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Area Chamber of Commerce Happy Festival Days! Festival Days is upon us once again and it is the 36th anniversary of this great community event.

What makes Havre special to me may be different than what makes Havre special to you. But the one thing that brings us all together is the annual Festival Days parade. It's fun watching kids gathering candy and seeing the smiles on people's faces riding on floats as they wave at their friends, showing their pride of Havre and being involved in the parade Saturday morning.

Check out all that our local vendors have to offer at Saturday Market in Town Square before or after the parade.

For the car lovers out there, be sure to take in the Steve Heil Memorial Car Show, CCR Burnout Competition and the E-1 Towing Demolition Derby. For all the art enthusiasts, check out the Hi-Line Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts and the Crafts and Commercial Products Show that has been moved to the Holiday Village Mall.

And for all the active athletes and spectators looking for sporting events, be sure to ta ke i n s o m e 4 8 - H o u r S o f t b a l l Tournament, MSU-N college football and volleyball. With these and many other

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events, there's sure to be something on the Festival Days calendar that will interest you.

Look to purchase a Festival Days button or mug from a local participating business or stop by the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce office to get one, while you thank Debbie and Shari for all that they and our local Chamber of Commerce do to make this weekend possible and so special.

Be sure to partake in the Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast Saturday morning at the Eagles Club from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.

On behalf of the Havre Chamber and Board of Directors, I invite you to come out and join in all the fun. If you're not involved, get involved and enjoy Festival Days weekend — "Celebrate Havre"... take a look around folks!

Clack Museum, Humanities MT present

‘Alcohol, Corsets and the Vote’ H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum will be celebrating Festival Days with "Alcohol, Corsets and the Vote" and a portrayal of suffragette, reformer and journalist Mary Long Alderson.

The museum, in conjunction with Humanities Montana which has brought their programs to Havre for the past year, is hosting archivist and living history interpreter Anne Foster Friday at 7 p.m. at the Havre Inn & Suites.

Foster will bring late-1800s and early1900s history to life, during a presentation and conversation, portraying Alderson, who

is described as "an eloquent and passionate speaker" on the Humanities website. She was also chairwoman of the Montana Floral Emblem campaign, president of the Montana Christian Temperance Union and a leader in the Montana Woman Suffrage Association.

Foster draws from Alderson's editorials and other writings to talk about the "benefits of votes for women as well as the evils of drink and tight lacing." Many of Alderson's writings were published in Bozeman papers.

The program and light refreshments are free, and everyone is welcome to attend.

A local historic preservationist is using Festival Days to help raise funds for current and future work in Havre.

Emily Mayer of High Line Heritage Resources is donating $1 from tour proceeds per person wearing a Festival Days Button for each tour she gives during Festival Days. This fundraiser applies to the Cottage Tour of her house museum, the Old Townsite Historic Havre Stroll and History Among the

Headstones. The money raised will help with the final funding to pay for wrapping the traffic control boxes in Havre.

Havre Main Streets Revitalization sought work from local artists to put on the traffic boxes to liven up the appearance of Havre.

The committee called for art during last year’s Festival Days and selected art submitted. The committee is going through the process of getting the vinyl wraps on the boxes.

High Line Heritage Resources donating to traffic box artwork

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Festival of crafts, art and commercial products

will gather at the Holiday Village Mall during Festival Days Artisans, crafters and commercial vendors will converge at the Holiday Village Mall Saturday and Sunday, the weekend of Havre Festival Days, for the Commercial Products & Craft Show.

The show times will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Montanans from places such as Havre, Chinook, Great Falls, Kalispell, Conrad, Moore, Libby, Rudyard and Belt will showcase handmade crafts of many kinds, including jewelry, artwork and paintings, holiday decorations, wood carvings, yard arts, metal art, table runners, napkins, and much more.

The vendors, so far, include Don Greytak,

Cindy Jo Haney, Sharon Kougl, Keith and Cathryn Bassett, Cara Mertes, Paulette Patterson, Dale and Leon Ost, Linda Gobin, Kerry Shay, Lezlie Holden, Debbie Walker, Wayne Anderson, Roxanne Lynch, Anita Bangen, Gary Glock, Mary Nault and Karen Stoltz, Rose Wollman and Roxana Laeupple, Diana Betts, Jennie Houghteling, Connie Kennedy, Stepahnie Larson, Edith Foster, Carol Lee, Liz McIntosh, Laura Scheele, Beth Jorgenson and Linda Simonich.

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Havre Festival Days Parade sure to excite Rock Lotto debuts at Festival Days 2016 Paul Dragu pdragu@havredailynews.com

For as long as there’s been a Havre Festival Days, there’s been a Havre Festival Days Parade.

The parade will take place Saturday, starting at 10 a.m. It will commence on the south end of Fifth Avenue by Rod’s Drive-In and continue north to Fourth Street, where it will take a right and continue to Pepin Park. People are encouraged to follow the parade all the way to the park, where it will conclude.

The parade will include floats, bands and other performers, as well as vehicles representing businesses and organizations.

It takes at least 20 volunteers to ensure the parade goes as smoothly as possible, and they will all be working hard.

Among what and who will be in the parade will be the Havre High School marching band, South Alberta Pipes and Drums, Miss Montana Lauren Scofield, Havre Optometric Clinic, NorthWestern Energy, Custom Collision Repair, Catholic Daughters/Knights of Columbus, Havre’s Ice Cream Truck, Hi-Line Polaris, Torgerson’s, State Farm, Lewis Heating and A/C, E-1 Towing, Recycle Hi-Line, Bullhook Community Health Center, Havre Youth Hockey, Havre Flying Club, Angel Care, Fastenal, representatives from the Democratic and Republican parties, and more.

Havre Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Debbie Vandeberg said registration goes on until the day before, but the Chamber does encourage early registration. There is no fee to register to be in the parade.

Judges will vote to award prizes to the best commercial and noncommercial floats, and Mayor Tim Solomon will make his pick, as well, for the Mayor's Choice award.

Vandeberg said that it is very important that people in moving vehicles do not throw candy, but rather, hand it out to the crowd.

“We’ve had people hurt by throwing candy,” she said. “We’re trying to prevent people from being hurt by candy.”

Alex Ross aeross@havredailynews.com A group of five musicians in a yet-to-benamed band came together for a two-hour practice session the evening of Aug. 29.

Carrying their drumsticks and guitar cases, they met for only the second time as a group at the Hounds Lounge, a dog-boarding facility that doubles as the residence of Matthew Springer, one of the group’s three guitarists and vocalists.

With the sounds of dogs barking on the other side of the building, the five bandmates chatted as they adjusted the knobs on amplifiers and warmed up on their instruments.

It was only their second practice as a group. But after their first public performance at Town Square Sept 17, the group will break up just as abruptly as they were assembled.

The group is one of five with a total of 20 musicians who are taking part in the firstever KNMC Rock Lotto during Festival Days. Performances will begin at 4 p.m. at Town Square, and the public can bring chairs, blankets and snacks and enjoy the performances for free.

The five bands will perform five cover songs each. Entertainment from established local bands will follow those performances.

The Local Girl Scout Troops participate during the 2015 Festival Days parade on 5th Avenue.

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Havre Daily News/Alex Ross Dave Martens, from left, Seth Pomeroy, Matt Springer, Trygve "Spike" Magelssen and Penny Velk practice for their performance in the KNMC Rock Lotto concert that will be at Town Square starting at 4 p.m. Saturday of Festival Days.

Dave Martens, the group's drummer who organized the event and is manager of

KNMC, Montana State University-Northern’s radio station, said the event allows musi-

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Havre Festival Days Commemorative buttons and mugs available now Only 1,000 numbered buttons are available, drawings for a chance to win a Bo & Play S3 Bluetooth Speaker and two round-trip tickets to Billings courtesy of Cape Air Commemorative mugs and buttons are available for the 36th celebration of Havre Festival Days. The mugs and buttons will feature this year’s logo.

The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce will be drawing a series of six random numbers each day, Monday, Sept. 12, through Friday, Sept. 16. Those holding a button with a winning number will win a Chamber Gift Certificate in varying denominations or a Festival Days com-

memorative mug. To claim a prize, just stop by the Chamber with the winning button. Winning numbers will be listed in the newspaper and on the radio the week of Festival Days. Two other numbers will be drawn to win a Bo & Play S3 Bluetooth Speaker from Triangle Mobile and two round-trip tickets to Billings on Cape Air. These two winning button numbers will be drawn Friday, Sept. 16.

Festival Days mugs are on sale at Dairy Queen, PJ’s Restaurant and Casino, McLean’s Grocery, Tortilla Junction, Yummy Foods, Golden Spike, Crystal City Casino, Hi-Line Gold Casino, Murphy’s Pub, Eagles Club, Vic’s Place, Tip-It Bar and the Havre Chamber office.

Mugs may be purchased at any of these locations for $6, while the supply lasts.

This year is looking to be another sell-out year. This is the 29th year the commemorative mugs, featuring the event logo, have been a part of the Festival Days celebration.

People are encouraged to get mugs and buttons early, as supplies are limited.

Winning numbers will be listed in the paper and on the radio the week of Festival Days.

Havre Daily News/Teresa Getten Debbie Vandeberg, executive director Havre Chamber of Commerce, right, accepts from Triangle Communications’ Brandon Norton a Bo & Play S3 Bluetook Speaker compliments of Triangle Communications/Triangle Mobile Service. This item will be part of the Havre Festival Days button drawings.

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Rock Lotto: Martens: People will see how much fun this is and want to play in a band next year n Continued from page 5 ey at KNMC and former manager of the station — who also worked at its predecessor, KNOG, while it used live broadcasts — created the pool of 10 songs from each of the five decades.

