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The newest face at FE Miley Elementary School is actually a returning personality. Mr. Desmond Parker is the new 2nd Grade teacher. He is taking over from Amy Terry, who will be shifting to focus exclusively on special education. Mr. Parker did his student teaching with Sherri Moore in the 3rd Grade Class last year, where he was popular with the kids and well liked by the staff. He applied to several schools, including FE Miley, who hired him before he heard back from anyone else. He was was...
If you have never been to an Omoxsee, you are missing something fun!! August 30 is the last meet for the season, but read this article, and you will be raring to attend next year. O-Mok-See comes from the Blackfeet word meaning "riding big dance." At the time, it was basically connected with war when horses would be painted, and all the warriors would race into the camp riding a prescribed pattern. Today, it's a time for people of all ages to gather and compete in different events. You see three...
The 2020 Chouteau County 4-H and FFA livestock carcass contest took place at Pioneer Meats in Big Timber. A total of 58 Chouteau County 4-H animals were evaluated for carcass quality by Mark King (MSU Extension Sweet Grass County). The purpose of the carcass contest is to teach 4-H youth how to correctly select, feed and finish livestock based on carcass data. If carcass criteria are met, youth can be confident they are producing a quality product that is safe, nutritious and good tasting to the consumer. Out of 36 market swine entered at the...
If you love working with wool fabric, yarn or fiber, the Make It With Wool (MIWW) Contest needs you! If you knit, crochet, spin, weave, sew or quilt, consider entering the MIWW contest this fall. The MIWW contest promotes the beauty and versatility of wool fabrics/yarns/fibers, encourages personal creativity, recognition of creative skills and development of life skills. The 2020 MIWW contest is quickly approaching so here are the details. The District 3 (Blaine, Broadwater, Cascade, Chouteau, Glacier, Hill, Judith Basin, Lewis & Clark,...
Chouteau County 2020 4-H & FFA Fair Hope Gasvoda ~ Project of Merit – Grand Champion – Environmental & Natural Sciences -Entomology ~ Project of Merit – Grand Champion -Woodworking Faith Gasvoda ~ Project of Merit – Grand Champion - Leathercraft ~ 3rd Place – Senior Beef Showmanship ~ Grand Champion Senior Rabbit Showman ~ Project of Merit – Grand Champion – Top Rabbit Project Lance Rutledge ~ Reserve Champion Beef Breeding ~ 3rd Place – Beef Breeding - Replacement Bred Heifer ~ Project of Merit – Grand Champion – Leadership Jaycee Worrall ~ Pr...
The majority of athletic directors in the Northern Division met this last week to attempt to establish a consistent set of “ground rules” for allowing spectators at athletic events. After extended discussions, the consensus of the group was that this was impossible, due to wide variances in health department regulations across the counties in the state. While Chouteau County is enjoying a period of zero active cases of Covid-19, Cascade County has reported 30 new cases in the last two weeks. Thanks to the Governor’s mask mandate and rules for g...
The first week of school is in the books, and Principal Heather Wolery is pleased with how smoothly things have gone so far. Though many things are different about the school day due to the new regulations and guidelines, students and teachers have adapted well. This was not an inevitable outcome, but came as a result of hard work on the part of the school administration and the cooperation of the staff, students, and their families. Returning to school with worries about the Covid 19 pandemic...
I was first given this story by one of the Big Sandy High School neighbors because they saw Gwen Kane out there working fixing up the chair-saw Pioneer by the school parking lot. I immediately went and found Gwen working on the statue again and asked her if I could interview her. She laughed like she always does, and then said, "after the project was finished." It took three and a half weeks, not all day nor in the heat of the day, but she worked on it till the sun went down. Five years ago,...
Rejuvra™, active ingredient indaziflam, has received approval by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for use on rangeland, CRP land, and natural areas, including grazed areas on these sites. Indaziflam was previously marketed as Esplanade™; the new label for Esplanade™ will restrict its use to industrial vegetation management. Rejuvra™ is a pre-emergent herbicide used for control of annual grasses like cheatgrass, Japanese brome, ventenata and medusahead. It reduces emergence of seedlings through inhibition of cellulose biosynt...
As the pandemic continues to change our day to day lives, the Big Sandy Medical Center has been hit extra hard by the quarantine. Because the residents are so vulnerable to the virus, the home has taken extraordinary steps to ensure their safety. This has resulted in an extended time of isolation from the community, family, friends, and visitors. This has made Entertainment Director Lisa Sipler's job especially important. Entertainment in nursing facilities is extra important right now because...
4-H and FFA youth had the opportunity to wrap up the year by showing their projects and having them judged at the 2020 Chouteau County 4-H and FFA Fair, August 13-16. These projects included babysitting, beef, beef breeding, cat, cloverbuds, crocheting, educational posters, electricity, entomology, foods and nutrition, gardening/horticulture, horse, knitting, leadership, leathercraft, photography, poultry, quilting, rabbit, robotics, sewing and textiles, sheep, sheep breeding, shooting sports, sport fishing, swine, swine breeding and...
A meeting of the Big Sandy’s Town Council was held on the evening of August 13. They were juggling many topics and concerns for the town of Big Sandy. An added facet of conducting a meeting occurred when there was a need to do a Zoom conference due to three people unable to attend in person. After a few tweaks of the system, they were up and running, with everyone participating in discussion and votes. There was no Deputy Sheriff’s report. All is quiet on the home front at this time. However, Dennis Hale was applauded for dispatching a rat...
