Havre’s Local Government Review Study Commission held their final pub-lic hearing Tuesday night, a week before ballots will be counted, and it will be determined whether Havre will change the form of government it has had since 1891. The commission recommended the city put on the ballot a proposal to change the form of government from mayor-city council to manager-commis-sion. C i ty Counci l member Terr i Lilletvedt, who was in the audience, said that throughout the years Havre has had great mayors who have man-aged the city for scant pay, but the manager position is something voters need to consider. “I think we’ve been very fortunate to have had mayors that work for next to nothing, but I don’t think we can keep expecting someone to do that,” she said. “I just don’t think as a member of the community that is something fair to ask.” The meeting was the study commis-sion’s last public hearing and marks the end of two years of interviews, inquiries and public discussions about whether the city should adopt a new form of gov-ernment and, if so, decide what that form of government should be that will be submitted to the voters for their approval. A final report was issued by the study commission in August. In the report, members recommended Havre adopt a commission-manager form of government with self-governing powers. The city council would become a com-mission composed of seven members, one elected from each ward and the remaining two and the mayor elected at-large. Study Commission Chair Dave Brewer and Vice-Chair Perry Atchison fielded questions from the audience at the hearing. The third study commis-sion member, Lowell Swenson was absent. Roger Gruber, a member of the audi-ence asked if the new arrangement

means there would be no mayor. “If the new format is approved there will be an overall city manager that will be run by the commision,” Atchison said. “The commission will be headed by the mayor, but he is not going to have the powers like he has now. He is going to be a voting member of the commission.” The mayor would become a title position and voting member of the com-mission, whose executive powers would be absorbed by the city manager, said City Council President Andrew Brekke, the city council’s liaison to the study commission. The manager would be a hired posi-tion tasked with running the daily oper-ations of the city and would answer to the commission, whose members are elected by the voters, he added. “With no term, he is simply hired?” Gruber asked. Brewer and Brekke said the manag-er would be hired by contract. Brewer said the specifics of the man-ager’s contract including salary and duties would be decided by the current city council and the new commission. “What we’re looking for is expertise. There are a lot of things that come up in city government these days where it would be beneficial to have someone who has gone to school and learned how to run a city government,” Brewer said. “It’s no different than the mayor except here it is a hired position as opposed to an elected position,” Brekke said. Mavis Filler, another member of the audience, asked how the manager posi-tion would be paid. Brewer said the study commission was not responsible for deciding how the proposal would be paid for, but what would be the most efficient form of gov-ernment. However, every time they have had a hearing that was a top question they were asked, he added. Atchison said some of the duties, such as disciplinary measures and other duties, are under department heads. That could reduce the duties taken on by department heads. Those reduced duties could free up money, but the money to pay for the manager would

likely come from different parts of the city government, he said. Mayor Tim Solomon, who was in the audience, said it is important that the study commission let people know the city cannot cut the wages of department heads. They will continue to be paid at lev-els comparable throughout the state, he said. Solomon said the $60,000-$80,000 sala-ry range that has been listed for a man-ager might be a low estimate. He said that Whitefish, a smaller city, is now looking for a new city man-ager for $100,000-130,000 a year. Brekke said the cost of living is high-er in Whitefish, though the position advertised benefits. He added that if the determination is that the manager-commission form of government is good for Havre, the city should find a way to make it work rath-er than dismiss it because they think it is too expensive. Lillivedt asked why the study com-mission decided to move away from

having two council members per ward in the proposal. Brewer said throughout the inter-views conducted as part of the report, people constantly said they thought it was important to still have at least one member from each ward. However, the study commission also thought the cur-rent system of electing council mem-bers two per ward was too limiting. He said most cities throughout the state of Montana have moved away from electing council or commission members by ward and instead elect all of them at-large. If the committee’s proposal is approved by voters, Brekke said, there will be a transition period. At the coun-cil’s discretion, the study commision can remain in place to help with the transition where the council will be changed to a commission, staff will be transitioned and the duties a manager will take on will be decided. The transi-tion will take place during the course of a year and the effective deadline to transition will be in 2018.

Shaw awarded Lifesaver Award

Havre native Dylan Shaw received a Lifesaver Award Thursday for pulling

an unconscious woman out of a burning car. Shaw, who left Havre in 2008 and has been working for UPS in Missoula, was driving his company truck on Montana Highway 200 near Dixon Aug. 5 when he came to a stop because two vehicles that had collided were blocking the road. Shaw said he got out of his UPS truck to see if everyone was OK. There

was an older couple in an F-150 and a lone woman in a Land Rover. Shaw first helped the man in the pickup get his wife, who was injured, out of the car. She was in the roughest shape, he said, adding that she was cut and had a shin bone popping out. The woman in the Land Rover was unconscious and the engine bay was on fire. Shaw said that by the time he and the other man were working on getting the woman out, oil was pouring on the ground, the fire had spread and flames were blazing on the driver-side door of the SUV. Shaw said he went through the pas-senger side to unhook the woman’s seat

belt and then went over to the driver’s side to help pull her out. He said the cabin was filled with smoke but flames had abated in that area just long enough to create an opening through which he pulled the unconscious woman out. Shaw said for him, there was no time to think or be scared. “I don’t remember feeling the heat. I was kinda working on adrenaline,” he said. “I was on autopilot.” Emergency vehicles arrived on the scene and Shaw got back in his truck and left. He said he was gone by the time the woman came to. He has still not met the woman, he said. J e s s i c a S c a rc e f ro m U PS Communications said the Lifesaver Award is given out by their insurance company, Liberty Mutual, and that about 10 Lifesaver awards are awarded to UPS employees a year. She also added that the Land Rover was engulfed in flames shortly after the woman had been pulled out. Shaw also was awarded a day off and a celebration with his co-workers. He said he was notified that he will also be receiving a Samaritan Award from Montana Highway Patrol.

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Havre Daily News/Teresa GettenLocal Government Review Commission member Perry Atchison, from left, and commission Chair Dave Brewer listen to Havre City Council President Andrew Brekke speak Tuesday in City Hall during a public hearing about the commis-sion’s recommendation to switch Havre from its mayor and city council form of government to a city manager and commission.

Campaign financereports filed Republicans in most state legisla-tive races in north-central Montana are ending the election season with larger campaign war chests than their Democratic opponents, according to the last campaign finance reports filed Thursday. The reports are the last ones politi-cal campaigns must file before next Tuesday’s elections. An individual can give a maximum $530 in a given election to a state Senate campaign and $380 to a cam-paign for the Montana House of Representatives. PACs can give no more than $800 to a state Senate cam-paign and no more than $400 to a cam-paign for the Montana House of Representatives, the COPP website says. The latest reports cover the period from Sept. 30 through Oct. 22.

House District 28 In the race for House District 28, first term state Rep. Stephanie Hess, R-Havre, outraised her Democratic opponent Hill County Democratic Party Vice-Chair Jacob Bachmeier taking in $2,952 to his $1,280. The latest fundraising period ends with $7,504.72 cash on hand for Hess and $214.78 for Bachmeier. Hess’ contributors included Andrew Brekke, chair of the Hill County Republicans and president of the Havre City Council, who gave that candidate $160. Montana Attorney General Tim Fox donated $100. Set Berglee, a contractor from Joliet gave her $300, while Wayne Boich, CEO of Boich Companies in Ohio made a $330 contribution. State Rep. Casey Schreiner, D-Great Falls and Northern Montana Health Care CEO Dave Henry gave Bachmeier $50 and $200 respectively. He also received $200 from the Blaine County Democratic Central Committee and $100 from EYE PAC.

House District 27 Ryan Rominger, the Democrat in the race to succeed termed-out state Rep. Roy Hollandsworth, R-Brady, ended the fundraising period with $737.32, compared with the $103 his Republican opponent, former Chouteau County Commissioner Jim O’Hara, has in the bank. Finance reports say Rominger, a farmer and psychology professor, took in $881.41, leaving him with $1,389.45 before expenses. That money included $300 from the Liberty County Democratic Central Committee and $100 from Treasure State PAC, which the Center for Responsive Politics lists as a Missoula-based leadership PAC affiliated with Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester. He also received donations from three individuals including $170 from from Diana O’Hara of Fort Benton. During the same fundraising peri-od, James O’Hara took in $470. The Montana Academy of Ophthalmology Eye, an organization that represents eye doctors and surgeons in the state of Montana gave his campaign $100. State Rep. Bob Brown, R-Whitefish, and his wife, Sue, donated $100 as did

Courtesy photoDylan Shaw, center, joined by his girlfriend, Alexis Robinson, to his left, and his parents, Kris and David Shaw, to his right, and two UPS representatives, names not avail-able, holds the Lifesaver Award he received Thursday for helping rescue three people from a two-vehicle crash Aug. 5.

Dancing with the Stars fundraiser set A Dancing with the Havre Stars fundraising event for Bullhook Community Health Center will be held Saturday starting at 7 p.m. in the St. Jude Thaddeus School gymnasium. The event will pair up each of six Havre stars with someone from the dance group Utah Ballroom Dancing Company.

The evening will start off with a community piece in which local chil-dren will perform in an opening act to show off their dancing talents. The dancers will compete after the the contestants and judges have been introduced. Each guest will receive a ticket they will use to vote for their favorite dancer. Additional votes can be purchased to use in voting.There will also be a silent auction with different gift baskets donated by

Bullhook staff and local businesses during the evening. The Havre dancing stars will be Re p . B r u c e M eye r s , R - B ox Elder; retired nurse and Montana Actors’ Theatre director and actor Pam Veis; Montana State University-Northern Alumni Foundation Director Jim Bennett; former celebrity body-guard and Havre Police Officer Jordan Chroniger; Demi Billy, a Bullhook employee who said she is

not a natural dancer but is looking forward to representing the clinic; and former Chinook Sugarbeeter and MSU-Northern Lights cheerleader and current mom and realtor Christy Smith. The judges will be State Rep. Stephanie Hess, Erica Farmer and Tanner Howard. Tickets can be pur-chased at the door for $15 or in advance at Bullhook Community Health Center.

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MATT VOLZAssociated Press HELENA — Montana’s new cam-paign disclosure law has survived its first test, with a federal judge reject-ing arguments that it unconstitutional-ly interferes with the free speech of groups that want to influence elections without revealing where they get their money or how they spend it. U . S . D i s t r i c t J u d ge D a n a Christensen, in ruling for the state Monday, cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 that allowed unlimited corporate spending in elections. In that case, the justices ruled that although disclosure requirements burden the ability to speak, they are constitutional because they don’t prevent anyone from speak-

ing. A dramatic rise in election spend-ing has left Montana voters inundated with political television ads and mail-ers that seek to inform — or misin-form — the voters and sway their opin-ions, Christensen wrote in the deci-sion. “Providing Montana voters with information about individuals and groups competing for their attention serve important government inter-ests,” the judge wrote. The Montana Legislature passed the Disclose Act in 2015 amid concerns of the role that so-called dark money groups have played in elections since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. The law requires more dis-closure of political committees’ con-

tributors and spending, adds more reporting deadlines and restricts coor-dination between candidates and out-side groups. A Billings-based organization called M o n t a n a n s f o r C o m m u n i t y Development, which had previously sued the state over its campaign laws, amended its lawsuit last year to chal-lenge the Disclose Act. The group, which does not disclose its donors or spending, describes itself as an educa-tional organization that advocates for issues, not candidates. The pro-natural resource develop-ment group wanted to send mailers close to Election Day that name candi-dates as impeding coal development, but do not overtly say whether to vote for candidates. The group argued that

such issue-advocacy mailers are pro-tected speech that can’t be regulated by the state’s campaign law. Christensen knocked down each of the group’s arguments one by one. Besides ruling that the law serves an important government interest, the judge also rejected arguments that the law was overly burdensome to political committees and unconstitutionally vague on what a committee, expendi-ture and contribution is. Christensen also rejected the group’s arguments that the law is too broad and allows for arbitrary and dis-criminatory enforcement. James Bopp, the Indiana-based attorney for Montanans for Community Development and the lawyer who filed

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MARTIN CRUTSINGERAP Economics Writer WASHINGTON — With voters set to choose a new president and Congress in six days, the Federal Reserve will likely keep a low profile when it ends a meeting today to try to ensure it doesn’t become part of the debate at the close of a tumultu-ous political campaign. The Fed is expected to end the meeting with a policy state-ment that leaves interest rates unchanged. It’s possible that the statement will include a signal that a rate hike is likely at the Fed’s next meeting in mid-De-cember as many expect. On the other hand, the Fed might decide to offer no hints today of a forthcoming rate hike in order to remain entirely neutral at a sensitive political moment. “In the midst of an election, the last thing the Fed wants to do is add fuel to all the political controversy from the candi-dates,” said Sung Won Sohn, an e conomic s p ro f e s s o r a t California State University, Channel Islands.

