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Noted Neurosurgeon, Conservative

Just
Sayin’.

Columnist Speaks at Stillwater Christian

“Someone who was
taught hatred did Ben Carson spoke to

this to me. I could students about the
have been killed, my importance of reading
receptionist could
before speaking at
have been killed,
because (he) was Kalispell dinner
armed. I don’t trust

this community like I
used to.”
By JUSTIN FRANZ of the Beacon

Susan Cahill, owner of All Noted neurosurgeon and conservative
Families Healthcare in columnist Ben Carson spoke to students at
Kalispell, on a recent break- Stillwater Christian School about the im-
in during which her clinic portance of reading before delivering his
was signiicantly damaged.
keynote speech at the school’s “For A Time
(STORY, PAGE 9)
Such As This” dinner on March 13.
The Stillwater dinner and address
“You have all worked at the Flathead County Fairgrounds has
very hard to make grown into a well-attended annual event
and two years ago attracted former Na-
people understand tional Football League quarterback Tim
why these places Tebow. The head of Stillwater Christian,
are too special to
Dan Makowski, said the dinner and key- Ben Carson congratulates Emma Anderson, second-grader at Stillwater Christian School, for her completion
be developed. This note address help promote the school, but of a 15-week reading challenge.
is a very important also brings interesting speakers to the GREG LINDSTROM | FLATHEAD BEACON
place to protect into Flathead.
of the 15-week project, the 28 children
“We want to bring honorable and inlu- “WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, I WASN’T A who met their goals received a special cer-
perpetuity.”
ential people to the community,” Makows- tiicate and got to meet Carson at a school
ki said. “That’s who we look for.”
GOOD STUDENT, BUT THAT CHANGED assembly.
U.S. Secretary of the Carson made worldwide headlines in WHEN I STARTED READING. IT “They get to be recognized by a man
Interior Sally Jewell on
landscape preservation in 1987 when he was the irst neurosurgeon CHANGED MY ENVIRONMENT FROM who values reading and academics,” said
the Crown of the Continent.
to successfully separate two 7-month-old INNER-CITY DETROIT TO THE WORLD. Stillwater elementary school principal
(STORY, PAGE 5)
craniopagus twins. The operation took Tim Anderson. “But more importantly
more than 22 hours and required a team SUDDENLY, I COULD GO ANYWHERE.”
they get the satisfaction of reading.”
of 70 doctors, nurses and support staf. In Carson told the students about how
“There is simply no 2008, President George W. Bush award- Dr. Ben Carson
reading became an escape and helped him
place for racism in ed Carson with the Presidential Medal of succeed in life.
Freedom, the country’s highest civilian “When I was younger, I wasn’t a good
this party.”
Yellowstone County honor. In 2013, Carson announced that ing so children can discover the joy of in- student, but that changed when I started
Republican Party he was retiring from medical practice and dependent and leisure reading. Late last reading,” Carson said. “It changed my en-
chairwoman Jennifer has since become a political pundit. Last year, Stillwater started a Ben Carson read- vironment from inner-city Detroit to the
Owen after congressional summer, he became a weekly columnist ing initiative to encourage all of its stu- world. Suddenly, I could go anywhere.
for the Washington Times. He is also a dents to read more and watch less televi- “It made me realize I could do any-
candidate Drew Turiano regular Fox News contributor.
sion. The childrenwho participated had a thing I wanted to do,” he said.
was asked not to attend a Carson is active in promoting educa- set number of pages they had to read every Over the course of 15 weeks, Stillwa-
recent major party event;
Turiano claims he was tion and has established scholarship funds week, depending on grade. Every week a ter’s students read more than 255,000
turned away for being a Tea and a reading initiative, called the Ben student made their reading goal, they got pages on their own time, with students
Party member.
Carson Reading Project, which provides entered into a drawing for a brand new from kindergarten to ifth grade reading
funding to schools to build and maintain Kindle. They also got a “book buck” to the most, at 144,230 pages.
reading rooms that are warm and invit-
spend at the school’s book fair. At the end
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