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You ever have those days when it becomes obvious that you might have a knack for being a genius? I don’t. Well, I didn’t until one glorious day this week. It all started when I bought a bag of cheese curds at the grocery store as a snack to hold me over for the drive home to supper because, hey, who doesn’t love cheese curds and, of course, 10 minutes is a long drive when you’re really hungry. In my weakened state, the sturdy packaging thwarted all my attempts to gnaw through...
GREAT FALLS (AP) — Farmers are harvesting what remains of their winter wheat after hailstorms in a northern Montana county earlier this month destroyed an estimated $7.5 million in crops. The Great Falls Tribune reports (http://gftrib.com/1Ko6nDM) almost 182,000 acres were impacted by hailstorms that Hill County Farm Service Agency executive director Les Rispens says were probably the most significant to hit the state in years. Rispens said about 20 percent of the affected cropland is a total loss, with more than 50,000 a...
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Hotels and campgrounds in Glacier National Park are flooded with calls from worried tourists canceling their reservations or asking whether the Montana landmark will stay open as a wildfire sweeps through a popular part of the park. Hotel owners are trying to talk callers out of changing their plans, while Glacier officials emphasized that only a small part of the 1,718-square-mile park is closed as the flames chew though parched conifer-topped ridges on its eastern side. The blaze has shut down nearly h...
HELENA (AP) — A Helena man has filed to run for Montana governor in 2016. Casey Filler says he entered the race Monday after his horse-riding business went under this year. The 49-year-old Filler says he wants to aid small businesses and downsize the "free gravy train" of social welfare programs in Montana. He grew up on ranches in Ennis and Harden. He lived in Hawaii for 12 years while working for the U.S. Coast Guard and moved to Helena in 1999. Filler married his wife, Ayrne, in 2012 and is stepfather to an 8-year-old b...
The Kellen Lund Memorial Bike Ride kicks off its annual ride this Saturday at Pepin Park. The ride is to commemorate the passing of Kellen Lund, who was run over by a vehicle while walking at across the viaduct on 1st Street his bicycle some years ago. Jeri Zorn-Erickson is the main organizer of the event and said the bike ride should be just as good as it has been. This year, they are giving away 15 bicycles. To win them, kids need just to sign their names on provided slips...
Ernest D. Friede, 85, finally joined the love of his life, Marie (Saddler) Friede, on Thursday, July 23, 2015, at his residence of natural causes. Wake services began at 5 p.m. on Thursday, July 23, 2015, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Rocky Boy. Rosary service took place at 7 p.m. on Friday, July 24, 2015, and his funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 25, 2015, all at St. Mary's Catholic Church with Father Pete Guthneck officiating. Burial will follow in Kuper...
I allow traveling strangers to stay in my apartment with me. Through Internet sites like Warm Showers and Couch Surfing, anyone traveling through the area can obtain my phone number and request to stay with me. A Pakistani lived with me for three days recently. Every single other person, save the one longboarder, is a cyclist. Havre is at a strategic point on the Northern Tier route of adventure cycling. The route runs from Anacortes, Washington, to Bar Harbor, Maine, though...
The American Cancer Society of the Hi-Line will hold its North Central Montana Relay For Life at Havre High School Saturday, an annual event to raise awareness of and money for cancer research and help for families of people with cancer. Unlike years past, where the relay walk would start at noon and last until 5:30 the next morning, the walk will end at midnight. Reba Domire, a lead organizer of the event, said the ending time was changed due to low attendance during the 1...
MONDAY 1:30 p.m. — Building Manager — Anez TUESDAY 10:30 a.m. — Road Supervisor — Otto WEDNESDAY 10 a.m.-noon — Library Carnival THURSDAY 10 a.m. — Business Meeting: • Manual Claims • Employment Review • Resolutions • Tax Adjustments • County Permit Approval •Subdivision/Survey Approval • Lions Campground Award • Time for comments from the public 11 a.m. — Tax Appeal Board meeting FRIDAY 9 a.m. — Payroll Approval 1:30 p.m. — Claims Approval...
