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Articles from the November 8, 2019 edition


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  • 4-H wants you to be safe

    Updated Nov 7, 2019

    Carter County 4-H Ambassadors recently worked to encourage students to be safe during the Halloween season. Ambassadors plan and put on a safety program annually, prior to Halloween. The group contacts the school and plans activities for the program. The 2019-2020 4-H Ambassador team includes: Hannah LaBree, Heather LaBree, Heidi LaBree, Jaden Pardee, Darin Schallenberger, and Gracie Tooke. This year the group spoke to Ekalaka students on October 28, covering safety tips with...

  • Bulldogs' first season back in 8-Man ends at Great Falls

    Updated Nov 7, 2019

    It had been a long road for CCHS Football since they last made the playoffs. That year was 2009; it also happened to be the last time the Bulldogs played 8-Man football. In 2009 a formidable team led by a salty group of seniors traveled to Hays-Lodgepole for their regular season finale and won. The following week they fell to Twin Bridges in the first round of the 8-Man playoffs. From 2010 to 2018 the Dogs had their fair share of struggles while playing 6-Man football. 2014...

  • Yates celebrates 95th

    Updated Nov 7, 2019

    Amidst a crowd of family and friends, longtime Carter County resident Anabel Yates celebrated her 95th birthday at Dahl Memorial Healthcare in Ekalaka last Wednesday. Party goers enjoyed refreshments, conversation and their choice of two different cakes. The cake in the photo, which looks like a blue cat, was made specially by a Dahl employee for Yates who has always been very fond of felines....

  • Junior high basketball scores

    Updated Nov 7, 2019

    BOYS November 1 Ekalaka B 7 11 19 19 Plevna B 3 7 11 17 Ekalaka B: Chace Loehding 8, Owen Poppema 7, Weston Strub 4 Ekalaka A 8 12 20 36 Plevna A 1 8 15 16 Ekalaka A: Chace Loehding 12, Wyatt Melton 8, Ethan Frye 6, James Enos 4, Owen Poppema 4, Ryker Carroll 2 November 2 Ekalaka A 2 8 16 24 Jordan A 20 22 35 43 Ekalaka A: Ethan Frye 12, James Enos 4, Zander Ashbrook 2, Chace Loehding 2, Ryker Carroll 2, Owen Poppema 2 GIRLS November 1 Ekalaka B 10 14 20 22 Plevna B 2 6 9 11 Ekalaka B: Shaun-tey Kerr 10, Bella Jensen 8,...

  • Conversations with God

    Updated Nov 7, 2019

    Hello God, it’s me, Mara: You know, Lord, it might be fun to go back in time (but only for a short time) when life moved at a slower pace. We’ll leave behind: high speed internet, cell phones, telephones, T. V., GPS and electricity. Daily chores, back then, were milking cows, gathering eggs, cleaning coop and barn, slopping pigs, feeding bucket calves, cooking meals from scratch, and in Autumn, making jams, jellies, canning fruits, vegetables and meat, making soap, making some of our clothes or remaking hand-me-downs. Ah – a...

  • CCHS takes 2nd at District 2C Tournament

    Updated Nov 7, 2019

    With only six teams in the District 2C Volleyball Tournament held last weekend in Glendive, first place Wibaux and second place CCHS both had first-round byes. In their first match, Ekalaka was pitted against Circle. The Wildcats had won their first round match against Terry earlier on Thursday. It took all five sets for the Dogs to down the Wildcats. They won the first set (25-18), dropped the second (20-25), won the third (25-23), lost the fourth (15-25) and won the final...

  • Flu vaccine clinics November 10 and 11

    Carter County Public Health and Dahl Memorial Healthcare Association will be hosting flu vaccine clinics on Sunday, November 10 and Monday, November 11. Sunday’s clinic will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the community hall in Alzada. The Monday, November 11 clinic will take place from 4 to 7:30 p.m. at Dahl Memorial Clinic in Ekalaka. The regular influenza vaccine costs $20 per vaccine. Pneumococcal vaccine will also be available. Residents who would like the cost of the vaccine billed to insurance must bring their i...

  • Memories

    Loyd Townsend|Updated Nov 7, 2019

    While looking through “Shifting Scenes” to write an article, I came across an article written by Sandi Kirkwood on the family of James and Inga C. Senrud Johnstone. As I read through those I said to myself: “What interesting people, times and events.” You readers be the judges. Like a lot of individuals, they came across the water to the U.S.A. James (Jimmy) was born on January 27, 1883 in Creetown, Kircubrightshire, Scotland. He was one of seven children as he had three brothers and three sisters. Inga Senrud was born Ju...

