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$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 pool – plus imaging held a groundbreakby Michael Howell and cut the ribbon at last week’sthe and running. Located at 4433 both the park loan to finish Three Community and lab services. ceremony, saidMile concerning the Senior ing last Wednesday Sunnyside 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 theits center is on the east side community She said they which raised over $80,000 they hope to have held last week at the Bitter Root was started by a bunch of little old complex that will beThe build- center board, of Lone Rock Park. worked with through community picnics, by John Dowdladies in 1972 clothes forstill over 50 years. and it’s run by a Humane Association’s (BRHA) new the facility open ing contains a large they started Farmers State rummage sales, bingo nights built just north of meeting She worked on a number animal shelter located on Fairgrounds bunch of little old ladies.” room, a warming working on Bank to keep and donations fromof commuby spring 2023, Stevensville at the kitchen, a One of the mainstays Butts, of films andOther television President of the Road in Hamilton. The event served state-of-the-art audio visual this ain 2012 their loan Kathienity members. major and that they plan corner ofand Kootenai on Stevensville’s main said, shows, but confessed she double purpose. It included Board, “This organization has system, a gorgeous view a ribbon and incorpopayments contributors were the Three on continuing to it street, the owner of loved TV more. To her, Creek Road and of the Bitterroot totherated reasonable. Mile Fireway District, Lone cutting ceremonyMountains in honor of new in 2014. come such a long sincethe it was which has beenpaya part of Rock was a much faster pace, expand services. Hwy 93. including tours of the whole the west. She said the Those Park andago. the Rapp started about 50 years I feel aFamfacility, Stevensville’s business and she loved the chal“We’re bringing the The building isarray now of home total cost is ments come ily of Foundation. John Bishop, building, and anBitfood and huge sense responsibility to honor community for over 30 lenge. care tosaid the patients, to the senior center and the approximateout of park Schmiedeke there terroot those who have When come before us and ” drink inHealth honorCEO, of the organization’s years, will soon be shutshe found Weekend Backpack Program ly $500,000. taxes that are were many volunteers who he said. make it as good as itincan be as we set 50ththat birthday. said Marcus ting its doors. River’s herself Stevensville that serves Lone Rock School. When already beingMisthelped on the project, and Lois HedgeThe privatehad non-profit organization the course for the next 50 years.” Gallery and Gifts will be among family, she discovDaly Hospital The surrounding park conSchmiedeke assessed, TMCSC received reduced peth, of the McCormack said that the was fisoccer rst organized in 1972. In 1984, closing after December ered that thechair challenge tains and baseball “got really Schmiedeke prices from contractors. The Three Mile Community Senior Center board members, l to r, Col29, and as it goes, owner of bringing back an old laorganization conducted a successful Countess Margarite Bessenyey, the hospital board, fields, tennis and volleyball involved,” the is proud that general contractor donated Spiess believes moviesaid theater and repurleen Schmiedeke, Joyce Pando and Wendy Audiss in front ofGretchen the fundraising campaign to fund the new granddaughter ofpath, Marcus Daly, gave this project courts, a walking a playgroup had they didn’t it is indicative of the end posing it as a community See CENTER, page 3 new community center at Lone Rock Park. Photo by V. Howell. construction but then the Covid-19 the BRHA on Fairgrounds Road ground andland a covered picnic raised Bitterroot about have to run been four years Chamber of Commerce Director Al Mitchell holds the group spell-bound Bit-is one of the dramahas of an era.asShe theater was just with a 99-year lease. Six years later, pandemic hit and construction costs in the but ter Root Humane Association Board Member Sue McCormack prepares tolast cut the ribbon longstandingskyrocketed. business her as works, well.group One As aspeed result, the in 1990, the Bessenyey estate deeded there were some John Bishop, pictured from left, leads a gathering ofHowell. people involved in of the celebrating the opening of the new animalfifth shelter in Hamilton. Photo by Michael owners on Main Street. the issues the theater had to take out a mortgage to finish the land to the organization where only faced was a lack delays dueof tostorage the Bitterroot project in a ceremonial groundbreaking. The facility on the property that hadHealth housedbuilding the Sue McCormack, who Now, serves on Lutzenhiser the current shelter is located. The Jewelry remains, along space for costumes, See SHELTER, page pandemic. Sheprops said2 theat organization’s of directors will be built on land located the corner ofboard Kootenai Creek Road and Hwy 93 new building replaces an old building shelter since 1984. with the story of how Riv- and adequate dressing their vision isthe that just north of the Stevensville Junction. by Nathan Boddy cumstances, having She thatthat, er’s Mist came about. room. Toadds remedy the Stevensville encountered people important As Spiess tells the they most purchased the Christine Staub, a driving falling “quality, victim to mail way to combat such facility will more Darby, Victor