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Editor’s note: This version corrects the town where Jerry Trotchie resides. Jack Michael Trotchie, 60, passed away Easter Sunday, April 21, of natural causes at his home in Renton, WA. Born in Havre, Jack attended St. Jude's then public schools. He graduated from Havre High School in 1977. He enlisted in the military, serving in the armed forces from 1978 to 1980 throughout Germany in finance. He later attended MSU-Northern graduating in 1987 with a Bachelor of Technology i...
Hill County is looking at buying new voting equipment under a law requiring election officials to provide voting machines allowing access for people with disabilities with the state reimbursing part of the cost. Thursday a representative of Nebraska-based Election Systems and Software, who declined to give her name, gave a presentation for the Hill and Blaine County officials of the new equipment available for counting ballots during election season. Hill County Clerk and...
Hill County Commissioners voted unanimously at their weekly business meeting Thursday to table the application for the Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development Grant with plans to take it up again for next year. “It seems like we are not quite ready to really know where we are at with it,” Commissioner Diane McLean said. The BUILD grant, formerly known as Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery, or TIGER, grant is a $1.5 billion federal Department of Transportation program for national inf...
The Hill County Conservation District Board will meet DAY, DATE, at TIME. in the USDA Building at 206 25th Ave. W. Suite 1, Havre The agenda is: Call meeting to order Approval of minutes of April 3meeting Treasurer’s report Old Business Website Ph Meters Outside of the Box New Business...
Monday Noon — LAC — Bullhook Clinic 1:30 Building Manager Tuesday 10:30 a.m. — LEPC meeting Detention Center 10:30 a.m. — County Road Department Meeting 1:30 p.m. — 911 meeting 5 p.m. — HRDC Wednesday 11 a.m. — MACO — Commissioners office Thursday 10 a.m. — County officials — Timmons Room 11 a.m. — Business meeting Public comments Manual claims Employment review Resolutions Tax adjustments County permit approval Subdivision/survey approval Contracts 3 p.m. — Airport meeting Friday Office hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m....
The Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees will meet Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the Havre Middle School for its reorganizational meeting, followed by its regular meeting. The agenda for the reorganizational meeting is: A. Call to order 1. Pledge of Allegiance 2. Roll call 3. Welcome to visitors 4. Agenda deletions or corrections, and additions allowed by policy, if any B. New business 1. Seating of newly elected board members 2. Reorganization of board with district clerk temporarily presiding a. election of chair b. Election...
Press release Havre Public Works Department has announced that, due to the city’s workload, it will only be operating the brush chipper through the month of May. After May 31, if a property owner would like tree branch removal they must follow the City Ordinance 8-3-6 (E) which states all branches and shrubbery to be cut and bundled in 4’ lengths for disposal. The city asks that the bundles be placed near the trash cans but not to block access to driveways or garage doors. For all other disposal the landfill has an area set...
From Montana Department of Commerce HELENA — Montana’s Census and Economic Information Center at the Department of Commerce is reminding Montanans today that official U.S. Census Bureau surveys will never ask respondents for money, and those surveys will always be postmarked from the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau. This reminder comes on the heels of an apparent imitation Census survey being mailed to Montana voters. The survey is called the “2019 Congressional District Census” and was mailed by the Republi...
Havre Police Department Thursday at 12:13 p.m. a First Street caller reported finding two kids bikes. -- A Montana Avenue caller reported a vehicle missing from house Thursday at 1:09 p.m. -- James Allen Gardipee of Box Elder, 48, was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct after a First Street caller reported an intoxicated male sleeping on the tables Thursday at 2:41 p.m. -- A First Street business reported an employee stole money Thursday at 4:48 p.m. -- Everett Dale...
Junior Sway Byrd is one of Havre High School's April 2019 students of the months The daughter of Amy Byrd and Robert Murphy, Sway has two younger siblings - Joey, 15, and Adrianna, 4. Sway is a member of the Havre High choir and the M.B.I. team. She also participates in Special Olympics and volunteers at the Sunnyside Intermediate School day care. Her hobbies and interests include reading, spending time with family, as well as watching and supporting her friends and brother as...
By Emily Maher The courtroom was the place to be according to the May 3 and 10 issues of The Havre Plaindealer. Lengthy articles ran in both papers about all the drama our ancestors were creating in one form or another. William Hill was acquitted of maiming livestock. Hill had a homestead near Simpson. According to the Plaindealer: “There had been little expectation by many of a conviction in this case as the evidence was not generally considered strong.” State Assistant Attorney General A. A. Grorud prosecuted the case on...
