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Area Chamber of Commerce Honoring Our Past and Celebrating Our Future is the slogan for Festival Days weekend this year.

For 33 years, this weekend has been a celebration of the end of summer and a time for people from around the area to get together and remember what makes this area so great. This year isn’t any different.

The old standby events will make the weekend uniquely Havre's such as the 48-hour Softball Tournament, the parade, the Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast and many others.

Many newer events are scheduled to back this year, too, such as the car show, barbecue competition and the Summer Sound Challenge. Of course, the events listed above only scratch the surface of what is going on in Havre during Festival Days.

I recommend that you put on your Festival Days Button, look at the schedule

The Chamber is celebrating the 120th anniversary of Havre being a community; thus it was felt only fitting to build this year’s Festival Days around this milestone for the Havre community by “Honoring Our Past and Celebrating Our Future.”

Havre Festival Days is a weekend organized by the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce and orchestrated by many for the whole community to have fun.

I would like to thank every business that contributed to this 33rd celebration of Havre Festival Days, through their purchase of buttons and mugs and through sponsorships of events, and the many volunteers who will help to make the weekend a success.

For 33 years many individuals and organizations have donated their time and talent to the many events that make this weekend happen. Because of their commitment to Festival Days, we again have a full weekend of events and activities for the weekend of Sept. 20–22.

Festival Days has gone from a weekend celebration to a community tradition. It takes lots of hours and the willingness of many to coordinate the weekend and to each of you: Thank you. And thank you to Montana State University-Northern for being our partner sponsor.

We kick off the weekend Friday with some of the old favorites: the Friends of the Library Book Sale, the Festival of Quilts show and the 48-hour Softball Tournament along with a fun event hosted by the Hill County Community Foundation, “A Night

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Run of Special Trains The Run of Special Trains at the Frank DeRosa Railroad Museum will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 21-22.

There will be scaled-down examples of trains from different eras running on the tracks at the museum.

The museum will run these model trains, featuring themes of agriculture, natural resources, the railroad’s role in international transportation and passenger trains.

The Frank DeRosa Railroad Museum is located at 120 3rd Ave.

Jacob Lorang President

of events and see how many you can take in. I guarantee that you will run into some old friends and, if you are nice, you might even make some new ones.

Please remember to thank those who help put on this weekend as it couldn’t happen without the dedication of Debbie and Shari in the Chamber office, as well as all the volunteers who truly make this weekend something to remember.

On behalf of the Chamber, I would like to thank you for taking part in the Festival Days celebration.

Havre Area Chamber of Commerce Debbie Vandeberg Executive director

on the Town.”

Saturday begins as it has for over the last 25 years with a pancake breakfast hosted by the Kiwanis. Satuday Market wraps up an awesome summer that morning at the Town Square and the Festival of Crafts show opens. And what would the weekend be without a wonderful community parade?

Saturday is also an opportunity to enjoy some great barbecue at the Smokin’ BBQ Competition.

If you still have energy, Sunday’s activities include the Festival Run/Walk, another day to explore the Festival Days craft and commercial show and go to the demolition derby.

MSU-Northern will be celebrating homecoming this weekend and holding their Alumni Chinese Scholarship Auction and Dinner. This year, we have the great luck to have both the Northern Lights and the HHS Blue Ponies in town for fall football action.

I look forward to good weather and a lot of fun for your family to enjoy. I thank you in advance for attending Havre Festival Days and for helping us to make this a successful weekend.

Havre Daily News/John Paul Schmidt The Frank DeRosa Railroad Museum will be displaying a run of special model trains Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 21-22, during Havre Festival Days.

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The Havre Festival Days Parade

Old-fashioned Americana at its best Pam Burke community@havredailynews.com

Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown, file A young girl picks up candy during the 2012 Havre Festival Days Parade.

Havre Festival Days 2013 is celebrating its 33rd year and honoring the city's 120th anniversary with its theme "Honoring Our Past and Celebrating Our Future," and though the three-days of festivities has about 22 events for people to attend, one of the most popular is the Saturday parade.

Locals and visitors alike line the parade route to cheer for entries from local schools, clubs, businesses, organizations, political leaders and candidates, and people who just want to be a part of the display. Friends and family meet at prearranged points along the route to take in the sights, and kids race to fill pockets and bags with candy from the sweet offerings handed out and tossed to the crowds.

Though the entrants vary from year to year, crowds are sure to be entertained by bands and music-related floats, dancers, sports teams, kids clubs, antique and soupedup vehicles, large equipment and horses.

The Festival Days parade offers something for everyone.

“It’s that touch of Americana; it truly is.

It’s one of those old, hometown traditional kind of parades where everybody wants to be in it,” or watch it, said Debbie Vandeberg, executive director of the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce, and chief organizer of the parade.

Making the parade float

Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown, file A boy points to a combine during the 2012 Havre Festival Days Parade.

Vandeberg said she has right around 25 volunteers who come in on the day of the parade to help organize the lineup of the parade entries in the Havre High School parking lot.

People preregister their parade entries by the Friday before the parade and that gives organizers an idea of what to expect at the starting point.

However, other than the parade starting with emergency service vehicles with lights and sirens, followed by the color guard then groups and representatives from parade sponsor Montana State University-Northern, the lineup isn’t set before parade day. That’s a big part of what the volunteers do in the pre-parade hours.

“Those people have their marching orders as to how the parade is ... what they’re supposed to do,” said Vandeberg. “There is organization in the process down there, even though people don’t have an assigned number for a location.”

What helps make the process go as smoothly as possible is the guidance of regu-

Havre High School students hand out candy to children during the 2012 Havre Festival Days Parade. lar parade volunteers like Mike and Kathy Palmer, who direct parade entrants as they enter the parking lot, and Tony Vigliotti, who is in charge of getting the parade started on time and insuring that the parade entrants keep flowing out of the line-up area at a steady pace.

