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Eagles in winterHumane Groundbreaking held Association for medical Bitter Root Three Mile Community Centercenter open

‘Doc’s’ story; a life of service 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 – by John Dowd 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 Fortunately, military service inwho serves on Mile Community Center is up to take out a project was paid for by pool – plus imaging held a groundbreakby Michael Howell and cut the ribbon at last week’sthe this often looked at in aboth the park andcountry running.isLocated at 4433 loan to finish Three Community and lab services. ceremony, saidMile concerning the Senior ing last Wednesday favorable Though not always, Sunnysidelight. Cemetery Road, board and the the project. Center (the official name) Bishop said “It organization’s 50 years of service, An new openmedical house celebration was for servicemen and theits center is on women the eastare siderecog-community She said they which raised over $80,000 they hope to have held last week at the Bitter Root was started by a bunch of little old nized forRock theirwill heroism bravery complex that beTheand of Lone Park. buildcenter board, worked with through community picnics, ladies in 1972 and it’s still run by a Humane Association’s (BRHA) new the facility open in facenorth of aelements that could they started ingthe contains large Farmers State rummage sales, bingo nights built just of meeting animal shelter located on Fairgrounds bunch of little old ladies.” very likely end their lives. However, room, a warming kitchen, a working on Bank to keep and donations fromof commuby spring 2023, Stevensville at the Butts, President of the Roadare in Hamilton. The event served there many elements of service state-of-the-art audio visual this ain 2012 their loan Kathienity members. Other major and that they plan corner Kootenai that go of unrecognized andview untold, double purpose. It included a ribbon Board, said, “This organization has system, and a gorgeous and incorpopayments contributors were the Three on continuing to Creek and Mountains stories that shape the rest ofof solof the Road Bitterroot to reasonable. Mile Fireway District, Lone cutting ceremony in honor therated new in 2014. come such a long sincethe it was expand Hwy 93. diers’ lives, both bytours whatof they the west. She said the Those payRock 50 Park andago. theservices. Rapp started about years I feel aFamfacility, including thedid whole “We’re bringing the and what they saw. The building is now home total cost is ments come ily Foundation. John Bishop, building, and anBitarray of food and huge sense of responsibility to honor care to the patients, Many people in the Bitterroot to the senior center and the approximateout of park Schmiedeke said there terroot those who have come before us and ” drink inHealth honorCEO, of the organization’s Weekend Backpack Program ly $500,000. taxes that are it as were many who Valley are familiar with Brothers said.be as we make good as he itvolunteers can set 50ththat birthday. said Marcus that serves Lone Rock School. already being helped on theLois project, and Mortuary and Crematory. Howev-When HedgeThe privatehad non-profit organization the course for the next 50 years.” Daly Hospital Thethe surrounding assessed, TMCSC received reduced er, story of thepark manconbehind theSchmiedeke chair McCormack saidpeth, that the of the was fisoccer rst organized in 1972. tains baseball “got really Schmiedeke prices from contractors. The business, andand what led him toInit,1984, are Three Mile Community Senior Center board members, l to r, Colorganization conducted a Countess Margarite Bessenyey, the hospital board, fields, tennis and volleyball involved,” the is proud that general contractorsuccessful donated laless known. leen Schmiedeke, Joyce Pando and Wendy Audiss in front of the fundraising campaign fund the new granddaughter ofopened Marcus Daly, gave saidto this project courts, walking path, a the playgroup had they didn’t Ron aBrothers mortuSee the CENTER, new community center at Lone Rock Park. Photo by V. Howell. construction but then Covid-19 thein BRHA on Road ground andland aafter covered picnic the raised Bitterroot about have to run ary 2007, heFairgrounds purchased has been four page years3 Chamber of Commerce Director Al Mitchell holds the group spell-bound as Bitwith a 99-year lease. Six years later, pandemic hit and construction business from the former owners. in the works, costs but ter Root Humane Association Board Member Sue McCormack prepares to cut the ribbon skyrocketed. As a result, the group inwas 1990, the Bessenyey estate deeded It originally called Dowling there were some John Bishop, pictured from left, leads a gathering people involved in the celebrating the opening of the new animalfifth shelter in Hamilton. Photo by Michaelof Howell. Funeral the business had to take out a mortgage to finish the landHome, to the and organization where delays due to the Bitterroot project in a ceremonial groundbreaking. The facility on the property that hadHealth housedbuilding the Sue McCormack, who serves