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Scarecrow Fest one of the best! Eagles in winterHumane Groundbreaking held Association for medical Bitter Root Three Mile Community Centercenter open

celebrates new shelter, 50th anniversary speech, occupa-

by Victoria by Victoria Howell shelter. Howell by Scott Butler and John Dowd According

$140,000. a levy, so this won’t any tional andhave physical 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 According to Scarecrow Festival orgaMile 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 nizers, this year’s may at have been one and running. Located 4433 bothofthe park loan to finish Three Community and lab services. ceremony, saidMile concerning the Senior ing last Wednesday their most attended Sunnyside Cemeteryevents Road,ever. Under board and the the project. Center (the official name) Bishop said “It organization’s 50 years of service, An new open house celebration was for medical cerulean sky and warm theits center is on the easttemperatures, 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 thatheld will beThe Stevensville its annual Scarecrow of Lone Rock Park. buildcenter board, worked with through community picnics, ladies in 1972 and it’s still run by a Humane Association’s (BRHA) new the facility open Festival. ing contains ayear, large meetingof traffic they started Farmers State rummage sales, bingo nights built justThis north of because animal shelter located on Fairgrounds bunch of little old ladies.” congestion and possible danger toworking pedes- on room, a warming kitchen, a Bank to keep and donations fromof commuby spring 2023, Stevensville at the Butts, President of the Road in The event served trians, allHamilton. scarecrows were downtown. 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 a ribbon Board, said, “This organization has system, a gorgeous andsaid incorpopayments contributors were the Three Although some people inview attendance on continuing to Creek Road and walking of the Bitterroot Mountains to rated reasonable. Mile Fireway District, Lone that they missed outof on the bikein 2014. cutting ceremony in honor the new come such a long sincethe it was expand Hwy 93. the west. said the Those payRock 50 Park andago. theservices. Rapp path, it was potentially benefit toShe local started about years I feel aFamfacility, including toursa of the whole “We’re bringing the The building is now home total cost is ments come ily Foundation. businesses to have the scarecrows scatJohn 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 tered along Main Street. 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 An estimated 3,000 to 5,000 people 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 came out for the event, which according HedgeThe privatehad non-profit organization the course for the next 50 years.” Daly Hospital The surrounding con-or moreSchmiedeke assessed, TMCSC received reduced to organizers was park as many than in chair McCormack saidpeth, that the of the was fisoccer rst organized in 1972. In 1984, tains andevent baseball “got really Schmiedeke prices from contractors. The past years. The included numerous Three Mile Community Senior Center board members, l to r, Colorganization conducted a Countess Margarite Bessenyey, the hospital board, fields, tennis volleyball involved,” the is proud that general contractorsuccessful donated laactivities, likeand a carved pumpkin contest, leen Schmiedeke, Joyce Pando and Wendy Audiss in front of the fundraising campaign fund the new granddaughter Marcus Daly, saidto this project courts, a walking a playgroup they didn’t wagon rides andof apath, Monster Mashgave dance had See the CENTER, new community center at Lone Rock Park. Photo by V. Howell. construction but then Covid-19 thefolks BRHA land on Fairgrounds Road ground and a covered picnic attraction raised Bitterroot about have to run for of all ages. A popular has been four page years3 Chamber of Commerce Director Al Mitchell holds the group spell-bound as Bitwitha amodel 99-year lease. Six years was train display in thelater, Kohl ter Root Humane Association Board Member Sue McCormack prepares to cut the ribbon pandemic hit and construction in the works, costs but skyrocketed. As a result, the group in 1990, the Bessenyey estate deeded building. It was a good opportunity to celebrating the opening John Bishop, pictured from left, leads a gathering people involved in the there were some of the new animalfifth shelter in Hamilton. Photo by Michaelof Howell. had to take out a mortgage to finish the land toolder the organization wheretheir hear many people talk about delays due to the Bitterroot project in a ceremonial groundbreaking. The facility on the property that hadHealth housedbuilding the Sue McCormack, who serves on love of trains. the current shelter is located. The See SHELTER, page pandemic. She said2 theat organization’s of directors This year there werean 58old scarecrows, will be built on land located the corner ofboard Kootenai Creek Road and Hwy 93 new building replaces building shelter since 1984. their vision that more than in most years past, by butNathan not just north of the Stevensville Junction. Boddy