Articles from the June 22, 2005 edition

Ellen Thompson Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com The call for increased cooperation among local governments has gone out several times in recent months and the response is beginning. Plans include instituting a quarterly city-county forum to discuss local issues, reviving the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce Native American Affairs Committee and planning more meetings among city, county and tribal leaders. At a meeting Monday, city and county officials began to set dates and strategies...

Jared Ritz Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com Havre Police have contacted the man they suspect to have driven through four garage doors at the Blue Bear Car Wash on June 12, and are continuing to build their case before bringing it to the Hill County Attorney's office, Assistant Police Chief George Tate said Tuesday. Police found their suspect through the tips of three different eye witnesses, Tate said. Before leaving the scene, witnesses were able to write down the licence plate number of the...

Associated Press Writer BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - People like Kate Zajdel are desperately needed amid a worldwide shortage of nurses that is provoking crises from the bitter political feud in California to a cancellation of lifesaving operations for children in Ireland. Yet she was among tens of thousands of qualified applicants turned away by U.S. nursing programs last year because there are not enough teachers or space. The dilemma brought the 22-year-old New Yorker to a new international nursing school in the Caribbean...

BOZEMAN - From the dusty trail of his 30,000-acre Rocker-Six Cattle Co., one of Montana's most illustrious poets, Wally McRae, creates cowboy verse, such as "Maggie." I taught my good dog, Maggie To lay down when I commanded I also taught her "Set" Whenever I demanded. I'll teach her next to speak, I said She struggled to comply And when she learned to speak, she said: "You twit. It's 'Sit' and 'Lie.'" "The creative ideas for poems come mostly while I'm out in my pickup or putting up hay and am terminally bored," says McRae,...

Professional trainer, APDT Bare Paw Dog Obedience In last week's column, I began the examination of dog breeds and responsible breeding techniques. This week I will more closely explain the need for the responsible breeding of canines. A reputable dog breeder will rely on three main breeding systems - inbreeding, line breeding and outcrossing. Inbreeding is the mating of two closely related individual canines, which will increase the likelihood that the good genes common in both parents will show up in the offspring. This...

Photos by Nikki Carlson Story by Jared Ritz ROCKY BOY'S INDIAN RESERVATION - A semi-circle of nine tepees stands bearing the harsh Hi-Line wind on an overcast day. Sitting in a circle about 200 feet from the structures, about 30 people are gathered to do something that should seemingly be an everyday event. But, due to lost interest over the years and societal pressures, this "thing" has been all but lost. From the participant's faces, it seems those gathered are doing little more than talking. And this is true. The entire...

Ryan Divish Havre Daily News Sports Editor [email protected]@havredailynews.com The Havre Comets shook off a rough start at the Howard Rein Memorial Tournament in Belgrade to come back and finish fourth, falling to the Bozeman Spikes 13-0 in the consolation game. Havre opened the tournament with a disappointing 3-2 loss to the Missoula Mavericks A squad on Thursday afternoon. Missoula grabbed a 2-0 lead off of Comet starter Tanner Donovan in the third inning as a balk and two errors led to the runs. The Comets...

Ryan Divish Havre Daily News Sports Editor [email protected]@havredailynews.com There's an old baseball adage: "Speed never slumps." New Montana State University-Billings baseball coach Chris Brown not only subscribes to the theory, he embraces it. It is precisely why he signed Havre's Patrick "Patch" Wirtzberger to an NCAA letter of intent to play baseball for his fledgling Jacket program in its first official college season in 2005-06. Perhaps, Wirtzberger's best asset is his speed. Although he doesn't have...

Leonard Owen Wavrick, 62, of Havre died Saturday, June 18, 2005, due to an accidental fall while working in the evening in his shop. A funeral service will be held Friday at 11 a.m. in the First Lutheran Church with a reception following at the Elks Lodge. Burial with military honors will be Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Alice Nash Memorial Cemetery on the Lone Tree Bench. Leonard was born on March 11, 1942, in Bigfork to Steve and Edith (Volkman) Wavrick. He graduated from Havre High School and attended Northern Montana College...

