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County ‘shakes out’ new ride

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 Howell

shelter. $140,000. a levy, so this won’t any tional andhave physical According The park additional impact on people’s by John Dowd therapy services – It’s been a long time to Colleen board made property taxes. including a loan, therapy coming, but the new Three Schmiedeke, the decision In addition to the the Bitterroot Health Last Wednesday morning, Mile Community Center is up who serves on to take out a project was paid for by the pool – plus imaging 9 a.m.at tolast noon, Ravalli held a groundbreakby Michael Howell and cut from the ribbon week’s and running. Located at 4433 both the park loan to finish Three Community and lab services. County emergency responders ceremony, saidMile concerning the Senior ing last Wednesday Sunnyside Cemetery Road, board and the the project. Center (the official name) and various state Bishop said “It organization’s 50 years oforganizations service, An new openmedical house celebration was for theits center is on the east side community She said they met which raised over $80,000 at the fairgrounds toold test they hope to have held last week at the Bitter Root was started by a bunch of little complex that will beThe build- center board, of Lone Rock Park. worked with through community picnics, their communications capaladies 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 bilities rummage sales, bingo nights built just north of meeting during a hypothetical animal shelter located on Fairgrounds bunch of little old ladies.” room, a warming working on Bank to keep major and donations from commuby spring of 2023, Stevensville at the kitchen, a emergency. Such an exButts, President of the Road in Hamilton. The event served state-of-the-art audio visual this ain 2012 their loan Kathie nity members. Other major and that they plan ercise is referred to across the corner of Kootenai double purpose. It included Board, said, “This organization has system, and a gorgeous view a ribbon and incorpopayments contributors were the Three on continuing to country as a “shakeout” exerCreek Road and of the Bitterroot totherated reasonable. Mile Fireway District, the Lone cutting ceremonyMountains in honor of new in 2014. come such a based long sinceprompting it was cise, on new expand services. Hwy 93. including tours of the whole the west. She said the Those payRockrecent Park and the Rapp started from about 50 years ago. I feel aFamfacility, earthquake data. “We’re bringing the The building isarray now of home total cost is ments come ily Foundation. John Bishop, building, and anBitfood and huge sense of responsibility to honor The exercises seek to “shake care to the patients, to the senior center and the approximateout of park Schmiedeke said there terroot those who before us and ” drink inHealth honorCEO, of the organization’s out”have any come problems within Weekend Backpack Program ly $500,000. taxes that are were many volunteers who he said. make it the as good as itbringing can be as we set 50ththat birthday. system, them to said Marcus that serves Lone Rock School. When already being helped on theLois project, and Hedgeresponder attention, and to The privatehad non-profit organization the course for the next 50 years.” Daly Hospital The surrounding park conSchmiedeke assessed, TMCSC received reduced provide said a real-world peth, chair of the McCormack that the scenario was fisoccer rst organized in 1972. In 1984, tains and baseball “got really Schmiedeke prices from contractors. The whereconducted teams can abreak out Three Mile Community Senior Center board members, l to r, Colorganization successful Countess Margarite Bessenyey, the hospital board, fields, tennis and volleyball involved,” the is proud that general contractor donated latheircampaign equipmenttoand test leen Schmiedeke, Joyce Pando and Wendy Audiss in front of the fundraising fund thetheir new granddaughter ofpath, Marcus Daly, gave said this project courts, a walking a playgroup had they didn’t efficacy during a proposed See CENTER, page 3 new community center at Lone Rock Park. Photo by V. Howell. construction but then the Covid-19 the BRHA on Fairgrounds Road ground andland a covered picnic raised Bitterroot about have to run has years Chamber of Commerce Director Al Mitchell holds the group spell-bound as Bitscenario ofconstruction anybeen kind.fourcosts with a 99-year lease. Six years later, pandemic hit and in the works, but ter Root Humane Association Board Member Sue McCormack prepares to cut the ribbon It was also a fantastic opAs a result, the group in 1990, the Bessenyey estate deeded portunity tothere fieldwere the county’s some John Bishop, pictured from left, leads a gathering peopleskyrocketed. involved in the celebrating the opening of the new animalfifth shelter in Hamilton. Photo by Michaelof Howell. had to take a mortgage to finish the land to the organization where new out mobile incident delays duecommand 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 center. Thepandemic. joint operation See SHELTER, page She said2 theat organization’s of directors will be built on land located the corner ofboard Kootenai Creek Road and Hwy 93 the involvement new building replaces an old building shelter since 1984. included of their vision that just north of the Stevensville Junction. by Nathan