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My dog and cat have entered into the next phase of our big, life-changing, house project with all the emotional balance and fortitude of your average neurotic, cross-species, counter-crosswise twins. The beginning of this adventure saw the cat happy that we were spending time up at the shop, but the dog angry because he wanted to be in the comfort of his home. It didn’t help that every time we put down a bed for the dog to lie on, the cat would strut across the floor, put one...
Editors at Pamville News are bringing readers a healthy dose of international news items to freshen their morning. ABCNews.go.com reports the 20th Air Guitar World Championship started Thursday in Oulu, Finland, with 30 competitors airing their best moves. That first day of competition determined the top 15 international competitors who will go on to the final round today. Hosted by Finland’s northernmost city, Oulu, The competition is a favorite of the town’s mayor who des...
Having spent last week’s column bemoaning man’s inhumanity to the ugly creatures of the world, I must confess that my husband, John, and I are no less guilty of our own prejudices in favor of beautiful creatures. Of course, we have justification. Humans always do for their blatant acts of inhumanity. In our world, ugly is as ugly does. The common pigeon, for example, is quite lovely in all its variations of color and markings, but the droppings, well, I imagine some level of h...
Cecil the lion, yes, I’ve been avoiding the topic. It’s a matter of prudence and respect to the issue. In case you are among the 1 in 1.02567 million people who doesn’t know what I’m talking about: a hunter from the U.S. went on a dream-come-true lion hunt in Zimbabwe. His guides lured in an older male lion and the American shot and killed the lion with a bow and arrow. Of course this isn’t the end of the story. The lion was part of a 10-year study on the Hwange Game Rese...
My personal frugality is legendary … if you can call using an old towel dangling from three strips of duct tape as a curtain over the window in the front door a legend, rather than low-class, uninspired, white-trash slothful chintziness. Po-tay-doh. Po-tah-to. I wear clothes for a few months past the point where they are fit only for the rag bag. And notice that I make them into rags, not just throw them away. I purchase used vehicles and drive them until they die of old a...
You ever have those days when it becomes obvious that you might have a knack for being a genius? I don’t. Well, I didn’t until one glorious day this week. It all started when I bought a bag of cheese curds at the grocery store as a snack to hold me over for the drive home to supper because, hey, who doesn’t love cheese curds and, of course, 10 minutes is a long drive when you’re really hungry. In my weakened state, the sturdy packaging thwarted all my attempts to gnaw through...
The annual Field Day at Montana State University's Northern Agricultural Research Center offered more than just education and a good meal Wednesday as the center celebrated its 100th anniversary. Field trips across the station offered participants the opportunity to look at work on and expert explanation of beef cattle research projects, crop variety, rotational crops and water use and diseases - all with a nod toward historical work as well as present. Different this year...
While the 2015 Field Day and 100th Anniversary for Montana State University's Northern Agricultural Research Center were important celebrations Wednesday, the research center, MSU and the Montana Board of Regents also paid honor to a former superintendent of NARC. Gregg Carlson served 42 years in agriculture with 12 years as an Extension agent and 30 years at NARC, retiring as agronomist and superintendent of the station in 2010. The center's office and lab building was named...
I would like to take this time to go on record as formally declaring that hot weather sucks. I know, that’s pretty strong language for not a very profound revelation. In my defense, though, if I were allowed, my column today would consist of the headline, my photo retouched digitally to look as if I were actually melting and these words in the largest, boldest print possible: “Hot Weather Sux.” Yes, I would abbreviate “sucks” because then I would have more room to make the...
For its 100th anniversary milestone, Northern Agricultural Research Center is turning its 2015 Field Day, Wednesday, into a special celebration. The annual Field Day at the research center gives beef and crop producers, as well as interested visitors, a chance to tour the facility to see what the scientists are working on and hear presentations from specialists on topics like cattle mineral supplements, wheat sawfly control, controlling pink eye through advances in pest...
It’s been been almost 40 years, so I should let it go, plus it’s not right to speak ill of the dead, but I'm saying it anyway: I still really, really, really dislike Farrah Fawcett for making several decades of my life miserable. I still keep a secret stash of resentment tucked away in a little fold at the back of my brain. The bottle has her name on it. It was in 1976 that Farrah Fawcett’s iconic swimsuit poster hit the stands. You know the one: red swimsuit, hot bod and t...
Havre's annual Air Fair and fly-in breakfast is set to begin Saturday at 7 a.m. The public is invited, at no charge, to the Havre City-County Airport to see a variety of airplanes and talk to the pilots, said Willy Hurd, president of the North Central Hangar of the Montana Pilots Association, the group that hosts the event. Kids will be offered a free airplane ride this year, Hurd said, but cautioned that with the hot weather, which causes turbulence, people should show up...
