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$12.4 million in building projects
$1.00
Fires fuel
urgency
for forest
restoration
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP)
— A combination of decades
of vigorous fire suppression
and the waning of the timber
industry over environmental
concerns has left many forests
a tangled, overgrown mess,
subject to the kind of superfires that are now regularly
consuming hundreds of homes
and millions of acres.
As firefighters continue to
battle massive blazes in New
Mexico and Colorado, U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell
is renewing his call to restore
forests to a more natural state,
in which fire was a part of
the landscape and in many
instances was far less destructive.
The Forest Service is on a
mission to set the clock back to
Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake zero and the urgency couldn’t
be greater, Tidwell said. The
A CREW FROM Martel Construction is working on infrastructure work for a Hilton Homewood Suites hotel near Signature Theaters plan calls for accelerating
and Walmart in Kalispell. The project is expected to be completed in a year.
restoration programs — everything from prescribed fire and
mechanical thinning — by 20
percent each year in key areas
that are facing the greatest
danger of a catastrophic fire.
This year’s target: 4 million
probably have a peak of 75 to
Martel Construction is build- The hotel also will include a
By TOM LOTSHAW
100 people on the job,” Dunn
swimming pool, spa, fitness
ing the estimated $8.5 million
See URGENCY on Page A3
The Daily Inter Lake
said.
Hilton for Bennett Hofford Co., center, sports court, fire pits
The project has been in the
and all of the other upscale
a development group based in
works since about 2008.
amenities of a Hilton HomeCharleston, S.C.
Martel Construction is get“We built the same hotel
wood Suites.
The four-floor hotel will
ting started on a project to
for this group in Bozeman, so
A small crew has mobilized
sit off U.S. 93 in the Hutton
build a Hilton Homewood
this is a repeat client of ours,”
on site and started to put in
Ranch Plaza shopping center,
Suites in north Kalispell.
Dunn said.
water lines and other infranear Signature Theatres and
“We started the Tuesday
structure and excavate for the
Walmart.
after Memorial Day and plans
The new hotel will have 100 hotel’s foundation.
Reporter Tom Lotshaw may be
are for it to be completed by
“Right now we have very few reached at 758-4483 or by email at
spacious suites, each with
June 2013,” project manager
guys working on it. We will
a fully equipped kitchen.
tlotshaw@dailyinterlake.com.
Ryan Dunn said.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP)
— A 30-year-old Alaska man
mauled by a bear pleads for
help in a recorded 911 call, telling the dispatcher he’s up a
tree and can hear the animal
huffing below him.
the Montana Board of Housuse permit sometime in the
without any hiccups, we hope
In the recording released by
By TOM LOTSHAW
ing. Rooms would be available
next month.
to be in the ground this sumAlaska State Troopers, Ben
The Daily Inter Lake
The three-floor, 40-unit build- for seniors earning up to 60
mer and opening for occuRadakovich tells the dispatcher
percent of the area median
pancy about a year from now,” ing would sit on a largely
to send an ambulance, saying
Sparrow Group, a Missoulaincome.
vacant property at the corner
said Alex Burkhalter, project
he is “bleeding bad.” At one
based affordable housing devel- manager and vice president
Buckhalter said his firm is
of East Center Street and
point the two are disconnected
opment firm, is moving ahead
extremely interested in the
Third Avenue East North. The
of development for Sparrow
and Radakovich calls back.
with plans to build Depot
redevelopment plans Kalispell
building would be about 36,000
Group.
Radakovich climbed 30
Place, a new senior houssquare feet with an elevator for is working on with the expanThe estimated $3.9 million
feet up the tree after he was
ing building near downtown
sion of the West Side Urban
residents.
housing project is expected to
mauled Sunday morning by a
Kalispell.
The project is being supgo before the Kalispell Planfemale brown bear with a cub
See SENIOR on Page A3
“If everything clicks along
ported with tax credits from
ning Board for a conditional
on the Penguin Creek Trail
south of Anchorage.
“The damn thing was batting
at me,” Radakovich tells the
dispatcher.
It took rescuers almost two
hours to reach him. Troopers
say a helicopter was unable
to land nearby, so rescuers
hours than they prefer.
mer months in school, at music
WASHINGTON (AP) — Once
used an all-terrain vehicle to
“It’s really frustrating,” said
or learning camps or in other
a rite of passage to adulthood,
Fewer teens working carry Radakovich on a wheeled
summer jobs for teens are disap- activities geared for college. But Colleen Knaggs, describing her
Summer employment for
stretcher to transport him to
fruitless efforts to find work for
the decline is especially troupearing.
teenagers has fallen to the
the chopper one and a half
Fewer than three in 10 Ameri- bling for teens for whom college the past two years. The 18-yearlowest level in decades.
miles away.
old graduated from high school
may be out of reach, leaving
can teenagers now hold jobs
Employment rate for 16-to-19
He was flown to an Anchorthem increasingly idle and with last week in Flagstaff, Ariz.,
such as running cash registers,
year olds for June-August of
age hospital, and was released
the state that ranks highest in
few options to earn wages and
mowing lawns or busing resTEEN JOBS
061212:
each year:
Monday
morning,
according to
the share of U.S. teens who are
job experience.
taurant tables from June to
Graphic
shows
teen
Alaska
State
Troopers
spokesunable to get the summer work
Older workers, immigrants
August. The decline has been
60 percent
summer
employment
woman
Beth
Ipsen. rates
they desire, at 58 percent.
and debt-laden college graduparticularly sharp since 2000,
since
1980; 1c who
x 3 inches;
Radakovich,
lives in
Wanting to be better prepared
ates are taking away lower-skill
with employment for 16-to-1950
with
BC-US-Disappearing
the
Anchorage
suburb of Eagle
to live on her own and to save
work as they struggle to find
year olds falling to the lowest
Teennorth
Jobs; ETA
4 p.m.did not
River
of town,
for college, Knaggs says she
their own jobs in the weak
level since World War II.
40
respond to phone messages
submitted a dozen applications
economy. Upper-income white
And teen employment may
left at a number listed under
teens are three times as likely to for summer cashier positions.
never return to pre-recession
30
Editor’s
It is ABC’s Good
his
name.Note:
He told
have summer jobs as poor black She was turned down for what
levels, suggests a projection by
mandatory
to include
all just
Morning
America:
“I’m
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statis- teens, sometimes capitalizing on she believes was her lack of con20
sourcesthat
that Iaccompany
grateful
got
through
nections and work experience.
their parents’ social networks
tics.
’80
’90
’00
’10
when
it this
andgraphic
that I’m
here to enjoy
Instead of working this summer,
for help.
The drop in teen employrepurposing
or
editing it
NOTE:
Not
seasonally
adjusted
another
day
basically.”
Overall, more than 44 percent she’ll now be babysitting her
ment, steeper than for other age
for
publication
Several
bear and moose
groups, is partly a cultural shift. of teens who want summer jobs
SOURCE: Bureau of
AP
don’t get them or work fewer
More youths are spending sumLabor Statistics
See 911 on Page A3
See JOBLESS on Page A3
New hotel to have 100 rooms
Bear victim
pleads for help
in 911 call
Senior apartments planned in Kalispell
Seven in 10 teens jobless this summer
Buying
local
helps
local
families
and
strengthens our
economy.
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The Daily inTer lake
n Page A2
Thursday, June 14, 2012
MONTANA
Today
3 Flathead Special
Education Cooperative
Executive Council meets
8:30 a.m., Flathead Special
Education Cooperative, 15
Meridian Court, Kalispell.
Call 257-1857.
3 Lighthouse Christian
Home annual garage sale,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and
Friday, 384 N. Somers
Road, Somers. Coffee and
cookies for veterans today
in celebration of Flag Day.
Donations welcome. Call
857-3276.
3 Red Cross blood drives
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Valley
Ford; noon to 4 p.m. KALS
Radio, blood mobile.
3 Senior Tour and Tea,
10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Hockaday
Museum of Art, Kalispell.
Free admission for senior
citizens. Coffee, tea and
cookies served 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. Docent-guided gallery
tour at 10:30 a.m. Call 7555268.
3 Mission Mountains
Tribal Wilderness 30th
anniversary celebration, 11
a.m. to 3 p.m., Mission Dam
Recreation Area, near St.
Ignatius. Guest speakers
Light lunch served. Bring
a lawn chair. All welcome.
Call Germaine White, 8832888.
3 Flathead Nonprofit
Development Partnership
hosts a listening session
and brown bag workshop
with Montana Nonprofit
Partnership, 11:30 a.m. to
1 p.m. Museum at Central
School, 124 Second Ave. E.,
Kalispell. RSVP to 756-3618.
3 American Legion Post
137 flag retirement ceremony, 1 p.m., American Legion
Hall, 351 Fourth Ave. EN,
Kalispell.
3 Bereavement Support
groups meet at 1:30-3 p.m.,
and 6:30-8:30 p.m. today
and June 28, (second and
fourth Thursday of each
month) Grace Room at
Frontier Hospice, 29 Second St. E., Kalispell. Call
Frontier Hospice, 755-4923.
3 Flathead Special Education Cooperative Executive Council meets 2 p.m.,
conference room, 15 Meridian Court, Kalispell. Call
257-1857.
3 Columbia Falls Market
season opener, 5-7:30 p.m.,
Glacier Discovery Square,
Nucleus Avenue. Produce,
art and crafts, live music,
food and children’s activities.
3 Kalispell Elks Flag Day
ceremony, 5:30 p.m., Depot
Park, Kalispell. Raising of
American and MIA flags,
readings, presentation of
past American flags, patriotic music. United Veterans
Honor Guard. Flag retirement ceremony. Public
welcome.
3 Flathead Valley Genealogical Society, meets
Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, 1380
Whitefish Stage Road,
Kalispell. Business meeting
6:30 p.m. Lynne Bradley
presents a program on
“DNA and Genealogy” at 7
p.m. Call 756-9245.
3 Local Institute of Noetic
Sciences Community Group
meets 7 p.m., Bohemian
Grange, 125 Blanchard
Lake Road, Whitefish.
Jack Kuehn will give a
presentation on “What Can
Honeybees Teach Us?” All
welcome. Donations appreciated. Call 862-9591 or
862-7711.
Friday
3 North Valley Senior
Center garage sale, 8 a.m.
to 4 p.m. today and June
16, 205 Nucleus Ave.,
Columbia Falls. Furniture,
snowblowers, small household appliances, clothing
and more.
Online calendar
In addition to the
Daybook, the Inter
Lake also publishes a
separate online events
calendar which allows
groups, clubs and activities to post their own
event schedule. Go to
www.dailyinterlake.com
and click on
“Events Calendar.”
3 Lighthouse Christian
Home annual garage sale,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m., 384 N.
Somers Road, Somers.
Coffee and cookies for veterans today in celebration
of Flag Day. Donations welcome. Call 857-3276.
