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The UM students listed below made the autumn semester 2012 Dean’s List. A “**” indicates a grade-point average of 4.0. An “*” indicates a GPA of greater than 3.5 but less than 4.0 was earned. Froid - Marissa Olson* Sidney - Kelsey Halvorson**, Megan Johnson*, Tyrell McPherson**, Zachery Nybo**, Tessa Rau*, Jordan Sullivan*, Jeremy Verhasselt*, Nathan Williams*...
Roosevelt Memorial Healthcare Foundation, a Montana not-for-profit organization with a mission to ensure the continuance of quality local healthcare, will hold its annual fundraiser on Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. The fundraiser will be a dinner party with a slight twist. Join us as we meet characters such as Fanny Dango, Digger Deep, Nasty Nate, Wyatt Burb, Messy James and town hero, Squint Leastwood. It will be a fun evening featuring lots of laughs, good food and drinks, and an incredible chance to raise money for a great cause....
Roosevelt Memorial Healthcare Foundation, a Montana not-for-profit organization with a mission to ensure the continuance of quality local healthcare, announced it will hold its annual fundraiser on Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. The fundraiser will be a dinner party with a slight twist. Join us as we meet characters such as Fanny Dango, Digger Deep, Nasty Nate, Wyatt Burb, Messy James and town hero, Squint Leastwood. It will be a fun evening featuring lots of laughs, good food and drinks, and an incredible chance to raise money for a...
Roosevelt Memorial Healthcare Foundation, a Montana not-for-profit organization with a mission to ensure the continuance of quality local healthcare, announced it will hold its annual fundraiser on Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. The fundraiser will be a dinner party with a slight twist. Join us as we meet characters such as Fanny Dango, Digger Deep, Nasty Nate, Wyatt Burb, Messy James and town hero, Squint Leastwood. It will be a fun evening featuring lots of laughs, good food and drinks, and an incredible chance to raise money for a...
With warmer than usual temperatures and drought like conditions, the LaBatte family, like many area farmers, have spent the past few months managing their crops and fields while keeping watchful eyes on what Mother Nature might be planning. With the harvest season well underway for most, the LaBattes are busy moving their crops to the local elevators while waiting to see how their sunflower crops fare once they are harvested this November. “In the end, it all comes down to moisture and market p...
On any given day there are between 800 and 1,000 diapers drying on clotheslines outside one of four orphanages in Haiti. In assorted colors of cotton, the tiny hourglass shaped bottom coverings blow and dry throughout the night. The next day they are folded and reused. The story of how they got there, blowing in the warm, tropical, Haitian wind is one of selflessness and inspiration that starts close to home. The diapers are handmade and donated by Ramona Ross of Culbertson. With a love for sewi...
Charles Young received the Montana Bus Drivers Association Driver of the Year award at the annual MAPT conference held in Great Falls June 27th-29th, 2012. Charles has dedicated 30 years to driving a bus route for the Froid School district and has also driven for extracurricular actives. He has had a perfect safety driving record and continues to have a great concern for kids and driving safety. Charles, during these 30 years, has exceeded a million miles and continues as a route and activity...
For those who missed the pesticide container recycling truck present at the USDA/ARS field tours at Froid and at Sidney last month but who have #2 high density polyethylene plastic pesticide containers for recycling, the Eastern Agricultural Field Day (EARC), scheduled for July 19 in Sidney, will offer participants the opportunity to recycle these containers. Ron Ahlgren, Pesticide Container Recycling Technician with the Montana Department of Agriculture, will have his truck and grinder on...
For those who missed the pesticide container recycling truck present at the USDA/ARS field tours at Froid and at Sidney last month but who have #2 high density polyethylene plastic pesticide containers for recycling, the Eastern Agricultural Field Day (EARC), scheduled for July 19 in Sidney, will offer participants the opportunity to recycle these containers. Ron Ahlgren, Pesticide Container Recycling Technician with the Montana Department of Agriculture, will have his truck and grinder on...
There are lots to learn this coming week at two ag research Field Day events planned in Froid and Sidney June 28th and 29th. The back-to-back events include discussions on crop weed herbicide resistance; spring- and fall-seeded cover crops; new oilseed variety studies, wheat stem sawfly management and yield loss, Russian olive removal and revegetation, and more, including a plastic pesticide container recycling opportunity for tour participants. Free meals and pesticide points are also provided. Agronomist Jeff Stachler, a weed science...
Producers interested in recycling their plastic pesticide containers will have an opportunity to do so at two back-to-back field days set for June 28th and 29th at Froid and Sidney. A specially equipped, pesticide container recycling truck from the Montana Department of Agriculture will be on hand at both events to recycle cleaned containers from tour participants. On hand to demonstrate the portable unit will be Recycling Technician Ron Ahlgren from the Montana Department of Agriculture. As...
The Northern Plains Agricultural Research Service is helping host two dryland field days highlighting research being conducted at farmsites near Froid and Sidney on Thursday and Friday, June 28th and 29th.This year’s lineup for the two tours includes several shared speakers, demonstration studies and other festivities, so if you have to miss one event, you can still catch much of the information at the other. Field Day Talks: Headlining both events is North Dakota State University Professor Jeff Stachler, who will discuss herbicide r...
In recent years we’ve heard a lot about the green movement, or attempts to conserve natural resources and to find suitable alternatives to oil. Growing crops to determine their worth as a biofuel has become a focus for scientists and likely will continue to take precedence in the coming years. A group of researchers at the USDA/ARS Northern Plains Agricultural Research Lab in Sidney will collaborate on a long term study that will look at rotations using oilseed and pulse crops in rotation w...
