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It is time to start thinking about the 2016 Christmas Stroll. It will be held on Saturday, December 3 which is just around the corner. Stroll manager Marlys Edmonds said that there are many different activities planned for this year as well as many exciting contests to be entered. This year the Big Sandy Chamber of Commerce, who puts on the Stroll, turned to face book to choose a theme for the Stroll. The Chamber offered a hundred dollars in chamber bucks for the winning choice. Marlys said there were many great choices but the chamber chose “C...
When Alan and Lorrie Merrill visited the ruins of Pompeii in Italy, little did they know what it would stir up at home when they brought their grandson Henry a book about Pompey and Mount Vesuvius erupting and destroying that area. Henry, who has always been interested in natural disasters and ruins, almost wore the book out looking at its pages over and over again. Henry is the son of Mary and Nathan Merrill. He is a five year old very active little boy with a great imagination and gift of...
Fall Cropping Update from MSU Extension Soil Fertility Specialist Information for this article came from a MSU Extension Press Release. “Both nitrogen and sulfur needs for next year’s crops should be considered said Clain Jones (MSU Extension Soil Fertility Specialist) especially in areas that received well-above or well-below normal rainfall. There are several things that influence the next crop’s nitrogen requirements,” Jones said. “These include yield potential, residual nitrogen in the soil, and this year’s crop residue.” Jones encoura...
Thanks to a generous Lippard-Clawiter Foundation grant the first ten years of the Mountaineer (1911 to 1921) have been digitized and are now on line. The website link is: http://montananewspapers.org/lccn/sn84036071/ or Google montananewspapers.org and click on Big Sandy. Readers everywhere can enjoy the first Mountaineers with this grant to the Big Sandy Cultural Fund. Doug Giebel, the Fund’s Executive Director, worked with the Montana Historical Society’s new effort to digitize, preserve and put on line Montana’s newspapers. The local nonpr...
Regular Meeting October 24, 2016 7:00 p.m. High School Computer Room Trustees Present: Brad Weaver, Chairperson, Diana LaBuda, Darin Genereux Trustee Absent: Brandon Gasvoda, Andrew Long Staff Present: Brad Moore, Superintendent, Maryetta Engle, Clerk, Heather Wolery, Elementary Head Teacher Visitors Present: Dave Peterson, Nubby Peterson, Ronnie Simpson, Gabriella Blatt, Fred Watstein, Dan Leader, Teal Poole, Andrea Rutledge, Jasmine Genereux, and Jenna Leader 1. Call to Order - Chairperson Brad Weaver called the meeting to order. 2. Pledge...
It certainly won't be the same at the Senior Citizen's Center after October 31 as that will be the last day that Linda Rutledge will be in charge of the center. Karma Hale will be taking Linda's place on November 1. Linda is a long term cook at the Senior Center. She started cooking for the Center in 2004. Before that she cooked for the hospital. She has always liked to cook as do her sisters and mother. There is no doubt of Linda's favorite food. It is also the favorite food of her children...
Believe it or not this is going to turn into a ghost story but first lots and lots of background. Long have I been interested in the exploits of Kid Curry (Harvey Logan) and his brothers in the Little Rockies. No part of the story is more interesting than the story about the death of Jim Winters and his partner Abraham Gill after taking over a ranch that the Logan Brothers thought belonged to them. I first got wind of this story in a small book written about the Little Rockies by Gladys Costello. Called “The Golden Era of the Little R...
Calista Worrall is heading up the Big Sandy fifth Grade of some 13 students this year. This is her first year in Big Sandy although she has taught in Fort Benton and Box Elder. Calista is from Missouri and got her training from Missouri Southern State College in Elementary Education. It was there she met her husband who is from Loma, so it was off to Montana and off to a new life. Before teaching this year at Big Sandy, Calista taught for four years in Box Elder and was an RTI aide in Fort...
October 12 we had another successful blood drawing, thank you to all the generous donors. We also had a couple of firsts. First time doors were Jessica Roth, Nicholas Diacon, Kurtis Strutz, Caitlin Bailey, and Matthew Louvar. Thank you and we hope you continue to be donors. Robin Pearson received his 6 gallon pin and Bob Nelson received his 8 gallon pin. The Methodist Ladies served a delicious lunch and helped throughout the drawing. Thank you so much! This was the first time we have ever had to turn anyone away due to lack of equipment....
I sat down with superintendent Moore and talked about the new cruiser bus filling the bus barn and this is what he had to say. As we all know school funding is complex. There are numerous funds that can only be used for certain things. The general fund is the main fund of a school and that pays for staff salaries, benefits, monthly bills and curricular needs. There are separate funds to deal with cost of busing students, technology costs, retirement, and bus depreciation. The bus depreciation...
No one has ever accused Doug Giebel of not having a good imagination. He has been known to build castles in the sky for years. When the new library was just a dream, Doug had dreamed large and passed on his ideas to his community. The library ideas did not work out for Doug as he would have wished, but that did not stop him. He kept on dreaming of those castles in the sky. For the last year or more now he has been very busy putting foundations under them. As you read his story about converting...
My Neighbor in Need, founded by Dave Snuggs of Great Falls in 2012 and My Student in Need, opened in 2013, are now available in Big Sandy. My Neighbor in Need provides an anonymous resource for asking and giving help between neighbors within our community. The individual requesting help, simply completes an application and verifies some basic information with the volunteers who are running the project. Once the application is complete and the need request approved, a short story about the need is written, while keeping the person who is asking...
