Articles from the September 28, 2004 edition

The Chinook Sugarbeeters and Chester Coyotes moved to the top of their respective districts with some critical conference wins this past weekend in local high school volleyball action. The Beeters won three matches in three days, starting on Thursday with a 25-18, 25-13, 25-17 win over rival Malta. Whitney Lybeck banged out 10 kills and added 12 digs in the win. Morgan Obie and Andrea Eslick had three aces each in the match. On Friday, Chinook dispatched with Cut Bank in three games by scores of 25-19, 25-23, 25-19. Lybeck...

The first full month of high school football is now in the books. Across the Hi-Line, this past weekend was much better for some teams after some tough games two weeks ago. The Chester Coyotes bounced back from their first loss of the season, while the Blue Sky/KG Eagles picked up an important win over Box Elder in Northern Six-Man action. On Friday night in Chester, the host Coyotes were able to rebound from a loss at Belt last weekend with a 53-6 thrashing over the Heart Butte Warriors in Northern C action. Chester scored...

The Havre High girls cross country team made a statement this weekend - if you're going to win the Class A state championship trophy, you're going to have to go through them. The Ponies finished a solid seventh at the extremely tough Mountain West Classic in Missoula - the highest placing of any team in Class A. Perennial Class AA power Kalispell, led by All-American runner Zoe Nelson, finished first. The HHS boys squad also had a respectable showing, placing 32nd overall in the ultra-tough boys division. "We looked pretty...

Karl A. Nystrom, 98, of Bozeman died Friday, Sept. 24, 2004, at his home of natural causes. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Havre Seventh-day Adventist Church, 405 Sixth St. Cremation has taken place. Karl was born to Fred and Anna Nystrom on June 28, 1906, in Havre. Karl married Ruth M. Cooper on May 19,1941. She preceded him in death in 1999. Survivors include his daughter, Carol A. Forshee, Caldwell, Idaho; son, Clair K. Nystrom of Bozeman; four grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and numerous...

L. Jean Holden, 71, of Great Falls, a retired nurse's aide, died of natural causes on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2004, at a Great Falls hospital. A memorial service is 2 p.m. Thursday at St. Jude's Catholic Church in Havre, with burial of ashes in Highland Cemetery. Jean was on born, May 5, 1933, in Havre to Irene and Alex Gerstenberger. She grew up in Havre and graduated from Havre Catholic High School. She married Carl Holden on Oct. 4, 1949. They divorced in 1997. She started working at Sacred Heart Hospital in Havre in 1965 as...

HELENA - Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Brown released his income tax records for the past 11 years Monday and challenged Democrat Brian Schweitzer to do the same, saying he was doing his opponent a favor. Brown said he was giving Schweitzer an opportunity to set the record straight on his financial history after Schweitzer assailed a GOP poll earlier this month as spreading lies about him. ''I'm trying to make it as easy as possible for him to clear himself ... of whatever people may suspect,'' Brown said, adding...

Information about how Northern Montana Hospital provides care for three medical conditions will soon be available to the public. The idea is to allow consumers and medical professionals to see how well hospitals follow accepted procedures and how they compare with other hospitals, said Charity Watt Levis of the Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Foundation. "Hospitals can see what they are doing and what they need to improve on," she added. The federal government will make the information available next year either over the...

Three years into an effort to provide better 911 service, Hill County is about to finish one more phase in the process - waiting. On Friday, the state of Montana will conclude negotiations with the telecommunications company CenturyTel for a contract that would provide enhanced-911 service statewide. If the state can get a better price for Hill County than the county could on its own, the county will join the statewide effort. Enhanced-911 allows emergency dispatchers to see the address associated with an incoming call,...

HELENA - It's tomato roulette time in Montana. Just when the vines are groaning with half-ripe fruit, a killing frost could strike any night, wiping out months of fertilizing, watering and combating an array of tomato-loving pests that range from pack rats to deer. The chilling news is usually delivered in mid-September by a jovial TV weatherman named Frosty, who waves frantically at maps and charts before delivering the coupe de grace: "If you haven't covered your plants tonight, it may already be too late." All the yard...

Transient vendors who come to Havre to sell their wares may have to pay a small fee to set up shop. The Ordinance Committee of the Havre City Council met Monday night to look into a recommendation from the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce to implement a transient vendor fee within the city limits. Under the city's current policy, transient vendors have to fill out a solicitor registration form with the city before conducting business in Havre, but no fee is charged. "They pay nothing to do business in our community," Debbie...

After emerging last week from a single-vehicle car crash that left her nearly untouched, MaryEtta Sohm, a retired Havre school teacher, has referred to herself as a "walking miracle." She counts surviving the crash as one among many blessings in a long, active life. Sohm taught fifth and sixth grade at the Devlin School for 28 years, until retiring in 1976. She is still greeted by her former students, but now she is also known for other community work. After retiring, she began running the gift shop at the hospital, a...

Story by Ellen Thompson Montana State University-Bozeman has preserved a piece of Hill County history, adding to its collections all of the telegrams received by Fort Assinniboine in 1881, the year of Sitting Bull's surrender. Purchased in April and posted on the Internet in July, the telegrams are now available for anyone to access without fear of damaging them, MSU special collection archivist Kim Allen Scott said. They contain more information about daily life at Fort Assinniboine than was previously known, Fort...

Parents and children need to put their heads together to prevent brain injuries. The brain is like a master computer for the human body. It controls thinking, learning, language and memory. A child's ability to move, breathe, see, speak, hear and feel is controlled by the brain because the brain sends all of these signals to the parts of the body. It even affects a child's emotions and personality. With all these vital functions at risk, parents can see that protecting their child's brain from injury is a critical...

