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  • Rocky Boy's Carter honored at Carroll College

    Updated Apr 19, 2016

    Staff report Rocky Boy High School graduate is one of three Carroll College students who were awarded Carroll College’s Raymond G. Hunthausen Outstanding Collegiate Citizenship Award. Sapphire Carter, a senior from Box Elder, was nominated for her “passion, understanding, and dedication to social justice” through her volunteer work. The selection committee chooses students who work to improve the lives of others through their own commitment of time, energy and compassion. These qualities are evident in Carter’s contrib...

  • Tickets sold out for Downton Abbey tea fundraiser for museum

    Updated Apr 16, 2016

    Special to the Havre Daily News The idea of holding a tea modeled after the Public Broadcasting System’s “Downton Abbey” series was apparently a hit. The tea will be Saturday, April 30, but tickets are already sold out for the event. Money raised will go to the Havre History Center and the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum....

  • Alleged attempted murderer to appear in Havre court

    Paul Dragu|Updated Apr 15, 2016

    David Reevis, who is accused of a laundry list of offenses including attempted murder and resisting arrest, is scheduled to appear in state District Court Monday at 3 p.m. for his evidentiary hearing. Reevis’ most blatant alleged law-breaking incident happened Jan. 23, during a vehicle puruit in Browning, Browning Police Department Lt. Josh Bird said. Hill County Attorney Office’s charging documents say Reevis racked up 15 charges that day, including attempted homicide, motor vehicle theft, two counts of criminal end...

  • Havre Pride marks spring cleanup on Saturday

    John Kelleher|Updated Apr 15, 2016

    Havreites will gather to help clean up their city Saturday morning. “We need everybody out there,” said Kim Cripps, the longtime chair of Havre Pride. Twice a year — at springtime and the week before Festival Days — Havre Pride organizes the effort to pick up trash around the city. Cripps said the volunteers will help clean the winter’s collection of trash from the streets and sidewalks. People will gather at 5th Avenue and 1st Street at 8:30 a.m., Cripps said. Volunteers will be given trash bags they can take with them. She...

  • Volunteers needed to save DAV van

    Updated Apr 15, 2016

    Alice Miller harvestlifeblog.wordpress.com A service that transports dozens of Hi-Line veterans to medical appointments is in peril of being taken off the road due to a lack of volunteer drivers. The Disabled American Veterans volunteer transportation network in Havre uses volunteers to drive veterans to appointments in Great Falls and Helena for free. However, a severe shortage of drivers has Local Area Coordinator Lou Hagener making a plea for more volunteers. "We are at a...

  • Volunteer Klimas honored for life of service

    Alex Ross|Updated Apr 15, 2016

    Charlie Klimas may no longer be the athletic and activities director for Havre High School, but it is hard to argue that he has ever really left the field, even 16 years after retiring from Havre High School Klimas started at Havre High in 1976 as a student counselor who coached basketball, football and track, He became student athletic and activities director in 1984. He also periodically taught American government and briefly served as vice principal at Havre Middle School....

  • Chair sale will highlight benefit to help hungry children

    Updated Apr 15, 2016

    People will bew able to bid on some finely decorated chairs, eat some Indian tacos and play some games Saturday at 5 p.m. at the Havre Eagles Club. Northern Montana Child Development Center and District 4 HRDC will sponsor the event to help pay for food for children in tough economic conditions. Jennifer Graham of the development center said some of the money will be used to buy healthy snack packs for kids, while some will be spent on food baskets for students. "Food stamps...

  • Local volunteers saluted at appreciation dinner

    John Kelleher|Updated Apr 15, 2016

    More than 100 people volunteer at Salvation Army's Havre Service Center, the food bank and Feed My Sheep Soup Kitchen every year, and many were on hand Tuesday night to be praised by a series of speakers at the annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner. The Salvation Army, Feed My Sheep Soup Kitchen and Havre Food Bank help a joint dinner prepared by volunteers ranging from food bank director Lorna Bjerga to state Sen. Kris Hansen. "You don't know how thankful we are for you and yo...

