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Augare Bows Out of 2014 Election

State senator and tribal
council member says he S
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will not run for either post

By JUSTIN FRANZ of the Beacon
Around
Having endured a irestorm of con-
troversy, state senator and Blackfeet
Tribal Business Council member Shan-

non Augare says he will not seek reelec-
EVERY
tion to either position in 2014, he an-
nounced in a letter on Jan. 6.
“After a decade of representing the
people of Montana and the Blackfeet Na-
tion, I will not be a candidate for reelec-
tion this year,” Augare wrote.
Augare was elected to the tribal

council and Montana Senate in 2010.
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Before that he served in the Montana
House of Representatives. Last year, State Sen. Shannon Augare during the 63rd Legislative Assembly in Helena. BEACON FILE PHOTO
Augare pleaded guilty in federal court
to drunken driving, reckless driving ment to shut down on multiple occasions and a water line project on the Blackfeet
and obstruction of a peace oicer after since last fall.
Reservation. He also touted his involve-
leeing a Glacier County deputy in May. Augare said those incidents had little ment with a small business grants pro-

Augare initially pleaded not guilty, ar- to do with his decision not to run again.
gram and having voted to fund the larg-
guing the federal government could not “I am proud of the job I have done est land purchase in the history of the
charge a tribal member. Later he plead- and the results delivered,” he wrote. Blackfeet tribe.
ed guilty to tribal charges and tried to “But none of us are irreplaceable. None Augare will remain on the tribal
in life
have the federal charges dropped. When of us are indispensable. Those who think council through June. He did not say
that efort failed, he changed his plea to otherwise are dangerous.”
what he planned to do in the future, but
guilty.
In the letter, Augare outlined some in a statement to the Beacon he wrote
Augare has also been at the center of of the successful projects he was in- that he was “looking forward to private

a political impasse on the tribal council volved with over the years, including the life and managing my businesses.”
that has caused the Blackfeet govern-
opening of a new grocery store, a hotel
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$1 Million Lottery Ticket Still

Unclaimed in Columbia Falls

Top prize was sold at The person with the winning ticket
is advised to sign the back of the ticket
Mike’s Conoco at 1645 immediately to establish ownership be-

Ninth St. W.
fore notifying the lottery oice at 406-
444-5825.
Tickets for Montana Millionaire
By BEACON STAFF
were sold for $20 apiece and went on
sale Nov. 1. All 130,000 tickets sold out
A lottery ticket worth $1 million re- Ninth St. W. in Columbia Falls.
for the second year in a row, by mid-day
mained unclaimed a week after state of- The winning numbers are 090907. Dec. 26, according to the oice.
icials announced the top prize was sold “Everybody is wanting to know who
Two other tickets worth $100,000

in Columbia Falls.
won. People keep coming up and asking were announced as part of the special
As of Jan. 6, no one had stepped for- if anybody has claimed it yet,” Kristy annual lottery: one at 3G’s Convenience
ward to claim the winning ticket of the Stevenson, manager at Mike’s Conoco, Store in Billings and another at the Tip
annual Montana Millionaire 2013 lot- said.
It Bar in Havre. Three tickets worth
tery, according to Amber Conger with The local gas station sold 202 tickets $10,000 were sold: Smith’s Food and
the Montana Lottery oice in Helena.
for this year’s Montana Millionaire. The Drug in Bozeman; Safeway in Helena;
“We have not been contacted by any- store’s previous top prize for a lottery and Superpumper in Sidney.

one claiming they are the winner,” she ticket was $5,000 during Stevenson’s Montana Lottery operates out of
said. “They have six months to claim tenure.
Helena, with seven sales representa-
from the date of the drawing. If they do “We were loored,” she said of the tives around the state. It is supported
not, it goes to the general fund.”
announcement that the million-dollar by a network of more than 800 retailers.
State lottery oicials announced the ticket was sold at the store.
In 2012, $2.6 million was given away in
winning numbers after the inal draw- “Hopefully somebody claims it.”
prizes, 54.4 percent of total revenue, ac-
ing Jan. 2. The top prize, a $1 million Stevenson is posting daily updates cording to the lottery oice.
ticket, was sold at Mike’s Conoco at 1645
on the Mike’s Conoco Facebook page.
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