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Sympathy to all who have been affected by the C 19 virus. Be aware of it. It's July so happy birthday to all birthdays including my daughter Teresa of Swift Current, Canada, and Gayle Young of Saco. Also, happy anniversary to all having July celebrations. Hope you all had a fun and safe 4th of July. Dixie Stordahl and Lu Besel went to the children's day at the Dinosaur museum in Malta. Lu took Sommer Green along to help. The children enjoyed it all. Bonnie McMullin and Lu Besel and others went...
Sympathy to the family of Barbara (McMullen) Mavencamp, a Whitewater High School graduate. Get well to Jeannie Green, also “glad you are better” to Tana Oyler. She is our Mail carrier and travels to Whitewater from Malta and back. Tana and her family operate the local dairy in Malta. Their specialty is the milk, cream, and cottage cheese. Phillips County and Whitewater areas have mostly beef cattle, but a few still milk by hand. When I grew up, sometimes we had milk cows. I even took turns mil...
I’m not a very fashionable guy. Since leaving the newspaper in Bozeman 14 years ago I’ve pretty much worn the same clothes every day. In particular, the same pants. A good friend who used to work in Yellowstone Park wasn’t allowed to use his national park clothing allowance on the boots he wanted so he’d order extra pants instead and give them to me. He retired a few years ago and now I’m down to my last pair. My wife hates them. She thought the pair I’m wearing now were my last, and was qui...
I originally started writing about social media bickering, but I instead thought that maybe I would share a little of what has been on my mind. Take it or leave it. I don’t expect people to have the same opinion that I do, because they haven’t seen life through my eyes. How can you know a problem exists, if you haven’t experienced it? I may have said this before, but I am appreciative of those who have reached out to myself and Susan about current social issues. It has not been easy. Again...
In a recent U.S. District Court ruling by Judge Brian Morris, the American public heard loud and clear that the federal administration broke the law when it offered leases on public lands in criti-cal sage grouse habitat. This court decision speaks volumes about how public lands should be managed, with certainty, and in a manner that considers true multiple use – including maintaining wildlife populations. The Department of Interior was found to have violated the law by issuing an instructional memorandum that abandoned the bi-partisan p...
Fake news. Those two words have likely created more confusion and distrust of the news media than any other. While it is easy to understand why those of us who work in the news media despise the term, it should also be apparent that the general public has a vested interest in discerning facts from falsehoods. Some of the louder news voices of the past few decades have been the cable news networks that provide news, analysis and opinion. But the opinion side now dominates on CNN, FOX and many of...
It’s not just on Father’s Day that I think of Dad. Quite often lately I think I see him before realizing it’s just the reflection of me in a mirror. I hope the stories I tell my daughters don’t have the same effect on them my father’s stories had on me. Dad told great stories. Some – involving women and alcohol -- I seldom repeat, but have never forgotten. Others I tried to top. I blame him for the time I spent behind bars in Eureka. Dad often talked about hitchhiking around the country bef...
First of all, Happy Birthday to my beautiful wife Susan. Her birthday week always marks a couple of milestones in our lives. First off, on June 21, I moved to Montana as a surprise to Susan. We knew that we would start our life together here, but I moved here months earlier to be with the woman that I love. It has been the greatest eight years of my life. I proposed to my wife one day before her birthday, because I didn’t want her to go into her birthday without knowing that I was 100 percent c...
The Triangle Telephone company is updating the lines. Good work. Get well to all who are sick. The newlyweds, Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Hoff, were here from Bozeman. Ms. Hoff is my granddaughter, Challise, formerly Young. It was good to see them and get acquainted with Tim. We had a small family dinner and it was hosted by Janice and Curt Reichelt. It was very nice. On Monday, Jeannie Green and myself went to Billings to visit my sister Janet Brown (Jeannie’s aunt.) We also visited with Carol R...
When historians see that their nation is in big trouble, facing the proliferation of protests that raise bedrock questions about American race relations, and locked in disputes over the proper pacing of “re-opening” after the regime of social distancing, it is time for people in my line of work to follow the example set by rodeo clowns and head straight into the epicenter of trouble. We are called to put ourselves at risk—thankfully only of scorned expertise and bruised egos. Once rodeo clown...
It’s finally Ace’s turn. At this time last year I still had four dogs. Two were old and retired from the hunt. One was a young up-and-comer, and then there was Ace, like Dwight Schrute, always a padawan never a Jedi. Ace hunted behind both Spot and Jem until they got old, but didn’t inherit the mantle of top dog when they quit. By then we had Baby Ruth and she quickly rose to the top of the heap. Ace didn’t seem to mind. Like all of us, he too, loved Baby Ruth. But she died last winter of canc...
I am glad to see that things are getting back to normal. With the potential threat that the COVID-19 virus presented, I understand why precautions were taken throughout the spring and through the early part of the summer, but it is good to see people being active again. I could only hope that the threat has been minimized. At the time that I wrote this, in Montana, there were 561 total cases of COVID-19 since it’s beginning and only 56 active cases, and seven hospitalizations. There were no a...
It is sad about police brutality and riots. Pray for peace everywhere. Get well to my sister Janet Brown. Also, happy late birthday to Janet and June birthdays and anniversaries. Sue and Allie Olson celebrated their anniversary recently. I asked Sue “did you get married in grade school?” she laughed and said no, but admitted they were married just out of high school. Also, happy 49th anniversary to Don and Diane Simonton of Whitewater. They had a nice party at the North 40 and many family and...
