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Melstone Monthly Staff
Connie Hjelvik – Advisor
Abby Hansen– Editor
Thomas DeJaegher
Harry Griswold
Abby Hansen
Kimber Korell
Nienke Reijnen
Ty Meredith
Inside This Issue
Page 2: Back in the Day,
Prom, Parent Teacher
Conference, Ski Day
Page 3: Puzzle, Recipe,
Spelling Bee Results
Page 4: FFA
Page 5: Senior/Staff Survey
Page 6: Boy’s & Girl’s
Basketball Results
Page 7: Basketball, Bob Eike
Tournament
Page 8: Drill Team, Senior
Night
Page 9: Senior Satires
Page 10: Senior Satire, Miss
Montana
Page 11: Spirit Week
Page 12: BPA
Page 13: Sweetheart Dance
Page 14: Senior/Staff Survey
Page 15: Calendar
We are also online at
melstonepublicschools.org
Volume 6 February 2019
M elstone onthly M
Guess who this is! (Answer on page 2)
The Melstone boys’ basketball team has made it to State! On Satur-day, February 23rd, the Broncs beat Plenty Coups for the Divisional title. The boys will play Hays-Lodge Pole in the first round of State at the Metra on March 7th at 8:00. Good luck Broncs!
State Ticket Information
Tickets are both reserved and general admission. Ticket prices are as
follows:
Tickets will go on sale Monday March 4th, 2019 at 10 A.M. Anyone wishing to purchase tickets over the telephone may do so with a major credit card. Tickets will be held at Metra Park’s Auto Arena’s box office. There will be no refunds!
State Tournament Ticket Prices
Adult All Session-Reserved 28.00
Single Session-Reserved 8.00
Adult Single Session-General Admission 7.00
Student All Session 17.00
Student General Admission 6.00
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JAKE’S
GARAGE Serving the Melstone Area Since 1951
Larry & Pam Zaharko
Mechanic– Tim DeJaegher
Conoco Products
General Repair
Melstone, MT 59054
406-358-2389
Hours of Operation
Mon-Sat
7 A.M.-Noon 1 P.M.—6 P.M.
Come down
Prom 2019 April 13th
at the Elks Lodge in Billings
9-12 p,m.
Acquire tickets at the front office
Theme: Hawaiian/ Tropical
Wednesday,
March 20th
2:30-5:30
Ski Day
March 29th
at Showdown
(Answer for Back in the Day)
Jean Lang
&
Joan McCaffree
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Irish Soda Bread Flour 4 1/2 cups Sugar 1 tablespoon Salt 1 tablespoon Baking soda 1 teaspoon Butter 4 tablespoon Raisins 1 cup Egg 1 Buttermilk 1 3/4 cup 1. Whisk flour, sugar, salt, baking
soda 2. Add raisins 3. Add buttermilk and egg then
stir until the dough is stiff 4. Knead the dough long enough
to form a ball then flatten slightly
5. Put it on a greased baking sheet
6. Use a knife to cut a inch deep X into the center of the dough
7. Bake on 425 F for 35-45 minutes or until golden brown.
School Spelling Bee Results 7th & 8th Grade
1. Kierra Hougen
2. Bryce Grebe 3. Emily Coles 4. Paul Bergin 5. Jhett Fish Alternate: Teigan Schiffer
5th & 6th Grade
1. Belle Collins 2. Morgan Schiffer 3. Avery Eike 4. Yazmine Smith 5. Savannah
DeJaegher Alternate: Josie Robbins
Secretary Michelle Kombol
Pronouncer Connie Hjelvik
Winning Word: Axis 23 Spellers 102 Words
Judges Kathy Eike Sara Allen Kimberly Rindal
County Bee Highlights
By Kimber Korell
The County Spelling Bee was
held in Roundup on Tuesday,
the 19th, at 7 pm. The students
that made it the furthest and
got third are Kierra, Bryce
Grebe, and Jhett. The word
Kierra got out on was Alamo.
She correctly spelled bangle, candidate, loam,
and finale. The word that Bryce got out on was
Carnivore. The words he spelled correctly in-
clude current, unity, fidelity, and interrupt. The
word that Jhett got out on was Fiery. The words
that he correctly spelled were measure, har-
monica, tragic, and polymer. Unfortunately, this
means they will not be competing in the State
Spelling Bee, but we are still so proud!
