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Eagles in winterHumane Groundbreaking held Association for medical Bitter Root Three Mile Community Centercenter open
Darby denies well to proposed lodge celebrates new shelter, 50th anniversary speech, occupa-
by Victoria by Victoria Howell Howell
shelter. $140,000. a levy, so this won’t any tional andhave physical According The park additional impact on people’s therapy services – It’s been a long time to Colleen board made property taxes. including therapy coming, but the new Three Schmiedeke, the decision In addition to thea loan, the Bitterroot Health Mile Community Center is up who serves on to take out a project was paid for by the pool – plus imaging held a groundbreakby Michael Howell and cut the ribbon at last week’s by might deplete the town’s water source. by shifting the groundwater plume or andMichael running.Howell Located at 4433 both thewithout park special permission of the loan to finish Three Community Senior and lab services. ceremony, saidMile concerning the ing last Wednesday Town Council. She said in this case, The Montana Department of otherwise, DEQ would likely issue a Sunnyside Cemetery Road, board and the the project. Center (the official name) Bishop said “It organization’s 50 years of service, An open house celebration was for its new medical week thethe Darby there were concerns about the potenEnvironmental Quality (DEQ) also theLast center is on east Town side Council community She saidnotice…” they which raised over $80,000 they hope to have is held last week at the Bitter Root was started by a bunch of little old denied request for an irrigation tial negative impacts of the proposed has concerns about potential negathat DEQ at this time complex that will beThe of LoneaRock Park. build- well center board, worked withRoll stated through community picnics, ladies in 1972 and it’s still run by a Humane Association’s (BRHA) new to serve the property where Brooks well on the Town’s own well located tive impacts of installing a well on in the process of preparing a response the facility open ing contains a large they started Farmers State rummage sales, bingo nights built just north of meeting Pace plans to build a 130-unit lodge only 300 feet away. the property. Pace’s property, owned to Pace’s request. “Based on the insufanimal shelter located on Fairgrounds bunch of little old ladies.” room, a warming a working on Bank to keep and donations fromof commuby spring 2023, Stevensville at the kitchen, on property recently annexed theain 2012According to McKinney, the reason previously by the Stoddard Land their loan ficient information currently providKathie Butts, President of the Road in Hamilton. The eventinto served state-of-the-art audio visual this nity members. Other major and that they plan corner ofand Kootenai Town. Pace gave for requesting the well was Company, is part of the Superfund ed by Mr. Pace, DEQ cannot make a double purpose. It included Board, said, “This organization has system, a gorgeous view a ribbon and incorpopayments contributors were the Three on continuing to Creek Road andthe Asked about decision, using the town’s water system clean-up site associated with the old determination whether thisthe proposed of the Bitterroot Mountains to 2014. reasonable. Mile Fire District, Lone cutting ceremony incouncil’s honor of therated new inthat come such a long way since it was expand services. Mayor Nancy McKinney said irri-saidwould S&W Sawmill where the soil and the irrigation well50 will affect the Hwy 93. the west. She the be too expensive. “Mr. Pace has Those payRock Park andago. the Rapp started about years Icontamifeel aFamfacility, including tours of thethat whole “We’re bringing the gation wells were not allowed in town. the ability to connect to city water and groundwater is polluted with dioxins nated groundwater plume at thehonor FacilThe building is now home total cost is ments come ily Foundation. John Bishop, building, and anBitarray of food and huge sense of responsibility to She said whencenter the municipal codeapproximateuse it for what he wants and should be and pentachloroethane. ity. Based on this lack of information, care to the patients, to the senior and the out of park Schmiedeke said there terroot those who have come before us and ” drink inHealth honorCEO, of the organization’s concerning wells in town was adopted, subject to the same fees as anybody International Paper is current-taxes that DEQ’s will volunteers notify Pace Weekend Backpack Program ly $500,000. are response were many who said.beMr. make as good as he it can as we set 50ththat birthday. said Marcus existing wells were grandfathered in else,” she said. “Mr. Pace said that the ly working with DEQ on a plan toalready being that ititdoes not intend to provide its that serves Lone Rock School. When helped on theLois project, and HedgeThe private non-profi t organization the course for the next 50 years.” Daly Hospital had but new wells would be allowedSchmiedeke fees would cost him $8,000 annually, clean up polluted soil on its property