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10 YEARS LATER 9 II
TABITHA ROGERS, 8, carries flags while helping prepare for a 9/11 memorial at the Eastside Christian Church on Aug. 28 in Fullerton, Calif. About 20 volunteers were placing 3,000 flags on the front lot — 2,900 American flags, along with flags of other countries representing those who died on 9/11.
9/11
10 YEARS LATER
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A CHANGED
AMERICA
POST-SEPT. 11
PARENTS, KIDS
FEEL IMPRINT
OF 9/11
One day in history has
had an indelible impact
on our country.
Broad sense of
insecurity is felt acutely
by families across the
country.
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9/11
TIMELINE
Illustrative retelling
of the events of the
Sept. 11 attacks
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NEWS
BECOMES
HISTORY
Pulitzer Prize-winning
columnist Leonard
Pitts Jr. reflects on
how 9/11 continues
to shape American life
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VICTIMS’
FAMILIES
THROUGH THE
LENS
Profiles of people
who lost loved ones
in the 9/11 terror attacks
Iconic images of an
unforgettable day in
U.S. history
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U.S. marks somber anniversary
By ADAM GELLER
AP National Writer
coverage
Sunday
NEW YORK — Ten years
on, Americans come together
Sunday where the World Trade
Center soared, where the Pentagon stands as a fortress once
breached, where United Airlines
Flight 93 knifed into the earth.
They will gather to pray in cathedrals in our greatest cities and to
lay roses before fire stations in
our smallest towns, to remember
in countless ways the anniversary
of the most devastating terrorist
attacks since the nation’s founding,
and in the process mark the milestone as history itself.
As in earlier observances, bells
will toll again to mourn the loss
of those killed in the attacks.
Americans will lay eyes on new
memorials in lower Manhattan,
rural Pennsylvania and elsewhere, concrete symbols of the
resolve to remember and rebuild.
But much of the weight of this
year’s ceremonies lies in what
will largely go unspoken — the
anniversary’s role in prompting
Americans to consider how the
attacks changed them and the
larger world and the continuing
struggle to understand 9/11’s
place in the lore of the nation.
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Solemn Ferndale vigil
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On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the Ferndale Volunteer Fire Department’s vigil of
the lone firefighter continues as a simple,
yet powerful reminder.
“This represents the sacrifice of the lone
fireman,” said Dominic Kovacevic, a volunteer firefighter. “It’s for all their family and
friends, the place missing at the table — one
fireman at a time.”
At 6:45 a.m., Kovacevic’s wife Carolyn,
also a volunteer, begins the vigil, marking the time when the first plane flew
into the World Trade Center towers in
New York City. She stands holding an
American flag during the next 102 minutes: the time span until the two towers
fell.
About a dozen Ferndale volunteers stand
shifts each Sept. 11 to honor the sacrifice
of the firefighters as well as the police and
other rescuers who risked or lost their lives
helping people escape the burning, collapsing towers.
Kovacevic said each person standing vigil
feels a profound connection to the victims
and heroes who lost their lives.
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IN 2006, Larry Cutrone salutes Cassandra Gumpert while she holds the flag during the
annual Sept. 11 vigil at the Ferndale Fire Department. Each year since 2001, Ferndale has
remembered the firefighters lost in 9/11 by having firefighters and other volunteers stand
solemn shifts with the flag.
FERNDALE firefighter Frank Hanzelka
stands in front of the fire hall with his dog
Shay on Sept. 11, 2009. “It’s good to make
a little sacrifice for those who made a big
sacrifice,” Hanzelka said.
Local emergency workers had roles ‘Eerie quiet’
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The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,
had an impact on everyone who lived
through them, but several Flathead
Valley residents experienced the tragedy much more directly than through
television. Firefighter Ed Burlingame
worked to service the needs of fire
departments on scene at the Pentagon,
while Scott Sampey worked on emergency services at the site of Flight 93’s
crash in Pennsylvania. Here are some
of their memories of that tragic day.
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001,
Columbia Falls resident Ed Burlingame was a captain of Fairfax County
Fire Department, located near Washington, D.C.
That morning, he had finished his
shift and went home at 7 a.m. Soon
after arriving home, he watched the
attacks on TV.
“I can remember the 9/11 attack. I
was sitting on a coffee table lacing up
my running shoes when it came on,”
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Cindi Martin was the
director of a new airport
in the Washington, D.C.,
area that was just 12
weeks away from opening when the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks stopped
America in its tracks.
As she sat in a board
meeting in Washington,
just 20 miles from the
Pentagon, Martin soon
realized it would become
a day like no other.
Martin, now director of
Glacier Park International Airport, remembers
someone knocking on the
door of the county office
where the airport board
was meeting. As they
learned about the attacks,
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‘Are they going to ram a lot of cities?’
New York City to work
and was on the infamous “Ladder 6” when
Burlingame said. “You
the north World Trade
remember things like
Center tower collapsed.
that... you can rememBurlingame was relieved
ber exactly what you
to learn his friend had
were doing at the time it
survived.
occurred, as an example,
“He still works for the
when President Kenfire department in New
nedy was assassinated. I
remember being out on a York. I still keep in conthird-grade ballfield play- tact with him,” he said.
It was about a week
ing ball in school and the
teachers coming to get us. after the initial attack
before Burlingame could
In the case of 9/11,
reflect on the extraordihowever, Burlingame
nary week. To him, he
had a much more perwas just doing his job.
sonal connection to the
Now retired, Burlingame
tragedy. It was not long
continues to serve as volafter the attacks on the
unteer firefighter with
World Trade Center that
he heard on the radio that the Blankenship Fire
American Airlines Flight Department in Columbia
Falls and as a fire rescue
77 had crashed into the
trainer for Montana State
Pentagon. Burlingame
University extension serimmediately prepared to
return to work and call in vice.
“To serve as a firefightall personnel to the staer is a calling,” he said.
tion.
“You see people on their
“I had 33 personnel
best days and their worst
assigned to my station.
days,” Burlingame said.
We called them in not
knowing exactly how
the attack was going to
Attack in Pennsylexpand. On my way to
vania at 10:10 a.m.
work I could see smoke
coming up from the PenKalispell resident
tagon,” Burlingame said.
Scott Sampey, director of
He arrived around 10:15
a.m. after a portion of the Emergency Services for
Flathead County, was livPentagon had collapsed.
ing in Pennsylvania 10
Around 2 p.m., he
years ago. During 9/11 he
was called by his boss to
worked as an air medic
report to the Arlington
County Fire Department’s and director of operations
north division, which cov- for a STAT MedEvac company. He also belonged
ered half of the county.
to the Pittsburgh Critical
Since surrounding area
firefighter units in Mary- Incident Stress Management team.
land and Virginia were
When United Airlines
working at the Pentagon,
Flight 93 flew past Clevehe was responsible for
land he was at home takcovering any emergency
ing the day off. He was
calls that came in until
called by his dispatch
his shift ended at 11 p.m.
center with an alert about
The next day he
the terror attacks under
returned to Arlington to
way and turned on the
order extra equipment
television. The dispatch
and protective clothing
center then called him
for on-site emergency
to say Flight 93 was now
responders.
“For example, fire units heading back toward
Pittsburgh where the
working at the Pentagon
company was headquar— because of the sharpness of the debris — were tered. He left for work.
“The entire city was
working through their
literally evacuating on
gear. I had a hand in
ordering a thousand pairs its own,” He said. The
next call he received
of boots from a company
from the dispatch center
in Cincinnati,” Burlinwas a report that United
game said, adding that
Airlines Flight 93 had
two staff members had
crashed into a field in
to immediately drive out
and bring the order back. Stonycreek Township.
“We had planes go
On his mind was fellow firefighter and friend down before. But when
they said ‘hijacked,’ we’re
Bill Butler. Burlingame
had worked several years thinking ‘are they going
with Butler at the Fairfax to ram a lot of cities?’
County Fire Department. Are they going to take
out United States Steel,”
Butler had moved to
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3 Flathead Valley Parade
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Cost $10. Call 752-2422.
3 Glacier RCers annual
Fun Fly and Swap Meet, 10
a.m. to 4 p.m., at their field
on Whitefish Stage Road,
1 mile south of Montana
40, or 6 miles north of West
Reserve Drive. Exhibitions
of radio-controlled planes.
Covered seating, concessions. Raffle prizes. Admission $5 per car.
3 Parade and ceremony
to commemorate 9/11, from
11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Parade
at 11 a.m. on Main Street,
Kalispell; followed by VFW
Honor Guard and live music
by Marshall Catch at Depot
Park. Sponsored by Smith
Valley Firefighters Association. A World Trade Center
display will be featured.
3 Flathead County
Republican Women present a 10th anniversary of
9/11 dinner and program,
“Celebrate America: We
Will Never Forget,” 1-4
p.m., Flathead County
Fairgrounds Expo building.
Keynote speaker is Fox
news military analyst Lt.Gen.
