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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
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
7
Red Lodge
10
Roundup
7
Columbus
24
Roundup
14
Red Lodge
14
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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