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If you love the hot weather, chances are you are going to be in Hog Heaven for the rest of July. At least that is the long range forecast of the National Weather Service in Great Falls, Montana. After the little series of colder fronts and actually rain that came through some areas of the Golden Triangle during the weekend, this week looks to be hot and little chance of precipitation unless there could be an afternoon or evening thunder shower. This month for sure, it can be seen why the area wa...
I have maybe written this story for you dear readers before. If I have it is good enough to demand a repeat and if you are hearing it for the first time, you will never forget it. The Hugh Black family came to the St. Mary area of Glacier National Park after World War II armed with a contract to tear down the old St. Mary Chalets. While there they purchased a tiny slip of land just off the Park and started building tiny cabins on it. Every time Going-To-The-Sun Road was open the cabins were full at all times and they always needed more. It got...
Don’t forget harvest time lunches available five days a week at the Senior Citizen’s Center. Contact the Center at 378-2495 when you need them. The menu for the coming week is as follows: Wednesday, July 12 hamburger Stroganoff, salad, vegetables, bread and dessert. Hamburger Stroganoff has just got to qualify as a Lunch of the Week! Thursday, July 13 crispy chicken salad and dessert. Friday, July 14 goulash, vegetables, bread, salad and dessert. Monday, July 17 chicken Quesada with sour cream, salsa, salad and dessert. Tuesday, July 18 potato...
This will be the last of Vicki’s picks for good books to read and it looks like she ended with a bang, not a whimper. Starting next week books will be chosen by librarian Stephanie Overbay. When you see Vicki on the street, thank her for many years of good reading! This week Vicki has chosen “THE FLOOD GIRLS” by Richard Fifield. Here is what some people have said about this book. Reading this novel is like unwrapping the wackiest birthday gift you have ever received. “THE FLOOD GIRLS” is a heart-shaped box filled with broads, softballs, drunks,...
Ben Phillips, the Phillips County sheepman and Charles (Pop) Whitcomb found rich gold deposits up Ruby Gulch, just west of Zortman, Montana. They built a mine and mill and a town for workers to live in called Whitcomb on the side of the steep gulch leading to a pass from one side of the Little Rockies to the other. They made a great deal of money but needed other investors so McNamara and Marlow of Big Sandy invested in the mill and mine and made a lot of money there too long before the turn of the century. McNamara and Marlow knew that the min...
When Glacier Park Incorporated lost their major concession for hotels and restaurants in Glacier National Park, little did I know that it would be a return back to my childhood for me. Because Glacier Park Incorporated lost that major concession, they aggressively bought most all of West Glacier from the Lundgren family who had owned that large concession since just after World War II. I became acquainted once again with cabins 6 and 8 at the Village Lodge, a major concession in Apgar. Both cabins 6 and 8 had been very favorites of our family...
Most everyone in this area knows Ellaraine Lockie. Most everyone in this area knows that Ellaraine is a writer. Most everyone in this area knows that Ellaraine is a poet. What most people might not know is that FootHills Publishing has just published a new book of Ellaraine's poetry called, "Tripping With the Top Down". This hand bound book with a collage of Ellaraine's favorite things making up the cover costs $10.00 and is available at foothillspublishing.com. Inside are thirty-two of Ellarain...
This year the Chouteau County Fair starts on Thursday, August 17 and goes through Sunday, August 20. There are new events and, of course, a splendid array of golden oldies. In addition to lots of action, the Chouteau County fair is a place to sit in the shade, drink lemonade and talk with old friends maybe not seen since last year’s fair. There is only one large change in the 2017 fair. Thursday night The Grocery Store in Big Sandy sponsored a competition in the form of a pork throwdown. This year there is going to be a Harvest Hot Dish Competi...
This is the ninth year former Big Sandy High School graduate Ellaraine Lockie has provided the English students at BSHS the opportunity to participate in the Walter Gerson Poetry Contest. Each year Ellaraine Lockie judges students’ poetry, makes comments about the poems and awards students for their excellent poetry and participation. This year is no exception. There are several cash prizes and several honorable mentions. Two teachers at Big Sandy high school have been involved in the poetry contest. Lauren Clampitt handled the Gerson poems f...
I know it is after July 4th but there are still plenty of picnics to go to and plenty of times to get together with good friends for feasts and libations. In my youth, two cousins, Louie and Ray Clack were famous for their Fourth of July punches. Both were very potent, both tasted very good and both were easy to make. These made their punches in a gallon thermos bottle filled with ice that would keep the drinks cool all day long. First, Louie Clack’s famous Fourth of July Punch. 1 can frozen pink lemonade 1 can white rum 2 cans water and l...
July birthdays at the Senior Citizens Center include Francis Gasvoda, Leonard Jappe, Carla Courtnage, Karen Reinertson, Lindy Ray, Karma Hale, Kent Johnson, Charlie Foussard, Gerald Rutledge and Frank Maxwell. A couple of sashays around the ball room floor while Glenn Miller plays “Little Brown Jug” for Arlon and Anna Kristenson, Floyd and Marlene Terry and Larry and Crystal Geyer. Special events for the rest of July include a blood pressure clinic at 11am on July 18 and a Senior Citizen’s Board meeting on July 19 at 1pm. Contact the Senio...
"A race on the place" is how Austin Genereux describes the Montana Cross Country Race that will be held on their ranch July 15 and 16. The "Race on the Place" is a dream come true for the Genereux family who has been heavy into cross country racing for the last few years. Even though the race is officially on July 15 and 16, there will be a kids event on the evening of July 14. This race on the Genereux place should be a dream come true for people watching the race as well. Spectators will be...
