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Thursday's weather 40° DAILY NEWS 22° Partly cloudy Volunteering in the holiday season Complete forecast / A2 Board talks about loss of fairgrounds manager Paul Dragu “It’s very important, when a person [email protected] takes that position they realize that ATHLETE they basically have six bosses,” McCann During an exit interview between said. “The board is the boss of that PROFILE: chairman of the Great Northern Fair position. Also, it’s a volunteer board, Board and its former manager, the lat- and the board is the source of the man- TYSON ter said his resignation had a lot to do ager to gain knowledge and define with failing to meet expectations during responsibilities and coach, so to speak, SHAMBO his short tenure. that person, that position. “I think his biggest challenge was It’s not that former manager Bob Page A7 feeling like he couldn’t meet the board’s Horne didn’t know what the job expectations,” Great Northern Fair required, McCann said, emphasizing Board Chairman Paul McCann said that he was speaking for himself and Tuesday night after fair board mem- not necessarily the board members. bers met. “It’s hard to do because you But there is some on-the-job training, Trump meeting got grounds and then you have manage- he added. ment, and it’s not all mapped out in an “You’ll have people that probably operating manual.” security adviser won’t know the job until they get into it, Board members spent some portion Havre Daily News/Colin Thompson even though you described it,” he said. of Tuesday’s two-hour meeting tinker- Members of Havre’s Leadership High School work to sort clothes at the Horne may have also thought he after attacks ing with the fair board policy, which Havre Salvation Army Tuesday. Leadership High School students spent could work on something else on the Tuesday morning volunteering at a variety of Havre organizations also McCann would say afterward, is crucial side while being the fairgrounds man- including the Feed My Sheep Soup Kitchen and Havre Food Bank, then to helping the incoming manager- abroad having lunch at Pizza Hut before going shopping at Kmart to buy items groundskeeper know what the working ager, McCann said, which is not an By JONATHAN LEMIRE easy task to do. for the Giving Tree. Associated Press dynamic between board members and PALM BEACH, Fla. — President- the groundskeeper will be. ■ See Fairgrounds Page A2 elect Donald Trump is planning to meet with his incoming national secu- rity adviser in the aftermath of vio- lence abroad as the process of filling Death sentences decline sharply as public attitudes shift top jobs in his administration presses By SAM HANANEL 1996, according to a report from the The growing reluctance of juries to drugs needed to carry out lethal injec- on, marked by some infighting among Associated Press Death Penalty Information Center, a sentence defendants to death is one of tion and more robust legal challenges advisers. WASHINGTON — Only 30 people nonprofit organization that opposes several factors contributing to the by defendants in capital cases. Trump opened his day today by were sentenced to death in the United capital punishment and tracks the overall drop in executions. Twenty About half of Americans still sup- boasting anew about his Nov. 8 elec- States this year, the lowest number issue. people were executed this year, the port the death penalty according to a tion victory, tweeting that his win in since the early 1970s and a further “I think we are watching a major fewest since 1991, when 14 people were Pew Research Center poll earlier this the Electoral College was more diffi- sign of the steady decline in use of the political climate change concerning put to death. The high-water mark year, but that is the lowest level in cult to pull off than winning the popu- death penalty. capital punishment and it’s reflected was in 1999, when there were 98 execu- more than four decades. Public sup- lar vote would have been if he had The number is a sharp drop from among reduced death sentences across tions. port for capital punishment peaked in tried. Democrat Hillary Clinton won the 49 death sentences last year and the country,” said Robert Dunham, the Other factors leading to a drop in the mid-1990s, when 80 percent of at least 2.6 million more votes than just a fraction of the peak of 315 in group’s executive director. executions include shortages of the ■ See Death Sentence Page A2 Trump, an apparent sore point for the president-elect. “I would have done even better in the election, if that is possible, if the Texas gives winner was based on popular vote — Community invited to Christmas Day dinner but would campaign differently,” he Planned tweeted. Paul Dragu Trump’s meeting with retired Lt. [email protected] Parenthood Gen. Michael Flynn, his choice for national security adviser, will come a Havreites looking for a fresh, hot notice of Medicaid day after Flynn and several other meal Christmas Day are invited to members of the incoming national the annual Community Christmas ouster security team met with Vice Dinner at the Eagles Club. By PAUL J. WEBER President-elect Mike Pence in Event coordinator Tom Associated Press Washington. Farnham, Eagles Club manager, AUSTIN, Texas — Texas put Aides said the meeting was planned said the requirements to attend the Planned Parenthood on notice before the acts of violence in Germany dinner are an “appetite and a Tuesday of plans to soon cut off and Turkey, though they were dis- smile.” Medicaid funds, a move that federal cussed. The Islamic State group has Food will be served from 11 a.m. judges have blocked in other claimed responsibility for the truck to 2 p.m. Anyone who would like a Republican-controlled states, which attack in Berlin that killed 12 people meal but can’t leave their home can are now waiting to see if President- and injured 48. As well, investigators call the North Central Senior elect Donald Trump will strip the searched for clues on whether the Citizen Center at 265-5464 and organization of taxpayer money. gunman who assassinated the Russian arrange to have a meal delivered to Planned Parenthood responded by ambassador to Turkey planned the their home. The deadline to arrange vowing to ask a court to stop Texas attack alone. a home delivery is Friday by 5 p.m. from defunding clinics in January. The gathering with Pence Tuesday Farnham said he’s been helping Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and included retired Gen. John Kelly, Kansas are among the states where Trump’s nominee for head of the coordinate the dinner for the last judges have denied similar efforts. Department of Homeland Security; five years. But it has been happen- Planned Parenthood says its clinics retired Gen. James Mattis, the pick ing for, at least, the last 30 years. serve nearly 11,000 women in Texas for defense secretary; and Rex For some people, it’s not worth each year through Medicaid. Tillerson, the head of Exxon Mobil making dinner for two, he said. For Republican Gov. Greg Abbott pledged and the intended nominee for secre- others, they can’t make it to see to kick Planned Parenthood out of the tary of state. their family for the holidays — and state’s Medicaid program more than a While Trump has assembled his that’s another example of who may year ago, joining other socially con- Cabinet at a quick pace, the process attend the dinner. He said the din- servative governors who took similar to fill out top White House jobs has ner usually draws about 650 people steps in 2015, when an anti-abortion been slowed by pushback among some throughout the day — “all walks of group released secretly recorded vid- advisers. Some of Trump’s earliest life come togethher.” eos that it claimed showed Planned advisers have expressed concern to The meal will include turkey, the president-elect himself that they Parenthood officials profiting from mashed potatoes with gravy, dress- sales of fetal tissue for medical are getting boxed out in favor of those ing, sweet potatoes, corn, cranberry more closely aligned with incoming research. sauce and pie for dessert. Investigations by 13 states have chief of staff Reince Priebus, who has The Community Christmas chaired the Republican National been concluded without charges of Dinner happens because volunteers Committee. wrongdoing, although a congressional and local businesses donate time, Among those whose future is still panel is still investigating. Texas’ money and even food, Farnham in flux is Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s final notice to Planned Parenthood said. first campaign manager, who was comes at a time when the 100-year-old fired after clashing with the presi- More volunteers are always wel- organization is simultaneously fight- dent-elect’s family. Monday, come and anyone interested can ing to stop Congress from also cutting Lewandowski met with Jared Kushner, call Farnham at 265-9551. off taxpayer dollars. Trump’s influential son-in-law, and “Or they can just show up,” he “Texas is a cautionary tale for the rest of the nation. With this action, could still be offered a job in the said. Havre Daily News/File photo administration, though potentially one Volunteers are asked to show up Koolen Schmidt of Havre, 8, gets ready to bite into his pumpkin pie at the the state is doubling down on reckless that would keep him out of the West around 11 a.m. as the dinner gets 2015 Christmas Day Dinner in Havre. The Cottonwood North student said policies that have been absolutely dev- Wing — and away from the president. underway. the entire dinner was great, but the pie was the best part. astating for women,” Planned The president-elect’s transition ■ See Texas Page A2 team has said it expects to announce some White House positions in the coming days. Trump met Tuesday with candi- Child agency’s new head looks to improve hiring, training dates for his unfilled Cabinet posi- AMY BETH HANSON recent years. It has faced allegations dren in foster care, compared with tions, including prospective hires to Associated Press of children dying after workers failed Idaho’s 1,300 children, for example. ■ See Security Page A2 HELENA — The troubled Montana to remove them from dangerous situa- Johnson said she plans to make agency charged with protecting chil- tions, others wrongly removed from caseworkers more aware of communi- dren needs to lower the record num- homes and workers failing to commu- ty services available to families so Inside today’s ber of kids in foster care while mak- nicate with families. children can be returned home soon- ing smart hires and conducting better A panel created by Gov. Steve e r. Havre Daily News training for its caseworkers, the new Bullock last year investigated the “I hate to delay sending a child head of the state Division of Child and agency and found the child protection home because a parent isn’t gainfully employed,” she said. Community A3 Family Services said. system in crisis. The Protect Montana Maurita Johnson addressed those Kids Commission cited the agency’s Another priority is hiring people Opinion A4 issues in a recent interview with The enormous growth in cases, its high who can handle the difficult work of a Record A5 Associated Press about a month after level of caseworker turnover and the caseworker and creating an environ- Sports A6-A7 beginning her job. Johnson, former inability to hire and retain enough ment so they are satisfied with their deputy director of Child Welfare caseworkers. jobs, she said. Farm & Ranch B1 Programs in Oregon, visited all six of The commission suggested case- The state is seeking six child pro- Comics B2 her division’s regional offices and all workers need more training and ade- tection specialists, down from 17 open- Classifieds B3 seven of the state’s Native American quate supervision and that the agency ings in March. The current worker reservations as she got acquainted needs to update its outdated computer training class is full, Johnson said. Court Reports B4 Montana Department of Public Health and with the child protection system. system. The agency also needs to better fol- Human Services' Division of Child and Agency officials “have the ability Johnson said she plans to address low its system of evaluating whether a child is in danger and what threats Family Services via AP to solve a lot of problems for fami- those issues, including more training. Montana Department of Public exist to his or her safety, Johnson lies,” she said. “Having a kid home She also said the agency needs to get Health and Human Services' Division said. The system also aims to set con- with a parent is what we want.” more foster children into permanent of Child and Family Services Director ditions under which the child could go Johnson is taking over an agency homes. Maurita Johnson poses for a photo- that has been heavily criticized in Montana has a record 3,300 chil- ■ See Agency Page A2 graph Dec. 5. Havre PAGE A2 DAILY NEWS www.havredailynews.com STATE Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016 Montana Weather through 6 a.m. today Extended Forecast from http://www.weather.com Weather Almanac for 12/20

a v r e High/low: 41°/24° H Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tues 41/25 12/21 12/22 12/23 12/24 12/25 12/26 12/27 Normal high/low: 29°/7° Kalispell Gl a s g o w Record high: 62° in 1941 41/31 • 41/27 Record low: -30° in 1887 Gr e a t Falls State high: 48° in Helena Mi s s o u l a 42/26 State low: 0° in West Yellowstone 41/30/.07 Precip in December: .44" He l e n a 33/23 40/22 29/19 21/6 9/-5 11/3 28/16 Normal monthly precip: .25" 48/29 Mi l e s Ci t y Mostly sunny/ Partly cloudy. Mostly cloudy. Snow. Snow. Sunny. Mostly sunny. Wind. Precip for year: 19.25" Bu t t e Billings 44/32 Normal yearly precip: 11.05" 40/18 41/31 Sunset tonight: 4:26 p.m. 24-hour to 6 a.m. High/Low/Precipitation Sunrise Thursday: 8:09 a.m. Islamic State group claims Berlin Christmas market attack By DAVID RISING and FRANK tody for lack of evidence. the scene of the attack, initially France and Belgium had made published by the Islamic State arrest to seek a formal arrest JORDANS, Associated Press The claim of responsibility suspected of driving the truck. many feel it was inevitable. group. warrant keeping a suspect in BERLIN — The Islamic carried on the Islamic State The man, a Pakistani citizen “We’ve all been prepared that “There is also the prominent custody. State group claimed responsibili- group’s Amaq news agency who came to Germany last year, something like this could hap- and symbolic target of a Prosecutors said they decided ty Tuesday for a truck attack on described the man seen fleeing was taken into custody based on pen, so we were not surprised,” Christmas market, and the to release him after turning up a crowded Berlin Christmas from the truck as “a soldier of a description from witnesses of said economics student modus operandi that mirrors at no forensic evidence proving he market that German authorities the Islamic State” who “carried a suspect who jumped out of the Maximilian Much. least past calls by jihadi terror was in the truck’s cab during the said came right out of the out the attack in response to truck and fled after the attack. The 24-year-old Berliner said organizations,” Frank said. rampage, and no witnesses who extremist group’s playbook, calls for targeting citizens of the Even before his release, offi- the attack hit home because he’d In Washington, State were able to follow him from the inflicting mass casualties on a Crusader coalition.” cials had expressed doubt the often visited the Christmas mar- Department spokesman John scene to where he was picked soft target fraught with symbolic Germany is not involved in man was behind the attack. ket with his girlfriend, but that Kirby said the attack “bears the up. meaning. anti-IS combat operations, but “We may still have a danger- he wouldn’t let himself be led by hallmarks of previous terror Among the injured was Inaki The Monday night attack on has Tornado jets and a refueling ous criminal out there,” warned emotion. attacks,” but said U.S. officials Ellakuria, who had surgery the popular market by the plane stationed in Turkey in sup- Berlin Police Chief Klaus Kandt, “I’m not going to change my didn’t have enough information Tuesday for a broken tibia and Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial port of the coalition fighting mil- whose office urged people to be lifestyle now,” he said. “The to back up the IS claim of fibula on his left leg. He said he Church in the heart of former itants in Syria, as well as a frig- “particularly vigilant” and chances that I get killed in a car responsibility. “There is no direct knew immediately it was no West Berlin left 12 dead and 48 ate protecting a French aircraft report “suspicious movement” or bike accident are bigger.” evidence of a tie or a link to a accident. injured — the first mass casual- carrier in the Mediterranean, using a special hotline. Germany’s top prosecutor, terrorist organization,” he said. “It came fast, too fast to be ty attack by Islamic extremists among other assets. Though Germany had not Peter Frank, told reporters the The man arrested near the driving off the road accidental- carried out on German soil. The claim of responsibility seen any successful mass-casu- attack on the popular market scene denied any involvement in ly,” the 21-year-old student from German security forces were came not long after German alty Islamic extremist attacks was reminiscent of July’s deadly the attack. Under German law, Spain tweeted only minutes after still hunting for the perpetrator prosecutors said they had until Monday, attempts and truck rampage in Nice and prosecutors have until the end of the attack. “It has swept me and after releasing a man from cus- released a man picked up near recent attacks in neighboring appeared to follow instructions a calendar day following an ran over both of my legs.” Fairgrounds: Manager position description should be finalized Jan. 17 ■ Continued from page A1

