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Many of us use Christmas as a time to look at our lives and be thankful for our blessings. We hope Havre does the same this Christmas season. In the course of reporting the events in this community, we at the Havre Daily News have a better-than-average opportunity of seeing the good side of this special little part of Montana. We see the people who go out of their way to help folks during the Christmas season and perform important community services throughout the year. These are people who, without fanfare, give up their...
Laurel — Havre certainly has shown lots of Christmas spirit in the past week. Schools, colleges, fraternal organizations and others put on their finest and celebrated the season with plays, concerts and programs to help needy people. It’s a great community, and it is doing a good job spreading holiday spirit. Dart — During contract negotiations, usually union and management take turns blaming the other for negotiating the media. Recently, both the International Association of...
Jamie Eagleman, according to legal papers filed in District Court, stabbed a bartender in the back twice, attacked one police officer while carrying a knife she had concealed in her groin area. She lunged at another officer and threw knives at two staffers from the Hill County Detention Center. All of this, legal papers say, was prompted because Town Pump didn't want her to steal a pack of cigarettes and Magic Diamond Casino wouldn't serve her more than two beers although she wasn’t gambling on the machines. Now, the heart o...
Laurel — The Havre High School Choir performed at a concert Thursday night,. It is the first of many concerts planned for the holiday season by the music departments throughout the school district. We have an excellent music staff that is very knowledgeable on how to best capture the talent of our students and shape it into fine music. In coming week, make sure you attend a concert at the area schools or see music groups in public concerts. You will be glad you did. Dart — A prisoner who was charged with attempted hom...
Havre has a long tradition of people who do volunteer work for the community good. But it will take future generations a lot if they are to match the commitment Norm Gorder has shown this special spot on the earth over the last 77 years. Norm died at age 96 last week, volunteering right up until the end. It will take several young people to match the commitment — and the energy — that Norm put into his community work over the 77 years he lived in Havre. Norm offered the same kind of commitment to his employer and its cus...
A major effort is underway at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation to eliminate use of methamphetamine. Rocky Boy residents have seen the devastating effects on the drug on their communities and their children, and we are heartened to see the reservation-wide effort to curb use of the drug. Certainly, Rocky Boy is not the only community in Hill County to feel the devastation of a meth plague, but the Native community is showing tremendous leadership in taking on the problem head-on. We hope other communities and schools follow s...
Dart — The Fort Belknap tribal courts and corrections system is steadfast in making sure that the public doesn't know what is going on with the prisoner who escaped from custody in Havre last week. Under pressure from a reporter, an unnamed spokeswoman agreed that Gabriel Arkinson was still in custody at Fort Belknap. What judge ordered him to jail? What exactly is he charged with doing? How did he manage to escape custody in the middle of Havre? None of the public’s business, was the answer, in effect. Laurel — Commu...
The escape of attempted murder suspect Gabriel Arkinson in downtown Havre Tuesday showed the best of Havre and the Hi-Line, and it showed some ways day-to-day operations need to improve. Havre police officers and their colleagues from U.S Border Patrol, Hill County Sheriff’s Office and Montana Highway Patrol did a fantastic job of conducting a thorough and professional search for Arkinson, going door to door. They found him with the assistance of a Social Security Administration guard. After that, order was restored to H...
Editor: To the kind stranger who helped my daughter pick me up after a bad spill in the Domino's parking lot Tuesday evening, thank you. We both appreciated you taking a moment to help me/us. So, though I don't know who you are, I pray that God blesses you for your kind deed. Thank you, again. Sincerely, Mary Brown...
Havre city officials certainly aren't playing politics with the proposed $30 million streets repair program. There couldn’t be a worse time to present to residents a tax hike that will average more than $200 a year. Residents were just hit with a major increase in sewer rates because of a Washington- and Helena-mandated $10 million in upgrades to the wastewater treatment plant. While the state and the feds mandated the improvements they came with orders but no cash to help Havre taxpayers foot the bill. The city also has t...
Laurel — It’s Festival Days weekend, and lots of people will return home to Havre to see the parade and take part in the various programs and special events. Thousands of people will take part in the festivities, but it also takes thousands of people to put them on. The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce coordinates the efforts of the weekend, but most of the work is done by various groups that put on the shows, games and entertainment programs. We could start listing the volunteers who run the events, but we could never fin...
Laurel — A laurel goes to Montana State University-Northern for its effort to rehabilitate its lovely old Hagener Science Center building and especially for rehabilitating it to improve facilities for its worthwhile nursing program, which is vital for the Hi-Line. And a laurel goes to Montana State University President Waded Cruzado for her role in the effort. We hope the university system agrees to Northern's plan. Dart — State Sen. Art Wittich, R-Bozeman, blasted MSU President Waded Cruzado because she spoke out against som...
Darts: A court case is being held now concerning whether the present form of lethal injection is the best to use in Montana. There is something bizarre about such a debate. It seems best to us that the debate should be solved by simply eliminating the death penalty entirely in the state and coming up with a more effective punishment for people who have taken another’s life. The present form of killing convicted criminals is out of step with today’s thinking. No one seriously thinks it is a deterrent to crime. It is a long, dr...