  • Montana Public Lands Field Trip Grant application deadline extended

    Updated Nov 6, 2019

    (Helena, MT) –Montana State Parks (stateparks.mt.gov) announced today that the application deadline for Montana Public Lands Field Trip Grants has been extended. The original deadline to apply was October 27, 2019, but the grant cycle will remain open until all of the available grants have been awarded. The $200 grants may be used for school field trips to federal and state public lands taking place between January 2 and August 30, 2020. The grant money is aimed at covering transportation-related costs with an emphasis on a...

  • FWP seeks comments on bovine tuberculosis surveillance plan

    Updated Nov 6, 2019

    Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is requesting public review and comment on the Proposed Montana Bovine Tuberculosis Surveillance Plan. Supporting information can be found on the FWP website under “Opportunity for Public Comment” at fwp.mt.gov/hunting/ . Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis). Bovine TB is primarily a disease of cattle but can affect many other species of mammals. The disease can spill over from livestock to wildlife, which can then serve as a reservoir, pot...

  • Bells of Peace a World War I remembrance

    Updated Nov 6, 2019

    The World War Centennial Commission—along with the Pritzker Military Museum & Library, the Society of the Honor Guard of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the National Cathedral, the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars—has announced a nationwide bell-tolling on Nov. 11 as a solemn reminder of the sacrifice and service of veterans of the Great Wars, and all veterans. “Bells of Peace: A World War One Remembrance” encourages citizens and organizations across the nation to toll bells in their communities 21 times a...

  • A tribute to Donna Sjoblom Smith

    Bill Lavell|Updated Nov 6, 2019

    I was so sorry to hear about the death of my classmate, Donna Sjoblom Smith. I started grade school in Ekalaka in 1944 in the first grade; we had no kindergarten then. Part of my class was Donna Sjoblom. Donna was cute as could be and was smart, sweet and nice. She was everyone’s favorite. She was my classmate all the way through school and graduated from high school with me in 1956. Donna’s parents lived on a farm a little west of Ekalaka but I think that she went to town school for her whole school experience. Donna too...

  • HAT TIPS

    Dean Meyer|Updated Nov 6, 2019

    Hello, I’m not a real good fencer. You can ask my neighbors. But yesterday I was forced to build a quarter mile of four barbed-wire fence. It happened because on Saturday evening, I was rudely taken from a pinochle game to get cattle off the road. And Shirley wasn’t home to get them in. So yesterday morning, we went to fencing. We being Shirley and I. There is nothing more attractive to me than a woman wearing Carhartt Overalls, a Scotch cap, and leather gloves, with a fencing plier in her hand. Gorgeous. I mean it’s not V...

  • Toni Hughes

    Updated Nov 6, 2019

    Burial for Toni E. Hughes, 72, of Ekalaka, MT, will take place in Beaver Lodge Cemetery at a later date. Toni passed away on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019 at her home. Toni E. Hughes was born June 13, 1947, in Miles City, MT, the daughter of Damian and Alice (Clausen) Culver. Toni attended Ekalaka Grade School and graduated from Carter County High School in 1965. She attended Montana State University and in 1968 she graduated from Northwest Dental Technical College, Portland, OR....

  • Unofficial town election results

    Updated Nov 6, 2019

    Unofficial results of the General Municipal Election for the Town of Ekalaka show that Raquel S. Williams, David Loudermilk and Jimmy W. Mackay have been elected to the Town Council. Williams, who ran unopposed for a four-year term, received 134 votes. Loudermilk and Mackay were each elected to two-year terms, defeating Micheal John Archer and Patrick W. Strickland . Loudermilk received 117 votes while Mackay received 89. Archer had 48 votes and Strickland received 16. Two hundred fifty-three ballots were mailed to active...

  • Sausage making workshops in Nov.

    The Fallon/Carter County Extension Office has scheduled sausage making workshops for Monday, November 18 and Tuesday, November 19. The workshop scheduled for November 18 will be held at the Fallon County Exhibit Hall in Baker at 5:30 p.m. The workshop scheduled for November 19 will be at Carter County Events Center at 5:30 p.m. Those planning on attending should RSVP by November 12 to the extension office by calling 406-778-7110 or emailing [email protected]. The office will also need to know what kind of meat (deer,...