When officer Simon Ford isn’t patrolling the streets for the Haines Borough Police Department, he’s the commander for the new Civil Air Patrol Chilkat Valley flight that draws more than half its membership from his own family.
The nationwide organization, founded in 1941 less than a week before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, is the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force.
Ford, a former grocery store butcher with eight children, said his police…
