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Eagles in winter Groundbreaking for Regal medical center Bringing back theheld music: Ensemble Bitter Root Humane Association Three Mile Community Center open
celebrates new shelter, 50th anniversary speech, occupa-
by Victoria
by John Victoria Howell by Dowd Howell
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 changed a long time to Colleen board made property taxes. Covid-19 the way everyincluding therapy coming, butand the new the decision In addition to thea loan, the Bitterroot Health thing works resetThree expectationsSchmiedeke, 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 priorities for nearly everyone in andworld. running. Located at search 4433 onboth the park loan to finish Three Community and lab services. the A five minute ceremony, saidMile concerning the Senior ing last Wednesday Sunnyside Cemetery Road, board and the the project. Center (the official name) Bishop said “It the internet will produce articlewas after organization’s 50 years of service, An openmedical house celebration for its new the center is on the east side community She said they which raised over $80,000 article on week the ways it influenced they hope to have held last 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, businesses, meetings and schools. 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 However, something less talked animal shelter located on Fairgrounds bunch of little old ladies.” room, a warming a working on Bank to keep and donations fromof commuby spring 2023, Stevensville at the kitchen, about, but arguably no less importButts, 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 ant, is how it affected the arts. The 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 ripples of the pandemic caused Creek and Mountains of the Road Bitterroot totherated reasonable. Mile Fireway District, Lone cutting ceremony intheir honor of new in 2014. come such a long sincethe it was many artists to lose jobs or 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, be completely unable to present. “We’re bringing the The building is now home total cost is ments come ily Foundation. John Bishop, Bitbuilding, and an array of food and huge sense of responsibility to honor For professional musicians Joel care to the patients, to the senior center and the approximateout of park Schmiedeke said there terroot CEO, those who have come before us and ” drink inHealth honor of the Schnackel and his wifeorganization’s Rachel, this 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 50thvery birthday. said that Marcus was much the case. As Rachel that serves Lone Rock School. When already being helped on theLois project, and HedgeThe private non-profi tin organization the course for the next 50 years.” explained, “All the music my Daly Hospital had The surrounding park conSchmiedeke assessed, TMCSC received reduced world justorganized stopped.” chair McCormack saidpeth, that the of the was fisoccer rst in 1972. In 1984, tains and baseball “got really Schmiedeke prices from contractors. The The couple was living in Georgia 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 laprior to athe outbreak. Joel is fromgave leen Schmiedeke, Joyce Pando and Wendy Audiss in front of the fundraising campaign fund the new granddaughter ofpath, Marcus Daly, saidto this project courts, walking a playgroup had they didn’t the Bitterroot, and decided to 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 take raised Bitterroot about have to run has been four page years3 Chamber of Commerce Director Al Mitchell holds the group spell-bound as Bitawith trip ahome to visit family with his 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 wife during mandatory time skyrocketed. As a result, the group in 1990, thetheir 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. off. Being home, according to Joel, had to take out a mortgage to finish the land to the organization where redefined what they wanted to do as 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 musicians. “We really felt a calling.” See SHELTER, page pandemic. She said2 shelter since 1984. theat organization’s of directors will be built on land located the corner ofboard Kootenai Creek Road and Hwy 93 newcouple building replaces old building The decided theyanwanted to their vision that just north of the Stevensville Junction. by Nathan Boddy cumstances, having She adds thatisthe try to find ways to bring classical the Stevensville encountered people most important music to the valley, and to do it in a Christine Staub, a driving falling “quality, victim to mail way to combat facility will besuch more way that was more personal, would Darby, Victor and Corvallis, as well as been providing force at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. abuse is for people speak to their audience in a more of a “medical center” rather than just a accessible, personalized 901 S. 1st Street, was recently As a certified shipto ask meaningful way and, most imporclinic. 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 contantly, would allow them to play Murphy. Shethe led the Hospital, which is a critical access provide primary, care, urgent care and In recent years, they Appreciation by Mayor Domithe Boxxe Shoppe versation with those commissioners through again. 