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Dillon Tribune (Dillon, Mont.), 19 Nov. 2014, located at <http://montananewspapers.org/lccn/2015269516/2014-11-19/ed-1/seq-1/>, image provided by MONTANA NEWSPAPERS, Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana.
01/14/15 AUTOt '3 -DIGIT 596 MONTANA HI 3TORICAL LIBRARY PO BOX 201201 HELENA, MT 59620-1201 l'i1ifilligli\\Il \ 114111111111 1 1111 11 11 111 1 61 11\11111'1111 IBIJI\1E WHiNI-1 , 4) kl, Not f:MBER 19, 2014 - VOLUME 133, NUMBER 48 MAKING HEADLINES SINCE 1881 - DILLON, MONTANA - 75 CENTS BRIEF' Festival of Trees this weekend The annual Festival of Trees comes to the Elks Lodge on Friday and Satur- day evenings. Admission is just a buck (with kids under seven admitted for free) on Kids Night on Friday, when from 5 to 8 p.m. you can try your luck at the kiddie grab bag, visit the talking Christmas tree, enjoy goodies and get you picture taken with Santa (starting at 5:30 p.m.). Saturday is an all -ages affair with a $10 admission and a si- lent auction 6-7:30 p.m., wine and hors d'oeuvres starting at 6:30 p.m., a live auction at 7:30 p.m. and the display of themed trees and specialty items. Proceeds will benefit Kiwanis and the Jackson Fire Dept. Thanksgiving meals for free Everyone is welcome to attend the annual Dillon Community Thanksgiv- ing Dinner at St. Rose of Lima Church Family Center, at the corner of East , Sebree and S. Atlantic, on Thanksgiv- • ing Day, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Those unable to attend due to mobility issues i can arrange for free delivery of a meal by calling 406-865-0851. Anyone who can donate food and/or beverages or to volunteer their time to Food Pantry needs plastic bags Dillon's Food Pantry can put all those empty plastic grocery bags you s may have around your home to good ; use. Just drop off bags in the blue bins j in the alley behind the Food Pantry, 131 E. Helena St. For more information, call 683-2199. Lima to hold Holiday Fair A Christmas Craft Fair comes to Lima School on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Vendors can reserve a table for $15 by contacting Vickie Woods (925- 0562) or Susan Stoddard (596-0898). Walking School Bus seeks help The Walking School Bus, a program that helps local school kids get healthy exercise for their bodies on the way to exercising their minds at school each morning, is looking for volunteers for its spring restart. For more informa- tion, call 660-5792. Hand count A county -wide recount of ballots will take place Wednesday at Beaverhead County Courthouse in the race for Beaverhead County Sheriff. Challenger Frank Kluesner defeated Sheriff Jay Hansen by 18 votes. The recount will be conducted by long-time counting judges Suzanna Ruby. Juanita Miller and Susan Rebish. In the photo above ballots counted by a ballot county machine, are stacked by precinct to be prepared for storage. J P Pion photo Hansen requests recount By J.P. Plutt Dillon Tribune staff Beaverhead County Sheriff Jay Hansen requested a recount of the ballots for his race in the recent general election. On election night, Hansen trailed challenger Frank Kluesner by 14 votes. After the 53 provisional ballots were tabulated the margin grew to 18 votes, still within the parameters of Montana Code Annotated which stipulate the margin of defeat must be between \1/4 of L '( but not exceeding 1/2 of lur .\ Hansen posted a bond in the amount of $405.25 on lliesday morning to cover the cost of the recount. According to Mon- tana Code Annotated 13-16-211, Beaverhead County Election Administrator Debra Scott could request \compensation for the county recount board, the election administrator, and any additional personnel needed to participate in the recount; and necessary supplies and travel related to the recount.\ \I think anybody in the situation I am in right now would Continued to page 2 Hunter shot in face south of Dillon A Dillon man suffered a gunshot wound to his face south of town on Friday afternoon, according to the Beaverhead County Sheriff's Office. The 48 -year -old local was shot in the left side of his face while hunting on state land adjacent to Carrigan Lane, reported Sheriff Jay Hansen. After one of his hunting partners put in a 4:23 p.m. call to the Beaverhead 911 Center, the victim was taken to Barrett Hospital & Healthcare, where he spoke to sheriff deputies about the incident before being transported by helicopter to Missoula for further treatment. Hansen said his department is con- tinuing to investigate the shooting. Grasshopper Inn hit by fire Some property damage but no inju- ries were reported after a fire struck Grasshopper Inn, west of Dillon, early Saturday morning, according to the Beaverhead County Sheriff's Office. Though the blaze appeared to be limited to the fireplace area of the Grasshopper Valley establishment's bar and restaurant, the Grasshopper Valley Fire Department evacuated the establishment's adjacent ten -room mo- tel shortly after