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Brooke Schwenke Brooke Marie Schwenke is the oldest sibling of Chris and Miranda Hass Schwenke. Brooke has 3 sisters Haley, Taylor and Filly. Brooke will be attending MSU-N in the Fall. She will be getting her Bachelor's in Elementary Education and Minor in K-12 Art and will be adding second minor but is undecided. " Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." -Henry David Thoreau Brooke- I picked this quote for you because I know you have big dreams and I h...
Mrs. Weaver’s Kindergarten Class was asked the following question… What do you love about your mom? Thea- Mom is fun because she pushes me on the swings. Kanin- I love my mom because she is sweet. Makenna- I love my mom’s snuggles because they are cuddly and warm. Titus- I love everything about my mom. Ella- I love so many things about my mom. I can’t pick just one. Emma- I love my mom’s cooking. Ethan- I like when my mom lets me sleep with her. I love her hugs. Brookelyn- I love my mom because she helps me do my homework. Colton- I love my m...
Editor's note. The early spring flower the crocus gets its name from the English. The French called it the pasque flower. While prairie children called it the gosling. The Indians had a "perfect" name for it, 'Ears of the Earth'. The following is a story from tradition. Wapee shivered and dew his robe tighter about him. It was cold there on the hillside, but the shiver was more of fear and loneliness than of cold. Always before he had slept in the tipi of his parents, where his father could...
Monika Winderl Big Sandy High School art teacher is impressed with the talent of the Big Sandy students. This month she chose two other students to display their art in the Mountaineer. Faith Gasvoda enjoys art. "It gives me something to do besides regular school work because I don't really like the core classes that much. I've enjoyed art for as long as I can remember. She really likes working with color pencils, but the artworks displayed in the paper are oil pastels and watercolors. They are...
4th Grade Astrid Ketchum When The New Year comes I’m ready to go back to swim team each year. I want to get better at my swim team events. My goal is to beat my toughest competition, Audrey Young. Colter Han Learn to skate board. Get roller skates, drive my own combine, and learn to drive a semi. Natty Lavenger I want to be honest with friends and family, I would like to be nicer to my sis, and get better grades. I would like to get contacts instead of glasses and learn cursive. Natalie Heppner I would like to ride my horse more. I would l...
Mary’s Little Lambs Daycare Dear Santa, Hello! My name is Georgia. I am 3 years old. This year I’ve been pretty good! The nicest things I did this year were share my blanket with Hudson and let Lauri in my room kind of. I hope you, Mrs. Claus and the reindeer have been well! A few gifts I’m wishing for this Christmas are a Spirit Horse with Lucky and Pru with a Chica Linda Horse. Have a safe trip on Christmas Eve! Love, Georgia Silvan Dear Santa, Hello! My name is Luke. I am 3 years old. This year I’ve been an absolute Angel! The nicest...
Published in the Missoulian Nov 28, 2013 By its very definition, Thanksgiving means that we should look back on the past as we gather together with family and friends. The first recorded Thanksgiving in what became Montana took place in the isolated mining town of Bannack in 1863, shortly after President Abraham Lincoln had established it as a national observance. In the rough and tumble mining community, what people wanted to be thankful for was gold, and most were too busy looking for it to take time out to have much more than a helping of...
There are many homesteads here at Pearson Ranch along the beautiful picturesque Missouri River. The Johnson's, Bakers, Coopers, among many other names, lost in the sands of time. There are no longer existing homesteads, just humps of dirt where sod shanties were or holes that were root cellars or storage for steamboats passing through. A few covered cisterns still exist in school sections where country schools stood. The Kabo school was on our ranch, my brother Jack and I were the last...
Hello class. As you know, its Halloween. I’m Jenna, and my book report is about the Mystery of the Three Missing Girls. So, it all started about 40 years ago on this day. There was a girl named Sarah, another girl named Maddie and another girl named Ginger. Jenna clears her throat and starts telling her story, “Maddie,” Sara asked. “Yes,” Maddie replied. “Do you like Halloween?’ “Ahhh, I guess, Maddie said. “What about you, Ginger?” “No, not really, said Ginger, “Hey Sarah, what do you like about Halloween?” “Ah, I don’t really…” BOOM “What w...
Chouteau County Performing Arts, in partnership with River Market in Fort Benton, present Dennis Stroughmatt et l' Esprit Creole on Saturday October 26th at 7 PM at the Fort Benton Elementary School Auditorium. Shake off the early winter snow and get ready for a night of hot fiddle sure to make you dance in your seat. With fingers and bow flying, Dennis Stroughmatt, originally from southeastern Illinois, takes listeners on a musical odyssey not so different from his own musical journeys into...
Our small town library has taken a hobby and turned it into an event for all ages. Last month, they held a kid's sewing activity and they are doing it again this month. An advanced sewing class will take place at the library on Thursday, October 17th. It's RSVP only, so call the library and get some more details. It's a fun, free activity to take part in. to get to know your community better. Last month's class had a great turn out. Four kids showed up and learned the importance and fun of...
Liar liar By Lisa Jackson In death, Didi Storm is finally getting the kind of publicity that eluded her in life. Twenty years ago, the ex-beauty queen worked the Vegas strip as a celebrity impersonator, too busy trying to make it big to spare much time for her daughter, Remmi. Shortly before she leaped from a San Francisco building, Didi’s profile was rising again, thanks to a tell-all book. To Detective Dani Settler, it looks like a straightforward suicide, or perhaps a promotional stunt gone wrong. But Remmi knows the truth isn’t so sim...
