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This coming Sunday, U.S.B.C. Youth Bowling will commence at 1:30 p.m. for Bantam and Prep bowlers and 3:30 p.m. for Junior/Major. Pee Wee will start Nov. 6, at 3:30 p.m. and runs for six weeks. Bowlers are asked to be present at least 30 minutes before league starts to register and fill out cards and an orientation. Also, come early to make sure your bowling ball fits properly. Thursday night at 5:30 p.m. there will be a meeting of all interested parents and board members of U.S.B.C. Youth to elect officers, set schedules...
The Montana State Un Montana State University-Northern's Jared Miller (right) and the Lights' wrestling team will make their 2011-12 season debut tonight at 6 against Western Wyoming. iversity-Northern wrestling team has spent the last few weeks wrestling each other, and grappling with former Lights legends. Tonight, the Lights will finally get their hands and someone else. The sixth-ranked Lights will open the regular season tonight at 6 when they take on Western Wyoming in...
When volleyballs go up in the air on Thursday morning, it will be do-or-die time. This week marks the beginning of the high school volleyball postseason, and for many area teams, it's the march towards big things. Thursday and Friday, Chester will be the sight of the 2011 District 6C East volleyball tournament. The Hawks are hosting the event for the first time after moving from the 6C West to the 6C East this season. And C/J-I also happens to be the No. 1 seed in this week's...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson, file photo Kadin Ehry of Havre pets German wirehaired pointer "Pixie" in July 2007 while owner Anita Wilke of Dodson watches during Bare Paw Dog Obedience instructor Fran Buell's Dog Bite Prevention presentation to children and adults at Pepin Park. Buell's presentation stressed the proper way to greet a dog, what to do if a dog is aggressive or if someone is attacked by a dog and body signals a dog will show before an attack. Havre City Council's Ordinance Committee held a productive meeting...
Correction: Bob Kaul has served one term on City Council. The print version of this story in Wednesday's Havre Daily News incorrectly said he has served two terms. As the nation watches nearly a dozen candidates wrestle for a position in next year's presidential election, Havre's got one City Council race heating up as this year's election day quickly shortens in the two-week wait for counting votes on Tuesday, Nov. 8. The most closely watched race is the only race at all, between Democratic incumbent and council veteran Bob...
Editor: Nalivka's Pizza Kitchen, family and crew want to thank all of you who so generously supported the Slice of Hope fundraiser for breast cancer research. Oct. 7 was a very special day here for all of us. We also thank the Havre Daily News for helping get the work out to the community. The public's response was, at times, overwhelming. Your patience when orders ran a little late because the ovens were backed up was greatly appreciated. The proceeds from the cake auction, specialty pink desserts, purchases of the Slice of...
WASHINGTON — The richest 1 percent of Americans have been getting far richer over the last three decades while the middle class and poor have seen their after-tax household income only crawl up in comparison, according to a government study. After-tax income for the top 1 percent of U.S. households almost tripled, up 275 percent, from 1979 to 2007, the Congressional Budget Office found. For people in the middle of the economic scale, after-tax income grew by just 40 percent. Those at the bottom experienced an 18 percent i...
HOUSTON — TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline may be threatened by legislation in Nebraska that would re-route the $7 billion project designed to bring Canadian crude to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. At a special session on Nov. 1, Nebraskan lawmakers will consider a bill aimed at forcing Calgary-based TransCanada to move the pipeline to the state's eastern edge, a step that company officials said may put the project in jeopardy. The other five states the pipeline would traverse — Montana, South Dakota, Kansas, Okl...
Havre Daily News/John Kelleher Ila McClenahan, director of activities and pastoral care coordinator at Northern Montana Care Center, chats with Leann O'Reilly, a retired care center nurse, after a ceremony dedicating the new Grace Chapel at the center. In the background is a cross that once was at the old Lutheran Home, where O'Reilly was once director of nursing. Ila McClenahan could hardly contain her emotions as she participated in a dedication ceremony for a new chapel at Northern Montana Care Center on Sunday. "We've...
A road project closely related to, but separate from, construction on U. S. Highway 2 east of Havre is complete, and the new landfill it connects with could be open within a few weeks. Clay Vincent, Hill County sanitarian and planner, said this morning that the road connecting U. S. Highway 2 to the new tri-county landfill has been resurfaced, and once work on the new site is complete and the equipment can be moved from the existing landfill, the new operation can begin. The road work, which hooks the landfill to Highway 2 vi...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Vehicles drive on the new black top section of U.S. Highway 2 east of Havre Saturday afternoon. The first part of an upgrade planned on U. S. Highway 2 east of Havre nearly is complete, with the second stage delayed for at least several years, Montana Department of Transportation officials said. Work this year on an upgrade transforming the highway from a two-lane configuration based on outmoded standards starting near Pork Chop Hill, at Mile Marker 386, to about 10 miles east of Havre, is in...
John F. Gauer John F. Gauer, 80, died Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011, at Northern Montana Hospital of natural causes. Cremation has taken place, and his memorial service will be announced at a later date. Memorial contributions in John's honor may be made to the American Cancer Society. Services and arrangements have been entrusted to Holland & Bonine Funeral Home. John was born Oct. 13, 1930, to John and Anna Gauer. He was raised and educated in Dickinson, N.D. He became the assistant manager at Cashway Lumber in Dickinson right...
