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The Havre High softball team might be sitting at 1-3 in the Central A conference, but that doesn't necessarily mean the Blue Ponies are in a bad position. In fact, thanks to a recent win over Lewistown, they are in a better position than they have been in years. Of course, the Central A conference is not what it used to be. With the loss of Browning, the league has shrunk down to four teams in softball. And even with all the teams playing two games against each other, it...
A local dog owner has taken to Facebook to rally support for creating a dog park in Havre. In an April 19 post in the Facebook group Havre Questions, Concerns & Comments Jenn Archibald asked if anyone had seriously thought about creating a dog park. “I moved here from the Flathead and there is a dog park both in Kalispell and Whitefish,” she said in the post. “They are a huge hit to bring dogs together for play and socialization as well as a great way to meet other dog enthusiasts.” As of this morning, the post received 78 co...
Area residents who would like to help their community in any kind of extreme weather event will have the chance to participate in a weather spotter training class next week. National Weather Service Great Falls will be holding Weather Spotter Training Wednesday, May 9, at 6 p.m. at Hill County Health Department. “A Weather-Ready Nation: Society is prepared for and responds to weather-dependent events,” is the Weather Service vision as stated on their official website. A weather spotter is a person who observes the wea...
Hill County Park Board’s Finance and Planning Committee met Thursday evening to discuss and vote on the 2018-19 proposed budget. Hill County Clerk and Recorder Susan Armstrong attended the meeting to provide the numbers from the 2016-17 and 2017-18 fiscal years including the budgeted cash reserve, cash available, total revenue, total resources and estimated ending cash balance. The fiscal year goes July 1-March 31. From studying the finances from the previous two years and talking with Armstrong, Beaver Creek Park S...
Havre Police Department A summons was issued Thursday at 12:03 p.m. on 18th Street after a vehicle stop. No other details were provided. —— Officers investigated a Thursday 12:15 p.m. fraud report from 14th Street relating to a contractor being paid to do work on a rental property and not doing the work. —— Christopher Paul Hammond of Havre, 19, was arrested on a charge of partner or family member assault Thursday at 12:29 p.m. on Second Street after a caller asked for a welfare check on her daughter. —— Officers investigate...
Barbara Lee (Daniel) Henry, 70, passed peacefully of natural causes in the early morning of April 17, 2018, with her partner of 42 years, Larry Wynia, by her side. She requested her remains to be cremated. Services will be Monday, April 30, 2018, 1 p.m. at Hi-Line Funeral Services. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery, and a celebration of her life will follow at Havre Eagles Club.... Full story
Monday 9 a.m. — Payroll approval 11 a.m. — Building Manager meeting 1 p.m. — Claims approval 2 p.m. — Lieutenant governor meeting Tuesday 10:30 a.m. — Weekly Road Department meeting Wednesday 1 p.m. — Pre-Bid meeting for Phase 2 of the Apron and Taxiway Rehab Project at Havre Airport 3 p.m. — DEQ conference call for RSID 22 Lift Station Thursday 10 a.m. — Weekly business meeting Manual claims Employment review Resolutions Tax adjustments County permit approval Subdivision/survey approval Contracts Time for comments from t...
Ada A. Thiles Mesenbrink died peacefully at Northern Montana Health Care April 26, 2018. He local family includes her daughter Ilene Parsons and grandchildren Bobbi (Mike) Swinney, Tina (Kevin) Tweeten and Craig Parsons. Services will be held later this year in DeBorgia, Montana.... Full story
Maxine Naber of Havre, 99, passed away Wednesday morning, April 25, 2018, at the Sweet Memorial Nursing Home in Chinook, MT, due to natural causes. Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m., Monday, April 30, 2018, at Highland Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Please visit Maxine's online memorial page at http://www.hollandbonine.com to leave a message of condolence for her family. In lieu of flowers, the family suggest... Full story
Earl Bahr of Chinook, Montana, 95, peacefully joined our Lord April 24, 2018, at the Sweet Nursing Home surrounded by his family. He was preceded in death by the love of his life, Geraldine Bahr; his parents, Fred and Lena Bahr; his siblings, Raymond Dalke, Ruby Tindall, Rose Gilbert, John Bahr, Anna Sand, and his grandson Todd Storrusten. Earl is survived by his children Sandi (Gary) Nelson, Candy (Dennis) Storrusten, Bill (Sheree) Bahr, Mick (Sawein) Bahr, Lonnie (Ken)... Full story
Martha “Nana” Finch Bonebright, 98, passed away peacefully April 18, 2018. Services are scheduled for Monday, April 30, at 1 p.m. to be held at Van Orsdel United Methodist Church, 410 Fifth Ave., Havre. Burial will follow at Kuper Cemetery in Chinook.... Full story
We can’t have a competitive workforce without a healthy workforce. And a healthy workforce depends on the individual health of each of its citizens. Until recently, too many of our fellow Montanans lived each day knowing that access to health care was beyond their reach. They avoided regular checkups and screenings, and instead, were forced to the emergency room to access expensive, difficult to treat care. When you’re not healthy, it’s difficult to stay on the job and be a productive member of the workforce. Thank...
