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Though her older brother had taken a market beef to the fair every year he was eligible during his 4-H career, when it came time for Sage "Benny" Brown of the Bear Paw Beavers 4-H Club to follow in his footsteps, she couldn't bring herself to do it. "I don't really like the big ones," she said. "I'm kind of scared - chicken," she added with frank humor. Not wanting to give up on the idea of taking a market steer, the 13-year-old started looking into miniature cattle with the...
Entries for the 2016 Great Northern Ram Rodeo, which will take place Thursday and Friday of the fair, will be taken by phone all day Tuesday. Normally a sanctioned rodeo open only to Northern Rodeo Association and Indian rodeo association riders, this year’s rodeo at the Great Northern Fair will be an entirely open event, allowing any competitors a chance to compete with rodeo association card holders, co-organizer Clint Solomon said. Entries can be phoned in Tuesday from 10 a...
I started taking a yoga class for all the usual reasons: to work on strength, flexibility, balance, humiliation. Now, if I were writing this column strictly for my family to read, I could stop at that first sentence and have them rolling in the aisles, as the saying goes. Really, I’d be killin’ it in those 18 words. They’d react, saying: “There’s more?” “Are you kidding?” “You had me at yoga.” Ha ha ha hardy har har, guys. “Strength, no problem. She’d be, like, ‘I am Pam Sch...
In pursuit of the perfect flooring for my some-day new-to-us home, considerable research and countless hours of analysis paralysis have led me to this: I’m bringing dirt floors back into fashion. Think about it before you dismiss the idea. First of all, eco-friendly options are all the rage. And I don’t think we can get more ecologically grassroots than we do with dirt. Plus, it’s immeasurably practical and economical. What are the most time- and money-consuming issues encount...
The trouble with using sarcasm as your favorite communication device and then doubling down on that by writing a humor-based column is that it hurts your credibility. It’s not that people think I’m a liar, it’s just that they think they can’t necessarily believe what I say. Sure, that’s a fine line, but I like to think it’s an important one. When a co-worker asks, “Do I put a comma right here?” and I say, “Only if you want to sound like an ignorant hillbilly” — whic...
Something in the human mind loves lists: Top 5 businesses to work for and Top 5 not to work for; 10 most impressive acts of laziness in history; 24 things women over 30 shouldn’t wear; 24 things females under 30 shouldn't talk smack about; 100 must-read books; 7 must-have futon features; and on and on — the lists being too numerous to list. I have decided to feed this humankind need with a list of my own, and I give you: 5 Most Seductive Foods. 5. Bread. A mealtime staple in...
Tragedy has been stalking my household since last we met, and I feel beholden to offer my condolences during these sad times in which I am living. RIP my perfectly ergonomic computer mouse which has spent many an hour at my side while working and playing on the computer these last 15 or more years. I will miss your smooth rolling action and the way your long cord would grab at anything on the left side of my keyboard in protest over the crowding of your work space. You served...
Eleven kids aren’t that many. Any teacher would be happy to have that many kids in a classroom. A baker could make a regular dozen doughnuts and still have one left. So, yeah, 11 is nothing, unless that’s the number of children in your family. I don’t mean my family, and I don’t mean your family, unless the math happens to work out that way for you. I mean my older brother’s family. There is, officially, 11 of the little darlings. That’s a lot when you have to feed them a...
I have been watching a television series based on events and people involved in the American Revolution and it is clear to me that, had I lived at that time in history, the likelihood of my survival to old age would have been roughly nil. First off, it’s unlikely I could have managed to survive childhood and early adulthood. Aimless children prone to daydreaming rather than working were killed either by accident or out of frustration — or flat out to save money to buy food and...
Growing up on the northern coast of Colombia, South America, Claudia Krevat ate lentils, a lot of lentils, because the small bean is a food staple across the country. Now, after 30 years of cooking and catering - 18 of those years in Bozeman - Krevat is going on the road to promote the qualities of the little legume to people across Montana, the number one lentil-producing state in the U.S. Using a $1,000 grant from the Red Ants Pants Foundation to partially fund her Lentil Ca...
Now, when it’s too late to back out of this course of action, I really understand that there is no way that one can build a home without having to shop for things — like, a lot of things. I admit that it seems patently obvious that one must shop for structural materials, fixtures, finish materials and a whole host of stuff that creates and fills a home. Really, you might ask, how else did I expect to get this project done without the funds to hire a personal shopper? Tha...
The hangar doors were pulled wide, spilling in sunshine and hardly a breeze at all - until they arrived to make one. Thirty-some people gathered at the open doorway of the main hangar at Havre City-County Airport April 19, as a Montana Army National Guard Black Hawk helicopter approached low on the southern horizon, with the snow-tipped Bear Paw Mountains as a backdrop. The wind from the aircraft's rotor blades had just died down and passengers and crew members were starting...
