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Eagles in winterHumane Groundbreaking held Association for medical center Ravalli County Fair & Rodeo Bitter Root Three Mile Community Center open
celebrates new shelter, 50th anniversary Bitterroot Celtic Games a hit again! by Victoria by Victoria Howell Howell
Wednesday, Aug. 30 - Saturday, Sept. 2 • Hamilton
speech, occupa-
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, 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 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 corner ofand Kootenai double purpose. It included Board, said, “This organization has system, a gorgeous view a ribbon and incorpopayments contributors were the Three on continuing to 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 was expand Hwy 93. including tours of the whole the west. She said the Those payRock 50 Park andago. theservices. Rapp started about 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 care to the patients, to the senior center and the approximateout of park Schmiedeke said there terroot those who have come before us and ” drink inHealth honorCEO, of the organization’s Weekend Backpack Program ly $500,000. taxes that are it as were many who said.be as we make good as he itvolunteers can set 50ththat birthday. said Marcus that serves Lone Rock School. When already being helped on theLois project, and HedgeThe privatehad non-profit organization the course for the next 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 in the works, costs but ter Root Humane Association Board Member Sue McCormack prepares to cut the ribbon skyrocketed. As a result, the group in 1990, the Bessenyey estate deeded 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 to finish the land to the organization where 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 See SHELTER, page pandemic. She said2 theat organization’s of directors will be built on land located the corner ofboard Kootenai Creek Road and Hwy 93 new building replaces an old building shelter since 1984. their vision that just north of the Stevensville Junction. by Nathan Boddy cumstances, having She adds thatisthe the Stevensville encountered people most important Christine Staub, a driving falling “quality, victim to mail way to combat facility will besuch more Darby, Victor and Corvallis, as well as been providing force at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. abuse is for people of a “medical center” rather than just a accessible, personalized 901 S. 1st Street, was recently As a certified shipto ask clinic. She also said thatquestions Marcus Daly The new 12-acre campus will health fordepot 90 years. presented with a Certificate of care” ping for FedEx, and start conMurphy. Shethe led the Hospital, which is a critical access In recent the years, theyShoppe provide primary, care, urgent care and Appreciation by Mayor DomiBoxxe versation with those commissioners through hospital, 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 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 invest in all theacommubricks.” In 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 Council on March 15th, Chief label. After following of what potential overall, doing very well by Michael Victoria Howell 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 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 a public meeting Fairgrounds will be held February is don’t fool around! the good things that happen able to uncover the He was home for to departments say12th. they This are shipmost while The 14th Bitterroot Celtic Games & Gathering on Saturday and Sunday, August 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. 19 and 20. that The annual presented by to thebe Bitterroot Celtic Society and was ing his department’s experiof the package: nearly paperwork.” Other it’s going an event worthy oftoa23% jubilee an attorney in During time, event isup, amounted of to share information held on the beautiful grounds of the Daly Mansion. At top left bagpipers play. At ence with Ms. Staub was one $16,000 in cash, commondue tactics fortop and former council member, the public at the next Halfway through celebration. projections in large private practice in hismeeting oxygen level by Victoria regarding theHowell developright, the caber toss. Shown at bottom left is the weight over bar toss. such opportunity. which thethe customer scammers include the budget year, the part to jobyear’s vacancies Rod Freeman is the chair of this appears to be continuing when council considers Stevensville, was went down to 51, ment of a draft forest In early March, a customwas unwittingly sendclaiming to repcounty’s performance that have yet to be filled. event. Freeman is also the chair of the Rodeo diagnosed with regular a normal of his efforts to teach the new the appointment offrom two addiClimbing Management At the second er came to the Boxxe Shoppe ing to a scammer inPhotos by Scott Sacry. 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 thata those makto handle the the prosecution $50,000 thisdates year,and forbe the expansion of school the rodeo Staub Boxxe to paid forthe release of the had She said andthe breathe, Inot the district like willfor be able to fund the times of high by John Dowd under time constraint, as cross couningsOverstreet on the internet. their safety. 