to install this well at this Theno surrounding park conassessed,permission TMCSC received reduced chair McCormack saidpeth, that the of the was fisoccer rst organized in 1972. In 1984, but he did and address a related contaminated time,” wrote Rolls. tains and baseball “got really Schmiedeke prices from contractors. The board members, a successful Countess Margarite Bessenyey, the hospital board, not Senior provideCenter groundwater plume.l to r, ColRolls general told conducted the contractor Bitterroot Star that lafields, tennis and volleyball involved,” the Three Mile Community is proudorganization that donated leen Schmiedeke, Joyce Pando and Wendy Audiss in front fundraising to fund the new granddaughter ofpath, Marcus Daly, gave any inforPace contacted DEQof onthe Novemthe responsecampaign to Pace they were preparsaid this project courts, a walking a playgroup had they didn’t See the CENTER, page 3 new community center at Lone Rock Photo by V.its Howell. construction but then Covid-19 the BRHA on Fairgrounds Road mation berPark. 8th, requesting approval for ing would include guidance regardground andland a covered picnic raised Bitterroot about have to run has been four years Chamber of Commerce Director Al Mitchell holds the group spell-bound as Bitabout how an irrigation well to be drilled on his ing the information would with a 99-year lease. Six years later, pandemic hit and construction costs inthat the DEQ works, but ter Root Humane Association Board Member Sue McCormack prepares to cut the ribbon he came up property. In an email to the Town on require to make determination. skyrocketed. As athe result, the group He in 1990, the Bessenyey estate deeded there were some John Bishop, pictured fifth from left, leads a gathering of people involved in the celebrating the opening of the with new animal shelter in Hamilton. Photo by Michael Howell. that November 14, the same day as the said to with that information, had take outadditional a mortgage to finish the land to the organization where delays due Bitterroot Health building project in a ceremonial groundbreaking. The facility calculalatest Council meeting, State SuperDEQ will evaluate, to the bestto of the its on the property that had housed the Sue McCormack, who serves on the current shelter is located. The See SHELTER, page tion.” She fund Project Officer Robert Roll noted ability, whether the proposed irrigapandemic. She said2 shelter since 1984. the organization’s board of directors will be built on land located at the corner of Kootenai Creek Road and Hwy 93 new building replaces an old building said there that under Montana law a person who tion well can, or cannot, be installed their vision that just north ofwere the Stevensville Junction. by Nathan Boddy cumstances, havingowns She adds thatisthe also on the S&W Facility property. or operates a facility where a the Stevensville encountered people most important concerns According to Rolls, based on data hazardous or deleterious substance Christine Staub, a driving falling “quality, victim to mail way to combat facility will besuch more Darby, Victor and Corvallis, as well as been providing about the collected to date, the contaminated was disposed of may be jointly and force at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. abuse is for people of a “medical plume center”israther thanlocatjust a accessible, personalized potential groundwater primarily severally liable and that the current 901 S. 1st Street, was recently As a certified shipto ask questions clinic. She also said that Marcus Daly of the ed under the property owned by the owner of a portion of the facility is a The new 12-acre campus will health fordepot 90 years. presented with a Certificate of care” ping for FedEx, and start conMurphy. Shethe led the new International Paper Company located potentially liable person, but that the Hospital, which isversation a critical access In recent the years, theywell Appreciation by Mayor DomiBoxxe Shoppe provide primary, care, urgent care and with those commissioners through polluting north of Pace’s property and#4isin movcurrent owner has not been officialhospital, was recently rated the specialty services. Two physicians have nic Farrenkopf and Hamilton is legally justified to you know and love. have been taking steps to a lengthy fund by fund by Victoria Howell like aaston of “However, if use the Town’s ing in a northerly direction. He said it ly me noticed such, Police Chief Stephen Snavely. open acommupackage which doesn’t nation for quality by Staub the national ratthat, to sum already been hired, withina anurse extends invest in all thewell bricks.” and acrossaccounting the highway to other of the proposed wellalong resulted In his presentation to the City bears its shipping know the details it up, shows the county, ing agency, out of 351 similar facilities. practitioner, and two more doctors Numerous Bald Eagles have been congregating in the Burnt area lately to feed onOverstreet carcasses. Photos nities of Fork the Bitterroot, property to the east that ispotential also owned deleterious