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Thirteen athletes, along with friends and family, loaded up the Blue Pony Express Tuesday afternoon before heading to the Special Olympics Montana State Summer Games in Great Falls. All but one of the 14 local athletes who qualified in April's Great Northern Spring Games will be participating in the state games which will be ongoing through Friday. More than 1,000 athletes will be competing in 11 different sports, according to the Special Olympics Montana website, at...
This past weekend, the annual Montana Seed Show was hosted at Harlem High School, marking 70 years of the Hi-Line tradition. Since 1949, the event has brought together members of the community to share expertise in a number of vocations and to compete in a slew of old traditions. In modern times, the show is a three-day blitz of agriculture, vendors, auctions, food and more, but it comes from much more humble beginnings. Seed Show Chairman Paul Rasmussen said the original seed show was a gathering of local potato farmers...
One of the oldest traditions on the Hi-Line returned to Harlem this weekend as agriculture, art and more took center stage at the Montana Seed Show Thursday through Saturday at Harlem High School. For 70 years, the event has drawn participants and attendees from the far corners of Montana to share in the culture of rural living. Seed Show chairman Paul Rasmussen said the event has evolved dramatically since 1949 when it was a humble congregation of local potato growers, and...
The American Red Cross concluded a four-day blood drive Thursday after travelling the Hi-Line and collecting donations in multiple towns. David Wall, a phlebotomist with the American Red Cross, said he and a group of about 10 Red Cross workers came to Havre from Great Falls Monday and spent their week collecting blood in Havre, Chinook, Harlem and Turner. By the end of Thursday, Wall said, the organization had collected blood from about 250 people over the four-day drive,...
Five Montana State University-Northern senior basketball players were honored during a senior night ceremony Saturday at the Armory Gymnasium. Seniors Gokce Aslan, Jessica Curl, Lily Hilderbrand, Caulin Bakalarski and Justin Dunsmore were recognized for their accomplishments and contributions to Northern basketball during a celebration in-between games against University of Montana-Western....
Tucked away in the home economics room of Havre Middle School, a small group congregated Thursday night to practice proper knife skills. Jasmine Carbajal, Hill County family and consumer sciences extension agent for Montana State University, led a class of four in a handful of lessons on different knife skills as part of Havre Public Schools' Community Education Program. Carbajal said the two most crucial aspects of safely and effectively using kitchen knives is keeping a...
In the past week, a large donation and a busier-than-expected fundraising event have provided a boost to scholarship funds at Montana State University-Northern. The university announced in a press release Thursday it received a $682,000 donation from the estate of Olive and Elmer Sanborn to create an endowed scholarship fund at the school. Two days later, the Northern Alumni Foundation held its annual Northern Ball scholarship fundraiser, this year a Beach Ball, and raised...
For decades, a tradition with roots from more than 4,000 miles away has been a staple in Havre culture, and for the 86th year, the annual Swedish Meatball and Norwegian Lutefisk Dinner was held Saturday at First Lutheran Church. What started as a small gathering putting together a traditional meal is now the oldest running ethnic event in Havre, said Jim Griggs, chair of the event. "Originally it was a small group of people in the old Norwegian church getting together in the...
After loading up his work truck with full pet carriers Friday morning, Havre Animal Control Officer Peter Federspiel took a quick ride down Second Street to release half a dozen cats behind the Super 8 Hotel west of downtown Havre. The six spayed or neutered felines given their freedom in the Super 8 parking lot are a drop in the bucket compared to the nearly 400 that have been sterilized since the Havre Animal Shelter began their initiative to curb the ever-growing...
An overnight burglary at Frontline Ag Solutions, the John Deere dealership at 2626 U.S. Highway East, has resulted in a loss of thousands of dollars of equipment, officials report. Hill County Sheriff Jamie Ross said someone broke through a window at John Deere some time Monday night or Tuesday morning and made off with a major haul. Items stolen from the dealership include cash, credit cards, multiple technological devices and two Gator utility vehicles. The utility vehicles...
