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Paityn Britzman, a 5’10” freshman, shows her Scotties 57-37. But Paityn is definitely starting to
wingspan in anticipation of receiving a pass against play great varsity ball and she is in the hunt of
Sidney’s Ella Norby. The Eagles rolled over the defeating Wolf Point is here this Thursday night.

Unhealthy Scotties the Eagles were able to fly past the

fall to the Eagles
By Mike Brandt
It’s been tough on the Glasgow
coaches to put a healthy team on the
floor. Since the start of the season
third-year coach Cami Graham has
been dealing with some illnesses.
In the game against Sidney
Friday night Graham couldn’t put
her regular starters on the floor.
And it made a huge difference as
Scotties 57-37. Up unto that game
the Scotties have been playing
good ball and were in four close
contests.
“We’ve been plagued with
sickness, so I have different kids every
game and we haven’t been healthy
yet,” Graham said. “Hopefully we
can get our feet underneath us and
get better. We still have sickness.
Hopefully through the holidays we
can get a break and get some of the
sickness out.”
The Scotties are a team that
thrives on pressing and trapping.
So far they haven’t been able to do
much of that.
“We have a hard time with
conditioning and we’re not in
shape because of the sickness,” said
Graham. “I wish we were further
along, but just getting healthy,
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 Steve Stebleton - Receives a
Bilateral Lung Transplant:
Steve received a lung transplant at
Stanford University Medical Center in
Palo Alto, California on October 8th,
2023. Steve’s surgery was successful,
and he is recovering at Stanford
University Medical Center, where he
is receiving excellent medical care.
Steve will remain in the hospital
over Christmas, so if you would like to send him words of
encouragement, we are receiving mail at:
PO Box 1571
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Wanna do some black bear hunting?
Bear Identification test
available online only
Beginning this week, the Bear Identification
(ID) test is available online only. Black bear hunters
in Montana are required to pass the Bear ID test
(distinguishing black bears vs. grizzly bears) to obtain a
black bear license.
Previously, hunters had two options to complete
the Bear ID test – online or via a paper test available
at regional offices. The paper test is no longer available,
Blessings to all,
and hunters must now complete the test online.
Mary Stebleton
FWP encourages hunters who have access to a personal

