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Covering the Bitterroot Valley – “Where Montana Begins!” – Established 1985 – Locally Owned & Independent

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Eagles in winter Groundbreaking held Association for local medical Aviation forHumane everybody: pilotcenter talks Bitter Root Three Mile Community Center open

celebrates new shelter, 50th anniversary speech, occupa-

by Victoria by Victoria Howell Howell

shelter. $140,000. a levy, this won’t any bysoJohn Dowd tional andhave physical According The park additional impact on people’s therapy services – It’s been a long time to Colleen board made property“Don’t taxes. lean on the including a loan, therapy coming, but the new Three Schmiedeke, the decision Indoor addition to the the Bitterroot Health or it will pop open,” Mile Community Center is up who serves on to take out a project was paid for by the pool – plus imaging held a groundbreakby Michael Howell and cut the ribbon at last week’s and, “thankfully, we’re and running. Located at 4433 both the park loan to finish Three Mile Community Senior and lab services. not going to be going ceremony, said concerning the ing last Wednesday Sunnyside Cemetery Road, board and the the project. Center (the official name) enough it to be Bishop said organization’sfast 50 years of for service, “Ita An new openmedical house celebration was for theits center is on the east side community She said they whichbig raised over $80,000 deal,” explains Kelli they hope to have held last week at the Bitter Root was started by a bunch of little old complex that will beThe build- center board, of Lone Rock Park. worked with through community picnics, to still those who enter 1972 Weed and the it’s run by a Humane Association’s (BRHA) new facility open ing contains a large they started Farmersladies State in rummage sales, bingo nights built just north of meeting her 1948 Cessna 140. animal shelter located on Fairgrounds bunch of little old ladies.” room, a warming working on Bank to keep and donations from commuspring of 2023, Stevensville at the kitchen, a She isbyone of several Butts, President of the Road in Hamilton. The event served state-of-the-art audio visual this ain 2012 their loan Kathienity members. Other major and that they plan small-time pilots that corner ofand Kootenai double purpose. It included Board, said, “This organization has system, a gorgeous view a ribbon and incorpopayments contributors were the out Three on continuing toof base themselves Creek and Mountains of the Road Bitterroot totherated reasonable. Mile Fireway District, Lone cutting ceremony in honor of new in 2014. come such a long sincethe it Municwas the Stevensville Hwy 93. including tours of the whole the west. She said the Those payRock 50 Parkexpand andago. theservices. Rapp started about I feel aFamfacility, ipalyears Airport. For her, “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 flying responsibility to honor is a dream come care to the patients, to the senior center and the approximateout of park Schmiedeke said there terroot those who have come us andas” drink inHealth honorCEO, of the organization’s true andbefore as American Weekend Backpack Program ly $500,000. taxes that are were many volunteers who he said. make it as good as itpie. can be as we set 50ththat birthday. apple said Marcus that serves Lone Rock School. When already being helped on theLois project, and HedgeThe privatehad non-profit organization the course for the“When next 50 years.” I started Daly Hospital The surrounding park conSchmiedeke assessed, TMCSC received reduced flying Ithat justchair couldn’t beof the McCormack saidpeth, the was fisoccer rst organized in 1972. In 1984, tains and baseball “got really Schmiedeke prices from contractors. The lieve hospital that this was someThree Mile Community Senior Center board members, l to r, Colorganization conducted a successful Countess Margarite Bessenyey, the board, fields, tennis and volleyball involved,” the is proud that general contractor donated lathingsaid I could do,” said leen Schmiedeke, Joyce Pando and Wendy Audiss in front of the fundraising campaign to fund the new granddaughter ofpath, Marcus Daly, gave this project courts, a walking a playgroup had they didn’t Weed. “People think of 3 See CENTER, page new community center at Lone Rock Park. Photo by V. Howell. construction but then the Covid-19 the BRHA on Fairgrounds Road ground andland a covered picnic raised Bitterroot about have to run hasjets, beenbut four years Chamber of Commerce Director Al Mitchell holds the group spell-bound as Bitprivate have no with a 99-year lease. Six years later, pandemic hit and construction costs in the butto ter Root Humane Association Board Member Sue McCormack prepares to cut the ribbon idea this is works, available As a result, the group in 1990, the Bessenyey estate deeded there were some John Bishop, pictured from left, leads a gathering peopleskyrocketed. involved in the everyone!” celebrating the opening of the new animalfifth shelter in Hamilton. Photo by Michaelof Howell. had to take out a mortgage to finish the land to the organization where Weed, to delayswho duetries to the Bitterroot project in a ceremonial groundbreaking. The facility on the property that hadHealth housedbuilding the Sue McCormack, who serves on the current shelter is located. The maintain her 70-yearSee SHELTER, page pandemic. She said2 theat organization’s of directors will be built on land located the corner ofboard Kootenai Creek Road and Hwy 93old