Beer and cash were flowing Saturday night at the first-ever Blaine County Brew Fest in Chinook, and event staff said they are already looking forward to holding the fundraiser for the county fairgrounds next year. "An hour in and we knew we would make this an annual thing," event coordinator James DesRosier said. Despite not knowing what the final turnout for the fundraiser would be, DesRosier said he and fellow event planner Loren Skoyen, a member of the Blaine County Fair Fo...
A car chase that began some 17 miles south of Havre ended on a gravel road by Beaver Creek Reservoir Friday evening after touring much of the Havre area and causing at least one accident. Richard Joel Meyers of Box Elder was arrested on suspicion of aggravated driving under the influence, fleeing police, driving with a revoked license and three counts of criminal endangerment, amongst other charges, according to an incident report from the Hill County Sheriff's Office. At...
Editor’s note: This article clarifies the amount of time the playground was closed. A photo caption published Tuesday said playground had been closed for a week. After being cordoned off with caution tape for a brief period, the playground at Havre’s Pepin Park is again open to the public. Mike Eekhoff, whose Lawntree Services company has been working on trees adjacent to the park, said the playground is available to any parents and children willing to brave the cold. This comes less than a week after his workers had to close...
One man is in custody after a car chase some 17 miles south of Havre, came to town and toured much of the Havre area and ended on a gravel road by Beaver Creek Reservoir Friday evening. At around 3:30 p.m. Montana Highway Patrol trooper Christopher Baker stopped a blue Ford pickup truck for an expired registration near Northern Winz Casino on U.S. Highway 87. After he discovered the male driver of the pickup had two warrants for his arrest, Baker said the driver took off,...
The Havre community grew by one Thursday morning as Megan Raine and Lex Keller welcomed their first child into the world. Brynlee Lila Keller, a 7 pound, 8 ounce baby girl, was born Jan. 3 at 8:07 a.m., making her Havre's first baby of the new year. After going into labor around 2 p.m. Wednesday, Raine, a certified nursing assistant at the hospital, had her child the following morning, and narrowly claimed the title of "first baby of 2019" for her daughter. Raine said she did...
Since Dec. 19, a crew from the Montana Department of Transportation has been trimming branches away from power lines, street lights and the road, and they have left some of the trees almost completely bare. Montana Department of Transportation said they are doing what has to be done to the trees, damaged by the record-setting blizzard that hit the area Oct. 2-3, 2017. But Montana State University Extension horticulturist Toby Day did not have any compliments on the appearance...
"My first year doing this, I saw a guy that was almost a millionaire sitting with somebody off the street and they were laughing and eating together," Havre Eagles Club Manager Tom Farnham said Tuesday. "And that's what it's about. That really only happens on Christmas." For five years now, Farnham has led serving the Community Christmas Dinner, which has served hundreds of meals to the Havre community every year since Bob Sivertsen started the tradition more over 40 years...
Wednesday morning, a crew from the Montana Department of Transportation began trimming branches on trees along Fifth Avenue in Havre. The project is a continuation of maintenance that began in the wake of the October 2017 snowstorm that maimed many of the trees in and around Havre. "We did a lot of work after that big storm," MDT crew leader Ted Azure said. "We got all of the dead (branches) off." Azure said the crew has returned more than a year after the storm to cut back...
The Havre Fire Department responded to a structure fire about three miles east of Havre on U.S. Highway 2 Tuesday morning at 6:47 a.m. Havre Fire responded with two trucks, and Bear Paw Volunteer Fire Department assisted with one truck. The outbuilding and a power pole were a complete loss. A windbreak sustained significant damage, but the main residence nearby was undamaged by fire. NorthWestern Energy was called to repair the power lines....
Havre Dog Park Club hosted its first major fundraising event Friday night at Old Station Brewing Co. on First Street. The event, called Pints for Paws, was hosted in support of the club's goal to build a dog park in Havre. A dollar for each pint of beer sold Friday night was donated to the Dog Park Club's efforts. In total, 216 pints were sold - that's 27 gallons of beer. Bergren's Transmission matched the total raised by sale of pints. Another $410 dollars was raised through...