First day
of winter is
Thursday
Above normal temperatures continue over the area. The
coolest temperatures will be near the Canadian Border
and the warmest temperatures will be in the Zortman
and Winnett areas. A cold front Saturday night and
Sunday will bring a chance of light snow. Otherwise,
look for dry weather through the period.
Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 44. Southeast wind
around 6 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 24. East
southeast wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable
after midnight.
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 46. West
southwest wind 3 to 6 mph.
Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 24. South
wind around 6 mph.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 45. South southeast wind
around 6 mph.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 24. Southeast
wind around 7 mph.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 43. East
southeast wind 6 to 14 mph becoming west northwest in
the morning.
Saturday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow before
11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 20.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 35. Northwest
wind 11 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 13.
Christmas Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 34.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 15.
Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 37.
computer or smart phone to complete the test on
their own device. If hunters do not have access to
these resources, FWP staff can administer the test in-
person, at an FWP office, on a limited basis. Hunters
requiring FWP assistance are encouraged to review bear
identification information before taking the test.
If you require assistance, please reach out to your
regional FWP office for help. To complete the Bear ID
test on your own, visit fwp.mt.gov/hunt/education/
bear-identification.
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Luna the Minnesota-
Montana Dog
By April Wamhoff
I made my bi-annual trip to
Montana in November. Man how
time flies. It went by all too fast.
Hunted some. Didn’t bring anything
home but success is not always
measured by that. (So says someone
who didn’t bring anything home,
but still...)
Had a super great time with my
dad and visiting friends. The dogs,
of course, always come, too. Luna
is a bit new to this gig, but, she’s an
Australian Shepard and a herding
dog. She may have been born in
Minnesota but Montana’s wide open
spaces and herding is in her blood.
It was a bit of a different venue
for us with the closing of the Star
Motel. I made reservations when
we left last spring but we got a call
only days before our departure that
they would be closing. It was a bit
of a scramble but ended up in a
lovely airbnb in Nashua that would
allow our fur-babies. Actually an
incredible place and truly a step
up for us. The dogs had a fenced-
in back yard and an entire house to
sack out in.
They went with us almost every
day and it was clear that Luna was
Nibs the Black Lab and Luna, the Australian Shepherd, were fully enjoying
lovin’ this. She’s made herself a place
the wide open spaces out south in what truly is Big sky Country.
in my heart and in the northwoods
of Minnesota but the wide open head and the nose to match alerted more patient than they are when
spaces gave her the zoomies. When her of their presence. They would she’s nipping at my knees. She’d love
she got out of the truck for breaks watch from the truck window. I a cow or 2 or maybe sheep. I’d love to
she would run full on for a half don’t know what either of them train her to herd...umm...something.
a mile before she’d turn around would do if they were face to face They have classes here in
and zoom back. In Minnesota that with a cow and it didn’t seem like Minnesota to teach that. (Egads,
would likely be out of my sight and a good idea to try it out right then. I think I can hear the ranchers
that’s unacceptable but there, “you She was sure interested. laughing at me from there.) Despite
go, girl!” And run she did! It got me to thinking about how the fact that her handler, that’s me,
To the best of my knowledge, dogs are really born and bred for a is not as smart as she is, she’s passed
she had never seen cattle before, job and Luna’s is herding. She tries her obedience classes with flying
but Nibs, my lab with the big blocky to herd me and the other dogs. I am colors. But Luna has a permanent
limp from being in a car accident
before she joined my household.
She was trying to herd a truck. The
vets don’t think her hips would hold
up for herding. What about nose
work they say. Maybe, I guess. She
does need a job. Its hard not to think
about the possibilities.
For now, I’m glad she’s my littlest
Minnesota-Montana fur-baby. She’s
becoming a great little traveler and
is good in motels. We will all be back
in the spring for fishing and visiting.
And we will have to visit the wide
open spaces so Luna can burn off
some zoomies.
Montana’s in our blood, you
know.

Where were you on Christmas day of 1979?

We don’t know how many of you checked out that
histogram put together by the National Weather Service
of Glasgow, published in Tuesday’s Buzz, but the one very
memorable “Brown Christmas” that stands out? We were
riding our Kawasaki 175s in the hills behind Duke &
Cindy Niesken’s house up there in the hills in 1979!
It was indeed Christmas Day, that’s where we were
spending Christmas, and it was so nice out — we’re
talking light jacket weather — that Roy Dean Jimison
and myself spent mid-morning and early afternoon
riding motorbikes between Duke & Cindy’s place and
the Stebletons.
You know, the hill that is now famously called
“Naked”, named by Steve Stebleton and his gang of
gangsters? Well, let’s just say that was one intriguing day
of motorcycle riding, making it all the way to the top of
Naked on the first try.
And Cindy’s turkey turned out perfect to the
delight of us all who were gathered back on that day of
December 25th, 1979.
What a slam dunk of a day! Speaking of slam
dunks, also memorable on that day, we got to watch
Dr. J play. And that was long before he was doing those
cheesy Dr. Chapstick commercials. Now that we’re on
Dr. Chapstick, my favorite player of all time (Yeah,
Michael Jordan with his Haynes underwear was pretty
good too) is Julius Winfield Erving II (born February
22, 1950), one of the most talented players in the history
of the NBA. His high flying hard powered style brought Growing up, Julius Erving was a blast to watch and quickly
the NBA and basketball to levels previously unheard became this old buzzard’s favorite player of all time.
of. He is widely acknowledged as one of the game’s best as a show of power, a method of intimidation, and a way
dunkers. to fire up a team and spectators, Erving demonstrated
Dunking was a practice most commonly used that there can be great artistry and grace in slamming
by the big men, usually standing close to the hoop, to the ball into the hoop, particularly after a launch several
show their brutal strength which was seen as style over feet from that target, one of the few in the history of the
substance. However, the way Erving utilized the dunk game that launch from the freethrow line and hammer
more as a high-percentage shot made at the end of it down.
maneuvers generally starting well away from the basket So, how he get the name Dr. J? He received the
and not necessarily a show of force helped to make the nickname “Doctor” or “Dr. J” from a high school friend
shot an acceptable tactic, especially in trying to avoid a named Leon Saunders.
blocked shot. Although the slam dunk is still widely used continued on page 7
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Christmas 1979 continued from page 5

