A 'Miracle' worth having fun for
Inter Lake editorial
Good cause. Great entertainment. A hard combination to beat.
On June 3, ventriloquist Terry Fator will perform a benefit show to raise money for "Miracle Field" at the Kidsports Complex. The field will provide a safe place for people with physical and mental disabilities to enjoy the opportunity to participate in sports.
Fator has proven himself to be a worthy winner of the "America's Got Talent" TV show last summer. In fact, he has skyrocketed from playing the free stage at the Flathead County fairgrounds a few years ago to a five-year, $100 million contract with the Mirage hotel in Las Vegas. To call him a ventriloquist is not being entirely fair. Although he is brilliant at the mechanics of throwing his voice, he is also a great impersonator and a talented singer as well.
Turns out, he is also a good guy, who is enthusiastic about helping the Rotary Club raise money for Miracle Field.
"I think it's one of the best causes … I've ever seen," Fator told the Inter Lake.
Help Fator help the Rotary make dreams come true by buying a ticket to see a world-class show at 7:30 p.m. June 3 at the Christian Center. Tickets are available at Glacier Bank and Flathead Bank locations.
The nation's top park ranger hails from our own Glacier National Park.
Gary Moses, who has worked at Glacier since 1989, recently was honored with the National Park Service's Harry Yount Park Ranger Award that is presented to the service's top ranger.
It's an award that recognizes the amazing diversity of jobs that a modern park ranger has to master - and it applauds Moses for mastering them well.
Moses not only is adept at law enforcement and paramedic work, but he also is skilled in catching grizzly bears, fighting fires, mountaineering, scuba diving and search-and-rescue work.
He has helped reunite parents with lost children, delivered a baby in the back of an ambulance on Going-to-the-Sun Road and arrested a felon after a high-speed chase.
Understandably, then, Moses says the diversity of the job is what he appreciates most.
And all visitors to Glacier Park should appreciate having a top-flight ranger such as Moses on the job.