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The 2022 4-H and FFA Livestock Show featured 32 beeves, 48 swine, and two sheep, last week at the 107th Phillips County Fair, earning their showmen a total of $405,772.75 in sales. Last Friday, August 5, in the Advanced Senior Beef Showmanship, Malta's Shaylee Hines was named Grand Champion, and Whitewater's Shelbi LaBrie was named the Reserve Champion. Renzey Raymond was the Junior Advanced Showmanship trophy winner, Emree Stuart was second, and Steeler Blunt was third. In Market Beef, Macey...
The Malta Swim Team will be sending seven swimmers to the Montana Federation of Swimmer State Swim Meet this weekend in Lewistown. The team qualified seven out of ten swimmers that competed in the Eastern Divisional Meet in Plentywood, which started on Friday, July 29, and concluded on Saturday, July 30. “The first day was pretty long because there were a lot more kids than I expected,” Malta Head Coach Darrow Messerly said. “There were like 350 kids.” The Malta boys were tenth with 58 points...
Though there will be a new look and feel at the 2022 Phillips County Fair Grandstand events, the venue will host several events this weekend. This weekend, the PC Fair will be hosting a concert on Friday, August 5, at 7 p.m., a combined Demolition Derby/ AMX Racing Event on Saturday, August 6, at 3 p.m., and Indian Relay Races / Chariot Races on Sunday, August 7, at 11 a.m. The PCN caught up with Keith Cowan, President of Dodson AMX Racing, and Francine Stiffarm, event coordinator for the...
The Fort Peck Children's Theatre came to Malta on Wednesday, July 13, and among the crew was Saco's Chayten Pippin, a 2021 Graduate of Saco High School. "It feels weird coming back from Missoula," Pippin said. "Coming from a big area to a fairly small town. It's very nice though, to see familiar faces again." Pippin, who just finished his first year at the University of Montana's Bachelor of Fine Arts program, was joined by fellow actors Shy Iverson, Benjamin Wambeke, and Taylor Noll in their...
Though I have had the same hammer since I was 13 years ago, I am far from a handyman. I do have to say that I have had a streak of fixing things around the house. One wouldn’t think that putting together a kitchen table is hard to do, but I definitely can complicate a simple task. I did get it set up! After I found my rhythm, I was also able to assemble the six chairs that came with it. One month later. As I was putting together the furniture, I wondered what my sons were thinking. I am g...
Malta Kids Club has been busy with a pair of camps this month, as the local boys and girls club has hosted Lego Camp and Drama Camp in the month of July. The PCN caught up with Lego Camp Directors Elaine Stannebein and Hope Anderson, as well as Drama Camp Director Hannah Lane. Lego Camp: According to Anderson, there are only two other kids clubs in the state of Montana that participate in Lego Robotics. "They really like building with Legos," Stannebein said. "What they are discovering is that...
Malta was not present at the Scobey Swim Meet last weekend, but the team has ten swimmers headed to the Eastern Divisional Swim Meet in Plentywood this week. "I guess it was just a weekend for them to rest up and get ready for Divisionals," Malta Swim Team Head Coach Darrow Messerly said. Coach Messerly believes that the Divisional Meet will be similar to the crowded Glasgow Meet a couple of weeks ago, which hosted over 200 swimmers. Malta has ten swimmers going, including a pair of brothers...
Ever since a windstorm hit the Hi-Line on Tuesday, April 5 and 6, the state of the Phillips County Fair Grandstands has been in question. A few weeks ago, the Fair Board told the PCN that the upper area of the Grandstands would be removed. Last Thursday, July 14, Phillips County Commissioner John Carnahan stopped in to confirm that the removal had begun. "The Grandstands have been condemned, so they are going to be removed," Phillips County Commissioner John Carnahan told the PCN. "The county...
The Malta City Council held their regularly scheduled meeting on July 12, at Malta's City Hall building. Amongst the topics of discussion were Department Reports, updates to the Trafton Lift Station, and the approval of the June 2022 payroll. In New Business, the Council approved an Amended Plat of Lot 1, Tract A, Dobson Farm Subdivision NW ¼, Section 18, T30N, R30E, P.M.M., Phillips County, Montana. The Council even okayed an office for the DES Coordinator to be in the Malta Event...
I know that I am about to jinx it. I know that I should probably just take the win and be quiet about it, but I can’t help myself. I have lived here a while now and I must say that this has been the most pleasant year for a certain pest that I won’t name. Year after year, I have gone outside to set up my sprinklers only to be mobbed by biters. I would swat and stomp every step as I set up irrigation. We wouldn’t have picnics outside due to these buzzing creatures, and a walk around the neigh...
The Malta Swim team overcame a couple of 105-degree days in Glasgow last weekend, including record-breaking 108-degree temps on Sunday, July 17. "The first day (Saturday, July 16), was super long and hot," Malta Swim Team Head Coach Darrow Messerly said. "I think we had roughly 200 or 250 kids and that took a while." The Malta boys racked up 78 points and took ninth place as a team, while the Malta girls had 22 points and were tenth. Present for the boys were Reese Brown, Kael Young, and Silas...
The Great Plains Dinosaur Museum hosted their Dino Days event alongside Malta's Summer Fest. The event featured a Fun Run/Walk @ Trafton Trail, a Community Breakfast with Malta Kiwanis Club, Kids Dino Day, a showing of Jurassic World: Dominion, and Beverages and Bones. At Beverages and Bones, the PCN caught up with Anne Booth, Vice President of the Great Plains Dinosaur Museum's Board of Directors as well as Dr. Cary Woodruff, who had worked for the Great Plains Dinosaur Museum as its...
