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Wednesday, March 30, 2022 Wednesday, February 2022 Wednesday, January 26, Wednesday, July 5,2022 2023 Wednesday, February 2,9,

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Eagles in winterHumane Groundbreaking held Association for medical Bitter Root Three Mile Community Centercenter open July 7&8 DON’T MISS IT!

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celebrates new shelter, 50th anniversary

by Victoria by Victoria Howell Howell

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shelter. $140,000. a levy, so this won’t any tional andhave physical According The park additional impact on people’s therapy services – It’s been a long time to Colleen board made property taxes. including therapy coming, but the new Three Schmiedeke, the decision In addition to thea loan, the Bitterroot Health Mile Community Center is up who serves on to take out a project was paid for by pool – plus imaging held a groundbreakby Michael Howell and cut the ribbon at last week’sthe and running. Located at 4433 both the park loan to finish Three Community and lab services. ceremony, saidMile concerning the Senior ing last Wednesday Sunnyside Cemetery Road, board and the the project. Center (the official name) Bishop said “It organization’s 50 years of service, An new openmedical house celebration was for theits center is on the east side community She said they which raised over $80,000 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, by John Dowd ladies in 1972 and it’s still run by a Humane Association’s (BRHA) new the facility open ing contains a large they started Farmers State rummage sales, bingo nights built just north of meeting animal shelter located on Fairgrounds bunch of little old ladies.” room, a warming working on Bank to keep and donations fromof commuby spring 2023, Stevensville at the kitchen, a After accepting their first 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 patient on May 22 thisplan year, corner of Kootenai double purpose. It included Board, said, “This organization has system, and a gorgeous view a ribbon and incorpopayments contributors were the Three on new continuing to staff at the Bitterroot Creek and Mountains of the Road Bitterroot totherated reasonable. Mile Fireway District, the Lone cutting ceremony in honor of new in 2014. come such a long since it was Health Stevensville Clinic expand Hwy 93. including tours of the whole the west. She said the Those payRock 50 Park andago. theservices. Rapp started about years Ithey feel aFamfacility, are proud of what are “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 sensedoing. of responsibility to honor According to Emily care to the patients, to the senior center and the approximateout of park Schmiedeke said there terroot those who Holznagel, have come clinic beforesupervisor, us and ” drink inHealth honorCEO, of the organization’s Weekend Backpack Program ly $500,000. taxes that are were many volunteers who he said. make it as “We’ve good asbeen it can be as we set 50ththat birthday. said Marcus very graciously that serves Lone Rock School. When already being helped on theLois project, and HedgeThe privatehad non-profit organization the course welcomed for the next 50 years.” by the commuDaly Hospital The surrounding park conSchmiedeke assessed, TMCSC received reduced nity.”from chair McCormack saidpeth, that the of the was fisoccer rst organized in 1972. In 1984, tains and baseball “got really Schmiedeke prices contractors. The The new facility is a laThree 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 walk-in urgent care location leen 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 that includes primary care, 3 See CENTER, 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 has been four page years Chamber of Commerce Director Al Mitchell holds the group spell-bound as Bitrehabilitation services, and with a 99-year lease. Six years later, pandemic hit and construction costs in the works, but ter Root Humane Association Board Member Sue McCormack prepares to cut the ribbon an imaging lab. However, 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 celebrating the opening of the new animalfifth shelter in Hamilton. Photo by Michaelof Howell. according to Senior Director had to take out a mortgage to finish the land to the organization where of Regional Services, Pete delays due 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 Dunn, this is very different See SHELTER, page She said2 theat organization’s of directors will be built on land located the corner ofboard Kootenai Creek Road and Hwyfrom 93 an pandemic. new building replaces an old building shelter since 1984. Emergency Room their vision isthe that just north of the Stevensville Junction. by Nathan Boddy cumstances, having She adds thatto (ER). Dunn wanted the Stevensville encountered people mostthat important emphasize the StevensChristine Staub, a driving falling “quality, victim to mail way to such facility willanbeER. more ville facility is combat not Darby, Victor and Corvallis, as well as been providing force at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. abuse