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Volume 2 October 2016

Inside This Issue

Page 2: PTO, ACT, V BBall

Page 3: Veteran’s Dinner,

Pancake Supper

Page 4: ABT, Halloween,

Bear Attacks

Page 5: Recipe, FFA

Page 6: P/T Conferences,

Time Change, Picture Re-

takes, JH BBall Schedule

Page 7: Field Day

Page 8: Cross Country, Dirt

Bikes, MAPS, MBI

Page 9: Football, Volleyball,

BPA

Page 10: Spirit Week

Page 11: Senior/Staff

Page 12: Fball, JH Vball

Page 13: Calendar

We are online at

melstone.schoolwires

Halloween Parade Monday, October 31st.

Beginning at 2:45 Pre-School Welcome

Students Vote!

If you are like most Americans, you are ready for the elec-

tion to be over so that you will no longer have to endure

all the political advertisements and

having your prime time shows pre-

empted for debates. Take heart!

November 8th is almost here. Our

school’s mock election took place a

bit earlier. All students in grades

7th through 12th voted on Monday, October 10th. They vot-

ed only in the most publicized races—President, Governor,

and Representative. The results are as follows:

President

Donald Trump 33

Hillary Clinton 7

Governor

Greg Gianforte 19

Steve Bullock 22

Congress

Ryan Zinke 35

Denise Juneau 5

Senior Fall Athletes Recognition

Wednesday, October 26 2:15 p.m. in the gym

After the assembly & during Parent-Teacher

Conferences, PTO will host a hors d’oeuvre bar in the lunchroom. All community members are welcome to come and celebrate the

accomplishments of these

athletes.

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ACT DATE TEST DATE

December 10, 2016

Registration Deadline

Nov. 4th Late Registration Period

Nov. 5th -8th Photo Upload Deadline

Dec. 2nd

Act Fee $39.50

Act with Writing $56.50

Letter to the Editor:

I would like to correct a few things that were incorrectly said at the September School Board meeting. The first thing I would like to address is concessions. Ramie and I went to Billings at least once a week if not twice, depending on the supplies after the 1st night’s games, to pick up groceries for the concessions for 16 weeks last year. We used our personal vehicles, taking turns, all except 2 trips. We were not paid by the school or PTO for any of this. It was ALL VOLUNTEER. I do not collect any money from PTO, except for supplies I personally paid for and was reimbursed for. Everything I have ever been reim-bursed for has a receipt to account for it.

Second, I would like to address the Play Ground. Again, my personal vehicle was used to get supplies, rubber from Billings and lumber from Roundup. Again, we were not reimbursed for anything. Also, our skid steer and fuel were used to make the improvements to the playground on our work day. Again, ALL of this was VOLUNTEER. All I have done has been to try to help better this school and make things better for all our kids. So to those of you with doubts as to my reasons for being in-volved, I hope this clears things up. If not, just ask me. I will explain.

Jennifer Roen

Due to comments made by community members, who were uneducated on the subject, we have prepared a list of contribu-tions that the PTO has made to or for the students and staff of Melstone School.

Teacher Appreciation $270.00 Massages for the Teaches and staff

Melstone Pool $500.00

Melstone Concessions $500.00 Donated back to concessions to increase the $ each group gets per game.

Easter Egg Hunt $100.00

Basketball-Varsity teams $200.00 Last year we put together bags, and a lot of the stuff was thrown in the garbage. We gave $ instead.

Basketball-JH teams $200.00

Scholarship $1000.00

Box Tops Trophy $64.69

Christmas Candy $271.74

Booster Page $100.00 Tournament books

Play Ground $925.70 Plus all the labor

Send off Dinners

School Song Banner $212.00

The stipend we requested that was denied was to try to get more people involved in the concessions. We wanted to find someone other than Jen Roen, Ramie Meredith, Bonnie Stensvad, or Becky Benson to go get groceries for the conces-sions.

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BULL’S EYE PLUS

Windshield Repair

VICKIE STENSVAD

Melstone, MT

59054

(406) 358-2238 or inquire at the

Lazy JC (406) 358-2413

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!