So, we did a thing the other day…. I’m not talking about marriage. I am talking about something that has been in my life just as long as I have been married. My old couch set. The other day, Susan and I replaced our old couch/love seat set. Honestly, it took me a long time to like that couch. It was not comfortable at first. It did not recline, so the naps were often painful, and sitting on it too long encouraged me to get up and take a lap around the house. I disliked that couch for years, but...
The Malta Swim Team hosted their first Montana Federation of Swimmers swim meet since the 2018 season. One year, the teams didn't have enough swimmers and parents to set up a meet, one year was canceled due to COVID, and another was lost due to pool conditions "It's great to have kids back and parents to help us set up and make this happen," Malta Head Coach Darrow Messerly told the PCN. Malta had a total of 20 swimmers;15 girls and 5 boys. The event had around 100 swimmers. The event went from...
The 2022 Malta NRA Rodeo featured a little adversity by way of a bleacher-clearing thunderstorm last Saturday, July 9, at the Trafton Park Rodeo Arena. At the time, the event was mostly finished with only four bull-riders left in the event. "It probably took us a half an hour after the rain had started to finish the Bull Riding, but we did get it done," Jerey McEwen of the Trafton Park Arena Committee said. "We ain't going to quit. We were soaked and drowned rats but we got it done." According t...
On Thursday, June 23, the Montana High School Association Executive Board announced changes to their office responsibilities, and along with that came promotions. Greta (Koss) Beuhler, a 1992 graduate of Malta High School was promoted to be an Assistant Director for the MHSA in addition to her previous role as the MHSA Business Manager. She will oversee Basketball and Tennis for the MHSA. “I am excited to be an assistant director, but I know it will be a challenge to learn the ins and outs of m...
Wednesday, June 21, marked ten years since I moved to the great state of Montana. That same day marked a day that I felt like a real Montanan. On that day, I was tasked with driving to Miles City to pick up our newspaper from the Miles City Star. They have been printing out papers since the press went down at the Havre Daily News. To me, a native Chicagoite, an eight hour round trip drive takes forever! Somewhere along that trip to Miles City, I met road construction and decided to take a...
The Penguin Palace in Whitewater was the site of Coach B's Basketball Academy, a week-long event in which the youth of Phillips County and surrounding towns were able to work on their skills on the court. The camp was led by Jenna Bolstad, an assistant coach for the women's basketball team at Montana Tech. Bolstad coached Whitewater's Kia Wasson, and will be coaching Saco's Jaycee Erickson and Wasson this upcoming year. "I feel like it has been good," Bolstad said of her training session in...
Do you know how to make Malta Crazy Days even Crazier? Add an evening rodeo to it! The Trafton Park Arena's Malta NRA Rodeo is gearing up for its third installment from Friday, July 8, to Saturday, July 9, in Malta. The event started in 2020, during a time when events were shut down due to the threat of COVID-19. "We started it during COVID," said Jerey McEwen of the Trafton Park Arena Committee. "There were 550 people sitting in the stands. People were ready to get out. They had been locked in...
A few weeks ago, Hi-Line Retirement Center administrator Duane Murray wrote a letter in the PCN "Letters to the Editor" section explaining that many nursing homes have struggled to stay open even before COVID-19 was an issue, this week the PCN was able to catch up with Murray to talk about many of the changes that HLRC will be going through in hopes to stop the facility from shutting its doors. Since his letter, Murray said that HLRC has started its change from a CMS (Center for Medicare &...
The Malta M-ettes basketball team hosted their annual Little M-ette Basketball Camp last week. The camp hosted 32 girls from third grade to eighth grade. The M-ette High School team helped out at the event. "There are some competitive younger kids coming in and we had some good, spirited competition, training, and they were an eager bunch of young kids," M-ette Head Coach Nate Hammond said. The camp started on Monday, June 20, and concluded on Wednesday, June 22, at the Malta High School...
Last week, the Milk River Bambino Baseball league started in Malta. This season, the league is under new leadership, as Kenny Murray, a Malta native, hopes to bring the same passion for the sport that he saw growing up, back to his hometown. Things seem to be off to a solid start. Between T-Ball and Coach Pitch and Little League baseball, the league has had over 100 kids sign up. "This year is really just about getting participation," Murray said. "It's new to Malta right now. I know that Dean...
Several musical acts graced the Malta High School Auditorium stage last weekend for the 19th Annual Milk River Gospel Jamboree. The three-day event started on Friday, June 17, and concluded on Sunday, June 20. This year's event was the first MRGJ summer event held since 2019, before the pandemic. "We are excited and we are pleased," said John Koss, chairman of the Milk River Gospel Jamboree. Koss said that attendance was down on the first two nights, but numbers grew to over 160 on Sunday. The...
The 19th Annual Milk River Gospel Jamboree (MRGJ) featured plenty of talent this past weekend, all deserving to tell their own story. This year, the PCN caught up with David Irvin, half of the husband-wife duo David and Beth Irvin, who have been married for close to 38 years. They had previously performed at the MRGJ in 2018, and Beth by herself in 2017 as a comedian. The couple, who performs acoustic gospel and country music, live in a town named Peculiar, which is near Kansas City, Mo. "We are...
The following are top times and marks from the 2022 track and field season for Saco, Whitewater, and Dodson High School athletes. SACO PANTHERS 100 Meters: 1. M. Caves 13.63PR May 14 District 3C Meet 400 Meters: 1. B. Downing 1:00.16PR Apr 8 Havre Lions 2. M. Caves 1:06.85PR Apr 26 Cal Wearley Memorial Javelin - 800g: 1. B. Downing 115' 1PR May 14 District 3C Meet High Jump: 1. B. Downing 5' 2PR Apr 8 Havre Lions Pole Vault: 1. B. Downing 13' 6PR May 28 State B-C Meet 2. M. Caves 10' 6PR Apr 8...
