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We are going to do a few columns about getting rid of the winter blues unless we get a thaw and spring is here and we had better hope that is not the case. This week a simple dish to make to be supremely comforted. This dish would be also very good as an easy to make side for your Super Bowl party. It all started when I needed some real crab meat for a crab salad. I have found that most grocery stores sell a large can of fresh crab meat for around $14.00. It is very good meat although it is very fragile. Handle it with care! Do not use the fake...
This week Vicki picked “FACEOFF” which is a group of short stories edited by David Baldacci. The book features stories from twenty-three of the world’s most foremost thriller writers. “FACEOFF” pairs the most beloved characters from the best and most popular thriller series today. Where else can you find Dennis Lehane’s Patrick Kenzie and Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch, together, solving a missing person’s case that seems ripped from the headlines? Or Lee Child’s Jack Reacher teaming up with Joseph Finder’s Nick Heller to settle a score with...
Friday, February 5 basketball hosts CJI starting at 5pm Saturday, February 6 basketball at Box Elder starting at 3pm Saturday, February 6 divisional wrestling at Chinook Monday, February 8 last day to get District 9 Class C basketball passes from Sherri at the high school office. Thursday, February 9, FFA at Harlem all day Wednesday, February 10 Life Touch Pictures; spring pictures at the elementary school at 8am and the high school around 11:30am. Breakfast and lunch menus for the week are as follows: Wednesday, February 3 breakfast is...
It was the perfect triad. Brad Lencioni had the dogs. Brad Moore had the will and the perfect Little Sharps Rifle to do the job and Chris Faber knew the location of a really huge mountain lion. Moore said that he has known Lencioni for many years as he does all Moore's taxidermy work for him in Sand Coulee. Brad thinks that Lencioni has had hounds for many years. Brad had told Lencioni that he would like to get a large mountain lion sometime. They had talked about it for years. Moore had a mount...
The Big Sandy City Council passed into law a new business ordinance for business license fees throughout the town. Mayor Stiles said the ordinance was necessary because “We have a lot of transient business coming in. Keeping track of them was very difficult to do. We needed to make them all have business licenses and we found we could not charge them without charging all of our businesses. So, that is what we did but we charge our brick and mortar businesses at a different rate.” When asked if this was a new tax, Mayor Stiles said, “We have had...
For all you Extension junkies, get ready for a very different and very special Extension agent in the Fort Benton office. Janell Barber is her name and teaching people how to get by is one of her largest jobs in that busy extension office. Janell is most recently from the Bozeman/Belgrade area but she is a farm and ranch girl who grew up in the Stanford area. Janell went to MSU and majored in Family and Consumer Science. "I decided not to go into the teaching aspect of Family and Consumer...
This week Vicki recommends “THE TIME BETWEEN”, a novel by Karen White. Eleanor Murray will always remember her childhood on Edisto Island where her late father, a local shrimper, shared her passion for music. Now her memories of him are all that tempers the guilt she feels over the accident that put her sister in a wheelchair and the feelings she harbors for her sister’s husband. To help support her sister, Eleanor works at a Charleston investment firm during the day but she escapes into her music, playing the piano at a neighborhood bar,...
It is that time of year again. I have the mid winter blues. They are a siren song that I can hear almost every minute of the day. It used to be that just ordering Oriental takeout once a week would cure those blues, but not anymore. If you are feeling that same way, here is what you do. This cure is not cheap but every so often it is just good to pamper yourself no matter what the cost. Rent a ski lodge at what used to be called Big Mountain in Whitefish. Rent a condo with a fireplace and a view that won’t quit or stay in a lodge in a room t...
District 9C Basketball Tournament tickets are on sale from Sherri at the high school office until Monday, February 8th. Student general admission tickets are $24.00 and adult reserved admission tickets are $32.00. Thursday, January 28 wrestling at Big Sandy starting at 5pm. Friday, January 29 wrestling at Malta also on Friday, basketball hosts Hays/Lodgepole Friday, January 29 Senior job shadows in Great Falls today. Saturday, January 30 wrestling at Simms, also on Saturday there is basketball at Stanford 5 p.m. and FFA travels to Lewistown....
What has turned into "The event" in Big Sandy in January, the Gun and Ammo Show is going to be held at the Jerry Martin Memorial Hall in downtown Big Sandy on January 29, 30 and 31. If you don't go to any other gun show, you need to go to this one when Big Sandy turns into the gun capital of Montana for three days in January. The show is organized by Vance and Jean Butler and Kirkley and Stephanie Butler and will feature seventeen tables of guns, ammo, antiques, Indian artifacts and many items...
The name Montana goes very well with agriculture. Growing things is what Montana is all about. Whether it be wonderful winter wheat on the Big Dry, cherries on Flathead Lake, fir and pine harvests in our great forests or barley and durum for the finest pasta and beer in the world, growing is what Montana is all about. It is certainly what Chouteau County is all about. When you look through this report, you will get an idea of just how much our very livelihood depends on growing many different products. And how much we have diversified. It used...
Don’t miss going to the big January doings in Big Sandy, the Gun and Ammo show next weekend. This is a huge event and is filled with much more for sale than just guns and ammo. I remember when Jean and Vance Butler put on their first Gun and Ammo show, several years ago, I called them to ask if they wanted to do a news story about the show. Vance was shocked as he thought I probably would not do a story about a gun show. I told him I came from a family of hunters and fishermen and had learned most of the good life lessons I have from hanging a...
