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Articles from the April 28, 2017 edition


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  • Chinook school election sees three candidates, mill levies

    Alex Ross|Updated Apr 29, 2017

    Three candidates are running for two seats on the Chinook school board in the Tuesday, May 2, election. The top three vote-getters in the election will be on the board. Newcomer Justin Simenson is looking to unseat one of two long-time incumbents Pauly Miller and Scott Gunderson. Pauly Miller After 18 years on the Chinook board, Miller hopes voters elect her to a seventh term. Miller, who has been board chair for the last four years, said she is running again because she enjoys working with the school district. “I just l...

  • Northern releases statement on racism issue

    Alex Ross|Updated Apr 28, 2017

    Montana State University-Northern Chancellor Greg Kegel issued a statement to the Northern Community Thursday about a reported racist statement and the administration's reaction. "Anytime a student feels threatened we take these concerns seriously," Kegel's statement says, which he sent to the Havre Daily News. "MSU-Northern does not tolerate hate speech, slurs, bullying or harassment of any kind. We will be reviewing our actions with particular attention to how we...

  • Benefit set for next Friday to help Walen with costs fighting cancer

    Tim Leeds|Updated Apr 28, 2017

    Friends and family of Matt Walen have scheduled a benefit dinner and auction for the 1985 Havre High School graduate next Friday at the Eagles Club from 6 to 8 p.m. The 1985 graduate and former Havre Daily News editor will not be at the event, as he will be in Aurora, Colorado, undergoing a second stem cell transplant in his third bout fighting cancer, but his wife, Milene, will be there. Walen is undergoing treatment for myelodysplastic syndrome, inability of a person’s bone marrow to produce normal red blood cells. W...

  • Grant lets Box Elder students play with $1,200 in Legos

    Paul Dragu|Updated Apr 28, 2017

    Box Elder students recently had more than $1,200 worth of Legos delivered, paid for by Triangle Communications. Elementary school teacher Joyce Donovan applied for a grant from Triangle to buy the Legos. The Legos are intended to equip students with knowledge and skills for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math - STEM - in addition to providing hands on experience that would enhance learning and provide activities in which students can create and explore, the grant...

  • Northern's Tribute! celebration set for Saturday

    Updated Apr 28, 2017

    Editor’s note: A version of this story that ran on the front page of Thursday’s Havre Daily News misreported the date of the concert. By Havre Daily News staff Montana State University-Northern’s radio station and resident acting troupe are giving people a chance to celebrate the end of the school year Saturday with a special concert. KNMC and Montana Actors’ Theatre are sponsoring Tribute!, a collection of local artists paying tribute to some of their favorite artists, starting at 3 p.m. in the amphitheater behind Pershin...

  • Celebrating History: Groceries and burglars

    Updated Apr 28, 2017

    By Emily Mayer As winter was turning into spring 100 years ago, people were asked to grow food to feed the home front during the war effort and the Gardening Association decided to host a contest on various subjects, ranging from children's to adults' topics. A suggestion of growing only vegetables "that will be most valuable as a supplement to the food supply of the country" specifically requested that one-fourth of the plot be dedicated to potatoes. The Havre Chamber was ove...

  • Local News - Pool will be closed several days in May

    Updated Apr 28, 2017

    Havre Daily News staff The Havre Community Pool will be closed several days in May. The pool will be closed Saturday, May 6, Sunday, May 7, Sunday, May 14, Saturday and Sunday, May 20-21. The pool also will close over Memorial Day weekend, Saturday through Monday, May 27-29. For more information, call 265-8161....

  • Local News - Havre High seniors to do Pizza Hut fundraiser Tuesday

    Updated Apr 28, 2017

    Havre Daily News The Class of 2017 at Havre High School is letting people have some pizza Tuesday while they raise money for their graduation activities. When people making any purchase at the restaurant Tuesday say they are donating to the class fundraiser, Pizza Hut will donate 20 percent of the purchase price to the class....

  • PAS sets golf scramble for next week

    Updated Apr 28, 2017

    By Havre Daily News staff Montana State University-Northern’s Post-Seconday Agriculture Students club is setting up a golf event where people can play 18 holes and help fund the club’s activities including its trip to the National PAS Convention. PAS is holding a calcutta Wednesday at Beaver Creek Golf Course starting with a social at 6 p.m. and bidding starting at 7 p.m. The golf event starts at 9 a.m. Thursday, with four-person teams playing in the 18-hole tournament. PAS has collected quite a lineup of pin prizes and doo...