Boddy cumstances, having She adds thatisthe the Department of Emergency the Stevensville encountered people most important Services, Rocky Mountain Lab, Christine Staub, a driving falling “quality, victim to mail way to combat such facility will besermore county and state health Darby, Victor and Corvallis, as well as been providing force at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. abuse is for people vices, Ravalli County Sheriff’s of a “medical center” rather than just a accessible, personalized 901 S. 1st Street, was recently As a certified shipto ask questions Department, Highway Patrol, clinic. She also said that Marcus Daly The new 12-acre campus will health care” fordepot 90 years. presented with a Certificate of new ping for FedEx, and start the conRavalli County Officials finally got a chance to break out their mobile Incident Command last week. Photo by John Dowd. Hospital, which Murphy. She led the is a critical access See SHAKEOUT, page In recent the years, theyShoppe provide primary, care, urgent care and Appreciation by Mayor DomiBoxxe versation with those2 commissioners through hospital, was recently rated #4byinlove. the specialty services. Two physicians have nic Farrenkopf and Hamilton is legally justified to you know and have been taking steps to a lengthy fund fund by Victoria Howell me like a ton of Police Chief Stephen Snavely. open package which doesn’t by Staub the national rataccounting that, to sum already been hired, along with a nurse nation for quality invest in all theacommubricks.” In his presentation to the City bears its shipping know the details it up, shows the county, ing agency, out of 351 similar facilities. practitioner, and two more doctors Numerous Bald Eagles have been congregating in the Burnt area lately to feed onOverstreet carcasses. was Photos nities of Fork the Bitterroot, When it comes Council on March 15th, Chief label. After following of what potential overall, doing very well by Michael Victoria Howell are being recruited. There willby also be he said, with clinics in to Covid, Greg Howell. sent home from Snavely said that he wants the protocol, and doing victims are told, but on its tax collections and The Bitterroot Overstreet has a NaHamilton Police Department so in the presence of the hospital with she knows that over they showing revenues tional Forest (BNF) will The Cowboy Ball at the 50% Ravalli Countycoached message for you: to “become more vocal about a witness, Staub was an oxygen tank. are, “often of projections in by John Dowd 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 Onfrom Tuesday, 30th 6 to 8Oct. 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 24, the Hamilton City 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 Council held special regarding thea developby Michael Howell such 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, meeting. this ment of aHowever, 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 addiwas no regular meeting. Climbing Management At the second regular There was a healthy turnout for the open house er came to the Boxxe Shoppe ing to a scammer in resent the IRS or in is looking pretty good, One big savings was Committee, and the vice chair of the Fair Board, colon cancer 99. “I jokingly say This of Plantime, (CMP). The virtual counciltoand mayor how local Chicago, tional council held at theto North Valley Public Library (NVPL) in meeting ofinstead thein two-member intending send a package Illinois.members. Social Security according Ravalli the budgeted funds which he’s been onby forNa12 despite years. Athe real estate for February ofCity 2021. that 51 is brain Staub of the Boxxe Shoppe. Photo meeting the meeting in will be Hall, held on Stevensville Thursday, significant should run. He “We’ll do our job, ” Christine said via government FedEx. Administration. County CFOlast Klarryse the county’s share in Stevensville Town Council, on agent for 18 years here in the Bitterroot, and also He wentmet through damage material.” Zoom. See below council in the for back than Boddy. deterrence presented by the valley’s first winThewas customer Sometimes they a frequent commenter Gibson January 27, town in the Army for 21 years, his organizational and 10 instructions and aclerk link of a passenger van. ForJenelle seemed conchemotherapy and But COVID-19 ter snowstorm. All those who managed to brave See COUNTY, page will tell their at council meetings during Joan Mell, an attorney familiar with the the profile of the Berthoud told the council to late join the meeting. the firstAugust time ever, theFive andfused fundraising skills, and discipline, have been put to in he was was no joke. “It weather got an great opportunity notone onlyhas to Over the victims that a loved theand lastunadministration. In from Hamilton, was recpotential victims, butuse wishes similar public meetings council decided towas do ahaving familiar audience thatcancer she good as chair of the Cowboy Ball committee. preview the library’s potential future but to dabtold that the got so bad I felt with course of her landed in jail, or that a prize that others within the commucomment, Crews told ognized for stepping in (virtual) were heldand in meet- the public town ride-around Freeman saidtheir the committee ble in it, creating own layout of thea to proposed trouble streaming the process, decade with has been won,hopes but feeraise needs had been eradicated. like