Teacher's friends are grateful

On behalf of the Friends of Lonnie Collingsworth, I would like to thank the many contributors to our auction Saturday. A fun evening of music, art, and food was shared by a crowd of a hundred.

Contributors included Paula Humphreys, Joel Templeton, Rob Akey, Linda Mallow, Laurie Litner, Steve Gnam, Bonnie, Johanna and Nate Closson, Alana Morris, Kelly Gemighani, Bjorn Peterson, Matt Eisenhart, Jamie Clogg and Luke Fennelly, Tom and Jayne Bertelson, Ron Kuchenbrod, Marty Christiansen, Sew Excited, Sappari, Manna Heimer, Artistic Touch, Third Street Market, Marie Hausauer, Dustin Glaspey, Shelby Baldridge, the Walking Man Gallery, Carolyn and Whitefish Pottery, Stumptown Art Studio, Scott Sorenson, Eddie Correa, Mum's Flowers, Darrell Tackett, Matt Eisenhart, Kyler Morrison, Clay Christiansen, Kylie Jugan, Jean and Nicola Butcher, Patti McIntyre, Whitefish Credit Union, the Imagination Station and the Moose Lodge.

Thanks go to the Whitefish PTA and Ginny Bennett for organizing the evening, Scott Sorenson and Bill Corwin for the music, the Bulldog Saloon and the LaGrandeur family for the food, and Chuck Holbrook for being such a wonderful auctioneer.

Special thanks to Frank Barnes for the call to Lonnie's wife updating us. We are all looking forward to Lonnie's return and recovery.

Mary Witbrod

Whitefish