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Bryan McDowell Steven Messer Ethan Cayko Jeff Burnison 203 South Central Ave., Sidney 482-2113 Van pulls up, dirt pulls out! • Residential • Commercial • Industrial Carpets Area rugs Furniture Campers Temp. Housing 406-482-2113 Since 1986 SUNDAY AUG. 19, 2012 104th year, No. 67 Sidney, Montana www.sidneyherald.com 75 CENTS Sports Schedule. Special Section. SERVING RICHLAND COUNTY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA FOR OVER 100 YEARS Bulletin Board Deaths Doris Erickson, 82 John Albert Fink, 86 Page 3A Inside Drilling rig count Source: Rocky Mountain Oil Journal sponsored by Montana 21 year ago 9 N.D. 192 year ago 175 Ag...................... 5A Around Town ..... 2A Classifieds .......4-7B Deaths ............... 3A Health ................ 2B Learning ............ 6A Religion ............. 3B Sports ................ 1B Blood drive There is a blood drive from 1-6 p.m Tuesday at St. Matthew’s Parish Center in Sidney. To schedule your ap- pointment, call 1-800-733-2767. Identification is required to donate blood. Ask about how to enter a drawing for a $100 movie theatre gift certificate. Gun show The Lone Tree Gun Show continues Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Richland County Fair Event Center. Admission is $3. Officials meeting The Sidney football of- ficials will have their first meeting Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Sidney High School commons area. All interest- ed in officiating are welcome. For more information, con- tact Jeff Mead, 480-2661, or Thom Barnhart, 433-2330. computer lab. Food giveaway Free food giveaway is Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Fellowship Baptist Church, 2181 W. Holly St., Sidney. No income require- ments, all are eligible. Contact 433-4004 for more information. 75th anniversary Sidney Assembly of God 75th anniversary weekend celebration ends Sunday with a celebration service at 10:30 a.m.; grand finale missionary service at 7 p.m. with Lowell and Tami Hoch- halter. Fall sports Sidney High School fall sports preview is Friday. Schedule includes scrim- mages for volleyball at 6 p.m., football, 7:30 p.m.; volleyball clinic for grades 3-8, 7-7:30 p.m., football clinic for grades 3-8, 8:30-9 p.m. Golf, cross country and cheer/dance teams will be introduced. BY LOUISA BARBER SIDNEY HERALD On the Montana side of the Bakken, Richland and Roosevelt counties seem to be the hot spots for impacts, but just about every school district on the eastern edge cites the same, recurring problems for this school year: compet- ing wages, housing and staffing. The Herald called school superintendents surrounding Richland County about what they forsee this school year. “We just had preregistration a couple of weeks ago,” Bainville Super- intendent of Schools Renee Rasmus- sen said. “We will start the year equal to or slightly up from last year. The scary part for us is the two housing developments that are being built just outside of town. Those have about 40 units each.” Rasmussen said she hopes the build- ing units will become available slowly, though they’ve been told that’s not the case. “If families move in, it could mean more population than we can handle. Right now, we’ve grown from a school with a K-12 population in the mid-60s five years ago, to one that is at 150 students K-12 this fall,” she said. “That’s more than double in five years. Most of that growth has come in the last two years however.” What that means for Bainville school, located just a few miles west of the North Dakota border on U.S. High- way 2, is there isn’t enough books, desks, classroom materials, dishes, food and other supplies to handle the influx. “We’re looking at revamping the kitchen to better serve our needs, and are trying to get the unfinished second floor on our school completed to handle the anticipated load,” Ras- mussen said. And through all of this, there is still the affordable housing crisis, the competition to compete with oil field wages and the transient student population. BAKER, WIBAUX About three hours away in Baker, the picture is much different. A few new students have registered so far, but Baker is preparing for the worse, what with the ONEOK pipelines, the CO2 sequestration developments and new oil and gas exploration, “we as- sume it will hit us in the next couple years,” superintendent Don Schil- linger said. Baker is used to these booms. The school district used to have more kids than it does now. At present, the high school boasts 120 students; three years ago it was 140 while a decade ago the school had 210 students. Their class- rooms, Schillinger said, can handle more students. “We will be able to take the increase in population without causing a problem for a while because we’re a place that had lost a lot of people in the last 10 years,” he said. The problem, he noted, is being tar- geted by the state Legislature