is for people For “emergent” services, of a “medical center” rather than just a accessible, personalized 901 S. 1st Street, was recently As a certified shiptoneed ask to makeDaly their clinic. She patients also said thatquestions Marcus The new 12-acre campus will health fordepot 90 years. presented with a Certificate of care” ping for FedEx, and start the conway to an ER, which is Murphy. She led the isversation a critical with access In recent the years, theyShoppe provide primary, care, urgent care and Hospital, which Appreciation by Mayor DomiBoxxe those commissioners through equipped to perform surhospital, was recently rated #4byinlove. the specialty services. Two physicians have nic Farrenkopf and Hamilton is legally justified to you know and have been taking steps to a lengthy fund fund geries and other emergency by Victoria Howell me like a ton of Police Chief Stephen Snavely. open package which doesn’t quality by Staub the national rataccounting that, to sum already been hired, along with a nurse nation for care needs. Not equipped invest in all theacommubricks.” In his presentation to the City bears its shipping know the details it up, shows the county, for those kinds of services, 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 Council on March 15th, Chief label. After following of what potential doing very well Stevensville facility will by Michael Victoria Howell the overall, are being recruited. There willby also be he said, with clinics in to Covid, Greg Howell. sent home from Snavely said that he wants the protocol, and doing victims are told, but oncritical its tax or collections and refer threatened The Bitterroot Overstreet has a NaHamilton Police Department so in the presence of the hospital with she knows that they showing revenues over patients south. This is postional 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 oftoprojections in of sible due the relocating host a public meeting Fairgrounds will be held February 12th. This is don’t fool around! He was home for the good things that happen able to uncover the to say they are shipmost departments while the Stevensville Ambulance Family Nurse Practitioner, Kelley Gregory, stands at the entrance to Bitterroot Health’s new Urgent Care facility in Stevensville. Photo 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 by John Dowd. 30th from 6 to 8 p.m. See HEALTH, page 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 10 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 regarding theHowell 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 by Nathan Boddy also include a onethat acrethose mak2021. council to 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 stretch ofpublic land which In addition to the became susShoppe, Staub funds. The scammers will ing comment should caseload of Town Attorney bucking chutes. “They’re just getting old,” he said. surgery on October was being water the former YouTube chan- dips farther south beof the potential victims she opportunity to learn Residents who want 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 hind to spin their tires andlonger the batting cages. considering recovered address, buton will be ready to up.facility Bucking stock can be hard metal.” removal, the fidevelopnalhad set upThat I imagine audience. He also said, “This hospitalized, and then recov- water extended nursing and the process of catch some air got parcel, surrounded 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 isage not a question ering, from Covid-19. ing a climbing plan, this some good news at the three sides by resi- and answer” atreatment new Facebook page. How-oner’s and $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 Hamilton Committee land use, the comment.” did the work at “It’sispublic no charge the session. particular cash, all of to “They always direct the ever, members ofwill thecovpublicdential Boxxe Shoppe. due to the pandemic – has been upgraded this The day aftermeeting that Overstreet. “This erthe the following agenda of Whole nearly unrecognizable 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 to access “It’s common sense to me,” year. topics: on Tuesday June 27th. the BMX park. surgery, was isfrauduwhen 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 Facebook page said it was not Unfortunate•Council Review overall “This is the first year we’ve ever done City members Amy Fox, who spoke 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. Berthoud asked heard a presentation by in ly, heritrole the city’s catered dinner,” said Freeman. Thebanks University COVID-19. taking Covid wasas not manded from of 1970 requires to being scammed. “If a person also said that they said Overstreet. outcomes ofas the representatives ofpublic the offirst Parks and ofPictured Montana Catering Service provide theof had Covid-19. with Mell are, l towill Overstreet, for patience she worked Director “I was obviously Staub’sCrews seniorseriously citizen enough. keep track ofr, withdrawals is 80 years old, and all of a conversations Bitterroot Backcountry Urban Forestry, gave a for some should be prepared 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 Cyclists