Actions speak louder than words. But words create the environment and world in which we live. Our actions and words matter greatly — and the actions and words of the Montana State Legislature in the 2019 session were clear: Montana will not allow sexual abuse, especially abuse of children, to continue. We removed the statute of limitations allowing for criminal prosecution of sexual abuse against children and established a Sexual Assault Survivors’ Day. Sexual assault, including crimes such as rape and incest, is a cancer in...
While the Catholic Church gets bashed frequently for its outdated church-sanctioned laws and pressured to modernize its ways, I’m here to lend some non-church support for one of those canons which started in the Detroit-area in the 1700s: muskrats on the menu for Lent. Yes, in the 1700s the missionary priests in the Detroit area allowed Catholic parishioners to eat muskrat “on days of abstinence, including Fridays of Lent,” the Archdiocese of Detroit told The Associated Press...
This past high school basketball season was an exciting one for local basketball players and two of them recently decided to keep playing the game at the collegiate level. One of those players is former Chinook Sugarbeeters standout Isaac Bell, who will continue his basketball career at the University of Providence in the Frontier Conference. Bell was a two-time Class C All-State selection for the Beeters and this past season, he helped Chinook go undefeated during the...
For years, Havre High head tennis coach George Ferguson has preached that the Central A Divisional Tournament actually starts a week early, at the Lewistown Invitational. And 18 years into his coaching career, nothing has changed, as his Blue Ponies head to Lewistown Saturday for their annual regular season finale. "It's the biggest day of our season thus far," Ferguson said of the Lewistown Invite. "It's a full dress rehearsal for divisionals, and, it's our last chance to...
Graduation at Montana State University-Northern last weekend marked the start for many students entering the professional field, but also marked the completion of the first year of Northern's College of Health Sciences. The college was created in response to the demand for nurses on the Hi-Line. The state received a federal grant six years ago specifically to observe the current needs in the state's health care system. Northern was of the state's 15 colleges seen as playing a...
Kylee LeShay Oats is a senior this year at Rocky Boy High School, and has been named April Student of the Month. Her nominators said Kylee is a very talented. She has a lot of charisma, is friendly, is a family-oriented individual and can't wait to graduate. Kylee's hobbies include, sitting at home, Facebooking, watching TV, reading and visiting her grandma and other various family members. She plans to attend Stone Child College in the fFall. Her dream has always been to...
North Central Senior Citizens Center, May 13-17 Monday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; bingo at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m; TOPS at 8 a.m..; Walmart shopping from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Great Falls trip at 8 a.m. Friday — Medical transportation will be available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. but people must make a request at least 24 hours in advance. March Menu by Earlene DeWinter (Subject to Change) M...
Out our way, a lot of folks raise chickens, and so Jesus’ allusion to a mother hen’s love of other chicks speaks volumes. Up on the Tiger we didn’t have chickens, but we had a lot of mama cows and calves — we saw the same thing. As Mother’s Day comes upon us it is fitting to realize that while Jesus calls God “Abba” — Papa in Aramaic — He also alludes to the maternity instincts of God. God is neither male nor female, and shows the attributes of both. A mother’s love is a great image.I recall three primary examples of it Charl...
I want to start off this week by acknowledging the tension of these parenting holidays. For some, it is a joyous occasion of celebrating our loving mothers who have selflessly devoted themselves to their children throughout the years; it is also an occasion to be celebrated by your own children. But for others, this day accentuates the pain of broken families, the struggle with infertility, the loneliness of being single, grief of a child or a mother. You might even be caught on both sides of this tension within yourself....
Many of the ideas and Scriptures used in this article are from the book “Heaven” by Randy Alcorn. Isaiah 6:3 states, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of His glory.” Regarding the New Jerusalem, Revelation 21 proclaims, “Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life”. The first article in this series reminded each of us to send in our RSVP. We just can’t get into heaven by our works or...
Set Free Ministries is again inviting people to A Day in the Park. The fifth annual Havre Day in the Park put on by Set Free Christian Fellowship will be in Pepin Park from noon to 3 p.m. The theme for the outreach this year is Burgers, Bicycles and Bibles. A youth group from Set Free Great Falls is coming again to put on a puppet show for all the kids. The event also features music, games, prizes, a bouncy house, popcorn, snow cones, cotton candy, a huge barbecue with all the fixings. In the past years, the event served...
You know, Lord, as Mother’s Day approaches, we remember Mom and her hands which were always busy. They were wrinkled, shriveled and maybe a bit weak having been tools she used in her life to reach out, grab hold and embrace life. As our moms age, their hands became lined and yellowed with age; it happens to all of us. After our moms pass on, we may spend time with wonderful older women who doled out large servings of wisdom, guidance and love, but there’s no substitute for our own special Moms. We especially remember her hand...