Articles from the February 26, 2009 edition

George Ferguson Havre Daily News sports editor [email protected]@havredailynews.com The Big Sandy Pioneers may have had the toughest first-round divisional opponent of any district champion in all of Class C basketball this season. But on Wednesday afternoon at the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls, the Pioneers proved yet again just why they are still a Northern C powerhouse. In the opening round of the Northern C girls tournament on Wednesday, Big Sandy became the first team other than Highwood to beat...

Pauline (Tymofichuk) Krezelak, 90, died Feb. 24, 2009, at Northern Montana Care Center of natural causes. A vigil will be held 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, at the Holland & Bonine Funeral Home in Havre. The funeral Mass will be 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Jude's Catholic Church with the Rev. Robert Grosch presiding. Interment will immediately follow at Highland Cemetery followed by fellowship at the church parish center. Pauline was born in Scobey, Mont., on Aug. 4, 1918, to Andreas and Axana (Ann Yarmey) Tymofichuk. She attended...

HDN Staff and wire report Continuing his fight to increase benefits for military veterans, Sen. Jon Tester teamed up with Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer in the U.S. Senate Thursday. Tester introduced Schweitzer during a hearing of the Joint Economic Committee, which examined the Iraq war's impact on rising health care costs for veterans, a release from Tester's office said. Schweitzer talked about the “unseen costs” of caring for veterans wounded in the war, especially veterans living in Montana and rural America. “Ha...

page design and photos by nikki carlson story by krista corner One veteran's tour of duty in World War II took him to many of the most famous battles of the South Pacific, and his ship was one of the first inside the harbor at Tokyo. Earl Pollington reminisced Wednesday about life in Kremlin, coming to Montana from Michigan, the U.S. Navy and a marriage of almost 60 years. Pollington, 92, served his country in World War II aboard the U.S.S. San Diego, an anti-aircraft cruiser. He has lived a colorful life, coming to Montana f...

TED ANTHONY AP National Writer At a harrowing national moment, Franklin D. Roosevelt commandeered the young airwaves for a "fireside chat" with the American people a candid talk about big troubles and how to fix them. He was confident and strong, a father figure to a nation that was losing its way. "My f r i e n d s , " s a i d Roosevelt, freshly inaugurated, "I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking." On Tuesday night, three quarters of a century later, Barack Obama stepped up to a...

Mont. Tourism officials: $4 gas tipping point' GREAT FALLS (AP) Montana tourism officials say they learned something about the economics of high gasoline prices last summer: People cut back on travel plans when gasoline prices reach $4 a gallon. Preliminary figures show that the number of visitors to Montana fell 3.7 percent in 2008. Although gas prices since then have dropped considerably, a further decline of around 2 percent is expected this year because of the recession. Norma Nickerson, director of Montana's Institute... Full story

Tim Leeds Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com With the omnibus spending bill out of the U. S. House and on its way to the Senate, the members of Montana's Congressional delegation are saying millions of dollars are on their way to Montana and to the Havre region, in addition to the millions or billions of dollars of spending and savings coming from the economic stimulus bill signed into law by President Obama on Feb. 17. Montana's U.S. Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester, both Democrats, said more...

page design and photos by nikki carlson story by krista corner One veteran's tour of duty in World War II took him to many of the most famous battles of the South Pacific, and his ship was one of the first inside the harbor at Tokyo. Earl Pollington reminisced Wednesday about life in Kremlin, coming to Montana from Michigan, the U.S. Navy and a marriage of almost 60 years. Pollington, 92, served his country in World War II aboard the U.S.S. San Diego, an anti-aircraft cruiser. He has lived a colorful life, coming to Montana f...

George Ferguson Havre Daily News sports editor [email protected]@havredailynews.com The Big Sandy Pioneers may have had the toughest first-round divisional opponent of any district champion in all of Class C basketball this season. But on Wednesday afternoon at the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls, the Pioneers proved yet again just why they are still a Northern C powerhouse. In the opening round of the Northern C girls tournament on Wednesday, Big Sandy became the first team other than Highwood to beat...

Pauline (Tymofichuk) Krezelak, 90, died Feb. 24, 2009, at Northern Montana Care Center of natural causes. A vigil will be held 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, at the Holland & Bonine Funeral Home in Havre. The funeral Mass will be 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Jude's Catholic Church with the Rev. Robert Grosch presiding. Interment will immediately follow at Highland Cemetery followed by fellowship at the church parish center. Pauline was born in Scobey, Mont., on Aug. 4, 1918, to Andreas and Axana (Ann Yarmey) Tymofichuk. She attended...

