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CFAC lawsuit survives
On Wednesday, Aug. 22, Bigfork cartoonist, painter and conservationist Elmer Sprunger died. He was 87 years old.
In May, the Independent published a story about Sprunger being the latest of at least 50 people who have filed lawsuits against current and previous owners of the Columbia Falls Aluminum Company plant for knowingly exposing them to asbestos in the workplace.
Illustrating his case
Among stacks of magazines, newspapers and books cluttered around his home, 87-year-old Bigfork resident Elmer Sprunger has no trouble finding a half-dozen cartoons stashed in one of his many filing cabinets. The stack is the illustrated history of his life, each cartoon drawn in Sprunger’s signature jaunty style. One shows him and a dozen other young men in military barracks, playing catch, conversing the day after Germany surrendered to the Allies, as one man in the foreground counts the days until they return home.
The Accidental Activist
Mike Crill spent his life fighting to right wrongs. Now he just wants to live, and die, in peace.
