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March birthdays include Pastor Jeff Stoppes, Marla Ray, Beau Pegar, Shirley Kulbeck, Del Starr Simon, Paul Marino, Edna Bitz, Lorraine Skaalure and Midge Edwards. A sashay around the ball room floor while Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians play Moonlight in Vermont for Angus and Ruth Merrill, Bob and Ann Quinn, Paul and Kandi Marino and Dale and Carrie Cline. March events include Rotary Banquet on March 12, Daylight savings time starts on March 13; blood pressure day on March 14 and a Board Meeting on March 15. St. Patrick’s Day dinner is n...
I told readers that to get rid of the mid winter blues, I had been cooking recipes all of February that Laened Black had given me years ago. Funny thing about the recipe here, I don’t remember ever eating these beans at her house or at her beautiful Clear Creek cabin. I cooked the beans for Super Bowl and can tell you they are as good a baked bean that I have ever cooked. The recipe serves 25 and is almost impossible to cut down. But the beans freeze well. If you love baked beans, you are going to love these. Turn oven to 350. Have a roaster f...
Thursday, March 3 Middle School wrestling here at 5pm. Thursday, March 3 Cavaliers here at 3:45 for tux fittings Friday, March 4 Little Pioneer wrestling here at 5:30pm. Friday, March 4 High School Ski Trip to Showdown with the bus leaving at 6am sharp. Monday, March 7 at 11:10 the City College-----Billings representatives here to visit with interested students. Breakfast and Lunch menus for the coming week are as follows: Wednesday, March 2 breakfast is muffins, yogurt, assorted cereal, fruit, milk and juice. Lunch includes pizza, corn...
Want the weather to change? Just ask the National Weather Bureau in Great Falls and see what they can do to bring better weather to this area. When “The Mountaineer” called them this week we had three questions. When is the February heat wave going to be over, when are we getting some moisture and when will we be shed of this dreaded El Nino effect? We were pleasantly surprised at what Keith at the National Weather Service had to say. For now until the end of February there are no significant storms in the offing. That sounds good for cal...
It is no secret that the Big Sandy City Council has been talking for a few months now about a new swimming pool for Big Sandy. "The Mountaineer" caught up with City Councilman Colby Baumgarn who is the head of the Parks and Recreation committee of the Big Sandy City Council. If there was going to be a new pool, Parks and Recreation would be tied closely to it. Mountaineer: Where did the idea of a new pool come from? Colby: the City Council brought up a new pool because of the condition of the...
Can you believe it, this is the last column of February? I have been busy all month trying to think of ways to keep us all busy so the mid winter blahs don’t set in and already it is almost March when those blahs start to go away. Although I must say that no one should have had the mid winter blahs this February as it was just a darn nice month, with lots of sun, a little moisture and the only big events were too much wind. I have actually been out in the garden cleaning last year’s leaves off the plants and defining beds that sort of all gre...
This week Vicki came up with a Molly Murphy mystery called “AWAY IN A MANGER” by Rhys Bowen. It is Christmastime in 1905 New York City and for once Molly Murphy Sullivan is looking forward to the approaching holidays. She has a family of her own now. She and Daniel have a baby son and twelve year old Birdie is living with them as their ward. As Molly and the children listen to carolers in the street, they hear a lovely voice, the voice of an angel, and see a begger girl huddled in a doorway singing “Away in a Manger”. Birdie is touched by the...
This year the Rotary Banquet is early. It is the thirty-second banquet and it is on March 12, 2016 This year’s theme is “Wishing Upon A Star”. As many people living in this area know these wonderful banquets have been held yearly since 1984. Supporting the banquet will fund many things in the Big Sandy community that touch all aspects of the community. Each year banquet proceeds go to the upkeep of park and recreational facilities in Big Sandy. For example, Sheehy Park on Sandy Creek would never have been the same after two floods had Rotar...
Presidents Day was February 15, 2016. I can remember when there was no Presidents Day so to speak and that February was a time to honor George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, both who had birthdays this month. Some have said that General Washington, as he was referred to, was the more important of the two and it is true that this Presidents day did hit right on his birthday. However, he was no more important than President Lincoln whose birthday was earlier in the month. Lincoln’s birthday was February 12. When I was a boy, if you were a t...
Mayor Stiles had a great deal to say about the regular City Council meeting held at City Council chambers on February 3. There were seven visitors Minutes were approved and there was no public comment. There was a deputy in attendance but no Sheriff’s Report was given. Regarding the Waste Water Treatment project, Mayor Stiles said, “On Vernon Avenue work stopped due to a winter stoppage on December 30. As of now the project is substantially complete which means there is about two weeks of cosmetic work to do in the spring. There is gravel work...
I am finding this February that the mid winter blues are much easier to chase away than many other years. Maybe it is that when writing these words it is going to be 60 above. Now normally I would be very worried about that and worse off due to mid winter blues. This year, I am not concerned. If my tulips come up and my peonies are showing color, that must be global warming and it is going to give me a great long growing season. And if it gets cold and soon, I have not planted anything and will not until Good Friday so I am in good shape both...
This week Vicki chose “THE PHARAOH’S SECRET” by Clive Cussler. If legends are true, the dead don’t stay that way long in Egypt. For the NUMA crew, the promise of these old stories might be their only hope of survival. When nearly the entire team is exposed to a dangerous substance called the Black Mist while working on the Italian island of Lampedusa, they and the rest of the town fall into a deathlike sleep. With their own men and women on the line, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must race to build a cure before it is too late. While the remaini...
I will never know for sure but I think I was present when recreation on the upper Missouri river got its start! It must have been in the middle to late 1950's and it was generally known that the area between the brand new or about to be built Fred L. Robinson bridge south of Landusky was to tie north and south Montana together in a way that had never been tied together before. All of a sudden there was a paved road going from Malta to Grass Range and on to Billings. That was big news for...
