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A bit of confusion still clouds the air around the Bitterroot National Forest’s latest efforts at involving the public in its forest management decisions. Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Forest Service is required to involve the public in its decision making process. The usual process has begun with what is called a “prescoping” meeting at which the public is familiarized with the project under consideration. From there it moves into a “scoping” period where proposed activities and alternatives are scrutinized, and their potential environmental impacts are considered. A preferred alternative is identified by the agency and, following public comment, a decision is made. The draft decision gets further review and objections are addressed before the decision is finalized. But this time, on the Bitterroot Front Project, things are starting off on a different foot. Bitterroot National Forest Supervisor Matt Anderson has added a new “pre-pre-scoping” stage to the process, not part of the traditional process in which a set of options is presented to the public
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did for me,” Colburn said of the veterans. Keynote speaker Chyrle Wohlman, Stevensville school librarian, was inspired to join the military after seeing a news clip showing people serving in the Persian Gulf. She joined the Air Force and spent 20 years in the service before becoming a librarian.
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FS supervisor addresses confusion over Bitterroot Front Project By Michael Howell
After posting of the colors by the American Legion Post 94 Color Guard, local veterans were honored last week at a Veterans Day program held at Stevensville High School. Cheerleaders and Student Council members escorted local veterans to their seats where they were treated to the National Anthem sung by Stevensville High School Chrysolian Women, as well as other patriotic musical offerings by the Stinger Singers and 5th Grade Choir (above) directed by Robert Prince, and the Men’s Choir directed by Kyla Morton. Band instructor Jeremy Ruff directed the band in playing “Stars and Stripes Forever” and “Marches of the Armed Forces.” Stevensville student Clara Colburn, who is entering the military, gave a speech thanking the veterans for their service and saying how proud she was of their service and how it inspired her to join the military. “I want to do nothing less than what they
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She spoke about the character building aspects of the military and the core values taught. She said all branches of the military and the school have a set of core values and they all have the same basic foundations in “honesty, respect, and commitment.”
for review and analysis. Anderson said he felt that the usual public process was not giving people the time they needed to fully digest the proposals and meaningfully participate in the process. It left some members of the public feeling like they were getting a pre-packaged deal. The new approach is meant to get the public involved prior to coming up with any specific actions being planned for any specific location. Anderson likened the usual approach to the way a contractor might bring in some blueprints for a home and work with the customer on getting to some final design. He said, “In this case we are asking, where do you want the house and what kind of house do you want. Maybe you want a yurt instead of a regular house.” Anderson said when he came here it was not with any preconceived notions. “When I landed here,” he said, “I had no direction ideas. But when I talked to the folks in the community about the forest and its needs, the fire risks and forest health, everything pointed to the Bitterroot Front.” He said there was lot of concern expressed about the Westside canyons and the potential for
fires to come roaring out onto the mountain face where many homes are situated in the Wildland Urban Interface. “How do you address this when you start?” he said, “and how do you treat on a scale that will make some difference.” Anderson said the answer was to look at a landscape scale project and involve the public from the very beginning, “at the foundational stages.” It’s an approach that Anderson helped pioneer during his tenure on the Tongass National Forest in Alaska before coming to the Bitterroot. The new approach is not without a few drawbacks of its own, however. It left many members of the public, groomed to participate in the usual NEPA process, feeling baffled. They were being shown a 150,000-acre project area stretching from Darby to Lolo across the face of the mountains without any specific actions proposed in any particular place and asked to comment on it. “There is confusion,” said Anderson. “It’s hard for the public to get involved. We are asking ‘What do you want to see? What’s your vision?’” He said the agency See FRONT, page A12
Three Mile Center gets donation for kids’ backpack program The Bitterroot Star recently presented a $1500 check to members of the Three Mile Community Senior Center for the Kids’ Backpack Program. The group purchases and prepares 50 bags of food for children at Lone Rock School to take home on Friday to eat over the weekend. Every week, bags are filled with eight individual servings of the following: 2 breakfast items, 2 lunch items, 2 snacks, 1 drink and 1 fruit. On holidays and long weekends, extra meals and treats are included. The bags are dropped off at the school to be distributed by the school counselor. The food is purchased through donations and grants from Town Pump Foundation, Three Mile Fire Department, and members of the local community. Anyone wishing to donate food can drop it off at the Three Mile Fire Hall (non-perishable indi-
vidual servings only). Monetary donations can be sent to Three Mile Community Senior Center, 4433 Sunnyside Cemetery Road, Stevensville MT 59870. During the holidays, the group also provides Christmas gifts for 6-8 families in need. The Three Mile Community Seniors currently store, sort and pack the bags at the fire hall, where they also meet for coffee hours and bingo, but that is set to change. According to Colleen Schmiedeke, they have raised more than $110,000 (including $80,000 in grants) and will soon break ground for a new community center to be located at Lone Rock Park. The center project is in partnership with the Lone Rock Park District and the Three Mile Fire Department. The building will be available for a variety of community uses. “We’re very excited,” said
Typical contents for a child’s weekend backpack. Schmiedeke. “There’s a real need for more space.” For more information contact the Center at 3603385 or Schmiedeke at 777-3710. The $1500 from the Bitterroot Star was from the proceeds of this year’s Western Heritage Days. Another $4000 was presented to Stevensville School.
Members of Stevensville American Legion Color Guard were among the many local veterans honored at a special assembly at Stevensville School. Michael Howell photos.
Stevi to apply for grant to address void created by Main Street Assn closure
By Michael Howell
At its November 14 meeting, the Stevensville Town Council unanimously approved making a grant application to Montana Department of Commerce for $10,000. No match is required. The grant request was brought forth by former members of the recently closed Main Street Association to help fund a community effort at re-inventing the organization with a new economically sustainable model. The grant application was prepared by former Main Street president Bob Cumming, Loey Knapp and Amy Berglund. Sev-
eral people, including business owners, spoke in support of the grant which would cost the town nothing. Gretchen Spiess, a downtown business owner, said, “I’m begging you please!” She said she was worried about the future, “because I remember what it was like before Main Street.” She said many businesses have benefited from the Main Street activities. She noted that the Main Street Association also got a significant grant to improve the downtown sidewalks and intersection crossings. Colleen Meyer, Director of St. Mary’s Mission, talked about
the Mission and the town’s history and the importance of promoting it to the outside world. Bob Michalson, council member-elect (and former council member) spoke against the grant, saying he didn’t think it was a good idea for the town to spend any money on the grant. When he was reminded that it would cost the town nothing, he said “Hey, try applying for $20,000.” In other business, the Stevensville Town Council decided to table discussions and decisions to adopt the final budget for FY 2020 and approve a resolution decreasSee STEVI, page A3
L to r: Mary Hayes, Margaret Nelson, Colleen Schmiedeke and Wendy Audiss fill bags with food for Lone Rock school kids to take home on the weekend. Victoria Howell photo.
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Stevensville Community Thanksgiving Dinner You are cordially invited to the Stevensville Community Thanksgiving Dinner. Please join us; whether you are single, divorced, married, widowed/widower, large or small families or newly transplanted to the area! Join us for food, fellowship with your community “neighbors”, football, crafts, games and fun. This is a free event for those who wish to spend the Holiday with their community family. Monetary donations and non-perishable food items may be donated by calling Christy Martin or send an email to the information below. This dinner would not be possible without the help and volunteer efforts of our community! Please visit our Facebook page “Stevensville Community Thanksgiving Dinner” for the latest information on the event and a link to a volunteer sign up page.
November 28, 2019 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Stevensville School District Located in the school cafeteria 300 Park Street, Stevensville Questions Christy Martin 817-372-3101 stevithanksgivingdinner@gmail.com
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Habitat for Humanity to dedicate new house in Darby On Saturday, November 23 at 10 a.m., Habitat for Humanity of Ravalli County (HfHRC), the locally run affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, will dedicate a new home in Darby. This is the 13th home that Habitat has built in Ravalli County and there are immediate plans to begin building two new homes in Victor. HfHRC’s mission is to build simple, decent and affordable homes in partnership with those in need. HfHRC sells houses to families through low interest loans. HfHRC also strives to build community and educate people about the realities of building affordable housing. Families who are chosen to partner with HfHRC
to build a home go through a selection process that assesses their need and ability to repay a mortgage. These families are also required to put in many hours of sweat equity during the building process. HfHRC has previously built homes in Hamilton, Corvallis and Stevensville. All of the money needed to build HfHRC homes is raised locally. There is a demonstrated need in Ravalli County for quality economical housing. HfHRC is dependent upon the support of volunteers for its success. There are currently opportunities to volunteer at one of the three mission directives. For more information,
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Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital Nurse Bo Hokanson is surprised at how “alive” the simulated baby feels in a training session inside the state’s Mobile Simulation Lab. Michael Howell photo.
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they are state of the art “simulated humans.” You can put your finger on their neck and feel their pulse. You can watch the baby’s chest rise and fall with each breath. You can take its temperature or monitor its heart rate or blood pressure. You can administer medications and watch the results on your monitoring equipment. You can even talk to the babies and they can talk back. They can cry and laugh. As Chief Nursing Officer Kathy Padilla put it, they are “freakishly alive.” The training that day involved an infant born with a heart problem. But the mobile lab comes with a whole family. The
Last month you may have seen what looked like an ordinary semi-trailer truck sitting in the parking lot at Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital. But it was not your ordinary delivery truck. It was a mobile training center with over a million dollars’ worth of equipment inside. Inside the trailer, nurses receive training in critical care procedures used in such things as pediatric trauma cases, neonatal opiate addicted babies, and cardiac emergency care. The simulated patients that they work on are not just plastic dummies,
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baby has a mother and father and brother and sister as well. The mother simulates pregnancy and can give birth. The truck houses a standard operating room where nurses, certified nurse assistants and emergency medical technicians get valuable hands on experience handling traumatic situations. The operating room is wired with cameras and the practice sessions are recorded and watched live from an adjoining room. Afterwards the recordings are reviewed and analyzed by the whole team. According to Brodie Verworn from Best Practices who manages the training, the Montana Mobile Simulation Lab and Cardiac Simulators was designed and equipped with a grant from the Centers for Disease Control that is administered through the state and its visits to Montana’s hospitals are also grant funded. The visit to Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital was made possible with assistance from St. Patrick’s Cardiology Nurse Leaders and Community Medical Center’s nursing grant. Jen Bush, Critical Care Director at Marcus Daly, said that it is only through this kind of cooperation and connection that hospitals in the state have this kind of opportunity. She said the mobile lab was a very important training asset because it gives the nurses hands-on training which activates their motor memory in ways that ordinary classroom training cannot.