This is the first year that Margaret Fasteson has taught sixth grade at the Big Sandy Elementary School. Margaret and her husband hail from the Spokane area. Several years ago a friend convinced them to come to the Geraldine area where Margaret taught for two years. Bob Quinn hired Margaret's husband to be a part of his farming operation and Margaret got a job here in Big Sandy. Margaret does not run her sixth grade class like others. Sometimes she just can't as she has the largest class in the...
Nostalgia and patriotism are back when Chouteau County Performing Arts presents our first concert of the season, in partnership with Price Rite and The Clubhouse Bar, at The Fort Benton Agricultural Center on Monday, October 24th at 7PM. The Beverly Belles will take you on a journey through the past, with this retro floor show of song which inspire memories, charm and sassiness. Feel free to dress for whichever decade you relate to best. CCPA season tickets will still be available for sale at...
This is National Fire Prevention Week and we are celebrating it in "The Mountaineer" this issue. Fire prevention goes back a long, long way with early day volunteer firemen going around in wagons that would hold many gallons of water and that were manned by four or six horses. Needless to say that not a lot of fires were put out unless the fire was right next to the fire department. If those old fire wagons had to go a mile, chances were the fire would have consumed whatever building they were...
"The Mountaineer" has written stories about Shersteen Cline in the last few years. She played volleyball like nobodies business at Montana Tech for a four year college career. And, she was so good at what she did, that she got many scholarships to boot. But, all the time Cline was playing award winning volleyball for Montana Tech she was learning. She knew she needed a career. Volleyball was not going to last forever, maybe teaching and coaching would. Shersteen Cline is well known in the Big...
For a town the size of Big Sandy, it is as important to have as many services as the town can possibly hold. To have a medical center, a grocery store, several cafes and a bakery/deli and even Big Sandy Activities is important, not to mention very high quality schools. So, a few years ago when a new pharmacy came to Big Sandy, it was just the frosting on the cake. All of a sudden there was another medical presence in Big Sandy and when you consider that the average person sees his or her doctor...
The Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) is encouraging all Montanans 6 months of age and older to get vaccinated now against influenza in order to decrease their risk of becoming ill with the flu. In Montana, the flu season usually peaks in February and lasts through May. Officials say the vaccine is readily available. The influenza vaccine is the best form of protection against the flu and provides protection throughout the entire flu season, even when vaccinated in the early fall. The composition of the flu vaccine is...
Insects Affecting Livestock Production The Chouteau County Livestock Protective Association meeting will take place on Friday, November 10th at 3:00 p.m.at the Vets Hall in Geraldine. The social will begin at 5:00 p.m. followed by dinner at 6:30. An educational presentation on insects affecting livestock production will follow dinner. Dr. Greg Johnson, MSU Extension Veterinary Entomologist will discuss fly and lice management in beef cattle. Horn flies are the most common summer pest on mature cattle in Montana. These flies spend 95% of their...
Butte, Mont. – October 3, 2016 – NorthWestern Energy has filed an application to increase its natural gas delivery service and production rates in Montana. The application, filed with the Montana Public Service Commission, also seeks to permanently place two natural-gas production properties in northcentral Montana into its rate base. The overall increase in delivery services and production charges is 7.96 percent, or approximately $10.9 million. But the overall impact on customer bills varies by customer type. For a typical residential cus...
The Big Sandy Medical Guild is pleased to report that the 2016 Rummage Sale was very successful. It takes a lot of volunteers to make this annual event run smoothly. We appreciate everyone who helped in whatever way they could: those who donated items, set up, sorted, priced items, worked the sale, and cleaned up, made pies, served pies, and donated raffle prizes. Your hard work and generosity is very much appreciated. The community is so supportive by purchasing items at the rummage sale, enjoying the pie & coffee, and purchasing raffle...
Hold on to your hats partners, for the 61st Annual Chili Feed is right around the corner. It will be held on Friday, October 7, 2016. Chili with all the fixings will start to be served around 4 p.m. on the Friday of the Pioneers home game against Valier. Hamburger for the chili has been donated by the IX ranch and the firemen themselves are responsible for some of the best chili ever served north of the Rio Grande! This is a mega fundraiser for Big Sandy and has been responsible for keeping the Volunteer Fire Department’s equipment better t...
To coin an old phrase, “There is trouble in River City”. Due to that trouble Alan Merrill and some Farmer’s Union representatives have just come back from Washington D.C. While there they presented Senators and Representatives with four top issues. They were adequate farm and food support, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Renewable fuel standard and Corporate Consolidation in Agriculture. More about them later, but what led to that particular Fly-In is a disaster brewing in the agriculture right here at home. Merrill said that cattle prices have...
Enter Lady Macbeth with a taper. "Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise, and upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her: stand close." Doct. "How came she by that light?" Gent. "Why it stood by her: she has light by her continually: tis her command." Doct. "You see her eyes are open." Gent. "Ay, but their sense is shut." Doct. "What is it she does now? Look how she rubs her hands." Gent. "It is an accustomed action with her to seem thus washing her hands. I have known her continue in this...
Fundamentals of Farming and Ranching for Families Conference Due to the great success of last year’s workshop, MSU Extension Chouteau County will be hosting another workshop for farm and ranch families from 8:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. on Thursday, November 3, 2016 at the Community Bible Center in Fort Benton. The center is located at 911 16th street in Fort Benton. Daycare will be provided for attendees upon request. Lunch is sponsored by Farm Bureau Federation and Jared Vielleux from Farm Bureau Financial Services. The workshop will include s...