effectwas to human health or When it comes Council on March 15th, Chief label.concerns After following of what overall, doing very well by Michael by Victoria Howell that it welfare or the environment, whether are being recruited. There will also be he said, with clinics in to Covid, Greg Howell. sent home from Snavely said that he wants the protocol, and doing victims are told, but DARBY, page 3 onSee its tax collections and The Bitterroot Overstreet has a NaHamilton Police Department so in the presence of the hospital with she knows that over they showing revenues tional Forest (BNF) will The Cowboy Ball at the 50% Ravalli Countycoached message for you: to “become more vocal about a witness, Staub was an oxygen tank. are, “often of projections in host a public meeting Fairgrounds will be held February is don’t fool around! the good things that happen able to uncover the He was home for to departments say12th. they This are shipmost while thisOverstreet, Wednesday, March the tenth annual event and the way it’s shaping within the community.” Sharunfortunate contents two or three days. ping legal by Michael Howell expenses havepapers only or 30th from 6 to 8 p.m. ing his department’s experiof the package: nearlyDuring that time, paperwork.” Other up, it’s going to be an event worthy oftoa23% jubilee an attorney in amounted of to share information ence with Ms. Staub was one $16,000 in cash, common tactics for and former council member, the public at the next meeting Halfway through celebration. projections due in large private practice in his oxygen level by Victoria Howell regarding the developsuch opportunity. which the customer scammers include the budget year, the part to job vacancies Rod Freeman is the chair of this year’s appears to be continuing when the council considers Stevensville, was went down to 51, ment of a draft forest In early March, a customwas unwittingly send-from a normal of claiming county’s performance have yetto torepbe filled. event. Freeman is also thethat chair of the Rodeo diagnosed with his efforts to teach the new the appointment of two addiClimbing Management At the second regular er came to the Boxxe Shoppe ing to a scammer in resent the IRS or in is looking pretty good, One big savings was Committee, and the vice chair of the Fair Board, colon cancer in 99. “I jokingly say Plan (CMP). virtual counciltoand mayor how local Chicago, tional council meeting of theThe two-member intending send a package Illinois.members. Social Security according to Ravalli the budgeted funds for which he’s onby forNa12 taking years. A estate by John Dowd been anbeen undering, upreal a lot of space. February of 2021. that 51 is brain Staub of“It’s the really Boxxe Shoppe. Photo meeting will be held on should run. He “We’ll do our job, ” Christine said via government FedEx. Administration. County CFO Klarryse the county’s share in Stevensville Town Council, on taking,” said Mohn. Farrenkopf also explained agent for 18 years here in the Bitterroot, and also He wentSee through damage material.” Zoom. below for than Boddy. Thewas customer Sometimes they a frequent commenter GibsonAfter nearly seven January 27, town been how,his with proper design, the chief Armyfor for1321 years, organizational andthe instructions and aclerk link Jenelle seemed conchemotherapy and Butyears, COVID-19 Havingin Seewill COUNTY, 10 tell theirpage at council meetings during Joannew Mell, an attorney familiar with the profile of the the Hamilton Fire Deyears, Mohn well understood building washave able been to take adBerthoud the council to late join August thetold meeting. Five andfused fundraising skills, and discipline, put to in he was was no joke. “It and unOver the victims that a loved one has the last administration. In from Hamilton, wasgot recpotential victims, but wishes partment finally opened the the limitations of the previvantage of a relatively small similar meetings audience thatcancer she was having familiar good use as chair of the Cowboy Ball committee. told thatpublic the so bad I felt with course of her landed in jail, or that a prize that others withinFreeman the commucomment, Crews told ognized for stepping in (virtual) were heldthe in meet- the public said the committee trouble streaming process, decade with has been won,hopes but a to feeraise needs had been eradicated. like I couldn’t nity would help her look out 2021. council that those makto handle the the prosecution this year, to forbethe expansion of the rodeo Staub Boxxe paid for release of the had She said andthe breathe, likefor I their safety.