GILDFORD - Percy Nordrum, 80, retired Gildford farmer, died Monday, June 20, 2005, at Northern Montana Care Center of natural causes. Percy's memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the Fifth Avenue Christian Church with Ila McClenahan officiating. A fellowship luncheon will be held at the Vets Club immediately after the memorial service. Percy was born July 16, 1924, to Emil and Alma (Sandver) Nordrum in Barnesville, Minn. Percy attended rural schools in Minnesota. As a young man, Percy traveled through Montana...

GILDFORD - Earl T. McConnell, 85, of Gildford died Sunday, June 19, 2005, of natural causes at a private care home near Havre. Per his request, his body will be cremated. A memorial service is planned for the near future. Earl was born June 2, 1920, in Pennsyl-vania. He received his education there and excelled in track-and-field during his high school years. He served in the U.S. military during World War II and the Korean conflict. Following his discharge, he lived in Arizona and New Mexico, where he worked in construction....

Jared Ritz Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com A 12-acre subdivision being sought by a local developer as the future home of a Wal-Mart Supercenter was unanimously approved by the Havre-Hill County Planning Board Tuesday at the Hill County Courthouse Annex meeting room. The Hill County Commission has 60 days to hold public hearings and approve or deny the subdivision of the land just west of Kmart on U.S. Highway 2. No members of the public spoke at the public hearing portion of Tuesday's...

Larry Kline Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com A man and a woman have been charged with first degree murder in connection to the death of Angel Lynn Denny, a 15-year-old Hays-Lodge Pole junior who died in a house fire April 9, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lori Suek said today. Kenneth John Arcand, 21 of Chinook and Bobbie Jo Wing, 25, of Dodson each appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Holter Tuesday in Great Falls and pleaded not guilty, a U.S. Attorney's Office press release said. They...

Larry Kline Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com The city of Havre has received $500,000 in grant funding from the state Treasure State Endowment Program to cover a portion of the costs associated with the complete replacement of water transmission lines beneath First Street. The work will be done in conjunction with the Montana Department of Transportation's First Street reconstruction project, set to begin in the spring of 2007. The project, expected to cost between $17 and $20 million, is sla...

Ellen Thompson Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com The Hill County commissioners took three men to task Tuesday for failing to obtain permission before laying a pipeline under a county right of way. Before digging or building on or near a county right of way, the county requires builders to submit a right of way encroachment form for review. The commissioners were contacted recently by a landowner who told them of a builder who failed to get permission before digging, commissioner Doug Ka...

Ellen Thompson Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com The call for increased cooperation among local governments has gone out several times in recent months and the response is beginning. Plans include instituting a quarterly city-county forum to discuss local issues, reviving the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce Native American Affairs Committee and planning more meetings among city, county and tribal leaders. At a meeting Monday, city and county officials began to set dates and strategies...

Jared Ritz Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com Havre Police have contacted the man they suspect to have driven through four garage doors at the Blue Bear Car Wash on June 12, and are continuing to build their case before bringing it to the Hill County Attorney's office, Assistant Police Chief George Tate said Tuesday. Police found their suspect through the tips of three different eye witnesses, Tate said. Before leaving the scene, witnesses were able to write down the licence plate number of the...

Associated Press Writer BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - People like Kate Zajdel are desperately needed amid a worldwide shortage of nurses that is provoking crises from the bitter political feud in California to a cancellation of lifesaving operations for children in Ireland. Yet she was among tens of thousands of qualified applicants turned away by U.S. nursing programs last year because there are not enough teachers or space. The dilemma brought the 22-year-old New Yorker to a new international nursing school in the Caribbean...

BOZEMAN - From the dusty trail of his 30,000-acre Rocker-Six Cattle Co., one of Montana's most illustrious poets, Wally McRae, creates cowboy verse, such as "Maggie." I taught my good dog, Maggie To lay down when I commanded I also taught her "Set" Whenever I demanded. I'll teach her next to speak, I said She struggled to comply And when she learned to speak, she said: "You twit. It's 'Sit' and 'Lie.'" "The creative ideas for poems come mostly while I'm out in my pickup or putting up hay and am terminally bored," says McRae,...

Professional trainer, APDT Bare Paw Dog Obedience In last week's column, I began the examination of dog breeds and responsible breeding techniques. This week I will more closely explain the need for the responsible breeding of canines. A reputable dog breeder will rely on three main breeding systems - inbreeding, line breeding and outcrossing. Inbreeding is the mating of two closely related individual canines, which will increase the likelihood that the good genes common in both parents will show up in the offspring. This...