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It was deja vu for the Lady Raiders of Hinsdale as they thwarted Saco/Whitewater's attempt at a perfect 19-0 season by winning the district 3C girls basketball championship last Saturday evening at the Wolf Point gym just as they had done last year at Malta. Who would have thought that three seniors, one junior, one sophomore, one freshman and three eighth graders could put up the numbers the Hinsdale Lady Raiders had put up this season losing just two games and both to Saco/Whitewater. And...
The Nashua Porcupines, sporting a 7-5 conference record squared off against the 10-2 Hinsdale Raiders in the 4:30 p.m. game on Friday and it turned out to be one of the better contests of the tourney. There were five lead changes and three ties in the game. Nashua’s Trafton Mayhew scored first for the Porcupines with a sweet mid-range jump shot. Then Lukas Johnson scored a basket in the paint for the Raiders. Mayhew rippled the rope again and Hinsdale’s Kyle Albus lit it up from beyond the arc. Nashua’s Kyle Gorman thought “if that Kyle ca...
Once called the “Noble Experiment” and actually named the National Prohibition Act of 1919, and written not by its sponsor Andrew J. Volstead of Minnesota but by Wayne Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League, the Volstead act went into effect on Jan. 1, 1920, much to the dismay of about 80% of the general population. To this day it has been the only amendment to be repealed. Woodrow Wilson vetoed the act but was overridden by Congress the same day, Oct. 28, 1919, and Prohibition began January 1920. There were some “provisions” to this act that ar...
Scobey came to Hinsdale last Friday to contest the mettle of the Hinsdale Raiders and discovered Hinsdale’s mettle is metal. It was the last home game ever for Hinsdale’s three senior girls, Whitney Molina, Bethany Lacock and Chadaya Christensen who were all honored during senior night. The Lady Raiders with three seniors, one junior and one sophomore in the starting roles were ably assisted by one junior, one freshman and three eighth-graders on the bench. The Lady Raiders went into this game in second place in conference with an 11-2 rec...
According to the folks who are in the know about things like this, they say that it is getting tougher and harder to land a good job after graduating college. The big question is why? Of course we can't all be an extremely intelligent, witty, articulate and handsome columnist writers can we? Having done a good deal of traveling around this country, I think I have discovered some of the problems young folks encounter when applying for a job. Here's one basic stumbling block. Unless you are applying for work at your local tattoo parlor and...
When you’re hot, you’re hot as my old non-acquaintance Jerry Reed once didn’t tell me and that is exactly what the Raiders, boys and girls are today. The boys are leading the 3C with a record of 11-1 (15-1 overall) and the girls are in second place with 10-2 (14-2 overall) as we head into the final week of conference play. Thirty-two games, combined Raiders and Lady Raiders, with just three losses. That’s huge folks. And by this bumbled writer’s estimation The Raiders and Lady Raiders are peaking at just the right time. On Friday Scobey wi...
Spy Drones over Phillips and Valley Counties? You heard it right right here on this station folks – the good ol’ 1.5 watt blow torch of the prairie, KBULL, 0.006 on your radio dial. Peter Geddes, managing director of the American Prairie Reserve (APR), told a group of aspiring lawyers at the University of Utah school of law tht the APR is building America’s first 21st Century Park in an Era of Government Retrenchment. I say, “What?” In his speech, Geddes made the implication that the APR already controls an area “1.5 times the size of Yellowst...
The Hinsdale Raider girls started the weekend off with a win over the Lustre Christian Lady Lions last Friday evening at home. The Lady Raiders went into the weekend with a 6-2 record in conference and 11-2 overall and are in control of second place behind the Saco/WW Lady Panthers. The Lady Lions are struggling this season with a 1-8 record as of Saturday. With the season winding down and tournaments fast approaching, Hinsdale girls head coach Ralph Ellsworth is trying to get his team in shape...
I’m the only, and oldest, male sibling in a family that consists of one full sister and four half-sisters, which poses the question right off: Do four halves make two full? They are, in order of birth, my sister the teacher, my sister the bookkeeper, my sister the hippie/chef, my sister the nurse and my sister the jockey. Today we will deal with my sister the hippie/chef, whom I will call Tia. Those of you who know her do and those who don’t don’t. To show you her somewhat questionable degree of mental acuity, I’ll relate these true stories. In...
What do companies like Archer Daniels Midland, lumber giant Boise Cascade, major pharmaceuticals like Pfizer and Eli Lily, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance, Monsanto, ConAgra, Caterpillar, and R.J. Reynolds have in common, you ask? Well, here’s what. They are all in the corporate welfare feeding trough chewing up billions of taxpayer dollars with little or no transparency. Being as Archer Daniels Midland, also known as ADM Super Market to the World, is one of the big hogs at the trough, I’ll focus on them first. The following comes from an...
My 9.7 readers might recall the experience I suffered through with my Crown Vic in Mickey D’s drive-thru when I “Virgil-ized” the shifter handle. Stay tuned for another thrilling chapter after these words from the Thoeny Yacht Club and Tonsorial Parlor ... I’m just blessed to be one of those fellers who isn’t blessed with an over-abundance of luck. If you have something that is on the verge of breaking but has held on for months, I can lay hands on it and immediately it will break. On a Saturday not so long ago, I Virgilized the Crown Vic...
The Hinsdale Raiders and Lady Raiders each had a very successful weekend scoring two wins over Dodson and Poplar. The games with Dodson were home games so I'll report to you what I saw. More after these words from our sponsor: Wild Willie's Exotic Animal Sales and Chop Shop. Everyone played in the Raider boys victory over the Dodson Coyotes with Hinsdale head coach Mitch Capdeville substituting freely and getting all his players into the fray. It was good to see Austin Leatherberry, Hinsdale's...