On April 8, 2012, the angels came and chose two very special people to carry home to heaven, Carlie Ann and Ty Anderson. A gathering in celebration of their lives [for family, invited friends, and others who cannot attend the service on Saturday] will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, April 13 at Froid Lutheran Church. Pastor Clarice Beery will officiate at Memorial Services at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Froid High School, with interment of cremated remains in Kvile Cemetery, just north of Froid....
Cereal grains such as wheat and barley are viable alternative hay crops and can provide valuable grazing opportunities. Due to drought resistance, good yields and ability to break pest cycles of perennial crops, annual forages can be a good fit in northern Great Plains production systems. An ongoing study provides preliminary nitrogen guidelines for some annual forage crops in Montana. “In the most recent year with collected data (2008), approximately 200,000 acres of cereal forages were grown in Montana, making it the fourth largest acreage cr...
In some corners of the world, nostalgia is hard to come by. New buildings are sitting on every concrete corner and it becomes quite difficult to envision what yesteryears may have looked like. But in our corner of the world, images of bygone days are oftentimes just a gravel road away and although they may not be easily accessible, they are certainly readily available. In keeping with that tradition of preservation, members of the Northeastern Montana Threshers and Antique Nonprofit Corporation...
The Montana State University Pesticide Education and Integrated Pest Management Programs will offer a 2011 Pest Management Tour for private, commercial, and government applicators in eastern Montana. The tour will cover a ten-county area over a five-day time period, Oct. 3-7. The information provided will include a variety of topics, and participants who attend the full day will receive six credits towards certification. “The 2011 Pest Management Tour will cover many subject areas of local i...
Pesticide experts will go on tour Oct. 3-7 to help Eastern Montanans renew their private pesticide applicator licenses before the end of the year. Private citizens who wish to purchase, use or supervise the use of restricted use pesticides on land they own, rent or lease need a private applicator license. Private applicators in Carter, Custer, Daniels, Dawson, Fallon, Garfield, McCone, Phillips, Powder River, Prairie, Richland, Roosevelt, Rosebud, Sheridan, Treasure, Valley and Wibaux counties need to recertify by the end of 2011, said Cecil...
4 Roosevelt County Fair Youth Livestock Showmanship Grand Champion Beef Sr. Showman – Carlie Anderson, Up-N Atom 4-H, Froid Reserve Champion Beef Sr. Showman – Wyatt Handy, Culbertson FFA Grand Champion Beef Jr. Showman – McKade Mahlen, Tumbleweed 4-H, Culbertson Reserve Champion Beer Jr. Showman – Jordan Anderson, Up-N Atom 4-H, Froid Grand Champion Swine Sr. Showman – Cassee Lepper, Frontier 4-H, Wolf Point Reserve Champion Swine Sr. Showman – Ty Anderson, Up-N Atom 4-H, Froid Grand Champion Swine Jr. Showman – Jordan Anderson, Up-N Atom 4...
As the Lewis and Clark Expedition returned up the Columbia from the Pacific, John Colter’s tomahawk was stolen by a band of Native Americans. Afraid they were too much for one man to handle, he was forbidden to go after his stolen weapon. Colter could not stand the thought of his ‘hawk’ in foreign hands. Just before dark, he slipped back into camp, bruised and bloody with the battle hawk in his belt. He slowed near Captain Meriwether Lewis writing with his quill. “Though shalt not steal...
Ursa Resources Group, LLC is proud to announce the sponsorship of Jordan Smith, a student at Froid School, who will join a select group of students representing their schools, communities and country as People to People Student Leaders. Smith has been accepted into the People to People Leadership Summit in Stanford University to be held during July 2011. People to People Student Leaders complete an academically rigorous program focused on leadership development and global awareness. Smith was no...
Visitation for John “Bobby” Sparks, 71, Froid, MT, was Friday and Saturday, July 8-9, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. and Sunday, July 10, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Cremation followed the days of visitation. Interment of cremains will be on the Sparks Ranch, Froid, MT at a later date. Remembrances and condolences may be shared with the family at www.fulkersons.com. Bobby died on Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at his home in Froid, MT with his family by his side....
Trey Jacobson, all-around sports athlete for Watford City, has been awarded the 2010-11 North Dakota Associated Press Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Male Athlete of the Year. Jacobson is the son of Todd and Terrille Jacobson, Alexander, and the grandson of Jim and Barb Jacobson, Alexander, and Terry and Camille Peterson, Watford City, (formerly of Froid). He was named to all three (football, basketball and baseball) All State teams, plus Region 8’s Senior Athlete of the Year in foot...
Our own family heritage, as well as the histories of others who grew up in our area and write about familiar places and family names, intrigues most of us. In Honyocker Dreams, author David Mogen, who grew up in eastern Montana and graduated from Froid High School, traces his family history of hard times and hopes, and in the process gives us a fascinating view of Montana along the Hi-Line and how small-town Montana has changed over the course of years. Mogen tells his story through the...
Two new speakers have been added to the annual Froid Research Farm Field Day line-up on Thursday, July 7. Dr. Bill Martin, National Weather Service (NWS) science and operations officer, Glasgow, and Dawson County Extension Agent Bruce Smith, one of the driving forces behind Eastern Montana’s evolving local foods program, Farm to Table, will both speak at the annual Field Day which begins at 1 pm. The Froid Research Farm is located eight miles north of Culbertson on Montana Highway 16. First up is Dr. Martin at 1 pm following registration. He w...