Keeping gaps from forming in the parade line is important for the parade watchers, but more importantly, Vandeberg said, it helps keep the parade safe because people will start crossing the parade route on foot and with vehicles if the gaps are too large or numerous.

“We try to keep (parade entrants’ stopping) to a minimum as well. We’ve had some folks that we’ve asked that — if there’s a dance unit or something — that they are not to stop and do anything,” she said. “They have to keep moving because that just breaks down the parade structure, which then goes back to that unsafe environment that we’re trying to avoid.”

Part of that attention to safety caused a major alteration to the parade in 2012: changing the parade route to eliminate blocking 1st Avenue, which is part of U.S.

Highway 2, and to minimize the number of times entrants trying to get back to the high school have to cross 5th Avenue, w h i c h b e c o m e s M o n ta n a S e c o n d a r y Highway 234 at its south end, Vandeberg said.

“When we (disrupt traffic on) two highways, the highway patrol has to come in and do traffic, we require help from the sheriff’s department, we require extra duty from the city police department — and everybody’s been awesome over the years, but after 30-some years of doing that, it had to change,” she said. “It was a tough decision to make.”

That decision was made by the Chamber board with guidance from law enforcement personnel as well as city and county leaders, she said, adding that the decision to make a change was driven by potentially serious problems.

“We had some minor accidents happen, and we just felt it was time to change and make it easier and safer,” she said.

The parade route will, like last year, enter 5th Avenue at Rod’s Drive-In, and head north until turning east onto 4th Street to end at Pepin Park.

Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown, file

The entrants The parade committee and volunteers aren’t the only people working ahead of the event and behind the scenes to make the parade entertaining for all the spectators lining the streets.

Many entries in the parade are created simply with a shined-up pickup truck and flatbed trailer with a sign, or groups walking with a banner or people giving handouts to the crowd, but in recent years, Vandeberg said, more groups and individuals have been putting effort into creating dressier float entries.

S o m e o f t h e f l o a t s a re c re a t e d by long-time parade entrants like Triangle C o m m u n i c a t i o n s, N o r t h e r n M o n t a n a Hospital and Independence Bank.

Others have come from organizations celebrating a special anniversary or a connection to that year’s parade theme, such as the Hill County 4-H’ers who celebrated their clubs’ anniversary along with the county’s anniversary celebration in 2012.

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Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown, file Members of the Havre High School band dance and march during the 2012 Havre Festival Days Parade.

The Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club is a newer group to put together floats for the past few years, and they’ve had quite a bit of success for the time they’ve been together and working on their floats, said Gloria Tilleman, a member of the garden club.

Though Havre and the Hi-Line have had many garden clubs over the years, this particular group came together about three years ago, Tilleman said, and right away they decided to create a float for the Festival Days parade.

That year, 2011, the club won the Mayor’s Choice award for their float, and the next year they won for Best Noncommercial entry for a float that had a replica of the Hill County Courthouse commemorating the county’s anniversary which was the theme of the festival.

“We were thrilled to say the least,” she said about their wins.

Tilleman added that the club decided around July this year to create another float but held off until the first week in September to start design and construction of their parade entry.

“We needed to wait to find out the theme of Festival Days this year,” she said, and with that information, club members came up with a float theme that members feel embodies both their group’s gardening purposes and the annual Festival Days theme.

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48-hour Softball Tournament

The 48-hour Softball Tournament will start 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, and end 6 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 22, at the 6th Avenue Memoril Softball Complex.

“We have 20, at least, teams coming for sure,” said Tammy Boles, who is running the tournament. “There are teams from all around — Canada, Bozeman, Billings, Havre, Helena, Missoula ... .”

Cash prizes given out to first-, second-, third- and fourth-place winners. The size of the cash prizes will depend of the number of teams that sign up for the tournament.

“We get a large turnout for the tournament,” Boles said. “If you’re looking for something to do, if you want to grab a burger and a beer and watch the games, come on down.”

This will be the 22nd annual softball tournament.

Tents are set up during last year's 48-hour Softball Tournament to give competitors a chance to rest during the event.

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Festival Walk/Run The Festival Run/Walk will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22, at the Saddle Butte RC Club flying field. Registration is at noon, though people interested in participating are urged to preregister at the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce prior to Festival Days weekend.

The Saddle Butte RC Club is located sixtenths of a mile south from Rod’s Drive-In, turn left after the U.S. Border Patrol Headquarters and just before the bridge, turn into the RC Club's entrance, then continue four-tenths of mile to the club's shelter building.

Registration is $10, or $25 for runners who want a long-sleeved shirt to commemorate the event. All proceeds will go to the Havre Boys Cross Country Team.

Havre Daily News/file photo Cross Country runner Sundance Lodge competed in Havre on Sept., 22, 2012. Proceeds from the Festival Run/Walk go to the Havre High School Cross Country team.

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It takes a pretty big space to create a float, said Tilleman, who added that this year’s float project will be assembled in a large private garage.

Some groups need a space as large as the outdoors to prepare, and those groups are the marching bands. Havre High School and Middle School marching bands practice their music and precision moves long before parade day. In fact, the high school marching band took time during a recent summer camp — held to help prepare band members for upcoming football half-time performances — to brush up on their parade formations, said one unidentified band member.

Another marching band, an annual crowd favorite from Medicine Hat, Alberta, is the South Alberta Pipes and Drums group which entertains the crowd with their keening bagpipes and accompanying drummers. The Lions Club is sponsoring their appearance again this year.

By far, the largest contingent in the parade comes from MSU-Northern, with its many clubs, organizations, sports teams and campus officials participating. It gives the crowds a chance to see these leaders and athletes in person, many for the first time.

One type of parade participant that is often highly represented — politicians — will be sparse this year because it is not a big election year, Vandeberg said. However, she does expect that, like every year, the ranks upon ranks of parade entries to be filled by businesses having fun showing off their Festival Days pride, along with their wares, alongside the many groups and organizations in, or affiliated with, the area.