3 Red Cross blood
drives: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at
the center, 126 N. Meridian
Road, Kalispell; 11:30 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Walmart, blood
mobile.
3 Glacier Pachyderm
Club meets noon to 1 p.m.,
Red Lion Hotel Kalispell.
Speaker is Mark Campbell,
Flathead County Fairgrounds manager. Lunch
available. Public invited.
Call Mark Johnson, 2537467.
3 Rummage sale, 2-5
p.m. today, 9 a.m. to noon
Saturday, Christ Church
Episcopal, 215 Third Ave.
E., Kalispell. Proceeds go to
mission trip to Minot, N.D.,
to help with flood recovery
efforts.
3 Rails to Trails meets at
5 p.m., Fun Beverage parking lot on U.S. 2 West to do
trail clean up. Trash bags
supplied All welcome. Call
257-1932 or 257-4486.
3 Whitefish Relay for
Life opening ceremony 6
p.m., Whitefish High School
track. Barbecue available,
entertainment. Everyone
welcome.
SaTurday
3 North Valley Senior
Center garage sale, 8 a.m.
to 4 p.m., 205 Nucleus
Ave., Columbia Falls. Furniture, snowblowers, small
household appliances,
clothing and more.
3 Big Arm community yard sale and pancake
breakfast, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.,
Big Arm Historic School.
Donations needed. Call
Bonnie, 883-8308.
3 Glacier Anglers Cast
Off 2012, Glacier Outdoor
Center, West Glacier. Casting instruction, competition
product demos, raffles.
Free. Great Northern Brewing beer and lunch for sale.
2012 Fly Fishing Film Tour,
two shows: 5-7 p.m., and
8-10 p.m. Advance tickets
$10; $12 at door. Call 8885454.
3 Rummage sale, 9 a.m.
to noon Saturday, Christ
Church Episcopal, 215
Third Ave. E., Kalispell.
Proceeds go to mission trip
to Minot, N.D., to help with
flood recovery efforts.
3 Flathead Dirt Riders
Association Clean-Up Day,
10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Hungry
Horse motorcross track.
Public invited. Bring tools
if you have them. Call Jeff
Wentzel, 250-2127.
ThoughT
“It is the flag just as
much of the man who was
naturalized yesterday as
of the men whose people
have been here many generations.” n Henry Cabot
Lodge, U.S. senator and
historian (1850-1924).
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Man accused
of raping
clocked
two women Driver
at 134 mph
MISSOULA (AP) — A
Missoula man was charged
with raping two women
while they slept based on
photos investigators found
on his cellphone and computer, Missoula County
prosecutors said.
Darrell James Twite, 48,
faces three counts of sexual intercourse without
consent, and one count
each of sexual assault and
attempted sexual assault.
Justice of the Peace Karen
Orzech set Twite’s bail at
$100,000 during his initial
appearance Tuesday.
An affidavit filed by
Deputy County Attorney
Shaun Donovan alleges
Twite took pictures of
himself raping one woman
twice and another woman
once between September
2011 and February 2012.
The first woman also
alleges she was awakened
once last year as Twite
tried to pull down her
pants and that he fondled
her as she slept in 2001,
when she was 11.
The second woman
acknowledged having a
long-term intimate relationship with Twite, but
said she did not consent
to having sex with him as
she slept.
Investigators say Twite
told them he may have
“inadvertently” touched
the first woman in a sexual way on one or more
occasions and acknowledged having sexual contact with the second woman multiple times after
she had gone to sleep.
He acknowledged taking
pictures of both women
as they slept, but denied
having sex with either of
them without their consent, court records said.
Roundup
Elder has lost his Democratic primary election by
three votes.
Secretary of State
spokeswoman Terri Knapp
says her office received the
final tallies from the House
BILLINGS — A Billings District 32 race on Wednesman faces a felony charge day morning, including
of driving under the influ- provisional and absentee
ence after a Montana
ballots. The results were
Highway Patrol trooper
Belcourt with 368 votes
clocked his car traveling
and Clarena Brocki of Har134 mph in a 50 mph zone. lem with 371 votes.
Shaun Kachina Bell, 32,
There is no Republican
made an initial appearchallenger for the seat.
ance in Justice Court
Belcourt says he will
Monday for the DUI,
ask for a recount to
felony criminal endanger- ensure the votes were
ment and misdemeanor
counted fairly and accucharges for speeding and
rately.
driving without a license
or proof of insurance.
His bail was set at
$15,000.
Prosecutors allege Bell
was speeding at about
10:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Trooper Kyle Hayter followed Bell into the BillBILLINGS — Veterans
ings city limits and pulled Affairs has announced
him over. The trooper said that the VA Montana
Health Care System will
there was a man passed
hire five mental health
out in the passenger seat.
clinicians and two support positions as part of a
national effort to improve
access to mental health
services at VA hospitals
and clinics.
VA Montana currently
employs 81 mental health
HELENA — The Monclinicians and support
tana Secretary of State’s
staff.
VA Secretary Eric K.
office says state Rep.
Shinseki announced in
Tony Belcourt of Box
cited for DUI
More mental
health clinicians
ahead for VA
Incumbent
loses primary
by three votes
April that the department
would add about 1,600
mental health clinicians
and 300 support staff to
its existing workforce.
VA Montana still is
seeking to hire three psychiatrists for an eight-bed
inpatient mental health
wing of a $7 million hospital that was completed a
year ago at Fort Harrison,
west of Helena.
Dogs at heart
of neglect case
get new home
HELENA — Dozens of
malamutes at the heart of
a neglect case are being
moved to a new location
while the trial against
their owner is pending.
Last October, 160 malamutes were rescued from
the Jefferson County
property of Mike Chilinski, who faces trial in
October on more than 90
animal cruelty charges.
The dogs had been held
at an undisclosed location
for several months, but
the landlord wanted them
out by the end of June.
Lewis and Clark
Humane Society Director
Gina Wiest says the now
200 dogs will be moved to
the former State Nursery
property west of Helena,
starting next week.
WE HAVE DAD COVERED
University
official retiring
MISSOULA — A University of Montana vice
president, Bob Duringer,
has announced plans to
retire at the end of the
year.
Duringer, who is 62, has
served as vice president
of administration and
finance for the past 11
years and has overseen
much of the campus’
recent construction, while
some of his plans faced
harsh criticism.
Duringer said his decision stems from a health
scare earlier this year,
when he was hospitalized
with a pulmonary embolism. He says the doctor
told him he was within 10
minutes of dying.
Duringer oversaw
expansions to the football
stadium and the construction of several new
buildings and additions to
buildings.
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The Daily inTer lake
Thursday, June 14, 2012
n Page A3
FROM PAGE ONE
Fire behavior, weather erratic
People tend to get
too close to animals
URGENCY/From A1
acres. The budget: About
$1 billion.
“We need to understand the conditions
we’re facing today,”
Tidwell told The Associated Press in an interview. “They’re different
than what we used to
deal with. We’re seeing
erratic fire behavior,
more erratic weather.”
In southern New Mexico, a lightning-sparked
fire raced across more
than 34,000 acres in a
matter of three days,
damaging or destroying
at least 224 homes and
other structures in the
mountains outside of
the resort community
of Ruidoso. Hundreds of
residents remained out of
their homes Wednesday.
The Little Bear blaze
has scorched 58 square
miles in the Sierra Blanca range and containment
stood at 35 percent after
crews used a two-day
break in the hot, windy
weather to build miles
of fire lines and conduct
burnout operations.
To the north, smoke
from a fire burning in
Colorado was blowing
into southeastern Wyoming and smudging the
skies above Cheyenne
on Wednesday. That
blaze, about 15 miles
west of Fort Collins, has
burned 73 square miles,
destroyed more than 100
structures and forced
hundreds of people from
their homes.
More than 600 firefighters labored to build
containment lines as air
tankers and helicopters
focused on protecting
buildings from the High
Park fire.
The accelerated restoration effort is focused
on several landscapescale projects, the largest
of which is a 20-year plan
that calls for restoring
age. Radakovich later told
rescuers he called out to
warn bears of his presattacks in recent weeks
ence as he hiked, but said
have raised concerns in
the area; no one has died, his voice might have been
drowned out by the rushbut some of the animals
ing creek waters nearby.
have been killed.
He encountered the
Many calls are from
bear as he rounded a
people reporting bears
curve three miles into
raiding outdoor trash
his hike. The animal was
cans or crossing streets.
surprised as well, said
Others are from people
trooper Tim Lewis, who
charged by moose with
was among rescuers to
young offspring born in
the spring calving season. hike in to the site.
It happened so quickly
One problem: People
and violently, Radakovich
getting too close to the
didn’t have time to use
animals with their cellhis bear-repellent spray,
phone cameras without
according to Lewis. He
the zoom power of regusaid none of Radakovich’s
lar cameras, said Dave
injuries were life-threatBattle, a biologist with
the Alaska Department of ening, but required “a lot
of stitches.”
Fish and Game.
Radakovich was still
Such was the case of a
in the tree when the
young brown bear euthafirst responders arrived
nized in late May after
almost two hours after
Fish and Game received
the attack, saying he
numerous reports it
heard the animal below
was showing aggressive
him for another 20 or 30
behavior like charging
toward people near a pop- minutes. Another trooper
ular trail south of Anchor- climbed up the thick pine
age. In some cases, people tree and helped get the
were trying to get as close injured man down, Lewis
said.
to it as they could with
The victim was cold,
the camera phones.
Battle believes the ratio- bleeding and shivering.
Still, Radakovich was
nale behind this behavior
able to tell rescuers what
goes like this: “I want to
happened. The bear
get a picture, a close-up
sprung without warning,
picture, so I can post it
swatting at Radakovich
on Facebook and all my
and a ski pole the hiker
friends from all around
was trying to use in selfthe country can see what
defense. He figured the
a neat place I live in.”
bear wasn’t going to go
Camera phones had
away, so he curled up
nothing to do with three
into a fetal position.
other high-profile bear
At that the bear backed
encounters, including the
weekend mauling, another up, giving Radakovich a
bear attack in Eagle River brief chance to scramble
up the tree and dig his
north of Anchorage in
May and a case involving phone out of a pocket.
a bear that was killed last
week after it was feedTERRACE
ing off a moose calf in an
Anchorage neighborhood.
SUPPER CLUB
Sunday’s attack
On Swan Lake
occurred where the trail
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hemmed in by dense foli-
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The Associated Press
TRACY GREENWOOD embraces her daughter Mariah as they watch the High
Park wildfire burn near their home west of Fort Collins, Colo., on Monday.
2.4 million acres across
four forests in northern
Arizona. The Forest Service recently awarded a
contract to start thinning
the first 300,000 acres.
