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BY BILL VANDER WEELE SIDNEY HERALD In a brief meeting, com- missioners from Richland and Dawson counties select- ed Scott Staffanson as the new state representative for House District 37 Monday. Staffanson will complete the term of the late David Halvorson, who was elected to his first term in 2012. Three candidates were presented to the commis- sioners. Candidates, select- ed by a nominating com- mittee of the two county’s Republican parties, includ- ed Staffanson, John Mercer and Brandon Ler. Richland County com- mission chair Loren Young explained that Commis- sioner Shane Gorder voted on a phone call to election administrator Stephanie Verhasselt prior to the meet- ing. His vote was not known by anybody other than Ver- hasselt. Gorder missed the meeting because of a family tragedy. “We will try to do this the best we can because he can’t be with us,” Young said. After no public comments were made by audience members, commission- ers voted on secret ballots. Because most of the popula- tion for the house district falls in Richland County, Richland County’s commis- sioners’ votes each counted 30.58 percent compared to Dawson County commis- sioners’ 2.75 percent. Young was told the out- come, and he announced Staffanson as the new repre- sentative. “Thank you for your sup- port,” Staffanson said at the meeting. He said he will try to represent both counties well. “I’m open to input.” Commissioner Duane Mitchell said to Staffanson, “Thank you for your will- ingness to serve.” With the legislative ses- sion completed earlier this year, Staffanson may not need to cast a vote unless a special session is called. “We have everything in place if needed,” Young said. Staffanson, a 52-year-old Sidney native, withdrew from the House race in 2012 to become David Halvor- son’s campaign manager. “As soon as David was in there and especially as I got to know him, I couldn’t run against him,” Staffan- son told the Herald in July. Conservative in all aspects of the word, Staffanson said the two men shared the same ideals and were es- sentially competing for the same votes. So he dropped out to support Halvorson. Now, with support from the legislator’s family he is involved again, something that’s been of interest to him for several years. “This looks like an opportunity to get in and give back to our country,” he said. A 1982 Montana State University graduate, the third-generation Richland County resident has made a lifelong living as a farmer and rancher on his family’s land, which celebrates its centennial this year. Scholarship winner Abigail Haraldson, a May 2013 graduate of Sidney High School, is the recipient of a scholar- ship from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn. She is the daughter of Richard and Darci Harald- son. High school activities in which Abigail participated in included softball, volley- ball and basketball. She was an honor roll student. Tri Fecta Home Center GRAND OPENING Tuesday, September 3 REFRESHMENTS • DOOR PRIZES • GIVEAWAYS Watch for more details. Open Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. • Sun. 1-5 p.m. • 1051 S. Central Ave XNLV104574 WEDNESDAY AUG. 21, 2013 105th year, No. 67 Sidney, Montana www.sidneyherald.com 75 CENTS Ready for the school year. Pages 1-4B. SERVING RICHLAND COUNTY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA FOR 105 YEARS Bulletin Board Meet and greet Sidney Herald employees will hold a “meet and greet” on Wednesday (today) at its office from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The public is encouraged to meet some of the new members in the Herald’s office. Run for Allison A benefit run for Allison Jensen is scheduled for Saturday at 9 a.m. in Sidney at the hockey facility. Registration costs $20 for the 5K run. Registration forms are available at the Sidney Herald, Eagle Coun- try Ford and the Sidney- Richland County Library. For more information, contact LeAnn at 489-2335. Proceeds will help cover medical expenses for the 8-year-old girl who is bat- tling kidney cancer. Happy birthday The Sidney Herald wishes happy birthday this week to friends Diane Frasure, Cierra Erickson, Jana Gray, Anthony Forsberg, Joann Cotter, Benjamin Wenzel, Aaron Snyder, Braydon Rasmussen, Leslie Miche- letto, Kayla Fritz, Ashley Howard, Rebecca Miller, Krista Knels, Rita Jacob- son, Tracy Kringen, James Valnes, Amara Linder, Leah Norby, Heather Schneider and Doug Neil. Farmers Market Farmers’ Market is 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Peterson Park (next to Reyn- olds Market). Benefit vendor show There is a benefit vendor show for Allison Jensen starting at 4 p.m. Saturday at the VFW in Sidney. Newsmaker Deaths Delcina Fretland, 85 Brodie Gorder, 8 Mona Mullin, 81 Douglas Rau, 71 Page 3A Inside Around Town ..... 