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a levy, so this won’t any tional andhave physical According additional impact on people’s therapy services – tickets available online @ darbyrodeo.org, murdochs, darby wine & spirits and at the gatemade It’s been a long time to Colleen board 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 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 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, The Chicken Tenders team wrestles their swine during Pig Races, last weekend. Photo by John Dowd. seemed contell theirpage 10 at council meetings duringthe Creamery JoanPicnic Mell, Greased 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 See Picnic, page 4 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 to access the “It’s common sense Dowd to me,” year. topics: surgery, was isfrauduwhen I realized by John 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 saidWildlife it was not • Review overall Montana Fish, & Parks has received To the north of Missoula, athat photograph taken “This is the first year we’ve ever done diagnosed with I was 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 reports of grizzly bears in different drainages just in July confirmed a grizzly in the north hills areas, accessible. catered Freeman. TheNational University For thedinner,” second said year in a row, the COVID-19.Berthoud asked ly, it was not taking Covid manded from of 1970 requires banks to Night being scammed. “If a person said thatnear theySnowbowl, said Overstreet. outcomes ofas the public outside ofobviously Missoula over the past fewCrews months. and there have been several recent Out event, hosted by the Stevensville Police the DepartofPictured Montana Catering Service provide had Covid-19. with Mell are, l towill Overstreet, for patience she worked “I was seriously enough. Staub’s first alsoSeversenior citizen keep track ofr, withdrawals of is 80 years old, and impressed. all of a conversations al reports point tosaid a likely grizzly but remain uncon- forreports Woods Gulch of the should be prepared some of a grizzly in themembers ment, Last week, Tuesday night between dinner. Desserts are provided by 4H members. time having of areaMayor $10,000 or more in order very weakened,” through the issues. Steve Gibson, council members Cindy Brown and coming intocommunity the The BoxxeRattlesnake Shoppe’s new location • Provide update firmed, while an others have been verified, andabout all serve Marshall Mountain area, just to they’re 5 and 8 p.m., members were able to encountered commuSee page 2 sudden “interesting comments” from Greg Overstreet talks his recent brush withand death dueSTEVI, tothe Overstreet. “Itformer hit Crews, mayor bank to5withdraw $15,000, it Stacie Barker. Photo by Victoria Howell. at 901 S. 1st Street in Hamilton. See COWBOY BALL page as aJim reminder to be extra bearsuch aware. the northeast of Missoula. Those reports have not See SURVIVING, page come out to spend time with first responders. The24 by Michael Howell cirnity. Staub is Covid. Photo by Victoria Howell. See SCAMMERS, page makes my ‘spidy’ sense tingle.” 2 was incidentally trapped Just See this PLAN, week, apage grizzly been confirmed, with Photo by Nathan Boddy. but the details are consistent event was geared mainly towards youth, and called just southeast of Missoula, on the east side of the a grizzly bear, which have been documented to pass upon First Flight, Stevensville Fire Department, RaLast week the Ravalli County Commissioners apBitterroot Valley, as part of a black-bear research through these areas before. proved adoption of a Office, memorandum of understandvalli County Sheriff’s Ravalli County Search study led by the MPG Ranch. The bear, a 275 pound, In the Clinton area, just to the east of Missoula, ing with theand Ravalli County DUI Task Force and and Rescue Stevensville Police Department three-year-old adult male, had a tag that indicated it three recentaspen reports point topine; the likelihood a Agency. letter the of commissioners stated National Forest 1987 Forest andalso whitebark MAPSEach Media InstituteProtection tohosted produce a video designed (PD). organization some formThe of preby Michael Howell was once captured in the southernPlan. Flathead Valley grizzly in the area, although FWP has not been able to help parents keep tabs on their children’s behavsentation or fun activity for kids and their families that “Ravalli County objects contains recommendations manage timber to provide as a move to prevent conflicts. Because the bear did to confirm. ior. to enjoy. concerning the Draft SEIS for forest products and jobs; and to unmitigated impacts to A new record of decision The deadline closed on ifFWP Victoria Howell it would possible not have a history of conflict, staff be responded Although grizzly bears don’t inhabit these areas The DUI Task approved of Near the end ofForce the night, Stevensville PD gave year, the facility took inthe justcreation under bybyVictoria Howell the Gold Butterfly. Concerncounty owned/maintained was issued on December 17, retain old growth status in all on January 18, for filing objec- to put envelopes and released itHowell on-site. by Victoria his property which would in effect with highway, which addressed when private land was 3 Mischief$240,000 Room lastand May and the commissioners See NNO, page Seethe BEARS, page 16 is aastate 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 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 Counain 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, SEIS thatPark, provides a site-speset of easily accessible that hadThe secret hiding tal Environmental Statement volunteer organization. ButtoShinn said executive director of 1 Horse atwas Sapphire them. Farrenkopf cil split onLutheran whether to accept just toreally the north of the private piece ofthe boats, and 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 (Draft SEIS) for the Gold A Time Horse it costs about $200 perfishing month toaim feed Homes inDraft Hamilton, isRescue liked the idea.property. He askedCrews contacted the county aAtsmall piece of park land near the Stevi Wyean at 45 miles per hour - there developed access drugs or hide aand small of whiskey. The was to Willow Creek Road. Due tois aflask Management Wildlife Re-site. treatment areas are within defining old-growth stanButterfly Project, a Bitterroot these “gentle giants.” Then there are facility in Corvallis, got a nice 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 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 old-growth habitat tions, Ravalli County would new decision were received treatment because of the little love this special envelopes presented with aValencheck for $7500 associated costs to rehabilitate meeting. The land ownership willsuggested