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Local businesses in Havre are hosting back-to-school fundraisers and events, and are accepting donations to provide supplies for local students during the upcoming school year of 2019-20. For the third year in a row, Tom Lafond State Farm of Havre will be accepting school supplies starting Aug. 1 clear through to the end of the month. “We take any and all school supply donations,” State Farm Manager Angela Twombly said. “Pens, pencils, markers, crayons, paper, notebook, hand sanitizer, Kleenex, wipes, erasers, backp...
Pre-registration for the Bullhook Community Health Center Color Fun Run/Walk ends today, and participants are encouraged to register now. Bullhook will be hosting its fourth-annual color run Saturday, Aug. 10 beginning at 10 a.m. in the Bullhook Community Health Center, 521 4th St., parking lot to celebrate the end of National Health Center Week. The course is either 1 mile or 5 kilometers through Havre. Those who pre-register are guaranteed a T-shirt and a few other goodies. Registration will also be available the day of...
The 55th Annual Chippewa Cree Celebration at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation will be held this week. Wednesday, July 31 The day begins with the Opioid Response Gathering at 10 a.m. followed by the Kids’ Rodeo in the evening. The Kids’ Rodeo gives youth rodeo competitors 18 years of age and younger a chance to win prize money and honors in a number of events, with action starting at 5 p.m. at the Sybil Sangrey-Colliflower Memorial Arena in Box Elder. The youth are competing in age brackets of ages 6 and younger and 7-9 years...
Havre has been chosen to a participate in a new strength study which will focus on strength and balance exercises to help adults over 50 years of age become stronger and prevent illness. “The purpose of the study is to gather data in a community setting to see if the Strong People Program can help with prevention or improvement of heart disease and diabetes, as well as overall strength and functional fitness,” Montana State University Family & Consumer Sciences Extension Agent Jasmine Carbajal said. Strong People Tra...
Aubrey Welch, a junior at North Star High School, is doing almost back-to-back medical conferences, one on the West Coast and another on the East Coast. Welch left Thursday to attend the National Student Leadership Conference on Medicine and Healthcare at University of California Berkeley, which runs through next Friday. "I am extremely excited about this opportunity," Welch said. She attended another conference at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 23-16....
Hill County Commissioners voted unanimously at their weekly business meeting Thursday to appoint retired Havre High School Spanish teacher Marie Deegan as Hill County superintendent of schools until the next election. "It is going to be really important in August and September, if we can get someone in place to start working with all the budget processing and things that need to go on," County Commissioner Diane McLean said The commission noted that Deegan is out of town and...
A small business started with a bait machine listed for sale on Facebook, and two sisters who are passionate about fishing. Gracee Hencz, 13, an upcoming eighth-grader at Havre Middle School and Hallee Hencz, 9, an upcoming fourth-grader at Sunnyside Intermediate School, are co-owners of G & H Bait. "We provide bait for fishermen who want to go fishing," Gracee Hencz said. G & H Bait is located outside of Bear Paw Meats at 1705 Fifth Ave. in Havre. G & H began July 2017 when...
Coffee Hound opened an additional coffee shop called 406 Roasting Company Café Wednesday morning located at 1415 First Street, Suite A. "It is a neat location because it is almost like it has its own area code," Coffee Hound Owner Natalie Hannum said. The coffee shop café will feature three roasts: Kenya, a dark roast; Mexican Chiapas, a medium roast; and Honduras, another medium roast. Other featured items at the new shop will be pastry treats, wraps, salads, sandwiches, r...
Havre’s Verizon-Cellular Plus is providing free back-to-school backpacks, filled with school supplies, Saturday, July 27 from 10 a.m. to noon. “We just wanted to give back to the local community and help students kick off the school year in a great way,” Verizon-Cellular Plus Marketing Director Merisa Saunders said. “We thought … giving them a brand new backpack would help.” The backpacks include school supplies, such as a notebook, pens and pencils, crayons, a pencil sharpener, a folder and more. This is the first year...
Interns working for Montana Actors' Theatre are bringing to the stage a story this week about a young woman learning about her younger sister by entering a role-playing game. "She Kills Monsters" is coming to The Little Theater in Montana State University-Northern's Cowan Hall starting Thursday at 8 p.m. Qui Nguyen wrote "She Kills Monsters," which had its Off-Off Broadway debut in 2011 in New York City at The Flea Theater. When young woman Agnes Evans loses her family to a...
The Great Northern Fairgrounds Community Center once again is filled with open class entries people submitted for viewing and judging at the 2019 Great Northern Fair. Every year, the fair hosts open class competition where Hill County residents are able to enter anything from culinary arts to home arts, arts andcrafts, floral, sewing items, and so on, to be judged by people who have experience in each field. Open Class is open to Hill County residents who are in pre-school through seniors — with no upper age limit. The e...
A group of volunteers who help find and help people who are lost or injured spend every Great Northern Fair helping the fair board and fairgoers. “What we do primarily is basic first aid, and other than that we help the fair board with informing the fairgoers,” Hill County Search and Rescue Volunteer Perry Atchison said. Hill County Search and Rescue is a volunteer, non-profit organization dedicated to providing search and rescue as needed and training to requesting agencies or people. The Great Northern Fair is the big...
