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Medical marijuana patient Carrie Sandoval, 56, joins marijuana activists at a protest in Denver on Wednesday, Sept 22, 2010. Sandoval says she opposes Colorado plans to start tracking how much marijuana patients are buying, saying the tracking would infringe on the privacy of people who use pot to treat disease. (AP Photo/Kristen Wyatt) Marijuana tracking on the way in Colo. KRISTEN WYATT,Associated Press Writer DENVER (AP) — Colorado wants to set up a first-in-the-nation tracking system of medical marijuana purchases to d...
A council charged with promoting health issues of Native Americans continues its biannual meeting in Havre today and is set to hear from local tribal leaders about the issues in the region. The Tribal Counci l Advisory Committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held site meetings on Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian reservations earlier this week and plans to hear from locals on other health issues throughout their meeting today in the Student Union Building Ballroom on Montana State University-Northern's...
Philip, Celia and Araminta will give Havre theater-goers plenty of reasons to laugh during Montana Actors' Theatre's production of "The Philanthropist." Curtains to the six-scene comedy go up at 8 tonight through Saturday to reveal a cast of teacher-professor-type characters, director Mike Palmer said. "It's a well-written play," he said. "It's verbal humor and Brad (Wagner) does an excellent job on his character of (Philip)." Celia, played by Megan Quintero, is Philip's love interest. Even though the two are engaged, they...
A Virginia woman who used sex and money to persuade two men to kill her husband and he r s t epson to col l e c t a $250,000 life insurance policy was scheduled today to be exe cut ed in two months, which will be the first U.S. execution of a woman in five years. A judge set a Sept. 23 execution date for Teresa Lewis, 41, the only woman on Virginia's death row. She would be the first woman executed in the state in nearly a century. Lewis offered herself and her 16-year-old daughter for sex to two men who committed the...
Wayne A. Koski, 66, of Cedar Falls, I owa , d i e d Monday, July 26, 2010, at Sartori Memorial Hospital in Cedar Falls. He was born March 16, 1944, in Negaunee, Mich., the son of Andrew E. and Aili F. (Saari) Koski. He married Kathi Evans on Sept. 5, 1981, in Craig, Colo. Mr. Koski served in the United States Army and was stationed in Korea during the Vietnam era. He was employed as a surveyor with Claassen Engineering and Surveying in Waterloo, Iowa, retiring in 2005. He was a member of the American Legion in Marysville,...
A mother grizzly and two of her three cubs have been captured after killing one person and injuring two others during a late-night rampage through a campground near Yellowstone National Park. The mother, estimated to weigh 300 to 400 pounds, was lured into a trap fashioned from culvert pipe Wednesday evening, then left in place to attract the year-old offspring. By this morning, two of the younger bears had been caught and the third could be heard nearby, calling out to its mother. Fish, Wildlife and Parks Warden Capt. Sam...
At Easter Sunday dinner Pearl and I decided to have a yard sale. My closets were cluttered and the basement was stuffed. Pearl had equal excess. We had things we had not seen in years. We figured the middle of July would be a great time to hold the sale. We chose Wednesday, July 21. We decided to hold it at my house, situated as it is on a main street, with a wide concrete driveway. Pearl tacked up flyers around town. We checked the weather oracle. Sunny with a few clouds. Temperatures in the high 70s. Precipitation zero....
Montana State University-Northern women's basketball coach Chris Mouat is losing a top-notch assistant coach to an NCAA Division I program. But Mouat has found an excellent replacement. Longtime MSU-N assistant Anna Bateman recently accepted a job at Big Sky Conference member Northern Colorado University, and Mouat recently announced the hiring of former Malta prep star and University of Montana basketball standout Juliann Keller. Keller replaces Bateman, who worked as the lead assistant in the Skylight program the past five...
The highly-anticipated baseball showdown between perhaps two of the top teams in the American Legion Class A's Northern District turned out to be a bumpy ride for the Havre North Stars. On Monday afternoon at Legion Field, the North Stars were swept by the Great Falls Electrics, solidifying Great Falls as the top team in the league standings in the process. Pitching wasn't Havre's issue in its two losses on Monday, and at times, neither was hitting. Instead, it was defense and a failure to move runners across the plate which...
Driver education students at Havre High School got a first-hand look Friday at what happens when people don't wear seat belts. A car that was involved in a serious rollover crash in 2007 was on display in Havre last week. Students could see where the passenger was sitting. That part of the car was relat ively unscathed by the crash, but the person — who was not wearing a seat belt — was ejected from the vehicle and died. Another person in the car — who wore a seat belt — "just walked away," said Samantha Hutchins, project...
With the levels of creeks and rivers subsiding, officials are going into full recovery mode following flooding in the last two weeks, although the complete impacts are still unknown and local residents are urged to be cautious. The costs of initial damage from an assessment at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation have been released, with the total damage listed at $6 million and $2.3 million of that eligible for federal assistance, state Disaster and Eme r g e n c y S e r v i c e s Pu b l i c Information Officer Monique Lay said...
They sometimes worked in pairs and pretended to be married so they could blend in as the couple next door while working as spies in a throwback to the Cold War, complete with fake identities, invisible ink, coded radio transmissions and encrypted data to avoid detection, authorities say. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Farbiarz, speaking Monday in federal court in Manhattan, called the allegations against 10 people living in the Northeast "the tip of the iceberg" of a conspiracy of Russia's intelligence service, the SVR, to c...
You know how it is: It's easier to complain and wallow in self-pity than to play up the good things in your life. In the midst of wonderful occurrences and people in my life, I found myself harping on the negatives the other day and being a grouch. So I decided to try keeping a "thankful diary" for a week. Yes, it sounds like an idealistic thing to do that won't accomplish anything in reality, but experts say that writing down even just one positive thing a day in my life will make me happier over time. I t s e f f e c t i ve...
