Who Are You Going To Call? National Guard, That’s Who!

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DanielsMemorialHealth-

care Center in Scobey found itself shorthanded staff-wise

due to illnesses and knew something had to be done as

soon as possible.

Bridget Norby, Hospital Preparedness Manager/In-

cident Command, contacted Mary Nyhus, of the local Disaster and Emergency Ser – vices (DES), about a request for the staffing shortage due to the current COVID situation. Nyhus then sent a request

letter to Jeff Gates of the State DES on Tuesday, October 27.

Later that afternoon a Sergeant with the National Guard contacted Norby about the facility's status and situa – tion. By Wednesday, October 28, a team of four soldiers deployed for Scobey and began working in the facility on Thursday, October 29. These soldiers are sched – uled to be here for 14 days,

dependent on the situation,

and could be here for up to 20 days. They will assist in

any department needing help,

from Environmental Services

to assisting on the nursing

floor, aiding staff and provid – ing some much needed relief.

"We had enough of a shortage we had to do some-

thing," said Norby. "We had office personnel called in to do work on the floor. We had nurses working as aides and

working double shifts."

Army National Guardsmen Josiah Bentley and Ben

Wilks, both of Billings, and Air National Guardsman Will Gardner of Great Falls are working the day shift while Air National Guardsman

Mitchell Lucas of Billings is working the night shift. Neil Keane of Colorado, a Major Sergeant in the Air National Guard, was here last week but

has since returned south.

The four Guardsmen are scheduled to be here for another week but could go a third week if needed but that would be it for this group as three weeks is the maximum

time frame.

DanielsMemorialHealth-

care continues to provide quality care to all patients and are taking every precaution to keep everyone safe. Its staff appreciates the support from the community and has faith it will get through this together.

Norby says: "Please join us in welcoming the National Guard to our community and show them our utmost appre-

ciation. God Bless, stay safe, and please take the necessary precautions around town. Please help us, help you. If anyone has any concerns we encourage you to please reach out and we would be happy to

help you in any way we can."

OVER 70 ADULTS took in ….

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OVER 70 ADULTS took in the drive-thru flu clinic in Sc – obey on Wednesday, October 28 at the large drive-thru shop of PRO Co-op's on the east edge of Scobey. Peo – ple were able to just drive-in fill out a simple form, get a shot and move out the other side. It was tough to get all the hospital staff in one spot as they were on the run taking care of shots on both sides of the vehicles com –

ing through. -Leader Photo, b

PROVIDING MAJOR ASSISTANCE at ….

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PROVIDING MAJOR ASSISTANCE at Daniels Memorial Healthcare Center in Scobey over the past week have been three members of the Air National Guard and two of the Army National Guard. From left are Ben Wilks of Billings (Army), Josiah Bentley of Billings (Army) and Will Gardner of Great Falls (Air). Not pic – tured are Mitchell Lucas of Billings

(Air) and Major Sergeant Neil Keane

of Colorado (Air). – Leader Photo, mike

Things, Ideas & People . . .

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Weather is good. It gives us something to talk about besides COVID-19. Working in the yard on Sunday we noticed the change of the sounds in the country (as we live on the edge of Scobey). One big thing we noticed besides having lovely sunshine and nicer weather on Sunday, was that the buzzing of two-cycle motors has changed in the last several days.

Snowmobiles were out buzzing the country side last week and this weekend they were shut down and it was the sounds of two-cycle motorcycles buzzing the country side. There’s almost always a bright side to the weather as it affects each of us differently.

With the abundance of snow we had over the last couple weeks, people complained about such an early snow. Farmers and ranchers were happy for the moisture and now having a chance to soak in. Snowmobilers were happy, now motorcycle enthusiasts are happy. The contractors working on the streets and water lines had to shut down for a while, although we saw some work being done on Monday. They should be happy.

