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Eagles in winter Groundbreaking held for medical State supt. of schools holdsAssociation Stevi listening center session Bitter Root Humane Three Mile Community Center open
celebrates new shelter, 50th anniversary
by Victoria Arntzen, a Republican who was important and should be expanded.” health of their children unless the govspeech, occupaby Victoria Howell by Victoria Howell shelter. elected to her position in 2016, served $140,000. a levy, sodemonstrates this won’t have any Arntzen said that civics is a part of the ernmental entity that tional and physical Howell The parkthe interference additional impact on people’s Elsie Arntzen, Montana Superin- According two terms in the State Legislature approved social studies curriculum. furthers a compelling therapy services – It’s been a longInstruction, time board made property taxes. tendent of Public wasto inColleen before that, and prior to that taught Sen. Theresa Manzella (R-Hamilgovernmental interest and is narincluding therapy coming, but last the new Three Schmiedeke, the decision In and addition thea restricloan, the Bitterroot Health Stevensville week to gather public 5th grade for 20 years. She brought a ton) said she serves on the Education rowly tailored is thetoleast Mile Community Center is up who serves on to take out a project was paid for by the pool – plus imaging input whatHowell people want for Monmessage of optimism for Montana’s Committee and in the last session was and tive cut means gives held aon groundbreakby Michael the available, ribbon at and last also week’s and running. Located atfuture. 4433 In both park schools. She said that the loan Community Senior and labredress services. tana’s education spite thepublic successful in getting a Parents’ Bill of to finish parents aThree legal means of ceremony, saidMile concerning the when ing lastpublic Wednesday Sunnyside Cemetery Road, board and the the project. Center (the official name) of Arntzen’s message of gratitude number of children in Montana public Rights law passed with Arntzen’s sup- organization’s their parental rights are violated. Bishop said “It 50 years of service, An new openmedical house celebration wasfor for theits center iseducators, on the eastand sideexpresscommunity She said they which raised $80,000 parents and schools is growing and “more children port. The new law, which was in part Arntzen said that aover significant they hope to have held last week at the Bitter Root was started by a bunch of little old complex that will beThe of Lone Rock Park. buildcenter worked with through community picnics, sions of hopefulness for(BRHA) the future, the board, in our public school system means a reaction to school mask mandates amount of money (more than half ladies in 1972 and it’s still run by aa Humane Association’s new the facility open ing contains a large they Farmersbillion State dollars) rummage sales,tobingo nights built just north of 60meeting audience of about people, made up started we’re going to have a better educated during the Covid-19 outbreak, states is ready be doled animalashelter located on Fairgrounds of littledonations old ladies.” room, warming a workingfuture.” on Bank to bunch keep from commuby spring of 2023, Stevensville at the kitchen, of parents, teachers, administrators that a governmental entity may not out to theand school districts and that Kathienity Butts, President of the Road in Hamilton. The event served ain 2012 state-of-the-art audio visual this their loan members. Other major and that they planof and a couple of local legislators, had A representative of Corvallis interfere with the fundamental right the money can be used for a variety corner ofand Kootenai doubletopurpose. It included a the ribbon Board, said, “This organization has system, atogorgeous view and incorpopayments contributors were the Three plenty say Arntzen about curAmerican Legion Post 91 told Arntzen of parents to direct the upbringing, purposes. In response to a question on continuing to Creek Road and Mountains of the Bitterroot totherated 2014. reasonable. Mile Fireway District, Lone cutting ceremony honoreducation. of new in that come such a long sincethe it was rent problems withinpublic he thinks a “civics program is very education, health care, and mental expand SCHOOLS, page 6 Hwy 93. including tours of the whole the west. She said the Those payRockSee Park andago. theservices. Rapp started about 50 years I feel aFamfacility, “We’re bringing the The building is now home total cost is ments come ily Foundation. John Bishop, building, and anBitarray of food and huge sense of responsibility to honor carebefore tosaid theus patients, to the in senior center and the approximateout of park Schmiedeke