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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 of water per o...
November is American Diabetes Month - PREDIABETES One in three American adults has prediabetes, but only 10 percent know they have it. Prediabetes is when blood glucose (sugar) level are higher than normal, but not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. Prediabetes can be viewed as a warning sign from your body to make some lifestyle changes before your health worsens. Some prediabetes risks can be managed, like physical activity and weight, to help prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes. Other risks, like age and family history, you...
By Robert Lucke Contact the Senior Citizen Cooks at 378-2405 and remember when ordering meals to go, order them before 10:30am on the day you need the meals. Happy Thanksgiving from all at the Senior Citizen Center! Lunch menus for the coming week are as follows: Wednesday, November 22 - Thanksgiving Dinner with all the fixings. Please note the cost of that dinner is ten dollars and, of course, it is the Lunch of the Week! Thursday, November 23 - Closed, Happy Thanksgiving Friday, November 24 - Closed, Happy Thanksgiving Monday, November 27 -...
Due to an early deadline for publishing this issue of “The Mountaineer”, we were not able to get any school news. We will catch up with that next week. Here are breakfast and lunch menus for the coming week. Wednesday, November 22 - NO SCHOOL Thanksgiving holiday Thursday, November 23 - NO SCHOOL Thanksgiving holiday Friday, November 24 - NO SCHOOL Monday, November 27 - Breakfast is oatmeal, blueberries, fresh fruit, assorted cereals along with milk and juice. Lunch is shrimp poppers, peas, mixed fruit, salad bar along with buns and milk. Tue...
Recent grizzly bear attacks involving hunters reinforces the importance of being bear aware in Montana, even with a thick layer of snow on the ground in most parts of the state. During the past weekend, hunters were attacked by bears in separate incidents. In one incident, in southwest Montana in Tom Miner Basin, a hunter was hiking in to retrieve an elk. He encountered a bear and deployed bear spray. He sustained minor injuries in the attack. In another incident near Pendroy, north of Choteau...
Bear Paw Mountains rancher Micky Kane had an idea one day. Kane was a very good hunter and loved the trophies he could bring home from his various hunts. But his house was filled with trophies and there were seemingly more to come because that is the way of a trophy hunter, there are never enough and there is that one full mount of a record breaking moose or a Kodiak bear ready to attack, again another record breaker. What to do with all his mounts was his question? Then it came to him. Add...
Several vendors will be out and about participating in the December 2 stroll in Big Sandy. It might be a sun shiny day with temperatures in the 50’s and it might be cold and snowy but whatever the weather, there will be plenty of people strolling and plenty more tempting those strollers with their wares. Take the Senior Citizen Center in the middle of downtown Big Sandy. They will be having their famous cinnamon roll and bake sale starting at 9am that day and lasting until all the baked goods are gone. Here is a tip from the Senior Citizens Coo...
Go to the elementary school in Big Sandy or Big Sandy High School when Gwen Kane is there and you will find that already pleasant teachers, administrators more pleasant and smiling more simply because Gwen Kane is substitute teaching that day. If there was a born teacher, it is Gwen. Makes us oldsters want to be young again just so we can take some classes from her. We, at "The Mountaineer" had wanted to interview Gwen for quite a while now and when we asked for the story, Gwen told us that she...
Oh, no, “The Mountaineer” is going to try and predict the weather once again. Recently on the street one wag was talking to another and the one said, “Why don’t they just give up. They are worse than the National Weather Service!” I imagined that the two were talking of a recent weather story that was written at “The Mountaineer” and was none too accurate. I had to laugh because although our story was none too accurate, we got it from the National Weather Service so we could not possibly be worse than they are. We don’t knock the National Weath...
Montana Pulse Day December 1, 2017 Best Western Heritage Inn The 2017 Montana Pulse Day will take place on December 1, 2017 at the Best Western Heritage Inn. The event will begin at 8:30 a.m. Notable Educational programs of importance to producers: 10:30 – 11:30 am Importance of Rotations and Disease Prevention Mary Burrows, MSU Plant Pathology Specialist. 11:30 – 12:00 Platinum Sponsor Update Johnson Seed Inc., JM Grain, AGT Foods, Hinrich’s Trading, ITC Grain. 1:30 – 2:00 pm MSU Pulse Crop Breeding Kevin McPhee, MSU Plant Breeder. 2:00 ...
Contact the Senior Citizen Cooks at 378-2405 and remember that for orders to go call them in before 10:30am the morning you need them. Menus for the coming week are as follows: Wednesday, November 15 breakfast casserole with bacon and fruit for the Lunch of the Week! Thursday, November 16 meatballs over mashed potatoes veggies, salad, bread and dessert. Friday, November 17 smorgasbord Monday, November 20 chicken strips, fries, salad and dessert Tuesday, November 21 taco salad and dessert Since it is getting toward Thanksgiving, here is a dish...
Thursday, November 16 high school basketball and wrestling practice begin, Thursday, November 16 girls basketball travels to Missoula to watch some college basketball. Friday, November 17 junior high basketball hosts Turner Saturday, November 18 junior high basketball hosts Fort Benton. Monday, November 20 and Tuesday, November 21 Science Olympiad in Bozeman Monday, November 20 at 8am University of Montana representative visits Big Sandy. Monday, November 20 Vo-Ed meeting at 6pm. Wednesday, November 22 through Sunday, November 26 NO SCHOOL...
Audrey Sipler and Sophie Reichelt, Big Sandy High School music students, were nominated by their classmates and Mrs. Robinson, the music teacher, to attend the UM All Star Music camp. They took classes all weekend, played with the marching band at the Griz Football game on Saturday, November 11. They ended the weekend with a concert on Sunday....