Next Saturday, at this writing, was calling for cooler temperatures, 60% chance of moisture (4-6” of snow from Friday to Monday, and breezy football fans may not be happy. But for sure we can be happy that Thompson Falls has to make the 600+ mile trip instead of the Spartans! Always a silver lining! –bb *T*I*P*

Do you realize what the most anticipated statistic, for those who are paying attention, will be when 2020 turns into 2021? It is the 2020 statistics on the common flu. Not coronavirus, not COVID-19 but the everyday, been around forever common flu. Will those statistical figures be higher or lower than than the 2019 numbers? I'll say lower, for the simple fact that most of the 2020 numbers will go down as

coronavirus/COVID-19 for the simple fact that those two get paid big bucks to the nation's hospitals from Medicare while the regular, ho-hum flu does not. Watch for those annual statistical flu figures… I'll bet you a nickel they'll be lower than in 2019, probably waaaay lower, for the simple fact stated above. –mike *T*I*P* Billings, the largest city in Montana, employs

more than 13,000 people in the medical field. –mike

*T*I*P*

According to John Williams' Shadow Govern –

ment Statistics website (www.shadowstats.com) the Headline CPI-U Inflation in the United States from

1970, the last full year of the gold-backed U.S. Dollar, to date has been 561 percent. Corrected for U.S. Gov – ernment understatement of the CPI-U ShadowStats Alternate CPI Inflation (1970 to date) has been 4,257 percent (that's merely a 3,696 percent difference!).

CPI-U stands for Consumer Price Index for all Urban consumers. It measures the changes in the price of a basket of goods and services purchased by urban consumers. The all-urban consumer popula tion consists of all urban households in Metropolitan

Statistical Areas (MSAs) and urban places of 2,500 inhabitants or more.

In other words, if one is still interested in the phony and highly-manipulated numbers the feder-

al government continues to trot out for the public to believe, then stick with them (2% inflation, really? Those statisticians must not shop for groceries). If you want the true figures, because that's what Mr. Williams continually delivers, then log onto www.

shadowstats.com. There's much free and very useful information on his website, and best of all, it is the

truth! –mike

*T*I*P*

Together these three investment firms have almost $11 trillion (U.S. funds) in assets under management, or 40 percent of all U.S. publicly-listed firms. They are the largest single shareholders in nearly 90 per – cent of S& P 500 firms, which includes heavyweights such as Apple, ExxonMobil, General Electric and Microsoft. Most people invest in them. Their names? BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard. –mike *T*I*P*

"The past has no power over the present mo –

ment." –Eckhart Tolle

Veteran’s Officer In Glasgow

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Montana Veterans

Afrairs officer Judy Loen – dorf and/or Steve Mulonet,

will be visiting in sever-

al locations in November.

Veterans who are interested

in applying for benefits can call to make an appointment – please bring a copy of your discharge paperwork (DD214) with you.

On Wednesday, No – vember 18, 2020, an officer

will be in Glasgow at the

Glasgow VA Clinic from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. If bad weather exists on days of travel, please stay tuned to

the local radio stations for updated information regard –

ing the outreach schedule.

To schedule an appoint – ment or find out date and times of other visits, call the office at 406-265-4225 or toll free at 1-877-265-8387 and leave a message if office is closed.

Senior Citizens Calendar

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Sherie Anderberg, coordinator

The Senior Center will remain CLOSED until further notice.

Menu

Nov. 5 – meat lasagna, grilled zucchini, garlic bread, dessert

Nov. 6 – Chef’s Choice Nov. 7 – baked chicken, ranch potato wedges, green beans, roll, dessert, milk Nov. 9 – pork roast, sweet potatoes, vegetables, roll, dessert, milk Nov. 10 – almond chicken casserole, rice, carrots, roll, dessert, milk Nov. 11 – shrimp fettuccine, buttered broccoli, garlic breadsticks, dessert, milk Nov. 12 – hot beef sandwich, mashed potatoes/gravy, carrots, dessert, milk

Whenever YOU Intelligently ….

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Whenever YOU Intelligently Help Your Own Community You Help Yourself, Your Family and Your Friends

EXTENSION & 4-H

CALENDAR OF EVENTS:

Nov. 8 – 4-H Achievement Day

Nov. 11 – Veteran Day, Office

Closed

Nov. 26 – Thanksgiving, Office Closed

Library Notes

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Librarian Val Landeraaen

Library Calendar

Nov. 5 – LEGO Club (grades K-7) 3:30 p.m., Students will need to wash their hands or use hand sanitizer.