there terroot Health CEO, those who have come and ” drink honor of the organization’s Weekend Backpack Program ly $500,000. taxes that are were many volunteers who he said. make it as good as it can be as we set 50ththat birthday. said Marcus that serves Lone Rock School. When already being helped on the project, and HedgeThe privatehad non-profit organization the course for the nextLois 50 years.” Daly Hospital The surrounding park conSchmiedeke assessed, TMCSC received reduced chair McCormack saidpeth, that the of the was fisoccer rst organized in 1972. In 1984, tains and baseball “got really Schmiedeke prices from contractors. The Three Mile Community Senior Center board members, l to r, Colorganization conducted a Countess Margarite Bessenyey, the hospital board, fields, tennis and volleyball involved,” the is proud that general contractorsuccessful donated laleen Schmiedeke, Joyce Pando and Wendy Audiss in front of the fundraising campaign fund the new granddaughter ofpath, Marcus Daly, gave saidto this project courts, a walking a playgroup had they didn’t See the CENTER, new community center at Lone Rock Park. Photo by V. Howell. construction but then Covid-19 the BRHA on Fairgrounds Road ground andland a covered picnic raised Bitterroot about have to run has been four page years3 Chamber of Commerce Director Al Mitchell holds the group spell-bound as Bitwith a 99-year lease. Six years later, pandemic hit and construction costs The National Weather Service warning in theisworks, butof ter Root Humane Association Board Member Sue McCormack prepares to cut the ribbon skyrocketed. As this a result, the group in 1990, the Bessenyey estate deeded severe winter weather for week and historic John Bishop, pictured from left, leads a gathering people involved in the there were some celebrating the opening of the new animalfifth shelter in Hamilton. Photo by Michaelof Howell. had to take out a mortgage toin finish the land to the organization where cold temperatures, perhaps the coldest 40 delays dueprimary to the Bitterroot project in a ceremonial groundbreaking. The facility on the property that hadHealth housedbuilding the Sue McCormack, who serves on Brutally years. cold wind chills are the the current shelter is located. The See SHELTER, page pandemic. She said2 theat organization’s of directors concern Wednesday into Wednesday will be built on land located the corner ofboard Kootenai Creek Road and Hwymorning 93 new building replaces an old building shelter since 1984. their vision isthe that night as arctic air intensifiesShe across the area. just north of the Stevensville Junction. by Nathan Boddy cumstances, having adds that Wind chills of -20 to -30 will impact valley the Stevensville encountered people most important areas, with values down to -40 across thebehigher Christine Staub, a driving falling “quality, victim to mail way to combat such facility will more Darby, Victor and Corvallis, as well as been providing terrain and along the Continental Divide. force at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. abuse is for people of a “medical center” ratherofthan accessible, personalized Extremely cold low temperatures -20just a 901 S. 1st Street, was recently As a certified shipto ask questions clinic. She also said that Marcus Daly The new 12-acre campus will health fordepot 90 years. to -45 below are expected Thursday morning presented with a Certificate of care” ping for FedEx, and start conMurphy. Shethe led the Hospital, which is a critical access in west-central Montana. There is a 80-90% In recent the years, theyShoppe provide primary, care, urgent care and Appreciation by Mayor DomiBoxxe versation with those commissioners through chance forhospital, lows of -20 colder acrossand the wasor recently rated #4by inlove. the specialty services. Two physicians have nic Farrenkopf and Hamilton is legally justified to you know have been taking steps to a lengthy fund fund by Victoria Howell me like a ton of Bitterroot and Missoula valleys. A 40% chance Police Chief Stephen Snavely. open package which doesn’t by Staub the national rataccounting that, to sum already been hired, along with a nurse nation for quality invest in all theacommubricks.” exists for areas along Highway 200 from PotoIn his presentation to the City bears its shipping know the details it up, shows the county, ing agency, out of 351 similar facilities. practitioner, and two more doctors Numerous Bald Eagles have been congregating in the Burnt area lately to feed onOverstreet carcasses. was Photos nities of Fork the Bitterroot, When it comes mac to Ovando to hit -40. Council on March 15th, Chief label. After following of what potential overall, doing very well by Michael by Victoria are being recruited. There will