Volunteering in Glacier National Park as Wilderness Patrol

Debo Powers serves her community in many ways.  One way is by volunteering for Glacier National Park (the western part of GNP is in House District 3) as Wilderness Patrol.  Debo wears a uniform, carries a radio and first aide kit, and talks to hundreds visitors in the backcountry.  Besides providing information and preventing violations, Debo offers electrolytes and salty snacks to hikers who are struggling on the trails on hot, sunny days.  This is often called preventative Search & Rescue.

Large Crowd at Interlocal Meeting

Summer Interlocal 2024

Sondreson Hall was packed for the Summer Interlocal meeting led by Debo Powers and hosted by the North Fork Preservation Association.  The Interlocal meeting helps to facilitate communication between North Fork landowners and the various agencies who manage the public land in the North Fork.  97% of the North Fork is public land.  Updates were presented by Glacier National Park, Flathead National Forest, Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, Montana DNRC, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and others.

Debo Powers leading the Interlocal meeting

4th of July Parade in Polebridge!

Supporters of DEBO POWERS walked in the 4th of July Parade in Polebridge.  The float consisted of a campaign banner, the Powers-Mobile with Debo, “Grizzly Bears” giving high-fives and hugs to children watching the parade, a large wolf-hound named Montana wearing a campaign t-shirt, and supporters carrying signs like “Veterans for Debo” and “Powers Up” and “Grizzlies for Debo.”

Check out the video:

Parade video

 

It’s Time to VOTE!

Mail-in Ballots for the Primary Election arrived a week ago!  If yours is still sitting on your desk, it’s time to fill it out and mail it in!  If you don’t vote-by-mail, go to the polls to vote on June 4!

DEBO POWERS for House District 3!

GOTV Party for Debo Powers

GOTV (Get Out The Vote) Party for Debo Powers at Home Ranch Bottoms Cafe near Polebridge.  The party was last Saturday.  There was even a grizzly bear on stage asking for campaign donations!

Biking for Debo

Zoe Zardis and Debo Powers

The Powers for the People Team biked on the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park!  A new way to meet voters and publicize the campaign!

Fish Tank Podcast

Fish Tank Podcast: Ed Doctor interviewing Debo Powers

Debo Powers appeared in a one-on-one interview with Ed Doctor on the Fish Tank podcast at The Tap House in Whitefish.

 

School Levies produced winners and losers across Montana

Debo Powers in a public school classroom working with elementary students

Fortunately, Whitefish passed the school levy and Columbia Falls passed 2 out of 3 school levies, including the high school levy to repair the roof.  But elsewhere in the state, school levies did not do so well leaving public schools struggling to meet their budgets.

Amanda Curtis, President of the Montana Federation of Public Employees (MFPE), placed the blame on the Legislature when she said:

“Every Montana kid has a constitutional right to a quality public education, and last night’s levies divided our kids into winners and losers,” Curtis said of the election results in large and small districts throughout the state. “This is the direct result of the 2023 Legislature’s one-two punch of failing to fund schools at the inflationary rate and then pricing Montanans out by shifting property taxes from corporations to homeowners.”