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PSC’s release errors corrected, NWE rate hike explained By Roger Koopman, PSC Commissioner On October 30th, the Public Service Commission held its muchanticipated work session to accept or reject NorthWestern Energy’s $6.5 million electric rate increase request. This was the primary focus of a general rate case 9 years in the making. Commissioners were presented with a settlement hammered out between the utility, the Montana Consumer Counsel and several intervenors. With the option of only approving or denying -- not amending -- the agreement, the commission voted unanimously to authorize the retail rate hike. While it appeared that no media release on this important news was planned by the PSC, at this commissioner’s prompting, PSC Communications Director Drew Zinecker did send out a release of sorts, albeit two days late, on the afternoon of November 1. The document was apparently the collaborative work of Zinecker and Chairman Johnson, who was the only commissioner quoted. The quote I submitted was not used, and my request to see the finished product before it went out (a standard protocol involving all commissioners) was not honored. More importantly, the established process of including regulatory and legal staff in the release preparation to assure accuracy and completeness, was not followed. As a consequence, what was sent to the media in the form of chairman quotes was factually and fundamentally false. It saddens me to say that, but there is no other way of putting it. As a state agency, we cannot – whether through carelessness, ignorance or intent – be putting out false information to the news media. Any such misinformation must be immediately corrected. Unfortunately, my requests that a corrective release be issued have fallen on deaf ears. Therefore, I am sending this release, representing myself only, to replace fiction with fact and provide an accurate record of the news events of October 30: what happened, and what didn’t. I will be relatively brief, but I will be happy to provide more detailed information on request, or connect you with a staff person best suited to that task. First, what did NOT happen. Contrary to the Zinecker/Johnson release, the commission DID NOT defer a decision on the proposed NWE retail electric rate increase until the day after Christmas! We made the decision to authorize the $6.5 million increase on October 30, by a unanimous vote of 5-0. Long before that meeting, the commission had already decided to split the various rate case matters into two dedicated work sessions, with a final Order combining the decisions from both meetings being written sometime before the 12/26 deadline. The second work session is currently scheduled for November 25 at 1:30 p.m. So to represent that the primary purpose of the 10/30 session was to postpone our decision on NWE’s future retail rates and rate design (also involving revenue requirement allocations, approved rates of return, returns on equity, capital structure and a host of other regulatory rate decisions) is simply wrong. Our approval of the settlement (Stipulation) put before us is official approval of all those elements supporting the stated increase. The fact that the written Order will not be completely written until December is irrelevant. The news on the 30th was that the settlement-adjusted increase was voted on and approved. I can only apologize
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for those at the PSC who collaborated, apparently in secret, to put out a false story that hid from view, the important consumer-related actions of that day. I cannot explain why it happened, nor why it was never corrected. In related actions that day, the commission passed a 10-cent increase in the monthly residential service charge, from $4.10 to $4.20, and passed the E+Green settlement, which resulted in no increase to consumers. Our rate increase action (noticed on our commission agenda as “NorthWestern Energy Application to Increase Retail Electric Utility Service Rates�) was handled by Chairman Johnson in a most unusual and unprecedented manner. Although staff and commissioners had devoted hundreds and hundreds of hours to the discovery, hearing and post-hearing process of the largest single case before us this year, Johnson did not allow ANY discussion or deliberation from commissioners on the various and complex issues addressed in the settlement before us. Instead, he called for a motion and an immediate vote. I considered this to be a very serious breach of commission duty and responsibility in this matter, but the other commissioners expressed no concern, so the vote stood. In a state of nearshock, I cast a “reluctant yes�, and strongly considered abstaining, in the absence of ANY commission discussion or debate. Post-vote, I expressed my concerns about certain sections of the settlement, including the dramatically higher consumer rates emanating from NorthWestern’s separate regulatory rate treatment for Colstrip Unit 4, and the seemingly unfair rates of certain rate classes which resulted in the subsidization of other rate classes that weren’t paying a rate sufficient to cover their own cost of service. The unused text and quote I provided to our Communications Director follows: No debate was permitted before the vote, but afterwards commissioner Koopman (R-Bozeman ) made clear that approving the overall Stipulation did not mean the commission necessarily supported every specific aspect embedded into the settlement. “I have personal concerns, for example, over rate design, where some rate classes may be subsidizing others, rather than each class paying their true cost of service. I also continue to believe that there were legitimate questions raised by intervenors over possible unfair charges to ratepayers in connection to Colstrip Unit 4. I believe these and other questions should be noted in our final Order.� The $6.5 million increase is dramatically down from the $34.9 million increase proposed by NorthWestern in their original PSC filing. Since the last rate case in 2010, total generation revenue requirements have dropped significantly, but the utility’s transmission and distribution costs have increased even more. Residential customers can expect a 1.68% increase in their volumetric charges as a result of the commission’s action Still to come in the NWE rate case are a number of challenging and contentious issues, including a Stipulation on NorthWestern’s DemandSide Management (DSM) energy conservation program, and pending decisions on rooftop solar net metering charges and credits. NWE is proposing that a monthly “demand charge� be assessed on all new net metered customers, an idea that has met with vigorous opposition.
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ing), please consider supporting Initiative 187, a less costly and clean alternative. I-187 offers a practical means for Montana to transition from dirty to clean reliable energy by encouraging renewable electricity development, helping fossil fuel workers displaced by the transition to clean electricity, and maintaining energy tax revenue. And with the passage of I-187
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Dear Editor, So if you want to throw out more of your hard earned money on additional taxes for a Community College, go for it. We are already taxed for a state levy on universities now. Pouring more money into our local community college isn’t making our kids any smarter and your taxes aren’t
going down. How about looking at an education in the trades. Larry Johnson Hamilton
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Dear Editor, I want to take this opportunity to thank ALL of the fire departments who responded to my barn fire on Oct. 15th. What an amazing group of people you are! May God bless and protect all of you. A special thanks to my wonderful church family at Galilee Baptist Church. You all are such a blessing to me. I appreciate the hard, dirty work of cleaning up and the many prayers, acts of love, kindness and support you all have shown to me. Thank you. And thanks to all the wonderful neighbors and friends who
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Dear Editor, Though a “news junkie� I’ve grown deeply weary of the unrelenting impeachment coverage, and so was grateful to escape for a recent vacation to the Emerald Isle of Ireland. I’m a typical all-American mix of ethnicities, but primarily Irish, and like many Montanans I’m proud to be Irish. In Ireland there was coverage of the US impeachment, but Brexit news dominated, followed by the riots in Spanish Catalonia, and the tragedy of the British boy killed by a car driven by an American diplomat’s wife, which I expect were barely covered here. The roadblock to Britain leaving the European Union is how to deal with the currently open border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. Britain’s exit (Brexit) will complicate trade on the border crossings between Ireland proper and “the Narth� and has therefore been opposed by all of Ireland. Further stigmatizing the issue is the still smoldering antipathy toward the British dating back to the “Potato Famine� of the 1840s. The British Empire may have been a civilizing influence in the world, but it has a sad legacy of brutal cruelty to its Irish cousins. The British landlords purposely starved the Irish off the land when plenty of food was available in England. A story well remembered in Ireland is that the desperately poor Choctaw Nation of American Indians sent a shipload of urgently needed food to the Irish at the height of the famine. I saw the striking monument “Kindred Spirits� (nine feathers shaped into a bowl) in Midleton, Cork, expressing deep gratitude for the Choctaw’s lifesaving humanitarian effort to stop the starving. Pausing for lunch at a
village pub near the ruins of a 1200-year-old monastery we inquired about the mostly intact imposing tower dominating the other ruins of stone buildings. The only entrance into the tower was a small opening perhaps 30-feet up its side. Our vivacious, redhaired waitress sat down at our table and proudly told us the story. The tower, accessible only by a rope ladder, provided protection from blood-thirsty pagan Vikings who attacked monasteries in part because the monks seldom offered any resistance. I commented that there are many Scandinavian descendants of the Vikings in my state of Montana. Her teasing response was, “Well, a carse there are millions of people in the warld, and too bad you parsonly know the bad apples.� I asked about a family name, Mulligan, that might still be in that area, and she said it was. Alas, the Vaughans on my wife’s side were on our travel plan, and we only had time to locate their cemetery before continuing via Tipperary and Limerick to Ennis in County Clare and a delightful stay at the home of our friend Roisin O’Laughlin. We stood on the towering Cliffs of Moher, passed the lonely site of the wreck of the Spanish Armada and walked the nearby Flaggy Shore on Galway Bay immortalized by the poet Seamus Heaney in his poem “Postscript.� The countryside of much of western Ireland has had to be cleared for farming, not of timber, but of a carpet of stones which now make up a breathtaking labyrinth of stone fences extending endlessly over the deep green fields accented by bucolic bands of sheep and cattle, and the silent ruins of ancient stone castles and cottages. Returning to Dublin, we were never far from meandering silver brooks coursing through shallow glens extending into the horizon. I’ve been to fascinating places, and beheld inspiring sights in my lengthening life, but deep within my heart and soul will always be Ireland. Bob Brown Whitefish
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Hamilton Senior Center activities
Monday: Lunch 11:45 a.m.12:30 p.m., Toenail Care by appt. 1st & last week; Bingo 1st & 3rd week, 5:30-9 p.m. Tuesday: Toastmasters 6:30-8 a.m.; Western Line Dancing 10-11 a.m.; Clogging 1-4 p.m. Wednesday: Lunch 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Bridge for Fun, 10 a.m.; Bridge 1-5 p.m. Thursday: Stretch Exercise 9-10 a.m. Friday: Line dancing 10-11:30 a.m.; Lunch 11:45 a.m.12:30 p.m.; Pinochle 1st, 3rd & 5th weeks, 1 p.m. Saturday: Flea market, 2nd week, Sept-May 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; Special Bingo 1st week, Oct-May, 12 noon; Sunday: Bridge 1-5 p.m. For info: 363-5181.
Stevi Senior Center activities
Monday-Friday: Free coffee, 8-11 a.m., Lunch, 11:30 a.m. Monday: Bridge, 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday: Exercise class, 10-11 a.m. Tuesday: Quilters, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Wednesday: Paint with Sue, 1-3 p.m. (1:30 on 3rd Wednesday) Every Other Wednesday: Fiddlers at Lunch 3rd Wednesday: Special Birthday Lunch, 12 noon, with music. Blood pressures taken. 2nd and 4th Thursday: Cribbage at 12:15 pm Friday: Pinochle, 12:15; Monday & Saturday, 7 p.m. For more information call the Center at 777-5681.
Victor Senior Center activities
Monday-Friday - Men’s Coffee, 8 a.m. Monday-Friday - Lunch, 11:30 a.m. Includes main course, salad bar, dessert, beverage. Donation 60 and over $3.50, under 60 $6 (RSVP 642-3320) Tuesdays: Bingo, 6 p.m. Wednesdays: Pinochle with snacks, 7 p.m. Fridays - Ladies’ Coffee, 10 a.m. Everyone welcome. Victor Senior Center is located at 246 5th Avenue.
Florence senior lunches
Lunch is available through the Council on Aging for senior citizens and others in the Florence area on Mondays at the Florence Fire Hall. Serving begins at 11:30 a.m. Prices are: 60 and over $3.50, under 60 - $6.00. For more information, call the Council on Aging at 363-5690.
Lolo senior lunches
Lolo senior lunch group (60+) meets Thursday at 11 a.m. at local restaurants for food, friendship and fun. There is a $4 voluntary contribution but no one is turned away. Congregate lunches through MAS and CBS. Call 9262135 to schedule your lunch.
Golden Agers
The Golden Age Club is located at 727 S. 5th in Hamilton. The club’s business meeting is held on the first Wednesday of every month at 1 p.m. All members are asked to attend to review activities and plan new ones. Cake and ice cream is served. Card games (pinochle, multibid racehorse) are played on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday and 1st and 3rd Monday of the month at 1 p.m. There is a $2 charge per person. Exercise classes are held every Monday, Wednesday and
Friday at 9 a.m. Blood pressure is checked every third Wednesday of the month at 9 a.m. Guests are welcome. The hall is also available for members to use for personal activities. A monetary donation to cover hall expenses is expected. For more information call 363-0142.