for oil revenue. Baker had the second highest amount of oil funds taken by the state last year: $3.77 million. The school needs to be updated since its buildings were built in 1960 and 1968. The board approved a revamp of the science rooms and computer lab. The district is working on several projects to prepare for what’s believed will come down the pike: a new gym auditorium, while converting the old gym into a classroom and music room. To address housing, which is also an BY LOUISA BARBER SIDNEY HERALD After the need for a place for youth to go to after school was made clear a couple weeks ago during Boys & Girls Club registrations, it was time to do something. So Brenda Larson, owner of Creative Solutions in Sidney, and Larson’s supplier DuraSupreme Cabintery, along with the Boys & Girls of Richland County board came up with an idea. How about a Parade of Homes? The funds from which will go toward a new building for the club and at the same time will showcase the workmanship by area craftsmen. Six homes, the designs and products of Creative Solu- tions, are featured during the self-guided tour of new and remodeled homes in the area. The owners who graciously offered their homes for this tour include: Tom and Teresa Benson, Rebecca Benson, David and Julie Hill, Gail and Rhonda Peterson, Rick and Denise Sandau, and Darryn and Jodi Welnel. HOW THE TOUR WORKS Participants will be given a map of the homes’ locations and directions with their purchased ticket. With it being a self-guided tour, the ticket holders can start the tour at any home (signs will be posted). The main contractor on each proj- ect will be on hand to answer any questions. A booklet will be given to each participant at the first house featuring BY LOUISA BARBER SIDNEY HERALD It’s been 10 days since a Fairview ordinance took effect, disallowing semi- trucks to drive or park on the town’s streets. The ordinance only applies to paved roads and does not include those who are picking up or dropping off merchandise or using Ninth Street East. It comes two months after an initial dis- cussion when the Fairview Town Council took public comments. A couple truck- driving residents at the time argued that if they’re not al- lowed to park in town, they’d have to drive as far away as 90 miles just to retrieve their personal vehicles and drive home. Town officials are tired of ruined streets, though not one is as brutally outspo- ken as Mayor Bryan Cum- mins, who is frustrated by what he sees as his former quaint town getting overrun by semi trucks. Fairview seems to be the collection site between North Dakota and Montana. “The streets, they’re all tore to hell. It’s all from truck traffic,” he said. Fairview is looking at $2.5 million to fix every street between Ellery Avenue east to Interstate Avenue from First to Seventh streets – two blocks on each. It’ll take 20 years at 6 percent interest to pay it off. The town doesn’t have that kind of money, and the council isn’t quite sure what they’re going to do about it. Asked about the two resi- dents who appealed to the council, Cummins said their complaints pale in compari- son to the costs borne by the city. “Well, they’re just going to have to deal with it. I don’t care. I and the council are responsible for the expendi- ture of the city’s money,” he said. With assistance from Interstate Engineering Inc., the town of Fairview is assessing its options to repair the roads and are currently considering a Street Improvement District in which the town takes out a loan through a bonding company, and the payments are assessed to the residents through taxes. However, in order to do that, they’d have to get the residents’ support. Council members will visit with their neighbors before launching a ground survey of interest. If there’s enough BY LOUISA BARBER SIDNEY HERALD A Richland County jail inmate pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault in Richland County Justice Court Mon- day after an apparent scheme to attack a high-profile prisoner, Michael Spell. According to court documents, Thomas David Kilbury, 31, Cuba, Mo., who had already been in jail on previ- ous charges, gave “several vague alloca- tions of facts” to authorities as to what happened. He said he had been “stress- ing over life” and contemplating his actions when he saw Spell, a suspect in the murder case of Sherry Arnold, and attacked him with a right jab and hook followed by a left hook. Detention officers’ reports say different, however. On July 24, according to reports, a detention officer was assisting Spell to a room across the hall from his cell for a haircut. While getting his hair cut, an inmate grabbed the attention of the officer who told him he was not allowed to enter the “pod” with Spell unattend- ed. Roughly 15 minutes later, Kilbury and an inmate yelled that something was wrong with another in- mate, and they needed immediate help. The detention officer alerted