Thomas G. McInerney. Cost
$10 per person; children
under 5, eat free. For tickets,
call Heidi Roedel, 756-0801
or Lois Lauman, 857-3512.
3 Kalispell American
Legion Post 137 Freedom
Walk 2011 to commemorate
10th anniversary of 9/11
attacks. Meet at 1:30 p.m.,
at American Legion Hall,
351 Fourth Ave. EN and
proceed to Depot Park for a
short ceremony. Everyone
welcome. Bring U.S. flags
or patriotic banners.
3 Pizzazz Jazz Combo
performs for Flathead Valley Jazz Society’s monthly
party, 6-8 p.m. Eagles ballroom, Kalispell. Free. Public
welcome.
3 “Remembering 9/11”
program with speakers
Frank Garner, former
Kalispell police chief; Randy
Brodehl, former Kalispell fire
chief; Calvin Beringer with
Flathead County sheriff’s
office, Janette Reynolds,
author of “Where Were You
on 9/11?” and live music, 7
p.m., Christian Center, 255
Summit Ridge Dr., Kalispell.
Free admission.
Monday
3 Randy Winter, service
officer for Montana Veterans Affairs Division will
be available to veterans
and their independents, 11
a.m. to noon, Troy Senior
Center; 1:30-4 p.m. Libby
Senior Center.
3 Daughters of the American Revolution, Chief Ignace
Chapter, meets for lunch at
noon at Grouse Mountain
Restaurant. Program on
“Memories of 9/11.” Call Kay
McDonald, 892-4579.
3 Red Cross blood drive,
2-6 p.m., at the center, 126
N. Meridian Road, Kalispell.
3 Kalispell Public Schools
Personnel Committee meets
4 p.m., administration offices, 233 First Ave. E.
3 Rails to Trails monthly
meeting and potluck, 5:30
p.m. Bob and Cheryl Klein’s
home. Call 248-515-5670
for directions.
3 Kalispell branch of
AAUW meets 5:30 p.m.
Village Greens Community
Center, Kalispell. Bring an
hors d’oeuvre to share. Call
Linda Harris, 862-6671.
3 Traumatic Brain Injury
Support Group meets 6-8
p.m., The Summit, Kalispell.
Upcoming Montana Brain
Injury conference will be
discussed. Survivors, family, friends are welcome.
Refreshments. Call Sue,
756-4725.
3 The Flathead Conservation District meets at 7
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3 Flathead Audubon
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3 Fair-Mont-Egan School
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3 11th annual Everything
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1045 E. Fourth St. Whitefish. Proceeds benefit Doctors Without Borders and
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3 Randy Winter, service
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The trailer was a place
for workers to get firstaid care, fresh coffee and
relax.
“If any workers got
overwhelmed, they would
have someone to talk to,”
Sampey said.
What stood out to Sampey among the federal
organizations was a group
of people with no identification who were dressed
in denim from head to
toe. He later found out
they were a Navy Seal
team. Their mission was
to protect moving vans
filled with evidence during transport.
LOOKING BACK,
Sampey and Burlingame
both said today there is
much more emphasis on
terrorism training for
all responders that was
common before 9/11. But
Burlingame said that
responders were pretty
well-prepared in communicating and taking
action after the attacks
happened, even without
specialized training.
What no one could
be prepared for was the
magnitude of the attacks
and the emotional toll it
would take on the nation.
Reporter Hilary Matheson
may be reached at 758-4431
or by email at hmatheson@
dailyinterlake.com.
Fire grows near Marias Pass
spread over the Divide
and into the Lewis and
Clark National Forest if
the wind picks up.
A fire triggered Friday
“We’re working closely
by lightning along the
Continental Divide south with Lewis and Clark
of Marias Pass had grown (staff) in case that happens,” Pence said.
to 409 acres by early SatFlathead objectives Saturday evening.
urday included moving a
According to Flathead
warming hut and other
National Forest fire
information officer Colter equipment belonging to a
snowmobile club close to
Pence, the fire has been
growing on the south and the blaze out of the area and
repairing a radio system
west sides moving along
the Divide and has not yet damaged a few days ago.
“We’re also getting
crossed over. Pence and
two others flew the perim- firefighters into the area,
getting ready to manage
eter of the fire Saturday
afternoon and mapped it. the fire into the future,”
Pence said.
She said the fire could
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Sampey said. “Probably five minutes later
the FAA called and said
all air traffic was to be
grounded. We had aircraft
in the area transporting
a patient and they were
told to immediately find
a place to land ... ‘land or
we will land you.’ At that
point it was pretty serious. It didn’t matter if a
person’s life was at stake
— it was that serious.”
Later that night, Sampey finally received the
call to take a team from
Critical Incident and
Stress Management to the
crash site. He was notified
that none of the people
on the plane survived.
The plane and everything
inside had literally disintegrated or were buried
deep beneath the ground
from the impact.
When he drove out to
the site to set up camp,
along the rural road to
the crash site, miles of
state troopers were lined
up with their guns out to
secure the investigation
area.
“You wouldn’t believe it
if it was in a movie,” he
said. “The FBI was there
... other people whose
initials I don’t even know
were there.”
The Critical Incident
and Stress Management
team was set up about
100 yards from crash site.
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Opening new airport in wake Flight 93 memorial held Saturday
of 9/11 proved daunting task
decade later, she said the
denied al-Qaida the symbolic victory of “smashing memorial may do little to
ease the grief of the famithe center of American
ground,” said Ken Foote,
government,” Clinton said. lies of those who died in
author of “Shadowed
the crash. But the weekThey were “ordinary
Ground: America’s Landpeople given no time at all end’s ceremonies recall
scapes of Violence and
to decide and they did the a story with far broader
Tragedy,” examining the
right thing,” he said. “And reach.
role that veneration of
The ceremonies honor
2,500 years from now, I
sites of death and disashope and pray to God that those who “fought the first
ter plays in modern life.
people will still remember battle against terrorism —
“These anniversaries are
and they won,” Ware said.
this.”
particularly critical in
figuring out what story to
“It’s something I don’t
The Pennsylvania
tell, in figuring out what
want to miss. It’s become
memorial park is years
this all means.
from completion. But the a part of my life.”
“It forces people to figOn Sunday, the nation’s
dedication and a service
ure out what happened to to mark the 10th anniver- focus turns to ceremonies
us,” he said.
at the Pentagon, just outsary of the attacks are
On Saturday in rural
side Washington, D.C.,
critical milestones, said
western Pennsylvania,
and in lower Manhattan
Sally Ware, one of the
more than 4,000 people
volunteer “ambassadors” for the dedication of the
began to tell the story
national Sept. 11 memowho has worked as a
again.
guide at the site since the rial. President Barack
At the dedication of the disaster.
Obama planned to attend
Flight 93 National Memoceremonies at all three
Ware, whose home
rial near the town of
sites and was scheduled to
was rocked when the jet
Shanksville, former presi- crashed two miles away,
speak at a Sunday evening
dents George W. Bush
service at the Kennedy
recalled how hundreds of
and Bill Clinton and Vice people flocked to the site
Center.
President Joe Biden joined in the days afterward to
The New York ceremony
the families of the 40 pasleave their own mementos begins at 8:30 a.m., with a
sengers and crew aboard
and memorials. She began moment of silence 16 minFlight 93 who fought back volunteering after finding utes later — coinciding
against their hijackers.
with the exact time when
one along the side of the
“The moment America’s
the first tower of the trade
road — a red rose placed
democracy was under
center was struck by a
atop a flight attendant’s
attack our citizens defied
hijacked jet. And then, one
uniform.
their captors by holding
by one, the reading of the
“It really bothered me.
a vote,” Bush said. “The
names of the 2,977 killed
I thought someone has
choice they made would
on Sept. 11 — in New
to take care of this,” said
cost them their lives.”
York, at the Pentagon and
Ware, whose daughter is
The passengers and
in rural Pennsylvania.
a flight attendant. Now, a
crew gave “the entire
country an incalculable
gift: They saved the capiNOW BUYING...
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The skies were unusually
quiet.”
By the evening of Sept.
they went in search of
11,
air travel had been
a TV; by the time they
shut down nationwide for
found one the second
tower of the World Trade the first time in America’s history.
Center was crumbling.
As she turned her
“We could see thick
horses out for the night,
black smoke” from the
though, she heard airPentagon attack, she
planes, looked up and
recalled.
Board members mus- saw Air Force One coming home, followed by
tered the wherewithal
several fighter jets.
to finish their meetBuilding a new airport
ing, though the mood
was “very solemn,” she in a metropolitan area
such as Washington, D.C.,
said.
always is a challenge, but
Martin then dashed
in the aftermath of Sept.
off to Stafford Regional
11 and the air-travel jitAirport — the nearly
ters that followed, getting
finished facility she was
Stafford Regional up and
the director of — where
running was an extreme
crews were in the final
task.
throes of construction.