A similar project is
planned in the Jemez
Mountains of northern
New Mexico, where
a historic fire ripped
through 244 square miles
and threatened one of
the national’s premier
nuclear laboratories just
last summer.
Another concern is the
8.6 million acres of standing trees killed by beetle
infestations. Restoration
projects from Oregon and
South Dakota to Colorado are aimed at tackling that problem. One
of those, the White River
National Forest collaborative project, is expected
to result in more than
190,000 tons of biomass
through thinning.
Forest officials estimate the cost of fire suppression in some of the
areas targeted for restoration could be reduced
by up to 50 percent
because of the work.
The directive doesn’t
stop at the landscape
level, however. Each
forest in the Southwest
is part of a pilot project that pools regular
watershed and wildlife
program funds for restoration. Regional forester
Corbin Newman said
that amounts to millions
of dollars.
In an era of tight budgets and taxed resources,
forest officials acknowledged that restoration
will be a challenge. They
said part of the solution is setting priorities and forming more
partnerships with states,
municipalities and even
water utilities given the
impacts catastrophic
fires can have on watersheds. Some 66 million
Americans rely on drinking water that flows from
the nation’s forests.
Still, there are millions
of acres — wilderness
and roadless, rugged
areas — where mechanical thinning won’t be an
option. In those areas,
fire will have to take its
natural course.
“Everybody has to
keep in mind that fire
will play a huge significant role in our
landscape for the rest
of time,” Newman said.
“Sometimes people think
through either restoration or suppression we
can just make fires go
away. We have to remind
folks we’re just trying
put fire back into its natural processes and cycles
as opposed to what we’re
seeing in today’s world.”
With more natural
fires, experts contend
the forest has a better
chance of recovering.
Severe fires tend to sterilize the soil, destroy any
banks of seeds stored
in the ground and leave
mountainsides primed
for erosion.
Newman and other
forest officials lamented
that educating people
about the complexity
of restoring forests and
fire’s natural role will
take something more
than Smokey Bear.
Teens face tough job market
teens who don’t attend
four-year colleges, includ10-year-old brother, which ing paid internships for
has been the extent of her high school seniors and
increased post-secondary
work so far, aside from
training in technical
volunteering at concesinstitutes.
sion stands.
“We are truly in a labor
“I feel like sometimes
market
depression for
they don’t want to go
teens,”
he
said. “More
through the training,”
than others, teens are
said Knaggs, who is now
bracing for a heavier debt frequently off the radar
screens of the nation’s
load when she attends
and states’ economic policollege in the fall.
cymakers.”
Economists say teens
Washington, D.C., was
who aren’t getting jobs
are often those who could the jurisdiction most likeuse them the most. Many ly to have teens wanting
summer work but unable
are not moving on to
to get it or working fewer
more education.
hours than desired, with
“I have big concerns
more than three in five
about this generation of
young people,” said Harry in that situation. It was
followed by Arizona, CaliHolzer, labor economist
fornia, Washington state,
and public policy professor at Georgetown Univer- Florida, Tennessee, North
Carolina and Nevada.
sity. He said the income
On the other end of
gap between rich and
the
scale, Wyoming,
poor is exacerbated when
lower-income youths who North Dakota, Oklahoma,
are less likely to enroll in Nebraska, South Dakota
and Kansas had teens
college are unable to get
who were more often able
skills and training.
“For young high school to find work. All those
states have fewer immigraduates or dropouts,
grant workers.
their early work experiThe figures are based
ence is more closely tied
on an analysis of Census
to their success in the
Bureau Current Populalabor market,” he said.
tion Survey data from
Andrew Sum, direcJune to August 2011 by
tor of the Center for
Northeastern’s Center for
Labor Market Studies
Labor Market Studies.
at Northeastern UniThey are supplemented
versity, said better job
with research from Chrispathways are needed for
JOBLESS/From A1
topher L. Smith and Daniel
Aaronson, two Federal
Reserve economists, as
well as interviews with
Labor Department economists and Challenger, Gray
& Christmas, a national job
placement firm.
About 5.1 million,
or just 29.6 percent, of
16-to-19 year olds were
employed last summer.
Adjusted for seasonal factors, the rate dips to 25.7
percent. In 1978, the share
reached a peak of nearly
60 percent before waves
of immigration brought
in new low-skill workers. Teen employment
remained generally above
50 percent until 2001,
dropping sharply to fresh
lows after each of the past
two recessions.
Out of more than 3.5
million underutilized
teens who languished in
the job market last summer, 1.7 million were
unemployed, nearly
700,000 worked fewer
hours than desired and
1.1 million wanted jobs
but had given up looking.
That 3.5 million represented a teen underutilization
rate of 44 percent, up from
roughly 25 percent in 2000.
By race and income,
blacks, Hispanics and
teens in lower-income
families were least likely
to be employed in summer jobs.
Group has other expansion plans
half-dozen similar propSENIOR/From A1
erties around Montana
and more in Washington,
Renewal Plan and the
Wyoming and North
ongoing creation of a
Dakota.
Core Area Revitalization
“Once they’re completPlan that focuses on the
ed and the residents move
city’s railroad corridor.
“One of the city’s objec- in, they kind of become a
community themselves,
tives was to bring some
more dense housing back with lots of good friends
and bridge games and
into the urban core of
Kalispell, and we’re rede- movie nights and birthveloping a site that hasn’t day parties and Bible
been used in quite some
studies and everything
time,” he said. “The prox- else,” Burkhalter said.
imity to the shopping,
A manager would live
dining, entertainment and on site to handle leases
all the other stuff that
and coordinate activities
goes on downtown will be and events for residents.
great for our residents.”
Sparrow Group also
Sparrow Group has a
developed the Spring
Creek Apartments off
Appleway Drive in
Kalispell. Those were
built from 2008 to 2010.
“That’s doing very well.
We’re always occupied
with plenty of folks trying
to get in if someone moves
out. It’s been a great project,” Burkhalter said.
Sparrow Group has
longer-term plans for a
second phase that would
build another 40 units at
Depot Place.
“There’s definitely
space for that, but we
want to make sure the
first one is a success
and well-received first,”
Burkhalter said.
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EDITORIAL BOARD
o Rick Weaver, publisher
o Frank Miele, managing editor
o Scott Crandell, asst. managing editor
o Lynnette Hintze, features editor
o Jim Mann, senior reporter
o Community members:
Mona Charles, Wendy Ostrom-Price,
Don Loranger, Alexander Bokor
OPINION
Roll out red carpet for Molen
The recent decision of a Ronan
school principal to deny Bigfork
resident and Oscar-winning producer
Gerald “Jerry” Molen an opportunity
to speak to graduating seniors sure
raised a fuss, and it should have.
After driving to Ronan to give an
invited speech to the seniors, he was
informed by Principal Tom Stack
that he could not speak because
“some callers” had concerns about
Molen being too right wing.
In a more recent story, Stack said he
made the decision because with previous speakers who were potentially
controversial, the school had informed
parents to give them the opportunity
to choose whether their child should
participate. In this case, he said, there
wasn’t enough time to inform parents.
The problem here is that Stack
didn’t even inquire about the content
Inter Lake editorial
of Molen’s speech.
And an important thing to understand is that Molen is not a onedimensional political figure. There
is much more to his persona, namely
that he has had a prestigious career
in film-making, and prior to that he
served as a U.S. Marine.
The producer of the Academy
Award-winning “Schindler’s List”
and other movies such as the first
two “Jurassic Park” films planned
on giving an apolitical, inspirational
speech, encouraging the students to
imagine making a film about their
lives 40 years from now.
But the decision to ban him wasn’t
based on his speech, but rather on
the concerns of “some callers” or
possibly Stack’s own political views,
which would be even worse.
It’s understandable how some parents would disapprove of speakers
they consider too politically strident,
such as leftist filmmaker Michael
Moore or maybe even Molen, who is
indeed an outspoken conservative.
But are contrary political views
really so scary that speakers must be
banned?
When school administrators bend
to the will of a few without thought
to content or courtesy, as was the
case with Molen, then it is ultimately
the students who miss out.
Stack has moved on to another
school, not as a result of this incident, but Ronan school administrators owe Molen the courtesy of
inviting him back next year with the
red-carpet treatment his accomplishments deserve.
Letters to the
editor
Poverty is key to
education woes
Our eyes are again on
schools, and there is a lot
of talk about their inadequacy. It is important that
some seldom mentioned
facts enter the discussion.
We frequently hear that
that on the international
PISA tests students in the
U.S. in 2009 were 14th in
reading, 21st in science,
and 25th in math. More
than a bit misleading.
In high-scoring countries
like Finland and Singapore
fewer than 10 percent of the
students live in poverty. In
our country 22 percent of
all children and 25 percent
of young children live in
poverty. If, in our country,
you count only the scores of
school districts where the
poverty level is 10 percent
or less, our students are
first in the world in reading and are pushing the
top in science and math.
Consistently, across the top
14 wealthy nations (including the U.S.) the scores of
the poorest 5 percent of the
students are half of those of
their wealthy peers.
The problem does not
lie in the quality of our
schools.
Our income gap grows
(the greatest since the early
1930s) and will continue to
grow, and the safety net
for the poor continues to
shrink. Test scores fall in
tandem with the increase
in poverty.
There are things that
shouldn’t be done — for
instance, charter schools
and vouchers punish
under-resourced schools
and students. Misleading
data encourage erroneous
ideas like funding and class
size don’t matter.
The lesson is simple.
Unless we reduce poverty and invest more in all
schools and particularly
in schools which serve
the poor, our national test
score gap will continue to
increase. —Robert O’Neil,
Kalispell
Affordable Care
Act better than
no plan at all
How many people who
bash the Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Act
actually know what the Act
provides for them now and
in the future?
The following information comes from the Montana Small Business Alliance.
The Affordable Care
Act ends discrimination
and expands coverage;
it improves options and
bargaining power. There
are protections now, such
as: an insurance company
cannot drop you if you
get sick; there is an end
of lifetime limits; there is
free preventive care for
new plans and a process for
Thursday, June 14, 2012
appeals.
Coming in 2014, there will
be no denials of coverage for
pre-existing conditions, no
extra charge because of health
status or gender, no annual
limits, and there will be
health insurance marketplaces (exchanges) for individuals
and small businesses.
Small businesses get a
tax break NOW of up to 35
percent of premiums for its
worker, soon to be 50 percent
in 2014.
Kids benefit now because
there can be no pre-existing
exclusions for kids under 19.
Young adults stay on their
parent’s insurance to age 26.
There are also benefits for
seniors now and in 2014 and
for Rural America.
Medical loss ratio (MLR) is
the percentage of premium
revenues spent on medical
expenses versus profit, salaries administration, etc. PPACA mandates 80 percent MLR
in small group and individual
markets, 85 percent in large
groups. Insurers who fail to
meet MLR will owe rebates to
customers.