and Corvallis, as it well story, all as started when building next doorbethat been providing force at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. abuse is for people a “medicalhad center” rather thantojust her father boughtofher plenty of room fit a accessible, personalized 901 S. 1st Street, was recently As a certified shipto ask questions the run-down movie everything. Eventually, clinic. She also said that Marcus Daly 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 theater next doorHospital, to the which that space isnext-door a critical access care and In recent the years, theyShoppe provide primary, care, urgent Appreciation by Mayor DomiBoxxe versation with those commissioners space that would become would become thethrough River’s hospital, was recently rated #4 in 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 River’s Mist. Spiess was a Mist gallery. by Victoria Howell me like a ton of Police Chief Stephen Snavely. open package which Staub doesn’t for quality bytheater the national rataccounting that, sum already been hired, alongcostume with a nurse invest in all theacommudesignernation in HolThe wastocalled bricks.” In his presentation to the City bears its shipping know the details it up, shows the county, lywood, and has always Chantilly. The name came ing agency, out of 351 similar facilities. practitioner, and two more doctors Numerous Bald Eagles have been congregating in the Burnt area lately to feed onOverstreet carcasses. was Photos nities of Fork the Bitterroot, When it comes Council on March 15th, Chief label. After following of what potential overall, doing very well aalso passion arts, from a comical mistake, by Michael Victoria Howell are being recruited. Therehad willby be for the he said, with clinics in to Covid, Greg Howell. sent home from Snavely said that he wants the protocol, and doing victims are told, but on its tax collections and especially theater. She according to Spiess. The Bitterroot Overstreet has a NaHamilton Police Department so in the presence of the hospital with she knows that over they showing revenues has been working tional Forest (BNF) willoutsidetoRiver’s The Cowboy BallSee at the Ravalli County Gretchen Spiess stands Mistmore Gallery and Gifts which is closing at the endanofoxygen the year. Photo message for you: tank. RIVER’S MIST, page “become vocal about a witness, Staub was are, “often coached 50% of projections in 21 on costumes and host a public meeting Fairgrounds will be held February is by John Dowd. 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 Dowd second regular er came to the Boxxe ownership Shoppe ofing to a scammer in resent the IRS or in is looking pretty good, by John ago, transferring 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 space to HFH. the budgeted funds which he’s been onby forNa12 years. A real estate for February of 2021. that 51 is brain Staub of the Boxxe Shoppe. Photo meeting will be held on should He “We’ll do our job, ” Christine said via government FedEx. County CFO Klarryse the Administration. county’s share Stevensville on Darby hasTown a wayCouncil, of impactThe property is arun. sizable agent for 18 years here in the Bitterroot, andin also He wentSee through damage material.” Zoom. below for than Boddy. customer Sometimes they a frequent commenter Gibson ing people that live there, or Thewas lot along the same street as January 27, town clerk Jenelle in the Army for 21 years, his organizational and instructions and a link chemotherapy and But COVID-19 Seewill COUNTY, contell theirpage 10 at least so ismeeting. thethe case for Rosieseemed other properties Gene passed at council meetings during Joan Mell, an attorney with the profile of the Berthoud council to late join August thetold Five andfused fundraising skills, and discipline, haveone been put to in he was wasthe no joke.familiar “It and unOver victims that a loved has Huckstadt and her husband on to HFH in the past. Accordthe last administration. In from Hamilton, wasgot recpotential victims, butuse wishes similar public meetings audience that she was having good as chair of the Cowboy Ball committee. told that the cancer so bad I felt familiar course of her landed in jail, or that a prize Gene. ing towith HFH boardCrews member, that others withinFreeman the commucomment, 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 “We love Darby,” said Jeff Alexander, Gene “sold nity would help her look out 2021. the council that those makto handle the prosecution $50,000 this year, for the expansion of the rodeo and Staub the Boxxe to be paid for release of the Overstreet had breathe, like I ings on the internet. She said Rosie. The couple lived in the properties to us in the past at for their safety. 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 area for many years, and Gene very reasonable prices.” The 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 was a long-time rental propproperty is large enough to 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.” erty owner. A ago, Gene considering allow multiple dwellings. Acremoval, the fiyear nalhad I imagine He also said, “This hospitalized, and then recov- water extended nursing and the process of developworking but they set up the audience. customapproximately grab the package fromactually a porch passed away, behind cording to Alexander, this will ering, from Covid-19. The 10th annual cowboy ball – which treatment in leaving the boarding to had be to be provided with a ride notand a question and answer” ing a climbing plan, this new Facebook page. How- er’sis“give age $60,000Mell in or front door when it arrives. aacolon legacy of many properties Habitat for Humanity started 11the years ago but couldn’t be held last year to the bank as well as to journey. like,” recalls week’scancer meeting cov“It’s public comment.” did the work at no charge particular cash, all of to “They always direct the ever, members ofwill the public the session. and partnerships. Among the ability to split the lot and Boxxe Shoppe. due to the pandemic – has been upgraded this The day after that Overstreet. “This er the following agenda details of the which was victim to send it, ‘no signature The mayor had said previousthe town. “I just wanted to those connections was one have two developable parcels.” who had tried to access the “It’s common sense to me,” year. 