“It’s a tough one to run a par- talk between board members Horne has until the end of the there in excess and yet the ori- sonal help be hired to fill in est in the position and they’re allel job next to, and I think that went from questions to what he month to to be completely off entation of it is going to be needs during the busy times? bound to find a good fit. was his intention on the front is doing there to how much lon- the property. learned in the process of doing.” Pay came up as well. At $15 By the next meeting Jan. 17, end is: ‘If this is 30 hours a ger the 30-day contract allows The fair board is working to Talk of what the position will an hour, it’s not like someone McCann said, the goal is for week, that’ll allow me to do Horne to occupy or work on the bring in a new manager, and the look like continued, with board with a family to support can position description be solidi- something else.’ There’s more property. If he’s not living on quicker the better, McCann said. members asking: What are the take that job, McCann said after fied. He said it could be differ- than 30 hours of work up there, the grounds, Horne may still be The reason for that, he added, is pros and cons of having the the meeting. ent or it could end up being the so you have to make executive putting things away and periodi- so mistakes aren’t repeated. position divided? Should the “You’re almost looking for exact same position Horne decisions as to where those 30 cally checking on the house, “Bob (Horne) entered into house stay on the grounds, someone who is successful, applied for. hours go, and you haven’t done McCann said. this in the spring,” McCann should it be gotten rid of, or retired and looking to give it before,” McCann said. Since he put his resignation said. “It’s just a very busy time. should it be rented out? Should back,” he said during the meet- During the meeting there in Nov. 16 and the contract says That’s like hiring somebody the word “manager” be in the ing. was indication that Horne may he has a 30-day grace period, when the grain is ready to be position or would “administra- Despite challenges, McCann still be living on the grounds, as the board members agreed cut, so to speak. The work is tor” be a better fit? Should sea- said, people are showing inter- Death Sentence: Justice Beyer called for Supreme Court decision ■ Continued from page A1

Americans favored it. Capital punishment remains imposed nine death sentences, term numbers to remain low face death sentences are not Yet the issue still causes legal in 31 states. followed by five in Ohio, four in and perhaps continue to drop,” society’s worst criminals but deep divisions. Voters in Only five states conducted Texas, three in Alabama and Dunham said. are “chosen at random, on the California and Nebraska executions this year, the fewest two in Florida. But California Supreme Court Justice basis, perhaps of geography, declined to abolish the death number of states to do so since hasn’t executed any of the 741 Stephen Breyer last week perhaps of the views of the indi- penalty in their states when 1983. Georgia led the way with inmates on its death row since renewed his call for the high vidual prosecutors, or still they considered referendums nine, followed by Texas with 2006 due to legal challenges court to consider whether the worse, on the basis of race.” last month. And states like Ohio seven, two in Alabama and one over its lethal injection method. death penalty is unconstitution- So far, only Justice Ruth and Oklahoma that have halted each in Missouri and Florida. “As fewer states use the al. Breyer dissented from the Bader Ginsburg has joined executions over problems with And just five states sen- death penalty and as it’s used court’s refusal to take up a Breyer in questioning the con- lethal injection drugs are try- tenced more than one person to more sparingly in the states Florida death row inmate’s stitutionality of the death pen- ing to figure out how to resume. death in 2016. California that do, we can expect long- appeal. He said defendants who alty. Texas: U.S. Supreme Court struck down sweeping ant-abortion law in Texas ■ Continued from page A1

Parenthood President Cecile lobbed against the group. vider but receives no public burial or cremation of fetal year could come on long-sought Richards said. Planned Parenthood strong- funding in Texas for those ser- remains, rules that a federal efforts in the GOP-controlled Texas Health and Human ly denied the allegations and vices. judge in Austin put on hold last Congress to scuttle taxpayer Services Inspector General no wrongdoing was proved, but The U.S. Supreme Court week. m o n e y f o r P l a n n e d Stuart Bowen referenced the the group announced in earlier this year struck down a Trump sent mixed signals Parenthood. videos as “the basis for your October that it will no longer sweeping anti-abortion law in during his campaign about ___ termination” in his letter to accept reimbursement for the Texas that would have left only Planned Parenthood, saying it Follow Paul J. Weber on Planned Parenthood. He costs involved in providing 10 abortion clinics open in a helped “millions of women” Twitter: www.twitter.com/ accused Planned Parenthood of fetal tissue to researchers. state of 27 million people. Mere while also endorsing plans to pauljweber “misrepresentations,” a charge Planned Parenthood is the days after that ruling, Texas defund it. One of Trump’s first that other states have also nation’s largest abortion pro- announced plans to require the defining acts as president next Security: Trump has handful of Cabinet posts to fill ■ Continued from page A1 run the Department of Veterans contender to replace Eric veterans don’t need treatment for U.S. trade representative. Affairs, a beleaguered agency Shinseki when he resigned for mental health problems. She served as deputy adminis- that the Republican business- from the VA in 2014. Cosgrove Others said to be considered trator of the Small Business man has vowed to overhaul. later withdrew from consider- for the post include former Administration under Bush. At Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s ation. Massachusetts Sen. Scott With just a handful of palatial Florida estate, the Trump repeatedly pledged Brown, Florida Rep. Jeff Miller Cabinet posts to fill, Trump is president-elect met with Luis during the campaign to fix the and Pete Hegseth, an Army facing some criticism for a Quinonez, who runs a company woes at the department and veteran and former CEO of lack of diversity in his senior with military and health care said he would “take care of Concerned Veterans for team, which currently includes ties and is said to be under great veterans.” But he also America. no Hispanics. consideration for VA secretary. came under scrutiny for being Trump is also considering ___ He also interviewed Toby slow in paying out money Jovita Carranza, who worked Follow Lemire on Twitter: Cosgrove, the CEO of the raised for veterans groups and in President George W. Bush’s http://www.twitter.com/ Cleveland Clinic, who was a top for suggesting that “strong” administration, as his choice JonLemire Agency: Grandparents' group willing to work with Johnson ■ Continued from page A1 home if their care and safety wayside.” Bullock to create the Protect Members of the grandpar- needs are met. One of the agency’s stron- Montana Kids Commission. ents’ group “are of the opinion “We got very comfortable gest critics is a group of grand- Jay Walton of Great Falls, a that we should see what she with the first part,” Johnson parents who picketed several member of the grandparents’ has in mind,” he said. said, but giving parents clear Child and Family Services group, said he spoke with “We will help if we can. But and reasonable conditions for offices and testified before the Johnson and believes she has if we can’t get along, then it’s the return of their child and Legislature about their strug- some good ideas. But he said back to the demonstrations, it’s assessing their ability to pro- gles with the agency. Their he’s concerned about having back to the phone calls, the tect them “kind of fell by the activity in part prompted previous mistakes addressed. emails,” Walton said.

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Friday, Dec. 23 Courtesy photo Community Christmas Sandy Brown, from left, Gerald Anderson, Edna Gregory, Pam Dinner orders for delivery Dec. Veis and Faye James pose for a photograph with a $500 check 25, call 265-5464, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Courtesy photo Hill County Community Foundation presented to the Brother “Hansel and Gretel,” a Rosie Goldich, from left, Faye James, Jean Murphy and Jim Bennett pose for a photograph with Van SOS program at Van Orsdel United Methodist Church for its Christmas Panto produced by a $500 check awarded by Hill County Community Foundation to Opportunity Link Inc. and Havre Summer Backpack program. Montana Actors’ Theatre, 8 p.m., Public Schools to support the Havre Backpack Program MSU-Northern Little Theatre. Doors and Backstage Lounge open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: adults $15; students, Santa train arriving Thursday seniors and military $10; and kids Santa and Mrs. Claus are Thursday. K-8 $5. scheduled to ride into the Havre Everyone is invited to go Havre Community Pool train station at the north end of down to welcome Santa and his closed today. Third Avenue on a BNSF wife to Havre and spend some Open skating, Havre Ice Railway locomotive at 5 p.m. time with the couple. Dome, south end of 5th Ave., 6:30 - 7:30 p.m., or until 7:15 p.m., if Glacier Nationals are playing.

Saturday, Dec. 24 “Hansel and Gretel,” a Christmas Panto produced by Montana Actors’ Theatre, 8 p.m., MSU-Northern Little Theatre. Doors and Backstage Lounge open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: adults $15; students, seniors and military $10; and kids K-8 $5. Havre Community Pool closed today.

Sunday, Dec. 25 Courtesy photo Gloria Tilleman, from left, Janice Brady-Bergren, Lela Patera, Jody Olson, Faye James, Karen Wall Community Christmas Dinner, 11 and Rosie Goldich pose for a photograph with a $500 check Hill County Community Foundation a.m. - 2 p.m., Havre Eagles Club. awarded to Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club for two Blue Star memorials in town. Free and open to the public. Havre Community Pool closed today. Officials remind local residents to be safe during Monday, Dec. 26 Havre Community Pool holidays with ‘Buzzed Driving Is Drunk Driving’ program closed today. North Central Montana Press release This time of year is especial- • New Year’s Eve, with the Transit buses will not run today. Local officials announced ly dangerous. In December 2015 support of two local businesses, this week that this holiday sea- alone, 840 people were killed in Havre Ford and Triangle Tuesday, Dec. 27 son, Hill County DUI Task crashes involving at least one Communications, individuals NAMI, National Alliance on Force and Hi-Line Tavern drunk driver or motorcycle may call 265-1700 between 5 p.m. Mental Illness, 6:30 p.m. base- Association are teaming up operator. and 2:30 a.m. and request a free with the National Highway “Drinking and driving should ment at 921 3rd St. For info, call ride to a drinking establishment Traffic Safety Administration never mix, therefore we want Crystal at 406-879-6646. or home from one, thus, ensur- to remind all drivers that everyone to plan a sober ride in ing their safe transi. Also, peo- Wednesday, Dec. 28 “Buzzed Driving Is Drunk advance if they will be celebrat- ple can try NHTSA’s SaferRide Driving” and to always plan a ing the holidays with alcohol,” Open skating, Havre Ice mobile app, which allows users sober ride before the holiday Matosich said in the release. Dome, south end of 5th Ave., 5:30 - to call a taxi or a friend and parties begin. “Don’t allow yourself to become 7 p.m. identify their location so they Too many people take to the a statistic because you failed to Books and Babies, 10:15 can be picked up. roadways after consuming alco- plan ahead.” a.m., Havre-Hill County Library. • Help others be responsible. hol because they think they are This holiday season, the Free, and public is welcome. People who see someone they “OK to drive,” a press release Havre Police Department and Story Time, think is about to drive while 10:30 a.m. and issued Monday says. During the the NHTSA urge people to des- impaired should take their keys, 3:30 p.m., Havre-Hill County holiday season, festive parties ignate a sober driver before take them home or help them Library. Free, and public is welcome. and celebrations with alcohol start drinking. If people plan on arrange a safe ride home. contribute to the number of drinking at all, they should plan Thursday, Dec. 29 impaired drivers on our road- not to drive. • People who see a driver on “Sing Street,” Movie Night ways. People should remember the road that appears to be at Havre-Hill County Library, 7 p.m. “We want to keep our roads these tips to avoid a DUI and to intoxicated should contact Light refreshments will be provided. safe this holiday season and keep our roads safe: police when it is safe to do so. Free and open to the public. Any help people understand that the • Even one drink can impair Their actions could help save a donations will help to pay for next only time they should be behind people’s judgment and reaction life. year's dinner. the wheel is when they are time and increase the risk of People should remember to Lego Time and Robotics, sober,” Havre Chief of Police getting arrested for driving play it safe this holiday season 3:30 - 5 p.m., Havre-Hill County Gabe Matosich said in the press drunk or causing a crash. and always plan their sober Library. Free, and open to the public. release. “Alcohol affects people • People who will be drink- ride before the festivities begin. For info, call 265-2123. differently, and you don’t have ing should not plan on driving. Buzzed driving is drunk driv- to be feeling or acting drunk to They should plan ahead; desig- ing. Friday, Dec. 30 be too impaired to drive.” nate a sober driver before the The Library Art Display Any consumption of alcohol party begins. People can Project presents artists Aubree and can impair judgment and reac- receive rewards for doing the Izhanna Erickson at Havre-Hill tion times, making it unsafe for right thing. The Hi-Line Tavern County Library through January. to drive. “Buzzed Driving Is association sponsors the Open skating, Havre Ice Drunk Driving” is a nationwide Designated Driver Program. If Dome, south end of 5th Ave., 6:30 - impaired driving campaign to the designated sober driver 7:30 p.m., or until 7:15 p.m., if inform all Americans about the identifies themselves to a bar Glacier Nationals are playing. dangers of driving after drink- employee, they receive free non- ing. alcoholic drinks that night as Saturday, Dec. 31 Drunk driving kills thou- well as a chance to win two Havre Community Pool sands of people in our country monthly drawings of $50 and a closed today. every year. In 2015, 35,092 peo- yearly drawing of $500 in cash. ple were killed in motor vehicle • People who have been Sunday, Jan. 1 traffic crashes on our roadways, drinking should not drive — even a short distance. They Havre Community Pool and 29 percent — 10,265 — died in crashes that involved a driv- should call a taxi, a sober closed today. er with a blood alcohol concen- friend or family member, use To be included in the tration over the legal limit of public transportation or the .08. Home FREE Program About Town please call 265-6795 before 12 p.m. Monday - Friday or email community@ havredailynews.com. Havre PAGE A4 DAILY NEWS www.havredailynews.com OPINION Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016 Ruminations on end of Senate term If the mainstream media covered Jesus’ birth As 2016 soon will be over so will my Network news anchor Brent that the baby Jesus is the “Savior” and senate term. It has been an honor to Community Fullworth: We bring you a live update Guest the “Messiah.” He has ordered that have served this vast part of northeast- on the birth of Jesus Christ from our Jesus be killed. ern Montana. Focus correspondent, Bethany Smug, who is Brent: That’s no laughing matter, The first six years, Senate District standing by in Bethlehem. Bethany? Columnist Bethany. 18 included parts of Richland, Sen. Bethany: Brent, what we know is Bethany: Sources tell me the young Roosevelt, Valley and Phillips counties John Brenden that a carpenter named Joseph and his family just fled Bethlehem with King and all of Sheridan and Daniels coun- Scobey alleged virgin wife, Mary, traveled from Tom Purcell Herod’s men hot on its tail. ties. When redistricting was completed Nazareth to Bethlehem to pay a tax Brent: Hold on, Bethany. Our satel- two years ago to Senate District 17, that had been decreed by Caesar lite cameras have located a small fami- Coast would dominate government and Bethany: Republican cuts to govern- Richland County was deleted and Augustus. It’s rumored the two were ly heading for Egypt. We can see a man any state between would not matter. In ment health care would be my guess, Chinook and northern Blaine County delinquent, but finally consented to pay. walking next to a donkey. A woman is this last presidential election, Hillary Brent. This story gets more bizarre. and north of Highway #2 in Havre and Brent: A couple of tea-party types, sitting on the donkey, holding a baby in The religious right claims that when Hill County to about 40 miles west of Clinton won four of the five boroughs in Bethany? her arms. At the top of the screen, you the baby Jesus was born, shepherds in Havre were included in my senate dis- New York City by more than 2 million Bethany: That’s the rumor, Brent. can see King Herod’s army searching trict and it still had parts of Phillips, votes. That is about the number of votes When they arrived, they couldn’t find a nearby fields saw angels appear. The in vain. The army is headed east, Valley and Roosevelt counties and all of that gave her the popular vote. I do not room at the inn — even though Mary angels allegedly declared that the unaware that the young family is head- “Savior” was born and that his name Sheridan and Daniels counties. This believe we want to be controlled by the was with child — because of the heart- ed west. was Jesus Christ. new senate district stretches from the likes of California and New York! less cuts Republicans made to housing Bethany: How far away is the army Brent: There must be a scientific North Dakota border to about 40 miles vouchers. from the family? I will miss my old and new friends in explanation. west of Havre. That is 285 miles of the Brent: By electing conservatives, Brent: According to our satellite the Senate and especially all of the Bethany: Whatever the case, the reli- 565 miles of the U.S.-Canadian border, don’t these tea partiers understand they technology, the family is exactly 8 miles great friends in my Senate District 17, gious right also claims that when Jesus or 51 percent of the border with Canada. are voting against their own interests, east of Egypt’s border. King Herod’s as the plus in a big district knowing was born, a star shone bright over This is the largest state senate district Bethany? One other thing puzzles me: army is only 5 miles east of the family. more folks has broadened my insight Bethlehem. And that three kings hun- bordering Canada on the 49th parallel! You said Mary was with child? How can Wait, it appears that King Herod’s dreds of miles away saw the star. They This senate district is the thirrd largest and knowledge and hopefully my under- that be if she is a virgin? army has abruptly changed direction. followed it for many days until they district in Montana and has about four- standing. I will also miss standing up Bethany: An alleged virgin, Brent. The army is heading toward the family arrived at the stable. They brought gifts teen thousand square miles and is larg- for our freedom rights and fighting Members of the religious right are mak- at a rapid clip. of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Then er than nine or 10 states! Before the against those who want to take away ing the ludicrous claim that the child is Bethany (laughing): Sounds like they returned to their lands to spread new constitution was passed in the early our property rights away, especially the a result of some kind of miracle. somebody tipped them off, Brent! Brent: Sounds to me like Mary and the news. Brent: We need to break for com- 1970s, each county had one state sena- left wing environmentalists! I want to Joseph concocted this “miracle” tale to Brent (laughing): What the heck is mercial, but when we come back, we’ll tor. One can see how eastern and rural wish my successor Sen.-elect Mike Lang conceal something. frankincense and myrrh? bring you the latest on the birth of Montana lost representation in the from Malta well and I know he will do a Bethany: No doubt, Brent. In any Bethany (snorts): Beats me, Brent. Jesus Christ. Will the young family sur- Montana House, but especially in the great job for our district. I also want to event, the baby Jesus was born in a sta- To add drama to this incredible tale, vive? The answer when we return. Montana State Senate. congratulate Speaker of the House ble and laid in a manger. King Herod has fallen for the absurd —— I was a presidential elector of Austin Knudsen and his new counter- Brent: Why didn’t Joseph take Mary claims spread by the religious right. Tom Purcell is a Pittsburgh Tribune- Montana in 2004, 2008 and 2012. Montana part, Rep.-elect Casey Knudsen. I wish to a hospital? The king is threatened by allegations Review humor columnist. has three, and there are 538 electors in Congressman Zinke well in his new the U.S. A state has as many electors as important job as Interior Secretary and they have U.S. senators and representa- tives. California has over 50 electors! I hope the Republicans will choose his Our Founding Fathers had great wis- successor wisely. dom and insight as they sought to bal- I wish you all a very merry ance rural versus urban, giving each a Christmas and a happy, healthy and balance of power. If it were not for the prosperous New Year. Electoral College the East and West Sen. John Brenden, R-Scobey