I couldn’t nity would help her look out 2021. Halloween judge council that those makto handle the the prosecution building, surrounding landscape $50,000amphitheater, this year, to forbeand the expansion of the rodeo andthe Staub Boxxe paid for release of the hadhouses. breathe, likefor I their safety. ingsOverstreet on the internet. She said At least one In addition to theones Eligible homes were features on two different properties that have been became susShoppe, Staub funds. The scammers will ing public comment should caseload of Town Attorney bucking chutes. “They’re just getting old,” he said. surgery on October was being water the former YouTube of the potential victims as shesites for potential development, one opportunity to learn chanthat were nominated into identified picious when haswhile now commonly use a getting legitimate “They need to be replaced. They’re banged address the mayor, not the Greg Overstreet he was 23, 2021 for ostomy boarded, or what aided was a resident at a local they had was no longer about and participate in anel city-wide “Halloween on municipally owned property Lewis and Clark recovered address, butat will be ready to up. Bucking stock can be hard on metal.” removal, theof fidevelopnalhad set up considering I imagine audience. He also said, “This hospitalized, and then recov- water extended nursing facility and the process working but they Homes” competition. ParkThe and10th the other on Park Street on property the customapproximately grab the package from a porch annual cowboy ball – which actually in the boarding to had be to be provided with a ride notand a question and answer” ering, from Covid-19. ing a climbing plan, Mayor Dominic Faratreatment new Facebook page.this How- er’sisage owned by the Stevensville School $60,000Mell in front door District. when it arrives. started 11 years agoorbut couldn’t be held last year to the bank as well as to the colon cancer journey. like,” recalls week’s meeting will covrenkopf was theofdriver “It’s public comment.” did the work at no charge The North Valley Library a large the session. particular cash, all of to “TheyDistrict always covers direct the ever, members the public Boxxe Shoppe. due to the pandemic – has been upgraded this The day after that Overstreet. “This er the following agenda and council members area that encompasses the Stevensville and Lone details of the which was victim to send it, ‘no signature The mayor had said previousthe town. “I just wanted to who had he tried to access the “It’s common sense to me,” year. topics: surgery, was is when I realized navigated and voted on transaction. required,’” shehad adds. school districts and inattorney 2020 an estimated ly that he would be answering publicly thankbeing Joan fraudufor help- she The Town ofRock Stevensville recognized Joan out that red Facebook page saidand it was not Unfortunate• Review overall “This isofthe first year we’ve ever done aMell, fully diagnosed with that I was not says, pointing the best, spookiest lently deThe Bank Secrecy Act population 11,822. It’s also fast growing, having 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 most festiveBerthoud homes inasked the COVID-19. taking Covid ly, it was not manded from of 1970 requires to increased by about 16% from the 2010 estimate being scammed. “If a person said Overstreet. outcomes ofas the public competition. Montana Catering Service provide theof had Covid-19. Pictured 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 ofof 10,195. The is 80 years old, and all of a library is also well liked and well conversations should be prepared for some The city also hosts dinner. Desserts are provided by 4H members. time having members of $10,000 or more in order used. According to the 2023 annual report, aand total very weakened,” said through the issues. Mayor Steve Gibson, council members Cindy Brown they’re coming into the The Boxxe Shoppe’s new location • Provide an update aOverstreet. house competition encountered See page 2 sudden “interesting comments” of 35,287 people walked through the door in 2022 Greg Overstreet talks about his recentfrom brush with death dueSTEVI, tothe commu“Itformer hit Jim Crews, mayor bank to5withdraw $15,000, it Stacie Barker. by Victoria Howell. at 901 S. 1st Street in Hamilton. nity.See See COWBOY page 4 SURVIVING, page during Christmas and Covid. Photo by Photo Michael Howell such cirStaub is and 3,722 tingle.” people have a library card. Its BALL book by Victoria Howell. See SCAMMERS, page 2 makes my ‘spidy’ sense See PLAN, page 2 Photo by Nathan Boddy. council members plan and e-material collection is extensive, containing to make this ride-along Lastitems week contributing the Ravalli County Commissioners ap93,648 to a total of 73,644 together a regular thing proved adoption of a memorandum of understandcheckouts. Their computers are also well used by for that, as well. The idea ing public with the Ravalli DUI Task ForceWiFi and the with 5,734County uses logged last year. The spooky entrance to the “Overall” category winner. Seth and Justine Watkins letter the commissioners statedInstituteProtection National Forest 1987 Forest aspen and whitebark pine; for a Halloween MAPS Media to produceAgency. a video The designed by doing Michael Howell said they went all out this year with their decorations. Photo by John Dowd. to help parents keep tabs on their children’s behavthat “Ravalli County