arriving on the scene at 7:15 a.m., 14 minutes after an emer- gency call was put into Beaverhead County 911. The Grasshopper Valley Fire De- partment was joined on the scene by the local ambulance crew, as well as a Beaverhead EMS ambulance and three firemen, along with a Dillon Rural Fire Department !adder truck that helped personnel gain access to the roof of the locked building. Firemen attended to the building's fireplace and rock chimney, and to the ceiling above its restaurant area before emergency personnel all had left the scene about three hours after arriving. The cost of the damages caused by the fire is still being assessed Football tickets avaialbe at BCHS Advance tickets to the State A championship football game at Butte can be purchased at BCHS through noon Friday. Cost is $7 for adults, $6 for students. Wheats provide easement to open local hiking trail By M.P. Regan Dillon Tribune staff A group of outdoor enthusiasts got together outside on a frigid cold morning last weekend to honor a warm gesture by some area landowners. The Beaverhead Trails Coalition (BT(') con- vened the gathering of 12 people just off Ten Mile Road for about 15 minutes Saturday morn- ing in temperatures hovering around 0 degrees to commemorate an easement recently granted by Wheats, Inc. The easement will allow hikers full access to the half -mile Dillon Town Overlook Trail—and, ultimately, link them to miles of more existing and planned hiking and biking trails on the ter- rain above \This is the first hiking trail next to Dillon. We have a lot in the mountains hut nothing in the vicinity of Dillon,\ said BTC President Dr. Dan Downey at Saturday's ceremony, which took place just behind the trailhead parking lot off Ten Mile Road near Cornell Park. \It's a great thing for our community to have a really nice trail here with a beautiful overlook. I want to express my deepest gratitude,\ continued Downey, gesturing to Wheat Inc.'s Harris Wheat and his wife, Sharon. along with his sister, Lor- raine King, who were all present at the ceremony. \Letting the public go through your land—it's an extremely generous act, and I thank you,\ added Downey, who also acknowledged Wheats Inc 'a Gayle Gransbery- -Harris's sister who lives in Park City and was not present at Saturday's ceremony. According to Harris Wheat, the easement totals between five and six acres of the I400 -acre area ranch that has been in the Wheat family for four generations and still serves as home to Harris, Sharon and I.,orraine. \Dr. Downey asked me about the easement and we've always had people walking around up there, so I thought it would he a good deal, on the account of the county having insurance on 1,\ said Wheat, to whose parents, Herb and Nancy Wheat. the Dillon Town Overlook Trail is dedicated. \And it's a real nice view up there for people \ Downey said the Dillon Overlook Trail repre sents a collaboration between area privire and public entities and volunteers, as well as a link to a larger BIC project that will include trills on over 1000 acres of land \Beaverhead Trails Coalition started oi this about five years ago. Members of our um, had suggested we have public access to the led! up to the Wand the Dillon Town Overlook. AA we met with Harris Wheat, who agreed to gi‘..e us an easement to go through his family's laid to Beaverhead County land that goes up to the 4noll above the W,\ recalled Downey, who saic the county put in the parking lot by the trailheac and United Way of Beaverhead County gave a rant for trail signs and a bench. \This May, Montana Western had .10 t( 40 student -athlete volunteers come up to do pork to improve the trail,\ said Downey, an ort hop die surgeon who used to serve as a sideline physic Ian for the Montana Western football team. Those dozens of Bulldog student-athIces joined with some other Montana Western studetts and BT(' volunteers to pick up trash from le area and to help make various improvements )n the trail \I thought it was a great way for us to develti more pride in the W up there and another way oe could benefit our community by helping heautili the area and by giving people more access too Brisk walk Wheats. Inc's Lorraine King and Harris & Sharon Wheat were honored Saturday at a cer- emony conducted by the Beaverhead Trails Coalition to commemorate Wheats. Inc 's granting of an easement to provide access to the Dillon Town Overlook Trail. which is dedicated to their parents. Herb and Nancy Wheat M p Regan photo the trail.\ commented Montana Western Athletic \A great trail system will increase opportuni- Director Ryan Nourse, who said most of those ties for people to he active and see all the great student -athletes volunteered after just hearing things the landscape around Dillon has to offer,\ about an email on the work project he had sent to their coaches. Continued to page 2 11 / 1 i AO gilb fl ii -4 k:( Hs( 1<110 1 . 0 TIK 1111( INF; TOM \ I '443-2331 — 1 III H NEWS TEl I I/I IOR(..u?1/11,1,ON I 1<1111 NI ..1 II