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 To do this, they started the Regal 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 Ensemble. The group quickly grew invest in all theacommubricks.” In his presentation to the City bears its shipping know the details it up, shows the county, intoWhen aNumerous quartet, bringing on two other ing agency, out of 351 similar facilities. practitioner, and two more doctors Bald Eagles have been congregating the Burnt Fork areaTasha latelyAthman to feed on carcasses. Photos nities the Bitterroot, From left to in right, MacofMerchant, Fain, Rachel Fellows-Schnackel and Joel Schnackel stand with their instruit comes Overstreet was Council on March 15th, Chief label. After following of what potential overall, doing very well by Michael Howell. by Victoria are being recruited. There will also beDowd.Howell ments in the Schnackels’ sheep shed converted to a practice studio. Photo by John he said, with clinics in to Covid, Greg See sent home from Snavely protocol, and doing victims are told, but MUSIC, page 3 said that he wants the 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 aDowd draft forest vehicles and may not the ability it,” said Cruse. The aconcept was the brainchild of sendby John In early March, customwas unwittingly claiming county’s performance that have yetto torepbe filled. event. Freeman is also the chair ofhave the Rodeo diagnosed with from a normal of his efforts to teach the new the appointment of two addiClimbing Management At the second regular to cook their food. This means that the Alana Cruse, a candidate er came to the Boxxe Shoppe ing for to aordiscammer in The program was startedisin resent the IRS or in looking pretty good, One big savings was Committee, and the vice chair of the Fair Board, colon cancerEpiscopal 99. “Iofjokingly say explained that Plan The virtual mayor how local Chicago, tionalatcouncil members. canned soups the andSocial pre-cooked andfor winter 2022. Cruse nation the Diaconate there the St.(CMP). Paul’s Church, incounciltoand meeting of thein two-member intending send atopackage Illinois. Security according tobeen Ravalli budgeted funds which he’s onby forNa12 years. A real estate February of 2021. that 51 is brain Christine Staub ofofthe Shoppe. Photo meeting will bespearheaded held on government should run. He “We’ll do our job, ” said preserved foods are always in high she believed, because theBoxxe food church. She was visiting a friend in Hamilton, has a free via FedEx. Administration. County CFO Klarryse the county’s share Stevensville Town Council, on agentand for 18 demand. years here in the Bitterroot, andin also He went through damage material.” Zoom. See below for than Boddy. insecurity in much of the country Chicago when she noticed several free food pantry in Hamilton for nearly a a frequent Thewas customer Sometimes they 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 See COUNTY, page 10 The demand iswill high, Cruse. valley, that the idea boxes throughout theJoan city.Mell, She an especially year. The idea is a nationwide seemed concept con-pantry tellsaid their at council meetings during attorney in the familiar with the profile of the Berthoud council andfused to late jointhere thetold meeting. Fivestorage fundraising skills, and discipline, have been put to in August hecabinet, was was no joke. “It would “The fact that we can’t keepone it full of thethe food pantry be extremely thought the idea would be perfect for where is athe binand unOver victims that a loved has the last administration. In from Hamilton, was recpotential victims, butuse wishes similar meetings audience thatcancer she was having good as chair of the Cowboy Ball committee. told thatpublic the got so bad I felt shows the need.” According to Lyn, positive in the area. her area, in the Bitterroot Valley, and course or other large container that isfamiliar strate- with of her landed in jail, or that a prize that others withinFreeman the commupublic comment, in (virtual) were held in meetsaid the committee hopes raise trouble streaming the “Nobody should be hungry. Nobody According to Mary Lyn, a member brought itCrews up at told a churchognized meeting.for stepping gically placed in a city or townthe where process, decade with has been won, but a to fee needs had been eradicated. like I couldn’t nity would help her look out 2021. council thatimmediately those mak- a hit and to handle prosecution have toexpansion make those choicof St. Paul’slike Episcopal Church, they thisshould It was they the the the public has accessShe to it.said Community $50,000 year, to for ofhard the rodeo andthe Staub Boxxe bethe paid for release of the had breathe, I ingsOverstreet on the internet. for their safety. At least one In addition to theby at any became es, but they do today.’’ To both womtry to, “keep things that are easy to worked on organizing it. members can swing time and 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 chanof the potential victims she opportunity toit, learn en,bethe important parta of the pantry is use without cooking facilities.” Bothneed to According to Cruse, what started donate food to or take food picious from when haswhile now commonly use legitimate “They replaced. They’re getting 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 inanonymous, considering recovered address, but will be ready to that it is anonymous. They explained women expressed that as an importas a simple plastic chest soon became it. The entire process is up.facility Bucking stock can be hard on metal.” removal, theof fidevelopnalhad set up I imagine audience. He also said, “This hospitalized, and then recov- water extended nursing and the process working but they customthe package fromactually a porchfor that it grab can be very antboarding consideration for donors. Many and according to church goers,the it is the a needed service. “I thought we’d have approximately The 10th annual cowboy ballanxiety-inducing – which treatment in the to be had to be provided with a ride isage notand a question answer” forever, ering, but fromthe Covid-19. Mell aone climbing aing new Facebook page.this How$60,000 in the goods from the started or front door when it arrives. some people. They say nobody wants who need pantry this littleand Rubbermaid only in the plan, valley that theyer’s know 11the years ago but couldn’t be held last year to the bank as well as to colon journey. like,” recalls week’scancer meeting will cov“It’s public comment. did the work at no charge to on the session. particular cash, allbe of living “TheySee always direct the may the street or out of community has really” gotten behind of. ever, members of the public PANTRY, page 7 Boxxe Shoppe. due to the pandemic – has been upgraded this The day after that Overstreet. “This er the following agenda the had said previouswhich was to victim to send it, ‘no signature The of mayor the town. “I just wanted who had he tried to access the details “It’s common sense to me,” year. topics: 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• Review overall “This is the first year we’ve ever done diagnosed with that I was not lently deThe Bank Secrecy Actfully questions from the public. ing me and helping the town, ” flags abound when seniors are center, for filling in while town attorney Greg Overstreet objectives and desired accessible. catered dinner,” said Freeman. Thebanks University COVID-19.Berthoud asked ly, it was not taking Covid manded from of 1970 requires to being scammed. “If a person said Overstreet. outcomes ofas the public ofPictured Montana Catering Service provide theof had Covid-19. with Mell are, l towill Overstreet, for patience she worked Staub’sCrews “I was obviously first also said that they seniorseriously citizen enough. keep track ofr, withdrawals is 80 years old, and all of a conversations should be prepared for some Desserts are provided 4Hin members. time having members of $10,000 or by more order very weakened,” said through the issues. Mayorthey’re Steve dinner. Gibson, council coming into the members Cindy Brown and The Boxxe Shoppe’s new location • Provide an update encountered See page 2 sudden “interesting comments” Greg Overstreet talks about his recentfrom brush with death dueSTEVI, tothe commuOverstreet. “Itformer hit Jim Crews, mayor bank to5withdraw $15,000, it Stacie Barker. by Victoria at 901 S. 1st Street in Hamilton. nity.See See COWBOY BALL page 4 SURVIVING, page by Photo Michael Howell Howell. such cirStaub is Covid. Photo by Victoria Howell. See (kW) SCAMMERS, page 2 my ‘spidy’ sense tingle.” As a See result of hispage Inflation helps farmers, ranchers, and Boddy. on the roof of the Ridgeway makes tive units of a reciprocating kilowatt solar system for PLAN, 2 Photo by Nathan Reduction Act, U.S. Senarural small businesses install Pharmacy in Victor, Montana. condensing unit. The projthe Discovery Ski Corporation Last week the Ravalli County Commissioners aptor Jon Tester has secured renewable energy infrastrucThe panels will power the ect will saveproved this rural small of a memorandum in Anaconda, Montana. The adoption of understand$1,375,897 in United States ture or improve their energy inverters and convert power business more than $2,000 system will be used to offset ing with the Ravalli County DUI Task Force and Department of Agriculture efficiency. Senator Tester has from AC, replacing annually in MAPS energyMedia costs usage AnaProtection Agency. The letter the commissioners statedand National Forest 1987 Forest aspenDC andtowhitebark pine; Institutepower to produce afrom videothe designed by Michael Howell (USDA) funding for 35 rebeen a longstanding supporter approximately 70 percent of decrease energy consumption conda chair lift. This projto help parents keep tabs on their children’s behavthat “Ravalli County objects contains recommendations manage timber to provide Plan. newable energy infrastructure of this program, which runs annual energy use. This projby more than kilowatt ect will result in an annual ior.49,000 concerning the DraftofSEIS for forest products and jobs; and to unmitigated impacts to A new record of decision projects in Montana, includthrough Rural Develect will replace about 56,000 hours (kWh) annually, which energy cost savings more The deadline closed on if it would Victoria Howell beUSDA possible The DUI Task approved creation of year, theForce facility took inthe just under byby Victoria Howell the Gold Butterfly. Concerncounty owned/maintained was issued on December 17, retain old growth status in all ing three in the Bitterroot opment. kilowatts (kW) of energy for is enough energy to power than $11,000 and save more on January 18, forHowell filing objec- to put envelopes by Victoria his property which would in effect with the highway, which is aastate addressed when private land was Mischief$240,000 Room lastand May and the commissioners spent every penny. Valley. this rural and homes. 