on had been around since 1916. For ten the current shelter is located. The See SHELTER, page pandemic. She said2 shelter since 1984. theat organization’s of directors years prior, Brothers managed the will be built on land located the corner ofboard Kootenai Creek Road and Hwy 93 new building replaces an old building funeral home, and it felt like aby good their vision that just north of the Stevensville Junction. Nathan Boddy cumstances, having She adds thatisthe fit to take over the business after the the Stevensville encountered people most important former owners were gaining in their 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 age. After he bought it, Brothers force at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. abuse is for people of a “medical center” rather than just a accessible, personalized changed the name of the business to 1st Street, was recently 901 S. As a certified shipto ask clinic. She also said thatquestions Marcus Daly The new 12-acre campus will Brothers Mortuary and Crematory. health fordepot 90 years. presented with a Certificate of care” ping for FedEx, and start conMurphy. Shethe led the Hospital, which is a critical access It has been operating ever since, but In recent the years, theyShoppe provide primary, care, urgent care and Appreciation by Mayor DomiBoxxe versation with those commissioners through the reason Brothers opened it nic likely hospital, was recently rated #4byinlove. the specialty services. Two physicians have Farrenkopf and Hamilton is legally justified to you know and have been taking steps to a lengthy fund fund by Victoria me like a ton of came from hisHowell experience in the Police Chief Stephen Snavely. open package which doesn’t by Staub the national rataccounting that, to sum already been hired, along with a nurse nation for quality invest in all theacommubricks.” military. 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 BaldKalispell, Eagles have been congregating in the Burnt area lately to feed onOverstreet carcasses. was Photos nities of Fork the Bitterroot, When it comes Originally from he said Council on March 15th, Chief label. After following of what potential overall, doing very well by Michael Howell. Victoria Howell are being recruited. There willby also be he said, with clinics in to Covid, Greg sent home from that he was “gung ho” to join the Snavely said that he wants the protocol, and doing victims are told, but on its tax collections and Affectionately referred to by the Marines as ‘Doc,” Ron Brothers is pictured here standing in a crater from the U.S.S. Missouri’s The Bitterroot Overstreet has a NaHamilton Police Department so in the presence of the hospital with she knows that over they showing revenues of the island, during the Battle of an Failaka, in Kuwait. Photo courtesy Ron Brothers. tional Forest (BNF) will See DOC, page 3 Bombardment The Cowboy Ball at the 50% Ravalli Countycoached message for you: oxygen tank. to “become more vocal about a witness, Staub was 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 99. “I jokingly say effective Noby John resignation as Mayor, or her up to speedSocial on town issues and Plan (CMP). The virtual counciltoand mayor how local Chicago, tional council meeting ofDowd thein two-member intending send a package Illinois.members. Security according to Ravalli the budgeted funds which he’s been onby forNa12 years. A real estate for February of 2021. that 51 is brain Christine Staub of the Boxxe Shoppe. Photo vember 30, 2023. policies. meeting will be held on government should run. He “We’ll do our job, ” said County CFO Klarryse the Administration. county’s share Stevensville Town Council, onvia FedEx. agent for 18 years Bitterroot, andin also Stevensville Mayor Itthan has been an honor and privilege “It here is all in to the notSometimes leave the town He wentSee through damage material.” Zoom. below for Steve Gibson Boddy. Thewas customer theyhanga frequent commenter Gibson January 27, town clerk Jenelle in the Army for 21 years, his organizational and has officially announced to have had the opportunity to work ing” said Gibson. “They can contact instructions and a link his resignachemotherapy and But COVID-19 Seewill COUNTY, seemed con- meetings during tell theirpage 10 at council Joan Mell, an for attorney familiar with profile of the Berthoud the council andfused tion. InAugust thetold light health and serve of the Stevensme whenever they want.” to late join the meeting. Five concerns, fundraising skills, and discipline, haveone been put to in heofwas was no joke.the “Itcitizens and unOver the victims that a loved has administration. In from Hamilton, was recpotential victims, butuse wishes similar public meetings Gibson presented his letter of familiar res-the last ville the past two years. I would like to The process leaves the town, and audience thatcancer she was having good as chair of the Cowboy Ball committee. told that the got so bad I felt with course of her landed in jail, or that a prize withinFreeman thefor commucomment, Crews told ognized for stepping in (virtual) were incouncil, ignation to theheld town thank the staffthat