Sohn and other economists say they still think December is when the Fed will resume the rate increases it began late last year after having left its bench-mark rate at a record low near zero for seven years. Next month’s meeting will include a news conference by Chair Janet Yellen, which would provide a platform for her to explain the Fed’s action and perhaps pro-vide guidance on how many fur-ther rate increases the Fed fore-sees in 2017. The Fed’s years of record-low short-term rates were credited by many analysts with rejuve-nating the economy after the Great Recession. When the Fed finally raised rates modestly in December last year, most econo-mists and the central bank itself foresaw multiple rate increases in 2016. But economic weakness and market turmoil in China and Europe and a slowdown in U.S. growth kept the Fed on the side-lines. The economy has been show-ing some improvement lately. As measured by the gross domestic

product, the economy grew at a 2.9 percent annual rate in the July-September quarter, the gov-ernment estimated last week, more than twice the rate in the April-June quarter. The unemployment rate is 5 percent, typical of a healthy economy, down from 10 percent in 2009, and the housing market, whose meltdown triggered the 2008 financial crisis and the recession, has largely recovered. Yet the Fed has sent no sig-nal that a rate hike might occur this week. That is telling, ana-lysts say, because the Fed under Yellen has carefully avoided catching investors off guard. A gauge of investor sentiment estimates the possibility of a Fed rate increase this week at just 7 percent. The likelihood of a December increase is put at 74 percent. In a recent speech, Yellen said she might be open to “tem-porarily running a ‘high-pres-sure economy’” to help heal some still-lingering damage from the recession and to try to boost spending and investment

by consumers and businesses. By “high pressure,” Yellen meant an unemployment rate below a level associated with a healthy economy and an infla-tion rate above the Fed’s 2 per-cent target. Her comments were taken to mean the Fed was in no hurry to raise rates and were viewed as a further signal that Yellen was willing to delay the next hike until December — even though the Fed’s decision to leave rates unchanged in September drew an unusually high three dissent-ing votes. Yellen’s comments have also been cited by analysts as an argument that her go-slow approach may mean only one rate increase this year and then one, or at most two, increases in 2017. With inflation still running below the central bank’s 2 per-cent target, many Fed officials have said they think they have room to continue pursuing an extremely gradual approach to rate increases. “Yellen wants to run a high-pressure economy by overshoot-

ing inflation and pushing the unemployment rate lower,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at

DS Economics. “She wants to hedge against another reces-sion.”

Montana Republican Party Chairman and state Rep. Jeff Essman, R-Billings. Missoula physician Carter Beck gave $100 to O’Hara.

House District 32 Term-limited state Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, is unopposed in his bid for House District 32. Campaign documents show he has not raised or spent any money dur-ing the latest fundraising peri-od.

House District 33 Republican candidate Casey Knudsen of Malta had not filed his reports for the Sept. 30 to Oct. 22 period. Reports from the June 23 through Sept. 29 period that were filed Oct. 4 show that Knudsen ended that period with $1,208.13, including $63.13 left over from the prima-ry. In that period, Knudsen had

raised $975. Ronda Wiggers a physician from Great Falls gave $200. The remainder of the money came from PACs. The campaign brought in $150 from the Montana Gas and Oil PAC based in Helena, $ 2 0 0 f rom the Mon tana Republican PAC and $425 from the Blaine County Republican Central Committee. The final report filed by Knudsen’s Democratic oppo-nent Mike Finley of North Havre, showed he did not raise any money between Sept. 30 and Oct. 22.

Senate District 16 State Rep. Bruce Meyers, R-Box Elder, who is running to succeed Windy Boy in the Montana Senate, raised $1,764 in the last fundraising period and after expenses had $2,383.68 remaining in the bank. Meyers gave his own cam-paign $450. Campaign reports

show his biggest donors were Greg Hertz of Polson, president of Moody’s Market Inc. and Seth Berglee, a contractor from Joliet, who each gave $300 to the Meyers campaign. Eye PAC, which is based out of Billings, gave Meyers $100. Other notable donors included Brekke, who also serves as the campaign’s treasurer, who gave $160. Essman and state Rep. Daniel Zolnikov, R-Billings, each gave $100. Meyers’ opponent, former s tate Sen. Frank Smith , D-Poplar, who has held the seat before, has $821 on hand after raising $550, campaign reports say. That includes $250 from Treasure State PAC and $100 f rom the B la ine County Democratic Party. He also received money from three donors including $50 from former state Sen. Greg Jergeson, D-Chinook.

Senate District 17 State Rep. Mike Lang, R-Malta, opted out of seeking re-election to his seat to make a bid for the Senate seat now occupied by term-limited state Sen. John Brendan, R-Scobey. Lang ended the latest cam-paign fundraising period with $3,479.58 in his general election account and another $4,241,63 left over from the primary. He raised $270 from two donors $170 — Darren Mason of Homestead, a consultant with an agriculture company and $100 from Tim Fox. No campaign reports had been filed as of this morning by Lang’s Democratic opponent, Douglas Adolphson, a motel owner and retired plumber from Glasgow.

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the original Citizens United case, did not immediately return a call for comment on the ruling. Gov. Steve Bullock, speaking a t a campaign ra l ly in Missoula, praised the judge’s ruling and the law, which he said was a bipartisan effort. “The best way to get rid of the shadows is to turn up the sunshine, and that’s exactly what our Legislature did,”

Bullock said. Bullock’s Republican oppo-nent in the upcoming election, Greg Gianforte, was campaign-ing in northeastern Montana. His spokesman, Aaron Flint, said Gianforte believes in trans-parency but the next Legislature must take another look at the Disclose Act. “Greg believes it is a work in p rog re s s, and t h e nex t Legis lature wi l l eye any

strengths or weaknesses in the law that may need to be addressed,” Flint said. Anita Milanovich, who works for Bopp’s firm and is the lead attorney for Montanans for Community Development, also is the Gianforte campaign’s attorney. There are at least two other legal challenges to the Disclose Act pending, one in state court and one in federal court.

MATT VOLZAssociated Press HELENA (AP) — A national organization that seeks to elect conservative judges blatantly violated state law by not report-ing $268,000 that was used for attack ads against a Montana Supreme Court candidate, the state’s campaign finance regu-lator said Tuesday. Commissioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl gave the Republican State Leadership Committee’s Judicial Fairness Initiative until 3 p.m. Today to register and file a campaign finance report detailing where the money came from.

“I fully expect them to com-ply,” Motl said. “If they don’t, we have options available.” Those options include having a judge issue an order for the organization to show cause. RSLC spokeswoman Ellie Hockenbury said in a written statement that the organization will work with Motl’s office to comply with “the commission-er’s request and the letter and spirit of the law.” Motl’s decision is the latest development in the highly con-tentious race between District Judge Dirk Sandefur of Great Falls and University of Montana adjunct law professor Kristen

Juras for an open seat on the state’s highest court. The non-partisan race has seen a flood of outside money with partisan interests, including the RSLC cash that helps Juras and about $ 6 0 , 0 0 0 f r o m t h e s t a t e Democratic Party, which is backing Sandefur. The RSLC money went to a political committee called Stop Set ‘Em Free Sandefur, which used the cash to create a web-site, ad and mailers portraying Sandefur soft on crime. The anti-Sandefur organization reported in its campaign finance filings that the source of the money was the RSLC’s

Montana-registered political committee. However, that committee did not disclose any spending in that amount, prompting a com-plaint by the executive director of the Montana Trial Lawyers Associat ion, which backs Sandefur. Motl said he talked to the RSLC’s attorney, who told Motl that the money actually came from a different RSLC-affiliated group that is registered with the IRS as a tax-exempt 527 organi-zation and is therefore not regu-lated by any campaign practice laws. Motl, in the decision, called

that position “foolhardy” and said the group’s IRS status does not exempt it from registering as a political committee when it is active in a Montana election. “It is hard to fathom the logic of this attempt to avoid Montana reporting and disclo-sure laws,” Motl wrote in the decision. Hockenbury, the RSLC spokeswoman, said her organi-zation makes its disclosures at the federal level. “Since its inception in 2002, RSLC has acted with the high-est respect for transparency by disclosing all donors and expenses publicly to the IRS

where it is available online to anyone who wishes to view our activity,” Hockenbury said. The commissioner ordered the group to report and disclose the $268,000 it received in con-tributions and expenditures. He also ordered the anti-Sandefur political committee and the RSLC’s Montana political com-mittee to update their filings. Campaign violations are usu-ally resolved through a cash settlement negotiated by the commissioner’s office and the violator, but they can go to court if a settlement is not reached.

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Open skating, Havre Ice Dome, south end of 5th Ave., 5:30 - 7 p.m. Books and Babies, 10:15 a.m., Havre-Hill County Library. Free and everybody is welcome. Story Time, 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., Havre-Hill County Library. Free and everybody is welcome.

Thursday, Nov. 3 The MSU-Northern, Chancellor’s Lecture Series, “Hand-Raised: Historic Barns of Montana," with Chere Jiusto and Christine Brown, 7:30 p.m. Applied Technology Center at Hensler Auditorium. Free and open to the pub-lic. Hi-Line United annual par-ent and players meeting, Havre High School Library, 6:30 p.m. Agenda includes the schedule, new uniforms, fundraising and more. For info, see Hi-Line United Soccer Facebook page. American Red Cross blood drive, 1 - 6 p.m., Our Saviors Lutheran Church, Main and Madison, Chester. Drop by or make an appoint-ment, download the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS, 1-800-733-2767. Fort Assiniboine Genealogy Society, 7 p.m., LDS Church Family History Center, at 13th St. W. and Washington Ave. Discussing record-keeping and filing systems. Public is welcome. Lego Time and Robotics, 3:30 to 5 p.m., Havre-Hill County Library. Free and open to public. For info, call 265-2123.

Friday, Nov. 4 Africa medical mission pre-sentation, 6:30 p.m., Abundant Life Ministries, 405 6th St. Pastor Brian Barrows will speak and show video about his July medical mission to Benin, Africa. Open skating, Havre Ice Dome, south end of 5th Ave., 6:30 - 7:30 p.m., or until 7:15 p.m., if Glacier Nationals are playing. “Haymarket Eight,” a Montana Actors’ Theatre Readers Theatre production, 8 p.m. Doors and Backstage Lounge open 7:30 p.m. The LIttle Theatre in Cowan Hall at MSU-Northern cam-pus. Tickets $10 for adults, $5 for stu-dents and seniors, and free for Northern students.

Saturday, Nov. 5 Former Havre resident K.S. Ruff, a romance and suspense writer, book talk and signing hosted Havre-Hill County Library 2 - 4 p.m. Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. “Haymarket Eight,” a Montana Actors’ Theatre Readers Theatre production, 8 p.m. Doors and Backstage Lounge open 7:30 p.m. The LIttle Theatre in Cowan Hall at MSU-Northern campus. Tickets $10 for adults, $5 for students and seniors, and free for Northern stu-dents. MSU-Northern Collegiate Stockgrowers annual Meet N Greet, Northern SUB Ballroom, 5 p.m. happy hour, 6 p.m. dinner. The event will include door prizes, live and silent auctions, dinner, a guest speaker and the Milk River Band. RSVP with Mary Heller, 265-3708, or Jeremy Hofman, 406-581-3788. Dancing with the Havre Stars, a Bullhook Community Health Center fundraiser, at Havre Central Gym, St. Jude Thaddeus School, doors open at 6:30 p.m., show starts 7 p.m. $15 for tickets, available at Bullhook health center. Angel Care fundraiser, 2 - 6 p.m., Eagles Club, taco bar, $7 per plate, 5 and younger free. Live raffle and auction. Proceeds to go to help community's elderly, low-income and disabled residents. Messiah Lutheran Church Bazaar, 417 20th St., 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Event includes a salad bar luncheon, pie, coffee, bake sale, crafts and drawings. Blue Horizons Camping Club, Dinner at noon, North Central Senior Center. Meeting and cards after lunch. New members welcome, call 265-7579.