also be he said, with clinics in to Covid, Greg Howell. sent home from OfficialsHowell are warningon of its the potential for but Snavely said that he wants the protocol, and doing victims are told, tax collections and The Bitterroot Overstreet has a Nathe hospital with frostbite, hypothermia and potential damage to Hamilton Police Department so in the presence of she knows that over they showing revenues tional Forest (BNF) will The Cowboy Ball at the 50% Ravalli County infrastructure. message for you: to “become more vocal about a witness, Staub was an oxygen tank. are, “often coached of projections in host afool public meeting For thewill latest updates, visitThis weather. Fairgrounds beforecast held February is don’t around! the good things that happen able to uncover the He was home for to departments say12th. they are shipmost while thisOverstreet, Wednesday, March gov/missoula. the tenth annual event and the way it’s shaping within the community.” Sharunfortunate contents two or three days. ping legal by Michael Howell expenses havepapers only or 30th from 6 to 8 p.m. ing his department’s experiof the package: nearlyDuring that time, paperwork.” Other up, it’s going to be an event worthy oftoa23% jubilee an attorney in amounted of to share information ence with Ms. Staub was one $16,000 in cash, common tactics for and former council member, the public at the next meeting Halfway through celebration. projections due in large private practice in his oxygen level by Victoria Howell regarding the developsuch opportunity. which the customer scammers include the budget year, the part to job vacancies Rod Freeman is the chair of this year’s appears to be continuing when the council considers Stevensville, was went down to 51, ment of a draft forest In early March, a customwas unwittingly send-from a normal of claiming county’s performance have yetto torepbe filled. event. Freeman is also thethat chair of the Rodeo diagnosed with his efforts to teach the new the appointment of two addiClimbing Management At the second regular er came to the Boxxe Shoppe ing to a scammer in resent the IRS or in is looking pretty good, One big savings was Committee, and the vice chair of the Fair Board, colon cancer in 99. “I jokingly say Plan (CMP). virtual counciltoand mayor how local Chicago, tional council meeting of theThe two-member intending send a package Illinois.members. Social Security according to Ravalli the budgeted funds which he’s been onby forNa12 years. A real estate for February of 2021. that 51 is brain Staub of the Boxxe Shoppe. Photo meeting will be held on should run. He “We’ll do our job, ” Christine said via government FedEx. County CFO Klarryse the Administration. county’s share Stevensville Town Council, on agent for 18 years here in the Bitterroot, andin also He wentSee through damage material.” Zoom. below for than Boddy. Thewas customer Sometimes they a frequent commenter Gibson January 27, town clerk Jenelle in the Army for 21 years, his organizational and instructions and a link chemotherapy and But COVID-19 Seewill COUNTY, seemed con- meetings during tell theirpage 10 at council Joan Mell, an attorney with the profile of the Berthoud the council to late join August thetold meeting. Five andfused fundraising skills, and discipline, haveone been put to in he was wasthe no joke.familiar “It and unOver victims that a loved has the last administration. In from Hamilton, wasgot recpotential victims, butuse wishes similar meetings audience thatcancer she was having familiar good as chair of the Cowboy Ball committee. told thatpublic the so bad I felt with course of her landed in jail, or that a prize that others withinFreeman the commucomment, Crews told ognized for stepping in (virtual) were heldthe in meet- the public said the committee trouble streaming process, decade with has been won,hopes but a to feeraise needs had been eradicated. like I couldn’t nity would help her look out 2021. council that those makto handle the the prosecution this year, to forbethe expansion of the rodeo Staub Boxxe paid for release of the had She said andthe breathe, likefor I their safety.