aircraft new building replaces an old building shelter since 1984. better than their vision isthe thatin just north of the Stevensville Junction. by Nathan Boddy cumstances, having adds thatalone herShe truck, is not the Stevensville encountered people important hermost passion for general Christine Staub, a driving falling “quality, victim to mail way to combat facility will besuch more aviation and its availDarby, Victor and Corvallis, as well as been providing force at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. abuse is for people ability to everyone. of a “medical center” rather than just a accessible, personalized 901 S. 1st Street, was recently As a certified shipto ask notquestions just richDaly clinic. She also“We’re said that Marcus The new 12-acre campus will health fordepot 90 years. presented with a Certificate of care” ping for FedEx, andflying start the consnobs here. Murphy. She led the isversation a criticalout access In recent the years, theyShoppe provide primary, care, urgent care and Hospital, which Appreciation by Mayor DomiBoxxe with those We’re just like you and commissioners through hospital, was recently rated #4 inlove. the specialty services. Two physicians have nic Farrenkopf and Hamilton is legally justified to you know and have been taking steps to we just have a passion a lengthy fund by fund by Victoria Howell me like a ton of 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 for it.” invest in all theacommubricks.” In his presentation to the City bears its shipping know the details it up, shows the county, Weed explained that, 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 March 15th, Chief label. After following of what potential Kelli Weed pulls around, gettingCouncil ready toontaxi to the Stevensville Municipal Airport runway. Photo by John Dowd. overall, doing very well See FLYING, page 5 by Michael Victoria Howell being recruited. also be hethe said, with clinicsand in doingaresent to Covid, Greg Howell. home from There willby Snavely said that he wants protocol, victims are told, but on its tax collections and The Bitterroot Overstreet has a NaHamilton Police Department so in the presence of the hospital with she knows that over they showing revenues tional Forest (BNF) will The Cowboy Ball at the 50% Ravalli Countycoached message for you: to “become more vocal about a witness, Staub was an oxygen tank. are, “often of projections in host afool public meeting Fairgrounds will be held February is don’t around! the good things that happen able to uncover the He was home for to departments say12th. they This are shipmost while thisOverstreet, Wednesday, March 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 addiby Sean Malcom to take action when a Climbing 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 basedtoand out of Fort bylocal JohnChicago, Dowd Plan (CMP). virtual soldier council mayor how 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 High 2021. that 51 is brain Corvallis School Harrison took their own run. He Staub of the Boxxe Shoppe. Photo meeting will be held on should “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 graduate and current lifeThe lastcustomer fall. “It hit pretty open!” exclaimed He wentSee through material.” Zoom. below for than Boddy. Sometimes they was a frequent commenter“The Stevensville Gibson pool will damage January 27, town clerk Jenelle ROTC cadet at Carroll close to home,” he said. Stephen Lassiter, Stevensville Parks Director. He, 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 anrumors attorney familiar with the profile of the Berthoud told the council College, Landen Conner said the more among others,Joan haveMell, heard thatjoke. he immedito late join August the meeting. Five andfused fundraising skills, and discipline, haveone been put to in heConner, was wasthe no “It and unOver victims that a loved has the he lastdid administration. In wanted from Hamilton, was recpotential victims, butuse wishes will be conducting a having research the more ately to dispel. The rumors, not completely similar public meetings audience thatcancer she was good as chair of the Cowboy Ball committee. told that the got so bad I felt familiar with course of her landed in jail, or that a prize that others withinFreeman the commu22-mile ruck march tomeet-hethe found outcomment, how big ofCrews unfounded, arose during a nearly $23,000 public told ognized for stepping in (virtual) were heldthe in said the committee trouble streaming process, decade with has been won,hopes but a to feeraise needs had been eradicated. like I couldn’tproject to would help her look out raise awareness about an issue veteran 2021. update the to town poolthe andthe bring it back like up nity to code. council suicide that those makhandle prosecution $50,000 this year, to forbethe expansion of the rodeo Staub Boxxe paid for release of the Overstreet had She said andthe breathe, I ings on the internet. forbetheir safety. At least one In addition Veteran suicideto inthe the is.became “Just getting to meet should According to Lassiter, theAttorney poolStaub ended up susShoppe, funds. The scammers will ing public comment caseload of Town bucking chutes. “They’re just getting old,” he said. surgery on October was being water the formerValley. YouTube oftwo the potential victims she opportunity to learn chan- more Bitterroot soldiers in the past coming a two-phase project. The first of the picious 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 about and participate in few years since being Conner hopes to longer