School says goodbye to a soldier

A Havre Middle School custodian in the Montana Army National Guard who has been called up for duty in Iraq was given a farewell by students today.

Bill Fitzpatrick, 46, a member of the 443rd Quartermaster Company, will join a company shipping out of Kalispell to join the war effort in Iraq. Fitzpatrick, who is married and has three children, will leave Havre on Dec. 3. He will spend three months in Fort Carson, Colo., and then spend a year in Iraq, followed by three more months at Fort Carson.

About 20 guard members from Havre and Chinook were selected as candidates for deployment earlier this...