$50,000 ingsOverstreet on the internet. At least one In addition to the became susShoppe, Staub funds. The scammers will ing public comment should caseload of Town Attorney bucking chutes. “They’re just getting old,” he said. surgery on October was being water the former YouTube of the potential victims she opportunity to learn chanpicious when haswhile now commonly use a getting legitimate “They need to be replaced. They’re banged address the mayor, not the Greg Overstreet he was 23, 2021 for ostomy boarded, or what aided was a resident at a local nel they had was no longer about and participate in recovered address, buton will be ready to up.facility Bucking stock can be hard metal.” removal, theof fidevelopnalhad set up considering I imagine audience. He also said, “This hospitalized, and then recov- water extended nursing and the process working but they the customapproximately grab the package fromactually a porch The 10th annual cowboy ball – which in the boarding to had be to be provided with a ride notand a question and answer” ering, from Covid-19. ing a climbing plan, atreatment new Facebook page.this How- er’sisage $60,000Mell in or front door when it arrives. started 11the years ago but couldn’t be held last year to the bank as well as to colon journey. like,” recalls week’scancer meeting “It’s public comment.” did the work at no charge particular cash, all of to “They always direct the ever, members ofwill thecovpublic the session. Boxxe Shoppe. due to the pandemic – has been upgraded this The day after that Overstreet. “This er the following agenda details of the which was victim to send it, ‘no signature The mayor had said previousthe town. “I just wanted to who had he tried toinaccess the Stevensville never fails to put on a great holiday lighting display. Eickert Realty downtown by“It’s Vic-common sense to me,” year. topics: surgery, was isfrauduwhenPhoto I realized transaction. being required,’” she adds. ly that he would be answering publicly thank Joan for helpThesays, Town of Stevensville recognized attorney Joan aMell, she pointing out that red toria Howell. Facebook page said it was not Unfortunate• Review overall “This is the first year we’ve ever done diagnosed with that I was not lently deThe Bank Secrecy Actfully questions from the public. ing me and helping the town, ” flags abound when seniors are center, for filling in while town attorney Greg Overstreet objectives and desired accessible. catered dinner,” said Freeman. Thebanks University COVID-19.Berthoud asked ly, it was not taking Covid manded from of 1970 requires to being scammed. “If a person said Overstreet. outcomes ofas the public ofPictured Montana Catering Service provide theof had Covid-19. with Mell are, l towill Overstreet, for patience she worked Staub’sCrews “I was obviously first also said that they seniorseriously citizen enough. keep track ofr, withdrawals is 80 years old, and all of a conversations should be prepared for some Desserts are provided 4Hin members. time having members of $10,000 or by more order very weakened,” said through the issues. Mayorthey’re Steve dinner. Gibson, council coming into the members Cindy Brown and The Boxxe Shoppe’s new location • Provide an update encountered See page 2 sudden “interesting comments” Greg Overstreet talks about his recentfrom brush with death dueSTEVI, tothe commuOverstreet. “Itformer hit Jim Crews, mayor bank to5withdraw $15,000, it Stacie Barker. by Victoria at 901 S. 1st Street in Hamilton. nity.See See COWBOY BALL page 4 SURVIVING, page by Photo Michael Howell Howell. such cirStaub is Covid. Photo by Victoria Howell. See SCAMMERS, page 2 makes my ‘spidy’ sense tingle.” See PLAN, page 2 Photo by Nathan Boddy. fire-adapted landscapes.” by Michael Howell Ravalli County. The group, struggling wildfire risk in Montana… This Last threat, week the Ravalli County Commissioners apkey to diverse and abundant for some time now over complex and combined with unprecedented growth proved adoption The of a memorandum of understandforest wildlife, “is a complex ofand plants Steve Schmidt and Wayne Rusk, often controversial issues, has comand new home construction ing thatwith ex- the Ravalli County DUI Task Force of varying ages, heights, and species,” co-chairs of the Ravalli County Collabmented regularly on Forest Service tendspine; to the boundary of theMAPS Bitterroot Protection Agency. The letter the commissioners stated National Forest 1987 Forest aspen and whitebark Media Institute to produce a video designed by Michael Howell according toon thetheir position paper.behav“Wildorative, stopped by the Bitterroot Star activities over the last few years. On National Forest, highlights why we parents to help keep tabs children’s that “Ravalli County objects containscontributed recommendations manage timber toneed provide Plan. December 12, the advisory fire historically to such on Monday to talk about the collabgroup action across all ownerships.” ior. impacts to concerningAsthe Draft SEIS for forest products and In jobs; to unmitigated A new record of decision forest complexity. forest stands orative’s recently released a “Fire Position Statement” its and statement, the Collaborative The deadline closed onposition by Victoria Howell if it would beissued possible The DUI Task approved of year, theForce facility took inthe justcreation under by Victoria Howell the Gold Butterfly. Concerncounty