When I was a much younger man than I am now, I spent the time leading up to the Fourth of July figuring where to go for the Fourth to have the maximum amount of fun. Often I ended up on Clear Creek, Howard’s Hill, Beaver Creek or somewhere in the Bear Paw Mountains. When spending the time there, I dreamed of spending that holiday somewhere close to Glacier National Park. Well, that time finally came and we had a cabin at Lakeside on Flathead Lake. I dreamed often of spending the Fourth at that cabin and Christmas there as well. You know t...
This is the ninth year former Big Sandy High School graduate Ellaraine Lockie has provided the English students at BSHS the opportunity to participate in the Walter Gerson Poetry Contest. Each year Ellaraine Lockie judges students’ poetry, makes comments about the poems and awards students for their excellent poetry and participation. This year is no exception. There are several cash prizes and several honorable mentions. Two teachers at Big Sandy high school have been involved in the poetry contest. Lauren Clampitt handled the Gerson poems f...
I suppose that by now most everyone has heard about our new congressman who body slammed a reporter and broke his glasses. I guess the new congressman was at the end of his tether. I have been there as well. Only thing is it happened when I was a child and acted like a child. You would never know now by looking at me but at one time I used to be fat. Matter of fact one day when I was about 10 and playing with my friends on Second Avenue there was one small bully who kept screaming at me all morning long, “Robby, Robby, fatty, fatty two by four....
Contact the Senior Citizen Cooks at 378-2405. Lunches include an entrée, potato, salad, vegetable, dessert and a drink and each costs $5.00 unless otherwise noted. Don’t forget to get ready to order your lunches for out in the field. Menus for the coming week are as follows: Wednesday, June 28 fish sticks, tator tots, coleslaw and dessert. Thursday, June 29 chef salad and dessert. Friday, June 30, bourbon chicken, rice vegetables, salad bread and dessert. Monday, July 3 hotdogs, baked chips, watermelon and dessert for the Lunch of the Week. Tu...
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...
The Latin name for a grizzly bear is Ursus Horribilis and it gets that name because it is one of the few animals in the world that exhibited not the slightest fear of man in many situations and it was only after the great hunting guns were invented did man have much of a chance against the grizzlies. Montana has always been grizzly bear country but for many people the notion of those great bears out here on the prairie was unbelievable. Grizzlies belong in Yellowstone to a small degree but...
I first got to know Ace Powell, the famous western artist when he got a commission from Havre Federal Savings and Loan to paint three paintings about the prairies around Havre. He came to Havre and my uncle Al took Ace around to sketch scenes that might be used in the paintings. I would see Ace every morning at the Lou Lucke Company where he would be sitting in the so called “President’s Chair”. He would have a dozen little note cards with him and would always be drawing a bear or a teepee or a cabin or an Indian on a horse or something. When...
Contact the Senior Citizen cooks at 378-2405. Most all lunches include an entrée, vegetable, potato, salad, dessert and drink and each costs $5.00 unless otherwise noted. Lunches for the coming week are as follows: Wednesday, June 21 chicken ranch wrap, tator tots, salad and dessert. Thursday, June 22 roasted lemon and garlic chicken with linguini pasts, vegetables and dessert for the Lunch of the Week! Friday, June 23 pork chop sandwich, French fries, salad and dessert. Monday, June 26 liver and onions, mashed potatoes, gravy, salad, bread...
There are plenty of outstanding fathers in the Big Sandy area. For some time, now "The Mountaineer" has named a mother of the year at Mother's Day but this is the first time we have started a new tradition of naming a father of the year for Father's Day. We had a list of around 8 names for father of the year and showed that list to several people and in every case, Bob Nelson's name was at the top of the list. So, it is most apropos to name Bob Nelson as "The Mountaineer's first father of the ye...
By Robert Lucke The term Bucket List comes from a movie starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman who go around doing wonderful things they have always wanted to do before they "kick the bucket". For several years at "The Mountaineer" we have composed winter and summer bucket lists of things to do that are close to home. We think with pride that our list is so much better than other newspapers who feature things like drive from one end of US Highway 2 from North Dakota to Idaho and to visit...
Sometimes history is a confluence of events that when merged together cause something really great to happen. Such it was with Bee Lucke and C. L. Stuart around 1950 when they were heading to Clear Creek in Bee’s 1939 black Chevy Coupe with a genuine Indian Teepee loaded in the back end. The confluence of events that caused the two of them to be heading to Clear Creek in the black Chevy Coupe were twofold. First, Bee’s two brothers told him that he could no longer use the Lou Lucke Company delivery truck to go to the mountains. They said he...
By Robert Lucke This is the ninth year former Big Sandy High School graduate Ellaraine Lockie has provided the English students at BSHS the opportunity to participate in the Walter Gerson Poetry Contest. Each year Ellaraine Lockie judges students’ poetry, makes comments about the poems and awards students for their excellent poetry and participation. This year is no exception. There are several cash prizes and several honorable mentions. Two teachers at Big Sandy high school have been involved in the poetry contest. Lauren Clampitt handled t...
This week Vicki has chosen “THE GIRL WITH NO SHADOW” by Joanne Harris. This book is a sequel to “CHOCOLATE HOLY FOODS” and is delightful dark and a far darker chocolate recipe. The wind has always dictated Vianne Rocher’s every move, buffeting her from the French village of Laansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to still the wind at last and keep her daughters, Anouk and baby Rosette, safe. But the w...