and “It Bike history of the BMX encountered See page 2 sudden “interesting comments” Gregbrief Overstreet talks about his recentfrom brush with death dueSTEVI, tothe commuOverstreet. hitWalkmayor Jim Crews, former bank to5withdraw $15,000, it Stacie Barker. by Victoria 901 S. 1st Street in Hamilton. nity.See See COWBOY BALL page 4 SURVIVING, page Bitterroot concerning Covid. park’s in at 2002. by Photo Michael Howell Howell. suchcreation cirStaub is Photo by Victoria Howell. See SCAMMERS, page 2 makes my ‘spidy’ sense tingle.” See PLAN, page 2 Photo by Nathan Boddy. the BMX park and their “It was really nice desire to improve the at one point,” she said, Last week the Ravalli County Commissioners appark. The park, which while sharing photos proved adoption of a memorandum of understandis officially called the of the newly created ing with the Ravalli County DUI Task Force and Sapphire BMXHowell Park, lies bike park features and1987 Forest letter the commissioners statedInstituteProtection National Forest aspen and whitebark pine; MAPS Media to produceAgency. a video The designed by Michael immediately south of maintained vegetation. to help parents keep tabs on their children’s behavthat “Ravalli County objects contains recommendations manage timber to provide Plan. the Vester Wilson Sports Fox said that there wereof decision ior. impacts to concerning the Draft SEIS for forest products and jobs; and to unmitigated A new record The deadline closed on other Victoria Howell if it would be possible Complex and Ameriamenities as well, The DUI Task approved of year, theForce facility tookButterfly. inthe justcreation under bybyVictoria Howell thewhen Gold Concerncounty owned/maintained was issued on December 17, retain old growth status in all to put on January 18,Park. forHowell filing objec- such by Victoria hispicnic property which would in effect with the highway, which is aastate addressed private land was can Legion Those as envelopes multiple Mischief$240,000 Room lastand May and the commissioners spent every penny. Tire andRiver Jeff’s Towing will sponsor 3rd Annual Car Show onThe Saturday, July 8th 10 a.m. to roads from heavy equipment theowner scope offrom the analysis treatment units. According to their 2021 accompanied by Newsom a to Draft all the and then Dominic Farrenshut off access Stevensville highway, because now you’re going to sold toproject aing new and Fish, Wildlife city-owned properties tables, adoors wooden fence signed off on it. involved the creation of tions to theShinn, Draft SupplemenJasmin founder and There are no paid employees; it’s an all2 p.m. in their parking lot at 3929 US Hwy 93 near the Stevensville Junction. There will be lots of prizes, plus kopf, activities director put valentine cards in The Stevensville Town Couna 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, SEISsignage. thatPark, provides a site-spelie south of Bitterroot and even There set of easily accessible that hadThe secret hiding tal Environmental Statement volunteer organization. ButtoShinn said executive director of 1 Horse a silent auction and free Everyone is welcome and all proceeds govate to the Montana Highway Patrol. Jeff atwas Sapphire Lutheran them. cil split whether to accept just toreally the north of the private piece offood. and you’ve just come out of the piece now belongs thesome state compartments where someone could stash Brewery andon adjacent were, atFarrenkopf the time, plans root Forest Plan’s Forest-wide but not limited to, theitimpacts cific forest plan amendment about 90% of the boats, proposed (Draft SEIS) for the Gold At A Time Draft Horse Rescue costs about $200 per month to feed Homes in Hamilton, is near liked the idea.property. He askedCrews and Tyler Newsom are pictured here with Montana Highway Patrol officers. For more information call 406a small piece oftracks park land the contacted the county Stevi Wye at 45 miles per hour there and is a developed fishing access drugs or hide a small flask of whiskey. The aim was to the railroad to Willow Creek Road. Due“gentle to Management Wildlife Re-site. treatment areas are within an defining old-growth See BMX, 3 stanButterfly Project, a Bitterroot there are facility inthe Corvallis, got a nice asking community students at schools Stevensville bridge, an that was andpage negotiated the donation ofby theVictoria are going to be accidents there.” “But I giants.” think opportunity it’sThen [the piece to providethese parents a learning toon seethe the 360-3370. Photo Howell. and Taulman Street, butitem source Objective “Maintain area designated for insect and financial limitadards. Some objections to securing the boost lastForest week when she was veterinary bills, therapy, training, and to send his athat and daycares to make National project considered atresidents the March 24th council land on the west, potential Mayorand Steve resource Gibson said he didn’t west] still a viable oftoland for the various ways in which any youngpiece person can hide Last year lopes. the disease sufficient habitat tions, Ravalli County would decision were received because of the 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 outcometreatment