central control and assessed the situa- tion, sensing a “trap.” Kilbury made a rush and attacked Spell. According to docu- ments, the officer heard Kilbury say, “I got you now,” before landing a punch to Spell’s face as he turned to see what was happening. The officer put himself between Kilbury and Spell to prevent further blows. Additional officers sepa- rated the two. When asked by the court why he didn’t tell the truth, Kilbury said he was taught not to say much to authori- ties, according to the court documents. When asked what he gained by not tell- ing the complete truth after pleading guilty, Kilbury said he had his reasons but would keep them to himself. The state recommended he be sen- tenced to the maximum fine and jail time for the following reasons: • The state has custody of Spell and is therefore responsible for his safety. • Justice for Arnold will be by the law not “vigilante hooliganism.” • Justice comes from the courts, not the defendant. • Reports suggest a plot and conspira- cy to commit the crime. Kilbury declined to submit recom- mendations, saying he had his per- sonal thoughts which he would keep to himself. Kilbury was sentenced to six months in jail with no days suspended and fined $585 at $75 per day paid toward the fine. In his court conclusions, Justice of the Peace Greg Mohr said the defen- dant gave multiple versions of facts up until the detention officers’ reports were given; after reading the reports to Kilbury and asking for a response, he seemed to have an “elusive air as to his motives and actions cloaking himself as some sort of hero for his actions,” Mohr wrote. Regional school districts share same woes as Richland County Fairview faces $2.5 million in street repairs Jail assault Parade of homes benefits local club Mayor blames semi-trucks as ordinance banning paved street usage goes into effect DEBBIE CROSSLAND | SIDNEY HERALD Authorities in Fairview want to repair every street between Ellery and Interstate avenues. Inmate pleads guilty to attacking Spell SEE FAIRVIEW, PAGE 11A SEE KILBURY, PAGE 11A SEE SCHOOLS, PAGE 11A SEE PARADE, PAGE 4A ‘We will start the year equal to or slightly up from last year.’ Renee Rasmussen Bainville superintendent of schools Spell Culbertson | Fairview | R&L Fusion | Savage | Sidney FALL SPORTS SCHEDULE Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012 - A special supplement to the SIDNEY HERALD football | volleyball | cross country | golf
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Temp. Housing 406-482-2113Since 1986
SUNDaYAUG. 19, 2012104th year, No. 67Sidney, Montanawww.sidneyherald.com75 CENTS
Sports Schedule. Special Section.
SERVINg RICHLAND COuNTY AND THE SuRROuNDINg AREA FOR OVER 100 YEARS
Bulletin Board
Deathsdoris erickson, 82
John albert fink, 86Page 3A
Inside
Drilling rig count
Source: Rocky Mountain Oil Journal sponsored by
Montana 21year ago 9
N.D. 192year ago 175
Ag ......................5AAround Town .....2AClassifi eds .......4-7BDeaths ...............3A
Health ................2BLearning ............6AReligion .............3BSports ................1B
blood driveThere is a blood drive
from 1-6 p.m Tuesday at St. Matthew’s Parish Center in Sidney. To schedule your ap-pointment, call 1-800-733-2767. Identifi cation is required to donate blood.
Ask about how to enter a drawing for a $100 movie theatre gift certifi cate.
gun showThe Lone Tree Gun Show
continues Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Richland County Fair Event Center. Admission is $3.
Offi cials meetingThe Sidney football of-
fi cials will have their fi rst meeting Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Sidney High School commons area. All interest-ed in offi ciating are welcome. For more information, con-tact Jeff Mead, 480-2661, or Thom Barnhart, 433-2330.
computer lab.
food giveawayFree food giveaway is
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Fellowship Baptist Church, 2181 W. Holly St., Sidney. No income require-ments, all are eligible. Contact 433-4004 for more information.
75th anniversarySidney Assembly of God
75th anniversary weekend celebration ends Sunday with a celebration service at 10:30 a.m.; grand fi nale missionary service at 7 p.m. with Lowell and Tami Hoch-halter.
fall sportsSidney High School fall
sports preview is Friday. Schedule includes scrim-mages for volleyball at 6 p.m., football, 7:30 p.m.; volleyball clinic for grades 3-8, 7-7:30 p.m., football clinic for grades 3-8, 8:30-9 p.m. Golf, cross country and cheer/dance teams will be introduced.
by lOuisa barberSIDNEY HERALD
On the Montana side of the Bakken, Richland and Roosevelt counties seem to be the hot spots for impacts, but just about every school district on the eastern edge cites the same, recurring problems for this school year: compet-ing wages, housing and staffi ng. The Herald called school superintendents surrounding Richland County about what they forsee this school year.
