Facebook group helps with community needs

Thousands of Flathead Valley residents have joined the “Surplus Flathead Valley” group on Facebook, created to help get important goods to local residents during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Mason Brubaker and Mark Hader, the group’s creators, said it is a place for communal sharing – people who are in need can reach out to the community while those with extra supply of certain items can offer help to others...