Martens said that Rock Lottos often have a theme, such as a Rock Lotto last year that involved covers of Led Zeppelin songs. In larger music communities such as Seattle, musicians could come together and in a short period of time write original songs, he said.

“That is something they could do there, don’t know if we could pull that off in a place like Havre,” he said.

Martens said he had trouble coming up with a theme, so he chose songs from five decades. The songs his group will play are “Smokestack Lightnin” by Howlin Wolf, “Psychotic Reaction” by The Count Five, “Detroit Rock City” by KISS, “The Final Countdown” by Europe and “1979” by the Smashing Pumpkins.

Trygve “Spike” Magelssen, a Northern professor and the group’s bass player, who is long associated with KNMC and spurred its revival in 2001, said the theme is fitting for the radio station’s format, which also plays a variety of tunes from a wide time period.

“We play all kinds of music; we are diversified,” Magelssen said. “We are playing ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and 90’s music from various

different bands.”

Martens said that the song selections are meant to be “a starting point” for the groups rather than a requirement. He said the musicians have a limited time to put a set together and the songs selected can serve as a guide.

Some groups have decided not to do certain songs, so substituted them with others.

For example, one group that selected “The Boys are Back In Town” by Thin Lizzy switched to another song because it was too difficult.

Changes can be made, he said, provided all the group’s members agree.

Martens and his bandmates say that they like their arranged set and plan to stick with it.

But the loose format got mixed reviews, Martens said.

“Some people thought it was a great idea right away, and kind of understood it was going to be a fun thing,” he said. “But some people you really had to talk to.”

Martens, who said he hopes to make the lotto an annual Festival Days event, said seeing how much fun people have with this year’s will hopefully increase interest next time.

“I think it will be bigger the next time we do it because people will be like, ‘I should have done that,’” Martens said. “They are going to see it, see how much fun it is and say, ‘OK, we should have done that.’”

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KNMC Rock Lotto Band Line-up Performances begin 4 p.m. at Town Square Attendance is free and open to the public Band 1 drums - Dave Martens bass - Trygve “Spike” Magelssen vocals/guitar - Seth Jared Pomeroy vocals/guitar - Matt Springer vocals/guitar - Penny Velk

Band 3 drums - Brian Rhoades bass - Robert Jerry Bergren Jr. vocals/guitar - Mandi Nystrom guitar - Ian Munson harmonica - Bruce Patera

Band 1 covers: 1956 - Smokestack Lightning (Howlin' Wolf), 1966 - Psychotic Reaction (The Count Five), 1976 - Detroit Rock City (Kiss), 1986 - The Final Countdown (Europe), 1996 1979 (Smashing Pumpkins)

Band 3 covers: 1956 - Long Tall Sally (Little Richard), 1966 - Mustang Sally (Wilson Pickett), 1976 - Night Moves (Bob Seger), 1986 - Kiss (Prince), 1996 - Gimme One Reason (Traci Chapman)

Band 2 drums - A.J. Rucinsky bass - Seth Swick guitar/vocals - Jade Nystrom guitar/vocals - Dane MacRae keyboard/backing vocals - Rhonda Minnick

Band 4 drums - Don Thoma bass - Al Leyba vocals - Talia Malone guitar - Jim Bennett harmonica/guitar - Taylor Lyon

Band 2 covers: 1956 - Diddy Wah Diddy (Bo Diddley), 1966 - Devil With a Blue Dress (Mitch Ryder), 1976 - Crazy on You (Heart), 1986 Fight for Your Right to Party (Beastie Boys), 1996 - Pony (Ginuwine)

Band 4 Covers: 1956 - Please, Please, Please (James Brown), 1966 - Wild Thing (Troggs), 1976 - The Boys are Back in Town (Thin Lizzy), 1986 - Highway 2 the Danger Zone (Kenny Loggins), 1996 - World I Know (Collective Soul)

cians with varying levels of experience a chance come together and play without the obligations required of those in a more permanent band.

“This is a responsibility-free, fun situation for them to kind of just let loose and try something,” Martens said.

Rock lottos bring together musicians and singers to form short-term groups that create a set of either original material or cover songs, often revolving around a set theme.

After performing at an event, the groups then disband.

Many times, members of the groups have never even played together.

Springer, a farmer who plays guitar in Marten’s group, said he was drawn to the lotto’s format.

“Learning to play in a new band from nothing is pretty cool,” he said.

Martens said rock lottos are common in communities with vibrant live music scenes such as Seattle and San Francisco. He said that he took part in one in Missoula in 2012.

Martens said he came up with the idea to have a rock lotto in Havre earlier this summer to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the rebirth of the college radio station. The station had gone off live broadcasts in the 1980s, rebroadcasting National Public Radio programming. The station was renamed KNMC and started live broadcasts Sept 4, 2001.

Martens said he wanted to do the rock lotto to give musicians, especially those who

Havre Daily News/Alex Ross Penny Velk plays her banjo during a practice of her KNMC Rock Lotto band. are not in bands, a chance to play.

“Nobody is demanding perfection,” Martens said. “It is literally just the act of getting out there and making some music and having fun, and that is it.”

It also allows those who know how to play an instrument but have never been in a band to have a chance to jam with others.

Penny Velk, owner of Henny Penny

Cupcakes, has played guitar for about 30 years. Though she has performed solo at bars and other small venues when she lived in North Dakota and Big Sandy, she said, she has never been in a band before. She said she always wanted to be in one but never had the opportunity.

After Martens came up with the idea, he

said, he took the idea to have a rock lotto to Debbie Vandeberg, executive director of the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce, which developed and maintains Town Square and organizes Festival Days. The Chamber approved the proposal.

He said with the help of some of the more active musicians in Havre he reached out to interested performers. He also promoted the idea through social media including the Havre Online Yard Sale Facebook group and KNMC. Musicians and singers signed up in advanced and listed their instrument of choice on a signup sheet posted at Bear Paw Meats.

The bands were formed when performer’s names were drawn from a hat during the weekly Sounds on the Square concert Aug. 9.

Martens said each group consists of a bassist, drummer and at least one vocalist and guitarist. Some groups also had members who play harmonica, keyboard or another instrument.

Group members can also switch instruments based on each band's needs and abilities.

After the bands were formed, a second drawing took place where a representative of each group would be assigned a song from the years 1956, ’66, ’76, ’86 and ’96.

Martens said that Rick Linie, a disc jock-

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8 a.m. to 8 p.m. — Friends of the Library Book Sale — Library meeting room Noon to 6 p.m. — Hi-Line Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts Show — Old VFW Building — 2nd Street & 4th Avenue 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. — Steve Heil Memorial Car Show — Independence Bank Parking Lot 6 p.m. to Sunday 6 p.m. — 48-Hour Softball Tournament — 6th Avenue Memorial Softball Field 7 p.m. — MSU-Northern Volleyball vs. Rocky Mountain College — MSU-Northern Gym

— Clack Museum Board presents Anne Foster, Historian, “Alcohol, Corsets & the Vote” — Best Western Havre Inn & Suites 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. — The Best Westerns Band — Outside of the Tip-It

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All day — 48-Hour Softball Tournament — 6th Avenue Memorial Softball Field.

7 a.m. to 1 p.m. — Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast, Eagles Club.

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

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 5 p.m. — Havre Festival Days Commercial Products & Craft Show — Holiday Village Mall 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. — Hi-Line Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts Show — Old VFW Building — 2nd Street & 4th Avenue 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. — Custom Collision Repair Car Show, Barbecue & Burn Out — Custom Collision Repair Noon to 5 p.m. — Friends of the Library Book Sale — Library Meeting Room 1 p.m. — MSU-Northern Football vs. Carroll College — Blue Pony Field 3 p.m. — E-1 Towing Demolition Derby — Great Northern Fairgrounds 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. — KNMC Rock Lotto — Town Square Area

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Skylights open Frontier Conference play Schedule of events Friday night against Rocky Mountain College Friday, Sept. 16

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All day — 48-Hour Softball Tournament — 6th Avenue Memorial Softball Field.

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

Noon to 4 p.m. — Havre Festival Days Commercial Products & Craft Show — Holiday Village Mall Noon to 4 p.m. — Hi-Line Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts Show — Old VFW Building — 2nd Street & 4th Avenue Noon to 5 p.m. — Friends of the Library Book Sale — Library Meeting Room.

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

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

Lights football takes on rival Carroll College Saturday with a 1 p.m. kickoff George Ferguson Havre Daily News

When one thinks of Havre's annual Festival Days celebration, they often think of parades, marching bands and craft shows. In other words, they think of fun.

Of course, there's a lot to see and do during Festival Days, and on top of everything the community puts on, there's lots of great sporting events, too.

The 2016 Festival Days celebration will be no different, as the Havre sporting landscape will be very busy.

An important sporting event during Festival Days is one that isn't connected to Havre High, or Montana State University-Northern. But, the popularity of the annual 48-Hour Softball Tournament is undeniable.

Tammy Boles, and many others in the Havre adult softball community have been putting on the tournament for years now, and, its popularity continues to grow. This year's 48-Hour tourney will again run from 6 p.m.

Friday straight through until Sunday afternoon. The tournament will feature a full bracket of co-ed teams, both local and from all across the state of Montana, and, of course, it will feature its unique schedule, which is games without stopping. There are games in the evening, in the day, and even in the middle of the night, and the tournament does not stop until the championship game on Sunday is concluded.

Festival Days, however, isn't just limited to softball.

MSU-Northern sports will be busy that weekend as well, including the home debut of the Northern volleyball team Friday night. The Skylights open Frontier Conference play that night against defending Frontier champion Rocky Mountain College in the Armory Gymnasium.