He explains: “I started calling (Saunders) ‘the
professor’, and he started calling me ‘the doctor’. So
it was just between us...we were buddies, we had our
nicknames and we would roll with the nicknames. ...
And that’s where it came from.”
Erving recalled that “later on, in the Rucker Park
league in Harlem, when people started calling me ‘Black
Moses’ and ‘Houdini’, I told them if they wanted to call
me anything, call me ‘Doctor’”.
Over time, the nickname evolved into “Dr. Julius”
and finally “Dr. J”.
While everybody pretty much considers that
Michael Jordan is the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time), I
hope there is someone out there rather than myself that
recognizes Dr. J as the GOAT. He truly set the standard A guy walked into his friend’s office, he found
for the up and comers. him sitting at his desk, looking very depressed.
“Hey, what’s up with you?”, he asks.
Dr. J even starred in the movie The Fish That Save
“Oh, its my wife,” replied the man sadly. “She’s
Pittsburgh, which came out in 1979, truly a classic? Well,
hired a new secretary for me.”
maybe not. “Well, nothing wrong in that. Is she blonde or
THURSDAY brunette?”
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A police car pulls up in front of grandma Bessie’s
house, and grandpa Morris gets out.
The polite policeman explained that this elderly
gentleman said that he was lost in the park...and couldn’t
find his way home.
“Oh Morris,” said grandma, “You’ve been going to
that park for over 30 years ! So how could you get lost?”
Leaning close to grandma, so that the policeman
couldn’t hear. Morris whispered, “I wasn’t lost.....I was
just too tired to walk home.”
Unhealthy Scotties continued from front HAPPY
that’s the important thing right now.”
Even with different girls out sick the Scotties have
played good defense.
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“They are. We just don’t have the legs to pl;ay full

court and that is our plan this year to trap and play full
BIRTHDAY
court defense and it is the team’s strong point,” Graham
on December 23
said. “Once we get that going it will help them a lot. Our to the “Birth-Day Guy!”
offense will feed off of our defense a lot.” From your Siblings
Graham has been getting good play from her two
post players, 6-foot-1 Hayden Green and 5-foot-10
Paitlyn Britzman.
“We do have strong posts this year. We’re hoping to
use a lot of inside, outside game,” said Graham. “I told
them we would be a really good team if we learn how to
use our posts and the posts know when they are double
teamed to kick it back out so we have a good inside,
outside game. They are starting to get that figured out.
Once we get that perfected that will help.”
Against Sidney we were down two starters so we
didn’t press, so our offense struggled because we didn’t
press,” Graham said. “This team thrives off that press
and it gets them into the game.”
Graham was missing kids so she had to play
different combinations of kids in.
“Things were a lot different, so we challenged them
with that,” she said. “We just couldn’t get rolling like I
wanted to. If we could have pressured them, it would (406) 228-3692
have been a different game.”
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and led 24-13 at the break. Sidney widened the margin
to 41-24 going into the fourth period.
Glasgow (1-3) still got good play from Mayzie
Yoakam. The freshman drained three 3-pointers and
went 7 for 9 from the foul line to lead the Scotties
Christmas
with a game-high 22 points. Green added eight points,
Britzman five, and Riley Evenson-Glasoe two.
Ave Norby led the Eagles with 18 points, Aiyana
Kirn followed with 14, Rhett Rossol and Lily Tranquill
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Ella Norby, Maci Nelson, and Audree Deming two
apiece. The Eagles buried seven treys.
Glasgow hosts Wolf Point Thursday night in the
first District 2B contest. The following night the Scotties
travel to Rocky Boy to take on the Morning Stars. December 18 - 22
“I hope we have more girls back. They are slowly
coming back, it’s just that their legs aren’t under them
yet and their chests are congested,” Graham said. “We’re
going to be careful and get them in and out until they
are healthy.”