Traditions

Though, the entries from year to year fluctuate in number and types, some things remain constant.

The first constant is that the crowds start gathering early along the parade route.

“I’m usually down at Rod’s by 7, and there’s already chairs and stuff out at 7 o’clock in the morning,” said Vandeberg.

Priscilla Presnell, who has for 17 years lived about halfway down the parade route on 5th Avenue, said she and her husband invite friends and family to gather in their yard every year to watch the parade.

She said that not too many people come from outside the neighborhood to watch there, so her guests congregate on the lawn starting around 9:30 a.m. and never have to wait too long past 10 a.m. for the sirens to herald the parade’s arrival.

On the south end of the route, Kathy Doney meets with family and friends at her

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Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown, file Members of the Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club work on assembling the club's float for the 2012 Festival Days parade. mother’s house. Doney said she puts chairs out by 8 a.m. to help insure people parking along the route know that someone will be sitting there, so their vehicles won’t block the view for the little kids and her mother, who will be coming from Northern Montana Care Center for the second year to watch the parade go by.

Though Doney grew up in the years before Festival Days started, her children were raised with the parade tradition.

“We’ve watched the parade every year,” she said. “Well, except the years we’ve been in it.”

Her children, nieces and nephews have been in the parade for a variety of reasons, including school, band and Scouting, and her husband Bob has been in the parade as a member of the Bullhook Bottoms Blackpowder Club, she said, “so it’s kind of a family affair.”

“It’s fun to watch family and people you know in the parade,” she added.

Doney said another thing she finds interesting is that people seem to migrate to the same viewing areas. She said she’s seen many of the same people drive to her mother’s neighborhood and park to watch the parade year after year.

The second constant of the parade is that

kids need to bring bags for all the candy handed out to parade-goers, especially the youngsters.

“It’s better than Halloween,” said Vandeberg, but a parent last year, looked at the long-range sugar forecast and described it as “the start of candy season” that runs from the parade route, through all the school-time birthdays and the holidays to the end-of-school-year celebration.

It's the people The third constant is the generosity of people who make the parade a successful annual event — from the parade-goers who revel in the festive and community atmosphere, to the people who participate in the parade, to the organizers and to those people who put on all the Festival Days events that accompany the parade.

The people behind the scenes who willingly volunteer for what amounts to something equivalent to hardship service are incredible, Vandeberg said, adding that many of them are repeat volunteers despite the pressures and trials.

“It is the worst form of volunteering that a person could put themselves through,” she

said, with a laugh.

With people, including children, everywhere and going every direction to line up or find their groups at the starting point, and with tensions and tempers high as the clock ticks toward start time, the volunteers have to keep their focus and remain vigilant to help insure everyones safety, she said.

“In spite of all of that (commotion), we end up with a great parade, and it happens to be a great parade because there’s 25-plus people that are volunteering their Saturday morning to organize a parade for the community — in any kind of weather,” she said, joking that “I’m blessed that they continue to come back and be tortured in that way.”

And every year people join efforts in other areas that combine to make Festival Days a popular celebration with activities for all ages and interests.

“Of all of the activities on the Festival Days schedule the only ones that (the Chamber does) ... is the parade and the craft show and (Saturday) Market, the rest of that event schedule is community people volunteering to make an event happen for that weekend,” she said.

“This community is unbelievable in that way.”

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Run of Special Trains Frank DeRosa Railroad Museum

 Smokin’ BBQ Competition Holiday Village Mall

Outdoor dance Atrium Mall parking lot

Commercial Products & Craft Show Great Northern Fairgrounds

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‘A Night on the Town’ Old Post Office

E-1 Towing Demolition Derby Great Northern Fairgrounds

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Summer Sound Challenge Holden’s Hot Wheels

Hi-Line Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts Show Former Vets Club

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Friends of the Library Book Sale Havre-Hill County Library

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Schedule of events Friday, Sept. 20 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. — Friends of the Library Book Sale, Havre-Hill County Library Meeting Room.

Noon to 6 p.m. — Hi-Line Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts Show, Former Vets Club, corner of 4th Avenue and 2nd Street.

6 p.m. to Sunday 6 p.m. — 48-hour Softball Tournament — 6th Avenue Memorial Softball Complex.

6 p.m. — Pasma-Peck Dinner, Eagles Club: Cocktail hour at 5 p.m.

7 p.m. — Havre High School Blue Ponies Football vs Glendive Red Devils, Blue Pony Stadium.

7:30 p.m. — Hill County Community Foundation, “A Night on the Town: Discovering Our Past, Influencing Our Future,” Old Post Office.

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All day — 48-hour Softball Tournament — 6th Avenue Memorial Softball Complex.

7 a.m. to 2 p.m. — Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast, Eagles Club.

8 a.m. to noon — Saturday Market, Town Square.

8 a.m. to 5 p.m. — Havre Rifle & Pistol Club Sight-In Days, Rifle Range on Badland Road.

10 a.m. — Havre Festival Days Parade, 5th Avenue.

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. — Run of Special Trains, Frank DeRosa Railroad Museum.

10 a.m. to 6 p.m. — Hi-Line Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts Show, Former Vets Club, corner of 4th Avenue and 2nd Street.

11 a.m. to 6 p.m. — Havre Festival Days Commercial Products & Craft Show, Great Northern Fairgrounds.

Noon to 5 p.m. — Friends of the Library Book Sale — HavreHill County Library Meeting Room.

1 p.m. — MSU-Northern Football vs. Dickinson State (Homecoming), Blue Pony Stadium.

2 p.m. — Smokin' BBQ Competition, Holiday Village Mall 4 p.m. — 50th Anniversary of Messiah Lutheran Church Congregational Picnic, Messiah Lutheran Church.

4 p.m. — Outdoor dance with “Other Brothers & Sistas” Band featuring “Sax Cadillac,” Atrium Mall parking lot.

