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$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 emergency an by Dowd one adoption per day, and placed over ingJohn contains a large they started Farmers State rummage sales, services, bingo nights built just north of meeting animal shelter located on Fairgrounds bunch of little old ladies.” X-rayby suite, primary care room, a warming working200 on cats in their forever homes in Bank to keep and donations from commuspring of 2023, Stevensville at the kitchen, a Butts, President of the Road in Hamilton. event served facilities, home for the 2023 has been a The year filled with 2022. state-of-the-art audio visual this ain 2012 their loan Kathienity members. Other major and that they plan corner ofdowns. Kootenai double It included a ribbon Board, said, “This organization has ambulance, rehabilitaups and purpose. The Starview gained a and newincorpo“I’m not a shelter,” says Schnarr. system, and a gorgeous payments contributors the Three on were continuing to Creek Road and of tion and crew editor, the town Stevensville gotrated a in“This of the Bitterroot Mountains tothe 2014.is a foster-based rescue.” She reasonable. Mile Fireservices District, the Lone cutting ceremony in honor of new come such a long way since it was services. Hwy 93. including the west. She saidsays the her operation is associated with Those payRockand Park andago. the Rapp aexpand future pharmacy. new mayor and Hamilton new started about 50 years I feel aFamfacility, tours ofgot theawhole “We’re bringing the The building is now home total cost is ments come ily Foundation. The latter will after fire hall. Among the numerous things All Hearts Rescue of Polson. “All John Bishop, building, and anBitarray of food and huge sense of responsibilitycome to honor care to the patients, to the senior center and the approximateout of park Schmiedeke said there the building is operationthat the Bitterroot Star was able to Hearts mostly does dogs, and I only 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 al. The facility also cover, several stories stood out. Below do cats. Diane Parker [the owner of All said.be will make good as he itvolunteers can as we set 50ththat birthday. said Marcus that12serves Lone Rock School. 2023 When Hearts] inspired me on this journey already being helped theLois project, be on taking on aHedgenewand docare stories from throughout The privatehad non-profit organization the course for the next 50 years.” Daly Hospital The capture surrounding conSchmiedeke assessed, TMCSC reduced tor, received Carlee Kalbfleisch, that each park month. Each story when I started pulling cats out of McCormack saidpeth, that chair the of the was fisoccer rst organized in 1972. In 1984, tains “got really Schmiedeke prices from The MD. In contractors. total, it will cost is a snippet ofand thebaseball full piece. The full shelters.” Three Mile Community Senior Center board members, l to r, Colconducted a successful Countess Bessenyey, the hospital board, fields, tennis volleyball involved,” the is proudorganization that general contractor donated over $6 million and is lastories canMargarite be and found on the Bitterroot Anyone interested in adopting can leen Schmiedeke, Pando and Wendy Audiss in front of the fundraising campaign to fund the new granddaughter ofpath, Marcus Daly, gave saidto this project courts, a walking a playgroup had they didn’t planned reach compleStar website, www.bitterootstar.com. find more information on Joyce the webSee CENTER, page 3 new community If center at are Lone Rock Park. Photo by V. Howell. construction tion but then the Covid-19 the hope BRHA land onhas Fairgrounds Road ground and a covered picnic raised Bitterroot about have to run by late 2023. We everyone a happy new site: heidiskittens.com. people has been fourBishop years Chamber of Commerce Director Al Mitchell holds the group spell-bound as Bitwith a 99-year lease. Six years later, pandemic hitspoke and construction costs theworks, groundyear. interested in fostering, Schnarr inatthe but ter Root Humane Association Boardsaid Member Sue McCormack prepares to cut the ribbon As a result, the group in 1990, the Bessenyey estate deeded breaking ceremony about it’s best if theyJohn have Bishop, a place to separatefifth from left, leads a gathering of peopleskyrocketed. pictured celebrating the opening of the new animal shelter in Hamilton. Photo by Michael Howell. involved in the there were some had to take out mortgage to finish the land to the organization where thea goals of Bitterroot the cat for about two weeks to avoid delays the Bitterroot project in a ceremonial groundbreaking. The facility on the property that hadHealth housedbuilding the Sue McCormack, who serves on Health, and due saidto though any transmission of disease. the current Jan. 18 shelter is located. The See SHELTER, page pandemic. She said2 since 