Articles from the December 1, 2021 edition


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  • Supporting Big Sandy Small Businesses

    Zoe Merrill|Dec 1, 2021

    Editor's note: If I did not get your business listed, please let me know, and I will run a correction detailing your business in the next Big Sandy Mountaineer: It is essential to shop at home as it does affect our economy; we must support our local businesses during our Christmas shopping. Indeed, we don't have shopping available like Great Falls or Havre, but we can still shop and fill many of our Christmas lists locally. Gift certificates to local businesses are always a good present to give....

  • Angel Baskets and Angel Tree Program

    Erik Sietsema|Dec 1, 2021

    This Christmas 16 families in Big Sandy will be blessed with a merrier Christmas through the work of the Angel Basket Program. Angel Baskets provide families in our area with groceries, a gift certificate, ham and beef roasts, and sometimes (in years past) turkeys. The program is also associated with the Angel Trees, which provide gifts for kids in the families of basket recipients. For children who are not taken care of by gifts through Angel Tree, the basket program purchases gifts. The...

  • Big Sandy Organics moves forward

    Zoe Merrill|Dec 1, 2021

    Big Sandy Organics has hired Claude Smith. He recently retired from his other job in Great Falls and is excited to take the reins and help Big Sandy Organics continue to grow. What is exciting is while talking to him, you realize the positive impact that Big Sandy Organics continued development will have on the town Big Sandy. Claude told me currently he is "Designing a new facility along with modern production lines. We are designing a new production facility because we have outgrown this one....

  • Virgelle Mercantile celebrates "A Real Country Christmas"

    Erik Sietsema|Dec 1, 2021

    "It's a real country Christmas at a real country store," replied Don Sorensen when I asked what makes their Christmas sale at Virgelle Mercantile special. The event will take place this Saturday and Sunday (December 4th and 5th). It has been held at Virgelle Mercantile since 1976 and typically draws a large crowd from as far north as Canada and as far south as Wyoming. In fact, in the weeks preceding the sale, Don described the shop seeing "trainloads" of dedicated antique hunters scouting for...

  • Green Acres

    Tyler Lane|Dec 1, 2021

    6 Golden Triangle Cropping Seminar -Thanks in Advance to MaxAg for Sponsoring Lunch at the Seminar in Fort Benton Seminar in Fort Benton will be on Friday, January 14th Montana State University Extension will host a free, annual cropping seminar series January 10-14th in Great Falls, Choteau, Conrad, Cutbank, Shelby, Chester, Havre, Stanford, and Fort Benton. Speakers will cover wheat stem sawfly management and new research, new crop variety trials, forage management practices during drought, and agricultural law (New Neighbors and New...

  • Rotary Christmas light contest is on again for this year

    Dec 1, 2021

    Now that the Thanksgiving turkey is now left overs or has been consumed, Christmas lights are starting to pop up everywhere in and around Big Sandy. In past years the Big Sandy Rotary Club has sponsored a Christmas lighting contest to encourage all the Clark Griswold wannabes that are in and around the town of Big Sandy to show off their decorating skills. The 2021 Christmas season promises to be no different. The Big Sandy Rotary Club will sponsor a lighting contest again this year. We hope to have a well lit town for everyone to enjoy...

  • Chouteau County Cancer Support Group Celebrating our Birthday

    Dec 1, 2021

    Chouteau County Cancer Support Group is celebrating its 16th birthday this month. We are so thankful that due to your continued support, we are able to assist those people who have a cancer diagnosis that are Chouteau County residence. We could not exist without your financial support and the volunteers that help us. In the past year we have assisted 45 people with monetary stipends. We sent out an average of $1600 each month. When our group becomes aware of someone with a cancer diagnosis, we send them a check for $200 and a locally made quilt...

  • Patching Cracks

    Erik Sietsema|Dec 1, 2021

    This weekend, the Disney+ streaming service released a new 3 part documentary on the Beatles. “Get Back” features all sorts of new footage and offers a unique behind the scenes video and information. My wife and I are big Beatles fans, even going so far as to naming our daughter after the last Beatles album. We are both looking forward to watching the series, so when reviews started appearing online during the first few days after the release, I jumped on the opportunity to read peoples reactions. What I found most interesting about the res...

  • Senior Center News

    Dec 1, 2021

    Thursday, December 2- Liver & Onions, Scalloped potatoes, veggies, Green Salad, and dessert. Friday, December 3- Taco Soup, roll and dessert. teh rest of the menu was not ready at Press time. Recipe of the week: Cookie Butter Cookies Ingredients ¾ cup butter, softened ¾ cup brown sugar ¾ cup white sugar ½ cup cookie butter ½ cup peanut butter 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 egg ½ teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt 1/3 cup white sugar Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with pa...

  • The Lady Pioneer Volleyball team celebrates a great season

    Dec 1, 2021

    The Lady Pioneer put together a great season on the volleyball court and have so much to be proud of. Their success was all around solid both offensively and defensively. They ended the 2021 season with 1,435 Digs, 617 Kills, 495 Assists, 83 Blocks and 205 Aces. The Lady Pioneer celebrated their success by hosting an awards banquet where each of the girls voted on several awards for the JV and Varsity teams. JV AWARDS: Best Offensive Player: Teagan Cochran and Tosha Allderdice Best Defensive...

  • All-State and All Conference selections for 6-man Football

    Dec 1, 2021

    Let's face it--there's nothing like high school football! Those football boys have known each other from kindergarten. They play hard and celebrate together, however special congratulations go to Braydon Cline and Rusty Gasvoda, 2021 All-state Selections Kody Strutz, Northern Division All-Conference Selection....

  • The Christmas Card

    Ann Denning|Dec 1, 2021

    Nowadays, we see Christmas cards with jolly Santa’s, merry Christmas scenes, and some nativity scenes. It was not always so. The first Christmas card was produced in 1843. This was the Victorian era, and as with many other things, the Victorians did Christmas cards very differently than those of our generations. The Victorian era saw murderous mice, Santa kidnapping children, and blood-thirsty snowmen’s Nick was often teamed with the devil to decide if children were good or naughty. The naughty were whisked away by the devil. Charming! Christma...

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