Sunday, Nov. 6 Soup-N-Bread lunch, noon - 2 p.m., Eagles Club with all-you-can-eat of a variety of soups and breads, $5. Proceeds to go to Eagle Riders Club charities. Cottonwood Farmer's Union Local 145, 2 p.m., Knights of Columbus Hall, 605 5th St. Public welcome.

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Keeping it all in the family?Thirteen grizzly bears gather in foothills GREAT FALLS (AP) —Maybe it was a grizzly bear family reunion. Montana wildlife officials spotted 13 grizzly bears togeth-er on a private ranch in the f o o t h i l l s o f t h e Ro c k y

Mountain Front southwest of Dupuyer. Fish, Wildlife and Parksgrizzly bear management spe-cialist Mike Madel said it seemed like a gathering of females and young who were related or familiar with each other. Madel was tracking radio-collared grizzly bears along the front during the third week of October when he spotted and photographed the group.

U.S. Fish and Wildl i fe Services grizzly bear biologist Wayne Kasworm said he’s never seen that many bears in one location in Montana. He also said the bears could have some relationship, possibly mothers and daughters and even grandmothers. There was no indication that any food in the area had drawn the crowd as the bears prepare to hibernate.

US says money for Indian land buys will come up short MATTHEW BROWNAssociated Press BILLINGS—Anambitiouseffort to restore tribal control over huge areas of privately owned land on American Indian reservations is project-ed to run out of money with millions of acres still unad-dressed, according to a U.S. government report obtained by TheAssociatedPress. The Obama administration established the “land buyback program” under a $1.9 billion legal settlement that deter-mined the government squan-dered billions of dollars it held in trust for tribes from royal-ties on oil and gas leases, grazing and other uses of Indian lands. As part of that deal, federal officials agreed to spend $1.6 billion to purchase so-called fractionated parcels of land that have multiple owners, which makes them hard to sell or develop. Yet more than 4 million acres potentially eligible for purchase will remain when the settlement money runs out in 2022, according to an Interior Department report. The report was obtained by TheAPinadvanceofitspub-lic release. To date the buyback pro-gram has paid out almost $900 million to purchase the equiva-lent of 1.7 million acres on more than two dozen reserva-tions. The eligible parcels expect-ed to remain after the settle-ment money runs out collec-

tively are worth several billion dollars, said Deputy Interior Secretary Michael Connor. “We’re making progress but there will still be a sizeable amount of acreage out there at the end of 2022,” Connor said. “We thought it appropri-ate to start thinking through that long-term issue right now.” Interior officials said in the report they are considering asking Congress to make the program permanent so the land purchases can continue. A final decision will be made following consultations with lawmakers and tribal leaders, Interior officials said. A spokesman for Wyoming U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, said the Obama administration emphasized when the case was settled that it needed only a 10-year win-dow to accomplish its goals. “It is important to address the issue of highly fractioned land in a manner that is fair to both the affected land own-ers and to tribes, while also demanding the requis i te accountability from the admin-istration,” said Barrasso press secretary Mike Danylak. But an attorney for the National Congress of American Indians said it was assumed at the time of the settlement that the money would cover only some of the fractionated land on reservations. John Dossett, genera l counse l for the Washington D.C.-based group, said making the program per-

manent was an “excellent” idea. Parcels of land boughtthrough the program are transferred to tribal govern-ments to be put to beneficial use — such as for home sitesorbusinesslocations—orpre-served as cultural or ceremo-nial sites An 1887 law known as the Dawes Act split tribal lands into individual allotments that were inherited by multiple heirs with each passing gener-ation. The result has been that parcels of land on some reser-vations are owned by dozens, hundreds or even thousands of individual Indians. That makes it all but impossible to sell or develop the land because of difficulties reaching consensus among so many owners. Dossett said the problem of fractionated land would only worsen with each passing gen-eration, as people with owner-ship interests die and the num-ber of heirs grows. The legal settlement result-ed from a class-action lawsuit brought by Elouise Cobell ofMontana’s Blackfeet tribe. Cobell, who died in 2011, suc-cessfully argued that Interior officials for decades misman-aged trust money being held on behalf of hundreds of thou-sands of Indian landowners. ___ Follow Matthew Brown on Twitter at https://twitter.com/matthewbrownap Indian land buyback report: http://on.doi.gov/2fuSLRT

Oil, gas protesters lose ground to online auctions MEAD GRUVERAssociated Press C H E Y E N N E, Wyo . —Activists may have protested their last federal oil and gas auction before such auctions go online but vow their “keep it in the ground” movement isn’t going underground: They’ll pro-test at U.S. Bureau of Land Management offices on auction days instead. The BLM auctions off the right to drill on federal land in Wyoming and other states four times a year. The agency has begun transitioning to an online format for such auctions. A BLM auc t i on a t a CheyennehotelTuesday—pos-sibly the last to be held at a physical location—offeredyetanother sign of tough times for the oil and gas industry. Only 21 leases were offered across Wyoming, down from a couple hundred at a typical sale dur-ing boom times a decade ago. The auction adjourned more than three hours early but not before police escorted out eight protesters who were chanting and carrying signs. Such scenes have become routine at BLM auctions in Western states over the past couple years. “Our message was really clear this morning. No new pipelines, no new leases,” said TessGeyerwith theRainforestAction Network. No protesters were arrested. Switching to online auctions will generate an estimated $2 million a year in additional rev-enue by encouraging more par-ticipation by petroleum devel-opers, according to the BLM. The change also will save the petroleum industry travel expenses, including gas, while removing a venue for disruptive protesters, said Kathleen Sgamma, vice president of gov-

ernment and public affairs for the Denver-based Western Energy Alliance, a petroleumadvocacy organization. Sgamma said she doubted that the BLM intends to ignore protesters, saying the petro-leum industry asked the agency to offer 140 leases at the latest Wyoming auction. “It is very common for par-cels to be deferred based on public input. That’s part of the process,” Sgamma said. The BLM hasn’t decided yet whether to hold Wyoming’s next oil and gas lease auction in February online but BLM offic-es elsewhere have completed the transition, BLM spokes-woman Kristen Lenhardt said Tuesday. Participants will register totake part in the online auctions, another layer between the fed-eral agency and protesters like Tim DeChristopher. The activ-ist was convicted of two felo-nies and served 21 months in prison for driving up prices during a 2008 lease auction in Utah. Still, demonstrators will find ways to make themselves heard such as by showing up at BLM offices on auction days, prom-ised Geyer. “Just by moving these auc-tions online doesn’t mean peo-ple aren’t going to be against what they’re doing,” Geyer said. T h e We s t e r n E n e r g yAlliance shrugged its shoulders at the possibility of more pro-tests. “If they have nothing better and productive to do, whatev-er,” said Sgamma. ___ Follow Mead Gruver at https://twitter.com/meadgruver

Mike Pence hit the stump in Utah last week. Yes, Utah. The Trumpster fire is so out of con-trol that it has now become necessary to waste precious time shoring up a state that has gone overwhelmingly red in every election since 1968. All because of a guy we’d never heard of two months ago. Put your hands together for Evan McMullin, who, in addition to becom-ing the first shaved-head presidential candidate, is a serious threat to deprive the Trump-Pence ticket of six electoral votes that it can ill afford to lose. An ex-CIA counterterrorism offi-cer, ex-House policy aide, and invest-ment banker with a conservative “small government” platform, and a spot on the ballot in 11 states, McMullin is giving his fellow Utah Mormons a potential home on Election Day. Unlike the spineless Republican leaders in Washington, McMullin is merciless about Trump — and that’s a big reason why he wa on top in a Utah poll — at 31 percent; Trump, 27; Hillary Clinton, 24. Stats like that in Utah, on the eve of an election, are unprecedented. Utah’s top elected Republicans have all bailed on Trump, essentially signaling to Republican voters that it’s OK to back McMullin. Which boosts the odds that he could become the first independent to win a state since segregationist George Wallace scored in the South 48 years ago. Actually, Trump was in trouble in Utah long before he was outed on tape boasting about sexual assault; long before he was hit with 11 sexual assault accusers. Lest we forget, he

lost the state’s Republican primary by 55 points. Sixty percent of Utah’s vot-ers are Mormon, and they take seri-ously the church’s doctrinal opposition to “any type of unclean or vulgar lan-guage and behavior.” They’re also, on average, highly educated, and we know from crunching the numbers all year that Trump does worst with peo-ple who are educated. And as heirs to a persecuted faith, they’ve long been cool to Trump’s attacks on Muslims. McMullin has no money — report-edly, he had $4,300 in the campaign kitty at September’s end — but he does have a message. “Right now you have a Republican Party that turns away people of differ-ent races, turns away people of differ-ent religions,” he said last Sunday on ABC News, critical of the party’s sup-port of Trump. “The vast majority of Republican leaders are putting party ahead of principle and putting party ahead of the interests of their own country.” McMullin is the kind of convention-al conservative who has been sidelined this year. He shares a few Trump pri-orities — repeal Obamacare, buttress the military — but he’s pro-path to cit-izenship and pro-free trade. He appears to be in sync with Trump on cutting regulations and lowering taxes, but, like many other conservatives, he

suspects that Trump is a closet liberal who doesn’t believe what he espouses. And he’s clearly drawing Utah conser-vatives who view Trump’s repugnant racism and sexism as a deal-breaker. In the end, McMullin himself may be nothing more than a footnote, but his current warnings about the GOP may prove prescient. As the ashes of defeat are sifted, it’s quite conceivable that the white nativist Trumpkin wing and the establishment pro-outreach wing could be incompatible. “It’s unlikely that the Republican Party will be able to make the kinds of changes it needs to make after the election. These are generational prob-lems … but the reality is the conserva-tive movement doesn’t have time for that,” McMullin said. “If the Republican party can’t make the changes, as it wasn’t able to do after 2012, the conservative movement will need a new political vehicle. ... It may mean a new conservative party.” That GOP crackup could happen regardless of the outcome in Utah. But for now, the state’s conservative vot-ers are potentially the point of the spear. Even Trump seems to realize it. At a recent rally he declared “We’re leading in North Carolina! (Lie.) We’re leading all over the place! (Lie.) Having a tremendous problem in Utah!” Bingo. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. —— Dick Polman is the national politi-cal columnist at NewsWorks/WHYY in Philadelphia (newsworks.org/polman) and a “Writer in Residence” at the University of Pennsylvania. Email him at dickpolman7@gmail.com.

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Editor, Proponents of I-182 are trying very hard to make you believe that their initiative is a responsible and accountable solution to the medical marijuana debacle that Montana had to endure since 2004. I-182 is neither responsible nor accountable. While medical marijuana may be a viable medical solution for people with serious illnesses, providing marijuana from a corner shop by a provider who has no medical degree is neither practical, safe, nor good medicine. It didn’t work the first time it was implemented, and it won’t work this time. When medical marijuana passed in 2004, voters were appalled when it opened up the floodgates for recreational use in Montana. And over the past 12 years,

the adverse consequences were never addressed by the marijuana industry. Don’t be fooled. Their goal is to normalize marijuana use, not compassionately provide it for those who could medically benefit from it. Those who support I-182 hide their heads in the sand as to the conse-quences of marijuana use and throw insults at those who are against their poor solution for medical mari-juana legalization. They had a chance to help get it right for 12 years, and Montanans have wisened up to their true goal — normaliza-tion of marijuana. Marijuana is not good for the workplace, our schools or our homes. Please vote “No to I-182.” Steve ZabawaBillings

Editor, As a United States veteran of the armed forces, Rep. Stephanie Hess has my vote on Election Day. Hess understands that every citi-zen has a role to play in protecting America and keeping her great. While soldiers and sailors and air-men defend the nation and fight our battles abroad, those of us at home have a duty to work hard, build the

economy, educate our children, keep our families together, work together with law enforcement to keep our communities safe and diligently guard our freedoms. I am proud to have served the USA, and I am proud to vote for Stephanie Hess, who has served Havre and Montana well.Rick PiersonHavre

Dear Editor, The fourth-grade at Aviston Elementary, located in southern Illinois, is learning about the United States and the different environments, climates, resources and highlights found in each region. The kids in the class think it would be fun to receive postcards, souvenirs, resources or any information about our great country from each of the 50 states. We hope that people who read this letter will be interested in mailing our class items pertaining to their state. Our address: 4th Grade @ Aviston Elementary 350 South Hull Street Aviston, IL 62216

A sincere thank-you to anyone who is able to contribute! We appreciate the excitement you will add to our learning experience.Kylie D., Brady K., Mason H., Wheslee K., Mrs. Niemeyer, Kylie R., Alex B., Ava M., Nolan K., Shanna R., Micah W., Brooke, Kayden R., Jayde G., Tori K., Kennedy, Piper K., Ayriel, Sait, Addie, Dixie, Ian, Gavin, Alyssa J., Ayden, Noah K., Zane, Daityn, Quinten K., Shaelyn B., Daniel K., Jonathan P., Soledad C., Cadon, Maris Z., Noah M., Trinity S., Ava, Celia and Kaden R.

