Thanks, Glacier Bank

To the editor,

Columbia Falls Community Kitchen thanks Gary Sparr and Glacier Bank for the pork donated to the organization. It will feed many people. Again, thank you.

We also thank Margaret Burns for her many years of service. We congratulate Nancy Burns as a new Columbia Falls Community Kitchen board member and welcome her.

Tina Gordon

Columbia Falls

Badger-Two Medicine area should not shut us out

To the editor,

In less than a month and a half the Badger-Two Medicine area will be closed for good to all ATVs, motorcycles and snowmobiles. It's amazing how a handful of environmentalists and outfitters can get the Forest Service to shut down an area that's been open for years. We users need to contact our senators who helped shut down the area — Jon Tester and Max Baucus — and also the Lewis and Clark Forest Service for the reasoning of shutting us out of more public land.

In the area surrounding the 133,000-acre Badger-Two Medicine area we have the 1.4 million-acre Glacier National Park, 1.5 million-acre Bob Marshall Wilderness and 285,771-acre Great Bear Wilderness. Take the Badger-Two Medicine away and there will be no more public lands in this area for ATV or motorcycle use.

We have more than enough wilderness area. Please, let's get this area turned back for public use so we can all use it — motorists, hikers and on horseback. We can share!

Stephen R. Peters

Kalispell

Polebridge people honest

To the editor,

Friday, Aug. 28 was the tail end of our five perfect days of camping at Bowman Lake and doing some volunteer work at the Polebridge Ranger Station. We decided to have one last nosh of the outstanding home-made food from the Polebridge Mercantile, and the ten of us gathered on their picnic tables about 40 yards north of the store. I took a few pictures.

The next day, on the east side of the park, I looked for my camera to take with me on the hike up to Grinnell Glacier. To my great consternation, I realized I had left it on the picnic table in Polebridge! So I called the Polebridge Mercantile, and they reported that it was not in their lost and found. My heart sunk.

I asked them to look on the picnic table, and, sure enough, the camera bag, and its $4,000 in contents, was sitting right where I had left it.

Thanks to the good people of Polebridge for your basic honesty and decency.

Stan Peyton

Austin, Texas