started with the pool filtration. Not replaced since recovered address, buton will be ready to up.facility Bucking stock can be hard metal.” removal, theof fias nalahad set upat considering I imagine water audience. Hecome also said,the “This hospitalized, and then recovextended nursing and the the process developuse march Carroll. I don’t 1950’s, Lassiter said the pumps were underperworking but they the customapproximately grab the package fromactually a porch The 10th annual cowboy ball – which in boarding be to be provided with a ride notand a question ering, from Covid-19. Mell ing a climbing plan, this fund-raiser forthe the local military family,and answer” forming, meaning the town would need to tohad upgrade atreatment new Facebook page. How-from er’saisage $60,000 in or front door when it arrives. started 11the years ago but couldn’t be held last year to the as to colon journey. like,” recalls week’scancer meeting non-profit, Veteran’s didn’t realize how comment. the antiquated system the didbank not as well “It’s public ” did the workbecause at no charge to pool theI session. particular cash, all oftown “They always direct the ever, members ofwill thecovpublicand Boxxe Shoppe. due to the pandemic – has been upgraded this The day after that Overstreet. “This er the following agenda Victory Alliance (VVA) pervasive suicide was.” meet the state regulated water turn-over rate. They details of the which was victim to send it, ‘no signature The mayor had said previousthe town. “I just wanted to who had tried to access “It’s sense to me,” year. topics: surgery, isfrauduwhen I realized based outhe ofwas Sula. VVA’sthe transaction. According to the Deordered two brand new sand filters to replace the common 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 Facebook saidvetit was not • Review overall “This is the first year we’ve ever done mission is page to offer partment of Veteran Afold one, and are improving thethat system’s diagnosed with I was efficiency. not Unfortunatelently 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. Berthoud asked fairs eran and first responder 2020, the To improve efficiency, the town isfrom working catered dinner,” said Freeman. Thebanks University COVID-19. taking Covid to elimly, (VA), it wasin not manded of 1970 requires to being scammed. “If a person Crews also said thatinate theyany unnecessary said Overstreet. outcomes the public programs aofrustic and rate for veterans piping and elbows, reducing ofPictured Montana Catering Service provide theof had Covid-19. with Mell are, l towill Overstreet, for patience as she worked suicide “I was obviously seriously enough. Staub’s first senior citizen keep track ofr, withdrawals is 80 years old, and all of a The Stevensville pool just afterorthe rim was removed. conversations comfortable Montana was 57.3 percent greater fordrag expected is being should be prepared somein the system. This first dinner. Desserts are provided by 4H members. time having members of phase $10,000 more in order very weakened,” said through the issues. Mayor StevePhoto Gibson, council members Cindy Brown and sudden they’re coming into the The Boxxe Shoppe’s new location • Provide an update courtesy Stephen Lassiter. ranch facility for prothan for non-veteran encountered the commuSee STEVI, page 2 “interesting comments” from Greg Overstreet talks about his recent brush with death due to Overstreet. “Itformer hit See POOL, page 6 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 grams to conduct activi-Covid. U.S. adults. by Photo Michael Howell Howell. such cirStaub is Photo by Victoria Howell. See SCAMMERS, page 2 makes my ‘spidy’ sense tingle.” See PLAN, page 2 ties focused on personal These statisticsPhoto are by Nathan Boddy. and team wellness. what inspired Conner to Last week the Ravalli County Commissioners ap“Operation 22” will conduct the ruck march. proved adoption of a memorandum of understandbegin at Robert Anthony “To show every single ing with the Ravalli County DUI Task Force and Leonardi (RAL) Trail veteran in the valley letter the commissioners statedInstituteProtection National Forest 1987 Forest aspen and whitebark pine; MAPS Media to produceAgency. a video The designed by Michael Howell by Nathan Boddy and Rebecca Gleason of the Westes the current Fire Station, the off Golf Course Road in that their sacrifices are to help parents keep tabs on their children’s behavthat “Ravalli County objects contains recommendations manage timber to provide Plan. ern Transportation Institute of to Hamilton Middle Library Hamilton, on June 17 at appreciated, thatrecord they of decision ior. concerning theSchool, Draft SEIS for forest products and jobs; and to unmitigated impacts A new The deadline closed by Victoria Howell if itcared would A group comprised of city ofMontana State University join and sees significant foot andof bike 6by a.m. The 22-mile routeon are forbe bypossible the comThe to DUI Task Force approved the creation year, the facility took in just under Victoria Howell the Gold Butterfly. Concerncounty owned/maintained was issued on December 17, retain old growth status in all to put and envelopes onnext which January 18, forHowell filing ficials,would citizens policy makers them, andwhich the public, for a ‘walk traffic of people going toland and was from by Victoria histhe property in and effect with the highway, is aastate addressed when the private snakes through and objec- munity that Mischief Room last May and commissioners $240,000 and spent every penny. heavy equipment theowner scope ofthe the analysis