There have been at least
three stories of late in the
Daily Inter Lake about individuals and families with
small children who are facing
medical crises and have NO
insurance. There have been
fundraisers and spaghetti dinners to help out. Is this really
the best our country can do
regarding health insurance?
This is not a perfect plan,
but it is better than no plan at
all. If the PPACA is repealed
will visits to the emergency
rooms of hospitals increase,
while the hospitals pass the
costs to those of us who do
have insurance? —Margie
Gignac, Kalispell
Is history about
to repeat itself?
Two peculiar events
occurred in early May. Vladimir Putin, the president of
Russia, snubbed our president with a cancelation of a
planned meeting at the White
House, while China got into
a serious shoving match with
the Philippine government
over territory and resources.
This is not coincidental.
It is the exact repetition of
what Japan did prior to World
War II with its alignment
with Germany. Gen. MacArthur and our military were
quickly forced off the Philippines until World War II officially began months later.
All wars start long before a
bullet is shot, and most wars
have to do with economic
aggrandizement. We are facing that situation now. Weakness is seen by these two
traditional communist allies,
and it is unlikely that this is
a coincidence. They are testing the water. Can Obama
handle serious military
problems, or is he another
deluded Neville Chamberlain who waved a document
from Hitler at the the British
people for dramatic effect
and declared he had achieved
“peace in our time”?
Talk about a repeat of history, this is amazing. As philosopher Santayana stated,
“Those who forget history are
doomed to repeat it.” —Mike
Donohue, Kalispell
Power struggle in
China could have
widespread impact
The events that have been
unfolding in China over the
past several months have
shaken the CCP to its very
core. After Wang Lijun, the
former chief of the Public
Security Bureau in Chongqing, traveled to the U.S. Consulate in the city of Chengdu
on Feb. 6, there has been a
domino effect of struggles for
power and allegiance that
threaten the very fabric of the
communist regime. Also more
recently, blind human rights
lawyer Chen Guangchen seeking protection in the U.S. Consulate.
I think the fact that there
has even been discussion of
an internal fight going on —
a potential coup — makes it
clear that this regime is a
lot more unstable than most
Americans, particularly
American businessman and
politicians, are aware of, and
this is a risk that the U.S.
needs to be aware of. The con-
sequences of what is unfolding in China will affect the
world over.
Due to the serious,
unprecedented and complex
changes occurring within
China’s communist regime,
I read about these issues on
The Epoch Times website
(www.theepochtimes.com),
an independent worldwide
voice who upholds universal human values, rights,
and freedoms. They seem
to have great coverage on
China topics. To understand
the power struggle going on,
only the Chinese people can
more accurately translate the
actions of other Chinese people. —Katherine Combes,
Kalispell
Recommended
reading ...
For those Americans among
us that are seemingly so
eagerly embracing Obama and
his vision of the new socialist America — patterned of
course after the teachings of
Karl Marx, please have your
library get “The Bridge at
Andau” out of their archives
for you. Then read it cover to
cover.
I assure you, you’ll learn
something about this subject. And then you can tell
others — it might have a
saving effect on our country, and help stop Obama’s
quest for this “change” he’s
hell bent for, and foisting on
us, and — by the way — has
had up his sleeve for us all
along, even before November
2008 and his rabble-rousing
Chicago days! —Will Elliott,
Polson
Take down those
old yard-sale signs
I wish that people would
please, please take down
their old yard sale signs from
the post they put them on. It
is very confusing when you
are looking for a curent yard
sale. Every avid person who
yard sales, would appreciate this. Thank you for your
kindness. —Sheryl Mower,
Kalispell
Pertussis frenzy:
Common sense
out the door?
By ANNIE BUKACEK
Articles about the pertussis pandemic were hitting the newspapers
daily for a while this spring. County
Health Department employees were
working overtime making calls to
potential pertussis
recommendGuest contacts,
ing antibiotics, vacOpinion cinations, and doctor’s
visits.
Schools and hospitals were jumping on the bandwagon,
encouraging children to stay home
from school, pushing antibiotics and
vaccinations including for healthy
mothers with newborn infants. Some
schools required that all their teachers take preventive antibiotics. Medical clinics were inundated with frantic requests for antibiotics and vaccinations against pertussis. The clinics
were overflowing with patients worried about exposure and symptoms.
This frenzy is unwarranted.
The symptoms of pertussis can be
prolonged if not treated within the
first two weeks. That is a concern.
So is the fact that pertussis is highly
contagious. However, pertussis has a
low mortality rate and is easy to treat
with reasonably priced antibiotics.
And, based on Flathead City-Council
Health Department health statistics
updated May 15, the pertussis vaccine
doesn’t work. About 84 percent of
those documented cases of pertussis
were patients fully vaccinated against
it. It makes no sense to push the vaccines when they don’t work.
This is reminiscent of the H1N1
frenzy and the push for H1N1 vaccines in the recent past. Most of the
U.S. population didn’t buy into it,
and we managed to survive without
it. Then H1N1 was included in that
year’s influenza vaccines, based on
the World Health Organization’s
(branch of the U.N. determining what
goes into our vaccines) recommendations. You couldn’t obtain flu vaccines without H1N1 after that frenzy.
The evidence for benefit of flu vaccinations is outdated and quite possibly
irrelevant due to influenza viruses’
gazillion mutations since the time flu
vaccines were shown to be beneficial.
There is no clear benefit to patients
for vaccines and preventive antibiotics for pertussis, and vaccines and
antibiotics carry potential risks… So,
who benefits from the multiple mandated vaccines and the huge number
of prescriptions written for vaccinations and antibiotics?
Mainly the billion-dollar pharmaceutical companies who manufacture
the vaccines. Also the pharmacies
and medical clinics that provide the
prescriptions, vaccines and clinic visits. Don’t forget the congressmen and
women who get campaign funds from
related special-interest groups. The
burgeoning government bureaucracy
benefits, too, as we have to put more
workers on the government dole to
call parents with children exposed.
Our government and the U.N. get to
cast themselves as saviors to a frightened public. We become more subservient and dependent as we become
frightened.
My recommendation: If you have
classic pertussis symptoms, get treatment. If you have nonspecific symptoms potentially related to pertussis
and lasting more than a week, get
tested for pertussis. Watch exposed
infants and the elderly carefully as
they may have atypical symptoms
that can become severe. Don’t take
vaccines like pertussis that, based
on the health department’s own data,
don’t work. Eat right and stay fit.
Healthy health-care workers and
teachers, exposed to contagious diseases daily, rarely get sick because of
their finely tuned immune systems.
Reintroduce rational thinking, common sense, and watch for other manifestations of the scam.
Bukacek is a Kalispell physician.
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n Page A5
NATION
Roundup
Survivor of
shooting spree
wins House seat
becomes the first member
of the Scouts’ Executive
Board known to publicly
disapprove of the policy.
“I support the meaningful work of the Boy
Scouts in preparing
PHOENIX — Ron
young people for advenBarber, who almost lost
ture, leadership, learning
his life in the Arizona
and service, however the
shooting rampage that
membership policy is not
wounded former Rep.
one I would personally
Gabrielle Giffords, won a
endorse,” Turley said in a
special election to succeed
statement released by his
her, giving Democrats a
company.
psychological boost after
“As I have done in
last week’s failed effort to
leading Ernst & Young
recall Wisconsin’s Repubto being a most inclusive
lican governor.
organization, I intend to
Appearing with Gifcontinue to work from
fords at a Tucson hotel
within the BSA Board
after his victory Tuesday
to actively encourage
night, Barber told supdialogue and sustainable
porters, “Life takes unexprogress,” Turley said.
pected turns and here
The Boy Scouts
we are, thanks to you.”
responded Wednesday
Giffords hugged him and
with a joint statement
kissed his forehead.
from the two top leaders,
Barber defeated RepubNational President Wayne
lican Jesse Kelly, who
Perry and Chief Scout
narrowly lost to Giffords
Executive Robert Mazin 2010 in a competitive
zuca.
district that Republicans
“The Boy Scouts of
have won in the last two
America respects the
presidential elections. Gifopinions of our board
fords has made few public
members and are thankappearances since resignful for their leadership,”
ing in January to focus
the statement said.
on her recovery, but she
“While we have supportdashed back to Tucson
ers and board members
during the campaign’s
with different viewpoints
final days to help her foron this issue, and who
mer district director.
may choose a different
Democratic officials
direction for their orgawere quick to argue that
nizations, we believe that
the victory sets the stage
good people can personfor them to win back conally disagree on this topic
trol of the House.
and still work together.”
Police look
Pentagon chief
for surgeon in orders review
woman’s death of diagnoses
BUFFALO, N.Y. —
Police in Buffalo, N.Y.,
say a trauma surgeon
is a “person of interest”
in a fatal shooting at a
hospital and warn the former Army Special Forces
weapons expert may be
armed and dangerous.
The early morning shooting death of
a 33-year-old woman
Wednesday locked down
the Erie County Medical Center complex for
more than four hours.
The woman was shot four
times in the stairwell
of one of the hospital’s
buildings.
Later Wednesday, police
blocked the road leading
to Dr. Timothy Jorden’s
home in an isolated area
of private Lake View
homes near the Lake Erie
shore.
SWAT team members
in camouflage arrived
in unmarked SUVs. A
helicopter flew over the
house then left.
Police have not yet
identified the victim.
Member of
Scouts’ board
opposes gay ban
NEW YORK — A highprofile member of the
Boy Scouts of America’s
governing board says
he doesn’t support the
Scouts’ policy of excluding gays and will work
from within to seek a
change.
Ernst & Young CEO
James Turley, whose
accounting firm has welcomed gays and lesbians
in its own work force,
WASHINGTON —
Defense Secretary Leon
Panetta said Wednesday
he has ordered all branches of the military to conduct an extensive review
of mental health diagnoses amid criticism of how
the services treat the men
and women suffering the
invisible wounds of the
long wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Under questioning
from a Senate panel on
Wednesday, Panetta
disclosed that he had
asked the Air Force and
Navy, which includes the
Marine Corps, to follow
the lead of the Army in
launching an independent
study of how it evaluates
soldiers with possible
post-traumatic stress disorder.
Panetta’s answer
marked the first time that
the Pentagon chief had
said publicly that he had
requested the review by
all the services.
The Army review was
prompted in part by
reports that the forensic
psychiatry unit at Madigan Army Medical Center
at Joint Base LewisMcChord in Washington
state may have reversed
PTSD diagnoses based on
the expense of providing
care and benefits to members of the military. In
recent years, the number
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
They live on your skin, up
your nose, in your gut —
enough bacteria, fungi and
other microbes that collected together could weigh,
amazingly, a few pounds.
Now scientists have
mapped just which critters normally live in or
on us and where, calculating that healthy people
can share their bodies
with more than 10,000
species of microbes.
