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Pearl Jam will be inducted for the 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of fame. Big Sandy native and 1981 Big Sandy graduate Jeff Ament is the bass player and co-founder of the band. Pearl Jam with Big Sandy native Jeff Ament playing the bass for the super group will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, at Barclay's in Brooklyn New York. This is a great honor bestowed upon the band and an incredible epic journey the band has been on since it was formed in 1990. Ament began finding...
This January 27, 28 and 29 will be the Fifth Annual Gun and Ammo show held in January in Big Sandy, Montana. It will be held at the Jerry Martin Memorial Hall. Cost to get in the gate is five dollars and that is good for all three days. Hours are Friday, January 27 noon until 6pm, Saturday, January 28 nine to 6pm and Sunday, January 29 nine until 3pm. There will be fourteen vendors who will be utilizing fifty tables to sell their wares and lest you think the gun and ammo show is just about guns...
By Vance Butler A little history of how the Big Sandy Gun and Ammo show started in Big Sandy. During the 1990’s the Kidd Brothers of Big Sandy organized a gun show every January in Havre at the MSU Northern Student Union building. Jean Butler, being a Watkins Products Dealer asked them if she could set up in a booth there. They allowed her to set up in the hallway. It was at this time that her young son Kirkley would go along to help but mostly to go and admire all of the guns. Kirkley developed a friendship with an avid hunter and prairie d...
MSU Extension Chouteau County has Hay probe and Nutrition Decision Software Sampling of hay is essential to livestock management. Hay sampling is best accomplished with a hollow core probe consisting of a stainless-steel tube and a sharp cutting end. The Chouteau County Extension office has a hay probe available for check out. One core should be sampled from at least 20 bales from a lot of hay. A lot of hay is defined as hay harvested from a field of uniform maturity within a 48 hour period. Generally a lot should not exceed 200 tons. Poor...
Blaine County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Executive Director Tracy Harshman announced that farmers and ranchers in Montana now can receive notifications from their county office through text messages on their cell phone. Whether producers are in the field, on a tractor or even on horseback, this service enables FSA customers and stakeholders to receive notifications while on the go. Producers will receive text messages regarding important program deadlines, reporting requirements, outreach events and updates. There will be no more than two t...
Contact the Senior Citizens Cooks at 378-2405. All lunches include an entrée, salad, vegetable, potato, dessert and drink and all cost $5.00 unless otherwise noted. Lunches for the coming week are as follows: Wednesday, January 25 mock fillet mignon with mashed potato gravy, salad and dessert. Thursday, January 26 chicken spaghetti, garlic bread, broccoli, tossed salad and dessert for the Lunch of the Week! Friday, January 27 Tator Tot Casserole, rolls, salad and dessert. Monday, January 30 Chicken Parmesan, Angel Hair Pasta, broccoli, bread...
Vic’s Pics This week Vicki chose a novel by Nicholas Sparks called “TWO BY TWO”. We will all make it through, two by two. At thirty-two Russell Green has it all, a stunning wife, a lovable six year old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive and an expensive home in Charlotte. He is living the dream and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is the center of that dream. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence fault lines are beginning to appear and no one is more surprised than Russ when he finds every aspec...
It has been a long, long cold spell starting long before Christmas and lasting into January. Finally, though it is the middle of January and a January thaw seems to be taking place. It is fine with me. By Friday I could tell it was close to the end of the cold spell but was the coldest day yet. I figured that my dog was really hurting from the cold. I knew I was not doing my car any favors by starting it several times a day just so it would go when I needed it to. The boiler in my house seemed never to shut down. I would turn it down at night...
My wife often says that I collect hobbies. I discover something new, begin to learn about it after my interest is sparked, achieve a level of proficiency or learning in my new area of interest, and move on to a new interest. It drives my wife a little nuts, but has resulted in me developing an eclectic skill set. Recently, I was reading a book on the psychology of motivation when I came across a bit of an explanation for my odd tendency to jump from hobby to hobby. The book talked about motivation as a fleeting thing. You get motivated and...
Come listen to an unforgettable concert Tuesday, January 31st, when Chouteau County Performing Arts, in partnership with the Grand Union Hotel, present Too Marvelous for Words, a Nat King Cole tribute show. This concert starts at 7 PM at the Fort Benton Elementary School auditorium. Created by Rob Perkins and Peter Smith, "Too Marvelous For Words" is a fun and swingin' journey into the early days of Nat King Cole. Before "The Christmas Song" and "Mona Lisa" that we know from the crooner standing...
Four tables of enthusiastic players enjoyed another Sunday of fun in the Mint family room playing 7 rounds of pinochle on January 22nd. (Well most of the sixteen were enthusiastic most of the time!) Always depends a lot on the cards, luck, partners, and attitudes! Highest rounds for the day were played by Lil Foussard and Charlene Moravec with a 2150 followed two rounds later by Wilma Welty and Rebecca Weihe with a 2140! Nice hands ladies! Have to say probably the most interesting round “win” of the day went to Karla Whetham and Sheila Duncan w...
Deedie Mae (Bitz) Nimmick, 63, passed away peacefully in her sleep on December 8, 2016, at Sweet Memorial Home in Chinook due to complications of early onset Alzheimer’s. Cremation has taken place, and a Celebration of Deedie’s Life will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, January 27, 2017, at Van Orsdel United Methodist Church in Havre. Memorials may be made to Sweet Home in Chinook, Big Sandy Medical Center, or the charity of one’s own choosing. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Please visit Deedi...
The Big Sandy Pioneer girls and boys basketball teams dropped a pair of District 9C contests over the weekend to the Chinook Sugarbeeters and Fort Benton Longhorns. The regular season has just three full weekends left and the District 9C tournament gets underway on Wednesday, February 15 and runs through Saturday, February 18. It's been a struggle on the hardwood for head coach Ronnie Simpson and his boys and girls to say the least, but they show up and compete every night. Both the girls and...
Wednesday, January 25 ASVAB testing at 9am at the high school Thursday, January 26 grades 9 and 11 students have a field day in Havre leaving at 9:30 am. Friday, January 27 basketball hosts DGS with games starting at 3pm. Saturday, January 28 basketball at Hays with games beginning at 3pm. Monday, January 30 junior high wrestling begins Tuesday, January 31 Little Guy Wrestling begins JV basketball at Box Elder with games beginning at 4:30pm. Breakfasts and lunch menus for the coming week are as follows: Wednesday, January25 breakfast is...
Bee Lucke was the son of Havre pioneer Lou Lucke. He loved Clear Creek almost as much as his father had. He was blessed for his father-in-law C. L. Stuart shared that love for the area. The two of them spent years moving into old homestead cabins up and down the creek and turning them into fishing camps. At the time fishing was not allowed during the winter on Clear Creek. No matter for most winters, with the cars the two drove, they couldn’t even get to Clear Creek. However, there was that one winter that was so open that January, February, a...