Trump the epitome of complexities and contradictions

Franklin Roosevelt was a flexible a group born a generation later — came president immobilized in a wheelchair. National before his election and was a rallying Dwight Eisenhower personified military cry for his campaign. precision but as president luxuriated in But in debates and on the campaign imprecise language. Lyndon Johnson Perspective trail, Trump repeatedly said he would commonly used a vulgar epithet to salt his administration with “the best describe the black Americans he worked people,” a distinctly elitist locution not so hard to empower. Jimmy Carter David Shribman unusual for presidential candidates. He spoke eloquently of human rights but was not blind to the irony. “What amaz- lacked the human touch. es a lot of people is that I’m sitting in an Republicans are the that still wants deep and long-term Still, America has seldom seen a apartment the likes of which nobody’s investments in America’s infrastructure president so full of contradictions as the ever seen,” he told the Time interview- and is ready to invest in our under- masters of not getting over things one who takes office a month from now. served communities. It wants to limit ers preparing the magazine’s Person of Indeed, Donald J. Trump created an the Year issue. “And yet I represent the And now a few choice words for all corporate power that reduces competi- unusual combination of contradictions workers of the world.” Republicans advising Democrats to Raging tion and innovation and reform trade, to propel him to victory. And while his Lest we forget: Two of the greatest “stop whining about the election and get starting with a dramatic ability to prose- campaign slogan may have spoken of spokesmen for the poor and the striving over it.” Oh, really. Get over losing a cute and enforce trade laws.” making America great again, his politi- were Democratic plutocrats with presidential election to a high-strung Moderate • Speaking to a nation of hope in the cal formula has clearly been much Harvard degrees, Franklin Roosevelt petulant flake soon to be in possession briefer: language of despair. of the nuclear codes? Get over a man Will Durst Commentators sometimes compare from the Hudson River gentry (who also Strength through contradiction. had a degree from Columbia Law) and destined to be leader of the Free World Columnist All presidents are portraits in contra- Trump with Ronald Reagan, for both tweeting frivolous 3 a.m. insults at Alec came to politics from unconventional John F. Kennedy from the tony pre- diction, and here are the principal con- cincts of Brookline and Hyannisport. Baldwin? ing lost their amateur status right tradictions in the politics of a president- backgrounds and first appeared as Exactly how does one get over that, grave threats to the established • Seeking an office of dignity while around the middle of Ulysses S. Grant’s elect whose mastery of American poli- promoting a culture of insult. pray tell? A fistful of barbiturates? A first term. Republicans are to “getting Republican order. But among the many tics has astonished adversaries and This quality of Trump does set him four-year nap? An eternal tray of over it” what Martha Stewart is to verti- allies alike: differences between the 40th president apart from all of his predecessors, the mango margaritas? Love it or leave it? cal zinc mines and Wayne Newton is to • Running (and perhaps governing) and the 45th is that Reagan was sunny only exception perhaps being Andrew Like it or lump it? The shuffling off of rock & roll. as an independent while the nominee of while Trump is dark. Jackson. The former general and Indian mortal coils? Climb a tower? Couple Hillary Clinton won the popular vote the Republicans. There was a discernible smile on fighter assailed the stately and stodgy rounds of Russian roulette? by 3 million votes after being gang tack- Trump’s campaign resembled none Reagan’s face on the cover of Time John Quincy Adams, who prevailed in Perhaps an example of how led by Wikileaks, an orange clown, the in history so much as Theodore when he was named its Man of the Year the 1824 election because of what the Republicans get over something would FBI and Russia. You mean Democrats Roosevelt’s independent “Bull Moose” just before his inauguration; Trump, Jackson forces called a “corrupt bar- help grease the skids here. Pull some- aren’t supposed to report getting campaign of 1912, when he ran against appearing on the magazine’s cover this gain.” thing out of your vast experience of mugged by a foreign power? Isn’t failing the establishment GOP candidate (and week for the same reason, is glowering. Trump now must forge his own presi- “getting over it” for us. Like how you to report a felony illegal? Are you advo- his political protege) William Howard Yet both men have displayed an uncan- dential style. Will he continue to tweet at got over Barack Hussein Obama’s two cating aiding and abetting here? But Taft. Woodrow Wilson won that election, ny ability to judge the mood of the odd hours? How will he handle ceremo- election wins crying about his citizen- then again, nobody really cares, since so we were deprived of seeing how TR moment, and while Trump’s convention ship for eight years like little babies the Russians are white. Or is it the oil? would have governed in a White House speech in Cleveland may have been jet nial aspects of the position? What will with colic whose diapers needed to be Now Donald Trump is griping that reprise, but there is no question that, as black, it was perfect for the moment. be his profile at moments of national tri- changed? That kind of getting over it? nobody ever mentioned the possible a former president, he ran as an outsid- That’s because he spoke directly to umph or grief — or even at formal set- Because, correct me if I’m wrong, hacking of the election until after he er in his third national campaign. blue-collar voters whose prospects were piece occasions such as Memorial Day? but I seem to remember Mitch won. Wrong! There’s footage of him Trump not only antagonized conser- withering while those of the elites he pil- • Running as an apostle of transfor- McConnell boasting that his first order during the second debate saying maybe vatives, he also alienated many moder- loried were prospering. The median mation in a system that resists dramatic of business as Senate Minority Leader the hacking of the DNC’s emails wasn’t ate Republicans. And while many of his income of households headed by change. was to deny Obama a second term. done by the Rooskies, but some 400- appointments, especially at the Justice Americans without college degrees fell Trump will not be the first president Epic fail on that getting over. pound guy on a bed. Did he forget or is Department and the Environmental dramatically between 2001 and 2012 — to confront this contradiction, which I also seem to remember the GOP he just plain oblivious? Protection Administration, will please “an unprecedented development,” in the isn’t of his own making but instead is Congress refusing to pass anything that The Trumpeteers have perfected conservatives, many of them surely analysis of Robert J. Shapiro, who the making of the founders. would smack of giving Obama a single whining to such an art form that recoil at his notion of big-spending proj- advised the Democratic presidential Gen. Eisenhower, full of the rhetoric legislative victory including obstructing Kellyanne Conway’s gelatinous plati- ects, such as modernizing the nation’s campaigns of Bill Clinton, Albert Gore of change, entered the White House bills they previously proposed. Classic tudes should be part of the permanent airports and fixing the country’s infra- Jr. and John F. Kerry, and who said that after 16 years of Democratic rule. “Once case of cutting-off-your-nose-to-spite- collection of New York’s Metropolitan structure. the result was “tens of millions of in office,” the pioneer public pollster and your-face getting over it there. Museum. We all know that if the tables Yet Trump may create a spending Americans losing income as they aged political analyst Samuel Lubell predict- I seem to remember Republicans were turned, Trump would be accusing program — he will not call it an eco- from their 30s to their 40s, or from their ed in 1952, “the Republicans will auto- trying to repeal Obama Care over 60 Hillary of not only personally conspir- nomic stimulus, but it will have the 40s to their 50s.” matically endorse much of the New times. You mean that kind of getting ing with Putin, but so deep in bed with same effect as one — larger than any • Campaigning for the forgotten Deal, through the simple device of leav- over it? Does the term “getting over him she could suck her comrade’s toes. that Hillary Clinton would have dared Americans and then selecting an admin- ing things untouched.” He was right. But Benghazi” have any meaning here? Which, coincidentally, are tiny. contemplate. The Democrats are quietly istration largely of elites. then again, Lubell, who died in 1987, Because if that’s the kind of bipartisan —— hoping he might. Trump spoke often of the people never met someone like Trump. No hand- holding you’re looking for, you’re Will Durst is an award-winning, “The electorate that put Donald Richard Nixon called the “the great political professional ever has. about to get your wish. nationally acclaimed columnist, comedi- Trump in the White House today wants silent majority of my fellow Americans,” —— Republicans aren’t just sore losers, an and former assistant manager at a bold, not incremental change,” particularly regarding the Vietnam War. David M. Shribman is executive edi- they’re lousy winners too. If Pizza Hut in West Allis, Wisconsin. For a Democratic pollsters Stan Greenberg Nixon’s speech came on Nov. 3, 1969, tor of the Post-Gazette (dshribman@ Hypocritical were an Olympic sport, the calendar of personal appearances, go to and Nancy Zdunkewicz wrote shortly almost exactly a year after his election. post-gazette.com, 412 263-1890). Follow GOP would be deemed ineligible, hav- willdurst.com. after the election. “This is a country Trump’s appeal to this group — actually, him on Twitter at ShribmanPG.

