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It's here-Christmas. The Annual Chouteau County Christmas Stroll always ushers in the Christmas season. This year Big Sandy's Christmas Stroll is "A Cowboy Christmas". Over the last three weeks the Mountaineer has tried to prepare you for this weekend. It takes a lot of work to accomplish the "Cowboy Christmas" and the Big Sandy CSI committee members Marlys Myers, Tina Cook, Tracy Schuster, Leslie Gregory, Danielle Weaver, Crystal Geyer, Dave Louvar, Pete Jerrel, and Travis Baumann have been...
All the kids are very excited about the Belize Ecology trip. So far there have been two fundraisers for the kids. The cookie dough sales, which went amazing, and the pie and ice cream sale at the home volleyball game. The parents are now working really hard to organize future fundraisers to make sure all the kids are able to go on this amazing trip. December first is this year’s annual Christmas Stroll! The town is super excited and getting ready to open up booths and participate in the parade. The kids participating in the Belize Ecology t...
Sun Shine Snippers 4-H Club is a service organization not just an organization with learning projects. When they sold Martinson's Chocolates as a fund raiser this year they had to declare a service project. This year they decided to create a Hats and Mittens Tree at the FE Miley grade school. Teachers were encouraged to find students in need of hats and mittens and allow those students to pick them off the tree for themselves and for their siblings. Any hats or mittens left will be donated to th...
The Big Sandy High School and Junior High Science Olympiad teams competed in Bozeman this last week at their state competition. The high school team finished second in the small schools division and 11th overall. The junior high finished 28th overall, despite competing with a partial team due to athletic scheduling conflicts. Notable placings in the high school division were Jozlyn Baumann and Grace Finke, who brought home bronze medals in the Write It- Do It category, Jozyln Baumann and...
Holiday Lesson: Christmas Tree Care There are many “tips” to caring for a Christmas tree that propose to make it last longer or stay greener. In truth, all a tree really needs to maintain freshness is adequate water. This is easily done by using the proper tree stand and keeping the water level in the stand above the base of the tree. The following tips will help to maintain the freshness and aroma of a live Christmas tree this holiday season: • Use a tree stand that holds enough water for the size of the tree. The rule of thumb is one quart...
Her trip was everything she wanted it to be. She learned a lot of things and meet a lot of people. A lot of people she met changed their minds, but she didn't! She wants to be a Forensic Pathologist. Passions sometimes start young and going to the Medicine and Health Care Summit only intensified her goal. During the Summit, there was a lengthy discussion of career exploration concerning medical career fields. There was also lengthy discussion about medical ethics including the Hippocratic oath....
Havre Elks Lodge (BPOE 1201) will conduct their annual Memorial Service on Sunday, December 2nd at 5 p.m. in the Lodge Room located at 321 2nd Street. Lodge Exalted Ruler, Kyle Leeds, stated that this annual service honors the memory of Elks members who have passed away during the past year – as well as remembering those Elk members who have gone on before. Program Chairman Bob Nieuwenhuyse announced that this years’ Memorial Service speaker will be Pastor Rick Hodshire, Senior Minister at Fifth Avenue Christian Church. Havre Elks Lodge off...
Thanksgiving according to all accounts is the largest family holiday during the year, at least with the amount of travelling done--48.5 million people drove their cars this Thanksgiving, 4.27 million traveled by air, and 1.48 million went to family celebrations on a bus or train. We all have Thanksgiving traditions we repeat and repeat because they give us comfort. Although many of us eat turkey at Thanksgiving ham is a favorite too. One of the foods that has become a family tradition at the holidays at our house is a cauliflower and broccoli...
I love talking to Kindergarten kids. I wanted to talk to them about Thanksgiving. What were they thankful for? Mrs. Samantha Weaver asked them. "Good News Club", and then a few repeated the subject. "God in the Heaven." "Jesus." "Praying to God." One little boy said he was thankful for "special blankeys". Another boy said "I-Pad" when a little girl answered quickly, "I don't have an I-Pad." I realized they had learned their lessons that week when the next answers were "Veterans" and "The Flag"....
Big Sandy CSI is putting the final touches on the upcoming Christmas Stroll. They have been adding videos to their Facebook page so check those out. They will be revealing the Grand Prize this week, so watch for that. It is sure to put the excitement into the Stroll this year. Breakfast with Santa! Again this year The Mint will be hosting the Breakfast with Santa. They will be serving a yummy breakfast of pancakes with bacon or sausage or biscuits and gravy. Santa will be there to take pictures with. There will be no photographer there this...
It was busy with everybody doing their last minute preparations. Bob Quinn was tuning his trombone behind the curtain. People were finding their seats. Marla Ray started the show on time by introducing all four High school students, Audrey Sipler, Abriana Blanton, Grace Finke, and Everett Works as this Variety Show was to support their musical trip to Europe. Marla said, "No one wants to volunteer to go first. So, I will." She sang a song called "There's a Place at the Table for Me" a song she...
If you were traveling through Big Sandy you would have seen six FWP’s, a US Fish and Wildlife Service officer and a Chouteau Sheriff Deputy who had set up a hunter’s game stop at Big Sandy’s Rest stop. When I asked who was in charge they all laughed and pointed their fingers to everyone standing around. I wanted to know how many samples they had taken looking for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). “All we can do here is take samples and send them off. We try to have a number of officers, because if one of these have to take off after someone who do...