Don’t say “eeew” just
yet. Many of these organisms work to keep humans
healthy, and results
reported Wednesday from
the government’s Human
Microbiome Project define
what’s normal in this mysterious netherworld.
One surprise: It turns
out that nearly everybody harbors low levels
of some harmful types of
bacteria, pathogens that
are known for causing
specific infections. But
when a person is healthy
— like the 242 U.S. adults
who volunteered to be
tested for the project —
those bugs simply quietly
coexist with benign or
helpful microbes, perhaps
kept in check by them.
The next step is to
explore what doctors really want to know: Why do
the bad bugs harm some
people and not others?
What changes a person’s
microbial zoo that puts
them at risk for diseases
ranging from infections to
irritable bowel syndrome
to psoriasis?
Already the findings
are reshaping scientists’
views of how people stay
healthy, or not.
“This is a whole new
way of looking at human
biology and human disease, and it’s awe-inspiring,” said Dr. Phillip Tarr
of Washington University at St. Louis, one of
the lead researchers in
the $173 million project,
funded by the National
Institutes of Health.
“These bacteria are
not passengers,” Tarr
stressed. “They are metabolically active. As a community, we now have to
reckon with them like we
have to reckon with the
ecosystem in a forest or a
body of water.”
And like environmental
ecosystems, your microbial makeup varies widely
by body part. Your skin
could be like a rainforest,
your intestines teeming
with different species like
an ocean.
Scientists have long
known that the human
body coexists with trillions
of individual germs, what
they call the microbiome.
Until now, they’ve mostly
studied those that cause
disease: You may recall
health officials saying
about a third of the population carries Staphylococcus aureus harmlessly in
their noses or on their
skin but can infect others.
But no one knew all the
types of microbes that
live in healthy people or
where, and what they do.
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
Water spilling test resumes at Libby Dam
By JIM MANN
The Daily Inter Lake
Libby Dam has been
releasing water over its
spillway this week to test
possible benefits to white
sturgeon spawning in the
Kootenai River near Bonners Ferry, Idaho.
The “spill test” actually started on June 4,
but releases from Libby
Dam had to be substantially curtailed because
last week’s heavy rains
caused the Kootenai River to swiftly rise to flood
stage at Bonners Ferry.
The spill test resumed
Sunday with Libby Dam
releasing water at powerhouse capacity of 26,000
cubic feet per second,
plus up to 10,000 cfs over
the dam’s spillway. That
operation was expected
to continue through Saturday.
After that, up to 2,000
cfs may be spilled to
maintain enough storage
space behind Libby Dam
because the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers is
expecting a significant
runoff from an above-average mountain snowpack
above the Kootenai Basin.
This is the second year
for a spill test on the Koo-
tenai River, with multiple
agencies trying to determine if the maximum
flows have any influence
in improving white sturgeon spawning success.
The hope is that higher
flows will encourage
adult sturgeon to swim
into optimum spawning
habitat in a stretch of
river called the “braided
reach” upstream from
Bonners Ferry.
Spill operations are
called for in a 2006 U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service
Biological Opinion for
white sturgeon, which
are protected as an
endangered species.
In addition to tracking
the movements of sturgeon tagged with radio
transmitters near Bonners Ferry, agencies are
monitoring the impacts
of spill operations on
bull trout and other fish
in the river just below
Libby Dam. Spill raises
dissolved gas levels in the
river, with the potential
to cause gas-bubble trauma in fish.
In other dam-related
news, load limits on
the Bonneville Power
Administrations power
grid played a part in
reducing generation at
Libby and Hungry Horse
dams between June 7-9.
Water releases had to be
reduced to cut 20 megawatts of generation at
each dam because power
loads in the Flathead Valley dropped off and the
amount of power that
needed to be transmitted
from the dams exceeded
limits on transmission
lines.
“Unless have a place
to put the power, you
can’t generate without
overloading the system,”
said Joel Fenolio, a
spokesman with Corps
of Engineers in Seattle.
“There wasn’t enough
load in the Flathead Val-
ley to accommodate both
Hungry Horse and Libby
generation.”
Fenolio said he expects
emergency generation
reductions to become
more common because
of additional wind power
generation that is connected to the BPA grid,
mostly from sources in
Washington.
“When they generate
with wind, they will have
to cut back on hydro generation,” he said.
Reporter Jim Mann may
be reached at 758-4407 or
by email at jmann@dailyinterlake.com.
Olney man gets
three-year sentence
In exchange for pleading guilty to the two
charges, further felony
A 43-year-old Olney
charges of burglary and
man was sentenced June
kidnapping were dropped.
7 in Flathead District
According to Boyd’s attorCourt to three years in
ney, Sean Hinchey, it
jail and two years of pro- was determined that the
bation.
kidnapping charge was
Steven Boyd previously unfounded.
had pleaded guilty to felBoyd was sentenced to
ony criminal possession
three years in jail and
of dangerous drugs and
two years suspended on
misdemeanor partner or
the drug charge and a
family member assault.
concurrent six months
The charges came after in the Flathead County
he sneaked into a Patrick Detention Center for the
Creek Road home and
assault charge.
surprised a woman and
A prior three-year
her boyfriend, who were
sentence for a 2008
in bed.
felony conviction for
Boyd took the woman’s issuing a bad check was
cellphone and the cord for reinstated, to run conthe landline so she could
current with his new
not call law enforcesentences.
ment and convinced her
He also was ordered to
to leave with him. They
pay a $1,250 fine, an $800
eventually were stopped
public defender fee, a
by law officers down the
$235 surcharge and a $100
road.
prosecution fee.
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Book fans
Ashley Palmer, left, and her mother, Tamara Sax, both of Columbia Falls, were the first in line to check
out books at the new Grab ‘n’ Go collection at the Flathead County Library in Kalispell on Wednesday
morning. The collection allows readers to get the newest bestsellers while bypassing waiting lists. The
books may be checked out for two weeks and cannot be renewed.
Delays expected on Forest Service roads
Drivers should expect
delays on a few Flathead National Forest
roads due to either road
work or logging operations, according to a
news release from the
forest.
Currently, drivers
should expect up to onehour delays Monday
through Friday from
3 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the
Upper Dayton Creek Road
due to logging activity.
The daily delays should
last approximately a
week and a half. Forest Road 2990 begins at
milepost 9.65 milepost
on Radar Road, the main
road to the Blacktail
Mountain Ski Resort.
The work area begins at
milepost 2.80 and ends at
milepost 4.42.
Beginning around the
first week of July, this
section of Upper Dayton
Creek Road is expected to
be closed entirely from 3
a.m. to 4 p.m. for approximately four weeks. There
will be no delays or closures on Saturdays, Sundays, or holidays.
On Thursday, June 21,
Tally Lake Road will be
closed at mile post 11.23
for road maintenance.
The one-day closure is
located 2.3 miles north of
Tally Lake Campground
and one mile south of
Star Meadow Road No.
539.
On that day, access to
the Tally Lake Campground will be from the
south using Farm-ToMarket Road.
On Friday, June 22,
drivers using Good Creek
Road can expect delays
of up to one hour due to
road maintenance work
near milepost 9. This is
expected to be a one-day
project.
All scheduled work is
weather dependent and
could change. Anyone
with information about
other road damage or any
unsafe conditions on the
Flathead National Forest
is asked to contact a local
Forest Service office.
For updated information on temporary
road restrictions, campgrounds, and spring
access on the Flathead
National Forest, contact
individual ranger district
offices.
Group inaugurates
state food cooperative
A new group of Montana farmers and food
producers has launched
plans to start a Montana
Food Cooperative.
The focus will be on
bringing together consumers and producers
to create easy access
to local, nutritious and
affordable food while promoting a sustainable agricultural community.
A steering committee
was formed last spring
during a meeting facilitated by Karl Sutton,
program manager at the
Mission Mountain Food
Enterprise and Co-op
Development Center in
Ronan. The committee
researched other co-ops
in Idaho, Oklahoma and
Madison, Wis.
Membership has been
set at $20 for consumers.
The projected service
area is Western Montana,
from Eureka to Hamilton.
By working with other
producers, co-ops, businesses and farm-to-table
organizations, the plan is
to extend service to the
majority of the state in
the near future.
Public presentations
are being planned over
the next two months in
Kalispell and/or Whitefish, Missoula, Arlee or
St. Ignatius, Bigfork, Hot
Springs, Thompson Falls
and Plains.
Representatives also
will have a table at the
Salish Point Blues Festival
in Polson on July 3 and 4.
People interested in
joining the co-op either
as producers or consumers may contact Jason
Moore at 469-628-1396 or
Lake County Community
Development Corporation, 407 Main St. S.W.,
Ronan, MT 59864; or call
406-676-5901.
For more information,
visit www.montanacoop.
com
Kalispell has plenty of commercial land available
By TOM LOTSHAW
The Daily Inter Lake
A land inventory and
study of construction
activity over the last six
years suggests Kalispell
has a significant inventory of available commercial land, Planning Director Tom Jentz told Planning Board members at a
work session Tuesday.
The brief study was
undertaken as part of a
comprehensive review of
Kalispell’s growth policy
being done this year.
“We have a fair supply
[of commercial land] out
there, just like residential
land,” Jentz said.
That supply includes
nine existing commercial
lots split among Hutton
Ranch, Dailey Field and
Gateway West.
It also includes 69
preliminary platted lots
split among Glacier Town
Center, Spring Prairie,
Silverbrook and Starling,
and 402 acres of approved
planned unit developments split among those
sites and Siderius Commons and Gardner’s.
“We’re actually a little
short on lots today, but
that could be remedied
pretty darn quick,” Jentz
said.
Those totals do not
include the “core area”
along Kalispell’s railroad
corridor or other parts of
the city being targeted for
redevelopment.
A similar study found
Kalispell has significant amounts of vacant
residential land. That
residential inventory
includes 892 final platted
lots, 1,343 preliminary
platted lots and another
5,304 lots of approved
planned unit developments.
The commercial development review found
Kalispell had:
n 367,777 square feet of
development on 14 lots
in 2006. Projects included
the Hilton Garden Inn,
Holiday Inn Express, a
Red Lion expansion and
Signature Theatres.
n 196,598 square feet of
development on 16 lots
in 2007. Projects included
Sportsman and Ski Haus,
Eisinger Motors, Universal Athletics and Famous
Dave’s.
n 10,750 square feet of
development on three lots
in 2008. Projects included
Sizzler.
n 201,725 square feet of
development on three lots
in 2009. Projects included
Walmart and Montana
Club.
n 10,717 square feet of
development on three lots
in 2010. Projects included
retail spots in Hutton
Ranch Plaza.
n And 33,334 square
feet of development on
six lots in 2011. Projects included AutoZone,
Applebee’s and Sykes’.
Existing commercial
lots could accommodate
about one year of construction activity based
on averages from the
large swings over the last
six years, while preliminary platted lots could
last up to nine years and
planned unit development
approved acreage could
last as long as 27 years.
