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Articles from the May 4, 2021 edition


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  • People urged to get vaccination, many locations available

    Havre Daily News staff|Updated May 5, 2021

    This story was updated at 5:45 a.m. Wednesday, May 5. With COVID-19 numbers again creeping up in the area, local officials are joining other officials from around the state, nation and world urging people to get a COVID-19 vaccination. The Rocky Boy Clinic, which has the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine approved in the U.S. for people 16 and older, is offering vaccinations to anyone Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, with people needing to call 406-395-1655 to schedule an appointment....

  • Park Board discusses lodge stabilization, veteran memorial campground and beaver trapping

    Patrick Johnston|Updated May 4, 2021

    The Hill County Park Board met Monday evening and discussed a number of issues surrounding Beaver Creek Park, but the most immediate was the need to stabilize the lodge. Beaver Creek Park Superintendent Chad Edgar said Friends of Beaver Creek Park recently helped pay for an architect and an engineer to come up to look at the lodge to evaluate its stability which has been a concern for some time. Edgar said they told him the lodge is at risk and he decided to make stabilizing...

  • Coming Home: Mason Dionne is a Light

    Kason Clark|Updated May 4, 2021

    After being away from Havre for almost two years, Mason Dionne will return to the Hi-Line as he transfers to Montana State University-Northern from the University of Montana Western to play football for the Lights. Dionne previously played football at Havre High School, so he is looking forward to his homecoming. "I am excited. Love the dudes here, I love the coaches here. I think it's going to be great," Dionne said. "Can't wait till the season starts and we win some games."...

  • Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Walk set for Wednesday

    Patrick Johnston|Updated May 4, 2021

    Wednesday starting at 1 p.m. a Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Walk is going to be held on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. A post on The Chippewa Cree Tribe’s Facebook page says the walk is meant to raise awareness of the issue and to remember those lost in their community. The Havre Daily News was not able to reach contacts for comments about the walk. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Native Americans account for more than 25 percent of the missing person cases in the state of Montana des...

  • Charter government effective July 1

    Dane McGuire|Updated May 4, 2021

    At a meeting Monday night, Havre City Council approved Ordinance No. 914 — an ordinance providing for the transition from a commission-executive government to a charter government. “So the charter was passed last November. And this one is first in the transition ordinances. And it sets the effective date for the transition, which is our fiscal year July 1, and then it officially recognizes the form of government from commission executive to charter with a council,” Counc...

  • State and local COVID-19 update, May 4, 2021

    Updated May 4, 2021

    People can find online where vaccines are available in their area through https://vaccinefinder.org, operated by Boston’s Children’s Hospital and supported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the United States Digital Service. The total number of cases of COVID-19 in Montana on the state map after TODAY’s update was 109,315 with 232 new cases, 1,165 active. The number of active hospitalizations was 62. The number of deaths was 1,577. Blaine County Health Department reported Monday evening being notified of 2 new...

  • MAT holding Shakespearean workshop and auditions

    Updated May 4, 2021

    Havre Daily News Staff Montana Actors’ Theatre is holding Thursday a community workshop on Shakespearean language and an overview of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” That is followed Saturday with auditions for that play, although workshop attendance is not required to audition. A release from MAT’ page says the play will be produced in conjunction with the acting troupe’s Spring into the Past fair in June. The release asks if people are interested in auditioning but aren’t sure what to expect, if they...

  • Local News - Havre opens park restrooms

    Updated May 4, 2021

    Press release The rest rooms at Patterson, Elks, Optimist and Pepin parks are now open for spring and summer 2021. Park patrons must adhere to COVID-19 guidelines for washing/sanitizing hands after using. Also, the bathrooms have been opened for the public’s convenience. People are asked to treat them with respect or the Parks and Recreation Department will be forced to close them. People are thanked for their cooperation. For more information, people can call 265-5781....

  • Local News - Spay and neuter event set at Rocky Boy

    Updated May 4, 2021

    Havre Daily News staff The Humane Society of Western Montana brought a mobile veterinary clinic to Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation this week, conducting outreach and performing services including spaying and neutering. The outreach is today and Wednesday at the fire hall on the reservation, starting at 8 a.m. and planned to run to 5 p.m....

  • Obituary - Kristin Karol Billmayer

    Updated May 4, 2021

    Kristin Karol Billmayer, beloved wife, mother, daughter, grandmother and friend, passed away peacefully in her home May 1, 2021 at age 66. A funeral service will be held May 6 at 11 o'clock in the Commercial Building at the Blaine County Fairgrounds in Chinook, MT. Kristi was born September 23, 1954, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Hugh and Joyce Dresser. She lived in Laramie, WY, until sixth grade, when her family moved to Butte, MT. She attended school there, and graduated as...