Grain storage inspections should begin close to Thanksgiving Inspecting grain bins for pests on or before Thanksgiving is a great rule of thumb for Chouteau County producers. The Lesser grain borer Rhyzopertha dominica is one of the most injurious beetles known to attack stored grain. The Lesser grain borer belongs to the Bostrichidae family of beetles, which are mostly wood boring insects. R. dominica causes major physical and off-odor damage to grain in storage. Identifying Characteristics: Adults are dark reddish-brown to black in color, and...
State and local public health officials are participating in U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week November 12-18, 2018, which is an annual one-week observance to raise awareness of the importance of appropriate antibiotic use to combat the threat of antibiotic resistance. The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPPHS) and its partners are encouraging all Montanans to work closely with their healthcare providers to reduce the use of antibiotics. DPHHS is part of a statewide Montana Antimicrobial Stewardship Collaborative to...
Triangle Telephone Cooperative Association, Inc., doing business as Triangle Communications (Triangle), held its 65th Annual Meeting of Members on Saturday, October 13, 2018. Voting members plus numerous guests totaled close to 300 in attendance at the meeting held in the Student Union Building on the campus of Montana State University-Northern in Havre. Attending members voted to approve the proposed By-Law changes. A complete listing of these changes appeared in the meeting notice mailed to all members before the meeting. Prize drawings for...
Meal Planning November 27, 2018 Big Sandy Library Stop by anytime between 3:00 and 6:00 pm and work on developing a personalized meal plan. Leave with a printed menu, recipes, grocery list and daily nutrient intake values to meet your dietary needs. Why plan out your meals? By having a plan for your meals, you will save money, prepare and eat more healthy meals and reduce your stress. By sticking to a grocery list for the meals planned, you will not overbuy and you will have less waste due to using the ingredients needed for the planned meals....
Mrs. Amanda Robertson, Big Sandy Music teacher, asked every student to wear red, white, and blue to their Veteran's day concert. The patriotic theme was everywhere. But no one took it to the extreme like Labuda, who painted her face blue, wore a red shirt and white pants. Every age group participated in the Veterans Day Program held at the High School on November 12th. The High School 7-12 grade choir sang the Star-Spangled Banner and the 6th grade class lead the audience with the Pledge of...
Although Russel Nemetz is not from Big Sandy there isn't a farmer or rancher that hasn't listened to him on the radio and television. He has done a great job of representing agriculture and I was interested in talking to him about his legacy. Sitting down with me between his own television interviews I wanted to know what it was that made Russel so successful. He was genuinely willing to visit with me. I was inspired. I recorded him like I do everyone, but transcribing his comments became...
Q. What is Chronic Wasting Disease and how do deer, elk and moose catch it? A. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is one type of a class of diseases called Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, or TSEs, that infect members of the deer family, including deer, elk, moose, and caribou. TSEs are caused by infectious, mis-folded prion proteins, which cause normal prion proteins throughout a healthy animal’s body to mis-fold, resulting in organ damage and eventual death. These prions are found throughout bodily tissues and secretions and are shed i...
No job. Severe injury. Hospitalization. Worried about where your kids’ next meal is going to come from. Mid-life career change gone bad. Major vehicle breakdown. Laid off suddenly after 25 years with the same company. Elderly couple and one dies. These situations, any combination thereof, and almost anything you can imagine, are what participants in the Energy Share program have gone or are going through. Energy Share of Montana is a statewide private nonprofit that helps your neighbors who are facing loss of heat or lights in their home t...
Big Sandy students put on a wonderful Veteran's Day program Monday afternoon. They sang patriotic songs like "America the beautiful" and "I am A Yankee Doodle Dandy". The High School choir and band played and recited readings and poems. It was a great way to honor our veterans....
The 2018 General Election saw record turnout all across the nation, the state of Montana and Chouteau County as voters swarmed to the polls to vote in the mid-term election. Overall it was tied with 1994 as the most voted mid-term election of all time with 69.93% of Montana voters casting ballots and only trailed the 2016 Presidential Election (74.44%) overall. Senator Jon Tester won re-election, winning 50% of the State vote. In Chouteau County Tester received 1,269 votes to Republican challenger, Matt Rosendale’s 1,303. In Big Sandy Tester r...
Larry and Chris Brumwell have been teachers in our schools since the fall of 1978. That's 40 years of teaching. Larry was born and raised on a farm in Power, Montana. Chris was born in Iowa and lived there until she was 12. At that time, her father was 56 and had cancer and wasn't supposed to live so, when her mother was offered a job for the Ford Motor Company in Great Falls Montana it was decided to go where her mother's job would be. Her father lived till he was 92! Chris went to school at...
It’s that time of year again to get in the spirit of Christmas! The community of Big Sandy and the Big Sandy CSI (Community Service and Improvement) group is excited to start making Big Sandy look like a Christmas village, dripping in Christmas lights and decorations. Big Sandy CSI has been doing the Griswold part for about 5 years. They encourage Big Sandy Main street businesses to put up lights and decorate their businesses; we also want people to do it at their homes around town. “We would like to see everyone get into the spirit and have fu...
Roberta Edwards wanted to design a button making sure the rope was an integral part of the design knowing the CSI Country Christmas was using rope as a central decorating point in the Cowboy Christmas theme. Roberta has been taking art classes at MSU Northern Montana in Havre and was excited to use what she has been learning to create a button to help celebrate the season. She always has fun experimenting using a different approach to each art work. This button was created on watercolor paper...