People having heart problems are at a distinct disadvantage in rural areas. When people are undergoing full cardiac arrest, they have very little time to get care. It’s difficult enough when you are in metropolitan areas and close to clinics or hospitals. It’s a whole other story if you happen to be in Goldstone, 14 miles north of Rudyard. A new state program will help people in remote areas such as those along the Hi-Line. Under the leadership of Havre’s Janet Trethewey, the Department of Public Health and Human Servi...
Laurel — The Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line has unveiled its new facilities to the public. The expanded building provides more services to the young people the club serves. Just a dozen or so years ago, when the club opened, organizers weren’t sure enough kids would show up to the club. Now they couldn’t keep them away. There is room for even more with the new addition. And there will be a large room that can be used for community events — such as the club’s annual Festival of Trees. It’s been a lot of work for organizers...
Havre City Council has considered a proposal to beautify and diversify the city by encouraging developers and contractors to build streets that are more attractive and designed with sidewalks and bike lanes. Those actions would beautify the city and increase use of bicycles that could encourage healthy living and energy conservation. Going into it, city officials are well aware that in a lot of cases there is no room to build bike lanes or add other attractive features that might make life a little more pleasant. But there is...
The Montana Legislature took its sweet time in mandating the public school students be vaccinated against chickenpox. Every other state beat Montana to the punch. But all praise to the lawmakers for their quick turnaround this past session. They mandated that every student be immunized against the disease by Oct. 1. Students who don’t get their shots by then will be barred from attending classes. That doesn’t give school districts much time to get the word out, and most have started to do so. Many parents, smarter than leg...
Bob Mitschke, a 36-year employee of NorthWestern Energy, was killed in an accident last week. He was replacing a damaged transmission structure near Helena Thursday night when the accident happened. He died Friday. Utility workers, just like firefighters and police officers, are the heroes who help restore order when it is lost. Those of us on the Hi-Line are more aware than most of the value of electrical power. Because of various malfunctions we have been plunged into darkness for hours several times in recent years. We...
Officials of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa indians are hopeful that new rules will make it easier for the federal Interior Department to relent and grant official status for the tribe. The feds have been reluctant to grant recognition to the Little Shell — though the state of Montana has granted approval — because the tribe largely dispersed after the arrival of Europeans. Today, most Little Shell have become part of the mainstream society. Bankers, public relations people, educators and historians throughout Mon...
Hi-Line folks lived through another major weather problem this weekend. A terrible storm with high winds, rain and hail slammed the area, resulting in windows being broken, trees being uprooted, power lines being downed, roads being covered in ice and fears being raised. Problems were compounded when the National Weather Service issued tornado warnings and urged people to head for their cellars for their own safety. This isn’t tornado country, and people were justly concerned. As usual, emergency personnel did a fine job o...
North Central Montana Transit is looking for testimonials in an effort to get next year's funding. We hope local governments and Hi-Line residents are generous in providing the letters of endorsement. We can’t think of any new program in recent years that has had the impact that the bus service has provided to all parts of the Hi-Line. The bus has brought thousands of people from as far away as Fort Belknap into Havre for doctor’s appointments, shopping, college classes and a lot more. And taken Havre residents to all rea...
Laurel — This weekend is Living History in Havre. All day Saturday, activities aimed at entertaining and educating Hill County residents about the rich history they enjoy on the Hi-Line will be held at all historical attractions. See the list in Thursday’s Havre Daily News, stop to see some of the attractions and have a good time. The attractions will take you back in time. At some places, like Wahkpa Chu'gn Buffalo Jump, you go back 2,000 years. Others detail the arrival of white people. Drive downtown, park your car and...
The city of Havre may be ready to embark on one of the most important projects it has undertaken in years. The city wants to see what it can do to eliminate or at least reduce a blight. A growing number of apartment buildings, and in some cases commercial buildings, are deteriorating, and city business and political leaders want to stop the spread of this kind of unsightly blight. The problem should not be overstated, Most of downtown Havre and the city’s neighborhoods are well-kept and tidy. It looks welcoming to visitors a...
Laurel and Dart — Chuck Johnson and Mike Dennison of Lee Newspapers have been the deans of the Helena press corps for a long time. The two will retire today Johnson started his career covering the 1972 Montana Constitutional Convention, He is unsurpassed in his knowledge of Montana politics. It was announced last week that their employer, Lee Enterprises, was nudging them out and closing the statehouse bureau. Republicans Democrats, fellow journalists, liberals, conservatives and mugwumps joined in expressing their o...
We are about to start a holiday weekend, with sunny weather in the forecast. It doesn’t seem like a time to have darts on our mind. So how about some laurels to celebrate the great things going on in our community. Laurel — To the veterans groups, the Elks Club and all the Havre residents who work to hold the annual Memorial Day ceremonies on the Hill County Courthouse lawn, we give our thanks. Take time out on Monday to attend the services at 11 a.m., which honor the very reason for which Memorial Day was founded. Honor the...
