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A symposium will be held Friday at the District 4 HRDC Building to discuss the problem of methamphetamine use. The forum is sponsored by Parker Canyon Creek Consulting Inc, a firm based in Box Elder. Mike Geboe, founder of Parker Canyon, said it is the second year that the symposium has been held and is prompted by the high rates of meth use and the social ills that it causes. He said that the conversation will emphasize the incorporation of traditional practices rooted in tribal traditions as a means to combating meth use...
Havreites and others have until Monday around noon to donate toys, school supplies, hygiene items and notes of encouragement to be packed into shoeboxes that will then be wrapped and delivered around the world to children living in extreme poverty or areas affected by war, disease and natural disaster. The donations can be dropped off at Community Alliance Church between 10 a.m. and noon and 6 and 8 p.m. Volunteers will be packing and wrapping the boxes Sunday from 6 to 7...
A university organization is helping out with a recycling drive this weekend and is hoping to get some help from the community so it can continue to provide a service to the community. Brendan Heimz, sustainability coordinator of Montana State University-Northern’s Sustainability Program, said the program will have a donation box set up at Pacific Steel & Recycling during Saturday’s recycling drive while people from the program help with the drive. Heimz said Northern’s Sustainability Program takes the No. 5 plastics colle...
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., sounded a note of bipartisanship Wednesday, saying he is willing to give Republican President-elect Donald Trump a chance to prove himself following the Manhattan billionaire’s upset victory in last week’s election. “Let’s give him a chance. Who knows, we might be pleasantly surprised,” Tester said in a telephone press conference. “And, if not, we’ll hold him accountable.” Though he was a supporter of Democratic candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and said he disagreed with...
Eight days after Montana voters overwhelmingly cast their ballots for President-elect Donald Trump and Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said Wednesday he is excited about campaigning for re-election in 2018. “To be honest with you, I think it is going to be a lot of fun for me setting the record straight, making sure that when folks put out mistruths that we can set the record straight,” Tester said during a telephone press conference. “It’s probably going to be a tough election, but it’s something...
MSU-Northern Community Orchestra sets holiday extravaganza Press release The MSU-Northern Community Orchestra is presenting its Holiday Extravaganza featuring some favorite Christmas arrangements made popular by groups like the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Manheim Steamroller and the Canadian Brass. The orchestra will be joined by two local dance studios, Montana Academy of Dance and The Studio of Dance and Arts, for a live collaboration of music and dance featuring excerpts from the movie “The Polar Express” and classics lik...
JASMINE HALL The Livingston Enterprise LIVINGSTON — “Go downstairs and get my pants from the bed,” Crystal Young said gesturing to her dog, Durango. Durango, a silver-grey Weimaraner, eagerly ran down the stairs with his short, docked tail wagging. He quickly returned to drop a neatly folded pair of pants in Young’s lap, then sat and waited for his owner’s approval. Fetching items, putting away laundry, turning off light switches and shutting bedroom doors are just a few things 6-year-old dog Durango can do, but even more...
ASHLEY NERBOVIG Billings Gazette BILLINGS (AP) — Nicole Walksalong has special expertise in the area of foster and adopted children, a knowledge that comes from beyond her formal education. She’s the adopted mother of twin girls and her own mother was adopted into a white family as a child. The family raised her mother on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, which later allowed Walksalong to stay connected to her culture. Walksalong’s intimate knowledge on the topic of adoption and fostering children is part of the reason she w...
I like to believe we are writing our story, a few words each day. I like to believe it is our love story. I like to believe we don’t have to choose sides, that there are no sides. No right. No wrong. No left. No right. Just we pilgrims, searching for our path, aching to love, sometimes lost along the way. I like to believe we are one huge dysfunctional family, a human soup, each scrap of humanity adding to the flavor, never losing character. A huge spicy, yummy soup, a perfect blend. “You is sooo-o naïve,” one friend tells...
When people are generally passionate about things, they sometimes exceed the bounds of reason. Donald Trump won the electoral vote in the dark hours of Wednesday morning, and the clocks stopped. This was followed by the Amazon River evaporating into the mists of the Brazilian jungle, Mount Aetna erupting and swallowing half of Sicily, the polar ice caps melting, and every resident of South Philadelphia finding a parking space within less than five minutes. A miracle, I tell you. Of course, it wasn’t a miracle to those who h...
My wife is crying. It is four days after the election and my wife is still crying. After four days she was finally able to explain to me why she was so upset. She is terrified that the election of Donald Trump means that all she has worked for, all her closest friends have worked for, cared about, and fought for to reduce intolerance and promote dignity and equality will be erased with the stroke of a pen. I met my spouse while working at a university in Nashville, Tennessee. She grew up in rural Tennessee about 40 miles nort...