$50,000 ingsOverstreet on the internet. At least one In addition to the became susShoppe, Staub funds. The scammers will ing public comment should caseload of Town Attorney bucking chutes. “They’re just getting old,” he said. surgery on October was being water the former YouTube of the potential victims she opportunity to learn chanpicious when haswhile now commonly use a getting legitimate “They need to be replaced. They’re banged address the mayor, not the Greg Overstreet he was 23, 2021 for ostomy boarded, or what aided was a resident at a local nel they had was no longer about and participate in recovered address, buton will be ready to up.facility Bucking stock can be hard metal.” removal, theof fidevelopnalhad set up considering I imagine audience. He also said, “This hospitalized, and then recov- water extended nursing and the process working but they the customapproximately grab the package fromactually a porch The 10th annual cowboy ball – which treatment in the boarding to had be to be provided with a ride isage notand a question and answer” ering, from Covid-19. Mell ing a climbing plan, this a new Facebook page. Hower’s $60,000 in or front door when it arrives. Each year, Dominic mayor of Hamilton, dresses as a started 11the years ago but couldn’t be held last year to the bank as well as to colon cancer journey. like,” recalls week’s meeting willFarrenkopf, “It’s public comment.” did the work at no charge particular cash, all of to “They always direct the ever, members ofthrough thecovpublic the session. turkey and goesthat raising money for Pantry Boxxe Shoppe. due to the pandemic – has been upgraded this The day after Overstreet. “This er the following agenda Stevensville, details of the which was victim to send it, ‘no signature The mayor had said previousthe town. “I just wanted to who had Food tried to access the “It’s common sense to me,” Partners Bank. He stopped in at businesses and talked to peoyear. topics: surgery, he was isfrauduwhen I realized transaction. being required,’” she adds. ly that he would be answering publicly thank Joan for helpThesays, Town of Stevensville recognized attorney Joan aMell, she pointing out that red Facebook said it was not Unfortunateple that he page meet on the street. Typically, he asks people to donate • Review overall “This is the first year we’ve ever done diagnosed with that I was not lently deThe Bank Secrecy Actfully questions from the public. ing me and helping the town, ” flags abound when seniors are center, for filling in while town attorney Greg Overstreet objectives and desired accessible. Berthoud one dollar to the food asked bank. Some put in a dollar, and some catered dinner,” said Freeman. Thebanks University COVID-19. taking Covid ly, itpeople was not manded from of 1970 requires to being scammed. “If a person Crews said thatThis theyyear, said Overstreet. outcomes of the public people putobviously inas more. “EverythingStaub’s helps!” saysalso Farrenkopf. ofPictured Montana Catering Service provide theof had Covid-19. with Mell are, l towill Overstreet, for patience she worked “I was first seniorseriously citizen enough. keep track ofr, withdrawals is 80 years old, and all of a conversations should be raised prepared for some for Stevensville Pantry his efforts $244.30. FarrenDesserts are provided 4Hin members. time having members of $10,000 or by more order very weakened,” said Partners, through the issues. Mayorthey’re Steve dinner. Gibson, council coming into the members Cindy Brown and The Boxxe Shoppe’s new location • Provide an update encountered See page 2 sudden “interesting comments” from kopf wanted to former say appreciate the Stevensville community Greg Overstreet talks about his recent brush with death dueSTEVI, tothe commuOverstreet. “It hit “I greatly Jim Crews, mayor bank to5withdraw $15,000, it Stacie Barker. by Victoria at 901 S. 1st Street in Hamilton. nity.See See COWBOY BALL page 4 SURVIVING, page by Photo Michael Howell Howell. such Partners!” cirStaub is for their generosity towards Pantry Covid. Photo by Victoria Above, Howell. the mayor is See SCAMMERS, page 2 makes my ‘spidy’ sense tingle.” See PLAN, page 2 Photo by Nathan Boddy. pictured visiting the Bitterroot Star, reading the recent paper last Last week the Ravalli County Commissioners apweek. Photo by Scott Sacry. proved adoption of a memorandum of understanding with the Ravalli County DUI Task Force and letter the commissioners statedInstituteProtection National Forest 1987 Forest aspen and whitebark pine; MAPS Media to produceAgency. a video The designed by Michael Howell to help parents keep tabs on their children’s behavthat “Ravalli County objects contains recommendations manage timber to provide Plan. ior. impacts to concerning the Draft SEIS for forest products and jobs; and to unmitigated A new record of decision The deadlineHowell closed on if it would be possible Victoria The DUI Task approved of year, theForce facility tookButterfly. inthe justcreation under bybyVictoria Howell thewhen Gold Concerncounty owned/maintained was issued on December 17, retain old growth status in all on January 18, forHowell filing objec- to put envelopes by Victoria his property which would in effect with the highway, which is aastate addressed private land was Mischief$240,000 Room lastand May and the commissioners spent every penny. roads heavy theowner scopeand ofthe the analysis treatment to 2021 accompanied by a to Draft all the doors and Dominic Farrenshutthen off access Stevensville Riverunits. According highway, because nowfrom you’re goingequipment to on it. sold toproject aing new