Veterans Day Annual Dinner

Community Center

Tuesday November 15th

All Veterans eat free/suggested

donation $3

If you know of a

veteran who has not attended, please

email Hester Jacobs

djacobs@midrivers.com

Melstone Fire

Department Annual

Pancake supper,

Christmas Bazaar, &

bake sale

Sunday, November 6th

Serving starts at 4pm

$10 Adults

$5 Students

$40/Family

Under 5 eat free Door prizes too

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Carter’s PlumbinG

and heating

P.O. Box 201

Roundup, mt

Alberta Bair

Theater

Grades 3-6 will attend October 25th

Tuesday 12:30

Stop by the fire hall on

Halloween for some candy,

glow lights, and free 9

volt batteries for your

smoke detectors

Provided by Daryl and Carol

Weisz

In light of the recent

bear attacks in Montana,

FYI:

What is the best way to

tell the difference

between a grizzly bear

and a black bear?

If the bear has a hump

between its shoulder

blades, a concave nose, a

dish-shaped face, and

small ears, it’s a griz.

What is the worst way?

Climb a tree. If it climbs

up after you, it’s a black

bear. If it pushes the

tree down, it’s a grizzly!

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Salon De Cori

Manicures & Pedicures

Work: 358-2444

Home: 358-5020

517 1st St. West

Melstone, MT

Oreo Spider Cookie Pizza

By Joe Griswold

Ingredients

25 Halloween OREO Cookies, divided

1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted

1 oz. semi-sweet baking chocolate

2 cups thawed frozen whipped topping

1 (3.4 oz.) package vanilla instant pudding mix

1 cup cold milk

3 pieces black string licorice (10 in) 1 1/4 in

pieces

6 small round candies

1 tablespoon ready-to-spread frosting

2 tablespoons Halloween sprinkles

Directions 1 Heat oven to 350.

2 Crush 22 cookies to form fine crumbs; mix

with butter. Press onto bottom of 12-inch piz-

za pan sprayed with cooking spray. Bake 4

minutes; cool

3 Microwave semi-sweet chocolate and 1/2

cup whipped topping in microwaveable bowl

on high 30 to 40 seconds or until chocolate is

completely melted and mixture is well blend-

ed, stirring after 30 seconds. Cool slightly.

4 Beat pudding mix and milk in medium

bowl with whisk 2 minutes (pudding will be

thick). Stir in remaining whipped topping;

spread onto crust to within 1/2 inch of edge.

5 Spoon chocolate mixture into resalable plas-

tic bag; snip off small piece from one bottom

corner of bag. Use to drizzle chocolate mix-

ture in spiral motion over pizza. Gently drag

toothpick through lines to resemble spider's

web. Refrigerate 1 hour.

6 Meanwhile, decorate remaining cookies with

licorice pieces and candies as shown in photo,

using frosting to secure pieces to cookies.

7 Place cookies and sprinkles on pizza.

FFA Happenings

Submitted by Abby Hansen

At 7:00 on the morning of Thursday the 6th, the FFA officer team met at advisor, Mr. Pierce’s house for breakfast. Shayla Hough, Renee Parson, Riley Pinkerton, Megan Brewer, and Abby Hanson met to talk about the upcoming events and fundraisers for FFA. The first thing we have coming up is the Nile Livestock Show and Ro-deo in billings. The whole chapter will not be attending due to money cutbacks. Mr. Pierce will be taking a few livestock judges though. As most people know, fruit sales are one of FFA’s big-gest fundraiser. That will be coming up soon. We have decided to go through a different company this year and will be selling fruit baskets along with any special orders if needed. Also Mr. Peirce has been having meet-ings in the Ag room about FFA contests every day at lunch. If you are interested in any of the contests, be sure to listen to the morning announcements or ask Mr. Peirce when the meetings are and what they are about. We highly encourage you to come even if you are not sure you want to do that contest. Congratulations to Kimber Korell for becoming the Green Hand President and Kaigen Roskelley for becom-ing vice president. Also, the Ag mechanics class is in need of some scrap metal. They are working on build-ing a new wood rack. If you would like any more infor-mation on that, be sure to contact Mr. Peirce As you all know, the FFA/BPA community cleanup day has been postponed. We apologize if it came as an in-convenience to anyone. We now encourage you com-munity members to contact Mr. Pierce, Mrs. Wacker, or the officer teams of both organizations if you would like anything done. We are looking forward to a good year with fundraisers and contests this year. We will hopefully be having a few more fundraisers than usual. The reason for this is we have at least fifteen kids that will be attending the national FFA convention next year. This is the biggest group for us to ever take; therefore, we will need all the help we can get. On behalf of the whole FFA chapter, thank you for your support.

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Daylight Savings Time Sunday, November 6th

Don’t forget to turn your

clocks back!