The 2016 presidential election surprised many — some are disappointed, some are jubilant. Electoral College criticism is the new national sentiment. However, the Founding Fathers were not terribly amiss. So why did Hillary win a majority of popular votes and Trump seem to steal the election? The culprit is the all-or-nothing approach we use when tallying popular votes and converting them into Electoral Votes. The Electoral College does not need to be replaced. Equal Voice Voting offers the best of solutions without r...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a theft report after a 12th Avenue caller reported Wednesday at 6:42 a.m. that her boyfriend’s mountain bicycle was stolen. —— Officers investigated a motor vehicle crash after a caller at a First Street West business reported Wednesday at 7:25 a.m. that a silver 2012 Ford Fusion was damaged during a hit-and-run. —— Officers investigated a theft report after a Second Street business caller reported Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. that a theft had occurred. —— Jobe Jacob Barrows of Ha...
Hill County Water District meeting agenda The Hill County Water District meeting will be Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the District’s shop/office at 104 Second St. in Hingham. • Recognition of visitors; public comments, limited to any matter not on this agenda and within the jurisdiction of the District Board — three-minute time limit per speaker. • Call to order and approval of minutes of previous meeting • Old business • Other old business • New business: 1. Employee report 2. Financial report • Other new business ...
MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON — Leon G. Billings, a former aide to Maine Sen. Edmund Muskie and a key author of the Clean Air Act and other landmark environmental laws, has died. Billings, 78, died Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee, after suffering a stroke while visiting family. Born in Montana, Billings moved to Washington in 1962 and had a 50-year career in politics and public policy. As the first staff director of the Senate Environment subcommittee, Billings was a primary author of the 1970 Clean Air Act, one o...
HELENA (AP) — A Blackfeet woman who led a 15-year legal fight against the federal government over mismanagement of Indian trust funds will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor. President Barack Obama announced Wednesday 21 recipients who will be honored at the White House next Tuesday, including the late Elouise Cobell. In addition to the lawsuit that ended with a $3.4 billion settlement, Cobell was a rancher who helped found Native American Bank. She died in October 2011 due t...
MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, — U.S. officials canceled 15 oil and gas leases Wednesday in an area bordering Glacier National Park that’s considered sacred to the Blackfoot tribes of the U.S. and Canada. The cancellation was aimed at preserving the Badger-Two Medicine area, a largely-undeveloped, 130,000-acre wilderness that is the site of the creation story for members of Montana’s Blackfeet Nation and the Blackfoot tribes of Canada. “It should not have been leased to begin with,” Interior Secretary Sally Jew...
Press release Curt Lineweaver has joined D.A. Davidson & Co. and will serve as an associate financial advisor in the firm’s Havre office. Lineweaver will work with clients as they develop wealth planning strategies to reach their unique financial objectives. Besides his work with individual investors, he will focus on serving families, businesses and nonprofit clients with personalized advice and financial solutions. He works alongside Jacob Lorang, who serves as vice president, financial advisor in the Havre branch. L...
The Montana State University-Northern Lights are getting a lot of mat time right now. Northern wrestled a special dual in Laurel Wednesday night, and now the Lights are headed west for a pair of meets over the weekend. On the national level, the Lights dropped from No. 4 to No. 7 in the first NAIA Coaches Poll, which was released Wednesday. Northern started the year ranked No. 4 in the Preseason Coaches Poll. Individually, the Lights still have five wrestlers holding national...
The 2016 volleyball season is in the books, but there’s still plenty of awards to be handed out. The District 6C East recently announced its 2016 All-Conference Team, and as expected, it was dominated by the Chinook Sugarbeeters. The Beeters, who won their fourth consecutive district championship and haven’t lost a conference match in over two years, had four players named All-Conference. On the First Team was senior Kelsey Mathon and junior Sierra Swank, while senior Tay...
And just like that, it's over. The 2016 Frontier Conference football season is in the books, and what an intriguing season it was. Obviously, the biggest story lines from this fall were the sheer dominance of Montana Tech, which won nine straight games by an average margin of 17 points per game. The Orediggers were a well-oiled machine, even with losing at Carroll College to start the season, and, the fact that they led the Frontier in both scoring offense and scoring defense...
The Montana high school volleyball season is now officially in the books and that means that it's time to hand out postseason awards. The Central A Conference, which had two representatives at the Class A state tournament last week in Bozeman, announced its All-Conference and All-State selections this week. The Havre High volleyball team, which made it to the second day of the Eastern A Divisional tournament, and finished 9-14 this season, had two players named Central A...
Havre has also been a town divided when it comes to the big game between the Montana State Bobcats and Montana Grizzlies. Look around and you’ll see fans scattered all around Havre and on the Hi-Line, fans who have long stood on both sides of the Divide. In fact, there are even households in our community that are divided when it comes to Cat-Griz. But, this season, even the most diehard fans of both the Cats and Griz seem a little confused. There’s Cat fans picking aga...
Havre Elks Hoop Shoot Set The Havre Elks Lodge will be having their local Elks Hoop Shoot on Sunday at the Havre Central Gym. The Elks Hoop Shoot is a free-throw contest for ages 8-13. Contestants' age groups are determined by their age as of April 1, 2017. Doors open at 12 p.m. while shooting will begin at 1 p.m. Please bring clean gym shoes and no basketballs. Havre Elks will provide the balls. For questions or further information, please contact Matt Kretchmer at 265-2278 or Brandy Kurtz at 390-0091. Havre Daily Seeks...
