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RONAN — Alvin E. Sloan, 88, passed away at St. Luke Hospital in Ronan on Sept. 19. He was born on March 31,1923, at the Sloan Ranch (Mud Creek) in Ronan to Alexander E. Sloan and Ruth Butterfield. Alvin attended grade school in Ronan and St. Ignatius and high school in St. Ignatius and Albuquerque, ...
Editor, I have watched three debates among the Republican candidates for president. If the office they are running for were not so important, and if what they are saying in seeking this high office was not so telling, one might enjoy the sheer entertainment factor in these political posturing party games....
Editor, Over the years my wife and I have wanted to support the local school sporting events with our presence. We have hesitated to do so because of the senseless fighting and aggression that takes place every so often. This happened to us at the high school rodeo on Saturday, Sept. 17. I said to my w...
Editor, Coats for Kids was started by The Kalispell Jaycees 25 years ago to help underprivileged children receive warm winter clothing. The first year they helped 17 families. To date, we have helped over 2,850 families throughout the Flathead Valley receive new warm winter outerwear. Many of these childr...
Editor, I saw the movie “Contagion” this weekend and; as an educator, I was very impressed. Two other virus movies, “Outbreak” and “I Am Legend,” were Hollywoodized and ruined. “Contagion” is not so much about entertainment as a fictional documentary on the ...
Editor, On Thursday, Sept. 22, I received a truck from First Nations Ministries out of Oregon. The truck delivered dishes, mattresses, clothes and a very few toys for little kids for people here in St. Ignatius who need a few of these items. You can contact Bernie Lovell at 745-2545 (home; no calls before ...
Editor, Blue skies and warm weather once again contributed to making this year’s Dayton Daze celebration a brilliant success. Early in the day the Dayton Church had their annual bazaar and luncheon, the Dayton Yacht Club offered sailboat rides, the Mission Mountain Winery had wine tasting and the da...
Editor, I was sitting in MacDonald's in Polson Sept. 16 thumbing through the Valley Journal and munching food I shouldn't be eating. A letter to the editor recommended a book on the founding of this country and the construction of the brilliant Constitution that has served our nation basically from its bir...
ELMO — Taressa Rae Burke-WolfTail was born early Sept. 15, 2011, and passed away shortly after at St. Joseph's Hospital in Polson due to premature birth. Parents are Kimberly Burke of Elmo and Gordon WolfTail-Wells Jr. of Heart-Butte. She is survived by her mother, Kimmie, her father, Gordie, her ol...
POLSON — Clifford Walter Luke, 75, of Polson, passed away on Monday, Sept. 12, at the Pines of Polson. Clifford was born on June 17, 1936, in Kalispell, a son of the late Leroy and Vivian Moore Luke. He was a 1954 graduate of Polson High School and served in the Army Reserve. In 1956, he married Rob...
