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Time to dig deeper

Time to dig deeper BURNING QUESTIONS Ben Roberts-Smith allegedly burying USB sticks filled with damning photographs, The Sydney Morning Heraldreports that the Australian Federal Police has seized evidence as part of a fresh investigation into the Victoria Cross recipient allegedly conspiring to silence witnesses for the Brereton war crimes inquiry. New evidence includes letters Roberts-Smith allegedly placed in sealed envelopes and planned to send anonymously to SAS soldiers he feared would testify against him, as well as the existence of at least five “burner” phones he arranged to be purchased in 2018. Elsewhere, The Australian ($)reports that a senior officer shown in one of the lewd photographs at the unauthorised on-base “Fat Lady’s Arms” bar in Afghanistan is now a colonel tasked with helping reform special forces culture.

A Garfield County resource seeks more people to serve

Chelsea Self / Post Independent Garfield County’s libraries are asking for community feedback through a series of focus groups they’ll be conducting over Zoom. James Larson, the marketing and communications manager for the county’s libraries, said some might consider libraries an outdated resource, but they continue to be a place for education and information and want to be as accessible to the needs of community members as possible. “We are a center of knowledge, information, knowledge creation. We are here for everyone in the community. … It’s fairly obvious the (Latino) community is neglected in a lot of senses. With other government’s entities. We’re basically here to promote reading and education no matter what it takes to get a person there,” Larson said.

Alliance for Youth advocated county restrict marijuana dispensaries

Representatives from the Substance Prevention Abuse Alliance (SABA) made a presentation before the Cascade County Commission suggested increased restrictions on potential dispensaries, citing higher teen use of marijuana in the county compared to the state at the commission’s meeting Tuesday.  Executive Director for the Alliance for Youth, the parent organization for SABA, Kristy Pontet-Stroop said 50% of Great Falls high school students used marijuana. Pontet-Stroop said this is 20% higher than the state average. The presentation cited the 2019 Great Falls Public School Youth Risk Behavior Survey.  “All of these students live within the bounds of Cascade County, so we re concerned about all of them, especially our inner city kids, and even more of our rural kids,” Pontet-Stroop said. 

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