4-H has been a major part of the fair in Hill County for decades if not more than a century, and it is still going strong at the 2019 Great Northern Fair. “There is over 200 project categories within 4-H, so it is not just about the animals,” 4-H Organizational Leader Cody Solomon said. The foundations of 4-H was started in 1902 by A.B. Graham who started the youth program in Ohio with the purpose of teaching the youth in advanced farming and home farming practices. Solomon has been involved in 4-H one way or another whe...
A group of local churches is offering a free children’s Bible school next week. Interdenominational Vacation Bible School runs Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon with no charge for children from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. VBS is sponsored by First Lutheran Church, 265-5881; Messiah Lutheran Church, 265 -2334; St. Jude Thaddeus Church, 265-4261; First Presbyterian Church, 266-6923, and Van Orsdel United Methodist, 265-4232. “My favorite part is just being with the kids,” St. Jude’s Catholic Church Ordained Pa...
Six years after a subterranean drainage ditch started collapsing in Havre, work is again underway to fix the drainage system. "It is all about reliable infrastructure," Lakeside Excavation Inc. Owner-Estimator Tyler Smith said. "And it is about the public being able to travel safely on roads and not worry about channels caving in." Havre Mayor Tim Solomon said this morning that it is good the work is resuming. "This is very important," he said. "This is a big project and it...
Havre’s Dog Park Club met Tuesday evening and talked about the progress on making a dog-friendly park, and a cleanup event set for Saturday. “When we started around this time last year and we were looking for a place, we were adopting some bylaws, and we have secured some land and we are definitely making some progress,” President of Havre Dog Park Club Chad Stewart said. The Havre Dog Park Club is a nonprofit group working to create and maintain Havre’s first dog park. The board also mentioned during its meeting Dig for the...
The 2019 Great Northern Fair has started this week, with 4-H starting setup Sunday, open class entry exhibits being accepted Monday and today, 4-H interviews taking place this morning and setup in the Commercial Building also starting this morning. The full activities start Wednesday, with open class entries open for viewing, the midway opening and arena entertainment starting with the Junior Rodeo at 7 p.m. A slate of free entertainment also is set, and free activities are ha...
Frank English has taken over as the Great Northern Fairgrounds manager, just in time for the 2019 Great Northern Fair. The Great Northern Fair Board hired English Tuesday, June 19. "I was born and raised here, so I want to make it a better place," English said. "When the job came up, I thought this was my opportunity to bust my butt, work as hard as I can, show people it can be done and we can make it a better place." Preparations are already underway at the grounds for this...
Cooking with Kids, an all-ages summer series, is happening Tuesday, July 30, from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Havre-Hill County Library, where the community will learn recipes involving a veggie scramble and yogurt parfaits with a lesson over dairy and protein. Cooking with Kids is partnering with Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, and the Early Childhood Investment Team, or ECIT, in a once-a-month, summer series so people can not only learn healthy recipes, but also cook them with their kid and ask nutrition-related questions....
Havre Skatepark will be closed to the public for two to three weeks as work, funded by Pearl Jam bass player Jeff Ament, is completed at the park. "The City of Havre is asking the public to stay off the old slab until the work is complete," the city of Havre said in a press release. Evergreen Skateparks is placing new obstacles on the concrete slab. A crew from Evergreen Skateparks was already out working on the park Wednesday in order to try stay true to the three-week...
Havre Area Chamber of Commerce, Bear Paw Development Corp. and the city of Havre hosted a meeting Monday afternoon, at City Hall to start the development of Havre as a Montana Main Street Affiliate Community. "I really think that the timing might be perfect for it, for what is going on downtown in Havre and a great thing tying us all together," Havre Mayor Tim Solomon said. The Montana Main Street program is planned to help communities strengthen and preserve their historic...
The Havre Dog Park Club is hosting Bark in the Park 5K fun run/dog walk the morning of Saturday, July 13, at the future Havre Dog Park south of town “The purpose of the event is to get people up to the location of the new park and get them excited about it,” Havre Dog Park Club member Shannon Bergren said. “We hope to raise enough funds to get the first phase, including fencing, paid for.” Along with the 1 mile or 5K run/walk, the event includes vendors, food, a silent auction, contests and more. Contests include biggest...
Glenn J. Koster is a double product of the foster care and the adoption systems. By the age of 6, he was abandoned, the only one of six children to be left behind by his parents, with his siblings having people to go to. He was soon adopted, then pulled from that home 13 months later and went back through the system, then was re-adopted when he was 10 years old. He is in Havre Wednesday and today, taking a break for the Independence Day holiday during his cross-country walk...
A local musician has turned her love of using music as a ministry into heading a worldwide network of musical healing. Mary Stevens of Havre is the head of and a program mentor for Harps for Healing. Harps for Healing is a form of therapeutic music that meets the immediate needs of a patient or client from a trained professional musician who adapts the music playing style to provide that individual a place of healing or peace. Stevens said she became involved in music at an ea...
Boyce & Berry Flowers is moving downtown to 327 Third St. next to Cavalier’s for Men & Women to kick off Great Northern Fair Week with a grand re-opening planned for Monday, July 15. “Grand opening day, we are going to have, like, cookies, tea, fun little sales and new products, too, ’cause it’s a lot bigger for people to see,” Boyce & Berry Flowers owner Kimmi Boyce said. She gave a sneak peak of one thing customers can expect to see more of in the new location: an expansion of the children’s and babies’ items and gifts, al...