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Make a difference: VoteEditor, Some time ago, I was challenged to do something positive that might make a worthwhile difference for our upcoming 2016 elections. Thus, this letter was produced. So be encouraged. Setting aside all the hype, opinions, dogma and personalities involved in an election year, stay focused on values, truth and facts. With the choices set before us, ask yourself a brutally honest question: Who and what does our America need the most to remain “one nation under God”? I once heard it said, “If

we want to remain free, it’s our responsibility.” Let’s do our research and be informed on issues. So now, I’ll challenge you, as an American citizen with a patriotic duty: 1. Go register to vote if you haven’t already done so; 2. Get your ballot mailed in on time; 3. Get to the polls on Nov. 8. Cast your ballot and make a dif-ference. Your vote matters.Vicki VerploegenHavre

Hess for HouseEditor It was my pleasure to serve with Rep. Stephanie Hess in the 2015 Legislative Session. Stephanie’s integrity, thoughtful-ness, and knowledge served her well as your representative. Stephanie Hess is fearless in the fight to pro-tect the rights of the people of House

District 28 and all of Montana. Stephanie works hard to preserve your freedoms in Helena. I look for-ward to serving with her again in the 2017 Legislative Session. Please vote Hess for House in November.Rep. Ryan Osmundson, R-Buffalo Vice chair, House Appropriations

Come to Community Tree Lighting The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce and members of the busi-ness community — along with many local organizations — have organized many holiday events from bazaars to the Community Tree Lighting at Town Square for all to enjoy this holiday season. Everyone is invited to bundle up and gather to bask in the glow of one of Havre’s holiday traditions while joining family and friends at Town Square for the ceremonial lighting of the community Christmas tree Saturday, Nov. 26, with activities start-ing at 5 p.m. Join members of the Havre High School choir in singing holiday carols while warming up with a cup of hot chocolate and waiting the much anticipated arrival of Santa and his holiday wish for all. The Super Certificate drawings and kids’ holiday basket drawings will also take place at the tree lighting. Drop your registration form at the Chamber, the Havre Daily News, the Holiday Village Mall and the Atrium Mall. Winners must be present to win. Over $2,600 in business gift cards, also including a night’s stay at the

AmericInn and Town House Inn, a month membership at Down Under Fitness Center, a Bergren Transmission oil change, a pool party at either the Best Western Great Northern Inn or the Best Western Havre Inn & Suites and two Cape Air roundtrip tickets to Billings. The Santa Race will also take place prior to the lighting of the Community Tree. The race will be at 4:30 p.m. on Third Avenue. The race will begin and end at Town Square. Prizes will be awarded for the best Santa costume and for race winners. Stop by the Chamber for registration forms. The Polar Plunge event will also take place Saturday. The event will be held in the Wells Fargo parking lot adjacent to Town Square. The setup will start at 1:30 p.m. with the event starting at 2 p.m. Local groups are encouraged to participate in the holiday festivities by

hosting booths with cider, holiday goodies and trimmings. There is no fee to participate — just call the Chamber to confirm participation. While out and about check out the holiday happenings at your favorite shopping stops. Let the local mer-chants help you with your holiday list of making Christmas wishes come true. Don’t forget to get your Christmas Cash loan to help with your Christmas shopping. This time of year, the calendar is full of wonderful events and activities for all. Please check out the holiday calendar for more details www.havre-chamber.com or on our Facebook page. As we take time for family and friends over the holidays, let us be thankful for this wonderful city that we live in and for the people who make Havre a great place to live and shop. These activities are planned to take place, weather permitting. Should there be any changes in the schedule due to inclement weather, please stay tuned to our local radio stations.Havre Area Chamber of Commerce

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Campaigns hit sour notes in 2016 Win or lose, after Election Day it’s safe to assume that one or both of the presidential candidates will be singing a different tune. Thank good-ness for that. Hillary Clinton’s campaign anthem, the inane pop tune “Fight Song” by Rachel Platten, has some staffers covering their ears and many supporters tweeting disapprov-al. Why a potential president would choose to bound across the stage accompanied by the blaring lyric “wrecking balls inside my brain” is hard to figure. Adapting popular songs for use on the stump goes back to the start of the 19th Century, but at least in John Adams’ case (“Adams and Liberty”) and James Madison’s (“Huzzah for Madison, Huzzah”) the ditties were literally about the campaigns. Nowadays, do candidates even take note of the lyrics they’re promoting? Clinton’s “Fight Song” says: “I don’t really care if nobody else believes,” which is antithetical to the entire purpose of a political cam-paign. Donald Trump is frequently played on with the 1969 Rolling Stones tune “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” which, if nothing else, seems to confirm Trump’s poll numbers. And the lyrics are reminis-cent of what Trump and Billy Bush might sing on bus trips: “I saw her today at the reception / A glass of wine in her hand / I knew she would meet her connection / At her feet was her footloose man.”

Mick Jagger has publicly disap-proved of Trump’s use of the song, joining a list of artists who aren’t keen on such a connection. The British pop star Adele asked Trump to stop using her music after dozens of rallies at which he played “Rolling In the Deep,” and “Skyfall”: “I know I’d never be me without the security of your loving arms keeping me from harm ... .” Earlier this year, as Trump stoked fears about immigration he went so far as to read aloud lyrics of Al Wilson’s song “The Snake.” It’s about a woman who helps a dying snake, only to have it fatally bite her. Trump’s audience was left to wonder if the message was about undocu-mented immigrants or a presidential candidate: “‘Oh shut up, silly woman,’ said the reptile with a grin, ‘You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in!’” During Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign in 2008 she conducted an online poll among supporters to find an appropriate rally song. She wound up using Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s “Takin’ Care of Business” and the somewhat odd

selection of Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5”: “It’s a rich man’s game, no matter what they call it / And you spend your life putting money in his wal-let.” This time around, the Clinton campaign hired a music company to find the perfect tune. That led to Clinton’s Official Campaign Playlist of 23 songs, all less than two decades old. Among them Kelly Clarkson’s “Stronger”: “You think you got the best of me / Think you’ve had the last laugh / Bet you think that everything good is gone / Think you left me broken down … .” Watching Clinton, 69, and Trump, 70, dance to the beat of these modern drummers is enough to make you yearn for FDR’s theme, “Happy Days Are Here Again” or Harry Truman’s totally sappy yet spot on, “I’m Just Wild About Harry.” H. Ross Perot had the properly prescient tune when he ran as an independent. His rally song, even more appropriate today than in 1992, was Patsy Cline’s “Crazy.” —— Peter Funt can be reached at www.CandidCamera.com. He is a writer and speaker. His book, “Cautiously Optimistic,” is available at Amazon.com and CandidCamera.com

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Havre Police Department Joshua James Fredrick Nimmick of Havre, 38, was issued a summons on a charge of criminal contempt related to a 24/7 Sobriety Program viola-tion Tuesday at 8:07 a.m. at the police department. —— Kevin Bigby of Havre, 33, was issued a summons on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after a Fourth Street caller reported Tuesday at 10:41 a.m. that her husband had been drinking and was causing a disturbance and needed to go back to treatment. —— Officers investigated a van-dalism report after a 10th Avenue caller reported Tuesday at 12:34 p.m. that a vehicle had been damaged with a baseball bat. —— Officers investigated a theft report after a First Street West business caller reported Tuesday at 3:29 p.m. that beer had been stolen. —— Officers made two arrests during a motor vehicle stop on Ninth Avenue Tuesday at 4:21 p.m. No further information had been provided. —— Officers investigated a motor vehicle crash report after a 17th Street West caller report-ed Tuesday at 6:46 p.m. that their car was backed into. —— Officers investigated a found property report after a 12th Avenue caller reported Tuesday at 8:28 p.m. that a bicycle had been left in the driveway. —— Officers responded to a request from a First Street busi-ness caller who asked Tuesday at 9:20 p.m. to check on a grandaughter who had run away. Tia Francine Gardipee of Havre, 19, was arrested on a Justice or City court warrant, and Barbara Arvi l larose Gardipee of Havre, 24, was issued a summons on charges of obstructing a peace officer.

—— Officers investigated a juve-nile status offense after a Havre area caller reported Tuesday at 11:36 p.m. that her daughter had not come home.

Hill County Sheriff’s Office Deputies investigated a theft report after a Box Elder school caller made a report Tuesday at 9:35 a.m. —— Gabriel Lewis Lawrence of Havre, 47, was arrested on a state District Court warrant and a charge of driving with a sus-pended or revoked driver’s license Tuesday at 12:52 p.m. during a motor vehicle stop on the 200 Block of 10th Avenue. —— Triston Alexander Ehry of Havre, 18, was arrested on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia and on a Justice or City court warrant Tuesday at 10:25 p.m. off the south end of Fifth Avenue.

Havre Fire Department Emergency medical person-nel responded to seven calls Tuesday and one today.

Animal Shelter The animal shelter held this morning a brown female weima-raner-pit bull mix, a black and brown shepherd mix, a brown pitbull mix, a yellow Labrador-shepherd mix, a black pitbull mix and a tan terrier mix. —— The animal shelter held this morning a tiger-striped gray cat, a 9-week-old orange kitten, two gray and brown 9-week-old kittens, three black Siamese mix 3-month-old kittens, a 3-month-old gray kitten, one black and white 1-year-old kitten, an orange kitten, a tiger-striped cat, a gray kitten and a gray adult tom cat, an orange kitten and a gray long-haired cat.

Births A girl was born Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, to Jason and Tiffany Castillon of Havre.

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Beulah Skoyen CHINOOK — Beulah Skoyen, 92, longtime Chinook-area resident, passed away Oct. 30 at Sweet Memorial Nursing Home. Funeral services will be

held at the American Lutheran Church in Chinook Nov. 3, 2016 at 11 a.m. Burial to follow at Kuper Memorial Cemetery. Condolences for the family may be left at edwardsfuner-alhomemt.com.

For the Record A police log entry printed on Page A5 of Monday’s edition of the Havre Daily News included incorrect information provided by the Havre Police Department indicating that when Kelsey Marie Grandberg of Havre, 22, was arrested Friday the arrest included suspicion of revocation of a suspended or deferred sentence. Havre Police Chief Gabe Matosich said that suspicion was for another person involved in the incident and Grandberg is not serving a deferred or suspended sentence.

From FWP Fish, Wildlife and Parks game wardens are looking for anyone with information about a bull elk illegally shot near Eddy’s Corner in Judith Basin County. The elk was shot Oct. 14 or 15 and found on Ross Fork Creek about one mile southwest of Eddies Corner just south of

Micks Road in Judith Basin County. The bull elk was shot, its head removed, and the carcass left to waste. Anyone with information is urged to call 1-800-TIPMONT. Informants are kept confidential and rewards up to $1,000 are pos-sible.

Bull elk poached near Eddy’s Corner

BILLINGS (AP) — The state of Montana and U.S. Department of Interior have notified a Wyoming company that they’ll seek compensation for damages caused by more than 30,000 gallons of oil that spilled into the Yellowstone River from a broken pipeline. More than 90 percent of the crude was never recovered fol-lowing the Bridger Pipeline Company accident in January 2015 near Glendive. The river was frozen when the break occurred and the spill tempo-rarily contaminated water sup-plies for 6,000 people living

downstream of the break. Montana Attorney General Tim Fox said it’s too early to say how much money will be sought from Bridger. However, he said the company has so far been cooperative as state and federal officials embark on a lengthy assessment of the damages. Exxon Mob i l recen t l y agreed to pay $12 million in environmental damages for a 2011 spill into the Yellowstone near Laurel, Montana. In both cases, the broken lines had been installed just a few feet beneath the riverbed.