andothers Greg Overstreet the council, withwon, twohopes options. The first said the committee trouble streaming the meet- and the public process, decade with has been but a to feeraise needs had been eradicated. like I couldn’t nity would help her look out 2021. explained that his last day will be Nov. their dedication and hard work. is that they could decide to appoint the 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 onaddition the internet. At least onecurrent council president, Bob Michalto years the left in his 30. In Still with two term, Attached is a memo from Attorney became sus- comment should Shoppe, funds. just The getting scammers will ing public caseload of Town Attorney bucking chutes. “They’re old,” he said. surgery on YouTube October chanwasStaub being water the former of the potential victims opportunity learn the town willto need to fill the position Overstreet outlining the procedure forshe son. This option would then be opened picious when haswhile now commonly use a getting legitimate “They need to be replaced. They’re banged address the mayor, not the Greg Overstreet he was 23, 2021 for ostomy boarded, or what aided resident at a local nel they had was no longer about and participate in soon. filling the vacancy ofwas the amayor. to public comment before council considering recovered address, buton will be aready to up. Bucking stock can be hard metal.” removal, the fi nal I imagine water audience. He also said, “This hospitalized, and then recovextended nursing facility and theGibson’s process developletter wasset short Sincerely, vote. The second option from available working butof they had up and the customapproximately grab the package a porch The 10th annual cowboy ball which actually in the boarding to had be to be provided with a ride notand a question and answer” ering, from Covid-19. Mell ing a climbing plan, reads: Steve would or be to open the– position up to atreatment new Facebook page.this How- er’sisage $60,000 in Gibson front door when it arrives. started 11 years ago but couldn’t be held last year to the bank as well as to the colon journey. like,” recalls week’scancer meeting will covMayor of Stevensville applications. The application process session. “It’s public comment. ” did the work at no charge to the particular cash, all of “They always direct the ever, members of the public Boxxe Shoppe. due to the pandemic – has allowing been upgraded this The day after that Overstreet. “This er the following agenda Michalson, Dear Councilmember would involve anyone who details the had said previouswhich was to victim to send it, ‘no signature The of mayor the town. “I just wanted who had he tried toLowell, access the “It’s common sense year. topics: surgery, was isfrauduwhen I realized Councilmember CouncilmemAs stated, the letter included sev- to me,” lives within the town who has transaction. being required,’” she limits, adds. ly that he would be answering publicly thank Joan for helpThesays, Town of Stevensville recognized attorney Joan she pointing out that red Facebook page said it was not Unfortunate• Review overall “This is the firsta year we’ve done aMell, fully ber Brown and Councilmember eral pages that go through the process been resident forever at least six months diagnosed with that I was not lently deThe Bank Secrecy Act 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. Barker, which theCovid council will need tocatered follow dinner,” and who is at least 18 years old, said Freeman. The University COVID-19.Berthoud asked ly, it was not taking manded from of 1970 requires banks to to being scammed. “If a person said Overstreet. outcomes ofas the public Regretfully due to ongoingStaub’s healthCrews to seriously refill the position. Gibson has also submit their application. Applications ofPictured Montana Catering Service provide theof had Covid-19. with Mell are, l towill Overstreet, for patience she worked “I was obviously enough. first also said that they senior citizen keep track ofr, withdrawals is 80beyears old, and all of a conversations issues, please accept this corresponstated that he will available to the should be prepared for some dinner. Desserts are provided by 4H members. time having members of $10,000 or more in order very weakened,” said through the issues. Mayor Steve Gibson, council members Cindy Brown and they’re coming into the TheSteve Boxxe Shoppe’s new location • Provide an update Mayor Gibson. dence as my“It official of“interesting my talks mayor advice and to bring him See MAYOR, page 4 encountered commuSee page for 2 sudden comments” from Greg Overstreet about his recent brush with death dueSTEVI, tothenew Overstreet. hit notification Jim Crews, former 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 cirStaub is Covid. Photo by Victoria Howell. See SCAMMERS, page 2 makes my ‘spidy’ sense tingle.” See PLAN, page 2 Photo by Nathan Boddy. Last week the Ravalli County Commissioners approved 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 The involved creation tions to theShinn, Draft SupplemenJasmin founder and There are no paid employees; it’s anable all-of by John Dowd expressed a desire