I remember a phrase we had to type over and over in Mr. Shaw’s typing class. “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.” Remember that one? If you are under 50 years old you most likely don’t, but anyway ... That line should read “come to the aid of their “country,” but it seems you folks who are hired/elected to run this country (at a paltry $174,000 per year) have deserted us in favor of overseas interests. I just received a whopping 1.5% increase in my Social Security, which puts me way up into the under $8,000...
The Turner Lady Tornadoes traveled to Hinsdale last Thursday to test their skills against the Hinsdale Lady Raiders. Hinsdale put a hurtin' on the Turner, amassing 17 first quarter points while Turner could only get one point. Hinsdale head coach Ralph Ellsworth put in his JV players for the second quarter and, playing well, they kept the lead for the next eight minutes. Hinsdale went into half leading 27-8 over Turner. The varsity got to shine for the eight minutes following the intermission...
I thought I’d better get this off my chest while I still have a chest to get it off of. (Off of which to get it? … From which to get it off? … Forget it, I am what I am.) See, here’s what happened over Christmas. I was sitting in my recliner, reclining watching football when I had an attack of “heartburn” or acid reflux as those in the know at the FMDH call it. I suppose I could blame it all on the two cartons of chocolate milk balls I had consumed, along with the sardine-avocado-pineapple-tofu sandwiches I had munched on earlier. I grabbed for...
Every year I hear "Merry Christmas" less and less when I really want to hear it more and more. By the time this week's paper comes out I will have aged another year, having joined the septuagenarian generation last year. For 60 or more of those years I have heard Merry Christmas said, with sincere gusto and true feeling for the season, a million times or more. Merry Christmas never used to be a bad way to say hello or goodbye. When did it become socially incorrect to wish someone a hearty "Merry...
On Friday, the Hinsdale Raiders traveled to Nashua to play the Porcupines. It was the first conference games for the Raiders boys and girls. The boys had to work hard for their "W". They found the Porcupines to be a scrappy bunch and every time the Raiders opened up a sizable lead behind pinpoint shooting by Dallas Capdeville, the Porkie's Lane Nickels popped for a couple three pointers to close the gap. But with Wyatt Pattison controlling the boards for the Raiders (11 points, 11 rebounds),...
Three years ago some folks came up with the plans for a very ambitious project, calling it the Northeast Montana Veterans Memorial Park. The town of Fort Peck, in a unanimous resolution, gave the project a permanent easement to build the monument at Fort Peck Flag Pole Park. There are other memorial parks scattered around Montana but none in this corner of the state. Lewistown/Fergus County spent $1.5 million to build one. Great Falls spent $1.7 million for theirs. There's one in Missoula, one in Dillon and there's the Purple Heart Memorial in...
As I lay napping in my recliner the other evening with the TV on, I was rudely awakened by this loud obnoxious announcer guy trying to make me believe – in a raucous voice better suited to be announcing the Friday Night cage fights – that "Sellum, Bilkum and Cheetum" was the only auto dealer in the world from which (whom?) to buy a new car. He promised “thousands of dollars in instant cash rebates, no financing charges for the next millennium”, and I thought I heard mention of a free glow-in-the-dark Hula Hoop with every pickup purchas...
Friends, I'd like you to meet Rebecca Rodriguez who is originally from Texas, now lives in Seattle with her husband, and attends college in California. Rebecca is doing her master's degree thesis in documentary filmmaking by making a trek that you might think only our pioneers would have thought of doing. A lot of them rode in wagons, sailed in paddle-wheelers or covered the long desolate miles horseback. It was an incredible journey then as well as now. Only the demographics have changed. The...
According to Head Coach Kraig Nordahl of the Hinsdale/Saco Lady Titans, this team handles the ball well, shoots well, takes instruction well, rebounds well, defends well and fights for every point and rebound. Sounds like a very formidable opponent indeed, and that's what they proved to be as they put away the Opheim Lady Vikings for the 2013 junior high girls basketball championship last Friday at Hinsdale. Stay tuned for more after these words... I must tell you a little about the boys. I was...
We made an attempt at understanding the need for sports co-ops in some high schools in last week's column. The diminishing numbers of students and the loss of population in our smaller communities have made it necessary for towns to get together and discuss mergers or co-ops. Just a few of the questions people from both communities would ask are: Who pays for travel to and from practices? How will insurance coverage be obtained? How will gate receipts be divided? Where will home games be played. Are the training rules for both schools comparabl...
The changing face of Montana class C boys and girls sports is becoming more evident daily. Small towns across the state are losing population at an alarming rate, causing schools to lose enrollment, forcing school closures. In the school year 1999-2000, there were just two school basketball co-ops in the entire state. Scobey/Peerless and Flaxville/Outlook. Of those four schools, just one is still in operation. It is now a co-op between Scobey and Opheim. Peerless, Flaxville and Outlook are no more. There are now 104 schools supporting 88 Class...
Have I got a deal for you! I have this really big cardboard box for sale. It’s 34 yards long, 15 yards deep and 62 yards wide. It’s a really big box. It’s kinda like, “What’s behind Door No. 2.” I’m not going to tell you what’s in the box until you sign up for my deal. You could lose all the money and prizes you have accumulated so far if you choose wrongly. I will tell you that it’s something you and your family really, really need to have. It will save you lots of money. If you already have a box but aren’t satisfied with the provisions in t...
The Wildfire played hard and fought hard for every point in the district tournament, but they just weren’t in sync and had peaked a month early. It was a joy to watch these young ladies go through the season with their great athleticism and zeal. Coach Kathy Siroky brought them a long way this season. She didn’t have a real answer for the way it ended, as none of the fans did either. It just is what it is. The best team does not always win. A good start in the early season gave the Hinsdale/Saco Wildfire a good push into October, and in thi...