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. endeavor. Thennis said the district is team meets. This means that the try begins just after Labor Day. surgery on October was being water the former YouTube of the potential victims she opportunity to learn chanpicious when haswhile now commonly usewould a getting legitimate still “trying to be financially responsimiddle school team be able to As schools in the valley prepare to To come to decision, according “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 considering recovered address, but will beschool ready to ble.” hitch acan ridebewith the high team. ramp up for the year, the last of severtoHe Stevensville Superintendent Dave and up. Bucking stock hard on metal.” removal, the fi nal I imagine water audience. also said, “This hospitalized, then recovextended nursing facility and the process developworking butof they had the customgrab the package from a porch This all means community Thennis said that alone provides a al board meetings sawset theup addition of Thennis, the school put a survey out approximately The 10th annual cowboy ball – which actually treatment in the boarding to had be that to bethe provided with a ride not a question and answer” ering, from Covid-19. Mell ing a climbing plan, this a new Facebook page. Hower’sisage and $60,000 in to raise an estimated or front door when it arrives. will need $3,500 huge cost savings. He said the commuacolon new middle school sport opportunito middle school students and their started 11the years ago but couldn’t be held last year the bank as well as to journey. like,” recalls week’scancer meeting cov“It’s public comment. ” did the work no to to to the session. particular cash, all ofprogram “They always direct the ever, members ofwill theThe public nity is already extremely generty, but with a catch. Stevensville parents. The survey asked about their at forcharge the getShoppe. off the due ground. Boxxe to the pandemic – has being 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 That estimate would cover both a ous. “Word of mouth has actually been School Board voted to include cross thoughts on adding the sport to the who had tried to access the “It’s common sense to me,” year. topics: he was surgery, isfrauduwhen I realized transaction. being required,’” she adds. coach and travel expenses. Fortunatepretty beneficial to us so far.” country in the sports offerings. Howofferings and Thennis said that there ly that he would be answering publicly thank Joan for helpThe Town of Stevensville recognized attorney Joan Mell, she says, pointing out that red Facebook page said it was not • Review overall “This is the first year we’ve ever doneAct a fully diagnosed with I was not lently de- town, The Bank Secrecy ly,that explained that is a relaThe attorney program will beOverstreet opened up to ever, the school board decidedUnfortunatethat the was significant interest. ing me and helping questions from the public. the ” Thennis, flags abound when seniors are center, for filling in while town Greg objectives and desired accessible. Berthoud asked catered dinner,” said Freeman. The University COVID-19. taking Covid ly, it was not manded from of 1970 requires banks to tively low cost being for a sports program, seventh and eighth grade students, to district cannot afford to fund the pro-Crews also Thesaid votethat wasthey held at the scammed. “If a person saidboard’s Overstreet. outcomes ofas the public of Montana Catering Service will provide the had Covid-19. Pictured with Mell are, l to r, Overstreet, for patience she worked “I was obviously seriously enough. Staub’s first senior citizen keep track of withdrawals of compared to other school sports. stay on par with the rest of the middle gram. This means that the school, and regular meeting, Tuesday, Aug. 8. It is 80 years old, and all of a conversations should be preparedStevensville for some Middle School members dinner. are provided by 4H members. time having $10,000 or more in order very weakened,” saidneed to raise through the issues. Mayor Steve Gibson, council Cindy Brown and Oneofreasonsudden for the they’re low cost is the Desserts school sports ages. Thennis believes the the approved coming into the members The Boxxe Shoppe’s new location •community, Provide an will update encountered commuSee page 2 bank “interesting comments” from Greg happen. Overstreet talks his recent brush with team death dueSTEVI, tothefact Overstreet. “Itthe hit program that many of the middle school there are already around 20 students funds make toabout organize a cross country and JimtoCrews, former mayor to5withdraw $15,000, it Stacie Barker. Photo by Victoria at 901 S. 1st Street in Hamilton. nity.See See COWBOY BALL page 4 SURVIVING, page by Michael Howell Howell. such cirStaub is Covid. Photo byisVictoria Howell. within the state. However, See SCAMMERS, page 2 cross country meets with the tingle.” On top of that, the fundraising effort to compete makescoincide my ‘spidy’ sense See PLAN, page 2 Photo by Nathan Boddy. See STEVI, page 4 Last week the Ravalli County Commissioners approved adoption of a memorandum of understanding with the Ravalli County DUI Task Force and letter the commissioners statedInstituteProtection National Forest 1987 Forest aspen and whitebark pine; MAPS Media to produceAgency. a video The designed by Michael