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Managing Editor Tim Leeds The Havre Daily News encourages its readers to send letters to the editor. Letters must include the writer's name and con- The editorial board is jointly tact information for verification. We ask that you limit your letter to 400 words. We reserve the right to edit letters for Reporter Alex Ross responsible for Havre Daily News length, clarity, accuracy and taste, and to withhold letters containing misrepresentation of fact. Published letters are the ‘Our View’ editorials. Reporter Paul Dragu opinion of the writer and are not the opinion of the Havre Daily News. Havre PAGE A5 DAILY NEWS www.havredailynews.com RECORD Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016 Accidental shooting deaths, injuries spike over the holidays Report: Crushed RYAN J. FOLEY out of school for the holidays and ing in 2014. days studied compared to the MEGHAN HOYER have access to unsecured guns at Denom’s older brother, who rest of the year. Kentucky miner was Associated Press their homes and those of rela- was 21 at the time, had received Gun violence researcher The happiest of seasons is tives and friends. a handgun as a gift earlier in the Garen Wintemute of the not wearing safety device also among the deadliest: — Adults are drinking alcohol day for self-protection. After a University of California, Davis Unintentional shootings spike in and inattentive to gun safety or family dinner, the adults were said he was unaware of any stud- PROVIDENCE, Ky. (AP) — said. the U.S. during the holidays, and their children. drinking while Denom played a ies showing an increase in unin- Federal investigators have con- The company, which is con- are more likely to occur than — New guns are given and video game, and one relative tentional shootings around the cluded that a worker crushed trolled by Alliance Resource any other time of the year, received as gifts in the tens of shot the gun into a couch to see holidays, so the news outlets’ to death by a machine at a Partners LP, also failed to according to an analysis by The thousands. if it was loaded, Russell said. findings “might be breaking new Kentucky coal mine wasn’t make sure miners didn’t work Associated Press and the USA — It’s a popular time of year Denom’s brother “freaked ground.” wearing an emergency shut-off or travel in the danger zone TODAY Network. for hunting. out” and started taking bullets “Lots of people get new fire- device, and that his managers close to the 65-ton machines In all, 32 people were killed The count does not include out of the gun, which accidental- arms over the holidays and had not provided a way to while they were being moved, nationwide and 59 injured over three deaths and 16 injuries ly discharged as Denom walked might be unfamiliar with them securely attach it. MSHA said in the report. the past two years from involving guns fired into the air around the corner to see what — and not applying the basic Managers at Webster County Operators stand nearby Christmas Eve through New to celebrate the New Year. was happening, she said. rules of good conduct with fire- Coal’s Dotiki Mine knew about using remote-control devices to Year’s Day, which the analysis The AP and USA TODAY The death was ruled an acci- arms,” he said. Alcohol, too, may the problem but didn’t address control the machine as it identified as the most likely day Network looked at holiday shoot- dent and no charges were filed. play a role, he added. it, potentially exposing the grinds out coal. for accidental shootings each ings after an earlier investiga- The family is still struggling Researchers said the AP-USA company to a higher fin a U.S. The system is designed to year. The victims were mostly tion found that accidental shoot- without Denom, who was TODAY Network research was Mine Safety and Health activate a warning light and male and young, with a median ings involving children happen remembered as a happy-go-lucky the type of study that should be Administration report says. sound if the operator gets too age of 19. Nearly half the shoot- far more often than federal gov- high school freshman who helped conducted by the U.S. Centers Nathan Phillips, 36, was close, but the foreman, Keith ings were self-inflicted, and most ernment statistics show. Based lift up struggling classmates. for Disease Control and pinned to a wall while trying to Brown II, and other miners occurred in their own homes. on incidents compiled by the The family didn’t get together Prevention, but the agency is move a continuous-mining said they were aware of earlier The victims are people like Gun Violence Archive, they last year for Christmas; Russell hamstrung under a 1996 law that machine in January. His trans- occasions when Phillips either Tezlar Wayne Ross, a 20-year-old found that more than 320 minors said she will try to celebrate the blocked funding for research that mitter, designed to turn off the dropped the transmitter or it from Gaffney, South Carolina, were killed by unintentional holiday this year for her chil- could be used to advocate gun machine if he got too close, had fallen out of the pouch who killed himself while playing shootings over a 2½ year period dren. control. had been on the floor of the while he was operating the with a handgun at his home last that ended June 30. “I don’t want it to always be “There’s much research that mine for about a half-hour machine, according to the New Year’s Eve. His girlfriend For those who have lost loved remembered as a bad day,” she could help target prevention before he was killed, the report report. and two other friends witnessed ones in holiday shootings, the said. efforts. This is one example the accident in Ross’ bedroom, season is never again the same. FBI data show guns are popu- among hundreds,” said David Cherokee County Coroner Dennis In recent interviews, the mothers lar gifts for the holidays: The Hemenway, director of the Montana state parks Fowler said. Alcohol was not of two teenage victims urged agency conducted more than Harvard Injury Control Research involved. families to be aware of the 185,700 background checks Center. administrator abruptly leaves agency “They were absolutely clown- heightened seasonal risk and requested by firearms dealers on Ashlyn Melton of Plaquemine, ing around,” Fowler said. “And take precautions to prevent Nov. 25, the shopping day known Louisiana, needs no proof of the HELENA (AP) — The tional information. A phone sometimes that innocent fun, unnecessary gun deaths. as Black Friday this year. That dangers of the holiday season. administrator of Montana’s number listed for Van Genderen especially with a gun, can get “Alcohol and guns don’t mix,” was a single-day record in the Dec. 30 will be the fifth anniver- you in trouble. A weapon like warned Teka Russell, 43, of program’s 18-year history. sary of the death of her 13-year- state parks has left his position appears to be disconnected. that is not a toy.” Frankfort, Kentucky, whose The AP-USA TODAY Network old son, Noah Daigle, who was after eight years. Van Genderen became the Several factors contribute to 16-year-old son, D’nomyar analysis found that the rate of accidentally shot by his best An email sent to Fish, parks division’s administrator the increase: “Denom” Russell, was shot dur- accidental shootings spikes by friend while staying the night at Wildlife and Parks staff Tuesday in 2008. — Children and teenagers are ing a family Christmas gather- about 50 percent during the nine the boy’s home. says Chas Van Genderen is no Sihler’s email says two longer employed by the depart- employees, Tom Reilley and ment, effective immediately. Melissa Baker, will alternate The email’s author, FWP each month as acting division chief of staff Paul Sihler, writes administrator until the position Montana Briefs that the Van Genderen’s depar- is permanently filled. ture is a personnel issue and he Sihler writes that it is a diffi- Gold coin found in Montana Autopsy set for Oregon inmate will not comment on it. cult period for everybody FWP spokesman Ron involved, and asks staff to be Salvation Army kettle serving time in Montana prison Aasheim says he has no addi- sensitive and patient.

KALISPELL (AP) — A Salvation Army worker has found a gold BUTTE (AP) — Officials say an autopsy will be performed on a coin amid contributions collected in Montana. Montana State Prison inmate who died at a hospital in Missoula. Lottery Roundup Lt. Kabrina “KB” Hall found the American Buffalo gold coin The cause of 54-year-old Carey Edwards’ death has not yet been Friday while counting red kettle donations from the Harvest Foods determined. Prison spokeswoman Amy Barton wouldn’t say why The winning numbers for the collection site in Bigfork. Edwards was sent to St. Patrick Hospital, where he died Monday, Megaplier: X5 Hall said Kalispell is her first appointment with the Salvation other than it was for a medical emergency. Tuesday, Dec. 20, drawing are: Army and this is the first gold coin she has found. Edwards was an Oregon inmate who had been housed at the Mega Millions: Two gold coins turned up during the Salvation Army’s annual Montana prison since 2000 as an Interstate Compact Transfer. Estimated jackpot for next collection last year: a Double Eagle gold coin in Columbia Falls He was serving a life sentence after being convicted of murder 1 12 14 48 65 2 and a Standing Liberty gold piece in Bigfork. The combined total in Multnomah County, Oregon in 1989. drawing: $76 million of those coins was about $2,140. Hall said she is looking forward to selling the coin to bump up the Salvation Army’s collection total. Woman found frozen outside Helena home identified

HELENA (AP) — The Lewis and Clark County Coroner’s Office has identified a woman found frozen outside her Helena home last week. Barbara House, 62, had been found dead under snow on Dec. 14. Her cause of death has not yet been determined. Coroner Bryan Backeberg said an autopsy was conducted Monday and the results of a toxicology test are pending. Helena had received 5.8 inches of snow the day House’s body was discovered. No new invasive mussels found in Montana waters

KALISPELL (AP) — A preliminary report suggests that inva- sive mussels have not moved into Montana water bodies beyond the Missouri River Basin. Montana Mussel Incident rResponse Team spokeswoman Jeni Flatow said lab results from 372 samples show no new detections of aquatic invasive mussels in Montana lakes or rivers, including the Flathead basin. The preliminary results come after invasive mussels were found earlier this year in Tiber and Canyon Ferry reservoirs. Since those detections, the state has formed a task force to handle the situa- tion, including expediting water sample testing. Invasive mussels rapidly multiply and can damage beaches, clog boat motors and dams, harm fish and wildlife and cause cost- ly damage to infrastructure. For the Record Havre Police Department —— Officers assisted Rocky Boy Jeri Ann Virginia Salazar of Police after a caller from the Havre, 23, was arrested today at department requested a welfare 2:54 a.m. on a charge of disor- check on someone Tuesday at derly conduct after a caller 7:48 a.m. near Third Street and Third —— Avenue reported, earlier, at Kyle Tucker of Havre, 28, 12:38 a.m., that a fight was in was arrested on charges of non- progress. aggravated partner or family member assault and possession Hill County Sheriff’s Office of drug paraphernalia after an Sheriff’s dispatch log report- Eight Avenue caller reported ed no investigations or arrests. Tuesday at 8:52 a.m. that her ex was behaving violently. Havre Fire Department —— Emergency medical person- Officers investigated a motor nel responded to two calls vehicle crash after a caller near Tuesday. Sixth Avenue reported Tuesday —— at 3:45 p.m. that a blue vehicle Fire crews responded to a slid into her pickup truck. fire call Tuesday at 12:47 p.m. —— on the 600 Block of 31st Street Annaca Lee Nault of Box North, where an alarm had Elder, 28, was arrested on a malfunctioned and went off. Justice or City court warrant The alarm was replaced and no and a charge of driving without further action was necessaruy. a driver’s license during a motor vehicle stop near the Havre Animal Shelter Havre RV Park Tuesday at 5:01 The animal shelter held this p.m. morning a black and white feral —— cat, a black, a black feral cat, Officers investigated a theft four black feral kittens, a calico report after a First Street busi- cat, an orange male kitten, a ness caller made a report gray and white male kitten, a Tuesday at 6:20 p.m. A sum- tiger-striped male kitten, two mons was issued, but no further gray and white cats and a long- information was provided. haired, tiger-striped cat