AA meetings
Alcoholics Anonymous meets at the following times and places: Monday: 7 p.m., Spirit of Christ Catholic Church, 5475 Farm Land Road, Lolo Tuesday: 7 p.m., St. Mary’s Parish basement, 333 Charlo Street, Stevensville Wednesday: Big Book Study Meeting, 7 p.m., St. Joseph Mission, 224 Linder Street, Florence Thursday: 7 p.m., St. Mary’s Parish basement, 333 Charlo Street, Stevensville Friday: Discussion Meeting, 7:30 p.m., St. Joseph Mission, 224 Linder Street, Florence 3rd Saturday: Women’s Group, 9:30 a.m., St. Joseph Catholic Church, 224 Linder Street, Florence Sunday: Big Book Study Meeting, 5:30 p.m., Victor Senior Center, 243 5th Ave. Check for local meetings by calling the hotline 1-888-607-2000 or by visiting www.aa-montana. org.
Al-Anon
Stevensville Al-Anon Group meets each Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the small dining room at the Living Centre, 57 Main Street. Anyone who is affected by the compulsive drinking of a relative or friend is invited. For more information call 239-0878.
Narcotics Anon
Narcotics Anonymous meets every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at St. Francis Parish Center, 411 S. 5th, Hamilton (north entrance).
Free Indeed
Free Indeed, a faith-based addiction support group, meets every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church, 230 3rd Avenue in Victor. Contact Donald Layman at 203-8579 or Pastor Jim Landis at 642-9849.
Gamblers Anon
Gamblers Anonymous meets Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. at St. Francis Catholic Church, 411 S. 5th Street in Hamilton.
Overeaters Anon
Overeaters Anonymous meets every Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Presbyterian Church (west door), 1220 W. Main, Hamilton. For more information call 3632512.
Morning TOPS
Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS), a weight loss support group, meets in Stevensville every Thursday at the Community Baptist Church, 409 Buck Street. Weigh-in starts at 8 a.m. and meetings start at 9:30 a.m. Meetings are fun while learning to eat healthier and lose some pounds. Guests are always welcome. Call Becky at 642-6368 or Margie at 375-5439 for more information. Check out the website at www. tops.org.
Evening TOPS
The evening TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter meets every Thursday at 4 p.m. at the Kootenai Creek Village Clubhouse. For information call Judy Burke at 777-2743.
Exercise classes
The following sessions, all by donation, are held at St. Francis
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Pastoral Center, 411 S. 5th: Mondays: Zumba Gold & Chair Zumba, 12:15 p.m. Tuesdays: Chair Yoga, 10:45 a.m. Wednesdays: Zumba Gold, 1st, 3rd, 4th Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m. Thursdays: Tai Chi, 4 p.m. Fridays: Tai Chi, 1 p.m. Indoor Walking: Mon-Thurs 9 a.m.-3 p.m., and Fridays 9 a.m.12 noon. Please log in, 16 laps is a mile!
WIC clinics
Ravalli County WIC is a nutrition education program that serves pregnant, post-partum, and breastfeeding women, children from birth to age 5 and women whose pregnancies have ended early. WIC also welcomes dads, grandparents, and foster families. The WIC program is offered In Hamilton Monday through Thursday 8:30-4:30 at 205 Bedford Street, Suite P, District Courthouse Building in Hamilton. The Stevensville clinic is open on Wednesdays at the United Methodist Church, 216 College Street in Stevensville. The Victor Clinic is the second Tuesday of the month at the Victor Nazarene Church. The Darby clinic is open every month on the third Monday of the month at the Darby Library. Income guidelines are 1-$23,107; 2- $31,284; 3-$39,461; 4-$47,638; 5-$55,815. For each additional family member add $8,177. Call 406-802-7180 for more information or see on Facebook; www. facebook.com/Ravalli-CountyWIC.
Soroptomist
Soroptomist International of Hamilton invites you to join them at their meetings the first and second Thursday of every month, at noon, at BJ’s Restaurant in Hamilton. Soroptomist is an organization dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls. For more information, contact Dixie Dies at 961-4812.
Lions Club
The Hamilton Lions Club welcomes you to attend its meetings the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month at 12 noon at BJ’s Restaurant in Hamilton. The club strength – besides being low key and getting a lot done – is helping provide assistance for glasses and hearing aids in Ravalli County. Contact Dixie Dies, 406-3810922, for more information.
BPL storytime
It’s never too early to introduce your baby or toddler to the wonderful world of books and reading. Together you will discover the joy of songs, finger plays, simple books and bouncing rhymes. The toddler storytime for babies through age 2 meets every Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. in the downstairs meeting room of the Bitterroot Public Library. Toddler storytime lasts approximately 45 minutes. For more information, call 363-1670.
DCPL storytime
Learning to read begins before children start school. Your public library promotes early literacy and social development with weekly programming for children. The Darby Community Public Library offers a weekly Children’s Story Time every Tuesday at 11 a.m. for all children under five years old with a caregiver. Come talk, sing, read, write, and play at your library, 101-1/2 S. Marshall St. Call 821-4771 or email: staff@ darbylibrary.net for information.
NVPL storytime
Story Time is an enriching early learning program for toddlers and preschoolers that takes
place on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. in the North Valley Public Library’s Community Room. Each week has a different theme, and children can listen to entertaining stories, participate in fun songs and learning activities, and create a cool craft! Each Story Time includes a healthy snack and some time to play with new friends. Older and younger siblings are always welcome. North Valley Public Library is located at 208 Main Street, Stevensville. For more information, call 406-7775061 or visit northvalleylibrary. org. All library programs are free and open to the public.
Sapphire Quilters The Sapphire Quilt Club meets monthly on the second Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Stevensville Senior Center, 100 Mission Street. Join this fun group of people to learn about quilting. Beginner to expert quilters welcome. For more information call Anna Arntz at 707-481-3233.
Fiber Arts Guild
Big Sky Fiber Arts Guild meets the last Saturday of every month. If you are a wool spinner or work with fibers, contact Marty at 777-2421 for location or information or visit http://bigskyfiberartsguild.org.
Knitters Guild
The Knotty Knitters Guild of the Bitterroot meets every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m. at the Yarn Center, 110 Pinckney Street, Hamilton. This knitters guild is friendly, fun, and includes knitters of all levels, from beginners to master knitters. All are welcome.
Doll Club
The Bitterroot Blizzard Doll Club meets monthly, usually the second Thursday of the month, to share a passion for dolls, bears, toys, miniatures and paper dolls. Members rotate hosting the meeting so call or email for the time and location of the next meeting. Contact Kay Schrader, 406-3607214, schrader1501@blackfoot. net.
Model train club
The Bitterroot Valley Model Railroaders (BVMRR) run their trains in the basement of the Kohl Building, downtown Stevensville, on the First Friday of each month from 5 to 7 p.m., or by special request. The BVMRR Club will be running trains every Saturday over the holidays from Nov. 30-Dec. 21 from 1 to 4 p.m. If interested in joining the club, contact Tony Oberting at 273-0006.
Amateur Radio Club
The Bitterroot Amateur Radio Club meets on the third Monday of every month at BJ’s Restaurant in Hamilton starting at 7 p.m. Come early and enjoy a meal and fellowship.
Draft Horse and Mule Club
The Bitterroot Draft Horse and Mule Club meets every second Monday of every other month at 7 p.m. at Community Baptist Church, 409 Buck Street, Stevensville. Members drive everything from mini, to mule, to draft horse. Haven’t driven but would like to learn? This is the club for you! Don’t have a horse but would like to get involved? There is always welcome help and there is always a spot on a wagon somewhere. Members do rides as well and have events scheduled throughout the year. For more information call Claudia at 406642-3477.
Three Mile bingo
Bingo is held every first and third Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Three Mile Community/Senior Center, 1064 Three Mile Creek Road. Proceeds go to build a new center. For information call 7773710.
Toastmasters Club
Effectively formulate and express your ideas! Bitterroot Toastmasters Club (BTC) meets Tuesdays from 6:45 to 7:45 a.m. at the Hamilton Senior Center, 820 N. 4th Street, to support personal development and empower communication and leadership skills. The words we speak convey a great deal! Do you mean what you say when you communicate during a job interview or with your boss, coworkers, and family? Wouldn’t you like to feel more confident, credible, and concise in your speaking presentation? Bitterroot Toastmasters can help! BCT members are given opportunities to wear different hats and fulfill many roles. Visit the website at bitterroot.toastmastersclubs.org or call Mike Turner at 406-360-7262 or Jeanine New at 303-929-2430 for more information.
County recycling
The Ravalli County Recycling drop-off site, 759 US Hwy 93 (across from Don’s Home Center) is open on Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 12 noon, and Mondays, 2 to 5 p.m. Final drop day will be Monday, December 30, after which all services will stop. Thank you, recyclers, for 10 years of recycling at RCR. Call Janice Lee at 360-9895 to volunteer or for more information.
Clothes Closet
The Stevensville Clothes Closet is a non-profit, free store that serves the people of the Bitterroot Valley by accepting donations of children and adult clothing, shoes, linens, small appliances and kitchenware. They then sort, wash and offer the goods free to the community. The Clothes Closet is located at Middle Burnt Fork and ALC way. It is open for shopping and for donations Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays from 1 to 4 p.m. The Clothes Closet is especially in need of blankets, sheets and comforters. For questions about donations or directions call Gail Fisher at 369-0394 or Molly Hackett at 961-4614.
Family Shelter
The Family Shelter of the Bitterroot meets on the third Friday of each month at 2 p.m. at Canyon View Church, 195 Skalkaho Road. Everyone is welcome.
Men’s Bereavement Breakfast
Marcus Daly Hospice sponsors a Men’s Bereavement Support Breakfast on the second and fourth Friday of each month at 9 a.m. in the Marcus Daly Hospice Dining Room. This breakfast creates a special opportunity for men coping with the death of a spouse or loved one to gather and share their journey of healing. Informal discussions are led by a trained Bereavement Facilitator and address such issues as dealing with grief, loneliness, forming new relationships, single parenting. A donation of $3.00 is appreciated for the meal. For more information call Marcus Daly Bereavement Coordinator at 363-6503.
Breast cancer support group
The Bitterroot Valley breast cancer support group meets the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at Daly Leach Memorial Community Room, 1010 W. Main, Hamilton. All are welcome. For information contact Judy Rothie, (406) 564-8613.
Pregnant/new mom groups
Postpartum Support Circle and Baby Bistro (breastfeeding support) meet on the second Thursday of each month and a Prenatal Support Circle meets on the fourth Thursday of the month. All meetings are held at 109 N. 4th St. Suite 104 in Hamilton from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. For more information, call Sheehan at 6426527 or email bitterrootbreastfeeding@gmail.com.
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ST. STEPHENS EPISCOPAL CHURCH 203 Main MainSt. • Stevensville 203 Stevensville• •777-0028 360-2661
Sunday Worship AM Worship at 12:0011p.m. In this Church there shall In this Church there shall be no no outcasts. be outcasts.
MomLife
Bitterroot MomLife is a gathering of moms with kids of all ages, meeting twice a month September-May on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 9:30-11:30 a.m. at Lone Rock Bible Church, 1142 Three Mile Creek Road, Stevensville. Come join in for “grown-up” conversation, brunch, activities, crafts, speakers, Go Deeper discussions and free childcare. For more info call the church office, 777-2592.
Dementia Caregiver Group
Are you a caregiver of someone with Alzheimer’s disease or other type of dementia? You’re invited to join in an informal group on the second Friday each month at 1 p.m. at The Living Center Chapel (second floor), 63 Main, Stevensville to share your concerns and experiences with others in a same or similar situation. If you would like to attend, your loved one is welcome to visit with facility residents with staff supervision during the meeting time. For more information contact Kati Aiken at Ravalli County Council on Aging, 363-5690.
Parkinson’s support group
A Parkinson’s support group meets the third Monday of the month at 1 p.m. at Sapphire Lutheran Homes. All are welcome. Contact Susan, 369-0535, for more information.
