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W ednesday , N ovember 17, 2004 • V olimi : 123, N umber 46 ___________________ M arino H eadlines S entí : 1881 * D illon , M ontana * 75 C ents Bale ’em out! Beaverhead Community Recycling Committee members, Eric Troth, Ann Haggett, Wendy Schmeisser, Diane Mosolf, and Mike West, show off the new recycling center for residential use, which accepts corrugated cardboard only. The center is located on the property of West Electric/Amerigas on Highway 91 North in Dillon. Flattened cardboard can be dropped off and placed as far back in the container as possible. It will then be baled and sold. Not pictured are committee members Merrie Lee Hooks, and Elizabeth Brann. Elaine Spicer Photo Recycling made easier for residential use Life after boxes UMW student dies in Ten Mile accident Montana Highway Patrol Officer Randy Owens and the Beaverhead County Sheriff's Of fice are investigating a traffic fatality that oc curred last week on Ten Mile Road. The accident occurred Wednesday, Novem ber 10 at approximately 11:30 p.m. The single vehicle crash occurred two miles west of Dillon, according to Beaverhead County Sheriff Bill Briggs. . The victim was 19 year old Glen Neyman from Salmon, Idaho, who was attending The Uni versity of Montana-Western. He died at the scene. Briggs explained the vehicle left the road and rolled numerous times, with the driver be ing ejected from the vehicle. The cause of the crash is still being investigated. The driver was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the accident, Briggs said. Hunter dies in area asphyxiation accident The death of a hunter from Victor, Montana last week is being investigated as a probable carbon monoxide asphyxiation, according to Bea verhead County Coroner Tery A. Hursh. Monty Norton, 67, died Friday, November 12. According to Beaverhead County Sheriff Bill Briggs, Craig Norton and Monty Norton were staying in a pickup camper while hunting in the Big Sheep Creek area. They were utilizing a propane lantern and heater with minimal venti lation. Craig was awakened in the morning with symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning, said Briggs. Another hunter assisted in transporting * the two men to Barrett Hospital and Healthcare in Dillon. Craig Norton was successfully treated for carbon monoxide poisoning and later released. Briggs encourages all hunters and campers to be sure there is adequate ventilation for all their hunting and cooking devices. \Portable car bon monoxide detectors are affordable and readily available,\ noted Briggs. Briggs added this is the second carbon mon oxide-related death in Beaverhead County in as many years. Another hunter died as a result of asphyxiation under similar circumstances last hunting season. Hunter injured in Blacktail shooting A 65-year old hunter is now resting in the hospital in Butte after being shot in the abdo men Sunday. The hunter, who has not been iden tified by authorities, was accidentally shot by his 12-year old granddaughter, from Missoula, shortly after the girl shot her first animal dur ing her first hunt. According to Beaverhead Cuunty Sheriff Bill Briggs, the girl had just shot a mule deer buck near Blacktail Road south of Dillon, when her Ruger .243 rifle fired, hitting her grandfather. ■ A state game warden called the sheriff's office dispatch at 8:53 a.m., reporting that he'd heard someone had been shot. A few minutes Jater, a cell phone caller requested an ambu lance, which met the girl and her grandfather at the Matador Ranch. The man underwent surgery after being transported to Butte, losing his spleen and part of his colon. By Elaine Spicer After several long years of working towards the goal of increasing the availability of recycling in the area, the Beaverhead Community Recycling Committee members are smiling. This is because a sought-after residential card board recycling center has finally come to fruition. Though a small recycling station had been set up a year or two ago, on the property of Mike West's West Electric/ Amerigas property on Highway 91 North, residential recy cling enthusiasts now have an even better option. This is in the form of a very large cardboard recycling container, located conveniently close to the road with easy accessability, say the gropu. Only corrugated cardboard is being accepted, which means no cereal boxes or such, just the typical brown shipping box-style cardboard. Those wish ing to recycle their cardboard are asked to flatten it first, which not only makes trans porting it to the site easier, but is a neces sity for West, who is responsible for baling and selling the card board. The recycling com mittee had worked with West in helping to set up the cardboard recy cling program, then vis ited with Dillon busi nesses to help facilitate their cooperation in re cycling cardboard. Through the Dillon Dis- posal Service, busi nesses in the Dillon area are able to recycle their cardboard with very little effort. Some even share containers and the cost of the service, others transport it themselves. With funding from the United Way of Beaverhead County, the committee has purchased the large shipping container now available for residential cardboard drop off. An anonymous donor has also helped to offset the group's shortfall until the committee is able to raise the total amount for purchasing the container, explained com mittee co-chair Eric Troth. Local artist Wayne Forbes helped out the group by working on the signs for the container. Another member Diane Mosolf, said, \we've been work ing on this for a long time and we're glad it's completed.\ \There are two sides to recycling that I like to empha size,\ noted Troth. \On the one hand, in a very concrete practical sense, recycling conserves energy and resources, reduces pollution, saves landfill space and creates jobs. Those are all impor tant factors.\ However, says Troth, there are other, more important reasons to re cycle. \Recycling pro motes a shift in con sciousness. To put it bluntly, our consumer culture's focus on instant self gratification with its attendant wastefulness is inherently unsustainable. As less than one-twenti eth of the world's popu lation, we consume a fourth of the world's re sources and produce half its waste. Bottom line, our current lifestyles will have drastically negative consequences for those coming after us.