The third annual Concealed Weapons Class was held at the Big Sandy Gun Club on November 3 and 4. Twenty participants spent two days under the instruction of Dr. David Simpson and Tim Tucker from the Great Falls Shooting Sports Complex. Thank you to the instructors for their willingness to provide this service to our community again, and to the Big Sandy Adult Education Program for sponsoring the class....
November 11 is Veteran's Day all over the United States and we live the dream of veterans who have given their all for their country. It is a day on the Big Dry of Montana to hear about long ago heroics and sell Buddy Poppies, attend memorial services and go to potlucks to honor servicemen and women. Meanwhile somewhere out in the Pacific Ocean between Costa Rico, Hawaii and Alaska, Matthew Louvar is living the dream for he joined the Coast Guard after graduating from high school and is...
Mayor Stiles told “The Mountaineer” that he is resigning from being the Mayor of Big Sandy. Stiles had run for a second term of Mayor and said he would continue to be the Mayor until his new term starts at which time the Council would have to find a replacement for him. Mayor Stiles has been having some health problems and the stress connected with being Mayor of Big Sandy was not helping cure those problems....
Chamber of Commerce people have heard that more and more Big Sandy is getting a very good reputation for having many Christmas lights each Christmas Season. That all starts soon now with the Griswold Christmas Party. That is an occasion for business people along with residential dwellers to bring out their Christmas lights and hang them while it is still fairly warm out, then head to Agri-Prairie for Tom and Jerrys and good cheer. The Griswold Christmas Party starts on November 17 around 12:30pm. The more people that are there, the more lights...
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks declared October 24 to 31 as National Bat Week. Bats are kind of like snakes and things that crawl on the ground. They have a bad reputation. People know they can carry rabies and that does not help their general well being, living in a world with all the rest of us. But there is more. It is a well known fact that in ghost mythology and things that go bump in the night, bats are a form that vampires take to get around the countryside very quickly. They are black, only come out at night and hang upside down. What...
Grizzly bear populations are continuing to expand in western Montana, and though we often say that anywhere in the western half of the state is grizzly bear country, not all recreationist, particularly hunters are ready to encounter a grizzly bear. • carry bear spray, be prepared and know how to use it, • hunt with a partner if possible and let someone else know your plans, • pay attention to fresh bear sign. Look for bear tracks, scat, and concentrations of natural foods, • use caution when hunting areas that have evidence of bear activit...
Front Range Wool Pool Meeting in Conrad The Front Range Wool Pool meeting will take place on December 5th in Conrad, Montana at the Conrad Moose Lodge. Registration begins at 1:30 p.m. A Potluck Supper will begin at 6:00 p.m. President Pete Cornell from Loma will welcome participants followed by Dave McEwen, who will give an update on the Montana Wool Growers Association. Educational presentations include: • Dr. Lisa Surber-American Wool Council: Wool Quality and Trends • Dr. Megan Van Emon-MSU Regional Beef Specialist: Relearning Drought Man...
Contact Senior Citizen Cooks at 378-2405. For orders to go, please order them before 10:30am. Menus for the coming week are as follows: Wednesday, November 8 creamed chicken over biscuits, vegetables, salad and dessert. Thursday, November 9 patty melt with chips, salad and dessert. Friday, November 10 Veterans Day Dinner including prime rib, scalloped potatoes, carrots, salad, jello salad, rolls and dessert this meal costs $10.00 and is the Lunch of the Week! Monday, November 13 goulash, salad, bread and dessert. Tuesday, November 14 is the Bir...
Wednesday, November 8 - FFA Business/Ag Days in Fort Benton from 8am to 1:30pm. Wednesday, November 8 - FFA leaves for John Deere Ag. Expo at Bozeman, Montana. Wednesday, November 8 - Parent/teacher conferences from 4 to 7pm. Thursday, November 9 - Parent/teacher conferences from 4 to 7pm. Thursday, November 9 - Veteran guest speakers to talk to history classes throughout the day. Friday, November 10 - Junior high basketball at Chester Saturday, November 11 - Junior high basketball jamboree at Big Sandy. Monday, November 13 - FFA officers will...
November is observed as American Diabetes Month. This is an opportunity to share information about diabetes, making people aware of what it is and why it is important to manage diabetes when diagnosed or even prevent it. What is diabetes? Simply put, it is a condition that causes the levels of glucose (blood sugar) in your blood to get too high. Over time, your organs cannot function properly due to the high levels of glucose. It just cannot keep up with the demand and then you begin to experience health problems. If diabetes is not diagnosed...
Montana FSA: November 2017 Newsletter In order to comply with FSA program eligibility requirements, all producers, including livestock producers, are encouraged to visit their local FSA office to file an accurate crop certification report by the applicable deadline. The 2018 Acreage Reporting/Crop Certification Deadline is Nov. 15, 2017 for Apiculture, Perennial Forage, Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) including native grass, fall wheat (Hard Red Winter) and all other fall-seeded small grains. These crops must be reported to FSA by Nov. 15,...
What do these two organizations have in common? Plenty. However, I must say the women’s group accomplishes more. I know, at this time of year this is not a popular thing to say, but when you’re right, you’re right. Santa’s elves work all year round preparing for one night when girls and boys all over the world get toys. This is admirable. By contrast, the Methodist women work all year round amassing articles for the Big Sandy Christmas craft sale. This year it will be December 2, at the Jerry Martin Memorial Hall and also the Museum. In cont...