Suicide support group
A support group for those who have lost a loved one to suicide meets the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month at 12 noon at Riverfront Mental Health Center, 209 N. 10th, Suite A (blue building), Hamilton. The group is hosted by Ravalli County Suicide Prevention Alliance. For information email: rwetzel@wmmhc.org or phone 375-4095.
NAMI
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) support group for families and friends with a loved one who experience mental challenges, meets the second Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to 12 noon at Cornerstone Church, 280 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton. For more information contact Donna at (406) 381-9884 or Arlene at (406) 239-1708.
Acoustic Music Jam
An acoustic music jam sponsored by the Bitterroot School of Music is held the 4th Tuesday of each month from 6 to 8 p.m. at Rooted Music located at 100 Skeels Street, Suite A in Hamilton. All acoustic instruments are welcome as is anyone who would like to sing or just come and enjoy the music. For info contact Rooted Music at 406-363-5491.
Three Mile Coffee Club Three Mile Coffee Club meets every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. at 1064 Three Mile Creek Road. Everyone is welcome. Good coffee, conversation and get to know your neighbors. All ages welcome. For information call Colleen at 777-3710.
Quantum Group
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people determined to learn about quantum theory. They study relevant material (no equations), discuss it and teach one another this most important field of science. The group meets every other Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at St. Francis Community Center in Hamilton. New members invited and welcomed. Visit the website at www//Quantumgb or e-mail blaise.favara@gmail or call 3630683 for more information.
Bring your drum, rattles, and other instruments and be part of the fun. No drums? No worries! There are instruments to share. Meets at The Center for Spiritual Life, 328 Fairground Road, Hamilton. By donation. For information, contact Jerry at 381-7220 (jelb229@aol. com), Facebook at CSLBitterroot or visit the website: CSLBitterroot.org.
Center for Spiritual Life
Special Saturday Bingo is held every third Saturday of the month at Victor Senior Center. Doors open at 12 noon, play at 1 p.m. $1 per card. $1 admission. Must be 18 to play. Snacks and coffee available. Everyone welcome. Call Glenda at 360-3074 for more information.
Saturday bingo
Center for Spiritual Life holds Sunday Services at 328 Fairgrounds Road, across from Hamilton High School. Come hear inspiring ideas and uplifting music. Meditation begins at 9 a.m., service begins at 9:30 a.m., stay for fellowship in the Social Hall at 10:45 a.m. For further information call Dave Schultz at 381-2355, visit CSLBitterroot.org, or on Facebook: CSLBitterroot.
Course in Miracles Study Group
Join a weekly ongoing and deepening discussions of A Course in Miracles; a journey of spiritual transformation. The class meets Wednesdays from 9:45 a.m. to 12 noon at The Center for Spiritual Life, 328 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton. By donation. More information on Facebook: CSLBitterroot, or at cslbitterroot.org., or call Selma at 381-6480.
Rainbow Refuge
A spiritual support group for people of alternative lifestyles, and for those who love them. Meets every Thursday, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at The Center for Spiritual Life, 328 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton. Contact Jenny or Luanne at 3755237; RainbowRefuge406@gmail. com/
Drum Circle
Join in on the 2nd and 4th Mondays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Socrates Cafe
Socrates Café takes place every other Tuesday evening (May 14) from 7 to 9 p.m. in the meeting room of the Bitterroot Public Library. Join in the philosophical discussions. Bring questions to be selected and discussed at the meeting. You are invited to examine, learn and think with others. Learn how others view the world. Together generate community, understanding and change together. Tea, coffee and cookies are provided.
Laundry Love
Laundry Love Hamilton, a monthly laundry event for homeless and low-income individuals/ families, takes place the 2nd Thursday of each month from 5 to 8 p.m. at Fast & Fluffy, 115 Pine Street, Hamilton. 3 loads per individual/family. Check in with a Laundry Love Hamilton volunteer to sign in and receive your washer card. All laundry detergent, fabric softener and quarters will be supplied by Laundry Love Hamilton. Laundry guests must remain on site. Laundry Love Hamilton is made possible by donations, business sponsorships, fundraisers and volunteers. For more information or to inquire on how your business/organization can help, contact
Laundry Love Hamilton by email: laundrylovehamiltonmt@gmail. com.
For more information, email: kofc6130@gmail.com or call 406-360-4939.
Pickleball
Nativities, cookie jars wanted
The updated play schedule at the Ravalli County Fairgrounds is: November 13, 18, 20, 25, 27 (Mondays and Wednesdays), 12-3 and 6-9 p.m. December 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18, 23 (Mondays and Wednesdays), 12-3 and 6-9 p.m. except December 9 and 11 from 10-4 due to evening soccer.
Sharing Tree donations needed
Stevensville Sharing Tree is now accepting donations of new warm winter clothing. There is a need for winter coats, snow pants, snow boots, hats, gloves, scarves, warm pants, long-sleeved shirts, hoodies, pajamas, underwear and warm socks for children ages 0 to 18, all sized. For tax-deductible monetary donations, make checks payable to Sharing Tree and mail to P.O. Box 747, Stevensville MT 59870. If you would like to volunteer, people are needed to help with picking up gifts from the banks and churches this year. Contact Linda Page at 406-2141839 or Beth Perkins at 406-2075748 for more information or to schedule a pick up or drop off.
Coats 4 Community
Knights of Columbus Council 6130 Hamilton are running a Coats 4 Community Coat Drive now through December 1. Accepting donations of clean, new, or gently used winter coats for men, women, and children of all ages are being accepted at one of these coat drive partners: Murdoch’s - 1189 S. First Street, Hamilton Sears Hometown Store, 1704 N. First Street, Hamilton Coat donations will be delivered for distribution to Salvation Army Hamilton Service Center, 217 N. 3rd Street, Ste. B-2, Hamilton MT 59840.
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Historic St. Mary’s Mission and Museum will host the Nativities Around the World and Cookie Jars Display on December 6, 7 and 8 during the Stevensville Country Christmas. You’re invited to share your Nativities and Cookie Jars in this special Christmas exhibit. Bring them to St. Mary’s Mission at 315 Charlos Street, Stevensville on Dec. 2 or 3 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Call 777-5734 for information.
Ravalli County Economic Development Authority will hold its regular monthly Finance Committee meeting on Wednesday, November 20 from 2:15 to 2:55 p.m., and the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Commissioners on Wednesday, November 20 from 3 to 5 p.m. Both meetings will be held at the RCEDA office, 274 Old Corvallis Road, Hamilton. These meetings are open to the public.
Thurs, November 21 Diabetes health class
Our Savior Lutheran events
The congregation of Our Savior Lutheran Church and Preschool of Stevensville welcomes the community to join in this season of Advent as we prepare to welcome the birth of our Savior. Wednesday Vesper services at 7 p.m. follow a light supper at 6 p.m., from December 4-18. Bring your family to enjoy food, fellowship and worship to make the holidays more meaningful. The Christmas preschool program will be Tuesday, December 17 at 7 p.m. What could be more wonderfully joyful than to hear the message of Jesus’ birth from the mouths of small children? Christmas Eve early service with Divine Sacrament will be December 24 at 4:30 p.m. The Christmas Eve carol service with Sacrament is celebrated at 7:30 p.m. On Christmas Day, the service of readings with Sacrament is celebrated at 10 a.m. All are welcome to celebrate the joyous season at Our Savior, a member of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, located at 184 Pine Hollow Road. Follow the Eastside Highway south, about one mile past Burnt Fork Market. Turn left on Pine Hollow. Cross the track, then the canal and turn left to the church with three crosses in the yard. Call 777-5625 weekdays before noon for more information.
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A free Diabetes Health Class & A1c Screening will be held on Thursday, November 21 at Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital in the Blodgett conference room. MDMH is offering a free A1c screening to 60 attendees, age 18 years or older, on a first come first served basis. There will be diabetic educators on site to answer questions before and after the diabetes health talk delivered from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. by Meredith F. Ross, MD, Providence Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition Group to help you better understand diabetes and selfmanagement. This health class is sponsored by the Lions Club of Hamilton. Working together to build a healthier community. Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital www.mdmh.org/events or call (406) 363-2211.
Back Country Horsemen
Bitter Root Back Country Horsemen host their monthly meeting on Thursday, November 21st, at the Corvallis School Cafeteria on Eastside Highway in Corvallis. The annual Thanksgiving dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. and the general meeting starts at 7 p.m. Elections for the 2020 officers and directors will take place. Members will discuss their December activity, which is helping with the Pantry Partners Christmas food pack on December 17. Members are encouraged to apply for the scholarship to attend Smoke Elser’s packing class spon-
Thank You to the Florence Residents
for supporting our recent raffle It would not have been such a success without you! From Arthur Collins & The American Legion Post 134
Project59870 is a non-profit dedicated to preserving and enhancing the quality of life in our Stevensville community.
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sored by the club which will start after the first of next year. Guests are welcome, and for more information call Gene at 208-310-6326 or check out the website at www. bchmt.org/bitterroot or on Facebook at: Bitter Root Back Country Horsemen (BR BCH).
Fri, November 22 Smart driver course
Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital will host a Smart Driver Course (formerly ’55 Alive) on Friday, November 22, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. This four-hour, safe driving strategies class is designed for drivers age 50 and over; all are welcome. There are no driving or written tests and, Montana mandates insurance discounts for qualified participants, age 55 and older. The class fee is $15.00 for AARP members, $20.00 for nonmembers. Walk-ins are welcome; however, space is limited, preregistration is advised. To sign up contact: Jones-Korman Insurance at 363-6583 or, for further information call Thom Ainsworth, District Coordinator, at 369-0149.
NVPL book sale
North Valley Public Library will hold a 2-Day Book Sale on Friday and Saturday, November 22 and 23 in the community room of the library. The sale is hosted by Friends of the North Valley Public Library. Looking for that perfect holiday gift? A special gem for a special person? All items were donated this year so this is a whole new selection of used books, DVDs and audiobooks to browse. Sale hours are Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 9:30 to 3:30 p.m. North Valley Public Library is located at 208 Main Street, Stevensville. For more information, call 406-777-5061 or visit northvalleylibrary.org.
Sat, November 23 St. Francis holiday bazaar
St. Francis Parish Annual Holiday Bazaar will be held Saturday, November 23 from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. This is a great opportunity to start your Christmas shopping. The activities include the sale of homemade baked goods, handmade crafts and quilts, handknit and crochet items, Christmas decorations, books, new and gently used items, and more. Come and enjoy the holiday festivities with coffee and donuts at 9 a.m. and a luncheon at 11:30 a.m. The event will be held at the St. Francis Pastoral Center, 411 S. 5th Street, Hamilton.
Adventure series
“Pretend Pies” is the theme of the free adventure series for kids on Saturday, November 23 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at the Ravalli County Museum, 205 Bedford, Hamilton. Fill a small paper bowl with dyed cotton balls and top it with a felt piecrust for hours of imaginary play! Add it to the centerpiece of your real Thanksgiving feast as you enjoy
C h e c k o ut o u r Custom Gift Baskets
Saturday, December 7th • 6:00 p.m.
State Liquor Store & More • Mon - Sat 9am - 8pm
Silent & Live Auctions • Raffles • Door Prizes • Ugly Sweater Contest Have fun and support a great cause! A portion of the proceeds will go to the Stevensville Sharing Tree.
THANKSGIVING
at Plum Loco, 201 Main Street, Stevensville
$20 per person
includes buffet and wine Full no-host bar also available.