Emily Mayer The year 1915 was not kind to socially prominent citizens. Havre lost another social matron this week 100 years ago, and the following was published in the July 24, 1915, issue of The Havre Plaindealer: PAID LAST TRIBUTE TO BELOVED MATRON Mrs. J. F. Daoust Buried in Calvary Cemetery. Funeral services for Mrs. John F. Daoust, who passed from this life on Tuesday, were held at St. Jude Catholic church yesterday morning. The church was crowded with friends anxious to pay a last tribute of love to one whose short...
Our beloved angel, Ann "Annie" Carol Heimdahl, 74, passed away July 17, 2015, of aneurysm, COPD and many other complications at her home in Alexandria, Minnesota. It would have been the 79th anniversary of her parents, Alice and Finn Heimdahl. Annie was born in Minneapolis and lived in Havre from 1943 to 1952 until dad, a claim agent for the Great Northern and Burlington Northern railroads, was promoted back to Minneapolis. Annie was extremely talented, artistic, creative and...
Raymond O. Sivertsen, 84, retired, from Lloyd, Montana, passed away June 24 of natural causes. Ray was a ranch boy at heart, born in April 1931 and raised in the Bear Paw Mountains on the Sivertsen Ranch homestead. He attended a country school until high school, then attended and graduated from Chinook High in 1950. He married Caroline Murphy in 1951, and they had four children. They divorced in 1968. He had a deep passion for eagles and loved the rodeos. He went to the Law...
Havre Police Department Matthew Dean Weaving, 23, of Box Elder was arrested on a charge of criminal mischief after officer responded to a 1:01 p.m. Thursday call from a 1st Street business about vandalism to a hotel room. —— Officers investigated a 1:03 p.m. Thursday call from 7th Street about a fight between a son and father. —— A motor vehicle crash was investigated after officers responded to a 1:36 p.m. Thursday call from a 3rd Street business. —— Jennifer April Roses Peeles, 34, of Pheonix and Matthew Koontz, 26,...
By Lori Roberts Havre-Hill County Library The time has come to wrap up our summer reading program here at the library. On July 29, the Havre-Hill County Library will be hosting a Community Heroes Carnival from 10 a.m to 2 p.m. This is going to be the most awesome carnival. There will be a barbecue from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Some activities include a duck pond, fishing, face painting, ring toss, basketball, ladder ball, spin the wheel, cake walk and photos. We are also having a Pie in the Face event which will cost $1 and all...
Renee Boren, along with Mr. and Mrs. Vernon R. Brown Sr., have announced the engagement of their children Kelse A. Seymour and Wesley F. Brown. Seymour is a 2015 graduate of homeschool, and she works at the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line. Brown is a 2015 graduate of Havre High School, and he works at Bear Paw Lumber as well as Cottonwood Cinema. The wedding is set for July 25. The couple plans to reside in Havre....
Senior Center News for July 27 to July 31 Thank you to everyone who supported our Fair Fundraiser. Would you like to be a volunteer? We at the Senior Center are very thankful for the many volunteers who help daily and also during our special events. If you would be willing to share your time and talents, please call 265-5464 or stop at 2 2nd Street West. Monday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; painting at 1 p.m. Tuesday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; ears checked, hearing aids cleaned 11 a.m. to noon; bin...
The fair has come and gone and the temps are hotter than … well it is nice and toasty. We must be in the dog days of summer. This should be a time for us to slow down a little, rest and prepare for all the extra activities that come with fall and the start of school. That might not be the case this summer. Locally we have experienced storms and the damage that comes with them. While on the state, national and world stage we hear of hunger, killing, threats of war and weather that seems to be destructive to humanity. While the...
Sometimes you hear talk about how the younger kids of today's generation spending too much time on their smart phones or playing video games. Sometimes, today's youth are even called lazy, but Havre’s Quinn Reno is anything but lazy, in fact, he might even be a little too active. That's because Reno, entering eighth grade, is a four-sport athlete. And when Reno plays sports, he doesn't just do so casually, he goes all out. The eighth-grader not only competes in football, b...
Now a full year after the departure of Dickinson State University, the Frontier Conference looks to be very stable in football. And the coaching ranks is very, very stable. There are a host of extremely experienced and tenured coaches in the conference entering the 2015 season, none more experienced than Carroll College field general Mike Van Diest. The Frontier also has a defending national champion coach in Craig Howard of Southern Oregon, and a bevy of coaches who have now...