Letters to the editor March 13

Local schools deserve support

My dad, George Ostrom, took advantage of the GI bill after service in the Occupation Army at the end of World War II. He and his peers used the education they got (my dad’s at the University of Montana) to then become community builders. They started banks, a community college and myriad programs and institutions to benefit the citizens of the Flathead.

Using his voice as a radio reporter and personality, George tirelessly promoted school levies on air and later in his Kalispell Weekly Newspaper.