Marriage experts say that one of the keys to a long and successful marriage is to keep a little surprise, some mystery, in your relationship: My husband, John, surprised me Saturday morning by having what could best, and most respectfully, be described as a conniption fit. I had carried three long 2-by-4 studs, slung onto my shoulder, for a short jaunt of about 70 yards. John felt that it was detrimental to my health to carry a load of wood in this fashion, and he expressed...
Drama and complications are two different things. Drama I actively work to avoid. Complication seems to be second nature. It started with a simple statement: “I need to get the horses locked up for the summer to let that pasture grow.” How hard is it to lock three head of tame, broke horses into an already-fenced area? I don’t even have to get halters. I just need to grasp a half of a handful of mane on one horse and lead it into the small pasture. The others will follo...
Not many people think of including the airport in a list of public transportation infrastructure. Fewer still would think of changing their retirement plans to help revitalize that service, but that is exactly what pilots Roger Lincoln and Tony Dolphay did in Havre. It's a typical Saturday morning at Havre City-County Airport and a crowd of pilots from around the area are trickling in to the fixed base operation - the airport equivalent of a gas station, called an FBO. Tony...
With the wide variety of flooring materials that modern technology offers, it may be difficult to decide which flooring to choose, But answering a few questions and knowing about the products will help with decision-making. The most basic flooring question is: hard surface or soft? Carpet is warmer, quieter and cozier than, say, a tile floor, but that leads to another question. How important is ease of maintenance? Carpets have come a long way thanks to technology, but food, p...
The rafter rats have returned, and where there’s a pigeon there’s pigeon poop, and where there’s pigeon poop there’s the potential for histoplasmosis and psittacosis. I looked it up. And I know only one preventative medicine against both the fungal and bacterial diseases, and it starts with the source. One clear, calm morning as I was preparing to open the gate to the barn (aka searching for a spot to grab that wasn’t whitewashed), I heard two of the winged varmints cooing in...
The three-day New Idea Expo brought together presenters, films, filmmakers and vendors to share information and discuss ideas about ways of approaching life and business that might seem contrary to mainstream practices. The expo is an evolution of Havre's annual film festival and is the brainchild of Yellow Bus Creations, a group of people who have been holding the film festival since 2006. "This year we decided to do the whole expo thing to change it up," said Kris Shaw, one...
I don’t mean to make light of a literally deadly topic, but latest evidence on the mosquito-borne Zika virus shows that my grandmother was psychic in her prediction of this disease invasion. Apparently, even a squat, stern farm grandma can channel the future through a crochet needle. No kidding. The Zika virus, which can cause illness in children and adults and, more significantly, the birth defect microcephaly, has been in Brazil and French Polynesia for years. The virus i...
In an interesting turn of health news this week in Pamville, Hollywood stars are itching for the rights to get lice. Fox News has reported that Southern Illinois University researchers are saying that 25 states across the country have a case of "super lice." Researcher’s data shows that this genetic strain of lice is resistant to both over the counter and prescription treatments that traditionally kill lice. The lice are the size of standard, or traditional, lice but the o...
This week the Havre Daily News published a series of articles which indicate the county has a mystery afoot in the housing market but, fear not, I am a font of answers that will set your mind at ease. A mysterious entity is buying up properties with delinquent taxes and not doing anything with the properties but letting them go derelict. It’s causing a noticeable blight in this county and others across the state. It’s aliens. I was going to lead into that better, maybe giv...
In a world where men and women suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder from military and law enforcement service and unimaginable tragedies, I seem to have gotten PTSD from my kitchen drain being plugged. I know it sounds ridiculous, but in my defense, that drain pipe was plugged for several months, and if you have never had that experience, then you cannot imagine the psychological damage a tragedy like this can cause. For sure there is a way to explain why the drain...
February? Oh, right, I’m supposed to hate February. It’s the second month in a row without a vacation-worthy holiday — after that Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Year glut of free time. The rest of the world is talking about spring and that liar Punxsutawney Phil, but up here in the near-Arctic no skunks are out, no bears have emerged looking for tourists to eat, sewer lines haven’t thawed, horses aren’t shedding, only the impatient cows (and the ones seduced by errant, vagabond...
Pamville News editors have meticulously scoured world news sources to bring readers highlights of importance. The nerds of India Yahoo News reported this week that Tata Motors Ltd., a car manufacturer in India, will be changing the name of its new Zica car before it is sold to the public because the name sounds like the new Zika virus that is gearing up to be the new pandemic to sweep the world, wreak havoc and endanger lives. Even corporations like to make healthy choices....
Winter wheat or spring wheat this growing season? February calves or March at this location? March foals or just wait for June? Is it too windy to spray? Too wet to seed? Or too dry to keep the herd on this pasture? Paperwork or outside work tomorrow? How much feed and bedding today? Are the roads clear enough to make a haul? Will that storm slow the grain train? Settle on this price now or bank on a good summer? What kind of pests and diseases will next month’s weather bring?...