1984. theat organization’s of directors headquartered Heidi’s Kittens alsobuilt takes will be ondonaland located the corner ofboard Kootenai Creek Road and Hwy 93they are new building replaces an old building shelter in Hamilton, “the of cat food and cat litter. their vision that just north of theToStevensville Junction. by Nathantions Boddy cumstances, having She adds thatisvalley the as a whole is primarily make a donation, email heidischnarr@ the Stevensville encountered people most important whatway our is.” Christinegmail.com Staub, a driving falling “quality, victim to mail tomission combat such facility will be more Darby, Victor and Corvallis, as well as been providing Bishop said this after When Schnarr heard that the Bitter force at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. abuse is for people of a “medical the center” rather than just a accessible, personalized ceremony: “Since our Root Humane Shelter closed by Victoria Howell 901 S. 1st Street, was recently As atheir certified shipto ask questions clinic. She also said that Marcus Daly The new 12-acre campus will care” for 90 years. startand andstart our early roots doors to cats health andofkittens, she said sheFedEx, presented with a Certificate ping depot for conMurphy. Shethe led the isversation a critical access in Hamilton, we have left phone with them. “I provide primary, care, urgent care and Hospital, which Innumber recent the years, theyShoppe The Bitter Root Humane AssociaAppreciation byher Mayor DomiBoxxe with those commissioners through to ourand mission am interested in furthering a partnerrecently rated the tion announced last week thatnic it was services. Two physicians have hospital, was adhered Farrenkopf and Hamilton legally justified you know have beenistaking steps to tospecialty a lengthy fund#4byinlove. fund by Victoria Howell me like a ton of of providing care for all ship with them,” said Schnarr. “I look temporarily suspending acceptance Police Chief Stephen Snavely. open package which doesn’t by Staub the national rataccounting that, to sum already been hired, along a nurse Above, Jaylyn Jackson andwith Matthew Powellnation standfor quality invest in all theacommubricks.” in the Bitterroot Valley. forwardto tothe working cooperatively with of cats and kittens at the Hamilton In his presentation City bears its shipping know the details up, shows thefacilities. county, outside the old Roxy in Hamilton, which they outitof ing agency, 351 similar practitioner, and twoTheatre more doctors Numerous Bald Eagles have been congregating in the Burnt area lately to feed onOverstreet carcasses. Photos nities of Fork the Bitterroot, When it comes was As we’ve grown, we’ve all other rescues shelter. For people that have cats and on March Council 15th, Chiefand local label.shelters. After following of what potential overall, doing very well hope to return to its movie showing days. Photo by by they Michael Victoria Howell aresent being recruited. also be hethe said, with clinics in to Covid, Greg home from There willby added new care options notwants in competition. We alland have kittens canHowell. no longer keep, there saidWe’re Snavely that he protocol, doingNathan victims are told, but on its tax collections and Boddy. The Bitterroot Overstreet has a Naand specialties, andover have the same goal.” is another option. Hamilton Police Department so in the presence of the hospital with she knows that they showing revenues tional Forest (BNF)an will The Cowboy Ball at theadded Ravalli Countycoached to other message for you: Heidi’s Kittens, informaltorescue “become more vocal about a witness, Staub was an oxygen tank. are, “often 50% ofservices projections in host a public meeting inheld Ravalli County. Now, we’re Feb. Fairgroundsareas will be February This is don’t fool out around! He was home 15 for operating of a home in Stevensthe good things that22 happen able to uncover the March to departments say12th. they are shipmost while this Wednesday, March excited to bring expanded health care the tenth annual event and the way it’s shaping ville, has been accepting cats and within the community.” Sharunfortunate contents two or three days. ping legal Overstreet, by Michael Howell expenses havepapers only or 30th from 6 tolast 8 p.m. toevent the amounted people of of Darby. To kittens for the year and a half. ing his department’s experiof the package: nearlyDuring that time, paperwork.” Other up, it’s goingoptions to be an worthy jubilee an attorney in toa23% of be to share information able to fulfill our mission by bringing ence with Ms. Staub was one $16,000 in cash, common tactics for Heidi Schnarr, with some help from 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 developmore care services to this remarkable such opportunity. which the customer scammers include volunteers, cares for the surrendered 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 