![Lisa Simmer, front, and Dawn Tacke haul bags of garbage to a truck during a Clean Up Community Day organized by the Homeless Outreach team of Collaborative Housing Solutions of Northwest Montana in Kalispell on Thursday, June 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)](https://hagadone.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2023/06/15/0622_LOC_DIL_clean_up_community_day_1_t1170.jpg?5cc718665ab672dba93d511ab4c682bb370e5f86)
Lisa Simmer, front, and Dawn Tacke haul bags of garbage to a truck during a Clean Up Community Day organized by the Homeless Outreach team of Collaborative Housing Solutions of Northwest Montana in Kalispell on Thursday, June 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
June 15, 2023
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June 17, 2023 midnight
Commissioner meets advocates at homeless camp cleanup
About 50 volunteers cleaned up the remnants of a homeless camp along Ashley Creek south of Kalispell on Thursday, among them Flathead County Commissioner Brad Abell, who came face-to-face with advocates hoping to discuss the county’s homelessness problem with him.