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The Kallenberger family sat in the front of the row of tables at the Eagles Club Saturday night, dining on breakfast biscuits and breakfast cinnamon rolls. The family loves to read, and that's why they were at the "Breakfast at Suppertime" fund-raiser for Plant a Seed ... READ, the organization that encourages young people to read. "I love to read," said 9-year-old Cadence Kallenberger." "Once I read for 180 minutes." "Chapter book are the best," she told a visitor "because...
Irene Mary Louise Stuart, 88, otherwise known as "Shorty" Stuart, passed away of natural causes at her son's home in Gildford on Friday morning April 8, 2016. Her memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Friday, April 15, at Gildford Baptist Church with Pastor Eddie Fallo officiating. She will be laid to rest next to her husband at Highland Cemetery in Havre. Memorials in Shorty's honor may be made to Gildford Baptist Church or Gildford Park. Shorty was born Nov. 27, 1927, in...
Western guitar pickers and poets took over Chinook for three days to pick cowboy tunes, recite cowboy poems and tell cowboy jokes. They laughed, they sang, they felt and some yodeled. Montana's Country Poets and Pickers 22nd Western Heritage Roundup brought together about 20, mostly silver-haired, musicians, poets and storytellers from Canada and Montana. B.J. Smith, a crowd favorite storyteller from Alberta, Canada, with thick, upturned whiskers, explained that cowboy poetry...
April is Sexual Abuse Awareness Month, so students and faculty at Montana State University-Northern are working to bring attention to the issue. “It gives our campus and community members a chance to say this is not OK,” said Amber Spring, a counselor at Northern who is taking a leading role in campuswide activities meant to draw attention to the issue. Spring said she has been involved with raising awareness about rape and sexual abuse since 2014. Activities include wearing ribbons to show opposition to sexual abuse and sol...
An expected 250 second-graders from area elementary schools will take part in a massive Arbor Day celebration at Havre’s Pepin Park Monday, April 25. The students will be given milk jugs with small tree trees in them, said Sara Sedlock, a longtime volunteer for TURF, the Task Force for Urban Reforestation. This is the 25th annual Arbor Day celebration, she said. Students from Lincoln-McKinley Primary School, St. Jude Thaddeus School and Rocky Boy and Box Elder elementary schools will take part. The students take the jugs h...
When Margaret Stallkamp retired from her career at the Havre-Hill County Library, she started looking for some volunteer work. She wanted something interesting and challenging. Margaret has an interest in history and has been fascinated in Havre since she and her husband, Lloyd, arrived in town when he accepted a position at Montana State University-Northern. Before long, she found the perfect fit. She has volunteered for three years now at the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum...
Editor: With recent anti-vaccine articles and presentations taking place in our community, I wanted to take this time to step forward, as a mother of two, and express why I choose to protect my family through vaccination. I grew up with a mother who made sure I was up-to-date on all of my immunizations. I never questioned why because it was simple in my eyes, my mother wants what’s best for me, so this must be it. In college I chose to get my degree in health promotion, which focuses on the importance of prevention. P...
Havre Police Department Roger John Brough, 55, of Havre was arrested on a Justice or City court warrant after a caller from Lincoln Avenue reported Friday at 7:18 a.m. seeing a man with a possible warrant. —— Officers investigated a request for assist after a caller reported Friday at 7:20 a.m. to the police department by a woman asking to speak to an officer. —— Preston Wade Clark, 29, of Box Elder was arrested on a charge of criminal contempt after a caller from a 1st Street establishment reported suspicious activit...
After seeing their regular-season opener rained out last Tuesday, the Havre Blue Ponies went on the road in search of some softball action, and they found it in Belgrade at the First Pitch Tournament. Like the Great Falls Jamboree Havre competed in last weekend, the tournament offers a number of exhibition games that are timed. Games were on an hour time limit and the results will not count in the regular season standings. Yet, regardless of that fact, the tournament gave the...
Injuries and weather are two things that can often affect track season in the spring in Montana. And unfortunately, the Havre track team has had to deal with both, but especially injuries. Yet, despite being less than full strength, the Ponies hosted the annual Havre Lions Invitational this past Saturday at the Havre Middle School track and even at less than 100 percent, HHS put together some solid performances. Havre did not take home the team title in either the boys or...
Heading into the 2016 Havre Invitational tennis tournament, Blue Pony head coach George Ferguson wanted to make sure his boys and girls teams made it a special day. The mantra going in was for the Ponies to take full advantage of their only home meet of the season. And after a breezy but warm day of tennis, and 124 matches played between the Bill Vaughey Memorial Tennis Courts and the MSU-Northern Courts on Saturday — it was mission accomplished. The Ponies crowned three c...
