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4th Annual "Freezin For A Reason" It's All For Big Sky Honor Flight!

Tara Nicole — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:54:31 +0000

Make sure you join the Cat for the 4th Annual “Freezin for a Reason” with Livin Large Larry! We’d like to help the Big Sky Honor Flight send 3 more plane loads of Montana Veterans to Washington D.C. this Spring and Summer. As you can imagine there is quite a cost in doing so, so [...]

Tim McGraw to Give New Homes to Military Veterans in Need

Cory Stromblad — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:00:13 +0000

Tim McGraw is giving back to wounded warriors and service members by launching the nationwide HomeFront initiative, a goodwill effort that will award 25 deserving families with a mortgage-free home at each of his summer concert stops. “My sister’s a veteran of the first Gulf War. My uncle was a Vietnam veteran and my grandfather [...]

Gene Heil: Hometown Hero

Cat Country — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:08:38 +0000

The following Hometown Hero was submitted by Patti Jones:

This is my Dad, he served in the Navy. He passed away in April. My life is not the same with out him, I don't want to live with out my Dad. He was a kind man, who loved to hug all the women, and he made earrings for little girls. He would look to see if they had earrings on and if they did, he would call them Sam or George! Then he'd ask their mom if it was ok to give them the earrings. It made his day to see the smiles on the little faces!