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Fort Belknap Indian Reservations volunteers in the Foster Grandparent Program of St. Vincent Healthcare met at the Duck Inn's Tavern and Sandwich Shop late Wednesday morning to present their program director a star quilt as a token of their appreciation for her hard work. Program Director Barbara Brady has been working at St. Vincent's with the Foster Grandparent Program for 15 years. The program is a national program and 90 percent of the funds come from the Corporation for N...
Highland Park Early Primary School will receive $1,000 for its display of school spirit in Tilleman Motor Co.'s School Shout Out competition. The contest was held statewide with 28 schools submitting 53 entries, Tilleman Marketing Director Susan Brurud said. Tilleman plans to present the check to Highland Park Tuesday. KRTV of Great Falls helped with promoting the event. Highland Park Principal Mark Irvin submitted a photo of students and himself dressed in Havre Blue Pony clo...
When the first snow fell back in the beginning of October, I looked outside my window at my snow-covered car and thought to myself: We’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto. (Confession: My second thought was of my dad because the black of my car with the white of the snow on top reminded me of his salt and pepper hair.) That’s my pop culture way of saying that I’m not from around these parts. No, I was born in a coastal town in California called Ventura. It’s around Los Angeles for those not familiar with small cities in Califor...
After it was worked on for most of 2018, a pre-disaster mitigation plan update was passed by the Hill County Commission on a 3-0 vote Thursday morning during the commission’s weekly business meeting. County Commissioner Mike Wendland commended the employees of Tetra Tech Inc. for their work on helping update the plan for Hill County. Tetra Tech Inc. is an engineering and consulting firm from Pasadena, California. The company identified and ranked areas of concern in pre-disaster mitigation plans for Hill and Blaine c...
Despite snow in the forecast this weekend, St. Jude Thaddeus Church will go ahead with its annual bazaar inside the St. Jude Parish Center this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The bazaar has been a tradition for the church for years, Delores Noffsinger said. Noffsinger is in charge of running the bazaar. “Over the years we’ve changed things, tweaked things a little bit,” she added. “Now we have, probably, the popular things at our bazaar are the cookie store where you can go through a cafeteria line and pick out the kind of...
Respect is a word that has been lectured about, sung about and preached about, but as one student noted, the world seems to have to forgotten what this word really means. Tyra Medicine Bear of Harlem High School wrote a speech last year, her freshman year, as an assignment for Erik Murri's English class. The theme, she said, was to write something akin to the Gettysburg Address, in content and social impact. "So I just thought, 'What's a big problem in our society and our...
The Hill County Search and Rescue president said the organization needs more volunteers to be able to effectively carry out its operations. Hill County Search and Rescue, or SAR, was founded in 1988 and stands by its motto, "These things we do so that others may live." "We're the nicest group of people you never want to meet because if we're there, something's gone extremely bad in your day," SAR President Paul Nugent said Nugent started work in the Hill County Sheriff"s...
Members of the Havre community congregated around the Town Square area to participate in several Christmas and winter-themed activities Saturday. People began the day, after raising pledges for Special Olympics Montana, by braving the frigid temperatures and diving into icy waters as part of the SubZero SuperHero Polar Plunge. Two members of the local Hill County Search and Rescue, Perry Atchison and Derek Eldridge, were on hand and in the water to assist anyone who was having...
Many organizations are putting on major holiday fundraisers and events this weekend and the Havre Chamber of Commerce has multiple events taking place Saturday in Havre’s Town Square following the Special Olympics Subzero SuperHero Polar Plunge. The Special Olympics fundraiser has registration from 2 to 3:15 p.m. Saturday at Town Square with people starting to jump into the icy water at 3:30 p.m. That is followed by the Chamber’s Cookies and Milk with Santa at 4:30 p.m. at the Eagles Club. The event is for children 7 and you...
The Great Northern Fair Board members at their latest meeting were not able to say what changes they had in mind with the passage of the new taxes to fund the fairgrounds this past election, but they did discuss resolutions and new ideas gained from a recent fair convention. The board met Tuesday night in the Timmons Room of the Hill County Courthouse. In the public comments portion of the meeting, community member Bob Kaul confirmed with Chair Tyler Smith that it would take...
The Chinook Chamber of Commerce has found another purpose for its annual Parade of Lights festivities this Friday. Chinook Chamber Commerce President Sarah Pratt said she hopes Friday’s events will help motivate people to shop locally. “I think a lot of people tend to leave town for Black Friday, but they always come back for the parade and the live auction of the trees and the baskets,” Pratt said. “But this year we are doing a progressive punch card and we’re trying to get people to stay in town and go to all the local sho...
The annual SubZero SuperHero Polar Plunge to raise money for Special Olympians is set for this Saturday and there are many ways for community members to contribute. People participating in the plunge must raise a minimum of $125 to be eligible for the incentives, a flier for the Polar Plunge states. Incentives include: • a Polar Plunge long sleeve shirt ($125) • beanie cap ($250) • stainless steel bottle and shirt ($500) • sweatshirt and T-shirt ($1,000) • a long sleeve T-shirt, beanie, stainless steel bottle and sweatshir...