Those projections could
change quickly with a
large development or a
lack of activity.
“The bottom line is we
do have a fair amount
of space today for retail
development or rede-
velopment,” Jentz said.
He added that he hopes
to expand the review to
include prior years.
Exactly how long
Kalispell’s commercial
land inventory lasts will
depend on many variables. Chief among those
are any given property’s
suitability for a particular project.
But another primary
consideration is the
struggling national economy. “We will take off six
months after the national
economy takes off,” Jentz
predicted. He added that
many people continue to
want to come to Kalispell
but can’t while they’re
underwater in a mortgage
somewhere else.
Another factor would
be Flathead County’s
willingness to change its
policies and encourage
commercial development
in its full-service communities such as Kalispell,
Whitefish and Columbia
Falls.
That’s opposed to current development trends
of linear strip development along rural highways between those cities, Jentz said.
“As long as we have
that kind of policy, the
ability of Kalispell to
attract retail is going to
be diminished,” Jentz
said. “But in the long
run, as Kalispell grows,
the quality development
will be focused here. We
have water and sewer
and the services that the
real players need, in a
place where people will
come.”
Reporter Tom Lotshaw
may be reached at 758-4483
or by email at tlotshaw@dailyinterlake.com.
The Daily inTer lake
Thursday, June 14, 2012
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RECORDS
Deaths
Windows shot in several Kalispell locales
Windowswerereported
shotwithBBorsimilar
stylegunsatseverallocaElmerOlenMartin,72, onedaughter,Deanna
tions, Kalispell Police
Pacovsky.
diedWednesday,June
reported.SeveralbusiPrivatefamilyservices nessesalongNorthMerid13,2012,athishomein
willbeheld.
Kalispell.
ianRoadandahomeon
BuffaloHillFuneral
Elmerissurvivedby
WestCaliforniaStreet
HomeandCrematoryin werediscoveredtohave
hiswife,MarieMartin;
threesons,Daniel,David Kalispelliscaringfor
pelletorBBholesinthe
thefamily.
andDennisMartin;and
windows,andaSecond
StreetEastresidentsaid
thewindowsonhishouse
Betty Lou Peltier, 76
wereshotaswell.
ofAnchorPoint,Alaska.
BettyLouPeltier,76,
Agroupoffourboys
AFuneralMasswillbe werescaredoffwhiletrydiedMonday,June11,
at11a.m.Saturday,June ingtostealpalletsand
2012,atherhomein
16,atOurLadyofMercy constructionmaterials
Eureka.
CatholicChurch.
Survivorsincludeher
fromaconstructionsite
Arrangementsare
husband,Jim,ofEureka;
onHilltopAvenue.
underthedirectionof
andchildren,Wendy
ASixthAvenueWest
Schnackenberg&NelEaton,WadePeltierand
Northwomanreported
sonFuneralHomein
MarcyGoheen,allof
someonehadbeentearEureka,andMikePeltier Eureka.
ingupheryardwitha
vehicleforthelastcouple
ofdays.
Agirlwasapprehended
tryingtoshopliftfroma
storeonU.S.93South.
Shewasreleastedtoher
Glen Arnold Forman Jr., 58
father.
Elmer Olen Martin, 72
Obituaries
Glen
ArnoldFormanJr.,58,
passedaway
onthemorningofJune4,
2012,atGardenManorin
Brookville,
Ohio,dueto
complicationsfromafallin
Februarythatbrokehisneck
andlefthimquadriplegic.
GlenwasbornFeb.26,
1954,inMiddletown,Ohio.
Althoughspendingmostof
hislifeinOhio,helived20
yearsinColumbiaFalls,
lovingthebeautyofthevalleyandcallingthishistrue
home.
Hehadaheartthatwas
golden,wouldgiveyouthe
shirtoffhisback,lovedand
waslovedwell.Hewillbe
missedbyallofuswhoreallyknewhim.
Glenwasprecededin
deathbyhisfather,GlenA.
FormanSr.
Heissurvivedbyhis
mother,ElvaForman,of
ColumbiaFalls;andthree
children,ShawnFormanand
Jenny,andgranddaughters
JasmineandKylieofFranklin,Ohio;NikkiForman
andgranddaughterTaylor
ofFranklin;andAshley
Mulooenixandgrandchildren,HaydenandLaylaof
Bremerton,Wash.
Hehasfivebrothers,
DeWayneandKimofRabbit
Hash,Ky.,JimandSherryof
Walton,Ky.,KenofTrenton,
Ohio,RonofKalispell,and
BenandJoelleofColumbia
Falls;threesisters,Karen
WaytauskyandJohnof
Grove,Okla.,PamLakesand
AlanofRichmond,Ky.,and
DebbieFormanKellerand
PeterofCreston;andmany
nieces,nephews,cousinsand
friends.
Untiltheend,hedreamed
ofreturningtohisMontana
homewherehelefthisheart.
ThatdreamwillbecomerealizedwhenhissonShawn
bringshisasheshomein
July.Amemorialservicewas
heldatFirstBaptistChurch
inFranklinontheeveof
June7.
Lois Van Landingham Gray, 97
Idaho.
Shewillbemissedgreatly
byherfamilyandthosewho
knewher.
Shewasprecededindeath
byherhusband,OwenCobbley,(1960);herhusband,
LeonardLopp(1969);and
herhusband,theRev.Harry
Gray(1985);aswellasher
fatherWilliamJesseEdward
VanLandingham,mother
AnnaElizabethSuttonVan
Landingham;andherthree
brothers,GlenVanLandingham,LynnVanLandingham
andIvanVanLandingham.
Sheissurvivedbyher
son,ScottCobbley,andwife,
Donna,ofKalispell;her
granddaughter,PatiBrandt,
andhusband,ChuckDupont,
andtheirdaughters,Tabea
andCharli,ofDenver;and
hergranddaughter,VanessaMcCourt,andhusband,
MichaelMcCourt,andtheir
son,Owen,ofSt.Petersburg,
Fla.;aswellasmanynieces,
nephews,grandniecesand
-nephews.
Noservicesareplannedat
thistime.
Johnson-GloschatFuneral
HomeiscaringforLois’family.Youareinvitedtogoto
www.jgfuneralhome.comto
offercondolencesandsign
Lois’guestbook.
Kim M. Marquardt, 57
KimM.Marquardt,57,
passedawaypeacefullyat
herhomeonJune8,2012.
AmemberoftheConfederatedSalishandKootenai
Tribes,shewasbornin
St.IgnatiustoDonaldand
Juanita(Bisson)Marquardt
onMay25,1955.Thefamily
livedlocallybeforemovingto
WestYellowstone.
AftergraduationshemarriedLarryJohnsonandthey
movedtoReno,Nev.;however,aswithmanythingsin
life,thingsdidnotworkout
andtheypartedfriends.She
thenreturnedtothereservation,eventuallysettlingin
Pablo.
KimworkedforForestry
andwaslearningandstudyingtheuseofnativeplants.
Shealsoenjoyedbirdsand
birdwatching.Agoodaunt,
sheenjoyedbeingaroundher
niecesandkids,andwhenshe
wasyoungersheenjoyedfishingwithherbrotherTeddy.
Shewasprecededindeath
byherparents;herbrother,
TedMarquardt;brother,Don
Collins;sister,CindyCollins;
andaniece,Roslynn.
Sheleavesbehindhersisters,JenniferandRichard
EvansofTroy,andDebra
MercurioofDayton;several
niecesandnephews;aswell
asgrandniecesand-nephews.
Memorialserviceswillbe
heldat3p.m.onSundayin
theLonghouseinSt.Ignatius.
Condolencesmaybeleftat
fosterfhandcrematory.com
willbeperformedatthe
MontanaStateCrimeLab.
TheFlathead County
Sheriff’s Office received
areportofseveralyouths
onthestageatSliterPark
inBigforkplayingdrums
andelectricguitar.The
personsaidtheywerenot
playingmusic,just“going
crazywithnoise.”
AMapleDriveresident
reportedsomeonetriedto
breakthroughtheirfront
doorwhiletheywere
home.
Apersonwasseendrivingamotorcycleapproximately60milesperhour
downEighthAvenue
West.
Adogwasshoton
TheColumbia Falls
ScotchPineLanein
Police Department
ColumbiaFalls.
receivedareportoftheft
Apairofgoatswere
onSixthStreetWest.
In Court
Flathead Co. District Court days suspended.
Casey L. Forester-Hess,
Judge Ted O. Lympus
obstructing a peace officer;
Casey McCormick, felony $300, 30 days, 28 days suspended.
DUI, pleaded guilty; 13
William R. Thompson,
months WATCH Program,
operating with a blood alcofollowed by two years sushol content of .08 percent or
pended.
greater, first offense; $835,
Joshua Allen Rosalez,
10 days, nine days suspendpleaded guilty to felony
charges of robbery, 10 years, ed, ACT classes.
Kyle Stephen Ray, DUI,
five years suspended; crimifirst offense, $835, 30 days,
nal possession with intent
29 days suspended, ACT
to distribute, five years suspended, concurrent, $2,000. classes; no insurance, first
Scott Harold Stubbert, fel- offense, $325.
Jeannie L. Shattuck, theft,
ony criminal endangerment;
first offense; $400, 30 day
three years suspended.
suspended.
Donny M. Kaiser, assault;
Kalispell Municipal Court
$550.
Judge Heidi Ulbricht
Sabrina L. Gustafson,
Jessica Marie Hewitt-Horn- theft, first offense; $400.
Erik McQueen, eluding
er, DUI, first offense, $855,
30 days, 29 days suspended, a peace officer, 180 days
suspended; aggravated DUI,
ACT classes; reckless driv365 days, 275 days susing, first offense, $325.
Jesse Lee Bradley, disor- pended, ACT classes; resistderly conduct, $215, 10 days ing arrest, 180 days sussuspended; operating with a pended; criminal contempt,
three days.
blood alcohol content of .08
Nicholas A. Lofgren, crimipercent or greater, $825, 10
days, nine days suspended, nal mischief; $410, 30 days
suspended.
ACT classes.
Andrew D. Meador, crimiTimothy J. Lee, driving
while suspended, $320, two nal mischief, $335.
James I. Ekvall, driving
days; no insurance, second
while suspended, $175, two
offense $405.
Eugene C. Sykes Jr., oper- days; no insurance, first
ating with a blood alcohol of offense, $325.
Debra M. Burke, theft;
.08 percent or greater, first
offense; $775, 10 days, nine $410, 30 days suspended.
Richard James Peterson,
habitual offender, $1,030,
180 days, 166 days suspended; driving while suspended, $325, two days;
no insurance, third or subsequent offense, $555, 60
days, 50 days suspended.