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, with for Humanity of One portion of the lot has an she pointing out that red Facebook page said it was not •Habitat Review overall “This is the first year we’ve ever done diagnosed with that I was not Unfortunatelently deThe Bank Secrecy Actfully Ravalli County. “I just want to existing building, which the 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 asked ly, it was not catered dinner,” said Freeman. Thebanks University COVID-19. taking Covid manded from of 1970 requires to carry on what he public started,” said organization to have being scammed. “If a person Crews alsoplans said that they said Overstreet. outcomes ofas the ofPictured Montana Catering Service will provide theof had Covid-19. with Mell are, l to r, Overstreet, for patience she worked “I was obviously seriously enough. Staub’s first senior citizen keep track of withdrawals Rosie. burned down. The burning is 80 years old, and all of a conversations should be prepared for some Desserts are provided 4Hin members. having members of $10,000 or by more order very weakened,” saidRosie hastime through thelast issues. Mayorthey’re Steve dinner. Gibson, council For the will be doneThe by the Darby coming into the members Cindy Brown and Boxxe Shoppe’s new location • Provide anyear, update encountered See page 2 sudden “interesting comments” Gregfor Overstreet talks about his recentfrom brush with death dueSTEVI, tothe commuOverstreet. “Itwith hit Habitat Jim Crews, former mayor been working Volunteer Fire Department, as 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. sucha cirStaub is Covid. Photo by Victoria Howell. See SCAMMERS, page 2 Humanity Ravalli County training exercise. makes my ‘spidy’ sense tingle.” SeeofPLAN, page 2 Photo by Nathan Boddy. (HFH) on a project to give the HFH already has one choLast week the Ravalli County Commissioners aporganization the ability to add sen family for part of the lot. proved adoption of a memorandum of understandtwo more homes to the area. This will be the 17th partnered ing with the Ravalli County DUI Task Force and “Projects like this don’t hapfamily theForest HFH1987 has worked letter the commissioners statedInstituteProtection National Forest aspen and whitebark pine; MAPS Media to produceAgency. a video The designed by Michael Howell pen overnight,” added Rosie. with in Ravalli County. Famito help parents keep tabs on their children’s behavthat “Ravalli County objects contains recommendations manage timber to provide Plan. After many months of lining lies need to meet several ior. concerning thePhoto Draftby SEIS for forest products and jobs; and to unmitigated impacts to A new record of decision Rosie Huckstadt stands in front of the Habitat for Humanity building, in Hamilton. John everything up, papers were The deadlineHowell closed on if it would be possible Victoria The DUI Task approved of year, theForce facility tookButterfly. inthe justcreation under bybyVictoria Howell See on HABITAT, page 3 retain Dowd. the Gold Concerncounty owned/maintained was issued December 17, old growth status in all finally signed a couple weeks on January 18, forHowell filing objec- to put envelopes by Victoria his property which would in effect with the highway, which is aastate addressed when private land was Mischief$240,000 Room lastand May and the commissioners spent every penny. roads heavy theowner scope 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 and Fish, Wildlife signed off The involved creation tions to the Draft SupplemenJasmin Shinn,director founder and There are no paid employees; it’s an all-of kopf, put valentine cards The activities Stevensville Town Counain 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, SEIS thatPark, 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 stanButterfly 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 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 on 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 the lopes. the disease sufficient habitat tions, Ravalli County would decision were received because ofSchurman little love this special envelopes presented with aValencheck for $7500 associated costs to rehabilitate meeting. The land ownership willnew now river and access pending outcometreatment of see use theenveland is to the town. “Iother city to have, whether or notfilled you put their substance use from inspections. includes nearly 13,000 acres bywhat Jean and by thecasual end ofold-growth the day, the lopes were so full they The project is now 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, vehicle with gifts for his four kids, a of commercial and non-comhad to be emptied more really popular, and About years resident. people piece, whichfour is located adjacent tomostly the Then Council