Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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I have two subjects this week for your reading and or listening enjoyment. Controversial both but not too bad. One is this facial piercing craze and the other is the infamous four day school week. I’ll start right off with the facial piercing thing. Being born in late 1942 I recall pictures in the National Geographic of African women with bare upper bodies, images that have fascinated me through my infancy, my puberty and into my adultry. The images I’m referring to aren’t the bosoms. It was the pictures of the body and facial piercings that...
The new North Country Lady Mavericks traveled to Nashua to test the mettle of the Lady Porcupines and came away with the knowledge that the Porkie's "Mettle" was too much for the Lady Mavs to handle. Not that the Lady Mavs played poorly. I thought they played very well, indeed. After all folks, the second game didn't end until the score of 30 to 28 was achieved, favoring Nashua unfortunately for the Hinsdale/Saco/Whitewater fans. Casity Boucher earned my star of the match honors because of her...
That’s the question I have asked the folks at the American Prairie Reserve but have as yet failed to receive an answer I could swallow. Yeah, I know. “Why” is a question a three-year-old would ask. Again and again. And the tot will usually get an answer to his “Why” very similar to what I get when I ask “Why.” When I ask “Why Montana?” the APR’s stock answer is something like this: The northeastern portion of Montana was chosen because for its lack of human population, making it easier to acquire properties. One rancher or one hundred, these...
Seems to me the rules were very simple. Each team gets 15 plays on offense and 15 plays on defense against each of their opponents throughout the day. They play from about the 30 yard line to the goal posts. That way two games can be played at the same time, one on each end of the field. The 7th graders played on the south field and the eighth on the north. Cordell Younkin is the only 8th grader from Hinsdale playing in Scottie Red, while there are six 7th graders from Hinsdale: Loden Idler, Wesley Leatherberry, Sam Malmend, Jeremy Longtree, Je...
I was sitting here listening to the PBS World News while foundering myself on hot chocolate, with real milk and eating a pound and a half of stale, moldy Christmas cookies when a plan started whirling around in my previously empty head. My computer tells me the United States has military presence in at least 60 countries around the world causing a huge depletion to the “federal coffers,” of “taxpayers donations.” Money to put a “World Police Force” out there comes from fees paid to the United Nations by every member country in the world. The...
The newly-established North Country Lady Mavericks traveled to Poplar Sept. 3 to test their mettle against the Lady Indians. It was an exciting match but the end result wasn't what us NC'ers wanted to see. Although the girls played very well they came out on the short end but made the Lady Indians work for their 3-2 victory. Poplar had three players who could serve bullets that didn't clear the net by much more than a couple feet and that, coupled by a low ceiling and ventilation ducts were the...
Thanks for listening is being brought to you this evening via wireless radio. I remember my grandmother actually using fire to cook meals. She used a wood stove and made some of the tastiest meals known to man (except when she served mutton of course). Now it’s fireless cooking with microwave ovens and crock pots. Remember using a key to open your house or car or motel room? Today we’re living in a keyless society. Back in the day when you got a flat tire on your one-speed balloon-tired bicycle, it usually could be fixed with a patch on the...
I caught crabs while in Washington. (Oh stop that!) We went out to the Straits of Juan De Fuca in a small boat that I heartily wished was a much larger boat. I didn't have a license to catch crabs. My shipmates actually caught the crabs. About a dozen or so nearly eight pounds each. And one guy reeled in a 30-pound King salmon. For those of you who have never tried salmon, the best way to fix them is to slather the inside with mayonnaise (having cleaned the fish first) and place slices of two lemons inside as well. Some sea salt and pepper...
I’m surprised, James, that out of the whole story, you and Ms. Honrud would nit-pick numbers as your main retort! I could have said that out of the 600 NHL players there are only 31 players listed as African-American or biracial. Let’s see now.... 600 players, 30 teams, 31 minority players equals one-plus-a-tad, player per 20 player team. That’s pretty close to “There aren’t any.” Yeah, yeah, I know. Close only counts in road apples and hand grenades as I’ve heard it. There are 47 blacks who are listed as “past players” having played in...
This subject has been ever on my mind for 30 or so years. I just haven’t had the opportunity to voice in on the issue until now when a feller named Glenn Nelson had a story in the New York Times titled “Why Are Our Parks So White?” thus opening the discussion. He’s a thirty-something white guy living in North Carolina (or maybe South) who had a story in the NY Times about the lack of black folks visiting our national parks. He advocates “racial diversity” by luring more African-Americans to one or more of the 400 locations managed by the Nati...
I was visiting with Bernie today as he combed loose hair off three or five of his 10 dogs. See, Bernie rescues dogs from the pound and people bring him old dogs to take care of. Mostly black labs. I have to drive (slowly) through his yard in order to get to Chisholm's alfalfa field to pick bales. Chisholm grazes cows there in the winter. He's one of several young Valley County folks who have graduated from MSUB with degrees in farm and ranch management and have returned home to work on or actually take over the family farm/ranch. twenty-five ye...
I decided to take a vacation to visit my granddaughters Lily (11) and Maggie (9) out in Washington and to get out of the smoke from all the fires up in Canada that have inundated Hinsdale recently. Most of my 12.783 faithful know the problems I have had with cars and pickups since I kilt the Crown Vic and I should have known better, but I did it again. I took an untested 1994 Ford Ranger 4X4 that I had just bought at a farm auction to see what it needs to make itself whole. Remember four years ago I took the Ford half ton I got from my son in...