Fish, Wildlife signed off creation tions to theShinn, Draft SupplemenJasmin founder and There The are no paid involved employees; it’s an all-of kopf, activities director put valentine cards in The Stevensville Town Coun- SEIS thatPark, a 20-acre park on the east bank have release two accesses forlogging trucksatrucks, pulling and Parks got involved. once-pritheitems letter quotes the Bittera Forest Service press and mostly, provides a site-speset of easily accessible that hadThe secret hiding tal Environmental Statement volunteer organization. ButtoShinn said executive director of 1 Horse atwas Sapphire them. Farrenkopf cil split onLutheran whether to accept just toreally the north of the private piece ofthe boats, and you’vebut just come out to, of the vate piece now belongs thesome state compartments where someone could stash root Forest Plan’s Forest-wide not limited the impacts cific forest plan amendment about 90% of proposed (Draft SEIS) for the Gold A Time Horse it costs about $200 perfishing month toaim feed Homes inDraft Hamilton, isRescue liked the idea.property. He askedCrews contacted the county aAtsmall piece of park land near the Stevi Wyean at 45 miles per hour - there developed access drugs or hide aand small of whiskey. The was to Willow Creek Road. Due tois aflask Management Wildlife Re-site. treatment areas are within defining old-growth stanby John Dowd her. She and other teachers and Butterfly Project, a Bitterroot these “gentle giants.” Then there are facility in Corvallis, got a nice asking the bridge, community students Stevensville an item that was at schools and negotiated the donation of the are going to be accidents there.” I think opportunity it’s [the piecetoon to provide parents“But a learning seethe the teacher aides organize source Objective “Maintain area designated for insect and financial limitadards. Some objections to securing the boost lastForest week when she was veterinary bills, therapy, training, and to send his athat and daycares to make National project considered atresidents the March 24th council land onhelped the west, potential Mayorand Steve resource Gibson said he didn’t west] still a viable oftoland for the various ways in which any youngpiece person can hide Last year lopes. the disease On Nov. 8,land students from the kidsriver andand theirreceived efforts. sufficient habitat tions, Ravalli County would decision were because of the little love this special envelopes presented with aValencheck for $7500 associated costsold-growth to rehabilitate meeting. The ownership willnew now access pending outcometreatment of see what use theenveland is to the town. “Iother city tofrom have, whether or not you put their substance use casual inspections. includes nearly 13,000 acres lopes were so full they The project is now Victor KU (preschool) and Bernice Janssen works with tine’s Day. decorate them for each revert to the county. The 1.52-acre the access dispute. only see a liability,” said Gibson. money into developing it,” said Motnot be able to accommodate on suitable timberland to by the January 18 deadline dense pockets of dead and dythese horses. When they’re fi nally ready from representatives of JCCS, an Glenda Wiles, Director of the DUI Task Force, of commercial and non-comhad to be emptied more really and second gradefour paired upadjacent to visit the Victorpeople Food Pantry andpopular, did About years resident. piece, which tomostly the Then Council member Wolff Michaelson he looked upwhat the for ley. are many cars out said sheadoption, tells“There parents is,so “If you don’t look, accounting fiis rmlocated with a branch most can be driven or there, support viable populations ing trees. They claim area said the necessary maintenance having to do with the Marilyn mercial vegetative treatment than the once. growing every year. the food pantry at the Bitterthe presentation to the Victor ago, a in resident came could drop offsaid valenBitterroot River on the northwest side she had apotenreal problem with old minutes andduring found that the land I see. think can be used for parking. But then younor don’t If it you don’t see, then you don’t ridden, and some just become “pasture located Hamilton. Part of the of old-growth dependent the project, the logging of old growth, is impacted by mountain pine root Church ofwas the Nazarene, in Town kids that visited Nov. 8. She within a 55,000 acre area ofto the to Farrenkopf to see tines to fill the enveof the bridge, offered this piece of land. “It’s where two was donated on the condition that looking long term, if you have propSee VALENTINES, page 10 selection for awarding thatthe gift said pets.” See DUI, page 10 Hamilton Fire Chief atbeetle, left, and rehabilitation Hamilton Mayor Farrenkopf at right, hold the ribbon out of Dominic the road afteron the species. ” side The letter notes that to asked wildlife and Douglas-fir bark Victor. they County learned that she the particforest inThere, theRavalli Sapphire Mounin 2017 by for usetial as aimpacts roads converge, thetobankbeetle, is in incrediit would be maintained and utilized