Chinook Sugarbeet Festival kicks off Friday

This weekend the Hi-Line festival season returns to where it starts each year — Blaine County which has an early fair — for the season finale, the 8th Annual Sugarbeet Festival.

Like last weekend's Havre Festival Days, the Sugarbeet Festival is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of its county.

The festivities begin Friday afternoon, with the 1:30 p. m. Chinook High School Homecoming Parade downtown.

Later that night the Homecoming game will see the 2010 state champion Sugarbeeters take on the Centerville Miners at Hoon Field, behind Chinook High School south of 9th Street.

The earl...