to have been to 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 serve, just like the veterans he talked atwas Sapphire them. Farrenkopf really cil split onLutheran whether to accept just to the north of the private piece of boats, and you’ve just come out of the vate piece now belongs the state compartments where someone could stash some root Forest Plan’s Forest-wide but not limited to, theitimpacts cific forest plan amendment about 90% of the proposed (Draft SEIS) for the Gold ForWye the at last months, Victor to. After hearing this, Walker said he A Time Horse costs about $200 per month toaim feed Homes inDraft Hamilton, isRescue liked the idea.property. He askedCrews contacted the county aAtsmall piece of park land near the Stevi 45couple miles per hour - there is aflask developed fishing access site. drugs or hide aand small of whiskey. The was to Willow Creek Road. Due to Management Wildlife Retreatment areas are within an defining old-growth stanVFW Post 1507 has been building up responded with something like: “We Butterfly Project, a Bitterroot these “gentle giants.” Then there are facility in Corvallis, got a nice by Michael Howell those restrictions remain in effect. 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 source Objective “Maintain area designated for insect and resource and financial limitadards. Some objections the Gordonn, a new branch to their organization. can putstill something together so they boost lastForest week when she was veterinary bills, therapy, training, and totoNate lab to send his athat and daycares to According make National project considered atresidents the March 24th council land on the west, securing potential Mayor Steve Gibson said he didn’t west] a viable oftoland for the various ways in which any youngpiece person can hide Last year lopes. Dubbed ‘Bitterroot Brigade,’ the group can serve, incasual acosts way.” person is sufficient old-growth habitat tions, Ravalli County would decision were received because of the little love this special envelopes and Several septic pumping and manager at thetreatment presented with aValencheck forcom$7500 associated toThat rehabilitate meeting. The land ownership willnew now riverpretreatment access pending the disease outcome of see what use theenveland is to the town. “Iother city tofrom have, whether or not you put their substance use inspections. includes nearly 13,000 acres lopes were so full they The project is now is comprised of area special needs pernow the Bitterroot Brigade Commandtine’s decorate them foraccess each panies inDay. Bitterroot are Missoula until something revert to the county. The 1.52-acre the dispute. liability,” Gibson. money into developing it,” said Motnot said be able to accommodate onWhen suitable timberland to January 18 plant, deadline dense pockets of only deadsee andadyhorses. they’re finally ready from representatives ofValley JCCS, anby the Glendathese Wiles, Director of the DUI Task Force, of commercial and non-comhad toThe be emptied more really popular, and sons. Bitterroot Brigade hopes to for er, and themost group ismany off to the out races. About four years people facing awhich crisis since one of theresident. best changes significantly these restrictions piece, is located adjacent tomostly the Then Council member Marilyn Wolff Michaelson said he looked upwhat the ley. “There are so cars there, said she tells parents is, “If you don’t look, accounting fi rm with a branch adoption, can be driven or support viable populations ing trees. They claim the area the necessary maintenance having to do with the mercial treatment than once. growing year. provide the same comradery military The meets once a month ago, to a vegetative resident came drop off valenplaces dump their septage trucks, will remain effect. Heevery said closing by mountain Bitterroot River on the northwest side said she hadinapotenreal problem with old minutes andduring found that the land I see. think it can be used for parking. But then younor don’t If brigade you don’t see, then you don’t ridden, and some just become “pasture located in Hamilton. Part of could the logging of old-growth dependent the project, the of old growth, is impacted pine within a 55,000was acre area ofto plant persons have on experienced as memand performs various activities or to Farrenkopf to see tines to fill the enveat the wastewater treatment in down and cleaning the digester is a of the bridge, offered the Town this piece of land. “It’s where two was donated the condition that looking long term, if you have propSee VALENTINES, page 10 selection for awarding that gift tial impacts to wildlife and to pets.” See DUI, page 10 rehabilitation of the road afteron the species. The letter that beetle, Douglas-fir bark beetle, bers of the for the local mentally lessons, likewest flag” folding andnotes the forest inby the Sapphire MounMissoula, has reduced amount costly disruptive event that in 2017 Ravalli County for use as a roads and converge, the bank isand incrediit would beVFW maintained and utilized erty side ofestablished the river, then was online voting and the according 1 Horse At A Time was