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Mechanics Contest
Team Results
Junior Teams 1) Stillwater Valley
2) Big Horn 3) Huntley Project
4) Forsyth 5) Columbus 6) Hysham
Senior Teams 1) Melstone
2) Big Timber 3) Huntley Project
4) Roundup 5) Shields Valley
6) Forsyth
Mechanics Contest
Individual Results
Junior Individual 1) Trevor Zombron - Stillwater Valley
2) Sarah Siemion - Big Horn 3) Kaylee Herndon - Forsyth
4) Daniel Hopf - Hysham 5) Taytin Young - Stillwater Valley
Senior Individual 1) Jacob Husman - Big Timber
2) Tyler Eliasson - Roundup 3) Andrew Beeler - Rosebud
4) Jacob Siewert - Huntley Project 5) Kyle Ray - Roundup
Mechanics Contest
District Results
Districts
1) Melstone
2) Huntley Project
3) Roundup
4) Shepherd
5) Custer
6) Big Horn
Save The Date!
FFA Districts in Colstrip
Livestock judging Agronomy
FBM Prepared Speaking
Creed Speaking Wednesday, March 13th
Plowing Through FFA Submitted by Abby Hansen
First of all, we would like to say that the Melstone Mechanics Contest was a success. We would like to thank everyone who lent a helping hand to make sure everything went as smoothly as possible. Also, the chapter would like to thank every community member who bought students at the FFA Member Auction. The next event that the Melstone FFA will be attending is the Spring Districts event on March 13th in Col-strip. Students will be competing in Livestock Judging, Farm Business Management, Agronomy, Prepared Speaking, and Creed Speaking. On behalf of the whole Melstone FFA Chapter, and the officer team, thank you so much for all of your support.
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SENIOR/STAFF SURVEY This month’s senior is Sarah Robertson, and her staff member is Mrs. Wacker. Sarah’s
answers will be marked with a ‘S’, and Mrs. Wacker’s answers with a ‘W’. 1) What weird food combination do you really enjoy? S: Peanut butter and banana sandwiches W: Watermelon + salt 2) What is your favorite movie? S: The Conjuring W: The Notebook 3) What do you think is the best job? 13) Cats or Griz? S: A music teacher S: Griz
W: Teaching / Coaching W: Depends on the sport-Cats Football 4) Where would you like to travel to? + Track, Griz Basketball
S: Paris, France 14) What is your favorite home-cooked W: Right now, somewhere tropical meal? 5) If you won the lottery, what is the S: Chicken parm first thing you would do? W: Fried chicken S: I would pay all my parents’ debts, and 15) What could you not live without? then pay for college S: Music W: Go on vacation with my family W: My family 6) What is one of your worst 16) What makes you really angry? habits? S: Being disrespected S: I’m a perfectionist to a fault W: Bad refs W: Staying up late 17) What is your favorite dessert? 7) Are you usually late, early or on time? S: Mint chocolate chip ice cream S: Early W: Sugar cookies W: Unfortunately late 18) What topic could you spend hours 8) What is your biggest talking about? fear? S: Music S: Failure / frogs W: Politics
W: Any parent’s fear, losing a child 19) If you had to move to another state, 9) Where you named after anyone? which one would it be? S: Yes, I’m the 9th generation “Sarah Juanita” S: Washington W: No W: Hawaii 10) Describe your perfect day. 20) What is your favorite holiday? S: Coffee, practice, a scary movie, then bed S: Halloween W: Any day spent with all of my k ids W: Christmas 11) Do you have any secret talents? S: I’m actually very flexible W: No 12) What is the strangest thing you’ve ever done? S: I’m not sure W: Filled in as a dancer for a high school dance team for a girl who had chicken pox
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Slammin' and Jammin'
By Ty Meredith
Districts and Divionals have come and gone, and the season is only a week away from being over. The boys’ basket-ball team is on fire with a 23-0 run since the opening tournament at Manhattan. On Friday, February 1st the team beat Terry. The follow-ing day the team beat Dodson in Melstone. The team then went on to beat Custer–Hysham on February 7th. The next day the Broncs beat Broadus for senior night. The following Wednesday the team went into districts as the #1 seed and beat Northern Cheyenne. Mov-
ing into the next round of dis-tricts, the Broncs beat Broadus in the semifinals and then went on to beat Wibaux in the District championship. During Divisionals the broncs cruised through Broadview-Lavina and Park City to get to the championship. In the championship, the team squeezed by Plenty Coup to ad-vance as the number one seed to State on March 28th.
