Bob Edgar, with the Bitterroot District of the Boy Scouts of America, waves a distress flag from a boat in need of a tow during a U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary patrol demonstration on Flathead Lake near Big Arm on Tuesday, June 25. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
July 7, 2019
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July 7, 2019 4 a.m.
Kalispell Flotilla of U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary seeks volunteers for boat patrols
The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary boat motored slowly through Flathead Lake’s cold chop near Melita Island. The lake’s waters were still frigid enough in late June to quickly incapacitate anyone who wound up in the water.