The Northern Lights football team will also be back in Blue Pony Stadium that Saturday to take on arch rival Carroll College. The Lights will welcome in the nationally ranked Fighting Saints for a 1 p.m. kickoff, in what should be one of the Lights' most exciting home games of the season.

So once again, if you're a sports fan, Festival Days will be a lot of fun, and, there's going to be plenty for you to see and do.

Havre Daily News/Colin Thompson Montana State University-Northern's Zach McKinley, right, looks for running room during the Aug. 27, 2015 Frontier Conference game against Rocky Mountain College at Blue Pony Stadium. The Lights fell short, 31-21.

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Film festival set for Festival days Pam Burke community@havredailynews.com An evening of documentary film-watching is coming to Festival Days this year.

Best of the Big Sky Film Tour will be showing a selection of films from the 2016 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Thursday, Sept. 15, at the Little Theatre in Cowan Hall on the Montana State UniversityNorthern campus.

The Havre event, which is free, starts at 8 p.m., but the doors and Backstage Lounge will be open at 7:30 selling beverages.

The event, hosted jointly by Montana Actors’ Theatre and Humanities Montana, will start with a short address from Gita Saedi Kiely, executive director of Big Sky Film Institute, which hosts the film festival each year.

Seven short films will be shown over the course of the evening, giving the audience 90 minutes of viewing on topics ranging from a couple, who bought the house of serial killer, trying to gain neighborhood acceptance of the house to a unique burial practice in Tibet and animal adoption to foods.

Ty Hedalen, financial manager on the MAT Board of Directors, said he’s been interested for quite a while in getting a film

festival into Havre, and about a year ago mentioned that ambition to Jay Pyette, the theatre group’s artistic director and cofounder.

Pyette gave the go-ahead, Hedalen said, but it was a conversation with people from Humanities Montana that got him the connection to Kiely and the film institute.

All of the documentary films were popular submissions in the 2016 competition in Missoula, Hedalen said.

The documentary film list is: “The House is Innocent,” by Nicholas Coles, 2015, 12 minutes Who knowingly purchases the former residence of a notorious serial killer? Meet Tom and Barbara, proud new owners of the nost infamous house in Sacramento, Calif. As the middle-aged couple renovate the crumbling house, they realize it’s going to take a whole lot more than paint to change the community’s mind about their new home.

“Mining, Poems, or Odes,” by Callum Rice, 2015, 11 minutes Robert, an ex-shipyard welder from Scotland, reflects on how his life experience’s have influenced his new found compulsion to write. His retrospective poetry revels a man who is trying to achieve a state

of contentment through words and philosophy.

“Operation Allie,” by Manny Marquez, 2015, 8 minutes Anthony Marquez, a former Marine and military dog handler, has returned from Afghanistan.

He lost 17 friends in the war, and has been suffering from the effects of PTSD. When he finds out that the dog that he went through the war with, Allie, is being retired from the Marine Corp, he sets out to adopt her.

“Pickle,” by Amy Nicholson, 2015, USA, 15 minutes A couple recounts the various animals they have adopted as pets over the course of their marriage, including a paraplegic possum and a fish that couldn’t swim. Pickle explores the human capacity to care for all creatures throughout their sometimes greatly protracted lives until their occasionally sudden and unfortunate deaths.

“Sandorkraut,” by Ann Husaini, Emily Lobsenz, 2015, 12 minutes “Sandorkraut” is an intimate portrait of Sandor Katz, America’s foremost fermentation revivalist. A native New Yorker, Sandor abandoned a life in politics in the early ‘90’s

after a health crisis. He relocated to an offt h e - g r i d q u e e r c o m m u n i t y i n r u ra l Tennessee, where his love of gardening and an overabundant cabbage harvest led him to make his first batch of sauerkraut. An intense personal obsession with fermented foods was born.

“Vultures of Tibet,” by Russell O. Bush, 2013, 21 minutes Sky Burial, a private ritual where the bodies of Tibetan dead are offered to wild griffon vultures, becomes a tourist attraction in Chinese modernized Tibet. This intimate window illuminates an ideological conflict often hidden to the outside world confronting the potential for oppression in the act of observation.

“Woodfire,” by Lane Brown, Tom Attwater, Matt Freeman, 2015, 8 minutes “Woodfire” follows Missoula ceramics artist; Casey Zablocki, through the extensive process of firing a traditional anagama wood fired kiln. The film focuses on the hard work and tireless efforts that are required to create a unique form of ceramic art.

Missoula band bringing alternative country to Havre Paul Dragu pdragu@havredailynews.com The Missoula-based alternative-country band The Best Westerns will be playing at the Tip-It Bar Friday, Sept. 16, from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. during Festival Days Drummer and Havreite Dave Martens said the band members call their music

“dirt wave” — “which is sort of a combination of traditional country, rock and folk.”

The Best Westerns has released one album, in 2014, “High Country,” a 10-track album.

Sept. 16 won’t be the first time The Best Westerns have played in Havre. Martens said the band played at the Eagles Club last year around Christmastime.

The band members are singer, songwriter and guitar player Izaak Opatz from W h i t e f i s h ; l e a d g u i t a r i s t Ray m o n d Lombardi from Helena; bass guitar player Ryan Scott from Missoula; singer and percussionist Caroline Keys from Missoula; and Martens, from Havre.

The Best Westerns's material is about 90 percent original, Martens says. The

band has been playing off and on since forming in Missoula in 2011.

Opatz played in a songwriters showcase

with Jackson Browne the day before The Best Westerns played in Havre last year. A song that was co-written by Opatz will also appear on a new album by country singer Jonny Fritz.

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Welcome to Havre for the 36th celebration of Havre Festival Days, Sept. 16-18 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.

For 36 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 weekend, we again have a full weekend of events and activities for the weekend of Sept. 16-18. Festival Days has gone from a weekend celebration to a community tradition. It takes many hours and the willingness of many to coordinate the weekend, and to each of you, thank you!

Thank you as well to Montana State University-Northern for being our partner sponsor. Thank you to Bearly Square and to Crystal City and Hi-Line Gold casinos for being our sponsors for the event flyers. I would like to thank every business that contributed to the 36th celebration of Havre Festival Days through their purchase of buttons and mugs and through sponsorships for events, promotions and prizes and to the many volunteers who will be helping to make the weekend a reality. Thank you to Cape Air and Triangle Communications for their sponsorship of two special prizes for the button contest.

The weekend’s activities start Friday with tradition events: the 48-hour Softball Tournament, Friends of the Library Book Sale and the Hi-Line Quilt Guild’s Festival

HAVRE FESTIVAL DAYS Havre Area Chamber of Commerce Debbie Vandeberg Executive director

of Quilts. Friday evening there is Northern Skylights volleyball.

It wouldn’t be Festival Days without starting Saturday at the Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast. This tradition has been a part of Festival Days for all 36 years, and many years before that as a part of Havre’s May Festival.

We are all ready to face the day after a great breakfast when it is time for the annual Festival Days Parade. I can’t say thank you enough for all who participate and especially to those who take some extra time to create a float for the parade. The Festival of Crafts and Commercial Show starts at Holiday Village Mall, the Saturday Market wraps up the season and the Demo Derby takes place. A new event this year is the KNMC Rock Lotto. The live music event will be taking place at Town Square. And the Northern Lights meet Carroll in grid iron action Saturday afternoon.

Sunday will wrap up the Craft and Commercial Show, the 48-hour Softball Tournament and the Quilt Show. Should you have any energy left, sign up to be in the Festival Run/Walk.

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.

Enjoy!

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Festival Days weekend features a full list of activities Some events to participate in over the weekend require preregistration Debbie Vandeberg Executive Director Havre Chamber of Commerce

Many traditional events and activities fill the weekend along with some new ones.

Things get started on Friday with the Friends of the Library Book Sale, the Festival of Quilts Show and the 48-Hour Softball Tournament. The Steve Heil Memorial Car Show will be a favorite for all the car buffs in the area.

Pancakes anyone? It wouldn’t be Festival Days without pancakes Saturday morning cooked by the Kiwanis Club. The club has provided this Saturday event for more than 50 years. The pancake breakfast has new times this year. The big event of the weekend is always the Parade on Saturday morning. Don’t forget to stop by the Town Square for the last market day of the season. The Festival Days Craft and Commercial Products Show will open Saturday and continues through Sunday at the Havre Holiday

Village Mall.

The E-1 Demo Derby is scheduled for the afternoon at the Great Northern Fairgrounds. The afternoon continues with a new event, KNMC Rock Lotto. This music event will features area bands performing at the Town Square.

Sunday isn’t short of things to do. Get in a Sunday run or walk by participating in the Festival Run/Walk. Registration is at Noon, and the event starts at 1 p.m. Catch the last day of the Softball Tournament, the Quilt Show, the Craft and Commercial Show or the Library Book Sale.

The weekend also offers some athletic events. Northern Volleyball will see action Friday evening against Rocky Mountain College at the Armory Gymnasium, and Saturday showcases Northern with the Lights Football team against Carroll College play in Blue Pone Stadium.

There are a couple of events to participate in over the weekend for which preregistration is needed: the Parade, the Festival Run/Walk, and a booth at the Crafts and Commercial Products Show. Anyone interested in participating in these events can stop by the Chamber for a registration form.

For a complete listing of the weekend’s events, times and locations, click onto the Chamber’s website: www.havrechamber. com; click on calendar/events and find the Festival Days schedule.