RSVP or info: Victoria at 777-3928 or 207-8793
or send check to: Project 59870, P.O. Box 8, Stevensville MT 59870
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Liquor • Beer • Craft Beer • Cigars • Mixers Ice • Gifts Ideas • E-Cigs & Flavors 501 S.1st Street Hamilton (406) 363-3751
the authentic desserts on the table. For more information call Lane at 363-3338.
Festival of Wreaths Celebration
Plan to join the Bitter Root Humane Association for a festive evening to ring in the holiday season at the beautifully decorated, historic Daly Mansion. The Festival of Wreaths fundraising event will be held on Saturday, November 23 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Party goers will experience the best of the Bitterroot with our almost famous delicious dinner hors d’oeuvres and decadent desserts buffet, a no-host bar of wine, beer and spirits along with some interesting games of chance and raffles of exclusive gift baskets and a booze wagon. The fun continues with a silent bid auction in the unique gallery of everlasting wreaths created by local artists and businesses and guests can shop for individually priced decorated fresh wreaths, swags and many handmade gift items. These all make the perfect treat for yourself to start the holidays or will surely round out your gift giving list! Get into the holiday spirit and support your community animal shelter! Advance paid reservations are on sale now at $35 each and may be purchased in person at the BRHA Animal Shelter, 262 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton or by calling the shelter at (406) 363-5311. For information call Robin at (406) 381-2912 or Carol at (406) 6423699. The event has been a sell out the last three years, so be sure to reserve early!
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Sun, November 24
Mon, November 25
Accordion club
Stevi school menu
A dance will be held Sunday, November 24 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Rustic Hut in Florence. Admission is $4 members, $5 guests. Everyone welcome.
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Re-Me 7NowUnstore, Inc. Open!! Refinish • Re-imagine Come see Hamilton’s newest antique & “upcycled” store Reinvent • Recycle Unique * Montana Made * Eclectic Gifts Refurbish • Renew • Restore Home Decor *Jewelry & More!
Unique & Organic Body Products & Services 214-6521 Profits from thee store go to th 130 W Main St Ste 3, Hamilton community
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Now collecting food donations at the Bitterroot Star
for the 1st Pantry Partners Memorial Christmas Tree
Give the gift of food this Holiday Season The tree will be on display in the Kohl Building lobby behind Valley Drug starting Nov 24th
St. Nick!
Saturday, Dec 7th 8:30 - 10:30 AM
Non-perishable food items only please
Free Pancake Breakfast Free Photos with Santa
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United Methodist/ American Baptist Church 211 N. 6th • Hamilton
These Bitterroot Businesesses remind you to
SHOP LOCALLY
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This holiday season and all year long! Thank you for helping to keep our local economy strong!
THANKSGIVING DAY BUFFET All You can eat from 11am - 4pm
Turkey, Ham, Yams, Mashed Potatoes, Stuffing, Salad, Pumpkin Pie . . . and More FULL BAR Adults $14.95 • Kids 12 & under $9.95 900 N 1st St. Hamilton • 363-4650
Hutterite Turkeys
can be picked up Nov 25th
Want something different? Try a Beeler’s Ham!
Fresh Local Produce Don’t Forget About Our Seafood 910 N 1st . Hamilton . 363-1626
Visit Visit Victor Victor Promote Victor throughout November! Great Restaurants!
Keeping your Dollars Local - Keeping Our Valley Businesses Strong
Lots of New, Exciting Shops to Explore!
Promote Victor throughout November! Tasting & Silent Auction Lots ofChocolate new, exciting shops toParty explore! December 2nd • 3 - 9pm Great restaruants!
125 S Blake Street, Victor • 642-3997 Let’s show the rest of the valley what Victor has to offer, and promote the Victor Heritage Museum’s Chocolate Tasting event too!
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Ashley Palacio, DPT, from the Hamilton Physical Therapy, at 336 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton will be speaking at the next meeting of the Hamilton Rotary Club, on Monday, November 25 at 12 noon at BJ’s Restaurant, 900 N. 1st Street, Hamilton. Ashley will be discussing Hamilton Physical Therapy, and treatment options. The meeting is open to the public, and visitors are welcome. For further Rotary Club information, call 363-2960.
Tues, November 26 Mon, December 2 Republican Women Chocolate Tasting Ravalli County Republican Women’s Club will hold its monthly meeting and lunch on Tuesday, November 26 at 11:30 a.m. at BJ’s Restaurant in Hamilton. Guest speaker will be Amy James. Installation of 2020 officers will be held.
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The Victor Heritage Museum will hold its 23rd annual Chocolate Tasting Party with Silent Auction on Monday, December 2 from 3 to 8 p.m. at the Museum. Claudia and Carl will be there with Out West Wagons for horse-drawn wagon rides around Victor. There will be homemade chocolates, wassail, and great items for sale in the silent auction. Visit with many of your friends and neighbors, and lots of camaraderie. This is the only fund-raiser held by the Museum each year. Bidding in the silent auction closes at 7:30 p.m. The Museum is located at 125 Blake Street, on the corner of Blake and Main Street. The phone number is 642-3997 or you may call Suzanne at 363-3165 for more information.
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To accommodate our shoppers, this year’s event is being held at the larger and accessible St. Francis Pastoral Community Center, 411 S. 5th Street in Hamilton with plenty of parking available in the rear parking lot. Doors will be open 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday, December 7th. Plan to come early for the best selection since this event has sold out early in the past three years! All proceeds from the sale will be used by BRHA to assist animals in need throughout the coming year. For more information contact Mary at 642-3785 or email at dogmommary@aol.com.
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The 36th annual Stevensville Booster Club Holiday Bazaar will be held Saturday, December 7 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. What a great chance to shop local businesses all in one location as you wrap up your holiday shopping. The event will be held in the Stevensville High School Gym.
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Special Saturday Bingo will be held at Hamilton Senior Center December 7th. Doors open at 12 noon. Bingo starts at 1:00. Paper cards and daubers will be used. $1.00 admission. Must be 18 to play. Free refreshments.
‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’ at St. Paul’s in Hamilton “The Trumpet Shall Sound” is a musical performance scheduled for Sunday, November 24 at 2 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 600 S. 3rd Street, Hamilton. Trumpet player Elliot Oppenheim and pianist Robert Thomas are teaming up to perform a concert to raise funds for the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Hamilton. Oppenheim said he was doing it because he thinks that “spiritual growth in society is very important and it is especially so with our religious institutions of all kinds. This is a very lovely church and they do good things and my desire to do this is to help them grow.” The concert will include performances of “Carnival of Venice” by H. L. Clark, originally written for coronet; “Rhapsody in Blue” by
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Come view the many live nativities presented by different valley churches and then enjoy music by a variety of community and church groups, refreshments and mingling with other community members. The Living Nativities will be held at the Ravalli County Fairgrounds under the grandstand on Saturday, December 7 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Admission is free. Non-perishable food items can be donated to benefit local food banks.
George Gershwin, as arranged for trumpet by Dimitri Dokshitzer; and Handel’s “Let the Bright Seraphim” accompanying soprano singer Autumn May Roming-Harris, who is studying Opera at the University of Montana. As an en core they plan to perform “Summertime” by George Gershwin arranged by Ray Pohlman. The concert will be held at the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on Sunday, November 24 from 2 to 4 p.m. Proceeds will go to the renovation of the Guild House located behind the church. Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for students. Call 360-6152 to reserve tickets.
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Town of Stevensville sponsors children’s coloring contest Every child who has ever attended Downtown Stevensville’s Parade of Lights presented by the Stevensville Civic Club and the Town of Stevensville, wants to know how they can be the one to flip the switch illuminating Main
Street’s holiday lights. There’s only one way: winning the Flipthe-Switch Coloring Contest. Here are a few tips to help you prepare your coloring entry. WHO: Children ages 3 – 12 who
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are mailing your entry, we advise that it’s mailed by Monday, Nov. 25th. One contest entry will win the honor of flipping the switch on Friday, Dec. 6th. WHERE: There are a few places to find the Coloring sheets. Stevensville Town Hall, along with the Bitterroot Star, has hard copies. You can also download copies at www.townofstevensville.com/ community SUBMIT: Return your completed coloring sheet to: Stevensville Town Hall; 206 Buck Street
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continued was “starting at the foundational level, not any particular location.” He said it was important to get to those particulars but the way there was to first describe the “desired future condition that we want and then look at the various ways we can achieve it.” He said, “We will get there eventually. It’s just really important not to get too far ahead with the staff.” He said that because of this, there is some confusion on the part of the staff as well. Todd McKay, Information Officer on the forest, said, “Maybe we should have called it the Bitterroot Front Analysis Area instead of a Project Area.” “There is confusion, but when we ask the questions, we get to hear people’s concerns,” said Anderson. “The process seems confusing, but we are learning a lot. We are getting a lot of good information. It’s a different process.” “We are absorbing all this,” said Anderson, “Everybody’s idea of a healthy forest is a little
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 different. Just from a scientific perspective we have 100 years of research, but it doesn’t always jive with what the public thinks is a healthy stand. But the public is pivotal.” He said the changes that were made in the Gold Butterfly Project concerning Old Growth was a good example of how the process can lead to a good melding of the recommendations based on scientific analysis and what the public wants to see. In response to the notion that the huge project is being driven by timber targets and not health prescriptions, Anderson said that the Regional Office had set some timber targets for different areas of the region, but that those targets were not driving the analysis. “This project has nothing to do with meeting any target,” said Anderson. “It’s trying to look at a landscape that needs treatment for a lot of resources and set up a long term sustainable approach to get there.” “Once you know what you want on the landscape, the desired future condition, then you look at your toolbox for how to get there. Commercial harvest is just one of
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the tools in the box,” he said. He insists that the NEPA process will be followed with the same chance for public comment and involvement on every specific project that is proposed in the area. However, some of the work that Anderson shepherded through on the Tongass has already landed in court. In late 2016, the Forest Service initiated environmental planning for the Prince of Wales Landscape Level Analysis Project (“Project”). The Project is a large landscape-scale NEPA analysis that will result in a decision whether or not to authorize integrated resource management activities on Prince of Wales Island over the next 15 years. A U.S. District Court judge has recently granted a preliminary injunction to halt any implementation of the Twin Mountain Timber Sale authorized in the Prince of Wales Landscape Level Analysis Project Record of Decision. The Forest Service was further enjoined from opening any bids or awarding any contracts for the Twin Mountain Timber Sale until further order of that court. It states in the injunction, “Viewing the project area as a whole, each alternative considered in the EIS described the conditions being targeted for treatments and what conditions cannot be exceeded in the area, or placed limits on the intensity of specific locations in the alternative selected in the [Record of Decision]. The Forest Service has termed this approach ‘conditionbased analysis’.” In the implementation plan accompanying the EIS, the Forest Service clarified that there would be “no need for additional NEPA analysis” under this framework. Instead the Project requires that the Forest Service engage in a predetermined, nine-step implemen-
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“The Tongass is so different than the Bitterroot,” said Anderson. “There is not much similarity. I’m not trying to replicate that process here. It was a conditionedbased process up there. It’s like comparing apples to oranges.” In reference to conditioned-based projects, he said, “One difference with this project is that some of that will be pre-decision and some of that will be in implementation. We are trying to shift some of the workload to the implementation stage.” He said they have a slew of options, from traditional NEPA, to programmatic NEPA to conditionbased NEPA “and we are trying to figure it out.” Asked about the fact that the current Forest Plan describes a desired future condition for the Bitterroot Front that involves returning it to primarily a Ponderosa pine habitat with little understory, Anderson said that is in the current plan, but that the plan is about 30 years old. He said a lot has changed in that time on the ground. There have been lots of fires and areas where no fires have occurred, and the fuel load has gotten extremely high. He said current conditions need to be assessed and they were currently compiling all the maps and other information they need to get an accurate picture of what is on the ground today in the project area. “We are right now just trying to get more input, more often, from the public and be sure that the public is involved in the project from the beginning and throughout the life of it,” said Anderson. “I want the community at large to really own this decision.” Information Officer Todd McKay said, “I hope your article could clear up one confusion. We are not planning on a 150,000-acre clearcut.”
mental review. The EIS identified which areas within the roughly 1.8 million-acre project could potentially be harvested over the project’s 15-year period, but expressly left site-specific determinations for the future.” The Forest Service contended that the EIS does provide specificity required by NEPA because it identifies potential areas of harvest within the project area. It cites Stein v. Barton in which the district court concluded that an EIS need not provide “exact timetables and locations on the ground for planned harvesting activities within each harvest unit.” The EIS in that case, however, “contained comprehensive, detailed quantitative and qualitative descriptions of the logging and roading plans for each harvest unit.” In another case, Wildearth Guardians v. Conner, the 10th Circuit Court found that using a “worst case scenario” where the maximum treatment possible in each area was examined and assuming, if approved, that any lesser applications of treatment would also meet the requirements of NEPA, was alright for an Environmental Assessment, but not an EIS. “An EA is meant to determine whether an action will have a significant impact on the environment, such that an EIS is necessary. In contrast, an EIS must compare the environmental impacts of different alternatives, not just determine whether environmental impacts will occur,” it states in the injunction. Based on the foregoing, the Court found that “plaintiffs have shown that there are at least serious questions going to the merits of its NEPA claim.” Anderson said that he did not want to address the ongoing litigation in Alaska.
