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During a brunch at Havre City-County Airport Saturday, three Havre-area pilots were recognized by the Federal Aviation Administration, the North Central Hangar of the Montana Pilots' Association, and more than 135 family members, friends and fellow pilots for their longevity and success as pilots. Jack Norman, Everett Tyrrel and Tim Dwyer were each honored with a Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award, which is "the most prestigious award the FAA issues to pilots," the FAA website...
When the Great Northern Fair was canceled for the first time in a century back in June due to the COVID-19 pandemic Montana State University Hill County Extension proposed that they hold a virtual 4-H Fair on the Great Northern Fairgrounds, which they believed they would be able to pull off while staying within COVID-19 guidelines set forth by Gov. Steve Bullock and the Hill County Health Department. The fair was held this past weekend and by all appearances it was a success....
Arleen Rice for the Havre Daily News So begins the story of the Simpson Bachelor's Club located some 37 miles North of Havre on the Wildhorse Trail. The dream of owning your own little piece of ground and filing a claim to homestead called many a young man to the north Havre community. Andrew "Andy" Young was one of those young men, and this is where this tale of the club begins. Young was born in Abilene, Kansas, in the year 1880. He moved to the Simpson area in 1914 to file...
The COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly approaching 1 million detected cases and has taken the lives of more than 50,000 people world-wide, but it has also changed the lives of nearly everyone in the world including those in Montana, which had seen five deaths by Thursday morning. Novel coronavirus 19, which causes COVID-19, was detected in China in December, and from there spread to more than 190 countries around the globe, including all 50 states in the U.S., which now has more...
"Before I came to Northern, the guys I went to school with said I'd never make it, and now here I am in a diesel program and an auto program," Montana State University-Northern diesel technology freshman Mariah Brekke said. "My main reason I wanted to go into the diesel industry was to show the guys and my family that I could do it and so I could fix my truck if something were to happen." Brekke is one of about 20 women in Northern's Diesel Technology Program out of 180...
Editor’s note: The Havre Daily News editor found out after this section was printed that the All North West Honor Choir had been cancelled to reduce the chance of exposure to the novel coronavirus 2019 and the Havre contingent left Thursday to return. "I'm looking forward to going to Spokane, where I've never been before," Havre High School freshman Allie Messinger said. "I'm also looking forward to hearing our choir come together and sing," Messinger is one of four Havre s...
Visitors to Artitudes Gallery have the chance to see a younger view on art starting today when 26 Sunnyside Intermediate School students from Erin Lynch's fourth grade class showcase their art projects at the art cooperative. The show starts with a reception tonight from 6 to 8. The show runs through Thursday, April 30, at the gallery in the Atrium Mall. Lynch said students would be at the reception tonight. "We'll have students present to talk about the pieces they decide to...
After Christmastime each year, a project collecting and placing Christmas trees begins to build habitats for the fish out at Fresno Reservoir. Fish, Wildlife and Parks Havre Area Fish Biologist Cody Nagel said the trees are donated by local residents, then collected and stored by the city of Havre. He said the trees are picked up by FWP and the Fresno Chapter of Walleyes Unlimited drill holes in each tree trunk to secure cables, then load and haul them out onto Fresno...
A long-standing program at the Havre Police Department is the reserve officer program, a program in which volunteers in the community don the badge of a police officer and work to assist officers in their duties and keeping the community safe. "We can never have too much help," Havre Police Department Senior Patrolman and School Resource Officer Jordan Chroniger said. "We are a smaller community, we are a smaller department and the demographics of the area can prove challengin...
The fiddle and jig event at the Mid-Winter Fair on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation is something personal and special to many people on the reservation, with the event spanning across several generations and the tradition stretching far back into their heritage. Many of the people at the fiddle and jig event Friday were there because of family and the pride of their culture. Young and old gathered together for the event, listening to music and dancing. "It's a part of us," volu...
Plant a Seed...Read! of north-central Montana celebrates its 10th Anniversary as non-profit this year. "Plant a Seed...Read! is proactive non-profit. We try to intervene before challenges arise before they start school," Plant a Seed ... Read! north-central Montana Executive Program Director Lorraine Verploegen said. "Being a non-profit, we were able to bring in the Imagination Library from the Dollywood Foundation and these are age-appropriate books that children can receive...
"Havre High School was the first high school in the state to have an Anime Club," Havre High School teacher and Anime Club advisor Victoria Proctor said. The group began through Proctor's youngest daughter Hope Proctor, who told her mother about six years ago, when Hope was a junior in high school, she felt that a large, widely diverse group of kids was being neglected in the activities community. "She felt that the creation of a club would invite these kids to become a part o...
