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

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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

sara.allen@melstone.net (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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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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