objects contains recommendations manage timber to provide Plan. See NVPL, page 4 See HOUSES, page 12 ior. impacts to concerning the Draft SEIS for forest products and jobs; and to unmitigated A new record of decision The deadlineHowell closed on if it would be possible Victoria The DUI Task approved of year, theForce facility tookButterfly. inthe justcreation under bybyVictoria Howell the Gold Concerncounty owned/maintained was issued on December 17, retain old growth status in all on January 18, forHowell filing objec- to put envelopes by Victoria his property which would in effect with the highway, which is aastate addressed when private land was Mischief$240,000 Room lastand May and the commissioners spent every penny. roads heavy theowner scopeand ofthe the analysis treatment to 2021 accompanied by a to Draft all the doors and Dominic Farrenshutthen off access Stevensville Riverunits. According highway, because nowfrom you’re goingequipment to on it. sold toproject aing new Fish, Wildlife signed off creation tions to theShinn, Draft SupplemenJasmin founder and There The are no paid involved employees; it’s an all-of kopf, activities director put valentine cards in The Stevensville Town Coun- SEIS thatPark, a 20-acre park on the east bank have release two accesses forlogging trucksatrucks, pulling and Parks got involved. once-pritheitems letter quotes the Bittera Forest Service press and mostly, provides a site-speset of easily accessible that hadThe secret hiding tal Environmental Statement volunteer organization. ButtoShinn said executive director of 1 Horse atwas Sapphire them. Farrenkopf cil split onLutheran whether to accept just toreally the north of the private piece ofthe boats, and you’vebut just come out to, of the vate piece now belongs thesome state compartments where someone could stash root Forest Plan’s Forest-wide not limited the impacts cific forest plan amendment about 90% of proposed (Draft SEIS) for the Gold A Time Horse it costs about $200 perfishing month toaim feed Homes inDraft Hamilton, isRescue liked the idea.property. He askedCrews contacted the county aAtsmall piece of park land near the Stevi Wyean at 45 miles per hour - there developed access site. drugs or hide aand small of whiskey. The was to Willow Creek Road. Due tois aflask Management Wildlife Retreatment areas are within defining old-growth stanby John Dowd its second year and will be of Fame is unique in that it pretty impressive individuals “important to see them carButterfly Project, a Bitterroot these “gentle giants.” Then there are facility in Corvallis, got a nice asking the bridge, community students Stevensville an item that was at schools and negotiated the donation of the are going to be accidents there.” I think opportunity it’s [the piecetoon the to provide parents“But a learning see the source Objective “Maintain area designated for insect and resource and financial limitadards. Some objections to securing the inducting sixmake new members does not only include sports have come out ways ofveterinary Sterying on and going above boost lastForest week when she was bills, therapy, training, and to send his athat and daycares to National project considered atresidents the March 24th council land on the west, potential Mayor Steve that Gibson said he didn’t west] still a viable piece oftoland forand the various in which any young person can hide Last year the envelopes. The Stevensville Hall to its fraternity. According to performance. He also wanted vensville!” beyond in life after school.” sufficient old-growth habitat tions, Ravalli County would new decision were received disease 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 the outcome of see what use the land is to the town. “I city to have, whether or not you put their substance use from casual inspections. includes nearly 13,000 acres were so full they The project is now howlopes of Fame project is entering Lewis, a each Stevensville to highlight board is Lewis, there The ceremony will take tine’s decorate them foraccess revert toDay. the county. The 1.52-acre the dispute. only see liability,” said Gibson. money into developing it,” said MotnotAccording be able to to accommodate onWhen suitable timberland to by the January 18 deadline dense pockets of the dead andadythese horses. they’re finally ready from representatives of JCCS, anSteve Glenda Wiles, Director of the DUI Task Force, of commercial and non-comhad to be emptiedwere more really popular, and 5th grade teacher and composed of former coaches, a lot of people nominatplace Saturday, November 18 About four years resident. Then people piece, whichfiis located adjacent tomostly the having Council member Marilyn WolffThey claimMichaelson 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 rm with a branch adoption, most can be driven or support viable populations ing trees. the area the necessary maintenance to do with the mercial vegetative treatment than once. growing every year. and teachers. board member for graduates In anded. However, the board had starting at 5:30 p.m. There ago, a resident came could drop off valenBitterroot River on the northwest side said she had a real problem with old minutes found that the land I think it can be used for parking. But then younor don’t see.and 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 the project, the is impacted by mountain pine to within a 55,000was acre area ofto