The Havre Lions Swim Team is seeing a resurgence in its decades-old tradition of training swimmers and competing, including qualifying two swimmers for out-of-state competitions Former Lions Swim Team and Havre High School Swim Team head coach Chris Inman said the Lions started in 1958, as a member of the Amateur Athletic Union — AAU — Association. Lions Swim Team Head Coach Hayley Coursey, who took over last January, said the program has grown phenomenaly in the last year. Th...
From a lifetime of experiences and curiosity, Havre native Garth Volbright's artwork expresses the unconscious self and in many different artistic mediums. Volbright's artist reception for his artistic debut show, "Curiosity," was last Friday in Artitudes Gallery in the Atrium Mall. "Unconsciousness starts at the end of knowledge," he said. His show runs through January. Volbright was born and raised in Havre, although he has moved around the state working various jobs...
Some Havreites may know him as Martin Holt, but others know him as Santa Claus. Holt has been a major draw to the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce's annual tree-lighting celebration at Town Square for most of the decade. Holt said he started being Santa for the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce seven or eight years ago when Debbie Vandeberg was the executive director for the Chamber. He began as Santa at the annual Tree Lighting Ceremony then also started portraying Santa for...
The Van Orsdel United Methodist Church Live Nativity has been a long-standing tradition for the Hi-Line, with many people coming out every year to look at the volunteers and the animals who come every year to bring the true meaning of Christmas to the community. "It kind of gets in your blood. Something about standing out their in that scene, it's meaningful," organizer Ray Toth said. He added that the church has been putting on the event for more than 23 years, and, during...
The North Central Shrine Club a few weeks ago gave people a chance to bash a car and help a good cause as part of a Brawl of the Wild tailgate party. The Shriners painted a van, half in University of Montana Grizzly colors and half in Montana State University Bobcat colors, and Nov. 23 - the day of the annual Cat-Griz game - people paid to bash the car on the side of the team they were not supporting. Shriner Kelly Brandon said the event is a usual Shriner fundraiser, and is a...
Havre's annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner is a long-standing Havre tradition, with a history of serving people since an anonymous donor in 1984 started the tradition of bringing a communal environment and a free meal to anyone who wants to attend. "It shows the heart of our community," Larry Larson said. He added that he has been coming to the dinner since it first started and always enjoys seeing old friends and meeting new people. The community dinner is a free Thanksgivi...
"I love to see the students grow as student leaders throughout their experience in Student Congress," Havre High School teacher and Student Congress adviser Rebecca Reno said. Members say the activity has helped them grow and develop. Havre High School senior and Student Body President Katelyn Maloughney said Student Congress is about teamwork and how to work well with others without starting a fight. Havre High School senior and Student Body Vice President Kadia Miller said...
Rural school houses have been a long-standing tradition in the north-central Montana, but as communities grew and transportation improved, they began to fade. Only a few of these school houses still are in operation, however, they have kept their common mission, similar to every other school, to provide the best education available to their students. "I feel like I'm truly teaching," Gildford Colony School teacher Pauline Purri said. "... This environment makes it more fulfill...
The Atrium Shopping Mall, a historical icon of downtown Havre, got its start in the early 1900s as a store called "The Fair," built and operated by another Havre icon Frank A. Buttrey, who founded the Buttrey department store that became a multi-state chain of department and grocery stores that operated throughout the West and Midwest. Buttrey was born Nov. 21, 1868, in London, Ontario, Canada, moved in 1896 to Aldridge, Montana, where he started a small store. Buttrey...
As puffs of smoke drifted high into the air from a ceremonial fire, hundreds of Native Americans from Gros Ventre, or Aaniiih; Assiniboine, or Nakoda; Crow; Northern Arapaho, and other tribes gathered together outside of Dodson Saturday to hold a ceremony, held to help put to rest the spirits of those who died in a smallpox outbreak 150 years ago. "I feel really good," organizer and Gros Ventre tribal member "Snuffy" Main said. "There has been a lot of community members who...
From a career in law enforcement to becoming a full time artist, Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation resident Theodore Koop said his love for art has always been a constant throughout his life. Koop, this month's featured artist at Artitudes Gallery in The Atrium, said his love for art really blossomed when he was a freshman in high school. His art teacher and friend, Tom Marinkovich, played a large role in his artistic pursuits. He said his family is also artistic, adding he...
"To me, FCCLA is a way to learn how to be a leader whether at home, in school or around the community," Havre High School Senior Angelle Roen said, "as well as using what voice we have to try to make a difference in the problems surrounding our community." The Family, Career and Community Leaders of America Montana website says is a non-profit national career and technical student organization for young men and women in family and consumer sciences education in public and...
Havre High School cheerleaders take pride in bringing pride to high school events. "We define it as a representative of the high school - cheerleaders are the pride and the respect of Havre High," Havre High School cheerleading coach Stephanie Borst said. Borst said cheerleading has been around at Havre High since the high school started. She said she has found cheerleading uniforms dating back to the 1960s and '70s. The history of cheerleading in the United States goes back...