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This past weekend, the Carter County FFA chapter traveled to Bozeman to compete in the 10th Annual Montana FFA Ag Expo, sponsored by Montana John Deere Dealers: C&B Operations, Frontline Ag Solutions, and RDO Equipment Co. Darin Schallenberger, Kenzie Tooke and Jaden Pardee placed fourth in the quiz bowl. Heidi LaBree placed fifth in livestock judging, and Darin Schallenberger placed fifth in farm business management. Other events the chapter competed in were quiz bowl, milk...
The Carter County Museum recently announced the opening of "Shots Felt Round the World: Maurice Hilleman and the Montana Origins of the Fight Against Pandemics" at the new Carter County Healthcare Facility. This exhibit is the first of a collaborative partnership with Dahl Memorial Healthcare Association to bring local Montana history to hospital visitors. National Rural Health Day takes place on the third Thursday of November and provides an opportunity to "Celebrate the...
Carter County Chamber of Commerce is scheduled to meet this Thursday, November 18th, at 5:50 p.m. inside Stompin’ Grounds. Members unable to attend in person may take part via phone-in or Zoom by contacting President Eva Grimes at 406-975-6444. During the chamber’s October meeting, a report on Festifall was provided by Grimes. Suggestions for next year included a cake walk and a costume contest for children to participate in. This year’s winners of the chili cook-off were Phil Cook, Terri Jump and Abbey Bruski. An update on t...
Unofficial results of the Ekalaka general election show that Elizabeth Barth and Jimmy W. Mackay were both re-elected to the town council on Tuesday night. The two defeated Jonathan Champlin and A.J. Limberger and will serve two-year terms. Barth received the most votes with 85, followed by Mackay with 79, Champlin with 55 and Limberger with 41. Lennet I. Cantwell, who ran unopposed, received 102 votes for mayor and Melissa Lovec, also unopposed, received 111 votes for a four-year term on the council. In all, 142 ballots...
Dahl Memorial Healthcare Association officially moved into the new Carter County Healthcare Facility this week. Dahl employees had been moving what they could over the last several days before the bulk of the moving started on Tuesday at noon when the clinic, lab, radiology, pharmacy and emergency room services officially closed in the old facility. Employees worked tirelessly on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday to make the transition, as evidenced above. The hospital...
1-29-2021 The Board of Carter County Commissioners met in regular session on Friday, October 29, 2021, in the Carter County Commission Board Meeting Room of the Carter County Courthouse at 214 Park Street in Ekalaka, Montana. Steve Rosencranz, Chairman; Rod Tauck, Vice Chair and Mike Watkins, Member; were present. The Commission approved the claims in the amount of $359,011.85 and payroll in the amount of $216,961.03. There was a second warrant issued to correct an error in Fike Crushing in the amount of $4,000.00. The...
courtesy Fallon County Times The annual Fallon County Wild Game Feed will be back Saturday, Nov. 13, starting at 4 p.m. at the Fallon County Fairgrounds. There will be games for the kids (starting at 4 p.m.), followed by games for teens starting at 6 p.m. The games for adults will follow. The dinner will be served at the fairgrounds from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. On the menu will be elk, deer, buffalo, antelope and moose. One of the raffles will offer three guns – a Fury 65 Creedmore (retail value - $2,385), a Carbon Fury 7...
This past week Mr. Seth Whitney, along with the FFA members, Kenzie Tooke, Darin Schallenberger, Jaden Pardee, Cardell Laughery, Kendra Tooke, Tracy Wilson, and Travis Schallenberger attended the 94th National FFA Convention & Expo in Indianapolis, Indiana. The group stopped in Manning, Iowa for a tour and lunch at Veterinary Associates of Manning. This vet clinic is one of the last to still deliver pigs into a sterile environment so that pigs can be tested for new vaccines...
Seth Sedgwick, Ekalaka, is a new member of the American Angus Association, reports Mark McCully, CEO of the national breed organization headquartered in Saint Joseph, Missouri. The American Angus Association, with more than 25,000 active adult and junior members, is the largest beef breed association in the world. Its computerized records include detailed information on over 19 million registered Angus. The Association records ancestral information and keeps production records and genomic data on individual animals to develop...
Jim Courtney, Alzada; Lawrence Duncan, Wingate, Ind.; Bob Harrell, Baker City, Ore.; and Dale Micheli, Fort Bridger, Wyo., were inducted into the Hereford Hall of Fame Oct. 23 in Kansas City, Mo., during the American Hereford Association (AHA) Annual Meeting and Conference. The Hall of Fame honor annually recognizes breeders who have dynamically influenced the direction and advancement of the Hereford breed. "We congratulate these four men for the impact they have made on the...
Young children traveled to area businesses to do some trick-or-treating for Halloween on Wednesday morning. Above, some of the youngsters who attend Gigglers and Wigglers Daycare and Preschool are shown at Summit National Bank in Ekalaka....
Between eighty and 90 friends and family members gathered at Ekalaka Bible Church on October 23rd to celebrate local Jeanie Tauck's 90th birthday. Above, Mrs. Tauck and family members pose for a picture in front of her birthday cake. From left: Larry Tauck, Rosina Owen, Jeanie Tauck, Jeff Tauck and Lauri Keith....