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to create chaos in the world of sports. Despite the recent cancellations or postponements of most college seasons, most high schools across the state remain committed to pressing forward with a fall season. Three of the Montana schools in hardest-hit regions of the state canceled their football seasons: St. Labre, Lodge Grass, and Northern Cheyenne (6-man southern division). The Montana 6-Man football league recently voted by an overwhelming margin to change their traditional 9-week regular-season schedule to a...
The Big Sandy Homecoming 2020 was postponed until next year due to Covid, but this year we will be celebrating a different sort of homecoming. This September the world's largest tractor will be returning to the Williams' Farm after spending 10 years on the road. The Big Bud 747 first left Big Sandy to attend a farm show in Illinois. The Williams Brothers, who own the Big Bud 747, had initially intended to bring the tractor to a few more farm shows around the country, but the demands of running...
The 2020 MSU Pest Management Tour is a last chance opportunity for private applicators in Northcentral Montana to obtain recertification credits before the December 31, 2020 private applicator expiration date. Three credits will be offered for each session. Attendees may attend both sessions to accumulate six recertification credits. Onsite programming will be offered at county locations within PAT district 3 on October 6th. Commercial and government applicator credits will also be offered. Onsite virtual programs will be available on October...
The Board of Trustees of Triangle Telephone Cooperative Association, doing business as Triangle Communications (Triangle), had previously voted to hold two annual meetings in October of this year. Triangle was very excited to host a north meeting in Havre and a south meeting in Big Timber which would allow even more of our membership to participate in the business side of the cooperative. However, due to the increase in COVID cases throughout the State of Montana; the Board has made the difficult decision to cancel our annual meetings at both...
The complete plan is almost 6,000 words covering all three phases, which makes it impossible for the Big Sandy Mountaineer to publish it in its entirety. I have chosen portions of the plan to print, but Kelly Haaland would like everyone to know, especially parents, that the complete plan is available for you on the new FaceBook page: Big Sandy Schools and on : bigsandy.k12.mt.us. The Pandemic Coordinator is Mr. Kelly Haaland, with the Pandemic Team of Heather Wolery, Charlie Sipler, and Melanie Schwarzbach. Since we are currently in Phase 2,...
Information for this article was taken from a Kansas State University Press Release. The entire article is located at www.ag.ksu.edu. Producers often wait several weeks after harvest before making their first herbicide application to control volunteer wheat,” said Dallas Peterson, K-State Research and Extension weed management specialist. “This allows as much volunteer as possible to emerge before spraying it or tilling it the first time. Often, a second application or tillage operation will be needed later in the summer to eliminate the green...
This September, I will be riding to raise money to fight Children's Cancer in the Great Cycle Challenge. The Great Cycle Challenge was founded in 2015 and is one of the biggest cycling events in the United States. Working with the Children's Cancer Research Fund, the challenge has raised nearly $25,000,000 in support of research, the development of better treatments, and the search for a cure for childhood cancers. Participants have ridden a total of 18,831,310 miles in their fundraising...
Big Sandy will soon have a new basketball court. The crumbling and cracked concrete of the existing courts at the FE Miley Elementary School has been removed. A new, larger, 40 x 80 feet court will replace it. The court will have 2 sets of basketball hoops with steel backboards, one set at the 8 feet height, and the other at regulation, 10 feet height. A repositionable net will be set at mid-court so that tennis, badminton, and volleyball can be played on the concrete as well. The court can be utilized as an area for outdoor learning once schoo...
We have just been notified our our 4th active case of Covid 19. We are in the process of notifying and quaranting contacts. Please be safe and now that we have four cases the Governor’s Mask directive applies in this county. Masks will be worn for all inside activities whether social distanced or not and some specified outdoor activities when social distancing is not possible. Govenor’s Mask Mandate As used in this Directive, the following terms have the following meanings: • “Business” means any for-profit or non-profit entity which has emplo...
The Montana online library service, Library 2 Go, is a useful service that many Big Sandy locals have grown to love. This was especially the case during quarantine when trips to the library were shut down and trips to book stores were fewer and farther between. Library 2 Go (or Libby, which is the name of one of the apps) is an online library service providing nearly 16,000 titles in audio and e-books available to anyone with a library card, an internet connection, and a means of listening or...
I approached the parking lot of Big Sandy Church of God, watching as cars quickly filled the parking lot and the roadside. Half a dozen volunteers run to cars carrying boxes of food and checking names off the official count list. The food distribution is part of a program that is providing relief to communities across the country during the COVID lockdown. For the past nine weeks, the Farmers To Families Food Box Program has been distributing food boxes to Big Sandy families, providing needed...
• Water trees three times a month in addition to watering your lawn. • Deep watering to a depth of 12” inches below the soil surface is recommended. Saturate the soil around the tree within the “dripline” (the outer edges of the tree’s branches) to disperse water down toward the roots. • For evergreens, water 3’-5’ beyond the dripline on all sides of the tree. • The objective is to water slowly, dispersing the flow of water to get the water deep down to the trees roots. Watering for short periods of time only encourages shallow rooting whi...
Quick Pickles Maybe canning cucumbers for pickles is not for you but you still have those fresh cucumbers? An easy alternative is to make quick pickles in the refrigerator. Great tasting, very easy and ready in a few hours! Try this recipe for a different twist on the traditional refrigerator pickles: 3/4 cup seasoned rice vinegar 1/4 cup water 1 garlic clove, peeled and halved 1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric 1/8 teaspoon black peppercorns 1/8 teaspoon yellow mustard seeds 8 ounces pickling cucumbers*, ends trimmed, sliced ¼ inch thick 2 sprigs...