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Superintendent Moore calls Bridgette Long one seventh of a teacher. Bridgette is a new teacher at Big Sandy Junior High teaching Spanish. She teaches one period out of seven a day, hence one seventh of a teacher. Actually Superintendent Moore is very happy to have Bridgette as a foreign language teacher is needed in Montana schools and Bridgette fits the bill very well. Bridgette did not learn Spanish at Big Sandy High School where she graduated and went through all twelve grades. She went to...
There was big fire news on two fronts last week. The East Fork fire led by a wind from hell got out of containment and went every which way all week long. Monday, September 4 was the first time in over a week that there was not a smoke smell on the prairie and a person could see all the way to Baldy from US 87. The fire started on the Warrick road just before getting to the Dumas summer ranch. From there it went into reservation for a little way but mainly roared down Little Box Elder Creek. Seldom did the fire get west of Beaver Creek and it...
When drought and the accompanying heat hits, attention tends to focus on withering crops, explosive wildfires and subsoil moisture. While those drought-caused problems are obvious, creatures that spend their lives underwater and out of sight can suffer as well. If a stream bed dries up, of course, fish don’t do well. But even before that final step, higher temperatures and reduced stream flow hurt. The Smith River south of Great Falls is a good example. “This has been a particularly tough year on the Smith,” said Grant Grisak, Fish, Wildl...
The regular August City Council meeting was held on August 10th. The Pledge was recited, minutes were approved, there were no public comments and there was one visitor. There was no Sheriff’s report. Concerning the new water project, several calls have been made to Rural Development and it looks like it is funded and headed for a spring start up. Before that can happen there will have to be some public meetings to let people know what is happening. The Brown Field project which concerns the old Service Station in Big Sandy got some bad news w...
Personal Protection Equipment and Paraquat The use of highly toxic pesticides that require respiratory protection were on the decline for over two decades; however one highly toxic active ingredient has been on the rise due to glyphosate resistant kochia in Montana. This active ingredient known as paraquat is in such formulations as Blanco®, Drexel Quik-Quat®, Devour®, Firestorm®, Helmquat 3SL®, Gramaxone Inteon®, Gramoxone SL®, Cyclone SL 2.0®, Bonedry®, Willowood Paraquat 3SL®, Paraquat Concentrate® and Para-Shot 3.0®. Paraquat is a photos...
The Chouteau County Sheriff's Office is releasing the following information pursuant to MCA 46-23-508 which authorizes agencies to inform the public of a sexual offender's registration in our community. This sexual offender has served the sentence imposed on him by the courts and has advised the Chouteau County Sheriff's Office that he will be living in the location below. He is NOT wanted by police at this time. Offenders Information Offender type: Tier 1, Sexual Offender Name: Justin TheBoy...
Contact Senior Citizens Cooks at 378-2405. Remember that lunches mostly consist of an entrée, salad, vegetable, potato, dessert and drink and most cost $5.00 unless otherwise noted. Lunches include fresh bread. The menu for the coming week is as follows: Wednesday, September 6 chili dogs, fries and dessert. Thursday, September 7 New England boiled dinner, buns and dessert for the Lunch of the Week! Friday, September 8 crab pockets with tomato soup and dessert. Monday, September 11 Swedish meatballs over noodles, veggies, salad and dessert for...
Helmbrecht Photography will be here to take school pictures on Wednesday, September 6. They will begin at the elementary school and will be at the high school around 10am. Sports pictures will be taken after school for football and volleyball. Junior high and varsity football players will see action in Power on Friday, September 8 and the Pioneer ladies will host Hays. The publications class will travel to Havre on this same day to sell annual adds. CJI will host volleyball on Saturday, September 9. Juniors and seniors will be in Great Falls...
Old cemeteries can tell a huge amount of history and are becoming more popular all the time to find out just who lived in what age and in many cases how they died as well. The cemetery at Hungry Hollow just east of Clear Creek is choked with lilacs and among those lilacs are names of children who died of influenza, and old timers who died after one might think they should. The cemeteries in Zortman and Landusky, one choked out with iris, the other in an old growth forest tell many stories. At...
Trevor Wilkerson is the bookkeeper and one of the first persons seen by folks looking for Big Sandy Organics. Trevor works out of the log cabin where the Kracklin' Kamut used to be made. He moved there from a suite in the Mint building. As Trevor says, his job is to keep track of the money in this area. Trevor grew up in Roosevelt, Utah, has six children the oldest being 21. They are Taylor, T. J., Bryndon, Aimee, Jeri, and Jaidyn. The youngest of the children is 8, five are girls and one is a...
Sunday, August 27 a fire burned several acres of the Bear Paw Mountains on Moses Mountain close to the Ova Sety Summer Place. The fire started just east of the East Fork Dam on the Rocky Boy Reservation close to the cattle guard by the Dumas summer place. The fire started right next to the Warrick/ Beaver Creek road and spread quickly to Moses Mountain and parts of the Sety summer ranch. It started at 3pm on Sunday afternoon. By 7am on Monday the fire was reported as contained. Volunteers along with several fire departments worked to get the...
With September just around the corner, the fire season, heat and drought lingers on. It will be with us until the winter snows and let’s just hope that no big fires get started now and that we get a good snow early on to help put out what is raging. Actually it looks like things are a little better at the end of August. The horrible Lolo fire just south of Missoula seems to be getting more under control. Missoula residents said that last week they saw the peak of Mount Lolo for the first time in weeks. Some evacuations have been lifted in t...