Date Melstone Opponent
Feb. 1 55-25 Terry
Feb. 2 72-28 Dodson
Feb. 7 82-8 Custer/
Hysham
Feb. 8 81-29 Broadus
District Tournament Games
Feb.13 81-20 Northern Cheyenne
Feb. 15 86-17 Broadus
Feb. 16 55-42 Wibaux
Divisional Tournament Games
Feb. 21 71-31 Broadview/
Lavina
Feb. 22 77-37 Park City
Feb. 23 62-57 Plenty Coups
Great Season for the Lady Broncs
By Nienke
Finally, it was tournament time! The Lady Broncs went in 2nd place to the District tournament in Miles City. After a great win against Broadus, we unfortunately lost against Ekalaka in the semifinal. On Friday 15th we beat Custer/Hysham which led us to the consolation game on Saturday against Northern Cheyenne. We won this game, so we got 3rd place at the District tournament, and we got our ticket for Divisionals. The following Wednes-day, we played against Bridger in the Divisional tournament in Laurel. Unfortunately, we lost this game in overtime. The next two days we beat both Park City and Plenty Coups. This meant that we were in the consolation game on Saturday. We had to play Bridger again. (Continued on next page)
(406) 578-5059
Roundup, MT
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3 on 3 Junior High
Basketball
Tournament
Saturday,
March 23rd $50 per team
Register by March 16th
Check-in 9:00 AM
Concessions all day 4-5Girls Division
6-8 Girls Division
4-5 Boys Division
6-8 Boys Division Registration Contact Information Sara Allen
[email protected] (406) 358-2352
(Continued from previous page) We lost this game, which meant that we got 4th in Divisionals. Draya Wacker broke a school record this season. The old record for 1 season was 460 points by Leah Eike. Draya had 601 points this season with an average of 23.1 per game. Our win loss record ended up being 18 wins and 8 losses.
GIRLS BASKET-
BALL RESULTS
OPPONENT RESULT
TERRY W 82-12
PLEVNA W 60-12
CUSTER/
HYSHAM
W 62-31
BROADUS W 64-19
Tournaments BROADUS
(districts) W 58-19
EKALAKA (districts)
L 64-48
CUSTER/HYSHAM
(districts)
W 45-21
NORTHERN CHEYENNE
(districts)
W 46-31
BRIDGER (divisionals)
L 54-47
PARK CITY (divisionals)
W 43-31
PLENTY COUPS (divisionals)
W 49-45
BRIDGER (divisionals)
L 46-31
**Save the Date**
The Annual Bob Eike Memorial
Basketball Tournament
April 11th-14th
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Senior night February 8th, 2019
THOMAS harry
carson
brody
nathan
holden
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Senior Satires By Harry Griswold
Every year, Mrs. Hjelvik has the senior class write satires, which are the use of humor, irony, exag-geration, or ridicule to expose and criticize peo-ple's stupidity, particularly in politics and other issues.
Perfection at Its Finest Submitted by Abby Hansen
Most young girls in America believe that beauty is
the most important thing in society. I believe that
they get this from the most appropriate example
possible: beauty pageants. Beauty pageants set
“reasonable” standards and expectations for our
youth. 2.5 million girls participate in pageants
each year in the United States alone. 15,000, be-
cause of these wonderful pageants, suffer from
chronic depression. Two million, two hundred fifty
of these girls suffer from either anorexia or bulim-
ia nervosa, and if they do not suffer from it yet,
they eventually will. Every girl should have pretty
long blonde hair and big, beautiful blue eyes – and
don’t forget rosy cheeks and ruby red lips! Also,
have you ever seen an hourglass? That is the most
accommodating figure possible for a prepubescent
child. Young girls nowadays see themselves as
Mrs. Potato Head. Anything is changeable with the
right amount of money. They get this idea from
the logical standards of beauty pageant icons such
as Miss Universe, Honey BooBoo, and RuPaul.
