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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 06:45 |
By Buck Traxler, I-O Editor
This past week after a lot of mish-mash discussion the city council voted on a split vote with the tie broken by a vote of the mayor to proceed with a mechanical fix of the city’s sewer-lagoon system.
Readers may recall that recently Denny Rehberg, our lone Congressman, secured a $500,000 grant earmarked to help with the project. And while that will help with costs, a little, nevertheless, the bottom line is your sewer costs will climb about $20, maybe even higher.
The mayor says the last thing he wants to do is put a higher rate on the people. However, in order to keep from being fined by the state and/or federal government for a system that is not in compliance with mandated federal regulations our taxes or fees or what ever you want to call it will skyrocket.
What kinda-sorta gets me is no one can tell you what the fines for not being in compliance will be. I mean no one has even a “guesstament” of what a fine could be.
But, down to a gnat’s patoot, we can nail the well over a million dollars it will cost to fix the problem and exactly how much to pull out of your pockets to get the job done. We can find, in a just three days, a calf in Canada with mad cow disease, figure down to a dime the cost of sending a shuttle into space to work on a space station, but even the engineers of Morrison Maierle can’t, or won’t, predict what the fines may be for the mandated –You don’t have a choice kid – rules handed down by the Feds and DEQ.
What’s wrong with this picture? Fix it or else. Or else what, you going to take our birthdays away? Are you arbitrarily going to pull a number out of a hat or a jar to fine us (the city)?
No matter, we got $500K from Denny. But what about the other members of our Congressional delegation, can’t they help? Recently visited in Great Falls, Senators Baucus and Tester were non-committal in saying they remember Conrad as a positive forward moving community.
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 06:41 |
 COWBOY RED TEAM Conrad placed second in the B Pool of the All-Star tourney held in Conrad last weekend. From the left in front are Rye ONeil, Blake Underdahl, Lucas Fowler, and Isaiah Carpenter. In the back row is Trae Pruttis, Calvin Makelky, Devin VandenBos, Clint Christiaens, Coach Bruce Berthelson, Justin Sullivan, Coach Joey Pruttis, Austin Storle and Austin Zomer.
Teams in the B Pool were made up of players from Great Falls, North Jefferson County, Livingston, Conrad, Havre Hi-line, Cut Bank, Milk River, Alberta, Canada and Chinook.
In their first contest, the Red Team fell in a tough loss to Great Fall 9-8.
They bounced back to stop North Jefferson 5-4 in an extra inning game. Following that win, the Reds came back to push two runs across the plate in the bottom of the sixth inning to win once more by a 5-4 score.
“We took a liking to the 5-4 score,” commented Coach Joey Pruttis.
Facing Livingston, the Reds trailed late in the contest 4-3, but again managed to come up with two runs in their last at bats to defeat them 5-4. The cardiac kids then downed Havre 6-5 by knocking in two runs in their last at bat.
That put them into the championship contest with Jefferson.
This time Conrad rallied back to score a pair of runs in the to of the sixth inning, but Jefferson held on to take the winning side with a 5-4 score.
“What impressed me,” said Pruttis, “was how hard Conrad battled. Every inning was a dog fight, but time after time we came up big at the plate, on mound or in the field.”
He went on to add, “I’m impressed with these kids. It sure shows a lot about the families and our community that this team is made up of.” |
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 04:47 |
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Voters in Conrad and Valier will elect council members on Nov. 6.
In Conrad, there are two positions up for election and two candidates have filed for re-election to those positions.
In Ward 2, Lloyd “Sandy” Syvertson filed for the four-year term and Wally McHenry filed for the four-year position in Ward 1.
In Valier, Ward 1, Troy VandenBos has filed for the four-year position. Ward 2 in Valier, also has one position up for election and three candidates have filed. Heidi D. Berg, Jack L. Smith and Jerry Sullivan will be on the Nov. ballot for the Ward 2 position.
There will not be a primary election in either Conrad or Valier. The Nov. 6, General Election will be conducted by mail ballot unless either city requests a polling place election for their residents.
Although the deadline for filing as a candidate has passed, a registered voter can still file for any position as a declared write-in candidate. The deadline to file as a declared write-in candidate is Aug. 27 at 5 p.m.
If you are thinking of running as a write-in candidate, contact the County Clerk and Recorder’s office, complete and file the forms and let your votes be counted!
The names of declared write-in candidates are not printed on the ballots.
Voters must write in the name on the ballot and check the corresponding box to cast their vote for a write-in candidate.
Interested parties can file as a declared write-in at the office of the Clerk & Recorder at the Pondera County Courthouse. |
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