Howell to help parents keep tabs on their children’s behavthat “Ravalli County objects contains recommendations manage timber to provide Plan. ior. impacts to concerning the Draft SEIS for forest products and jobs; and to unmitigated A new record of decision The deadlineHowell closed on if it would be possible Victoria 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 on January 18, forHowell filing objec- to put envelopes by Victoria his property which would in effect with the highway, which is aastate addressed private land was Mischief$240,000 Room lastand May and the commissioners spent every penny. roads heavy theowner scopeand ofthe the analysis treatment to 2021 accompanied by a to Draft all the doors and Dominic Farrenshutthen off access Stevensville Riverunits. According highway, because nowfrom you’re goingequipment to on it. sold toproject aing new Fish, Wildlife signed off creation tions to theShinn, Draft SupplemenJasmin founder and There The are no paid involved employees; it’s an all-of 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. ButtoShinn said executive director of 1 Horse atSean Sapphire them. Farrenkopf cil was split onLutheran whether to accept just toreally the north of the private piece oftheby boats, andDowd you’vebut just come out to, of the vate piece now belongs thesome state compartments where someone could stash root Forest Plan’s Forest-wide not limited the impacts cific forest plan amendment about 90% of proposed John She has been riding with them for over by Malcom public more involved.” (Draft SEIS) for the Gold A Time Horse it costs about $200whiskey. perfishing month toaim feed Homes inDraft Hamilton, isRescue liked the idea.property. He asked aAtsmall piece of park land near the Crews contacted the county Stevi Wyean at 45 miles per hour - there is aflask developed access site. drugs or hide aand small The was 38 years, andof started when she was Laura Owings-Smith, president to Willow Creek Road. Due to Management Wildlife Retreatment areas are within defining old-growth stanButterfly Project, a Bitterroot “gentle there are facility Corvallis, gotitem a nice askinginthe community students Stevensville bridge, an that was at schools and negotiated the donation the a areSince going1966 to bethe accidents there.” I giants.” think it’sThen [the the to providethese parents a learning opportunity toon see the Bitterroot Mounonly“But 15. Her mother waspiece on the team The Bitterroot Heritage Civic of theobjections BHCG, explained itof was source Objective to “Maintain area designated for insect and resource and financial limitadards. Some to securing the that boost lastForest week when she was veterinary bills, therapy, training, and to send his residents athat and daycares to make National project considered at the March 24th council land on the west, potential Mayor Steve Gibson said he didn’t west] still a viable piece of land for the various ways in which any young person can hide tettes, an equestrian drill team based and rode for many years herself. Group (BGCG), a non-profit basednew decision quickwere turnaround, but they got 13treatment local Last year the envelopes. sufficient old-growth habitat tions, Ravalli County would received disease 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 the 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 acres in thewere Bitterroot has been Bolin’s daughter, Morgan Bolin, in Darby,nearly hosted13,000 its first local author authors to attend.The “In project a little under so fullValley, they is now tine’s decorate them foraccess each revert toDay. the county. The 1.52-acre dispute. only liability,” said Gibson. money into developing it,” said Motnot be all able to accommodate onwith suitable timberland to the January 18 we deadline oflopes deadsee andadyhorses. When they’re fiand nally ready from representatives of JCCS, anby Glendathese Wiles, Director ofthe the DUI Task Force, performing for crowds over the also rides team, also of commercial and at non-combook signing event Sacajawea’s Rest athe month, managed to dense pull and it pockets all had to be emptied more really popular, About four years resident. Then people piece, which is located adjacent to the Council member Marilyn Wolff Michaelson said he looked up the ley. “There are so many cars out there, said what she tells parents is, “If you don’t look, accounting fi rm with a branch for adoption, most can be driven or support viable populations ing trees. They claim the area the necessary maintenance mostly having to do with the Northwest. The team performs various started young, at age 16. According Park in downtown treatment Darby on Saturtogether,” she growing said. mercial than once. every year. ago, a vegetative resident came could drop offsaid valenBitterroot River on the northwest side she had a real problem with old minutes and found that the land I think it can be used for parking. But then you don’t see. If you don’t see, then you don’t ridden, and some just become “pasture located in Hamilton. Part of the impressive choreographed displays to Morgan, “I just thought it was the of old-growth dependent during the project, nor the logging of old growth, potenis impacted by mountain pine day, August 19. Across theofstreet, the Most of the authors who attended within a 55,000 acre area to Farrenkopf to see tines to fill the