Articles from the January 31, 2003 edition

[email protected]@havredailynews.com The Havre High swim team has big fat target on their speedos. No it isn't a new fashion statement, rather it's a symbolic target that signifies that the Ponies are the team everyone is aiming to knock off at this weekend's Class A State Swim meet in Hardin. After winning the last three Class A titles in both boys and girls, the rest of Class A would like nothing better than to see the Ponies bid for a "four-peat" end. They've all been gunning for us all year," said head coa...

[email protected]@havredailynews.com Tonight, the Havre High girls basketball team will travel to Browning to try get back a win that slipped away a month ago. On Saturday night, the Ponies will host a team that they surprised last month in the Malta M-Ettes. On Jan. 3 in Havre, the Ponies fell behind by as many as twenty-five points against the Indians. However, Havre managed a furious fourth quarter comeback and had several chances to win the game in the final seconds, but ultimately came up short, losing 50-47. It...

[email protected]@havredailynews.com The Malta High School gymnasium, old or new, has seemingly been a graveyard for Havre Blue Pony basketball teams over the years. And on Thursday night, it seemed as though the Mustangs had another Pony headstone ready to be put up. With seemingly the entire Havre frontcourt in foul trouble late in the game, the Ponies were hanging on for their collective basketball lives. And that is when Steve Heberly, Justin Kegel and Cory Brothers combined to bring Havre back from the dead and p...

[email protected]@havredailynews.com There are no guarantees in wrestling - not wins, not losses, not even whether a wrestler makes weight. However, one thing that is pretty much a guarantee for next year, Montana State University-Northern wrestling coach David Ray won't be scheduling any breaks during this part of the season. After taking a week off from competition, the Lights returned to the mat to pick up a 37-16 victory over Western Wyoming Community College Thursday night in their final home dual of the...

[email protected]@havredailynews.com This weekend marks the halfway point of the Frontier Conference basketball season as the Montana State University-Northern men's and women's basketball teams host Westminster College and Lewis-Clark State College. If you told either women's coach Mike Erickson, or men's coach Shawn Huse that their teams would be challenging for their respective league titles at the beginning of the conference season, both would have greeted you with the same smile that the clerk at store...

George P. Zoren, 80, and retired veteran, died Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2003, at a Havre hospital of natural causes. Cremation has taken place. A private family service has taken place. Memorials in George's honor may be made to a person's choice. Services and arrangements are under the direction of the Holland and Bonine Funeral Home. George was born Feb. 22, 1922, to Vincent and Agnes Zoren at Little Falls, Minn. He attended grade school and high school there. After high school graduation, he entered in to the U.S. Army Air...

JOPLIN - Marlin C. "Sonny" Spicher, 58, died Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2003, after a seven-year battle with leukemia. Cremation has taken place. There will be a memorial service at a later date. He was born Dec. 25, 1944. Sonny farmed at Joplin and Hingham until his illness forced him to retire a few years ago. He was a true family man whose whole life was wrapped around his family and his faith. Sonny became a snowbird and wintered in Nevada, where he was at the time of his death. He was preceded in death by his parents. Sonny...

HAVRE - John Askvold Jr., 85, a World War II veteran and retired Pharmacist, died Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2003, at a Havre hospital. Memorial services will take place at a later date. Cremation has taken place. Adams Funeral Home and Hi-Line Crematory are in charge of arrangements....

[email protected]@havredailynews.com Visit the offices of most doctors and you might find diplomas decorating the walls. The walls of Havre surgeon Michael Flannery's office are adorned with trophies of a different kind. Practically every available space in the room is covered with photographs of Flannery hunting. Hunting large, exotic and dangerous animals is his passion. One of the pictures in the office shows the surgeon standing underneath a sun-filled African sky with a 185-pound leopard stretched...

[email protected]@havredailynews.com After three negotiating sessions with little compromise, the local nurses union and Northern Montana Health Care tentatively agreed on a contract early Thursday in negotiations conducted by a federal mediator. The tentative contract now goes to the members of the local for a vote. The contract offers raises of about 8.8 percent in the first year and 6 percent in the second year for registered nurses at the hospital and long-term care center. It also would provide a raise of...

[email protected]@havredailynews.com An engineer has recommended the grandstand and one of the bleachers at the Hill County Fairgrounds be torn down and replaced. The recommendation - with a price tag of about $500,000 - came following an assessment of the grandstand that found weakened and failed support beams, water damage and poor construction. "Any further deterioration ... could cause a catastrophic failure of the entire grandstand structure," Jay Springer of Milk River Engineering said in his report....

[email protected]@havredailynews.com Margaret McShane gives a delighted smile as one of her afternoon kindergarten students proudly displays a Mermaid Barbie during show and tell. McShane is genuinely equally delighted when Mermaid Barbie number two makes her debut a few students later. One soon discovers that McShane is not so much delighted about the parade of items at show and tell as she is about their tiny owners. "Aren't they little ladies?" she marveled with a broad grin. McShane's ability to delight...

