New library named for Jeff Reichelt

When Janis Kaiser gave the Kaste building to the library in 2007, she thought they would use her building as a new library. She was pleasantly surprised when a whole new building came alive where the Kaste Store had stood.

The Kaste family were old timers in Havre and Big Sandy. Janis' grandfather had a cigar store in Havre right next to the Havre Hotel. In 1942 her father Walt Kaste started a store in Big Sandy where the Senior Citizens Center is today and then moved to the McNamara Big Store and Janis and Dennis Reichelt moved the store into the building that Janis Kaiser donated to the libr...