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day of american CowboyU.S. Sen.
Max Baucus, D-Mont., is highlighting the impor-tance of Montana’s ranching heritage by co-sponsor-
ing the “National Day of the American Cowboy” resolu-tion.
“One in fi ve jobs are related to agriculture in Montana, which is why I’m fi ghting for a strong Farm Bill and working to elevate the status of cowboy cul-ture,” Baucus said.
This year, July 28 will be designated National Day of the American Cowboy.
WEDNESDAYJUNE 6, 2012104th year, No. 46Sidney, Montanawww.sidneyherald.com75 CENTS
Youngsters compete in rodeo. Page 2B.
seRVInG RICHLand COunTy and THe suRROundInG aRea FOR OVeR 100 yeaRs
Bulletin Board Happy birthday
The Sidney Herald wishes happy birthday this week to friends Brady Buckles, Amanda Roote, Ashley Wunder, Carol Paladichuk Herman, Tegan Sivertson, Kodi Satra, LeAnn Johnson, Kathy Jensen Vadapalli, Greta Levno, Pam Wilcoxon, Toni Dodge, Tanya Asbeck, Osker Wong, Lisa Gorder, Carrie Tjelde Faulhaber, Julie Lipsiea, Cortney Zent-ner, Dakota Hurley, Brandie Azure, Ashlee Sheehan Olm-stead, Amy Hinebauch Rapp, Avice Hoff, Beau Norby, Victoria Welnel, Wendy Anderson Olson, David Seitz, Michelle Skaley, Trista Gei-ger, Kortney Mayer, LaVonne Schultz, Kristi Riveland, Kristin Weltikol, Karen Jenkins, Curtis Petrik, June Wittliff, Angie Buckley, Jodi Sears, Matthew Nollmeyer, Katie Haase, Brook Shee-han, Charell Anderson, Kaci Quale Hutzenbiler, Pat Anderson, Shandon Erick-son, Jami Fink, Deb Mayers-Rassier, Jennifer Dashner Woodward, Liana Peters, Maria French, Judy Radke Janseen, Carly Bowker and Dena Prevost.
Two-wheeled Tuesday All motorcyclists are in-
vited to join the local Lower Yellowstone ABATE mem-bers on the third Tuesday of each month for Two-Wheeled Tuesday. Sidney-area riders will meet in the Pamida parking lot for a 6 p.m. departure to area eateries. For more information, call chapter coordinator Randy Baldwin at 406-939-3991 or vice coordinator Rob Knotts at 406-774-3778.
election resultsLog onto www.sidneyher-
ald.com to view primary election results.
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lorriane oelkers, 84patricia “pat” Wagner, 60
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BY SamanTHa JoHnSonsIdney HeRaLd
On July 27 starting at 7 p.m., the residents of Rich-land County and the sur-rounding areas will gather at the Richland County Fairgrounds to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the American Cancer Society Relay for Life.
Co-chairs Toni Zieske and April Boehler hope for a big turnout this year.
The Relay For Life started out in 2003 by the American Cancer Society as a way to honor and give support to cancer patients and survivors. Over the past few years, more than 100 survivors have participated, as well as over 20 teams con-sisting of eight to 10 people every year.
Anne Kimbrell is one of the numerous individu-als who have participated every year. Kimbrell’s sister, Cathy, passed away after bat-tling a brain tumor. When Kimbrell returned and saw in the newspaper that Sid-ney was holding a Relay for Life in 2003, she said, “It was at that moment I decided to walk the entire 12 hours for 12 years in memory
of Cathy’s 12-year battle.” Many more people who have lost loved ones or who are supporting survivors will participate as well.
The Relay For Life events will be held overnight, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., and teams will be camping overnight next to the walking track at the fairgrounds. The 12-hour walk for cancer brings together families, friends and the community as a whole. The goal, as a team, is to keep at least one mem-ber walking on the track, throughout the evening.
The teams do most of their fundraising in the form of bake sales, commu-nity barbecues and selling luminary bags, but some teams also hold creative fundraisers around their camp sites during the Relay. A talent show, theme laps and other activities will also go on through the night.
“We have 150 cancer survivors that participate and between 150 to 200 team members,” Zieske said.
