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Due to the continuing drought conditions, Chouteau County producers may be eligible for one or more of FSA's disaster aid programs. A brief explanation of each program is as follows: Livestock Forage Program (LFP) – The Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) provides compensation to eligible livestock producers who suffer grazing losses for covered livestock due to drought on privately owned or cash leased land, or fire on federally managed land. Livestock producers should contact the C...
There is nothing more important in any community than the education of its young people. And, it is also true that there is nothing more important to any community then getting the very best teachers available in any year. This year in Big Sandy, there are four new full time teachers and Bridgette Long who is teaching one period of Spanish each school day. We wish these new teachers well and hope that they find living in Big Sandy is an adventure in good neighbors and dear hearts. Following are...
Well over a hundred people visited the Big Sandy Museum this summer and from the comments received around town, those people knew they had been somewhere and seen something. Our Big Sandy Museum may not be world class but it is certainly in an upper class when comparing it to other museums in Montana. Tina Rodewald is the Director of the museum. Traci Rodewald is the curator and Dale Morey is the volunteer who put in countless hours just for the love of the Museum and Big Sandy. There are new...
Almost everyone has a bucket list or wishes they would choose to do if they ever had a chance to do them. Years ago, some folks made their bucket lists into seasonal lists of things to do during that particular season. It is fall and we have even had a tad of fall like weather to prove it. My fall bucket list is probably similar to yours and maybe different as well. This fall bucket list is not in order of what to do first and so on. Rather it is just a series of suggestions about what fall has to offer that you might not have thought of. Fall...
Precautions before Grazing Alfalfa and Cover Crops • All producers should use a bloat block and expose the cattle to the bloat block in the pasture shortly before putting them onto a cover crop or alfalfa field. Seven days prior is a good rule of thumb. The bloat blocks can be placed in their salt tub. • Make sure the cattle are full before letting them out on to the alfalfa or cover crop. • Test the crops and weeds for nitrates (cereal grains, kochia, turnips and radishes). Turnips and radishes seem to have the highest nitrates of the cover...
Many years ago I wanted to become a teacher and had gathered enough credits at Northern Montana College to do that. Dr. Harrison Lane was my mentor for Student Teaching and he wanted me to do my Student Teaching with Lawrence Green in Big Sandy. He said the school system was simply wonderful as was Mr. Green. Lane was right on both counts! I went to Big Sandy and remember well teaching English to Big Sandy kids very interested in learning and I learned a lot from my brief stay with the Big Sandy schools. That was a wonderful school system. It...
This week Darlene has chosen” THE GLASS CASTLE” by Jeannette Walls. “THE GLASS CASTLE” is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibilit...
On Wednesday, Sep 13, Big Sandy FFA Chapter brought twenty-two students to Hobson, Montana for the District Leadership Conference. The students participated in leadership and trust exercises, learned about FFA, and discussed career opportunities within agriculture. DIstrict Leadership COnference serves as a kickoff to our new FFA competition season. Ms. Bernhardt stated that “-it was exciting to see an increased number of junior high students as well as some new upperclassmen joining us at this purposeful event.” The chapter was also awa...
Contact the Senior Citizen Center cooks at 378-2405. Most all lunches include an entrée, potato, vegetable, salad, dessert and coffee along with fresh bread and all cost $5.00 each unless otherwise noted. Lunches for the coming week are as follows: Wednesday, September 20 pizza with a green salad and dessert Thursday, September 21 chicken chow mein with dessert and bread for the Lunch of the Week! Friday, September 22 hamburger stew, cornbread and dessert Monday, September 25 parmesan chicken, noodles, salad and dessert Tuesday, September 26...
Robert H. Jordan was born October 7, 1926, and passed away on September 10, 2017. Born at home in Deer Park, Montana, six miles west of Maudlow, Bob was the third child of Charles Elmer and Maggie Etta Arnold Jordan. His mother passed away when he was four years old leaving his father to raise all four children alone. Bob's early childhood was spent in the Deer Park area. He attended the Crane School in lower Sixteen Mile, the Morgan School in the middle fork of Sixteen and the Josephine School...
At one point during Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign in the spring of 1862, he wound up in a position where his force was on one side of a river while it needed to be on the other side. Jackson first approached his engineers and asked them to plan and build a bridge to safely get the army to the other side. They immediately set to the task they’d been assigned. He then spoke with his wagon master, telling him that it was urgent that the wagon train get to the other side. The Wagon master immediately began gathering logs, stones, and fen...
Q: My friend keeps telling me that I need Jesus, but I don’t understand what he means. Why do I need Jesus? A: I’m thankful for your friend’s concern; he obviously cares about you, and he senses that something is missing in your life—something only God can supply. I pray that you’ll take your friend’s concern seriously. Why do you need Jesus? You need Him first of all because you need His salvation. You see, you aren’t here by accident; God created you, and He put you here for a reason. In fact, He loves you, and life’s greatest joy comes from...
The Big Sandy Pioneer varsity football team chalked up another win, taking down the Heart Butte Warriors Saturday afternoon with a lopsided 56-19 win. The Pioneers doubled up the Warriors in the opening stanza, leading 14-7. They extended the lead to 34-13 by halftime and put the contest to bed in the third taking a 50-13 lead into the fourth before securing the 56-19 win. Big Sandy played their first game of the season at home but the last three have all been road trips. The Pioneers faired...
The Big Sandy Pioneers had a rough go of things on the court this past week beginning with a heartbreaking five set loss to the Box Elder Bears on Tuesday. Friday the girls were bested in straight set by the Chinook Sugarbeeters and Saturday they fell to the Belt Huskies. Big Sandy took the first two sets against the Bears winning the first 26-24 and the second 25-18. Box Elder responded with a 25-21 set win in the third and evened the match at 2-2 with a 25-14 win in the fourth. Box Elder...
Thursday, September 21 Mid Term Thursday, September 21 ASVAB testing for Juniors in the AM Friday, September 22 Football hosting Sunburst. JV at 4pm and Varsity at 7pm Saturday, September 23 Junior high football at Rudyard, junior high volleyball at Havre and varsity volleyball at Hays/Lodgepole Monday, September 25 First day of spirit week Monday, September 25 JV football at Sunburst Tuesday, September 26 junior high football hosting North Star Tuesday, September 26 volleyball hosts North Star (JV Only) Tuesday, September 26 District FFA in...
Full Body Sculpting/Toning and Cardio Class is underway! Tuesdays and Thursdays - September 5 through December 21. -- 5:30 - 6:30 P.M. in the gym annex. $10 registration fee. Jeri Roth is the instructor. Big Sandy Adult Education Sewing Classes September 18, 25 and October 2, 2017 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm The sewing classes will include learning the parts of the sewing machine, sewing tools, fabric information, using a rotary cutter and mat and then sewing some simple projects leading up to elastic waist pants, capris or shorts. We will be using n...