disabled. According VFW 1507 Ravalli traditional significance, or showing DrafttoSEIS limits the scope dwarf mistletoe and the to project isPost complete. Road. of septage it Corvallis. willaccess acceptsite. from out- Willow Creek engineers studying the system found potential river bly steep… I think there are liability for western recreational purposes within five you havethe access potentially consoltains eastbranch of by Shinn in 2018. She’s originally from to JCCS manager, Andrea Commander Matthew Walker, “It isshifting episodes ofits theenvironmental original “Popeye” seof consespruce budworm damage. County objects to Bitterroot National Forest During the tenure of former issues… It is the fastest part of the years. idate highway property into the Town of-county sources. At the end of last that over the last five years contriThe original proposal was Simmerman, 1 Horse At A Time where sheI grew up around niceVickie to giveMotley, themfinancial the opportunity to the beGermany ries while learning historic facts about mayor Jim Crews, theall owner of land channel and the deepest partAlthough of the in general park board memof Stevensville. think It’s something year, septic pumpers over westbutions from thethe city’s sewer system burden of project quences analysis to vegetation, officials have stated that withdrawn August of vote 2020side had horses. She’s always been a horse fan, was one of in the topnortheast four in a fraternal that the cartoon. Each lesson highlights at the river onwere the channel. Ifto you were todumping develop that ber, said thatorganization nothing had County beenaccepts done ern Montana informed by the in-county septage havewith the RDO Equipment Co. the pileated woodpecker and project isand designed improve agreement proposed to are.” Ravalli and believe after Friends theoff Bitterroot getters. is especially passionate about for the whoaccess they specific branch of the and attempted to of shut river accessPlant on for fishing, I would also see a problem them because problem had been but ashe Seemilitary STEVI, page 16 Missoula Wastewater Treatment remained fairly constant, whereas 8571 Running W. Road pine marten. project, the Ravalli County it is contrary to current law forest resilience to natural “They are basically a part of our draft perhaps that they may checkfor followed in the wake horses.imparts She andskills her husband, a andThat Alliance theseptage Wild that the amount of dumping during the same period contributions existing agreements. ”be able “We realize these old growth fire, insectsseptage Commissioners expressed Missoula, MT 59808 post just like anyand other member wouldmilitary to use. One of the main goals retiree, and their two children of a $25,000 gift claiming in November they would accept from out-of-county from like out-of-county dumpRockies filed suit the disturbances be,” said Walker. The brigade came of the group is to have brigade particispecies are listed in and disease; reduce over impacts to Forest officials also received from Tractor Supply. relocated toindicator Montana and bought a 20sources was going be best reduced by ing has beensedion a rapidly concern increasing 406-549-4171 agency failed to usetothe about after an interesting experience pants march with the VFW during the 60% and that they would be closed to trajectory. acre farm which Shinn said can support That sounds like a lot of the Forest Plan, but it is not county owned and maintained comments from Philip Strobel ment sources in the Willow available science in managing Presenting a check for $7500 from JCCS to Jasminwith Shinn (second fromneeds left) ofperson 1 Horsewho At a local special various parades the county. all septicbut, dumping for atomonth “We can no longer accept unlimitRDOequipment.com money according Shinn,while 20 horses. Shearound currently roads, especially Willow Creek Director of to the NEPAabout Branch clear whether there are other Creek watershed; improve A Time Draft Horse Rescue were, l to r: Levi Clark, CPA, Andrea Simmerman, JCCS Branch elk habitat and didn’t comvisited the VFW. According WalkWalker reached out to the special the system’s “digester” underwent ed amounts of septage from out of the taking care of draft horses is Office the Regional Adminbull trout habitat; restore Manager, andsaid Will Ramsey, CPA.Road. Also pictured is Tiny, theperson non-profi t’s and the er, the has amascot loveoffor history needs community for participants and ply with the definition old maintenance someof upgrades. county,” Gordonn. an expensiveYand proposition. Last CO.COM including See RESCUE, page 65 Seehas GOLD, page •FREE ESTIMATES IN THE BITTERROOT VALLEY• OURH OMEIMPROVEMENThabitat istrator of the In areletter to the Forest first horse thatmeadows, was rescued by 1plant Horse At A Time. Photo by Victoria Howell. and wanted to visit the VFW toEnvironmental talk to so far the brigade six members. growth found in the Bitterroot Now, about three months after the Gordonn said that the veterans. Walker said that the person maintenance has been completed, See BRIGADE , page 18 See SEPTIC, page 2

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