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By Mike Brandt
Doesn’t seem possible that the
All-Class State Cross Country Meet
is here. It seems like the season
had just started, but here it is the
middle of October and the state
meet is Saturday in Missoula at the
University of Montana Golf Course.
The boys will run at 1:10 and the
girls at 2:10.
Eureka is the defending boys
champions, while Townsend is
the defending girls champions.
Glasgow finished sixth in the boys
competition and the girls eighth.
Last year’s champions Zander
Ackerman of Wolf Point and Hallie
Hatherway of Manhattan have
graduated. In fact the top four in
the boys race have graduated. Wolf
Point sophomore Peyton Summers
could challenge for the title. He was
36th last year.
Lane Thompson was 40th last
year, Reed Larsen 49th, Blake Lloyd
52nd, and Bergen Miller 58th. All of
them figure to finish higher. Dalton
Sand and Kyler Holinde will run in
their first state meet.
Glasgow boys could bring
home some hardware if the Scotties
have an excellent run.
Scotty senior Dalton Sand, pictured here pumping along at the Glasgow “Our goal is to win state,” said
Invitational held on the nature trail in Kiwanis Park, will be competing in his Sand.
first — and only — State Cross Country meet this Saturday in Missoula. continued on page 2
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STEAK FRY GLASGOW “Glasgow hasn’t won for a while,” Sand continued. “We’re
Friday, Oct 22 going to have to push ourselves. I have a personal goal to
5pm~7pm
Last one until January
help the team. I want to PR, but I’m looking to break 17:30.”
Sand opted to run cross country instead of playing
Hosted by LDS Youth Group REGISTRATION football. He wanted to stay in shape for track and it will
FOR 2021-22 help in basketball. The senior did miss a meet a couple
will be done on-line; weeks ago as he had other obligations.
due Wed., Oct. 27 “I had to go to Fairmont for BPA as I’m a state officer,”
Lessons for pre-school he said. “I had to give some speeches and help run the
Public is Welcome through adults conference.”
Itʼs all happening & hockey skating skills The girls will be without Emily See, the sophomore
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the vfw Email: ksk8rgirard@gmail.com seventh last year at the state meet.
“Definitely a big loss,” said senior Iris McKean. “We
Tim the Mail would have had a shot at a trophy with me, Emily, and
Man said this Tanae (Baker). I’m really proud of the freshmen girls that
morning,
stepped up.”
“It’s Brisk!”
McKean will be attempting to finish higher than her
10th place finish last year.
Today: Sunny, with a high near 48. East southeast wind 9 “It’s going to be my last state meet,” said McKean. “It’s
to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. going to be a little emotional for me.”
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly Eve Stone was the only other Glasgow returnee to place
clear, with a low around 28. East southeast wind 6 to 14 last year, finishing 107th.
mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Glasgow tuned up for the state meet with its regular
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 60. East wind around 6 season finale at Harlem Invitational Friday.
mph becoming calm. The boys finished second with 32 points, four behind
Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 31. East Wolf Point, which had 28 points. Summers continues his
wind around 6 mph.
winning ways by posting a 16:38 time. Larsen was the first
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 62. Light east wind Glasgow runner to cross the finish line, running a 16:50 for
becoming east southeast 10 to 15 mph in the morning.
third. Holinde was fifth with a 17:19, Thompson followed
Winds could gust as high as 22 mph.
in seventh with a 17:37, Sand eighth with a 17:38, Miller
Friday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers after midnight.
ninth with a 17:50, Lloyd 13th with an 18:36, and Eli
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 37. East southeast wind
14 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Feezell 15th with an 18:57.
Saturday: A 20 percent chance of showers before noon.
Longtime Glasgow coach Rod Karst also had his
Partly sunny, with a high near 57. East southeast wind 10 extra harriers at the meet with Ted See coming in 21st with
to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. a time of 20:07. Adam Mickelson was 22nd with a 20:12,
Saturday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers after Ben Kompel 31st with a 22:49, Dylan Hlad 38th with a
midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35. East 25:21, Owen Thompson 39th with a 25:23, and James
southeast wind 7 to 10 mph. Seekins 40th with a 25:32.
Sunday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly sunny, The girls won the meet with 57 points. McKean won
with a high near 59. East southeast wind 5 to 10 mph her second race in a row, recording a time of 19:17. Tanae
becoming south in the afternoon. Winds could gust as Baker was 19 seconds behind, running a 19:37. Kyeherah
high as 18 mph.
Bilger came in 12th, running a 23:05, Haylly Turner 20th
Sunday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers before with a 24:38, Eve Stone 22nd with a 25:37, and Mary
midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 36. Southeast
wind around 8 mph.
Dykema 30th with a 28:02.
Karst will be taking six girls and seven boys to the
Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 62. East southeast
wind 7 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.