\ See CARDBOARD on page A-3 Why recycle cardboard? • One tdn of recycled paper saves 3,700 pounds of lumber (17 trees) and 24,000 gallons of water, using 64 percent less energy. • Use of recycled paper products will allow wood that is harvested to be diverted to better uses. For instance, a cardboard pizza delivery box has a use ful life of less than an hour while more durable Items such as furniture can last for decades. • Waste cardboard can be used seven to 10 times before the wood fibers become too small to be re used. • Paper recycling mills don't pollute water nearly as much as paper production mills, and use about half the water. • One ton of recycled paper creates five times more jobs than one ton of paper products from virgin wood pulp. Casino Night raises cash for Wisdom school PTA The Wisdom PTA is raising money, a lot of it, to send its 12 students in grades 4 through 8, to Washington D.C. and one of its main money rais ers will be the Casino Night Saturday at Fetty's, Starting at 7 p.m. A whole host of games, including a \pot\ of $10,000 in funny money is part of the $10 ticket, which includes a taco dinner. Other events, in cluding a Christmas Bazaar Dec. 3 at the Com munity Hall are also being planned to help raise money. For information, call Joie Wetzsteon, 689- 3622 or Rachel Walker, 689-3229. United Way Goal $ 1 2 0 , 0 0 0 $62,000 Received to date Cali 683-4269 to make your donation today Milk program underway soon at Mary Innés By Elaine Spicer How many parents say to their chil dren every day, \drink your milk\? It will soon be easier to ensure preschoolers and kindergartners are doing just that, with a milk program soon to be offered to students at the Mary Innes School. Through a federal program, milk will be offered to preschool and kin dergarten students at no cost to their families, according to District 10 Su perintendent Melinda Berkram, not ing the need for \outside sponsorship\ of the program. Interested sponsors would pay eight cents per half-pint, which a mounts to $1500 for the entire school year, or, about $8.50 per day. \We think we're going to be able to get that rolling soon,\ said Berkram. With the help of donors, said Berkram, the program is well on its way to being offered this school year. A recent donation from the Dillon Alco store is helping to get the milk program underway. Alco has donated $500 to the program. According to Berkram, the money was collected dur ing the store's recent \Cute Baby Con test\ in which shoppers voted with change and dollar bills for their favor ite baby photo in a display at the store. Bullying issues to be aired By Elaine Spicer A guest speaker, Patti White, will address the topic of bullying at Dillon Middle and Parkview Elementary schools on December 9. White has 20 years of experience as a parent educator, workshop presenter, conflict resolver, consult ant and facilitator to schools and educators state-wide, according to Dillon Middle School Principal Randy Shipman. She also has special training certifica tion in Chemical Dependency Counseling. White will also offer a presentation to the public that evening. The focus of her evening talk will be use, abuse, and dependency of methamphetamine. White is being sponsored in partnership with the Meth-free Montana South west Chapter. An additional talk by representatives of the Montana National Guard will be presented December 17 at the school, with Guard members flying in on helicop ters for the event. B C H S By John Barrows The report card on Beaverhead County High School is in, and although it did not receive as high a score as many local educators may have hoped, it received marks above the require ments set by state standards. And that, BCHS Superintendent Fred Chouinard said, is what the re port card is all about... teaching to new Montana standards. This is the first report back, he noted, that reflects how well Montana schools are teaching to the state's cur riculum standards, something new for the state's educators and students. The test is part of the the MontCAS, or the Montana Comprehensive As sessment System that has been under development through the Office of Public Instruction. The test itself is called the Criterion Referenced Test, or CRT. Last spring 104 BCHS sophomores took the four hour test, which included two two-hour segments, one testing math and the other testing reading skills. Across the state tenth graders took the same test, which is designed to see how well students are achieving in mandated curriculum areas, and to point out where improvement is going to be needed. \It's a valuable tool,\ Chouinard said, in explaining the conversion toil standards-driven curriculum that is based on state mandated require ments. Beaverhead County High School sophomores passed the required level of proficiency, with 51 percent of the students ranking as \Advanced\ or \Proficient\ in the mathematics cur riculum requirements, and 59 percent in reading. That compares with 60 percent statewide in math and 63 per cent in reading. The scores are called the Normal Curve Equivalent and will be averaged over a three year period, Chouinard said. The minimum requirement for all schools, to avoid being categorized as not making curriculum requirements, is 45 percent in each. When combined with the number of students achieving the \Nearing Proficiency\ category, BCHS has 78 percent of its students in the top three categories in reading, which compares 77 percent for the state. A total of 22 percent of its tenth graders were listed as \Novice\ in reading. In math, 39 percent of its student« were listed as \Nearing Proficiency, making 10 percent rated as \Novice the same as the state results. This means, Chouinard said, the See TEST on page A-3 Festival of Trees fun set for this weekend at Elks The annual Festival of Trees, to raise money to provide a home for \Joe Toys,\ collection of toys of the late Joe Womack, is on tap this week end. The Festival of Trees Committee has planned a series of events, includ ing an open house Friday, November 19, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Dillon Elks Lodge. A children's drawing will also be held. A homemade candy store is part of the event as well. The main event is Saturday, No vember 20, at 6:30 p.m. at the Elks. The $5 ticket includes wine and hors d'oeurves. Tickets are available at the Printing Place, the KnockAbout and at the door. The evening includes a live and si lent auction of a variety of fine prizes, including specially decorated Christ mas trees. A money tree drawing for 5100 cash has been donated by theState Bank Treasure Club. Tickets are available at State Bank, the Printing Place, the KnockAbout and at the Festival. Slur! \« mu stihsiription to ilic Dillon I nimm' tml.tv C;tl 1 (>S3-2331 • l.nniltts witli your m.1\'» ;tl ilillonir■if>tmr(,,,l»ini.iH.'t