The companies subsequently spent millions of dollars re-in-stalling the lines more deeply beneath the Yellowstone and other river crossings in the state. “You can’t quantify the damage to our wildlife in a sit-uation like this. That resource is precious and, I would argue, irreplaceable,” Fox said. “We need to do better and I think we’re headed in that direction and learning. Federal regulators have rejected proposals to impose an industry-wide mandate for companies to bury pipelines

more deeply. However, many pipeline operators in the region have taken such actions volun-tarily in the years since the Exxon spill. Earlier this month, the state land board approved a proposal by the Yellowstone Pipeline Company to re-bury two sections of 10-inch oil pipe-line that cross beneath the Clark Fork River at locations in Granite and Missoula coun-ties. The crossings were origi-nally installed in 1954 and 2005 and had become potential safe-ty risks.

State seeks damages for Yellowstone oil spill

Coal company to resume exports to Asia CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Gillette-based Cloud Peak Energy will again export coal to Asia, a positive sign in a troubled industry. Some coal companies filed for Chapter 11 and prices fell to their lowest level in three decades over the last year,. “The last few months has been very positive for Cloud Peak Energy and certainly a

big improvement from the first half of the year,” Cloud Peak President Colin Marshall said during an analysts’ call. “At the same time, the recent dramatic improvement in international thermal coal prices has allowed us to contract to export approxi-mately one million tons between November and February next year.” The company’s third quarter

losses totaled $1.6 million com-pared to last year’s $9 million gain during the same time peri-od. Marshall said the company will export about a million tons from November to February. “Demand growth in South Korea, Vietnam, and Taiwan continues its forecast, giving an overall positive outlook,” he said. “At the same time supply

from Indonesia and Australia appears to be constrained due to low capital spending in recent years.” He noted no injuries among the 1,200 workers in the third quarter. “There were no environmen-tal citations at any of our sites during the quarter,” he said. “It is now over two years since our last environmental citation.”

4 teens face arson charges in Hamilton fire HAMILTON (AP) — A campfire that wasn’t complete-ly extinguished caused a wild-fire near Hamilton that burned over 13 square miles of forest land, destroyed 16 homes and 49 outbuildings and cost $11 million to fight, Ravalli County officials said in filing charges against four teens. Three 18-year-old Hamilton men and a 16-year-old girl face felony and misdemeanor negli-

gent arson charges for the Roaring Lion fire, which began July 31 and led to the evacua-tion of about 600 homes. One homeowner suffered a fatal heart attack while preparing to evacuate. Steven Banks, Tyler Landon Johnson and Cody William Knez received summonses Thursday to appear in Justice Court Nov. 1, county attorney Bill Fulbright said Friday. The

girl will face her charges in Youth Court. Fulbright did not know if they had attorneys. The felony charge alleges the fire put people in danger of death or serious bodily injury while the misdemeanor charge alleges they placed property in danger of damage or destruc-tion. The teens told investigators they poured water on the fire and covered it in dirt on July

28, but an investigation deter-mined the fire slowly spread east from the campfire ring until a cold front caused the fire to blow up three days later. Court records say the case was solved when a civilian investigator matched a picture of the spot where the fire started with a photo the girl posted on Instagram.

Canadian man pleads guilty to walking on Yellowstone spring MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — One of four Canadian men accused of walking onto a sensitive hot spring at Yellowstone National Park has pleaded guilty to the charges. The National Park Service says Hamish McNab Campbell Cross pleaded guilty Tuesday to foot travel in a thermal area and disor-derly conduct by creating a hazardous condition. He agreed to pay more than $8,000 in fines and fees. Three other men pleaded not guilty in the May 14 incident. Prosecutors say they left a boardwalk that visitors are required to stay on and stepped onto a geothermal feature. The men were traveling together as part of a group called High on Life SundayFundayz. Photos on social media showed some of them taking selfies while on the hot spring. Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk said the judge’s decision sends a message about thermal feature protection and safety.

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High School Volleyball

Havre at Eastern AIn Laurel

Thursday

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Havre at Eastern AIn LaurelNorthern CAt Conrad

Friday

High School Volleyball

Havre at Eastern AIn LaurelNorthern CAt Conrad

College Basketball

Skylights vs C. Baptist, 4 p.m.Lights at UGF Classic

College Volleyball

Skylights vs LC State, 7 p.m.

Hockey

Glacier at Bozeman

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Lights at S. Oregon, 1 p.m.

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Chris PetersonHavre Daily Newscpeterson@havredailynews.com The 2016 season has been a challenging one for the Havre High volleyball team, but it's also one that is far from over. And this weekend, the Blue Po-nies will have a chance at re-demption as they get set for the Eastern A Divisional. The great thing about high school sports, especially ones like volleyball that use postsea-son tournaments to determine divisional and state champi-ons, is that even though a team like HHS (7-12, 3-5) hasn’t had a great season, it still has a chance to turn things around. However, in order to do that, Havre will have to survive to-night’s play-in match against Laurel, which will get underway at 6 p.m. Laurel is not only hosting the first-round match, it’s hosting the entire Eastern A Divisional, which runs through Saturday. The top four teams will advance to the Class A state tournament next week in Bozeman. If the Ponies win the match, they are officially into the East-ern A Super Divisional and from that point, will be part of the double-elimination tourna-ment. Yet, if they lose to the Lo-comotives, the 2016 season will be over. “I still think the biggest thing for us is finding some consis-tency,” HHS head coach Tame-cia Jarvis said. “We have talent. At times, we have shown that we can play really well, we just haven’t been able to find that consistency that we are going to need to beat good teams.” Case in point was the Ponies’ match last Friday against Lewis-town, which finished the Central A tied for first place. Havre lost to the Eagles in four sets, but if a few points here and there had gone another way, the Ponies could have easily been the vic-tor. It's those little things that Jarvis said will need to change for Havre to get hot and make a run this week. “Lewistown is a good team,” Jarvis said. “And we stuck right with them. So it shows what we are capable of. We just have to

get everyone working as a team and playing well together.” Of course, that’s always easier said than done. Yet sometimes, playing with your back to the wall is what brings out the best in teams and that’s certainly what the Ponies will be hoping for against Laurel. Havre, which has four seniors in Naomi Terry, Jacey McDon-ald, Claire Worm and Ceyara Plante, will be looking for those players to lead the way. McDon-ald and Plante are both among the Central A conference lead-

ers in blocks, while Terry and Worm are both solid all-around players who contribute consis-tently in multiple areas of the game. Outside of those players, the Ponies will also be looking for contributions from Logan Hueb-sch, who is among the Central A leaders in aces, Camryn Huston, Sam Oliver, Alex Donaldson and Alex Barkus. Paige Nelson has also played better and better the past few weeks and will also play an important role around the net for HHS.

While the Ponies had a diffi-cult regular season, it was noth-ing compared to what Laurel experienced. The Locomotives went 0-10 in Eastern A regu-lar season play and finished the season 0-13. They will need their first win of the year if they are going to eliminate Havre. If the Ponies do beat Laurel, they would then turn around and play the winner of Browning (1-16, 0-8) and Glendive (4-9, 2-8), Thursday at 11 a.m. From there, the winner would take on Billings Central (13-3,

10-0) Thursday at 7 p.m. The oth-er first-round matchups feature Sidney (9-3, 7-3) battling Lewis-town (12-9, 7-1), Hardin (10-5, 7-3) going head-to-head with Livingston (5-14, 3-5) and Miles City (7-8, 4-6) taking on Bel-grade (20-4, 7-1). Those matches will all take place Thursday in Laurel. The semifinal on the winner's side of the bracket will be held Saturday at 1 p.m., with the championship match following later that same day at 5 p.m. All matches will be held at Laurel High School.

George FergusonHavre Daily News sports editorgferguson@havredailynews.com Just last year, the University of Montana Lady Griz blud-geoned the Montana State Uni-versity-Northern Skylights in early November. However, his-tory didn’t repeat itself one year later. Tuesday night, the No. 16 Sky-lights were back in Dahlberg Arena for another exhibition with the Lady Griz, and this time, while the outcome didn’t change, things were decidedly different as Northern hung with the Griz, even pulling to within four points with a minute to go, before finally falling 64-56. The game won’t count against the Sky-lights’ 3-0 record, but, head coach Chris Mouat felt it will serve to make his team better going forward — something that last year’s meet-ing may not have done. “We put forth a great effort, we bat-tled,” Mouat said. “I was really happy with how our kids hung in there and weren’t in-timidated this time. We always want to win and tonight was no different, so we still fell short. But there’s a lot of things we can learn from this game.” Northern showed resiliency, falling behind by double digits in the first quarter. But, big buck-ets from Natalee Faupel helped

the Skylights climb to within six at 17-11. The Lady Griz pulled ahead again early the second stanza and, thanks to big plays inside from senior Alycia Sims, led 33-22 at intermission. The two teams played even in the third as Northern got hot from the field. Then, MSU-N got even closer when it ripped off a 16-4 run that carried into the fourth stanza, and with just over

a minute to go, the Skylights trailed just 60-56. But, another bucket by Sims ended Northern’s run, and the Skylights ended up falling short in a great battle that even impressed Montana first-year head coach, longtime Robin Selvig assistant and former Lady Griz great Shan-non Schweyen. "They (Skylights) are a good team, and they are experi-

enced," Schweyen said. "They were down, and they kept battling. We tried to get everybody in the game, but it was tough because they kept answering." Mouat saw the same thing happening the other way too. “Credit Montana,” Mouat said. “Every time we would have a good possession, they would come right back and counter it with a big three, or a big basket inside.

They just always had the an-swers and a lot of those shots were absolute daggers. “It’s the Lady Griz,” he con-tinued. “Nothing has changed. They are a very, very good

program and they have a lot of talent. They were physical and strong and they can shoot it. We made it competitive and that’s good. But they were certainly the more physically dominant team, and they came up with all the big shots and rebounds when they need them.” Northern got great shots and great performances too. Faupel finished with 14 points, while fel-low senior Sierra Richards had a huge game, with 14 points and nine rebounds. Jacy Thompson added nine points, while Shiloh McCormick and Brandy Lam-bourne combined for 10 off the bench as Northern shot 37 per-cent from the field. On the other side, the Griz shot 50 percent from the floor, made five three’s and got 17 points and 11 boards from Sims. Freshman Taylor Gologoski added 16 points and Gabi Harrington scored 11, while UM out-rebounded the Skylights 36-28. Northern will now come home to restart the regular season with a matchup against NAIA member Central Baptist Friday afternoon. Tipoff is set for 4 p.m. in the Armory Gymnasium.

Lady Griz 64, Skylights 56

Northern 11 11 16 18 – 56Montana 17 16 16 15 – 64

MSU-N – Kealani Sagapolu 2, Sierra Richards 14, Jacy Thompson 9, Natalee Faupel 14, Molly Kreycik 3, Katie Fetterer 4, Brandy Lam-bourne 5, Peyton Filius 0, Shiloh McCormick 5, Makhayla Farmer 0. Totals: 19-51 14-20 56.

UM – Alycia Sims 11, Mekayla Isaak 6, Sierra Anderson 6, Taylor Gologoski 16, Madi Schoe-ning 4, Maddie East 2, Gabi Harrington 11, Jace Henderson 2. Totals: 28-55 3-6 64.

3-pointers: MSU-N 4-15 (Faupel 2, Lambourne 1, McCormick 1), UM 5-10 (Gologoski 2, Har-rington 3). Rebounds: MSU-N 28 (Richards 9), UM 36 (Sims 11). Fouls: MSU-N 10, UM 18. Fouled out: None.