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Event highlights for Havre Festival Days 2016 Event highlights for Havre Festival Days 2016 48-hour Softball Tournament The 25th annual 48-hour Softball Tournament will officially begin Friday at 6:30 p.m., after the conclusion of the Guns and Hoses game, a battle between the local fire department and the police department that starts at 4:30 p.m.

Twenty-two co-ed teams from Canada and all over Montana have registered to play in the tournament, which will be happening at Sixth Avenue Memorial Field.

The tourney will be played, almost uninterrupted, until Sunday at 6 p.m.

The tournament will be temporarily suspended Saturday morning for the duration of the festival parade. One of the event’s main organizers, Tammy Boles, said the main reason for the interruption is one of safety as the parade goes by on Fifth Avenue.

To set order of game play, teams are picked randomly, with numbers that correlate to each team drawn for each time slot.

Boles said the games are pretty well-attended, and she encouraged people to come and watch.

“If you’re looking for something fun to do, come on down,” she said, adding that there is no admission fee.

The event raises money through the $225 fee per team to play, the concessions and a beer garden. The proceeds are split between the Havre High School fast-pitch softball team, softball youth programs and maintenance on Sixth Avenue Memorial Field.

Friends of the Library Book Sale Though Festival Days runs Friday through Sunday, the Friends of the Library Book Sale starts Thursday to give book lovers an extra day to take advantage of great deals on coveted reading materials.

The used-book sale is the biggest fundraiser of the year for the Friends of the Havre-Hill County Library, which support a wide variety of projects for the library throughout the year.

People donate books for the sale and some unneeded or duplicated books from the library shelves are put in the sale, too.

As in past years, said Jean Scofield of the Friends, most of the books will be sold for a "buck a bag," which means that all the books that can be stuffed into a shopping bag will sell for one dollar, adding that only some of the newest books are sold for a dollar each and larger book sets are sold together for a negotiated donation.

The event will also include a silent auction that ends Sunday. The selection of themed auction baskets is dependent on what treasures they find donated, she said.

Over the four days, thousands of books will change hands, she said.

“And people can come every day if they

The quilts on display have been handmade by quilters from all across the Hi-Line and in the surrounding areas.

The quilt raffle is one of the highlights of the show.

There will be three raffles. One raffle will be for a large quilt, and the mini raffle will be for a variety of handmade crafts.

People will also be able to buy tickets for a chance to win a sewing machine.

Tickets will be $3, or two for $5, and they must be purchased separately for each raffle. The drawing will be held Sunday at 3:30 p.m.

The proceeds from the donation quilt will go to Feed My Soup Soup Kitchen and those from the mini raffle and the sewing machine will go to the Quilt Guild.

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want,” she said. “We will put out new books every day.”

In fact, new books are put out on the tables regularly throughout each day as book sales create room on the tables.

“It’s a lot of fun,” she added. “People look forward to it.”

The money raised helps the library pay for the license for its movie program, for the summer and winter reading programs, and prizes for children programs.

The other fundraiser the Friends hold is the annual pie festival in February.

The schedule for the sale is: Thursday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.

Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

E-1 Demo Derby back in Festival Days The 21st E-1 Towing Demolition Derby will be happening Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Great Northern Fairgrounds at 3 p.m.

The derby will last about five hours.

Competitors can sign up until the day of the derby. There is no pre-registration. The registration cost for participants is $100.

This year, there will be a chain derby in addition to the welded derby. In a chain derby, also know as an “old-school” derby, only the roll cage and front bumper have to be welded on.

The reason for the chain derby is to give people who can’t afford to build an allwelded derby car to participate in the derby.

Cash prizes will be awarded to the first six places in the chain heat with first place earning $4,000, second $2,000, third $1,000, fourth $500, fifth $250 and $100 will be awarded for the sixth place.

In the welded derby, there is only one

heat and that winner wins $1,000.

Hi-Line Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts Show The 2016 Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts Show will display large and small quilts at the former Vets Club on Second Street Sept.

16-18.

The show will be open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m.

Sunday. People will be able to view anywhere between 20 and 30 quilts that will be on display.

The Havre Festival Days activities include the final weekend of a summerlong event on Town Square — Saturday Market.

The event started in 2002 after the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce’s completion of the Square. Every Saturday from early July through Festival Days, vendors gather on the Square to sell farm and garden goods, baked goods and other food, artwork and crafted items.

The market has grown each year, with an average of 40 vendors every weekend.

The market runs from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday during Festival Days.

Shriners Beef Raffle You can help donate to the children served by Shriners Hospitals and take a

chance at a winter’s supply of beef.

Havre Shriners will be around town selling the raffle tickets that have become a Festival Days tradition.

Tickets will be $5 with a limit of 1,000 tickets and can be purchased at Hank Tweeten's Auto Body or Brandon's Drapery & Floor Covering, or "from the local Shriner of your choice," said Shriner Kevin Tweeten.

The beef is donated by a local producer and will be wrapped and ready for the winners to take home to the freezer.

First-place winner gets half of a beef, with second-place getting the hind quarter and third-place the front quarter.

The winner will be drawn at Saturday’s Demolition Derby.

Shriners Hospitals provide free treatment to children with a variety of illnesses and injuries. The hospitals are located around the country, but most local people take advantage of the Spokane, Washington, hospital.

Money from this raffle goes into a travel fund to help families get to any Shriners Hospital, and last year 19 families were helped, said member Kelly Brandon.

Run of the Special Trains Havre Beneath the Streets and the Frank DeRosa Railroad Museum will end the summer season with a bang as they present a special display of model trains Festival Days weekend.

An extra runs of the trains will be set up in the basement, which is far more than visitors usually get to see, said Christy Owens of the museum.

The railroad museum offers a brief history of the railroad in Havre complete with model railroad trains running daily. An original hand cart and working block signal are on display. There is no charge to visit the railroad museum. And people can stay and see Havre Beneath the Streets.

The museum will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sunday for Festival Days weekend.

Steve Heil Memorial Car Show The Steve Heil Memorial Car Show enters its third year as a Festival Day’s tradition this year.

Car buffs are invited to the parking lot behind Independence Bank Friday at 6 p.m. to either display or view classic and restored vehicles.

The car show is named after Steve Heil and organized by Cassie Albertson, Heil’s daughter. She said that her late father was a “car nut.”

A car show had for many years been a part of the Festival Days festivities, but was discontinued several years ago.

It was resurrected in 2014.

Those who want to display a car can call Albertson at 390-3916.

Festival Run/Walk The Havre High Boys Cross Country team will host their annual Festival Run/ Walk Sunday.

Participants can take part in either a one mile walk or 5k run that starts at the RC Model Flying Club on the South end of town off of 5th Avenue.

Debbie Callahan, co-chair of the event, said registration will start at noon and the race at 1 p.m.

Registration is $10, or $25 for those who want a long-sleeved running shirt.

All proceeds will go toward the cross country team's expenses.

Callahan said this year prizes will be awarded to the first- and second-place man, woman, boy and girl to cross the finish line.

She said this year prizes would also be awarded to both the youngest and oldest participants.

Door prizes also will be distributed from miscellaneous donors.

Those who wish to register early can c o n ta c t C a l l a h a n o r J a n e t Pu g h a t Independence Bank in Havre, 265-1241.

Kiwanis Club Pancake Breakfast The Kiwanis Club will be hosting their annual pancake feed Saturday 7 a.m to 1 p.m at the Eagles Club in Havre.

Dean Person, secretary of the Kiwanis, said that the feed began in 1955 and helps fund the group's community projects. It has since become part of the Festival Days Celebration.

As in years past. Kiwanians will be at the Eagle’s Club long before daybreak to

prepare for the feed.

Breakfast is $7 for adults and $3 for those age 12 and under.

Customer Appreciation Day Custom Collisions Repair will give members of the public a look at its facilities and provide them with a free lunch and show Saturday, Sept. 17, during its annual Appreciation Day. Kim Schend, officer manager for Custom Collision Repair said John Davison, owner of Wolfer’s Diner will be grilling up and serving free pulled-pork sandwiches at Custom Collision after the Festival Days Parade.

People will be able to walk around the garage as see the tools and equipment used to repair vehicles and look at entries in the car show.

The business, 7110 1st St. NW, will be cordoned off to most traffic, except those who take part in Custom Collision Repair’s car show. Schend said there will also be a burnout, another part of the reason for having the area blocked off. Participants will have space to smoke their tires for the crowd.

People can sign up for either event at the celebration or by contacting Chris Preputin, owner of Custom Collision Repair.

Custom Collision will also announce the winner of a rebuilt 2003 Chrysler Concorde during the celebration.

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Event highlights for Havre Festival Days 2016 Event highlights for Havre Festival Days 2016 48-hour Softball Tournament The 25th annual 48-hour Softball Tournament will officially begin Friday at 6:30 p.m., after the conclusion of the Guns and Hoses game, a battle between the local fire department and the police department that starts at 4:30 p.m.

Twenty-two co-ed teams from Canada and all over Montana have registered to play in the tournament, which will be happening at Sixth Avenue Memorial Field.

The tourney will be played, almost uninterrupted, until Sunday at 6 p.m.

The tournament will be temporarily suspended Saturday morning for the duration of the festival parade. One of the event’s main organizers, Tammy Boles, said the main reason for the interruption is one of safety as the parade goes by on Fifth Avenue.

To set order of game play, teams are picked randomly, with numbers that correlate to each team drawn for each time slot.

Boles said the games are pretty well-attended, and she encouraged people to come and watch.

“If you’re looking for something fun to do, come on down,” she said, adding that there is no admission fee.

The event raises money through the $225 fee per team to play, the concessions and a beer garden. The proceeds are split between the Havre High School fast-pitch softball team, softball youth programs and maintenance on Sixth Avenue Memorial Field.