It is true that you can get most anything you want to know off the internet. This week two of our front page stories, Top Ten crime towns in Montana to live in, and Twelve Overlooked Montana Towns, came from the Internet. Butte, Montana in Silver Bow County made that list of overlooked Montana towns. I would have to agree that Butte is probably overlooked but once there is one of the most interesting towns in all of Montana. Butte was built on a hill so its large downtown area is almost up and d...
When Ken Denning got a call a couple of weeks ago from MSU, it took him back many years to when he had graduated from Great Falls High School and started studying architecture at MSU in the fall of 1963. Ken could go to MSU because he got a Presidential Academic Scholarship which paid his tuition to any school in Montana. He had to be in the top two percent of his class and maintain a 3.2 GPA in college. Ken wrestled in high school so it seemed natural that MSU would want him to wrestle on the college team. “There were lots of Great Falls k...
There is a web site called “ONLY IN YOUR STATE” that lists everything from the most haunted places in our state to the worst places to live due to crime. In the interest of information only, “the Mountaineer” is publishing the list of the ten most crime ridden towns to live in, in Montana. We urge you to take this list with a grain of salt. It would appear that some of our larger cities that do not even warrant a mention, just might be much worse than those listed. 1. Polson. Based on FBI data, Polson has the most property crimes per capita of...
Short of eating Kandi Moreno’s wonderful oriental Valentine’s Dinner at the Senior Citizens Center on February 15, “The Mountaineer” asked some of the Big Sandy damsels if they could have anything they wanted at all for Valentine’s Day, what would it be? We think you will be as awe struck as we were at many of the answers. Donna Jenkins-- I would like to go out to a good dinner. Leslie Gregory- I want to go to Hawaii. Kandi Marino- I would start with diamonds. You know diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Crystal Geyer - Roses. Jodi Thornton- A...
From the January 19 meeting Edited by Robert Lucke According to unofficial minutes of the January 19 School Board meeting, trustees present were Kurt Strutz, Darin Genereux, Brad Weaver, and Brandon Gasvoda. Absent was Diana LaBuda. Staff present was Superintendent Moore, Clerk Engle and Elementary Lead Teacher Heather Wolery. Visitors present were Traci Rodewald, Rhonda Works, Miranda Schwenke, Charlie Sipler, Brianna Bernhardt, Teal Pool, Lianna Heimbigner, Laura Cline, Whitney Peterson, Diana Keane, Larry Brumwell, Sheri Moore, Christine...
On the front page of “The Mountaineer” there is a story about overlooked Montana towns. I think I know one that is so overlooked it is not even thought about by those who are picking the overlooked towns. I love Zortman. The Little Rocky town is a straight shot back to the time when outlaws and the Kid Curry Gang roamed the mountains and fortunes were being made in gold by Pop Whitcomb and Ben Phillips. Zortman is at the bottom of the Ruby Gulch and is a tiny town surrounded by high limestone cliffs that are filled with fossils and Lodgepole fo...
Imagine my surprised when Vicki picked a book this week that has been in my Montana library for going on 60 or so years. It is “WINTER WHEAT” by Mildred Walker. If you have read it before, read it again. Especially read it if you are in agriculture, raise wheat or want to know what a woman’s role in agriculture can be. For this Bison Books edition, James Welch, the acclaimed author of “Winter in the Blood” and other novels introduces Mildred Walker’s vivid heroine, Ellen Webb, who lives in the dry land wheat country of Montana during the...
Friday, February 12 elementary ski trip to Showdown State wrestling in Billings Basketball at Turner Saturday, February 13 Final basketball home game for the regular season vs. North Star. No JV games. Varsity girls play at 3pm and Varsity boys play at 4:30pm. Parents are reminded this is Parent’s Night! Wednesday, February 17 District 9C basketball tournament at Havre High School Breakfast and lunch menus for the coming week are as follows: Wednesday, February 10 breakfast is breakfast burritos, assorted cereal, fresh fruit, juice and milk. L...
Meet Nicole Legere. Talk to her at any length and you will simply have to say Wow! That is how the new nurse practitioner at the Big Sandy Clinic comes across. She is deep and not only that but she knows her subject matter, which could very well be you! Nicole has been at the Clinic since October 1. However, she was a nurse for fifteen years prior to her becoming a nurse practitioner. "I guess you could say I specialize in acute care," said Nicole. "I enjoy emergency medicines and cardiac...
This caper has as many twists and turns as a goat trail and wouldn’t have ever happened except for a curious turn of events that made it all possible. First was a late January thaw that got rid of most of the snow around Clear Creek and even raised dust at times with cars driving the Clear Creek road. That thaw was too much for Bee Lucke and C. L. Stuart. After all it had been October since they had been to their cabin of that time, which, was, by the way, the old house called the Yellow House at the Young Ranch. It had been Winfield Y...
Yesterday was Ground Hog Day all over the United States. Most people who live in Montana know that Montana does not have ground hogs as such. We have whistling marmots and some of them have been known to even predict the weather like their eastern counterparts, the ground hogs. The question when getting up early on February 2 is will the ground hog or marmot in Montana see his shadow? If it is clear and he sees his shadow, that means six more weeks of winter. If it is cloudy and the marmot does not see his shadow, that means that spring is on...
For the fiftieth time this Sunday at 4:30pm there will be a Super Bowl of football played in at the San Francisco 49ers stadium in San Francisco. CBS is broadcasting the game and two veteran commentators, Jim Nance and Phil Simms will be calling the game. Only thing I know about them is that Nance does a better job on gold and Simms has started to drink Bigelow Green Tea and feels like a million dollars now. The two teams playing are the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers. It looks to be...
