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The Havre Health & Safety Fair at Holiday Village Mall often attracts thousands of people interested in learning more about ways to detect and prevent disease. Organizers think that will be true again Saturday, when Holiday Village Mall and Northern Montana Health Care sponsor the event, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Holiday Village Mall. Like other organizations, Northern Montana Health Care employees will be volunteering their time to help the crowds of interested people, said Gina Barker, Northern Montana Health Care's director... Full story
North Central Montana Transit formally celebrated its use of Montana-grown biodiesel fuel Monday, touting its use as a boost for the environment and for the H-Line's economy. The biodiesel is made from plants grown in this area, cleaned at Peaks to Prairie in Malta and processed at Montana State University-Northern, transit system Director Jim Lyons said. "It is very clean, very efficient and virtually free of any carbon footprint," said Frank Trocki, Northern's chancellor. Magnetic signs that will be posted on the buses...
Four area students — two from Havre and two from Chinook — will be going to Europe this summer as part of the People to People program. The program, founded by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1955, promotes international peace and understanding. The four were chosen after a rigorous set of interviews and tests and quizzes on European politics, history, art and culture of Europe. Forty students from Montana will be among those taking part. "I was lucky enough to be one of the 40," said Mackenzy Edmonds, 14, a Havre Middle Schoo...
Pictures of young people serving in Iraq adorn a wall of the Senior Center at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, where the community gathered Wednesday to pay tribute to three returning soldiers. Legionnaires, tribal leaders — many of them veterans — and relatives of the returning soldiers talked about the reservation's long commitment to the military. "We have 267 people at Rocky Boy who have served in the military," said Robert "Sonny" Belcourt, American Legion Post 67 commander. "And we have many fallen veterans." Luanne Bel... Full story
In her role as child support director for the Chippewa Cree Tribe, Brenda Gardipee sees more than 250 cases a year of child support and custodial disputes on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. The cases go through tribal courts in adversary proceedings. She was looking for a new way to handle such cases, suspecting that many times mediation would work to the betterment of both parents and especially for the children. Instead of a new way to accomplish this goal, she is resurrecting an old way. For almost two years, she has been...