  • Obituary - Agnes Cook

    Updated May 4, 2021

    Agnes Cook, 95, passed quietly Friday afternoon, April 23rd, at Northern Montana Care Center. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m., Friday, May 7, 2021 at the Van Orsdel United Methodist Church in Havre. Holland and Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements and services. Please visit Agnes' online memorial page at www.hollandbonine.com to leave a message of condolence for her family. Agnes was born at home September 28, 1925, in Havre, Montana, the oldest...

  • Obituary - Mary Lou Tilleman

    Updated May 4, 2021

    Mary Lou Tilleman, 83, Passed away in Bozeman, MT, May 1, 2021. A funeral service will be held May 7, 2021, at 2 p.m. at the American Lutheran Church in Chinook MT....

  • Agenda - Hill County Commission business meeting

    Updated May 4, 2021

    The Hill County Commission will hold its weekly business meeting Thursday at 10 a.m. in the commission office. The meeting agenda is: Public comments on non-agenda items Public comments on agenda items Claims Employment Budgets Ordinance Social Host Resolution Contracts Immunization Program Task Order #22-07-4-31-120-0 in the amount of $8,971.00 Board appointments County permit approval Subdivision/survey approval County Needs Print BID Alcohol Tax allocation Rudyard – County park playground equipment Council on Aging — Reo...

  • For the Record, May 4, 2021

    Updated May 4, 2021

    Havre Police Department Stephanie Rita Small of Havre, 37, was issued a summons on a charge of criminal contempt related to a 24/7 Sobriety Program violation reported at the police station 8 a.m. Monday. Small was arrested at 8 p.m. at Hill County Detention Center. -- Tanner Joseph Walker of Havre, 38, was issued a summons on charges of disorderly conduct, assault and trespass to property after a Second Street caller reported Monday at 8:56 a.m. that an unknown man had walked...

  • Letter to the Editor - What will free-roaming bison do?

    Updated May 4, 2021

    Editor, What will free-roaming bison do? This is a hotly debated question in Montana now. But we can look to Utah for an authoritative answer. In 1941, 18 bison from Yellowstone National Park were released in the remote Henry Mountains in southeast Utah. The animals were set free in the arid desert known as Robbers Roost. But the bison were allowed to wander where they would. Within a few years, the herd, now growing in size, wandered closer to the mountain terrain where the grass was more plentiful. Soon they crossed the...

  • Loretta Loftus

    Updated May 4, 2021

    “You Bugger!” This is my favorite expression used by my dear friend Loretta Loftus who passed away last week. I counted it a real coup when Loretta and her husband Kermit walked into Community Alliance Church one Sunday. They had been faithful members of Calvary Baptist Church but when that church closed, they came to us and they stayed for many years. Not only did they stay but they also brought family and friends and invested themselves into the life of the church. My wife, Karen, and I spent many hours with Loretta lis...

  • Open carry on campus -  Not a Second Amendment issue

    Updated May 4, 2021

    Concealed weapons on campus? HB102 directly raises that issue. But in spite of arguments to the contrary this is not a Second Amendment issue as it relates to campuses. What is at issue is the Regents constitutional right to manage Montana’s University System. Our history is rife with examples where politics and vested interests have interfered with our higher education system. In 1915, at the behest of the Legislature and the Anaconda Company — ACM — University President Craighead was fired for not towing the ACM line....

  • Local thinclads head to Glasgow Top 10 Meet

    Kason Clark|Updated May 4, 2021

    After competing in the Glendive Elks Invitational a couple days before, the top athletes from the Havre High track and field team will compete in the Top 10 meet in Glasgow Tuesday. Unlike most meets, each event will only have 10 competitors, all from the Northeast region. The athletes qualified for the event by posting a top-10 finish, so the meet will have the best athletes in the region. Despite the tough competition, HHS head coach Ryan Gatch believes his athletes will hav...

  • Local Golf Report: Men's leagues begin with good weather

    George Ferguson|Updated May 4, 2021

    The month of April was about as below average as it gets from a weather standpoint. But it sure did go out on a high note. Last week saw soaring temperatures and basically everything turning green overnight, and it was just in time for men’s league golf to start at both Prairie Farms Golf Course and Beaver Creek Golf Course. Men’s league began last Tuesday night at Prairie Farms. Wagner Plumbing took high-team honors for the first night of men’s league with 24 points. Jacks...