Dear Editor, At the Hi-Line Retirement Home, we recently had National Nursing Home Week. We wanted to send a letter of appreciation for the staff. The staff does more than anyone will ever know. The staff, from the CEO down through all the departments, work not just because it is their job, but because they care about the residents. Their commitment is shown by them almost running through their 12-hour shift to answer lights or give a wheelchair a push. During National Nursing Home week the meals and costumes and themes were wonderful! Some of...
Dear Editor, We at Milk River Days of Hinsdale wanted to send an open letter to the businesses and people in Phillips and Valley County. The purpose of this letter is twofold. First, we wanted to thank everyone for their extreme generosity over the years to help make Milk River Days the huge success it has become. The donations from individuals and businesses have been incredible. The second point is we, unfortunately, are letting you know that we are suspending the festivities for 2020. The ongoing threat of COVID and the restrictions placed...
I don’t like to see my boats upside down in the water. It’s distressing. When I was a kid, however, my friends and I would almost always flip my canoe. Like us, in our youth, it was unsinkable, so it didn’t really matter. I’m still here. So is the canoe. But as I grew older, unplanned dunkings lost their allure. If I want to get wet I go swimming. I’ve owned a number of boats over the years, and with the exception of the canoe, none of them have ever flipped. Until recently. My friend E-dub and...
The fun is over. My wife Susan and I left the Keto Diet a month ago, well I hate to say it but, we are currently back on the diet once again. About a month ago we finally came to a realization that the diet was hard to stay on. In the first nine months or so, we would only have a monthly cheat day. Things were going great. We were both down 70 pounds and then we started to ease up a little bit. A once a month cheat meal became a once a week cheat. And in April we realized that we were cheating...
6-3. Hi! Hope you all voted in the primary election. Sympathy to Mike Freitag, a former Whitewater resident, on the loss of his mother, Mrs. Friegtag. She was a teacher, my daughter, Gail Y., was one of her students. Madison and friends from Miles City, Mont., were guests at grandma Jeannie Green’s recently. The farmers in Whitewater, as most farmers around the country, are working really hard to get their seeding done. It has been a better and cooler spring than usual in our area, so farmers a...
Montanans, especially those of us who live and work in rural areas and small communities, are a hearty bunch. We literally and figuratively weather storms, we help our neighbors when they need a hand, and we also enjoy a quality of life that is second to none – one in which our urban counterparts are often envious. While this may all seem nostalgic or old-fashioned, we know it’s true. In northern Montana, we live, work, and raise our families in communities that are full of small businesses who also support our communities in myriad ways. It...
Dear editor, Water rights in Montana have been the topic of much discussion and rulings, both legislatively and judicially, over the past 40 plus years. To say this has resulted in a totally confused mess would be an understatement. When the dust finally settled it became apparent that vested water rights on allotments managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Montana were being taken away from the private citizens. How did this happen? After many hours of poring through historic and recent water rights documents, I discovered the main...
Only days after the most recent snowfall, it’s finally beginning to feel like summer. But the arrival of warm weather also heralds the return of one of Montana’s more annoying species: loud, outdoor drunks. Apparently some folks just can’t get together in the great out-of-doors without acting up. Something about all that fresh air and open space brings out the worst in too many. We’re forced to tolerate them at campgrounds, boat ramps, and on all the lakes and rivers. They’re hard to miss, alw...
I experienced the new age of learning through a Zoom Conference call on PJ’s lask week of school and he nearly missed it due to my lack of tech-savvy. Susan tasked me with making sure that PJ could see his classmates via Zoom for the last time of the year the other day. Ultimately, I did get things set up, but it was rocky. First was getting the application to work. I don’t understand Apple products, so when I attempted to set things up on my mother-in-law’s iPhone, it did not pan out. I then...
If I could write a letter To Covid-19 And explain how I’m feeling, Here is how it’d read: Dear Covid-19, Why are you here? No offense to you, But I wish you’d disappear. All you bring is worry, Along with pain and stress. Don’t do you know the world was already Becoming a great big mess? You took away my senior year, Which is a hard pill to swallow. Missing out on my “lasts”, And here’s a list to follow. I missed my senior prom, the chance to dance with all my friends, my bus trips got cut short, this is not how this should end. I think the cla...
Dear Editor, The COVID-19 viral pandemic seems to have caught our population unprepared. Global Free Trade leaves us susceptible to another viral pandemic--foot and mouth disease (FMD). Fresh and frozen meat from enzootic (infected) countries can contain the live virus. Therefore imported meat from an enzootic country falsely labeled 'product of the USA' can be infective. The virus is devastating, very contagious, and can cause lasting health issues in infected animals that survive. It spreads by air, ingestion, and contaminated objects (sound...
Dear Editor, I am completing a nonfiction history book on Montana “disasters” that will be published in coming months by Farcountry Press in Helena. One of the stories in the book is about the July 1936 fire in the Little Rockies that killed three men and burned a number of others. I have found numerous newspaper accounts of the fire (and others that started at about the same time), which started near Lodge Pole and burned toward Zortman. Two of three killed were working for the U.S. Geological Survey. The third was a man named John Roles, who...
