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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...
After a lifetime of crying over the ones that got away, I’m finally at peace with all those lost fish. They were simply meant to be. Fishing last week with my friend Mike on the Big Dry Arm of Fort Peck Lake, I hooked something heavy that stayed deep. Within seconds Mike said: “That’s a big ‘eye.” He would know. A Minnesota native, Mike is the best walleye angler I’ve ever shared a boat with. He’s adept at every technique from bottom bouncing to vertical jigging to trolling crank baits. There...
When the rubber hits the road is when winners are eventfully crowned and couple that with the adage of "use it or lose it" states, it's time to head to the Villa Theatre in Malta and buy some tickets because it could possibly be now, or never. Since Greg and Jan Kirkwood have taken a stronger interest in the storied movie-house (and eventually bought it) the work that has gone on over there to make the accommodations as pleasing as possible is kind of incredible. There were a lot of complaints about the Villa before this — and let us not f...
My how time flies. In a couple of weeks, it will be 50 years since I first arrived in Montana. Shortly after high school graduation, I headed west from my home in southern Indiana after deciding to forego college, and instead, get a job on the Alaska pipeline. I didn’t have enough money to get all the way to Alaska and figured I’d find work along the way. Passing through Billings, four days into the trip, I picked up a newspaper and saw an ad for jobs in Yellowstone Park. Heading south from Bil...
Twenty-five years is a long time – a quarter of a century! But last fall marked the 25th annual Mike and Ed’s Missouri Breaks Hunting and Fishing Extravaganza. It all started in the fall of 1995 – the year I retired from the U. S. Air Force. Brother-in-law Mike Hughes lived in Glasgow and prevailed upon me to come up from Helena for a hunting expedition that would cover the Breaks and northern Phillips and Valley Counties – plus a stop at several fishing holes along the way. Our non-hunting equi...
Dear editor, Here is giving a "BIG SHOUT OUT" thank you to Dodson Public School shop teacher Rod Donahue who so willingly and enthusiastically incorporated making Veteran crosses in his shop program which are placed in the Dodson Cemetery each year prior to Memorial Day weekend. And much appreciation to the sophomore and junior shop classes for the Great Job of making and painting the crosses. Special thanks to Ithay Heck for all the hours of tracing and painting the names and military branch on them! And also thank you to the Malta branch of...
There was a time that it wasn’t spring until I spotted my first grizzly bear. While I’ve stumbled upon few grizzlies in the fall, it was April when I expected to see them. They were following the elk herds and so was I, although for different purposes. I’d seen grizzlies at night foraging through the Cooke City dump. We used to take girls there, drink beer and park. Running into bears on foot in the backcountry in the middle of the day, however, was an entirely different experience. I was only...
Sympathy to the family of Judy Rustad. She and Cliff held great auctions for years. Late happy Mother's Day also. Happy birthday to all May birthdays and anniversaries. The Keystone pipeline is being worked on and there is a fence around the machinery. There are also security guards. The pipeline is just a few miles from whitewater. The COVID-19 virus has caused most shutdowns. However, the churches are now holding services an N 40 opened. Some have compared the virus to the depression of the...
4-29. How is everyone surviving the COVID-19 virus? OK, I hope. Whitewater residents, like most people, are abiding by the rules. The school is still closed, and we have not had church services. The North 40 is still serving senior meals, but they are takeout only. Many thanks to the “secret surprise” donor who anonymously gave me a new water heater. Dan and Scott from Farmers and Ranchers are installing it for me. Thanks to them. It is a blessing to have water and now hot water. Now I don’t hav...