anurses draft forest community is that rewarding.” In early March, a customwas unwittingly send-from a normal of claiming animals, them back to health if county’s performance have yetto torepbe filled. event. Freeman is also the chair of the Rodeo diagnosed with his efforts to teach the new the appointment of two addiClimbing Management by Nathan Boddy At the second regular The projectOne also saved money er came to the Boxxe Shoppe ing to a scammer in resent the IRS ordue is looking pretty good, big savings was in 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 to funding andthe acquiring materials meeting of theThe two-member intending send a package Illinois.members. Social Security according to Ravalli budgeted funds for which he’s been on for 12 years. A real estate February of 2021. that 51 is brain Staub of the Boxxe Shoppe. and Photo by Na- in conjunction meeting will be held on With a little comshould run.luck He and some “We’ll do our job, ” Christine said planning with the FedEx. County CFO Klarryse the Administration. county’s share Stevensville Town Council, onvia government agent for 18 new yearsStevensville here in the Bitterroot, andin also bydamage John Dowd He wentSee through material.” Zoom. below for than Boddy. munity participation, Hamilton could Bitterroot Health The customer Sometimes they was a frequent commenter Gibson January 27, town in the Army care for 21 years, his organizational and instructions and aclerk link Jenelle seemed con-once again see the silver screen come chemotherapy and But COVID-19 Seewill COUNTY, page 10 facility, which is nearly finished. tell their at council meetings during Joan Mell, an attorney familiar with ground the profile Berthoud the council Bitterroot lastof the to late join August thetold meeting. Five andfused fundraising skills, and discipline, have been put to to life in the downtown Roxy Theater. in he was was no joke.Health “It broke According to Duce, “the biggest thing and unOver the victims that a loved one has the last administration. In theaterfrom Hamilton, was recpotential victims, butuse wishes Wednesday for a new planned healthsimilar meetings The longstanding opened in audience thatcancer she was having familiar good as chair of the Cowboy Ball committee. told thatpublic the got so bad I felt we are excited about in Darby are with course of her landed in jail, or that a prizethe others the care facility in that Darby. Thewithin facility willcommucomment, Crews ognized for stepping in (virtual) were heldthe in meet- the public July of 1935 andtold had an impressive Freeman said the committee hopes raise pharmacy services that come with trouble streaming process, decade with has been won, butwill a to fee needs had been eradicated. like I couldn’t nity would help her look out be called the Darby Scripps Clinic, andthis 2021. runthat before going dim in 2012. The the the council those makto handle prosecution it.” Sheto explained that it will $50,000 year, for expansion of the rodeo Staub Boxxe bethe paid for release ofstart the had She said andthe breathe, like I ingsOverstreet on the internet. for their safety. At least one In addition to the according to Bitterroot Healthbucking CEO, owners, Matthewcaseload Powell and small but willjust have room old,” to grow became sus-current Shoppe, funds. The scammers will ing public comment should of Town Attorney chutes. “They’re getting he and said. surgery on YouTube October chanwasStaub being water the former of the potential victims opportunity to learn John Bishop, the facility will be over she will greatly Jaylyn Jackson, would like to see it haswhile benefit thea community’s picious when now commonly use legitimate “They need to be 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 in 7,000 square feet. The facility project spring back into action. After review- recovered needs. address, buton will be ready to up. Bucking stock can be hard metal.” removal, theof fidevelopnalhad set up considering I imagine water audience.ing Hethe also said, “This hospitalized, andtook then recovextended nursing facility and the process two years to plan and will include working but they extensive costs for rehabilitatthe 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” from Covid-19. Mell ing a climbing plan, space for ing the theater, as well asering, the commuSee 2023, page 10 atreatment new Facebook page.this How- er’sisage $60,000 in walk-in service, limited 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 will covnity interest in the business, pair session. “It’s public comment. ” did the work at no charge to the particular cash, all of “They always direct the ever, members of the public Boxxe Shoppe. due to the pandemic – has been upgraded this The day after that Overstreet. “This er the following agenda chose usepreviousthe Kickstarter details the which was to victim to send it, ‘no signature The of mayor