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Helping You Prepare for the Gardening Season Believe it or not, the gardening season will be upon us before we know it. Below are a few gardening facts to help you prepare for the upcoming season. • Soil tests should be taken in the garden every three years. • The best time to collect a soil sample is in the spring after soil thaw. • Fall soil sampling is not recommended because nitrogen in the soil is depleted during the fall and winter seasons. • Do not work soil when it is wet. If the soil sticks to the shovel, wait a few more days. • The n...
It takes notable dedication for students to commit to a sport before school even starts. But that is what every volleyball player at Big Sandy High School did. We started practicing on the 11th of August. School started on the 21st, so we had already had 8 days of practice. Since Big Sandy High School is a class C school, we don’t cut anyone who tries out for the team. On the first and second days of practice, my coach, Brittany McKenney Richard, holds tryouts for the varsity team. So we have to run a mile and do drills to show our setting, p...
The Big Sandy Rotary Club hopes you would be interested in contributing to their 39th Annual Benefit Banquet. It started 40 years ago, but there wasn’t one during COVID. They scheduled it for March 16, 2024, and it has been held since 1984. Banquet proceeds support a long list of recipients: Volunteer Fire Department & EMTs, Food Bank, Senior Center, Rotary Youth Leadership Center (RYLA), the Library, The Swim Pool Project, Big Sandy Activities, Medical Center, Historical Society, Big Sandy Cemetery, the annual East Egg Hunt; upkeep of the l...
The Big Sandy Girl’s Basketball team is heading to the state basketball tournament for the first time in 15 years. The girls team has spent the last week and a half resting, getting healthy, and preparing for their trip to Great Falls to face off against the top ranked teams in Montana. I spoke with Coach Travis Baumann about the team, their season, and the team’s morale going into the state tournament. Travis described the girls as confident going into some stiff competition later this week. “Right now, because of the what they were able to do...
Early I interviewed, Cheyenne Feltz, DNP PMHNP-BC, the most recent provider at the Big Sandy Medical Center. Feltz is the new mental health provider, who is a Board Certified (BC) Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) with a Doctor of Nursing (DNP). After the interview she gave me a sheet that I found extremely interesting. I knew nothing about Neurotransmitter. After reading this sheet it frustrates me to hear people say we should all just “buck up” or pull ourselves up by our boot straps. So many of the issues of my fri...
The 4-H Shooting Sports 2024 Chouteau County Invitational Shoot was held February 24th in Fort Benton with 64 members registered to shoot. Participants were mostly from the Golden Triangle Counties. Other counties participating were Flathead, Lewis and Clark, Wheatland and Gallatin. Medals went to the following Chouteau County participants: See Page 3 for full list. Also participating from Chouteau County was Wyatt Stegman. A special thanks to Camille Good for compiling scores and tabulating results, Chandee Bomgardner for catering the event, C...
In August 1973, I left St. Louis, Missouri and traveled by train to Hays, Montana to accept a position as Principal of St. Paul’s Mission School in Hays on Ft Belknap Reservation. During the next few years, 5 more Sisters joined me to teach and minister on Ft. Belknap. From there, after nine years, I moved to Great Falls at the request of Bishop Murphy to work for the Catholic Diocese. I lived there for 14 years and participated in various ministries. My favorite ministry was volunteering and teaching GED and Art Programs in Cascade County J...
The Pioneer Parent Team is holding a Flamingo Frenzy Fundraiser to help support our schools. How can you participate? Send your fun-loving friend, family, neighbors, or enemy? a yard full of flamingos. Unsuspecting loved ones will walk out their front door and see pink flocking flamingos all over their yard. Flocks will rest for at least 24 hours at each location before migrating to their new location. The Pioneer Parent Team has three different flock sizes and prices for the flamingo yard flocking (see insert in this week’s paper). You can a...
It isn't about the sport. It's about supporting the kids, friends, and community. There was a fundraiser/dinner- a Divisional Tournament Pep Rally with a Spaghetti Dinner, a 3-Point shoot, a pop shot, and Little Pioneer Basketball games on Tuesday, the 20th. On February 29th, there will be a Dodgeball Tournament at 7:30 pm following the junior high Wrestling. If you had attended the Pep Rally, it would have been obvious to see our support for each other. Ella Jurenka told me they fed 150 people...
8 years ago this week, Big Sandy residents witnessed a shoot out when two well respected locals got into an argument. One appeared to have gone for his gun, prompting the other to draw and fire. The paper described the injury as “mortal.” The article was written the day of the shooting and the paper went to press shortly thereafter, which resulted in a fairly vague retelling. The crazy thing about the story is that there was no proper follow up. Very little explanation about the shooting appeared in the paper afterward. To make the story eve...
Winter Fertilization Facts Fall and winter broadcast application of urea (46-0-0) continues to take place on various winter wheat farms across Chouteau County. The major concern of broadcasting urea is nitrogen loss through ammonia volatilization. Volatilization results when there is a conversion from dissolved ammonia to ammonia gas. From 2008-2012, Rick Engel and Clain Jones (MSU Soil Scientists) have studied NH3 losses from surface-applied urea. Below are a few conclusions of their research. • Engle’s research (4 years and 20 studies) doc...
It’s time again for the 74th Annual Montana Seed Show, and with it, the 31st Annual Quilt Show. The show will be held Friday, March 8 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Saturday, March 9 from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM at the Band Room of Harlem High School. Bring your entries and entry forms to Richman Insurance on Main Street in Harlem by 5:00 PM on Friday, March 1. No late entries can be accepted. Great cash prizes will be awarded. Get busy and get those projects finished and enter them in our show! You can enter quilts, quilted wall hangings, d...