now river access pending outcomebefore of thesee what use theenveland is towithin the town. “Iother city tofrom have, whether or not A you put their substance use casual inspections. includes nearly 13,000 acres by John Dowd thatand the idea was agenda meeting striction the original outdoor recreation. library 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, surrounded by suspicion and and “sounded the alarm.” He deed, signed in 1947, when should be for educational and of commercial and non-comhad to be emptied more really popular, and About four years resident. Then people piece, which is located adjacent to thein Council member Marilyn Wolff Michaelson said he looked upwhat the ley. “There are so many cars out there, said 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 necessary maintenance mostly having to do with the During the last Stevenswas some way brought foralso mentioned that he was the park land was annexed informational activities.” His mercial treatment than once. growing every year. ago, a vegetative resident came dropwith offsaid Bitterroot River on the northwest side she had apotenreal problem with found theIn land think can be used for parking. But then you don’t If it you don’t see, then you ridden, and some just become “pasture located in Hamilton. Part of could the ward ville town council meeting, aold hidden agenda. “stone-walled” byold theminutes town thethat town. the deed, concerns about the landdon’t use of old-growth dependent during the project, nor theI see. logging of valengrowth, is impacted by mountain pineandinto within a 55,000 acre area of 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 Mayor Steve brought person vehemently and theDouglas-fir library while trying to several restrictions outwere echoed by Town Counselection forGibson awarding that gift tialOne pets.” See DUI, page 10 rehabilitation of theare road afteron the species. ” side The letter notes that to converge, wildlife and beetle, bark beetle, forest in theRavalli Sapphire Mounin 2017 by County for useagainst as aimpacts roads thetobankfind is incrediit would be maintained andthe utilized erty west ofestablished the river, then up the idea of donating land the proposal, though more information about lined upon annexation of cilAmember, and Town Park was online voting and according 1 Horse At Time was Draft limits the scope dwarf mistletoe and the project is complete. Ravalli Willow Creek Road. potential river bly at steep… I think there are for western recreational within five you havethe access toSEIS potentially tains east of Corvallis. at Lewis andaccess Clarksite. ParkAndreanot present the meeting, is anyliability proposed projects. He ex- purposes the land. The predominant member, StacieconsolBarker. by Shinn in Board 2018. She’s originally from tothe JCCS branch manager, 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 to the Valley Publicwas Stevensville local and previplained that he asked several one reads, “said second party where Barker “Iup think we need TheNorth original proposal Simmerman, 1 Horse A Time Germany shesaid, grew around mayor Jim Crews, the At owner of land channel and the deepest questions partAlthough of theabout Vickie Motley, park board memof Stevensville. Ianalysis think It’s something financial burden of the project quences to vegetation, officials have stated that the in general Library. The suggestion was ous town mayor, Jim Crews. the proposal, (the town of Stevensville) areas where kids can withdrawn in August of 2020 horses. She’s always been a horsegrow, fan, was one of the topnortheast four vote side had at the river on the channel. Ifto you were to develop that ber, said that nothing had County been done RDO Equipment Co. met with considerable disapAccording to Crews, “It was including details on the conshall hold the property and and be active in sports and the the pileated woodpecker and project is designed improve agreement with the proposed to Ravalli and believe 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 proval from some members of sneaky, the way the town met struction, timeline, etc. keep it for use by the public as outdoors.” 8571 W. Road pine marten. project, the Ravalli County it is contrary to current lawhorses. forest resilience to natural checkfor followed in the wake draft SheRunning and her husband, a andThat Alliance the Wild the public in attendance at the before the meeting.” Crews According to town ofand for a community public Barker clarified that these and existing agreements. ” “We realize these old growth disturbances like fire, insects Commissioners expressed Missoula, MT 59808 military retiree, and their two children of a $25,000 gift in November Rockies filed suit claiming the meeting. According to Gibson, also explained that he was ficials, there was no prior park and playground.” That spaces should be “in town,” indicator species are listed in and disease; reduce sedi-of concern between over impacts to Forest officials alsoall received from Supply. relocated Montana and a 20406-549-4171 agency failed to use the best “It wasTractor just a public discusagainst the idea because meeting the library restriction defines uses, for toand mainly for bought youth sports. 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 sion to open it up. There was the “loss of public recreation and the town, except that perpetuity, of the park land, Being with the youth soccer 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, areas.” about 20 horses. She for currently no saidcomthis ThisDraft pointHorse would be were, the outAndrea toCreek seeSimmerman, and narrows it to park-only program years, roads, Willow Director of the NEPA Branch clear whether thereshe are is other Creek watershed; improve A Time Rescue l tomayor r: especially Levireached Clark, CPA, JCCS Branch elkdeception.” habitat and He didn’t taking care of draft horses is regarding comments by those echoed by those who spoke if the library would even be uses. familiar with the struggles. 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 who attendedYproposition. and spoke outLast against the proposal. Crews interested in THE anything like the VALLEY• “We’re losing valuable “ThereSee is not enough space See RESCUE, page 65 GOLD, page •FREEbyESTIMATES IN BITTERROOT OURH OMEIMPROVEMENThabitat CO.COM In a At letter to the Forest firstincluding horse thatmeadows, was rescued 1 Horse A Time. Photo by Victoria istrator Howell. of the Environmental growth found in the Bitterroot against the idea. Several of the confessed to having been the proposal. public land for recreation,” in the existing fields.” She recomments during the meeting one who saw the item on the Crews brought up a resaid Crews. “Park land is for See LIBRARY, page 10
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