hadtosaid the platform town. “I just wanted who had tried to “It’s common sense to me,” year. topics: he was access the transaction.to crowdsource the project. surgery, is when I realized being fraudurequired,’” 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- “I think it’s important for people lentlythat • Review overall “This is the first year we’ve ever done diagnosed with I was not 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 notto know that Kickstarter is an alltaking Covid manded from of 1970 requires to being scammed. “If a person also said that they platform,” said Overstreet. outcomes ofas the public ofPictured Montana Catering Service provide theof funding says had Covid-19. with Mell are, l towill Overstreet, for patience she worked Staub’sCrews “I was obviously firstor-nothing seniorseriously citizen enough. keep track ofr, withdrawals is 80 years old, and all of a conversations should be prepared for some to the Kickstart- members of Jackson in referring Desserts are provided 4Hin members. time having $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 erabout platform which allows people to encountered See page 2 sudden “interesting comments” from Greg Overstreet talks his recent brush with death dueSTEVI, tothe commuOverstreet. “Itformer hit Jim Crews, mayor bank to5withdraw $15,000, it Stacie Barker. by Victoria at 901 S. 1st Streetthe in project, Hamilton. See COWBOY BALL page 4 SURVIVING, page pledge money toward but nity.See by Photo Michael Howell Howell. such cirStaub is Covid. Photo by Victoria Howell. See SCAMMERS, page 2 makes my ‘spidy’ sense tingle.” See PLAN, page 2 Photo by Nathan Boddy. won’t charge them anything unless the Above, Heidi Schnarr with “Lucy.” Last week the Ravalli County Commissioners apentire fundraising goal has been met. Lucy was accepted from a shelter proved adoption of a memorandum of understandMatthew Powell echoes that point where she was too “shut down,” to be ing with the Ravalli County DUI Task Force and since it is a crucial part of the fundletter the commissioners statedInstituteProtection Nationalraising Forest platform. 1987 Forest andget whitebark pine; MAPS Media to produceAgency. a video The designed adopted. According to Schnarr, Lucy “Either aspen (donors) by Michael Howell to help parents keep tabs on their children’s behav“has blossomed here and is now with their movie theater, or they don’t get that “Ravalli County objects contains recommendations manage timber to provide Plan. ior. impacts to a wonderful foster, but is still too A new charged,” hedecision said. concerning the Draft SEIS for forest products and jobs; and to unmitigated record of The deadline closed on Victoria Howell if itShe would be possible The DUI Task approved of fragile to go toHowell adoption events. Visit the ‘Bring Back the Roxy year, theForce facility tookButterfly. inthe justcreation under bybyVictoria thewhen Gold Concerncounty owned/maintained was issued on December 17, retain old growth status in all put envelopes on Kickstarter January 18,offor filing objecby 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 is inVictoria need aHowell forever home.”toPhoto Theater’ page at: 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 the Draft Supplemencourtesy Heidi Schnarr. https://www.kickstarter.com/projJasmin Shinn, 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 thatects/1406389045/bring-back-thePark, 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 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 roxy-theatre, or the Facebook page at: root Forest Plan’s Forest-wide not limited the impacts cific forest plan amendment about 90% of proposed (Draft SEIS) for the Gold needed, gets them spayed or neutered, A Time Horse it costs about $200 perfishing month toaim feed Homes inDraft Hamilton, isRescue liked the idea. He askedCrews contacted the county aAtsmall piece of park land near the property. Stevi Wyean at 45 miles per hour - there developed access site. drugs or hide aand small of whiskey. The was https://www.facebook.com/Hamiltogroundbreaking Willow Creek Road. Due tois aflask Management Wildlife Retreatment areas are within defining old-growth stanand finds them suitable homes. She Butterfly Project, a Bitterroot these “gentle giants.” Then there are facility in Corvallis, got a nice Participants at the ceremony cram in behind key members who 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 the to provide parents“But a learning see the tonsRoxyTheater/. said been averaging about source Objective “Maintain area designated for insect resource and financial limitadards. Some objections to securing the boost lastshe week when she was veterinary bills, therapy, training, and influenced the project. Photo by John Dowd. to that send his residents athat and daycares to make National Forest project considered athas the March 24th council land on the west, potential