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Building a $5 million 20-unit housing complex is large endeavour, especially for a local nonprofit like the District 4 Human Resources Development Council, but Gene Leuwer explained how it happened at Thursday's Buffalo Court ribbon cutting. Leuwer, of Helena-based GL Development, helped coordinate the financing for the project and explained where the process will likely lead. The project was funded through Section 42 of the tax code, a provision from President Ronald Reagan's Tax Reform Act of 1986, which allowed the sale...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Buffalo Court manager Fern Lohse, left, gives tours Thursday morning of the new apartments for low-income senior citizens during a ribbon-cutting ceremony. A large crowd filled Buffalo Court late Thursday morning, and the verdict was good. More than 100 people came to celebrate the opening of the new housing development for Havre's low-income senior citizens. The event began at 11 a. m., though early arrivals were given tours of the empty homes. A few had been furnished by Barkus Home Center,...
The students of Havre probably don't want to think about how close the next school year is getting, but the local Salvation Army is. According to the Salvation Army's Havre director Trina Crawford, it is time again for the Salvation Army's developing tradition of helping families and children in need get all of the school supplies they need, but might not be able to afford. "When you have to come back to school, financially there's an awful lot that needs to be done, " Crawford said, about preparing for the Aug. 22 event....
Lending a hand to local victims of sexual assault doesn't require experience or a degree. On Saturday, Aug. 4, support can be offered by dress shopping. The District IV Human Resources Development Council is holding a dress exchange from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. that day to raise awareness and funds for their sexual assault and domestic violence programs. "It's not something that you really discuss over the dinner table, " Michelle Holden, a victim advocate at HRDC, said. "It's not something that you talk about unless it happens...
Havre Daily News/Zach White A few bits of the weekend's vandalism of the Fresno Pavilion remain on the back of the building Monday afternoon. A series of black, white and red markings, mostly the letters "XIV", were spray-painted on the building sometime Sunday night. The Fresno Chapter of Walleye's Unlimited, which built the pavilion, is offering $500 for a tip to the Hill County Sheriff's Office that leads to identifying the culprits. After someone vandalized the pavillion above Fresno Reservoir's main public beach over...
The troublesome annexation problem which started several years ago came to an end at Monday night's Havre City Council meeting, after a few minutes of discussion and a unanimous vote. The vote brought a legal settlement to the lawsuit filed by several landowners west of Havre in 2010 against the city to stop the annexation process. The properties in question, if annexed, would have extended the city of Havre's border from the bottom of the hill near the water plant and Ezzie's Wholesale, where the limit is now, out over the...
A motor vehicle crash this weekend left a Box Elder man dead. The 23-year-old driver, Shawn Saddler, was driving on Lower Box Elder Road around 8:30 p. m. Friday night when he entered a left turn too fast for the current road conditions, according to a Montana Highway Patrol dispatcher. The Chevy Blazer went off the road and rolled through the ditch, coming to rest on its top. When emergency responders reached the scene, he was already dead. Saddler was not wearing his seat belt. According to an obituary from Holland &...
A contentious legal battle spanning the past few years may finally be coming to an end tonight, for a while at least. Havre City Council will vote at tonight's meeting on an out-of-court settlement to the legal woes surrounding the 2009 annexation of several properties, many large commercial areas, west of the Havre city limits. Many of the city officials involved have stayed mum this morning waiting for an announcement at the council meeting. Councilman Andrew Brekke, who has been near the center of these talks since 2009,...
The majority of Monday night's Chinook City Council meeting was spent rolling around a perennial Chinook debate — how to manage the sewer and water charges. The Chinook Eagles Club asked to have several of their new downtown building's accounts shut down. The building, which used to hold numerous offices, apartments and the old Pizza Pro, is now entirely occupied by the Eagles, with renovations adding a bowling alley, upgraded kitchen and walk-in cooler. These changes also prompted the request to remove the water and sewer l...
Changes to school policy this year are covering all aspects of how Havre Public Schools run, from the tools students can use to learn, to the compensation for the paraprofessionals who help the schools function. The Havre Public Schools' Board of Trustees passed several changes to district policy and student handbooks from across the elementary district. For students, the changes to the handbook covered several subjects, including not bringing pets on field trips or Title I services, but others reflect the district's...
Just before students head back into the buildings of the Havre Public School districts, the Board of Trustees figured out how to pay the $13 million to educate them through the 2012-2013 school year. The balanced budget, which required no additional levies this year, is a few hundred thousand dollars higher than last year's, because of both last year's enrollment boost and $20,000 the state gave for a recent interlocal agreement between the elementary and high school districts. Last year's budget ended up with a large...
A string of patients with strange symptoms admitted to Northern Montana Hospital in the past month has hospital staff and local law enforcement concerned. Kathy Labaty, who runs the emergency room at the hospital, said she has seen several people come in recently in the middle of violent hallucinatory marathon fits, and she doesn't know why. "In the last month we've seen a dramatic increase of patients that have been altered by a substance that does not show up on our toxicology screen, " Labaty said. "They are aggressive. Th...
It may have felt like the sun has been exploding for the past few weeks, but on Thursday it did, giving us a possible atmospheric fireworks show this weekend. On Thursday afternoon, sunspot AR1520 belched a wave of radiation and sun bits toward Earth, causing some satellite and radio issues in the middle of the day. The explosion bits that don't travel at the speed of light, known as the coronal mass ejection, are expected to hit Earth's magnetic field around 7 a.m. Saturday, according to the latest estimates from the...