Nov. 7 – Little Sprouts Story Time 10:00 a.m

Nov. 11 – Closed in observance of Veterans Day.

Nov. 17 – Library Board of Trustees meeting 4:00 p.m. (date change due to a holiday on regularly scheduled date).

Hours are 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Fri – day, and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday. Pre-school story hour every Wednes –

day at 10:00 a.m.

Please note due to the rapidly changing conditions due to COVID-19 activity our calendar may change quickly in order to keep everyone safe. We will update our Facebook page with any changes or feel free to call us @ 487-5502 to confirm

any programming changes.

If you choose not to mask up when necessary we can deliver your books to you outside. Give us a call at 487-5502 to arrange this.

We have a new thriller by Lisa Unger. Confessions on the 7:45 is about a chance encounter that unravels a stunning web of lies and deceit. Selena Murphy is commuting home from her job in the city when the train stalls out on the tracks. She strikes up a conversation with a stranger in the next seat, and their connection is fast and easy. The woman introduces herself as Martha and confesses that she’s been stuck in an affair with her boss. Selena, in turn, confesses that she suspects her husband is sleeping with the nanny. When the train arrives at Selena’s station, the two women part ways, presumably never to meet again.

Days later, Selena’s nanny disappears and soon Selena finds her once-per fect life upended. As she is pulled into the mystery of the missing nanny, and as the fractures in her marriage grow deeper, Selena begins to wonder, who was Martha really? But she is hardly prepared for what she’ll discover. Be careful to whom you tell your darkest secrets… Transcendent Kingdom

is a new novel by Yaa Gyasi that is getting a lot of attention. The main char- acter Gifty is a fifth year

candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis

for the suffering she sees all around her. A considerable portion of the book is devoted to Gifty’s internal con- flict between religious faith

and science. These monologues are full of quotes and anecdotes and are very well-written.

Little Sprouts story hour for 0-3 year olds will meet Saturday, November 7th at 10 a.m. at the Library. This will be an interactive time for caregivers and children so come prepared for fun. For more information call the Library at 487-5502.

The Daniels County library book club is now reading The Rent Collector by Camron Wright. This is based on the true story of Ki Lim and Sang Ly who live with their sickly son, Nisay, in a municipal waste dump in Cambodia. Life is a daily struggle as they collect trash to trade for money so they can eat barely enough food and pay rent to their cranky rent collector. Sang Ly longs for a better life for her family. Redemption comes in many forms in this book where people are not who they seem and it’s not where you are but who you are that really matters. Discussion will be on November 17 at 6:30 p.m. If you would like to join us see Val or Rhonda about borrowing a copy.

Friends or relatives visiting from afar? Someone in Daniels County area accomplished something interesting? Share it with Leader readers. Let us know in writing , so we get the names and addresses right. Send to Box 850, Scobey, MT 59263 or email 2leader@nemont.net.

LIBRARY STORY HOUR celebrated Halloween in style on October 28th. It was a time filled with spiders, ghosts, pumpkins and of course, lots of treats and games. Pictured are from left to right, Kain Hammar, Connie Posey, Maggie Grace Bekker, Hope Rush, and Logan Fischer. Helping the kids was Rhonda Bourgoin in back. – Library Photo Daniels County

LEADING OFF IN SPORTS

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TRIVIA

Can you name the broadcaster who earned the nickname “The Voice of God” as narrator for NFL Films from 1966-84?

LAST WEEK'S ANSWER

Question: With the Los Angeles Dodgers going against the Tampa Bay Rays in this year’s World Series, here’s a related question: in what year did Brooklyn Dodgers star Jackie Robinson break baseball’s color barrier? (by the way, the Dodgers won the World Series last week for the first time since 1988 by a

4-games-to-2 count) Answer: 1947, July 5 to be exact.

Spartans’ Spooking Of Badgers Leads To Bags Full Of Goodies

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The Scobey Spartans didn't wait around until the

sun went down to do their

trick or treating on Saturday, October 31, they got the job done early, by 2:44 p.m. to be exact.