To place an obituary please call 265-6795 Monday-Friday or email [email protected]. Havre PAGE A6 DAILY NEWS www.havredailynews.com SPORTS Wednesday, Dec 21, 2016 On a roll: Ponies trample Rustlers Chris Peterson Havre Daily News [email protected] The Havre High wrestling team is fresh off one of its big- gest tournament wins in years. But last night, against CMR, the Blue Ponies showed no signs of complacency, dominating the Rustlers 51-15 inside the HHS Gymnasium Tuesday night. Havre wasn’t perfect on the night, but in the end, the Ponies were pretty close, losing a total of just three matches, while tak- ing home nine victories, with one coming by forfeit. “We were tired,” HHS head coach Scott Filius said. “We have done a lot of wrestling and we had a long trip. But it was really nice to wrestle in our gym and nice not to have to travel. We know, living in Havre, that we have to travel a lot and we accept that, but it was nice to be home in front of our fans. They will follow us a long way, we had a lot of parents cheering us on in Coeur d’Alene but, it was nice they could watch us at home. We don’t get many at home.” CMR won the opening match of the night, but after that Ma- son Dionne got a pin at 152 pounds for Havre over J.C. Depping, then Dane Flammond pinned CMR’s Mike Ryan in 25 seconds and HHS led 12-6. Graydon Irish answered with the Rustlers second win by fall of the night, as he pinned Tay- lor Gopher of Havre, to tie the Havre Daily News/Colin Thompson dual at 12-12. But thanks to pins Above: Havre freshman Cameron Pleninger, top, holds down a CMR opponent during their 103-pound match Tuesday night at the HHS gymnasium. The Blue Ponies by Walter White (182) and Jase dominated the Class AA Rustlers 51-15. Below: HHS' Walter White, left, has CMR's Eric Adle in a move during Tuesday night's dual in Havre. The Blue Ponies host Stokes (205), the Ponies grabbed Lewistown Thursday. For more photos from the dual, go to www.havredailynews.com. a 24-12 advantage. K.C. Budlay did earn a hard-fought decision ing around.” tion. He didn’t wrestle Tuesday for the Rustlers in the heavy- After taking on the Rustlers because CMR did not have a 145- weight class, knocking off Jared inside the HHS gymnasium pounder. Sienkowski 4-1, but it would be Tuesday, Havre will turn around “CMR didn’t have anyone at CMR’s last victory of the night. and take on Lewistown Thursday 145 pounds,” coach Filius said. Cameron Pleninger notched The two Central A rivals rarely “So we didn’t see the point of a pin at 103 pounds for Havre, dual each other head-to-head, getting him weighed in.” followed by a victory by Ryan but Filius said the Eagles could Havre and Lewistown will Stewart that also came via pin provide a challenge, at least at a dual Thursday 4 p.m. in just 1:13. Marc Ramirez got few different weights. a win for HHS, via forfeit at 120 “Overall, I don’t think it will Havre 51, CMR 15 pounds, which pushed the lead be much of a challenge,” Filius to 42-15. said. “But they do have four or 103 - Cameron Pleninger, HAV pinned Jared Lane Paulson (126) won a 4-2 five kids that will make things Masters, CMR, 3:14; 113 - Ryan Stewart, HAV, decision over Carter Carroll and pinned Andrew Paradise, CMR, 1:22; 120 - hard on us. They have some Marc Ramirez, HAV, win by forfeit; 126 - Lane to close things out, Martin Wilkie good young kids and they have Pauslon, HAV, 4-2 dec. Carter Carroll, CMR; 132 got a victory at 132 pounds after an up-and-coming program. So - Martin Wilkie, HAV, pinned Zach Williamson, pinning CMR’s Zach Williamson it will be nice to have them come 1:19; Kai Stewart, CMR, pinned Connor Harris, in 1:19. here and it will be nice for us to HAV, 4:30; 152 - Mason Dionne, HAV, pinned “I was pleased with the effort wrestle in our gym again.” JC Depping, 2:00; 160 - Dane Flammond, HAV, throughout,” Filius said. “Tech- Coach Filius said his lineup pinned Mike Ryan, CMR, :25; 170 - Graydon Irish, CMR, pinned Taylor Gopher, HAV, 3:20; nically, the kids are starting to will be mostly the same, except 182 - Walter White, HAV, pinned Eric Adle, get better and they are start- he may substitute Quinn Reno at CMR, 1:31; 205- Jase Stokes, HAV, pinned ing to understand what we want 103 pounds for Pleninger. Parker Austin Cooper, CMR, 1:20. HWT - KC Buday, from them as coaches. It’s com- Filius should also be back in ac- CMR, 4-1 dec. Jared Sienkowksi, HAV. Ponies beat Malta for first win Merry Christmas from Chris Peterson Harvest Moon Lanes Havre Daily News [email protected] Julie Rodgers Guest Columnist After an 0-4 start, it was hard to know what to expect from The holidays are in full swing, the Havre High boys basketball shopping, wrapping, baking and team, on the road, in Malta. parties. Harvest Moon Lanes But against a team that de- had a pretty good turnout for feated the Blue Ponies twice the Saturday Jackpot Bowling. last season, Havre found a way Sad to say, none of the three pots to play its best game to date were won, but that only means this season and in the process, they will increase in value. upended the Mustangs 59-56 on Harvest Moon Lanes will be Jeff Lynnes 203,214 583, Don Jones 217-587. their home floor Tuesday night. closed Saturday and Sunday so High Series: Independence Bank, 2,749; 1st The Ponies, who have strug- employees can spend time with Place: Independence Bank. family and friends. The follow- gled to score so far this season, Women’s City: Rhonda Gregoire 180, Lisa had no such problems in Malta, ing Saturday is New Year’s Eve Overlie 171-446, Julie Rodgers 219-582, Kim jumping out to an 19-8 at the end Jackpot Bowling. The two pots Purkett 177, Lacy Farmer 174-455, Pam Con- of the first quarter. HHS contin- will be for $45, and the final pot aster 180-175-474, Maxine Munson 188-538. ued its hot start, added 15 points will be for $125, we will draw High Series: Independence Bank 2,352; 1st in the second quarter, to take a until some lucky bowler takes Place: Independence Bank. 34-23 lead over Malta at half- it home. So you still have time to reserve your spots. Bowling Men’s City: Dean Person 242, 209, 203- time. 654; Sean Willadsen 224, 224-610; Mike Havre maintained its lead in starts at 8 p.m. and we will end Kasper 222, Cody Thompson 258-600; Dustin the third quarter, thanks to an- at 11 p.m. Live music by Plowed Kinsella 233, Brett Preeshl 212, 216, 218-640, other 13-point showing, giving Under will be in the bar for you Paul Jensen 221, 215-609; Roman Surber 224, the Ponies a 10-point advantage, to enjoy, and all Jackpot bowlers 205, 249-699, Chuck Wimmer 222, 221, 214- 47-37, with eight minutes to play. will be given free cover charge 623, Ryan Mapes 213, 205-637, Shawn Mari- Early in the fourth, Malta had to enter. Free champagne will ani 258, 207-623, Jay Shulund 214, Chris Ow- be distributed at midnight. ens 210-602; High Series: Oxford Bar, 3,201; gotten within seven, but a key 1st Place: Nalivka’s. bucket by Jacob LaBrie and a Watch the ball drop with your 3-pointer by Isaac Warp pushed friends on the big scree TVs in Thursday Morning: Julie Rodgers 190, the lead to 54-45. the bar. 188-544, Ginger Zanto 162-469, Dianne Wat- From there, Malta went on a Harvest Moon Lanes wants son 165, Jackie Mayer 177, 177-473, Donna 9-0 run to get back within two everyone to enjoy their evening, Mangold 163, 185-480, Delonna Malone 187, 175-503, High Series: Frontier Lawn, 1,830; 1st points at 56-54, but two free but we would also like to remind Place: Havre Home & Hardware. throws by Nate Korb extended everyone to be safe and desig- the lead to four and Havre hung nate a driver. All designated Thursday Mixers: Women’s: Jeania 178- on for the 3-point victory. drivers will receiver free non- 424, Sarah Randolph 160-457; Men’s: Andy “We were more active on alcoholic drinks during their Owens 209, 191, 571, Doug Watson 203, Don- the defensive end,” HHS head stay. Also, ride free services ald Linderman 231-552; High Series: Watson coach Curt Leeds said. “And we are available throughout town Trucking; 1st Place: Watson Trucking. had some shots fall in the first to help make sure everyone is safe. Call 265-5885 to reserve couple of minutes and that gave K-Lines your spots. us some confidence on the of- in Rudyard fensive end.” High scores for the week After scoring fewer than 40 were, Julie Rodgers with a 219 points in their last two games, game and 582 series for the K-LINES HIGH TEAM SERIES: MCNAIR FUR- the offensive outburst was women. The men had a tie for NITURE, 2392; K-LINES HIGH TEAM SCORE: HEYDON DOORS, 864: K-LINES HIGH GAME: needed for Havre, which scored high game between Shawn Mar- PAUL MCCLENDON, 244, 620. at least 12 points in all four iani and Cody Thompson with 258. Roman Surber had the high quarters. Korb, who made two Havre Daily News/Colin Thompson K-LINES GAMES 200 AND OVER: BILL LAN- clutch free throws late, led the Havre's Nate Korb scored 17 points to help the Blue Ponies beat the Malta Mustangs in Malta series with 669. GEL, 206, CHRIS PAPPAS, 202, DAVID HER- way for the Ponies with 17. LaB- Tuesday night. Until next week, Harvest MAN, 210; PAUL MCCLENDON, 244; TODD rie added 14 in the game; Ivar Moon Lanes wishes everyone a LANGEL, 222. Aageson and Ryan Bakke each HHS is now 1-4 on the season gymnasium. Malta 8 15 14 19 - 56 happy holidays. K-LINES 3 GAME SERIES 500 AND OVER: had nine and Warp finished and will play one last game be- Sunday Mixed: Women’s: Michelle Denny PAUL MCCLENDON, 244, 620, TODD LANGEL, with six. Havre connected on fore the holiday break. The Po- Havre 59, Malta 56 Havre - Jacob LaBrie 14, Nate Korb 17, 172-455, Alicia Burrington 156-432, Alita New- 222, 565; BILL LANGEL, 206, 559; CHRIS PAP- six 3-pointers, with three com- nies will host CMR Great Falls Isaac Warp 6, Ryan Bakke 9, Ivar Aageson ton 154-163-420, Janet Robinson 167-427; PAS, 202, 552; DAN REDDING, 171, 513; DAR- ing from LaBrie. High tonight at 7 inside the HHS Havre 19 15 13 12 - 59 9, Michael Loftus 2, Jake Sedahl 2. Men’s: Barry Cowdery 207, Ryne Antley 221, REN STEVENSON, 188, 500.

