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Recently, Big Sandy hosted the 35th Annual Middle School Mass Band Festival. 165 musicians represented the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. Schools participating besides Big Sandy were Havre, CJI, Harlem, Box Elder, Chinook, and North Star. The 6th grade band concert band was conducted by hi-line music teachers. They played 12 The Clock Strikes, Farwell at Dawn, and Legend of Boudica. Guest conductor Cole Bass conducted the 7th and 8th grade Symphonic Band. Cole Bass is from East Helena High School....
Big Sandy Medical Center is pleased to welcome Amber Groves, PA to our full time staff! Amber lives full time in Wisconsin, but is no stranger to the area or to Big Sandy Medical Center. She worked for IHS for six years and helped out as a locum provider here during that time. She fell in love with the place and has continued to come and help out a few weeks per year, until 2025 when she decided to come on full time. In the recent past she has been working internal medicine in a large health sys...
The Big Sandy Rotary held its annual Spring fundraiser on Saturday night, the Jurassic Park Benefit and Banquet. The first thing you noticed was the incredible stage that Shon Tester built. Carla Courtnage says, "Shon spent hours and hours building it." It was a very tall stage, clearly representing the tall gate going into Jurassic Park. The jungle's vines fall from the ceiling over the entire stage. Four dinosaurs roamed across the room. Three dinosaurs were in costumes, and one, the smallest...
New Blister Beetles of Montana MontGuide Available at Extension Office MontGuide MT200209AG was developed by Hayes Goosey, MSU Forage Specialist; Tiziana Oppedisano, MSU Agronomic Entomologist and Agricultural Extension agents from Madison-Jefferson, Broadwater, Gallatin and Dawson Counties. The complete MontGuide is available at the Chouteau County Extension office or can be downloaded at MSU Publications. Blister beetles are leaf-feeding insects that secrete a liquid that can cause blisters and can be toxic when accidentally fed to livestock...
John Saksa was born in 1911 to immigrant parents. The family lived in Sheridan, Wyoming, at the time but moved to Sand Coulee, Montana, by 1920. John was one of 10 children in this large, close family. By September 1931, John was working in Fort Benton. For the next decade, John could always be found in the Fort Benton paper because of his athletic skills in the game of baseball. He played pitcher and outfielder for the local team, and as the paper wrote, he was an "all-around player and could...
In March the Sunshine Snippers 4-H Club met at Saint Margaret Mary's Catholic Church. We started our meeting out with an archery report from Ella, Lucy and Parker. We also talked about our annual fundraiser. We are doing "Egg My Yard" for Easter. This year the Sunshine Snippers will be donating all the proceeds from the Egg My Yard fundraiser to the Big Sandy Pioneer Producers. You can order your pre-filled eggs to be hidden in your Big Sandy yard the night before Easter along with a special...
3 years ago, while attending a cousin’s wedding in Chicago, I broke my foot playing basketball with the guys in the wedding party. The doctor who treated me pointed to my two broken toes, said that was the problem, put a cast on me, and sent me on my way. 6 weeks later, the doctors at the military hospital in Northern Virginia took one look at the X-rays the Chicago doctor took and blew a gasket. After a series of meetings and a ton of additional X-rays, they let me know that the previous doctor had missed the crushed joint as well as n...
The track season is officially underway. We can’t wait to see what the rest of the season has in store for our Pioneers. It’s springtime, and you know what that means! It’s track season! The Pioneers tracksters had their first meet this past weekend, but due to the school ski trip, not many athletes attended the first meet. The meet was in Cut Bank, and 16 teams were there (including Big Sandy). This is a reminder for those new to reading the track articles that I will only ever share the top 10 places and a PR (personal record) for all athle...
For two years, Coach MacDonald of the Box Elder Bears steered the Bears to two state championships, and I visited with him about his coaching philosophy. What does he believe? They have been so much fun to watch over the years. I asked him, "Why are you a coach? And what do you think is the most important thing you coach besides basketball skills?" Coach MacDonald said, "I grew up in a home where basketball was always around and in a community where basketball is a big part of our activities. I...