owned/maintained was issued on December 17, retain old growth status in all acknowledges that “naturally occurregenerate, so do wildlife habitats.” paper on wildfire suppression. beginning with a quote attributed to on January 18, forHowell filing objec- to put envelopes by Victoria his property which would in effect with the highway, which is aastate addressed when private land was Mischief$240,000 Room lastand May and the commissioners spent every penny. ring wildfires, well prescribed What changed things, according to The is a diverse Fire Joint Chief’s heavy theowner scope ofthe the analysis treatment to as roads 2021 accompanied by Bitterroot a to Draft all the doors and then Dominic FarrenshutAdapted off access Stevensville Riverunits. According highway, because nowasfrom you’re goingequipment to on it. sold toproject aing new and Fish, Wildlife signed off The involved creation tions toCollaborative theShinn, Draft SupplemenJasmin founder and There are no paid employees; it’s an all-of burns, are an important part of renewthe group’s statement, was “decades of group of volunteers appointed by the project FY22: kopf, activities director put valentine cards in The Stevensville Town Coun- SEIS thatPark, a 20-acre park on the east bank have release two accesses forlogging trucksatrucks, pulling and Parks got involved. once-pritheitems letter quotes the Bittera Forest Service press and mostly, provides a site-speset of easily accessible that hadThe secret hiding tal Environmental Statement volunteer organization. But Shinn said of executive director of 1 Horse ing degraded forestjust ecosystems” and fire suppression” that left thousands Ravalli County Commissioners to Farrenkopf “The Bitterroot Valley has 300,920 atwas Sapphire them. really cil split onLutheran whether to accept just to the north of the private piece of boats, and you’ve come out of the vate piece now belongs to the state compartments where someone could stash some root Forest Plan’s Forest-wide but not limited to, theitimpacts cific forest plan amendment about 90% of the proposed (Draft SEIS) for the A Time Horse costs about $200 perfishing month to feed supports wise, adaptive manageacres over-stocked forest heavy with promote the wise useGold and managepriority area acres identifiedthe bycounty the Homes inDraft Hamilton, isRescue liked the idea. He asked aAtsmall piece of park land near the property. Crews contacted Stevi Wye“the at 45 miles per hour - there isofaflask developed access drugs or hide aand small of whiskey. The aim was to Willow Creek Road. Due to Management Wildlife Re-site. treatment areas are within an defining old-growth stanButterfly Project, a Bitterroot these “gentle giants.” Then there are facility in Corvallis, got a nice ment practices associated with returnment of public natural resources by Montana Forest Action Plan and 5 of asking the bridge, community students Stevensville an item that was at schools and negotiated the donation of the are going to be accidents there.” I think opportunity it’s [the piecetoon to provide parents“But a learning seethe the Seetherapy, WILDFIRES, page 21 source Objective “Maintain area for and and financial limitadards. Some objections to securing thefacing inginsect our forests toresource fire-dependent andways local, state and federal agencies within the top fire sheds thedesignated most boost lastForest week when she was veterinary bills, training, and to send his athat and daycares to make National project considered atresidents the March 24th council land on10 the west, potential Mayor Steve Gibson said he didn’t west] still a viable oftoland for the various in which any youngpiece person can hide Last year the envelopes. sufficient habitat Ravalli County would decision were received because of thetions, little love this special envelopes presented with aValencheck for $7500 associated costsold-growth to rehabilitate meeting. The land ownership willnew now river and access pending the disease outcometreatment of see what use land is to the town. “Iother city tofrom have, whether or not you put their substance use casual inspections. includes nearly 13,000 acres lopes were so full they The project is now tine’s Day. decorate them for each revert to the county. The 1.52-acre the access dispute. only see a liability,” said Gibson. money into developing it,” said Motnot be able to accommodate on suitable timberland to by the January 18 deadline dense pockets of dead and dythese horses. When they’re fi nally ready from representatives of JCCS, an Glenda Wiles, Director of the DUI Task Force, of commercial and non-comhad to be emptied more really popular, and About years resident. people piece, whichfour tomostly the Then Council Wolff Michaelson he looked