Richards

Faupel

Chris PetersonHavre Daily Newscpeterson@havredailynews.com While the Montana High School football playoffs head to their second week, another sport, volleyball, takes another step in its postseason as divi-sional tournaments will be held across the state starting this week. One of those tournaments is the Northern C Divisional which is being held in Conrad and kicks off Thursday. That divisional will be of interest to fans along the Hi-Line, because not only will the Chinook Sugar-beeters be in attendance, so will the North Star Knights. Chinook will play the opening game of the tournament against Centerville. That will take place Thursday at 9 a.m. North Star will also play Thursday, with the Knights' match against Simms scheduled for 12 p.m. The Beeters, who qualified for divisionals after capturing their fourth consecutive District 6C East championship last week-end, will not only be looking for the second straight berth in the Class C State tournament but also to repeat as Northern C champs. Thanks to the District 6C East title, the Beeters posted a per-fect record against district op-ponents for the second straight year and with a veteran-laden roster, Chinook is poised to make another deep postseason run. The Beeters, who possess a deep and talented roster, are led by a slew of standout players. Among them is Kourtney Han-son, who has turned into one of Chinook's best hitters and block defenders. Hanson had a stellar district tournament, leading the team in kills in multiple games, while also notching six blocks in the championship game against North Star. Yet, Hanson is far from the only big gun on the roster.

Seniors Kelsey Mathon and Taylor Neibauer also play key roles. Mathon is Chinook's set-ter and leads the team in as-sists, but at times, she also has been very productive as a hitter, as evidenced by her team-high nine kills in the district title game. Mathon is also a stand-out on defense and is among the team leader in digs as well. Neibauer, on the other hand, is a do-it-all player for Chinook. She contributes on the defen-sive block and is solid when it comes to serving. She is among a number of players such as Si-erra Swank and Courtney Hofer that contribute in a multitude of ways. The Beeters, who come in as one of the tournament favorites, will have to fight off an upset attempt from Centerville, the third-place team from the Dis-trict 7C. If the Beeters win, they will take on either Great Falls Central, the No. 2 team from the 7C, or Power, the second-place team from the District 6C West.

On the other side of the brack-et, North Star, the second-place squad from the 6C East, will meet Simms, the champion of the 6C West. The Knights will be led into action by Lily Pederson, Paij Peterson, Sheridan Spicher, Sheridan Pena, Katelyn Han-son, Mystic Farinas and Peytan King. The Knights may not posses any true star players, but they are a deep team and one that is also hoping to make a run at a state tournament berth. If North Star can get past Simms, which will be no easy task, the Knights will face either Belt, the cham-pion of the 7C or Sunburst, the third-place finisher from the 6C West. The four winning teams from the first round will play at 6 and 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The semifi-nal on the winner's bracket will take place Friday at 7 p.m. and the championship match will get underway Saturday at 4 p.m. All matches will be played at Con-rad High School.

Blue Ponies start Eastern A Divisional tonight against Laurel

Havre Daily News/Colin ThompsonCeyera Plante, middle, and the Havre High volleyball team has a do-or-die match against Laurel tonight to start the Eastern A Divisional in Laurel. With a win, the Blue Ponies would continue on in the tournament, but a loss would end Havre's season.

Havre Daily News/Colin ThompsonSheridan Spicher and the North Star Knights will join the Chinook Sugarbeeters as the two District 6C East teams at this week's Northern C volleyball tournament. The tourney runs Thursday-Saturday in Conrad.

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QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRAAssociated Press BARTELLA, Iraq — Iraqi special forces paused their advance in an eastern district of Mosul today to clear a neigh-borhood of any remaining Islamic State militants, as forc-es further to the south of the city took four small villages, military officials said. In Mosul’s easternmost Gogjali district, special forces could be seen going house to house while sappers searched the road for explosives and booby traps left behind by the jihadis driven out a day earli-er. Gen. Abdul-Ghani al-Asadi, the top counterterrorism forces commander, told reporters a curfew had been imposed in the neighborhood while gains there were being consolidated. “We fear that Daesh mili-tants could attack our forces or the town with mortars,” he said, using the Arabic acronym for IS. “So for the safety of the families we ask them to stay inside their houses.” He spoke in the town of Bartella, some 9 miles behind the front lines. Brig. Gen. Haider Fadhil said that no advances were planned while high humidity and clouds obscured the view of aircraft and drones — a key component to the operations provided by a U.S.-led air cam-paign. The guns were largely silent in Gogjali, which is inside Mosul’s city limits but just out-side more urban districts, although sporadic rifle cracks could be heard as well as some army artillery fire on IS posi-tions. Fadhil said special forces had detained three suspected IS militants in the area. The pause came a day after

Iraqi troops set foot in the city for the first time in more than two years, gearing up for urban warfare expected to take weeks, if not months. In the next stage, troops will have to navigate streets likely lined with booby traps, fighting house-to-house while trying to avoid killing civilians, more than one million of whom are still in the city. Further to the south, where progress has been much slower, Federal Police forces captured four small villages outside the Hamam al-Alil area, over 19 miles from Mosul, the army

said. The largest of the four is Min Gar, some 6 miles west of Hamam al-Alil, spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool said of this operation. Mosul is the last major IS stronghold in Iraq, and driving the militant group from the city would be a major blow to its ambitions of creating a c ros s -border “ca l i pha te” stretching into Syria. IS announced the project in Mosul in 2014, after it routed the much larger Iraqi military, which had been neglected and demoralized by corruption. However, concern over the

fate of civilians caught up in the fighting has been growing, after residents reported that IS militants were rounding up thousands of people to use as human shields and killing those with suspected links to the security forces. According to one account given to The Associated Press, the fighters went door to door in villages south of Mosul, ordering hundreds of people at gunpoint to march north into the city, where urban fighting is expected to be heaviest and the presence of civilians will slow the army’s advance as it

tries to avoid killing innocents. In the latest international condemnation of IS, which has carried out mass killings of perceived opponents in the past and boasted about them in grisly photos and videos circu-lated online, the United Nations called on authorities to collect evidence of IS abuses of civil-ians for future use by tribu-nals. The Norwegian Refugee Council warned that more than 1 million civilians trapped inside Mosul “are in grave dan-ger” as Iraqi troops advance into the city. The aid group, which works with refugees and internally displaced people, said that around 18,000 Iraqis have fled their homes since the start of the massive Mosul military operation over two weeks ago. Its Iraq chief, Wolfgang Gressmann, said the agency’s aid workers were “bracing ... for the worst.” “The lives of 1.2 million civilians are in grave danger, and the future of all of Iraq is now in the balance,” he said Adama Dieng, special advis-er to the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the prevention of genocide, also expressed concern over “the increasing risk” of sectarian violence or revenge attacks during the Mosul campaign, especially where state-sanc-tioned Iraqi Shiite militias are approaching Sunni communi-ties. “Any kind of retaliatory vio-lence against individuals on the basis of their membership of a specific group is unaccept-able,” he said in a statement released Tuesday. Political rhetoric on the issue has been heating up,

after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recent ly warned that Turkey would be closely monitoring Shiite mili-tias’ behavior in northern Iraq and seeking to safeguard the rights of ethnic Turkmens there. Erdogan said the Iraqi Shiite militias could prompt a Turkish response if they “ter-rorize” the Iraqi-Turkmen town of Tal-Afar. Turkey’s defense minister said Tuesday his country was making preparations for “all kinds of possibilities” as the Turkish military began deploy-ing tanks and other vehicles to the border town of Silopi. In a televised speech later that evening to praise the Mosul operation, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi down-played an escalation. “We don’t want war with Turkey. We do not want confrontation with Turkey,” he said. But if one happens, “we are ready.” S e p a r a t e l y, A m n e s t y International said government-sanctioned tribal Sunni fighters taking part in the Mosul opera-tion had carried out revenge attacks against men and boys they suspected of being IS mili-tants in newly-liberated areas. Fighters from the Sabawi tribe, originally from Mosul, unlawfully rounded up civil-ians, beat them with metal rods, gave them electric shocks and tied some of them to the hoods of vehicles and paraded through the streets or placed in cages, the London-based group said in a report based on interviews with local officials and eyewitnesses. ___ Associated Press writers Sinan Salaheddin and Brian Rohan in Baghdad contributed to this report.

AP Photo/Felipe DanaA Iraqi soldier stands near a checkpoint Tuesday as smoke rises from burning oil fields in Qayara south of Mosul, Iraq. The U.N. human rights office is lauding efforts by the U.S.-led coalition in the battle against the Islamic State group in Mosul. The office in Geneva says coalition flights over Iraq have largely succeeded in preventing IS from bringing in 25,000 more civilians to the city center, where the militant group has been using people as human shields as Iraqi forces advance on Mosul.

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Putin offers new pause, exits for Syrian’s besieged Aleppo MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian president offered today a new unilateral humanitarian pause for Syria’s war-ravaged Aleppo, urging rebels to use it to leave the city’s eastern, besieged districts. The Syrian rebels quickly dismissed Vladimir Putin’s initiative. Putin has ordered that the aid corridors — which Russia had opened earlier — also be open Friday, for longer hours, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., along with two new exit routes for the rebels to leave eastern Aleppo “in order to prevent a senseless loss of life,” the defense ministry said. One exit leads to the Turkish border, the other to the city of Idlib, according to the ministry. Chief of the Russian General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov said he was “calling on all lead-ers of armed groups directly to cease hostilities and leave

Aleppo with their weapons.” Gerasimov also said the rebel offensive on the Syrian govern-ment-held districts in western Aleppo, which was launched last week, has failed to break through the siege. “They have no chance to break out of the city,” he added. Rebel groups in Aleppo dis-missed Russia’s latest offer, with one of the groups describing it as a media stunt for “public con-sumption.” Yasser al-Youssef, a spokes-man for the Nour el-Din el-Zinki rebel group, said Russia “is not serious” and its latest initiatives “don’t concern us.” He added that the Russian leader’s com-ments do not reflect the reality on the ground. “We need an international commission to check the Russian lies,” al-Youssef said. Molhem Ekaidi, deputy com-

mander of Fastaqim group, one of the major rebel factions fight-ing inside Aleppo, also accused the Russians of lying. “The (Russian) shelling and crimes continue and their planes have not left the skies of Aleppo,” he said. Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said other countries involved in Syrian peace negotiations have “sabotaged” the process by back-ing militant groups intent on top-pling Syrian President Bashar Assad. Lavrov spoke today at the start of a visit to Greece, a NATO and European Union member that has maintained close ties with Russia. He did not name any countries. Peace talks on Syria have involved U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and foreign ministers of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Iran.

JULIE PACEJONATHAN LEMIREAssociated Press FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Hillary Clinton is pressing into reliably Republican Arizona as she tries to steal a state away from Donald Trump. Her rival, reinvigorated by the FBI’s new email review, is laser-focused on Florida, a marquee battleground state he can’t win the White House without. With less than a week until Election Day, both candidates are warning of dire consequenc-es if the other is elected. Trump says Clinton would be under investigation as president, sparking a “constitutional cri-sis,” though the FBI has declined to prosecute her for her handling of classified information. Clinton has vowed the FBI will have “no case” after reviewing new emails, but her campaign is ner-vous about tightening polls and ramping up attacks on Trump, hoping to scare away voters who could still be persuaded to back him. On her own Florida swing Tuesday, Clinton hammered Trump as dangerous and divi-sive, highlighting in particular his treatment of women. “When I think about what we now know about Donald Trump and what he’s been doing for 30 years, he sure has spent a lot of time demeaning, degrading, insulting and assaulting women,” Clinton said. Always important in presiden-tial contests, Florida has emerged as this year’s most cru-cial state on the road to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. Trump can’t win without carrying Florida, meaning Clinton can deliver a knockout blow if she captures its 29 electoral votes. Even with national polls nar-rowing, Clinton has several more paths to 270 than Trump. Her campaign is underscoring that political reality with a stop in Arizona today, a state that has voted for Republican presidential candidates all but once since 1952. Her team also sees opportuni-ties in North Carolina, a state that voted for president Barack