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Hi-Line Athlete Profile Resilient Shambo helping HLP soar Chris Peterson The first goal for Shambo is win- Havre Daily News ning the district. Beyond that, he has many other achievements in mind. [email protected] But he and the T-Birds will have to Tyson Shambo has already had navigate the 9C first, a schedule a memorable career in athletics at that continues with games this week Hays-Lodge Pole. On both the football against North Star and Big Sandy. field and the basketball court, Shambo But before taking part in the final is one of the better Thunderbird ath- two games for HLP before the holiday letes in recent memory. break, the Havre Daily News caught On the basketball floor, Shambo has up with Shambo for five questions. been a floor general for the T-Birds since 2014 and has been a big part of the roundball revival for HLP, which HDN: What’s it been like having your has made back-to-back appearances dad as the head coach for Hays-Lodge at the Northern C Divisional. Pole? During that run, Shambo has been instrumental. As a sophomore, he Shambo: “It’s been really great. He proved to be one of the best up-and- has pretty much been coaching me coming players in the District 9C and my entire life. He has taught me pret- eventually earned All-State honors ty much everything I know about bas- after scoring more than 15 points per ketball and he was always our coach game. growing up, so it’s been a great ex- Shambo and the T-Birds were even perience for me, but really the whole better in the postseason that year, get- team really likes him because he has ting all the way to the district cham- always been our coach and always pionship game, before falling to Box taken us to tournaments in the sum- Elder. HLP also made the semifinals mer and things like that.” at divisionals before bowing out to eventual champion Belt. HDN: Tell me about you and Frank. Then, before the start of his junior You guys obviously have played to- season, Shambo suffered an accident gether a long time, what has that while hunting. He fell and a piece been like? of glass pierced his arm and caused damage to some nerves. The injury Shambo: “I have been playing with cost him a chance to play football Frank my whole life. We hang out a and it could have cost him his junior lot and we play on the court a lot. season of basketball, but Shambo was It has really been great. It’s special determined not to let it. when you play with someone for so “I just always tried to stay positive,” long. The game just becomes fun. We Shambo said. “I tried to never get also know how to take constructive down. I watched a lot of motivational criticism from each other.” videos and watched a lot of profes- sional athletes that came back from HDN: What is going to be the key for injury. I remembered Paul Pierce you guys to achieve your goals this coming back from a broken leg, so I season? thought if they can do it, I can too.” And return Shambo did. And while Shambo: “I think we just need to keep it took him some time to find his game, up the team work and keep working he eventually helped lead the T-Birds together. We just have to keep doing back to divisionals, only to fall short what we are doing. This year just again of the state tournament, even seems different. We just have to keep though they won two games. For his playing, that’s the main thing, that part, Shambo earned First-Team All- and having fun. That’s what we are 9C honors, proving ultimately that the doing right now, just playing and hav- injury didn’t affect him. ing fun.” While Shambo is a star on the hardwood, he’s good on the gridiron, HDN: What is an individual goal you too, and he showed that this past fall, want to achieve this season? when, as quarterback for the T-Birds, he helped guide them to two victories, Shambo: “I am really hoping to earn the first for the program since 2011. In a basketball scholarship. I know those fact, with a win over Chinook in the are really hard to get and not many season-finale, the T-Birds wound up people get them, but that is what I want winning multiple games for the first to do. I want to be a role model for the time in a long time, kids around here and even though we Now, it's basketball season and are already, I want to show them what with the combination of Shambo you can do with hard work.” and Frank Runs Above for the third straight year, the T-Birds mean busi- HDN: With is being so close to Christ- ness. Under the direction of Derek mas, if you could have any Christmas Shambo, Tyson’s father, HLP is 2-1 on present, what would it be? the season, losing only to Arlee in a Havre Daily News/Colin Thompson competitive game. In their most re- Shambo: “If I could have anything, I Hays-Lodge Pole's Tyson Shambo, left, shoots over a Harlem defender during the 2016 Native American Classic cent outing, the T-Birds beat Chinook, would probably say a big house, with earlier this month in Havre. Shambo, a Class C All-State guard, has helped bring back HLP basketball to promi- another 9C contender by 34, which a basketball court and a lot of money. nence, and he's getting to experience the game not only playing with his best friends but also being coached and shows what they are capable of when And I would just play ball all day and mentored by his dad. firing on all cylinders. teach kids how to play ball.” Sports Record National Football League San Francisco 1 13 0 .071 264 434 Brooklyn 7 20 .259 12½ Memphis at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. WESTERN CONFERENCE College The Associated Press Philadelphia 7 21 .250 13 Minnesota at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. x-clinched playoff spot Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Central Division The Top Twenty Five AMERICAN CONFERENCE y-clinched division Southeast Division Washington at Chicago, 8 p.m. GP W L OT Pts GF GA The Associated Press W L Pct GB Houston at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Chicago 35 22 9 4 48 101 84 East Thursday's Games Charlotte 16 13 .552 — Sacramento at Utah, 9 p.m. Minnesota 31 19 8 4 42 91 60 Record Pts Prv W L T Pct PF PA N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 8:25 p.m. Atlanta 14 14 .500 1½ Dallas at Portland, 10 p.m. St. Louis 34 18 11 5 41 96 98 1. Villanova (56) 11-0 1614 1 y-New England 12 2 0 .857 365 233 Washington 12 15 .444 3 Nashville 32 15 12 5 35 94 90 2. UCLA (3) 12-0 1514 2 Miami 9 5 0 .643 315 314 Saturday's Games Orlando 13 17 .433 3½ Thursday's Games Dallas 34 13 14 7 33 86 104 3. Kansas 10-1 1450 3 Buffalo 7 7 0 .500 358 314 Atlanta at Carolina, 1 p.m. Miami 9 20 .310 7 Boston at Indiana, 7 p.m. Winnipeg 35 15 17 3 33 91 104 4. Baylor (6) 11-0 1439 4 N.Y. Jets 4 10 0 .286 242 358 Washington at Chicago, 1 p.m. Golden State at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Colorado 31 11 19 1 23 65 99 5. Duke 10-1 1385 5 N.Y. Jets at New England, 1 p.m. Central Division Orlando at New York, 7:30 p.m. 6. Kentucky 10-1 1337 6 South San Diego at Cleveland, 1 p.m. W L Pct GB L.A. Lakers at Miami, 8 p.m. Pacific Division 7. Gonzaga 11-0 1211 8 W L T Pct PF PA Miami at Buffalo, 1 p.m. Cleveland 20 6 .769 — San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. GP W L OT Pts GF GA 8. North Carolina 10-2 1170 7 Houston 8 6 0 .571 250 294 Tennessee at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. Chicago 14 13 .519 6½ San Jose 33 20 12 1 41 84 73 9. Creighton 11-0 1058 10 Tennessee 8 6 0 .571 340 323 Minnesota at Green Bay, 1 p.m. Milwaukee 13 13 .500 7 Friday's Games Anaheim 34 17 12 5 39 95 97 10. Louisville 10-1 1044 11 Indianapolis 7 7 0 .500 362 339 Indianapolis at Oakland, 4:05 p.m. Indiana 15 15 .500 7 Chicago at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Edmonton 34 17 12 5 39 100 92 11. West Virginia 9-1 937 12 Jacksonville 2 12 0 .143 260 359 Arizona at Seattle, 4:25 p.m. Detroit 14 16 .467 8 L.A. Lakers at Orlando, 7 p.m. Calgary 35 17 16 2 36 90 102 12. Virginia 9-1 886 13 Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m. Brooklyn at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m. Los Angeles32 16 13 3 35 81 81 13. Butler 10-1 821 18 North San Francisco at Los Angeles, 4:25 p.m. WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Vancouver 33 14 16 3 31 84 101 14. Wisconsin 10-2 781 14 W L T Pct PF PA Cincinnati at Houston, 8:25 p.m. Oklahoma City at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Arizona 32 11 16 5 27 72 101 15. Purdue 9-2 754 15 Pittsburgh 9 5 0 .643 341 276 Southwest Division Houton at Memphis, 8 p.m. 16. Indiana 8-2 719 9 Baltimore 8 6 0 .571 306 263 Sunday's Games W L Pct GB Miami at New Orleans, 8 p.m. NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for over- 17. Xavier 9-2 542 17 Cincinnati 5 8 1 .393 288 293 Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 4:30 p.m. San Antonio 23 5 .821 — Sacramento at Minnesota, 8 p.m. time loss. 18. Arizona 10-2 501 19 Cleveland 0 14 0 .000 220 408 Denver at Kansas City, 8:30 p.m. Houston 21 8 .724 2½ Washington at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. 19. Saint Mary's (Cal) 8-1 389 20 Memphis 18 12 .600 6 Atlanta at Denver, 9 p.m. Tuesday's Games 20. Oregon 10-2 299 22 West Monday's Games New Orleans 10 20 .333 14 Philadelphia at Phoenix, 9 p.m. N.Y. Islanders 4, Boston 2 21. Florida St. 11-1 290 23 W L T Pct PF PA Detroit at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Dallas 7 21 .250 16 Toronto at Utah, 9 p.m. Nashville 5, New Jersey 1 22. South Carolina 9-1 218 16 x-Oakland 11 3 0 .786 377 336 San Antonio at Portland, 10 p.m. Columbus 3, Los Angeles 2, SO 23. Southern Cal 10-0 212 24 Kansas City 10 4 0 .714 319 274 Sunday, Jan. 1 Northwest Division Dallas at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. Pittsburgh 7, N.Y. Rangers 2 24. Cincinnati 9-2 202 25 Denver 8 6 0 .571 299 258 New England at Miami, 1 p.m. W L Pct GB Florida 4, Buffalo 3, SO 25. Notre Dame 9-2 188 21 San Diego 5 9 0 .357 366 366 Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. Utah 18 11 .621 — Montreal 5, Anaheim 1 Green Bay at Detroit, 1 p.m. Oklahoma City 16 12 .571 1½ NHL Tampa Bay 4, Detroit 1 Others receiving votes: Florida 48, Virginia NATIONAL CONFERENCE Carolina at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. Portland 13 17 .433 5½ Minnesota 2, Colorado 0 Tech 40, Maryland 27, Seton Hall 15, Oklaho- Dallas at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. Denver 12 17 .414 6 National Hockey League Ottawa 4, Chicago 3 ma St. 8, Valparaiso 7, Minnesota 6, Miami 5, East Houston at Tennessee, 1 p.m. Minnesota 8 19 .296 9 The Associated Press St. Louis 3, Dallas 2, OT Northwestern 4, Clemson 1, Iowa St. 1, Kansas W L T Pct PF PA Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. Vancouver 4, Winnipeg 1 St 1, Loyola of Chicago 1. x-Dallas 12 2 0 .857 366 258 Chicago at Minnesota, 1 p.m. Pacific Division San Jose 4, Calgary 1 N.Y. Giants 10 4 0 .714 272 250 Baltimore at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. W L Pct GB EASTERN CONFERENCE NCAA FCS Playoff Glance Washington 7 6 1 .536 345 343 Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. Golden State 25 4 .862 — Wednesday's Games The Associated Press Philadelphia 5 9 0 .357 316 299 New Orleans at Atlanta, 1 p.m. L.A. Clippers 21 8 .724 4 Atlantic Division Washington at Philadelphia, 8 p.m. N.Y. Giants at Washington, 1 p.m. Sacramento 11 17 .393 13½ GP W L OT Pts GF GA Edmonton at Arizona, 9:30 p.m. Semifinals South Seattle at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m. L.A. Lakers 11 20 .355 15 Montreal 32 21 7 4 46 101 70 W L T Pct PF PA Kansas City at San Diego, 4:25 p.m. Phoenix 8 20 .286 16½ Ottawa 33 19 11 3 41 86 88 Thursday's Games Friday, Dec. 16 Atlanta 9 5 0 .643 469 358 Arizona at Los Angeles, 4:25 p.m. Boston 34 17 14 3 37 80 83 Pittsburgh at Columbus, 7 p.m. James Madison 27, North Dakota State 17 Tampa Bay 8 6 0 .571 313 322 Oakland at Denver, 4:25 p.m. Tampa Bay 33 16 14 3 35 95 92 Carolina at Buffalo, 7 p.m. New Orleans 6 8 0 .429 406 392 Tuesday's Games Florida 33 15 13 5 35 81 90 Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7 p.m. Buffalo 31 12 11 8 32 69 83 Saturday, Dec. 17 Carolina 6 8 0 .429 337 352 Charlotte 117, L.A. Lakers 113 Anaheim at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. NBA Detroit 33 14 15 4 32 79 93 Youngstown State 40, Eastern Washington 38 New Orleans 108, Philadelphia 93 Boston at Florida, 7:30 p.m. North New York 118, Indiana 111 Toronto 31 12 12 7 31 87 94 Minnesota at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. National Basketball Association Championship W L T Pct PF PA Orlando 136, Miami 130, 2OT St. Louis at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m. The Associated Press Metropolitan Division Saturday, Jan. 7 Detroit 9 5 0 .643 301 285 Toronto 116, Brooklyn 104 Los Angeles at Nashville, 8 p.m. GP W L OT Pts GF GA At Toyota Stadium Green Bay 8 6 0 .571 363 339 Boston 112, Memphis 109, OT Toronto at Colorado, 9 p.m. Pittsburgh 33 21 7 5 47 116 92 Frisco, Texas Minnesota 7 7 0 .500 264 259 Cleveland 114, Milwaukee 108, OT Winnipeg at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Chicago 3 11 0 .214 248 320 EASTERN CONFERENCE San Antonio 102, Houston 100 N.Y. Rangers 35 23 11 1 47 115 82 Columbus 30 21 5 4 46 101 63 James Madison (13-1) vs. Youngstown State Golden State 104, Utah 74 Friday's Games Atlantic Division Philadelphia 34 19 11 4 42 107 102 (12-3), Noon. West L.A. Clippers 119, Denver 102 Minnesota at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m. W L T Pct PF PA W L Pct GB Sacramento 126, Portland 121 Washington 30 19 8 3 41 81 66 Tampa Bay at Washington, 7 p.m. y-Seattle 9 4 1 .679 298 235 Toronto 20 8 .714 — Carolina 31 13 11 7 33 82 87 Montreal at Columbus, 7 p.m. NFL Arizona 5 8 1 .393 340 325 Boston 16 12 .571 4 Wednesday's Games New Jersey 32 12 13 7 31 75 98 Buffalo at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. Los Angeles 4 10 0 .286 197 328 New York 15 13 .536 5 Milwaukee at Cleveland, 7 p.m. N.Y. Islanders32 12 14 6 30 85 101 New Jersey at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Sports Line — Got a sports tip or upcoming event? Call Sports Editor George Ferguson at 265-6795, ext. 19, FAX 265-6798, or email [email protected] Havre A8 Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016 DAILY NEWS www.havredailynews.com North Carolina lawmakers meeting to consider HB2 repeal GARY D. ROBERTSON parties interviewed Tuesday said Chuck Liddy/The News & Observer JONATHAN DREW they anticipated a simple mea- via AP, File Associated Press sure they would support to repeal Protesters head into the RALEIGH, N.C. — North the entire bill. Legislative building April 25 Carolina’s legislature is recon- “My hope for the session is for a sit-in against House Bill 2 vening to see if enough lawmak- that we have a one-day session in Raleigh, N.C. North ers are willing to repeal a with one bill and we go home,” Carolina legislators will repeal 9-month-old law that limited GOP Rep. Chuck McGrady of the contentious HB2 law that LGBT rights, including which Hendersonville said. But limited protections for LGBT bathrooms transgender people McGrady said any lawmaker people and led to an economic can use in public schools and could offer amendments to retain backlash, the state's Gov.-elect government buildings. parts of the law, which could Roy Cooper said today. House and Senate members complicate matters. planned to meet in the capital Some conservative lawmakers the Charlotte ordinance, are now today for a special session two — urged on by conservative on board if the result is the end days after the Charlotte City Christians groups that supported of HB2. Council gutted an ordinance that HB2 — are likely to want to keep “Full and complete repeal of in March led the Republican- the law in place. HB2 is the only acceptable out- controlled General Assembly to “I’m not interested in repeal- come,” Stephen Peters of Human pass House Bill 2, known by some ing anything,” GOP Rep. Jeff Rights Campaign said Tuesday as the “bathroom bill.” Collins of Rocky Mount told The in an email. For months, the state’s Wilson Times. “I think we did the ___ Republican leaders had said they right thing the first time.” Follow Robertson at www.twit- were willing to consider repeal- The Charlotte measure ter.com/garydrobertson and Drew ing the law if Charlotte acted approved Monday notes that it at www.twitter.com/jonldrew. first to undo its expanded antidis- won’t take effect unless HB2 is crimination ordinance. But the repealed in its entirety by Dec. mayor and most council mem- 31. And some sections of the bers, with the support of gay city’s expanded nondiscrimina- rights groups, had been unwilling tion ordinance for LGBT people to do so in the name of equality. approved earlier this year that The Democrat-controlled weren’t invalidated by HB2 were council didn’t act until Monday, left intact. Both details could give two weeks after GOP Gov. Pat some lawmakers justification not McCrory conceded the guberna- to repeal the state law today. torial race to Democrat Roy But repealing the bill would Cooper. require only a handful of GOP During the race, Cooper blast- support — perhaps 10 members ed McCrory over the law he in the Senate or 15 in the House signed and its fallout — job loss- — if all Democrats voted for it. es, canceled concerts and sport- The session that McCrory called ing events — contributed to is scheduled several days before McCrory’s narrow defeat. Cooper, Christmas, with some legislators the attorney general for the past out of town. 16 years, helped broker HB2 is best known for requir- Charlotte’s cooperation in the ing transgender people to use deal and said during the cam- restrooms corresponding to the paign he wanted HB2 repealed. sex on their birth certificate Although House Speaker Tim rather than their gender identity. Moore and Senate leader Phil It also limits statewide protec- Berger said earlier this week tions for lesbian, gay, bisexual that they “would take up the and transgender people in public repeal of HB2” in a special ses- accommodations and employ- sion, uncertainty over exactly ment, and it reinforced a prohibi- what lawmakers will do remains. tion on local governments from The legislature has shown a will- raising minimum wage. Local ingness to go its own way, despite governments are also prevented intense outside pressure to scrap from enacting nondiscrimination the law. measures that would go further Over the past year, there has than state law. been bitter fighting between Discussions about repealing Democrats and Republicans. Just the law increased after decisions last week, Republican leaders by the NCAA and Atlantic Coast convened a surprise legislative Conference to move their cham- session and passed two laws pionship events out of North designed to bring Cooper’s pow- Carolina this academic year. The ers in check when he becomes NBA also moved an All-Star governor Jan. 1. Game out of Charlotte. Cooper expects a full repeal LGBT groups, which had of HB2, his spokeswoman said. fought any deal with legislators A few lawmakers from both earlier this year to do away with

What North Carolina’s wide-ranging ‘bathroom bill’ covers By The Associated Press tections based on sexual orienta- RALEIGH, N.C. — North tion and gender orientation to Carolina lawmakers will hold a state workers who work for the special session today to consider state’s executive branch. the repeal of a law passed earli- The law also forbids cities er this year that limits protec- and counties throughout North tions for LGBT people. Carolina from imposing any The law has been widely additional requirements on opposed by numerous business- employers. A handful of local es, organizations and individu- governments had made veterans als. Gov. Pat McCrory’s defense a protected class, and this is no of the bill was a contributing longer allowed. factor in his narrow loss to BATHROOM USE Democrat Roy Cooper, who will Essentially, government take office in January and agencies of all kinds must direct announced Monday that he had men and boys to multi-stall rest- a deal with legislators to get rid rooms and locker rooms desig- of the law. nated for use by people born as Repeal of the law could also male, and keep women and girls end legal challenges by the fed- in those designated for the eral Justice Department and female biological sex. transgender residents. This applies to public schools, Passage of the state law was state university and community a reaction to the city of Charlotte college systems, state agencies passing a broad nondiscrimina- and local government offices. tion ordinance the state GOP Single-occupancy bathrooms opposed. On Monday, the city or changing facilities are still voted to undo its ordinance — allowed “upon a request due to provided the legislature repeal special circumstances” to a local HB2 by the end of the year. school board or by a person to a One part of the original law public agency. The decision on has already been done away accommodating the request with. HB2 initially prohibited appears to rest with the school employees of private businesses board or the agency. from filing lawsuits in state There are exceptions, such as courts alleging workplace dis- when preschoolers enter a rest- crimination but the legislature room with their mother or amended the law to reinstate father, or when a person with a that right. disability needs assistance. Here are the three main sec- Transgender people who have tions of the law: obtained a new birth certificate PUBLIC ACCOMODATIONS after a sex-change operation can The law blocked a range of enter the multi-occupancy bath- protections from taking effect in room that matches their new the state’s largest city. gender. Charlotte’s ordinance would But just how individuals have covered gays and lesbians should apply and enforce the as well as bisexual and transgen- new rules is unaddressed in the der people when they try to law. check into hotels, eat in restau- WORKPLACE RULES rants or hail cabs; it also added The law also reaffirmed that marital status, sexual orienta- local governments can’t require tion, gender identity and gender area businesses to pay a mini- expression to the city’s list of mum wage higher than North protected characteristics in pub- Carolina’s statewide minimum, lic accommodations and com- currently set at $7.25 an hour. mercial businesses. Cities and counties also can’t The state law instead created enforce ordinances setting their a new statewide public accom- own minimum standards for modations policy that prohibits businesses for paid sick leave or discrimination based on race, other employee benefits, and religion, color, national origin or can’t require government con- biological sex. But the law tractors to meet public accom- includes no specific LGBT pro- modations standards above those tections, essentially preventing set in state law. local governments from in the Cities and counties can con- future approving ordinances tinue to set higher wage and similar to what Charlotte benefit minimums for their own approved. workers, or for company work- Weeks after the law’s pas- ers when required as part of an sage, McCrory did issue an exec- economic recruitment and incen- utive order that expanded pro- tives agreement. Havre PAGE B1 DAILY NEWS www.havredailynews.com FARM & RANCH Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016 MSU to host barley and sugarbeet symposium Jan. 10-11 Seedstock producers From MSU News Service Andrew Kniss, associate pro- BOZEMAN — Montana fessor of plant sciences at the give back to Montana State University, in conjunc- University of Wyoming. tion with the University of Rebecca Larsen of Western Wyoming, will host a malt bar- Sugar and the Women of FFA members ley and sugarbeet symposium Biotech, who serve to promote Press release for the 2017 year. Ninety-five BOZEMAN — Bull produc- percent of all funds generated Jan. 10-11 at the Big Horn the agricultural industry from ers across the state are taking through this program go direct- Resort in Billings. the point of view of farmers, part in a new program to sup- ly back to our members in the The first day of the event will speak, as well. port Montana FFA members in form of grants, with a 5 percent Pesticide applicator credits will focus on barley produc- their beef production projects. operating stipend for adminis- tion, precision agriculture will be available. Symposium The new program with the tration needs. techniques, reducing tilling registration and a full agenda Montana FFA Foundation has Producers that have sup- practices and farming busi- is available online at msuex- been very successful thanks to ported the program include: ness issues. The keynote tension.org/pspp. the generous support of these Bobcat Angus, Bulls of the speaker will be Wade Malchow, Pre-registration is $20 per producers. Bitterroot, DeBruycker sourcing manager for barley, day or $40 for both The Bulls for Blue: Genetics Charolais, Diamond D Angus, malt and elevator operations days. On-site registration is for Success program is Felton Angus, G a t e w a y with MillerCoors. The second $25 per day. A special hotel designed to support FFA mem- Simmental, Hyline Angus day will focus on sugarbeet rate of $89 is available before bers with beef production proj- Ranch, Indreland Angus, production, with Luther Dec. 26. ects. Montana seedstock pro- Klompein Red Angus, Mytty Markwart, executive vice pres- For more information, con- ducers can contribute by donat- Angus, Prickly Pear Simmental, ident of the American tact Jessica Rupp, MSU assis- ing 10 percent of lot 10 to the Sitz Angus, Stevenson Angus, Sugarbeet Growers tant professor of plant scienc- Montana FFA Foundation. The Stevenson Basin Angus, Association, as the keynote es and plant patholo- program was started in 2015 Stevenson’s Diamond Dot, and provides start-up funds for Sutherlin Farms, Shipwheel speaker. gy and Extension plant pathol- students in the beef industry. Cattle Company and Vermillion Additional speakers include ogist specialist, at jessica. Students can use these funds to Ranch. Juliet Marshall with the Idaho [email protected] or 406-994- purchase cows, secure leased This year, the Montana FFA Falls Research and Extension 5572. ground for grazing, and other Foundation hopes to support Center; Mark Boetel, North MSU photo/Jessica Rupp costs associated with their proj- even more projects across the Dakota State University Montana State University, in ect. state by including programs for Research and Extension ento- conjunction with the University For the 2016 year, Bulls for heifer and steer donations as mologist; Don Morishita, of Wyoming, will host a malt Blue provided $8,000 in grants well. For more information on superintendent of Kimberly barley and sugarbeet sym- to support Montana FFA mem- how to get involved, visit the and Twin Falls Research and posium Jan. 10-11 at the Big bers in their endeavors, and we website, montanaffa.org, or call Extension Centers; and Horn Resort in Billings. hope to increase this number the office at 406-582-4118. Two Creek Monture Ranch honored with Environmental Stewardship Award

