’t raised by wolve...
As I write this, I am exhausted, sun burnt, sticky and salty with dry sweat, gritty and muddy, but I am here to say that one of the greatest marvels of modern civilization is indoor plumbing — water that runs from a well, through buried pipes to places like water troughs, sinks, toilets (for the love of sanitation, the toilet). Regular readers might remember that the universe’s Christmas Eve gift to me and my husband was a totally unusable water system to the house. For...
James “Mac” McIntyre of Florida went to the South Pacific to find a pig, but got a dog, too — well, kind of. Huffington Post reports that McIntyre, a trained zoologist, has been many things in his life, a vet tech on a cattle ranch, a zookeeper, a high school biology teacher, a logger and a carpenter. But he hasn’t let any of that hold him back from pursuing his love of scientific researcher. McIntyre told Huff-Po that it was his relentless passion to know things that drove hi...
I hope you’re good at math because I am going to employ my rudimentary mathematical skills to get this column done quickly so I don’t waste my valuable vacation time at a computer. I would love to be using my mathematical skills to be tallying things like margaritas and mai tais, or the number of years older I would look from too much sun on the beach, minus the years younger I would look after the derm-abrasion treatment from the sand, but, alas, my time off is a wor...
Despite the fact that GPS navigation systems are notorious for misdirecting drivers into all manner of wrong locations — like the Swiss driver who had to have his van and himself airlifted by helicopter off a goat trail in the mountains (hand to heart; I swear it’s true) because his GPS said it was the correct route, until he was stuck, when it said, “Oops, turn around and go back” — yes, despite even this, I think those of us who live in the country should use GPS latitude...
In an era with an overabundance of women’s undergarments to choose from, I just want white cotton. You know, simple, no-lace, all-natural, plus a bit of elastic around the edges, non-granny-panties, white cotton underwear — those are, my theory holds, no-fail honest unders. The blues ones, though, are exhibitionists and will betray you every time. Herein lies the tale of two blue unders. I have had to wash clothes at the laundromat for about year now — don’t ask, it’s a...
A common joke among horse people goes like this: If you want to keep your kids off drugs, get them hooked on horses, and they’ll never have money for anything else. Sure, we laugh — we laugh as hard as the average layperson about the exaggeration — but we know. Right? We know this is a truism disguised as a joke. You can hear it at the end of our laugh. There’s a catch in the voice, maybe a quiet sigh or a choked-off grunt. It’s the reality hitting home. And, yes, to be cle...
After 2016, when cattle prices dropped to as low as half the prices seen the previous two years, cattle producers are working their way through a typical weather-diverse Montana winter and spring to get calves on the ground safely and start the progress to the sale market again. Though calving season most often starts in January or early February for the purebred cattle breeders, Klint and Lori Swanson of Shipwheel Cattle Co. south of Chinook wait until March, calving their he...
In response to the more than 2 million acres of land burned, homes, buildings and fences destroyed, and countless livestock lost or injured in the March wildland fires that spread in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado, the Montana Angus Association will be donating at least $16,000 for relief efforts. The state organization and the association’s seven regions have committed to donating $2,000 apiece, said Klint Swanson of Shipwheel Cattle Co. in Chinook, president of the nor...
We interrupt our previously scheduled column to bring you the latest news on the possible defection of a high-ranking Republican to the Democratic Party. Several national and international news outlets reported this week that former chair of the Colorado Republican Party Steve Curtis appeared in Colorado’s Weld County District Court charged with misdemeanor voter fraud and forgery, a felony. Curtis is accused of filling out, signing and mailing in his ex-wife, Kelly C...
It’s one thing to know something about yourself that is, let’s say, not a plus, like “I’m not awesome at geography,” but it’s another thing to have it demonstrated, repeatedly, to truly make you understand that you should be humiliated. I, in fact, am not perfectly awesome about where countries lay on the globe, but hey, I thought, I’m OK at it. Then I took a little online name-those-countries-in-15-minutes quiz on Sporcle.com and found out just how badly I have failed all th...
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” — Robin Williams Words and ideas are the stock in trade in Pamville this week. • Let’s start with the Environmental Protection Association vs. words. The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, a group of scientists and academics who track changes to about 25,000 federal government webpages in their nerdy free time, reported Tuesday that the EPA’s Office of Science and Technology Policy no longer l...
Growing up an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy, I was always comfortable with the idea of reality not being what we expect it to be and even looked for signs that I was living in or had slipped into an alternate reality. Well, folks, I think I have arrived. In 2008 a majority of Americans and the Electoral College voted into the office of President of the United States the first African American president in the U.S. Barack Obama was a young, inexperienced...
I didn’t realize before now that I had preconceived notions about how a quarter-feral cat would behave, but I see, now, that I did, and that image did not include him being a demanding prima donna. The survival neurosis I get. Hyper-aware of his surroundings, Tony the cat is afraid of confinement, loud noises, chaos and strangers. When you’re a cat trying to make your way alone in the big world, you need cat-like instincts and reflexes to survive. At three-quarters tame Tony n...
At its 2017 annual meeting Feb. 1 the Hill County Scale Association board members discussed maintenance at the facility and the need to start a search for a scale manager. The holding pens at the scale association three miles east of Havre received a full face lift this year after board members made a deal with one of a handful of businesses in town last summer offering to replace weathered boards in corrals and windbreaks for free. The weathered boards are sold as recycled...
I was 33 years old, walking from the house to the shop on a warm spring day, the moment when I realized that I knew my parents when they were my age. I stopped mid-stride and calculated the years while the sun warmed my back and the profoundness of my thought altered reality and possibly opened a portal in the space-time continuum. I turned 10 the year Dad turned 33. My parents were building a house across town. My older brother was one year away from becoming a teen-aged...
