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Gary Hanson has always been handy with wood. Making fabulous wood projects his whole life. He especially likes working on old west projects. Gary is the father of Paul Hanson and Keith Hanson. He made this incredible wagon along with six oxen pulling the wagon and a mule following behind the wagon. The building process took many hours from start to finish. Gary displayed it in his backyard in Arizona and every year he would take it back inside to restore it, before placing back in his yard for...
Technology has become one of the biggest impacts in people’s everyday lives. Whether it’s using a computer for homework or using a television to relax people are usually using some sort of technology. Phones are the largest part of a person’s day. People use their phones during work, at home, and at school. The Big Sandy school board and staff have taken into account the large impact of phones on the Big Sandy students. I have interviewed Miss Jay, the Big Sandy art teacher, for her opinion on phones in school. Miss Jay doesn’t exactly feel th...
The best tasting honey in the world is from Big Sandy Montana! Ken Yirsa and his family planted 100 acres of Hairy Vetch the first year they tried it in their crop rotation. Hairy Vetch, is a moderately winter-hardy species. It is the only vetch species that can be fall-seeded and reach maturity the following July. It is a legume, grown as a forage crop, fodder crop, cover crop, and green manure. Hairy vetch as a legume is used primarily for soil improvement. During that first year the Yirsas...
Sharon Sluggett Robertson has spent her entire life living in and serving the community of Big Sandy. Next month Sharon will be moving to Hamilton to be closer to her children and grandchildren. It's important to take a few minutes to acknowledge her commitment to all of us, give her a heart filled thank you, and send her on her way to her next adventure. Sharon was born in Big Sandy. After going to school here she married Roy Robertson one day before her 18th birthday. Roy and Sharon had the...
Soil Acidity and Soil Health Workshop in Fort Benton The Chouteau County Soil Acidity Working Group has organized a soil acidity and soil health workshop at the Ag Center in Fort Benton on February 27, 2018. The Ag Center is located at 1205 20th Street. Registration will begin at 9:30 a.m. The workshop will begin at 10:00 a.m. Most agricultural soils in Montana have near-neutral to basic conditions with surface soil pH 6.5 to 8. However, some areas of Montana have developed acidic soil layers near the surface as a result of fertilizer N use...
Everyday prevention actions can help slow the spread of germs that can cause many different illnesses and may offer some protection against Influenza (the flu). First let us look at how flu viruses are spread. Flu viruses are thought to spread mainly from person to person through droplets made when people with the flu cough, sneeze, or talk. These flu viruses also may spread when people touch something with the flu viruses on it and then touch their mouth, eyes, or nose. Many other viruses spread these ways too. People infected with flu may be...
How would you rate your family relations? Not the greatest, could be better or great? Strong communication is the key to good family relations. We have all heard this but what does it really mean? Communication is how we send and receive messages in ways that create understanding between individuals. It is what we say and how we say it. A majority of our communication is nonverbal—our body language, facial expressions and the tone. Nonverbal communication gives us information about the sender’s mood or intent of the message, it helps to con...
“The Right Time” by Danielle Steel Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra Winslow takes solace in the mysteries she reads with her devoted father—and soon she is writing them herself, slowly graduating to dark, complex crime stories that reflect skill, imagination, and talent far beyond her years. After her father’s untimely death, at fourteen Alex is taken in by the nuns of a local convent, where she finds twenty-six mothers to take the place of the one she lost, and the time and encouragement to pursue her gift. Alex writes in every...
Menus for the week are: Thursday February 1- Baked Potato Chicken casserole, dessert. Friday, February 2- Smorgasbord, veggie, dessert. Monday, February 5- French Toast, bacon, scrambled eggs, fruit. Tuesday, February 6- Chili with cinnamon rolls. Wednesday, February 7- Meatloaf, potatoes, broccoli and cheese, salad. Spicy Cheeseburger Pizza A pizza recipe with a zesty tomato layer topped with cheesy ground beef and finished with crisp lettuce. Velveeta® is a registered trademark of Kraft Foods, Inc. Ro*Tel® is a registered trademark of C...
The Mountaineer announces a 2018 Photographic Contest. There are four categories: Community People, Agriculture Activities, Community Activities, and Nature (Scenery/or Animals) Photos can be either be in color or in black and white. Each photographer can enter one photo per month. Each photo will be required to be digitally emailed to bsm1@mtintouch.net. The Mountaineer reserves the right to publish the photographs, which are entered depending on the availability of space in the paper, assuring each photo will be published. The voting will...
The Big Sandy Pioneer Varsity girls basketball team has shown vast improvement over the course of the season but had yet to find the win column, that is until this past Friday. The Hays/Lodge Pole Thunderbirds held a 12-4 advantage heading into the second quarter. Things then began to turn around. Sophomore Amanda Cline scored all 9 of Big Sandy's second quarter points and that was one more than the Thunderbirds scored as a team. The Pioneers had a huge second half outscoring Hays/L.P. in the...
The Longhorn/Pioneer Wrestling team traveled to Belt on Tuesday January 23rd. Landon Taylor won all 3 of his matches, Dylan Darlington was 2-1, and Weston Allderdice was 1-1. On Thursday, January 25th the wrestlers were in Big Sandy to honor the Pioneer wrestlers, Seniors Weston Allderdice and Dylan Darlington, and freshman Dillin Geyer. Weston, Landon, Ethan Davis, Connor Schnabel all were 1-0. The wrestlers finished there regular season in Simms on Friday January 26th. Connor was 2-1 and Weston was 1-1. The Longhorn/Pioneer wrestlers had a...
Thursday, February, 1- The Pioneer Basketball teams will travel to Box Elder to take on the the Bears, games start at 3:30p.m. Saturday, February 3- The Pioneer basketball teams will host the North Star Knights, games start at 3:30p.m. Tuesday, February 6- FFA will travel to Grass Range for Districts. Wednesday, February 7- Miss Montana will be in Big Sandy to give a presentation to 7-12 at 12:40 and then go to the F. E. Miley after to do a presentation to K-6. Friday, February 2- Elementary will go on their Ski Trip. Breakfast and Lunch Menus...
“Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My piles of books are a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.” ( “ Books to the Ceiling”) by Arnold Lobel. Due to the fact that at this time the book club is all women, I changed the last part to “We’ll live on Mars by the time I read them.” This pretty much sums up the life of book club members from what I have gleaned through our discussions. We met January 9 at the library and had a two pronged discussion. We first discussed some books we had re...
County health officials have been seeing an increase in flu cases this month and are encouraging people to get their flu shots and take precautions to prevent the spread of seasonal influenza. The influenza virus is spread through the coughing and sneezing of an infected person, or by touching things that have the virus on them, then touching your nose or mouth. A person with the flu can spread the virus from 1 day before symptoms appear until 7 days after the first symptoms or until the symptoms go away, whichever is longer. The symptoms of...
This morning, I ate my breakfast on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. I’ve been in Israel and Jordan for 2 weeks and the most impressive site I’ve visited thus far is a rocky stretch of beach a few hundred yards from the ruins of the ancient city of Capernaum. To understand why the stretch of beach was more impressive than every cathedral, ruin, monument, and mountain, it’s important to have a little context. The apostle Peter was the apostle who stood out. The man was at the center of every big event in the ministry of Jesus and was the most...