Obama in 2008 before going Republican four years later. Obama will be hosting a rally with Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter James Taylor in Chapel Hill today, the first of two visits he’s planned this week to the swing state. African-American turnout is down in early voting in the state, raising concerns about a slump that could hurt Democrats. The president told the “Tom Joyner Morning Show” today that the lagging black turnout could threaten Clinton’s pros-pects. He said people who care about his presidency must under-stand that all his accomplish-ments are based on his being able to “pass the baton” to a like-minded successor. Clinton’s campaign says it’s buoyed by early voting turnout among Arizona Democrats, as well as Clinton’s support among Hispanics turned off by Trump’s hardline immigration policies. Democrats have been eying Arizona as a possible swing state in recent years, but believe Trump’s unpopularity with Hispanics has expedited that evolution. Clinton’s renewed focus on Trump’s demeaning comments on women seemed aimed in part at baiting a response from the no tor i ous ly th in - sk inned Republ ican. She notably appeared alongside former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, a

woman Trump criticized for gaining weight. Trump, however, did not immediately take the bait. He spent Tuesday relentlessly on message, eschewing wild tan-gents and political fights in favor of carefully scripted remarks focused on health care and attacks on his opponent. He cau-tioned that Clinton’s plan to strengthen “Obamacare” would lead to dire consequences, although he offered few specifics about his own plan. “If we don’t repeal and replace Obamacare, we will destroy American health care forever,” Trump charged in a speech outside Philadelphia. He also promised, if elected, to call a special session of Congress to replace the law. However, Congress would already be in session when the next pres-ident takes office, raising the question of just what he meant. Still, frustrated Republicans were encouraged that Trump was focusing on policy prescrip-tions — for one day, at least — after a roller-coaster campaign marked by self-created contro-versy and political missteps. Meanwhile, both sides contin-ued to spar over the recent reve-lation that FBI investigators are again probing Clinton’s email practices. A lawyer for Clinton aide Huma Abedin said Tuesday that her client learned from media

reports last Friday that a laptop belonging to her estranged hus-band, Anthony Weiner, might contain some of her emails. The attorney said Abedin has not

been contacted by the FBI about the development and she will cooperate if asked. The revelation has put Democrats on the defensive, at

least briefly, and hurt Clinton’s plans to promote a positive mes-sage over the campaign’s final week. “The Trump campaign is on the offensive and we’re expand-ing our map,” Trump aide David Bossie said, suggesting the cam-paign now sees opportunities to c o m p e t e i n t r a d i t i o n a l Democratic states such as New Mexico and Michigan. Yet few Republican or Democratic operatives view the email news as a game-changer in the race for Senate control. The balance of power in Congress could have profound consequences for the future of health care in America, among other policy debates. ___ Associated Press writers Lisa Lerer, Julie Bykowicz, Steve Peoples and Josh Lederman in Washington contributed to this report.

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AP Photo/Matt RourkeRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks Tuesday during a campaign rally at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire in Eau Claire, Wis.

AP Photo/Andrew HarnikDemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks Tuesday at a rally at Reverend Samuel Delevoe Memorial Park in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

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Iowa officers killed in ambush-style attacks DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two Des Moines area police officers were shot to death early today in separate ambush-style attacks while they were sitting in their patrol cars, and police said they are searching for a known suspect. Officers responded to a report of shots fired at 1:06 a.m. and found an Urbandale Police Department officer who had been shot. Authorities from sev-eral agencies saturated the area after that shooting, and about 20 minutes later discovered that a Des Moines officer had been shot in a patrol car at an inter-section, Des Moines Sgt. Paul

Parizek said. The shootings happened less than 2 miles apart and both took place along main streets that cut through residential areas. “There’s somebody out there shooting police officers. We hope to find him before some-body else gets hurt,” said Parizek, who stopped briefly during a news conference as he worked to control his emotions. The shootings follow a spate of police killings, including ambushes of officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Five officers were killed in Dallas July 7 and three were killed later that month in Baton

Rouge. Des Moines and Urbandale Police later said in a statement that they have identif ied 46-year-old Scott Michael Greene of Urbandale as a sus-pect in the killings, describing him as armed and dangerous and urging members of the pub-lic to not approach him. Police described Greene as white, 5’ 11” and 180 lbs with brown hair and green eyes, last known to be driving a blue 2011 Ford F-150 with Iowa license plate 780 YFR. Police did not explain how they identified Greene as a suspect.

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From USDA WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced the availability of a streamlined version of USDA guaranteed loans, which are tai-lored for smaller scale farms and urban producers. The program, called EZ Guarantee Loans, uses a simpli-fied application process to help beginning, small, underserved and family farmers and ranch-ers apply for loans of up to $100,000 from USDA-approved lenders to purchase farmland or finance agricultural operations. “Over the past seven years, we have been transforming our loan programs at USDA so that they can be attainable and use-ful to all kinds and sizes of pro-ducers,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said. “These EZ Guarantee Loans will help beginning and underserved farmers obtain the capital they need to get their operations off

the ground, and they can also be helpful to those who have been farming for some time but need extra help to expand or modernize their operations. USDA’s Farm Service Agency has offices in nearly every coun-ty in the country, and we encourage all farmers, including those in urban areas, to stop in and inquire about this pro-gram.” USDA also unveiled a new category of lenders that will join traditional lenders, such as banks and credit unions, in offering USDA EZ Guarantee Loans. Microlenders, which i n c l u d e C o m m u n i t y D eve l o p m e n t F i n a n c i a l I n s t i t u t i o n s a n d Ru ra l Rehabilitation Corporations, will be able to offer their customers up to $50,000 of EZ Guaranteed Loans, helping to reach urban areas and underserved produc-ers. Banks, credit unions and other traditional USDA-approved

leaners, can offer customers up to $100,000 to help with agricul-tural operation costs. According to the 2012 Census of Agriculture, 75 percent of all farm operations gross less than $50,000 per year. EZ Guarantee Loans offer low interest rates and terms up to seven years for financing operating expenses and 40 years for financing the purchase of farm real estate. USDA-approved lenders can issue these loans with the Farm Service Agency guaranteeing the loan up to 95 percent. USDA is providing a 90-day period for the public to review and comment on program improvements. To review pro-gram details, visit www.regula-tions.gov, reference RIN 0560-AI34 and follow the instructions to submit comments. More than half of all FSA loans go to new farmers and more than a quarter to under-served borrowers. FSA also offers loans of up to $5,000 to young farmers and ranchers though the Youth Loan Program. Loans are made to eligible youth to finance agricultural projects, with almost 9,000 young people now participating. More infor-mation about the available types

of FSA farm loans can be found at www.fsa.usda.gov/farmloans or by contacting your local FSA office. To find your nearest office location, visit offices.usda.gov. USDA’s EZ Guarantee Loans are an additional tool to support strong local and regional food systems, as well as organic agri-culture. Across USDA, the Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Initiative coordinates the Department’s policy, resources, and outreach efforts related to local and regional food systems. For more information, go online to bit.ly/1U9XP87. Over the past seven years, USDA has helped provide con-sumers a stronger connection to their food with more than $1 bil-lion in investments to over 40,000 local and regional food busi-nesses and infrastructure proj-ects since 2009. Industry data estimates that U.S. local food sales totaled at least $12 billion in 2014, up from $5 billion in 2008. Learn more about USDA investments connecting produc-ers with consumers and expand-ing rural economic opportuni-ties online at USDA Results - New Markets, New Opportunities at medium.com/usda-results.

From Montana FSA BOZEMAN — USDA Farm Service Agency State Executive Director Bruce Nelson has announced that producers who file accurate and timely reports for all crops and land uses, including failed acreage can prevent the potential loss of FSA program benefits. Nelson asked producers to pay close attention to the acre-age reporting dates below for 2017. “In order to comply with FSA program e l i g ib i l i t y requirements, all producers are encouraged to visit their local FSA office to file an accurate crop certification report by the applicable deadline,” he said. The fo l lowing acreage reporting dates are applicable for Montana: • Nov. 15: Apiculture,Perennial Forage, Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) including native grass, fall wheat (Hard Red Winter), and all other fall-seeded small grains • Jan. 2: Honey coveredunder NAP (or 30 days after placement of colonies) •Jan.15:EstablishedStandAlfalfa Seed, Fall Alfalfa Seed and Cherries • July 15: Spring SeededAlfalfa Seed, Forage Seeding, Conservation Reserve Program, Fru i t (excep t cherr ies) , Vegetables, Christmas Trees, and all Spring-Seeded Crops

and any other crops not required to be reported by pre-viously announced deadlines The following exceptions apply to the above acreage reporting dates: • If the crop has not beenplanted by the above acreage reporting date, then the acre-age must be reported no later than 15 calendar days after planting is completed. • If a producer acquiresadditional acreage after the above acreage reporting date, then the acreage must be reported no later than 30 calen-dars days after purchase or a c q u i r i n g t h e l e a s e . Appropriate documentation must be provided to the county office. • If aperennial foragecropis reported with the intended use of “cover only,” “green manure,” “left standing,” or “seed” then the acreage must bereportedbyJuly15. Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program policy holders should note that the acreage reporting date for NAP covered crops is the earlier of the dates listed above or 15 cal-endar days before grazing or harvesting of the crop begins, Nelson said. For questions regarding crop certification and crop loss reports, people can contact the local FSA office and visit Montana FSA online at www.fsa.usda.gov/mt.

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shares and ownership of a farm can change year-to-year, produc-ers on the farm must enroll by signing a contract each program year. I encourage you to contact your local FSA office today to schedule an appointment to enroll.” If a farm is not enrolled dur-ing the 2017 enrollment period, the producers on that farm will not be eligible for financial assis-tance from the ARC or PLC pro-grams for the 2017 crop should crop prices or farm revenues fall below the historical price or rev-enue benchmarks established by the program. Producers who made their elections in 2015 must still enroll during the 2017 enroll-ment period. The ARC and PLC programs were authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill and offer a safety net

to agricultural producers when there is a substantial drop in prices or revenues for covered commodities. Covered commodi-ties include barley, canola, large and small chickpeas, corn, crambe, flaxseed, grain sor-ghum, lentils, mustard seed, oats, peanuts, dry peas, rape-seed, long grain rice, medium grain rice which includes short grain and sweet rice, safflower seed, sesame, soybeans, sunflow-er seed and wheat. Upland cot-ton is no longer a covered com-modity. For more details regard-ing these programs, go to www.fsa.usda.gov/arc-plc. —— For more information, produc-ers are encouraged to visit their local FSA office. To find a local FSA office, visit http://offices.usda.gov.

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Report highlights Montana ‘Beef to School’ partnershipsMSU News Service BOZEMAN — A team of Montana State University researchers, stakeholders and community partners known as the Montana Beef to School Project has written a case study report to help Montana beef pro-ducers, meat processors, schools and communities explore what factors make beef to school pro-grams successful and encourage the use of local beef in every Montana school. The report was released online this week to coin-cide with National Farm to School Month in October. Farm-to-school efforts are increasing nationwide and, as beef is one of Montana’s top agricultural products, beef-to-school efforts are increasing in Montana, according to Carmen Byker Shanks, assistant profes-sor in the MSU Department of H e a l t h a n d H u m a n Development and principal investigator of the USDA Western SARE-funded Montana Beef to School Project. Montana has just over one million residents, approximately 2.5 million cattle, thousands of beef producers, approximately 20 state and federally inspected beef processors and about 145,000 students across 821 schools, Shanks said. “Beef is a natural component of farm to school efforts in Montana,” she said. At the same time, schools, processors and ranchers are fac-ing successes and challenges when attempting to make beef-

to-school programs viable, Shanks said. Between 2015 and 2018, the Montana Beef to School Project is developing an opera-tional framework and toolkit to decrease barriers and increase opportunities for Montana beef to school efforts. The case study report is one output of that work. “These case studies provide lessons learned for producers, processors and schools when entering beef to school partner-ships,” Shanks said. “We want this report to contribute to understanding how to make farm to school generally more feasible in Montana. Farm-to-school pro-grams are one way to ensure that students are connected with their state’s local agriculture and that meals provided at lunch are high in nutrients for opti-mum growth and development.” JoelSchumacher, co-principal investigator of the Montana Beef to School Project and MSU Extension economics specialist, said the case studies are designed to highlight the needs of all key stakeholders in the beef to school process and inform strategies to make it eas-ier to offer local beef to Montana schools. The partnerships repre-sented in the case study span six school districts — Dillon, Hinsdale, Kalispell, Livingston, Somers Lakeside and Whitefish — that include 28 schools and 11,149 students, two producers, Lazy SR Ranch and Muddy Creek Ranch; two processors, Lower Valley Processing and

Ranchland Packing; and one integrated producer and proces-sor, Bear Paw Meats. “Producers and processors seem very open to working with schools and expressed pride in the quality of products and ser-v ices they cou ld o f fer, ” said Tommy Bass, co-principal investigator of the Montana Beef to School Project and MSU Extension livestock environment associate specialist. “While a variety of local beef supply chain models were documented in the case study, all included community values, trust and economic potential as key to beef-to-school partnerships.” The Montana Beef to School Project is a three-year collabora-tive project between several Montana beef producers and processors, schools and many stakeholders represented in the Montana Beef to School Coalition. It is funded by a $220,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Western Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. The case study report was authored by Shanks and JanetGamble at MSU Food and Health Lab in the College of Education, H e a l t h a n d H u m a n Development’s Department of Health and Human Development, Bass and Schumacher of MSU Extens ion , Aubree Roth of Montana Farm to School, and Demetrius Fassas and Mallory Stefan of National Center for Appropriate Technology.