enveof the bridge, was offered to the 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 pets.” of bark horsemanship to music and of often coolest in ”the world, and it was See DUI, page 10 BHCG hosted a car show andgift raffle toimpacts weretofrom the valley and one in attenrehabilitation the road afteronthing species. The letter notes that wildlife and Douglas-fir beetle, forest in theRavalli Sapphire Mounin 2017 by County for usetial as a roads converge, thetobankbeetle, is incrediit would be maintained and utilized erty the side themy river, then in costume. However, the process to something Iwest could do of with mom.” was online votingfor and 1 Horse At A Time was established help raise money theaccording park. dance came from Salmon, Idaho. DrafttoSEIS limits the scope dwarf mistletoe and western the project is complete. Ravalli Willow Creek Road.I think there are potential river access site. bly steep… liability for to recreational within five youher, havethe access potentially consoltains east of Corvallis. get the level atpurposes which they perform For has always been a way of Gay Findley, amanager, member Andrea of the S.S. Duskey, an author who lives by Shinn in it 2018. She’s originally from to JCCS branch 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 does not happen overnight, and those life. “I’ve grown up riding horses. I’ve BHCG, explained that the was in the Bitterroot, was promoting her Simmerman, 1 Horse Aturnout Time Germany where sheI grew up around mayor Jim Crews, the At owner of land channel and thethe deepest partAlthough of the in general Vickie Motley, park down board memof Stevensville. think It’s something financial burden of the project quences analysis to vegetation, officials have stated that skills have been passed through done it all my life,” said Morgan. Mornot exactly what they were hoping for. work, The Rose O’Brien Trilogy, a withdrawn in August of 2020 horses. She’s always been a horse fan, was one of the topnortheast four vote side had at the river on the channel. Ifto you were to develop that ber,proposed said that nothing had County been done RDO Equipment Co. several generations of riders. gan that, if she has a daughter, the pileated woodpecker and project isseries designed improve agreement to Ravalli andbut believe “It’s tough,” shethe said, “we’re competof three thriller novels. Duskeywith the after Friends Bitterroot getters. she said is especially passionate about attempted to of shut off river access on for fishing, I would also see a problem because the access problem had been See STEVI, page 16 This year the team won the state she will definitely suggest that she 8571 Running W. Road ing with the Celtic Games.” The Celtic uses her late dogs, Saki and Rose, as 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 join andThat Alliance the Wild title for drill in Lewiston, andagreements. has a Morgan saidthese riding with the Games were running concurrentlydisturbances at inspiration forinsects her work, Commissioners bringing her and existing ”as well. “We and realize old growth like fire, expressed Missoula, MT 59808 military retiree, their two children of a $25,000 gift claiming in November Rockies suit the “The reputation of being very good at what Mountettes is both extremely rewardthe Daly filed Mansion in Hamilton. late pets into the human world. Most indicator species are listed in and disease; reduce sediconcern over impacts to and beingForest alsoofreceived from Tractor Supply. relocated Montana and a 20406-549-4171 agency failedcame to use the best they do proudofficials of it. One ing andtochallenging. “Itbought works both people who seemed to have characters in Duskey’s book are based 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 the things that gives the team strength your mind and your body.” availablebooks, science in managing bought though,” Findley said. Presenting on Sakiaand Rose’s otherfrom canine check for $7500 JCCScomto Jasmin Shinn (second from left) of 1 Horse At RDOequipment.com money but,continued accordingby tosaying Shinn,that 20 horses. She currently roads, Willow Creek Director of the NEPAabout Branch clear whether there are other Creek watershed; its Andrea strong family dynamic, which Morgan and her other teammates panions asimprove well. A Time Draft Horse Rescue were, l to r: especially Levi Clark, is CPA, Simmerman, JCCS Branch elk Findley habitat and didn’t comtaking care of draft horses is comes from many of the members littalked about how demanding the sport they hope to make it an annual event. Another Montana author, Linda 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 expensive proposition. Lastshehabitat erally being family. Robin Bolin, curcan be. According to Robin, “It’s very65 See RESCUE, page “Overall, it’s been aOME good day,” Fifer, was promoting her novel, The See GOLD, page •FREE ESTIMATES IN THE BITTERROOT VALLEY• Y OURH I MPROVEMENT C O .COM In a At letter to the Forest firstincluding horse thatmeadows, was rescued by 1 Horse A Time. Photo by Victoria istrator Howell. of the Environmental growth found in the Bitterroot rently one of the heads of the team, is said. “It’s our first go around. We got See HORSES, page 2 See PARK, page 3 a second generation Mountette rider. the authors; we just need to get the
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