08 June 2023
Shooting Help
Wolf Point’s girls’ basketball coach Frank Benson works with Kaylee Johnson with the school’s new Dr. Dish basketball shooting machine. (Photo by Bill Vander Weele)
Clarice Big Leggins
Clarice Kay Big Leggins, 67, of Frazer died May 29, 2023, at Billings Clinic in Billings.
She was born to Isaac Follette and Eva Firemoon Follette on June 11, 1955, in Wolf Point. She attended school in Frazer and later in Othello, Wash., where she was on the LDS Morman Placement Program. She later moved to Helena to further her education and received her GED. She worked in activities at the Helena Indian Alliance — a job she enjoyed.
She met DeWayne Big Leggins in 1978 and they married later. They moved back to Wolf Point in 2008. She loved traveling and seeing the countryside with DeWayne in 1995. She loved to go on evening drives and watching sunsets, loved animals, cats and dogs. She loved being home, playing boardgames, doing puzzles, watching TV and listening to music. She was known to all by her nickname “Bootie.” She always had you laughing when you would visit her.
She is survived by her husband, DeWayne Big Leggins of Frazer; sons, Christopher
High Prairie Vet Receives First Dollar
Longtime Pound Puppies vet Dr. Heather Grimm and her staff at High Prairie Veterinary Services received a First Dollar certificate from Wolf Point Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture director Jeff Presser during a short ceremony June 5.
Grimm told the Northern Plains Independent that she practiced in the area for years before beginning a search for a permanent location.
“I called northeast




