Looking Back: More discipline requested for schools
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First-time skiers Amber Blodgett, Devon Hoyer, Ryan Wiley, Kristin Wiley and Lauryn Feske wait for lessons to begin at The Big Mountain in 1996. (Ann Arbor Miller photo)
A look back at past Pilot articles by Julie Engler
50 Years Ago
March 11, 1976
A call for a more unified school system with more “old fashioned” discipline was issued by a group of parents at the District 44 School Board meeting. Georgia Winiger, initial spokesman for the group of about 35, said local students are subjected alternately to two different educational philosophies as they progress through the system. In the fifth and sixth grades and in the high school, she said, the atmosphere is a structured one, while in the elementary and junior high schools it is freer. “There is not an effective way to go about educating our children,” said Winninger, who noted she taught for 12 years in California before moving here. She asked for more discipline in the schools a return to the basic “3 R's” and less conflict between home training and school training.
40 Years Ago
March 12, 1986
Football players, television celebrities and a sleek Arabian horse combined efforts to raise money for children's regional hospitals and local treatment during the three-day Big Mountain Doug Betters Winter Classic. Doug Betters, an all-pro defensive end for the Miami Dolphins who winters in Whitefish, joined the sponsor Bru-Bet Arabians Inc., about 25 football players and celebrities to raise funds for the Shodair Children's Hospital in Helena and Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, as well as area pediatric care. Betters enlisted the help of the National Football League Players Association and Canadian Football League players who would be on hand to rub shoulders with fans. Steve Kanaly, Marc Singer and Haunani Minn, regulars in the Dallas television show, and Sam Melville, who counts the show in his long list of acting credits, would be in Whitefish also.
30 Years Ago
March 14, 1996
Flathead was the third fastest growing county in Montana, gaining more than 10,000 residents during the past five years, according to a Montana Department of Commerce census report. In 1990, the state Census Center said Flathead County contained 59,218 people. By 1995, the population was estimated to have grown to 69,512, a 17.4%. Increase. Flathead is the most populous county of the top three that are growing fast.
20 Years Ago
March 9, 2006
Construction of the $1.4 million Wisconsin Avenue bike path could be delayed for about a year if easements could not be quickly acquired from adjacent property owners. Easements were needed from about a dozen property owners for construction of drainage catch basins and to route the bike path around three power poles supporting transmission lines to Big Mountain and areas north of town. Whitefish assistant public works engineer Karin Hilding said property owners were notified of the city's need for easements in mid-February.
10 Years Ago
March 9, 2016
Great Northern Brewing Company hoisted a new holding tank into its downtown facility as part of the microbrewery second expansion project in two years. A crane was used to lift the custom-made 100-barrel fermentation and conditioning tank. At 23 feet tall, it spanned the height of the brewery ceiling and stood next to other 100-barrel tanks installed in 2014. A hole was cut in the brewery’s roof to facilitate the installation.