Bull Mountain Sanitation Josh Jorgenson Owner/Operator

P.O. Box 238

Melstone, MT 59054

Office (406)-358-2387

Community 4-H Halloween

Party

Dinner at community center

4:30-7:00

Haunted House at deJaeGHer’s

shop from 6:30-8:00

Live out of town ? Leave candy at

the community center

Picture Retakes October 26th 9:00 AM

Parent Teacher Conferences

Wednesday, October 26th 2:30 p.m.—5:30 p.m.

Jr. High Basketball Schedule

10/10 First Day of Practice

10/14 @Terry 2:30

10/15 Broadus TBA

10/21 @Jordan 10:00

10/22 Wibaux 10:00

10/28 @Ekalaka 2:30

10/29 Sacred Heart 10:00

11/4 @Plevna 2:30

11/5 Jordan 10:00

11/11 @Broadus 2:30

11/12 Plevna 10:00

11/17-19 Tourney S. Heart M City

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Rippin’ Cross Country

By Gracey Adams

On October 8th & 9th Melstone

experienced something they never have

before: a cross coun-

try dirt bike race. This

race took place out

at the Adams’ Ranch.

In this race the racers

race about 7 to 12

miles a lap. At the

state championship, there were

about 150 racers. Two of our stu-

dents raced at this race: Rooster

Reynolds and Gus Adams. Gus

took 1st in his class, 85 Jr. Rooster

took first in his class, Men’s c.

Tavin Tabbert raced and took 4th

in the Men’s c. They raced in a

series called MT XC which in-

cludes about 7 races. Gracey Ad-

ams also races in that series, but

due to a broken wrist, she could-

n’t participate in this one. Overall, Gracey took 2nd in

the girl’s class. It was a big success and hope to see

more next year.

One More Lap

By Joe Griswold

The Cross Country team has run at Huntley Project,

Lewistown, Red Lodge, Big Timber, Joliet, and Miles

City. We have times for the following meets: Huntley,

Red Lodge, Lewistown, and Joliet. We are missing

times for Big Timber and Miles City. We also have

times for BreElle and Franka for their Helena meet.

Huntley

Project

Helena Red

Lodge

Lewis-

town

Joliet

Vitor 21:09 X 21:36 21:21 20:04

Ty 22:31 X 22:58 X 21:44

Harry 22:01 X 22:41 22:46 21:18

Joe 26:17 X 24:14 23:35 X

BreElle 19:15 19:16 20:43 20:43 19:53

Franka 21:34 21:44 23:06 22:55 21:35

The Meaning of MAPS Testing By Kimber Korell

MAPS testing is an online test that measures growth

from one year to the next, despite changes to the

standards of the educational system. MAPS assess-

ments are aligned to Common

Core standards. They reveal pre-

cisely which academic skills and

concepts the student has acquired

and what they’re ready to learn.

MAPS are grade independent and

adapt to each student’s instruc-

tional level. Students in all grades

began MAPS testing the beginning of October. Sub-

jects covered by the test the tests include: Reading,

Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science. They will

test again in the spring and compare results to track

growth.

MBI Attendance ContestFirst group with 10 stars wins a small

prize

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BPA: A Year of Success

Submitted by Gracey Adams

On Sunday October 2nd, the BPA officer team trav-

eled to Fairmont Hot Springs for Fall Leadership Con-

ference. While they were there, they learned about

leadership, competitive events, and also a little more

about BPA. Although the weather didn’t cooperate to

complete the community cleanup, the BPA chapter

did help the Adams family on October 8th and 9th

with their cross country race. We helped with the

concessions and had a 50/50 raffle. If anybody needs

help with any community service projects, contact

Mrs. Wacker. Also magazine sales are starting this

month. Next month is the carnival and the Veteran’s

Dinner.

Tackle, Block, Score

By Garrett Severe

The three musketeers have had a great impact on

the Roundup Panthers. The boys that played football

this year are Colby Thurston, Bryce Grebe, and Paul

Bergin. The coaches are Coach Browning and Coach

Brunner. The boys have had a rough season so far.

They lost the first three games that they played. They

have one game left for the season. It’s going to be a

good one. The boys had a good time with the team

and the coaches. They are looking forward to a great

season for next year!

Columbus

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Roundup

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Red Lodge

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Roundup

7

Columbus

24

Roundup

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Red Lodge

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Roundup

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Varsity Volleyball Struggling

By Kimber Korell

The Roundup/Melstone co-op has been

struggling so far this season. With only two

wins (Colombus and Wolf Point) and eleven

losses, it hasn’t been the best season. The

girls have been trying very hard but haven’t

been successful. With only a few games left,

before the season is over,

they are looking forward to

t he second season - -

tournaments. District volley-

ball tournaments begin the 28th of this

month in Red Lodge. We are wishing

the ladies the best of luck.