Some moments, those profound life moments, come at you like a truck wreck in the making, in slow motion, from a few miles out. You always knew that the road would be slick ahead, but you thought it wouldn’t happen for many miles. You thought maybe, when you got there, you’d spin out a bit or take out a reflector or dent a guardrail or some equivalent mishap. But you assumed you would drive away from the crisis relatively unscathed, maybe have to fill out an accident rep...
Press release In observance of Mental Health Awareness Month, NAMI Havre, the local organization of National Alliance on Mental Illness, is holding several events to inform people about NAMI and to try to stomp out stigma. NAMI Havre is a nonprofit organizations under the umbrella of NAMI Montana. It has operated in Havre about 13 years and continues to try to help people understand illnesses that their family members or friends are dealing with. NAMI Havre has a class called “Family to Family” that last 12 weeks, 2.5 hours a...
By Emily Mayer Congress had finalized draft regulations regarding its quotas for draftees to be sent to training to go fight the Great War. In an article on the front page of The Havre Plaindealer’s April 27, 1918 edition, stated the change was “so that men needed in agriculture or industry won’t be drafted from one district while workers in non-essentials are draft free in another.” The quota was based on the number of Class 1 draftees who met physical requirements and not the number of men who had signed up for the draft. W...
Press release The Friends of the Missouri Breaks Monument and the Bureau of Land Management have invited people to join the sixth annual cottonwood planting event in the Upper Missouri River Breaks monument. This year the plantings will take place May 5 and May 12 at Bailey Hazlewood. Volunteers can either camp the night before at Wood Bottom Campground or plan to meet at 9 a.m. on the day of the event at Wood Bottom. The cooperative project was started to combat the loss of cottonwood trees within the monument’s e...
After getting most of their early-season track meets delayed, both the Havre High track teams have been busy and they will stay that way with another meet this weekend in Whitefish. Both Blue Pony teams will join a number of other schools from the west at the A.R.M. Invitational in Whitefish, including most of the Western A teams such as Whitefish, Browning, Columbia Falls, Libby, Polson and even Class AA Glacier will be in attendance. The events will get underway Saturday at...
May is almost here, and for the Havre High tennis teams, that means it's crunch time. And crunch time also means a busy schedule with a lot of tennis matches. The middle of that schedule has the Blue Ponies traveling to Glendive this weekend for the annual Elk Invitational. The Ponies play three duals today in Glendive and three more Saturday. "This is a huge weekend for us," HHS head coach George Ferguson said. "This is the meet where we get to play against a lot of our...
Editor's note: This is the third in a series of three articles by Keith Doll. The first ran in the Havre Daily News Dec. 28 and the second Feb. 2. In Havre, the celebration started as soon as the news was heard. As the Havre Plaindealer wrote: "... all the bells and whistles available were put to the welcome use of proclaiming liberty to the world so far as their tones could reach." They held a parade on First Street and Third Avenue where in the last year soldiers were bid...
Editor’s note: The Havre Daily News ran the list of local winners from this year’s annual SkillsUSA conference, but at the request of local readers is running the entire list of winners. —— For the 46th straight year this year, Montana State University-Northern hosted the annual Montana SkillsUSA State Leadership and Skills Conference. The conference saw 300 students from 29 Montana high schools and two colleges participate in 34 different competitions, with more than $100,000 dollars in scholarships awarded to the winning...
North Central Senior Citizens Center, April 30 through May 4 Monday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 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.; pinochle at 1 p.m.; Kmart/Walmart trip 1 to 4 p.m. Friday — Medical transportation will be available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. but people must make a request at least 24 hours in advance. Pinochle — First place, Harold Anderson; s...
Peggy Aquino moved with her husband and two sons in 1997 from California to Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. An enrolled member of the Chippewa Cree tribe, she grew up in California but as a child spent her summers with relatives on Rocky Boy. "I moved back here just 'cause California was so busy. This was my home away from home" she said. That same year, Aquino also enrolled at Stone Child College. She went on to earn four associate of science degrees in two years and later...
You know, Lord, May Day is a public holiday that’s usually celebrated the first day of May. It’s an ancient northern hemisphere spring festival — that’s what we learned when we were kids in school. Back then dances, singing and cake were a fun part of the festivities. How enjoyable and entertaining. In our school we all “danced” around the Maypole. We especially liked the singing while we were running around a Maypole. Cake and punch followed, and that was fun, too. An interesting side note: The Mayday callsign was origina...
This week we continue to look at material from the book “Never Enough?” by Ron Blue with Karen Guess. Matthew 19:23-26 And Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I say to you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” When the disciples heard this, they were very astonished and said, “Then who can be saved?” And looking at them Jesus said to them, “With people this is impossible, b...
Out our way, we usually have fenced pastures and the stock stay together. But come Labor Day the land around Beaver Creek becomes open range and although herds still tend to stay together, there are now and then some mixing. Come to round up, we check ear tags and brands because not all red Angus belong to Mike and not all Charolais belong to old George. That's why we have brands, ear tags and brand registration. Sadly, now and then some cattle and other stock don't need a...