Almost every human involved in pageants
has to come up with predictable answers to unrea-
sonable questions, such as “How would you put an
end to world hunger?” How is a teenager, with lit-
tle worldly experience, supposed to come up with
a reasonable answer to something like that? Most
of them just come up with a nonsense answer that
sounds smart and is likely to help them win.
The unrealistic expectations of character traits that
these girls should obtain cause them to be insin-
cere and deceitful when it comes to what meets
the eye. These girls have learned how they are
required to act on and off stage. The on-stage be-
havior is much nicer and more acceptable to socie-
ty. The off-stage conduct is much less attractive.
These specific girls, also considered mean girls,
have become better at camouflaging themselves
in with everyone else. They make sure that when
there is a room full of adults and authoritative fig-
ures that they have their nice face on. But this is
not how they always act. Behind closed doors
where they are alone, mean girls put their mean
faces on. They say and do mean things to hurt
other people. These pageant girls will do whatever
it takes to be number one – even if it means they
must throw being a moral and good person out of
the window. This is the kind of behavior that beau-
ty pageants see as golden, winner status behavior.
Everyone must act this way if they want to be
considered beautiful.
The most justifiable part of beauty pageants is the
constant criticism of children. Adults are appoint-
ed to be a part of panels to pick out the most per-
fect girls to represent states, countries, and na-
tions. Isn’t it funny how adults are the ones who
are always telling us to be kind to one another and
“If we don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t
say it at all?” This type of hypocrisy shown from
the adults is just confusing us and how we should
treat other people. They pick through the bad
seeds to get to the good ones. By this, I mean the
judges, who are carefully decided, will choose who
they think is the best capable of representing
beauty standards. It is very logical to put the deci-
sion of what modern beauty standards should be
in the hands of incapable, smug adults.
Now, I am sure that not all of the girls in-
volved with beauty pageants are shallow and de-
ceitful, but that does not stop me from calling out
the ones that are indeed this way. Maybe I am just
a simple bystander who doesn’t understand the
“pageant life,” or maybe I am just too cynical for
my own good. Then again, maybe not. All I am
saying is that the way beauty pageants make
young girls and boys view themselves is not al-
ways best. When you speak to a group of girls in
schools, you will always find one who thinks she
looks “different” from the others. Either her hair
isn’t long enough, or her teeth aren’t straight
enough, or she weighs a bit more than the other
girls. Now, some girls will go off and cry if this is
ever said to their face, but then you also have the
girls who are willing to punch you in the face if you
insult them by saying, “You’re too tall, fat, short,
skinny, etc.… so you can’t do this with us.”
The Best Government Institution
Submitted by Sarah Robertson
The best government institution would have to be
the public school system. The public school sys-
tem, in all its glory, is the back bone of our won-
derful, flawless society. Public school education
is perfect in so many areas that in order to truly
comprehend its greatness, one must understand
each of the aspects that make it so fantastic: from
teaching our youths to be productive and intelli-
gent members of society to having adults criticize
our every move. The public school system has
been very beneficial to modern society. There is a
wide range of qualities that make the public school
system the well-oiled machine that it is.
I would like to personally thank the public
school system for allowing me to be surrounded by
the most wonderful peers I could ever hope for!
The fellow pupils that I have had the pleasure of
working alongside have the same open minds of a
dead bolted door. (Continued on next page)
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(Continued from previous page) Like
when speaking politics or religion they aren’t al-
ways open to new or different opinions. My fellow
students are either too smart to enjoy this system
our government has put into place, or they’re too
naïve to realize how truly terrible every day is. I
thank the public school system.
I love that most teachers have the drive to
get from behind their desk, everyday mind you, to
hand us pamphlets to read. Even if one doesn’t
love teaching, it is a very rewarding job be-
cause of the salary. As a society, we demonstrate
that we value good, competent teachers since we
are willing to pay them well for their work. So,
even if a teacher doesn’t enjoy spending over six
hours a day, with generally disrespectful children,
he or she can at least be comforted by the fact
that he or she has a secure, well paying job. You
know, you can’t really blame the teachers for not
being excited about their days at work. They don’t
get paid enough. They’re underappreciated, and
have terrible insurance coverage. I thank the pub-
lic school system.