5 p.m. — Summer Sound Challenge, registration 4 p.m., Holden's Hot Wheels parking lot, corner of 1st Street and 5th Avenue.

6 p.m. — MSU-Northern Alumni Scholarship auction, MSUNorthern Armory Gym. Doors open 4:30 p.m., dinner served at 5:30 p.m.

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All day — 48-hour Softball Tournament, 6th Avenue Memorial Softball Complex.

8 a.m. to 5 p.m. — Havre Rifle & Pistol Club Sight-In Days, Rifle Range on Badland Road.

11 a.m. to 4 p.m. — Havre Festival Days Commercial Products & Craft Show, Great Northern Fairgrounds.

Noon to 4 p.m. — Hi-Line Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts Show, Former Vets Club, corner of 4th Avenue and 2nd Street.

Noon to 5 p.m. — Friends of the Library Book Sale, Library Meeting Room.

1 p.m. — Festival Run/Walk, registration, noon, RC Model Flying Club.

3 p.m. — E-1 Towing Demolition Derby, Great Northern Fairgrounds.

3 p.m. — Drawings for North Central Montana Shrine Club Beef Raffle.

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MSU-Northern Alumni auction The Montana State University-Northern Alumni Association special auction to raise money for student scholarships is set for Saturday in the Armory Gymnasium on the university campus.

The doors open at 4:30 p.m., with a taco cart serving an all-you-can-eat meal at 5:30.

Water and pop will be served for free, and a no-host bar will be provided, along with snacks throughout the night.

The auction starts at 6 p.m., with Northern athletes holding numbered paddles standing by each table.

After the auctioneer sets a timer for an unknown length of time for each item, the auction of the next item starts. People who want to bid on an item hand a dolar to an athlete, who raises the paddle.

The auctioneer starts calling numbers of paddles raised. When a number is called, the athlete lowers the paddle. If the bidder wants to continue, it costs another dollar, and the athlete raises the paddle again.

The person bidding on the last number called before the timer goes off wins the auction.

Alumni Association Director Autumn Elliot said people can call her office, in Room 307 in Cowan Hall at Northern, at 2653770 to ask for tickets, which cost $20 each.

Courtesy photo Volunteers collect money and signal bids during last year's Montana State University-Northern Alumni Association auction at the Armory Gymnasium.

Commercial Products and Crafts Show Debbie Vandeberg, of the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce, said this year’s Havre Festival Days Commercial Products and Crafts Show has “over 25 crafters from all over Montana that will be participating.”

“Some of the vendors will be selling art, photography, jewelry, pottery, african woven baskets and gifts,” Vanderberg said.

One of the artists showcasing their work at the show is metal-worker Trudi Gilliam.

Gilliam is a prolific artist who lives in Ennis and has many of her copper and brass sculptures in galleries across the nation.

This is but one of more than 25 artists who work with various mediums who will be attending this Festival of Crafts at the Great Northern Fairgrounds Commercial Building.

Courtesy photo People browse the products on display at last year's Commercial Products and Crafts Show at the Great Northern Fair Commercial Building.

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Many community events during Havre Festival Days

Smokin’ barbecue contest runs again

Library book sale runs through Festival Days

A chance to taste a variety of barbecued food while supporting a worthy cause is again a part of Havre Festival Days.

The Second Annual Smokin’ BBQ Competition will run Saturday, Sept. 21.

The event is held in the parking lot at the Holiday Village Mall just west of Havre, with the serving starting at 2 p.m.

People who are entering the contest have to have their meat approved at the mall location, Friday, Sept. 20, from 3 to 7 p.m.

In the contest, people sample the barbecued food, and vote for their favorite with a monetary vote. At the end of the contest, the cook with the most money voted in wins the People’s Choice award, including a trophy and a cash prize.

The proceeds from the voting will go to the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line.

Members of the club will be at the event, selling water, as well.

The categories in the 2012 contest included pork, beef brisket, ribs and a wild card category that could include anything the cook wanted to barbecue, from sausage to shish-ke-bobs to desserts. Chicken has been added as a category this year.

The Friends of the Havre-Hill County Library are again selling books at the library at 402 3rd Street during Havre Festival Days.

The sale actually starts before the celebration, with a selection of books out for buyers from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept.

19, a day before most of the festival events begin.

The books sell, generally, for $1 for as many as buyers can stuff in a bag. Some special books will be listed at individual prices, and special collections also may be available at other prices.

The sale continues Friday, Sept. 20, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and from noon to 5 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 21 and 22.

All proceeds from the sale go to Friends of the Library, which supports different events and purchases items for the library.

Courtesy photo Stuart Small, from left, Nathan Burr and David Bischoff of the Border Dogs BBQ team prepare food during the 2012 Smokin’ BBQ competition during Festival Days.

Community invited to ‘A Night on the Town’ during Havre Festival Days The Hill County Community Foundation is holding a special night on the town during Havre Festival Days.

This is the second year the Community Foundation has held the event, called “A Night on the Town: Discovering Our Past, Influencing Our Future” for the 2013 Festival Days celebration.

The event starts at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, in the former federal court house and post office — the building known as the Old Post Office — on the 300 Block of 3rd Ave. Organizers describe it as a philanthropic evening of wine tasting, listening to jazz including selections by the Montana State University-Northern Community Orchestra, “and celebrating our past while building a spirit of optimism for the future of Hill County.”

For more information or to purchase tickets, people can call 390-4947.

People browse through the books on sale at the Havre-Hill County Library during the 2012 Havre Festival Days.

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Kiwanis serve up pancakes The Havre Kiwanis Club will, as it has for nearly 60 years, be serving up a mess of breakfast for most of a day.

The Kiwanis will have their annual Pancake Breakfast Saturday, Sept. 21, during Havre Festival Days at the Havre Eagles Club at 202 1st Street from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The all-you-can-eat meal, $6 for adults and $3 for children 10 and younger, includes pancakes, sausage, juice or milk and coffee.