Most of my 12.438 readers know that I have been a trucker in a past life. Up until my retirement in February 2000 I had set a tire on every foot of United States Interstate save I-4 which diagonals across Florida, and assorted bypass routes. In my nearly 2.5 million miles I never received a moving violation. That’s not to say that maybe sometimes I warranted a speeding ticket but I managed to dodge the bullet on a couple occasions. One of those times was in Nevada on I-80 coming off Golgonda Summit which is a pretty straight 6% grade of m...
This column originally ran Jan. 1, 2014. We are reprinting it due to its author's recent Second-Place honor for Best Column Writing at the 2015 Montana Newspaper Association's Better Newspaper Contest. 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 th...
The place was Kingman, Arizona, U.S.A. I was coming out of the Petro Truck Stop about five miles east of Kingman one evening when a moth dive-bombed directly into my ear. Now, Grannie always said, “You’ll go crazy if a moth flies into your ear.” I always thought phshaw to that until I had it happen to my ear. The bug fluttered a bit, stopped, waited a few seconds or so and fluttered again, stopped ... fluttered ... stopped ... fluttered. If this goes on for 30 to 40 minutes your whole body tenses up waiting for the next flutter. It CAN make...
What do you consider to be the most endangered species in America? Could it be the number one topic of the day: the American Bison? Or, could it possibly be the Gray Wolf, the Sage Hen, Whooping Crane, Black-Footed Ferret, Pallid Sturgeon or the Sprague’s Pipit. And what about the Side-Hill Gouger and the Jackalope? (Very rarely seen these days and nearing extinction much like the T-Rex) There are 104 species of fish listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) along with 29 species of snails. At last count there were 63 mammals listed as bein...
In today’s society it seems language skills have gone out the window with the baby's bathwater. TV and the movies are teaching the young certain words and phrases they shouldn't be hearing at their age. Mom and dad are using words that would make a drunken sailor blush uncaring about whose little ears are in earshot so it's no wonder America's youth has trouble communicating without profanity. I heard a young mother of three drop the f-bomb as a noun, verb and adjective all in the same sentence. I was impressed to say the least. That said, p...
This column is in response to Lih-An Yang's op-ed piece in last week's Glasgow Courier. My point is this: Had Ms. Yang researched some of my columns on immigration reform she would have seen I fully favor immediate citizenship for those folks who were brought into the US illegally, or in their mothers' womb. I favor immediate citizenship for those who have gone through elementary, high school and college here and have been productive, law-abiding tax-paying citizens. The same for those who have been in the military fighting for the “Stars a...
Here’s a little story about farming. First, though I have to tell you... I am not a farmer. I’m just someone who drives a large tractor pulling some very large equipment around some very big parcels of farm ground. I got this job with the help of a sign around my neck that read “Recently released from Warm Springs. Will Work For Food.” See, this one guy has 1,600-plus-acres - he wants to put into CRP and it has to be seeded with a five seed mix of native grasses. I went up there and took the grand tour and after viewing the ground in questio...
I see where workers in New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle and other major cities around the country are asking their employers to pay for their time commuting to and from work. Some as much as 10 hours per week. They say it's a financial hardship paying for bus and subway tokens and those who drive want money in addition to the free parking they now enjoy. Yikes. What more can they demand? After all, they get at least 14 paid holidays a year, sick pay, vacation days, maternity leave (men and women) 401k and other retirement plans, and...
It distressed me greatly the other day when I heard on the news that Walmart intends to import a cheaper laundry detergent from Great Britain in an attempt to lessen the strong market share Tide has in the laundry detergent market in the U.S. and Canada. Their spokesperson said, “We intend to bring a less costly but comparable in cleaning power laundry detergent into our stores in the near future.” I was ready to rail at Walmart for being un-American. For doing something that would eliminate some American jobs. Then I studied the labeling on... Full story
The 2015 Class C Girls State Basketball Tournament is in the books. Eight teams from the four corners of this very large state converged at the Adams Center, Dahlberg Arena on the campus of the University of Montana under the 'M' for a thre- day tournament to see who would take home the heavy hardware. The favorite was the Belt Lady Huskies because they had won the Class C trophy the last three years and folks thought a four-peat was in the cards. Most folks, that is, except the girls from... Full story
It's called “Outlaw Country.” It's filmed in and around Independence, Missouri, in an area that includes a town called Buckner. The main characters are the “Outlaws,” the Monk brothers who each have long records and have been in the slammer many times. One brother owns a tattoo parlor. They have a few “associates.” I call them partners in crime. They have been accused of strong-arming local businesses, drug trafficking and selling illegal firearms among other things. The cops are the Cook brothers, who are being portrayed as harassing t...
The Hinsdale Raiders shut down the Savage Warriors in the first game of the 2015 Eastern C Divisional Tournament last Thursday in Wolf Point. The Raiders jumped out to a 7 to 2 lead after one period but allowed the Warriors to play catchup and tie the score at the end of the first half of play. Each team scored eight pernts in the third act, knotting the score at 25 all going into the final period. After a lackluster 28 minutes of play, the Raiders finally caught fire and outscored and out...
The first game of the girls 2015 Eastern C Tournament got underway in the Wolf Point High School gymnasium last Wednesday with the Lady Panthers of Saco/Whitewater/Hinsdale meeting the Lady Warriors of Brockton. This was pretty much one of those ho-hum games as SWH hammered the Brockton contingent 71 to 30 behind the 29 points put up by the Lady Panthers' Tatum Moore. BTW that was the girls tournament high individual score. SWH's Kourtney Simonson scored 18, Larimie Scheffelmear 7, Keira...