2A Classifieds .....9-11A Deaths ............... 3A Dial an Expert . .5B Oil report ........... 6A Opinion .............. 8A Sports . . ........ . .7A BILL VANDER WEELE | SIDNEY HERALD Ending the summer Katrina Meldahl, 12, goes off the diving board during the DARE back-to-school party held Friday night. An 8-year-old boy from Richland County has died from the results of an ATV accident that occurred on early Saturday night. The Montana Highway Patrol reports the boy overturned a four-wheeler and was pinned underneath the vehicle. The patrol was called to the scene at 7:35 p.m. for the accident that happened on private prop- erty near Montana Highway 23 and County Road 350. The boy was taken to Sid- ney Health Center and then flown to a hospital in Denver, Colo. He passed away on Sunday. Fulkerson Funeral Home is handling arrangments for Brodie Gorder, son of Shane and Lisa Gorder. BY BILL VANDER WEELE SIDNEY HERALD Because of an Eagle Scout project, area travelers will soon have a place with some shelter to wait for Jefferson Lines’ buses in Sidney. Austin Lambert, Culb- ertson High School senior, provided his plans to Rich- land County commissioners Monday. Jodi Berry, Rich- land County Transportation System coordinator, was in support of the proposal. “I brainstormed it. It was a suggestion for an Eagle Scout project,” Lambert said. He is a member of Troop #190, which has Ty Graves as its Scoutmaster. The shelter, made out of plywood, will be 16 feet wide and four feet tall. It will be located on the east side of the Community Services Building. With the help of his troop, which consists of about 25 members, Lambert does not feel it will take long to com- plete the project. The first step is to pour the concrete. The plan is to start in the next couple of weeks. He is looking for donations to pay for materials. The son of Jay and Kayleen Lambert says he has been a Scout since he was about 12 years old. “My mom told me I had to (be- come a Scout),” he joked. [email protected] BILL VANDER WEELE | SIDNEY HERALD Austin Lambert shows his plans to commissioners Loren Young, left, and Duane Mitchell. Scout to build shelter for local bus travelers BY SUSAN MINICHIELLO SIDNEY HERALD The High Plains Veteri- nary Clinic has experienced an estimated 20-25 percent increase in business in the last two years due to the oil boom population rise. Gary Schieber, DVM, explained the growth is predominately in small animals, which includes household pets such as cats and dogs. High Plains, the only veterinary service in Sidney, provides services for all animals except exotic. Since business has in- creased and the office is “a little bit understaffed right now,” High Plains now charges a walk-in fee. The exam fee is $30, and the walk-in fee is $15. “We do try our very best to keep our prices reasonable,” Schieber said.“In critical situations, we do everything we can to get those animals looked at right away.” Schieber explained with the clinic’s tight schedule, walk-ins make clients who do have appointments wait past their scheduled time. “…and that gets us behind the rest of the day,” he said. Two years ago, the clinic averaged three to four sur- geries a day. Today, the clinic typically conducts four to six surgeries a day. A spading surgery takes about 45 min- utes to an hour, depending on the size of the animal. “At times, it’s overwhelm- ing,” Schieber said. There are three veterinarians and three clerical staff members at the clinic. For about a year now, it is a two-week wait to schedule a surgery. It used to be a few days, no longer than a week. “I would say it’s a direct re- sult of the oil boom. We see people every day that have moved into this area from other parts of the country,” he said. More business is not a bad thing, Schieber explained. It is an adjustment. Schieber does not reserve any judg- ment for new people. “You see all walks of life, so to lump them all into one group is unfair,” he said. “I mean, you hear a lot of bad things, but there’s a lot of good Veterinary clinic seeing high demand SEE CLINIC, PAGE 12A Boy dies from ATV accident Staffanson named representative BILL VANDER WEELE | SIDNEY HERALD Dawson County commissioners along with candidates listen during Monday’s meeting.
