Community Briefs

Seeley-Swan Community Food Bank Seeks Volunteers

SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley-Swan Community Food Bank is looking for volunteers for two hours per month. Duties include stocking shelves, helping clients and staffing the food bank Tuesdays from 12-4 p.m.

For more information or to volunteer call Sheree Hill at 402-206-1720.

Cottonwood Lakes Road Work Underway

SEELEY LAKE – The Cottonwood Lakes Road (#477) on the Seeley Lake Ranger District will be closed between the junction with the Kozy Corner Road (#9976) and Monture Road (#89) beginning June 6 for road maintenance and road reconstruction work. The closure will only be in place Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday each week. The closure is expected to last until the end of June.

The Seeley Lake Ranger District has initiated the work to improve road driving conditions and also provide some resource protection for local streams.

This Best Management Practices (BMP) project will reconstruct 13 miles of the Cottonwood Lakes Road #477 from the intersection with the Morrell Mountain Road to the intersection with Monture Creek Road. The project will also reconstruct 3.3 miles of the Lower Cottonwood Road #9976 from the end of the Kozy Corner Road to the intersection with Cottonwood Lake Road #477.

Roadwork will include road blading, road surface improvement, road drainage improvement and roadside brush removal. The work will improve road drivability and will reduce environmental impacts through improved drainage.

For updates on the status of the work please contact the Seeley Lake Ranger District at 406-677-2233.

Montana Students Make UM Dean’s List

MISSOULA – At the University of Montana, 2,743 students made the spring semester 2017 Dean’s List and President’s 4.0 List. To qualify for the Dean’s List, students must be undergraduates, earn a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher and receive grades of A or B in at least nine credits. Students who receive any grade of C+ or below or no credit (NC/NCR) in a course are not eligible.

Alessandra Alcala from Potomac made the spring semester 2017 Dean’s List. Students from Seeley Lake that made the Dean’s List included: Holly Cahoon; Shenoah Curley Wildshoe; David Rich; Buck Stokes and Derek Tupper.

Students from Seeley Lake that made the President’s 4.0 List earning a 4.0 GPA for the 2017 spring semester included: David Cahoon and Shanna Devore.

For a full list visit http://bit.ly/2lSUmDd.

Swan Valley Community Library Highlights

Swan Valley - The Swan Valley Library is launching its Summer Reading Program starting June 5. Youngsters from preschool to high school age can sign up at the library. Prizes for the greatest number of books read in each age category will be awarded along with a grand prize drawing from all age groups. The program will conclude Aug. 30.

The Swan Valley Library Book Chat group will be discussing “Cutting for Stone” by Abraham Verghese Wednesday, June 14 at 1 p.m.

The author is a professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine where he sees patients, teaches students and writes.

The story is set in Ethiopia and centers around parentless twin brothers Marion and Shiva Stone. They were born in 1954 to an Indian nun who dies giving them birth and a missing British surgeon. The brothers both become doctors as their fates are linked starting when they come of age during the Ethiopian revolution. The story moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York City over decades and generations.

“Cutting for Stone” was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 110 weeks.

The Swan Valley Library Board of Trustees is putting the shelving that will be replaced during the renovation of the library up for silent auction. Those interested in the shelves can see them at the library and bid on the silent auction from June 9-Aug. 31. Those who win the shelving can collect them when they are no longer in use after the renovations.

The Swan Valley Library is located next to the Swan Valley Community Hall on Highway 83. It is open Mondays and Fridays from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Elections Office Seeking Feedback on Special Federal Election

 MISSOULA - The Election Advisory Committee is asking Missoula County voters to share their experience regarding the recent Special Federal Election May 25.

The Elections Advisory Committee (EAC) is a committee that advises the Board of County Commissioners and represents Missoula County citizens by supporting and enhancing the election process. Feedback regarding the most recent election will help shape and improve future elections. The survey closes June 16.

 “Election law and voting processes can be tricky to navigate and we’re looking for ways to help voters through that process,” Elections Administrator Rebecca Connors said. “The election survey will provide valuable feedback to improve services to voters for future elections.”

 The public is encouraged to visit http://www.MissoulaElectionSurvey.com to take a brief survey about their voting experience. Any Missoula County resident who voted absentee, voted at the polls, visited the Elections Center at the Fairgrounds or had contact with the Elections Office can offer input on their experience. The survey takes less than 10 minutes to complete.

 “Our primary goal is always to ensure voters have a positive experience before and on Election Day,” Connors said. “This survey is a great opportunity to see where we are hitting the mark and to identify areas where we need to improve our efforts.”

Spring Trail Maintenance and Noxious Weeds Spraying

SEELEY LAKE - The Missoula County Parks, Trails, and Open Lands program has been working to increase maintenance of the county’s trail system this year, including snow plowing, sweeping, mowing and noxious weed treatment. This is part of a pilot program that was approved by the Board of County Commissioners last year.

There will more activity and equipment on the county trails this spring and summer. Starting in June, county employees will be treating the noxious weeds along a number of the paved surface county trails.

The focus of the noxious weed treatment efforts are on trails and pathways in the county’s rights-of-way. Noxious weed treatments will happen along the following trails in Seeley Lake: Locust Lane; Riverview and Boy Scout Road.

Shared-use pathways within the Montana Department of Transportation rights-of-way are periodically treated for noxious weeds. These treatments will focus on spot spraying noxious weeds with herbicides to help reduce the spread of weeds into neighboring properties and along the roadway. Signs will be posted along the trails prior to herbicide spraying in order to notify trail users and adjacent landowners. Signs will be up for at least 24 hours after the spraying is complete.

Property owners adjacent to any of these trails that are concerned about the use of herbicides near their property, please make sure to post “No Spray” signs at the beginning and end of the property line.

Missoula County Sheriff’s Office Call Activity 5/29/17 – 6/5/17

5/29, 1:57 p.m .: 1XX Redwood Lane, Seeley Lake: Theft.

5/29, 7:47 p.m .: 18XX Camas Road, Potomac: Disturbance.

5/29, 7:58 p.m .: 2XX Locust Lane, Seeley Lake: Suspicious Activity.

5/30, 3:36 p.m .: Rice Ridge Road, Seeley Lake: Slide-In No Property Damage.

6/1, 10:42 a.m .: 7XX Hole-In-The-Wall Road, Potomac: Disturbance.

6/2, 12:09 a.m .: 10XX Frontier Drive, Seeley Lake: Suspicious Activity.

6/2, 2:16 p.m .: 3XX Overland Trail, Seeley Lake: Theft.

6/2, 9:23 p.m .: 32XX Highway 83 N, Seeley Lake: Civil.

6/3, 12:05 a.m .: 48XX Highway 83, South of Rain Lake: Disorderly Conduct.

6/3, 5:17 p.m .: 13XX Highway 83, Greenough: Sexual Assault

6/3, 6:56 p.m .: 4X mile marker Highway 83, Condon: Accident-Injury.

6/5, 12:29 a.m .: Sunset Hill Road, Greenough: Accident – No Injury.

6/5, 3:51 p.m .: 3X mile marker, Highway 200, Greenough: Accident – No Injury.

 

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