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Mayor Stiles said that the joint City Council and School Board meeting to discuss a new swimming pool for Big Sandy on June 21 was very successful with both groups thinking more about a new swimming pool. Most of the Council was at the meeting along with most of the School Board. "We showed the School Board the diagrams and pictures of pools we have been talking about," said Mayor Stiles. "We also discussed pros and cons of both suggested locations. One location is very close to the elementary...
Tina Rodewald, who heads up the Big Sandy Museum, says to stop in as the entire museum is being refreshed and there are plenty of new exhibits to see and explore from 10 until 4 until Labor Day. Traci Rodewald, is the woman in charge of the museum, and she has worked hard to make museum mannequins dressed in the kind of garb they should be wearing for the period they are representing. For instance Tina said that the Mountain Cowboy has never looked better and is worth a look this summer at his...
There is an old saying in Montana that if a person does not like the weather, just wait five minutes and it will change. That has never been more true than this winter, spring and early summer, in the Big Sandy area. Just before this story came to see the printed word, there was a good inch of rain in the Big Sandy area. Some areas of the Bear Paw Mountains were reporting up to three inches of rain and some low land flooding. Many have commented that it is almost the middle of July and the prairie is that wonderful early spring green color....
The Montana Department of Agriculture will host the first ever Grown in Montana Store at the Montana State Fair in Great Falls, July 29th through August 6th. The Grown in Montana Store will showcase value-added agriculture products that are grown in Montana and processed by Montana businesses. Nearly 20 Montana companies from all corners of the state will have products available for purchase, ranging from jams to jerkies and cookies to caviar. Following is a partial list of some of the great Montana companies that will have products for sale at...
At the last regular City Council meeting July 6, 2016, there were six visitors present. The Pledge was recited and minutes were approved. There was no sheriff’s report. Nor were there any public comments. The New Water Project was discussed. Rural Development has asked for updated figures as they are interested in funding the project. Mayor Stiles said that before they go too much further they need to have public meetings to let Big Sandy know what is in the mix. The Council discussed property cleanup of weeds, abandoned vehicles and w...
Last Monday it simply poured all day long on the prairie and in the Bear Paw Mountains even more. As I was driving to Big Sandy that Monday morning, I was thinking of cloud bursts as I crossed the Gravel Coulee Bridge just south of Laredo, Montana. In, I believe, 1938 a cloud burst, in the mountains south of Gravel Coulee. A wall of water came down the watershed. That water killed several people in an afternoon. I remember Ed Cook saying that he and his dad were watching the wall of water from the top of a bluff when along came the very school...
General Mills has recently expanded its recall of flour to include flour made earlier in the fall of 2015 that may still be in consumers’ kitchens. General Mills continues to investigate a multi-state outbreak of E. coli O121. A newly-reported illness prompted the expansion of the recall due to it appearing to have been caused from the consumption of raw dough or batter linked to flour produced in Fall 2015. The FDA and CDC continue to warn consumers to refrain from consuming any raw products made with flour that is included on the recall list...
Michael T. Belcourt, Sr., age 71, was called home on July 11, 2016, to join his father Edward, mother Pearl (Wells), brothers Gary and Harvey, and sisters Carol and Janice. A true soldier that fought a long, hard battle is now being led home by an angel of our Heavenly Father. Mike was born in Lewistown, Montana, on July 27, 1944, to Edward and Pearl Belcourt. He came to Havre as a baby, and attended Havre schools until his senior year when the family moved to California. There he attended Rose...
Reinholt E. Bitz, 93, passed away due to natural causes on Tuesday, June 28, 2016, at the Big Sandy Medical Center – Long Term Care Unit. Cremation has taken place, and memorial services will be at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, August 1, 2016, at Van Orsdel United Methodist Church in Havre with Pastor Sharon Robertson officiating. Reinholt's family has requested that memorials be made in his name to the Big Sandy Medical Center, Van Orsdel United Methodist Church in Havre, or the Big Sandy United M...
Q: When I was younger I did some pretty bad things, and the older I get the more guilty I feel over them. I want to ask God for forgiveness, but I haven’t because I honestly don’t believe He’ll forgive me. Why should He? I can’t even forgive myself. A: God is willing to forgive you for one reason: He loves you. If He hated you, or if He despised you because of what you’ve done, then you wouldn’t have any reason to expect Him to forgive you. But He loves you! This doesn’t mean God overlooks our sins or pretends they never happened—beca...
Today is my 18th wedding anniversary. My wife and I were married young, after meeting each other online and a very brief courtship. As I look back, I’m pretty sure we were nuts. There are a handful of factors whose presence make a marriage statistically more likely to succeed or fail over the long term. My wife and I managed to come up on the wrong side of an awful lot of the divorce indicators. We didn’t know each other well, we argued a lot, we lacked financial stability (I lost my job the week we got married), we were up to our eyes in stu...
Hailed out and emerged volunteer wheat should be sprayed immediately after harvest Information for this article was taken from a Kansas State University Press Release. The entire article is located at www.ag.ksu.edu. Producers often wait several weeks after harvest before making their first herbicide application to control volunteer wheat,” said Dallas Peterson, K-State Research and Extension weed management specialist. “This allows as much volunteer as possible to emerge before spraying it or tilling it the first time. Often, a second app...
The Big Sandy Barracudas took 5th place overall with 32 swimmers competing at the Fort Benton meet this past weekend. The Barracudas competed in their largest meet this season, with approximately 400 swimmers taking to the pool. Bringing home high point honors for the Barracudas was Brady Pleninger with wins in the 100 M free, the 100 M back and the 50 M free. Also earning high point honors in the 11/12 boys category was Dillin Geyer (2nd place) and Cameron Schwarzbach (3rd place). Scoring wins...
In unofficial minutes of the June 28 School Board Meeting all trustees were present except for Brandon Gasvoda. Staff present was Superintendent Moore, Clerk Engle and Elementary Lead Teacher Wolery. Visitors present were Colby Cline, Joe Bahnmiller, Traci Rodewald, Lisa Genereux, Sheri Moore, Jennifer Darlington, Mark Reichelt, Ronnie Simpson, Sophie Reichelt, Jessica Roth, Josh Tone and Neal Bouma. The meeting was called to order, the Pledge recited, there was a welcome of guests and the minutes of the last meeting were approved. There were n...