“It would’ve been easiShe remembers a flurry
er to open a crack house
of phone calls, from the
press and others with an than a new airport,”
Martin said. “Building
interest in the new airan airport is always conport.
troversial, and for the
“I went home and it
airport haters, this was a
was eerie. It was eerie
new drum to beat.”
quiet,” she recalled.
Located about 40 miles
The area where she
south of Washington,
lived was a skyway for
D.C., Stafford Regional is
air traffic on the East
a general aviation relievCoast.
er airport that caters to
“You couldn’t be outside without hearing [air- corporate and private aircraft flying overhead] all craft. Seven million cubic
yards of dirt and stone
day long,” she said. “My
were removed to accomhome was on the final
modate the new facility,
[approach] into Dulles
and 150 homes were pur[International Airport].
AIRPORT/From A1
chased and removed to
clear the land.
The airport opened in
December 2001, just three
months after the deadliest terrorist attacks on
American soil. Martin
continued as director at
Stafford until 2003 when
she moved west.
As an airport director,
Martin has dealt with
the aftermath of Sept.
11 every day since the
attacks. The Transportation Security Administration was created in the
wake of 9/11 to bolster
security and within a
year took over responsibility for security at the
nation’s airports.
“That’s still a work in
progress. Everyone in the
industry feels that,” Martin said.
“It’s a new world we
live in,” she added.
“Nobody thought we
could be attacked ... there
are still a lot of holes in
our system. We could be
attacked again. We’re
learning as we go. The
genius in terrorism is
they’re willing to do anything, and we can’t even
comprehend that.”
Features editor Lynnette
Hintze may be reached at
758-4421 or by email at lhintze@dailyinterlake.com.
Remembering 9/11: ‘People in Montana get it’
did escape those buildings. It has evolved in the
public’s mind as a memorial to all aspects of the
tragedy.
“The feedback we get
from the community has
been just great,” Kovacevic said.
He recalled the retired
American Airlines flight
attendant who brought a
bounty of food as a thankyou. She had three friends
perish on the flights that
went down on 9/11.
School buses slow down
near the vigil and the
children all wave. Truck
drivers respond with a
patriotic gesture.
“All the truck drivers
take off their ball caps
in respect for the flag,”
Kovacevic said.
People bring by tokens
of appreciation ranging
from a simple vase of
flowers to treats such as
fruit or cookies. Those
simple acts mean a lot to
the firefighters.
“The gratitude — that’s
what fuels a volunteer
organization,” he said.
During his hour or
longer vigils, Kovacevic
said he has a lot of time
to reflect on what being a
VIGIL/From A1
pulling that energy into
you,” he said. “Everybody
feels that.”
Because so many people
want to stop and visit during the vigil, the department has decided to open
the station this year and
have a collection of 9/11
books and pictures as well
as someone to welcome
visiters.
According to Kovacevic,
many people want to
take part. Soldiers who
have served in Iraq have
stopped and stood with
the firefighter and flag
facing Montana 209.
Others have contributed
in unexpected ways.
“The first few years ...
at dawn, someone played
‘Taps’ in the woods,” he
said.
When the musical tribute began the third year,
Kovacevic followed the
sound into the woods
behind the fire station. He
discovered Paul Sebesta,
a musician who lives on
Eastman Drive and also
volunteers as a pilot to
spot fires caused by lightning strikes.
It reminded him of
his family’s credo that
nobody can do everything,
but everyone can do
something.
“He just saw the event
going on and went out
and got his French horn,”
Kovacevic said. “That’s
Paul. It’s just pure volunteerism. It’s the Montana
way.”
The Ferndale vigil
began in 2002 as a tribute
to the 343 firefighters who
lost their lives helping
the many thousands who
firefighter means. He has
thought back to his old
battalion chief who said
every fire comes down to
a similar scene.
Firefighters find the
family standing outside
in whatever clothing they
could grab in a hurry.
When the fire is out, they
get to return to their fire
station but that family’s
life has changed forever.
Yet, within a few days,
the family comes to thank
the firefighters for coming
in their hour of need. His
battalion chief explained
the phenomena.
“He said, ‘You represent
that help is on the way,’”
Kovacevic said. “You are
the first sign of something
good. I’ve seen it hundreds of time.”
Whether a massive
national tragedy or a
home fire, small acts of
appreciation repay firefighters for running into
danger as others run
away.
On the first year that
Ferndale launched the
vigil, Kovacevic wondered
if people would understand. He remembers asking a local resident, Jim
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Covering 9/11
took severe
emotional toll
It started as a
day like any other.
I was busy in
the kitchen, making breakfast and
packing a brownbag lunch for my
daughter, a sophomore at Whitefish
High at the time.
Casey, a neighbor
girl, had come
over for a ride to
school.
The “Today”
show droned on in the living
room as I hurried through the
morning chores. Then came the
report that a plane had hit the
north tower of the World Trade
Center. It caught my attention,
but still not enough for me to sit
down and watch.
Within minutes, though, we
were riveted to the TV. We
watched in horror as the deadly
scenario played out. Most of
the television coverage initially
was focused on the twin towers.
Then we learned the Pentagon
had been hit, and that a Boeing
757 had gone down over western
Pennsylvania following a struggle between the passengers and
terrorists.
I remember immediately
wondering if the entire country
was under attack. Our older
daughter was an exchange student in Venezuela at the time,
so I had to get in touch with her
and assure that we were OK. I
wanted to gather my family in
my arms, and she seemed so far
away.
It was difficult to process the
implications of what had just
happened, so I went through the
motions. I dropped the kids off
at school and headed to work
for what I knew would be a very
long day.
The Inter Lake editors quickly
doled out assignments to find out
what effects the terrorist attacks
would have on the Flathead Valley. How were people coping?
Were there any locals among the
casualties? Would the ban on air
travel affect supply chains?
I headed out to a prayer service at the Salvation Army
church in Kalispell. They’d
quickly put together two services, with time for intercessory
prayers that let participants pray
aloud for the victims and their
families.
“It’s important, when chaos
is hitting all around us, to take
time to pray,” Capt. Monte Jones,
a pastor at the Salvation Army,
said at the time. The service had
a patriotic tone at times. One
man, kneeled in prayer, said,
“Lord, we are one nation under
God. Let us come together as one
nation.”
Next I was off to Kalispell
Regional Medical Center to find
out how the hospital was dealing
with the aftermath. The ALERT
helicopter was grounded for a
few hours before it could fly
again, and administrators were
preparing for expected supply
interruptions. The staff was tending to patients’ emotional and
physical needs.
A clinical educator told me:
“We’ve put all mundane things
on hold and are taking care of
patients. I made the rounds and
there was one lady who had lived
through Pearl Harbor, and there
she was all alone.”
Many paramedics and nurses
stood ready to volunteer in any
capacity with the crisis.
Local gas stations were drained
nearly dry by reactionary customers as rumors of spiraling gas
prices and shortages spread.
The Red Cross set up special
blood donation sessions to alleviate a critical need for blood on
the East Coast. Local organizations and churches quickly started fund drives.
Everyone wanted to help and
everyone felt helpless.
I wrote feverishly, story after
story. We extended our deadline
that day to adequately cover
the enormity of what had happened.
And by the end of the day I
was utterly and completely emotionally spent. In the aftershock
of 9/11 I felt vulnerable and
sad. I crawled into bed around
midnight, I guess, knowing that
tomorrow would be just as busy,
and that America would never be
the same again.
Lynnette
Hintze
Features editor Lynnette Hintze
may be reached at 758-4421 or by
email at lhintze@dailyinterlake.com.
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Airport security checks now a way of life
By LYNNETTE HINTZE
The Daily Inter Lake
TSA — it’s an acronym
that’s become synonymous
with airport security, and not
always in a good way.
It stands for Transportation Security Administration,
a federal agency created not
long after the 9/11 attacks to
make American airports more
secure. A federal work force
was deployed nationwide to
meet Congressional mandates
for screening all commercial
airline passengers and baggage.
For passengers, it’s meant
longer lines at airports,
more expensive air fares and
restrictions on what can be
brought aboard planes. Per-
haps most controversial has
been TSA’s recent requirement for full-body scans and
pat-downs at airports across
the United States.
TSA is still a work in progress, said Cindi Martin, director of Glacier Park International Airport.
“Generally the American
public has figured it out, but
they still rail against patdowns and feel it challenges
their rights as citizens. It’s a
new world we live in.”
Monte Eliason, who was
director of Glacier Park International when the terrorist
attacks occurred, said he’s got
mixed feelings about TSA.
“The TSA approach was in
some ways flawed from the
beginning because it painted
everyone with the same
brush,” Eliason said. “There
was almost the same level of
scrutiny at both small and
larger airports.”
While airports in New York
City and Washington, D.C.,
always will be terrorist targets, the same level of threat
doesn’t exist in places such
as the Flathead Valley, he
said.
“I don’t think the threat
level has changed a great deal
in the hinterlands,” he said.