From left: Photo winners are Corrik Laughery (2nd place) and Cortland O'Connor (3rd place). Art winners are Caleb Phelps (2nd place) and Kaden Loudermilk (1st place)....
This story is continued from last week. It was around this time that Dennis Bishop started experiencing severe hospital-acquired delirium. All of that time spent in the hospital bed, staring at the same tile on the ceiling, in excruciating pain, unable to communicate, it was all taking its toll. "I was in non-stop terror," Bishop recalled. "Lizards were coming out of the sprinkler systems. Everything was trying to kill me everyday. I mean it was real. They sent a psychiatrist...
The Carter County Geological Society will host Montana Conversation "Finding Montana" with Ednor Therriault on November 4 at 7 p.m. The program is at Carter County Museum and also offered online. Register using the QR code at the bottom of this article for the virtual event. The presentation is free and open to the public. Funding for the Montana Conversations program is provided by Humanities Montana through grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Montana's...
Carter County is currently searching for a resident to serve on the fair board. Anyone interested may submit in writing a letter of interest to the Clerk and Recorder’s Office, PO Box 315, Ekalaka, MT 59324, or contact one of the Carter County Fair Board Members....
Mail Ballots for the Town of Ekalaka General Election must be returned to the Election Administrator’s Office (Clerk and Recorder’s Office), 214 Park Street in Ekalaka, no later than 8 p.m. on Tuesday, November 2, 2021 in order to be counted. Electors are asked to make sure they have sealed their voted ballot within the green secrecy envelope prior to sealing it in the affirmation envelope. It is most important that the affirmation envelope is signed by the elector....
9-23-2021 The Board of Carter County Commissioners met in regular session on Thursday, September 23, 2021, in the Carter County Commission Board Meeting Room of the Carter County Courthouse at 214 Park Street in Ekalaka, Montana. Steve Rosencranz, Chairman; and Mike Watkins, member was present; Rod Tauck, Vice Chairman was absent. The meeting was called to order at 9:00 am by Commissioner Steve Rosencranz. The Chairman called for public comment. The Commissioners discussed new hospital drainage. This included vertical drain...
Next week, Ekalaka Public Schools will observe Red Ribbon Week. The last week of October each year is designated as Red Ribbon Week. This is an annual national drug prevention campaign that encourages Americans to wear red ribbons in memory of U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency Special Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, who was kidnapped and tortured to death by members of a Mexican drug cartel in 1985. Camarena, who was a former Marine, firefighter and police officer, joined the DEA in the 1970s, and had become well known in both the...
"If you don't get me to the hospital, I'm gonna be dead," Dennis Bishop told his wife, Trish, in the late hours of the night on Sunday, November 1, 2020. The Bishops own and operate Wagon Wheel Café and are involved in the community. With the exception of a few days, Dennis was hospitalized between November 1st, 2020 and August 10th of this year when he finally returned home. Bishop developed Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a serious autoimmune disorder in which the immune s...
A wet, heavy snowstorm that started on Tuesday brought some much needed moisture to the area but also created hazardous travel conditions. School in Ekalaka was canceled on Wednesday as a winter storm warning was scheduled to remain in effect until midnight and several inches of snow had already accumulated. Multiple power outages were reported as of Wednesday morning too, including areas around Capitol, Alzada, Ridge and north of Ekalaka. Update** According to the National...
Ellen Guyer of Ekalaka was recently awarded a Love of Learning Award worth $500 from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Guyer is one of 200 recipients to receive the award. Love of Learning Awards are designed to help fund post-baccalaureate professional development for active Phi Kappa Phi members including graduate or professional studies, doctoral dissertations, continuing education, travel related to teaching and research,...
Back in February the Eagle covered a story about Adam Dean, his 1955 International Harvester R-110 and the trip he planned to take with the pickup so that he could grab a bite to eat at George's Hot Dogs in Chicago. Adam Dean planned the 2,500-mile round trip from Lewistown, Montana to Chicago, Illinois to pay homage to his late father, Dale Dean, and to raise money for the Cancer Research Institute. Prior to the journey, Dean brought the pickup to Ekalaka during this year's D...
On September 22nd, Mike and Cheryl Schuldt came to Ekalaka to assist local Butch Nies in hosting a sheep shearing demonstration. Mike Schuldt has been shearing for 33 years and has traveled all over the world doing so, including trips to New Zealand and Australia. A timed event in Fredricksburg, Texas is also on the list of places where he has shorn. At the event, he sheared a sheep of around 100 pounds in 37 seconds, two seconds slower than the winning time. Butch and Carole...
Ekalaka Public Schools is hosting a Child Find Developmental Screening on Tuesday, October 19th from 12:30 to 4 p.m. in the grade school gym. This free developmental screening is designed for children ages 0 - 5. Children aged 3 - 5 years will be screened in the following areas: Concepts/Thinking, Motor Skills, Speech/Language Development and Hearing. Children under 3 years will be screened by DEAP (Developmental Educational Assistance Program) staff. Call Mrs. Brittani Brence at 406-630-1823 to schedule an...