GREAT FALLS — This past weekend Montana Farmers Union held its 101 annual conven-tion in Great Falls at the Best Western Heritage Inn. The week-end was packed with workshops on drones, pulse crops, water rights, pesticide management andkeynotespeechesbyDr.JoeOutlaw and Eric McElvenny and visits from several elected offi-cials including Gov. Steve Bullock, Sen. Jon Tester,Congressman Ryan Zinke and Superintendent of Schools Denise Juneau. Outlaw, of Texas A & M, paint-ed a realistic picture of the farm economy and gave some advice concerning the Farm Bill. He encouraged producers to fight for Title 1 payments and to work with elected officials to get a start on the Farm Bill as soon as possible. Friday afternoon featured a Value Added Ag Business panel featuring Laura Garber with the Montana Poultry Growers Co-op,

David Oien with Timeless Seeds and Brianna Ewert, Farm to Institution Coordinator with Lake County Community Development. “The goal is to improve access to nutritious and fresh foods to our kids, hospitals and other areas,” said Ewert. “This path will lead to expanding markets for our farmers and ranchers.” Laura Garber talked about the new poultry processing plant in Hamilton which is housed on her farm near Hamilton. “This cooperative is extremely valuable for poultry growers,” said Garber. “It’s a great way to provide local food to local peo-ple.” David Oien is a third-genera-tion farmer. Timeless Seeds became known nationwide for their trademarked Black Beluga lentils. Oien talked about the facility, production of his prod-ucts and the company’s commit-ment to sustainable agriculture. On Saturday, Robert Blair who is referred to as the

“Unmanned Farmer” and serves as vice president of Agriculture for Measure, a drone service company, shared his expertise on ways a farmer can use drone technology to reduce inputs and increase productivity. “There is a lot of knowledge on the farm and we need to har-vest that and use that informa-tion and knowledge. When we take a look at technology we need to learn, adapt and set goals.” Blair described the process of using drones and what the tech-nology can tell us. “Looking at images from a manned aircraft is completely different. With drone technology we layer the images. Rather than learning about problems when driving into the field we can use drone technology to do preemp-tive scouting for us. We can ask ourselves: what can I do differ-ently? Did I turn on my corners too fast when digging out the seed, do I need to slow down when seeding?”

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Dear Annie: I am a 25-year-old woman working at a small company with an open floor plan in a nice, spacious office. I sit near "Sarah," who seems irritable about a lot of things, including the sound of eating or drinking. Because of my fast metabolism and active lifestyle, I need to snack every hour or two. At first, Sarah would put on her headphones, start blasting music and sigh loudly when I started eating -- even if it was something quiet, such as a banana. She does the same when another co-worker drinks soda. When it became an obvious pattern, I privately asked a few co-workers (without mentioning Sarah) whether my frequent eating bothers them. They all told me it doesn't bother them. After all, we all snack at our desks, including Sarah. Today Sarah got closer to being openly hostile, giving me a death stare every time I bit a carrot stick. I didn't react, but I'm starting to get uncomfortable. I would eat only on break and lunch if that were enough time, but it isn't. Should I just ignore Sarah's hostile attitude toward me? Should I carefully ask her about what's bothering her or go through a supervisor? We don't have human resources. -- Girl Who's Gotta Eat Dear Girl: The more time I spend writing about this sort of topic and hearing from readers the more I realize there are two types of people in the world: those who can usually tune out background noise and those whose blood pressure starts rising the minute they hear someone opening a bag of chips. I'm guessing Sarah is in the latter camp. The next time you start snacking and Sarah starts glaring, be direct. Ask her whether your eating is bothering her. Then explain what you told me -- that you have a high metabolism and need to eat snacks throughout the day -- and say you'd like to compromise and figure out a way for you to work near each other in harmony. It's always better to clear the air -- especially when you consider how much carbon dioxide Sarah's letting out with all those exaggerated sighs. Dear Annie: This is in response to the couple who have been married for one year and have the "too hot/too cold" problem when sleeping. My husband and I have been married for 32 years. We had the problem that he likes it hot and I like it cold. Many years ago, I bought a mattress pad that has dual heating elements. My husband sleeps with it on high every night. When we had a king-size mattress, I could feel some of the heat. About 10 years ago, we needed a new mattress. We were living in a two-story condo, and they couldn't get a king-size up the stairs because there was a turn in the stairway. So we got two twin beds and pushed them together. The only difference I have noticed is that I no longer can feel the heat from his side of the bed. Hurray! We have a heavier comforter, and if I feel warm, I just throw it off me. My husband sleeps with it almost covering his head. -- Sleeping Like Babies

INTESTINAL ANGINA CAN BE RE-LIEVED WITH INSERTION OF STENT DEAR DOCTOR K: For months I've experi-enced severe pain in my abdomen after eating. After excluding a number of other conditions, my doctor diagnosed intestinal angina. I've heard of angina related to the heart -- is this the same? DEAR READER: The underlying process is the same for intestinal and cardiac angina. Let me explain. Cholesterol-filled plaque and clots can lurk in blood vessels throughout the body. The arter-ies that supply the heart are by far the most common hiding place. But arteries elsewhere in the body can also become severely narrowed by plaque. Clogged vessels in the legs or arms can lead to limb pain during exercise, because the nearby muscles don't get enough blood to work properly. This is called peripheral artery disease, or PAD. People with PAD are also at risk for narrowing in the arteries that feed the intestines. Your digestive system ordinarily gets about 20 to 25 percent of the blood pumped out by your heart. After you eat, blood flow to the stomach and intestines almost doubles. But if plaque causes severe narrowing, not enough of that extra blood reaches the intestines when they're working to digest food. People usually don't develop symptoms unless at least two of the three major arteries to the bowel are involved. These narrowed vessels cause intestinal angi-na. The classic symptom is pain in the abdomen, just above the navel, that occurs about 30 minutes after eating. This pain happens every time you eat, not just some of the time. People often de-scribe the pain as an aching sensation that lasts from one to two hours. Other possible symptoms include diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. Intestinal angina symptoms are so unpleasant that people with this condition are often afraid to eat. Treating intestinal angina means restor-ing blood flow to the intestines. In most cases, doctors thread a catheter (a thin plastic tube) through several arteries until the tip of the cath-eter is at the site of the blockage. Then they in-sert a tiny metal mesh tube (stent) to prop open the artery. (This is very similar to the procedure performed to treat narrowed coronary arteries.) But just like stented coronary arteries, intestinal arteries are prone to re-narrowing. Some people with more advanced disease need surgery. In rare cases, a blood clot may completely block an intestinal artery. This causes intense abdominal pain that can last for several hours. A complete blockage requires emergency sur-gery. Otherwise, the part of the intestine that is downstream from the blockage begins to die. If it is not promptly corrected, the condition is often fatal. The parallels to angina of the heart and a full heart attack are clear. A doctor colleague of mine began to experi-ence abdominal pain following every meal. At first he thought it was heartburn. But he began to wonder if it was intestinal angina. Then one night he was awakened by more severe pain in the same part of his abdomen. He hadn't eaten in seven hours. Fortunately, he realized what was happening, went to the emergency room and then promptly to surgery. They removed a part of his intestine that had died and saved his life.

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The HavreDaily News 119 Second

Street

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papers. Must be 18 yrs old & able to stand for long periods of time. Lift, push or pull 50 lbs. Early morn-

ing & afternoon shift.Pick up an application at

The Havre Daily News • 119 Second Street

If you find an error in your classified ad, please call us before the next day’s paper. The Havre Daily News cannot be responsible for more than one incorrect insertion. Claims cannot be considered unless made within three days from the first date of publication. No allow-ances can be made when errors do not materially affect the value of the advertisement. We do not offer refunds on advertising.

HAY FOR SALE$80/ton first cutting

$30/ton second cutting$80/ton blue joint

Lawrence Miller 357-2371

PARKVIEW APARTMENTS

Studios, 1 & 2 bdrm; all utilities pd. 406-390-2283

Farm and Ranch

FOR SALEOats for sale. $10/CWT

Call 353-2722.

BULLETIN BOARD

Found

FOUND KEYSNumerous sets of keys.

Contact Hill County Courthouse switchboard to

identify. 265-5481

FOR RENT2 bedroom unit close to

Lincoln-McKinley and IGA for rent.

Additional 1 bedroom home in similar location.

945-0628

Very nice 3 bd apt. No Pets.

Call Jim 265-9740Clean 3 bdrm Apt.

no pets, Refs required!265-8677 or 945-3409

Very nice 3 bd apt. No Pets.

Call Jim 265-9740

1x 2x

Shane Ophus Auctioneer

~ Personal Property Appraiser~ Farm & Ranch

Real Estate Agent

Planning our Fall Auction

November 18, 2016Call with your consignments.

406-788-6662

Duplexes

FOR RENT3 bd, 1 ba duplex unit 10

minutes from center city. Ideal for college or active people. All to see. Property affords hiking

trail, room for RVs, quads. 945-0628

SALES/SERVICE

1x 2x2.5

CONCESSIONS MANAGER NEEDED @ HIGH SCHOOL:

An on-line application is available on the web site: www.blueponyk12.com. For further details,

contact Personnel Offi ce 395-8550 - 425 6th Street.

HAVRE PUBLICSCHOOLS

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT:

CONCESSIONSMANAGER

1x 2x2.5

Substitutes needed in multiple capacities: Teachers, Paras, Food Service, Bus Drivers,

Custodians and Warehouseman. Complete on-line application on district’s web site: www.blueponyk12.com – Employment Tab. For other details, contact Personnel

Offi ce, Box 7791 (395-8550) or stop by 425 6th Street. Deadline: Until fi lled

HAVREPUBLIC

SCHOOLS

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT:

SUBSTITUTESNOTICES

Legals

Independence Bank is accepting bids on the

following items:

2013 Can Am Outlander 650 XT ATV

1986 Fresno Motorhome

1997 Holiday Rambler Motorhome.

Bids close on 11/8/2016 at 5:00 pm. Any questions call Mike O. at 265-1241.

Independence Bank reserves the right to refuse any and all

bids.

NOTICES

Legals

GARAGE SALES

Havre West

8TH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS SALE AND

MISC.838 3rd Ave.

Heated GarageFriday 11-4 Saturday 9-4Ornaments, lights, decora-tions, & trees. Baker’s rack, bookshelf, wood futon, new

kerosene heater, & wood stove style elec. heater.

3x5.5

HAVRE SCHOOL DISTRICTPOLICY ON DISCRIMINATIONThe Havre School District does not discriminate on the basis

of race, religion, color, national origin, sex or disability in offering employment or in providing education services, activities, and pro-grams, including athletic and vocational programs, in accordance

with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as mended; Title IX of the Educational Amendments of

1972; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended. The following District staff member has been designated to coordinate

compliance with these requirements:Craig Mueller, Director of Personnel (phone 395-8550).

In addition, inquiries regarding discrimination may be directed toone of the individuals listed below:

Andrew Carlson, Superintendent Carmen Lunak, PrincipalRobins Administration Building Sunnyside Intermediate395-8550 395-8553

Tracy Pare, Principal Dustin Kraske, PrincipalHighland Park Early Primary Havre Middle School395-8555 395-8552

Holly Bitz, Principal Michael Haugen, PrincipalLincoln McKinley Primary Havre High School395-8554 395-8551

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Nault Plumbing & Heating265-9213

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