  • Invest your vote in Rob Quist

    Updated Apr 28, 2017

    After losing his bid to serve as the governor of the state of Montana, I hoped that Greg Gianforte would return to his roots. Not back to New Jersey, as Montana is his home, but to his original mission of creating jobs by starting new businesses and investing in Montana. RightNow Technologies was a great success. Mr. Gianforte has the proven talent, experience and capital to build new businesses in Montana. Imagine the impact if he were to start or fund new businesses in Colstrip? Imagine if he spent the many millions of...

  • View from the North 40: So ... pigs are man's best friend now?

    Pam Burke|Updated Apr 28, 2017

    James “Mac” McIntyre of Florida went to the South Pacific to find a pig, but got a dog, too — well, kind of. Huffington Post reports that McIntyre, a trained zoologist, has been many things in his life, a vet tech on a cattle ranch, a zookeeper, a high school biology teacher, a logger and a carpenter. But he hasn’t let any of that hold him back from pursuing his love of scientific researcher. McIntyre told Huff-Po that it was his relentless passion to know things that drove hi...

  • Agendas: Havre City Council

    Updated Apr 28, 2017

    Havre City Council will meet Monday in City Hall at 7 p.m. The meeting agenda is: Call to order Pledge of Allegiance Roll call Minutes Committee reports Public comment on agenda items 1 through 5. For items not on this agenda, public comment will be taken at the end of the agenda. Comments here are limited to one minute. Regular agenda — 1. Resolution No. 3755 — A Resolution Setting Fees for City Ordinances in Title 6, Chapter 2, Dogs, Cats and Other Animals. 2. Resolution No. 3756 — A Resolution of the City of Havre and H...

  • Agendas: Hill County Commission

    Updated Apr 28, 2017

    Monday 10 a.m. — Road Meeting — Hanson 1:30 p.m. — Buildings Manager — Anez 5:30 p.m. — Park Board Meeting Tuesday 10:30 a.m. — MDT Preconstruction Meeting 2 p.m. — UDB Meeting Wednesday Office hours Thursday 10 a.m. — Business Meeting Manual Claims Employment Review Resolutions Tax Adjustments County Permit Approval Subdivision/Survey Approval Contracts Time for comments from the public Friday Office hours...

  • Agendas: Hill County Park Board

    Updated Apr 28, 2017

    Hill County Park Board meeting will be at the Camp Kiwanis lodge Monday. Potluck starting at 5 p.m. with the meeting to follow. People should notify the Beaver Creek Park Office if they are planning on attending so enough food is available. 1. Approval of minutes 2. Approval of agenda: Special: Re-Appointment and Restructuring of Park Board. 3. Guests and public comments on agenda items only 4. Cabin business: #8 Mooney Coulee, #4 Broughs Coulee, #14 Normandy Coulee 5. Old business: FEMA Close-out update; Finance & Planning...

  • For the Record, April 28, 2017

    Updated Apr 28, 2017

    Havre Police Department Zack Lee Ambler of Havre, 21, was arrested on a state District Court warrant Thursday at 7:42 a.m. —— Officers assisted a citizen after a Fourth Street caller reported a restraining order violation Thursday at 9:24 a.m. —— Officers investigated a complaint after a Third Street business caller reported Thursday at 1:05 p.m. that a female customer was threatened by a male customer. —— Officers investigated a suspicious activity report after a Jefferson Avenue caller said Thursday at 1:27 p.m. that s...

  • Out Our Way:

    Updated Apr 28, 2017

    Some may recall the time Charlie and I tried to move a few hundred head of cows from the summer pasture down o the winter pasture. It had been a wet spring and the summer grass had grown well, and the upper reservoir was almost overflowing. Come the fall when it was time to move the cows down to the lower pasture they didn't want to go. The grass was somewhat sparcer by now and the reservoir was les than half full, but to the cows it seemed plenty. Yet Charlie and I knew that...