With the North C Di – vision's Cascade Badgers visiting Scobey's Plains – men Field for a first-round playoff game, the Spartans didn't need any tricks in ac – cumulating a 50-0 victory as their collectivegoody bag was plumb full of treats.

For instance, freshman Gage Hallock had eight solo tackles, four assists, two tackles for loss and a quarterback sack in his in – dividual bag, junior Josh Hammerly was packing five unassisted and four as –

sisted stops in his and ju – nior Gage Southland had 7 tackles, 1.5 QB sacks and one fumble recovery. Senior Nicholas Holum's (1 U, 1 A), junior Damian Cable's (1 A, 1 tackle for loss) and sophomore Owen Fishell's (1 U) were a little lighter but they're not complaining.

Bringing home a pillow

case full of sweet offensive

treats were: senior quarter-

back Jayce Tande with a team-leading 104 rushing yards on a dozen carries for an 8.6 average; senior Pay ton Leibrand averaging 11

yards per carry; senior end Addison Stentoft grabbing a pair of touchdown passes in the first three and one-half minutes of the game; junior Colter Oie rushing through the Badger defense for an 11.3 average; junior Zach Turner averaging 10.3 on a trio of totes with two going for touchdowns, a 9-yard re – ception and getting to play a little quarterback late in the game; the offensive line of center Philip Haynes and guards Hammerly and Cole Taylor clearing the way for 258 yards on 30 rushes for an 8.6 average.

All of that, however, is not enough to satisfy Sc – obey's post-Halloween sweet tooth as its 27-young man roster wants more… big-bag more. The next holiday in Daniels County occurs Saturday, November 7, which is opening day of Blue Hawk season begin-

ning at 1 p.m. on Plainsmen Field (Radio: KCGM 95.7 FM). The Spartans (8-1, 432-102, 48.0-11.3) draw the Thompson Falls Blue

Hawks (9-0, 438-44, 48.6-4.8), who are the number two seeded team out of the West Division. They pound – ed the North's number three seed Simms Tigers 50-6 way out west last Saturday.

The Blue Hawks have six shutouts this season, in- cluding four in a row and nearly eight in a row. They opened the season with a

38-32 win over St. Ignatius, which was the fourth-place team out of the West Divi –

sion, and followed by blank – ing Clark Fork (Superior-Alberton) 42-0, which was the third-place team in the west 8-Player circuit. Fol – lowing were victories over Seeley-Swan 52-0, Darby 56-0, Arlee 52-0, Plains 51-6, Troy 75-0, Charlo 22-0 and Simms (50-6) last week.

The winner of the Sc –

obey-Thompson Falls con test will play the winner

of the Shelby-at-Park City quarterfinal, which would be in Park City if the Pan – thers emerge victorious.

Cascade's defense had no answers for Scobey's of –

fense, which scored touch –

downs on its first seven pos – sessions of nine total. The Badgers kicked off into a very strong northwest wind,

which sustained its strength throughout the 109-minute game, to open the matchup and Oie returned it 12 yards

to Scobey's own 36-yard line. Oie rushed for 11 yards followed by Stentoft tak – ing Tande's pass into the east end zone just 43 sec – onds into the contest. After the defense forced a 3-and- punt, Tande and Oie had back-to-back double-digit rushes for first downs before the Tande-to-Stentoft com – bo struck again for another score through the air.

Scobey's third offen – sive possession lasted just under four minutes and featured eight rushes and a pair of pass plays, including Tande's lone incompletion and his 9-yarder to Turner for the score making it 22-0.

After Cascade rushed for five yards on first down the gun sounded to end the first quarter, meaning the Badgers now had the wind at their back and a decent shot to play catch-up.

It did not happen as de-

fensive tackle Hammerly got fiesty with a couple of unassisted tackles and Cas – cade had to punt on 4thand-6 from its own 17-yard line. It was a wind-aided 63- yard punt rolling right out

of the east end zone and 48yard net once being placed at the 15.

Scobey, which never did attempt another pass after Turner's touchdown late in the first quarter, had Tande, Oie and Leibrand tallying

the next three touchdowns making it 44-0 with 9:52 left in the third. Turner, aided by pulling-left-guard Cole Tay – lor's block to make the hole, capped the scoring with 4:58 left in the third quarter.

