5th annual James Running Crane Memorial Fishing Derby

Father's Day week-end
June 18-20th 2010
Starting: Friday June 18th 12pm
Ending: Sunday June 20th 4pm

Come and enjoy a weekend of fun at the 5th Annual James Running Crane Memorial Fishing Derby. This is our last year so come and enjoy.
Adults:
Entry Fee: $40.00 for the weekend (or)
$30.00 per day
Children: $20.00 for weekend or
$10.00 per day
Prizes: Adults
1st place $1,000.00
2nd place $ 800.00
3rd place $ 700.00
4th place $ 600.00
Kids: to be announced
Call:
William Kennedy @ 470-4924
Merlin Running Crane @ 338-3511
Hub Still Smoking@ 450-0780
Cheryl or Clayton @ 338-3408
for more information! Come out and enjoy this Fathers Day weekend and fish for an adult Grand Prize of $1000.00!!!








Rita Williamson holding the 6lb fish she caught at Twins Lake just a couple of weeks ago.

Where did Fall go to?

I think we skipped Fall and headed right into winter. This was taken the morning of Wed. Oct. 7th 2009. That was pretty interesting. Tonight another storm moved in really fast reminding us that this can happen anytime, really fast! Yes the first picture is a house behind all that snow!

James Running Crane Memorial Fishing Derby day 2

6-20-2009
We had a great turnout for Saturday. It was a beautiful day and great for fishing. We ended the day with a tie for 1st place. Lots of picnics, laughter, and fun around the lakes.
Horseshoe tournaments and card games.

A beautiful ending to the day.

4th Annual James Running Crane Memorial Fishing Derby

Adults: $35.00 for weekend or $20.00 per day

Kids: $20.00 for weekend or $10.00 per day

King & Queen of the lake: penny per vote

Card, Hand Games, Horseshoes, 50/50, Concessions, Hard luck fish each day for adults and drawings for prizes.

Format: Limit 3 Fish per day. Weight of all three fish will be calculated each evening at the close of fishing for that day. Winners will be determined by total weight for entire weekend. If you have any questions feel free to contact Merlin Running Crane @ 338-3511 9am – 6pm or William Kennedy @ 338-2678 8am-10am.

Derby will begin on Friday June 19^th, 2009 @ 12:00 pm. And run until dusk that evening. Saturday, June 20^th, 2009 6:00 am until dusk and Sunday, June 21 ^st, 2009 6:00 am until 6:00 pm.

All fish must be alive when weighed.

In honor of our late brother James Running Crane who died of the effects of alcoholism the Running Crane family has been sponsoring a fishing derby every year during fathers Day, this being the 4th year and next year being the last. We also sponsor an annual baseball tournament during Heart Butte Society Celebration.
After the passing of our brother we as a family wanted to do something in memory of James. He struggled with alcoholism for many years and it finally won. We wanted to encourage non alcohol activities. James' favorites were fishing and baseball.

Spring Storm April 2009

We have had an exciting time of it along the Rocky Mountain Front. We expected snow I think but not this much. Merlin called me Monday morning from work at 6am and said did you see it outside? I had barely opened my eyes yet so when I looked out I sure didn't expect to see what I did. It continually snowed until last night.

Yesterday people could only walk to the store, in some places up to their chests in snow. We all thought we had had enough of that in January but apparently not. When the FSA truck couldn't make it in Monday morning I thought oh no! It is continually reminding the residents of Heart Butte how isolated and alone we are at times. Now, you have to understand that Heart Butte is in a weird situation where we are located. We all love it here and wouldn't trade it for nothing but.....We live in an area on the southern side of the reservation in Pondera County. So when it comes to things like this we can be in a real situation. When it comes right down to it who do we call for help? We have a small fire department and search and rescue. Now these guys are always around if anyone needs help. They go out in the middle of the night and pull people out, break trail for people that can't get to their homes. They provide a service that is sometimes not acknowledged and appreciated to the fullest. Working on a very limited budget and basically what ever crumbs are left over from the Browning entities. Living on the western portion of Pondera County the entities there say they can't do anything much for us at all because we are on the Blackfeet Reservation and not a tax base. So we are in a tough spot. One of the search and rescue guys left their gloves at the store. I felt sad when I saw them. One old snowmobile type glove with holes and another John Deer thin glove. Our fire dept. currently doesn't have a phone turned on and no heat in the building.
The housing program chips in and will provide a tractor to plow some of the residents out. Today we saw a snow plow go through and did take a couple of swipes through a few of the streets. Not all of them though. People were shoveling and trying to get vehicles out of snow banks. Some couldn't even see their vehicles. People were stuck and stranded everywhere.

(I told her I would give her credit for this one!)