Bob Brown It is said that "facts are stubborn things." So are the figures on which facts are based. The following example didn't originate with me, but in revising and verifying it, I consulted the highly respected, bipartisan Concord Coalition. It is headed up by former Republican Sen. Warren Rudman of New Hampshire and former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerry of Nebraska and has been monitoring the debt and factually warning about it for nearly 20 years. Comprehending the magnitude of the debt owed by all Americans, now measured...
AP Photo/Paul Sakuma President Obama gestures during a LinkedIn Town Hall Meeting at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., Monday as he participates in "Putting America Back to Work: LinkedIn Presents a Town Hall with President Obama." MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Inviting questions, President Barack Obama got one he was happy to answer. "Would you please raise my taxes?" one man asked the president at a town hall here Monday, hosted by the social networking company LinkedIn. The questioner described himself as une...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Nadir Greytak, 18, stands on a ladder near the front entrance of Gracie's Place in North Havre Wednesday afternoon. Greytak renovated the North Havre park as an Eagle Scout project. He named the park in memory of his cousins Grace Gibson, who died of cancer in 2010, and Grace Loftus, who uses the park daily. Pacific Steel & Recycling donated the sign material for the park, and the design and lettering was done by Tina Michaelis of BLM Metals Custom Metal Designs. At 3:30 p.m. on Sunday there wil...
HELENA — The governor's budget director challenged lawmakers on Monday for painting what he describes to be an artificially gloomy budget picture, arguing state coffers will have far more money left over than legislative staffers predict. David Ewer told an interim committee of lawmakers it is now clear that more money was available than the Republican-led Legislature used for its budget earlier this year. Democrats said that money could have been used for many things, such as more state construction projects to spur job g...
Hooked on catching the big one Nikki Carlson Children crouched around ice holes while jigging their fishing poles to catch perch during an annual ice fishing field trip Tuesday afternoon. They didn't have to wait long to catch a fish. "I got one," echoed across the pond as dozens of perch were pulled up from the frigid water. Catching the fish is the best part about going fishing, and now students across the Hi-Line will become "hooked on fishing." Lincoln-McKinley Primary School third-graders in Kim Tommerup and Erin...
Sparks continue to fly between the head of the group pushing for a four-lane highway across the northern part of the state of Montana and the state department that says that is what it is building. A Montana Department of Transportation official says MDT is moving forward with building a four-lane U. S. Highway 2 from the North Dakota border west to Bainville. But Bob Sivertsen, president of the Highway 2 Association, said he doubts that will come to fruition. "As I have stated, we are being snowed again, " Sivertsen said...
Sharon (Wodarz) Toscano, 74, died Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011, in Colima, Mexico, from complications during surgery. Based on her wishes, her body was cremated and her ashes shall be returned to the United States to be distributed in Hill County, in Montana. Sharon was born Sept. 28, 1936, in Great Falls, the daughter and only child of John and Gladys (Hockett) Wodarz. She attended schools in Havre prior to moving to Washington, D.C., to serve in the United States Navy. She had been living in Mexico on the Pacific Coast for the...
David D. Hofer David D. Hofer, 50, of Turner passed away peacefully at Billings Clinic, Aug. 18, 2011, due to an aneurism. David was surrounded by his loving family at the time of his passing, going into the arms of Jesus, where he was greeted by loved ones who passed before him. David was born on Feb. 5, 1961, at Lewistown, Mont., to Paul and Anna Hofer. As a young child, he moved with his family to Turner, where he resided until his passing. David married his loving wife Theresa in 1994, starting a family of four beautiful...
I don't like secrets. The whole point of a secret isn't to keep information from people; the point is to let them know that you know something they don't know, usually for some ulterior motive. If someone really wants to keep information confidential, they simply don't say anything, right? You don't know they know something worth knowing because they know how to keep their pie hole shut. Y'know? Pam Burke If, for example, you walked into your neighbor Darwin's home office and...
NAGS HEAD, N.C. — Hurricane Irene began lashing the East Coast with fierce winds and rain Friday, with the storm almost certain to heap punishment on a vast and densely populated stretch of shoreline from the Carolinas to Massachusetts this weekend. Rain and tropical storm-force winds of at least 39 mph (63 kph) already were pelting the Carolinas as Irene trudged north, snapping power lines and flooding streets. Officials warned of dangerous rip currents as Irene roiled the surf. Thousands already were without power. In C...
TWIN BRIDGES (AP) — As the 10th anniversary of the al-Qaida attacks on the United States approaches, the man who crafted America's military response in both Iraq and Afghanistan believes that the terrorism threat will continue to evolve — and the country's defense systems must remain well funded to be vigilant. Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of defense for presidents George W. Bush and Gerald Ford, is retired and spends a portion of his summers on a gentleman's ranch along the Big Hole River in southwest Montana. His 40-...
It's week two for the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team. And the Skylights will use this weekend's four matches to continue their progression as the Frontier Conference season draws closer. Northern is in Billings for the Rocky Mountain College/Montana Tech Tournament, and four tough nonconference matches are on the slate. The Skylights play Walla Walla University and Davenport University of Michigan today, then take on Dickinson State and Dakota Wesleyn on Sat...
Montana State University-Northern quarterback Travis Dean (middle) tries to run from the MSU-N defense during Thursday night's scrimmage at the MSU-N practice fields. The scrimmage marked the end of training camp for the Lights, who will open the season next Saturday at home. Veteran running back Stephen Silva summed up the attitude of the Montana State University-Northern football team following the Lights' five-series scrimmage Thursday night in Havre. "It's been...