That said, Eliason, who still
does some part-time airport
consulting work, acknowledged that the top federal
officials dealing with bolstering airport security after 9/11
probably needed a one-sizefits-all approach and a system
that wouldn’t let America’s
guard down at any airport.
“How would you react?
You’d want the same stan-
dards everywhere, so while
[the TSA approach] is somewhat flawed, it was probably
a necessary step,” he said.
“Without a doubt [the
federal government] could
and should have done some
things differently,” Eliason
continued. “The approach to
the problem erred on the side
of treating customers in an
abstract mode, though over
time they’ve tried to balance
it better.”
The federal government has
been slow to embrace technology, he said, and that has
resulted in frustration for air
travelers. And TSA may not
be done with adding requirements to security checks.
Eliason said he’s heard talk of
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Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake
THE REV. ROD ERMATINGER of St. Matthew’s Parish places the first flag Friday morning at a 9/11 memorial outside the
Kalispell Fire Hall. The flag was placed in memory of New York Fire Department Chaplain Mychal Judge, who died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. In the background, students, staff, and family members carry 343 flags honoring the first
responders who were killed 10 years ago.
Remembering 9/11 reignites fear, anxiety
By CANDACE CHASE
The Daily Inter Lake
Ten years ago, when the
World Trade Center towers tumbled and planes also
crashed into the Pentagon and
the ground in Pennsylvania,
a wave of disbelief swept the
country.
Fear, anxiety and anger
welled up across America
as endless commentators
struggled to make sense of
the horrific acts that cost so
many lives.
But as time went by, people
moved on with their lives but
many never processed those
emotions, according to three
Flathead Valley counselors.
With the commemoration
of the 10th anniversary, the
haunting videos return of
people leaping to their deaths
and the stunned, dust and
blood-covered survivors limping in terror down the streets
of New York City.
It’s a formula for post traumatic stress, according to
Rev. Darryl Kistler, pastor of
Community Congregational
Church.
“There
was a kind of
moratorium
for the first
six months of
showing it on
TV,” Kistler
said. “That’s
been lifted
now.”
Kistler
Combined
with the fears
over the economy and recent
heated political rhetoric,
reliving the tragedy creates a
toxic recipe, he said.
“People ask, ‘What’s happening with America, what’s
happening with my life?’’ Kistler said. “I completely understand if people are fearful and
anxious.”
David Mahoney, a psychologist practicing in Whitefish,
agreed. He said people close
to the event as well as those
watching it over and over on
television had powerful emo-
tional reactions.
“Commentating at the time
was full of fear,” he said. “A
lot of layers of recollection got
laid down with nothing other
than the passage of time to
unravel the layers of fear.”
Mahoney said he was on an
airplane coming back from
a family vacation in Rome
on 9/11. He said he offered
his services to the distraught
crew while purposely isolating himself and his family
from the 24/7 news coverage.
Many people became mesmerized by the coverage.
Mahoney said that repetition
formed traumatic memories
and a collective memory
among Americans.
“What a lot of people don’t
realize is that they still carry
with them that immersion in
fearful thought,” he said.
How to cope?
Mahoney said the anniversary brings another avalanche
of commentary — some saying
the country has accomplished
nothing in 10 years while others saying the country has
recovered, learned a lot of good
lessons and drawn together in
the face of adversity.
“You need to seek emotionally nourishing messages,”
Mahoney said. “Question the
assumptions, question the
conclusions and be careful
what you let in.”
Kistler said his spiritual
tradition deals with loss by
leaning on the hope that
tomorrow will be better than
today.
He suggests viewing 9/11 as
both an ending and a beginning. He sees the attacks as
taking away our national
innocence while leaving a gift
of seeing the world as it is.
“We were like children.
We’re in awe of their innocence and naiveté,” Kistler
said. “But there’s a reason
we don’t give our problems to
children to solve.”
He urges people to see the
acts as evil — but not the
people who perpetrated them.
Kistler said he wanted to
scream recently as a radio
Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake
ERMATINGER gives the homily at Mass on Friday morning
in Kalispell.
commentator called the terrorists “pure evil.”
“The act was horrific.
The fact that human beings
would do something like
this to other human beings
is horrific,” he said. “The
people aren’t evil. They see
violence as a way to solve
their problems. They’re sick
individuals brainwashed by
an ideology.”
He said solving problems
with violence, including wars,
is a systemic problem. Kistler
said he believes that one act
of violence just leads to other
acts of violence.
In his 9/11 service, he plans
to wrap the anniversary into
his ongoing program, “the
season of creation.” Kistler
explained the concept as
God perpetually creates and
people have an opportunity to
become co-creators with God.
Although 9/11 ended our
innocence, Kistler said endings mean new beginnings.
“We have the opportunity
to become a co-creator with
God,” he said. “Through love,
peace and hope, we have the
opportunity to create something better than before.”
Providing the Catholic
perspective, the Rev. Rod
Ermatinger of St. Matthew’s
Parish agrees with Kistler’s
concerns about not casting
any human being as evil. He
said people were made in the
image and likeness of God,
but that doesn’t mean they
always act like God when
they make choices.
“We can make choices
consistent with love or completely counter,” he said. “On
9/11, we see the awful acts of
violence but we also see the
heroes — the firemen’s and
policemen’s — acts of love.”
Ermatinger quotes the biblical passage: “Greater love
hath no man than this, that a
man lay down his life for his
friends.”
He views the heroic sacrificial acts of 9/11 as triumphing
over the evil of the violent
acts.
“We can transform suffering into something of redemptive value as Christ did on the
cross,” he said.
Ermatinger points to a
powerful photo on a card that
children at St. Matthew’s
School took home this week.
After keeping the card for a
week at an empty place at
their dinner tables, families
are sending cards to people
who lost loved ones in the
9/11 tragedy.
The photo on the card
shows a firefighter in front of
a cross formed by two steel
beams left standing after the
twin towers fell.
“It’s so powerful,” he said.
“In the midst of all this
rubble, what’s standing is
a perfect cross. To me, it’s
symbolic of the victory Christ
won on the cross.”
Since 9/11, representatives of many faiths have
united in the Flathead Valley Multi-faith Coalition.
Kistler said it includes leaders from Catholic, Jewish,
Methodist, Lutheran and
other faiths.
“I’m not saying it’s a direct
result of 9/11. But if anything
like 9/11 happens again, we
could respond appropriately.
The multi-faith coalition has
been a real blessing to us and
our congregations.”
The Daily inTer lake
Sunday, September 11, 2011
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Employees keep Montana
Cowboy Hall of Fame afloat
had cashed their checks
since Aug. 29, the organization would have
a negative balance of
$12,789.74, he said.
Raising money has
been difficult, given that
the hall of fame’s location is still unknown,
Lyles said.
“The next three months
will be transformational
as we work to identify a
future building location,
but perhaps the greatest
transformation we will
see is renewed sense of
urgency and commitment
in each of us to ensuring
that this important mission that we serve will
be kept alive, well and
secure,” he wrote in a
recent letter to the hall of
fame’s board.
The worst-case scenario that Lyles envisioned
was that the organization
will continue to break
even until December,
after the hall of fame’s
building site is awarded,
which would mean
nearly $44,000 in unpaid
checks.
But Lyles said he is
confident that he and
Stensland will be able
to cash at least some of
their checks by the end
of September. The board
last month authorized
the organization to solicit
funds for its programs
and operations.
Requests for proposals for site locations are
due Sept. 29, after which
the 21-member board of
directors will choose a
field of finalists. Organizations in Big Sky, Big
Timber, Billings, Boulder, Hamilton, Huntley,
Lewistown, Livingston,
Madison County, Malta,
Miles City, Red Lodge,
Roundup, Shelby, Terry
and Wolf Point have all
taken applications.
The Legislature in 2003
selected Wolf Point as the
official site of the hall
of fame, but legislation
passed by state lawmakers earlier this year
opened the site election
process to other towns,
as well.
State Rep. Frank
Smith, D-Poplar, one
of the board members,
carried the bill at the
request of the hall of
fame officials.
Without the bill, the
board wasn’t able to
address concerns about
the feasibility of Wolf
Point as the site of the
hall of fame, officials
said.
“Wolf Point has the
opportunity to rally
around the project and
put forward an incredible request for proposal
effort,” Lyle said. “The
best building site is
going to be determined
by the best proposal that
address those needs of an
organization of our type
and our mission.”
Security system tries to
stay ahead of terrorists
research, the board decided a private contractor
could provide more flextor tests in the boarding
ibility in staffing and betareas of airports.
ter customer service.
While such requireEarlier this year,
ments may seem over
however, the opt-out
the top and more intrusive, using technology as program Glacier Park
International sought to
it advances could make
privatize its security
the process less burdenforce instead of using
some for travelers, he
federal workers was put
said.
“It’s the system staying on hold by the adminisone step ahead of the ter- trator of TSA.