Celtic Empire By Clive Cussler, Clive Cussler, “The Grand Master of Adventure,” sends his intrepid heroes Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino on their wildest, boldest mission into the ancient world, unlocking extraordinary secrets and solving hideous crimes. Another fabulous read from the most beloved series from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. . . A deadly collision in the waterways off the city of Detroit. . . An attack by tomb raiders on an archaeological site along the ban...
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales , By P.D. James It’s not always a question of “whodunit?” Sometimes there’s more mystery in the why or how. And although we usually know the unhealthy fates of both victim and perpetrator, what of those clever few who plan and carry out the perfect crime? The ones who aren’t brought down even though they’re found out? And what about those who do the finding out who witness a murder or who identify the murderer but keep the information to themselves? These are some of the mysteries that we follow through tho...
This summer the local library has held summer reading programs for kids of all ages. The library always encourages involvement in learning and reading. This summer, the kids have gone beyond their expectations and had a blast at the library. This last Thursday the library had an end of summer party for all the kids who participated in the summer reading program. There was plenty of volunteers to help with the activities. The volunteers' help made the day run smoothly. All the kids had a blast...
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales By P.D. James It’s not always a question of “whodunit?” Sometimes there’s more mystery in the why or how. And although we usually know the unhealthy fates of both victim and perpetrator, what of those clever few who plan and carry out the perfect crime? The ones who aren’t brought down even though they’re found out? And what about those who do the finding out who witness a murder or who identify the murderer but keep the information to themselves? These are some of the mysteries that we follow through tho...
The Girl in the Glass Box By James Grippando Miami attorney Jack Swyteck lands in the heart of the contentious immigration debate when he takes on the heart-wrenching case of an undocumented immigrant who fled to America to protect her daughter and save herself, in this timely and pulse-pounding thriller that explores the stories behind the headlines from New York Times bestselling author James Grippando, winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. Julia Rodriguez and her teenage daughter Beatriz escaped bloodthirsty gangs, random...
In conjunction with the Chouteau County Community Coalition and Backpack Buddies Program, the Jeff Reichlet Memorial Library will be serving lunch on Thursday afternoons, through August 1st, before the Summer Reading Program. No restrictions or income requirements. Lunch will be brown bag lunch that will include a sandwich, fruit, snack and water....
For the first time in Big Sandy the Big Sandy Library will sponsor a lunch program that coincides with the summer reading program. Librarian Darlene Cline wrote and received a small grant from the Chouteau County Community Coalition and the Back-Pack Buddies Program which will allow the library to serve a paper sack lunch for students in the reading program. They received enough money so they can serve 60 children lunch on Thursdays at noon. There are no restrictions or income requirements. Any child wanting to be in the reading program at the...
The Jeff Reichelt memorial Library invites you to join us for their Summer Reading Programs. They start June 11 and will run until August 2. Pre-K Story Time and craft is on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. and Kindergarten through 6th grade story Time is on Thursdays at 1:00 p.m. Fridays they will be holding Lego Club at 11:00 a.m.. Weekly Attendance is encouraged by not mandatory. Prizes will be handed out for attendance and worksheet participation for story times. Adult Summer Reading is available anytime during the weeks. The contest challenges...
The Enemy of My Enemy by W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV A month ago, Cronley managed to capture two notorious Nazi war criminals, but not without leaving some dead bodies and outraged Austrian police in his wake. He’s been lying low ever since, but that little vacation is about to end. Somebody--Odessa, the NKGB, the Hungarian Secret Police?--has broken the criminals out of jail, and he must track them down again. But there’s more to it than that. Evidence has surfaced that in the war’s last gasps, Heinrich Himmler had stashed away...
Beauchamp Hall by Danielle Steel Winona Farmington once dreamed of graduating from college, moving to New York City, and pursuing a career in publishing. Then real life got in the way when she left college and returned to her small Michigan hometown to care for her sick mother. Years later, stuck in a dead-end job and an unsatisfying relationship, Winnie has concluded that dreams were meant for others. She consoles herself with binge-watching the British television series that she loves, Beauchamp Hall, enthralled by the sumptuous period drama...
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver The New York Times bestselling author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, and The Poisonwood Bible and recipient of numerous literary awards—including the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Orange Prize—returns with a timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and compassion in times of great upheaval. Willa Knox has always prided herself on being the embodiment of responsibility for her family. Which is why it’s so unnerving that...
Chouteau County Performing Arts welcomes back spring and the Piatigorsky Foundation for a free concert at The Grand Union Hotel, at 4 PM, on Sunday, April 28th, featuring clarinetist Igor Begelman. This show is put on in partnership with the generous guest houses on Fort Benton including, The Main Street Casita, The Wake Cup B&B, The River House, Emily's Vacation Cottage and The Franklin Street Guest House. Evan Drachman established The Piatigorsky Foundation in 1990 in honor of his grandfather Gregor Piatigorsky, who deeply believed in the...
Same Beach, Next Year by Dorothea Benton Frank New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank returns to her magical Lowcountry of South Carolina in this bewitching story of marriage, love, family, and friendship that is infused with her warm and engaging earthy humor and generous heart. One enchanted summer, two couples begin a friendship that will last more than twenty years and transform their lives. A chance meeting on the Isle of Palms, one of Charleston’s most stunning barrier islands, brings former sweethearts, Adam Stanley and...