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Weekend: Burns Hospitalized, North Fork Gold, Ice Climber Dies

By Beacon Staff

Good morning; on the Beacon today, former Sen. Conrad Burns is in intensive care after suffering a stroke at his home in Arlington, Virginia Wednesday night. Local artist Pauline Graziano’s Etch-a-Sketch creations have to be seen to be believed. In Class A boys basketball, Columbia Falls has as strong of a claim as anybody to “team of the decade.” Canadian mining company Max Resource Corp. said sample drilling indicates a rich gold find in southern British Columbia, adding to concerns about natural resource development just north of Glacier National Park. And Mick Holien praises Marc Mariani, who he says serves as an example to any aspiring college football player that success is more about heart than where you come from or how large you are in stature.

Montana school trust lands generated $85.3 million for public education and school facilities during Fiscal Year 2009. We take a closer look at Elouise Cobell, who achieved this week’s landmark settlement on behalf of as many as 500,000 native Americans, in which the US agreed to pay $3.4 billion to right a century of wrongs that cheated Indians out of the proceeds from their properties. World-class ice climber Guy Lacelle died in an avalanche during an ice climbing event in Montana. The Bozeman Chronicle has more on his life and climbing resume. Lee’s Jennifer McKee reports Sen. Max Baucus’ former state director – and now his live-in girlfriend – met at least twice with the senator’s divorce attorney to discuss the Baucuses’ divorce eight months before the senator and his wife, Wanda, separated. Gov. Brian Schweitzer is expected to cement his truce with a conservative livestock group, the Montana Stockgrowers Association, today as he delivers the keynote speech at the group’s annual convention. More than $80,000 in overcharges will be refunded to some Montana telephone customers after an investigation by the Montana Public Service Commission into “crammed” charges on phone bills. Two months into the state’s new, expanded children’s health insurance program, only a net 740 kids have been added, as health officials try to erase a backlog in processing applications.