cumstances, having She adds thatisthe quite breaking last year’s record of over the Stevensville encountered people most important 60. The event saw huge competition, but Staub, a driving Christine falling “quality, victim to mail way to combat facility will besuch more Darby, Victor and Corvallis, as well as been providing the winners were selected by vote. forceFor at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. abuse is for people of a “medical center” rather than just a accessible, personalized the Business category, the winners 901 S.were: 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. “Early Robotic Surgery,” in first place, bywith a Certificate presented of care” ping for FedEx, and start conMurphy. Shethe led the Hospital, which is a critical access StoryBrook Medicine and Family PharIn recent the years, theyShoppe provide primary, care, urgent care and Appreciation by Mayor DomiBoxxe versation with those commissioners through macy, “Keeper of the Flower Garden,” in hospital, recently rated #4byin the Whitaker (left) Wendel (right) Brown were the winners of Silliest Pumpkin have for the eight and was under category in the pumpspecialty services. Two physicians nic Farrenkopf and Hamilton is legally justified to you know and love. have been taking steps to a lengthy fund fund by Victoria Howell me like a ton of kin carving contest. Photo by Loey Knapp. Police Chief open package which doesn’t by Staub the national ratSee SCARECROW, page 2 Stephen Snavely. accounting 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 by officers in the Detention Center. er came to the Boxxe Shoppe ing to a scammer in by Michael Howell isCommittee, resent the IRS or in looking pretty good, One big savings was and the vice chair of the Fair Board, colon cancer 99. “I jokingly say Plan (CMP). The virtual counciltoand mayor how been local making tional by John ever, they have docouncil with members. The handheld devices can be used meeting ofDowd thein two-member intending send a package Chicago, Illinois. Social Security according to Ravalli the budgeted funds for which he’s been onby forNa12incidents years. A real estate February of 2021. that 51Ravalli is brain Staub of the Boxxe Shoppe. Photo meeting will be held on one run. whileHe things get “We’ll sorted do out. should our job, ” Christine said The County Commisto document at the timeinthey via government FedEx. the old Administration. County CFO Klarryse the county’s share Stevensville Town Council, on agent years here in the Bitterroot, and also He wentSee through damage material.” Zoom. below forthe Stevensville thanhave Boddy. Early this month The department hoped toGibson have the sioners recently approved the for 18 are occurring. Thewas customer Sometimes they a frequent commenter January 27, town Jenelle in the Army for 21 years, his organizational and instructions and aclerk link chemotherapy and But COVID-19 Police Department moved intoseemed their con-problem fixed before the publication See COUNTY, page lease of a new software program and Currently, officers havetheir to call in 10 will tell at council meetings during Joan Mell, an attorney familiar with the profile of the Berthoud council to late join thetold meeting. Five and fundraising skills, and discipline, have been put new location inthe Stevensville Town of this article, and Schafer wanted to in August he was was no joke. “It accompanying hardware to help track to report an incident and then get to to a fused and unOver the victims that a loved one has the last administration. In from Hamilton, was recpotential victims, butuse wishes similar public meetings audience that she was having by Hall. The move was overseen new thank everyone for their patience in good as chair of the Cowboy Ball committee. told that the cancer got so bad I felt activities at the Ravalli County Detencomputer to document it and search familiar 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 interim chief, Todd Schafer, took the meantime. said the committee hopes to tion Center. The new system, called existing videos back upathe report, trouble streaming meet- who the public process, decade with has beento won, but feeraise needs had been eradicated. like I couldn’t nity would help her look out 2021. over the project from the previous poThe move will save the Town over council that those makto handle the the prosecution the Guardian system, which is time Using $50,000 thiswhich year, to forvery expansion of the rodeo Staub Boxxe bethe paid forconsuming. release of the had She said andthe breathe, likeRFID I ingsOverstreet on the internet. for their safety. At least one In addition to theHowever,became lice chief, Mac Sosa. Schafer $12,000 a year. That is the estimated operates with handheld the new devices, an officer can log in 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 to learn said that he will not be sticking around annual costnot of rent and utilities that haswhile devices that look similar to“They a cellneed to onbe the ID card posted the banged cell picious when now commonly use anear legitimate replaced. They’re getting address the mayor, 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 much longer, either. the