Looking Back: Talk of allowing taller buildings
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Janelle Dalen, at 26 months, was one of the youngest competitors to enter the Big Sky Bicentennial Ceramic Show in 1976, where she won three ribbons, one for her ceramic frog she is holding in her right hand. She is daughter of Dr. and Mrs Gary Dalen.
A look back at past Pilot articles by Julie Engler
50 Years Ago
April 29, 1976
Junior high school students with eight chaperones boarded three buses and one station wagon to begin a five-day tour of historical sites in Montana. It was the sixth consecutive year that history teacher and vice principal Ken Doxtater lead a caravan of junior high students throughout the state. In 1970, 86 students participated. Every year since, the group has grown. Due largely to this trip, Whitefish Junior High School was the recipient of the Honor Medal presented by the George Washington Valley Forge Freedom Foundation in 1973. In 1975, Ken Doxtater was named Outstanding History Teacher because of the history curriculum and trip.
40 Years Ago
April 30, 1986
Ralph Freedman, the recently hired city manager, was moving to Whitefish from Parachute, Colorado, and was expected to start work May 5, according to Mayor Carroll Amass. Freedman was chosen from a field of about 60 applicants and offered the job in April. Freedman and his wife were in Whitefish last weekend to find a place to live. His first meeting's agenda included a request from Hank Starno that the City Council consider changing the city's building codes to allow buildings taller than 35 feet.
30 Years Ago
May 2, 1996
Six Whitefish Lady Bulldogs claimed the top six spots at the Big Fork Invitational Golf Tournament to easily take top team owners. Kelly Foster, Brooklyn McGarry, Lyndsie Jensen, Abby Collins and Stephanie Foster all finished in the top six places at the tourney. Kelly Foster was the individual medalist again this week with an 85, two shots ahead of McGarry and four better than Jensen's 89. Collins played a strong round, finishing at 91. Stephanie Foster's 96 helped the ladies finish more than 70 shots over second place Polson. Foster, a senior, broke the 40 barrier with a 39 on the back nine in winds which made even putting a challenge.
20 Years Ago
April 27, 2006
Saying special consultants for larger development projects sometimes can't be trusted, the city opted to hire the experts and bill developers for the services rendered. There was an increasing need for special consultants for larger projects from hydrologists and traffic analyst to botanists and wildlife biologists and city councilors and staff expressed concern about the reliability of the information provided by consultants hired by developers. “In the past, when such special consultants were needed, they were hired by the project proponent and not by the city,” City Attorney John Phelps told the council. “No doubt the special consultants felt an allegiance to the party that hired them and not to the city.”
10 Years Ago
April 27, 2016
Whitefish City Council approved a 41-unit housing subdivision planned for Highway 93 south of Mountain Mall. May Enterprises submitted a preliminary plat application and planned unit development application for the housing project known as Riverview Meadows. The project proposed four units to be used for affordable housing. The property is situated on 9.5 acres between the Whitefish River to the east and the highway to the West. The Les Schwab Tire Center is immediately to the south of the property.