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Spirit Week King & Queen Nominations

12th: Deva and Riley

11th: Shayla and Vitor

10th: Megan and Harry

9th: Kimber and Ty

Winners: Riley and Deva

Spirit Week Winners

Monday: Shayla and Brayden

Tuesday: Gillian, Abby, and Kaleb

Wednesday: Gracey and Ty M.

Thursday: Deva, Abby, and Joe

Spirit Week Winners (Elementary)

Monday: Avery and Trey

Tuesday: Maggie, Emma, James, and Jack

Wednesday: Josie and Paul

Thursday: Janci and Michael

Monday- Mismatch Day

Tuesday-Sr. Citizen Day

Wednesday- Red White

& Blue Day

Thursday- Pajama Day

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Senior/ Staff Survey By Dwight DeJaegher

This month BreElle Wacker was our senior and she chose Ramie Meredith. BreElle’s answers will be Indicated with” B” and Ramies answers will be indicated with an “R”.

Who do you look up to most?

B my parents

R my parents

Would you rather explore the moon or ocean?

B ocean

R ocean

Who would you play practical jokes on?

B everyone

R Ty, Trey, and Macy

Coffee, tea, or? (its an old expression)

B coffee

R coffee

Dill or sweet pickles?

B dill

R neither

Dog or cat person?

B dog

R dog

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

B living in a semi-small town teaching

R in Melstone with my husband and kids

Sunshine or rain?

B sunshine

R sunshine

Favorite high school memory

B winning against Broadview/Lavinia

R too long ago to remember

How many siblings do you have?

B 3

R 1

Do you have a nickname if so what is it?

B Breezy

R no

Cats or Griz?

B Cats

R Cats

Dodge or Ford?

B Dodge

R Dodge

What’s your favorite movie?

B The Longest Ride

R Footloose

Where would you like to travel to?

B the Bahamas

R anywhere tropical

What are two words that describe

you?

B outgoing and busy

R happy and professional

What is your favorite candy?

B Haribo– happy cola

R not crazy about candy

What is your biggest fear?

B losing a loved one

R my families' health

Were you named after somebody in

your family?

B only middle name my great grandma

R my mom

Are you a good cook?

B ask Draya

R sometimes

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Gridiron Grind

By Dwight DeJaegher

Panther football is on a roll and having an amazing

season with only 3 losses out of their 6 games. The

boys had a home conference game against Joliet and

came out with a win of 22-8. The Roundup/Melstone

football team went on the road to Malta on Friday

the 16th to a non-conference game against Malta/

Whitewater/Saco and got beat 19-12. They won

against Red Lodge for homecoming—33-20. They

won against Rocky Boy but lost to Huntley and Big

Timber. Their most recent victory was against Wolf

Point; Brody threw four touch down passes in that

game. They are looking forward to playoffs. If they

beat Colombus this Friday, they will win the confer-

ence championship which will give them home field

advantage and a #2 seeded opponent. If they lose,

they will play a #1 seeded team away. This is an im-

portant game for the Panthers—get out and support

them this Friday night!

Spikers in Training

Submitted by Jennifer Bergin

Junior High volleyball has wrapped up their season

and were quite successful. Jasmine Smith, Josie Rob-

bins, Avery Eike, Emily Coles, Teigan Schiffer, Koye

Rindal, Kelsey Thurston, Kaylee

Thurston, Draya Wacker, and

Chelsea Vohs played the entire

season. Skyler Parsons injured

her shoulder during the sea-

son, and Montana Reynolds

also played part of the season.

Koye stepped into setter role

when Skyler was injured and

did an amazing job. Chelsie

and Koye were able to run a 6-

2 offense relying on the setter

to come from the back row for three hits. The back

row had to cover with only two girls. Teigan stepped

into a new role in the program as the libero, a de-

fensive specialist. She was our backrow “rock.”

Avery learned very quickly and became a great

backrow player as well. Shelby Verzain was the assis-

tant for the program and was an asset. She was on

Coach Bergin’s first volleyball team. Her presence

motivated the girls to reach expectations. The

younger girls had a 5-1 record. The older girls end-

ed their season 4-2. Their combined record was 5-3.

In their tournament, they took third, losing only to

Wibaux who won the tournament. Everyone im-

proved the entire season with new talents coming

out. The future of volleyball for the Melstone girls

looks bright.

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