department needed to stay in theirrecovered will be installed on topup. of Bucking the door record observations during considering address, but will be ready to stockand can be hard on metal.” removal, theof fidevelopnal I imagine water audience. He also space. said, “This hospitalized, andphone, then recovextended nursing facility and theOn process working but they up day, August 28, had in a set single the previous The new space is takcurrent jail management systemThe which suicide checks, for instance, that are the customapproximately grab the package from a porch 10th annual cowboy ball – which actually inPolice the boarding to had be to be provided with a ride isage notand a question answer” ering, Mell ing a climbing plan, this Stevensville Department coming over and a portion of Town Hall,from withCovid-19. atreatment new Facebook page. How- er’s $60,000 in and tracks the cell placeor front door when it arrives. identifies logged instantly into the database. started 11the years ago but couldn’t be held last year to the bank as well as to colon like,” recalls week’scancer meeting public comment. ” into did the no charge to inmates menced with ajourney. monumental into “It’s a 10x30 expansion built the work fire at the session. particular cash, all of alwaysthe direct thewith a ment of all in the facility. The device“They also alerts officer ever, members ofwill thecovpublic move Boxxe Shoppe. due to the pandemic – has been upgraded this The day after that Overstreet. “This er the following agenda their new space, in Town Hall.details “ItThe wasof department. The total space is now“I just the which was victim to send it, ‘no signature According to Jail Commander reminder when a suicide check is due. mayor had said previousthe town. wanted to who had tried to access the “It’s common sense to me,” year. topics: surgery, was isfrauduwhen I realized one crazyhe day,” said Schafer. Things around 600 square feet. The departtransaction. being required,’” she adds. Captain Travis McElderry, the GuardMcElderry said the device is also 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 saidahead it wasofnot • prepackaged Review overall “This is the first for year we’ve ever done fully diagnosed with that I was not were time, ment now includes an officer’s room, alently UnfortunatedeThe Bank Secrecy Act ian RFID system “will help document handy logging medication dequestions from the public. ing me and helpingtaking the town, ” flags abound when seniors are center, filling in while town Greg Overstreet objectives and desired accessible. Berthoud asked smoothly. catered dinner,” said Freeman. Thewhether University COVID-19. Covid and the move went mostly ly, it was notfront office and a chief’s office, which manded ofattorney 1970 requires banks tothe thingsfrom that arebeing going onfor in the jail and liveries and recording scammed. “If a person Crews also said that they said Overstreet. outcomes of the public ofPictured Montanawith Catering Service provide theor had bit Covid-19. Mell are, l towill Overstreet, According toas Schafer, the onlyStaub’s con- firstdoubles as an interview room. for“I patience she worked was obviously seriously senior citizen keep track ofr, withdrawals of hold officersenough. a is little more responsimedicine is accepted or rejected 80 years old, and all of a conversations be prepared for some cern has been thesaid phone lines time andshould the The expansion cost over $10,000, members dinner. Desserts are provided by 4H members. having of $10,000 or more in order very weakened,” ble, making sure we are doing what we when medication is spilled. The same through the issues. Mayor Steve Gibson, council members Cindy Brown and sudden they’re coming into the The Boxxe Shoppe’s new location • Provide an update internet connection. are set “interesting up totalks about encountered commuSee page 2 to comments” supposed be doing.” He said It by Victoria holds true for dispensing and return of Greg Overstreet his recentfrom brush with death dueSTEVI, totheare Overstreet. “Itformer hit They Jim Crews, mayor bank to5withdraw $15,000, it Stacie Barker. Photo Howell. at 901 S. 1st Street in Hamilton. See COWBOY BALL page 4 See SURVIVING, page See STEVENSVILLE, page 4nity. bysuicide Michael Howell use a new, more modern system. Howsuch cirStaubbeisespecially would helpful on razors for shaving to ensure and docuCovid. Photo by Victoria Howell. See SCAMMERS, page 2 makes my ‘spidy’ sense tingle.” See PLAN, page 2 Photo by Nathan Boddy. watch checks, meal services, “razor ment that the full razor blade is intact Last week the Ravalli County Commissioners appasses” and other activities conducted See DETENTION, page 3 proved 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 behavby John Dowd of eight processing centers across the that “Ravalli County objects contains recommendations manage timber to provide Plan. ior. impacts to country, which then forward boxes out and jobs; and concerning the Draft SEIS for forest products to unmitigated A new record of decision The deadline closed onChristmas Victoria Howell if it would betopossible The DUI Task approved of This year’sHowell Operation over 100 countries across the world. year, theForce