upwhat the for ley. are many cars out said sheadoption, tells“There parents is,so “If you don’t look, accounting fiis rmlocated with aadjacent branch most can be driven or there, support viable populations ing trees. They claim area said the necessary maintenance having to do member with the Marilyn mercial vegetative treatment than the once. growing every year. ago, a in resident came drop offsaid valenBitterroot River on the northwest side she had apotenreal problem with old minutes andduring found that the land I see. think can be used for parking. But then younor don’t If it you don’t see, then you don’t ridden, and some just become “pasture located Hamilton. Part of could the logging of old-growth dependent the project, the of old growth, is impacted by mountain pine within a 55,000was acre area ofto the to Farrenkopf to see tines to fill the enveof the bridge, offered Town this piece of land. “It’s where two was donated on the condition that looking long term, if you have propSee VALENTINES, page 10 selection for awarding that gift tial impacts to wildlife and to pets.” See DUI, page 10 rehabilitation of the road afteron the species. ” side The letter Douglas-fir bark beetle, forest inby theRavalli Sapphire Mounin 2017 for use as a roads converge, the bankbeetle, is incrediit would be maintained and utilized erty west ofestablished thenotes river,that then was online voting County and according 1 Horse At A Time was DrafttoSEIS limits the scope dwarf mistletoe and the project is complete. Ravalli Willow Creek Road.I think there are potential river access site. bly steep… liability for western recreational purposes within five you havethe access potentially consoltains eastbranch of Corvallis. by Shinn in 2018. She’s originally from to JCCS manager, Andrea of its environmental consespruce budworm damage. County objects to shifting Bitterroot National Forest During the tenure of former issues… It is the fastest part of the years. idate highway property into the Town RDO Co. The original proposal was Simmerman, 1 Horse A Time Germany whereEquipment sheI grew around mayor Jim Crews, the At owner of land channel and thethe deepest partAlthough of the in general Vickie Motley, park board memof Stevensville. thinkup It’s something financial burden of the project quences analysis to vegetation, officials have stated that withdrawn in August of 2020 8571always Running Road horses. She’s been aW. horse fan, was one of the topnortheast four vote side had at the river on the you were to develop thatwith the ber,proposed said that nothing had County been done Equipment Co. the pileated woodpecker and project ischannel. designedIfto improve agreement to Ravalli and believe RDO after Friends theoff Bitterroot getters. passionate about Missoula, MT 59808 attempted to of shut river access on for fishing, I would also see a problem because the access problem had been but she is especially See STEVI, page 16 8571 Running W. Road pine marten. project, the Ravalli County it is contrary to current law forest resilience to natural checkfor followed in the wake draft horses. She and her husband, a andThat Alliance the Wild 406-549-4171 and existing agreements. ” “We realize these old growth Commissioners expressed Missoula, MT 59808 military retiree, and their two children of a $25,000 gift claiming in November Rockies filed suit the disturbances like fire, insects species are listed in and disease; reduce sediconcern over impacts to Forest officials also received from Tractor Supply. relocatedRDOequipment.com toindicator Montana and bought a 20406-549-4171 agency failed to use the best acre farm which Shinn said can support That sounds like a lot of the Forest Plan, but it is not county owned and maintained comments from Philip Strobel ment sources in the Willow available science in managing Presenting a check for $7500 from JCCS to Jasmin Shinn (second from left) of 1 Horse At RDOequipment.com money but, according to Shinn, Creek watershed; improve 20 horses. She currently roads, Willow Creek DirectorJCCS of the NEPAabout Branch clear whether there are other A Time Draft Horse Rescue were, l to r: especially Levi Clark, CPA, Andrea Simmerman, Branch elk habitat and didn’t comtaking care of draft horses is Office of the Regional Adminbull trout habitat; restore Road. Manager, and Will Ramsey, CPA. Also pictured is Tiny, the non-profit’s mascot and the ply with the definition of old an expensiveYproposition. Last CO.COM including meadows, RESCUE, page 65 See See GOLD, page •FREEbyESTIMATES INTime. THE BITTERROOT VALLEY• OURH OMEIMPROVEMENThabitat istrator In a At letter to the Forest first horse that was rescued 1 Horse A Photo by Victoria Howell. of the Environmental
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