Likes Fern

Stepping aside from all the campaign rhetoric, I want people to know what a great state senator my husband, Dave Fern, will make for Montana Senate District 2.

I have witnessed first-hand his hard work and dedication to public service, including 20 years of work to ensure that every single child, of varying abilities, has access to a free, quality public education. I can mention the hundreds of volunteer hours he has contributed to the community at school board meetings, high school track meets and speech and debate competitions, to name a few.

Dave is also a person of ideas, always studying, reading and thinking outside the box to arrive at a common solution to benefit the majority.

For 20 years, our family of five lived in modest circumstances while Dave routinely provided his chimney business services at reduced fees (or sometimes free of charge) to the elderly and those in need.

Dave has done all of these things with unusual common sense and compassion, and always with integrity. And so, I’d like to quote a excerpt to my husband Dave from a favorite poem by Sheenagh Pugh titled “Sometimes.”

“A people sometimes will step back from war;

elect an honest man; decide they care

enough, that they can’t leave some stranger poor.

Some men become what they were born for.

... may it happen for you.”

Heather Fern

Whitefish