facility tookButterfly. inthe justcreation under byby Victoria thewhen Gold Concerncounty owned/maintained was issued on December 17, retain old growth status in all put envelopes onthe start January 18, for filing objecby Victoria his property which in effect with the highway, which is aastate addressed private land was Mischief$240,000 Room lastand May and the commissioners Child hopes toHowell be bigger thanto ever. Since of thewould program, over spent every penny. roads heavy theowner scopeand ofthe the analysis to 2021 accompanied by a to Draft all the doors then Dominic Farrenshut off access Stevensville River highway, because nowfrom you’re goingequipment to on it. sold toproject aing new Fish, Wildlife signed off involved creation tions to theto Draft SupplemenAccording Greg Reinhardt, co-area 2and million boxes have beentreatment given to units. According by Michael Howell According the Consent Order, Jasmin Shinn, founder and There The are no paidto employees; it’s an all-of kopf, activities director put valentine cards in The Stevensville Town CounPark, a 20-acre park on the east bank have release two accesses forlogging trucksatrucks, pulling and Parks got involved. The once-prithe letter quotes the Bittera Forest Service press and mostly, SEIS thatchildren provides aneed. site-speset of easily accessible items that had secret hiding coordinator for the nationwide proin tal Environmental Statement the facility exceeded But the Carbinacious volunteer organization. said executive director of 1 Horse atwas Sapphire them. Farrenkopf cil split onLutheran whether to accept just toreally the north ofthat the many private piece ofthe boats, and you’ve just come out to, of the vate piece now belongs toShinn the state compartments where someone could stash some gram and elder for the Mosaic Church Reinhardt said people root Forest Plan’s Forest-wide but not limited the impacts cific forest plan amendment about 90% of proposed The Town of Darby has received Biological Oxygen Demand 5-day (Draft SEIS) for the Gold A Time Horse Rescue it costs about $200 perfishing month toaim feed Homes inDraft Hamilton, is liked the idea. Hehave asked aAtsmall piece of park land the property. Crews the county Stevi Wye atthe 45Department miles per hour - there access drugs or hide aand small of of whiskey. The was in Hamilton, they hope thenear area will may trouble deciding what to fill notice from of En(CBOD) adeveloped total 16 times. to Willow 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 asking the bridge, community students Stevensville that was at schools andbox negotiated the donation of item the are going to be accidents there.” “But I think it’s [the piece on the to provide parents a learning opportunity to see the fill over 8,500 boxes an thisitem year. This the with. Though there are vironmental Quality enforcement source Objective toland “Maintain area designated for insect and resource 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 on west, potential Mayor Steve Gibson said he didn’t west] still a viable piece of for various ways in which any young person can hide area includes the Bitterroot, Sanders suggestions the organization webdivision that it isenvein violation ofCounty the would The exceedances included:habitatthe Last year the lopes. the disease sufficient old-growth tions, Ravalli new decision were received treatment 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 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. includesand nearly 13,000In acres County Missoula. Hamilton site, it is really upThe to the individual Montana Water Act at its • CBODs exceedances lopes were so fullQuality they project is nowor 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 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, alone, the church over 300 family filling the box.popular, Reinhardt of commercial andcollected non-comwastewater treatment • monthly average init,” loading had to be emptied morefacility by failreally andsaid, About four years resident. Then people piece, which is located adjacent tomostly the Council member Marilyn Wolff Michaelson said he looked upwhat the for ley. “There are so many cars out there, said she tells parents is, “If you don’t look, accounting fi rm with a branch adoption, most can be driven or support viable populations ing trees. They claim the area the necessary maintenance having to do with the last year, with another 200 brought in in his experience, the box often nating toonce. comply with the conditions and pounds per day (four times) mercial treatment than growing every year. ago, a vegetative resident came drop off valenBitterroot River on the northwest side said she haditsapotenreal to problem with old minutes andduring found that the land I see. think it can be used for parking. But then you don’t If you don’t see, then you don’t ridden, and some just become “pasture located in Hamilton. Part of could the logging by individuals. urally finds way the right child. of old-growth dependent the project, nor the of old growth, is impacted by mountain pine limitations of its wastewater discharge • monthly average concentration in 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 