United Way is in the midst of its capital campaign season and is looking for donations to help fund its partners. Hill County United Way Director Delonna Malone said the slogan for this campaign season is “Local dollars saves local lives.” She added that their biggest fundraising event is the crab boil, which took place at the end of September, this year at Beaver Creek Golf Course. Malone said they cooked crab, shrimp, potatoes, corn and kielbasa sausage at the event. Tables were sold to event sponsors for $1,500 per tab...
This Thanksgiving’s fundraising campaign for the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line will have an extra incentive with aspirations of another expansion to the facility. Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line Resource Director Carrie Aageson said they have plans to increase their own transportation to and from the facility. “What we found out is the kids in the housing projects aren’t coming,” HELP Committee Executive Director Krista Solomon said. “So we had meetings over there, and we met with families and we said, ‘We’ll give you fre...
Following the regular Havre Public School Board meeting, Superintendent Andy Carlson addressed questions and comments from parents and staff in attendance Tuesday night about security at the Havre schools. The questions came in wake of threatening graffiti being found Monday at Havre High School that led to the school being closed Tuesday and a closed campus implemented when it re-opened this morning. Havre Public Schools listed security measures in a post on its website at...
The Havre Community Thanksgiving Dinner provides a good opportunity for the community to come together, give back and grow as a community, organizer Debi Rhines said Wednesday. The dinner is set for Thanksgiving Day, next Thursday, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the St. Jude Parish Center. Rhines said some conflicting reports are out there as to when the dinner started, but she believes this is the 27th year. Rhines has been chair of the event since 2011. "It was born out of an...
This Friday and Saturday, Montana Actor's Theatre is offering people the chance to become part of a team that will take one day to write, direct and perform a play. The themes are picked out at random and the final productions will be performed Saturday starting at 8 p.m. in the Little Theatre of Cowan Hall at Montana State University-Northern. The event kicks off this Friday night at the Old Station Brewing Co. from 7 to 8. Grant Olson, Ph.D., MAT's associate artistic directo...
Sunnyside Intermediate School Principal Carmen Lunak told the Havre School Board Tuesday during its monthly meeting that her school had reached a major landmark. Lunak said she was proud that her school had reached 77 percent reading proficiency by the end of last year. “That’s the entire staff for fifth grade — paraprofessionals — working together,” she added. Lunak said the staff also made an effort to apply more hands-on activities for the students. Areas of focus included STEM — science, technology, engineering...
Havre High School was placed on a lockout this morning after more troubling graffiti was discovered within the school. Havre Public Schools Superintendent Andy Carlson said it is a police matter at this point and therefore was limited on what he could reveal. "Canceling school today is as much about us trying to put stuff in place so that we have a little better grasp," he said. "Obviously, we can't continue to operate the same way we've been operating. It's going to have an...
Despite heading into the holiday season, the number of visitors to the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum has decreased, museum Director Emily Mayer said during the Clack Museum board meeting Monday night at Havre Inn and Suites. “Our numbers are not as well as I’d like them to be,” Mayer said. She said she is grateful to all who have stopped by the museum, though. “There will be opportunities for increased visitation as the holiday season goes on,” Mayer added. Several small events are scheduled to take place at Holiday V...
Twenty-nine-year-olds are generally focusing on their careers or budding families or enjoying life after college, but, one local resident, instead, is fighting to remain cancer free and has a fundraiser to let people help her do so. Sarah Gone, a member of the Fort Belknap Indian Community, was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer April 4. Triple-negative breast cancer is diagnosed when a breast cancer screening comes back negative for both hormonal receptors - specifi...
Life takes everyone on different journeys or to different places and for a resident of Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, his time in the U.S. Navy took him further than he imagined. Cranston Hawley was born in Fort Belknap Oct. 8, 1927, and is a member of the Assiniboine Tribe. He was 14 years old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, during World War II Hawley's wife, Jessie James-Hawley, remembers how America changed after the attack on Pearl Harbor. "I...
Local Havre celebrities will dazzle the community this Saturday as they put their dancing shoes on for the third annual Dancing with the Havre Stars. Bullhook Community Health Center is sponsoring the event, a fundraiser to help with their mobile dental unit. The show will be from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Havre Central Gym. The celebrities will be paired with a member of the Utah Ballroom Dance Company, which has partnered with Bullhook to help with the event. The celebrities are...
Despite an increased law enforcement presence in the district, Havre Public Schools Superintendent Andy Carlson said this morning that the district is no longer using the word "threat" to refer to an incident that took place Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at Havre High school. "We're treating it more like vandalism at this point," Carlson said. A cryptic message was discovered Wednesday written on the second floor boy's bathroom of the high school. Carlson declined to say exactly...
Results are mainly in for local legislative races although in one, it is still too close to call. With 25 of 26 precincts reported at 10 this morning, incumbent Sen. Russ Tempel, R-Chester, held a 79-vote lead over his challenger, Havre Democrat Paul Tuss. The difference was less than the number of provisional ballots that will be counted in Hill County alone. The estimated number of provisional ballots in Hill County is 100. Provisional ballots will be counted Tuesday....