Going into a phone store is a lot like taking a car to a mechanic, for the most part you don't know what it is you are actually getting and you're pretty sure it shouldn't actually cost that much. But what can you do? They've developed the ridiculously convoluted and ultimately meaningless breakdown of services, fees and surcharges that, by making a lot of money for one company first, has become the standard that all of us have to deal with. Zach White Even though just about every phone out there today is simply a computer...
I wanted to write a column about an app I was using to, hopefully, lose a bit of weight. I was going to say that I'm young enough that many people still make the (usually correct) assumption that I can fix their google for them, but I am no longer young enough to make as many visits to the Pizza Hut lunch buffet as I would like. Zach White When looking for a way to preserve my orangutan-like figure, I decided to ask my best friend for advice and the Internet said I should check out MyFitnessPal.com. When you make an account,...
Havre Daily News/Zach White Bonnie Williamson, bottom right, is moved by a poem written and recited for her at her Thursday afternoon retirement party at the Havre Hill County Library. Nearly 100 people filled the library for the event. Thirty years worth of Hi-Line fans of literacy gathered in the Havre-Hill County Library to commemorate the departure of their queen, Bonnie Williamson. Nearly 100 people filled the library's rows of chairs and tables, with more than a dozen standing, for Williamson's afternoon retirement...
CHINOOK — After more than a year of the Chinook city government having no official oversight on building issues, the City Council began talking at its Thursday night meeting about restoring some municipal control. In April 2011, the council voted to decertify their building inspection. Council member Heath Richman said at the time that state officials he talked to didn't know why a city of Chinook's size needed to be certified or have their own building inspector. A local contractor, Barry Murnion, told the council then t...
The tribal government at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation is looking for feedback on a proposed law that could see violators face jail time and fines for posting damaging or threatening information on Facebook or Twitter. The Chippewa Cree Business Committee tabled its reading of the electronic-libel ordinance because tribal Attorney General LeAnn Montes said the committee had not received enough public input on the law yet. The ordinance would make it a crime to "abuse the Internet, particularly social networking sites such as...
While the rest of the country bakes, some Blaine County residents think the Hi-Line's got perfect weather for a cruise. This weekend is the second annual Blaine County Cruise, where drivers gather in Chinook for some food and fun before riding a circuit across the rest of the county, and this year even a little beyond. Former Blaine County Undersheriff Pat Pyette stands next to his corvette, which was his pride and joy. This year's Blaine County Cruise in Blaine County is dedicated to Pyette, who died in the line of duty in...
A Havre teenager is dead and the Vaughn teenager he was with was taken to Northern Montana Hospital after an accident early Wednesday morning. The driver, recent Havre High School graduate 18-year-old Jaden Griggs, was driving his 2003 Dodge pickup truck, with 19-year-old Nykolaus Beach, on 82nd Avenue West, near U.S. Highway 87, at 2:27 a.m. when he lost control. According to the Montana Highway Patrol report, the truck "entered the ditch on the left side of the roadway, struck an approach … vaulted and rolled at least twice...
As students return from the holidays next month, the administrators who run the Montana University System will be headed back to the grind of another legislative session, where they will, yet again, make the case for the vital importance of higher education to Montana. For now the Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education and the Board of Regents are preparing for that 90-day extravaganza, using Gov. Brian Schweitzer's 2015 Biennium Executive Budget proposal as a starting point. The first priority is to keep up. "Our...
Northern Montana Hospital is calling up a hot shot health care administrator from the clinic in Chester to run their Care Center. Ronald Gleason, the current CEO of the Liberty Medical Center, will be headed to Havre after a five-year reign in Chester that saw his hospital pull out of a financial slump and into a growing, upgraded and innovative modern health care facility. Born in Kalispell and raised in Ronan, Gleason went to the University of Montana before moving to Spokane, Wash., for a career at a regional public...
Montana State University-Northern's campus isn't the only thing looking better over the past few months. The enrollment figures have gone up and Chancellor Jim Limbaugh believes its just the beginning. This semester 1,282 students are enrolled at Northern, up nine students from 1,273 this time last year, and full-time equivalent students is up 3.15, from 1055.22 last October to 1058.37 this year. "I am very privileged to have a dedicated group of faculty and staff who have worked very hard to make this enrollment increase a...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown A view of Liberty County Hospital and Nursing Home last week. Many Hi-Line businesses have had trouble adapting to the area's shrinking population, but the Liberty Medical Center in Chester is no longer one of them. About six years ago, the hospital had too much debt and not nearly enough money coming in. Things were not looking good. Ronald Gleason was hired as the hospital's CEO five years ago, and today, after some reorganization, the hospital is making more money, recruiting more doctors...
For the past five months I have been telling you about people around the world who have been using the Internet in new and interesting ways. Well this week, we at the Havre Daily News will be trying a few new things of our own. Last month we allowed anyone in the world to watch the Havre Festival Days parade as it was happening. More than 80 people tuned in for the live broadcast, and hundreds of people have returned to the video to check for their favorite floats, or themselves, in the weeks since. Zach White We got a lot...