This year, they want that to fillgift 500 Mosttoofwildlife the boxes has beetle, seen orDouglas-fir heard permit. selection for awarding pets.” See DUI, page 10 According to the Noticeofofthe road mg/L (four times) rehabilitation afteron species. ” side The letter andhe tobank bark beetle, forest inby the Sapphire Mounin 2017 Ravalli County for usetial as aimpacts roads is incrediit would be maintained and utilized erty the west ofestablished thenotes river,that then boxes just as a church, of haveconverge, seemed tothe contain something was online voting and alone. according 1 Horse At A Time was Violation and Consent Order signed • weekly maximum in concentraDrafttoSEIS limits the scope dwarf mistletoe and the project is complete. Ravalli Willow Creek Road.I think there are potential river access site. bly recipient steep… liability for western recreational purposes within five you havethe access potentially consoltains east of Corvallis. The program started in Andrea 1993 with the child really needed. He in 2018. She’s originally from to JCCS branch manager, by Mayor Nancy McKinney, Darby hasby Shinn tion (four times) 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 the Samaritan’s Purse,At anwas explained that a person should just reported 28 effluent limit exceedancesGermany • weekly in loading Simmerman, 1 Horse AinternationTime wheremaximum sheI grew around mayor Jim Crews, the owner of land channel and the deepest partAlthough of the in general Vickie Motley, park board memof Stevensville. thinkup It’s financial of the project quences analysis tosomething vegetation, officials have stated that the al Christian-based relief organization. put whatever they feel a child might withdrawn in August of 2020 since 2020, twenty-one ofburden which are pounds per day (two times) horses. She’s always been a horse fan, was one of the top four vote at the river on the northeast side had channel. If you were to develop that ber, said that nothing had been done RDO Equipment Co. Operation Christmas Child gives out often the first thing that pops the pileated woodpecker and project isrequire, designed to improve agreement with the proposed“significant to Ravalli County andbut believe considered non-complipercent removal (two times) 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 shoeboxes for people to take homeforest resilience into their head. According to Rein8571 Running W. Road ance.” • permit effluent limit for pH (four pine marten. project, the Ravalli County it is contrary to current law to natural checkfor followed in the wake draft horses. She and her husband, a andThat Alliance the Wild with them to fill for children in need in hardt,like “The is alreadyCommissioners going to the expressed Darby owns and three- military andoperates existing aagreements. ”times) “We and realize these old growth disturbances fire,box insects Missoula, MT 59808 retiree, their two children of a $25,000 gift claiming in November Rockies filed suit the other countries. Donated boxes can be child God meant for it to go to,” and, celled lagoon system equipped with • permit effluent limit for E. are listed in and disease; sedi-is gettingconcern to Forest officials also received from with Tractor Supply. relocated toindicator Montanaspecies and bought acoli 20agency failed to use athe bestmay need, filled anything child “He reduce knows who what.” over impacts solar bee mixers in each cell. The (five times), 406-549-4171 all of which were considacre 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 from toys to toiletries and school supAccording to Joan Rhodda, prayer available science in managing Presenting a check for $7500 from JCCS to Jasminlagoons, Shinn (second from left) of 1ofHorse At located northeast Darby, ered Significant Non-Compliance RDOequipment.com money but,grooming accordingproducts. to Shinn,Once 20 horses. She currently roads, Willow Creek Director of the NEPA Branch cleareffluent whether there other Creek watershed; improve plies to self coordinator and church project leader constructed in the 1960s and up-about • permit limit forare Total A Time Draft Horse Rescue were, l to r: especially Levi Clark, were CPA, Andrea Simmerman, JCCS Branch elk habitat and didn’t comtaking care of draft horses is filled, boxes are returned to one ofbull sev-trout for Operation Christmas Child, “What Office of the Regional Adminhabitat; restore Road. graded to the current three cell lagoon Suspended Solids (one time) 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. Last eral locationsYin the area, one of which really intorescued the boxes hope.” To RESCUE, page 65 system inVictoria 1979VALLEY• and are operated as a See See GOLD, page •FREE INTime. THE BITTERROOT OUR HOME IMPROVEMENT CO.COM istrator of the Environmental In a At letter to the Forest habitat firstincluding horse goes thatmeadows, was byESTIMATES 1isHorse A Photo by Howell. growth found in the Bitterroot for the valley is the Mosaic Church. her, the items that go into the boxes batch discharging facility intermittent After that, boxes are shipped to one See DEQ, page 6 See CHILD page 3 to the Bitterroot River.

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