the the Stevensville Hall fact, two the Hall Fame oflooking will a social hour, the to Farrenkopf tooffered see tines to fill the enveof the bridge, Town this piece of land. “It’s where two of wasofdonated onpage thepare condition thatgroup longbe term, if you haveand propSee VALENTINES, 10 down the selection for awarding that gift pets.” See DUI, page rehabilitation of the road after species. ” The letter notes that tial impacts to wildlife and to beetle, Douglas-fir bark beetle, of Fame, this year inductees are also former inductees to be more practidinner will start at 7 p.m. It 10 forest inby theRavalli Sapphire Mounin 2017 for use as a roads converge, the bank is incrediit would be maintained and utilized erty onAt theAwest side ofestablished the river, then was online voting County and according 1 Horse Time was isRoad. an emphasis Stevensville teachers. Being cal. Nominees remain the havewill be held at the St. the Mary’s the Draft limits scope dwarf mistletoe and the project is complete. Ravalli Willow there Creek potential river access site. bly steep… I think there are liability for western recreational purposes within five on you access toSEIS potentially consoltains eastbranch of Corvallis. by can Shinn 2018. She’s originally from to JCCS manager, Andrea on those that excelled that it the isbudworm a requirement that ballot forobjects five years and be in Family Center ininto Stevensville, of its environmental consespruce damage. County to shifting Bitterroot National Forest During the tenure of former issues… It is the fastest part of years. idate highway property the Town The original proposal was Simmerman, 1 Horse A Time Germany where sheIfood grew up around their scholastic to, andMotley, reconsidered. and the will be catered mayor Jim Crews, the At owner of land channel and thethe deepest inductees partAlthough of thehave Vickie park board memof Stevensville. think It’s something financial burden of the project quences analysis to vegetation, officialsin have stated that ingone general withdrawn in August of 2020 horses. She’s always been a horse fan,are was one of the top four vote performance as well as graduated from, Stevensville, The board has keyed into by Mission Bistro. Tickets at the river on the northeast side project had channel. Ifto you were to develop thatwith the ber,proposed said that nothing had County been done RDO Equipment Co. thesale pileated woodpecker and is designed improve agreement to Ravalli and believe after Friends theoff Bitterroot getters. but she is especially passionate about their extracurricular this to show,because according individual students on for the and cost16 attempted to of shut river access on for fishing, I would also see agoes problem the access problemformer had been Seeevent, STEVI, page 8571 Running W. Road pine marten. project, the Ravalli County it is contrary to current law forest resilience to natural performance. to Lewis, how tight knit the and wants to start small, be purchased checkfor followed in the wake draft horses.$75. SheTickets and hercan husband, a andThat Alliance the Wild and existing agreements. ” “We realize these old growth likewanted fire, insects Commissioners Missoula, MT 59808 “We to community is. expressed eventually moving towards by scanning the QR code inmilitary retiree, and their two children of a $25,000 gift claiming in November Rockies filed suit the disturbances highlight how their According to Heidi Yaskus, whole teams and possibly cluded with this article. 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 time ininStevensville secretary of theand Stevi STARS even coaches. According tofarm which Lewis and others are acre Shinn said can support That sounds like a lot of the Forest Plan, but it is not county owned maintained comments from Philip Strobel ment sources the Willow available science in managing Presenting a checkpoint for $7500 JCCS to Jasmin (second from left) they of 1 Horse At to showwas a leaping for from Foundation, whichShinn is orgaLewis, wanted excited about how the event RDOequipment.com money but, according to Shinn, Creek watershed; about 20 horses. She currently roads, especially Willow Creek Director of the NEPA Branch clear whether there are other improve A Time Draft Horse Rescue were, l to r: the LeviHall Clark,ofCPA, Andrea Simmerman, JCCS Branch elk habitat and didn’t comhow they excelled in nizing Fame gala case individuals that “applied has grown and even expect to taking care of draft horses is Office of the Regional Adminbull trout habitat; restore Road. Manager, andLewis. Will Ramsey, CPA.event Also pictured is Tiny, the non-profit’s and the ply with the definition of old life,” said and fundraising dinner themascot foundation they got in put a display in the entrance an expensiveYproposition. Last CO.COM including meadows, See RESCUE, page 65 See school GOLD, page •FREE ESTIMATES IN THE BITTERROOT VALLEY• OURH OMEIMPROVEMENThabitat istrator of the Environmental In a letter to the Forest fi rst horse that was rescued by 1 Horse At A Time. Photo by Victoria Howell. Lewis also said where the new inductees will Stevensville and went on to of the high gym. So far, growth found in the Bitterroot QR code for purchasing gala tickets, the Stevensville Hall be awarded, “There’re some excel in life.” He also said it’s courtesy Steve Lewis. See HALL OF FAME, page 3

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