MHSA 58th Annual All-Class State Cross Country
Championships. McKean, Lloyd, Miller, and Sand are
Tuesday: A slight chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a
high near 59. seniors.
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LEADERSHIP SKILLS October 13th, 2021
• President of the City Council
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• Former President of the Fair Board family, along with many
• Former member of the Refuse Board prayers and well wishes
• Former member of the Montana Association of Student Councils
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• Currently on the Valley County HOPE Project Board (Secretary) Rick was born
• Former Chairman of the Northeast Montana Relay For Life (10 years)
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Letter to the Buzz btw, and wants to make the global language French. It’s
time to brush up on our best Creole-Canadian French -

Soup with CJ
or it’s dialect at least - but run if you hear, “Let zem eat
cake!”
Dear Readers, I personally feel that the only group of people who
I want to apologize for something I wrote in a are warranted to sing that particular song are the original
“Letter to the Buzz” several months ago regarding J. Lo. Americans (Native Americans), whose descendants were
She sung at Biden’s inauguration, “This Land is your born on this land prior to 1492, when “Columbus sailed
Land.” I humbly apologize for making the mistake of the ocean blue.” Don’t you agree? I mean really, you have
thinking she was born in Puerto Rico. Though, I think to agree that Columbus claimed the America “discovery”
she also needs to apologize... to every good singer in like America “claimed” the moon... sticking a flag on it
North America and beyond. and saying, “finder’s keepers.” What, are we 6, 12... 24?
I realized a few weeks ago that she was born in Thank you for reading my most humblest of apologies.
New York City, and felt like a complete dumb-dumb ~ CJ Cheifer
for stating how she could sing “This land is your land,
this land is MY land...” Though it isn’t unheard of me
to take a jab at (most) celebrities, I should’ve left the
CRIBBAGE
birthplace comment alone. Kind of like we should’ve EVERY
left Obama’s perfectly documented Kenya (ahem... I
mean Hawaiian) birthplace alone.
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I knew Bid-Harris would completely screw up our
peaceful delusion and set our economy up in smoke...
so, I critiqued the inauguration severely and wrote
some idiotic stuff, which was publicized (shaking my
head... at myself ). Paparazzi 30, CJ Cheifer 11.
I want to apologize to those I offended with my
stupid, worthless, unnecessary comment about old J. Lo.
She’s done good for herself; makes a lot of money, works
really hard and looks 18 years younger than she is. Even
if she WAS born in Puerto Rico, hasn’t that always been
considered The 51st state (dumb CJ, so dumb)?... well,
until “Congress” tried to pass D.C. as the 51st state on
2-21-2021. I guess the 51st state will always be a ghost
state; plus, where the heck would we put the extra star
on the flag? We’d have to cancel all “old” flags, or ban
flags all together. Ay, ay, ay... make obsolete the current
flag and the global Emmanuel Macron flag will surely
fly! He’s in charge for 6-months starting Jan 1, 2022
Canadian Speed
Control, eh?
While going through some
old stuff, we ran across
this one that the late, great
Charlie Rice sent to us
in 2012. Along with the
photos, it goes like this:
“This is an actual
speed control device that is
currently in use in Canada.
It is MUCH cheaper than
speed cameras, radar
guns, police officers, etc.
Pretty clever — especially
when they move them
around every day. Ain’t Art
Wonderful?”
We couldn’t confirm
if this is (or was) true,
and we didn’t spend much
time tying to find out.
But we can tell you,
some of the highways in
Saskatchewan en route to
Regina have (or had) some
dandy potholes. Mike derby car. Kinda reminded
Stebleton, Dave Helland me of a Grizwald scene.
and myself headed north Truly a prize pothole
for a weekend of The Queen which claimed the muffler
City’s hospitality and in and most of the exhaust
particular, a Roughriders system.
football game. But it wasn’t enough
And we had a rough to drown out the barking
ride before we got there. command coming from
Mike was blazing along the back seat when Big
with that gray Crown Dave exclaimed, “SLOW
Victoria (don’t know if it THIS SON OF A BITCH
was a Crown Vic, but the DOWN!” (Sorry about
name seems appropriate the language, we actually
for a Canadian story, eh?). didn’t put his entire quote.)
Big Dave was riding in One thing for sure,
the back seat when all of a when we finally arrived
sudden wang, bang, thud! in Regina, everyone could
Okay, so we got around to doing a bit of research.
It launched Big Dave’s hear us coming, and they This was actually a marketing stunt designed for
head into the roof of the heard us when we left. manufacturers of vehicle suspensions in South
car, the dust flew, and With the exception of Africa. The concern would be that the road users
suddenly the Crown Vic that pothole it was a most might not slow down and drive into the VERY REAL
sounded like Auzzy’s old excellent adventure. threat of actual pot holes!