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By Bill Vander WeeleSidney Herald
In a brief meeting, com-missioners from Richland and Dawson counties select-ed Scott Staffanson as the new state representative for House District 37 Monday.
Staffanson will complete the term of the late David Halvorson, who was elected to his first term in 2012.
Three candidates were presented to the commis-sioners. Candidates, select-ed by a nominating com-mittee of the two county’s Republican parties, includ-ed Staffanson, John Mercer and Brandon Ler.
Richland County com-mission chair Loren Young explained that Commis-sioner Shane Gorder voted on a phone call to election administrator Stephanie Verhasselt prior to the meet-ing. His vote was not known by anybody other than Ver-hasselt. Gorder missed the meeting because of a family tragedy.
“We will try to do this the best we can because he can’t be with us,” Young said.
After no public comments were made by audience members, commission-ers voted on secret ballots. Because most of the popula-tion for the house district falls in Richland County, Richland County’s commis-sioners’ votes each counted 30.58 percent compared to
Dawson County commis-sioners’ 2.75 percent.
Young was told the out-come, and he announced Staffanson as the new repre-sentative.
“Thank you for your sup-port,” Staffanson said at the meeting. He said he will try to represent both counties well. “I’m open to input.”
Commissioner Duane Mitchell said to Staffanson, “Thank you for your will-ingness to serve.”
With the legislative ses-sion completed earlier this year, Staffanson may not need to cast a vote unless
a special session is called. “We have everything in place if needed,” Young said.
Staffanson, a 52-year-old Sidney native, withdrew from the House race in 2012 to become David Halvor-son’s campaign manager.
“As soon as David was in there and especially as I got to know him, I couldn’t run against him,” Staffan-son told the Herald in July. Conservative in all aspects of the word, Staffanson said the two men shared the same ideals and were es-sentially competing for the
same votes. So he dropped out to support Halvorson. Now, with support from the legislator’s family he is involved again, something that’s been of interest to him for several years. “This looks like an opportunity to get in and give back to our country,” he said.
A 1982 Montana State University graduate, the third-generation Richland County resident has made a lifelong living as a farmer and rancher on his family’s land, which celebrates its centennial this year.
Scholarship winnerAbigail
Haraldson, a May 2013 graduate of Sidney High School, is the recipient of a scholar-ship from Concordia
College, Moorhead, Minn.She is the daughter of
Richard and Darci Harald-son.
High school activities in which Abigail participated in included softball, volley-ball and basketball. She was an honor roll student.
Tri FectaHome Center
GRAND OPENINGTuesday, September 3
REFRESHMENTS • DOOR PRIZES • GIVEAWAYSWatch for more details.
Open Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. • Sun. 1-5 p.m. • 1051 S. Central Ave XNLV104574
wednesdAYaug. 21, 2013105th year, No. 67Sidney, Montanawww.sidneyherald.com75 Cents
Ready for the school year. Pages 1-4B.
Serving ricHland county and tHe Surrounding area for 105 yearS
Bulletin BoardMeet and greet
Sidney Herald employees will hold a “meet and greet” on Wednesday (today) at its office from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The public is encouraged to meet some of the new members in the Herald’s office.
run for allisonA benefit run for Allison
Jensen is scheduled for Saturday at 9 a.m. in Sidney at the hockey facility.
Registration costs $20 for the 5K run. Registration forms are available at the Sidney Herald, Eagle Coun-try Ford and the Sidney-Richland County Library.
For more information, contact LeAnn at 489-2335.
Proceeds will help cover medical expenses for the 8-year-old girl who is bat-tling kidney cancer.
Happy birthdayThe Sidney Herald wishes
happy birthday this week to friends Diane Frasure, Cierra Erickson, Jana Gray, Anthony Forsberg, Joann Cotter, Benjamin Wenzel, Aaron Snyder, Braydon Rasmussen, Leslie Miche-letto, Kayla Fritz, Ashley Howard, Rebecca Miller, Krista Knels, Rita Jacob-son, Tracy Kringen, James Valnes, Amara Linder, Leah Norby, Heather Schneider and Doug Neil.