of see what use theenveland 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 giftof tial impacts pets.” See DUI, page 10 The Montana Department surface, and reduce long-term main- ed.bark beetle, rehabilitation of the road safety drivers and workers. As you afteronofthe species. ” side The letter notes that to converge, wildlife and beetle, Douglas-fir forest inby theRavalli Sapphire Mounin 2017 County forRiverside use as a roads thetobank is incrediit would be maintained and utilized erty west ofestablished the river, then was online voting and according 1 Horse At A Time was Transportation (MDT) and tenance costs. Work includes crack The Bitterroot Trail will be closed travel through the work zone, please the DrafttoSEIS limits the scope dwarf mistletoe and the project is complete. Ravalli Willow Creek Road.I think there are potential river access bly steep… liability for western recreational purposes within five you have access potentially consoltains eastbranch of Corvallis. Contracting Inc. will site. improve a secseal, seal and cover (chip seal), fog during construction. Cyclists and pe-by Shinn slow down, pay attention to the road 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 tion of US Highway 93 (US 93) and seal, and new pavement markers. destrians are advised to plan ahead Germany and other drivers, follow posted Simmerman, 1 Horse At A Time where she grew up around mayor Jim Crews, the of land channel and theTrail deepest partAlthough of the Motley, park board memof Stevensville. Ianalysis think It’s financial burden of project quences tosomething vegetation, officials The have stated that the an adjacent section ofofowner the Bitterroot Bitterroot shared-use path in general andVickie use alternate routes during thethe speed limits, and be on the lookout withdrawn August 2020 horses. She’s always been a horse fan, was one of in the topnortheast four vote at the river on the side had channel. If you were to develop that ber, said that nothing had been done RDO Equipment Co. the pileated woodpecker and project is designed to improve agreement with the proposed to Ravalli County and believe Trail in Ravalli County. The projwill receive a crack seal and fog seal. closure. for construction workers. Highway after Friends of theoff Bitterroot getters. but she is especially passionate about attempted to shut river access on for fishing, I would also see a problem because the access problem had been See STEVI, page 16 ect begins a half mile north of the The chip sealing process will Due to the project’s location patrol is actively patrolling the area. 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 intersection with Bear Creek Road occurlike in two stages. TheCommissioners first pass along US 93 in the Valmore information, please visandBitterroot existing agreements. ” For “We and realize these old growth fire, insects expressed Missoula, MT 59808 military retiree, their two children of a $25,000 gift claiming in November Rockies filed approximately suit thetwo disturbances and extends will chip seal the wheel ruts and a ley corridor, MDT is committed to it the project website at www.mdt. species are listed in and disease; reduce sediconcern over impacts to Forest officials also received from Tractor Supply. relocated toindicator Montana and bought a 20406-549-4171 agency failed ending to use the bestof Victor. miles north, south second pass will chip seal the full working closely with the public and mt.gov/pubinvolve/bearcreekroadacre 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 Construction is anticipated roadway. Roadway resurfacing connorth. available science in managingto start Presenting a check for $7500 from JCCSis to Jasminstakeholders Shinn (secondthroughout from left) of 1the Horse At RDOequipment.com money but, according to Shinn, Creek 20 horses. She currently roads, Willow Creek DirectorJCCS of the NEPAabout Branch clear whether thereorare other watershed; improve mid-July approximately oneA Time expected to last one were, week final process. Comments, questions conDraft Horse Rescue lwith to r: especially Levi Clark, struction CPA, Andrea Simmerman, Branch elk habitatand andlast didn’t comtaking care of draft horses is week with striping to follow. striping to follow. During roadway Please drive safely through the cerns can be directed to Lori WarOffice 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 The expensive Lastthehabitat RESCUE, page 65 project will resurface construction, traffic control be work zone. Workers areofregularly den, public information specialist, See See GOLD, page •FREE INTime. THE BITTERROOT VALLEY• Yproposition. OUR HOME IMPROVEMENT CO.COM istrator the Environmental Inwill a At letter to the Forest firstincluding horse thatmeadows, was rescued byESTIMATES 1 Horse A Photo by Victoria Howell. growth found in the Bitterroot at lwarden@upwardpr.com or by existing roadway to enhance safety in place with single lane closures. working alongside the roadway. calling 406-360-2825. features, provide a smoother driving Brief traffic delays should be expect- Traffic barriers are placed for the

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