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The ability to remove an injured person from a wrecked car as quickly and safely as possible is a critical skill for firefighters who serve in towns accessed by winding two lane roads. To make sure they are up to speed on the best techniques, Lincoln Fire Rescue worked with the Montana State University Fire Service Training School last Saturday, July 13, at a staged accident scene at Fire Station 3. about five miles east of town. During the training, firefighters learned...
This year's Lincoln Rodeo faced its share of challenges. Their longtime stock contractor, Pistol Creek Rodeo*, moved on from supplying stock for the open rodeo, leaving the Lincoln Rodeo Club with the challenge of finding a replacement. The Fourth of July fell on a Thursday before the rodeo, not an ideal day. And thunderstorms over the weekend brought driving rain and wind to the valley. While any of those could have spelled disaster, Christ Lewenight with the Rodeo Club said...
The Annual July 4th Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce fireworks show lit up the sky over Lincoln for more than 10-minutes on Independence Day. This year served as a reminder of the dangers of the privately purchased fireworks when a large mortar on Hooper parks west ball field tipped over. The pyrotechnic shot through the fence and struck a spectator in the shoulder and face. The impact knocked the man down and caught his shirt on fire. He suffered a second degree burn on...
Beginning July 1, donations to the voluntary wolf mitigation account will be accepted through Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks. Those interested can submit a donation two ways: By selecting the Wolf Mitigation donation option under the Conservation heading on FWP's Online License Service Website. In person at any FWP License Provider. The voluntary wolf mitigation account was established by House Bill 291 in the 2019 Legislature and became effective July 1. Funding from the...
A small brush fire near Stemple Pass Road Thursday singed grasses and sagebrush along Poorman Creek but didn't cause any major damage. Mona Fitzgerald reported the fire after smelling smoke while in her house. She looked out and saw smoke filtering through the trees at the back of her property, but knewnobody was supposed to be doing any debris burning. When she went to check she saw fire burning in the grass and heard it popping as sagebrush burned. She called 911 and said...
Lincoln School's POUNCE Program, which for ten years has offered after school programs throughout the school year and educational, cultural and recreational opportunities every summer for Lincoln kids, learned last week it wouldn't receive funding for next year. The program has been funded through a 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant, but wasn't among the schools selected to receive funding this year. With funding set to expire June 30, Lincoln Schools POUNCE...
Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received thirty-six Calls for Service in the Lincoln area during the week of June 23, - June 29th, 2019. Eleven of those Calls for Service were traffic stops performed in and around the Lincoln area by deputies. Deputies also performed one civil service and completed three VIN inspections. No calls for service generated a case last week. There were seven crash calls for service last week, two of them were injury crashes. When our dispatch...
HELENA-As the Fourth of July holiday approaches, the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest reminds visitors that fireworks are prohibited on all state and federal lands, including Forest Service; however, there are many other activities that people can do on the Forest. Fireworks-and the possession of fireworks-are prohibited on National Forest System lands, at any time of year. While exploring the national forest during the holiday, visitors are asked to be careful with...
A Cessna 182 flipped over during an attempted landing at Lincoln Airport Sunday June 30. According to Lincoln Fire Chief Zach Muse, a wind gust caught the aircraft as it came in for a landing just before noon. The pilot was unsuccessful in his attempt to abort the landing and front wheel dug into the dirt alongside the runway, flipping the small plane. In a informational release, Lewis and Clark County Deputy Sheriff Robert Rivera said the pilot and his passenger were from...
Helena, Montana– The Montana Department of Transportation 2019 Aviation Career Exploration Academy will be conducted in Helena on June 25th and 26th. Sponsored by the Aeronautics Division, the Academy is designed to immerse high school students in wide-ranging aspects of aeronautics and introduce them to aviation career possibilities. The two-day resident camp will include flights in general aviation airplanes; a tour of a state-of-the-art aerospace manufacturing facility; and visits to a static Boeing 727 flight deck, the A...
Helena – Impaired driving is deadly driving. Law enforcement is increasing patrols on the road in Helena and Lewis and Clark County, along with the Montana Highway Patrol statewide around the July 4 holiday to remind motorists to drive sober or get pulled over. Summer is the deadliest time of year for motor vehicle crashes, with nearly half of all fatal crashes happening in the summer months. Over the last five years, 47 percent of these fatalities involved an impaired d...
Music is back on the slate this year at Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild with series of free weekly concerts in the Delaney Mill TeePee Burner beginning on the Fourth of July. Last year Sculpture in the Wild added music to its annual September artistic offerings, with Composer-in-Residence Adele O'Dwyer curating a series of concerts culminating in a Cafe Music Night Fundraiser. This year, the music moves to the sculpture park every Thursday evening, with a series of...
The Alliance for Wild Rockies and the Native Ecosystems Council filed suit last week in federal district court to halt implementation of the Willow Creek Vegetation Project southwest of Lincoln. The environmental groups claim the Forest Service designated the area as a "threatened landscape" without conducting the proper environmental analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act. Without that analysis, they claim the public has been denied the opportunity to review or...