Funding is scarce in America for the educa-
tion of our youth. Our students are learning from
outdated textbooks and outdated teaching tech-
niques. It’s not like new textbooks would improve
test scores. It’s not like teacher conferences or
trainings would help the teachers connect with the
new and changing students. No, teachers don’t
need to be updated on technology. The govern-
ment has a hard time spending a “pretty penny”
on the necessities of our nation’s youth. They
would rather pay for illegal immigrants’ food and
housing than American education. I thank the
public school system.
Miss Montana and Owning Your Movement
By Harry Griswold
Laura Heller, Miss Montana, visited Melstone, and talked to the students about owning their move-ment. Miss Montana explained different movement activities from around the world like how popular bike riding is in the Netherlands and how France and Russia perfected the ballet. Laura is from Hel-ena and danced professionally on Viking Ocean Cruises, where she met someone involved with Miss Montana Competition and decided to com-pete. Miss Montana taught the students how to do a proper ballet twirl and encouraged us to volun-teer, partake in community events, and give back to the community. Miss Montana also explained “her” movement which involves dancing, running, hiking, skiing, and involving herself with hospital work. She travel a lot: she will be visiting two-hundred schools this year!
The public school system has taught me to
retain information for, at most, three months and
then forget that the literature ever existed. I’ve
become very skilled in the practice of
“Standardized Testing.” I’ve learned to completely
bluff my way through an essay and make it pretty
good (if I do say so myself). I think my favorite
part of public school is the endless nights of study-
ing and stressing about my grades. I have public
school to thank for my panic disorder. I thank the
public school system.
Like I said, the government has implement-
ed many great institutions (public school being, by
far, the most superior). I couldn’t think of any oth-
er better options. Parents shouldn’t teach their
children at home; we should rely on schools.
Smaller classes might be easier to handle, but
what do I know? Heck, smaller classes with more
educated teachers might help our students be-
come the member of society that the parents,
teachers, and students would want them to be.
Once again, I thank the public school system.
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Spirit Days
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Email [email protected]
Call Mikell @ 358-2209 to set up
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for more information about
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Cowgirl Glam Party for you and your
friends !
It’s the Season to be Freezin
By Ty Meredith
The BPA held its annual Sweetheart dance on Sat-urday, February 2nd. Everyone had lots of fun, and the cheesecake that was served was really good. The best dressed winners of the dance were Sarah Robertson, Harry Griswold, Janci Robbins, Gus Al-len, and Roger and Sherri Mack. We hope every-one had fun and are excited to come back next year. Also thank you to everyone who placed or-ders for Valentines Day! We would like to thank Katie Keeney for helping BPA members make flow-er arrangements. She always does a good job! In other news, our Links of Love fundraiser is still going on until March 7th. It’s one dollar for one link, so if you would like to donate, contact any BPA member or Mrs. Wacker. BPA members don’t forget to keep practicing for state March 10th through the 12th. Stay warm!
Links of Love
One link is $1
All proceeds goes to the
Montana
Make checks out to
Melstone School.
Must be purchased
before March 6th
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What is your favorite basketball team? C: North Caroline A: Melstone Broncs & MT. Tech Ore Dig-gers Would you rather be President of the U.S.A or a super hero? C: President A: Super Hero If you could be animal, what would you be? C: Wolf A: Grizzly Bear (Could hide from the cold) What’s your choice of drink after a branding? C: Busch Light A: Something refreshing & cold If you were a cartoon, which would you choose to be? C: Tom & Jerry A: Mrs. Incredible If you could choose to stay an age for-ever, what age would you choose? C: 25 A: 30, before my dad got sick and my kids were both still at home and not on social media yet Favorite type of food? C: Hamburgers A: Mexican Do you prefer books or movies C: Books A: Books
What’s one of your worst habits? C: Procrastination A: Stressing over outcomes which I have no control over Who would you play practical jokes on? C: Nathan A: My brothers or Nathan Are you a good cook? C: Yes A: Most of the time! Where would you like to travel? C: The Yukon A: Nashville, a lake What’s your favorite type of pizza? C: Cheese A: White pizza from Bruno’s What is the best holiday? C: Christmas A: 4th of July which usually involves hot weather and baseball or boating
This month’s senior is Carson Hein, and his staff member is Mrs. Anderson. Car-
son’s answers will be marked with a “C” and answer’s will be marked with an “A”.
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