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Pat Gambing, U.S.
AN INDEX OF Army veteran and
RECENT current member
NEWSMAKERS
of Montana Army
National Guard’s
495th Combat
CHOSEN
Sustainment Sup-
For the U.S. Olympic port Battalion,
Freeskiiing Team, Whiteish receives help from
Sherry Taylor
native and 15-year-old while applying for
phenom Maggie Voision. She veteran education
will be the youngest Olympian beneits in the
to compete at the Winter Veterans Center
Games since 1972. at Flathead Valley
(STORY, PAGE 7)
Community Col-
lege on Jan. 21.

GREG LINDSTROM
OPPOSED
FLATHEAD BEACON
By Montana Gov. Steve
Bullock, stringent federal
driver’s license rules passed
in the REAL ID Act of 2005.
Homeland Security oicials

say Montana’s licenses and
identiication cards still don’t
comply with the law.

CONFIRMATION
More Resources for Veterans at FVCC
Expected of Montana Sen.
Max Baucus to the post of
ambassador of China. The
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee held a hearing on New Veterans’ Center helps men and
his nomination this week.
That didn’t work. Eventually that road led me to the streets.”
women maintain the spirit of Daniels spent ive years of and on subsisting on the crumbs
of life and sleeping wherever he found shelter.
camaraderie while achieving new “I just didn’t know what to do,” he says.
RELEASED
goals in the classroom
An organization devoted to helping veterans in Boise found
Daniels and encouraged him to undergo alcohol treatment and
By Lt. Gov. John Walsh, develop ways to deal with situations and adversity without turn-
who is running for Baucus’ ing to drugs and alcohol or suicide, a prevailing tragedy that
U.S. Senate seat, 400 By DILLON TABISH of the Beacon
pages of military records plagues veterans.
last week. Walsh was Barely a few years removed from serving as an oicer in the He stuck with the program for two years and it was during
responding reports that he U.S. Coast Guard, Robert Daniels was an alcoholic living in the this turnaround that the idea came up to go back to school.
was reprimanded in 2010 for streets.
Daniels grew up in Great Falls, but the Flathead held a spe-
pressuring Montana National In his late 40s and without a college education, he tried work- cial place in his mind. Just over two years ago, he arrived with
Guard troops to join a private ing construction, but the constant wear and tear beat up a body a tent, a sleeping bag and a class schedule for Flathead Valley
association.
that had already toiled under years of intense search and rescue Community College. He set up camp along Whiteish Lake and

missions and military training. He became injured, demoralized stayed there for nearly a month, living under a tarp in the rain,
and, like hundreds of thousands of other American veterans, un- while he began attending FVCC. He became a frequent presence
employed.
“When I came out of the service I was pretty lost,” he says.
“When you get home, that camaraderie is gone. I started to drink.
See Vets Center PAGE 18

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Heating Tips From RADIANT TUBE HEATERS
Center of Lakeside, adjacent to park and beach.
the ThermoCouple
Radiant tube heaters are a nice heating option for
garages and workshops where you want to heat
• High visibility with abundant parking
people while they are there but not the entire
• Excellent high traic Hwy 93 space for long periods of time. It is a little like sit-
frontage.
ting under the French fry warmer in a diner. Turn
it on, and you feel the warmth, turn it off and you’ll
• Leases in place with additional space be chilly again, but at least you won’t by paying to heat boxes in storage or bikes and gear.
available for new business ventures.
• Plumbed for restaurant use.
• Building has been split into condos so
individual spaces can be purchased.
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