School board candidate says parents must be responsible

Editor's note: This is the first of four profiles of candidates running for two seats on the Havre school board.

Bonnie Benson has little problem naming the skills she says she has that suit her for a seat on the Havre school board.

She understands a budget from years of running her own barber shop, she said.

She also tells it as she sees it.

"I'm not afraid to speak my mind," said Benson, 43. "I think (board members) have to have a backbone and they have to be pretty tough-skinned because you have to make hard decisions that people are not going to like."

After sending her two children to Hav...