  • Celebrating history: Elks elect officers, new hardware offerings

    Updated Apr 15, 2016

    By Emily Mayer News was fairly light this week 100 years ago. Things were still happening, though, in our little part of the world. One of Havre’s oldest fraternal organizations elected its officers, and this article was found on the front page of The Hill County Democrat’s April 15, 1916, issue: Elks Elect Officers The local lodge of Elks held their annual installation of officer service in their lodge rooms in this city last evening. District Deputy, Judge Roy E. Ayers, of Lewistown, whose function it is to install the off...

  • View from the North 40: If it's worth doing ...

    Pam Burke|Updated Apr 15, 2016

    Drama and complications are two different things. Drama I actively work to avoid. Complication seems to be second nature. It started with a simple statement: “I need to get the horses locked up for the summer to let that pasture grow.” How hard is it to lock three head of tame, broke horses into an already-fenced area? I don’t even have to get halters. I just need to grasp a half of a handful of mane on one horse and lead it into the small pasture. The others will follo...

  • Letter to the Editor: LIEAP offers help in paying utility bills

    Updated Apr 15, 2016

    Editor: Need assistance paying your heating bill? Low Income Energy Assistance Program, or LIEAP, is Havre and the Hi-Line’s home heating help program. This year, the program has extended the application deadline until 5 p.m., Monday, May 2. If you live in the counties of Hill, Blaine or Liberty, our office wants to help you. Please contact us for the low income eligibility requirement. The program, pronounced LEE-APP, is a supplement for paying home heating costs through the winter season. Such heating costs may be n...

  • For the Record, April 15, 2016

    Updated Apr 15, 2016

    Havre Police Department Raymond Windyboy, 54, of Rocky Boy was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and criminal contempt after a caller from a 2nd Street business reported that a male was lying in an alley and “screaming at people.” Hill County Sheriff’s Office Deputies investigated a theft after a caller at a U.S. Highway 2 West business reported Thursday at 5:04 p.m. that a tackle box was stolen. —— Deputies investigated a theft after a caller from a 1st Street North address reported Thursday at 6:23 p.m. that a yo...

  • Correction: Sunchild's appeal denied

    Updated Apr 15, 2016

    In a front-page story in Thursday’s edition of the Havre Daily News about the Ninth Circuit Court of appeals denying an appeal of a sentence stemming from corruption at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, the first name of appellant Bruce Sunchild was left out of the story....

  • Agenda: Great Northern Fair Board

    Updated Apr 15, 2016

    The April 19 Great Northern Fair Board meeting will be 5:30 p.m. at the Timmons Room in the Hill County Courthouse. Call meeting to order Roll call of members Recognize and record public attendees Read and approve minutes of the March 2016 meeting Finance 1. Budget 2. Bills to be paid Committee reports 1. Hiring Committee, Scott 2. Barn Committee, Ray 3. Carnival Committee, Missy 4. Finance Committee, Calvin 5. 4-H report, Karla Old business 1. Rental agreement separate from manager’s contract 2. Fair police manual 3. Hail i...

  • Agenda: Havre City Council

    Updated Apr 15, 2016

    Havre City Council will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at City Hall. The agenda: Call to order Pledge of allegiance Roll call Minutes Committee reports Public comment on regular agenda items 1 through 3 only. For items not on this agenda, public comment will be taken at the end of the agenda. Comments offered here are limited to one minute. Regular agenda • Approval of Independence Bank pledged securities. • Montana Wounded Warriors Poker Run request for street closure of 2nd Avenue from 1st Street to 2nd Street. • Mayor’s Earth D...

  • Agenda: Hill County Commission

    Updated Apr 15, 2016

    MONDAY 10:30 a.m. — Road Supervisor — Otto 5:15 p.m. — Mosquito Board meeting TUESDAY 8:00 a.m. — Public information officer training 5:30 p.m. — Fair board meeting WEDNESDAY 9:30 a.m. — Preliminary architecture report Noon — Board of Health meeting THURSDAY 10 a.m. — County officials meeting 11 a.m. — Business meeting • Manual claims • Employment review • Resolutions • Tax adjustments • County permit approval • Subdivision/survey approval • Contracts • Time for comments from the public 3 p.m. — Airport Board meeting FRID...