Wayne was raised on the its challenges in the modern Ovando neighboring Monture Ranch, world,” Ron Pierce, Montana Conservation by the numbers at Two Creek Monture Ranch where his father worked and Fish, Wildlife and Parks fish- • Improved management returning the final missing spe- in more than 50 years. Installed ranchers work to managed for most of his eries biologist wrote in his let- on more than 15 riparian miles cies Merriweather Lewis noted the valley’s first grizzly bear ranching career, too. Wayne ter of recommendation. “With on four different creeks on the in the Blackfoot Valley 200 resistant fencing, leading other make ‘the best, had been managing the these challenges in mind, the ranch, each which support years ago. Ranch owners Ralph ranchers to do the same. Monture Ranch for more than Two Creek Ranch has been a valuable fisheries and water and Toone Burchenal made the • Five years after their first better’ through 15 years when the Burchenals progressive leader with the sources for livestock and wild- initial financial donation to the calf was killed in 1998, Montana purchased and added it to the ranching/conservation com- life. Trumpeter Swan Restoration Fish, Wildlife and Parks docu- collaborative Two Creek Ranch, where munity of the Blackfoot • Entered more than 5,000 Project, and the ranch ushered mented 77 agriculturally-relat- Wayne, son Ben and brother- Valley.” acres of valuable grasslands, the first breeding pair onto a ed grizzly bear/human con- conservation in-law Ken Kovatch now man- That leadership extends wetlands, riparian and timber- restored wetland. Today, more flicts in the valley. Over the age and work together on pri- beyond the ranching commu- land in to conservation ease- than 10 pairs of Trumpeter past 10 years, thanks to man- efforts vate, state and federal land. nity, too. Wayne’s been a 4-H ments to permanently steward Swans are established in the agement efforts and best prac- “It’s so important to prove leader for nearly 40 years, those lands through the gener- Blackfoot Valley. tices by ranches like the Two From Montana Stockgrowers — especially to the Fish and served on local school boards, ations. • Developed riparian graz- Creek Monture Ranch and col- Association Wildlife guys — that cattle are the volunteer fire department, • Restored previously ing plans and cooperative laboration with cooperating The Two Creek Monture degraded instream habitat on agreements to bring Federally agencies, conflicts have aver- a useful tool for the land,” coached grade school basket- Ranch, of Ovando has been more than 2 miles of streams Threatened bull trout spawning aged around 12 per year, while Wayne said. “They do co-exist ball and more, while frequent- recognized as the 2017 on the ranch, while maintain- sites on Monture Creek from a the grizzly population has been with wildlife, which is quite ly hosting local, state, national Montana Environmental ing ranch water use and low of eight redds in 1989 to a increasing by 3 percent each proven on this ranch.” and international tour groups Stewardship Award winners. increasing production and irri- high of 92 redds, averaging 50 year. They’ve been able to grow Ranch managers Wayne on the ranch to share conser- gation efficiencies. redds annually over the course • Improved the forage the cattle herd over the years and Karalee Slaght and family vation efforts and ideas. • Restored six drained wet- of the past 30 years. capacity of one pasture by four by not only making their deed- accepted the award Dec. 9 at “They’re not only a voice of lands totaling more than 100 • Site of the first grizzly times in one year with an ed land more productive, but the Montana Stockgrowers reason, they’re a practice of surface acres on the ranch. bear depredation on a calf doc- aggressive noxious weed con- by fostering relationships that Association Annual Convention reason that’s really, really • Played a critical role in uments in the Blackfoot Valley trol program. have led to new and continued and trade show in Billings. good for our industry,” neigh- leased grazing opportunities The Two Creek Monture boring rancher David Mannix on neighboring state and fed- Ranch will now represent said. “Wayne’s an early adapt- eral lands. They work to er. He has the courage to Montana at the Region IV improve owned and leased Environmental Stewardship implement some of these land alike with strategic rota- things, and then he also has Award competition in Denver tional grazing, water develop- this spring. courage to share failures or ment and riparian restoration challenges so the next neigh- Like the old 4-H motto, the projects. ranch team is focused on bor can do it a little better “We realized we needed to and the third guy can do it a “making the best better.” work with all these federal “That, to me, is that it little bit better still.” and state agencies — we have Like his father and ranch- means to be a good steward,” to be on the same page,” Karalee said. “It’s keeping up ing mentors before him, Wayne said. “We’re here to Wayne’s focus on making the with new ideas for improving partner with those folks to all of these things.” “best, better,” is geared toward help manage the entire land- leaving the land and leader- The Slaghts manage about scape. It we weren’t here and 21,000 acres — half deeded and ship of the industry in better they were subdividing us and shape with the next genera- half leased — for owners turning this into houses, we’ve Ralph and Toone Burchenal tion. Ben came back to the all realized we’d all be in trou- ranch full-time in 2008 after on the southern edge of the ble.” complex and greatly celebrat- earning a business degree Managing a landscape full from the University of ed Crown of the Continent eco- of endangered or threatened system in western Montana. Montana Western. species — including grizzly “I’d love to stay here and It’s arguably one of the last bears, wolves and bull trout — “best” places in the lower 48, keep working to improve the plus abundant elk, deer, ranch every day,” Ben said. yet the Burchenals and Sandhill cranes, turkeys and “We’ve just got to keep doing Slaghts continue to work to trumpeter swans, requires our homework and looking make it even better for future planning, innovation and a lot around us to see what’s chang- generations with decades of of collaboration in order to ing, what’s next. We’re always conservation and stewardship stay in business and balance a learning. We’re constantly behind them and still ahead. healthy ecosystem. learning more about trees, Greg Neudecker with the “Those species are all indi- about grass, about water — Montana Partners for Fish cators — grizzly bears are learning to increase what we and Wildlife Program has large landscape indicators, can do with those resources. worked with the Slaght family bull trout are clean water indi- You’re constantly learning, for more than 25 years and cators, trumpeter swans are constantly changing and keep- recommended the ranch for healthy wetland indicators. So ing an open mind to the fact the award. those are all indicators of how that we don’t know everything “Right now, we have all the well a landscape has been — you can always learn more critters that were here 200 managed,” Neudecker said. from somebody else.” years ago when Merriweather “One of the things that wild- Lewis came through here. So life is completely compatible from a working lands perspec- with is ranching. If we don’t tive, we don’t have anything have ranching and livestock else like that in the lower 48 and private landowners to states and very few places in maintain these open land- the world — so it’s a very, scapes, we don’t have places very special place,” Neudecker for these wild critters to roam, said. “It has old growth for- either.” ests, incredible aspen stands, The ranch played a key role riparian areas, native bunch in the rehabilitation of bull grass prairies, glaciated pot- trout redds — spawning sites hole wetlands — it’s got every- — on Monture Creek over the thing, and that’s due in large past 30 years, and continue to part to their stewardship.” seek new ways to develop Of course, the ranch team’s water that will enhance their main focus is the cattle. About grazing rotation and conserve 900 make their home on the riparian areas and in-stream commercial cow-calf ranch, flow for fisheries. and they not only co-exist, but “Obviously, balancing the play an important part in needs of fish and wildlife with improving the landscape. the agricultural operation has Havre B2 Wednesday Dec. 21, 2016 DAILY NEWS www.havredailynews.com ANNIE’S MAILBOX ASK DR. K ASTROGRAPH CROSSWORD PUZZLE 5777 W. Century Blvd. Go to his website to send questions and get Want more puzzles? Check out the "Just Right Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045 additional information: www.AskDoctorK.com. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) Crossword Puzzles" books at QuillDriverBooks.com -- A physical improvement will add to your appeal. Preparing for the Dear Annie: I have a brainteaser for you. YEARLY MAMMOGRAMS AREN'T festive season and doing something My husband and I have been married for NECESSARY FOR ALL WOMEN nice for someone special will have nearly 11 years. He was divorced from his OVER 40 an impact on your personal and first wife about 15 years ago; they had no Dear Doctor: Do I really need a yearly professional lives. mammogram? CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) children. His family has welcomed me with Dear Reader: This might be hard to ac- open arms. -- Stay within your budget. Spending cept, but if you're woman at low to average too much will be stressful when the However, his ex-wife continues to stay in risk of breast cancer, you probably don't bills arrive. Put more emphasis on touch with family members. They even visit need a yearly mammogram. That's not to being sincere and offering solutions her and host her at their homes. Never has say we shouldn't give mammograms their due. instead of paying for others. she been invited to family gatherings, and Mammograms can reduce deaths from AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) no one talks about her in front of me, but I breast cancer, and they're an important rea- -- You must make a change to a still find out about it. My husband has made son why breast cancer death rates have de- pending settlement, investment or clear to these family members that this is creased over the last 40 years in this coun- medical issue that needs attention. awkward and not healthy for the ex-wife, try. Studies have found a decreased death Looking forward and preparing for but they persist. rate from breast cancer among women who the future will contribute to your I have two concerns. One, it feels as if have had mammograms compared to those success. Romance is highlighted. who didn't. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- someone is lurking in the shadows, and two, Now let's look at just how much benefit. it seems odd that she has not moved on Discussions will help you get a bet- The public health advocacy group the U.S. ter view of a situation that could end after so many years. I gave up connection to Preventive Services Task Force calculated that, if 10,000 women between the ages of badly if too much time or money some lovely people when my ex-boyfriend will be required. Stick to what is and I split up, because it felt like the right 39 and 49 had regular mammograms for 10 years, it would prevent three breast cancer doable. thing to do for both of us. What's your take deaths. For the same number of women ARIES (March 21-April 19) on this situation? -- Scratching My Head in between the ages of 50 and 59, there would -- Your emotions will be difficult to NH be eight fewer breast cancer deaths. And control. Don't let the past bring you Dear Scratching: It's bizarre that she's for women between 60 and 69, there would down or allow what someone says to still hovering around, 15 years later. By now, be 21 fewer breast cancer deaths over that cause you grief. Remember the good she ought to have buzzed off and found her 10-year time period. things and make thoughtfulness, In short, the overall death rates were own hive. When you say goodbye to a love and peace your mission. not significantly different between those TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- partner, you say goodbye to his family, too. women who had mammograms and those (If there were children involved, it would be who didn't. This has especially been shown You need to live within your means. in studies in Canada and Sweden that com- It's important to know where you different.) stand financially. Moving into the But clearly, some of your in-laws are pared the impact of annual mammograms with yearly breast exams from a health new year with a strategy in place encouraging her. So that raises the question: professional. In a 22-year Canadian study will help you keep your overhead to Who? Is it just one person? A sister who of 89,000 women, no difference in death rate a minimum. always got along well with this woman and was seen among women who had regular GEMINI (May 21-June 20) connected with her as a friend? If that's the mammograms compared to those who had -- Socialize with friends or go shop- case, try to let the friendship remain and yearly breast exams with a health profes- ping with someone who can help you just ask that they continue to meet only at sional. This may point more to the impor- find excellent bargains. Love is in times other than family functions. tance of getting a yearly breast exam than the stars. Don't hesitate to make a the benefit of getting a mammogram. romantic gesture. If several of your in-laws are doing this, Mammograms also have downsides. A it's time for your husband to step up. He primary one is that they have many false CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- needs to make abundantly clear that their positives, leading to more imaging, breast Be careful not to take on too much. maintaining such a close relationship with biopsies and significant anxiety for patients. Make it very clear what you can and cannot do. Refuse to let anyone take his ex-wife is not just awkward but also Another is that many breast cancers, such as ductal carcinoma in situ, would never be advantage of you, your time or your hurtful. of clinical significance, so finding them on a generosity. Don't overspend. Dear Annie: I want to address "Sleepless mammogram is of little benefit. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Update in Anywhere, USA," "Sick and Hurt" and That's not to say mammograms aren't your appearance or take better care others who are hurt by spousal affairs. useful. They do find breast cancers. But of yourself and improve the way you There are various reasons committed and doctors and their patients need to discuss treat others. A personal promise will loving spouses have affairs. I was married their risks and their benefits. bring positive change and stability. If you're a woman who has a mother to a loyal husband, but our marriage was or a sister with breast cancer, or if you VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) scarred with emotional abuse that went have the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation -- Something you were counting on unaddressed despite my continued pleas for that increases breast cancer risk, then a isn't likely to unfold the way you dealing with it. Instead of being cherished, I yearly mammogram after the age of 40 is expected. Remain calm and think was made to feel worthless. a good idea. If you have a combination of strategically how best to handle the outcome or disappointment. Choose From what I could determine, he suffers risk factors -- such as having had your first baby after the age of 30, having later-onset intelligence over discord. from emotional injuries inflicted during his menopause or having had an earlier onset LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- childhood. He built an emotional barrier of menstruation -- then a mammogram is Emotions will rise to the surface if around himself. He refused to go to likely a good idea. you discuss your plans. Someone counseling; I went on my own, with mixed However, if you're at average risk of will not be happy with the choices results. breast cancer and between the ages of 40 you make. Stick to your decision if and 49, there is only a small statistical ben- I didn't want to get divorced, so I tried efit in having a mammogram, which should it's what you really want. other means to get through the situation. In be balanced with the risks of testing. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- the end, I had an affair. We are near the end If you are between the ages of 50 and Emotionally charged spending will of divorce proceedings. I am saddened by 69, the benefit of a mammogram may cause stress when the bills come the whole story, and much of what is overcome risk. At that age, you should get a in. You cannot win someone's heart important to me has to be left behind. mammogram every two years. with an extravagant purchase. Kind- If you're older than 70, keep in mind ness and consideration should be So, for those loyal partners who find their that breast cancer rates increase up to the good enough. Use your imagination. spouse in an affair, please step outside age of 80, so the screening could have a yourself and look at the whole picture. How benefit. But that benefit must be weighed could better communication and self- against the likelihood of dying from some- honesty improve your relationship? Are thing else. Here again, the recommendation there past harms -- which have nothing to is for a mammogram every two years, but you should discuss your individual needs do with a current relationship -- hurting the with your doctor. present? If you have chosen to share your Breast cancer screening is still evolv- life with another, then really share life -- the ing, with newer 3-D types of mammograms, good and bad. A loving spouse wants to help breast MRIs and the possibility of biochemi- carry the burden, heal and move past these cal markers to detect breast cancer. We'll need future studies of these technologies destructive ills. I did -- though here in the to assess their effectiveness at detecting GARFIELD end, I'm the "evil gal who had an affair," breast cancer and reducing death rates. In while the other side of the story remains a time, the recommendations may change yet secret. -- Made to Move On again. PEANUTS FRANK & ERNEST BEETLE BAILEY THE BORN LOSER THE GRIZWELLS BOUND & GAGGED BOUND BIG N ate ARLO & JANIS CARPE DIEM CARPE HAGAR THE HORRIBLE HAGAR THE Havre PAGE B3 DAILY NEWS www.havredailynews.com CLASSIFIEDS Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016