76,000 kilowatt (kWh), roads from heavy ing the scope ofthe the analysis treatment units.business According to four 2021 accompanied by a to Draft all the doors and Dominic Farrenshutthen off access Stevensville Riversmall highway, because now you’re goingequipment to on it. sold toproject athan new owner and Fish, Wildlife signed off The involved creation tions to the Draft SupplemenJasmin Shinn, founder and There are noenough paid employees; it’spower an all-of Tester was the only memFunding for projects in the save them more than $9,300 electricity to 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 ber ofSapphire Montana’s congresBitterroot includes: in annual energy costs. Other projects re-vate seven homes. atwas 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 that the 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 sional delegation to support • $40,713 Stevensville • $25,590 in Victor – This ceivedper funding • $68,606 in Belgrade Homes inDraft Hamilton, isRescue liked the idea.property. Hein asked aAtsmall piece of park land near the Crews the county Stevi Wye at 45 miles -are: there developed access drugs or hide aand small of whiskey. The was to Willowhour Creek Road. Due tois aflask Management Wildlife Re-site. treatment areas are within an defining old-growth stan-contacted Butterfly Project, a Bitterroot these “gentle giants.” Then there are facility in Corvallis, got a nice the Inflation Reduction Act, – This Rural Development Rural Development invest– This Rural Development 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 fortoinsect and and financial limitadards. Some objections to the which increased REAP grant investment used to securing ment will be used purchase • $10,142 in Alberton – investment will be used by the boost lastForest week when she was veterinary bills, therapy, training, and to send his athat and daycares to will make National project considered atresidents the March 24th council land onbe the west, potential Mayor Steve resource Gibson said he didn’t west] still a viable oftoland for various ways in which any youngpiece person can hide Last year lopes. the and amounts and increased proand and install three install tied 23.52 This Development inSharbert Inc., sufficient old-growth habitat tions, Ravalli County would new decision were received disease treatment because of the little love this special envelopes presented with aValencheck for $7500 associated costsEnterprises, to rehabilitate meeting. The land ownership willpurchase now river access pending outcome ofa grid see what use theenvelandRural is to the town. “Iother city tofrom have, whether or not you putof their substance use casual inspections. includes nearly 13,000 acres lopes were so full they The project is now gram funding by $820 million 10 kilowatt (kW) solar edge kilowatt (kW) net metered vestment will be usedthese by MonBelgrade, Montana, toForce, purtine’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 dyhorses. When they’re fi nally ready from representatives of JCCS, an Glenda Wiles, Director of the DUI Task of commercial and non-comhadInc. to beisemptied more really popular, and through Fiscal Year 2031 inverters for a total kWthe AC solar system. in te doing business chase and install a 42.93 kW About four years resident. people piece, which located to the Then Council member Marilyn Wolff Michaelson said he looked upwhat the ley. are so many cars out said sheadoption, tells“There parents is, “If you don’t look, accounting fiis rm with aadjacent branch for most can be driven or there, support viable populations ing trees. TheyTT&E claim the area theWhetzel, necessary maintenance mostly having to do30 with mercial vegetative treatment than once. growing every year. (FY31). rated system. LJK Veterinary Victor, Montana. The system as Whetzel Contracting, in solar photovoltaic system for ago, a resident came could drop off valenBitterroot River on the northwest side said she had a real problem with old minutes and found that the land I think it can be used for parking. But then younor don’t If you don’t then you don’t ridden, some justsee, become “pasture located in Hamilton. Part of the logging of old growth, potenof old-growth dependent during theMontana, project, thesee.and is impacted by mountain pine Alberton, within a 55,000was acre area of “Montanans know we need Company LLC is in Stevenswill replace 100 percent of to install Montana Gift Corral office to Farrenkopf to see tines to fill the enveof the bridge, 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 gift tial impacts to wildlife and to pets.” See DUI, page 10 of the solar road afteron the