Proceeds from the fundraiser go to support Kiwanis events in the community, including projects for youth and children and work supporting Beaver Creek Park south of Havre.

Volunteers serve breakfast at last year's Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast.

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Smokin’ barbecue contest runs again

Library book sale runs through Festival Days

A chance to taste a variety of barbecued food while supporting a worthy cause is again a part of Havre Festival Days.

The Second Annual Smokin’ BBQ Competition will run Saturday, Sept. 21.

The event is held in the parking lot at the Holiday Village Mall just west of Havre, with the serving starting at 2 p.m.

People who are entering the contest have to have their meat approved at the mall location, Friday, Sept. 20, from 3 to 7 p.m.

In the contest, people sample the barbecued food, and vote for their favorite with a monetary vote. At the end of the contest, the cook with the most money voted in wins the People’s Choice award, including a trophy and a cash prize.

The proceeds from the voting will go to the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line.

Members of the club will be at the event, selling water, as well.

The categories in the 2012 contest included pork, beef brisket, ribs and a wild card category that could include anything the cook wanted to barbecue, from sausage to shish-ke-bobs to desserts. Chicken has been added as a category this year.

The Friends of the Havre-Hill County Library are again selling books at the library at 402 3rd Street during Havre Festival Days.

The sale actually starts before the celebration, with a selection of books out for buyers from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept.

19, a day before most of the festival events begin.

The books sell, generally, for $1 for as many as buyers can stuff in a bag. Some special books will be listed at individual prices, and special collections also may be available at other prices.

The sale continues Friday, Sept. 20, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and from noon to 5 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 21 and 22.

All proceeds from the sale go to Friends of the Library, which supports different events and purchases items for the library.

Courtesy photo Stuart Small, from left, Nathan Burr and David Bischoff of the Border Dogs BBQ team prepare food during the 2012 Smokin’ BBQ competition during Festival Days.

Community invited to ‘A Night on the Town’ during Havre Festival Days The Hill County Community Foundation is holding a special night on the town during Havre Festival Days.

This is the second year the Community Foundation has held the event, called “A Night on the Town: Discovering Our Past, Influencing Our Future” for the 2013 Festival Days celebration.

The event starts at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, in the former federal court house and post office — the building known as the Old Post Office — on the 300 Block of 3rd Ave. Organizers describe it as a philanthropic evening of wine tasting, listening to jazz including selections by the Montana State University-Northern Community Orchestra, “and celebrating our past while building a spirit of optimism for the future of Hill County.”

For more information or to purchase tickets, people can call 390-4947.

People browse through the books on sale at the Havre-Hill County Library during the 2012 Havre Festival Days.

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Kiwanis serve up pancakes The Havre Kiwanis Club will, as it has for nearly 60 years, be serving up a mess of breakfast for most of a day.

The Kiwanis will have their annual Pancake Breakfast Saturday, Sept. 21, during Havre Festival Days at the Havre Eagles Club at 202 1st Street from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The all-you-can-eat meal, $6 for adults and $3 for children 10 and younger, includes pancakes, sausage, juice or milk and coffee.

Proceeds from the fundraiser go to support Kiwanis events in the community, including projects for youth and children and work supporting Beaver Creek Park south of Havre.

Volunteers serve breakfast at last year's Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast.

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Run of Special Trains Frank DeRosa Railroad Museum

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Outdoor dance Atrium Mall parking lot

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50th Anniversary of Messiah Lutheran Church Congregational Picnic Messiah Lutheran Church

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Schedule of events Friday, Sept. 20 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. — Friends of the Library Book Sale, Havre-Hill County Library Meeting Room.

Noon to 6 p.m. — Hi-Line Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts Show, Former Vets Club, corner of 4th Avenue and 2nd Street.

6 p.m. to Sunday 6 p.m. — 48-hour Softball Tournament — 6th Avenue Memorial Softball Complex.

6 p.m. — Pasma-Peck Dinner, Eagles Club: Cocktail hour at 5 p.m.

7 p.m. — Havre High School Blue Ponies Football vs Glendive Red Devils, Blue Pony Stadium.

7:30 p.m. — Hill County Community Foundation, “A Night on the Town: Discovering Our Past, Influencing Our Future,” Old Post Office.

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7 a.m. to 2 p.m. — Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast, Eagles Club.

8 a.m. to noon — Saturday Market, Town Square.

8 a.m. to 5 p.m. — Havre Rifle & Pistol Club Sight-In Days, Rifle Range on Badland Road.

10 a.m. — Havre Festival Days Parade, 5th Avenue.

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. — Run of Special Trains, Frank DeRosa Railroad Museum.

10 a.m. to 6 p.m. — Hi-Line Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts Show, Former Vets Club, corner of 4th Avenue and 2nd Street.

11 a.m. to 6 p.m. — Havre Festival Days Commercial Products & Craft Show, Great Northern Fairgrounds.

Noon to 5 p.m. — Friends of the Library Book Sale — HavreHill County Library Meeting Room.

1 p.m. — MSU-Northern Football vs. Dickinson State (Homecoming), Blue Pony Stadium.

2 p.m. — Smokin' BBQ Competition, Holiday Village Mall 4 p.m. — 50th Anniversary of Messiah Lutheran Church Congregational Picnic, Messiah Lutheran Church.

4 p.m. — Outdoor dance with “Other Brothers & Sistas” Band featuring “Sax Cadillac,” Atrium Mall parking lot.

5 p.m. — Summer Sound Challenge, registration 4 p.m., Holden's Hot Wheels parking lot, corner of 1st Street and 5th Avenue.

6 p.m. — MSU-Northern Alumni Scholarship auction, MSUNorthern Armory Gym. Doors open 4:30 p.m., dinner served at 5:30 p.m.