“We just had preregistration a couple of weeks ago,” Bainville Super-intendent of Schools Renee Rasmus-sen said. “We will start the year equal to or slightly up from last year. The scary part for us is the two housing developments that are being built just outside of town. Those have about 40 units each.”
Rasmussen said she hopes the build-ing units will become available slowly, though they’ve been told that’s not the case. “If families move in, it could mean more population than we can handle. Right now, we’ve grown from a school with a K-12 population in the mid-60s fi ve years ago, to one that is at 150 students K-12 this fall,” she said. “That’s more than double in fi ve years. Most of that growth has come in the last two years however.”
What that means for Bainville school, located just a few miles west of the North Dakota border on U.S. High-way 2, is there isn’t enough books, desks, classroom materials, dishes, food and other supplies to handle the infl ux. “We’re looking at revamping the kitchen to better serve our needs,
and are trying to get the unfi nished second fl oor on our school completed to handle the anticipated load,” Ras-mussen said.
And through all of this, there is still the affordable housing crisis, the competition to compete with oil fi eld wages and the transient student population.
baKer, WibauXAbout three hours away in Baker,
the picture is much different. A few new students have registered so far, but Baker is preparing for the worse, what with the ONEOK pipelines, the
CO2 sequestration developments and new oil and gas exploration, “we as-sume it will hit us in the next couple years,” superintendent Don Schil-linger said.
Baker is used to these booms. The school district used to have more kids than it does now. At present, the high school boasts 120 students; three years ago it was 140 while a decade ago the school had 210 students. Their class-rooms, Schillinger said, can handle more students. “We will be able to take the increase in population without causing a problem for a while because we’re a place that had lost a lot of people in the last 10 years,” he said.
The problem, he noted, is being tar-geted by the state Legislature for oil revenue. Baker had the second highest amount of oil funds taken by the state last year: $3.77 million. The school needs to be updated since its buildings were built in 1960 and 1968. The board approved a revamp of the science rooms and computer lab. The district is working on several projects to prepare for what’s believed will come down the pike: a new gym auditorium, while converting the old gym into a classroom and music room.
To address housing, which is also an
by lOuisa barberSIDNEY HERALD
After the need for a place for youth to go to after school was made clear a couple weeks ago during Boys & Girls Club registrations, it was time to do something.
So Brenda Larson, owner of Creative Solutions in Sidney, and Larson’s supplier DuraSupreme Cabintery, along with the Boys & Girls of Richland County board came up with an idea. How about a Parade of Homes? The funds from which will go toward a new building for the club and at the same time will showcase the workmanship by area craftsmen.
Six homes, the designs and products of Creative Solu-tions, are featured during the
self-guided tour of new and remodeled homes in the area. The owners who graciously offered their homes for this tour include: Tom and Teresa Benson, Rebecca Benson, David and Julie Hill, Gail and Rhonda Peterson, Rick and Denise Sandau, and Darryn and Jodi Welnel.
hOW the tOur WOrKsParticipants will be given a
map of the homes’ locations and directions with their purchased ticket.
With it being a self-guided tour, the ticket holders can start the tour at any home (signs will be posted). The main contractor on each proj-ect will be on hand to answer any questions. A booklet will be given to each participant at the fi rst house featuring
by lOuisa barberSIDNEY HERALD
It’s been 10 days since a Fairview ordinance took effect, disallowing semi-trucks to drive or park on the town’s streets.
The ordinance only applies to paved roads and does not include those who are picking up or dropping off merchandise or using Ninth Street East. It comes two months after an initial dis-cussion when the Fairview Town Council took public comments. A couple truck-driving residents at the time argued that if they’re not al-lowed to park in town, they’d have to drive as far away as 90 miles just to retrieve their personal vehicles and drive home.
Town offi cials are tired of ruined streets, though not one is as brutally outspo-ken as Mayor Bryan Cum-mins, who is frustrated by what he sees as his former quaint town getting overrun by semi trucks. Fairview seems to be the collection site between North Dakota
and Montana. “The streets, they’re all tore to hell. It’s all from truck traffi c,” he said. Fairview is looking at $2.5
million to fi x every street between Ellery Avenue east to Interstate Avenue from First to Seventh streets – two
blocks on each. It’ll take 20 years at 6 percent interest to pay it off. The town doesn’t have that kind of money,
and the council isn’t quite sure what they’re going to do about it.