Farmers MarketFarmers’ Market is 7:30
a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Peterson Park (next to Reyn-olds Market).
Benefit vendor showThere is a benefit vendor
show for Allison Jensen starting at 4 p.m. Saturday at the VFW in Sidney.
newsmaker
deathsdelcina Fretland, 85
Brodie Gorder, 8Mona Mullin, 81douglas rau, 71
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Oil report ...........6aOpinion ..............8aSports . . ........ . .7a
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ending the summerKatrina Meldahl, 12, goes off the diving board during the DARe back-to-school party held Friday night.
An 8-year-old boy from Richland County has died from the results of an ATV accident that occurred on early Saturday night.
The Montana Highway Patrol reports the boy overturned a four-wheeler and was pinned underneath the vehicle. The patrol was called to the scene at 7:35 p.m. for the accident that happened on private prop-erty near Montana Highway 23 and County Road 350.
The boy was taken to Sid-ney Health Center and then flown to a hospital in Denver, Colo. He passed away on Sunday.
Fulkerson Funeral Home is handling arrangments for Brodie Gorder, son of Shane and Lisa Gorder.
By Bill Vander WeeleSidney Herald
Because of an Eagle Scout project, area travelers will soon have a place with some shelter to wait for Jefferson Lines’ buses in Sidney.
Austin Lambert, Culb-ertson High School senior, provided his plans to Rich-land County commissioners Monday. Jodi Berry, Rich-land County Transportation System coordinator, was in support of the proposal.
“I brainstormed it. It was a suggestion for an Eagle Scout project,” Lambert said. He is a member of Troop #190, which has Ty Graves as its Scoutmaster.
The shelter, made out of
plywood, will be 16 feet wide and four feet tall. It will be located on the east side of the Community Services Building.
With the help of his troop, which consists of about 25 members, Lambert does not feel it will take long to com-plete the project. The first step is to pour the concrete. The plan is to start in the next couple of weeks. He is looking for donations to pay for materials.
The son of Jay and Kayleen Lambert says he has been a Scout since he was about 12 years old. “My mom told me I had to (be-come a Scout),” he joked.
Bill vander Weele | Sidney Herald
Austin Lambert shows his plans to commissioners Loren Young, left, and Duane Mitchell.
Scout to build shelter for local bus travelers
By SuSan MinicHielloSidney Herald
The High Plains Veteri-nary Clinic has experienced an estimated 20-25 percent increase in business in the last two years due to the oil boom population rise.
Gary Schieber, DVM, explained the growth is predominately in small animals, which includes household pets such as cats and dogs. High Plains, the only veterinary service in Sidney, provides services for all animals except exotic.
Since business has in-creased and the office is “a little bit understaffed right now,” High Plains now charges a walk-in fee. The exam fee is $30, and the walk-in fee is $15.
“We do try our very best to keep our prices reasonable,” Schieber said.“In critical situations, we do everything we can to get those animals looked at right away.”
Schieber explained with the clinic’s tight schedule, walk-ins make clients who do have appointments wait past their scheduled time. “…and that gets us behind the rest of the day,” he said.
Two years ago, the clinic averaged three to four sur-geries a day. Today, the clinic typically conducts four to six surgeries a day. A spading surgery takes about 45 min-utes to an hour, depending on the size of the animal.
“At times, it’s overwhelm-ing,” Schieber said. There are three veterinarians and three clerical staff members at the clinic. For about a year now, it is a two-week wait to schedule a surgery. It used to be a few days, no longer than a week.
“I would say it’s a direct re-sult of the oil boom. We see people every day that have moved into this area from other parts of the country,” he said.
More business is not a bad thing, Schieber explained. It is an adjustment. Schieber does not reserve any judg-ment for new people. “You see all walks of life, so to lump them all into one group is unfair,” he said. “I mean, you hear a lot of bad things, but there’s a lot of good
veterinaryclinic seeinghigh demand
See clinic, page 12a
Boy dies fromatv accident
staffanson named representative
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Dawson County commissioners along with candidates listen during Monday’s meeting.
