Fallon County
T IMES June 12, 2020
BAKER, MONTANA
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Saint Jude’s Trail Ride The St. Jude’s Saddle Up Ride will be held June 21, 2020 beginning at 9 a.m. at the Fred & Ann Hoff Ranch north of Baker. All who would like to ride and collect donations to be sent to St. Jude’s Cancer Research can get more information from ride Coordinator Doug Bruha at 778-2502. There will be a potluck lunch following the ride.
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Darlene Hornung honored as Baker’s Citizen of the Year
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For Darlene Hornung, it was a step into the spotlight when the Baker City Council took time to recognize her before the June 3 meeting as the Citizen of the Year. Mayor JoDee Pratt made the presentation, but it took a little time to explain why she deserved the honor. “Darlene Hornung is very deserving of the Citizen of the Year award. She served as a volunteer on the Baker City Park Board for 20 years, serving as chairman for 18 of those years. In her tenure on the Park Board, she managed the baseball program, hiring and supervising the coaches. She was instrumental in getting the lights installed on the Coldwell Field and getting the scoreboard. She also supervised the employees who maintained the city parks and was responsible for the budget. “Darlene also organized Fallon County Day for close to 20 years. In that capacity, she organized the children’s games, volleyball tour-
nament and canoe races to name a few. She also lined up all the volunteers to run the events. “As manager of the Fallon County Times for more than 32 years she was seen at all the events around town taking pictures, making sure that the history of Fallon County was recorded for future generations,” the mayor explained. Hornung had retired Nov. 15 at the Fallon County Times after almost 33 years. She grew up in Turner, MT where she went to school and graduated. She married her husband, Clayton Hornung. They moved to Havre, MT, where Clayton would attend school at Montana State University-Northern before moving back to Turner to teach for seven and a half years. Darlene spent her time babysitting and raising her three kids, Tim, Tammy and Julie. She had dreams once of being a nurse. “I had a child right away. I was going to be a mother. I wouldn’t have given up my motherhood. I didn’t want to go to work full-time until my kids were in school. ”In 1977, Clayton interviewed for several teaching positions in Montana, one of them being a job at Baker High School. “He interviewed here and he kind of knew that this was probably going to be the one,” Darlene recalled. “There was not even another thought in our mind that we’d ever move away from Baker.” After working as a babysitter and also for a local optometrist she was contacted by Alice Anderson, who owned the Fallon County Times with her husband Jim. She wanted Darlene to come to work for her in sales. After a few months, the owners decided to move and asked Darlene to take over the management of the newspaper. “I said that I’d give it a shot,”she said. “Thirty-two and a half years later I’m still here doing it.” she recalled as she prepared for her retirement in November. At the same time, she was also becoming a vital part of the Baker community, with service on the park board as a volunteer that was just one of the reasons she was named as the city’s Citizen of the Year, according to the mayor. Brad Mosher and Shannon Johnson contributed to this story.
Council puts water main project up for rebid
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Negotiations with the contractor on a planned Montana Avenue Water Main Project were able to cut more than $100,000 from its proposed cost. But that was not enough to move the project forward. In the City Council meeting June 3, the council members unanimously decided to reject the only bid they have gotten on the project. Instead, it will be put out for a rebid with the hopes of getting more savings with multiple bidders. According to Shannon Hewson of Brosz Engineering, the project bid was more than $500,000 over the assessment. In addition, Western Municipal told Hewson just prior to the meeting that they would be able to come up with another $100,000 cut in costs. “With that, we are still over the estimate by approximately $383,000,” he told the council.
Colton Turbiville of Rhame won a state cham- Jacob Wang of Baker took second in Steer Wres- Brennan Graham of Baker took third in Steer Wrestling. PHOTO/ Brad Mosher pionship in the boys cow cutting event at the tling. PHOTO/ Brad Mosher Montana High School Rodeo Association in Baker. PHOTO/Brad Mosher
After a season cut short by a global pandemic and state closures of public events, the Montana High School Rodeo Championships closed the 2020 season in style in Baker Saturday. And they finished the multi-day event just in time to avoid a cloudburst that drenched Fallon County in the late afternoon Saturday. At stake were berths in the national prep competition in mid-July at Guthrie (Oklahoma). The week of rodeo started off Tuesday with cow cutting events at the nearby Graham Indoor Arena. It ended Saturday with only one rider succeeding in staying on a bucking bull long enough to score in the Short Go. By the end of the week, Baker competitors claimed one title. In Bull Riding it was Havre’s Cole Hould who succeeded and survived Ethan
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Marceau’s try on the final bull of the day to claim the win Saturday. Hould came into the championship with 55 season points, behind Marceau’s 68 and Caden Fitzpatrick’s 64. However, it was Hould who took best advantage of his stay in Baker, winning the 1st Go with 72 points, then followed it up with 79 points in the 2nd Go and icing the championship with his win Saturday in the Short Go. That gave him a total of 135.50 points. Marceau finished the competition in second with a total of 118 points while Fitzpatrick was third with 94 points. Baker’s Colton Turbiville of nearby Rhame (N.D.) was the first to claim a state championship with a win by one point in Wednesday’s cow cutting finals. He won the 1st Go with a score of 142, then placed second in the 2nd Go and was third in the Short Go. But Turbiville finished the competition with 140 points to edge Nathan Ruth of Big Timber by one point after leading him by
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three season points going into the championships. Roan Burrows of Miles City placed third in the championships with 134 points. Chalee Harms of Miles City won the girls cow cutting competition with 147 points, beating out Bailey Benson of Worden and Georgia Orahood of Malta. Harley Meged of Miles City placed fourth. Turbiville placed second in the .22 caliber shooting competition behind Jacy Johnson of Whitehall. Logan Smith was third, while Nathan Ruth and Grace Wiening were fourth and fifth. In the shotgun shooting competition it was Chance Story winning, ahead of both Brice Patterson and Luke Murphy, who tied. Ruth was fourth and Turbiville was fifth. In the Reining Cow Horse competition, it was Chalee Harms winning a second state title with a score of 135, while Orahood was second and Reyna Warneke of Great Falls was third. Meged was fourth, just ahead of
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There was a moment of silence at the 2020 Montana High School Rodeo championships for a teen saddle bronc rider who didn’t make it to the state competition. It was punctuated by a rider-less saddle bronc. In between, a Miles City rider was honored by friends, competitors and family at the Fallon County Fairgrounds. Orin Robert Muri died in a car accident April 29, just more than a month before the event was held in Baker. There was a tribute during the event Saturday, when the organizers stopped to honor the 18-year old, with a large plaque, an emotional ceremony with his family and a moment that was silent except for one noise: the bucking of a horse, Orin’s Crossroads, which is named after Muri. Orin’s Crossroads bucked for eight seconds with an empty saddle. The event was held right after the saddle bronc event. Tori Yeager gave a speech while the family held his buckles during the ceremony.
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Funding wise, that meant that with a $5 million loan allocated from the county and other grants, would meet the costs, but it was over the original estimate for the project. That small margin was just too small of a cushion for the city to take a chance with, council member Brittany Hoversland said. “I don’t think that is enough cushion. I am sure that there are other contractors.” Hewson did admit that the city’s list has five prime contractors and that they did not get a bid from all the contractors on their list. He added that if the project was put out for a rebid, the completion date would have to be pushed back until the next year. According to the mayor, the project could be put out for rebid as early as July. “We could see if we could get something going for the next year, given a better
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