TSA said that to prerorist,” Eliason said.
serve it as an effective
He also noted that the
increased bureaucracy of federal counterterrorism security network,
TSA been hugely expenit wouldn’t expand its
sive, costing billions of
Screening Partnership
dollars.
Program beyond the 16
airports that already had
WHILE MARTIN sees
privatized.
the need for thorough
The 2001 Aviation and
security checks at airports, she and the Airport Transportation Security
Act mandated that TSA
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seen eye to eye with TSA. establish pilot programs
at up to five airports
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where screening would
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service problems, particularly during the busy federal security employees an airport gets, and
summer tourism season.
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al has had several staffing
reductions over the past
few years. Martin said
that was a key reason for
the Airport Board moving forward with plans to
privatize.
A private contractor
can train and hire workers more quickly and
brings much more flexibility to the table, Martin
maintains.
Eliason agreed that
privatizing the airport
security force would
translate to a more efficient process.
“It’s a fact of life that
with a big bureaucracy
you get less efficiency,”
he said.
When he was director
of Glacier Park International, security was
handled through a private service that “did as
good a job as anyone else
could.”
He sees both sides of
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“I can see where it’s
easier for the government
with all of their employees under one thumb,” he
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of August to prevent the
organization from going
into the red.
“It would do more
harm to the organization to go on a sabbatical
or hiatus,” Lyles said.
“Christy and I have put
our heads together and
made sure we would do
everything we can to
make sure the project is
a success, even if that
included not cashing our
paychecks for a couple of
months.”
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5pm Social Hour - 6pm Dinner - Silent Auction
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or call 844-2424 or 752-6151
Celebration of Life for
Roger Lyall Vick
A celebration of life event is planned for Roger
Vick (Papa No) at The Eagles Club in Kalispell for
Friday, September 16, 2011 starting at 5:00 PM.
All of Roger’s family and friends are invited to
come share their remembrances, love and
humorous stories about Roger. Roger was
always the best dressed for the Annual Float Trip,
so please dress in your favorite float trip attire.
Join us for the
Join us for the
11th Annual
9th Annual
Pagan Pride Day
Pagan
Pride Day
Woodland Park
Depot
Park
in Kalispell
Formal
Garden
Area
Sept.19th
from
11:30-4:30
Sept. 17th
from
11-5
•Workshops • Vendors
• Children’s Activity Area
• Raffle • Two Ritual Circles
Please a bring a canned food
item for the food drive!
For more info call Gwen at 212-9334 or email at gwen@montana.com
To Celebrate the 10th Anniversary, we commissioned Pete
Thomas to design an iconic Rebecca Farm poster and limited
edition serigraph. Purchase at www.RebeccaFarm.org.
The Daily inTer lake
n Page A6
Sunday, September 11, 2011
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The Daily inTer lake
Sunday, September 11, 2011
No sign of foreign entry
in anniversary terror plot
WASHINGTON (AP) —
U.S. intelligence agencies
have found no evidence
that al-Qaida has sneaked
any terrorists into the
country for a strike
coinciding with the 10th
anniversary of the Sept.
11 attacks, senior officials
said Saturday.
But authorities kept a
high alert as investigators
looked for proof of a plot
possibly timed to disrupt
events planned Sunday in
Washington or New York.
Since late Wednesday,
counterterrorism officials
have chased a tip that
al-Qaida may have sent
three men to the U.S. on
a mission to detonate a
car bomb in either city.
At least two of those men
could be U.S. citizens,
according to the tip.
No intelligence supported that tip as of Saturday,
and officials continued to
question the validity of
the initial information.
While such tips are
common among intelligence agencies, this one
received more attention,
and government officials
chose to speak publicly
about it, because of the
connection to the anniversary of the worst terrorist
attack in U.S. history.
Al-Qaida long has hoped
to strike again on the
anniversary.
At the FBI field office
in Washington, assistant
director James McJunkin
described the tip and the
response as routine. The
U.S. already had bolstered
security nationwide
before the upcoming anniversary and anticipated
an increase in tips.
“We expect we’re going
to get an increase in
threats and investigative
activity around highprofile dates and events,”
he said. “This is a routine
response for us. It’s routine because it’s muscle
memory.”
Intelligence analysts
have looked at travel
patterns and behaviors
of people who recently
entered the country.
While they have singled
out a few people for additional scrutiny, none has
shown any involvement
in a plot, according to the
senior U.S. officials, who
insisted on anonymity to
discuss the investigation.
President Barack
Obama met with his
national security team
Saturday, but the White
House released no new
information about possible threats. A statement
said that counterterrorism
efforts were working well
and would not ease in the
weeks and months ahead.
The tip that touched off
the most recent investigation came from a CIA
informant who has proved
reliable in the past,
according to U.S. officials.
They said the informant
approached intelligence
officials overseas to
say that the men were
ordered by new al-Qaida
leader Ayman al-Zawahri
to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 by
doing harm on U.S. soil.
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Proceeds benefit Legendary Lodge
1ST PRIZE: a 2011 Subaru Legacy
2.5i Premium Sedan (similar to photo)
Tickets: $25/chance.
A maximum of 5,000 tickets
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held on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011.
Visit your local Catholic parish or school to purchase tickets.
Visit www.diocesehelena.org for raffle rules.
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Flathead County
Sheriff’s Posse
Fundraising Concert
A Tribute to JOHNNY CASH
by
“The Mighty
Cash Cats”
Friday,
Sept. 16, 2011
7:00 PM
at Glacier High School
Tickets at the door in exchange
for a donation.
Please come out and support the Flathead
County Sheriff’s Posse and meet some of
the Posse members.
Pedro the Friesian will be there too!
http://mightycashcats.com
for more
information call
249-1651
n Page A7
Spotlight
on Business
Gil’s Celebrates
31 Years In Business!
Gil’s Furniture makes it easy to
make your house a home with
large selection and low prices
By Melissa Walther
Advertising Writer
Areyoulivingonmilk-cratetablesandbean-bagchairsfromcollege?Isyour
furnitureamishmashofhand-me-downsthatscream“Iwasmadeinthe70’s,”or
areyoulookingtofurnishyournewofficeorthebaby’sroomwithoutbreakingthe
bank?
Whateveryourneedsorproject,whenit’stimetomakeyourhouseahome,there
hasbeenonechoiceintheFlatheadValleythathasprovidedqualityfurnitureat
affordablepricesformorethan31years.
Gil’sFurnitureonHighway40betweenWhitefishandColumbiaFallshasbeen
afamilytradition,bothforGilWashburn’sfamilyandforthe“family”ofcustomers
thatcomebackagainandagain.
“Repeatcustomersareinvaluable,theyareahugepartofourbusiness.That’s
importanttousbecauseitmeansthatwe’redoingourjob,”saidDonelWashburn,
sonoffounder
Gilbert.
Gilsmaybea
littlefartheraway
thanotherstores,but
thelowprices,family
attitudeandoldfashionedcustomer
servicedrawpeople
fromalloverthe
Northwestandeven
fromCanada.“It’s
worththetripin
theend,because
ofthesavingsand
selection,”said
Donel.“Wehaveagreatcustomerbase,aloyalbasethatkeepscomingback,some
forthepast30years,becauseofvalueandreallygoodold-fashionedservice.”
Whilethefamily-orientedcustomerserviceandgreatdealsarethesameas30
yearsago,therehavebeensomechangesovertheyears.
“Wejustfinishedremodelingthestore,”Donelsaid.“Weredesignedourentire
bedroomdepartment,addedsomebrandnewfurniturelines,andrepaintedthe
insideoftheentirestore.”
AnotherrecentchangeistheadditionofanewTempur-Pedicdepartment.
“WeselljustasmanyormoreTempur-PedicsthananybodyinNorthwest
Montana,andthere’sareasonforthat.WehaveTempur-Pedicexpertsthatarevery
knowledgeableabouttheproduct.”Gil’ssalesassociates,Don,KeithandNola,
haveoverthirtyyearscombinedexperiencewithmattressesandfurnitureandcan
helpcustomersfindjusttherightpiece.
StayingupdatedwiththelateststylesandserviceisimportantatGil’s.“There
couldbesomefutureexpansions,definitely,”Donelsaid.
WithGil’sextensiveselectiononhand,there’snowaitingforyourfurniture,
either.Allitemsaresoldrightoffthefloorsoyoucanenjoyyournewbedordining
tablethesamedayyoubuyit.
“It’soneoftheonlyrealwarehousefurnitureshowroomsleftinthevalley.
Becauseoflowoverheadwe’reabletoofferthesamebrandnamesandthesame
qualityasour
competitors,butfor
less.It’sreallythat
simple.”
Lowercosts
don’tmeanyou
havetocompromise
though.Ifyoudon’t
seeexactlywhat
youlike,Gil’scan
specialorderitems
orcheckwiththeir
manufacturersforthat
perfectpiece.And
thebestpartisyou
don’thavetopayany
moremoneytogetthepieceyouwantorderedjustforyou.