erty west ofestablished the river, then was online voting and according 1 Horse At A Time was front of the new Hamilton Fire Station while Firefighter Reagan Farley uses the ‘Jaws of Life” importance andaccess impact of food Willow ipants Creek several questions DrafttoSEIS limits the scope dwarf mistletoe and the project is complete. Ravalli Road. potential river site. bly steep… I thinkabout there are liability for western recreational purposes within five you havethe access potentially consoltains eastbranch of Corvallis. by Shinn in 2018. She’s originally from to JCCS manager, Andrea how the pantry affects the com- to cut through it. Photo by John Dowd. donations for their commuof its environmental consespruce budworm damage. County objects to shifting Bitterroot National Forest During the tenure of former issues… It is the fastest part of the years. idate highway property into the Town The original proposal was Simmerman, 1 to Horse At A Time Germany where sheI grew around nity. According KU munitychannel and the and community’s mayor Jim Crews, theteacher owner of land thethe deepest partAlthough of the in general Vickie Motley, park board memof Stevensville. thinkup It’s financial burden of the project quences analysis tosomething vegetation, officials have stated that withdrawn in August of 2020 horses. She’s always been a horse fan, was one of the top four vote Kameron Bradley, it had a need for the assistance. at the river on the northeast side project had channel. If you were to develop that ber, said that nothing had been done doors to the new fire station. ous station, which was over lot with a very big building. RDO Equipment Co. the pileated woodpecker and is asked designed to questions improve agreement with the proposed to Ravalli County andbut believe huge impacttoon children, them after Friends of theoff Bitterroot getters. she is especially passionate about attempted shut river access on “Wefor fishing, I would also see Since a problem because the access problem had been See STEVI, page 16 2017, according to Fire 100 years old. Not only will The space is approximately 8571 Running W. Road pine marten. project, the Ravalli County it is contrary to current law forest resilience to natural how they saw their community and it was really pretty amazing checkfor followed in the wake draft horses. 14,000 She andsquare her husband, andThat Alliance the Wild Chief Brad Mohn, city offithe new location allow easier feet, andawill and the teachers adults to hear some of fire, theirinsects answers Commissioners expressed existing agreements. ” fire retiree, “We realize these old growth like Missoula, MT 59808 military and two children of a on $25,000 gift claiming inand November Rockies filed suit the disturbances cials and the fire department and and quicker response to allow thetheir fire department to involved. and to see so much compasare listed in and disease; reduce sediconcern over working impacts to officials also from Tractor Supply. Montana and a old 20have been towards Forest emergencies, but received it relocated will avoid toindicator get406-549-4171 rid ofspecies somebought of their agency failed to use the best The program is called sionsources at such a young age,” said county owned and maintained comments from Philip acre ShinnPlan, said but canitsupport That sounds like a lot the of the Forest is ment Willow an up-to-date facili-fromfire needing exitfarm which outdated equipment fornot newavailable science in managing Presentingina the check for $7500 frombuilding JCCS to Jasmin Shinn (second left)teams of 1 Horse At to Strobel Victor Brigade, and it Janssen. RDOequipment.com moneyTurkey but, according to Shinn, about 20 horses. She currently ty. That day finally came last out through the downtown er, more efficient and larger roads, especially Willow Creek Director of the NEPA Branch clear whether there are other Creek watershed; improve A Timethe Draft Horse Rescue elk habitat and didn’t has been going on for comseverAfter students visitedwere, l to r: Levi Clark, CPA, Andrea Simmerman, JCCS Branch Friday when the chief and corridor and will allow more pieces. taking care of draft horses is Office of the Adminbull habitat; restore al years. This was Bradley’s thetrout pantry, they returned and Manager, and Will Ramsey, CPA.Road. Also pictured is Tiny, the non-profit’s mascot andRegional the ply with the definition of old Mayor Dominic Farrenkopf parking for firefighters. BeThe new station makes an expensive proposition. Last See RESCUE, page 65 See GOLD, page •FREE INTime. THE BITTERROOT VALLEY• OURHwith IMPROVEMENT Cplanned O .COM second the howthat they could give byESTIMATES istrator of the Environmental In a At letter to the Forest habitat meadows, firstincluding horse was rescued 1 Horse A Victoria Howell. growth experience foundYin theOME Bitterroot cut the ribbon Photo on theby new fore, parking was previously its home on the corner of event, and it always impresses station. relegated to on-street parkSee TURKEY, page 14 See FIRE, page 10
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