Columbia Grain employees Keith Higgins (left) and Michael Holen (right) present the company’s donation of a butchered hog to Alyssa Pautsch, SHIP coordinator, for the Wolf Point Senior Center. The hog was purchased at the McCone County Fair. Columbia Grain made the donation as a way to give back to the community. (Photo by Bill Vander Weele)

By Bill Vander Weele Wolf Point High School and Junior High students had a break from their regular schedule to end the first week of the school year on Thursday, Aug. 26. As part of the HOWL project, students took part in fun activities on Thursday afternoon with the goal of building relationships. Activities included dodgeball, yoga, waterballoon volleyball toss, bingo, kahoot, art

Jackie Weeks, give plenty of credit to tribal Chairman Floyd Azure, who has helped shepherd the project through. Without him, they said, the wellness center would have likely died several other times. All seem to agree that the uncertain and sometimes unstable tribal politics makes the wellness center even more of an accomplishment. Every two years, the tribal council, the governing board of