Friends of the Library Book Sale Though Festival Days runs Friday through Sunday, the Friends of the Library Book Sale starts Thursday to give book lovers an extra day to take advantage of great deals on coveted reading materials.

The used-book sale is the biggest fundraiser of the year for the Friends of the Havre-Hill County Library, which support a wide variety of projects for the library throughout the year.

People donate books for the sale and some unneeded or duplicated books from the library shelves are put in the sale, too.

As in past years, said Jean Scofield of the Friends, most of the books will be sold for a "buck a bag," which means that all the books that can be stuffed into a shopping bag will sell for one dollar, adding that only some of the newest books are sold for a dollar each and larger book sets are sold together for a negotiated donation.

The event will also include a silent auction that ends Sunday. The selection of themed auction baskets is dependent on what treasures they find donated, she said.

Over the four days, thousands of books will change hands, she said.

“And people can come every day if they

The quilts on display have been handmade by quilters from all across the Hi-Line and in the surrounding areas.

The quilt raffle is one of the highlights of the show.

There will be three raffles. One raffle will be for a large quilt, and the mini raffle will be for a variety of handmade crafts.

People will also be able to buy tickets for a chance to win a sewing machine.

Tickets will be $3, or two for $5, and they must be purchased separately for each raffle. The drawing will be held Sunday at 3:30 p.m.

The proceeds from the donation quilt will go to Feed My Soup Soup Kitchen and those from the mini raffle and the sewing machine will go to the Quilt Guild.

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want,” she said. “We will put out new books every day.”

In fact, new books are put out on the tables regularly throughout each day as book sales create room on the tables.

“It’s a lot of fun,” she added. “People look forward to it.”

The money raised helps the library pay for the license for its movie program, for the summer and winter reading programs, and prizes for children programs.

The other fundraiser the Friends hold is the annual pie festival in February.

The schedule for the sale is: Thursday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.

Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

E-1 Demo Derby back in Festival Days The 21st E-1 Towing Demolition Derby will be happening Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Great Northern Fairgrounds at 3 p.m.

The derby will last about five hours.

Competitors can sign up until the day of the derby. There is no pre-registration. The registration cost for participants is $100.

This year, there will be a chain derby in addition to the welded derby. In a chain derby, also know as an “old-school” derby, only the roll cage and front bumper have to be welded on.

The reason for the chain derby is to give people who can’t afford to build an allwelded derby car to participate in the derby.

Cash prizes will be awarded to the first six places in the chain heat with first place earning $4,000, second $2,000, third $1,000, fourth $500, fifth $250 and $100 will be awarded for the sixth place.

In the welded derby, there is only one

heat and that winner wins $1,000.

Hi-Line Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts Show The 2016 Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts Show will display large and small quilts at the former Vets Club on Second Street Sept.

16-18.

The show will be open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m.

Sunday. People will be able to view anywhere between 20 and 30 quilts that will be on display.

The Havre Festival Days activities include the final weekend of a summerlong event on Town Square — Saturday Market.

The event started in 2002 after the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce’s completion of the Square. Every Saturday from early July through Festival Days, vendors gather on the Square to sell farm and garden goods, baked goods and other food, artwork and crafted items.

The market has grown each year, with an average of 40 vendors every weekend.

The market runs from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday during Festival Days.

Shriners Beef Raffle You can help donate to the children served by Shriners Hospitals and take a

chance at a winter’s supply of beef.

Havre Shriners will be around town selling the raffle tickets that have become a Festival Days tradition.

Tickets will be $5 with a limit of 1,000 tickets and can be purchased at Hank Tweeten's Auto Body or Brandon's Drapery & Floor Covering, or "from the local Shriner of your choice," said Shriner Kevin Tweeten.

The beef is donated by a local producer and will be wrapped and ready for the winners to take home to the freezer.

First-place winner gets half of a beef, with second-place getting the hind quarter and third-place the front quarter.

The winner will be drawn at Saturday’s Demolition Derby.

Shriners Hospitals provide free treatment to children with a variety of illnesses and injuries. The hospitals are located around the country, but most local people take advantage of the Spokane, Washington, hospital.

Money from this raffle goes into a travel fund to help families get to any Shriners Hospital, and last year 19 families were helped, said member Kelly Brandon.

Run of the Special Trains Havre Beneath the Streets and the Frank DeRosa Railroad Museum will end the summer season with a bang as they present a special display of model trains Festival Days weekend.

An extra runs of the trains will be set up in the basement, which is far more than visitors usually get to see, said Christy Owens of the museum.

The railroad museum offers a brief history of the railroad in Havre complete with model railroad trains running daily. An original hand cart and working block signal are on display. There is no charge to visit the railroad museum. And people can stay and see Havre Beneath the Streets.

The museum will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sunday for Festival Days weekend.

Steve Heil Memorial Car Show The Steve Heil Memorial Car Show enters its third year as a Festival Day’s tradition this year.

Car buffs are invited to the parking lot behind Independence Bank Friday at 6 p.m. to either display or view classic and restored vehicles.

The car show is named after Steve Heil and organized by Cassie Albertson, Heil’s daughter. She said that her late father was a “car nut.”

A car show had for many years been a part of the Festival Days festivities, but was discontinued several years ago.

It was resurrected in 2014.

Those who want to display a car can call Albertson at 390-3916.

Festival Run/Walk The Havre High Boys Cross Country team will host their annual Festival Run/ Walk Sunday.

Participants can take part in either a one mile walk or 5k run that starts at the RC Model Flying Club on the South end of town off of 5th Avenue.

Debbie Callahan, co-chair of the event, said registration will start at noon and the race at 1 p.m.

Registration is $10, or $25 for those who want a long-sleeved running shirt.

All proceeds will go toward the cross country team's expenses.

Callahan said this year prizes will be awarded to the first- and second-place man, woman, boy and girl to cross the finish line.

She said this year prizes would also be awarded to both the youngest and oldest participants.

Door prizes also will be distributed from miscellaneous donors.

Those who wish to register early can c o n ta c t C a l l a h a n o r J a n e t Pu g h a t Independence Bank in Havre, 265-1241.

Kiwanis Club Pancake Breakfast The Kiwanis Club will be hosting their annual pancake feed Saturday 7 a.m to 1 p.m at the Eagles Club in Havre.

Dean Person, secretary of the Kiwanis, said that the feed began in 1955 and helps fund the group's community projects. It has since become part of the Festival Days Celebration.

As in years past. Kiwanians will be at the Eagle’s Club long before daybreak to

prepare for the feed.

Breakfast is $7 for adults and $3 for those age 12 and under.

Customer Appreciation Day Custom Collisions Repair will give members of the public a look at its facilities and provide them with a free lunch and show Saturday, Sept. 17, during its annual Appreciation Day. Kim Schend, officer manager for Custom Collision Repair said John Davison, owner of Wolfer’s Diner will be grilling up and serving free pulled-pork sandwiches at Custom Collision after the Festival Days Parade.

People will be able to walk around the garage as see the tools and equipment used to repair vehicles and look at entries in the car show.

The business, 7110 1st St. NW, will be cordoned off to most traffic, except those who take part in Custom Collision Repair’s car show. Schend said there will also be a burnout, another part of the reason for having the area blocked off. Participants will have space to smoke their tires for the crowd.

People can sign up for either event at the celebration or by contacting Chris Preputin, owner of Custom Collision Repair.

Custom Collision will also announce the winner of a rebuilt 2003 Chrysler Concorde during the celebration.

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Film festival set for Festival days Pam Burke community@havredailynews.com An evening of documentary film-watching is coming to Festival Days this year.

Best of the Big Sky Film Tour will be showing a selection of films from the 2016 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Thursday, Sept. 15, at the Little Theatre in Cowan Hall on the Montana State UniversityNorthern campus.

The Havre event, which is free, starts at 8 p.m., but the doors and Backstage Lounge will be open at 7:30 selling beverages.

The event, hosted jointly by Montana Actors’ Theatre and Humanities Montana, will start with a short address from Gita Saedi Kiely, executive director of Big Sky Film Institute, which hosts the film festival each year.

Seven short films will be shown over the course of the evening, giving the audience 90 minutes of viewing on topics ranging from a couple, who bought the house of serial killer, trying to gain neighborhood acceptance of the house to a unique burial practice in Tibet and animal adoption to foods.

Ty Hedalen, financial manager on the MAT Board of Directors, said he’s been interested for quite a while in getting a film

festival into Havre, and about a year ago mentioned that ambition to Jay Pyette, the theatre group’s artistic director and cofounder.

Pyette gave the go-ahead, Hedalen said, but it was a conversation with people from Humanities Montana that got him the connection to Kiely and the film institute.

All of the documentary films were popular submissions in the 2016 competition in Missoula, Hedalen said.

The documentary film list is: “The House is Innocent,” by Nicholas Coles, 2015, 12 minutes Who knowingly purchases the former residence of a notorious serial killer? Meet Tom and Barbara, proud new owners of the nost infamous house in Sacramento, Calif. As the middle-aged couple renovate the crumbling house, they realize it’s going to take a whole lot more than paint to change the community’s mind about their new home.

“Mining, Poems, or Odes,” by Callum Rice, 2015, 11 minutes Robert, an ex-shipyard welder from Scotland, reflects on how his life experience’s have influenced his new found compulsion to write. His retrospective poetry revels a man who is trying to achieve a state

of contentment through words and philosophy.

“Operation Allie,” by Manny Marquez, 2015, 8 minutes Anthony Marquez, a former Marine and military dog handler, has returned from Afghanistan.

