What are everyone’s thoughts on Canvas Church? Are the owners/pastors good people or is this our version of The Righteous Gemstones? Any behind the scenes info on if they spend money in good ways or is it private jets and things like that? Does anyone have any first hand info or personal experiences?
Anybody else see this absolute unit of a double rainbow just now?
What are some attractions/must see in the area besides Glacier National Park.
My husband and I are both from Montana (him born and raised, me moving here when I was little) he went into the military for awhile and got a good medical separation deal. He went back to school and got a job in his field up in kalispell. We were excited at first because it pays much better than the other cities do... except now were realizing why. I just want a good sized house to raise a family with some land for gardens and small animals. Why are yalls houses so expensive!? If we find a decent sized, or even just decently held up, house the location is horrendous but if we find decent land the house is literally falling apart but still too expensive to have money left over to fix up. We're expecting our first baby and the stress is quite literally tearing me apart. There have been maybe 3 houses we were really hopeful about and they got bought up literal HOURS after being listed! I check multiple times a day to see if theres anything new, but again, when there is, it's contingent so fast we dont even have a chance to set up a tour with our realtor. We're starting to wish he never accepted that job... kalispell is beautiful but its not worth this.
Alan "Gus" Gustafson was on a mission.
The energetic 80-year-old strode through Kalispell's Public Safety Building on a damp April morning, looking for the 2,200-pound bell that once hung from the Fire Department's hose tower, ready to summon firefighters in an emergency.
The retired firefighter's first stop was the first floor offices of the Kalispell Police Department. When that proved fruitless, he headed across the lobby, where he said the bell was once put on display, to question the staff at Kalispell Municipal Court.
They couldn't remember a bell either.
A few minutes and one flight of stairs later, Gustafson was in Fire Chief Jay Hagen's office, asking if he knew of the bell's whereabouts. Hagan shook his head. He did not.
"OK, I'm going to find it," Gustafson replied.
Hagen agreed that he would.
"When he sets his mind to it, it's going to happen," Hagen said from behind his desk.
Gustafson, who still serves as the department's historian, more than 20 years into his retirement, had a personal connection to the bell (he later located it around the corner at the Northwest Montana History Museum). Firefighters were still ringing it when he joined the department in 1971, just not for its original purpose.
"After I started, the bell was used to call curfew," he said. "Every night at a certain time we would ring the bell."