The Chouteau County Sheriff's Office is releasing the following information pursuant to MCA 46-23-508 which authorizes agencies to inform the public of a sexual offender's registration in our community. This sexual offender has served the sentence imposed on him by the courts and has advised the Chouteau County Sheriff's Office that he will be living in the location below. He is NOT wanted by police at this time. Offenders Information Offender type: Sexual Offender No Tier Name: Joshua Dana...
The Chouteau County Sheriff's Office is releasing the following information pursuant to MCA 46-23-508 which authorizes agencies to inform the public of a sexual offender's registration in our community. This sexual offender has served the sentence imposed on him by the courts and has advised the Chouteau County Sheriff's Office that he will be living in the location below. He is NOT wanted by police at this time. Offenders Information Offender type: Sexual-No Tier Name: Jerald Schattilly...
As many people in Fort Benton and Chouteau County know, long-time County Planner Alice Honrud, has retired. To replace her expertise, the Chouteau County Commission has retained the services of Great West Engineering to provide County residents with planning and land use services. Jerry Grebenc is Great West's senior planner and he will be the primary contact for planning services in the County. Jerry will be in the County Planning Office twice a month, with his schedule posted at the Planning...
By Robert Lucke Contact the Senior Citizen Cooks at 378-2405. Lunches include an entrée, salad, vegetable, potato, dessert and drink and cost $5.00 unless otherwise noted. Wednesday, August 30 cheeseburger pie, vegetable tray, bread and dessert. Thursday, August 31 liver and onions with mashed potatoes and gravy, salad, bread and dessert. Friday, September 1 BLT wraps and dessert. Monday, September 4 closed for a very happy Labor Day. Tuesday, September 12 pork chops, potatoes, veggies, salad, dessert and bread for the Lunch of the week! This...
Friday, September 1 2 day Volleyball tournament at Rudyard and Gildford. Friday, September 1 junior high volleyball in Havre at St. Judes. Saturday, September 2 varsity football at Winifred at 1pm. Junior high volleyball jamboree at Big Sandy 9am on Saturday, September 2 as well. Monday, September 4 is Labor Day No School! Someone’s mother turns 80 on September 4. Tuesday, September 5 junior high football hosts Winifred in Big Sandy at 4pm. Wednesday, September 6 school pictures by Helmbrecht Photo in the morning for both high school and elemen...
Lianna Heimbigner from the local American Legion presented Chase Gasvoda, a 5th grader and an awesome Pioneer, with a nice 2nd Place Trophy. Chase earned the trophy at the American Legion REGIONALS for the Poppy Poster contest held last spring....
The summer was a stressful time for schools across the state as they prepared their budgets for the upcoming school year. There were same major changes implemented into the school finance funding formula imposed by the state legislators during the last session. The first major change was the passage of HB 647. This change took a large share of the state’s portion of school funding away from the school districts. For Big Sandy it was $185,000. The state will now keep this money and they shifted the tax burden to the local taxpayers. This was a...
A couple of years ago "The Mountaineer" interviewed a new cook at the Senior Citizens Center. Her name was Crystal Geyer. When we did that interview we concluded that Crystal had been a wise choice as a cook. Her love of people, her getting along with staff and her love for cooking and food made her a natural in any kitchen. Unfortunately for the Senior Citizens Center Crystal took a job as an aide at the elementary school and her expertise was lost to Big Sandy seniors for a year. That was a...
Colby Baumgarn, president of the TV Club announced that they have just introduced a new channel, called the “Grit Channel”. It is a channel devoted exclusively to old and not so old western movies and sagas. If watching McClintock or Shane or The Hanging Tree or The Man who shot Liberty Valance or The Big Sky is your thing, you will see them all on “Grit”. By the way, The Hanging Tree and the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance were both written by Montana author Dorothy Johnson and The Big Sky was written by Montana author Bud Guthrie. Maybe you hav...
The fire alert from Glacier National Park which is included here is included because Glacier officials say that the Sprague Complex of fires will remain the same or maybe grow a little until the snow falls at the beginning of winter. So, as you read through this report, chances are that the trails mentioned here will stay closed until the end of the summer season. If you are heading for Glacier soon, a good rule of thumb is to not go on any trails close to Sperry Chalet as they will probably be closed unless the weather changes drastically. Wes...
Do to a technical problem we missed half this story last week. Here is the story in its entirety. It’s my favorite time of year...buying new school supplies, getting new school clothes, new haircuts, decorating my classroom (although this year it was decorating my office) hearing the football and volleyball kids at practice, and the all the excitement in the air for a new school year! The new school year always begins for me as a great adventure. What kind of journey will this year bring? Well here are my hopes for what we will accomplish at B...
This week Steph has chosen to feature “THE DIVIDE” by Nickolas Evans which is a large print book. Two backcountry skiers have discovered the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night police work with the arc lights and chain saws to dig her out. It doesn’t take long to identify the victim as Abbie Cooper, whose picture illuminated law enforcement computers all across America. Once viewed as the perfect daughter by all who knew her, Abbie has been on the run for murder. But what caused Benja...
Harvest running late this year and are you just plumb tired of fixing harvest lunches? Look no further. Just call 378-2405 and order your harvest lunch from the Senior Citizen’s Center. Lunches for the coming week are as follows: Wednesday, August 23 Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, brown gravy, salad, bread and dessert for hands down the Lunch of the Week! Thursday, Augusts 24 crispy nutty chicken with fires, salad and dessert. Friday, August 25 egg salad sandwiches, potato salad, chips and dessert. Monday, August 28 stuffed green peppers, s...