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Dear Editor: Two Rivers Economic Growth would like to recognize Mattfeldt Electric’s storefront revitalization along Highway 2. Attention to detail with the addition of new siding, windows, and increased building capacity create a lasting first impression for visitors. Mattfeldt’s demonstration of pride in their business reflects a sense of pride within the community. Two Rivers encourages other local businesses to follow their lead in creating an atmosphere of growth and vitality throughout the area. Mattfeldt Electric is dedicated and com...
St. Raphael’s Parish Council of Catholic Women and the youth of our parish commend the Glasgow community for its tremendous support of our spring and fall rummage sales. The donations of clothing and household items have grown each year and have allowed us to donate to other charitable causes. Besides being able to help our youth fund their mission work, both in Glasgow and out of state, we provided clothing to people in the Philippines, an orphanage in Haiti, the St. LeBrea school for Native American children, the veteran’s project held in...
Last week a friend sent me an email about the loss of a loved one in a car wreck. Several days later, my friend emailed me the eulogy they’d written asking if I would proofread it. I did so, sent the eulogy back to them and extended my condolences. At the end of the eulogy was this paragraph: An old German story says God finished naming the flowers, but left one without a name. So as not to be forgotten, a small voice pleaded, “Forget me not, O Lord,” and so it came to pass. The Lord named the tiny blue flower forget-me-not. This summer I decid...
Here’s one for all older homemakers and cooks. Do you remember all of the old bread that was saved? The heel was never thrown away if not eaten. Leftover bread was never thrown away. Now, moldy bread was probably thrown out to the chickens or pigs, but any odd leftover bread was saved. Leftover bread was most often used for bread pudding. (Remember the bread pudding at Johnnie’s Café?) Bread was also dried to be used later as bread crumbs or stuffing bread. It seems that all older homemakers had a bag of dried bread stored somewhere. The fun...
Rather than viewing the recent slight uptick in the economy and leveling off in the national debt as a harbinger of a positive future, John Snow believes it is diverting national attention from the debt crises that continues to pose a mortal threat to out country. Snow, who served as U.S. secretary of the Treasury from 2003 to 2006, delivered a lecture sponsored by the Burton K. Wheeler Center earlier this month on the campus of Montana State University in Bozeman. The lecture hall was filled to capacity. I wish all Montanans– in fact, all A...
If your roof leaks, you blame the builder. If your car has a defect, you blame the manufacturer. If your horse bucks you, off you blame the saddle maker. If the dam develops a leak, you plug it. You don’t make the hole bigger. These thoughts and a lot more like them are running rampant through this 70-year-old brain. (Although I was told just this morning that I must have had my “wisdom” teeth pulled”). This government shutdown has me in a dither trying to figure what diabolical scheme the government has in mind to implement whilst our thinkin...
Dear Editor: The headline ("No Driver's License Required? St. Marie Man Makes His Case") of the Oct. 9 edition of The Glasgow Courier should make every law abiding citizen of Valley County mad as hell. Really, Mr. Lee? I don’t know where you came from, but every state requires a driver’s license to operate a motorized vehicle on public roadways. Montana is not unique! Perhaps you should consider a move to Somalia, where lawlessness is the way of life. Joan McKeown St. Marie...
I was sitting in my recliner on a chilly March day a little over three years ago when my phone rang. Answering it, I heard, “We want you to come down to the bowling alley and pick up your prize.” Prize? I knew the women’s league bowling tournament was taking place that day but I hadn’t entered it. Three weeks prior to the tournament, I’d had a mastectomy after being diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer. I asked how could I have won a prize when I wasn’t even in the tournament. “Just come down to the bowling alley and pick up your prize,” came...
Remember when all vehicles had crank up windows, no air conditioning and no seat belts? I am surprised there are so many of us who survived to remember those days. Actually, a Courier reader was remembering those days and commented on the days of riding in the back, or box, of the pickup during the summer months and enduring the constant hits from grasshoppers. These could be most irritating as they sometimes actually hurt. Or you could make of game of it and see who got the most tags, or hits, from point A to point B. I remember that you...
It is very scary that DTM, LLC, of St. Marie has not been mentioned to the public of Valley County as having sovereign citizen members; and what is worse, the fact that they have said they will be teaching their philosophy at St. Marie. For those who are not familiar with what a sovereign citizen is, please check the words “sovereign citizen” out on the Web, to include the FBI link. The history to date of DTM is they wanted to declare eminent domain at St. Marie, make 31 zones within St. Marie, take over the Village Association, charge the St....
“This reporter” as Nick Chiechi calls himself, attempted last week to report activity “on both sides” of the St. Marie issues. Unfortunately, his reporting is lopsided and prejudicial to those owners who somehow do not fit into his imaginary category of “29 percent folks” or the “bedrock bill paying residents (taxes and water/sewer, too.)” It is irresponsible for Nick Chiechi to report that only 29 percent of unit owners in St. Marie pay their bills. If he wants to report “factual data,” why doesn’t he tell the Courier readers the truth? Wh...
Philip Redeagle, “Kokepesni, Not Afraid,” 96, died on Sunday evening, Sept. 29, at Tacoma General Hospital in Tacoma, Wash. He was born in a log cabin at Fort Kipp on the Fort Peck Reservation on Nov. 25, 1916. He struggled courageously over the last year with his health. He is long known for his basketball skills. On Dec. 7, 2007, he was part of the first group of Indian athletes to be inducted into the Montana Indian Athletes Hall of Fame. His most memorable high school year was his senior yea...
