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This week I would like to share more on the Ed and Mabel McCord family which I wrote about in the September 30th Eagle. Their daughter, Ruth, shared a full life history of her parents and children. I would like to follow with some memories of personal time spent with two or three of them. The year was 1942, World War II was in progress. I was in the seventh grade and Dale McCord was an eighth grader. At his graduation in the old high school, a couple from Alzada came for the occasion. Things had been worked out and we loaded...
Sagebrush Service Club’s Annual Holiday Bazaar is quickly approaching. The event will take place on Saturday, November 19th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Carter County High School gym. This year lunch, pie and coffee will be available. Free babysitting will also be offered throughout the day for preschool age children, and door prizes will be drawn every 30 minutes. Interested vendors can still rent spaces at the bazaar from the club. To rent a space, contact Anne Fix on messenger, email [email protected] or call 4...
Loyd and Phyllis Townsend reached their 74th wedding anniversary on August 30th! They were married in Miles City on August 30th, 1948. Loyd, age 92, was born in Camp Crook, South Dakota and “Phyl,” 91, was born in Ekalaka. Both graduated from Carter COunty High School, Loyd in 1948 and Phyl in 1949. They have two children. Jerome Townsend is an electrical engineer and lives in Penrose, Colorado. Arlene Sabala is a registered nurse, still working part-time and living in Twin Falls, Idaho. Loyd’s parents were George and Jessi...
Carter County High School C-Club is inviting community members to dress up for all varsity home games this fall sports season. By dressing up not only will community members show their school spirit, they will also be eligible to enter a prize drawing at a reduced price. All who dress up will be eligible to enter a drawing to win $15 to the Bulldog store (or $15 cash for out of town winners) at the reduced price of $1. Individuals who are not dressed up may enter for $5. C-Club hopes to see several people dressed up and...
Multiple Carter County High School classes held reunions over the Days of '85 weekend in Ekalaka....
Carter County High School fall sports start this Friday, August 12th. The first football practice will be at 7 a.m. on Friday morning. Players should bring shorts and running shoes to the school and be prepared to run. Tenadore Kittelmann is again head coach this year and Eric Lovec is assistant. The first football game is scheduled for Friday, August 26th versus Broadus. Kickoff is 7 p.m. at Rowley Field. The first volleyball practice will be at 8 a.m. on Friday. Glen Frye, a...
While Ekalaka resident Sue Schneider was recently out of town visiting grandchildren, she noticed little wooden and metal boxes with books in them on many streets. All, she says, were very creative. Some looked like bird houses, others like doll houses. Inside were books that had been lovingly read and were now being made available to anyone; books for children, adolescents and adults. Schneider's grandchildren enjoyed picking out a book at home that they had read and taking...
Following the recent resignation of former Superintendent Stephen Ely, the Ekalaka Elementary #15 and Carter County High School Unified Board of Trustees interviewed three individuals for administrative positions on July 11. At the board's regular meeting the following day, a split vote with one trustee abstaining as she was not present during the interviews left the matter of hiring a school administrator unresolved. The board decided to then conduct second interviews with...
The entertainment for the Days of '85 Gospel Sing this year has local roots. Next Journey Quartet was begun in 2001 by four men with a love for Southern Gospel music and the desire to share the message of the Gospel through music. Through the years, they have experienced many changes in their membership. Cam Larson and Michael Jewell are original members of the group, Aaron Roberts has been with them for 16 years, and Curt McCamish is the newest member. McCamish was born and...
Ron was born in Ekalaka, MT on May 9, 1932. He passed away on July 20, 2022 in Dallas, TX due to a stroke, exacerbated by Alzheimer's. His life had a hardscrabble beginning, but his natural leadership qualities, sense of self-assurance, work ethic, and desire to experience new things helped create opportunities that led to a long and fulfilling life. Ron was the first child of Price Purdum and Myrtle Wilkoske Purdum. His sisters Carolyn and Sharon arrived soon after, while...
Funeral service for Rita Knipfer, 90, of Ekalaka, will be 11 a.m. Saturday, July 9 at Ekalaka Bible Church with Jon Champlin officiating. Burial will follow in the Fairview Cemetery. Visitation for Rita will be 6 to 7 p.m. Friday, July 8 at Ekalaka Bible Church with a prayer service taking placing at 7 p.m. Rita passed away Saturday, June 25 at Dahl Memorial Healthcare in Ekalaka. Rita M. was born July 3, 1931 in Carter County, the daughter of Harry and Elizabeth (Durm) Babb....
Richard Delano "Dick" Peterson passed away peacefully in his sleep on his ninth day in Hospice at Holy Rosary Residential Living. Dick was born in Mill Iron, MT at the family homestead on January 15th, 1934. He was the youngest child of Louis O. and Anna M. (Hodson) Peterson. He joined older siblings Louis (Bud), Carl, Virginia (Kip), Dan and Eleanor. Dick grew up and attended elementary school in Mill Iron. When he reached high school, he and his mother moved to Ekalaka, so h...
6 Carter County High School graduate Turner Tooke shined at the 38th Bob Cleverley 8-Man All-Star Game on June 4th in Butte. Tooke was a member of the winning Red Team, who made it consecutive victories this year by defeating the Blue Team, 46-30. Tooke played quarterback in an option style offense that rotated into the game with other Red Team offenses. His offense accounted for most of the scoring and he ran in a touchdown himself early in the fourth quarter to give his...
