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The Big Sandy Rotary Club’s weekly Monday meetings are a busy place. Your Rotarians are getting ready to host the 2017 Annual Benefit Banquet on March 18, 2017. The decorating committee has met and is preparing to turn the Big Sandy High School Gymnasium into the Spring Paradise we are all dreaming of. Come and join the fun and games along with your friends and neighbors to help us forget the cold, snow and mud we have been experiencing these past few weeks. Each year banquet proceeds provide funding for many things in our community that touch...
March 24 and 25 the Farmers Union is putting on a Producers Conference at the Havre Best Western Plus That is a Friday and Saturday. Farmers Union President Allan Merrill said that for a long time that conference used to be held at Fairmont but did not seem to be doing the job. Then one of the conference organizers who went to MSU Northern asked why not put the conference right in the middle of Montana agriculture and close to the Agricultural Research Center south west of Havre. The conference...
(LEWISTOWN, Mont.) – Riparian areas are some of the most productive resources found on public lands. Cottonwood forests on the Upper Missouri National Wild and Scenic River are highly prized for their outstanding wildlife, fisheries, recreation, and aesthetic values. However, a variety of man-made and natural causes have impacted the natural regeneration of cottonwoods. With a number of mature cottonwoods approaching the end of their lives and limited natural seeding of young cottonwoods o...
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is seeking comment on proposed amendments to rules that outline new regulations needed in the battle to contain, detect and prevent the risk of spreading invasive mussels and other aquatic invasive species to other state waters. Invasive mussel larvae were detected for the first time in Montana in October 2016 in Tiber Reservoir – and “suspect” detections turned up in Canyon Ferry Reservoir, the Missouri River below Toston Dam, and the Milk River. The discovery triggered a natural resource emergency in Monta...
Night Feeding or Daytime Calving Information for this article was taken from the February issue of the Cow Sense Chronicle written by Rachel Endecott, MSU Extension Beef Cattle Specialist. We’ve all experienced that middle-of-the-night calving incident that sure would have been easier to manage if it had happened in the daylight. Some ranchers use an evening feeding strategy to shift more cows to calve during the day. A case study comparing two sets of calving data with different feeding times illustrates this phenomenon well (Jaeger, et al. 2...
With many of us in the process of preparing and submitting our taxes, the question becomes “How much and how long do I keep the records?” Or, maybe the other question is “Do I need to have a record keeping system?” Keeping financial records are a vital part of your life. They are a key to your credit standing, essential to help you save money on taxes, and provide a continuing indication of your financial progress. A systematic plan of keeping important papers can save you hours of anxious searching and make it easier to cope with emergen...
Daylight Savings Time starts March 12. It is a pain in the neck for me because I collect old clocks and have to reset them that day. I don’t know about your old clocks but mine are very temperamental and take some adjusting to get them all up and running again after messing around with them twice a year. I have one old coo coo clock that is so old that I have given up running it when I have to fool around with it twice a year. About the time I get it back up to speed so to speak, it is time to reset it once again and I am back to ground z...
Attention Parents: Are you looking for a summer activity for your child that improves physical and mental fitness, increases self-confidence, and provides a set of skills that will last a lifetime? Consider joining the Big Sandy Barracuda Swim Team. New members are always welcome and are a very important part of the team. In 2016, the Barracudas, coached by Travis Baumann, was comprised of 32 swimmers, 28 of whom qualified for the State meet. Team growth is essential to achieve and maintain a competitive team, and this is something that the...
Andrea Rutledge, a junior at Big Sandy High School, competed in the Voice of Democracy audio-essay competition. She entered her audio-essay in the VFW Buster Deo Post 4067 of Malta. She won the Malta local competition. Her audio-essay then went to the District level and was again chosen as the top essay which qualified her to compete at the state contest. She did not win the top spot but enjoyed the process! On February 11th, Andrea was presented with certificates and checks in a ceremony at the...
William H. “Bill” Baltrusch, 87, passed away at his residence on Sunday, February 26, 2017. Visitation was held from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., and funeral services were held at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, March 3, 2017, at the Havre Assembly of God Church with Pastor Bill Ballance and Pastor Curt Curtis officiating. Burial followed at the Highland Cemetery. Bill’s family has suggested memorial donations be made to the Bill Baltrusch Memorial Fund at the Assembly of God Church of Havre, Rocky Boy or Lodge Pole. Contributions can be made to the Montana Assem...
We live in a time of unprecedented connection to the people and world around us. Cell phones enable us to have conversations with each other wherever/whenever we want. Email allows us the instant exchange letters. Social media gives us the opportunity to share our lives with people anywhere and to find long lost loved ones. Strangely, we are simultaneously living through an epidemic of loneliness. Through the 70s and 80s, surveys found that between 11% and 20% of Americans felt lonely regularly. In the past decade, between 40% and 45% of...
Q: I don’t want to offend you, but why should I bother with God? My life is going along just fine without Him. In fact, He’d probably make me stop doing a lot of things I enjoy doing if I did turn to Him. A: Let me ask you a question: What do you suppose would happen to you if God didn’t “bother” with you? In other words, what would happen to you if God forgot all about you or ignored you or refused to have anything to do with you? I’ll tell you what would happen: Your life would end immediately, before you finished reading this sentence. W...