  • HI-Line Living: 305 Building

    Paul Dragu|Updated Apr 15, 2016

    The new owners of the former Masonic Temple on 3rd Avenue have no qualms with showing the public the interior of every room in the building that once belonged to Havre's Freemasons, or Masons. Masons are part of a fraternal organizations that started as stonemasons in the 14th century and have since evolved. Factions of groups are dispersed throughout the world, with large concentrations in the United Kingdom and the United States. As long as Mason history is, so is the wide...

  • Karl named to EWU Dean's List

    Updated Apr 15, 2016

    Coleen Karl of Havre has been named to the Dean’s List at Eastern Washington University....

  • North Central Senior Center, April 18-22

    Updated Apr 15, 2016

    North Central Senior Center, April 18-22 Monday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Painting & Adult Coloring Group at 1 p.m. Tuesday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; bingo at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; TOPS at 8 a.m.; cards at 1 p.m. Thursday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Great Falls trip at 8 a.m.; cards at 1 p.m. Friday — Medical transportation is available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., but people need to make a request 24 hours in advance Pool – 3 way tie – Jim Stewart – Lar...

  • Regional MCTM Math Contest results announced

    Updated Apr 15, 2016

    Hundreds of north-central Montana students gathered in Havre High School March 20 to take the regional Montana Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual Math Contest. The scholarship winners from the 2016 Havre Regional Montana Council of Teachers of Mathematics Math Contest were seniors Hailee Kilgore and Logan Pleninger, both of Havre. Runner up Scholarship winners were seniors Savanna Pierson and Cayden Seiler, also from Havre. Following are the full results. Students recei...

  • Pastor's Corner: The lesson found in Thomas

    Updated Apr 15, 2016

    In light of Easter and celebrating our resurrected Jesus, I was faced with the response of one of Jesus’ disciples named Thomas. Thomas has been marked as “Doubting Thomas” by the Christian movement as a whole. But I believe we miss an amazing message found in the story of Thomas if we leave it there. John tells us about the response of Thomas to the stories of the risen Savior: “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it” (John 20:...

  • Pastor's Corner: Foundations: What the Apostle Paul taught us

    Updated Apr 15, 2016

    Paul of Tarsus, Apostle of Jesus Christ, literally changed the world through his writing and preaching of Christianity. He is responsible for much of the New Testament and gave us the theological basis for Christianity. Paul wrote about many things but certain things stand out. He taught that Christianity was built on a foundation, first of all the person of Jesus Christ. Then as Paul traveled the Roman Empire, he preached one message: Jesus, the Son of God, was crucified for our sins and then raised from the dead for our...

  • Out Our Way: All in the family

    Updated Apr 15, 2016

    Then Jesus' mother and brothers came and were standing outside; and they sent and called for him. A crowd was gathered around him and they said, "Your mother and brothers and sisters are outside asking for you." And he replied, "Who are my mother and brothers?" And looking around him, he said, "Here are my mother and brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother." - Mark 3: 31-35 Out our way, family is pretty important. Farm and ranch families depe...

  • The future is bright for Blue Pony track

    Chris Peterson|Updated Apr 15, 2016

    Despite rain-soaked skies, the Havre High track teams, along with the track teams from North Star and Chinook took part in a track and field triangular Thursday afternoon at the Havre Middle School track. Yet, the weather, which was troublesome from the start of the meet, didn’t want to cooperate, causing puddles to form on the surface and a number of events to not be completed. But, despite the showers, it’s still a bright and exciting time for Blue Pony track. The meet with...

  • Havre softball wins first home game

    Chris Peterson|Updated Apr 15, 2016

    The Havre Blue Ponies and Browning Indians were determined to get a softball game in Thursday afternoon - so determined that a little rain wasn't going to stop them. And even though the conditions weren't prime for softball or any sport for that matter, Havre and Browning dealt with the elements in the first Central A conference game of the season for both teams at the Sixth Avenue Memorial Field. After the game started, though, it didn't take long to see it wasn't going to be...

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