Week of October 16, 2024
Week of October 16, 2024
To our friends in Big Sandy and the surrounding community: Last July we had our grand opening which many of you attended. A lot has happened at the Quinn Institute since then. We enjoyed a wonderful growing season compared to the last four years of drought and grasshoppers and now the last of the harvest is winding down and all the winter wheat trials are planted. Our last big event for the year was our potato harvest. We were fortunate enough to have our good friends from the Greycliff...
I would like to introduce you to the Pioneer Producers of Big Sandy, MT. We are a local group committed to feeding the youth and seniors of our community. Our focus is to incorporate locally raised beef and fresh vegetables into the menus at our Big Sandy Schools Lunch Program, Senior Citizen Center, and other community events. With the support of our community and surrounding area businesses we were able to create this locally grown avenue. A little background about the program, is that we...
Krystyl Kulbeck, PA-C, has worked in family medicine at the Big Sandy Medical Center for 11 years. She said the presentation she gave was for informational purposes only and not to be considered professional advice. If you have any questions, she wants you to contact your primary medical provider. The following information was taken from the PowerPoint slides she presented: Have you wondered about the underlying cause of why society, in general, continues to get sicker with more diseases and...
The Big Sandy Medical Guild held its annual rummage sale last week, raising money to benefit the Medical Center and the surrounding community. The event itself was a rousing success, attracting a larger than normal quantity of donations of rummage for the sale and more traffic than in a typical year. I spoke with Lisa Sipler, the president of the Big Sandy Medical Guild, about the sale. She reported that as of Sunday evening they had raised $13,000 between the rummage sale, pie counter sales,...
The Big Sandy volleyball team will be hosting CJI on Tuesday, October 22nd for PINK night. This is the last home game of the season, and is sure to be a great match. Not only will it be super fun to come watch our Lady Pioneers battle it out with the Hawks, but it will also be a very special night, as we support Casten Heppner and his family. We will continue selling raffle tickets for a beautiful quilt made by Doreen McKenney, at all of the upcoming HOME volleyball games. Tickets are $5.00 for 1 or $10.00 for 3. The drawing will be held on...
Dr. Sam Wyffels to Speak at Chouteau County Livestock Protective Association The Chouteau County Livestock Protective Association annual meeting will take place on Thursday, November 14th at 3:00 p.m. at the Club House in Fort Benton. A social will follow the business meeting at 5:00 p.m. followed by dinner at 6:00. Please RSVP Buck Goldhahn at 622-5572 so the cooks can have notice on how many people will be attending. This year’s guest speaker is MSU Beef Specialist, Dr. Sam Wyffels. The presentation will be fall grazing of annual forages...
The Lady Pioneer volleyball team was so much fun to watch this past week! It was senior night in Big Sandy and the ladies hosted a very tough Lady Longhorn team. What an intense back and forth match against Fort Benton. The sets were so entertaining and these ladies worked so hard to pull away from the Lady Longhorns. They played a best of 5 and the Lady Pioneers won 3-2. Those scores were: 27-29, 25-10, 18-25, 25-17, and 15-13. The team and individual stats from that game are: Assists: 33 with...
The Pioneer football team had a rare occurrence this past week, and had to finish the 2nd half of their last game (from chili feed) against Valier. The score to start the 2nd half was 38-6. The Pioneers were originally scheduled to play Heart Butte this past weekend, but Heart Butte canceled their entire season. The Pioneers picked right back up where they left off on Friday night. The Pioneers started off with some big tackles against Wes Cox and Ryder Galbavy, then followed up with a nice tackle from Karter Jurenka as well. The Pioneer...
Donald Alan Jenkins, "Curly", 63, passed away on October 6th, 2024, in Billings, Montana. Don was born in Havre, Montana on June 15, 1961, to Loren and Eldonna (Fox) Jenkins. He grew up on the family farm west of Big Sandy and attended elementary, middle, and high school in Big Sandy, graduating in 1979. Don was an accomplished wrestler and football player, and he always enjoyed his time with friends and family. After graduating, Don enjoyed his time custom cutting in Kansas for the Tyler crew....