THE STATS STORY Scoring First Quarter SCOBEY — Addison Stentoft 29 pass from Jayce Tande (pass failed), 11:17. SCORE:

Scobey 6 Cascade 0. DRIVE: 2 plays, 44 yards, 1 first down, :43

time of possession.

SCOBEY — Stentoft 12 pass from Tande (Colter Oie run), 8:31. SCORE: Scobey 14

Cascade 0. DRIVE: 3 plays, 43 yards, 2 first downs, :19 time of

possession.

SCOBEY — Zach Turner 9 pass from Tande (Caden Handran pass from Tande), :31. SCORE: Scobey 22 Cascade 0.

DRIVE: 10 plays, 55 yards, 3 first down, 3:53 time of possession.

Second Quarter

SCOBEY — Tande 11 run (Handran pass from Tande),

8:20. SCORE: Scobey 30 Cas –

cade 0. DRIVE: 7 plays, 65 yards, 4 first downs, 3:43 time of pos session.

SCOBEY— Oie 5 run (run failes), 5:02. SCORE: Scobey 36 Cascade 0. DRIVE: 4 plays, 65 yards, 2 first downs, :50 time of possession.

Third Quarter SCOBEY — Payton Leibrand 22 run (Parker Cromwell pass from Tande), 9:52. SCORE: Scobey 44 Cascade 0.

DRIVE: 1 play, 22 yards, 1:13 time

of possession.

SCOBEY — Turner 23 run (pass failed), 4:58. SCORE: Sc-

obey 50 Cascade 0. DRIVE: 3 plays, 29 yards, 0 first downs,

2:17 time of possession.

Team Statistics Rushes-yards — Scobey

30-258 (8.6), Cascade 46-120 (2.6). Passing yards — Scobey 50, Cascade 0. Total yards — Scobey 308, Cascade 120.

Passing — Scobey 3-4-0-50,

Cascade 0-9-0-0. First downs — Scobey 13, Cascade 7. Return yards — Scobey 12, Cascade 50. Penalties-yards — Scobey

4-25, Cascade 6-40. Fumbleslost — Scobey 1-1, Cascade 3-1.

Punts-yards-average — Scobey

1-16-16.0, Cascade 3-77-25.6.

Quarterback sacks by-yards lost — Scobey 5-9, Cascade 0-0.

3rd down conversions — Sc-

obey 3-4 (.750), Cascade 4-15 (.266). 4th down conversions — Scobey 0-0 (.000), Cascade 2-7 (.285). PAT rush/pass conversions: Scobey 4-7 (.571), Cascade 0-0 (.000). Total turnovers – Scobey 1 (1 fumble, 0 inter- ceptions, 0 downs), Cascade 6 (1

fumble, 0 interceptions, 5 downs).

Time of possession — Scobey

16:24, Cascade 31:36.

Individual Statistics (Scobey) Rushing — Jayce Tande 12-104, Colter Oie 8-91, Payton

Leibrand 3-33, Zach Turner 3-31, Zakariah Traeholt 3-2, Alex More –

no 1-(minus 3). Passing — Tande

3-4-0-50. Receiving — Addison Stentoft 2-41, Turner 1-9. Punts – Parker Cromwell 1-16-16.0. Punt returns — None. KickoH returns — Oie 1-12. Fumble recoveries — Gage Southland 1-0.

Interceptions – None. Quarterback sacks — Southland 1.5 (mi-

nus 7 yards), Turner 1-(minus 3),

Gage Hallock 1-(minus 1), Cole Taylor .5-(minus 2). Pass knockdown — None. Unassisted tackles — Hallock 8, Josh Hammerly

5, Oie 5, Leibrand 3, Southland 3, Caden Handran 2, Turner 2,

P. Cromwell 1, Owen Fishell 1, Nicholas Holum 1. Assisted tackles — Oie 8, Leibrand 5, Taylor 5, Hallock 4, Hammerly 4, Handran 4, Southland 4, Stentoft 4, P. Cromwell 2, Boen Tande 2, Damian Cable 1, Holum 1. Tackle for loss – Hallock 2, Cable 1, Oie 1.