Asked about the two resi-dents who appealed to the council, Cummins said their complaints pale in compari-son to the costs borne by the city. “Well, they’re just going to have to deal with it. I don’t care. I and the council are responsible for the expendi-ture of the city’s money,” he said.
With assistance from Interstate Engineering Inc., the town of Fairview is assessing its options to repair the roads and are currently considering a Street Improvement District in which the town takes out a loan through a bonding company, and the payments are assessed to the residents through taxes.
However, in order to do that, they’d have to get the residents’ support. Council members will visit with their neighbors before launching a ground survey of interest. If there’s enough
by lOuisa barberSIDNEY HERALD
A Richland County jail inmate pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault in Richland County Justice Court Mon-day after an apparent scheme to attack a high-profi le prisoner, Michael Spell.
According to court documents, Thomas David Kilbury, 31, Cuba, Mo., who had already been in jail on previ-ous charges, gave “several vague alloca-tions of facts” to authorities as to what happened. He said he had been “stress-ing over life” and contemplating his actions when he saw Spell, a suspect in the murder case of Sherry Arnold, and attacked him with a right jab and hook followed by a left hook. Detention offi cers’ reports say different, however.
On July 24, according to reports, a detention offi cer was assisting Spell to a room across the hall from his cell for a haircut. While getting his hair cut, an inmate grabbed the attention of the offi cer who told him he was not allowed to enter the “pod” with Spell unattend-ed. Roughly 15 minutes later, Kilbury
and an inmate yelled that something was wrong with another in-mate, and they needed immediate help.
The detention offi cer alerted central control and assessed the situa-tion, sensing a “trap.” Kilbury made a rush and attacked Spell. According to docu-
ments, the offi cer heard Kilbury say, “I got you now,” before landing a punch to Spell’s face as he turned to see what was happening. The offi cer put himself between Kilbury and Spell to prevent further blows. Additional offi cers sepa-rated the two.
When asked by the court why he didn’t tell the truth, Kilbury said he was taught not to say much to authori-ties, according to the court documents. When asked what he gained by not tell-ing the complete truth after pleading guilty, Kilbury said he had his reasons but would keep them to himself.
The state recommended he be sen-tenced to the maximum fi ne and jail
time for the following reasons: • The state has custody of Spell and is
therefore responsible for his safety. • Justice for Arnold will be by the law
not “vigilante hooliganism.” • Justice comes from the courts, not
the defendant.• Reports suggest a plot and conspira-
cy to commit the crime. Kilbury declined to submit recom-
mendations, saying he had his per-sonal thoughts which he would keep to himself.
Kilbury was sentenced to six months in jail with no days suspended and fi ned $585 at $75 per day paid toward the fi ne.
In his court conclusions, Justice of the Peace Greg Mohr said the defen-dant gave multiple versions of facts up until the detention offi cers’ reports were given; after reading the reports to Kilbury and asking for a response, he seemed to have an “elusive air as to his motives and actions cloaking himself as some sort of hero for his actions,” Mohr wrote.
Regional school districts share same woes as Richland County
fairview faces $2.5 million in street repairs
Jail assault Parade of homes benefi ts local club
Mayor blames semi-trucks as ordinance banning paved street usage goes into effect
DEBBIE CROSSLAND | SIDNEY HERALD
Authorities in Fairview want to repair every street between Ellery and Interstate avenues.
Inmate pleads guilty to attacking Spell
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‘We will start the year equal to
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•••• •••A fundraiser for the Boys & Girls Club
Sunday, Sept. 30 • 10 AM-6 PM
(Participants may begin the tour at any home) $15 per ticket prior to event
Tom & Teresa Benson, 2801 Redriver Drive, SidneyRebecca Benson, 1316 16th St SW, SidneyDavid & Julie Hill, 12869 County Rd. 338, Sidney
Gail & Rhonda Peterson, 35052 County Rd. 123, SidneyRick & Denise Sandau, 34744 County Rd. 120, SidneyDarryn & Jodi Welnel, 805 14th St. SW, Sidney
Featured Homes:
Purchase at: Creative Solutions, 109 3rd Ave NE, Sidney 406-488-1461
Sidney Herald, 310 2nd Ave NE, Sidney, 406-433-2403Boys & Girls Club of Richland County, 200 3rd Ave SE, Sidney, 406-433-6763
(May purchase day of event for $20 per ticket at Creative Solutions)
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Photo of Kim and Del Nollmeyer’s home.
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