“Ifyouseesomethingonline,wecanorderitforyou,evenifwedon’tnormally
carrythatparticularpiece,”Donelsaid.
Gil’siscommittedtomakingthefurniturebuyingprocessaseasyand
comfortableaspossible.Youdon’tevenhavetodotheheavylifting;Gil’scan
deliverstraighttoyourdoor.
“Gil’severydaylowpriceisguaranteedtobeatanypriceinthestateofMontana
onthesameitems,”Donelsaid.“We’vegotthesamequalityfurniture,butGil’sgot
itforless.”
Youdon’thavetoworryaboutGil’sgoingawayanytimesoon,either.“We’re
thirtyoneyearsoldandstillgoingstrong,”Donelsaid.
“Sodon’tworry,we’regoingtobehere.Withtheeconomythewayit’sbeen,
thisindustryhasbeenaffectedalot.Therehavebeenfourorfivestoresthathave
disappearedoverthepastfewyearsbutGil’swillbehereforyearstocome.”
StopinanytimeinSeptemberandhelpGil’scelebrate31yearsinbusinessby
taking31percentoffitemsstorewide.Orputnomoneydownandtakeadvantage
ofthreeyears,interest-freefinancing.
Gil’sFurnitureislocatedat3555Hwy.40WestinColumbiaFalls.Call8922586formoreinformationorcheckthemoutonlineatwww.gilsgotit.com.
If you would like to have your business featured as a paid story in
our Spotlight on Area Businesses section, contact Melissa Walther at
the Daily Inter Lake (758-4474) for story sizes and rates.
The Daily inTer lake
n Page A8
Sunday, September 11, 2011
WORLD
Egyptians storm
Israeli embassy
with Egypt, a linchpin
of security in the Middle
East.
“We are working
together with the EgypCAIRO, Egypt — Egypt tian government to return
declared a state of emerour ambassador to Cairo
gency Saturday after a
soon,” Netanyahu said.
mob stormed the Israeli
Trying to calm tensions,
embassy outside Cairo,
the Israeli leader also
forcing the evacuation of
thanked Egyptian special
the ambassador and deal- forces soldiers for rescuing what Israeli Prime
ing embassy staff memMinister Benjamin Netan- bers who were trapped
yahu called a “severe inju- inside the embassy in
ry to the fabric of peace”
Giza, a Cairo suburb,
between the two increaswhen the attacks took
ingly uneasy allies.
place.
Egyptian officials said
But the incident underthat 38 people arrested in scored the sharply deteriothe violence would face
rating relations between
“immediate prosecution”
the neighbors since the
for the attack that began
ouster of Egyptian Presilate Friday night, when
dent Hosni Mubarak in
hundreds of demonstraFebruary following weeks
tors broke down a secuof historic protests. Many
rity wall and ransacked
Egyptians are venting
files from a storage area
long-suppressed anger at
in a remarkable breach of Israel over its treatment
security at the normally
of Palestinians and, more
well-guarded embassy.
recently, the killing of five
Israeli air force planes
Egyptian police officers
left Cairo early Saturin a border incident in
day carrying the Israeli
August.
ambassador, Yitzhak
After crisis meetings
Levanon, and 80 embassy with members of the
workers and family mem- cabinet and Egypt’s ruling
bers out of the country.
military council, InforIsrael said that its diplomation Minister Osama
Heikal said on state televimatic mission in Egypt
sion that the government
continued to operate
had implemented a state
through a consul office,
of emergency “in order
however, and Netanyahu
to protect the stability of
said in nationally telethe country and protect
vised remarks that Israel
embassies and foreign
would “hold fast” to its
missions.”
32-year-old peace accord
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Greek economy and
unrest go hand in hand
THESSALONIKI, Greece
(AP) — Greece’s government will meet ambitious
savings targets this year
despite a deepening recession, the prime minister
said Saturday, to secure
the continued flow of
international rescue loans
that are protecting debtcrippled Greece from a
catastrophic bankruptcy.
As George Papandreou
delivered his annual,
keynote speech on the
economy in Greece’s second-largest city of Thessaloniki, police on the streets
outside clashed with
violent demonstrators as
more than 25,000 people —
from taxi-drivers to sports
fans — joined a wave of
anti-austerity protests.
Two people were arrest-
ed and nearly 100 people
detained, police said, while
at least two demonstrators
were injured during the
clashes in the northern
port city.
“We will push through all
the major changes our country has needed for years,”
Papandreou said in a nationally televised address. “And
we will take whatever other
decisions are needed, we
will do whatever is necessary to keep the country on
its feet.”
Papandreou added that
his main concern was to
keep the country solvent.
“We don’t have the right
to abandon this effort
halfway through,” he said.
“Because if it remains halfdone, (our) sacrifices will
have been in vain.”
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The Daily inTer lake
Sunday, September 11, 2011
n Page A9
RECORDS/MONTANA
Memorial service
Bomb threat clears out Evergreen bar
TheFlathead County
Sheriff’s Officerespondedtoabombthreatat
Acelebrationofthelife 17at1801ErnestinMisofMaxineNess,89,who soula.Friendsandfamily abarinEvergreenon
areinvitedtoparticipate Montana35at5:48p.m.
diedJuly16atFriendFriday.Accordingto
inremembranceofthe
shipHouseinKalispell,
SheriffChuckCurry,an
lifeofthisexceptional
willbeheldfrom2to5
unidentifiedcustomer
woman.
p.m.onSaturday,Sept.
claimedtherewasabomb
inthebarthatwould
detonateintwohours.
Outofanabundanceof
caution,officersclosed
andtapedoffthebusiDonald Edward ‘Don’ Wagner, 78
nessuntilitwasclearthe
Donald
inKalispell,andalsothree
threatwasungrounded,at
Edward
women’sclothingstoresin
whichpointthebarwas
“Don”WagKalispell,TheCloset,Touch reopened.
ner,passed
ofClass,andFashionLady.
AColumbiaFalls
awayatthe
HealsohadstoresinButte
residentreportedhearBrendan
andGreatFalls.
Housein
Dogswereofspecialinterest inggunfireon14thStreet
EastNorthat8:09p.m.
Kalispellon
toDon.HeownedCollieand
Maxine Ness
Obituaries
Sept.1,2011.
Hewas
bornin
Kalispellon
Dec.6,1932,
thesonof
Charlesand
Velma(Parker)Wagner.
DongrewupinKalispell
andgraduatedfromFlathead
HighSchoolin1951.Followinghighschoolheenlisted
intheAirForceandserved
hiscountryfor41/2years.
WhilestationedatSewart
AirForceBaseinTennessee
hemetStellaMaeWhiteof
Nashville,Tenn.,andthey
marriedonOct.8,1955.
From1957to1980Don
hadvariousjobswithShell
Oil,IBM,Vanderbilt,KGEZ
RadiostationinKalispell
andWSIATVstationin
Nashville.Hewasavery
goodbusinessmanand
ownedthreewomen’sclothingstoresinNashville,TN.,
theMiddleTreeApartments
Malamuteshowdogswhile
livinginNashvilleandwon
numerousribbonsandawards.
Healsolovedtofishandwould
neverturndownachanceto
gofishingwithfriends.
Donwasprecededindeath
byhisparents,Charlesand
VelmaWagner;andabrother,JimWagner.
Heissurvivedbyhiswife,
StellaofKalispell;sister-inlaw,PatWagnerofKalispell;
nephew,KenWagnerof
Homer,Alaska;niece,DarleneFowlerofFortWayne,
Ind.;doublecousinGary
Wagenerandhiswife,Linda,
ofKalispell;andmanygood
friends.
Aprivategravesideservice
willbeheldatalaterdate.
Johnson-GloschatFuneral
HomeandCrematoryiscaringforDon’sfamily.Youare
invitedtogotowww.jgfuneralhome.comtoviewDon’s
guestbook,offercondolences
andsharememories.
numberofyears,hemet
Francineandmarriedher
onSept.3,2006,atFlathead
RiverRanch.Togetherthey
havelovinglyraisedfive
children.
Carlwillalwaysbe
rememberedbyfriendsand
familyasatrulyhonorablemanwhoalwayshad
apositiveoutlookonlife.
Youwouldoftenhearhim
answerthatthingsare“wonderful”tomostanyquestion.
Hewasadevoted,faithful
father,husbandandthebest
friendanyonecouldaskfor.
SomeofCarl’sotherinterestsincludedboating,fishing,camping,huntingand
four-wheeling.Helovedthe
littlethingsinlifeandreally
enjoyedspendingtimewith
hisfamilyandfriends.Fam-
strongestmanwehaveever
knownandheuseditonly
forgood.
Carlwasprecededin
deathbyhismother,Linda
JosephineKinner.
Heissurvivedbyhiswife,
Francine;hisfivechildren,
Karli,Cody,Tyler,Joshua
andJacob,allofWhitefish;
hisfather,ErvinVolkmann,
ofMosinee,Wis.;andhis
brother,BryanVolkmann,
ofLolo.