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All day — 48-hour Softball Tournament, 6th Avenue Memorial Softball Complex.

8 a.m. to 5 p.m. — Havre Rifle & Pistol Club Sight-In Days, Rifle Range on Badland Road.

11 a.m. to 4 p.m. — Havre Festival Days Commercial Products & Craft Show, Great Northern Fairgrounds.

Noon to 4 p.m. — Hi-Line Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts Show, Former Vets Club, corner of 4th Avenue and 2nd Street.

Noon to 5 p.m. — Friends of the Library Book Sale, Library Meeting Room.

1 p.m. — Festival Run/Walk, registration, noon, RC Model Flying Club.

3 p.m. — E-1 Towing Demolition Derby, Great Northern Fairgrounds.

3 p.m. — Drawings for North Central Montana Shrine Club Beef Raffle.

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MSU-Northern Alumni auction The Montana State University-Northern Alumni Association special auction to raise money for student scholarships is set for Saturday in the Armory Gymnasium on the university campus.

The doors open at 4:30 p.m., with a taco cart serving an all-you-can-eat meal at 5:30.

Water and pop will be served for free, and a no-host bar will be provided, along with snacks throughout the night.

The auction starts at 6 p.m., with Northern athletes holding numbered paddles standing by each table.

After the auctioneer sets a timer for an unknown length of time for each item, the auction of the next item starts. People who want to bid on an item hand a dolar to an athlete, who raises the paddle.

The auctioneer starts calling numbers of paddles raised. When a number is called, the athlete lowers the paddle. If the bidder wants to continue, it costs another dollar, and the athlete raises the paddle again.

The person bidding on the last number called before the timer goes off wins the auction.

Alumni Association Director Autumn Elliot said people can call her office, in Room 307 in Cowan Hall at Northern, at 2653770 to ask for tickets, which cost $20 each.

Courtesy photo Volunteers collect money and signal bids during last year's Montana State University-Northern Alumni Association auction at the Armory Gymnasium.

Commercial Products and Crafts Show Debbie Vandeberg, of the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce, said this year’s Havre Festival Days Commercial Products and Crafts Show has “over 25 crafters from all over Montana that will be participating.”

“Some of the vendors will be selling art, photography, jewelry, pottery, african woven baskets and gifts,” Vanderberg said.

One of the artists showcasing their work at the show is metal-worker Trudi Gilliam.

Gilliam is a prolific artist who lives in Ennis and has many of her copper and brass sculptures in galleries across the nation.

This is but one of more than 25 artists who work with various mediums who will be attending this Festival of Crafts at the Great Northern Fairgrounds Commercial Building.

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Festival Walk/Run The Festival Run/Walk will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22, at the Saddle Butte RC Club flying field. Registration is at noon, though people interested in participating are urged to preregister at the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce prior to Festival Days weekend.

The Saddle Butte RC Club is located sixtenths of a mile south from Rod’s Drive-In, turn left after the U.S. Border Patrol Headquarters and just before the bridge, turn into the RC Club's entrance, then continue four-tenths of mile to the club's shelter building.

Registration is $10, or $25 for runners who want a long-sleeved shirt to commemorate the event. All proceeds will go to the Havre Boys Cross Country Team.

Havre Daily News/file photo Cross Country runner Sundance Lodge competed in Havre on Sept., 22, 2012. Proceeds from the Festival Run/Walk go to the Havre High School Cross Country team.

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It takes a pretty big space to create a float, said Tilleman, who added that this year’s float project will be assembled in a large private garage.

Some groups need a space as large as the outdoors to prepare, and those groups are the marching bands. Havre High School and Middle School marching bands practice their music and precision moves long before parade day. In fact, the high school marching band took time during a recent summer camp — held to help prepare band members for upcoming football half-time performances — to brush up on their parade formations, said one unidentified band member.

Another marching band, an annual crowd favorite from Medicine Hat, Alberta, is the South Alberta Pipes and Drums group which entertains the crowd with their keening bagpipes and accompanying drummers. The Lions Club is sponsoring their appearance again this year.

By far, the largest contingent in the parade comes from MSU-Northern, with its many clubs, organizations, sports teams and campus officials participating. It gives the crowds a chance to see these leaders and athletes in person, many for the first time.

One type of parade participant that is often highly represented — politicians — will be sparse this year because it is not a big election year, Vandeberg said. However, she does expect that, like every year, the ranks upon ranks of parade entries to be filled by businesses having fun showing off their Festival Days pride, along with their wares, alongside the many groups and organizations in, or affiliated with, the area.

Traditions

Though, the entries from year to year fluctuate in number and types, some things remain constant.

The first constant is that the crowds start gathering early along the parade route.

“I’m usually down at Rod’s by 7, and there’s already chairs and stuff out at 7 o’clock in the morning,” said Vandeberg.

Priscilla Presnell, who has for 17 years lived about halfway down the parade route on 5th Avenue, said she and her husband invite friends and family to gather in their yard every year to watch the parade.

She said that not too many people come from outside the neighborhood to watch there, so her guests congregate on the lawn starting around 9:30 a.m. and never have to wait too long past 10 a.m. for the sirens to herald the parade’s arrival.

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Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown, file Members of the Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club work on assembling the club's float for the 2012 Festival Days parade. mother’s house. Doney said she puts chairs out by 8 a.m. to help insure people parking along the route know that someone will be sitting there, so their vehicles won’t block the view for the little kids and her mother, who will be coming from Northern Montana Care Center for the second year to watch the parade go by.

Though Doney grew up in the years before Festival Days started, her children were raised with the parade tradition.

“We’ve watched the parade every year,” she said. “Well, except the years we’ve been in it.”

Her children, nieces and nephews have been in the parade for a variety of reasons, including school, band and Scouting, and her husband Bob has been in the parade as a member of the Bullhook Bottoms Blackpowder Club, she said, “so it’s kind of a family affair.”