Mayorand Steve 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 gift tial impacts to wildlife and to pets.” See DUI, page 10 rehabilitation of the road afteron the species. ” side The letter Douglas-fir bark beetle, forest inby theRavalli Sapphire Mounin 2017 for use as a roads converge, the bankbeetle, is incrediit would be maintained and utilized erty west ofestablished thenotes river,that then was online voting County and according 1 Horse At A Time was DrafttoSEIS limits the scope dwarf mistletoe and the project is complete. Ravalli Willow Creek Road.I think there are potential river access site. bly steep… liability for western recreational purposes within five you havethe access potentially consoltains eastbranch of Corvallis. by Shinn in 2018. She’s originally from to JCCS manager, Andrea of its environmental consespruce budworm damage. County objects to shifting Bitterroot National Forest During the tenure of former issues… It is the fastest part of the years. idate highway property into the Town The original proposal was Simmerman, 1 Horse A Time Germany where sheI grew around mayor Jim Crews, the At owner of land channel and thethe deepest partAlthough of the in general Vickie Motley, park board memof Stevensville. thinkup It’s by Nathan Boddy crossed, and yet another way skiers financial burden of the project quences analysis tosomething vegetation, officials have stated that withdrawn in August of 2020 horses. She’s always been a horse fan, was one of the top four vote at the river on the northeast side project had channel. If you were to develop that ber, said that nothing had been done can summon the snow is by calling it RDO Equipment Co. the pileated woodpecker and is designed to improve agreement with the proposed to Ravalli County andbut believe after Friends of theoff Bitterroot getters. 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 Skiers in the Bitterroot are watchforth through the big screen. Luckily, by That Dawn Monroe also emphasize developing leadership 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, and Alliance the Wild ing the sky and waiting for more for valley residents, just such an aopskills and commitment to Commissioners community and existing agreements. ” “We realize these old growth disturbances like fire, insects expressed Missoula, MT 59808 military retiree, and their two children of a $25,000 gift claiming in November Rockies filed suit the snow. And, while the winter sports portunity is coming on January 5th. Two years ago, Florence High service, not just during high school, indicator species are listed in and disease; reduce sediconcern over impacts to Forest officials also received from Tractor Supply. relocated to Montana and bought a 20406-549-4171 season may have gotten off to a slow Heather Menning, a long time skier agency failed to use the best School and Middle School launched a but throughout one’s life. acre farm which Shinn said can support That sounds like a lot of start, one ski patroller at Lost Trail and Hamilton resident, has spearthe Forest Plan, but it is not county owned and maintained comments from Philip Strobel ment sources in the Willow chapter of Future Farmers of AmerWhen Scott Simmons, a science available science in managing Presenting a check for $7500 from JCCS to Jasmin Shinn (second from left) of 1 Horse At RDOequipment.com was recently overheard saying that he about headed aclear showing of the Matchstick money but, according to Shinn, Creek 20 horses. She currently roads, Willow Creek Director of the NEPA Branch whether there are other watershed; improve ica students participate in A Time and Draft agricultural education teacher, Horse Rescue were, l to r: especially Levi Clark, CPA, Andrea Simmerman, JCCS Branch elk (FFA). habitat35 and didn’t comand his crew had done the appropriate Productions film, Land Of Giants, taking care of draft horses is the program to build comprehensive joined the Florence Carlton teaching Office of the Regional Adminbull trout habitat; restore Road. Manager, and Will Ramsey, CPA. Also pictured is Tiny, the non-profi mascot and the ply with the definition of old snow dance, andt’s expectations were for Friday, January 5th at the Rocky an expensive proposition. Last knowledge ofYagriculture and to habitat the sponsor RESCUE, page 65 See See GOLD, page •FREE INTime. THE BITTERROOT VALLEY• OURH OMEIMPROVEMENT CO.COM istrator the Environmental In a At letter to the Forest including firststaff, horsestudents thatmeadows, wasfound rescued byESTIMATES 1 Horse A Photo by Victoria Howell. growth found in the Bitterroot high. A ceremonial snowof dance is one Mountain Grange just south of Hamprepare students for careers in, or needed to form their FFA chapter. way to keep the metaphorical fingers related to, agriculture. FFA chapters See SKI page 3 See FLORENCE, page 2

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