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Havre Daily News staff It didn't take long after the Republicans in the Senate released their proposal — crafted behind closed doors — to overhaul health care regulations for both of Montana’s U.S. senators to announce town hall meetings with Montanans about the proposal. Sen. Jon Tester set a town hall for Saturday and Sen. Steve Daines scheduled a teletownhall for Wednesday. “13 Senators have secretly drafted a bill that threatens health care for thousands of Montanans and risks wiping out Montana's rural hospitals while g...
Press release Representatives of the Havre Rotary Club said their annual Father's Day Fishing Derby saw a great turnout with 78 kids fishing at Rotary Pond in Beaver Creek Park. The derby winners from each category were: Best overall fisher across all categories: Katy Albertson Girls younger than 10: • First Place: Sophie Acuna • Second Place: Sasha Anderson • Third Place: Tied - Makena Albertson & Karah Heitzenroder Girls 11-15: • First Place: Allyson Kaul • Second Place: Al...
By ALAN FRAM and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans released their long-awaited bill today to dismantle much of Barack Obama's health care law, proposing to cut Medicaid and erase tax boosts that helped Obama finance his expansion of coverage. The measure encountered immediate trouble as four GOP senators said they opposed it but were open to negotiations. The bill would provide less-generous tax credits to help people buy insurance and let states get waivers to ignore some coverage s...
Havre Daily News staff Local elementary students have the chance to study clean energy at Havre’s university with a camp for children grades two to four set next week and a camp for children grades five through eight set in July. Montana State University-Northern’s Advanced Fuels Center is hosting the camps, with the events for the younger students set to run 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. next Tuesday and Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to noon next Thursday. Mohammad Moustafa, education and outreach coordinator at the center who will be run...
Backers of an ongoing push on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation to encourage people to produce, buy and sell local goods met at the Chief Nosey Center in Lodge Pole Wednesday. People at the "Building Fort Belknap's Economy" community meeting took part in discussions, heard about co-ops and took a tour of the Red Paint Creek Trading Post. The trading post is a cooperative that will include a grocery store, public kitchen, a food pantry and a gas station, planned to be open soon....
Havre Daily News staff A traveling display discussing the link between community and tradition to health and illness in Native cultures has a grand opening set for Wednesday at Aaniiih Nakoda College on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. The ribbon cutting and grand opening of “Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness” is set to start at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Room 213 of Returning Buffalo on the college campus. Speakers will talk about topics including diversity, equity and inclusion in health care. The e...
From Havre Area Chamber of Commerce Havre Area Renewal Trust - HART - is a program that was introduced in 2000 by a group of Havre Area Chamber of Commerce member businesses led by Janine Donoven to raise funds for projects. The main projects in 2000 and 2009 were to raise funds to refurbish the community holiday pole decorations and have funds to purchase replacement bulbs for the decorations and community tree lights. The 2000 campaign raised more than $4,000 to purchase...
Editor, For quite some time I have been thinking about a matter that has not made the news, and it is good news, really great news about Rocky Boy. Since we have seen so much negative news about Rocky Boy in recent months (years), I speak these few words of good news. Well, I consider it great news concerning the upcoming Sun Dance. This is most certainly one of the great things about Rocky Boy. In my RBHB work I have seen many photos about the Sun Dance, and we can say that the Sun Dance has carried on in the same way for...
Well, why not? Back in the day, I devoured self-help books. Back in the early 1980s when my life was shattered like a jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces, in an attempt to put myself back together, I read a raft of self-help, pop-psychology, pull-yourself-up-by-bootstraps, think-your-way-to-success type fluff-and-stuff. I’d finish one, find another, thinking each would have the solution for me. I soon had accumulated an entire bookcase filled with sugar pills, innocuous c...
Beverly June Cowan, 83, passed away to Heaven June 12, 2017, at 9:05 a.m. due to natural causes. A Celebration of Life service will be held Sunday, June 25, 2017, at 11 a.m. at the Seventh Day Adventist School, 4113 9th St. W., in Havre. Memorials in Beverly's name may be made to the North Central Senior Center, 2 second St. W., Havre, or to the donor's choice. Please visit Beverly's online memorial page at http://www.hollandbonine.com. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been...
Betty Jean Sanford of Casper, Wyoming, loving wife, mother and grandmother, joined the Lord June 19, 2017. She passed peacefully at home surrounded by family. Betty was born Feb. 2, 1932 to James and Elizabeth (Heffer) Dunbar in a log house on their family ranch in the Bear Paw Mountains south of Chinook, Montana. She attended People's Creek School through eighth grade, then moved to Chinook to attend high school, graduating in 1949. Her career began at Havre High School...
Lifelong Chinook resident Betty Ann Spring, 90, passed away Dec. 24, 2016, at the Care and Comfort Home in Havre, Montana. A graveside service will be held June 24, 2017, at 11 a.m. at the Kuper Memorial Cemetery. Betty was born Nov. 26, 1926, in Chinook, Montana, to Bernard and Adeline Hermes. She graduated from Chinook High School in 1944. She married Lloyd Spring June 2, 1951, in Chinook. Raising their four children, she found time to babysit, as well, at home. She started...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated after a 10th Street West caller reported Wednesday at 7:03 a.m. that someone took the keys to her car and threatened her about money she owed him. —— Officers investigated after a First Street West business caller reported Wednesday at 8:12 a.m. that there was a hit and run crash in the parking lot the previous night. The caller called again at 11:09 a.m. reporting that one of the parties involved got in touch. —— Clarissa Lynn Newfield of Havre, 30, was arrested on a crimina...
One of the traditions for the Havre North Stars American Legion baseball team is playing every year in the Ed Gallo Memorial Wood Bat Tournament. And this weekend in Whitefish the North Stars will compete in the annual tournament once again, the one that only allows teams to use wood bats, which are far different from the aluminum bats Legion teams use normally. The action gets underway today, and for the North Stars, things will get started this afternoon at 3:30 against...
Montana State University-Northern Athletic Director Christian Oberquell is narrowing in on the next head volleyball coach at MSU-N. The final two candidates for the position vacated by veteran head coach Bill Huebsch will be on campus in the coming days, starting with Stephens College head coach Rose Obunaga this afternoon. Obunaga has been the head coach at Stephens for the past six seasons. The Kakamega, Kenya native is no stranger to NAIA. Following her junior college...
There are a lot of great summer sports traditions in Havre, but one of the finest is undoubtedly becoming the Shaina's Challenge Men's Fastpitch Tournament. Shaina's Challenge, which was started five years ago, gets set for another incarnation of the tournament this weekend at the Sixth Avenue Memorial Field. The festivities will get underway Friday night with the Blue Pony Alumni Softball game set to start at 6. The tournament begins after that with Bear Paw Credit Union taki...