He lost 17 friends in the war, and has been suffering from the effects of PTSD. When he finds out that the dog that he went through the war with, Allie, is being retired from the Marine Corp, he sets out to adopt her.

“Pickle,” by Amy Nicholson, 2015, USA, 15 minutes A couple recounts the various animals they have adopted as pets over the course of their marriage, including a paraplegic possum and a fish that couldn’t swim. Pickle explores the human capacity to care for all creatures throughout their sometimes greatly protracted lives until their occasionally sudden and unfortunate deaths.

“Sandorkraut,” by Ann Husaini, Emily Lobsenz, 2015, 12 minutes “Sandorkraut” is an intimate portrait of Sandor Katz, America’s foremost fermentation revivalist. A native New Yorker, Sandor abandoned a life in politics in the early ‘90’s

after a health crisis. He relocated to an offt h e - g r i d q u e e r c o m m u n i t y i n r u ra l Tennessee, where his love of gardening and an overabundant cabbage harvest led him to make his first batch of sauerkraut. An intense personal obsession with fermented foods was born.

“Vultures of Tibet,” by Russell O. Bush, 2013, 21 minutes Sky Burial, a private ritual where the bodies of Tibetan dead are offered to wild griffon vultures, becomes a tourist attraction in Chinese modernized Tibet. This intimate window illuminates an ideological conflict often hidden to the outside world confronting the potential for oppression in the act of observation.

“Woodfire,” by Lane Brown, Tom Attwater, Matt Freeman, 2015, 8 minutes “Woodfire” follows Missoula ceramics artist; Casey Zablocki, through the extensive process of firing a traditional anagama wood fired kiln. The film focuses on the hard work and tireless efforts that are required to create a unique form of ceramic art.

Missoula band bringing alternative country to Havre Paul Dragu pdragu@havredailynews.com The Missoula-based alternative-country band The Best Westerns will be playing at the Tip-It Bar Friday, Sept. 16, from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. during Festival Days Drummer and Havreite Dave Martens said the band members call their music

“dirt wave” — “which is sort of a combination of traditional country, rock and folk.”

The Best Westerns has released one album, in 2014, “High Country,” a 10-track album.

Sept. 16 won’t be the first time The Best Westerns have played in Havre. Martens said the band played at the Eagles Club last year around Christmastime.

The band members are singer, songwriter and guitar player Izaak Opatz from W h i t e f i s h ; l e a d g u i t a r i s t Ray m o n d Lombardi from Helena; bass guitar player Ryan Scott from Missoula; singer and percussionist Caroline Keys from Missoula; and Martens, from Havre.

The Best Westerns's material is about 90 percent original, Martens says. The

band has been playing off and on since forming in Missoula in 2011.

Opatz played in a songwriters showcase

with Jackson Browne the day before The Best Westerns played in Havre last year. A song that was co-written by Opatz will also appear on a new album by country singer Jonny Fritz.

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Welcome to Havre for the 36th celebration of Havre Festival Days, Sept. 16-18 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.

For 36 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 weekend, we again have a full weekend of events and activities for the weekend of Sept. 16-18. Festival Days has gone from a weekend celebration to a community tradition. It takes many hours and the willingness of many to coordinate the weekend, and to each of you, thank you!

Thank you as well to Montana State University-Northern for being our partner sponsor. Thank you to Bearly Square and to Crystal City and Hi-Line Gold casinos for being our sponsors for the event flyers. I would like to thank every business that contributed to the 36th celebration of Havre Festival Days through their purchase of buttons and mugs and through sponsorships for events, promotions and prizes and to the many volunteers who will be helping to make the weekend a reality. Thank you to Cape Air and Triangle Communications for their sponsorship of two special prizes for the button contest.

The weekend’s activities start Friday with tradition events: the 48-hour Softball Tournament, Friends of the Library Book Sale and the Hi-Line Quilt Guild’s Festival

HAVRE FESTIVAL DAYS Havre Area Chamber of Commerce Debbie Vandeberg Executive director

of Quilts. Friday evening there is Northern Skylights volleyball.

It wouldn’t be Festival Days without starting Saturday at the Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast. This tradition has been a part of Festival Days for all 36 years, and many years before that as a part of Havre’s May Festival.

We are all ready to face the day after a great breakfast when it is time for the annual Festival Days Parade. I can’t say thank you enough for all who participate and especially to those who take some extra time to create a float for the parade. The Festival of Crafts and Commercial Show starts at Holiday Village Mall, the Saturday Market wraps up the season and the Demo Derby takes place. A new event this year is the KNMC Rock Lotto. The live music event will be taking place at Town Square. And the Northern Lights meet Carroll in grid iron action Saturday afternoon.

Sunday will wrap up the Craft and Commercial Show, the 48-hour Softball Tournament and the Quilt Show. Should you have any energy left, sign up to be in the Festival Run/Walk.

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.

Enjoy!

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Festival Days weekend features a full list of activities Some events to participate in over the weekend require preregistration Debbie Vandeberg Executive Director Havre Chamber of Commerce

Many traditional events and activities fill the weekend along with some new ones.

Things get started on Friday with the Friends of the Library Book Sale, the Festival of Quilts Show and the 48-Hour Softball Tournament. The Steve Heil Memorial Car Show will be a favorite for all the car buffs in the area.

Pancakes anyone? It wouldn’t be Festival Days without pancakes Saturday morning cooked by the Kiwanis Club. The club has provided this Saturday event for more than 50 years. The pancake breakfast has new times this year. The big event of the weekend is always the Parade on Saturday morning. Don’t forget to stop by the Town Square for the last market day of the season. The Festival Days Craft and Commercial Products Show will open Saturday and continues through Sunday at the Havre Holiday

Village Mall.

The E-1 Demo Derby is scheduled for the afternoon at the Great Northern Fairgrounds. The afternoon continues with a new event, KNMC Rock Lotto. This music event will features area bands performing at the Town Square.

Sunday isn’t short of things to do. Get in a Sunday run or walk by participating in the Festival Run/Walk. Registration is at Noon, and the event starts at 1 p.m. Catch the last day of the Softball Tournament, the Quilt Show, the Craft and Commercial Show or the Library Book Sale.

The weekend also offers some athletic events. Northern Volleyball will see action Friday evening against Rocky Mountain College at the Armory Gymnasium, and Saturday showcases Northern with the Lights Football team against Carroll College play in Blue Pone Stadium.

There are a couple of events to participate in over the weekend for which preregistration is needed: the Parade, the Festival Run/Walk, and a booth at the Crafts and Commercial Products Show. Anyone interested in participating in these events can stop by the Chamber for a registration form.

For a complete listing of the weekend’s events, times and locations, click onto the Chamber’s website: www.havrechamber. com; click on calendar/events and find the Festival Days schedule.

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September 2016 Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast Eagles Club

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MSU-Northern Volleyball Friday Armory Gym, MSU-Northern

8 a.m. to 8 p.m. — Friends of the Library Book Sale — Library meeting room Noon to 6 p.m. — Hi-Line Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts Show — Old VFW Building — 2nd Street & 4th Avenue 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. — Steve Heil Memorial Car Show — Independence Bank Parking Lot 6 p.m. to Sunday 6 p.m. — 48-Hour Softball Tournament — 6th Avenue Memorial Softball Field 7 p.m. — MSU-Northern Volleyball vs. Rocky Mountain College — MSU-Northern Gym

— Clack Museum Board presents Anne Foster, Historian, “Alcohol, Corsets & the Vote” — Best Western Havre Inn & Suites 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. — The Best Westerns Band — Outside of the Tip-It

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All day — 48-Hour Softball Tournament — 6th Avenue Memorial Softball Field.

7 a.m. to 1 p.m. — Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast, Eagles Club.

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

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 5 p.m. — Havre Festival Days Commercial Products & Craft Show — Holiday Village Mall 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. — Hi-Line Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts Show — Old VFW Building — 2nd Street & 4th Avenue 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. — Custom Collision Repair Car Show, Barbecue & Burn Out — Custom Collision Repair Noon to 5 p.m. — Friends of the Library Book Sale — Library Meeting Room 1 p.m. — MSU-Northern Football vs. Carroll College — Blue Pony Field 3 p.m. — E-1 Towing Demolition Derby — Great Northern Fairgrounds 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. — KNMC Rock Lotto — Town Square Area

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All day — 48-Hour Softball Tournament — 6th Avenue Memorial Softball Field.

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

Noon to 4 p.m. — Havre Festival Days Commercial Products & Craft Show — Holiday Village Mall Noon to 4 p.m. — Hi-Line Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts Show — Old VFW Building — 2nd Street & 4th Avenue Noon to 5 p.m. — Friends of the Library Book Sale — Library Meeting Room.

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

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

Lights football takes on rival Carroll College Saturday with a 1 p.m. kickoff George Ferguson Havre Daily News

When one thinks of Havre's annual Festival Days celebration, they often think of parades, marching bands and craft shows. In other words, they think of fun.

Of course, there's a lot to see and do during Festival Days, and on top of everything the community puts on, there's lots of great sporting events, too.

The 2016 Festival Days celebration will be no different, as the Havre sporting landscape will be very busy.

An important sporting event during Festival Days is one that isn't connected to Havre High, or Montana State University-Northern. But, the popularity of the annual 48-Hour Softball Tournament is undeniable.

Tammy Boles, and many others in the Havre adult softball community have been putting on the tournament for years now, and, its popularity continues to grow. This year's 48-Hour tourney will again run from 6 p.m.

Friday straight through until Sunday afternoon. The tournament will feature a full bracket of co-ed teams, both local and from all across the state of Montana, and, of course, it will feature its unique schedule, which is games without stopping. There are games in the evening, in the day, and even in the middle of the night, and the tournament does not stop until the championship game on Sunday is concluded.

