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Community Thanksgiving Dinners Available Thursday

READER Alone on the holiday or Thanksgiving dinner from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Ronan Area Chamber of Com-
on Thursday. Dinner can also be delivered merce is hosting its tenth annual Thanks-
don’t want to prepare a to those who are unable to make it, so long giving Day dinner at the Ronan Commu-
POLL
as they call the store before Wednesday at nity Center. The meal starts at 11 a.m. and
big dinner? Check out 4 p.m. Folks can also call ahead and order goes until 3 p.m. and includes all of the
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these options
a dinner for pick up. For more information trimmings. For more information about

call (406) 257-4306. Sykes is located at 202 helping out call (406) 676-3300. The Ronan
Second Ave. W. in Kalispell.
Community Center is located at 300 Third
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In Bigfork, the Pocketstone Cafe will Ave.NW.
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have dinner for most of the day, with seat- In Lincoln County, the Libby United
Thanksgiving is a time to be with
ings at 11 a.m., 12:15 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. Res- Methodist Church and St. Joseph Catho-
friends and family. But if you’re alone on ervations are suggested, but everything lic Church are hosting a free dinner at the
the holiday or just don’t want to deal with will be done to accommodate walk-ins. VFW in Libby. The event goes from 2 p.m.

all those friends and family in the kitchen, All of the food is being prepared by volun- to 4 p.m. For more information called (406)
there are some free community dinners to teers and will be donated by the cafe. For 293-4522 or (406) 293-7866. The VFW is
attend with turkey and all the trimmings.
more information call (406) 837-7223. The located at 114 West Second St. in Libby. As
In what has become a Kalispell tra- Pocketstone Cafe is located at 444 Electric with all of the dinners, donations are wel-
dition, Sykes will host its annual free
Ave. in Bigfork.
come.

45% YES 55% NO Tracee Comes Home

TOTAL VOTES: 184

Should the Governor Convene
a Special Session to Expand Two months after Medical Center. On Oct. 5 she was trans- three weeks to six months, but doctors let
assault, Tracee Peterson ferred to Seattle.
her go after just two weeks.
Medicaid?
Joshua later talked with police and On Nov. 13, she returned home to Troy
returns to Troy
showed them where he had thrown the bat for the irst time since September. Three

allegedly used to beat Tracee. After inding days later, the town held a fundraiser with
the bat, police arrested Joshua and brought an auction and chili dinner. Hanson said so
By JUSTIN FRANZ of the Beacon
him to the Lincoln County Detention Cen- many items were donated for the fundrais-
ter. It was there that he admitted to police er that there was not enough time to auc-
A Troy women allegedly assaulted by that he had assaulted Tracee, according to tion everything of. Hanson said it was an
her husband in September has returned court records. On Oct. 21, Joshua pleaded emotional homecoming.
home. Tracee Peterson, 38, had been in a not guilty to charges of aggravated assault “It was just amazing,” he said. “Just
46% YES 54% NO Seattle hospital since early October after and assault with a deadly weapon. A trial watching Tracee walk around brought

TOTAL VOTES: 140
her husband, Joshua Peterson, allegedly has been set for May. If convicted, he could tears to everyone’s eyes.”
beat her with a baseball bat on Sept. 28.
face up to 20 years in prison and a $50,000 Tracee is still in a neck brace and will
Tracee’s father, Ed Hanson, said his ine.
start more therapy in the coming weeks.
daughter is trying to move forward and is According to Hanson, the September Hanson said her eyesight and hearing are
Who Are You Rooting having a remarkable recovery. Tracee was incident was not the irst time Joshua had impaired and she mostly identiies people
for This Weekend?
in a medically induced coma for nearly two assaulted Tracee and the couple was in the by the sound of their voice. She also has
weeks after the assault that broke every process of separating. Joshua was report- some memory loss from the weeks follow-
bone in her head.
edly found guilty of misdemeanor partner- ing the assault.

“The doctors said ‘there is no medi- family assault in 2003 and sentenced to “There are still a lot of blank spots in
cal reason you are still with us, we’re just one year in prison with all but 10 days sus- her mind of the last eight weeks,” he said.
a part of this miracle,’” Hanson recalled. pended.
Tracee and her ive children are living
“She’s doing remarkably well.”
Tracee emerged from her medically with her parents in Troy and will probably
Hanson was the irst person to ind induced coma two weeks after the assault stay there into the New Year. She spends
Tracee after she was beaten in Septem- and since then she has gone through mul- most of her days helping get her children
36CATS 64GRIZ ber. According to court documents, police tiple facial reconstructive surgeries and ready for school and assisting them with
% %
TOTAL VOTES: 146
arrived soon after and found Tracee with therapy sessions. Hanson said his daugh- homework.
her mouth illed with blood and extreme ter has been recovering faster than anyone “Emotionally she’s just trying to move
swelling in the nose, cheek and eye areas. thought she would. Earlier this month, she forward,” Hanson said.
Her right ear was severed at the lower lobe. was transferred to an intensive therapy [email protected]
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Tracee was taken to Kalispell Regional
ward where she was supposed to stay for

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