Norma Jo Rhodes-Zell,
operating with a blood alcohol content of .08 percent or
greater, first offense; $775,
30 days, 29 days suspended,
ACT classes.
Charles Oostra, possession of drug paraphernalia;
$100, 30 days, 26 days suspended.
Amanda Kay Barbe, theft,
first offense; $410, 30 days
suspended.
Paul R. Chambers, unlawful transactions with children,
first offense; $350, 30 days
suspended.
Brian E. Hay, theft, first
offense; $410, 30 days suspended.
Stephani M. Konopatzke,
theft, third or subsequent
offense, 60 days, 30 days
suspended; driving while
suspended, two days; driving
while suspended, two days;
theft, first offense, 30 days
suspended; misdemeanor
forgery, 30 days suspended;
trespassing, 30 days suspended; possession of dangerous drugs, first offense,
30 days suspended; theft,
first offense, 60 days, 30
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Thefive-acretownsite
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HotSpringshasbeenon
themarketfor$1.4millionforseveralmonths
withoutabuyer.
OwnerBarbaraWalker
decidedtogowithanauctionbecauseshewants
tofocusonherphotographycareer.Shesays
sheplanstosetareserve
pricebelowwhichshe
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Prayismadeupofa
closedhistoricstore,a
postoffice,afewmobile
homesandalargecommercialandresidential
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Obituaries
William R. ‘Bill’ Doyle, 79
William
R.“Bill”
Doyle,79,
ofKalispell,
passedaway
onMonday,
June11,2012,atKalispell
RegionalMedicalCenter.
BillwasbornNov.9,1932,
inBristol,Conn.
Heenteredmilitaryservicein1950,servinginthe
U.S.Armywiththe504th
AirborneInfantryRegiment,
82ndAirborneDivision,and
spentthreeyearsjumping
outofperfectlygoodairplanes.
Billwasapainterbytrade
andamasterpaperhanger
bychoice,firstasaunion
painterinConnecticut,then
TheInterLakepublish- intheobituariescolumn, asownerofhisownpainting
esbothfreedeathnotices however,thissimplerule businessinSeattle.
mustbefollowed:The
andpaidobituarieson
AfterretiringinMontana
thispage.Thedailydead- obituaryisintendedto
in2001,heenjoyedspending
timewithhislocalfamily
lineis4p.m.Call758-4440 tellaboutthelifeand
formoreinformation.On deathofalovedone,and andworkinginhisgarden.
shouldnotcontainextra- Stampandcoincollecting
weekends,call758-4430.
weretwoofhisfavorite
neousorfancifulmateDeathnoticesarebrief
activitiesandhewouldtalk
newsstoriestoannounce rialorpoetry.Obituaries forhoursaboutaspecialfind
willbeeditedforclarity, orpurchase(oftenrailing
thedeathofalocalpersonorapersonwithlocal accuracyandmattersof
aboutothers’perceptionsof
survivors.Paidobituaries taste.Wedonotpublish
thevalueofacertainitem)!
linkstoonlineobituaries,
areprovidedasalowFailinghealthbeganto
butwillallowreferences slowhimdown,butannual
costalternativetoour
visitsfromhischildrenand
readerswhowantamore toonlineguestbooksor
grandchildrenandspendpersonaltouch.Toappear condolences.
How to place an obituary
Medicationwasstolen
fromthegloveboxofa
vehicleonEastCenter
Street.
Abicyclewasstolenon
BoiseAvenue.
Apairofsunglasses
werestolenfromWest
IdahoStreet.
Intragicnews,a
2-month-oldbabydied
atahomeonSeventh
AvenueWest.Police
officersrespondedalong
withpersonnelfromthe
KalispellFireDepartmentafterreceivinga
reportofanunresponsive
infant.Thechild’smother
hadbegunresuscitation
efforts,whichfiredepartmentparamedicstook
overuponarrival,butthe
effortswereunsuccessful
andtheinfantwaspronounceddead.Anautopsy
stolenfromandlater
returnedtoaHungry
HorsehomeonSecond
AvenueSouth.
Someoneranoverand
brokeallthesolarlights
infrontofahomeonHelenaFlatsRoadandalso
knockedovertrashcans.
Ayouthkeepspushing
afencedownonLarch
LaneinColumbiaFalls.
Bankingrecordswere
stolenfromahomeon
LaumanRoad.
ASocialSecuritycheck
wasstolenfromamailbox
onTrapRoadinColumbiaFallsandlatercashed.
Scrapmetalwasstolen
nearAluminumDrivein
ColumbiaFalls.
Criminalmischiefwas
reportedatWoodlawn
CemeteryonNinthStreet
West.
ingtimeonFlatheadLake
withthemeachsummer,
wassomethinghealways
enjoyedandseemedtogain
strengthforandfrom.He
spentthreedaysaweekat
theKalispellDialysisCenter
from2004throughhisdeath
andregardedeveryonethere
amonghisclosestfriendsand
family.
Survivorsincludehis
wife,Leonora“Lee”Doyle;
daughter,MaryAnnMatway,
andhusband,John;son,
WilliamDoyleJr.,andwife
Dawn;son,RobertDoyle,
andwife,Jamey;son,RobertHowe,andwife,Lynne;
son,JohnHowe;daughter,
BarbaraAmendola,and
husband,Rick;son,Mike
Howe,andwife,Cindy;and
numerousnieces,nephews,
grandchildrenandgreatgrandchildren.
Byhisrequest,therewill
benoviewingormemorial
services.
Memorialsmaybemadeto
yourfavoritecharity;orbets
placedinhishonoratthe
tableofyourchoice!
“Takeiteasy,Kid.”
Tosendcondolencestothe
family,pleasegotowww.buffalohillfh.com.BuffaloHill
FuneralHomeiscaringfor
thefamily.
days suspended.
William Tyson Erickson,
partner assault, first offense;
$535, 364 days, 350 days
suspended, DVEA.
Ricky James Langton Jr.,
DUI, first offense; 30 days,
29 days suspended, ACT
classes.
Addy M. Denna, theft, first
offense; $410, 30 days suspended.
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LoisVan
Landingham
Gray,97,
passedaway
inhersleep
onFriday,
June8,2012,
inKalispell.
Shewas
bornathome
inNampa,Idaho,onJuly23,
1914,toWilliamandAnna
VanLandingham.
Inherlifeshewasadevotedwife,mother,andgood
friendtomany.
DuringWorldWarII,
whileherhusbandfoughtin
thePacific,sheworkedatthe
U.S.ArmyairfieldinBoise,
Idaho,doingbothclerical
dutiesandmaintenanceon
theplanes.Afterthewar
theymovedtoPocatello,
Idaho,whereshegavebirth
toheronlychild,Scott.She
movedtotheFlatheadin
1964.
Shewasknownforher
humorandquickwit,as
wellashergenerosityand
supportoffolksinneed.She
wasactiveinherchurchand
frequentlyworkedinitsDorcasReliefSociety.Shewasa
dedicatedmemberoftheSeventhDayAdventistChurch
formorethan60years,both
inKalispellandMidvale,
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n Page A8
Thursday, June 14, 2012
BUSINESS
The Market in Review CEO says execs may have pay taken back
high
52-week
13,338.66
5,627.85
481.58
8,496.42
2,498.89
3,134.17
1,422.38
1,013.34
14,951.57
860.37
Stock Market Indexes
low
Name
10,404.49
3,950.66
381.99
6,414.89
1,941.99
2,298.89
1,074.77
731.62
11,208.42
601.71
Last
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YTD 12-mo
%chg %chg %chg
DowIndustrials
12,496.38 -77.42 -.62
DowTransportation 5,006.50 -28.56 -.57
DowUtilities
477.37
-.38 -.08
NYSEComposite
7,506.42 -51.40 -.68
NYSEMKTComposite2,274.35
-3.26 -.14
NasdaqComposite 2,818.61 -24.46 -.86
S&P500
1,314.88
-9.30 -.70
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903.95 -12.89 -1.41
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752.38
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Stock Exchange Highlights
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NYSE
7,506.42 -51.40
Gainers ($2 or more)
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Last
BkAtlArs 5.50
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ETLg6mVix90.67
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NYSE Mkt
2,274.35
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Last
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DblEgl
4.25
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2.25
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GoldenMin 4.93
GoldStdVg 2.46
Barnwell 2.90
IncOpR
2.00
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-.24 -8.9
-.69 -7.9
-.22 -7.2
-.25 -6.4
-.32 -6.1
-.13 -5.0
-.15 -4.9
-.10 -4.8
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CoffeeH 6.17 -1.11 -15.2
ConstantC 16.62 -2.90 -14.9
Alexzars 3.10 -.53 -14.6
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ATPO&G 4.01 -.57 -12.3
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CRAIntl 15.79 -1.99 -11.2
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Citigroup 436678 27.67 +.05
iShEMkts 433837 38.02 -.14
FordM 410858 10.30 -.20
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NwGoldg 33464 10.14 -.09
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Rubicong 21288 3.02 +.12
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Rentech 10724 1.70 -.01
Aurizong 9836 4.90 +.01
ParaG&S 9811 2.30 +.05
Nevsung 8107 3.86 -.02
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PwShsQQQ470480 62.13 -.43
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Cisco
372101 16.66 -.14
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MicronT 309203 5.86 -.07
Intel
301205 26.54 +.02
Dndreon 241010 7.11 +.86
Zyngan 207967 5.05 +.07
Stocks of Local Interest
Name
AT&TInc
Altria
AppleInc
ApldMatl
ArenaPhm
Avista
BPPLC
BkofAm
BariPVix
BerkHB
Boeing
BrMySq
Caterpillar
CntryLink
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Chevron
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ConocPhils
Costco
DellInc
Dndreon
DirSCBear
DirFnBear
Disney
DukeEngy
ExxonMbl
FedExCp
FstIntBcA
Flextrn
FordM
GenElec
GlacierBc
Google
vjGrace
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... +15.7 iShEMkts
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... +6.7 PhilipMor
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Nasd.52 3.6 18 14.38 -.12 +19.5 VerizonCm
Nasd ... ... 17561.09 -4.01 -13.1 WalMart
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Nasd.90
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2.4
3.1
3.2
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2.6
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1.6
2.2
2.7
3.0
2.6
2.4
4.7
2.4
2.9
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Dodge & Cox Stock
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Vanguard TotBdAdml
Vanguard TotIntl
Vanguard TotStIAdm
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Vanguard TotStIdx
Vanguard Welltn
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... 75.34
11 26.54
14193.10
8 34.30
18 64.45
18 26.88
20 21.77
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17 38.40
... 5.86
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19 76.27
12 30.56
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CI
23,825 12.77 +0.3 +6.2/C +4.1/E
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WASHINGTON (AP)
— JPMorgan Chase
CEO Jamie Dimon told
Congress on Wednesday
that senior bank executives responsible for a $2
billion trading loss will
probably have some of
their pay taken back by
the company.