Regular Meeting February 8, 2024 Mayor Schwarzbach called the meeting to order and the Pledge of Allegiance was recited. Council members present: Krystyl Kulbeck, Rich Jespersen, Danielle Weaver and Jon Sheehy on Zoom Staff present: Wendy Kleinsasser and Tim Labuda Public: Dennis Hale and Gary Johnson of KLJ Approval of Meeting Minutes: Rich Jespersen moved to approve both sets of the January meeting minutes. Danielle Weaver seconded and the motion passed. Sheriff’s Report: None Public Comment: Dennis Hale informed the Council that he is in t...
High School Computer Lab 7:00 PM Trustees Present: Chairman Kelly Rutldedge Brad Weaver Anna Bold Jessica Sheehy Matt Myers Staff Present: Superintendent Dan Schrock Principal Heather Wolery Clerk Mary Merrill Visitors Present: Yes 1. Call to Order Meeting called to order by Chairman Kelly Rutledge at 7pm. 2. Pledge of Allegiance The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. 3. Welcome Guests Chairman Rutledge welcomed all visitors in attendance. 4. Public Comment- Non Agenda Items No Public Comment. 5. Correspondence- Correspondence read. 6. Minutes...
Dana Darlington, a neighbor of mine, sent a press release saying he is running for House District 26. "It consists of all of Chouteau County and about a third, maybe a little more of Cascade County. It's a whole new district." I'm interested in why he decided to run for office. I asked him who was going to be doing his calving for him. Dana said, "My lovely bride!" The event started all this-"for the past 25 years, ever since President Clinton signed the National Monument that moved right throug...
The Big Sandy Theater will be stretching itself this year by putting on a musical comedy. Nonsense in the Northwoods will be showing March 15th and 16th. The production is the story of a run-down lodge on the backside of Moose Lake, and it accidentally draws a zany cross section of guests on the heels of a fake Bigfoot sighting and a newspaper feeding frenzy looking for the worst member of congress who is hiding out in the hotel. One director pointed out that the Saturday showing is before the...
Every month we meet at the Jerry Martin Memorial Hall for our 4-H meeting. This month had a lot of information as several kids gave talks and demonstration. We also made Valentines Day cards to be given to the Big Sandy Medical Center residents. Chaz Danreuther did a talk on Woodworking tools. Oakley Jacobi did a demonstration on how to wind a bobbin and thread a sewing machine. Wren Danreuther gave a talk on the Horse Digestive System. Jayton Ophus did a talk on Goat kidding. Antonio Fabrizio...
HELENA – The new license year opens March 1, which means that is the day you can buy your 2024 hunting, fishing and conservation licenses and begin applying for permits and special licenses. The deadline to apply for deer and elk permits is April 1. Applications for most species – deer, elk, antelope, deer B licenses, elk B licenses, antelope B licenses, moose, sheep, goat, bison, bear, turkey – can be made beginning March 1. A new online feature this year is the option for applicants to reapply for the same offerings as last year with just...
Master Gardener Level 1 Class in Fort Benton (please pre-register) MSU Extension level 1 Master Gardener classes will take place in Fort Benton. Now is your chance to participate in an excellent educational opportunity. The class will begin on March 7th at the Chouteau County ambulance building. Please contact the MSU Chouteau County Extension office at 622-3751 to pre-register. The Level 1 Master Gardener course requires 16 hours of class time, and is taught by local Extension agents, plant professionals, and Master Gardener volunteers. For a...
8 at BSMC is certainly off to a good start! The electric panel has finally been installed at the new clinic building. After waiting for over a month, progress can continue again. Hopefully, it will all work like it should and heat will be flowing this week. From there, the building needs a good cleaning and inspection, then the move in can begin! While all of that is happening across the street, inside the current building, the dining room expansion will be taking place. It should only be a...
Marla Ray came out of retirement to teach English at Big Sandy High School. By all accounts, she is doing a great job teaching English. We've published several poems the students have written, so I asked her to consider teaching her students to write articles. I asked Marla to tell me a little about what her Junior class is working on. Marla wrote, "The Junior English class has been learning how to create an accurate resume, write good letters of application for job interviews or college scholarships, as well as letters to the Editor, thank...
Over the past few years, our school has made numerous improvements, including new mats on the gym wall, a new basketball court, a new football locker room for the guys, new lunch tables, new wrestling mats, and probably more that I haven't mentioned. However, I believe that the girls' locker room needs to be improved because it appears to have remained the same for at least ten years. I think it's important for our school to recognize that if they can make improvements in other areas of our...
Big Sandy Lady Pioneers Basketball have struggled for the past 15 years. In the season of 2020-2021, our girls record was 0-16. The next season, 2021-2022 we won a few games with a record of 6-14. Then we made quite a jump, with a record of 12-9 in 2022-2023. This basketball season, we are hoping to cause a ruckus at the District and even at the Divisional tournament. Our record as of now is 18-4, with the W's continuing to increase. The new coaching staff has helped the team tremendously as...
In Class C, basketball season is the most exciting time of the year. That is true this year in particular for the Lady Pioneers. A great start is all l was expecting, anticipating much success for us. With one weekend left of games until tournaments, we were currently 13-3. We started off strong in December at pre-season tournaments in Rudyard and Chester. Our two opponents for the weekend were two 10C teams, Sunburst and Augusta. Sunburst was a scrappy battle, but we pulled it off. For the...
The Big Sandy FFA chapter has done many fun things so far this year. We have gone on many trips and have won many awards. We attended different competitions this year and will have many teams going to State Convention. Last year at State Convention, we were very fortunate and had a Farm Business Management team place second overall. That team consisted of Lance Rutledge, Jaycee Worrall, Angie Sant, and Mattie Gasvoda who all got to compete this year at National Convention. Alex Worrall and Sever...