HDN Staff and wire report Continuing his fight to increase benefits for military veterans, Sen. Jon Tester teamed up with Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer in the U.S. Senate Thursday. Tester introduced Schweitzer during a hearing of the Joint Economic Committee, which examined the Iraq war's impact on rising health care costs for veterans, a release from Tester's office said. Schweitzer talked about the “unseen costs” of caring for veterans wounded in the war, especially veterans living in Montana and rural America. “Ha...

TED ANTHONY AP National Writer At a harrowing national moment, Franklin D. Roosevelt commandeered the young airwaves for a "fireside chat" with the American people a candid talk about big troubles and how to fix them. He was confident and strong, a father figure to a nation that was losing its way. "My f r i e n d s , " s a i d Roosevelt, freshly inaugurated, "I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking." On Tuesday night, three quarters of a century later, Barack Obama stepped up to a...

Mont. Tourism officials: $4 gas tipping point' GREAT FALLS (AP) Montana tourism officials say they learned something about the economics of high gasoline prices last summer: People cut back on travel plans when gasoline prices reach $4 a gallon. Preliminary figures show that the number of visitors to Montana fell 3.7 percent in 2008. Although gas prices since then have dropped considerably, a further decline of around 2 percent is expected this year because of the recession. Norma Nickerson, director of Montana's Institute...

Tim Leeds Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com With the omnibus spending bill out of the U. S. House and on its way to the Senate, the members of Montana's Congressional delegation are saying millions of dollars are on their way to Montana and to the Havre region, in addition to the millions or billions of dollars of spending and savings coming from the economic stimulus bill signed into law by President Obama on Feb. 17. Montana's U.S. Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester, both Democrats, said more...

page design and photos by nikki carlson story by krista corner One veteran's tour of duty in World War II took him to many of the most famous battles of the South Pacific, and his ship was one of the first inside the harbor at Tokyo. Earl Pollington reminisced Wednesday about life in Kremlin, coming to Montana from Michigan, the U.S. Navy and a marriage of almost 60 years. Pollington, 92, served his country in World War II aboard the U.S.S. San Diego, an anti-aircraft cruiser. He has lived a colorful life, coming to Montana f... Full story

George Ferguson Havre Daily News sports editor [email protected]@havredailynews.com The Big Sandy Pioneers may have had the toughest first-round divisional opponent of any district champion in all of Class C basketball this season. But on Wednesday afternoon at the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls, the Pioneers proved yet again just why they are still a Northern C powerhouse. In the opening round of the Northern C girls tournament on Wednesday, Big Sandy became the first team other than Highwood to beat...

Pauline (Tymofichuk) Krezelak, 90, died Feb. 24, 2009, at Northern Montana Care Center of natural causes. A vigil will be held 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, at the Holland & Bonine Funeral Home in Havre. The funeral Mass will be 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Jude's Catholic Church with the Rev. Robert Grosch presiding. Interment will immediately follow at Highland Cemetery followed by fellowship at the church parish center. Pauline was born in Scobey, Mont., on Aug. 4, 1918, to Andreas and Axana (Ann Yarmey) Tymofichuk. She attended... Full story

HDN Staff and wire report Continuing his fight to increase benefits for military veterans, Sen. Jon Tester teamed up with Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer in the U.S. Senate Thursday. Tester introduced Schweitzer during a hearing of the Joint Economic Committee, which examined the Iraq war's impact on rising health care costs for veterans, a release from Tester's office said. Schweitzer talked about the “unseen costs” of caring for veterans wounded in the war, especially veterans living in Montana and rural America. “Ha...

TED ANTHONY AP National Writer At a harrowing national moment, Franklin D. Roosevelt commandeered the young airwaves for a "fireside chat" with the American people a candid talk about big troubles and how to fix them. He was confident and strong, a father figure to a nation that was losing its way. "My f r i e n d s , " s a i d Roosevelt, freshly inaugurated, "I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking." On Tuesday night, three quarters of a century later, Barack Obama stepped up to a...

Mont. Tourism officials: $4 gas tipping point' GREAT FALLS (AP) Montana tourism officials say they learned something about the economics of high gasoline prices last summer: People cut back on travel plans when gasoline prices reach $4 a gallon. Preliminary figures show that the number of visitors to Montana fell 3.7 percent in 2008. Although gas prices since then have dropped considerably, a further decline of around 2 percent is expected this year because of the recession. Norma Nickerson, director of Montana's Institute... Full story

Tim Leeds Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com With the omnibus spending bill out of the U. S. House and on its way to the Senate, the members of Montana's Congressional delegation are saying millions of dollars are on their way to Montana and to the Havre region, in addition to the millions or billions of dollars of spending and savings coming from the economic stimulus bill signed into law by President Obama on Feb. 17. Montana's U.S. Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester, both Democrats, said more...