“It’s likely that there
will be clawbacks,”
Dimon told the Senate
Banking Committee.
Under bank policy,
Dimon said, stock and
bonuses can be recovered
from executives, even for
exercising bad judgment.
The policy has never been
invoked, he said.
Dimon, under close
questioning about his
role in setting up the
investment division of
the bank responsible for
the loss, declared: “We
made a mistake. I’m
absolutely responsible.
The buck stops with
me.”
The start of the hearing was delayed by
demonstrators in the
room who shouted about
stopping foreclosures.
Another demonstrator shouted, “Jamie
Dimon’s a crook.” At
least a dozen people
were escorted from the
hearing room.
Dimon appeared serene
during the outbursts,
‘.Apple,’ ‘.auto’ among
Internet suffixes studied
NEW YORK (AP) —
Proposals for Internet
addresses ending in
“.pizza,” “.space” and
“.auto” are among the
nearly 2,000 submitted as
part of the largest expansion in the online address
system.
Apple Inc., Sony Corp.
and American Express
Co. are among companies
that are seeking names
with their brands. Google
Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.
sought dozens of names,
including “.app,” and
“.play.” The wine company Gallo Vineyards Inc.
wants “.barefoot.”
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers announced
the proposals for Internet
suffixes, the “.com” part
of an Internet address, in
London on Wednesday.
They now go through a
review process that could
take months or years.
“The Internet is about
to change forever,”
ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom declared, adding
that new innovations
could find homes in the
new addresses.
There were 1,930 proposals for 1,409 different
suffixes. The bulk came
from North America and
Europe.
If approved, the new
suffixes would rival
“.com” and about 300
others now in use. Companies would be able to
create separate websites
and separate addresses
for each of their products and brands, even as
they keep their existing
“.com” name. Businesses
that joined the Internet
late, and found desirable
“.com” names taken,
would have alternatives.
From a technical standpoint, the names let Internet-connected computers
know where to send
email and locate websites.
But they’ve come to mean
much more. For Amazon.
com Inc., for instance, the
domain name is the heart
of the company, not just
an address.
The expansion will
allow suffixes that represent hobbies, ethnic
groups, corporate brand
names and more.
Where the proposals
came from in many ways
mirrored where the Internet is used most. Nearly
half of the proposals —
911 — were from North
America and another 675
came from Europe.
Only 17 proposals came
from Africa and 24 came
from Latin America and
the Caribbean — areas
where Internet use is
relatively low.
One surprise came from
the Asia-Pacific region,
which had 303 proposals,
or 16 percent of the total.
It was believed that Asia
might get more because
the expansion will lift current restrictions on nonEnglish characters and
permit suffixes in Chinese,
Japanese and Korean.
Some of the bids for
Asian suffixes came from
North American or European companies. A European subsidiary of VeriSign
Inc., the current operator
of “.com,” is seeking the
equivalent in Chinese,
Thai and other languages.
There were 116 proposals, or 6 percent, for
suffixes using characters
beyond the 26 English letters.
Many of the 1,930 proposals were duplicates.
Suffixes in contention are
likely to include “.bank,”
“.secure” and “.web.”
ICANN is encouraging
competing bidders to
work out an agreement.
Obama, Romney both
wooing business votes
The Associated Press
Republican presidential
challenger Mitt Romney
is showcasing his privatesector experience and
trying to persuade voters
his business savvy makes
him the best suited to lift
the economy out of its
long funk.
Romney also reinforces
Republican doctrine that
President Barack Obama
is “out of touch with
what’s happening across
America.”
He argues Obama’s
policies on health care,
energy, trade and other
issues have made it harder for businesses to grow
and hire new workers and
amount to an “anti-business, anti-job agenda.”
“The president and his
folks just don’t understand how the private sector works,” Obama said
in a speech Wednesday in
Washington to the Business Roundtable, clearly a
receptive audience.
Obama offers a flip side
of Romney’s argument for
himself:
n Romney may have
business smarts, but was
a job-destroying corporate
raider in his business
life at Bain Capital, the
private-equity firm he cofounded.
n He flopped on jobs as
Massachusetts governor,
with his state averaging
47 out of 50 states in job
creation during his single
term.
n Rather than being
industry-friendly, the son
of a former auto company
CEO publicly advocated
requiring Detroit automakers to follow the regular bankruptcy process
rather than offering them
a federal life preserver.
n Romney has aligned
himself with congressional Republicans who
are blocking presidential
job-creating and smallbusiness initiatives.
At least that’s the gospel of Romney according
to Obama.
“Gov. Romney is a
patriotic American, he’s
got a lovely family and
he should be proud of his
personal success. But his
ideas are just retreads of
stuff that we have tried
and that have failed,”
Obama told a Philadelphia fundraiser.
The president was
attending an in-town
fundraiser Wednesday
and presenting Israeli
President Shimon Peres
with the Medal of Freedom at a White House
dinner.
He’ll resume his attack
on Romney’s economic
plans in Cleveland on
Thursday.
which lasted several minutes. At another point
before the questioning
began, he gave a broad
smile.
Dimon contended that
the trading loss, disclosed
May 10 in a surprise conference call with reporters and banking analysts,
were meant to hedge risk
to the company and to
protect in case “things
got really bad.”
The trading loss has
heightened concerns that
the biggest banks still
pose risks to the U.S.
financial system, less
than four years after the
financial crisis in the fall
of 2008.
Two Democrats on the
committee, Sens. Charles
Schumer of New York
and Robert Menendez of
New Jersey, expressed
concern about what
would have happened
if the trading loss had
occurred at a weaker
bank.
Dimon skated a fine
line in talking about his
specific role in relation to
the bank’s trading operation.
Asked whether he
personally approved
the investment office’s
trading strategy,
Dimon said, “I was
aware of it, but I didn’t
approve it.”
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
n Page A9
NATION/WORLD
Roundup
Doctors make
new vein with
girl’s own cells
LONDON — For the
first time doctors have
successfully transplanted
a vein grown with a
patient’s own stem cells,
another example of scientists producing human
body parts in the lab.
In this case, the patient
was a 10-year-old girl in
Sweden who was suffering from a severe vein
blockage to her liver.
Last March, the girl’s
doctors decided to make
her a new blood vessel to
bypass the blocked vein
instead of using one of
her own or considering a
liver transplant.
They took a 9-centimeter (3 1/2-inch) section
of vein from a deceased
donor, which was stripped
of all its cells, leaving just
a hollow tube. Using stem
cells from the girl’s bone
marrow, scientists grew
millions of cells to cover
the vein, a process that
took about two weeks.
The new blood vessel was
then transplanted into the
patient.
Because the procedure
used her own cells, the
girl did not have to take
any drugs to stop her
immune system from
attacking the new vein,
as is usually the case in
transplants involving
donor tissue.
“This is the future for
tissue engineering, where
we can make tailor-made
organs for patients,” said
Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson of the University
of Gothenburg, one of the
study’s authors.
Bombs target pilgrims in Iraq, killing scores
BAGHDAD (AP) — Car
bombs ripped through
Shiite and Kurdish targets in Baghdad and other
cities Wednesday, killing
at least 66 people, wounding more than 200 and
feeding growing doubts
that Iraq will emerge as
a stable democracy after
decades of war and dictatorship.
The latest bloodshed
comes against a backdrop of sharpening
political divisions that
show Iraq has made little
progress in healing the
breach among its religious and ethnic communities that once pushed
the country to the brink
of civil war. The coordination, sophistication
and targets of the attack
prevent such wide-scale
attacks, even though they
were on high alert during
a major Shiite pilgrimage.
And the number and distribution of these bombings demonstrate the
strength and resilience of
the Sunni militants.
Altogether, 17 explosions struck Baghdad and
six other cities and towns
some 300 miles (500 kilometers) apart, from Mosul
in the vast deserts of the
north to Hillah in the
fertile plains of the south.
Most targeted Shiite
pilgrims between 5 a.m.
and 8 a.m. as hundreds of
thousands were making
their way on foot to the
capital.
“I fell on the ground.
Then so many people
— The Associated Press
faithful, many waving
green banners, will converge on a golden-domed
shrine in Baghdad’s
northern neighborhood
of Kazimiya. The commemoration culminates
on Saturday.
Bombs also hit pilgrims
in the cities of Taji near
the capital and Karbala
and Balad in southern
Iraq. The Kurdish ethnic
minority was also targeted: Bombs struck the
offices of two political
parties in the northern
city of Kirkuk.
One senior Iraqi intelligence officer acknowledged that the attacks
— despite heightened
security measures —
showed the weakness of
the military and police.
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BEIRUT — Syrian forces overran a mountain
enclave near the Mediterranean coast Wednesday,
seizing the territory back
from rebels as a serious
escalation in violence signaled both sides are using
more powerful weapons.
With the bloodshed
ramping up, France
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Syria was in a state of
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The battle for Haffa,
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fell on me” said Falah
Hassan, who was being
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Hours after the bombing in Hillah, puddles of
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ditch. Soldiers and dazed
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the charred remains of
the car that exploded, gazing at the gaping holes in
nearby shops.
Wednesday’s blasts
were the third this week
targeting the annual pilgrimage to observe the
eighth-century death of
Imam Moussa al-Kadhim,
a revered saint who was
the Prophet Muhammad’s great-grandson.
The processions of the
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GREENSBORO, N.C.
— Federal prosecutors
dropped all charges
Wednesday against John
Edwards after his corruption trial ended last month
in a deadlocked jury.
Jurors in North Carolina
acquitted the former presidential candidate on one
count of accepting illegal
campaign contributions
and deadlocked on five other felony counts. The judge
declared a mistrial.
Prosecutors will not
seek to retry Edwards
on the five unresolved
counts, according to a
U.S. Justice Department
statement.
Assistant Attorney
General Lanny A. Breuer,
who oversees the agency’s
criminal division, said
prosecutors knew the
case, like all campaign
finance cases, would be
challenging. But he said it
is “our duty to bring hard
cases” when warranted.
Edwards was accused of
masterminding a scheme
to use about $1 million in
secret payments from two
wealthy political donors
to hide his pregnant mistress as he sought the
White House in 2008. He
would have faced up to 30
years in prison and $1.5
million in fines if convicted of all charges.
bore the hallmarks of
al-Qaida and its Sunni
militant allies seeking to
exploit these tensions.
Iraqi authorities
played down any suggestion that the devastating
attacks that have taken
place every few weeks
or so since the U.S.
military withdrew in
mid-December portend
a return to the all-out,
tit-for-tat violence that
tore the nation apart in
2006-2007.
“Iraqis are fully aware
of the terrorism agenda
and will not slip into a
sectarian conflict,” said
Baghdad military command spokesman Col.
Dhia al-Wakeel.
But Iraqi authorities
have been unable to
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