This week Vicki recommends a James Grippando novel called “A KINGS RANSOM, A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE”. Just two years out of law school, Nick Rey is on the career fast track at a hot Miami law firm when he suddenly plunges headfirst into a dangerous bid to save his father, Matthew Rey, who has been kidnapped while on business in Columbia’s exotic port city of Cartagena. The ransom demand of three million dollars is far more than the Rey family can ever raise. Fortunately Matthew had purchased an insurance police to protect against just such a treat...
Thursday, January 21 wrestling in Fort Benton Friday, January 22 wrestling in Chinook Friday, January 22 basketball home vs. Fort Benton, This is Pack the Place Pink night Friday, January 22 FFA goes to Great Falls Saturday, January 23 wrestlers in Harlem Saturday, January 23 basketball hosts Chinook Monday, January 25 report cards mailed Tuesday, January 26 financial aid workshop for parents of seniors at 6pm in the computer room of the high school Wednesday, January 27 ASDVAB testing in the morning. Breakfast and lunch menus for the coming...
The four day week is half way through its first year of implementation in Big Sandy Schools. This story started out as a “Man on the Street” story but it simply did not work. People either loved the concept or hated it. All were vociferous in their comments. So, we took some of those comments, both pro and con and framed them as an interview with Brad Moore, the Superintendent of Schools, thinking that he could answer them best. There is going to be a presentation at the next School Board meeting on January 19 about the four day week and how...
With the awards of money just announced by the Lippard-Clawiter Foundation for 2015, "the Mountaineer" decided to look at one small but vital segment of our society and how they would fare without those funds and how they are doing generally. We looked at the Big Sandy Senior Citizen's Center. Center Director Linda Rutledge stopped in last week and talked about funding the Center here in Big Sandy. All the Senior Citizen's Centers in Chouteau County are funded by County taxes. That money is...
On reaching the remarkable age of 75 there may be some thoughts I could share with you. It has been a long and bumpy road fraught with danger along the way. Disease, insolvency, unhappiness and depression can rear their ugly heads any time. Some say they feel like spring chickens at 75. I am not one of them. I feel my age in every step I take. In every twist and turn I make from dressing in the morning to just getting through the day unscathed. But remember I have been more or less ill for a long, long time. That seems to have taken a toll on...
This week Vicki recommends “AFRAID TO DIE” by Lisa Jackson. Others may dread the chill of winter but he relishes it. The way the frigid water preserves his victims, the feel of their icy skin beneath his fingers and soon the world will see their beauty and his vengeance. The town of Grizzly Falls is on edge in the wake of a serial killer and detective Selena Alvarez is no exception. That case was solved but a new nightmare is about to unfold. There are two victims so far. Their bodies found frozen solid and deliberately displayed. Both are wom...
In official minutes of the regular meeting of the Big Sandy School Board held December 15 trustees present were Kurt Strutz, Darin Genereux, Diana LaBuda, Brad Weaver and Brandon Gasvoda. Staff present was Brad Moore, Superintendent Maryetta Engle, clerk and Heather Wolery, elementary lead teacher. Visitors present were Charles Sipler and Walt Sivertsen. After the call to order and the Pledge was recited there was a welcome of guests, approval of minutes and no public comments. In correspondence it was noted that the Big Sandy Teacher’s Associa...
Thursday, January 14 wrestling at Fairfield Friday and Saturday, January 15 and 16 wrestling at Choteau Friday, January 15 basketball at home vs. Turner Saturday, January 16 basketball at North Star Monday, January 18 semester tests from grades 7 to 12 Tuesday, January 19 semester tests continue. Look at the school web page for the schedule Tuesday, January 19 end of second quarter and the first semester! Breakfast and lunch menus for the coming week are as follows: Wednesday, January 13 breakfast includes donuts, yogurt, assorted cereal,...
This is the time of year that the public gets hoodwinked by evil radio personalities, news reporters, television reporters and weathermen in general! This is the time of the year that early in the morning you are likely to hear the following words, spoken with sort of an evil glee! “It is five below zero but hold on to your hats radio audience. The wind is blowing so it is really thirty-five below zero. Maybe you should not go to work this morning.” The voice that is saying those words, is really saying, I got up early and faced the wind chi...
"The Mountaineer" takes the first issue of every new year to do a review of stories printed during the previous year. This year we are going to go one more step. We are going to pick what we thought to be the very best story of the year and the very best picture of the year as well. So, sit back and revel on the happenings in old Big Sandy last year. In the January 7 issue of "The Mountaineer" there was a story that should at least be an honorable mention story of the year. With a headline...
What a dilemma! What story of all the front page stories in "the Mountaineer" for 2015 was the best story? Honorable mentions included the cattle crossing the Missouri, School goes to a four day week, KFBB, Kamut, Housing in Big Sandy, Tavie Kipp comes to Montana, Reinholt Bitz's story of World War II, the Cooks Thanksgiving Roundup and Knife, Gun, Family, Friends, and Wilderness, the story of Bob Nelson's hunt in Alaska this fall. Now, of course if you measured stories that were important to...
This year's picture of the year was the mountain lion swimming over to a boat full of people. The picture was taken by Janine Jorgenson at Fourchette Bay in western Fort Peck. We knew that the picture was of a mountain lion, not a tiger, Nevertheless it was too good a chance to run with that wonderful Blake poem, "The Tyger" It fit the picture perfectly and in one stanza asks the profound question, "When the stars threw down And water'd heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see? Did...
What to cook and eat that tastes good, does not have a lot of calories and is easy to prepare? That is what I was looking for last week to begin 2016. Needless to say I did not find much of anything that had few calories and was good. A friend gave me some yogurt saying I should be eating that daily. It was good yogurt but had such a tiny bit of flavoring in the bottom of the can that I had to put my glasses on to find it to stir it in. Not even the color of the white yogurt changed when all stirred. Enough of that, I thought. Why not get a...