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Lady Falcon Sarah Hopcroft makes a dig during the state tournament in Bozeman. Jason Laron photo.
Florence finishes third in state
Champions! Back row: Maddie Lewis, Madeline Gilder, Paige Colaprete, Jenna Jordan, Hannah Hutchinson, Casey Fison, Brooklyn Powell, Katelyn Behner, Coach Laurie Jones, Coach Jessica Lewis, Coach Kelsi Irwin. Front row: Briar Welling, Hannah Martin, Kylie Pease, Isabell Evans. Jason Larson photo.
Blue Devils are champions! Years ago, when Corvallis volleyball coach Laurie (Garber) Jones was playing softball for the Blue Devils, she would do a cartwheel every time she went to center field. After Saturday’s championship volleyball game in Bozeman, you can be sure she was at least cartwheeling across the floor in her mind. The firstyear coach took her team to the State A volleyball tournament and came away with the championship, de-throning Billings Central for the crown. Billings Central won the championship in 2018 and 2017. Corvallis finished fourth last year. The Blue Devils won the state championship in 2013. “We were kind of the underdog,” said Jones. “It’s kind of nice to surprise some people. We knew they (Billings Central) were the favorite but we play better under pressure.” Corvallis went into the tournament with a game plan, the same plan they have used all year. Win each point, don’t look ahead or behind, and play consistently. And they did. Corvallis opened against Havre and did have some first round jitters said Jones. The Blue Devils had the match well in hand until the third game when the Blue Ponies rallied and took the win. “It was first game jitters,” said Jones. “We had more errors and knew we couldn’t have them moving forward. In Game 4, we made the choice to come out and clean it up.” The Blue Devils did just that and came away with the
win. That set up the game against Dawson County. Corvallis made short work of Dawson County, winning in three games with strong play at the net and few errors. The win against Glendive set up the undefeated match against Billings Central. Jones said her team continued to play tough and worked for each point. It was a battle at the net with both teams putting up blocks and making kills. Isabell Evans had 16 kills for Corvallis and two blocks. Corvallis put Billings Central away in the fifth game to take the match and move to the championship. Billings Central had to work
their way back through the losers’ bracket to meet up with Corvallis in the championship. The Blue Devils were focused and continued their point-by-point attack and came away with the win. “To beat Billings Central in three in the championship, to beat a team of that caliber in three sets is just crazy,” said Jones. She went on to say her team was outstanding throughout the tournament. “Evans, Hannah Hutchinson, and Madeline Gilder hit really well while Hannah Martin, our setter, was the glue for the team. Kylie Pease had a couple of blocks and crucial hits. And our libero, Casey Fison, found speed
that surprised me even.” Corvallis def. Havre 25-17, 25-20, 25-27, 25-21 Corvallis: Aces 9 (Briar Welling 2, Casey Fison 2, Madeline Gilder 3), Kills 54 (Gilder 15, Hannah Hutchison 12, Isabel Evans 12), Assists 44 (Hannah Martin 43, Jenna Jordan 1), Blocks 4 (Isabel Evans 2, Hannah Hutchison 1, Madeline Gilder 1), Digs 69 (Hannah Martin 18), Casey Fison 19, Jenna Jordan 11). Havre: Aces 3 (Brown 2, Chvilicek 1) Kills 18 ( Chvilicek 10), Assists 18 (Brown 15), Blocks 5 (Chvilicek 2.5, Brown 2), Digs 80 (Oliver 24, Brown 22, Wilting 11)
A tough first game match against Shelby had Florence scrambling the rest of the Class B tournament in Bozeman last weekend. After losing the first set, the Lady Falcons rallied back to win the next two games. But they couldn’t get past the Wolves and fell in the final two games. Shelby def. Florence 26-24, 14-25, 23-25, 25-17, 15-20 Florence: Kills 50 (Sarah Hopcroft 18, Emma Stensrud 11), Assists 38, Halle Christopherson 25, Blocks 5, Emma Stensrud 2, Jaidyn Larson 2, Digs 79 (Kolbi Wood 20), Aces 10, Halle Christopherson 5. Shelby: Aces 13 (Bailey Johnson 3, Brielle Aklestad 3), Kills 47, Maddison Underall 19, Bailey Johnson 13, Blocks 4 (Madison Underall 3, Brook Wiley 1), Digs 83 (Brook Wiley 15, Bailey Johnson 14). After losing to Shelby on Thursday, Florence had to work their way back through the loser’s
bracket on Friday. Florence rallied in their next game and defeated Glasgow in three games. They then took on Townsend and defeated them in four games. Strong play by Sarah Hopcroft and Emma Stensrud kept their hopes alive. Florence played Choteau in their final game on Friday. They had begun play at 10am and finished about 9pm, but they had the win and a chance to play on Saturday. Florence topped Choteau and was assured of at least third place. The Southern B Conference is one of the toughest conference around. Huntley Project and Joliet are the two teams that make this such a tough conference. The two teams met Friday night in the undefeated game and again, Huntley came away the winner. That set Florence up to play Joliet in the third place match. Florence was unable to find a key to stop Joliet and lost the match. Huntley See FLORENCE, page B3
Bronc hopes dashed by Miles City
The Hamilton Broncs traveled to Miles City for a semi final match up against the Cowboys. Last year, Hamilton defeated Miles City in the inaugural game of the new Bronc Stadium. This year, Miles City was looking for revenge. And they found it. Miles City topped the Broncs, 28-14. Carson Rostad found his brother, Tyson, for a 24 yard scoring pass in the third quarter. Carson also had a two-yard scoring run in the fourth quarter.
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Corvallis def. Glendive 25-20, 21-25, 25-18, 25-14 Corvallis: Aces 8 (Kylie Pease 3, Casey Fison 2, Hannah Martin 2), Kills 49 (Makeline Gilder 18, Hannah Hutchison 12, Kylie Pease 7), Assists 38 (Hannah Martin 33, Casey Fison 4, Jenna Jordan 10), Blocks 7 (Isabel Evans 5, Kylie Pease 2), Digs 61 (Hannah Martin 15, Casey Fison 14, Madeline Gilder 12). Glendive: Aces 6 (Carney 2, Brown 2), Kills 37 (Torres 12, Murphy 12), Assists 37 (Brown 22, Murphy 15), Blocks 6 (Murphy 5, Wahl 1), Digs 91 (Torres 23, Clapp 18). Corvallis def. Billings Central 25-20, 25-16, 14-25, 23-25, 15-9 Billings Central: Kills 46: (Olivia Moten-Schell 21). Assists 39 (Maria Stewart 35). Aces 11 (Moten-Schell 3, Kristina Schafer
3). Digs 82 (Stewart 22, Grace Zeier 18, Moten-Schell 16). Blocks 10 (Cindy Gray 4) Corvallis: Kills 53 (Evans 16). Assists 41 (Martin 40). Aces 12 three with 3). Digs 63 (Fison 13, Hutchinson 13). Blocks 5 (Evans 2, Pease 2) Championship Corvallis def Billings Central 25-18, 25-21, 25-21 Corvallis: Aces 4 (Fison, Hutchison, Martin, Pease), Kills 31 (Gilder 10, Hutchison 7, Evans 7), Assists 25 ( Martin 20, Gilder 2, Fison 2), Blocks 9 (Evans 5, Hutchison 3, Jordan 1), Digs 44 (Fison 10, Hutchison 8, Martin 8, Gilder 8). Billings Central: Aces 6 (Zier 3, Schafer, Moten-Schell), Kills 28 (Moten-Schell 10), Assists 21 (Stewart 20), Blocks 3 (Whitney 2), Digs 53 (Zeier 2)
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Obituaries Lucas Gene Sampson On Wednesday, November 13, 2019 the world lost a bright light. Lucas Gene Sampson passed away unexpectedly at Marcus Daly Hospital. Lucas was such an amazing loving 23 month old. He is now playing with his Grandma Kathy, who never got to meet him. Lucas was born December 17, 2017 at Community Hospital. He and his twin brother Kaiden were born at 32 weeks. Lucas started the journey with many challenges, and spent the first 69 days of his life in the NICU. He went through a right arm amputation due to amniotic band syndrome, a G-tube placement, and several other medical procedures and hurdles. Through all his challenges he didn’t let them slow him down. His smile and outgoing personality were so contagious and touched everyone around him. Lucas had so many little girlfriends, he was quite the ladies’ man, as he loved blowing kisses, and would smile at them with his radiance. His little life touched the whole community in so many ways; everyone watched him grow up. He will fondly be remembered as the smiling little chatterbox, that lived every day to its fullest. Who loved Peppa Pig, Bubble Guppies, and most of all, Oreo cookies. As he started talking he was known for having his own little language. We sometimes didn’t know what he was saying, but he was so sure of what he was saying. His fight and persever-
Lawrence L. ‘Larry’ Shaw
Health Club in Missoula. Larry also enjoyed square dancing in Montana. Larry wasWednesday, very involved Novembe with the University Congregational Church of Missoula. He was an active choir member and helped with the homeless shelter. Music was important to Larry during his didn’t even and havehetime battle“Iwith cancer, continto pull my camera out and take a ued to sing with the choir through picture,” he said, as the helicopter October, 2019. buzzed off into the distance. Larry is survived by three BRWF Executive Director children, Jeff Shaw, Leslie Carter, Heather Barber said that she was and Natalie Groeger, extremely pleased withand the his comformer wife, Linda Shaw. munity support they got forThese the four family members took turns project. providing full that timea care during his She said substantial 8 months of hospice care. amount of the money raisedLarry came was also blessed withFoundafive grandfrom the Rapp Family tion and would be used to pay children: Sydney and Maddie Shaw, James Carter, and Mason and Alexa Groeger. Larry is also survived by his brother and sister in-law, Stan and Helen Shaw. Larry’s family would like to extend a heartfelt thank you for the wonderful care and support from the Marcus Daly Hospice including Ed, Jenny, Diana, Robin, Michelle, Laura and Connie. We also deeply appreciate the care provided by the Missoula Community Cancer Center. A memorial service is planned for Saturday, November for trash 30th at 2 p.m. at the University organiza Congregational Church, 405 Uni- River Cl is highly versity Avenue, Missoula, Monto contin tana 59801. A reception will be year. Ba held afterwards at the church.