Thanks to all of you readers, I once again have several topics rattling around in my head. Since it is football season I happened to recall a photo of the GHS football team taken in the late '20s. How many remember the uniforms worn by our athletes at that time? The helmets resembled headgear worn by airplane pilots during WWII. I can’t imagine they afforded much protection to the head. Shoulder pads, etc., appeared to be pretty scrimpy too. Does anyone recall the amount of injuries that were s...
Recently we attended a wedding. Attending a wedding evokes so many emotions and memories. For me, I think back to our wedding day – 45 years ago on Saturday. Next comes remembering the birth of each child, followed by the memories of their childhood, then their wedding days and the birth of their children. It all comes full circle when going to a wedding. Lately, I've noticed a couple's engagement announcement appear in the newspaper, then the invitation to their wedding. I always thought it was so nice afterwards to read about the wedding o...
This reporter is attempting to analyze and report activity on both sides of the St. Marie issues with diligence and a devil’s advocate approach. Factual data, legal rulings and various opinions are the result. As reported in previous Courier articles, a small group of folks are attempting a Village Board takeover combined with the reversal of a Village Bylaw amendment. The attempted Village Board takeover has yet to be ruled legal. So, the current board and bylaw amendment remain in force. The amendment states that an owner must be in good s...
Some insurance company back in the day used the “Plan for Tomorrow” slogan and it seems the United States government has done just that and nothing more. Plan for Tomorrow … not next week … not next month … not next decade or the next 50 years. Just ... tomorrow. The Japanese and Chinese are very good at planning for the next century. Most everything they do is predicated on the idea of what impact their action today will have on their country 50...100 years from now. As Americans, if we have money to pay rent or mortgage, buy groceries...
Frank Albert Hopwood, born on June 27, 1931, at home in Hinsdale to Rose and Fern Hopwood, died on Sept. 29, 2013, at age 82, at Valley View Nursing Home. A vigil service will be held Thursday, Oct. 3, at 7 p.m. at the Bell Chapel in Glasgow and funeral services will be held Friday, Oct. 4, at 11 a.m. at St. Raphael’s Catholic Church in Glasgow. Interment will be at Highland Cemetery in Glasgow. He grew up working with his parents at Hopwood Electric in Hinsdale before moving to Glasgow in t...
Sharon Dianne (Orre) Stratton, 73, died Sept. 24, 2013, at home, surrounded by her loving family. She was born March 18, 1940, in Hillsboro, N.D., to Leonard and Elenor Orre. They later moved to Opheim, and resided on the John and Anna Richardson sheep ranch where some of Sharon’s fondest memories of her childhood were spent. Her love for her prairies never wavered. She graduated from Opheim High School in 1958. On June 7, 1959, she married her high school sweetheart, Sandy Stratton, in the Ophe...
One of the stories this past week that has gained so much attention is the action of a 19-year-old worker in a fast food restaurant. The young man noticed a $20 bill falling out of the pocket of a blind customer and the lady behind the customer picking up and pocketing the money. When asked to return the money, the lady denied she’d picked it up. The restaurant employee proceeded to tell the woman she could leave the premises as he would not serve her. He then took $20 out of his pocket and gave it to the blind customer. When asked about w...
How incredulous would you feel if I were to tell you that personnel in the Office of Odometer Fraud Investigation are allowed to carry firearms? Or that there are 36 federal officers carrying firearms for every 100,000 residents? (In Washington, D.C., the ratio is 1,662 per 100,000). The federal government has 105,000 full time personnel authorized to make arrests and carry firearms in 50 states and D.C.. Three of every four federal officers are attached to offices of Homeland Security, which included the Border Patrol and Immigration and Custo...
Remember when everyone recycled without giving it a thought? Housewives recycled so many things, with those neat “Old Tins” being primary. How many homes had a set of coffee can canisters for flour, sugar, etc.? And those rural women found so many more uses for them. Tin cans kept the mouse out of necessities like flour and sugar. Of course old lard tins were really great for that purpose, as most flour and sugar was purchased in at least 50 pound quantities. If you ever opened one of those old unused lard cans you could tell by the smell wha...
Dear Editor: With very short notice, MT FWP is hosting a meeting in Lewistown on September 26 and 27 to discuss introducing free-roaming bison on the CMR and other locations in Montana. Twenty eight panelists have been hand-selected by FWP to represent who they deem to be the stakeholders in this issue. Almost half are from government agencies that support free-roaming bison. In addition, American Prairie Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, and Wildlife Conservation Society, some of the most outspoken groups supporting the agenda to...
Sierra Stoneberg-Holt of southwestern Valley County, a frequent contributor to The Courier Opinion page, has been trying via email in recent days to rally opposition to attend the meeting that Mark Robbins refers to in the above letter. Here is one of her emails. Dear all, The more I hear about this meeting, the more disturbed I am. The FWP informed their own Citizens Advisory Council very late and grudgingly. They did not inform Senator Brendan, who is on the Fish and Game Committee, even though it is being held in his region and about his...
Dear Editor: Warren Buffett announced several weeks ago that he was spending $2.1 billion to upgrade the infrastructure of his BNSF Railway. That’s commendable, and I appreciate the work he is doing, even here in Montana. I wonder if it would be asking too much of him to spend a few thousand, which he surely would not miss, to upgrade his Glasgow depot facility. It looks really ratty, and is at least five years beyond the point where it should have been repainted. With just a minimal expenditure it could be made into an attractive asset to o...
Dear Editor: This is a short letter of thanks to Vigil Vaupel for the humorous way he looks at and writes about a few of today's redundancies. I've never had so much fun reading a newspaper column. I have some ties in Glasgow so maybe, on one of my trips there, I can meet the man and have the honor of shaking his hand. That's real high on my bucket list! Brian Peterson McGrath, Minn....
