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FLATHEADBEACON.COM NEWS JULY 23, 2014 | 27 The Roundup
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FLATHEAD COUNTY MAN SENTENCED FOR ASSAULTING WIFE
A Flathead County man will spend the next two years in prison after he threatened to kill his wife and then cut her with a knife in February.
Ronald Gayle Eskildsen was sen- tenced to 10 years with the Department of Corrections with eight years suspend- ed after he was found guilty of felony as- sault with a weapon stemming from a February altercation with his wife.
“I want to apologize to my wife and anyone else caught up in this mess,” Eskildsen said moments before he was sentenced in Flathead County District Court on July 17. “When I’m released I plan on moving out of state. I’ll never bother her again.”
On Feb. 27, Gereldean Eskildsen called police to report that her husband had cut her with a knife. She told police that moments before Eskildsen grabbed the knife he said he had wanted to kill her. Officers found the wife at Ridge- wood Drive home with a deep cut on her arm.
On Feb. 28, he was charged with fel- ony assault with a weapon. In March, Eskildsen entered a plea of alford. An alford plea is filed when a defendant be- lieves that they are innocent but knows the prosecution has enough evidence to find them guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Eskildsen will also be required to pay restitution of $1,617.
FVCC AWARDS UNTERREINER ITS EAGLE AWARD
Colleen Unterreiner, executive di- rector of institutional advancement at Flathead Valley Community College, was presented the college’s prestigious Eagle Award. FVCC President Jane Karas presented the honor during the 19th annual President’s Donor Dinner. The award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to FVCC.
“Colleen is a true student advocate,” Karas said. “She has continually set her focus on providing education to all stu- dents through developing more schol- arship opportunities and growing pro- grams and facilities. Her unsurpassed leadership in the area of institutional advancement has truly made a differ- ence in the success of the FVCC Founda- tion and in the lives of our students and citizens of our community.”
Unterreiner joined the college 15 years ago and has served in various ca- pacities. She has served in her current role at the college since 2009.
UNEMPLOYMENT DROPS IN MONTANA, RISES IN FLATHEAD COUNTY
Montana’s unemployment continues to drop, from to 4.6 percent in May to 4.5 percent in June, according to Montana’s Department of Labor and Industry.
Flathead County saw a small in- crease in unemployment, from 5.6 per- cent to 5.7 percent, more than a percent- age point above the statewide average but still below the nationwide average of 6.1 percent.
The numbers are seasonally adjust- ed and take into account the annual in- crease in agricultural employment in the summer. Along with agriculture, the leisure and hospitality sector also saw robust growth, adding 900 jobs over the past month statewide.
While the unemployment statistics have been encouraging over the past months, the report shows that real wage growth has stagnated in Northwest Montana over the past five years with an average annual growth of 0.1 percent, the lowest in the state.
One reason real wage growth has been slow is that public sector raises have failed to keep up with inflation, leading to a real wage decrease for state and federal employees. Over the past de- cade, business services and mining and utilities have seen the largest real wage growth and the manufacturing sector has seen virtually none.
POLSON MAN STILL MISSING ON FLATHEAD LAKE
Local authorities were still search- ing for a Polson man who went kayaking on the south end of Flathead Lake and remained missing Monday evening.
The Flathead County Sheriff’s Of- fice joined the search July 21 for Robert W. McDonald of Polson. Local search crews are using a specialized sonar unit to check areas underwater.
McDonald left from Bear Harbor Condominiums around noon on Satur- day, according to the Lake County Sher- iff’s Office. He was paddling a yellow Eclipse kayak. At around 12:30 p.m., he texted a photo of the condos from ap- proximately one mile offshore in Polson Bay. McDonald has been a physician at St. Joseph Medical Center since the fall of 2013. He is a white male, 43 years old, 5-foot-9, weighing 185 pounds with gray hair and blue eyes. He was not wearing a personal floatation device.
The county’s dispatchers received a report about 11:15 p.m. Saturday that he had not come back to shore at Polson Bay.
Search and rescue boats, aided by two helicopters, searched the lake un- til about 3:30 a.m. Sunday and then re- sumed the search after sunrise.
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