Festival Days, however, isn't just limited to softball.

MSU-Northern sports will be busy that weekend as well, including the home debut of the Northern volleyball team Friday night. The Skylights open Frontier Conference play that night against defending Frontier champion Rocky Mountain College in the Armory Gymnasium.

The Northern Lights football team will also be back in Blue Pony Stadium that Saturday to take on arch rival Carroll College. The Lights will welcome in the nationally ranked Fighting Saints for a 1 p.m. kickoff, in what should be one of the Lights' most exciting home games of the season.

So once again, if you're a sports fan, Festival Days will be a lot of fun, and, there's going to be plenty for you to see and do.

Havre Daily News/Colin Thompson Montana State University-Northern's Zach McKinley, right, looks for running room during the Aug. 27, 2015 Frontier Conference game against Rocky Mountain College at Blue Pony Stadium. The Lights fell short, 31-21.

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Rock Lotto: Martens: People will see how much fun this is and want to play in a band next year n Continued from page 5 ey at KNMC and former manager of the station — who also worked at its predecessor, KNOG, while it used live broadcasts — created the pool of 10 songs from each of the five decades.

Martens said that Rock Lottos often have a theme, such as a Rock Lotto last year that involved covers of Led Zeppelin songs. In larger music communities such as Seattle, musicians could come together and in a short period of time write original songs, he said.

“That is something they could do there, don’t know if we could pull that off in a place like Havre,” he said.

Martens said he had trouble coming up with a theme, so he chose songs from five decades. The songs his group will play are “Smokestack Lightnin” by Howlin Wolf, “Psychotic Reaction” by The Count Five, “Detroit Rock City” by KISS, “The Final Countdown” by Europe and “1979” by the Smashing Pumpkins.

Trygve “Spike” Magelssen, a Northern professor and the group’s bass player, who is long associated with KNMC and spurred its revival in 2001, said the theme is fitting for the radio station’s format, which also plays a variety of tunes from a wide time period.

“We play all kinds of music; we are diversified,” Magelssen said. “We are playing ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and 90’s music from various

different bands.”

Martens said that the song selections are meant to be “a starting point” for the groups rather than a requirement. He said the musicians have a limited time to put a set together and the songs selected can serve as a guide.

Some groups have decided not to do certain songs, so substituted them with others.

For example, one group that selected “The Boys are Back In Town” by Thin Lizzy switched to another song because it was too difficult.

Changes can be made, he said, provided all the group’s members agree.

Martens and his bandmates say that they like their arranged set and plan to stick with it.

But the loose format got mixed reviews, Martens said.

“Some people thought it was a great idea right away, and kind of understood it was going to be a fun thing,” he said. “But some people you really had to talk to.”

Martens, who said he hopes to make the lotto an annual Festival Days event, said seeing how much fun people have with this year’s will hopefully increase interest next time.

“I think it will be bigger the next time we do it because people will be like, ‘I should have done that,’” Martens said. “They are going to see it, see how much fun it is and say, ‘OK, we should have done that.’”

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KNMC Rock Lotto Band Line-up Performances begin 4 p.m. at Town Square Attendance is free and open to the public Band 1 drums - Dave Martens bass - Trygve “Spike” Magelssen vocals/guitar - Seth Jared Pomeroy vocals/guitar - Matt Springer vocals/guitar - Penny Velk

Band 3 drums - Brian Rhoades bass - Robert Jerry Bergren Jr. vocals/guitar - Mandi Nystrom guitar - Ian Munson harmonica - Bruce Patera

Band 1 covers: 1956 - Smokestack Lightning (Howlin' Wolf), 1966 - Psychotic Reaction (The Count Five), 1976 - Detroit Rock City (Kiss), 1986 - The Final Countdown (Europe), 1996 1979 (Smashing Pumpkins)

Band 3 covers: 1956 - Long Tall Sally (Little Richard), 1966 - Mustang Sally (Wilson Pickett), 1976 - Night Moves (Bob Seger), 1986 - Kiss (Prince), 1996 - Gimme One Reason (Traci Chapman)

Band 2 drums - A.J. Rucinsky bass - Seth Swick guitar/vocals - Jade Nystrom guitar/vocals - Dane MacRae keyboard/backing vocals - Rhonda Minnick

Band 4 drums - Don Thoma bass - Al Leyba vocals - Talia Malone guitar - Jim Bennett harmonica/guitar - Taylor Lyon

Band 2 covers: 1956 - Diddy Wah Diddy (Bo Diddley), 1966 - Devil With a Blue Dress (Mitch Ryder), 1976 - Crazy on You (Heart), 1986 Fight for Your Right to Party (Beastie Boys), 1996 - Pony (Ginuwine)

Band 4 Covers: 1956 - Please, Please, Please (James Brown), 1966 - Wild Thing (Troggs), 1976 - The Boys are Back in Town (Thin Lizzy), 1986 - Highway 2 the Danger Zone (Kenny Loggins), 1996 - World I Know (Collective Soul)

cians with varying levels of experience a chance come together and play without the obligations required of those in a more permanent band.

“This is a responsibility-free, fun situation for them to kind of just let loose and try something,” Martens said.

Rock lottos bring together musicians and singers to form short-term groups that create a set of either original material or cover songs, often revolving around a set theme.

After performing at an event, the groups then disband.

Many times, members of the groups have never even played together.

Springer, a farmer who plays guitar in Marten’s group, said he was drawn to the lotto’s format.

“Learning to play in a new band from nothing is pretty cool,” he said.

Martens said rock lottos are common in communities with vibrant live music scenes such as Seattle and San Francisco. He said that he took part in one in Missoula in 2012.

Martens said he came up with the idea to have a rock lotto in Havre earlier this summer to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the rebirth of the college radio station. The station had gone off live broadcasts in the 1980s, rebroadcasting National Public Radio programming. The station was renamed KNMC and started live broadcasts Sept 4, 2001.

Martens said he wanted to do the rock lotto to give musicians, especially those who

Havre Daily News/Alex Ross Penny Velk plays her banjo during a practice of her KNMC Rock Lotto band. are not in bands, a chance to play.

“Nobody is demanding perfection,” Martens said. “It is literally just the act of getting out there and making some music and having fun, and that is it.”

It also allows those who know how to play an instrument but have never been in a band to have a chance to jam with others.

Penny Velk, owner of Henny Penny

Cupcakes, has played guitar for about 30 years. Though she has performed solo at bars and other small venues when she lived in North Dakota and Big Sandy, she said, she has never been in a band before. She said she always wanted to be in one but never had the opportunity.

After Martens came up with the idea, he

said, he took the idea to have a rock lotto to Debbie Vandeberg, executive director of the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce, which developed and maintains Town Square and organizes Festival Days. The Chamber approved the proposal.

He said with the help of some of the more active musicians in Havre he reached out to interested performers. He also promoted the idea through social media including the Havre Online Yard Sale Facebook group and KNMC. Musicians and singers signed up in advanced and listed their instrument of choice on a signup sheet posted at Bear Paw Meats.

The bands were formed when performer’s names were drawn from a hat during the weekly Sounds on the Square concert Aug. 9.

Martens said each group consists of a bassist, drummer and at least one vocalist and guitarist. Some groups also had members who play harmonica, keyboard or another instrument.

Group members can also switch instruments based on each band's needs and abilities.

After the bands were formed, a second drawing took place where a representative of each group would be assigned a song from the years 1956, ’66, ’76, ’86 and ’96.

Martens said that Rick Linie, a disc jock-

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Havre Festival Days Commemorative buttons and mugs available now Only 1,000 numbered buttons are available, drawings for a chance to win a Bo & Play S3 Bluetooth Speaker and two round-trip tickets to Billings courtesy of Cape Air Commemorative mugs and buttons are available for the 36th celebration of Havre Festival Days. The mugs and buttons will feature this year’s logo.

The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce will be drawing a series of six random numbers each day, Monday, Sept. 12, through Friday, Sept. 16. Those holding a button with a winning number will win a Chamber Gift Certificate in varying denominations or a Festival Days com-

memorative mug. To claim a prize, just stop by the Chamber with the winning button. Winning numbers will be listed in the newspaper and on the radio the week of Festival Days. Two other numbers will be drawn to win a Bo & Play S3 Bluetooth Speaker from Triangle Mobile and two round-trip tickets to Billings on Cape Air. These two winning button numbers will be drawn Friday, Sept. 16.

Festival Days mugs are on sale at Dairy Queen, PJ’s Restaurant and Casino, McLean’s Grocery, Tortilla Junction, Yummy Foods, Golden Spike, Crystal City Casino, Hi-Line Gold Casino, Murphy’s Pub, Eagles Club, Vic’s Place, Tip-It Bar and the Havre Chamber office.

Mugs may be purchased at any of these locations for $6, while the supply lasts.

This year is looking to be another sell-out year. This is the 29th year the commemorative mugs, featuring the event logo, have been a part of the Festival Days celebration.

People are encouraged to get mugs and buttons early, as supplies are limited.

Winning numbers will be listed in the paper and on the radio the week of Festival Days.

Havre Daily News/Teresa Getten Debbie Vandeberg, executive director Havre Chamber of Commerce, right, accepts from Triangle Communications’ Brandon Norton a Bo & Play S3 Bluetook Speaker compliments of Triangle Communications/Triangle Mobile Service. This item will be part of the Havre Festival Days button drawings.

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Havre Festival Days Parade sure to excite Rock Lotto debuts at Festival Days 2016 Paul Dragu pdragu@havredailynews.com

For as long as there’s been a Havre Festival Days, there’s been a Havre Festival Days Parade.