  • Practical Pastoring: Roles of men and women, Part Three

    Updated Apr 28, 2017

    As you continue to learn how to cooperate with the Holy Spirit, you will find that God is faithful. The enemy wants to confuse you, steal from you, and kill you. God wants you to operate from a position of victory. This issue of the roles of men and women in the church is not that difficult. The trouble seems to be in churches adopting society’s values rather than Biblical values. I have had conversations about difficult topics wherein the presence of the Holy Spirit encouraged me to continue to speak the truth in love. Somet...

  • Hello God, it's me, Mara

    Updated Apr 28, 2017

    You know, Lord, mending day happens to just about everyone; there are socks, shirts, jeans, oh, you name it and whatever it is, there will come a time when it probably needs mending. Besides clothing, there is upholstery, fences, relationships and even broken hearts to mend. Mending clothing isn’t too complicated but who really likes it when mending day rolls around? Times have changed as have most all materials. We can hardly even imagine our grandma mending clothes for kids and for grandpa. Mending takes time and p...

  • Hi-Line Living - H. EARL CLACK MEMORIAL MUSEUM

    Alex Ross|Updated Apr 28, 2017

    The H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum is in the process of making its own history as it moves forward with relocating to the Griggs Printing building on Fifth Avenue. The museum purchased the two-story building back in 2013. Museum Board Chair Judi Dritshulas said the museum needs the additional space to display larger exhibits and more of its collections. The additional space will allow them to house traveling exhibits, displays from other museums, too. “We are just wanting to s...

  • Senior Center News, April 28, 2017

    Updated Apr 28, 2017

    North Central Senior Center — May 1-5 Monday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; exercise class at 11 a.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.; cards at 1 p.m.; exercise class at 11 a.m.; Kmart/Walmart trip from 1 to 4 p.m. Friday — Medical transportation is available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. but people must make a request at least 24 hours in advance. Menu by Ear...

  • Montana State University-Northern nurses pinning set for next Friday

    Updated Apr 28, 2017

    Havre Daily News staff Montana State University-Northern announced the pinning for its graduating class of nurses is next Friday, May 5, at 11 a.m. at the Fifth Avenue Christian Church, with a reception that includes beverages, cake and cupcakes immediately following the ceremony. The event is free and open to the public, and everyone is invited to attend, the university says in its Northern network News. “A nurses pinning is a long-held tradition for all nurses around the country,” Northern Network News says. “It is consi...

  • Founders' Excellence and Hall of Fame Dinner - May 5

    Updated Apr 28, 2017

    From Montana State University-Northern Montana State University-Northern’s Founder’s Excellence Award presentation starts next Friday, May 5, in Northern’s Student Union Building Ballroom with the doors opening at 6 p.m. and the ceremony starting at 7 p.m., held in conjunction with this year’s Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The 2017 Founders’ Excellence Award recipients will be Gail Rader and Margarett Campbell. Tickets for the event are $30 per person and dinner is included. For tickets and more informati...

  • HHS's Parsons among new Northern cross country recruits

    George Ferguson|Updated Apr 28, 2017

    When the 2017 Frontier Conference cross country season begins, the Montana State University-Northern Lights and Skylights will have some exciting new runners. Head coach Chad Spangler recently announced the signings of six new athletes to his program Included in the new signees is Havre High’s Nicole Parsons, who has spent the last two seasons running for the Blue Pony cross country team, as well as being a standout softball player at HHS. “I’m looking forward to worki...

  • Ponies battle Rangers in key conference games

    Chris Peterson|Updated Apr 28, 2017

    The Havre High softball team has had some ups and downs lately, but with two critical games on the road this weekend, the Blue Ponies can’t afford to slip up. Havre, which is 3-3-1 overall in seven official games this season, is 2-3 in the Central A conference. HHS can improve that record Saturday, when it will head to Livingston for a doubleheader between the two Central A rivals. The first pitch is set to go out at noon, with the second game to follow after. “Every con...

  • Blue Pony track teams make long-awaited return to Great Falls

    Chris Peterson|Updated Apr 28, 2017

    The Havre High track teams are around a month away from the divisional and state track meets and starting with Saturday’s meet in Great Falls, the Blue Ponies are getting ready for the stretch run. Both Havre track teams have just three varsity meets before the Eastern A Divisional meet in in Belgrade May 19-20. So HHS has the Belt-Fairfield All Comers Invite Saturday in Great Falls, followed by the Top Ten meet in Glasgow Tuesday and the Havre Invite May 6 to close out the r...

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