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ance made him a hero in me and his daddy’s eyes. He is gone from this physical world, but will be in everyone’s hearts forever. He is preceded in death by his Grandma Kathy, Great Grandmothers Ruth Catt, and Joyce Lemon, Great Grandfather Carl Catt, Cousin Joe Gasvoda, and Luke Matthews, the very good friend he was named after. He is survived by his mother and father Becka and Neil Sampson of Hamilton, twin brother Kaiden, Grandpa Leon of Hamilton, Grandmother Mary of Corvallis, Aunts and Uncles Deb, Lore, Amanda, Scott and David of
Hamilton and Polson, Montana, Uncle James of Wisconsin, and Uncle Michael of Wyoming, and numerous family and friends and a whole community who loved him. A Celebration of Lucas’s Life will be held on Friday, November 22, 2019 at 2 p.m. at Daly Leach Chapel. We will be having food, Oreo cookies, milk and juice to say our final goodbyes to our light that shined on the whole community. Brothers Mortuary and Crematory is honored to care for the family. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family at www.brothersmortuary.com.
John Howard Kirkpatrick Stevensville – Sunday, November 10th was a most amazing day for John Howard Kirkpatrick and a bittersweet day for his family here on Earth. He returned to glory with a crowd of relatives and friends welcoming him to Heaven as he was enfolded into the loving arms of his Savior. Howard was born on December 30, 1929 in Arborfield, Saskatchewan, the second child born to John Gordon Kirkpatrick and Thelma Ethel Piper that year. He grew up in Eastern Washington and graduated from Walla Walla High School where he met Bonnie June Lamb as she dripped glue into his ear in Science class. Immediately he knew they would be stuck together forever. And they were. He was drafted into the US Army and served in the Korean conflict. Upon return, he and Bonnie married and moved to Seattle. They bought a house just outside of the city limits in Shore-
Lawrence L. (Larry) Shaw passed away at the age of 80 on November 9, 2019, at home in Stevensville, Montana after a two and a half year battle with lung cancer. He was born on March 29, 1939, in Rupert, Idaho to Carl and Ruth Yates Shaw. Larry’s early years were By Michael Howell spent in Rupert, Denver, Grand Coulee, Washington, and Silver After an intense fund raising Spring, Maryland. His brother campaign the Bitter Root Water Stan wassuccessfully born in Grand Coulee Forum raised enough when Larry was 6 years old. Larry money to pull a well-known, but graduated school dangerous,from old high car body outin of the Potsdam, York 1957, and BitterrootNew River. Theinstory goes the University of Michigan in that it was first dumped in the 1961 a degree music. riverwith up around NezinPerce Creek, but eventually downcareer as far He beganwashed his teaching the Jobs Corps sites. inasJefferson Countyaccess Schools in Katie Vennie, project coorColorado. After retiring he moved to Scottsdale, Arizona. He later moved to Montana, residing in Missoula, and then Stevensville. Larry’s life revolved around education, music, hiking, swimming, square dancing, church, and family. Larry taught school in Colorado for 33 years. He taught instrumental music in elementary and middle schools. He conducted numerous school concerts. Later he began teaching social studies in middle school. Music was an important part of Larry’s life. At the University of Michigan, he played with the marching band. Larry returned to Ann Arbor for his 50th reunion and performed with the Michi-
line and raised their family there, spending much time teaching their kids values, how to work hard, have fun and to love their Savior. This last April he moved to Stevensville to live with his daughter and son-in-law. From an early age, Howard was a hard worker, always industrious, earning his own way. He delivered the Walla Walla Union Bulletin for a first job. Other jobs included working at Sand
Point Golf Course, Ivan W. Lee, running a popsicle business for neighborhood kids and starting and managing Aurora Lawnmower near Green Lake for 60+ years. He was the first Vespa dealer on the West coast. He volunteered many hours to his community as a Cub Scout leader, PTA president and served on the Juvenile Court Conference Committee for 27 years. He was preceded in death by his dear wife on March 24, 2002. Survivors include his children Kevin, Gordon (Debi), Daryl Little (Gary) of Stevensville, Shawn, and Erin Randall (Keith) as well as 11 grandchildren, 4 great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. He is also survived by his sister Mary Stevanus of Portland, OR and brother Roy of Connell, WA. Services will be in Seattle. Condolences and memories may be shared with the family at www. whitesittfuneralhome.com.
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dinator for the Bitter Root Water Forum, waded across the river with crew members from AV8-Orr Helicopter Service to prepare the Mustang for airlift. Owner Andy Orr donated the services and helicopter time for the project. A fisherman passing through at the time stopped and looked as the helicopter roared up and gan marching wore his dropped a lineband. whichHe was quickly college band jacket and was quite attached and flew off with the proud it stillagainst fit. He aearned wreck that dangling blue sky.
a Master’s degree in clarinet performance from the University of Colorado. For many years he played summer concerts with the Denver Municipal Band and community orchestras. Larry was an avid hiker in Colorado, Arizona, and Montana. In Scottsdale, he was a steward for the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy which includes 225 miles of trails. He built and maintained trails, and was a member of numerous hiking groups, taking hiking trips to England and the Netherlands. Larry participated in Masters swimming in Colorado, Arizona, and Montana. He attended the Senior Olympics in Montana and swam at the Peak
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Geraldine Katherine Mehr, 72, went peacefully home to Jesus after a year-long battle with cancer. Gerri was born on April 11th in 1947 in Hamilton, MT. She went to school in Stevensville and shortly after high school she married Ken. They lived in Missoula, MT where she worked for Pioneer Title Company. In 1972, they moved to Tucson, AZ where they started their family and had their son, Jason, in 1974. In 1976, they moved to Spokane, WA where she continued to work at various banks and financial institutions. Gerri loved to entertain, shower people with gifts, cook, clean, and could shop circles around her kids and grandkids. Her family was her pride and joy and nothing seemed to make her happier than spoiling her grandchildren. She spent her retirement years playing cards with friends and traveling to various destinations in the U.S. and Europe. To know Gerri was to love
her and all were loved by her. She is preceded in death by her father and mother Albert and Katherine Martin, sister-in-law Amelia and brother-in-law Wayne. She is survived by her husband Kenneth; son Jason (Shallon) of Portland OR; her brothers Marvin Martin (Diane) of Stevensville, MT and Leonard Martin (Susan) of Colorado Springs, CO; grandchildren Taylor, Christian Riley and Liv and many nieces and nephews. A memorial service was held on Saturday, November 2 at Heritage Funeral Home, 508 N. Government Way, Spokane WA 99224.
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In Loving Memory Of Carol Gingerich-Moore Munson The family of Carol Gingerich-Moore Munson would like to express our thanks and deepest gratitude to everyone for your unforgettable words of condolences through your prayers, thoughts, cards and making the memorial service so special. Carol was a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend who meant so very much to us. She had a heart of gold and we thank God for letting us have her in our lives. Her smile will never fade in our hearts and she will be forever missed and deeply loved. “To the world she was but one, but to us she was the world.”
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What I learned from Millie Author’s note: Some of you might remember Millie, the Border Collie who greeted people at the door of my shop. Outside the shop, she did much more than that. She taught me a lot. Here’s part of it. – Chuck
Millie and power struggles Millie was unique – even among Border Collies.
Flyfishing with Chuck Stranahan She was our family’s beloved companion for thirteen wonderful years. A neighbor who knew dogs well once told me, “Millie is the most intelligent animal – of any kind - I’ve ever seen.” Most who knew her would agree. She had a mind of her own. Like most Border Collies, she was eager to please and quick to understand whatever the humans in her life expected from her; but she retained the prerogative to override our “commands.” She wasn’t disobedient, as such, she’d just make her own executive decision if she thought she had a better idea. It could be momentarily infuriating, but more often she was right. One such time occurred when she kept a moose at bay in timber while Jan was fishing on the adjacent gravel bar. Jan whistled and yelled at the barking dog for around ten minutes – and didn’t know that Millie was protecting her from a big bull moose until she later saw the tracks. Jan never saw the moose. When Millie returned to her side it was no big deal – just doing her job. And although she couldn’t speak, she came close with a soft yowl that mimicked human speech patterns. She also communicated through gesture and expression, often so subtle that you had to be tuned in to perceive what she was trying to convey. There was always something; she was thinking one or two moves ahead all the time. A typical incident occurred when she taught me how to deal with people who have to dominate, have to be right, and have to win - even
where there is no competition. I had an encounter like that recently. The guy spoke from a position of assumed superiority and was hostile and threatening from the outset. I remembered Millie, and her treatment of another dog on their first encounter. This other dog was also a Border Collie – one whose inner scars from early mistreatment drove her to assume the Alpha role: be ready to strike first; turn back the potential for hurt that had scarred her psyche in the past. Her rescuer and owner, a friend of mine, is a compassionate and wise man. He did much to bring this dog around. I met the other dog, and as usual between me and Border Collies, we got along well. Maisie was cautious at first, but decided I was safe – I wouldn’t hurt her. I suggested to Bill that we get our dogs together. Bill knew Millie, but had reservations. He told me of Maisie’s need to dominate, and how easily she was triggered. Other attempts hadn’t gone well. “I think Millie can handle it,” I told him. “Let’s give it a try.” I didn’t know exactly what Millie would do. She was full of surprises. Bill agreed. He saw that it could be a good thing for both dogs if it worked out. We set a meeting. We held our dogs on leashes until they had gone through their initial sniffing ritual. Maisie dropped her hackle. Everything looked to be going well. We agreed to turn the dogs loose but keep close watch. Immediately Maisie reverted. She raised her hackle and circled Millie, ready to attack if there was any false move. Millie was nonplussed. Maisie then displayed that “I’m the dominant one here – don’t you dare mess with me,” gesture that is common with canines: She went shoulder-toshoulder with Millie and placed her muzzle heavily on Millie’s withers. I’ve often seen that gesture trigger a full-on dogfight. So has Bill. We were both immediately a little tense, ready to jump in. But for the moment we trusted Millie. What happened next was a total surprise and hard to explain. Millie just walked out from under that threatening muzzle and left the other dog standing there. She walked a few feet away, looked back at Maisie, and squatted and peed. The look on Millie’s face as she stared back at her oppressor is hard to explain in a single phrase. It was in part an expression of complete indifference. In part it said, “Oh – you wanna be Alpha, fine... I could care less.” At the
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same time she exhibited a quiet confidence. Maisie just stood there, dumbfounded. This was not what she expected. Millie’s whole demeanor was totally benign – and indifferent. And through it, if you knew her, you could sense that there was something deeper going on here – she was thinking two moves ahead. We soon found out what her next move was.