According to ofroads 2021 accompanied by met a to Draft all the doors and Dominic Farrenon the treatment sidewalks of HamilState Street, which downtown. shutthen off access Stevensville Riverunits. highway,audit’ because nowfrom you’re going towas sold toproject aing new and Fish, Wildlife around Hamilton, culgeneration of military signed off on it. The involved creation tions to the Draft SupplemenJasmin Shinn,director founder and There are no paid employees; it’s an all-of kopf, put valentine cards The activities Stevensville Town CounPark, ain 20-acre park on the easton bank have release twoamong accesses forlogging trucks pulling and Parks got involved. once-priton’s State Street Thursday, several public corridors ofaccessible The Western Transportation theitems letter quotes the Bittera Forest Service press and mostly, SEIS thatto provides a site-speminating at the Veterans officers wants honor atrucks, set of easily that hadThe secret hiding tal Environmental Statement volunteer organization. Buttobeen Shinn said executive director of 1 Horse atwas Sapphire them. Farrenkopf cil split onLutheran whether to accept just toreally the north of 1the private piece ofthe boats, you’vebut just come out to, of the vate piece now belongs thesome state June to discuss the function of and concern during Hamilton’s recent Institute (WTI) had in compartments where someone could stash Monument located in those who came before,” root Forest Plan’s Forest-wide not limited the impacts cific forest plan amendment about 90% of proposed (Draft SEIS) for the Gold A Time Horse it costs about $200 per month to feed Homes inDraft Hamilton, isRescue the idea.property. He askedCrews aAtsmall piece of park land near the the county Stevi Wye at 45 miles perplan hour - there is aflask developed fishing thecontacted thoroughfare. Cityareas planning comprehensive update. with the City ofaccess Hamildrugs or hide aand small of whiskey. The aim was Hieronymus Park. heliked said. to Willow Creek Road. Due tocontact Management Wildlife Re-site. treatment are within an defining old-growth stanButterfly Project, a Bitterroot these “gentle giants.” Then there are facility in Corvallis, got a nice asking the community students Stevensville bridge, an item that was at schools and negotiated the donation of the to beStreet, accidents there.” I think opportunity it’s [the piecetoon staffers, Matthew Rohrbach are andgoingState which often acts parents as a “But to provide a learning seethe the Conner decided source Objective “Maintain area designated for insect and resource and financial limitadards. Some objections to securing the See VETS, See WALK, page 4 boost lastForest week when she was veterinary bills, therapy, training, and to send his athat and daycares topage make National project considered atresidents the March 24th council land on 14 the west, potential Mayorbypass Steve of Gibson he didn’t west] still a viable piece oftoland for the Mark Rud hosted Matt Madsen Mainsaid Street, alsoways housvarious in which any young person can hide Last year the envelopes. the disease sufficient old-growth habitat tions, Ravalli County would new decision were received treatment because of little love this Valenspecial envelopes and presented with a check for $7500 other associated costs to rehabilitate meeting. The land ownership will now river access pending outcome of see what use the land is to the town. “I city to have, whether or not you put their substance use from casual inspections. includes nearly 13,000 acres were so full they The project is now tine’s decorate them foraccess each revert toDay. the county. The 1.52-acre the dispute. only liability,” Gibson. money into developing it,” said Motnot said be able to accommodate onWhen suitable timberland to January 18 deadline dense pockets oflopes deadsee andadyhorses. they’re finally ready from representatives of JCCS, anby the Glendathese Wiles, Director of the DUI Task Force, of commercial and non-comhad to be emptied more really popular, and About four years resident. Then people piece, whichfiis located adjacent tomostly the having Council member Marilyn WolffThey claimMichaelson said he looked upwhat the for ley. “There are so many cars out there, said she tells parents is, “If you don’t look, accounting rm with a branch adoption, most can be driven or support viable populations ing trees. the area the necessary maintenance to do with the mercial treatment than once. growing every year. ago, a vegetative 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 in 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 The original proposal was RDO Co. 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 horses. She’s been aW. horse fan, was one of the topnortheast four vote side had 8571always Running Road 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 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 Missoula, MT 59808 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

Public Scammers thwarted, vigilance recognized County budget meeting on track on BNF Cowboy Ball Halfway Climbing through fiscal scheduled year, county Plan

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Hearts22full ofrevisit Operation looks toloveStevi swimming Stevi to refinancing bonds shed light on vet suicide ‘pool will open!’

DUI Task Force, MAPS to partner on special video

State Street Walk audit Spreading love horse Local draft rescue Stevi to return park land thriving to county

Gold Butterfly project draws some objections

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