Donald Ward Powelson was born in the home of a midwife on 2nd Street in Havre, Mont., on June 30, 1919, a year after the great Spanish flu pandemic. He lived most of his life in Havre until moving to Saint John's Moorberg and Jensen Cottages in Billings, Mont., for the last few years of his life. Don died in Billings on June 25, 2010, surrounded by his children and their spouses, five days before his 91st birthday. Don Powelson was the only child of Mark and Clara Burns Powelson. The family homesteaded north of Chinook and mo...
Linda Marie Leeds Vande Ven, 61, of Plainfield, Ill,, formerly of Lincolnshire, Ill., and Chinook, Mont., passed away peacefully on Monday, June 7, 2010, at Alden of Waterford, Aurora, Ill. She was born Nov. 8, 1948, in Havre, Mont. She was the devoted wife of the late John E. Vande Ven, whom she married Jan. 30, 1970; beloved mother of Karen (Mark) Banas of Plainfield, and Adam Vande Ven of Omaha, Neb.; adoring Nana to Kyle Edward and Eric Jonathan Banas; loving daughter of the late Robert and Lucia Leeds; dear sister of...
Virginia (Ginger) R. Mork, 85 years of age, passed away, June 19, 2010, at Northern Montana Hospital, Havre, Mont., of natural causes. Cremation has taken place under the care of Holland & Bonine Funeral Home, and at her request, no services will be held. She was born on Aug. 12, 1924, in Big Sandy, Mont., to Roy and Martha (Tucker) Ingram. Virginia married Ever Bernard Mork in December 1941, in Malta, Mont. The couple then moved to Havre. Virginia worked for the Great Northern Railroad for 41 years, retiring in 1982. She...
Shaina Patrice Evans, 20, passed away June 27, 2010, near Lewistown, Mont., as a result of a motor vehicle accident. She was born Feb. 28, 1990, in Havre, Mont., to Gary and Linda (Vercruyssen) Evans. After a short stay in Havre, Shaina's family moved to Champagne, Ill., where she began her early education. In 1997 the family moved to Kalispell and then in 1999 to North Platte, Neb. Moving back to Kalispell in 2001, Shaina attended school at Trinity Lutheran Elementary, and then ninth grade at the middle school, before going...
After several years of work, the Hill County Sheriff's Office is fully connected to the radio system that will eventually provide seamless, high-tech radio for law enforcement and emergency personnel throughout the state. "We had a large meeting with the deputies yesterday and explained a few issues and went live this morning," Hill County Sheriff Don Brostrom said. The Interoperability Montana program, funded through state and local funds and through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will create the ability to...
Andrew Car l son and Rober t Connors will be interviewed Monday to fill the superintendent's position with Havre Public Schools. Connors serves as the junior high principal and high school vice principal at Stevensville Schools in Ravalli County. Carlson, who also wears the hat of director of education in the district, is serving as Havre's interim superintendent. The applicants were chosen from a pool of four after submissions closed in mid-April. Members of the superintendent search committee, Shad Huston, Norm Proctor and...
I received an invitation to read my poetry in Seattle. It was a giant boost to my ego. I drove a thousand miles to be a featured reader in front of a group of friends and fellow poets in a Seattle-area coffeehouse. I miss my poet friends. Having an audience is vital to my creative process. When I read my poetry aloud, I hear things on a visceral level that I otherwise miss. In three weeks I jammed and crammed a lot of visiting. More precious than gold are my friends, my relatives and my grandchildren. It is good for me to...
I just read the article in the Havre Daily (page 1, April 27) announcing the local effort to support local businesses. I think it's a great idea. As the outgoing president of the Havre Education Association, I would like to encourage our teachers and other school employees to take part in the spend locally effort. On Friday, spend $30 at a local business that supports our local schools. And as you do so, thank them for their support. And don't forget to vote on Tuesday! Karla Bolken Havre...
A nearly 3,000 pound Hereford steer that kept the herd in line on a southwestern Montana cattle ranch for nearly a decade has been sold for $1,670 at auction. Owner and breeder Bill McIntosh of Avon watched the bidding Tuesday at the Montana Livestock Auction in Ramsay, saying he hates to see the steer, named Cletus, go, but he's got to be practical. "The cattle market is about as high as we're apt to see it, I think, and finally I can get a little bit of the feed bill back," McIntosh said, noting that Cletus ate about 90...
Debra "Debbie" Ann Velk, 55, died of natural causes April 19, 2010, at her home in Lawry, Colo. Debbie was born Sept. 8, 1954, in Havre, Mont., to Richard and Shirley M. (Sisson) Velk. She attended elementary school at Miller School north of Havre. Debbie graduated from Havre High School in 1972, after which she attended Northern Montana College. Debbie attended Denver Community college earning an associate degree in business, of which she was very proud. She married Mike Lansey, and they moved to Dover, Del., where her...
Larry L. Warburton, 60, of Chinook, passed away unexpectedly on April 23, 2010, due to natural causes. Memorial services will be Friday, April 30, at 2 p.m., in the Edwards Funeral Home Chapel. Reception and fellowship will follow at Wallner Hall. Arrangements are by Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook....
Neal A. Johnson, 87, of Harlem, passed away on April 25, 2010, at his daughter's residence in Shelby, due to cancer. Funeral services will be Saturday, May 1, 2010, at 11 a.m. in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Chinook, with burial following at Harlem Cemetery at 3 p.m. Memorial services will be Thursday, April 29, at 7:30 at the Shelby Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Arrangements are by Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook....