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Project went on to win their 100th straight game and take the championship. Florence def. Glasgow 25-8, 25-22, 25-21 Glasgow: Kills:24 (Laura Ross 6). Assists: 20 (Rachelle Glaser 18). Aces: 4 (Tyann Graham 2). Digs: 44 (Keely Fossum 15). Blocks: 1 (Keely Fossum 1) Florence: Kills:39 (Sarah Hopcroft 14). Assists: 27 (Halle Christopherson 13, Kasidy Yeoman 13). Aces: 6 (Jacklyn Balfourd 2, Kolbi Wood 2). Digs: 59 (Kolbi Wood 13). Blocks: 13 (Emma Stensrud 5, Sarah Hopcroft 5)
Florence def. Townsend 25-17, 19-25, 27-25, 25-15 Florence: Kills:48 (Sarah Hopcroft 21). Assists: 43 (Kasidy Yeoman 21). Aces: 10 (Halle Christopherson 3, Emily Kinnaman 3). Digs: 110 (Sarah Hopcroft 29). Blocks: 13 (Emma Stensrud 7) Townsend: Kills:25 (Peyton Vogl 10). Assists: 26 (Taylor Noyes 25). Aces: 7 (Anna Berg 2, Becca Payne 2). Digs: NA (Alleigh Burdick 28). Blocks: 15 (Peyton Vogl 6) Florence def. Choteau 25-17, 19-25, 25-17, 25-23 Florence: Aces 4, (Emma Stensrud 4), kills 49 (Sarah Hopcroft 28), Assists 47 (Halle Christopherson 21, Kasidy Yeoman 19, Blocks 9 (Emma Stensrud 3, Kasidy Yeoman 3, Sarah Hopcroft
3), Digs 122 (Kolbi Wood 40) Choteau: Aces 8 (Gunderson 3), Kills 32 (Lee 13), Assists 38 (Funk 23), Blocks 5 (Lee 3), Digs 116 (Bieler 36). Third place Joliet def. Florence 25-14, 25-18, 25-14 Joliet: Kills:46 (Skyler Wright 10, Shayla Webber 10, Makenna Bushman 10, Joel. Assists: Stat not reported. Aces: 3 (Wright 2). Digs: 58 (Merrin Schwend 14, Webber 12, Bushman 12). Blocks: 6 (Bushman 2, Wright 2) Florence: Kills:21 (Sarah Hopcroft 9). Assists: 19 (Halle Christopherson 13). Aces: 2 (Emma Stensrud 1, Halle Christopherson 1). Digs: 67 (Kolbi Wood 20). Blocks: 5 (Emma Stensrud 5)
Deer and elk harvest and hunter participation started off slightly ahead of last season in west-central Montana and have stayed that way through the first three weeks of hunting season, according to data from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) hunter check stations. Two weeks remain in the general hunting season, which closes on Sunday, Dec. 1. The region’s three FWP wildlife check stations saw 194 elk, 68 mule deer, and 309 whitetailed deer compared to 184 elk,
54 mule deer and 232 whitetails at this point in the 2018 season. Although the region-wide totals are up slightly from last year, harvest and hunter participation are in line with five-year average for the region. Elk harvest started off quite a bit stronger than usual, due largely to early season snow and cold, but now totals are much closer to typical in Bitterroot and still lagging behind last season and the five-year average in the Blackfoot. White-tailed deer harvest
totals are up from last year at all three hunter check stations, while mule deer totals are up slightly at the Darby station and down slightly at the Bonner station. Check stations only sample a small portion of hunter participation and harvests across the region, but they are an important part of monitoring trends and recording information on wildlife age, health and other observations from the field. Hunters must stop at all check stations that they pass, even if they have not harvested any animals.
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When she finished peeing, she turned toward Maisie and offered to play – as equals now. The Alpha issue was left in the puddle on the ground behind her. Maisie was taken aback, and then accepted. Despite her difficulties with other dogs in the past, Bill’s dog felt safe with Millie. Bill and I eased into mild amazement and quiet laughter at what we were seeing. Millie liked the dog-play. She was not a warrior at all. She reveled in the frolic of shepherdplay with a dog that was in her league athletically and mentally. Their chase and play games moved into a higher realm– one dog’s graceful moves mirrored by the other in display of full-speed dance. For Maisie the play sweet and fulfilling – an antidote to the injury of her past. Here was another dog with whom she could communicate – and with whom she felt safe. Soon these two dogs were companions on fishing trips. Bill and I would simply turn them loose to roam and romp through the river bottom while we fished. They were fine together – and a delight to Bill and me as we watched. We’d often take short breaks from our fishing to marvel at the spontaneous displays of athleticism that we were seeing. We’d occasionally look back at their beginnings, which could have gone the other way. Wouldn’t it be great, we mused, if humans could do as well.
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MONTANA TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, RAVALLI COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ANNA CHRISTINA MAVROS, Deceased. Cause No. DP-19-116 Dept. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Michael A. Mavros, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at the Law Offices of LAWRENCE D. JOHNSON, Attorney at Law, P.O. Box 500, Hamilton, Montana 59840, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. Dated this 14th day of November, 2019 /s/ Michael A. Mavros, Personal Representative 138 Daly Avenue, Hamilton, MT 59840 BS 11-20, 11-27, 12-4-19. MNAXLP MONTANA 21ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, RAVALLI COUNTY In the Matter of the Name Change of Conley Landyn Arias, Lauren Quiroa, Petitioner Cause No. DV-19-400/4 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE OF MINOR CHILD This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court to change a child’s name from Conley Landyn Arias to Conley Landyn Quiroa. The hearing will be on Thursday, December 12 at 1:30 p.m. at the Ravalli County Courthouse in Hamilton, Montana. Dated this 4th day of November, 2019. /s/Paige Trautwein, Clerk of District Court By: Janenne Sorenson, Deputy Clerk of Court. BS 11-13, 11-20, 11-27, 12-4-19. MNAXLP MONTANA 21ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, RAVALLI COUNTY In the Matter of the Name Change of Chloe Estrella Arias, Lauren Quiroa, Petitioner Cause No. DV-19-401/4 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE OF MINOR CHILD This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court to change a child’s name from Chloe Estrella Arias to Chloe Estrella Quiroa. The hearing will be on Thursday, December 12 at 1:30 p.m. at the Ravalli County Courthouse in Hamilton, Montana. Dated this 4th day of November, 2019. /s/Paige Trautwein, Clerk of District Court By: Janenne Sorenson, Deputy Clerk of Court. BS 11-13, 11-20, 11-27, 12-4-19. MNAXLP NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE LSFl0 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, its successors in interest and/ or assigns, Plaintiff, V. UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF PETER E. MAVITY; PETER E. MAVITY, deceased, ALLISON WALTON; BRANDON MAVITY; JAMES POTTS; KARI MAVITY aka KARI MCNINCH; LACEY AUSTIN; VICTOR SEWER ASSOCIATION; NU ISLAND PARTNERS, LLC, assignee of CHASE BANK NA; COLLECTION BUREAU SERVICES, INC., a Montana Corporation; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA- INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; and all other persons unknown claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate or
interest in or lien or encumbrance upon the real and personal property described in the complaint for foreclosure adverse to plaintiff’s ownership or any cloud upon plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent, Defendants. Cause No. DV-17-281 Department 1 Hon Howard E. Recht TO BE SOLD AT SHERIFF’S SALE: On the 5th day of December, 2019 at 10:00 am on the front steps of the Ravalli County Courthouse, 205 Bedford Street, Suite D, Hamilton, MT 59840; that certain real property situated in Ravalli County, State of Montana, and more particularly described as follows: Lot 6, Victor Estates, Ravalli County, Montana, according to the recorded plat thereof. 1996 Palm Harbor MOD #1044 H-20-0543 KNOWN AS 2327 Betty Lane, Victor, MT 59875. Dated this 7th day of November, 2019. STEPHEN HOLTON Sheriff of Ravalli County, Montana /s/ Stephen Holton BS 11-13, 11-20, 11-27-19. MNAXLP NOTICE The second half of the 2019 Mobile Home Taxes are due payable before 5 pm December 2, 2019. We have a Night Drop located at North end of Administration Building in drive through. Mail payments must be postmarked by December 2, 2019 or the payment will be returned for penalty and interest. Please make checks payable to the Ravalli County Treasurer. Master Card, Visa, Discover and American Express cards are accepted. Also accepting online payments at www.Ravalli.us/196/PropertyTax. Paying with Credit/Debit card will include a 2.15% convenience fee and $1.25 Transaction Fee. Ravalli County Treasurer Dan Whitesitt 215 S 4th St Ste H Hamilton MT 59840 406-375-6600 BS 11-13, 11-20, 11-27-19. MNAXLP NOTICE The first half of the 2019 Real Estate Taxes are due payable before 5 PM, December 2, 2019. We have a Night Drop located at North end of Administration Building in drive through. Mail payments must be postmarked by December 2, 2019
or the payment will be returned for penalty and interest. Please make checks payable to the Ravalli County Treasurer. Master Card, Visa, Discover and American Express cards are accepted. Also accepting online payments at www.Ravalli.us/196/PropertyTax. Paying with Credit/Debit card will include a 2.15% convenience fee and $1.25 Transaction Fee. Ravalli County Treasurer Dan Whitesitt 215 S 4th St Ste H Hamilton MT 59840 406-375-6600 BS 11-13, 11-20, 11-27. MNAXLP
All Proposals must be received by the Ravalli County Clerk and Recorder, (second floor) 215 S. 4th Street, Suite C, Hamilton, Montana by December 4, 2019 at 4:00 PM and will be opened by the Commissioners on December 6, 2019 at l0:00 AM in the Commissioners Conference Room (third floor) 215 S. 4th Street, Hamilton, Montana. Chris Taggart Commissioners Administrative Assistant BS 11-20, 11-27-19. MNAXLP
REQUEST FOR BIDS Installation of a new roof on the Ravalli County Youth Court Building Located at 220 S. 3rd Street, Hamilton Montana 59840 The BOARD OF RAVALLI COUNTY COMMISSIONERS are calling for bids for the installation of a new roof for the Ravalli County Youth Court Building located at 220 S. 3rd Street, Hamilton, Montana 59840. The successful bidder will be required to enter into a Contract for Services with Ravalli County with a completion of the work to be done by Friday, February 28, 2020. Bid Issue date is Wednesday, November 20, 2019, with an intended date of Notice of Contract award on Monday, December 23, 2019 at 10:00 AM. For a full Request for Bid Package, which includes the Bid Timeline, Scope of Services, Date of Pre-Bid walk through, Bid Submittal and Award Process, contact the Ravalli County Commissioners Office (Chris Taggart) at 215 S. 4th (3rd Floor) or via email at ctaggart@rc.mt.gov or call 406-3756500. Chris Taggart Commissioners Administrative Assistant BS 11-20, 11-27-19. MNAXLP
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Forest Service signs final Decision for Gold Butterfly Project Bitterroot National Forest Supervisor Matt Anderson has signed the final Record of Decision (ROD) for the Gold Butterfly Project on the Stevensville Ranger District. The decision authorizes the forest to move forward on the vegetation management and fuels reduction project in the Sapphire Mountains east of Corvallis. The project is located between St. Clair Creek to the south and Burnt Fork Creek to the north. Objectives of the project include: • Improve forest resilience to natural disturbances (fire, insects, and diseases). • Reduce chronic sediment sources in Willow Creek watershed to improve water qual-
Red Cross blood drives scheduled Hamilton 11/20/2019: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Rocky Mountain Labs, 903 South 4th Street 11/22/2019: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., Bitterroot National Forest, 1801 North 1st Street 12/10/2019: 1 p.m. - 6 p.m., Grace Lutheran Church, 275 Hattie Lane 12/13/2019: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Bitterroot College, 103 S. 9th Street 12/16/2019: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State Street How to donate blood Simply download the American Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit RedCrossBlood.org, call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800733-2767) or enable the Blood Donor Skill on any Alexa Echo device to make an appointment or for more information. All blood types are needed to ensure a reliable supply for patients. A blood donor card or driver’s license or two other forms of identification are required at check-in. Individuals who are 17 years of age in most states (16 with parental consent where allowed by state law), weigh at least 110 pounds and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate blood. High school students and other donors 18 years of age and younger also have to meet certain height and weight requirements.
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