State and local public health officials are reminding Montanans to be aware of the risk for exposure to rabies this summer. Encounters between humans and wild animals often increase in the summer months because of the time spent hiking and engaging in other outdoor activities. Rabies is a fatal disease. The rabies virus is carried in the saliva of infected warm-blooded mammals and is usually transmitted to people and other animals through a bite. Human rabies deaths in the...
Buckling your seat belt should be automatic. It should be the first thing done when you get in the car. Seat belt use should be as ingrained as tying your shoes or brushing your teeth. Still, nearly 10-20 percent of drivers and passengers go without their seat belts. Between 2013 and 2017, seat belts saved just over 69,000 lives in the United States. With the Memorial Day holiday weekend marking the official start to summer, there will be thousands more families traveling the...
A Blackfoot Valley Dispatch photograph of a falling bronc and rider – and the crowd's shocked reaction - earned recognition as the 2019 Mel Ruder Photograph of the Year at the 134th Annual Montana Newspaper Association's Better Newspaper Awards ceremony June 8 in Big Sky. BVD Editor and Publisher Roger Dey shot the image of Blackfoot, Idaho bronc rider Cooper Clemons during a wild ride last year at the Annual Helmville Labor Day Rodeo. "I almost didn't enter the contest t...
Bareback bronc rider Cooper Clemons draws shocked looks from the audience at the 2018 Helmville Labor Day Rodeo when the horse he's on loses its footing and rolls backward. The photograph of the Blackfoot, Idaho cowboy, who kept his grip and rode out the roll to finish his ride, earned the top photo award from the Montana Newspaper Association this year....
Two and a half months after local fisherman James Savstrom, 70, was found dead on the Blackfoot River west of Lincoln, the state crime has lab released its findings in his cause of death. Information provided by Lewis and Clark County Sheriff/Coroner Leo Dutton listed Savstrom's primary cause of death was Atherlosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, also known as hardening of the arteries. Hypothermia was listed as the secondary cause of death. According to Dutton, Savstrom's...
The PureView Health Center board of directors voted June 5 to end its 25-year partnership with Lewis and Clark County and strike out on its own as an independent nonprofit in 2020. The move has been under consideration for more than a year, Lewis and Clark County Commissioner Susan Good Geise said at the June 7 Lincoln Government Day meeting. The announcement of the decision comes as PureView prepares to apply for the Health Resource Service Administration grant that has...
The Lewis and Clark County Heritage Tourism Council honored Kevin O'Dwyer and Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild this week with a 2019 Historic Preservation Award for O'Dwyer's "Montana Memory: Re-Imagining the Delaney Sawmill TeePee Burner." The TeePee Burner is the last major remnant of the Delaney Sawmill and served as the inspiration for the development of Sculpture in the Wild just east of Lincoln. "One of our members nominated it for the award. A bunch of us had b...
With cleanup work at the Upper Blackfoot Mining Complex set to resume next week, representatives of the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, U.S. Forest Service and the Natural Resource Damage Program returned to Lincoln Thursday, June 6 to provide the community with an update on the progress of the cleanup. "We said last winter we'd come back and give an update before construction. They're starting to mobilize now onto the site." Project Manager Dave Bowers told this...
Members of the Upper Blackfoot Working Group unveiled their final draft of the Lincoln Valley Public Lands Proposal at a meeting in Lincoln last Wednesday/ Nearly 40 people showed up at the Lincoln Community Hall May 29 to learn more about the proposal that, if successful, would use the legislative process to improve forest management, create additional recreational opportunities and protect sensitive areas on the federal lands around Lincoln. Members of the working group...
Keep your distance from young or injured wildlife Each spring, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks receives several calls from people who have picked up deer fawns or other wildlife. FWP advises against this practice for several reasons. The agency does not accept, hold or rehabilitate deer and elk because the animals rarely survive the stress of captivity, and because of concerns with the spread of disease. So FWP's likely response would be to tell people to leave the animals...
What is it about shed antlers that annually turns grownups into raving lunatics? Apparently, there is a lure, a special power that emanates from shed antlers: those racks of bone that each spring and early summer grow on the heads of male members of the deer family, fall off in the winter, only to regrow and repeat the cycle. How else to explain the crowds of people that show up each year for the noon, May 15 opener at Fish, Wildlife and Parks Wildlife Management Areas. The granddaddy of which is the Sun River WMA west of...
LINCOLN-Forest Supervisor Bill Avey signed the final decision for management actions to take place on 2,140 acres as part of the Willow Creek Vegetation Project located southwest of Lincoln on the Lincoln Ranger District. "Along with this being a scientifically sound project, we invited partners, landowners, business owners, residents, recreationalists, state and federal agency representatives, and interested individuals to help us design a project they wanted to see completed...