species. ” side The that beetle, Douglas-fir bark the beetle, to increase energy production This smallthe bankthe energy used, saving arehabilitation 7.6-kilowatt (kW) phobuilding. Thisletter funding will forest inby theRavalli Sapphire Mounin 2017 for useville, as a Montana. roads converge, is incrediit would be maintained and utilized erty west ofestablished thenotes river, then was online voting County and according 1 Horse At A Time was the Draft SEIS limits business the scope dwarf mistletoe and western the project is complete. Ravalli Willow Creek Road. here in ourof state, which is why rural veterinary clinic will also business more than tovoltaic system on his barn. thisto rural small potential river access site. bly steep… I think there are liability for $2,900 recreational purposes within five you havehelp access potentially consoltains east Corvallis. byto Shinn in with 2018.anShe’s originally from JCCS branch manager, Andreainstall 100 VSUN 400W panItofought to secure investments in annual energy costs and The project is expected save annual cost savings 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 Simmerman, 1 Horse A Time Germany where sheIthan grew up around like thisJim to help ensure folks els, saving them more than 20,000 this family-owned of more and an mayor Crews, the At owner of land channel and the deepest replacing partAlthough of themore Vickie Motley, park board memof Stevensville. think$7,300 It’s financial burden ofbusiness the project quences analysis tosomething vegetation, officials have stated that the in than general withdrawn in August of 2020 horses. She’s always been a horse fan, was one of the top four vote have reliable access to af$5,100 in annual energy costs kilowatt hours (kWh) in annumore than $2,400 per year annual energy savings of more at the river on the northeast side project had channel. If you were to develop that ber, said that nothing had been done RDO Equipment Co. the pileated woodpecker and is designed to improve agreement with the proposed to Ravalli County andbut believeis especially after Friends the Bitterroot getters. passionate about fordable energy,” said Tester. annualIenergy al usage, enough because electricity toaccess by problem defrayinghad 31 percent its than 53,000 kW,STEVI, enough elecattempted to of shut off river accessand on decrease for fishing, would also see a problem the been ofshe See page 16 8571 W. Road pine marten. project,two thehomes. Ravalli County it is contrary to current lawhorses. forest resilience natural check followed the wake SheRunning and her husband, a andThat Alliance for the Wild “We’ve got more work toindo, consumption by to more than power current use and lowerdraft energy tricity to power five homes. and by existing agreements. ”kilo- retiree, “We• and realize these old growth disturbances like fire, (kWh), insects Commissioners expressed Missoula, MT 59808 military their children of athese $25,000 gift claiming in November but investments will the 4,400 kilowatt hours • $15,345 in Lolo – This use more than 11,000 $16,250 intwo Belgrade Rockies filed suit create good paying Montana enough electricity to power Rural Development investwatt hours (kWh) annually, – This Rural Development 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 to use the best jobs, lower costslike for families, one home. ment will be used tomaintained assist Ted enough electricity to power investment will be used to acre farm which Shinn said can support That sounds a lot of the Forest Plan, but it is not county owned and comments from Philip Strobel ment sources in the Willow available science in managing Presenting check – forThis $7500 from JCCS toJr., Jasmin Shinn (second from left) of 1 Horse At and ensure can keeptothe • $89,181 inaVictor Meinzen, owner of Lolo one home. assist Brian Barnhart BelRDOequipment.com money but,we according Shinn, Creek 20 horses. She currently roads, especially Willow Creek Director of the NEPAabout Branch clear whether there areofother watershed; improve A Time Draft Horse Rescue were, l to r: Levi Clark, CPA, Andrea Simmerman, JCCS Branch elk habitat and didn’t comlights for of generations to is Rural Development investLocker LLC, in Lolo, Mon• $52,668 in Anaconda grade, Montana, purchase and takingon care draft horses Office of the Admin- install a 19.5 kilowatt (kW) bull trout habitat; restore Road. Manager, and Will Ramsey, Also purchase pictured isand Tiny,install the non-profi mascot andRegional the ply with the definition of old come.” will be used to install 25CPA.tana, two t’s – This Rural Development an expensiveYproposition. Last ment RESCUE, page 65 See See GOLD, page •FREE ESTIMATES IN THE BITTERROOT VALLEY• OUR H OME I MPROVEMENT C O . COM istrator Environmental In a At letter tocompressors the Forest habitat meadows, fipanels rstincluding horse that was rescued 1 Horse A Time. Photo by Victoriainvestment Howell. of the The Rural for solar and seven invert- by efficient scroll will be used to solar photovoltaic system for growth foundEnergy in the Bitterroot America Program (REAP) ers in their parking lot and and energy efficient evaporapurchase and install a 48.79 See BUISNESSES, page 4
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