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RONAN — Jacob Marcus Charlo was born Nov. 23, 2011, at St. Luke Community Hospital. He weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces. Parents are Tony and Ivy Charlo of Ronan.
RONAN — Jennae Welker and James Bowen of Ronan are proud to announce the arrival of their first child, Dustyn James Bowen, who was born Nov. 18, 2011, at St. Luke Community Hospital. Dustyn weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces. Paternal grandmother is Nichole Jungst of Libby and maternal grandparents are John an...
POLSON — Tasunke Saiciya was born on Nov. 30, 2011, at 8:42 a.m. at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center. He weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces. His mother is Grace Hansen and his maternal grandparents are Ed Jr. and Connie (Brick) Hansen and Myrna Huebner and Jeremy Heinrich from South Dakota. His great-grand...
POLSON — Courtney Carper and Jose Gonzalez of Polson are proud to announce the arrival of their first child, Adrian Andreas Gonzalez, who was born Nov. 29, 2011, at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center. Adrian weighed 6 pounds 7 ounces. His paternal grandparents are Jan and Mike Gonzalez of Pablo, and ...
MonaRae Tuhy, Lake County and Montana State University Extension Master Gardener was awarded the 2011 Outstanding Montana Master Gardener Award at the annual Montana Master Gardener conference held Oct. 29 in Hamilton. Tuhy has gone way above and beyond what others have done. She takes the initiative to e...
Editor, Sitting here scrolling through the Internet Thanksgiving morning, I see this headline: “A NATO air strike in southern Afghanistan has killed seven civilians, six of them children.” Granted, our U.S. troops can’t often tell Taliban from regular civilians. Granted, many of the wa...
Editor, A few weeks ago, someone wrote a letter to the editor about the Federal Reserve, stating that the Fed is not a federal government entity. In addition, it’s not a public corporation that you can buy stock in. Then it must be owned/controlled by individuals, perhaps a few powerful men — ...
Editor, Over the course of the last two years, I have become more sensitive to the fact that much of what we buy in American is manufactured abroad, most often in China. It has been too overwhelming for me to boycott every foreign country, so I have made a concerted effort not to buy anything made in Chin...
As I put pen to paper, or more accurately fingers to keyboard, I am feeling a bit sad. One year ago, I set the goal of writing informative articles for the Valley Journal, so when people ask me, “What do you do?” and I say “I am the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program Volunteer Coordinator...
It was with profound disgust that I read the recent opinion piece from a Polson resident singing worshipful praise of corporate wealth, greed and some perverted sense that these are the most fundamental of all American values. She continued with references to the Occupy Wall Street protestors as being in nee...