[email protected]@havredailynews.com The Havre High swim team has big fat target on their speedos. No it isn't a new fashion statement, rather it's a symbolic target that signifies that the Ponies are the team everyone is aiming to knock off at this weekend's Class A State Swim meet in Hardin. After winning the last three Class A titles in both boys and girls, the rest of Class A would like nothing better than to see the Ponies bid for a "four-peat" end. They've all been gunning for us all year," said head coa...

[email protected]@havredailynews.com Tonight, the Havre High girls basketball team will travel to Browning to try get back a win that slipped away a month ago. On Saturday night, the Ponies will host a team that they surprised last month in the Malta M-Ettes. On Jan. 3 in Havre, the Ponies fell behind by as many as twenty-five points against the Indians. However, Havre managed a furious fourth quarter comeback and had several chances to win the game in the final seconds, but ultimately came up short, losing 50-47. It...

[email protected]@havredailynews.com The Malta High School gymnasium, old or new, has seemingly been a graveyard for Havre Blue Pony basketball teams over the years. And on Thursday night, it seemed as though the Mustangs had another Pony headstone ready to be put up. With seemingly the entire Havre frontcourt in foul trouble late in the game, the Ponies were hanging on for their collective basketball lives. And that is when Steve Heberly, Justin Kegel and Cory Brothers combined to bring Havre back from the dead and p...

[email protected]@havredailynews.com There are no guarantees in wrestling - not wins, not losses, not even whether a wrestler makes weight. However, one thing that is pretty much a guarantee for next year, Montana State University-Northern wrestling coach David Ray won't be scheduling any breaks during this part of the season. After taking a week off from competition, the Lights returned to the mat to pick up a 37-16 victory over Western Wyoming Community College Thursday night in their final home dual of the...

[email protected]@havredailynews.com This weekend marks the halfway point of the Frontier Conference basketball season as the Montana State University-Northern men's and women's basketball teams host Westminster College and Lewis-Clark State College. If you told either women's coach Mike Erickson, or men's coach Shawn Huse that their teams would be challenging for their respective league titles at the beginning of the conference season, both would have greeted you with the same smile that the clerk at store...

George P. Zoren, 80, and retired veteran, died Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2003, at a Havre hospital of natural causes. Cremation has taken place. A private family service has taken place. Memorials in George's honor may be made to a person's choice. Services and arrangements are under the direction of the Holland and Bonine Funeral Home. George was born Feb. 22, 1922, to Vincent and Agnes Zoren at Little Falls, Minn. He attended grade school and high school there. After high school graduation, he entered in to the U.S. Army Air...

JOPLIN - Marlin C. "Sonny" Spicher, 58, died Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2003, after a seven-year battle with leukemia. Cremation has taken place. There will be a memorial service at a later date. He was born Dec. 25, 1944. Sonny farmed at Joplin and Hingham until his illness forced him to retire a few years ago. He was a true family man whose whole life was wrapped around his family and his faith. Sonny became a snowbird and wintered in Nevada, where he was at the time of his death. He was preceded in death by his parents. Sonny...

HAVRE - John Askvold Jr., 85, a World War II veteran and retired Pharmacist, died Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2003, at a Havre hospital. Memorial services will take place at a later date. Cremation has taken place. Adams Funeral Home and Hi-Line Crematory are in charge of arrangements....

[email protected]@havredailynews.com Visit the offices of most doctors and you might find diplomas decorating the walls. The walls of Havre surgeon Michael Flannery's office are adorned with trophies of a different kind. Practically every available space in the room is covered with photographs of Flannery hunting. Hunting large, exotic and dangerous animals is his passion. One of the pictures in the office shows the surgeon standing underneath a sun-filled African sky with a 185-pound leopard stretched...

[email protected]@havredailynews.com After three negotiating sessions with little compromise, the local nurses union and Northern Montana Health Care tentatively agreed on a contract early Thursday in negotiations conducted by a federal mediator. The tentative contract now goes to the members of the local for a vote. The contract offers raises of about 8.8 percent in the first year and 6 percent in the second year for registered nurses at the hospital and long-term care center. It also would provide a raise of...

[email protected]@havredailynews.com An engineer has recommended the grandstand and one of the bleachers at the Hill County Fairgrounds be torn down and replaced. The recommendation - with a price tag of about $500,000 - came following an assessment of the grandstand that found weakened and failed support beams, water damage and poor construction. "Any further deterioration ... could cause a catastrophic failure of the entire grandstand structure," Jay Springer of Milk River Engineering said in his report....

[email protected]@havredailynews.com Margaret McShane gives a delighted smile as one of her afternoon kindergarten students proudly displays a Mermaid Barbie during show and tell. McShane is genuinely equally delighted when Mermaid Barbie number two makes her debut a few students later. One soon discovers that McShane is not so much delighted about the parade of items at show and tell as she is about their tiny owners. "Aren't they little ladies?" she marveled with a broad grin. McShane's ability to delight...

[email protected]@havredailynews.com The Havre High swim team has big fat target on their speedos. No it isn't a new fashion statement, rather it's a symbolic target that signifies that the Ponies are the team everyone is aiming to knock off at this weekend's Class A State Swim meet in Hardin. After winning the last three Class A titles in both boys and girls, the rest of Class A would like nothing better than to see the Ponies bid for a "four-peat" end. They've all been gunning for us all year," said head coa...