The Bear Paw Bowmen Archery Club is hosting its 17th Annual Barber Ranch 2-Day Archery Shoot this weekend and raising money to help local college students. The competition has 80 targets set over four courses, covering about 4 miles of mountain terrain, said a press release from the club. The targets are life-like creatures — ranging from deer and turkeys to dinosaurs — tucked into the natural terrain. Several classes and divisions are offered to accommodate experience and...
In 1958 a Bear Paw cowboy named Larry Kane was honorably discharged from the United States Army and strode into a rodeo career that made him famous across North America, and Monday a memorial to Kane, who died in 2008, was placed in his hometown of Big Sandy for all who drive along U.S. Highway 87 to stop and admire, and to learn about the legend. "It was a longtime coming," said Larry Kane's widow Gwen Kane who still lives in Big Sandy. The inspiration for the memorial, Gwen...
The town of Big Sandy will be swelling with Pioneer pride this weekend, along with several hundred graduates, former residents, their families and friends, to celebrate the town’s 2015 Homecoming. Rather than hold homecoming each year at the school and small, individual class reunions, residents decided back in 1975 to hold each year a citywide summer homecoming event every five years, said Jolene Williams, one of the organizers of this year’s homecoming. Along with the regula...
Havre Area Chamber of Commerce’s Agri-Business Committee is sponsoring an ag-vendor display during Northern Agricultural Research Center’s centennial Field Day, and proceeds will help area agriculture students. For the past 17 years, the Chamber’s Ag Appreciation Banquet has hosted record crowds in one of the largest ag appreciation banquets in the state, said a press release from the committee. The purpose of the banquet is to recognize and thank the people in agric...
Pamville News The latest rumor from the Pentagon is that U.S. Armed Forces and covert operations agencies will be starting a major recruitment push in the war against Middle Eastern foes because it has become evident that the Middle East’s Achilles heel is actually the female fanny. An unnamed source on Capitol Hill has told Pamville News that, based on the latest news from Pakistan, U.S. women will be wooed like in the days of WWII to come to the aid of their country. P...
While the common thread among historical attractions everywhere is to teach people about history, Havre's Living History Da,y Saturday, provides the opportunity to experience the area's history come to life as well. Living History brings together efforts at several of the area's historical sites and annual events that welcome people to take part in activities, demonstrations and re-enactments that bring the area history back to life. Fort Assinniboine During this weekend...
Some topics are of such great importance that they beg to be illuminated by the written word, though doing so endangers the writer’s very wellbeing. Thus it is, dear readers, I write this column at grave peril to myself because, I must say, the topic is a doozy. One of the guiding principles of my life is the need to always remain humble or, better yet, self-deprecating. If I actually made a list of guiding principles, this life lesson would be highlighted in hot pink. H...
I think I can be honest here, so I'll just say right out: I should not be reading, watching, listening to, discussing, covering, or otherwise interacting with news, like the kind found on the other pages of this newspaper. No one should. No matter what my boss says. An elite 5 percent of news is just news. It informs you. It delights you. You recognize this 5 percent when your first response is something like “huh” or “Well, I’ll be …” or “oh” or even “awww.” Yeah, ...
Bullhook Bottoms Black Powder Club 36th Annual Spring Shoot will be held Memorial Day weekend at Fort Assinniboine southwest of Havre. This event is one of the largest black powder competitions in the state, said club member Jim Griggs. For its inaugural year, the shoot was held at the Havre Rifle Club’s course, with a few local black powder enthusiasts participating, Griggs said, but they quickly decided to make the event larger. That’s when it was moved to Fort Ass...
I haven’t written about the house project lately and, while I feel a little bad about that, I have to say it’s because I’m a little shy about expressing my deep feelings this early in the relationship the house and I are building. After some of the initial anxiety, about whether or not the house and I might be a good fit and the struggles we had to get something going, we have been getting to know one another better — I don’t mean “better” better, just better. I’m not that...
I was born to be a peasant. Well, OK, not one of those indentured, do whatever the boss-man tells me to do kind of serfs. I have it on good authority from just about every one of my family members and my husband, who shall remain nameless, that I don’t follow orders very well. But there was a class of landowning peasants with whom I would have fit in nicely. I come fully equipped by Mother Nature with large peasantish hands, feet and muscles, along with the broad shoulders a...
A humor columnist and a spiritual guide walked into a coffee shop, and it wasn’t a joke. Really. It was, in fact, more like a blind date only, y’know, not as creepy as that sounds. OK, I’ll admit it. A total stranger emailed me, mentioned the right names and connections, flattered me outrageously and asked if I wanted to have tea or coffee in a public place some day. I said, yeah, sure, why not, sounds great. And even though the situation sounds a little like the plot openi...
If you don’t already know who 61-year-old Ruskin, Florida, mailman Doug Hughes is, you should make it your business to know. He’s just spent the last 2 1/2 years planning and executing a spectacular, death-defying stunt that has landed him in jail, and he did it for you. He did it for America. He did it on the White House lawn. Hughes flew an ultralight airplane-helicopter hybrid, called a gyrocopter, through restricted air space over Washington, D.C., and landed on the Whi...