Participants can now preregister for the Festival Days Run/Walk, scheduled for Sept. 19. The event is open to runners and walkers of all ages. Race day registration will start at 9 a.m., with the 5K run/walk starting at 10 a.m. and the 1-mile run/walk at 11 a.m. All events will start and finish at the Montana State University-Northern 11th Street east parking lot. Entry fees are $6 without a T-shirt and $14 with a long-sleeved race T-shirt. All entry fees include race refreshments and door prizes. Prizes will be awarded to...

HELENA - It's tomato roulette time in Montana. Just when the vines are groaning with half-ripe fruit, a killing frost could strike any night, wiping out months of fertilizing, watering and combating an array of tomato-loving pests that range from pack rats to deer. The chilling news is usually delivered in mid-September by a jovial TV weatherman named Frosty, who waves frantically at maps and charts before delivering the coupe de grace: "If you haven't covered your plants tonight, it may already be too late." All the yard...

The Chinook Sugarbeeters and Chester Coyotes moved to the top of their respective districts with some critical conference wins this past weekend in local high school volleyball action. The Beeters won three matches in three days, starting on Thursday with a 25-18, 25-13, 25-17 win over rival Malta. Whitney Lybeck banged out 10 kills and added 12 digs in the win. Morgan Obie and Andrea Eslick had three aces each in the match. On Friday, Chinook dispatched with Cut Bank in three games by scores of 25-19, 25-23, 25-19. Lybeck...

The first full month of high school football is now in the books. Across the Hi-Line, this past weekend was much better for some teams after some tough games two weeks ago. The Chester Coyotes bounced back from their first loss of the season, while the Blue Sky/KG Eagles picked up an important win over Box Elder in Northern Six-Man action. On Friday night in Chester, the host Coyotes were able to rebound from a loss at Belt last weekend with a 53-6 thrashing over the Heart Butte Warriors in Northern C action. Chester scored...

The Havre High girls cross country team made a statement this weekend - if you're going to win the Class A state championship trophy, you're going to have to go through them. The Ponies finished a solid seventh at the extremely tough Mountain West Classic in Missoula - the highest placing of any team in Class A. Perennial Class AA power Kalispell, led by All-American runner Zoe Nelson, finished first. The HHS boys squad also had a respectable showing, placing 32nd overall in the ultra-tough boys division. "We looked pretty...

Karl A. Nystrom, 98, of Bozeman died Friday, Sept. 24, 2004, at his home of natural causes. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Havre Seventh-day Adventist Church, 405 Sixth St. Cremation has taken place. Karl was born to Fred and Anna Nystrom on June 28, 1906, in Havre. Karl married Ruth M. Cooper on May 19,1941. She preceded him in death in 1999. Survivors include his daughter, Carol A. Forshee, Caldwell, Idaho; son, Clair K. Nystrom of Bozeman; four grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and numerous...

L. Jean Holden, 71, of Great Falls, a retired nurse's aide, died of natural causes on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2004, at a Great Falls hospital. A memorial service is 2 p.m. Thursday at St. Jude's Catholic Church in Havre, with burial of ashes in Highland Cemetery. Jean was on born, May 5, 1933, in Havre to Irene and Alex Gerstenberger. She grew up in Havre and graduated from Havre Catholic High School. She married Carl Holden on Oct. 4, 1949. They divorced in 1997. She started working at Sacred Heart Hospital in Havre in 1965 as...

HELENA - Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Brown released his income tax records for the past 11 years Monday and challenged Democrat Brian Schweitzer to do the same, saying he was doing his opponent a favor. Brown said he was giving Schweitzer an opportunity to set the record straight on his financial history after Schweitzer assailed a GOP poll earlier this month as spreading lies about him. ''I'm trying to make it as easy as possible for him to clear himself ... of whatever people may suspect,'' Brown said, adding...

Information about how Northern Montana Hospital provides care for three medical conditions will soon be available to the public. The idea is to allow consumers and medical professionals to see how well hospitals follow accepted procedures and how they compare with other hospitals, said Charity Watt Levis of the Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Foundation. "Hospitals can see what they are doing and what they need to improve on," she added. The federal government will make the information available next year either over the...

Three years into an effort to provide better 911 service, Hill County is about to finish one more phase in the process - waiting. On Friday, the state of Montana will conclude negotiations with the telecommunications company CenturyTel for a contract that would provide enhanced-911 service statewide. If the state can get a better price for Hill County than the county could on its own, the county will join the statewide effort. Enhanced-911 allows emergency dispatchers to see the address associated with an incoming call,...

Transient vendors who come to Havre to sell their wares may have to pay a small fee to set up shop. The Ordinance Committee of the Havre City Council met Monday night to look into a recommendation from the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce to implement a transient vendor fee within the city limits. Under the city's current policy, transient vendors have to fill out a solicitor registration form with the city before conducting business in Havre, but no fee is charged. "They pay nothing to do business in our community," Debbie...

After emerging last week from a single-vehicle car crash that left her nearly untouched, MaryEtta Sohm, a retired Havre school teacher, has referred to herself as a "walking miracle." She counts surviving the crash as one among many blessings in a long, active life. Sohm taught fifth and sixth grade at the Devlin School for 28 years, until retiring in 1976. She is still greeted by her former students, but now she is also known for other community work. After retiring, she began running the gift shop at the hospital, a...