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Through the Rural Health Development Hospital Improvement Grant, several eastern Montana facilities have banded together to provide support for each other on a regional basis. The grant is designed to provide additional funding for hospitals for capital purchases, quality improvements and for creating cost savings and operational efficiencies. It is meant to benefit smaller facilities in implementing improvements on an annual basis. The Hospital Improvement Grant has been...
These are the times that try our souls. Isolation, face masks, drugs and diseases that are difficult to pronounce, let alone understand. Take heart. There's a world out there that proceeds without us. A place where winter stubbornly exits stage left, while spring occasionally lifts its head but seems too shy to take command. A place of beauty we should try to visit. As the calendar approaches May, red-winged blackbirds and Western meadowlarks are staking out their breeding...
With Tim Fox term-limited, we will elect a new Attorney General this year. I support Fox’s Chief Deputy Attorney General, Jon Bennion. Serving as Fox’s chief of staff for most of his first term was the greatest privilege of my career. I worked closely with Jon. He has the knowledge, experience, work ethic, and judgment for the job. Navigating the Attorney General’s world and Montana’s complex Department of Justice is no small task. The law enforcement community has high regard for Jon. He works well with everyone, is an exce...
HELENA – The Montana Department of Labor & Industry announced this week Montana's self-employed, independent contractors, gig workers, and others not eligible for regular Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits can begin filing claims for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits expanded under the recently passed CARES Act starting Wednesday. “Help is now on the way for many Montanans who previously were not eligible for regular UI benefits. As Montana has such a high rate of entrepreneurialism, this will help a wide arra...
With all of the concern over the Covid-19 virus and since I like math numbers, I thought this could be an appropriate time to do some math. I went to school in the B.C. era (before computers and calculators), so my skills might be rusty. I have based my calculations on last weeks’ numbers in the Eagle so they might not be current. Based on Montana’s population being 1,000,000; and the Covid-19 numbers published in the Eagle as to the sickness, hospitalization, and death counts, I have the following percentages: Number of peo...
I read with great interest the article on the back page of the April 3 Eagle about George Yellow Eyes. I saw him play many times and he was indeed a great player. I only saw him in 1957, so didn't see him in his best years. Terry's Glen Kuehn describes the buzzer beater in the semifinals of the tournament in 1957. He described himself as the closest spectator on the Terry bench. I saw it all from about the same distance that he did. Terry had a tall, very good team. State School was short, but they fought Terry tooth and...
Hello God, it’s me, Mara: You know, Lord, old stories might be ancient, but – this still happens every so often. This is how it was told: One day, a man went to visit a church; he got there early so he parked his car and got out. Then another car pulled up near him and that guy got out and said, “I always park there! You took my place!” This actually happened: a visitor went inside for Sunday School, found an empty seat and sat down. A young lady from the church approached him and stated, “That’s my seat! You took my pla...
In my search for another article I came upon a couple of interesting families in “Shifting Scenes,” and after reading some of these family histories, I have decided to share. This couple each has their own article with information about their parents, origin, families and ranch life. Upon reading, I realized how activities and life have changed from that time until now. The couple was Harold “Bud” Asbury and his wife Edna Asbury. I will introduce Bud to you with information about his life mostly here in Carter County....
Leah Zoe Waldren, age 93, passed away January 8, 2020, at Dahl Memorial Nursing Home in Ekalaka. Zoe was born in Baker, on May 20, 1926, to Arthur E. "Big Kid" and Gladys Speelmon Dague. She attended school in Ekalaka and graduated from Carter County High School in 1943. She worked for Ray Nickerson in the Carter County Clerk and Recorder's office for a few months after graduation. She left Ekalaka with friends of her parents for San Francisco, CA, and worked as a secretary fo...
As we head into our sixth week of Covid-19 school closure, I am pretty sure a lot of parents are praying that schools will reopen sooner rather than later. Teacher Appreciation Week is coming up the first week of May, and I have a hunch there is a whole lot more appreciation for teachers now than there has been in the recent past. Here in our home school as the weather warms up, we are shifting a bit from home crisis schooling to trade schooling. Last week, we took field trips to the barn to clean calving pens, and we did a l...
Lorraine Mary (Artzer) Fix was born tenth of sixteen children on November 11, 1933 to Jacob and Eva Artzer in Sterling, Colorado. She was united in marriage to Robert A. Fix on September 12, 1954. They were blessed with 5 children: Mark (Debra) Fix, Cindy Kay (Tony) Brown, Lorenda (Mark) Wahl, Loralee Fix, and Kimberly (Scott) Peterson. Lorraine shared stories about growing up in a four room house with all of her siblings contributing and sharing all of the daily duties. The...
Delbert Lee Justice, 89, of Ekalaka died Friday, April 10, 2020, at his home. He was born February 16, 1931, in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, to James Richard Justice and Hilja Adrianne Jeremiason-Justice. He graduated from Belle Fourche High School in 1949. Delbert later attended the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, studying electrical engineering, and, as a member of the South Dakota National Guard, was called into service by the U.S. Army during...
Kenten Allen Peabody, age 50, of Miles City passed away on April 13, 2020 at Advance Care Hospital of Montana in Billings, Montana. Kenten was born July 14, 1969 to Arthur and Mary (Chamberlain) Peabody at Dahl Memorial Hospital in Ekalaka, Montana. He would be joined by two sisters, Gaylene Michell and Channa Charlene. He attended school in Roundup, Ekalaka and Westby, Montana where he graduated in 1989. He attended college at Dawson Community College in Glendive, Montana...
Tamara Ann "Tammy" Meade, age 71, of Ekalaka passed away peacefully on Monday, April 13 at Holy Rosary Healthcare in Miles City. Tammy was born on August 16, 1948 in Baker, Montana the youngest of five children. She grew up in Ekalaka where she attended grade school and high school. Tammy loved playing baseball as a child and pitched better than most of the boys her age. She often said that if she could have played one sport, it would have been baseball. At the age of 10,...
As of Tuesday afternoon, there were no cases of COVD-19 in Carter County. Statewide, 437 people had tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19. To prevent the spread and to keep people healthy, know how to protect yourself and others from being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. Since there is not a vaccine available to prevent COVID-19, the best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to the virus. This virus is thought to spread mainly...
Note: This article is the final in a series about the founders of the Carter County Geological Society and museum. Each story features a founder, their story and items they have donated. Without the vision, intellect and orderly mind of Walter H. Peck, The Geological Society might have just become caretakers of collections of unidentified fossils and artifacts. His curiosity and love of natural history compelled him to not only collect, but to understand the history behind...