Zieske got involved in 2007 with a friend who asked for help with publicity for the Relay. Zieske now works with fairgrounds staff and logistics and has had family
and close friends who have been affected by cancer.
She stated, “It’s not too late to participate, either in
teams or as individuals.” Information about how to form a team or become involved in MonDak Re-
lay For Life is available at mondakrelayforlife.org or by calling 406-489-6981.
mondak relay for life celebrating 10th anniversary
suBMITTed
Anne Kimbrell, pictured left holding the Sidney Health Center team banner, has been a local Relay participant since it started in 2003.
BY Bill Vander WeelesIdney HeRaLd
There were a lot of base-balls being thrown at Lyn-dale Park Saturday, but the reason the activity was go-ing on meant more than the game results themselves.
For the fourth straight year, the Mark Basta Memo-rial Baseball Tournament was conducted in honor of the Savage native who died in August 2008 while saving his son from drowning.
Jan Bloesser, Mark’s sister, said family members were discussing the possibil-ity of holding a memorial tournament, so she called baseball commission mem-ber Kirby Halvorson. “They were already talking about it,” Bloesser said.
The tournament now features players from both the Major, 11-12 year olds, and Minor, 9-10 year olds, leagues. This year there were 10 total teams, includ-ing six from the Sidney area and others from Medicine
Lake, Plentywood, Miles City and Culbertson.
“It started out as just our local teams,” Justin Boyer, member of the local base-ball commission, said. “Last year, the majors expanded to out-of-town teams.”
The round-robin tourna-
ment featured new games at both fi elds every two hours.
“We’re hoping to grow it every year,” Boyer said.
But it was much more than a long day of baseball. During the tournament’s opening ceremonies, Bloess-er noted the three quali-
ties that made her brother special.
The fi rst she mentioned was family. “He loved his kids and wife very much. He spent as much time with his nephews and nieces that he possibly could.”
The second important ele-ment in his life was helping youth. “He wanted kids to have fun and be confi dent in the sports they played,” Bloesser said.
The third characteristic Bloesser mentioned was her brother’s sense of humor.
Bloesser said she hopes ev-erybody leaves the tourna-ment with fond memories.
“It’s a great way to remember him. He was all about kids enjoying them-selves,” Bloesser said. Along with baseball, Basta was also active in youth sports programs of wrestling, fl ag football and soccer.
“It’s also just a good way for us to come as a family and celebrate him,” Bloess-er said.
BILL VandeR WeeLe | sIdney HeRaLd
The Mark Basta Memorial Youth Baseball Tournament featured 10 teams Saturday.
Good memoriesBasta memorial baseball tournament keeps growing
BILL VandeR WeeLe | sIdney HeRaLd
Chayna Basta, Mark Basta’s daughter, throws out the fi rst pitch at Lyndale Park Saturday.
BY Bill Vander WeelesIdney HeRaLd
Doorbust’n Portables and Septic Services was still do-ing its business on Monday, but owner Blaine Rogers says the company’s future is up in the air.
Rogers was told by the city about two weeks ago that Doorbust’n could not continue dumping in the city’s sewer lagoon. During a city council meeting May 21, city offi cials said too much outside waste led to bacteria dying inside the system. Doorbust’n can continue dumping from residences that are already annexed into the city.
“I’m on borrowed time,” Rogers told the Herald Mon-day morning.
For now, Doorbust’n is us-ing 500-barrel tanks to dump the waste. They currently have one full. “Hopefully, the second one will come this morning,” Rogers said.
He says that it takes about a week to fi ll one of the tanks. Rogers, who has owned Doorbust’n for two and a half years, services between 60-80 RVs a week.
In conversation with of-fi cials, Rogers said the city seems to take the stance that it’s not a city problem, and the county is waiting on a decision from the city whether to move ahead with creating a waste water treat-ment plant.
He, however, notes that a portable sewer plant would take 90-120 days to go through all the steps to gain approval.
Rogers is hopeful that a short-term solution can be found by the city and county while waiting for the water treatment plant to be cre-ated.