“It’s fun to watch family and people you know in the parade,” she added.

Doney said another thing she finds interesting is that people seem to migrate to the same viewing areas. She said she’s seen many of the same people drive to her mother’s neighborhood and park to watch the parade year after year.

The second constant of the parade is that

kids need to bring bags for all the candy handed out to parade-goers, especially the youngsters.

“It’s better than Halloween,” said Vandeberg, but a parent last year, looked at the long-range sugar forecast and described it as “the start of candy season” that runs from the parade route, through all the school-time birthdays and the holidays to the end-of-school-year celebration.

It's the people The third constant is the generosity of people who make the parade a successful annual event — from the parade-goers who revel in the festive and community atmosphere, to the people who participate in the parade, to the organizers and to those people who put on all the Festival Days events that accompany the parade.

The people behind the scenes who willingly volunteer for what amounts to something equivalent to hardship service are incredible, Vandeberg said, adding that many of them are repeat volunteers despite the pressures and trials.

“It is the worst form of volunteering that a person could put themselves through,” she

said, with a laugh.

With people, including children, everywhere and going every direction to line up or find their groups at the starting point, and with tensions and tempers high as the clock ticks toward start time, the volunteers have to keep their focus and remain vigilant to help insure everyones safety, she said.

“In spite of all of that (commotion), we end up with a great parade, and it happens to be a great parade because there’s 25-plus people that are volunteering their Saturday morning to organize a parade for the community — in any kind of weather,” she said, joking that “I’m blessed that they continue to come back and be tortured in that way.”

And every year people join efforts in other areas that combine to make Festival Days a popular celebration with activities for all ages and interests.

“Of all of the activities on the Festival Days schedule the only ones that (the Chamber does) ... is the parade and the craft show and (Saturday) Market, the rest of that event schedule is community people volunteering to make an event happen for that weekend,” she said.

“This community is unbelievable in that way.”

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Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown, file Members of the Havre High School band dance and march during the 2012 Havre Festival Days Parade.

The Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club is a newer group to put together floats for the past few years, and they’ve had quite a bit of success for the time they’ve been together and working on their floats, said Gloria Tilleman, a member of the garden club.

Though Havre and the Hi-Line have had many garden clubs over the years, this particular group came together about three years ago, Tilleman said, and right away they decided to create a float for the Festival Days parade.

That year, 2011, the club won the Mayor’s Choice award for their float, and the next year they won for Best Noncommercial entry for a float that had a replica of the Hill County Courthouse commemorating the county’s anniversary which was the theme of the festival.

“We were thrilled to say the least,” she said about their wins.

Tilleman added that the club decided around July this year to create another float but held off until the first week in September to start design and construction of their parade entry.

“We needed to wait to find out the theme of Festival Days this year,” she said, and with that information, club members came up with a float theme that members feel embodies both their group’s gardening purposes and the annual Festival Days theme.

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The 48-hour Softball Tournament will start 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, and end 6 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 22, at the 6th Avenue Memoril Softball Complex.

“We have 20, at least, teams coming for sure,” said Tammy Boles, who is running the tournament. “There are teams from all around — Canada, Bozeman, Billings, Havre, Helena, Missoula ... .”

Cash prizes given out to first-, second-, third- and fourth-place winners. The size of the cash prizes will depend of the number of teams that sign up for the tournament.

“We get a large turnout for the tournament,” Boles said. “If you’re looking for something to do, if you want to grab a burger and a beer and watch the games, come on down.”

This will be the 22nd annual softball tournament.

Tents are set up during last year's 48-hour Softball Tournament to give competitors a chance to rest during the event.

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Old-fashioned Americana at its best Pam Burke community@havredailynews.com

Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown, file A young girl picks up candy during the 2012 Havre Festival Days Parade.

Havre Festival Days 2013 is celebrating its 33rd year and honoring the city's 120th anniversary with its theme "Honoring Our Past and Celebrating Our Future," and though the three-days of festivities has about 22 events for people to attend, one of the most popular is the Saturday parade.

Locals and visitors alike line the parade route to cheer for entries from local schools, clubs, businesses, organizations, political leaders and candidates, and people who just want to be a part of the display. Friends and family meet at prearranged points along the route to take in the sights, and kids race to fill pockets and bags with candy from the sweet offerings handed out and tossed to the crowds.

Though the entrants vary from year to year, crowds are sure to be entertained by bands and music-related floats, dancers, sports teams, kids clubs, antique and soupedup vehicles, large equipment and horses.

The Festival Days parade offers something for everyone.

“It’s that touch of Americana; it truly is.

It’s one of those old, hometown traditional kind of parades where everybody wants to be in it,” or watch it, said Debbie Vandeberg, executive director of the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce, and chief organizer of the parade.

Making the parade float

Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown, file A boy points to a combine during the 2012 Havre Festival Days Parade.

Vandeberg said she has right around 25 volunteers who come in on the day of the parade to help organize the lineup of the parade entries in the Havre High School parking lot.

People preregister their parade entries by the Friday before the parade and that gives organizers an idea of what to expect at the starting point.

However, other than the parade starting with emergency service vehicles with lights and sirens, followed by the color guard then groups and representatives from parade sponsor Montana State University-Northern, the lineup isn’t set before parade day. That’s a big part of what the volunteers do in the pre-parade hours.

“Those people have their marching orders as to how the parade is ... what they’re supposed to do,” said Vandeberg. “There is organization in the process down there, even though people don’t have an assigned number for a location.”

What helps make the process go as smoothly as possible is the guidance of regu-

Havre High School students hand out candy to children during the 2012 Havre Festival Days Parade. lar parade volunteers like Mike and Kathy Palmer, who direct parade entrants as they enter the parking lot, and Tony Vigliotti, who is in charge of getting the parade started on time and insuring that the parade entrants keep flowing out of the line-up area at a steady pace.

