Montana opens independent public health institute
KIANNA GARDNER, Daily Inter Lake
March 14, 2021
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KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) Montana’s first independent public health institute is officially up and running with projects aimed at strengthening the state’s public health system by focusing on its rural, frontier and tribal communities and by supporting sound health policy and funding.
With the forming of the Montana Public Health Institute, the state has now joined the ranks of more than 30 other states that also boast independent public health institutes. The entities are supported by the National Network of Public Health Institutes, which seeks to improve public health structures, systems and outcomes on a national scale.
With east Glacier closed to help tribe, businesses fret
Tristan Scott, Flathead Beacon
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FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2013, file photo, Ingrid Forsmark kayaks on Kintla Lake in Glacier National Park, Mont. Public access to Glacier National Park s east entrances has been prohibited since March 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, creating worries for businesses that rely on tourism.Matt Volz/AP
KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) Public access to Glacier National Park’s east entrances has been prohibited since last March as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, with tribal, state, local, and federal officials reaching a consensus to maintain the closure even after other areas of the park reopened in order to safeguard vulnerable members of the Blackfeet Nation.
James William Meyer, 98, of Alpena, Michigan, passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021.
He was born February 4, 1922 in Huntertown, Indiana, to Daniel Ben Meyer and his wife, Anna Louise Senn. Jim grew up on a farm, the son of a sharecropper. His mother died in childbirth when Jim was five, and he was raised by his family, particularly his oldest sister, Marguerite. Friends and neighbors thought it best to send the children to relatives, but his father kept his family together. Their hardest year was 1933, in the Great Depression. The children were thrilled to receive a single orange from Santa Claus at Christmas. Jim was teased at school when he wore trousers sewn from horse blankets. His family had no running water or electricity. His chore was to carry water to the house from the well. Jim raised rabbits for his family to eat.
Tourism, recreation raise Flathead Co. home prices nearly 70% more than Missoula Co.
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KALISPELL â Thanks to tourism and many other factors, Flathead County is a very desirable place for people to settle down.
âI donât want the community to feel like well everyone from every out of state is moving to Kalispell Montana, but you know we always have people moving home you know aging parents that need help and my classmates are starting to move home right so they because they finally reached a place in their life where they can move back home, said Chuck Olson Real Estate broker Wendy Brown who is also a member of the Northwest Montana Association of Realtors (NMAR).