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Interested applicants must submit resume Legals and cover letter to INCOME PROPERTY Stacy Mantle, Havre Daily News, 1426, 1426 1/4, 1426 1/2 HOUSE FOR SALE WEATHERIZATION 119 Second Street, Havre, MT 59501 1st Street ~ $164,900 ASSISTANCE PROGRAM [email protected] 3 rental houses with NOTICE INVITING CONTRACTOR Equal Opportunity Employer approx. $1800 in monthly income. PROPOSALS FOR INSTALLATION OF INSULATION AND ENERGY RELATED REPAIR Call/Text John Carlson HELP WANTED WORK. MDH Ranch located 23 mi. NE @ 390-1381. Bullhook Real Estate, LLC of Whitewater, MT is look- I. Project Specifcations: ing for a full-time employee. A. One year contract to provide District 4 HRDC labor and Work will consist of seeding, 1015 14th St. W. materials for weatherization projects. harvesting, haying, fencing B. Contractor must be willing to serve families with low income and machinery maintenance. $289,000 within Blaine, Liberty and Hill counties; which includes the Rocky Job will start early March til Great family home on corner Boy and Ft. Belknap reservations. end of year. Housing provided. lot. 4 bed, 2 bath home with C. Contractor is responsible for completing all projects in strict Wages $11.75 per hour. compliance with the Standard Work Specifcations (SWS) for attached 2 stall garage. 674-5514 or 654-1039 Single-Family Homes created by Montana DPHHS. Call/Text John Carlson D. Contractor must be willing to work under mobile homes, often- @ 390-1381. 820 2nd St Havre, MT. ~ $47,000 times in sub-zero Bullhook Real Estate, LLC temperatures. E. Contractor must handle exposure to hazards such as lead, MOVE 3 bedroom,1 bath, 1,466 sq ft. MOL., 1 car mold, asbestos, unruly clients, aggressive animals, and illegal with the Classifieds detached garage. substances Looking for a change of professionally. scenery? A new home could Only a minimum offer of $47,000 will be F. Contractor must possess all tools necessary to complete all be just what you need for considered. projects. Contractor will be able to rent a tool trailer from HRDC some extra fun. And there’s if necessary. no better way to fnd a great G. Work will begin within seven days from receipt of work order deal on a new home than Call Mike O @ 265-1241 and completed within ffteen days after starting project. through the Classifeds. H. All projects will be inspected by Program Director, Director Whether you’re looking to rent Designee, or Quality Control Inspector before payment. or buy, you’ll see new listings I. Any unsatisfactory work or work not completed per the Stan- every week for properties in dard Work Specifcations (SWS) will be remedied by Contractor every price range. Start at the expense of the Contractor and looking today and get a head re-inspected before payment. start with a great deal on a J. Weatherization projects will include some or all of the following: home in the Classifeds. 1. Insulating attic, basement, crawlspace, rim joist, and mobile home bellies. 2. Window and door repair and replacements. 3. Heating duct cleaning, repair, insulating and air sealing. RENTALS 4. Repair, replacement, and/or new install of exhaust equipment. 5. Pipe wrapping of water lines and earthquake strapping water 1x4 heaters. Apartments 6. Installation of vents (roof, gable, and foundation). 7. Any other energy related measure or minor repair in work order. FOR RENT 2 bedroom unit close to ANTELOPE II. Proposals will include: Lincoln-McKinley and IGA COURT A. W-9 Additional 1 bedroom home in B. Independent Contractor License. similar location. APARTMENTS C. Company registration with Secretary of State. 945-0628 D. Current Proof of Insurance ($1M per incident, $2M 1 and 2 bedroom family aggregate). E. Proof of www.SAM.gov registration and be in good standing. housing complex is F. Proof of Workers’ accepting applications Compensation Insurance as required by law. for rental for the spring G. Letters of Reference stating Contractor is in good standing of 2017 with 1. A lumber yard supplying materials. Handicapped 2. A glass shop that does thermal window repair. accessible; rent includes: H. ASHRAE Certifcation or statement expressing a water - sewer - garbage willingness to earn one. pick up I. EPA Lead Renovation, Repair, and Paint Certifcation or a statement expressing a willingness to earn one. J. Mobile Home Contact HRDC 4 at Weatherization Certifcation or a statement expressing a willing- 2229 5th Avenue ness to earn one. Havre, MT K. Contact person information that includes phone number, ad- dress, and email. 406-265-6743 Or TTY RELAY 711 III. Proposers Conference: A. Date – Thursday, December 22, 2016 PARKVIEW B. Time – 10:00am C. Location – HRDC APARTMENTS Conference Room Studios, 1 & 2 bdrm; D. Host – Adam Gibbons, Weatherization Program Director all utilities pd. 406-390-2283 IV. Proposal closing date: Postmarked Tuesday, Office Space December 27, 2016 by 5:00pm

Commercial space for Picked up Proposal at the HRDC Receptionist’s desk at: District 4 lease HRDC, 2229 5th Avenue, Havre, MT 59501 Prime downtown location 2775-3600’ available Return Proposal clearly marked to: Call 945-1834 Attn: Kathy Terbovitz District 4 HRDC 2229 5th Avenue Havre, MT 59501

Proposals will be reviewed Thursday, December 29, 2016.

For more information, contact Weatherization Program Director Adam Gibbons at 265-6743 ext. 1121 or by email at gibbonsa@ hrdc4.org

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than one incorrect insertion. Claims cannot be considered unless MNAXLP made within three days from the first date of publication. No allowances can be made when errors do not materially affect the value of the advertisement. We do not offer refunds on advertising. Havre B4 Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016 DAILY NEWS www.havredailynews.com Analysis: The oilman who brought Trump and the Bush world together By JULIE PACE in a recent phone call to Sen. Bob his more conventional options. Tillerson, it could ease anxieties. foreign policy philosophy as one Trump transition officials say AP White House Correspondent Corker, the Tennessee lawmaker Despite the high-level back- “Most people will look at that that saw overseas military inter- the Bush family has not coordi- WASHINGTON — Throughout who will oversee the secretary of ing, Tillerson faces obstacles in and understand that he’s not out- vention as a means to pre-empt nated its support for Tillerson the presidential campaign, the state confirmation hearings. Jeb his path to Foggy Bottom. He has side the mainstream,” said attacks on the U.S. and promote with the president-elect, though Bush family and many of its Bush, Tillerson’s preferred candi- no government experience, hav- Corker, adding that George W. democracy abroad. Gates and Rice did directly offer Republican allies turned their date in the 2016 race, called the ing spent his whole career at Bush was “effusive” in his praise Trump has vowed to take the their support to Trump’s team. backs on Donald Trump. Exxon executive a “good man Exxon. Senators in both parties for Tillerson when they spoke last Republican Party in a new direc- Like the Bush family, Tillerson Now, they’re finding common and accomplished leader.” have raised questions about his week. tion, both in style and substance. has strong ties to Texas and its cause with Trump over his pick Dick Cheney, Condoleezza ties to Russian President While Trump was never fully He showed no reverence for the vast oil industry. Presidents to lead the State Department: Rice and Robert Gates — Bush’s Vladimir Putin, a relationship embraced by more traditional Bush family during the cam- George H.W. Bush and George W. Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, vice president, secretary of state that’s particularly eye-catching Republicans, his rejection by the paign, blasting George W. Bush Bush ran oil companies before who has long orbited their same and secretary of defense — have given uncertainty about Trump’s Bush family and its national over the Iraq war and deriding going into politics. Tillerson, a political, philanthropic and busi- all offered glowing endorsements. own connections to Russia. security apparatus was particu- his administration’s focus on native of Wichita Falls, Texas, ness worlds. Gates, who runs a consulting Corker said that while the larly glaring. The family pro- nation building abroad. He was joined Exxon out of college as a Former President George W. firm with Rice that represents support from the highest levels of duced the last two Republican particularly hard on former production engineer before mov- Bush, who has largely avoided Exxon, first put Tillerson on the Republican national security presidents and had hoped for a Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who ran ing through the oil giant’s execu- politics since leaving office in Trump’s radar when the presi- establishment won’t wipe away third in 2016. The two Bush presi- against Trump in the GOP pri- tive ranks on his way to becom- 2009, heaped praise on Tillerson dent-elect was dissatisfied with senators’ questions about dencies also defined the GOP’s maries. ing CEO. Hill County Justice Court Editor’s note: The computer pro- Andrew David Ambler, born —— ed and three credited, for assault. $100 or jail sentences of fewer than gram provided by the Montana state in 1998, was given a deferred imposi- Brian Lee St. Pierre, born in —— seven days, and she or the prosecution government to print media reports on tion of sentence for each of two charg- 1969, was given a deferred imposition Alion Eagleman Sr., born in dismissed seven charges. Barger trans- court actions does not always list all es: possession of marijuana and pos- of sentence and fined $400 for posses- 1987, was fined $10 and sentenced to ferred eight citations to another court fines assessed. session of drug paraphernalia, and sion of marijuana, first offense. 10 days in jail, six days suspended, for and held five probable cause hearings The following cases were resolved was ordered to pay $250 restitution on —— disorderly conduct. for cases out of her jurisdiction. in Hill County Justice Court by Judge the case. Colten Lee Shambo, born in —— Additionally, one suspended sentence Audrey Barger in Oct. 4-12. —— —— 1991, was fined $250 and sentenced Judge Barger also dealt with nine or deferred imposition of sentencing —— Shane Lee Benjamin, born in Tina A. Russette, born in 1967, to 180 days in jail, 177 days suspend- tickets resulting in fines of less than was revoked and reinstated. Kevin Thomas Smith II, born 1984, was sentenced to 365 days in was fined $200 and sentenced to 180 in 1987, forfeited $250 bond for false jail, 354 days suspended and 11 cred- days in jail, 176 days suspended, for driving log. ited, for possession of marijuana, sec- driving without a valid driver’s license. —— ond offense, and was fined $100 and —— Nevada Blue St. Marks, born sentenced to 180 days in jail, 177 days Frank Alvin Mcconnell, born in in 1995, was fined $125 and sen- suspended and three credited, for pos- 1972, forfeited $200 bond for failing tenced to 180 days in jail, 176 days session of drug paraphernalia. to obey direction to be weighed. suspended and four credited, for driv- —— —— ing while privilege to do so is suspend- Raistlen Paul Katka, born in Austin John Moore, born in ed or revoked and was fined $125 and 1992, was fined $350 and sentenced 1995, forfeited $225 bond for failing sentenced to 10 days in jail, all days to 10 days in jail, all days suspended, to use or extend retractable axle when suspended, for failing to carry proof of for operating a vehicle without liability needed. vehicle insurance, first offense. insurance, second offense. —— —— —— George Wade Ball, born in Whitney Rae Rosette, born in Khiana Berg, born in 1995, was 1980, was given a deferred imposition 1990, was given a deferred imposition sentenced to 180 days in jail, all days of sentence and fined $250 for nonresi- of sentence and fined $500 for posses- suspended, for assault. dent license or permit offenses in each sion of marijuana, first offense. —— of three separate cases.

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