Keeping gaps from forming in the parade line is important for the parade watchers, but more importantly, Vandeberg said, it helps keep the parade safe because people will start crossing the parade route on foot and with vehicles if the gaps are too large or numerous.

“We try to keep (parade entrants’ stopping) to a minimum as well. We’ve had some folks that we’ve asked that — if there’s a dance unit or something — that they are not to stop and do anything,” she said. “They have to keep moving because that just breaks down the parade structure, which then goes back to that unsafe environment that we’re trying to avoid.”

Part of that attention to safety caused a major alteration to the parade in 2012: changing the parade route to eliminate blocking 1st Avenue, which is part of U.S.

Highway 2, and to minimize the number of times entrants trying to get back to the high school have to cross 5th Avenue, w h i c h b e c o m e s M o n ta n a S e c o n d a r y Highway 234 at its south end, Vandeberg said.

“When we (disrupt traffic on) two highways, the highway patrol has to come in and do traffic, we require help from the sheriff’s department, we require extra duty from the city police department — and everybody’s been awesome over the years, but after 30-some years of doing that, it had to change,” she said. “It was a tough decision to make.”

That decision was made by the Chamber board with guidance from law enforcement personnel as well as city and county leaders, she said, adding that the decision to make a change was driven by potentially serious problems.

“We had some minor accidents happen, and we just felt it was time to change and make it easier and safer,” she said.

The parade route will, like last year, enter 5th Avenue at Rod’s Drive-In, and head north until turning east onto 4th Street to end at Pepin Park.

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The entrants The parade committee and volunteers aren’t the only people working ahead of the event and behind the scenes to make the parade entertaining for all the spectators lining the streets.

Many entries in the parade are created simply with a shined-up pickup truck and flatbed trailer with a sign, or groups walking with a banner or people giving handouts to the crowd, but in recent years, Vandeberg said, more groups and individuals have been putting effort into creating dressier float entries.

S o m e o f t h e f l o a t s a re c re a t e d by long-time parade entrants like Triangle C o m m u n i c a t i o n s, N o r t h e r n M o n t a n a Hospital and Independence Bank.

Others have come from organizations celebrating a special anniversary or a connection to that year’s parade theme, such as the Hill County 4-H’ers who celebrated their clubs’ anniversary along with the county’s anniversary celebration in 2012.

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HAVRE AREA CHAMBER of COMMERCE 130 5th Ave., HAVRE

Area Chamber of Commerce Honoring Our Past and Celebrating Our Future is the slogan for Festival Days weekend this year.

For 33 years, this weekend has been a celebration of the end of summer and a time for people from around the area to get together and remember what makes this area so great. This year isn’t any different.

The old standby events will make the weekend uniquely Havre's such as the 48-hour Softball Tournament, the parade, the Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast and many others.

Many newer events are scheduled to back this year, too, such as the car show, barbecue competition and the Summer Sound Challenge. Of course, the events listed above only scratch the surface of what is going on in Havre during Festival Days.

I recommend that you put on your Festival Days Button, look at the schedule

The Chamber is celebrating the 120th anniversary of Havre being a community; thus it was felt only fitting to build this year’s Festival Days around this milestone for the Havre community by “Honoring Our Past and Celebrating Our Future.”

Havre Festival Days is a weekend organized by the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce and orchestrated by many for the whole community to have fun.

I would like to thank every business that contributed to this 33rd celebration of Havre Festival Days, through their purchase of buttons and mugs and through sponsorships of events, and the many volunteers who will help to make the weekend a success.

For 33 years many individuals and organizations have donated their time and talent to the many events that make this weekend happen. Because of their commitment to Festival Days, we again have a full weekend of events and activities for the weekend of Sept. 20–22.

Festival Days has gone from a weekend celebration to a community tradition. It takes lots of hours and the willingness of many to coordinate the weekend and to each of you: Thank you. And thank you to Montana State University-Northern for being our partner sponsor.

We kick off the weekend Friday with some of the old favorites: the Friends of the Library Book Sale, the Festival of Quilts show and the 48-hour Softball Tournament along with a fun event hosted by the Hill County Community Foundation, “A Night

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Run of Special Trains The Run of Special Trains at the Frank DeRosa Railroad Museum will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 21-22.

There will be scaled-down examples of trains from different eras running on the tracks at the museum.

The museum will run these model trains, featuring themes of agriculture, natural resources, the railroad’s role in international transportation and passenger trains.

The Frank DeRosa Railroad Museum is located at 120 3rd Ave.

Jacob Lorang President

of events and see how many you can take in. I guarantee that you will run into some old friends and, if you are nice, you might even make some new ones.

Please remember to thank those who help put on this weekend as it couldn’t happen without the dedication of Debbie and Shari in the Chamber office, as well as all the volunteers who truly make this weekend something to remember.

On behalf of the Chamber, I would like to thank you for taking part in the Festival Days celebration.

Havre Area Chamber of Commerce Debbie Vandeberg Executive director

on the Town.”

Saturday begins as it has for over the last 25 years with a pancake breakfast hosted by the Kiwanis. Satuday Market wraps up an awesome summer that morning at the Town Square and the Festival of Crafts show opens. And what would the weekend be without a wonderful community parade?

Saturday is also an opportunity to enjoy some great barbecue at the Smokin’ BBQ Competition.

If you still have energy, Sunday’s activities include the Festival Run/Walk, another day to explore the Festival Days craft and commercial show and go to the demolition derby.

MSU-Northern will be celebrating homecoming this weekend and holding their Alumni Chinese Scholarship Auction and Dinner. This year, we have the great luck to have both the Northern Lights and the HHS Blue Ponies in town for fall football action.

I look forward to good weather and a lot of fun for your family to enjoy. I thank you in advance for attending Havre Festival Days and for helping us to make this a successful weekend.

Havre Daily News/John Paul Schmidt The Frank DeRosa Railroad Museum will be displaying a run of special model trains Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 21-22, during Havre Festival Days.

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