Amemorialservicefor
Carlwillbeheldat2p.m.,
Sept.12,atAustinFuneral
HomeinWhitefish.
ArrangementsareentrustedtoAustinFuneralHome.
Youareinvitedtogoto
www.austinfh.comtooffer
condolencesandviewCarl’s
tributewall.
a.m.Saturdaythathis
1995Dodgetruckwas
justbrokenintoandseveralitemstaken,someof
whichweredroppeddown
anintheir20ssmoking
Friday.
theroad.Thecallerdid
Aphysicaldisturbance marijuanainLawrence
notseewhodidit,but
Parkat2:10p.m.SaturwasreportedonU.S.93
witnessedthemrunning
SouthinLakesideat3:20 day.Avehicledeparted
asofficersarrivedandno northonSeventhAvenue
a.m.Saturday.
West.Onepotentialsusoffenderswerelocated.
pectmentionedbythe
Officersassistedona
TheKalispell Police
callerwasfoundtohavea
Department respondedto callforsupportaftera
motorhomewasreported felonywarrantoutofthe
afightonBingCourtat
FlatheadCountySheriff’s
onfireinaparkinglot
11:28a.m.Saturday.Officersarresteda16-year-old onNorthMeridianRoad Officeandamisdemeanor
southofWestIdahoStreet outofGlacierCounty.
boywhohadjustbeen
inaphysicalfightwith
at6:45p.m.Friday.The
TheLake County
hisstepfatherandtransfirewasbroughtunder
portedhimtothejuvenile controlinapproximately Sheriff’s Officeinvestigatedastudent’sthreat
detentioncenter.
10minutes.
Officersrespondedtoa
ASeventhAvenueWest toburndownMission
MiddleSchoolat2:32p.m.
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Law enforcement roundup
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
BUSINESS
Workplace Learn the ‘Leadership Imperative’
watercooler
Local seminar to
span three days
Small business
funding available
By TOM LOTSHAW
The Daily Inter Lake
Montana West Economic
Development is among nine
local development organizations selected by Montana’s
Office of Economic Development to roll out the state Small
Business Credit Initiative in the
greater Flathead region.
The Office of Economic
Development, state Department of Commerce and Board
of Investments will working with
Montana West to find projects
and help complete applications.
Montana is eligible to receive
$13.2 million via transfer under
the initiative and the U.S.
Department of Treasury with
funding through the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010. The
legislation created the initiative
to strengthen state programs
that support lending to small
businesses and small manufacturers.
Funds are used for business
loans at very attractive interest rates. Projects are funded
in conjunction with local banks
providing the borrower an
overall better than market rate.
The application process is now
open.
Montana West Economic
Development has submitted
the region’s first project in
partnership with Glacier Bank
and Connector Technology
Inc.
For additional information call
Montana West’s Tina Oliphant,
257-7711.
Shechtman talks
on Wednesday
The Blueprint for Business
Success brown bag lunch
on Wednesday will feature a
presentation by Morrie Shechtman about “Accountability vs.
Harassment: How to Avoid Pester Management.”
He will clarify the meaning
and utility of the concept of
accountability.
Shechtman, chairman of
Fifth Wave Leadership, is a
renowned speaker who has
lectured worldwide on the connection between personal and
professional transformation and
productivity.
Monthly Blueprint for Business Success sessions feature
business professionals facilitating informative discussions.
Those attending receive relevant information, opportunities to ask questions of the
professionals and network with
peers.
The session begins at noon
on at the Flathead Valley Community College Arts & Technology Building, Room 139. There
is no cost to attend.
RSVP to Terri Haueter at
758-6279 or email thaueter@
mt.gov.
Wind summit set
for Sept. 25-28
BILLINGS — Wind industry
executives and government officials will gather in Big Sky later
this month for a conference
intended to spur wind energy
development in the West.
The four-day Western Wind
and Transmission Leadership Summit will be held in the
Montana resort town beginning
Sept. 25.
State officials say Montana’s
wind industry has expanded
from less than 1 megawatt
of energy produced in 2005
to more than 386 megawatts
today. Further expansion will
require additional transmission
lines, a prospect threatened
by opposition from landowners
and difficulties financing large
projects.
Gov. Brian Schweitzer said
in a statement that the conference in Big Sky will provide an
opportunity to find solutions to
the transmission problem.
The event is sponsored by
the state of Montana, Northwestern Energy, Gaelectric and
other industry and government
groups.
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and The Associated Press
Old jobs may not be coming back
The Daily Inter Lake
A three-day seminar in
Kalispell this week aims to
help leaders learn more about
how to grow themselves both
personally and professionally.
Only then will they be able to
help their colleagues and organizations grow, said Kalispell
resident Morrie Shechtman,
who will run the seminar with
his wife, Arleah.
“A leader can grow an organization only as far as they
have gone with their own
growth,” said Shechtman, an
author, speaker and chairman
of Fifth Wave Leadership, a
human capital consulting firm.
Shechtman has worked with
executives and other key decision-makers for more than 30
years, consulting them about
managing disruptive change,
developing leaders and creating growth-oriented and selfsustaining corporate cultures.
The seminar, titled “The
Leadership Imperative, Managing Yourself for Growth and
With the local unemployment rate seemingly stuck in
double digits, one of the first
steps to rebuilding the Flathead Valley’s economy will be
realizing that some of the jobs
lost won’t be coming back,
Morrie Shechtman said.
“I think everyone will need
to realize that the old jobs
that many people lost and
were well-trained for are not
coming back,” he said.
Shechtman, a business consultant and teacher, sees the
Flathead becoming a startup
haven, pointing to younger
companies such as Zinc Air
and Nomad Global CommuniChange,” runs from Sept. 16-18
at the Hampton Inn.
Part of an executive education series, the seminar was
organized in association with
the School of Business Administration at the University of
Montana, where Shechtman
teaches several MBA courses
as an adjunct instructor.
cations Solutions.
“These are organizations
that will be game-changers,”
he said, adding that the Flathead is well-suited for startup
businesses.
“The Flathead is the perfect
place for it, with the great
quality of life and a great
work force to draw on. It’s a
great incubator for innovation.”
Workers of the future also
will need to be more entrepreneurial, Shechtman said.
“People in the future should
not be looking for the old job
to work the rest of their life.
That isn’t going to happen
anymore ... We’re becoming a
nation of free agents.”
According to Shechtman,
A seminar in Missoula in
June drew people from across
the country. Shechtman hopes
to build on that national participation with the seminar in
Kalispell and draw in leaders
from the Flathead Valley.
“We’re trying to recruit
people from all over the country to this, but we really want
another important aspect
of rebuilding the Flathead’s
economy will be improved
work-force development training.
A major part of that will be
expanding training to include
not only traditional hard
skills such as carpentry or
welding but also people skills.
“That’s what I see missing,”
he said.
“People getting ahead are
the people who can connect
with people. If you can connect with people [quickly
and deeply] you will stay
employed. If you struggle with
that, you will be unemployed
chronically. That’s a key issue
for the Flathead as well as
most of the country.”
significant participation by
leaders in the Flathead in all
kinds of organizations, for-profit and not-for-profit. Everyone
can really benefit from this,”
Shechtman said.
The seminar will teach
people to be quick and regretSee LEARN on Page A11
Canola business blooming for growers
The Associated Press
The canola bloom is
a rite of summer in the
Flathead Valley, with
pretty yellow fields
emerging across the
region’s lush farmland.
But this annual event,
while embraced as customary today, is actually
a new phenomenon, at
least on such a widespread scale.
Over roughly the
past decade, and especially the last five years,
Flathead farmers have
increasingly looked to
canola as both a useful
rotation crop and a viable moneymaker, with
demand for healthier
oils such as canola oil
on the rise. It can also
be used for biofuels.
The spread of canola
in Northwest Montana
is further encouraged
by the region’s close
proximity to Canada,
a major canola market
and home to crushers
necessary to make the
oil. Canola is traded on
a Canadian commodities
exchange.
“Canola has been
around for a long time,
especially in Canada,
but it’s just catching on
here,” Doug Manning, a
local farmer, said.
Miles Passmore has
grown canola for six
years, not counting
an earlier short-lived
experiment, qualifying him as one of the
more experienced
canola producers in the
region. He said years
ago he and his father
tried growing canola,
but low prices and lack
of experience with the
new crop deterred the
Passmores.
Today Passmore raises
between 300 and 400
The Associated Press
DOUG MANNING pulls a handful of canola seeds from a bin at his farm east of Kalispell.
acres of canola in the
valley.
“Now, with the prices
today, it’s actually a
worthy crop for us to
be growing,” Passmore
said.
Canola is recognized
most notably by its yellow blooming stage. The
yellow blooms then turn
into green pods containing small seeds.
“Think about it like
a pea pod, but smaller
and narrower with seeds
that are significantly
smaller,” said Markus
Braaten, an agronomist
with CHS Kalispell.
