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Nationwide, the No. 1 farm insurer*, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Nominate Your Fire Department Contest held in conjunction with Grain Bin Safety Week. Congratulations to the Big Sandy Fire Department in Big Sandy, Montana, on winning a grain bin rescue tube and hands-on rescue training. A local presentation of the tube and training took place at 6 p.m. on Thursday, October 13. "For the third straight year, Nationwide is bringing awareness to preventable grain bin entrapments...
Katie Hanson is fully a Big Sandy resident, having been born and raised here and graduated from Big Sandy High School. Katie's parents are Curt Owen and Laura Owen and her in-laws are Paul and Lorrie Hanson. Katie married C. J. Hanson. They have a four month old boy named Jordan. Katie got her elementary education four year degree from MSU Northern in Havre and did her practice teaching with Mrs. Moore and her third grade class. This year Katie is responsible for nine first graders and things...
It is time to start thinking about the 2016 Christmas Stroll. It will be held on Saturday, December 3 which is just around the corner. Stroll manager Marlys Edmonds said that there are many different activities planned for this year as well as many exciting contests to be entered. This year the Big Sandy Chamber of Commerce, who puts on the Stroll, turned to face book to choose a theme for the Stroll. The Chamber offered a hundred dollars in chamber bucks for the winning choice. Marlys said there were many great choices but the chamber chose “C...
When Alan and Lorrie Merrill visited the ruins of Pompeii in Italy, little did they know what it would stir up at home when they brought their grandson Henry a book about Pompey and Mount Vesuvius erupting and destroying that area. Henry, who has always been interested in natural disasters and ruins, almost wore the book out looking at its pages over and over again. Henry is the son of Mary and Nathan Merrill. He is a five year old very active little boy with a great imagination and gift of...
Fall Cropping Update from MSU Extension Soil Fertility Specialist Information for this article came from a MSU Extension Press Release. “Both nitrogen and sulfur needs for next year’s crops should be considered said Clain Jones (MSU Extension Soil Fertility Specialist) especially in areas that received well-above or well-below normal rainfall. There are several things that influence the next crop’s nitrogen requirements,” Jones said. “These include yield potential, residual nitrogen in the soil, and this year’s crop residue.” Jones encoura...
Thanks to a generous Lippard-Clawiter Foundation grant the first ten years of the Mountaineer (1911 to 1921) have been digitized and are now on line. The website link is: http://montananewspapers.org/lccn/sn84036071/ or Google montananewspapers.org and click on Big Sandy. Readers everywhere can enjoy the first Mountaineers with this grant to the Big Sandy Cultural Fund. Doug Giebel, the Fund’s Executive Director, worked with the Montana Historical Society’s new effort to digitize, preserve and put on line Montana’s newspapers. The local nonpr...
Regular Meeting October 24, 2016 7:00 p.m. High School Computer Room Trustees Present: Brad Weaver, Chairperson, Diana LaBuda, Darin Genereux Trustee Absent: Brandon Gasvoda, Andrew Long Staff Present: Brad Moore, Superintendent, Maryetta Engle, Clerk, Heather Wolery, Elementary Head Teacher Visitors Present: Dave Peterson, Nubby Peterson, Ronnie Simpson, Gabriella Blatt, Fred Watstein, Dan Leader, Teal Poole, Andrea Rutledge, Jasmine Genereux, and Jenna Leader 1. Call to Order - Chairperson Brad Weaver called the meeting to order. 2. Pledge...
It is the beginning of the month and since it is November, a Thanksgiving recipe would be in order but you know most of my Thanksgiving recipes anyway so how about a new way to cook an old favorite, Shepherd’s Pie. The meat in the Shepherd’s pie can be ground up lamb but I have always used a hamburger mixture. It seems more like me. To make a Shepherd’s pie you need to do three separate things. First, you need to get some good root vegetables cooked. Then you need to get your meat mixture prepared and then you need to cook enough mashed potat...
Radon is the leading cause of lung cancer among non-smokers in the United States. Radon enters our bodies as we inhale. Children are more susceptible to the effects of radon because of the developmental stages their bodies are going through. Pound for pound, children are eating, drinking and breathing more than adults. Therefore, if radon is in the air they are breathing or water they are drinking, their body is receiving a higher concentration of radon than an adult. What is radon? It is naturally occurring radioactive gas that is odorless...
Rylee Rice a freshman from Ainsworth NE; earned gold at the Nebraska High School State Cross Country meet on Friday October 21, 2016. Rylee missed being the all class gold by 2 seconds with her 18:34.02. Rylee ran a rough course in great detail keeping her close competitor Cameron Hucke a Senior from Hasting St Cecilia behind her through out the whole race. Rice winning by 40 seconds was the first Class D girl to break under 19 minutes to set a new class D record. Rylee is the granddaughter of...
On October 7, 2016, Helen M. Popnoe, 89 of Winifred, passed away peacefully of natural causes. Helen M. Popnoe was born in Glendive, MT, on November 8, 1926. She was the third child of John and Gunda (Kleppe) Secora. The family moved to Circle, and then to Big Sandy where she received her education and graduated from Big Sandy High School in 1944. Immediately following graduation, Helen joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. She completed her registered nurse degree at Montana State College in Bozeman in 1947. Helen began working as a surgical...
I recently read a book about the dozens of strange ways most people naturally think about the world around them, which result in mistakes or misunderstandings. A lot of the book dealt with logic, patterns of thinking about things, and ways that peopledeal with information. Some of them were obvious, like wanting simple explanations for situations, even very complex ones. Or the fact that people are generally more trusting toward and think more highly of physically attractive folks. Others were less obvious, like the tendency of people to...
The F.E. Miley School's students K-3rd grade came to Pearson's Pumpkin Patch the week of 10/18/2016. The weather cooperated and the roads dried so they could come on their annual field trip. The students had a fun time picking their favorite pumpkin, getting lost in the hay maze, meeting the new spooks, and seeing the ranch animals....
WE DIG Deeper HIT With a purpose SET High standards BLOCK Out the competition This mantra is posted on the outside of all the ladies lockers. While the ladies were not the winningest team this season they still accomplished these goals. The 6C district playoffs were last weekend and the ladies fell to Box Elder in a battle of four sets and then went on to face North Star and lost in three sets. The Chinook Sugarbeeters hosted and decisively won the tourney. The McDonald’s, principals at Box Elder, came over for dinner and the Cubs game on Frida...