member Marilyn WolffThey claimMichaelson said he looked upwhat the for ley. “There are so many cars out there, said she tells parents is, “If you don’t look, accounting fi rm with a branch adoption, most can be driven or Hamilton Automotive, Western hand quilted quilt, and much more. support viable populations ing trees. the area the necessary maintenance having to do with the mercial treatment than once. growing every year. ago, a vegetative resident came drop offsaid Bitterroot River on the northwest side had apotenreal problem with old minutes andduring found the land think it can be used for parking. But then younor don’t see. If with you don’t see, then you don’t Rockies Radio, and a that slew of busithe vehicle, the registraridden, and some just become “pasture located in Hamilton. Part of could the logging of old-growth dependent the project, theIAlong of valenoldshe growth, is impacted by mountain pine within a 55,000 acre area of to Farrenkopf to see tines to fill the enveof the bridge, was offered to the Town this piece of land. “It’s where two was donated on the condition that looking long term, if you have propSee VALENTINES, page 10 nesses from throughout the Bittertion forspecies. the vehicle and insurance selection for awarding that gift tial impacts to wildlife and to pets.” See DUI, page 10 rehabilitation of the road after ” side The letter Douglas-fir bark beetle, forest inby theRavalli Sapphire Mounin 2017 for use as a roads converge, the bankbeetle, is incrediit root would be maintained and utilized theA west ofestablished thenotes river,that then selected Gerald (Jerry) Browe of 1 erty wason paid for. Towing, detailing, and was online voting County and according Horse At Time was the Draftall limitsinthe scope dwarf mistletoe and western therecipient project isofcomplete. Ravalli Willow Creek Road.I think there are potential river access site. bly steep… liability forHamilton recreational purposes within five you have access toSEIS potentially consoltains east of Corvallis. as the a 2011 gas cards were included the by Shinn in 2018. She’s originally from to JCCS branch manager, Andrea of its environmental consespruce budwormyears. damage. County their objects to shiftingidate Bitterroot National Forest During the tenure of former issues… It is the fastest part of the highway property into the Town Toyota Rav 4 through Wheels give-away. The original proposal was Simmerman, 1 Horse At A Time Germany where sheI grew up around mayor Jim Crews, the owner of land channel and thethe deepest partAlthough of the in general Vickie Motley, park board memof Stevensville. think It’s something financial burden of the project quences analysis to vegetation, officials have stated that for Warriors program. This is the horses. She’s Mariya Moore, theaservice writer withdrawn August of vote 2020side had always been horse fan, was one of in the topnortheast four at the river on the channel. Ifto you were to develop thatwith the ber, said that nothing had beenhas done RDO Equipment Co. second year a valley veteran been at Hamilton Automotive, came up the pileated woodpecker and project is designed improve agreement proposed to Ravalli County and believe after Friends theoff Bitterroot getters. is especially passionate about attempted to of shut river access on for fishing, I would also see a problem because thea access problem had been but she SeeinSTEVI, page 16 awarded vehicle. with the idea last year honor of her 8571 Running W. Road pine marten. project, the Ravalli County it is contrary to current law forest resilience to natural checkfor followed in the wake draft horses. She and her husband, a andThat Alliance the Wild The crew at Hamilton Automotive son, Austin, a combat veteran who and existing agreements.” “We realize these old growth Commissioners expressed Missoula, MT 59808 of a $25,000 gift claiming in November Rockies filed suit the disturbances like fire, insects purchased the vehicle and then com-military retiree, and their two children species are listed in5 and disease; reduce sediconcern over impacts to overhauled Forest also received from Tractor Supply. relocated toindicator Montana and bought apage 20See VETERAN, 406-549-4171 pletely it, officials had it detailed, agency failed to use the best 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 Jasmin Shinn (second from left) of 1 Horse At Jerry Creek Browe, his wife Mikaela, and children, Kyla, andare Sawyer RDOequipment.com money but, according to Shinn, Creek watershed; improve about 20Elijah, horses. SheFletcher currently roads, Willow Director of the NEPA Branch clear whether there other A Time Draft Horse Rescue were, l to r: especially Levi Clark, CPA, Andrea Simmerman, JCCS Branch elk habitat and didn’t comwere all smiles Thursday night after being given a Toyota Rav 4 by the crew at taking care of draft horses is Office of the Regional Adminbull trout habitat; restore Road. Manager, and Will Ramsey, CPA. Also pictured is Tiny, the non-profi t’s mascot the ply with the definition of old Hamilton Automotive andand numerous community members. Nick Nichols, owner an expensive proposition. Last CO.COM including meadows, RESCUE, page 65 See See GOLD, page •FREEbyESTIMATES INTime. THE BITTERROOT VALLEY• OURH OMEIMPROVEMENThabitat istrator of the In a At letter to the Forest first horse that was rescued 1 Horse A Photo by Victoria Howell. growth foundYin the Bitterroot of Hamilton Automotive, and Environmental Jeff Nichols, general manager at Hamilton Automotive, are in the back. 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