Leaders, Legends and Legacies youth football camp had another successful year in 2022 as 115 kids from around the state and nation participated. The camp was held in Boulder, Montana this year and the farthest participants came from Florida and Tennessee. Again, the kids had a unique opportunity to be coached by multiple former and current collegiate and NFL football players. Carter County sent fifteen kids between fifth and eleventh grade to the camp. Ekalaka Public Schools a...
Cardell Laughery is a state champion saddle bronc rider. The upcoming Carter County High School senior finished first at the Montana High School Rodeo Association Finals in Great Falls last weekend. He also took first in the average. Laughery stopped by the Eagle on Tuesday to talk about his win, fresh in town from helping at a branding near Camp Crook. For Laughery, it was a tough start to his high school rodeo year. He missed all of the fall rodeos after breaking his pelvis...
Carter County Museum recently introduced Chloe Chambers as Museum Educator for the summer of 2022. Chambers came from Georgia where she is a high school science teacher. Last week, she spent time teaching atlatl throwing during 4-H camp at Camp Needmore and at Buzzard Days in Makoshika State Park. Over the next few weeks, she will lead a series of pop-up programs as part of the museum's Junior Scientist series, including Coprolite Action, Operation: Fossil ID, Micro-Sort and...
Bella Rae Jensen of Ekalaka was crowned Miss Southeast Montana Rodeo 2022 at this year's Miles City Bucking Horse Sale on May 21st in Miles City. Jensen will be a freshman at Carter County High School in the fall. She plays volleyball, basketball and rodeos. Additionally, she is a member of the Puptown Wranglers 4-H club and the local CCHS FFA chapter. Besides school and extracurriculars, Jensen enjoys helping on the family ranch and anything that has to do with animals and...
Commencement exercises for the Carter County High School Class of 2022 were held on Saturday. A large crowd of family and friends gathered inside the gymnasium to wish the graduating class well. Local Dennis Bishop, a United States Air Force veteran who co-owns Wagon Wheel Café and has recently overcame major obstacles after developing Guillain-Barré syndrome late in 2020, delivered the commencement address. Kenzie Tooke gave the salutatorian address and Darin S...
RESULTS Southern B/C Divisional Meet Laurel Sports Complex Friday, May 20 MENS 100 Meters 7. Turner Tooke, 12.00 200 Meters 8. Turner Tooke, 25.30 3200 Meters 8. Brayden Bucholz, 13:54.18 110m Hurdles 5. Ethan Frye, 18.74 7. Ryker Carroll, 19.49 300m Hurdles 5. Ethan Frye, 46.02 8. Ryker Carroll, 48.67 4x100 Relay 5. Carter County (J.W. Elmore, Ryker Carroll, Ethan Frye, Turner Tooke) 49.21 Shot Put 5. Jaden Pardee, 37-10.50 Long Jump 9. Turner Tooke, 17-10.50 WOMENS 100...
The Montana University System has awarded the prestigious Montana University System Honor Scholarship to Darin Schallenberger, a 2022 Carter County High School graduate. The MUS Honor Scholarship is a renewable scholarship offered by the Montana Board of Regents that waives undergraduate tuition for up to eight semesters at any campus of the Montana University System or Dawson, Flathead Valley or Miles community colleges. The scholarship’s average value is $20,000. It is the most prestigious scholarship offered centrally b...
Carter County High School Graduation Ceremony Saturday • May 21, 2022 2:00 p.m. • CCHS Class Flower Light Blue Rose Class Colors Light Blue & Black Class Motto "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers Advisors Ms. Victoria Boyette & Ms. Kayla Olsen...
Funeral services for Larry Tauck, 64, of Ekalaka, will be 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 19 at Stevenson Funeral Home in Ekalaka. Burial will follow at Beaver Lodge Cemetery. There will also be a gathering afterwards at Carter County Event Center. Family received friends on May 18 at Stevenson Funeral Home in Ekalaka. Larry passed away May 13, 2022 at St. Vincent's Hospital in Billings. Larry Samuel Tauck was born on September 3, 1957 in Belle Fourche, South Dakota to Lyle and...
Commencement exercises for the Carter County High School Class of 2022 will be held Saturday, May 21 inside the gymnasium. This year there will be six seniors graduating: Brennen Bonsell, Emily O’Connell, Zoie Rost, Darin Schallenberger, Kenzie Tooke and Turner Tooke. The ceremony is set to begin at 2 p.m....
submitted by Johanna Tooke Ekalaka Elementary spent the afternoon celebrating Arbor Day with art. Afterall, without trees, there'd be no pencils for drawing, paintbrushes for painting, paper or canvas for the landscapes to showcase the artist's scene and erasers for fixing mistakes. Granted, now that synthetics have been invented trees no longer are the sole supplier of these staples for an artist. Betty Cline, Jay Hoversland, and Susan Tooke shared their artistic talent with...
Votes were tallied Tuesday night for two recent school elections in Carter County. Unofficial results for the School District No. 15 and High School District No. 3 poll election show that Lisa Borchgrevink and Stefan J. Livingston have both been elected to three-year terms on the board of trustees. Both were already serving on the board and defeated Sarina O'Connor and Samantha Wright in Tuesday's election. Borchgrevink was previously elected to a one-year term in May, 2021...