The parade will take place Saturday, starting at 10 a.m. It will commence on the south end of Fifth Avenue by Rod’s Drive-In and continue north to Fourth Street, where it will take a right and continue to Pepin Park. People are encouraged to follow the parade all the way to the park, where it will conclude.

The parade will include floats, bands and other performers, as well as vehicles representing businesses and organizations.

It takes at least 20 volunteers to ensure the parade goes as smoothly as possible, and they will all be working hard.

Among what and who will be in the parade will be the Havre High School marching band, South Alberta Pipes and Drums, Miss Montana Lauren Scofield, Havre Optometric Clinic, NorthWestern Energy, Custom Collision Repair, Catholic Daughters/Knights of Columbus, Havre’s Ice Cream Truck, Hi-Line Polaris, Torgerson’s, State Farm, Lewis Heating and A/C, E-1 Towing, Recycle Hi-Line, Bullhook Community Health Center, Havre Youth Hockey, Havre Flying Club, Angel Care, Fastenal, representatives from the Democratic and Republican parties, and more.

Havre Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Debbie Vandeberg said registration goes on until the day before, but the Chamber does encourage early registration. There is no fee to register to be in the parade.

Judges will vote to award prizes to the best commercial and noncommercial floats, and Mayor Tim Solomon will make his pick, as well, for the Mayor's Choice award.

Vandeberg said that it is very important that people in moving vehicles do not throw candy, but rather, hand it out to the crowd.

“We’ve had people hurt by throwing candy,” she said. “We’re trying to prevent people from being hurt by candy.”

Alex Ross aeross@havredailynews.com A group of five musicians in a yet-to-benamed band came together for a two-hour practice session the evening of Aug. 29.

Carrying their drumsticks and guitar cases, they met for only the second time as a group at the Hounds Lounge, a dog-boarding facility that doubles as the residence of Matthew Springer, one of the group’s three guitarists and vocalists.

With the sounds of dogs barking on the other side of the building, the five bandmates chatted as they adjusted the knobs on amplifiers and warmed up on their instruments.

It was only their second practice as a group. But after their first public performance at Town Square Sept 17, the group will break up just as abruptly as they were assembled.

The group is one of five with a total of 20 musicians who are taking part in the firstever KNMC Rock Lotto during Festival Days. Performances will begin at 4 p.m. at Town Square, and the public can bring chairs, blankets and snacks and enjoy the performances for free.

The five bands will perform five cover songs each. Entertainment from established local bands will follow those performances.

The Local Girl Scout Troops participate during the 2015 Festival Days parade on 5th Avenue.

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Havre Daily News/Alex Ross Dave Martens, from left, Seth Pomeroy, Matt Springer, Trygve "Spike" Magelssen and Penny Velk practice for their performance in the KNMC Rock Lotto concert that will be at Town Square starting at 4 p.m. Saturday of Festival Days.

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HAVRE AREA CHAMBER Welcome from the Havre Proudly serving our members for over 100 years!

"The Havre Chamber ~ putting Havre first" We thank our members for over 100 years of progress Aaron’s Sales & Leasing Adams Chiropractic AmericInn of Havre Anderson Appraising Anderson ZurMuehlen Atrium Mall Association Baker Amusement Baldwin Court Reporting Services Baldwin Insurance Associates Bear Paw BBQ Bear Paw Credit Union Bear Paw Development Bear Paw Meats Bear Paw Paint Bear Paw Technologies Bear Paw Veterinary Clinic Bearly Square Quilting Beaver Creek Designs Beaver Creek Golf Course Ben Franklin Crafts Bergren Transmission Best Western Plus Havre Inn & Suites Better Business Bureau Big Equipment Company Big Sky Images Bill Baltrusch Construction Bing ‘n Bob’s Blue Cross Blue Shield BNSF Bob’s Greenhouse Bosch, Kuhr Dugdale Boy Scouts of America Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line Brandon’s Drapery & Floor Covering Budget Rent-A-Car Built Wright Homes & Roofing Bullhook Community Health Center Bullhook Property Management CHS Big Sky CK Builders CM Management Cape Air Cavaliers for Men & Women Cellular Plus/Verizon Char’s Family Dining Charter Communications Circle Inn City of Havre Clack Museum Foundation Clausen & Sons Coca-Cola Coffee Hound Cottonwood Cinema 4 Credit Bureau of Havre Crystal City Casino Culligan Custom Collision Repair D.A. Davidson Dairy Queen Destination Travel Diesel Doctor, Inc. Domino’s Down Under Fitness Center Downtown Gardens Duchscher Insurance Duck Inn/Mediterranean Bistro Eagle Home Mortgage Eagles Club Edward Jones Eight Design Emporium Food & Fuel Enell, Inc. Erickson Insurance Group Evergreen Campground Ezzie’s Wholesale, Inc. 5th Avenue Christian Church 5th Ave Grind Farm Bureau Financial Services Finest Boot Repair First National Pawn First Security Bank Fivehead’s Fleet Wholesale Supply Flynn Realty Frontier Lawn & Landscaping Gary & Leo’s IGA Golden Spike Lounge Gram’s Ice Cream & Candy Shoppe Great Northern Fair Great Northern Inn-Best Western Gregoire Insurance Agency Guadalajara Restaurant

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Area Chamber of Commerce Happy Festival Days! Festival Days is upon us once again and it is the 36th anniversary of this great community event.

What makes Havre special to me may be different than what makes Havre special to you. But the one thing that brings us all together is the annual Festival Days parade. It's fun watching kids gathering candy and seeing the smiles on people's faces riding on floats as they wave at their friends, showing their pride of Havre and being involved in the parade Saturday morning.

Check out all that our local vendors have to offer at Saturday Market in Town Square before or after the parade.

For the car lovers out there, be sure to take in the Steve Heil Memorial Car Show, CCR Burnout Competition and the E-1 Towing Demolition Derby. For all the art enthusiasts, check out the Hi-Line Quilt Guild Festival of Quilts and the Crafts and Commercial Products Show that has been moved to the Holiday Village Mall.

And for all the active athletes and spectators looking for sporting events, be sure to ta ke i n s o m e 4 8 - H o u r S o f t b a l l Tournament, MSU-N college football and volleyball. With these and many other

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events, there's sure to be something on the Festival Days calendar that will interest you.

Look to purchase a Festival Days button or mug from a local participating business or stop by the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce office to get one, while you thank Debbie and Shari for all that they and our local Chamber of Commerce do to make this weekend possible and so special.

Be sure to partake in the Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast Saturday morning at the Eagles Club from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.

On behalf of the Havre Chamber and Board of Directors, I invite you to come out and join in all the fun. If you're not involved, get involved and enjoy Festival Days weekend — "Celebrate Havre"... take a look around folks!

Clack Museum, Humanities MT present

‘Alcohol, Corsets and the Vote’ H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum will be celebrating Festival Days with "Alcohol, Corsets and the Vote" and a portrayal of suffragette, reformer and journalist Mary Long Alderson.

The museum, in conjunction with Humanities Montana which has brought their programs to Havre for the past year, is hosting archivist and living history interpreter Anne Foster Friday at 7 p.m. at the Havre Inn & Suites.

Foster will bring late-1800s and early1900s history to life, during a presentation and conversation, portraying Alderson, who

is described as "an eloquent and passionate speaker" on the Humanities website. She was also chairwoman of the Montana Floral Emblem campaign, president of the Montana Christian Temperance Union and a leader in the Montana Woman Suffrage Association.

Foster draws from Alderson's editorials and other writings to talk about the "benefits of votes for women as well as the evils of drink and tight lacing." Many of Alderson's writings were published in Bozeman papers.

The program and light refreshments are free, and everyone is welcome to attend.

A local historic preservationist is using Festival Days to help raise funds for current and future work in Havre.

Emily Mayer of High Line Heritage Resources is donating $1 from tour proceeds per person wearing a Festival Days Button for each tour she gives during Festival Days. This fundraiser applies to the Cottage Tour of her house museum, the Old Townsite Historic Havre Stroll and History Among the

Headstones. The money raised will help with the final funding to pay for wrapping the traffic control boxes in Havre.

Havre Main Streets Revitalization sought work from local artists to put on the traffic boxes to liven up the appearance of Havre.

The committee called for art during last year’s Festival Days and selected art submitted. The committee is going through the process of getting the vinyl wraps on the boxes.

High Line Heritage Resources donating to traffic box artwork

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Festival of crafts, art and commercial products

will gather at the Holiday Village Mall during Festival Days Artisans, crafters and commercial vendors will converge at the Holiday Village Mall Saturday and Sunday, the weekend of Havre Festival Days, for the Commercial Products & Craft Show.

The show times will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Montanans from places such as Havre, Chinook, Great Falls, Kalispell, Conrad, Moore, Libby, Rudyard and Belt will showcase handmade crafts of many kinds, including jewelry, artwork and paintings, holiday decorations, wood carvings, yard arts, metal art, table runners, napkins, and much more.

The vendors, so far, include Don Greytak,

Cindy Jo Haney, Sharon Kougl, Keith and Cathryn Bassett, Cara Mertes, Paulette Patterson, Dale and Leon Ost, Linda Gobin, Kerry Shay, Lezlie Holden, Debbie Walker, Wayne Anderson, Roxanne Lynch, Anita Bangen, Gary Glock, Mary Nault and Karen Stoltz, Rose Wollman and Roxana Laeupple, Diana Betts, Jennie Houghteling, Connie Kennedy, Stepahnie Larson, Edith Foster, Carol Lee, Liz McIntosh, Laura Scheele, Beth Jorgenson and Linda Simonich.

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