Last month, Passmore
and Manning were in
the midst of harvesting
— swathing the plants
and then picking them
up with a combine, dur-
ing which the “pods are
actually thrashed off,”
Braaten said. The seeds
are then sent to crushers to be made into oil.
The nearest crusher is
in Lethbridge, Alberta.
“The crop looks really
good right now out
there,” Passmore said.
Since canola is a
short-season crop, Passmore said colder Canadian farming regions
have grown it for years.
The crop has several
other qualities that
Flathead farmers like,
Passmore said. For one,
he said it’s “Roundupready.”
“We can go out there
and kill off the weeds
without harming the
canola,” Passmore said.
Also, Braaten said
canola gives farmers
“a viable crop rotation,
something other than
wheat or barley,” that
can help “interrupt the
pest and disease cycle.”
“There are some distinct agronomic benefits
in using canola,” he
said.
Across Montana,
canola has been grown
for some time, as demonstrated by statistics from
the National Agricultural Statistics Service.
According to the service, Montana farmers
planted 65,000 acres of
canola in 2000. Acreage
fell precipitously until
reaching a low of 6,500
in 2009. Last year, that
number jumped back up
to 17,500.
But Mark Lalum,
general manager of
CHS Kalispell, said
canola has only taken
off in the Flathead on a
significant scale in the
past five years or so. He
said valley farmers have
“always searched for
alternative crops” and
canola, propelled by a
“really strong” market,
has now become a viable
alternative.
Prices have increased
so much in the past
several years that,
according to the ag statistics service, the value
of canola in Montana
increased from $131 per
acre in 2006 up to $346
per acre in 2010.
“Demand is up,”
Lalum said. “Now it’s
a good, usable crop for
us.”
Cantor Fitzgerald: surviving 9/11 and thriving
By NATHANIEL POPPER
Los Angeles Times
NEW YORK — Three weeks
after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, workers in the
Los Angeles office of Cantor
Fitzgerald flew to New York to
attend the memorial for Cantor
employees who had died in the
firm’s offices near the top of
One World Trade Center.
Chairman and Chief
Executive Howard Lutnick,
whose own brother and best
friends were among 658 Cantor employees killed, girded
himself for another loss. He
was convinced that the L.A.
employees had come to tell him
they were leaving for a less
broken firm.
His heart pounded as they
walked into his Manhattan
apartment to deliver the news.
“We’re never leaving.”
“See, it’s unbelievable — I
get emotional every time.
Unbelievable,” Lutnick said
after choking up while recounting the story recently.
As it turns out, those employees didn’t need to worry about
Cantor’s future. At the same
time that Lutnick was shuttling between funerals, he was
also bringing on new employees to begin rebuilding Cantor.
On the weekend before the
memorial, Lutnick had interviewed and hired 35 people
from temporary office space in
midtown Manhattan.
The expansion has rarely
stopped since then. Lutnick,
who oversaw 2,100 employees
before Sept. 11, when Cantor
was known primarily for trading bonds, now oversees 4,500
employees and has grown his
company into a full-service
investment bank.
The Sept. 11 attacks devastated Wall Street firms that had
their offices in the twin towers.
But among the many improbable things to come out of that
day is the phoenix-like rebirth
of these companies.
Investment bank Keefe Bruyette & Woods has nearly tripled
in size from its pre-Sept. 11
size, after losing 67 of its 224
employees.
Sandler O’Neill, a boutique bank that lost 66 of 171
employees, is now nearly twice
as large as it was before the
attacks.
No company, though, lost
as many employees as Cantor.
And none has risen to be quite
so powerful a decade later.
As the 10th anniversary of
the attacks approaches, the
company is planning for its
annual memorial in Central
Park and putting out news
releases about its Monday
charity day. But Lutnick is
also making plans to expand
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
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BUSINESS
Firm relied on kindness of strangers
employees that were
gone, Cantor had lost
into hedge funds and real most of the files, hard
drives and technological
estate brokering.
“I couldn’t imagine he’d capability that make a
brokerage firm tick.
build it back as strongly
Its early survival is
as he has,” said Richard
due in no small part to
Repetto, an industry
the kindness of stranganalyst who works for
ers. Technology firm
Sandler O’Neill and has
followed Cantor’s growth Cisco Systems Inc. sent a
dozen 18-wheelers full of
since the attacks.
routers, cables and other
“Those firms — it was
hardware to Cantor’s
devastation. Just to see
any of them survive says office in New Jersey.
Microsoft Corp. flew out
a lot,” Repetto said.
some 50 employees to help
Cantor’s new offices
Cantor break into the
in midtown Manhatpassword-protected comtan reflect the balance
puter accounts of all the
between the past and the
workers who were gone.
future. The executive
“We are stuck together
suites are modestly positioned on the second floor with string and bubble
gum,” Lutnick said about
— 100-some floors lower
the aftermath of Sept. 11.
than they were in the
He and the other surtwin towers — but they
viving executives had
overlook Park Avenue
to make hard decisions
and have all the glass
quickly. The corporate
and lacquered wood you
bond desk lost 82 of its
would expect from a suc86 employees, so it was
cessful investment bank.
shut down. The boss of
On Lutnick’s desk are
the U.S. stock trading
statuettes commemoratteam happened to be out
ing some deals involvof the office that day, so
ing Cantor. He also has
he was given the power to
a bronze hand, done by
rebuild his division.
Auguste Rodin, that was
Lutnick’s most conon his desk in the World
troversial move was to
Trade Center. It was
cut off the paychecks to
found in the rubble.
employees who had died.
“It’s just got a couple
little scratches and dents At almost the same time,
though, he committed to
on it,” Lutnick said,
giving the victims’ famiexamining it again. “It
lies 25 percent of Cantor’s
came from, you know,
profits for five years, and
1,500 feet up.”
10 years of health care.
Lutnick survived that
That motivated much
morning because he was
taking his son to his first of the company’s early
growth strategy.
day of kindergarten.
“We built our current
That evening the other
business line and when
survivors convened on a
call in which they decided we found the right boss to
add the next business line
together to keep going.
we added that, but always
During the days that followed, though, it was not with an eye toward
short-term profitability,
clear that would be posbecause we had to help
sible.
our friends’ families,”
In addition to the
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Lutnick said. “That was
the key driver for us.”
In the ensuing years
Cantor, still working out of
temporary offices, bought
other brokers, but also
went in unexpected new
directions like gambling.
Cantor Gaming created
mobile devices that are
used in the sports betting
parlors of Las Vegas casinos (in a similar vein, last
year Cantor tried to create a forum for betting on
movie box-office results,
but it was ultimately
banned by lawmakers).
The breakthrough year
was 2004, when Cantor’s
board decided to break off
the division that executes
trades on behalf of banks
and institutional clients —
the business that was the
hardest hit 9/11. BGC Partners, where Lutnick is also
the CEO and chairman,
went public in 2008 and
now has 3,000 employees.
By 2006, Cantor’s
growth had delivered
$180 million to the Sept.
11 victims’ families, and
these families have tended
to speak in glowing terms
about Lutnick and Cantor.
“I’m glad to see that
they are strong and thriving,” said Bonnie McEneaney, whose husband,
Eamon, was a senior
vice president at Cantor.
“That’s an important end
product of their focus on
the future after such a
horrific event.”
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‘Culture demands you
stay in growth curve’
dying.
“A lot of people are trying to hold steady. That
free decision makers;
won’t work any more
clarify personal vision
because people have a
and core values; become
lot more information and
a high-intimacy and lowmaintenance relationship higher expectations. You
either grow into those
builder; and develop the
expectations or go out of
feedback, listening and
observational skills need- business.”
Many of those higher
ed to enhance relationships and promote talent. expectations come from
the rise of the Internet,
Leaders are being confronted by an accelerating which has created a
range of new opportunirate of change in their
ties and challenges for
organizations, and the
need for lifelong personal businesses and organizations.
growth extends to every“It gives clients and
one, Shechtman said.
consumers an enormous
“This culture demands
information base. People
you stay in a growth
then go to organizations
curve your whole life ...
and challenge them with
One reason we have a
large unemployment rate the information they
is the people who haven’t have,” Shechtman said.
“That challenge is good
grown their skill base or
people skills. If they don’t because it grows the
organizations being chalrealize it’s about them,
they’ll stay unemployed.” lenged. But it will also
A key focus of the semi- put some people behind
the eight ball if they don’t
nar is teaching leaders
change the way they’ve
how they can grow their
always operated.”
organizations to have
The cost to participate
better people than their
in the seminar is $1,500.
competitors.
That includes meals and
Organizations that can
a tour of Glacier National
do that will be able to
Park. For more informagrow and thrive, Shechttion or to register, visit
man said. He added that
www.business.umt.edu/
growth is imperative in
the current economic cli- LeadershipImperative.
To register by phone, call
mate, and organizations
Kathy White at 243-6715.
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