PEO Crab Crack
was successful
Editor,
PEO Chapter BY thanks everyone who made our first annual Crab Crack a big success. We were excited to partner with Bob Hardy and Glacier Brewery and use their facility for our event; it was a terrific partnership that we truly appreciate.
We also appreciate all the help and information that Jim Miller at Super 1 gave us as well as our crab cook, Jack Fay. Last but not least, since it was out first foray into cooking for a crowd, we appreciate the patience of the people who purchased tickets from us.
We had a great time preparing everything and were pleased that you had an enjoyable evening. Thank you all for participating and watch for us again next year.
Toni Krebsbach Young
Fundraising Committee Chairperson
PEO Chapter BY
Let’s get started
on beautification
Editor,
After having attending last Thursday’s PCDA roll-out of Main Street renovation, I find myself reflecting in terms of “birth.”
As a new grandmother, I was relieved that the Polson Community Development Association had thought through a solid infrastructure since “pre-natal care” is so necessary for a healthy infant. And Main Street options (I like #3) can also be viewed as such an infant.
Baby steps — beautification of downtown Main Street — will eventually create a higher demamd for parking and intersection issues. I also agree with PCDA board members that tourists will find their way on foot to a lovely heart of Polson. After all, these visitors are attracted to the lake. Ask any area hotel counter employee and you’ll hear that inquiries for something to do around the lake is the most common desire.
So let’s get started! Take the first step, financially manageable as it is. One thing I believe we can all agree on is that Polson is not a sterile community. Let’s prove it to those highway travelers, one step at a time.
Nancy Glueckert
Polson
Thanks for
Dayton Daze help
Editor,
The Chief Cliff Volunteer Fire Department thanks Angie and Dennis of the Idle Spur for hosting another wildly successful Dayton Daze. Their dedication to the fire department and ongoing support of the community is greatly appreciated. Without their support and the hard work of their staff, this all important fundraiser would not continue to grow and general enthusiasm and funding for the hardworking volunteer firefighters.
We also thank Barb Amestoy for organizing the Dayton Daze activities and the dedicated group of women who contribute time and energy to making this event a success. We couldn’t do it nearly as well without the behind-the-scenes work of Greta Botkin, Elsie Brown, Martha Brown, Val Hanson, Karen House and Bibs Swallow, all of whom put in a tremendous amount of effort selling raffle tickets and otherwise contributing their efforts toward making sure that Dayton Daze went smoothly.
Jack Meuli was master of ceremonies again this year and did a masterful job of keeping the parade moving and getting all the participants’ names straight. We thank the Meuli Ranch for contributing the half-beef for the raffle, which was won by Dawn Chapman of Polson.
To everyone who contributed time and energy to make Dayton Daze an exciting community event and successful fundraiser for the fire department, we extend a heartfelt thank you.
Zoe Lilja
Chief Cliff Volunteer Dept.
Dayton
The Sept. 5 special session of the Legislature authorized an additional $82 million in spending, all of it specific to paying fire suppression costs through the 2008 fire season.
While I agree that the State must pay these costs (after strict accountability and guidelines on how it is to be spent), I opposed all bills during this session. My contention is that the legislature could/should have had the opportunity to debate whether these costs should be paid for by adjusting other agency budgets downward, especially after the outrageously obscene increases during the May special session.
This could have happened in two ways: The Governor could have avoided making the call of the session as narrow as he did, or legislators could have rejected all legislation promoted by the Governor and immediately called themselves into special session with an expanded call, allowing for paying fire costs from other budgets.
In my view, this would have more appropriately represented the concept of separation of powers and the fact that the legislature is the only branch authorized to determine where and how money is to be appropriated.
The Governor’s call, being specific to additional appropriations only, left no option to the legislature to shift funds. As so often happens, party politics (legislators simply acquiescing to the executive because of the same party designation) and political expediency (legislators acquiescing to what seems popular with the media and other influential institutions) negates constitutional principles like separation of powers.
In the end, the desire by executive branch agencies and most legislators to continually increase State government spending won out. Another loss for taxpayers.
Rick Jore
HD 12
Ronan, MT
406-644-2542
Fair’s livestock sales help with college tuition, books, cost
Editor,
My name is Casey Cable, I just graduated from St. Ignatius High School this spring and just completed my final year in 4-H. I thank the Mission Valley businesses for their unfailing support of the Lake County 4-H Fair.
Our market sale is the envy of the state. I know of no other 4-H sale that is as profitable as this one. I have been in 4-H for 10 years and have sold a market hog each of these years. Every year the local businesses have unselfishly bought my hog at a much higher price than I could possibly have received from a regular market.
I have dutifully put this money into savings toward college.
As an 8-year-old when I started saving this money, college seemed so far away and yet here I am writing my first check to the U of M for my education.
I am so glad to have saved my 4-H money and to now be able to use it for my education. I sincerely want to again thank all the local businesses that have purchased my pigs enabling me to have money sitting in the bank to help defray college costs.
Your generosity is so appreciated and will be put to good use.
After completing my education and when I am financially able, I will come back to the Lake County Fair and purchase a young 4-Her’s animal to help repay the generosity shown to me.
Casey Cable
St. Ignatius