“I offered to give them my phone one day, so they can decide if it’s a state of emer-
doorbust’nfacingchallengesLagoon problems createheadaches for business
See BUSineSS, PaGe 10a
From page one10A Wednesday, june 6, 2012 sIdney HeRaLd
BILL VandeR WeeLe | sIdney HeRaLd
Brady Bell shows this week’s Sidney Kiwanis Club’s Beautiful Yard Award recipient at 1111 Cedar Ave. He is the son of Rod and Jan Bell.
The Sidney Kiwanis Club is holding the Beautiful Yard campaign for the sixth straight year.
“With the weather we’ve enjoyed, we’re looking for-ward to seeing all the beauti-ful yards this summer,” Bill Vander Weele, Kiwanis Club member, said.
Residents can nominate a yard, and Kiwanis Club members will make the final decision. The sign will stay at a specific residence for seven to 10 days.
“The important thing for the project to be successful is for people to nominate their neighbor’s yard or
maybe it’s just a yard that they happened to pass that catches their eye,” Vander Weele said.
To make nominations, contact Vander Weele at 433-2403 or [email protected], or Jamie Larson at 433-2801 or [email protected].
Beautiful Yard campaign begins
The VFW and the VFW Ladies Auxiliary reminds the community that June 14 is Flag Day.
Please remember to put your flag out and let every-one know how proud you all are to be Americans.
BY Bill Vander WeelesIdney HeRaLd
Richland County resident John Mercer approached commissioners Monday morning regarding his dis-appointment with the work of the county planner and county sanitarian.
“Do you guys need to see a petition to get a pro-devel-opment person?” Mercer asked.
Commissioner Loren Young replied, “What do you do if the next person is worse?”
Mercer, who wasn’t on the day’s meeting agenda, said a screening would need to take place so the next em-ployees aren’t so “bureau-cracy insane.” He added, “they are anti-business.”
Commissioners said they believe county sanitarian Kelly Logan is retiring this year.
Commissioner Don Step-pler said the county hired two consultants to help ease the load for county planner Marcy Hamburg.
“We’ve gotten as many, if not more, complaints about the two consultants,” Step-pler said. “What everybody is against are the rules and regulations the state has set up. The person isn’t going to change that.”
The Richland County com-missioners said other com-missioners from around the state are impressed by the
work that Richland County’s planner and sanitarian perform.
“Talking with other com-missioners, we have some of the best in the state,” Young said.
Steppler added, “They say we have more of a fast track than anybody.”
Mercer says he’s consider-ing circulating a petition because he feels sometimes what is done is above and beyond what is required.
“If we had them any more lenient than they are, we would have a mess like North Dakota,” Young said.
Steve Dumond and Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Warzecha, Hibbing, Minn., announce the engagement of their daughter Kelly Jean Du-mond to Nicholas Eugene Hoff, son of Dianna and the late Howard Hoff.
Kelly works for Dr. Ke-
aveny as an oral surgeon assistant in Williston, N.D.
Nick works for XTO En-ergy as a lease operator.
An Oct. 26, 2012, wed-ding is planned in Hibbing, Minn.
DumonD – Hoff
Engagement
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gency,” Rogers said. “When it rains, it pours. When you’re in my business, it’s not a good thing when it’s pouring.”
He noted if his service can’t stay in business, things could get real ugly in the area. He already hears reports of people driving on county roads and dumping their waste there.
“I do what I can to keep prices down. A lot of times the people in the RV parks are on the verge of losing
everything or already have lost everything. They’re up here to make a living,” Rog-ers said.
He is pursuing the plan of building his own waste wa-ter project. Cost, however, is $2.1 million, and Rogers says banks aren’t willing to fi-nance for the funds required because of the high cost of land in the area.
“If I could find the financ-es, I would get my project off the ground and ease the burden from the city,” Rog-ers said.
He is also looking to hire an engineer to encourage the state to put projects on the fast track.
For right now, Rogers is hoping to find additional tanks. But the state says that’s not a legal long-term practice.
“If the state can come in and classify this a state of emergency like it is, that would help the county and city,” Rogers said. “And then they can do some of their short-term fixes.”
Business: Owner hopes for short, long-term solutionsFrom page 1a
area resident complains to commissionersabout jobs being done by county employees
‘Talking with other
commissioners, we have
some of the best
in the state.’
loren YoungRichland County commissioner
Sidney Public Schools has registration for all grade lev-els throughout the summer. Register at Central School from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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